Planning to give it a go this time around. Don’t have a ton of time to work, but I’m hoping to spend all of Saturday jamming something neat out. Might film it if I can figure out how to do that 😉

Using:

GML (sue me)

Paint.net

Graphics Gale

Audacity

Looking forward to this, hopefully I’ll get something worthwhile finished before my time runs out 😀

Spent a couple hours today coming up with a concept and some basic gameplay. Take a look at some of what I’ve done 😀

After around 20 hours of work I finally finished A Life Apart!

It’s a short (very short ;D) exploration game about making amendments for your crimes in life. I’m fairly happy with it, even though my time got cut short due to work. I hope you all like it!

Check it out here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-22/?action=preview&uid=3595

Second Ludum Dare for me, hoping to improve on last time! I’ve got work on Friday but after that I can devote my entire attention to this game.

Gonna prep music, food etc etc in advance this time, I had a problem with that last LD.

Working with Game Maker, SFXR, Audacity and Paint.NET. Good luck everyone

My first full day of work (around 14 hours, so far) is coming to a close.

I got a lot done today, which makes me happy. All the levels are in place, the engine is complete, and all I need to do now is polish, art and music. In other words, I’m screwed.

I’m not a great artist, but I’m a worse musician. We’ll see what I can come up with, but I’m not expecting much.

I’m heading off to bed now. I’m growing out my Ludum Dare Beard, or the I-am-literally-too-busy-making-games-to-shave beard.

See you all tomorrow!

Whew. I was freaking out thinking the deadline was 5 PM, turns out it was 6. Hah. Hah hah.

Anyways, my game Shrunkit is finished! It’s a game about shrinking and growing things and I love it, even though it ran me into the ground. You can pick it up here:

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=3595

I hope you enjoy it! I had a ton of fun working on this

I’m really looking forward to LD24! My entry for 23 was fun to make but far too buggy to stand a chance. I’m hoping I’ve learned something from that misstep and that I’ll fare better this time around.

I’ll be coding with GML in Game Maker 8, doing artwork with Graphics Gale and Paint.NET and working sound magic (hah) in SFXR and Fruity Loops.

I might attempt to record myself this time around, but I’ve historically had issues with recordings. Whether or not I’ll be able to get it to work this time remains to be seen.

This is my third Ludum Dare and I’m super excited to be taking part again! I took a short hiatus from participating last year and I feel like I’ve been missing out big time. I love the community and the games that come out of the LD, and it feels good to be back again.

My goal for this Dare is to step outside my comfort zone and come up with an idea that forces me to be a little more creative than I’m use to

Working with Game Maker, Paint.NET, SFXR, and that’s about it. Good luck everyone!

-Chris

I always allocate my first evening (where I live, LD starts at 7 pm on Friday) to pure design and engine development. My progress tonight has been better than I expected, and I’m really excited at the prospect of working on this game. I won’t talk to much about my idea, but I’m really happy with what I’ve come up with and I’m looking forward to sharing more with everyone, as well as seeing what other people are making!

This is what I’ve got so far! I’ve got an unbelievably long way to go, but isn’t that always how it is with the Ludum Dare? Good luck to everyone just waking up and to those plowing through their first full day. See you all in the morning!

-Chris

I managed to get a fair way into my entry before falling completely and utterly out of love with it. Part of me wishes the theme hadn’t come up as Minimalism, but another part of me appreciates having been given the challenge! Good luck to everyone plowing their way through/into their second day, I can’t wait to play your games

It’s been fun!

-Chris

We’re making great progress into the jam! We’ve got almost all the core functionality complete, we’re done the backgrounds (plus parallax), and there are only a couple things standing between us and content creation. Hoping to get that done today so that the next two days are pure content.

Exciting times ahead!

This was, I think, my fifth completed Ludum Dare. It was also by far my favourite.

We started off the weekend staring blankly at the theme. It was similar, not only to a previous Ludum Dare theme, but also to a game jam we had done on another website. It was uninspiring, and it took us a good three hours to come up with a concept. We initially had wanted to do something that involved a unique or novel game mechanic as the focal point, but quickly came to realize that everything we were coming up with had also been considered by numerous other developers.

For that reason, we took a slightly different approach. We made a strong effort to create an experience that was complete and professional. We wanted to develop a game that players might look at and think, “Wow, there’s no way this was made in under 72 hours!”.

I think we succeeded.

Now that a few days have passed, we’ve been given an awesome opportunity to receive bountiful feedback from strangers and friends alike. The commonality between each response is how amazed they are at the overall quality of the game. Blood Moon isn’t a game that will shock people with a crazy mechanic or twist, but I think that it is a game that will make people strongly consider playing it all the way through, regardless of the difficulty.

There are definitely some flaws with the game. The primary one that I think has hindered people’s enjoyment is a slightly uneven difficulty curve. There are a couple of saves that are much harder than anything else in the game. That sucks, because I think the game is absolutely worth playing to the end. But I can’t blame people for getting frustrated.

All the same, having the opportunity to watch streamers and friends play the game through, and to even watch some people enjoy it enough to speed run it, was an experience that I’ve wanted for a very long time. This is definitely a fulfillment of dreams in that regard.

Overall, I think that this Ludum Dare has taught me some very valuable lessons. Not necessarily in terms of technical programming, but in terms of user experience and difficulty. Our ongoing project outside of the Dare is another difficult game, and I want to make sure that it’s both fair and fun to fight through. Participating this past weekend will help me accomplish that.

If you’re interested in checking out Blood Moon, we’d love it if you left us feedback as well! Good or bad, we always appreciate your honest opinions. They make us better developers, and we really do care.

You can find Blood Moon at the following link:

http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-33/?action=preview&uid=3595

Tags: blood, moon

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Thanks for an awesome jam!