Hi !

We, Coldman, DarksteelPenguin and tchassin are participating to the jam. First time entering for some of us.

We will use C++, SGE, Photoshop and maybe Tiled Map Editor.

We’ll blog here and at darksteelpenguin.wordpress.com.

Good luck !

Bonsoir ! (from Paris)

I started this morning around 8 AM. I hope to make it for the compo this year o/

I’ll stick to the theme “Growth” and I try to make a decent rogue-like.

Here is a screen of the map generation:

Good luck to everyone and have fun o/

Hello everyone !

I added some content and now you can:

• Fight enemies with Space (A)
• Move around the floor with Arrow keys (LS)
• Get coin
• Get hit ! (You have 3 lives but there is no HUD for the moment)
• Go to the next floor (yes there is no floor 2)
• Two graphical themes (Earth and Fire)

The objectif is to find the path to the next floor and gather a maximum amount of coins !

http://youmapthe.world/Web.html <- UnityPlayer link (Works on Firefox and IE)

Next Task:  Add a shop at the start of each floor.

Have fun and give feeback if you want 😉

Hi reader/gamer/everyone.

I wanted to share the experience of my second entry in a Ludum Dare compo (the
first one being for the 30 edition, last year, at the same time but in team).

What went wrong

•  The themes. I was confused when the two themes where announced because I am a regular twitch spectator of Ludum Dare’s video and it is the first time I saw
  this happening. So instead of restricting myself to both themes, I just throw one away (two button controls) although I saw great games these past two weeks that used well the combination of the two themes.

• The preparation. I used Unity5 for the first time. Yet I should have premade some basecode and that was not the case. I could have concentrate more on content than coding.

•  The scope. Like last year I targeted too many content (and you can feel it when playing the game).

What went right

•  Wow, finally a _game_ from scratch made by myself. Felt so good !
•  Worked all week-end, from 8 AM Saturday to 3 AM Monday with 12 hours of sleep (Paris timezone makes the Ludum Dare starts at 3 AM Saturday).
•  Feedbacks were awsome! I decided to continue and make a post-compo version. I would love to keep it as a long-term project with constant updates.
  Here’s a screenshot. (The graphics are either made by me or @TChassin)

I’ll probably open a blog and post a roadmap for the post-compo game that I temporary called Adventures of Azimov.

So thanks to every friends and familly that supported me and of course to my
girlfriend who makes the best cannelés in the world

And if you haven’t play it yet, try my entry here.

ReachTheTop

Merry christmas and happy new year !

I'll use Unity2017 as usual, Paint.NET/Krita and try to make an awesome game this weekend! I may stream on twitch too.

Check out http://nek0las.xyz to see if I'm streaming (and read my recently drawn comics)

If you want to talk about LD, do not hesitate to reach me @nek0las on twitter :)

Have fun coding you all!

Good morning ! (From Paris, 10AM)

So, I stayed awake until 3AM to see the theme announcement. Then I brainstormed until 4h30AM. With the help of a nice stream viewer, I decided to focus on one cool mechanic and polish it:

1 shot fired = -1HP for the player

The other execpted main feature is:

With another weapon, a parry/last hit, heals you 1 HP.

I would love to make a metroidvania (I saw lots of them in the past, but never actually tried to make one myself). If I have time, ofc :p

Good luck, HF all!

At first the theme really makes me wonder if we would participate this time around... but we kept brainstorming on different ideas and finally we ran with it ! Yes, it is a broad theme we would have loved a more specific one, but this is also the charm of Ludum Dare: you don't know what you'll get, and you have to make the most of it in 48(72)hours !

We end up going for a Kingdom inspired game about a dude washed ashore on a, not so desert, island with his crewmate. You have to rebuild your ship from nothing !

Here is the whole brainstorming result and our progress tracker: https://www.notion.so/nicobarray/Ludum-Dare-45-Start-with-Nothing-12f32c30585c4b1eb006e19bba739d42

I'll do the programming in Unity with C# (twitter: @nicobarray) And this time, I'll be joined by bakablue, mostly doing the graphics with Krita and a XP-PEN tablet, and some programming if we need to add extra workforce on it 💪 (twitter: @bakablue)

Keep motivated and good luck everyone !