This will be my first Ludum Dare that I'm joining! Hopefully il be able to create something interesting, but at the very least I hope il be at least submitting something, meant to join in the past but never came around to it, lets change that this time around! Looking forwards to seeing all the interesting games you all will make!

Yesterday I finished the mechanics of my game, they are heavily inspired by FTL (though dont feature nearly as many mechanics due to lack of time and personal inexperience), here is a little Gif with my beautiful artwork for now, doesnt look pretty but it works! The idea for the game is sort of a reverse FTL, instead of getting more parts and upgrades, here through story, choices and combat you have to sacrifice parts becoming weaker and weaker as you go. The enemies however luckily don't get any stronger as you progress! (at least not in this version)

https://gfycat.com/DrearySeveralDinosaur

So now that that is done, todays work will be implementing story, art(something im terrible at but il do my best) and the music so that i have time on monday for polish. So far im well on track to complete my first Ludum Dare :thumbsup:

Edit: No clue how to embed this gif, oh well. wont worry too much about that

Im a genius, due to my inexperience(especially with UI stuff) as well as my stupidity, I backed myself in a corner where the best resolution is 1128x523 resolution and it would be too much work to change it. Oh well, things are starting to look like something with my game atleast, am happy with my main menu though i think it might be a bit too dark.

Tip for future self: Test often and with different resolutions(and aspect ratios) when making UI...

Just finished my first ludum dare! Am I happy with my game? not really. Am I happy I went through and finished and published it regardless? Hell yes! So good luck to those that have yet to finish, now its time to relax a little and to start playing some of your games!

Its not great, it is very simple, the art is rubbish and i didnt spend as much time as i should have for various reasons, but here is the basic game!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/zombie-survival

After a decent amount of work and lack of sleep, finally it is done and I can head to bed! Hopefully nothing critically wrong is found with the game, but knowing our luck, someone is gonna break something.

Anyways, it was a good jam with my friends, I hope everyone else had a good jam, and be sure to get some good well deserved rest!