Ooof, this is our first Ludum Dare and we've dived right in with our little 2D platformer. Hopefully it's simple enough that we can finish in time!

Here is one of the 64x64 tiles as it progressed from yesterday's prototype to today's final art.

I'm just about done with all of the crucial environment art and then I'm on to character art and animation... which is rather daunting!

We've finished our first Ludum Dare! Huzzah! Buried by Books is a 2d platformer about a bookworm and her ever expanding collection of books.

It was a great learning experience and now we get to relax and enjoy the other entries. I'm excited!

Here is the link to our game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/$60343

We had so much fun last time, we're back for more!

This was such a fun experience and at least for me as the artist it wasn't as stressful as Ludum Dare 41. We managed to complete our game with almost it's full scope and even a few stretch goals.

After completing much of the scope requirements on my end I set about completing some of the out of scope content, earning gold and buying food to feed your tower was one such goal and I managed to quickly bang out some art for those.

Looking back I feel like I should have spent that time on UI graphics as the UI ended up a bit of a mess and the font I settled on doesn't suit the game at all.

What we missed from our scope was a death mechanic, which would have had the towers you raised die during combat if not properly maintained. In the end this wasn't crucial to the game and would have taken a while to implement so instead we focused on polish and some easier to implement stretch goals.

In the end I'm happy with what we did the art scope was still probably larger than necessary but I managed to pull through with time to spare!

You can find our little game here and raise a tower of your own!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/tower-rancher

Third times the charm right?!

Our audio team member is unable to join us this time around and so we're looking for someone to fill his shoes!

We're an Aussie coder and artist team. We've got all three days free and are hoping to find someone who can commit to a team and help establish the atmosphere with music and sound!

If you're an audio artist and are looking for a team, we'd love to hear from you!