I'll do a proper I'm in post (featuring the same terrible pun!) once the image-uploading is working.

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Also after taking a nice walk, percolating this neat idea I had for the game right after I blearily checked the theme (3:00 WEDT here) all throughout my brain.

Success everyone! :-D

P.S. Amusing; there is an emoji for sake, but not for yoghurt ('kwark' would be too much to ask for, I know). Oh no, my eurocentric sensibilities! Quick, I'll have some cheese that has fungus in it on purpose to calm down ;-)

As promised!

Get it? Because my game's name is 'liftoff'...

Didn't even need the submission-hour this time around :smile:

On itch.io:

EDIT oops ... looks like the secret link doesn't work anymore when you change your mind and publish it... see here for the new link:

https://remco.itch.io/liftoff

Old link:

https://remco.itch.io/liftoff?secret=eG5LDCiHPhLVLI8EUkTXtwPxbw

Sleep well everyone!

This may become the link when it all works??:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/$15414

My entry 's had a Linux port as of 2 o-clock last night :smile:

Like I said on the page, same game, same bugs, different O.S.! :penguin:

While America* slowly drifts to sleep, dreams of polygons, pixels and code, Europe and Africa are -- equally slowly-- waking, ready to start the day.

Stretchin', havin' their mornin' beverages, takin' some breaky fasty ...

Good luck everyone! :smile:

*) Both of the continents.

Afternoon snacks; half a day ago:

Dinner (and some for tomorrow); several hours ago:

"This is not where I'd hoped to be"; just now:

_.. and it seems these already exist as well!

Oh, dear, Whatever shall I do! :stuckouttonguewinkingeye:

Time for some very pure chocolate and perhaps also a stiff drink.

... my already small game is moddable in some even tinier ways?

Almost every game has a secret or story attached to it. Something that's interesting about it, that you'd nevertheless never notice if you only played the game itself. It's even true for LD submissions!

Besides the game itself, the most interesting thing about my current entry is that it's moddable.
How? Well...

It all has to do with the ./resc folder (short for resources):

• Within my game, there are 3 smaller games (playing at the same time). One of them is MAZEMAC, modified from a certain well-known classic.
  Those little mazes? You can change them, without going into the code or recompiling or whatever. Just look in ./resc/lvl and you'll see a couple of .txt -files. If you open one up, you'll see a number, and a grid. The number is just the level-number (so 0 for the 1st one, etcetera). The grid below is made up by walls (#), dots (.), 'mac' (@), ghosties (A and B) and empty space (). Change it around to make your own! :smile:

• You can change (a lot of) the art (./resc/img), music (./resc/muz) and sound-effects (./resc/sfx) as well this way!

• No need to restart the game! Unlock debug mode with '[' (left-bracket) and press 'R' to reload! (MAZEMAC levels only reload when you go back to the main menu and start a new game.)

So now I'd like to ask: What are the 'secret parts' of your game? :slight_smile:

Some of us had become attached to the 'old' manner in which the results where displayed, despite the (increasing) awesomeness of the new site :slight_smile:

I've tried to put the 'small' overview in this blog post, but the way this version of Markdown displays tables, is --let's say-- rather spacious, which is probably totally fine if you do something different with it than what I was to attempt.

So, therefore, instead of taking up approximately a bazillion screens of real-estate here, some links to another site: - overview of all 'podium places' - all top-20s Compo-edition - all top-20s Jam-edition - top-100 Overall Compo-edition - top-100 Overall Jam-editon - coolness: 'feedback hearts'

All mistakes herein are extremely my own and do not reflect upon the site-devs!

Shout-out to @joror, whose idea this originally was, but has been moving today! Also shout-out to @jod who was totally in the chat-room as well :yum:

I had hoped to 'break 100' in one of the categories, but ... breaking 100 in 6 of them? Scores > 4.0 in half of the categories? Wow! :smile: Overall 35th :dizzyface: _See the bottom of this post for more gratitude!

I'm ... not sure what to do with all of this, though. My game is a neat little package, and I can do only so much to expand it (without changing the simplicity that's part of what makes it fun in its current incarnation).

Therefore: A poll! What should I do vis-a-vis Post-Jam shenanigans?

Graphs! Courtesy of Ludum Dare Stats, a great time-waster if you --like me-- like looking at colourful lines displayed over a grid with numbers :smile:

Reading back through the feedback after receiving these great scores has finally made me realize that feedback really is the core of this game-jam. What does a number say in comparison to someone writing that they lost track of their surroundings. (In one case even almost to the detriment of a pet!)

Perhaps I should be proud, but, more than that I should be thankful to the people who took the time to actually write something down. Though I'm also very grateful if you 'just' rated! :wink:

* :heart: DEPLOY MEGA GRATITUDE :heart: *

Mad props to everyone who commented:
@zambini @wwwhizz @vasco-rodrigues @timon @theaioliguy @tex-killer @syrapt0r @swagdorf @svarttand @space-man @siarhei-rakuts @shipshape-detour @schizoid2k @rngsilvercraft @priweejt @phillserrazina @pcmxms @orcifried @noble-robot @nnnikki @newton @navot @mosesg @larkinia @kurupapuru @kolbjorn @kkneville @joror @jk5000 @furiouswitch @dragonzlay @dj-depressive @cubeeo @chyme @blinry @banan @ale @aeveis

I hope this thank-you-bomb doesn't annoy too many people (mentioned here or otherwise), but I think it's a good way to show I care? :slight_smile:

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