We just completed our first Ludum Dare and it was way more brutal than we expected. Still, we finished our game and are quite pleased with it! Time for post-mortem might be later, now is time for sleep. Just super thrilled to actually see it finally done!
We learned a lot from LD #30 and we actually got ourselves some 2D artists. Also we’re trying to make the game with a bit less random generation.
We started working about 5 hours ago so we’re a bit late from the schedule. Hopefully we’ll have most of the gameplay elements ready tomorrow.
Left it to the dying moments but we manged to squeeze out a game! Luckily didn’t have to wrestle any big bugs or other problems, so we got some extra bits of polish done. It’s still quite rough with the transitions and everything but for a jam game it looks pretty good. More in depth analysis after a couple hours of sleep.
Play it HERE
So we completed our second Ludum Dare with our little Plants vs Zombies inspired shooter game. We tried to take some lessons from last time, reducing total random generation and improving the graphics assets and the game turned out quite well. The process of creating this game was relatively smooth, no massive bugs or other stops (other than the occasional procrastination) and no big features cut due to the time limit. We made pretty much the game we wanted to make so our scope was spot on, which I think is where some developers make mistakes, especially the newer ones like ourselves.
Thanks to all the people who’ve given us valuable critique on the game so far! We’ve fixed a couple (small but annoying) bugs in the game that were making it hard or even impossible to play and hope the experience is now better for everyone.
Please try out our game HERE if you want to do some wildlife control.. kind of. The forest critters are waiting!
Got this baby finally done. Gameplay-wise it’s very simplistic but my vision was more on the atmosphere and the feel of the game. Feel free to give it a go here!
This was an interesting and different Ludum Dare for me. Earlier I had participated only with a team and with quite lot of planning and organizing. This time I just happened to check the theme 6 hours after the jam had already started and just decided to wing it and try to hack a game together with the limited time and resources I had.
I started by prototyping a bit of hitman-esque stealth stuff and was gonna originally make a little game where you have to identify your target in a crowd and somehow kill him. As I have almost no experience in anything to do with modeling or drawing, I tried to create a lot of different blocky cube characters with different colored shirts and small details but the game ended up looking like a mess. As I made all the NPC:s look relatively similar, the idea of the game changed from killing one target to killing them all.
By day 2 I had already implemented all the mechanics I had planned and could focus on other stuff. I had limited time to use on the game so I decided to focus all the attention on honing the atmosphere and the mood. Little changes to camera effects and sound effects slowly built up into a much much darker game that I had originally planned it to be. I started with relatively colorful scene and ended up with this grayscale horror game. I also came up with the name and the little back story for the game after seeing how different it had become. You were an actual monster feeding on humans during the night.
For a long time I thought the game wasn’t gonna be anything good but eventually was pleased with the result that I ended up with. It was kinda weird process where I never really knew what the game was gonna be like until it was finished. Still a good experience in developing a game this way, even if it’s not the best way.
You can play the game here: http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-33/?action=preview&uid=39351
Hi again
I got the HTML5 version of our dank rap battle game working properly
Now go try it out here by clicking this MASSIVE LINK!
*mic drop*
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There’s a lot of cool dudes who have played our game already
If you wanna be one of those dudes, you can join by playing our rap battle game
Phew, I always think we're able to finish the game in a reasonable time, but again I find myself sweating on it past midnight. This time I guess I have real life grown-up work to blame for my troubles. Anyways, here's the game, it's not much but at least we got it done. Please try it out if you would! 
Me after finishing
If you said hell yeah you're in for a ride, we can offer you an incredibly unrealistic non-simulation of how it feels like to be the prime minister of a country where everything isn't going that rosy!
If you said hell no, good! This game will prove you why your decision was the right one! Play it here! 
Ever wanted to pick a bunch of random words to see a bunch of funny newspaper articles about you picking a bunch of random words? You know what? You can do that in our game. Play it and remember laugh at my jokes please
