After rating a few games right after the event ended, I only got time to rate again today. All seemed well as I slowly climbed up the board until the default sorting switched to DANGER and basically kicked me off.
danger depicted in-game (labeled)
If you want to help me get closer to the danger zone, you can play my Match-3/Tower Defense game here. I'll keep rating :)
I was not very pleased with the theme, but eventually came up with a game. The theme is not the main focus, but it's definitely involved. Started an hour ago and I already have a grass tile!
Now I'll try to focus on some gameplay, to see if it even makes sense.
I haven't touched Unity since two LDs ago and it shows. Mechanics I chose for my game are wasting a lot of time. It used to be so much easier! I need to cut it way way down, basically start over.
But 12 hours is still something :)
I haven't had much time to play games, but I managed to get 20 scores in almost all categories, so thank you!
I'll have some more time over the weekend if you leave me a review or a comment here. But I'll be only able to play web (or osx) games that don't rely on mouse.
My progress this weekend is unusually bad. Spent too much time on useless stuff, which is normal for me, but I did not expect to be this tired. So I'm not going to continue with Compo today, instead I'm going to take a sleep. Will give it a few more hours after work tomorrow, to deliver at least something for the Jam.
Here's a screenshot of what I have so far.
Most of the time was spent on the cars riding around. Are they important to the game? Not really, no. Did I do a good job at least? Hell no.
Anyway, I hope I can actually add some gameplay tomorrow.
Finishing is important.
Rating is fun.
My entry, The Insured Man got enough ratings to be scored. Thanks to everyone who played and left a comment, and sorry that it's not even what I imagined it be and kind of.. bad.
You can still rate it for a few hours, but it would be better if you go ahead and go rate games in the danger filter:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/games/danger/all
Those are the games that are missing only a rating or two.
Just started with my game, I'm maybe 5 minutes in excluding coming up with the idea.
My restrictions for this LD, based on previous attempts (I only make games for LD), were: - no rotations - no lighting - no textures - no pathfinding
Limited time budget pushed me to go simple this time. So simple I only used two colors and text characters. Still failed to complete all the mechanics I wanted, but the game is somehow playable.
If you want to give it a try you can do so here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/alphabet
And as some had already mentioned, it's good to use the danger filter these last few hours so as many games as possible get their ratings.
Got stuck at something I couldn't figure out so I played sudoku for two hours.
I haven't played sudoku in over a decade.
I think I'm procrastinating.
Time to cut features.
