I’m doing the jam. My kids and I are going to work all weekend and see what we can come up with. I’m very excited. I’ve had a game idea on my back burner and I hope this challenge will kickstart that effort.
-TerryG and the GruForce Game Development Team
It took my kids and I a while to come up with the proper “fling” mechanic for getting a satisfactory viking toss. You don’t want it too heavy or too light.
My kids and my exchange student and his sister are going to make a game. This will be our 4th Ludume dare. We are very excited.
Just got a new team together, and while they have never worked on a game before, I think they produced some solid work in half a weekend. We are all pretty stoked about this weekend. Here’s what we did:
https://terryg.itch.io/still-sleeping
(Unity web game, so works well in Firefox/IE).
Here’s what we work in:
I’ve been pushing my games out for the last 3 dares using the Unity web player, but with that now having limited support and going away, I decided to upgrade to Unity5 and try WebGL. However, that looks like it only just works in Firefox. At least couldn’t get it to work in Chrome and Opera. Just sits on the loading screen. I would have thought that with HTML5 and WebGL, the good thing would be that you don’t have to beg your user to download a plugin, and that it would just work smoothly. Anyone run into this before?
We are in. The colorado people are here at Longmont Ludum Dare site. 9 people in all. This the largest team I have led for this.
In the process of submitting our entry now for It’s Just a Phase
Submitted!! This hardcore platformer was forged from the sweat of 14 talented people many of whom never worked together. They just showed up, a team started to be formed and then even more showed up. This is what I love about Ludum Dare! All art, music, animation, and cutesy you-just-died-again mood created within period of the Ludum Dare contest.
anyone else experiencing itch.io not downloading a newly uploaded Unity game? Just trying to see if it is just me.
Hello fellow Ludum Dare people. I made a walk through of our game and posted it to youtube. Our game is a Unity web game (plays in Firefox), downloads fast since I use my own site, and you can play through it in under 8 minutes and has an ending! And it is a lot of fun. I made the walk through for the more difficult parts of the jungle and lava levels.
She is funny to watch as she energetically describes everything as she experiences them. It is kind of gold for game developers.
One of my favorites of hers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq7gAVMGGJQ
oh, and here’s my game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qghFHbf88KI
Here’s my we are in message.
It has been a long few days, but it is finally done.
http://rockon.daretogame.net
I’m going to bed now.
Let the fun begin!!!
Super excited to be joining. This is will be my 7th Ludum Dare, and I am excited to work on such and excellent team!
Can someone help me find how to form a team on ldjam.com? I can't seem to find where to add friends.
Our entry: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/planets-of-zoltcon
Retrospective
We got the orbital mechanics working...and I put in the magic "HTML5" keyword in the description so it is now correctly classified.
We learned that having an orbital mechanics AND individual levels is a ...bit to much for a 72 hour game. We should have just stuck with an orbital mechanics game...which was hard enough. So, scope was a problem. No surprise there. Also the tutorial which I placed in the latest version really should have been part of the astronauts first journey to a planet. However I have a lot going on in my life right now so we settled for a slide show. In the future that needs to be given more priority with less given to doing more levels.
Also the web version is working better than the windows exe. The windows exe seems to have problems with the player's spawn point not scaling all the time when the planet shrinks, so you end up spawning outside the planet. Need to get that worked on.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/planets-of-zoltcon
You can find out in this WebGL game. You are an astronaut and you rely on orbital mechanics to jump from planet to planet trying to find out why they are shrinking. Play the latest version: http://ludum.daretogame.net/zoltcon/
*substitute astronaut for the little prince.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/planets-of-zoltcon
I just need 4 more votes in order to get ranked. This is a WebGL HTML game with about 10 minutes of play time if you make a beeline for the artifacts. Here's the latest version: http://ludum.daretogame.net/zoltcon/
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/planets-of-zoltcon
Thank you!! We are over 20 votes now! Here's the latest version: http://ludum.daretogame.net/zoltcon/