Just a thought we had today:

This is our 5th Ludum Dare (we started developing games at 33rd). I've been playing games since yesterday. I played over ten games and my teammates even more.

Every game I try makes me say "ok, I want this to improve, I want this to be finished, I want to play a polished version of this" and that's something never happened before to us on a game jam.

Maybe a game lacks on graphics or music but it has a great mechanic, or maybe it's got great music and stunning graphics that make me love it.

If you're not playing (and rating) games on this jam, you're probably missing alpha testing of the next best seller.

This was definitely one of our most challenging game jam ever. When we started, we came up with the idea of a game about a dinosaur with playful sons who followed him everywhere and broke stuff. Sadly, I -the programmer/Unity guy- found out at the end of day one I wasn't going to finish the stuff in time.

Day two was mostly about low moral, trying to come up with a good idea we could develop in the remaining time and fighting with a bird that wanted to attack us when we were on the window.

On the night of Day 2, we came up with this idea about a guy who randomly ended up being stuck on a balancing car on the top of a mountain and birds standing on both sides of the car, breaking that perfect balance.

In less than 20 hours (of almost no sleep), this game was made.

We were really lucky to have the amazing, incredible, awesome Moon Moon Moon ( https://themoonmoonmoon.bandcamp.com/ ) create some original music for us, but he's also on some sort of personal, music jam (he's writing, recording and uploading a new song every day), so he was short on time.

Luckily, we made it and most of the planned features were included in the build.

Give it a shot! It means a lot for us :) https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/birds-birds-birds

https://youtu.be/UeMxNQ97LB8