I'm trying for the second time, but this time I'm joining alone!

Thanks to everyone who played my game!

It's the first time I finished a game on a Ludum Dare so I feel really happy for hitting 20!

Also, thanks a lot for the good vibes and awesome feedback, It really makes me want to keep working on my game

Again, HUGE Thanks!

Life merchant small update!

Hello weveryone!, Life Merchant received a small update, hearing all of your feedback!.

Have you played life merchant already?? If not, you can do it here!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/life-merchant

Update

• Added fullscreen
• Reduced keystrokes by keeping movement key pressed
• Fixed some dialogs
• Reduced toast time for old age dialog
• Reduced time to sleep guards

Life merchant is a JAM game where you have to buy and sell trinkets to get older or younger. Each moment of your life has a special ability. Use them wisely to solve each puzzle!!

You can play it here!

I'll be more than glad to receive all the feedback you can provide, since I'm currently working on it!

Thanks for playing!

While creating life merchant, the "Salesman" wasn't supposed to be a tent, it's supposed to be a person, thus the name "Life Merchant". Due to lack of time, I only had a tent in my assets sheet and ended up with that. I'm currrently working on improving the game. So! among other things, I introduce you the freshly drawn (and animated!) Life Merchant, In all its glory!

Have you played Life Merchant already??

You can play it here!

Also! here's a quick look of a WIP level!

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Hello everyone!! This has been a super interesting month for me. It's the 3rd time I try to compete in Ludum Dare, but the first time I actually managed to finish a game. It's an amazing experience, I never thought that the real fun began after finishing the game and entering the rating stage. Getting to play all of your amazing games, and not even reaching 10% of them is overwellming and beautiful at the same time. The amount of feedback and kind words I received has no price, and I apreciate it deeply. I promised to keep working on my game, as many of you suggested. So, I kept my promise, and here it is, the final update. I really took more than I expected but I'm pretty happy with the result. With no further introduction the changelog:

Fixes and changes

• Fixed a bug where the player was able to interact with the merchant during the fadeout animation
• Fixed a bug where the player got stuck inside the skeletons when they moved to the same spot
• Fixed a bug where the player was able to move after finishing the level
• Fixed a bug where the player was able to buy the Life Merchant more items, making him go 1 year old
• Player can no longer push rocks trough open gates
• Skeletons can now be killed using the gate (That one's for you, sadistic streamers)
• Player can no longer stay over an open gate, It'll be jumped and move to the next spot

Adds and improvements

• Added fullscreen
• Added constant moving holding movement keys
• Added new mechanic press-plates
• Added 3 new levels
• Added an intro cutscene explaining a bit of my background idea
• Added a proper ending cutscene to close the humble backstory
• Some levels were reworked to complain with the new mechanics
• Added Life merchant animated Sprite
• Removed merchant tent
• Some levels were redesigned to look better
• Fixed some visual bugs
• Added new messages

This was a great experience, I thank you all again, And see you next Ludum Dare!!

PS: I'll try to write a post mortem later!

You can play it here!

Hello everyone!! This has been a super interesting month for me. It's the 3rd time I try to compete in Ludum Dare, but the first time I actually managed to finish a game. It's an amazing experience, I never thought that the real fun began after finishing the game and entering the rating stage. Getting to play all of your amazing games, and not even reaching 10% of them is overwellming and beautiful at the same time. The amount of feedback and kind words I received has no price, and I apreciate it deeply. I promised to keep working on my game, as many of you suggested. So, I kept my promise, and here it is, the final update. I really took more than I expected but I'm pretty happy with the result. With no further introduction the changelog:

Fixes and changes

• Fixed a bug where the player was able to interact with the merchant during the fadeout animation
• Fixed a bug where the player got stuck inside the skeletons when they moved to the same spot
• Fixed a bug where the player was able to move after finishing the level
• Fixed a bug where the player was able to buy the Life Merchant more items, making him go 1 year old
• Player can no longer push rocks trough open gates
• Skeletons can now be killed using the gate (That one's for you, sadistic streamers)
• Player can no longer stay over an open gate, It'll be jumped and move to the next spot

Adds and improvements

• Added fullscreen
• Added constant moving holding movement keys
• Added new mechanic press-plates
• Added 3 new levels
• Added an intro cutscene explaining a bit of my background idea
• Added a proper ending cutscene to close the humble backstory
• Some levels were reworked to complain with the new mechanics
• Added Life merchant animated Sprite
• Removed merchant tent
• Some levels were redesigned to look better
• Fixed some visual bugs
• Added new messages

This was a great experience, I thank you all again, And see you next Ludum Dare!!

PS: I'll try to write a post mortem later!

You can play it here!

Final Update is here! check out the full post here

Play the updated version now!

So the results are here!! I'm pretty happy with how I did. It's my first Ludum Dare, and I loved every minute of it. I met a lot of awesome people, got to play hundreds of games and challenged myself a lot!. I ended up with a game I really like, over 100 rated my game, which makes me super happy. I have now a product that I may transform into a full product.

Thanks to all of you who played! Thanks to all of you who rated! Thanks to all of you that commented and give feedback!

Feel free to follow me on social media and talk!

See you all Next LD!

Hello everyone!,

I'm in this one more time! :D.. Not sure yet if I'm going alone or in a team.. I hope I do better this LD!

My Suggestions

• The key's right in front of you
• Living furniture
• Combine previous Ludum Dare themes

Cheers!

I made it again! with a few minutes on the clock. I present you, reboot royale!

After every Battle Royale match, somebody has to set things up again. You’re in charge of rebooting a match before the next one starts.

Give it a try!

My Results are here, I'm pretty happy with them considering it wasn't a really fun game in the end!

Thanks to everyone who supported, played and rated!!

I see you all in 170 days!

Hello everyone,

I've been reading about this duplicates issue so I tried to add my grain of sand to the problem. I ran some deduping of the full themes list and it seems that out of 6327 theme suggestions, only 927 are exact duplicates, which is below 15%.

The thing is removing duplicates is not an easy task, because you have to find: + a) Exact matches + b) Semi-Exact matches: themes that are the same one but misspelled or with a special symbol like a "." at the end + c) Themes that are extremely similar and can be clustered together

C is not as simple as removing exact matches. I think, since LD is Open Source, we can do something about it.

So, if we are going to add something for future jams, we should probably think about preprocessing the themes list.

IMO Preprocessing should:

• 1) Remove exact and "Semi-exact" matches but keep the number of appearances
• 2) Cluster similar themes under one unique entry +3) In the UI:
  • 3.1) Show themes along with the number of appearances
  • 3.1) Show clusters of themes that are very similar under one unique entry

This way no theme is removed and all similar ideas can be approved or denied all at once.

It's just an opinion, let me know what you think

Cheers!

Edit: If anyone wants the full list as an spreadsheet here it is

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xfigRLvo8Y97TI9oyteUyGiFoRAC7pQ88MLFftme44U/edit?usp=sharing

This is the 5th time!

I'm going to participate, but from the previous 4 I only made it in 2. First time I participated was LD 38, and it was a complete mess, I was part of a team of unknown people from different countries with really different time zones, it's a complete mess. We tried to make a city builder on a shrinkable island.

The Second time I tried to participate was the one where the theme was mix two game genres. I tried to make a tower defense fishing simulator, but I ended up having too little time that weekend and never finished. From there I started actually finishing, LD 44 and LD 45 where my officially finished LDs, and my games were:

Really looking forward for this LD! :D Have fun everyone!

Hey everyone! this time I decided to give it a try to the compo, man that was something.. It's a whole new level of difficulty. Luckily I made it on time and I'm extremely happy about it!! :laughing:

The blind humming bit is here!

I'm getting into music making for the next jam, it ended up being really bad. But hey, at least it's something right?? Also, I had a lot of fun recording sounds with whatever thing was near me haha.

Anyway, a great adventure this LD, You can play it on itch! here

Hey everyone, my first compo game made it to 20 votes!! Thanks everyone who played and voted, If you haven't played it yet and want to do it, you can find it here !!

Hello everyone!! My results are here, I'm really happy for the blind humming bird. Getting in the compo for the first time was an enriching experience and the results are awesome. Thanks everyone who voted and play. Postjam version has a some small fixes and improvements from feedback and you can play it here: https://webox.itch.io/the-blind-hummingbird-postjam

Big thanks to you all, see you in 142 days <3

I'm in 100%, going for the compo for the second time!! Best of luck everyone!! :D

I'm in 100%!! I'm going for the compo for the second time! Best of luck everyone! :D