For the first time ever I’m participating in Ludum Dare! I haven’t been doing art for years and decided after a slight push by the boyfriend (@blu3bird) to take on Ludum Dare together! For #LD40 , we decided to make a game where “The More Planets you gotta take care of, the Worse (or maybe it’s just a little more challenging eh?)

You play as a Ape (we have no idea why) and you happen to Lasso a Sun around and try to keep some planets alive and prospering in return for their worship (shrugs)

Maybe we should name it Planets of the Ape instead? XD

Here’s the splash for starters!!

So we have the character and the planet states (most of them) and some transitioning. Right now, the heating up of planets is working, lasso is working.

The most basic stuff is done? Thanks to @blu3bird for getting it ready so soon!

More work on design after discussion shall follow! We hope to make it fun!

Here's some transitioning:

We made the planets a whole lot smaller (all the lost detail :') ) than what we had initially to house more of them and hopefully start bringing some fun to the yard.

Finally time's almost up and we sent it in thanks to @blu3bird! Here's our first ever Ludum Dare and game made together!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/the-sun-revolves-around-me

More work on the art and balancing / level design after catching some shuteye.

Some progress from last night:

Hi guys! With the play+rate coming to a close soon we would need some help to see our score :D This is our first Ludum Dare together and they will be more to come! (New Year Resolutionssss)

Head over to the link below pretty please~ https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/the-sun-revolves-around-me

Planets Lineup :P

The title isn't solid yet but we're doing a time management bot 2 player fighting game :P You play as a mini-bot / mechanic kid who is putting together circuit boards in different combinations to instruct your Sumo-bot to battle the other player!

Different combinations yield different attacks,and you can kind of tell what your opponent is cooking up and you can try to stop it... or sabotage him and steal some parts, you decide how you're gonna play it. ;D

Here's some of the art/concept incomplete of course~ fingers crossed that the game will fun

Moarrr progress :D Here's it in game (ignore the random frame)

Play this with a friend!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/sumbot-fighting-1

Player 1 : Movement : WASD Interact : Spacebar

Player 2 : Movement : Arrow Keys Interact : Ctrl (right)

Build Instructional Boards for different moves with the different chips and dump them into the control terminals to execute the moves!

Hold on tight to your pieces, please don't drop 'em ;)

Fight your opponent. Till they Drop.

We realized CTRL wasn't a good key to use for the web version and we changed it to shift! and its playable on web now so please do give our game a shot :D I promise you it can get quite competitive >D Grab and friend and spend 5 minutes with us! If you've tried it please leave us a rating and some feedback :)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/sumbot-fighting-1

Seeing that @blu3bird talked a little about the dev process thought I should chime in a little from my angle about the process. I stubbornly chose to use a new set of software this run which I've never tried before but thankfully still could churn something out! Tried out Affinity Designer and Spine (really little I haven't got this quite figured out yet :P)

We were honestly hoping it would be anything but this theme initially as our thoughts were along the lines of if they are two incompatible genres wouldn't that make a game that's not fun and hence not worth making?

But we know whining about the theme would just waste our precious weekend and we got started rather quickly throwing ideas around pitching quick ones to each other and decided upon Time Management mixed with fighting! (Partially coz we realised actually Time management games could be fun - It could have been due to me playing Overcooked on switch not too long ago)

We toyed around ideas of formulating pars to give instructions for moves and of course robots naturally fit.

I toyed around with a few robot ideas and I sketched a round robot which I thought looks like it could take some time to make any movement and it kind of looked like a sumo and it just clicked then! The Japanese Daruma dolls were also inspiration. For the lil player bots.. I grabbed the Sumbot's belly and played around with it.. #lazyartist

I haven't been working on any art for years so being rusty it took me some time, the previous jam helped kick-start me and this time I took the opportunity to try Affinity which worked out really well to get quick asset exports out. I basically did all the assets in a single file! And it was all vector and I could use adjustment layers and all that it was really neat. Like Photoshop and illustrator married each other. I would highly recommend trying Affinity Designer if you're looking for just one software to meet your 2D game asset needs. It works well with Spine too! And exporting to it was smooth as butter. Had very little time to make the attack animations which IMO are really not how they should be. will do better next LDJ!

Made a lot more assets for this game compared to last Jam and am happier about the resulting aesthetic :D

There's really not a lot of two player games around for couples or a pair of friends to enjoy and we hope SumBot Fighting filled that space :)

Give us just 5 minutes of your time and play and rate our game :D comment with yours so we can play yours too!

https://youtu.be/HDepEjS-mhM ^heres a video of our own playthrough!

We're at it again! This is a LD full of firsts and learning. @blu3bird using Defold for the first time. Me still trying to get the hang of Affinity Designer + Spine.

We decided on literally Running, out of Space.

Hopefully we get it finished. But for now, here's the splash :D

Yes!! WE MADE IT! This time we took the Running out of Space LITERALLY.

You can even play this on mobile :D Simplest of our games made so far but one where we both (@blu3bird and i) tried new software and engines. Namely Affinity Designer + Spine and Defold engine.

I'll leave the new engine experience to @blu3bird to share.

We've actually taken the inspiration of the character from a popular TV personality. In fact, even the name of the game was inspired.

We unfortunately forgot to include the sweat in the game :P

Here it is: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/sweatin-spinnin-spacin

Please play and rate our game and let us know if you did in the comments on the game page so we can play your's too!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/sweatin-spinnin-spacin

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/sweatin-spinnin-spacin We toyed around with several ideas starting this game with this being the first one D: Taking the theme literally, we wanted a game you could run in space, across atmospheres, jumping on planets and hopefully getting out of space?

With the different atmospheres came different art styles :yum:

Our objective this jam was to come up with something that had simple gameplay as we were trying a new engine (Defold!) I wanted to try animating in spine, and learning how to do it based on my experience with rigging/animation in 3D (not much)

And above everything we decided right from the start that Richard Simmons would be our inspiration XD Although the character did not end up looking much like him.Pardon the early doodles

Here's him running, his hair moves.. but i realised pretty soon that no one's going to see that....

From Left to Right shows the style transitions:

Please help us play and rate our game :D Leave your games on our game page too and we'll play and rate 'em too! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/sweatin-spinnin-spacin

We took wayy longer than usual to decide on the game idea. with the concept, it was only natural to choose to do it in 3D. (I haven't done that in a long while)

Which I personally haven't done in a while and due to some licensing issues, I had to use 3DS Max which I habent used in 10 years D:

On the Ark, life still goes on, you gotta eat, you gotta make babies. You gotta keep everyone on-board or try to...and sometimes that takes some sacrifices..

There is a known bug when the baby shoots up high, just try to name it and press enter and the game should unfreeze

Enjoy!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/prims-ark

Hello! This is our first ever 3D LD attempt!

You arrive on an Ark with just 2 adorable prims, when you will get off this ride, who knows? Have fun keeping afloat and surviving with your adorable companions~

Available on HTML-5 :D

https://blu3bird.itch.io/primsark

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/prims-ark

Prims ark is playable on web :) And we're kinda short on ratings to see a result.. so here's hoping the Prims are adorable enough to make you wanna play our little game!

We completely forgot about LD44 and only started many hours in and even fell sick. Will we finish the jam this time? who knows!

But in 'Can I have 5 Minutes?", you are a Bank who hires agents to help sell policies / promote the bank accounts etc. The unsuspecting passer-bys are resistant to your pestering but hey, nothing a team of agents can't handle!

You need income to keep your bank alive and your agents need to be paid too! And we can't forget about rewarding our agents when they perform well with a bigger paycheck no?

Here's some of the art :P

Looks like we're one of the many keeping the 🔥 alive 😂😂

Groove to the beat, chop some wood and feed the flames! Play on web and please rate us 😁

I tried using only affinity designer on the iPad this time and surprised it could deliver ;)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/$200928

For the first time ever, I will be doing this Ludum Dare completely by myself! I'm usually the Artist in my team with my hubs but I've recently gotten into making games in Augmented Reality! I make AR filters mainly on TikTok using Effecthouse, check out my work here: https://www.tiktok.com/@yunixfx

I'm live streaming my gamejam progress on TikTok so do follow me and pop by my livestream :D

Here's my idea:

Just some work in progress on the takeout boxes, drinks and dispenser. I'm thinking an intergalactic cafe with pretty drinks and cakes could fit with the space theme and be pretty to work on.