Hey everyone!

We're a scrappy little team of three coming together once again to take on the Ludum Dare challenge! No official team name yet — we keep forgetting to come up with one, but hey, naming things is hard, right?

👥 The Crew:

🎨 Bizzybee – Music, SFX, Art

Hello to the wonderful LD community! …Oh no, I'm stuck doing the art again! How could this have happened. 😭 In all seriousness, I'm super excited for this LD. Having 3 days dedicated to working hard on something, and putting it out there within that timeframe, does something wonderful both for minimizing perfectionism and getting this compact feeling of accomplishment. Constraint is such a wonderful tool to work with in our increasingly overwhelming lives. I'm hoping to "brush up" on my art skills and put out something as simple and complete as I can manage within the time limit. I also haven't been composing music a lot lately, so I'm happy to have an excuse to get back into it. Here's hoping the theme is engaging, is capitalized, and has proper grammar. :P

🐞 Frank Gevaerts – Programming, Elite Bug Squasher

I've now had six months to forget most of what I managed to learn about Godot in the previous two LDs. This is fine! This will be my third team participation (my fifteenth overall), and while I don't know what the game will be like, I'm very much looking forward to the experience. Working with people who are actually good at music, art and writing is amazing!

🐟 Balimaar the Bass Fish – Programming, God of Bug Creation

I'm really excited to work again with Frank and Biz. We created a very nice and atmospheric visual novel with Apprentice Quest 2 LDs ago and in the previous LD we made what was our best game yet in PaperCat Farms — an adorable little farming game that was surprisingly engaging and fun! One key takeaway from last Ludum Dare was the fact that we just dived right into making PaperCat Farms without really deciding what we were going to do other than 'let’s make a farming game!'. We ended up with something coherent and playable, but it would have been even better if we spent a little more time planning at the outset. Looking forward to the grind and playing everyone’s creations afterwards!”

🛠 Tools of the Trade:

Game Engine: Godot

Art & Audio: Whatever Bizzybee pulls out of their magical hat

Communication: Friendly chaos in Discord, probably

💡 A Bit About Us:

Frank is a seasoned LD veteran, entering his 15th jam this time around! 💪

Biz is a college grad with serious creative chops in music and art 🎶🖌️

Balimaar is a part-time aged care worker and full-time Dungeon Master 🐉, soon to bring Pathfinder 2E into the mix!

Wishing everyone the best of luck, inspiration, and time management this weekend!

Let’s make something cool — and play the heck out of each other’s games afterwards!

See you all on the other side! 💜