This was my 4th Ludum Dare in a row! The game I made is called Despot 3900, where you play as a despot whose power is waning. The goal is to accumulate as much wealth as possible and survive for as long as you can.

I was set to submit this for the 48h compo, but what I had Sunday night was pretty far from what I had in mind:

So I took an extra 24h to get my game to a point that I was happy with. The biggest pain here was my writer's block Friday night trying to come up with something for Running out of Power. I'm still trying to get past this happening every game jam, it sucks. Something I'm considering is setting up a personal game ideas wiki that I can search and refer to easily for quick inspiration.

All in all this was a lot of fun. I improved my ability to do something fast from the ground up since my first attempt at Ludum Dare 36 last year, which was always my main goal. If you'd like to read more about this, I also wrote a devlog post on my website.

Now I'll go play some cool random games :-) Congrats to everyone who participated!