The news about the end of LudumDare is making me a little sad, but I'm still going to give it my all this time! I feel like I did really well with my last entry, so here's hoping I can keep up my momentum!

Also, to celebrate LudumDare, I made a little wallpaper. There's a doodle for every single 'proper' LudumDare theme! (Well, at least based off of Wikipedia's list... and maybe one of them isn't a real theme yet... !)

Favorite software list:

Engine

🫖 Construct2: HTML5 game creation software!

Graphics

🫖 Aseprite: Pixel art program!

🫖 GNU-IMP: Open source image editor!

🫖 Tiled: Excellent tile-based level editor!

Sound

🫖 LSDJ and bgb: Authentic Gameboy synthesizer and emulator!

🫖 Chiptone: Superb “old-school” style sound effect generator/creator!

🫖 FL Studio: Classic versatile music software!

🫖 Audacity: Open source sound editor!

Hosting

🫖 itch.io: Storefront/games host!

NOTES

🧠 I WILL NOT USE ANY AI TOOLS. ALL ART/MUSIC/SCENARIO/SFX/ETC WILL BE CREATED BY ME OR WITH “OLD-SCHOOL”-STYLE GENERATORS. ANY AI INFLUENCE WILL BE ACCIDENTAL (SOME SOFTWARE COMPANY SNEAKING SOMETHING INTO MY TOOLS, FOR INSTANCE.)

⏳️ There are only 6 LudumDares left. My milestones...

🧮 I have made 25 Compo Entries since starting in ~2013.

✅ ⭐️ Get top 100 in any category (LD28)

🔲 🌟 Get top 100 in every category at once

✅ 💫 Get top 10 in any category (LD29)

🔲 🌌 Get top 10 in every category at once

✅ 🥉 Get 3rd in any category (LD40)

✅ 🥈 Get 2nd in any category (LD58)

🔲 🏆️ Get 1st in any category

🔲 🗻 Win 1st Overall

✅ 🛸 Remake an entry as a 'proper' release (2019)

Let's see if I can check them all off before the end!