Managed to get some simple combat mechanics in and making good progress with level generation, and unity has only crashed

6 TIMES

but I guess that's what I get for using a new version of unity I've not used before.

I'm streaming the whole thing if anyone is interested.

https://www.twitch.tv/dauntlessdevelopment

Making a dungeon crawler type game where you go deeper and deeper underground as the game gets progressively harder, I'm hoping to have a boss at the end or at least somewhere by the end of this.

guess who's eyes are those xD

So at last me and my wife got a theme, we starting on assets and some design for the game!!

Unity is working nicely as always and here we go... going deeper and deeper into this jam!!

Hoping to create some kind of dungeon delving system similar to Stardew Valley's mines, where progress is achieved by finding the ladder.

So far I have:

Rough random level generation

A very basic enemy

A simple weapon system

Basic views and lighting

Here is how we decided our game: Step 1: Talk about the theme for hours and come up with a few to choose from. Step 2: Re-meet to choose one from those. Step 3: Someone suggests something ENTIRELY different. Step 4: Accept that one in a heartbeat.

I can't even.

So far we've trashed a casual game where you just descend down a hall with a rope and you have to evade monsters and find treasure on the sides of the hole. a turn-based game where you explore a tiled area, trying to avoid monsters and digging out stuff a tile-based tactical combat game where you go deeper in... space? hell? earth?

Now we are digging and building stuff. Possibly space dwarves. Here are some of the visualizations of the ideas: (made on Inkarnate)

Hi there! This is our first article about game development. We will talk about the concept here.

The meaning of the game is to help the cave creature (Glim), which was pushed out by the flow of water, to return home

Along the way, the player can jump, collect fireflies to replenish the supply of light. Or stumble over stalagmites, which will provoke the approach of water. The game ends if the player is covered in water due to tripping over stalagmites, fell into a pit, or plunged into darkness due to a lack of light energy.

Character concept

Background color variations

Going a bit slower than I wanted but hey, here's a mockup! It's going to be a methodical, claustrophobic shoot'em up on a platform sent down an endless chasm filled with hellish creatures. Your exoskeleton is heavy and clunky so every decision counts!

I am going with a top-down methodology since I am pretty confident about how my concept will play and feel. I just hope I will have enough time to make music for it.

Now, time to work on player animations and enemies!

Hey all, if you're using a newer version of Unity, you may encounter a bug uploading a WebGL build to itch.io

To fix it check this box: Project Settings > Player > Publishing Settings > Decompression Fallback

Hi everyone !

We are jamming for the first time with my daugther (she's almost 9).

It will be simple because it's an excuse to learn programming for her. Be gentle, we are newbies.

For now, our game is a clicker where you need to dig deeper and deeper to find diamonds. With your diamonds you can "buy" more "dig".

More later, we are just in the beginning ;)

Hey everyone!

I know... I know... a mining game.

I got a bit of a late start this time around, but I've got something to show at least. Just the basics now, but I think the idea could be pretty fun.

Basically you're a miner that can mine left, right, and down. The goal is to get as deep as possible, before you run out of energy/oxygen (Not implemented yet). You'll be able to collect oxygen as you descend to fill your supply back up, but you'll have to move fast and look out for obstacles that will slow you down or kill you.

I'm keeping the art style simple so no-one has to deal with my programmer art. Just simple sprites, and easily swappable color palettes.

I'm using PICO-8 for the first time. It's fun, but my inexperience with lua has caused me to hit a few snag but I think I'm getting the hang of it.

Good luck everyone!

We spent last night brainstorming, and today we started to work on gameplay and some shaders!

We're trying to come up with the character's style and identity, can't decide yet if it should be a human or a boat flowing downstream...

Have a nice #ldjam48 everyone!

hsejam #ludumdare48 #hse

Making progress on Goldf, the subterranean gold nugget golfing game! I now have a basic player movement and collisions. There's also some visual flair and polish on the character as well as on the surroundings.

Adding visual feedback from player movement is always crucial for getting a good juicy game feel. Tricks like the flight particles or tilting the player model when moving sideways are super cheap to pull off. Adding some secondary movement - in this case the arms - can add a lot of character too. I highly recommend spending a few moments on adding small touches like those since their return on investment can be huge.

Here's a longer clip as video: https://youtu.be/jxVa_3luEok

Experimenting with normal maps and some basic ideas for the gameplay.

https://youtu.be/krVmgCsHTBQ

Making a procedurally generated cave exploration game about going to the center of the earth! Streaming development here: https://www.twitch.tv/ursagames

We're diving deeper into this idea, but progress is a little slower than I expected.

Still a lot of work to do, but it actually looks like a game now.

The next step may well be the hardest: coding the enemy AI. I've programmed enemies that can move along pre-determined paths, and act at pre-determined times, but these enemies need to actively seek out the player and fire upon them while avoiding obstacles. I've never done this before. But that's what this jam is for: doing things I've never done before.

Here goes nothing!

Its my factual second Ludum Dare, and i wanted to get into it with some light MetroidVania. Given it is about delving deeper and deeper into a labyrinth

Have a picture

the surrealism of red block with white block gun in tiled world

I cant find the submit butoon and where i choose if i submit to the compo or jam?

Do the rules of participating in compo alone apply to playtest or can I send my game to my friends to receive feedback?

i cant find the publish button and where i choose to submit to the jam or compo??

A day working mostly on game design, pixel art, mockups... before delving deeper into programming this stuff and make it move ! Happy LD48 to all

it's a clicker game! drill the earth for gems!

I started late but managed to get this much done in 6 hours. Which is the "core" of the game. The game is called "To the Core" and is based loosely on the Movie The Core with Hillary Swank.

Dig deeper and deeper to the core to place the nuke and make it back out in a time limit. Collect ore for power and avoid hazards (still to be added). If you run out of power its game over!

https://youtu.be/tdN_Vc9lcCg

Next up some actual gameplay.

It's ok for the UI, let's play :)

Choosing pictures is ok. I use some assets from Adobe Stock.

I just have some buttons to add on the screen and fix a repaint bug in the circle background.

Back on Twitch in an hour after a short pause.

Hey guys!

First time participating in Ludum! I'm here to show you a little of our process of creating one of the items in our game: "Magicards and The Elemental Kingdoms".

We will not follow the chosen theme, but one of them is "Summoning", haha

We'll continue to strive! The projects I'm seeing are getting incredible, congratulations to all the warriors! :smile:

Pls, give us feedback of what you are thinking about it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEosdqYKRqM

Hi everyone, first Ludum dare for us. We are a team of 3, a programmer, a game designer and an artist. We are quite happy with how the game progress, we currently have the procedural generation for our map, some basic deplacement for the crew of the drilling machine and the asset of the machine.

We are often checking how others teams progress but it seem so far that we might end up with a game!

Looks like we've made some progress boys!

hey! we're making a multiplayer fighting game :)

Tools: Construct 3, Ableton Live, Aseprite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmjpTS1LYX0

I am making a game for the few that can see autostereogram Can you see the shape in 3D ?

you should see that with the oblique bar on top of the plane with a hole

Gameplay is mostly done, you are falling deeper and deeper through holes, you have to move your paddle to fit. It's a classic ! The twist is in the 3d visualisation with autostereogram and you should go deeper and deeper into trance!

Any comments are welcome!

This theme is a though one hahaha! It is a bit late already but I am going to still give it a try! I decided to start making some drawings using Inkscape and started building my game using the Godot Game Engine! Here is a little update!

Current stage: - idea generating - done - Was too ambitious, started scaling game down done - idea refine + make a plan - done - code + early prototype - WIP - graphics - WIP - stable alpha - - stable beta - - sounds + music - - polish - - Final Game -

- 2 hr progress

- 9 hr progress

Doing some Mock Ups :)

Going an obvious route with the gameplay, but it all comes down to the execution i'd say.

Few things are as predictable as the absolute certainty that I will waste the first day of LD tweaking our player's movement physics...

Random Level Generation: Done Random Enemy Spawning: Eh Capture System where you can equip monsters:??? Character movements and attacks: okay..sure this will do Totem Boss Spawn with enemy sacrifice: EEE, um, we will see X-D

I've got the beginnings of a 2D dungeon adventure platformer in the works!

here's our first ennemy : the cloporte! This one get in it's ball when attacked from upfront and takes damage from beside.!

I also wanted to share you some concept are, because it was fun drawing it!

Hello Community!!!

A year later, we are back in business, although probably not us, but only me, because my friends do not really want to participate, but I do not blame them!

I am an artist, so I do not know any programming languages at all, I spent most of the day trying to make the ball move and jump (it is so difficult!!)...

In general, the game is a vertical maze and you will have to descend deeper and deeper (very original), but you can see the split screen, so you will have to play on two mazes at the same time!

But not everything is so simple, a surprise awaits you, stay tuned! (I hope I will be able to fulfill all my plans)

Good luck to everyone!

https://youtu.be/9vxB7yZoxJg

In the video, a rough prototype, well, be sure in the end it will be a candy!

Hoplà,

Main mechanics are done. Now we have to brainstorm how to make it fun. "What is fun ?", THE big question !

And if we can add some sounds and graphics it will be nice.

Daughter, now, has a deeper and deeper understanding of programming.

By the way, we are programming with P5js. Simple enough to learn, wide enough to do anything we want ;)

This is my very first Ludum Dare, and my first proper game jam. I actually participated in a GDU Jam a few months back, but wasn't able to finish my game in time.

I'm very excited :slight_smile:

I wanted to record my journey in some way — I considered streaming some of the process, recording my screen while creating or maybe writing a devlog piece afterwards. I settled for this multiple entry blog form as it's very friendly and I don't feel like making things even harder for myself, as, to be honest, I'm already a little intimidated by the whole process :sweat_smile:

What I know so far — I'll have about 12-18 hours to actually make and publish the game (I'm going for the Compo as it's said to be the "classic" experience), so I've spent the first couple of hours basically planning my work in 1-hour increments and coming up with a rough sketch that'll serve as a basis for the first prototype. I already have an idea / concept that I believe fits the theme, but I want to do some prototyping before sharing it here.

A little background on me — I'm on my late thirties, born and living in São Paulo, Brasil, and I currently work as a customer support / LiveChat agent for a gaming website. I worked most of my life as a multimedia graphic designer for ad agencies and studios, and I've also done some creative writing in comic books, short stories and gaming strategy articles. I have a little bit of experience on making games, but really not much. I basically made and published two very short experimental-ish games, one using Godot and another one using Construct 3 (which is what I'll be using for this jam). These are simple projects I created after following tutorials and watching a bunch of videos from creators Vimlark, Tim Ruswick / GDU, Jonas Tyroller, HeartBeast, Marcos Game Dev / Fuchter and Miziziziz, and getting inspired by works from indie devs such as Kultisti, Ludipe and poppants.

If you want to check my other games out, they're available on http://pijamar.itch.io

Any feedback is greatly appreciated, as my main goal with this jam (and with game dev in general) is to learn and have fun :smiley:

See you on the next post :wink:

Initial art... time to go deeper and deeper

We made new tree models for our survival game in a forest.

we've got a long way to go, but basic controls, a simple submarine, and the vr bits are in!

I had this idea of concentric spheres where you have to clear the outer shells to go deeper into the next level. I thought about some puzzle ideas, like Tetris, Lumines, or Yars' Revenge but none of them seemed to work in 3D. And then I thought about the old game Snake and I thought ... maybe, maybe this might work. So here's the start of Snake on a Sphere:

I'm finished with the gameplay mechanics. This is the first time in a game jam, I programmed first. Now is Art-Time. I have to make this ugly but fun game to a pretty and fun game now.

Hello ldjam :) last time I participated was in 2018.

Started bit late but I've been working on something almost whole day, not sure what to call it yet. Here's first video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kXkzcCDeOc

got much of the basics, level generation, spawning and controls etc done. I'll dedicate most of the time to functionality + gameplay and I'll create some 3D art stuff in Blender tomorrow. Not sure if I'll have any time to audio.

well, back to jamming.

I wish I was able to make more progress last night, but there's a lot of structural work done too, so this is honestly going better than expected :P

Here's a little work-in-progress update. I've got as far as figuring out the basic gameplay of "shrink down, grow up", so now I'll have to figure out how to make that work as part of a larger level.

Our artist @nespigares has finished the background for the first 4 levels :smilecat: