Y'all, check out Crates by @karreg! It wasn't working properly yesterday but it's up now and holy cow it's good! If you like one-button games and physics games, you owe it to yourself to check this one out! It's definitely in my top ten so far! 😍
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/crates
What happens when the stork that delivers babies gets a stroke? Play our game and find out!
We had less than a day to work on this project, so we had to act fast, just like the baby! Can you land safely?
https://ldj.am/$366914
We are testing games on twitch!
Come and suggest your game! :red_circle: https://www.twitch.tv/tobugis
We made a frantic physics-based foray into item delivery for LD53 with Game Genie: Crunch Time. If you have a few minutes, please take a look and let us know what you liked and what could be better.
There's a web build too, so you don't even need to download anything to play!
LD entry page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/game-genie-crunch-time
Try to get 6 monkeys on the delivery truck to secure the bananas for your boss!
I need to review more games, so I'll be playing through people's Jam / Compo entries on my Twitch again! :sparkles: I’ll critique them live and then rate & comment on them after the stream. I'll be playing the games of people in chat, so come post yours at https://twitch.tv/Aurailus! I'll be prioritizing reviewing games from people that have reviewed mine. :heart:
So many games lacks just a tiny bit of reviews to get their games rated. Especially COMPO games, which deserve much needed love!
What's changed? 1) Fixed the collision isuue 2) Removed the Left Mouse Button Click System 3) Some other minor issues fixed
Check out the new Version (0.5) : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/hotaru-guider-of-souls
Try out our web based game! Deliver as much as you can, and don't crash the trucks!
Things we have learned from previous jams: - Keep the scope down - Make the whole game loop ready as early as possible to have time to design levels - Start programming as early as possible, better to quickly prototyping than planning too much - Always make a web build so everyone can try your game
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/pancake-day
As usual I'd thought I'd do my quick post jam break down of my game for LDjam 53.
Dawn of the First Day
As tradition, I didn't quite like the theme Delivery, so the beginning of the jam I kind of took it slow. I wasn't really feeling it and I honestly thought I would drop out after working somewhat slower and lacklustre than I usually do.
Saying that, I did straight away prototype a "Crazy Taxi" kind of game where you pick up and drop off passengers around a world. The original concept was 3 smaller worlds where you would fight through enemies, earn cash and upgrade your character. You'd unlock a new level once you hit a certain credit amount or drops.
So the first day really consisted of designing the gameplay, making weapons, creating a few enemies and just getting the main base down. However due to my somewhat laziness on this first day, this ended up spilling over into day 2.
Dawn of the Second Day
So the second day was upon me, after getting quite a bit of sleep (10 hours, which is unusual for me during a LDjam) I set down to finish the main base of the game. During this period I set to designing the passengers, level graphics, area gimmicks and some of the music for the game.
( The areas/biomes of the world, Forest, Aquatic, Magma, Temple and Factory.)
It was at this point where my decision of actually sleeping and taking it a little more relax came to bite me in the backside. I knew at this point I wouldn't be able to make three different levels with a decent size, so I began cramming it all into one massive level. The knock on effect this had is that a lot of the code was based on smaller size stages, so the direction arrow became a bit wonky at finding the best path :/ Sadly at this point it was too late to really edit it and fix it. I also thought I would have enough time to add a couple of a bosses that would allow a "warp" point between both ends of the world, but again due to lack of time I had to scrap this idea, even though I add most of the code to make this work!
In hindsight I should of shrank the world down and knocked off an area. This would of given me a little more time for extra polish, stopped the player from getting a little more lost than I intended and also given me more time to add in music tracks for each of the areas.
Dawn of the Final Day This time I hardly slept, this was because I had the huge task of actually plotting out the world and making sure it all worked. For the next 20 hours I was building the main world, editing the menus, adding in a shop and doing the main bulk of the world.
It was at this point I knew why in the past I never really sleep during game jams! Although in my older age I know that my body can't quite take that sort of punishment anymore! (I'm still feeling it now!) I honestly thought I wouldn't get it finished but luckily I finished it in the nick of time, even though I had to cut out a few things and I didn't get the polish that I usually do. I had to for-go unique tracks for each of the areas and a snazzy intro art.
But it's done. I'm not super happy with this one but still, it's better than I used to do back when I first started.
Next time I'll try and give it a little more, but damn I'm getting to old for that haha.
Play Hazard Saviour here: Itch io Page: https://sinclairstrange.itch.io/hazard-saviour
LDjam page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/hazard-suviour
(I was that tired at the end I spelt the name wrong on my LDjam, oh well!)
Watch a full playthrough here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wMECSq2Wtk
Anyway I hope peeps had a fun jam, looking forward to this weekend where I can play lots of games and see the wicked cool stuff peeps made!
(A full map of the world is here:) Full Map
Here's what path my Compo game went from concept to full game. Bag Stranding is like a super-short Death Stranding in 2D with hilariously unrealistic physics and unique game mechanics.
If you like what you see, feel free to try Bag Stranding and leave your feedback! Thanks!
It is a calm puzzle game and playable in the browser: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/dungeonfalls
If your game has a Web-Build too and needs more ratings, please comment below!
Guys i released a 2nd patch that fix the transition screen thing so everyone will have the same screen size and also pov fixed my game so now it's jam again!!!!
Uh oh, the road is collapsing! Can you save the mail?
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/save-the-mail
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My subbmission for this game jam has almost 20 ratings :smile:. I just need 6 more!
So I hope for as many people to play and rate my first game jam game :D. I really want to be scored on this game jam and I am so close just because of 14 legends who have rated my game so far!
The Games called Oshumania Heres the link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/oshumania
Another small thing,
Im pretty confused on the new "Smart" ordering system where, to encourage rating other games, you get "Coolness Points" for the more games you rate, and if you rate other games your game is placed higher up in the rating page.
However, i have rated many other games but I still have a very low, negative smart score. Heres a screenshot where it shows the smart score:
If anyone know whats happening please help me out.
Anyways thank you to anyone who is going to or has already rated my game, I really appreciate it :slight_smile:.
P.S. I know and have tried to fix this problem where in the game any text is way to small to read because of the size restrictions that are in place when you upload a web imbedment in the Ludum Dare Website. I was going to upload a version with a bigger text size but I have unfortunately edited the original project already with some significant changes so I can not update or add an .exe version which will fix these issues without breaking game jam rules as the project has been changed significantly after the game jam ends. Sorry for any inconveniencies beforehand.
Heres a few in-game pics of my jam subbmission:
Hey all, I’m Sodoj and I made Commutator, a snake game you can play in your Microsoft Paint window!
One of the reasons I decided to do this game is that I unironically love using Microsoft Paint! While it is very limiting compared to contemporary drawing software like Krita and Photoshop, working around those limitations is extremely fulfilling and every drawing feels much more meaningful!
Here's one drawing I managed to conjure up in Paint. The guy's lantern isn't shining all that bright so maybe you could help him light it up. Who knows, there might be something hidden in the darkness:
Using Paint as a drawing tool is one thing, but using it for game creation is even bigger challenge. In fact, this is not my first time using Paint in game development, my entry for Ludum Dare 50, Darko, had all of its 2D assets drawn in Paint. Organizing texture atlases and making their backgrounds transparent was a pain and a half, but I think it was worth it, mostly because I had so much fun doing the assets!
Making the entire game revolve around MSPaint window was much more tricky. To my knowledge, there isn't really a way to render an image to MSPaint canvas and all of that fancy stuff, there's only stuff that make MSPaint MSPaint: brushes that you use with the mouse, canvas size, colors and the fact that it's on every Windows 10 OS. Not may compelling games you could make with that toolset, some might say not at all, but with some creative thinking everything is possible.
These days I'll be going more in depth about how I managed to make this game. What I want you to take from this post, if anything, is no matter what tools you use, there's a potential in all of them to make something incredible!
If you want to try out Commutator, you can find it here .
--> https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/super-buffed-delivery-service
If a retro 3D stealth game sounds like it's up your alley you should check out my game, After Curfew. Warning, it is fairly hard.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/after-curfew
The whole team was watching our game on the streamer. Someone had to run quickly to the computer when a message came on the general chat. We were able to have a little chat with Rincs online.
Join in to rate our game!
play my game at: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/a-mailmans-nightmare
Please play and rate and if you want leave a comment :) Its not my best game but the graphics are okisch :D
You can now play Wind Garden in the browser! Use the version embedded on the LDJam page and make sure to go full screen. Also - Firefox seems to not work with it so play in one of the compatible browsers like Chrome or Edge
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/wind-garden
A player said that we should implement a high scores table, is that something people can do as a patch?
Hi everyone, hope you're having a great wednesday evening! If you haven't already defeated an evil machine invasion today, maybe try your hands on this big bad boss! :muscle:
I recommend playing with a controller for the best experience.
Thank you!
Play the web-version on itch: https://stefan-funke.itch.io/machine-meltdown
Please give some feedback here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/machine-meltdown
Hey all. I created this guide quite a while ago but it's still relevant! You can use it to convert your Godot 3.x projects to 4.x and it'll help a lot in the transition. For more advanced users, use this: https://gist.github.com/WolfgangSenff/168cb0cbd486c8c9cd507f232165b976
For an actual conversion guide for people just starting to transition to Godot 4, use this: https://gist.github.com/WolfgangSenff/0a9c1d800db42a9a9441b2d0288ed0fd
Feel free to add comments where needed! I'm happy to make updates. I should have posted this pre-LD53, but didn't think to until just now, sorry about that friends!
There is a discussion about the Ariadne's Thread Delivery controls being too hard to complete the game. Honestly, I've done my best to keep player confused with the truck movements and keep him hitting the walls. Maybe I went too far with this. How do you think?
https://youtu.be/Qad6CKOZgyM
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/ariadnes-thread-delivery
I just updated the PostJam version of the game :)
The misclick bug is fixed
I added a Custom Game menu in which you can set the difficulty level
I randomized everything ingame so its quite challenging and new everytime
Hope you will enjoy !
Post-jam version: https://greenwooddrive.itch.io/the-delivery-of-the-message
To rate my LD entry: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/the-delivery-of-the-messenger
Pretty happy with how this one turned out, though as always, there is loads more I wish I could've added.
Feedback I've received so far has already given me some ideas for how to improve it, think I might work on it some more and see where it goes...
Check if out If you feel like playing something QWOPey!
Specifically I would like to know if it would be complying with the rules, and in 'good taste', to make some changes to the graphical scaling of my game. From the feedback I've received from others it has become apparent that although 640x480 is a plenty fine resolution for me while playing on a 1366x768 laptop screen, it can be far too small for others running at other resolutions. The changes that need to be done to rectify this are: 1. In source, I need to switch to relative positions for the ui elements, as well as tweak their font sizes and margins to improve readability. 2. Tweak my css to have the games canvas fill its iframe. 3. Have the itch upload use a larger default resolution, and enable the fullscreen toggle.
Would it be acceptable to make the above changes to my submission or should I make these changes on a separate upload/wait until voting is over. The way I see it, the above changes wouldn't normally need to be justified if I needed to tweak things for porting to another platform, But I am unclear where things stand when making these changes to an existing port.
Come try out our coop 2d beat-em-up where all of the enemies (and four playable characters!) are ourselves green-screened into a destroyed world. Do you really want My Way to show you who's boss?
Have a watch, and if you think it's something you'd enjoy playing, please do and let us know what you think! The game itself can be found under this link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/recodeli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxF8y6VFqt4
play it here: https://www.ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/a-mailmans-nightmare/
https://www.youtu.be/jalFayAFxFY
Thanks for your comments and tests !
I've reached the 20 votes for ranking. Each Ludum Dare is a new occasion to learn a lot. I continue to polish my little game, and add all i had not the time to finish, the new version will be update on itch.io after the voting period.
Stay connect !
Say it ain't so.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/10-minutes-guaranteed
Hey all, I know people can be hesitant to download executables when Web Builds are common. However, I recommended you download and play our game if you're interested; I am trust worthy - look at my username!
However, if you would rather not - but still want to check out the game, then feel free to check out this Let's Play of our LD Entry:
https://youtu.be/ppAfwGnKGrQ
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/elevander-of-the-emu-express
You're not sleeping on our game are you?!
Check it out:
https://ldj.am/$358671
Hey guys,
Just in case you miss some relaxing experience and didn't try out our creation - you are welcome to try! Comment out & link if you want feedback on yours as well, we will be glad to take a look!
Our game has a hapoon mechanic. You can hook and reel in enemy cars, and send 'em crashing into the walls.
Will this post do the same on you ?
Come test the experience of the night !
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/nightclub-druglord
Yep.
Thankfully Unity made it was quite easy, I wouldn't have been able to do it otherwise.
SO NOW GRAB 7 FRIENDS AND CHALLENGE THEM TO A PIZZA DELIVERY RACE!!
Apparently the game is quite hard, but if you play with friends and you all fail I guess you can all have fun anyway :)
Download and play Deliverace now!
(I'm sorry there's no browser version, the network communication didn't work there)
We are happy to annouce that our game The Box Baby is now mostly bug-free ! :tada:
We made a quick post-jam update to fix the last remaining bugs.
One of them was a nasty one, breaking all of our in-game dialogs, for a game like ours that is based around dialogs it was very nasty... But luckily it's gone and you can enjoy our fun, unexpected and disconcerting dialogs :smiley:
The LD site has some great ways to find games to rate with the smart filter to find jammers who are doing a good job of rating/feedbacking others and need some rating or the danger filter to find games that are close to the minimum 20 ratings needed.
If you are looking for LD53 web games to play, you can use itch searching for those who uploaded with itch.
I would also recommend to those who upload on itch to fill out all the options for the entry.
Use the ludum-dare-53 tag and link back to the LD site:
You can also add information in the Metadata section to call out things like input methods and any accessibility option your game has.
I would love to find more LD games that are playable on phone.
It was lovely to see twitch.tv/potkirland play our game, these moments are the ones that make game development worth it. Seeing the joy on his face as he barks and pees everywhere makes me so happy!
https://clips.twitch.tv/AdventurousAthleticWaffleUncleNox-Q57G97R5VbVcdMq0
Play it yourself: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/corgi-cargo-co
Hey, folks!
Today lovely @elysiagriffin streamed our game and made a very cool footage. You can check it out here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1810468382?t=2h19m20s
Also a lot of people asking about postjam updates (no joking, I'm very surprised), and I can tell that for now we don't have much plans (though mb something would appear). For now we are working on our previous Jam game full rework and Steam release and if you liked wasteland express, you may want to follow me or anyone from the team for future update. Also I have an empty twitter account where I would post anything important about our game dev work which you can also follow here: https://twitter.com/yogurtthehorse
Maybe I would start YouTube career and make a devlog video, though, hehe
Thanks everyone who played our game and commented with feedback, this is very cool and means a lot <3
If you haven't played it yet, but want to, the game is here
https://haymakercoding.itch.io/banana-snatchers
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/banana-snatchers
Title says it all, if you have played one or are the creator of a strategic/tactical jam-game, post the link down here.
I will rate and give feedback in form of suggestions (either for the current version or future versions of the game).
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/a-bag
We've posted even more bugfixes for our immersive synthwave capitalism simulator BANKWAVE: Neon Networth!
Basically concurrency is hard and shouldn't be attempted in less than 72-hours -- even by experts. :T
Check out the game at Itch.io or here at ldjam.com!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/untitled-frabjous-game
https://frabjous-studios.itch.io/bankwave
https://www.challengermode.com/s/movieshhe/tournaments/61535856-c08f-44e6-f72b-08db4bec964c https://www.challengermode.com/s/movieshhe/tournaments/730febf3-c657-4a57-31b5-08db4becc06f https://www.challengermode.com/s/movieshhe/tournaments/bcf49c43-0080-4b5a-31b6-08db4becc06f https://www.challengermode.com/s/movieshhe/tournaments/d696e4ca-6bdf-45d4-f72d-08db4bec964c https://www.challengermode.com/s/movieshhe/tournaments/df8e920a-67c6-4d0d-f72e-08db4bec964c
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Hi all. We made a post version of our Jam game with an extra 24h, so I decided to post this here. Can you figure out who should be receiving the deliveries and make it to day 4?
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1X7yWnvlTCiKls317MaTzXDsTJDwftC0?usp=sharelink
Also, here's the original jam entry, feel free to give us any sort of feedback! :D
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/the-people-of-the-village
Thank you everyone for your feedback so far! :heart:
We really appreciate it so much. For those of you who haven’t played it yet, we would love to share our game with you:
This is our eighth Ludum Dare entry and we made a Puzzle Platformer Game where you meet & play Tori, a very proud rooster who dreams of delivering packages, but unfortunately like every chicken – he can’t fly.
So of course he helps all the doves instead (what a gentleman :smiley:)
We would really appreciate it, if you take your time and test the game, leave a comment and maybe some rating. And don’t forget to read the tutorial! :smile:
If you have some time left, please test the game, leave a comment and maybe some rating.
And feel free to drop your game link in the comment section below, I will have a look at it and, of course, comment and rate as well!
Play & rate our game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/too-hot-to-hendl
Best regards @nivbeth, @fis & @johncoffee
Here's our small game offering :dog: A cute little stealth game about Papi the dog trying to reunite with their owner!
Thanks to everyone who tried our game already, we enjoy reading all of your comments =)
:dog2: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/papis-delivery-ops-cardbark-infiltration :dog2:
Hey everyone! Me and my teammates have created a fun little delivery service game called Mira-sol. If you're interested, I would love for you to give it a try and let me know what you think! And if you've also made a game for the game jam, feel free to share a link in the comments - I'd be happy to check it out and give you some feedback as well. Thanks!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/mira-sol
Good work on the past weekend everyone! My brain is only just recovering now after some actual sleep :)
This is my game, The Snack Shack where you can make food and relax!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/the-snack-shack
If you want your game rated, JUST RATE MY GAME AND LEAVE A COMMENT! I'll also rate and play your game if you do!
If you happen to like management games please consider checking out our game: Man with a Van
also good experience if you want to be manager in future
thank you 🙏🙏
Hi there! I just fixed some of our major bugs / issues, and uploaded a bugfixed version of Sunset Delivery!
Our goal with the game was to capture the vibe of vaporwave driving gifs and turn it into a short playable experience. It's pretty short (less than 3 min), so if you haven't tried out our game yet, would love to invite you to check it out :)
If you leave a comment, I'll be sure to get around to playing and rating your game as well!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/if-i-fits-i-sits
Play If I Fits, I Sits where your cats are knocking over all of your identical vases and you need to stop them the only way you know how...
Chase your cats around your apartment to measure them so you can order products and use the boxes to subdue your cats.
I'm so proud, because my goal was to just finish it, and I did it!
Had a great start on Saturday as I got the idea pinned down within ca 30 mins (and I stuck to it). Apart from that I had only ca 10 hours to spend on Saturday-Monday, and so I accepted that I'd miss the deadline for Jam... and worked on Tues-Wed instead.
Switched from Unity to AGS, which was a good choice in retrospect, although it meant I was doing tutorials and intense googling for a bit longer than I had planned. Next time I really have to prepare more! Make what you know and use the tools that you know is really a must for me, or I can only dream about submitting within 72 hours :D
Never done pixel art in such amounts before, feeling rather exhausted. I usually only draw some occasional pink helicopters and rainbows for my kids :v:
Thanks for this awesome event and I hope you all had a great time! I'm looking forward to participate in the next events and maybe create something more complex haha :)
My game -
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/the-delivery-1
We updated our platformer! (which has a wonderfully marvelous long-long title)
We fixed major game-breaking bugs in the jam version so you can play the game without worrying about it messing itself up too much.
For the post-jam version we added some minor updates, so you can kind of just play that but if you want to be strict on the rules, we made it a separate thing!
We fixed some level design so the game shouldn't be annoying and uncompletable now. We added controls to the game so you dont have to have two things open, just open it and play!
We changed the web version to remove all fancy backgrounds so it renders nicely and doesn't display magenta bars all over the place! We also removed a bunch of enemies from one of the levels so the lag should hopefully be gone now.
All levels can be completed! all collectibles can be colected! * Fun * can be had easier than ever before!
We added some daylight to the levels so they're prettier.
So pretty!
before (boring):
Until I saw a post earlier, I thought everyone did the mobile button thing?
I added one button too many, the \/ was supposed to make him duck cannon balls, but I ran out of time. :smile:
Rate my game here:
ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/a-mailmans-nightmare/
...then try out our game! There is a web version available.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/foodex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJVKmIsoTL4
Currently at 17.8571 ratings received. Just need 3 more!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/loading-zone
This is my first jam since LD40 and the first one since I think LD35 that I did almost all of the programming for myself. I almost didn't participate this time around but on Dawn (8pm) of the last day I had an idea and managed to crunch through the night non-stop to get this done in time. It's a simple game but I am very happy with how it came out and will be interested in seeing how it stacks up.
Based of some things players have said I have updated the game! It now features a saving system as well as faster level transitions! Enjoy!
You’re just an ordinary package, relaxing on a shelf until you realise something has gone horribly wrong – you’re not on the delivery truck! In this game, you will traverse the warehouse, encountering hazards and meeting friendly objects in the biggest adventure of your life so far.
You will roll your way across planks at great heights whilst trying to avoid giant puddles of water. Fall off? Well, let’s hope you can find an alternative path towards your main goal.
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hi gamers, it’s my first time here. wanted to make a post sooner but our bugs were just being so buggy! ……..fortunately, game is now playable. thanks so much for the comments so far! will properly mingle tomorrow when i actually get some sleep :3
bugfixes:  * fix mouse desktop buddy clipping behind images * fix aspect ratio issue causing some players unable to interact with the taskbar and icons not being displayed correctly * fix incorrect tags in image captchas that made them impossible to solve (pickles should not have a soul.) * one-click captcha (“i’m not a robot”) audio desynced each time it appears. Removed sound for now. * fix not being able to click the one-click captcha sometimes * fix issues that caused player to be able to prematurely access upgrades they hadn’t unlocked yet * fix cursor being gigantic * fix incorrect download links in Grimm’s Wares window * fix Grimm’s Wares version numbers resetting to 0 randomly * hide “UPDATE: …” text in Grimm’s Wares window because update feature was never implemented
indeed, we accidentally gave the pickle a soul. was it crueler to remove it?
If you're in the mood to cruise around in a Derelict City, give our game a try! Gamepad is definitely recommended, but keyboard support is there too. Leave a comment so I can try and rate your games as well!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/derilicity-delivery
After reading your comments and numerous suggestions, I remade the entire UI of the game :)
I'm almost done fixing everything and will upload the post jam version as soon as I'm done.
Meanwhile, here is the ldjam entry version for you to play and rate :)
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/the-delivery-of-the-messenger
I'm in need of 4 more ratings. Post your link if you need more ratings.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/rush-delivery
I just released the original music for our game Careless Couriers on Bandcamp. Give it a listen! I tried to evoke the vibes of a big city. You can listen here.
If you haven't tried our game yet, @python-b5 and I would appreciate more feedback! Try it out here.
We received a lot of feedbacks from you and we are very grateful for that! Here's a small update just to keep the game in good shape.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/pack-it-up
https://eggwink.itch.io/mailbeats
(Game page: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/mailbeats)
We have uploaded a trailer of the game! Remember to try it on https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/potion-delivery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIJNS9eaEZY
Hi everyone! Now that I've had a couple of days to recover from the 72-hour mad dash, thought I'd recap my thoughts on my first Ludum Dare (and first game jam of any kind) ever - from a musician's perspective!
TL;DR: Play our game, Constellation Courier! It's a cozy adventure where you connect creatures living all over outer space. You can find our game page here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/galaxsea
Being on a game jam team was definitely a novel experience (in this case, a visual novel experience - haha). Again, I've never been in a game jam - but I was inspired to get involved after watching my friends (now teammates) work on LudumDare games before.
While I've composed and produced music of all kinds previously, I'd never had to deliver music with this kind of quick turnaround time. So when we first started brainstorming ideas for the delivery theme and settled on delivering letters across space, I knew I had to get moving on the music quickly. Amidst energetic planning convos, I sat down at the piano and began plunking out ideas as we all fleshed out the structure of the game we would be making.
The overall goals I came up with for the music were threefold: - Match the game itself (both the art and the in-game experience). - Evoke the sense of wonder (and melancholy) that you get when you observe the vast expanse of space. - Embrace the player with "chill vibes" and coziness (small but meaningful warmth in a big, expanding world).
(From a functional standpoint, it was important to also have the music build up towards the end - and to have some kind of music for navigating space, and some kind of music to play during conversations.)
Working in Ableton Live, I turned my rough sketches (muddy, quick voice recordings of the keyboard mixed up with debates and conversations about game ideas in the background) into about an 8-minute theme. The main theme I composed and produced, "Constellations", starts close to the chest with a solo guitar, then slowly expands outwards and blasts off into space, before returning back "home". (Soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/hanadulcet/constellations-from-constellation-courier)
(Too many instruments / plugins to fit in one screen at once...)
Then, it was up to me to mix, master, and chop up that 8-minute theme into shorter, loopable segments that could stand alone well by themselves or also alternate with each other in a meaningful way. I also helped code some logic in the game to pick which segments to play at different stages of the journey. So, all of the music that you hear while traveling between planets in our game is part of that main theme, but the pacing of the music selections is specifically chosen to help build a bit of anticipation towards the endings of the game.
(Note: There's even a secret about the ending music in the game that I'll hint at, but I won't explain here - that would spoil the game. You'll have to find out what it is yourself by playing the game...)
Alongside the main theme, I also made a "Space Bossa Nova" (not totally a bossa nova, but roll with it). It aimed to be jazzy, smooth, and relatively simple - providing a backdrop for conversations with our characters that would add to them but not distract the player. One of my main pet peeves with music in games tends to be when the music repeats too quickly and too often, so I went out of my way to record multiple piano solos to go with it. (Soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/hanadulcet/space-bossa-nova-from-constellation-courier)
And of course, once we decided that we were adding a disco planet, I knew I had to add disco music. I re-arranged the bossa nova into a funky disco bop that you could easily groove to (and I hope you enjoy dancing to it in the game). (Soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/hanadulcet/disco-bossa-nova-from-constellation-courier)
While it was definitely a time crunch to get so much music done in the span of the 72 hours, I really, really enjoyed getting to create so much music. It was easy to make the music happen when I had the best teammates I could ask for: a huge shout-out to Skoprimon (@skoprimon), DGo (@dgo), Diego Teran (@diego-teran), and peachy (@peachy) for all the amazing work they poured into this game. Composing music requires inspiration, and inspiration was aplenty from these wonderful folks.
All in all, I had a great experience, and I would absolutely love to be a part of the next LudumDare. If you made it this far, here's a small trailer that I made for the game. (Fun fact: I made this cut of the main theme specifically for the trailer!)
Trailer link: https://youtu.be/HX3W3B1ng
So if you haven't seen it yet, here's our game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/stand-and-deliver-2
Basically we really wanted to do something obscure, and try to avoid the obvious when it came to the prompt. During our brain storming we thought about "dialogue/joke delivery" as a concept, but how do you make a game about a player telling jokes? How do you assess something as nebulous as humor programatically?
Well it just so happened that I had been spending a lot of time working with the gpt-api recently, and I thought it might actually be a great fit.
We very quickly prototyped some prompts using chatGPT to see if it was even remotely possible, we were looking for gpt's ability to react differently depending on the input, and for it's reactions to seem sensible.
I also wanted to be certain I could force it into giving me easily parse-able data, so far so good!
The next step was to try and engineer some prompts that would let gpt fill the various roles we had in mind for it, I wish I had kept some of the progress but all I have are the finals here:
The Crowd:
``
role: "user", content:
You are the collective minds of the audience in a play, you are watching an improv show where the actors are given a prompt, you are reacting to each line of dialogue.
You love a good joke. You love it when they use the prompt.
Here is the prompt the actors were given, use this for context:
${prompt}
Here is the transcript from the show so far, they are improvising based on the prompt:
${ messages.map(h => {
return `${h.role == 'user' ? 'Actor' : 'Support'}: ${h.content}`
}).join('
') }
You are judging the Actor their lines start with "Actor:", not "Support:". Only critique the Actor's performance based on their lines. Ignore dialogue from Support.
Use the following format. Your response must be valid json. You may only respond with a single json object. Nothing else. No extra messages.
{
"scores": {
"humor": {score}, // 1-10 How funny is the actors last line? Is it a good joke?
"relevance": {score} // 1-10 Are they following the prompt and keeping in character? Does their dialogue make sense?
},
"feedback": "{your_message}" // Give your thoughts here, summarize your feelings? keep this to 20 words or less
}
```
The supporting actor:
An actor has just delivered a line of dialogue: ${messages}
Here is the prompt they were given: ${prompt}
You are the supporting actor, your role is: ${role}
${history.length > 0 ? "Here is the entire transcript of the show, including past messages you sent (you are Support), you should use this for context only" : ""}
${ history.length > 0 ? history.map(h => {
return `${h.role == 'user' ? 'Actor' : 'Support'}: ${h.content}`
}).join('
') : '' }
You are an improv comedian, you are extremely funny, witty, sometimes a bit silly and playful. You like slapstick comedy and act out your actions like this "*{verb or action}*"
You should consider the last line of dialogue from the Actor, and come up with a response that is funny, and makes sense with the prompt, if the actor gave bad dialogue just make something up
Keep your response short, no more than 25 words. Write out your response in character,
You must respond with only a single line of dialogue, nothing else, do not wrap the response in quotation marks, do not prefix your response with anything
Do not start your message with anything like "Support: " or "Friend: " do not use any prefixes at all.
And finally my favorite, the critic:
``
role: "user", content:
You are a theater critic, you have watched an improv show, You are reviewing an actor, you will be given the transcript of the show to review.
You are sarcastic, witty, and snarky.
Your critiques are known to be harsh but fair.
You love a good joke, you love it when they stick to the prompt.
Here is the prompt they were given:
${prompt}
Here is the transcript from the show:
${ messages.map(h => {
return `${h.role == 'user' ? 'Actor' : 'Support'}: ${h.content}`
}).join('
') }
You are judging the Actor their lines start with "Actor:", not "Support:". Only critique the Actor's performance based on their lines. Ignore dialogue from Support.
Use the following JSON format. Your response must be valid JSON. You may only respond with a single JSON object. Nothing else. No extra messages.
{
"scores": {
"humor": {score}, // 1-10 How funny were the Actor's lines?.
"originality": {score}, // 1-10 How well does the actor's dialogue avoid cliches and tropes, how creative is the Actor?
"relevance": {score}, // 1-10 How well does the Actor's dialogue fit with the prompt?
"overall": {score} // 1-10 How well did the actor do overall.
},
"feedback": "{critique}" // Write an overly wordy, dramatic theater style critique that will appear in the newspaper on the show and the actor's performance, did they keep to the prompt? were they funny and original? keep this to 75 words or less
}
```
Some things I learned are super important: - Don't be overly specific about behavior/personality - Always give it relevant context early in the prompt - Be OVERLY specific about your required output
It took us a lot of work to get our AI to behave reliably, and even then we still get some odd responses where it seems to have lost the context. It's Ok though, after all this is a relatively complex concept, especially for our poor supporting actor, who has to not only come up with a line, but understand it is playing "the other" character in the prompt.
All in all we are really impressed with how this all came together, and we have one final trick up our sleeve, once GPT4 is available via the api I really think this will completely change how our game works, making the AI far more creative, far more accurate, and most importantly far more human. That will be a simple one line change and I'm really looking forward to that moment.
Thanks for reading!
Pico-8's restrictions and intentionally limited color palette and sound editor give its games a certain level of charm that you don't always see. I've been trying to hunt down Pico-8 games. Here are a few of my favorites so far:
by @pianoman373
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/air-delivery-1
by @boddiul
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/elite-delivery-pizza-dangerous
by @notnasiul
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/icecream-van
We've made several games in the past in pico-8 which is always a blast! Even after deciding to try out Godot this game jam, we still ended up going back to a low pixel, limited palette style. We even found ourselves going back to Pico-8's chiptune music editor for the game music! (Check out our game, Rail Blazer if you haven't already) . I'm sure I missed a bunch of other great pico-8 games. Please link them so I can give them a play!
Grab homunculus babies here! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/the-homunculus-vats
I finally caught up to my rate trades and now I'd really like to play some games with a big focus on original music! I played many games with great soundtracks this jam and even made music a big part of my game, and hope to do so more in the future.
If you've got a game with a BANGING original soundtrack, please link it so I can play it! I'd also appreciate if you checked out my game Superstar Surgeon: a Sensitive Subject. I play rate and comment on everyone who comments on my game so we can exchange the knoledj.
try this on line : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/african-bicycle-dealer
You can beat it if you want to =)
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/eternal-delivery
Make it to wave 10 without being blown up for otherwise killed in some violent way. Fun for everyone!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/porch-pirate-panic
To find your sunshine
Grab your parts through the abyss
When found - grasp brightly
Earlier, we at Ardskape released our full version of the 7Deeps adventure, originated from the LD48 jam.
Sunshine Trial, our submission for LD53, is within the 7Deeps lore, however there's no essential connection to it.
Sunshine Trial is a short expression towards light and betterness. The game gives you the trial, passing through the tides (astral, or else), through transformation, catching to the sunshine, getting yourself whole, putting your parts together.
The game, however, is not designed for mental institutions, especially not for those men, who can't feel the walls, if they're not seen.
Controls are also the part of the narrative here, for our tad kid, when transformed, can only strive through the tides (using space); there's no way back because he can't go back. But sometimes he needs to stop striving, let the flow, to get the light doors opened.
Turn to Sunshine - is the only text seen in the game, which tells the basic idea of how to solve the maze.
The idea of this game has originated from our early prototype of a different kind of maze-like game. We're giving this one the fresh start, rethought, redone, with an aim of developing a casual-like, yet thoughtful, maze experience further.
For now, there's a haiku game: a journey to befriend some sunshine (and don't let that "sunshine" of yours outburst).
This world needs more good and shining, doesn't it always?
We're so glad of all your amazing feedbacks ! Thank you very much :heart:
https://youtu.be/BPG8cV_VzVI
For those who havent played yet : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/postal-hero
Updated my page today, can I get some feedback? It's my first jam so I don't really know whats good and what's not.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/release-the-meat
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Have you ever wondered how it is to be a DHL (Delivery and Hunting for Lavatory) guy? You can find out here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/delivery-and-hunting-for-lavatory-dhl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QInIKjvb2c
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it's day 3 of the LD night shift streams - come get your game reviewed live!
https://twitch.tv/badcop_
Interesting that you can rate a game without playing it. I even knows that one of the downloads came before I made a LD page. I know it's nothing new, I just hope those that did not plays it gives it a lot 5 stars, but probably not.
it’s day 3 of the LD day shift streams - come get your game reviewed live!
https://twitch.tv/kuviman
In The Box Baby, your goal is to simply guide packages to their corresponding delivery truck... until something happens :eyes:
Come and try our game if you are up for a little fun !
Hi there hello :wave:
We just patched Space Haulers to fix some bugs and balance issue, so it should hopefully be less harsh and feel more rewarding to play now, hope you give it a try!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/space-haulers
Hey, if you have time please give a go to our game "Gecko's Deliverance". Its got an amazing soundtrack + graphics and hopefully at least a decent gameplay😂
We would reaallly appreciate feedback on our entry, so if you got time to play it properly go ahead! We'll make sure to play and leave proper feedback on your guys' games too of course. Thank you dear community🤙
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/geckos-deliverance
Hello! Hello! It so nice to see your games guys! Most of them very fun and interesting, thanks for fun, you all rock! :rocket:
We made a few bug fixes and small balance improves, and now our game feel's better and plays as it should be. Please check it out, we will be very appreciated, and also I will give feedback to your games later on from comments.
Ice Break Delivery https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/ice-break-delivery
P.S. Look at this croud, they all want to eat your delivery fish :)
o/
Tried to make a background for our Itch.io page yesterday !
Struggled with the dimension but I think the result is okay ahah c:
