These people’s pages were ‘not found’ and these are the awards that they won:
48 Hour Compo
drilltail – Innovation 2nd
pixelpun – Graphics 3rd
geekdrums – Audio 1st
brian-corr – Humor 2nd
toki-anholmes – Mood 3rd
Jam
negiyan – Audio 1st
chickadeegames – Humor 2nd
dmcfarline – Humor 3rd
simonlarsen – Mood 1st
simonlarsen – Innovation 1st
Congrats to all of the winners! 😀
Not gonna call this a post-mortem, literally anyone can make the player move around looking for stuff in a couple of hours using Game Maker. I do, however, wanna share why I made Oshan and how I retained my sanity after I scrapped my original idea.
The original idea:
Before you ask, no I won’t go back to this for the foreseeable future.
I wanted to make a “Underground Moé First Person Shooter” — I did my best, I swear.
The first day went on to get 3d to work on Game Maker, went pretty good but could not get a nice camera wobbling nor a satisfying shooting. It was kinda ambitious, in the sense that I’ve never, ever worked with 3d before I mean, I come from making Visual Novels for god’s sake, even a platformer would be a pain in the ass for me. I was confident I could do it but I wasn’t having fun and the game did not felt good… it even gave me headaches and stressed my soul in more than one way.
After wasting one day and a half on this failed execution of an idea, I fell on my bed, and thought.
“I need to relax… I should make a game to relax”
“What’s relaxing to me and is beneath the surface? ooh! floating underwater…”
“What if I make a game about just finding funny stuff under the water?”
And that’s how Oshan came to be.
This is what caused Capc*m’s demise.
The original idea with Oshan was to make this cute, colourful sea explorer — you know, blue oceans, different kind of sea creatures, the usual stuff, but I have quite some time getting around the idea of a series of games that are built around a “Peaceful End of the World” — stories that are not about survival, but about finding what made humanity and our civilization so beautiful before we destroyed everything, so I decided to take a monochromatic approach to visuals to get some desolate ambient going on, in the vein of a modern Game Boy game and try to make the items you can find the weirdest things I could think of. Now, most of the items I wanted in-game couldn’t make it since I did Oshan in approx. 6 hours and I was already incredibly tired due to my failed FPS attempt, but I’m satisfied about the ones that made it. Talking Octopi, sunken game corporations and mysterious talking clothing were, at least in my mind, a combination that basically said… The world just kept going without humans, but our blueprint is still here.
Yeah yeah, not very beneath the surface apart from the fact that the game is underwater, but in reality I just wanted a game to relax myself, it was boring to me, but I didn’t cared, somehow just wandering around got me in a very good mood, almost therapeutic and can’t stress how much it worked for me, it made me realize that whenever I want to have a game idea, I just need to see myself in the mirror and ask “what do I want to feel?” the rest will just follow.
Good! so, that’s why I did a cute but boring game. I’m very happy with the results! but I’m going to work hard and use the knowledge I gained from this LD to make cute AND fun games that can also make me feel how I want to feel when the time comes, and you should do so as well, make a game about how you want to feel and the rest is just like make game.
Lots of people said I should flesh out more this idea, and might do so once I get some work done on my current project or maybe after the Space Cowboy Jam, I liked Oshan enough and want to make it even more relaxing so I can play it whenever I feel bad.
Edit: forgot to link the game! Oshan, my compo entry lives here.
Yay for actually placing this time. 
Thats okay. I was hoping for a Top 25 here, because i had for once not another pixel-art entry, but i can’t complain. The 65 entries in front of me all look very good as well.
What surprised me is that i actually finished worse than the last time i participated in the fun-category. Only #823 with an average of 2.72 stars. While its obvious that i did not have the most original gameplay and some people struggled with the controls a bit, i definitely thought i would finish comfortably above my confusing and mediocre last entry here. The problem was, i think, that i did not manage to encourage the players to play any more than 2 minutes or so. Some people complained that the transition from dying to restarting took too long, and thats definitely true. They just died 2 or 3 times, got no feeling for the game, and quit.
Apart from that, i am happy i went with 3D visuals this time, i enjoy them a lot more and find myself creating the look i want much faster than with ye olde Pixel Art. Will definitely continue on this way the next time i participate.
I am also happy some of my favorite games finished pretty well. Until next time, then.
Hey guys! This has been my first Ludum Dare attempt, and I must say that I am really pleased with the results. My game, Beneath the Surface, has taken a nice spot in the mood category top 25 at #17.
I’ve used percentiles because they make the game look better [insert sly laugh]. Here are the results taken directly from the game’s page, if you insist.
Coolness
80%
#17
Mood
4.22
#101
Theme
3.87
#228
Audio
3.31
#439
Graphics
3.33
#487
Innovation
3.15
#613
Overall
3.13
#912
Humor
1.93
#1108
Fun
2.29
Something that I’ve observed is that when games rank well in a category they usually do the same in other categories. My game’s ranking across all the categories were quite erratic (it’s worth noting, though, that the game I’ve created is definitely not fun and humorous). Maybe the game isn’t as good as I think it is. Perhaps it’s just dumb luck. Or just luck. Or just dumb. But anyway, it’s not bad for a first attempt, right?
You can play my entry here.
Congrats to all those who won, and I hope all the best for you guys in the next LD. See you around!
This was my first LD attemp and i must say….iam very pleased ! I am not last place ^^ Heres my results :
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=33146
Hey everyone! We are the Button Masher Bros!
Ludum Dare is done – but we aren’t! Ludum Dare to Believe! Ep. 10!
With 2497 submissions, there was no way we could play them all.
Luckily Reddit, twitter, and youtubers all stepped up to give us suggestions – and for that we thank you immensely!
If you like the games you see, be sure to check them out of Ludumdare.com and let the developers know what you think!
Today we will be highlighting:
Title: Igneous
Category: Compo Entry
Creator: torcado194
Link: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=5839
Title: Beneath the Lab
Category: Compo Entry
Creator: Techblogogy
Link: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=25556
Title: The Creature Beneath
Category: Compo Entry
Creator: Otrora Interactivo
Link: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=32989
Finally, we’d love to hear what you think!
You can comment on the episode linked above, comment in this thread, or tweet your favorite submissions to us at: @ButtonMasherBro – Show, @MathBlasterRitz – Chris, or @jwowBMB – Josh.
MY FIRST GAME???
AT 13 YEARS OLD???
788th PLACE????
I am absolutely staggered: I was expecting to be last!
The 35 of you who rated, you’re all amazing!
Everybody who gave feedback, you’re all awesome!
Everyone who submitted a game, well done too!
All else I can say is, see you all next time!!!
Coolness
59%
#72
Mood
3.85
#251
Audio
3.27
#295
Graphics
3.60
#443
Theme
3.39
#680
Overall
3.06
#782
Humor
2.13
#996
Fun
2.47
#1038
Innovation
2.38
72 in mood! Oh, my GOD! Thanks a lot people, I love you all! Even though my goal for each LD is to get better than last LD had failed this time if one judges by overall (last LD I scored 6 more than this one) I still think I succeeded, I never’ve been in top 100 in any category, so this is big deal for me! This LD was a lot of fun and now I am waiting for August even more! (You see, I have a birthday on 26th of August!)
Now, let’s look at graph, they’re so popular these days!
As you can see, I gradually getting better in most categories. The Big problems I can see is Fun and Theme (Though I guess, I can call it fixed because of this LD). I don’t really care about humor, as I never intended to make a humorous game.
Well, thanks for reading this unformated, random text. And I’ll see you all next Ludum Dare!
– RedPanda
1. How many ratings are in each category?
2. Why visual mode sometimes doesn’t work?
3. How to see list of all games and its rating?
Here is a comparison of my 5 entries to Ludum Dare.
As you can see the game nailed it in pretty much every category.
I got better ratings on Innovation, Overall and Graphics for my Ludum Dare 24 entry (black) – the only time I jammed with someone else.
The rating on Fun is slightly better for the Ludum Dare 26 entry (green)- my only 3D entry so far, which has in fact a really funny Review:
Awful PC Games: Iceberg Explorer Review
All in all I’m pretty fond! I’m learning a lot and work more intuitive and effective.
Best wishes,
Rick
P.S.: You can play my game here, in case you missed it.
On the page for my entry, I see these scores and rankings:
However, when I look at the top 100 Overall (Jam) results, the rankings appear differently:
In the top 25 list, I appear 20th:
Why are they different?
Anssi from MooseflyGames here! You can find our LD29 entry, StromnetZ here. With that out of the way: the results are finally in (well, they have been for hours now)! Of course I had to take the data and see how we did compared to our previous entries. As can be seen from graphs 1 and 2 (check the full post for graphs and more!), our results are once again pretty solid. Even though our game was somewhat lacking in humor and mood I’m really glad we managed to raise the “Overall” and “Fun” ratings from our frustratingly difficult LD28 entry. Didn’t make it into top 100 in any categories, but we still have our humor ranking of 45 in LD27 to look back on on our deathbeds. Yay. Don’t feel like cluttering the whole front page, so be sure to read the full entry by clicking somewhere, beneath this paragraph maybe?
Graph 1. Ratings (click for a bigger version)
Graph 2. Percentiles (click for a bigger version)
Adding a leaderboard into our game also gave us an interesting tool for tracking the amount of games finished and the scores people managed to get. As of this morning our score-database had 610 total entries. Although a large chunk of them were from our friends and other people who didn’t participate in the voting process, here are some statistics on the scores attained: 188 entries (around 31% of total entries) had a score of zero, 341 entries (around 56%) were below 10k points and 535 entries (around 88%) were below 100k points. The highest score of 400752 points was attained by Shinetti, good job. Too bad we didn’t see any unfamiliar names on the leaderboards, but I guess people don’t want to waste too much time rating a single game. And the bar was indeed set pretty high by some hardcore players. One thing that amazes me though is the number of plays with a total score of zero. I would really love to know if that’s due to a bug or if people really had a problem getting anywhere in our game.
Managed to play and rate almost 160 games too! It always amazes me what people manage to make in such a short time, so I thought I’d list some of my favourite games so others can experience them too! Here are just some of the most interesting games I had the chance to enjoy in no particular order:
Go! Go! Purgatory! – Pretty, and somewhat witty (heh) visual novel.
They Launched a Probe! – A game about programming computers. IN SPACE!
Ripple Runner – A really nice and complete rhythm game.
Beneath The Surface Of A Scratch Ticket – A game about scratching tickets. Wonderful!
Water Miner – Really impressive tech in this “digging” game. Funny sound effects too.
Dowser (Lucy) – Cute girls (and uncles) doing cute stuff. Yay.
A Mole’s Life – It’s as if I really am a mole. Really got me going.
Wunderheilung – Amazing art and a bizarre mood. Doctor game 1/2.
LAIR M.D. – Same as above really, doctor game 2/2.
Beneath Colossal – Control a colossal, wreck stuff, look fabulous.
Tenkosei ROBO – It’s like watching anime. But it’s a game. A typing game. How confusing! How wonderful!
Inside Look Activity Book – I bet I would’ve grown up to be an upstanding citizen if I had had such an activity book as a child.
The Show Must Go On – Organize a play. All by yourself. Who needs actors anyway.
Safety Blanket – Nope. NOPE. Don’t play at night.
I look forward to competing with you all again in LD30! Moosefly over and out.
Tags: graphs, statistics
It’s not something totally unexpected, but anyway. It seems that all your ratings can easily be affected by overal impression of your game, and you can get higher theme ratings with higher overall or fun ratings for example. And thinking of it now I’m not even sure I myself was obective enough in my ratings 
Hello every one,
first congruats to the participantes of this wonderfull event.
i’m really sad as i have participate only once in ludumdare a year ago, and it was an amazing experience, because for some reason exams are equal to ludumdare :p.
but this is not why i’m posting, i’m posting because now i’m a happy man, as i have create my first(ever ever) game, and creating it was the most (aaah i can’t discribe it, you people are devs and you now what i feel).
when first i’ve start this project i never thought at once that it will be a game, and i remember that i have create the project file in eclipse a 10 months ago, and for more than 2 months a was playing on the project in that folder trying to load an image, or a text file, or (you now), and when i start school, i’ve had to make a project that a teacher will give us, then i say, why not working on this game, in that same folder :D, i propose it to the teacher then he said why not, then the journey began. after 6-8 months i have managed to finished it (well not really but it’s playable, and it even has a story 😀 ) but the probleme is that i still cannot post it in the play store, however i have a video to it :).
please please guys your opinion will mean a lot to me, as this is really wath i want to do for the rest of my life, nice watching and please email me, leave a comment like share, just help me make it visible to the world, so that i can put it in the store,
thanks for listening (reading actualy) to my stuped words.
note: the project is in French i’m suck at French (and even english :D)
The ratings just finished and even though I came #1063 it was still a great experience to not only making a game but to play others as well.
Thank you guys who participated. Hopefully we all will do better next time.
Hope to see you guys in 93 days! (Sorry for bad english, not my native language.)
Tags: First LD #29
I made They Launched A Probe in less than 48h after completely screwing up the first day of the weekend but then extending it into the Jam.
It’s an idea I’d had kicking around for a while, write programs for that take sensor input data and let you control spaceships.
Anyway I got something out for a jam entry and you’ve gone and given it SILVER for INNOVATION!
w00t
Thanks all! And thanks to playcanvas for allowing me to actually write this in the time.
This is my first Ludum Dare (age 14 for your infomation) and I had never made graphics before (as your could tell if you played my game). I made my game not knowing what I was doing. After I submitted it i kept looking at the comments and more people said it was funny. I didn’t think is was meant to be funny (now like an idiot I realise it). So when I got #266 in humour for my first ludum dare game that I thought was not funny I felt happy and confused. But #266! Did you guys vote wrong! Anyway thanks guys and see you next time!
-Oobie
Hey0, can’t believe I placed above 500 in any catagory, but here I am 162nd for theme and 243rd for Fun! Thanks a lot for anybody who played my game and enjoyed it, hope all of you guys had fun and enjoyed my theming. Anyway, great, super successful first Ludum Dare, most likely going to be participating again!
