Ludum Dare 30 won’t be my first, but it should hopefully be my first time entering. To sum up the issue I had with the first time around for LD27, I was entering the jam with a friend. Our communication was awful. For just one example, we were making a game that would take place on a 2D plane, but it would have 3D art. I didn’t know the latter, so I was making pixelated art (which he told me to make). I am not pushing blame on either of us.

As for this time around. I familiarized myself with Stencyl (but I am currently learning GM:S) enough to make a game efficiently. I will be using GIMP, Paint.NET, or an awkward combination for the art. Sound effects will be done in sfxr, as almost any entry. I plan on buying a nanoKEY2, that I will use with SunVox. To clarify, I am not a musician in any way, shape, or form. I can improv on the piano, as well as play Mary Had a Little Lamb (I am obviously very qualified).  I also played the sexysax for about three years before getting tired of the headaches I would get every day (thanks, you annoying clarinets in front of me). If you hadn’t noticed, I’m a cheapskate! Most of the stuff on here is free.

Any tips for me based on my equipment?

This entry was posted on Friday, June 27th, 2014 at 12:25 pm and is filed under LD #30. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Hey there! Did you know that me and Nick (of Undermined and Loose Cannon fame) recently collaborated on a platformer called SPECTR? And by collaborated I mean “I did the music and Nick did literally everything else”.

If you’re interested in playing the game, you can find it here. Generally speaking here, the game takes about one hour to complete on a blind run, but you can speedrun the game in ten minutes if you know what you’re doing.

I found myself procrastinating in terms of making games, so I just wrote a blog post about making a game:

http://jacklehamster.wordpress.com/2014/06/27/how-to-create-a-game/

If you need a boost, feel free to check it out! Everyone needs a break.

Tags: game, motivation

Thats right, go to my “Who shall claim the trophy first?” post unerneath, read it, and then decide: Will you claim the trophy first!?

PS: This post might be quite confusing, but everything is explained in the “Who shall claim the trophy first?” post.

Yargggh!

Just a quick screenshot of the progress made on Dead Men Tell No Tales. If you’re interested in what it’s all about, check my previous posts

Next on the todo list:

1. Get rid of the default unity GUI
2. Enemy types
3. Fix the other pirate types (currently only Cutlass guys work)

Hello, I was wondering something, there were a lot of minilds and there is a link to sing up to host them, BUT, I am not sure do you need to have a certain amount of entries?

Can anyone answer my question above: What does it take to host a mini ld?

PS: I read that mini lds are hosted by LD veterans, but what does it mean to be an LD veteran?

Also, there might be an obvious answer to this question, but I was looking for a month and couldn`t find it, so please answer! Thanks! 😀

Hello my fellow Ludum Darers!

So who is ready to jamming!

I will be hosting my game jam, The Spectre Game Jam, from July 1st to 7th.

SO GO CHECK IT OUT!!! at http://itch.io/jam/TSGJ

More Info:

The Spectre Game Jam is a brand new game Jam that is going to be hosted the first seven days of each month. At the end of each Jam participants and viewers are going to be able to vote for their favourite games for next two weeks. After that the voting has ended the top 10 games will be shown on the home page. The other games will be on a side page.

At the beginning of the Jam a theme will be posted and the gaming developing can begin. Each day a new theme will be posted, these themes will be subthemes. These subthemes will not be required, but the more subthemes used then the higher the game is on the list on the voting page, so more likely it will be seen and voted.

There will be winners for each subtheme, the theme, and some other usual topics in games. For now their are no awards for winning other than feeling good, being on the home page, and did I forget to mention that the winner of the theme award gets to choose a subtheme for the next Spectre Game Jam.

Thanks

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Um… I dont quite know how to say this, but I have got a half – decent spammer award and I just want to know where did I go wrong, what did I do, I never wanted to harm anyone…

And if the award is a joke thek ok, but tell me if it is…

Speaking of Hypcard stacks..   I forgot about this project I never quite finished a while ago…

Click here to test-play.
Click here to test-play.

Hey there. I’ve been developing a game recently called ‘A Ferret Story’. It’s a pretty simple game, just a multi-level puzzle game. I’ve thought of almost all the game components, what I have to do, etc. I started coding it, and got pretty far, but all of a sudden my motivation just plummeted. This has not only happened with this, but with a lot of my other projects too. Does this happen to you guys as well? Is it only me? Any tips?

Thanks in advance

//Joe

**EDIT** Thank you guys so much for all the useful advice <3

This entry was posted on Monday, June 30th, 2014 at 10:05 am and is filed under MiniLD. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Hey! I really liked the tool jam (mini LD #51), and I have made a game engine, but the thing is… I didn`t get any comments for my entry (LDML), so I thought I might make an update so people would like it!

So I have made it, just use the link below and download it, extract the files open developer or player and use it, everything is explained, just one thing in player: you`ve got health and under are xp, so enjoy. To publish it take all txt files from C:/Users/Your User (which start with the name of your game, e.g. lordex1, the name is lord) Also, if someone is playing games made with it, the one who plays that game needs to put all txt files in C:/Users/His User.

I put lot of effort into this so please comment or ask me anything that you need I would be happy to answer!!!

If you guys like it I will make more updates, but you can freely use it and post LDML player with the games you made with it!

I put some pictures below…

The link (copy it in your url place above…): https://www.mediafire.com/?zcq9r1m97bcmpk4

Tosic is out! – BYE!!! 😀

Hello. I’m orane. You knew that. Title on the left. Or up. I don’t know.

I inquire today about young people doing Ludum dare. I have heard a few stories (Tosic in particular) of young people doing LD. I myself am one of them (Aged 13) and I did well *ahem* 36th place for fun *ahem* So I just want to know how old were you when you started LD’s, and who is the youngest you know.

sys.exit(“orane out”)

I have decided to create a game and publish it every where unity3d will let me. Any theme suggestions? What kind of game would you like to see on the app store/every where else

A friend and I recently decided to enter the Indie Game Maker Contest and we just submitted our entry earlier this week. Would love for some of you to take a look at it and let us know what you think. We ran out of time to do everything we wanted, but it is in a very playable and fairly polished state. We plan on adding a few more features and then giving it a full release.

The concept is something I had considered doing for a previous Ludum Dare, but ended up not having the time. It is pretty unique, I think, combining the procedurally generated gameplay of an endless runner with the scaling mechanics of Katamari Damacy. Yes, you can play it forever if you’re good enough. It’s also got a very nice hand-painted art-style.

On our contest entry page you can find more screenshots, longer gameplay video, and links to either download (Windows EXE) Miopia or play it in your browser (via the Unity plugin).

Miopia at the Indie Game Maker Contest 2014

Tags: 2D, prerelease, unity

Let’s face it, most of us listen to music while making games. Plug.dj allows you to listen to music as a community. Anyone else up for an official Ludum Dare plug.dj room that would be similar to the IRC, but with music instead of chat? I think this would be neat during the competitions themselves, and for random times.

I’m thirsty of making games.

I decided that 3 games per year wasn’t enough, so I seriously thought of making my own games alone.

But with my new job, my free time considerably dropped, and every game I started never stand more than two months, mainly because of a lack of motivation.

So, when I saw the #1GAM jam, I first just thought that I can’t do 12 games a year, I’m not even able to make one a year !

After several weeks, it came to me that this jam was not about forcing you to make games quickly, but more about how can you make games quickly. And when I say how, I talk about organization.

That was the key of all my failures, and that’s why #1GAM was made for.

So if you want to make your own games alone, and you’re a totally mess about making games done, it’s a really good place to start.

The #1GAM uses the gamification to encourage you to focus on time constraint, and with less time, you must make smaller games, and smaller games means less gameplay. And that’s here where it become interesting. You choose what’s important, what’s essential, what’s impossible to make within time and what’s not worth to make.

You work alone, but there’s thousands of people making the jam for the same reasons. If you’re bad at writing or designing, some people may look for coders like you, and if you’re a good writer but have bad dev skills, there’s even more people looking for you.

It’s a unique experience I strongly recommend, you can only get out with even more experience in game development, and all organization aspects that comes with.

Tags: OneGameAMonth

I thought this would be a good place to post this question.

LWJGL doesn’t have a built in texture loader so what is the best thing to use to load textures.

I tried the slick-util but it gave me an error. If it is possible to load images without any added libraries that would be awesome.

this is the error that the slick util gave me:

WARN:class org.newdawn.slick.opengl.PNGImageData failed to read the data
java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Unsupported format for this image

Thanks in advance!!

Ned

EDIT:

I sorted that problem however if somebody could tell me how to use a part of an image so i can make a sprite sheet, that would be awesome

Thanks in advance !!

Tags: images, lwjgl

Hi! I just joined the ludum dare fun 😀 and was wondering if anyone would like to work together? I’m very new to game engines and modeling D:

but i would love to work with somebody and get to now some new stuff! thx if you reply! Peace

Sincerly GMan1337

Tags: Brand new, crankgaming, games

ARE YOU TIRED OF WRITING THE SAME BORING CODE OVER AND OVER AGAIN WHEN YOU WANT TO GET TO THE FUN STUFF? Now you don’t! presenting Lazy Lib! Just create a new instance of the game class, call a few methods.. and you got … EVERYTHING!!!*

• customization JFrame (size, pixel resolution, decoration,fullscrean and more!)
• game loop
• custom (c4) and Java2D graphics (c4 graphics come with basic stuff, rectangles images and sprites.
• input

Here is a link
*disclaimer: not really.
PS this is my first post, and i’me not exactly sure how its done. please excuse me if i do something wrong or annoy the moderators (and so on)