Hi all, another update for you. Added the following:
Also did some polishing and made the spawn rate increase as time goes on. You can play it here:
http://snowmen.azurewebsites.net/
Here’s a new screen:
Yay curtains! Also, I need your help. I’m not sure whether to use Theatre or Theater! You can vote on the poll here:
So I’ve added enemies, a scoring system… it is officially playable now!
And for anyone wandering, this is made in Unity Indie, and it’s as great help so far!
I’d only managed some UI work really, and some terrible art, by the time I went to sleep yesterday. On the plus side, I now have a very clear idea of all the mechanics, most of which should be easy to implement. I’ll be short on time though when it comes to balancing.
2x Speed, but you get the gist.
Well… This one was great.
At first I wasn’t sure I would even be able to participate because one of my best friends was graduating from college and most of the weekend was already saved up for that.
I set a goal to make a game in less than 24 hours so I could go to the party and have fun without thinking about LD during the whole thing.
And I did it! I’m very happy. Now I can sleep in peace.
Best of luck to all of you who are still working hard on your games! Cheers!
So for our jam entry we’ve been having good fun so far. Getting far too distracted with toying around with what we’ve created so far,.
Today’s goal is to take our base and actually start making it game like.
Our HTML5 / Phaser game is live deployed to: ludumdare.temporus.uk if you feel like taking a look.
Half-eaten sheep are not happy!
Small gif about animal adventures
Just read the title!
Working on an educational music game / sandbox about intervals and basic scales. Having a blast!
I was working with an important feature for the game for too long yesterday and it just wouldn’t work. Because of this there is not enough time to finnish. Here is what I have managed to do:
It was supposed to be a turn based strategy game where you expand your base with offence and defence buildings. And after training different units you would attack the other player.
Macho Knight is here to save the day once again?
Here’s a little sneak peak on my progress on Macho Knight
What I have so far is
Physics!
Player Movement
Player Animations
Enemy!
Score System
I shall update you guys with more progress later!
I’ve finished enemies and music. It took me longer that I expected because of buggy bugs.
Now I only need more levels and maybe more graphic effects. Oh, and sound effects, too. But more levels is my priority. I want difficulty to change as you complete levels, so, in first few levels controls are normal.
Despite some initial malfunctions with my tech, things are moving forward 
It would appear I’m turning space invaders into some sort of platformer.
Space invaders platformer
Keep rollin’ rollin’ rollin’ rollin’
What?
At this point my game is fairly completed, I just have a few things to tweek and possibly add. I need to finish off a few more final graphics and decide what I’m doing with my sounds. I made a really nice tune using one of the online synths, but once it downloaded it as a midi, it sounded like garbage. Luckily I managed to use Audacity to get a perfect quality version of my song, so all’s good.
I am art-impaired. (Click image to view entry page)
Well, that was quick.
The first time i wasn’t sure that i want to do it, since the theme is so… abstract (Every LD Game i played is on one screen). but here i am, come with an entry.
The idea was that you are able to know the whole game map with just one screen.
It seems no matter what I do during LD, I always have a major setback. Most often involving going to the hospital.
I didn’t have any time to work on my game today, but I guess I will continue for now and see how far I can still make it. Otherwise I will finish it after the jam.
So here is finally some in-game optic. What do you think? (click for gif)
This is the first update of our game for Ludum Dare 31. We are a team of students from ENJMIN (France) with the help of a young Peruvian artist.
In short, it’s a game about the internal market of a prison, where you can get access to different items with the help of some guards. Then, you can sell those items for money. We use a top-down view for seeing everything that happens on the prison.
Take a look at our main character.
We are applying the theme of the jam for making a fast-paced game in one screen, where you will need to be cautious so other guards won’t see you. The game is being developed in Unity 2D and we are also working very hard on the sound assets and voice acting. Expect more updates on our game soon!
Tags: Ludum Dare, prison, unity2d
Hello everyone, I hope everything work for you.
Me? I just finished the transition system of my game, that you can see on that gif.
It’s pretty cool
https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/B4QrSGTIQAAbUZ9.mp4ZOMBIES NOW FOLLOW YOU!!!
Braaains
Usually the main work load when making most of my Ludum Dare games is on the Saturday evening with some polishing and music handled on the 2nd day.
However, circumstances (sort of) beyond my control have shortened my time frame to a total of 6 hours this time….
But I’m in! I’ve got an idea that should be simple enough and I think I’m going to write the game in haxe and play around with compiling for html5 with webgl support.
Wish me luck!
A second day starts and after getting most of the coding done yesterday I’ll now spend most of the day on the level design and the artwork, while the others do audio and voice work.
In the meantime, here’s a bunch of inspirational material we collected yesterday that will help me build the slightly oppressive urban world. You might be able to catch bits and pieces of me doing that over on our Twitch channel SharkbombStudios.
Piranesi Carceri Plate
Kowloon Walled City
London Sewer System
London Sewer System
And here’s some additional links:
Movies:
Visual references:
Good morning everyone, after a good night of sleep we are back working on the game.
The game mechanics are done, I’m now working on the dialog system for the story, while Chiara is finishing up the graphics.
If I have a well polished first level, I’ll start working on the second one before tonight.
Maybe we drifted away a bit from the theme, but the main character of our game is a real BADASS.
Got some visuals for my creatures and potions done and integrated in game !
You can see the nice space left for the UI, hopefuly it will be done next time I come back here !
It’s a brand new day and there’s sooooooo much to get done. I had to stop early last night because of family reasons so that put me quite a bit behind.
New additions include a very stupid slime AI that can be kill and shoots projectiles….so that’s something!
Screenie:
Video of gameplay thus far:
http://i.gyazo.com/2737e5d37bfeedf764f85ac6a9626a93.mp4
Let me know what you think! Programming AI is new to me, so any tips would be much appreciated!
I’m proud to announce I’ve just submitted my LD Compo entry!
And here’s a screenshot.
– Ethan
IT’S SO COLOURFULLLLLLL
Downright unreadable, of course. It’s slightly better in motion, but that’s the problem with making this game the way I wanted to make it.
Okay, so it wasn’t that bad, and it didn’t really detour people from playing.
But still, for whatever reason I felt like I HAD to kill that bug.
Things are finally back on track!
To add to the feel of a retro game, the addition of grain and scanlines help.
Choices Choices Choices….
We just finished the design for a two player game. It’s game that combined rules of tic-ta-toe and rock, paper and scissor and loaned some elements from chess and Hive.
Hey y’all,
It’s day 2 for our game about medias views on Ferguson riots. Our first brainstorm was FUBAR and we clearly came up with funny things. Yesterday, we coded the main camera features on unity, integrated it with some of the UI assets we got, and already we got most of our pnj, props and decor assets. Much of the writing was done too. Task board moved fast yesterday on those fronts, today we got lots of animations and integration. Next update after our next meeting!
See ya, much love!
@FergusonTV_LD31
So our first version is pretty well advanced. We did some kind of internal beta, now adding some few features. This is actually pretty cool. In a few hours in your own personal computer.
– Super BZZ~BZZ Team.
The Unexpected Adventures of Docotor Supertronic’s Flying Machine
Hey guys, I am a bit late, but I guess it’s better late than never. I’ve already added some basic mechanics and features, but there’s still much work to do. Basically my game is a 2d platformer shmup with upgrades and increasingly difficult enemy waves.
It’s a gif – click it 😉
Recharge.
I really hope I will finish this!
This is my hero!
Hi everyone!
So I took up the theme to develop a puzzle platformer with a twist. Its in 2d but I use “game progress” as a special 3rd dimension, so the map changes as you move back and forth.
Quite hard to come up with the level I must say 😀
I think I have some semblance of a working game. Not a good game, but well, wasn’t expecting much. Added a cat at the request of my wife, which I think turned out to be a good idea. Adds another gameplay option.
I just hope I can pull it to something worth looking at within the next 15 hours.
So I haven’t been able to put a ton of time into things so far, and I’m not really sure where i’m going with this but whatever it could be fun in the end right?
Jumping around in lava can be fun!
One of the three games is up. I’ve got to get the other 2 set up, then it should just be porting, that I have never done before, and… I think that’s it! PROGRESS!!!
I spent a LOT of time today on design, both preliminary and iterative. I started coding up some stuff and then realized that my design was just…not really making the most sense, so I scrapped my idea and went down another path. Like I said, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about this!
On the plus side, I’ve finally sat down and cranked out some actual mechanics and code. Here’s what I have right now; level design is nowhere near existent but it shows off the main “hook” of the game.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8332206/Permanent%20Links/Labyrinth/Labyrinth.html
This is always the time when I wonder how in the world I am ever going to get done. I guess there is always the Jam if I end up needing to submit late, but hopefully I never have to do that. I’ll just have to get this trimmed down, crank out some levels and music and then polish it up. Stressful! But I guess this is what happens when you only actually have 24 hours to execute your idea because you spent the first day being busy, sleeping, and thinking about designs ;P
Right now, though, it is definitely time for me to call it a night and take a breather. I’ll approach this with a fresh brain in the morning, and hope for the best.
Screen shakes, all the rage am I right? Not tooting my own horn here or nothing but it only too FOUR hours to get that shake in and mhmm mhmmmm, it is nice and almost not broken. At least it looks like it works but I know, I can see its taunting failure! 15 hours left to hammer out the rest of the features I need and we’ll be rocking! Bring it on sucka’s!
Not perfect, but I have a game!
It’s frankly a lot more fun than I thought it would be at this stage. It’s changed somewhat from the orginal intentions. The goal is to match similar colored bricks together and avoid getting smashed or hitting the spikes. I’m going to try to get death in there real quick, then maybe get some simple animation and effects done.
So, we’ve got frogs, computers, bombs, fairies, elves, monsters, snowmen, picky bosses and lots and lots of sqeaks!! >w< The theme is “Entire Game on One Screen”, but that doesn’t mean there can only be ONE game on the screen (?) Spoiler: Inception e.e
Language: AS3
Engine: Starling
Fow now we have placeholders everywhere, so we’re going to show you one of our finished animations. Good luck everyone!!
Did some music. Still is a WIP and stuff. Enjoy!
One screen. One controller. One weapon.
Hi all! Let us introduce to you our game: One On One.
In this game, the menu screen and the game screen are one. That means you can interact with the different settings while playing.
The entire game in on the screen – literally.
Also, we wanted to expand the theme even further than just a “game on one screen”.
One On One is a two player game but you only have one controller… and one weapon!
To kill or to be killed, the choice is yours.
More to come!
The, uh… Glowing Alligator team.
Me and 2 others, created Jeff, a pink penguin!
Or, we made a game about him…
You’re playing as Jeff, a pink penguin with a gun.
In our game there erupted a very unexpected, zombie “something” in Jeff’s garden, which made zombies continue coming out of nowhere…
Jeff is pretty clever so, the first thing he does is running into the garden, locks the doors so he can’t come back in, and then starts shooting at the zombies…
(The zombies can’t come anywhere else in the world, than the backyard)
Some guy continues, throwing guns and strange steroids down at Jeff as he’s running around shooting zombies…
And a gif:
You can play the game in the “Unity Web Player”, here “Link“.
Use “W-A-S-D” to move, and “Left Click” or “Space” for shooting.
ENJOY!
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Guaraná-Boss-Overlord on the making!
Hey guys,
we are back and our stream is online: http://www.twitch.tv/bananafourlife !
Greetings form Germany,
Team Banana4life
Today, the first thought I had after waking up was: “Man! The controls are terrible!”.
So I’ve added the mouse for your proper top-down shooter experience:
Walk with arrows or WSAD, aim with mouse.
Left click to shoot fireball, right click to swap tiles. For webplayer’s sake, you can also drag between two tiles with the left mouse button to switch them. Still, you can only swap the tile you are standing on, with a nejghbouring tile!
Below you can see smaller monsters that can be killed with fireballs, and bosses that can’t. All monsters die on tile clearing and are still rather dumb 
So much to do, so little time left
Hi,
my name is Noahbro and this is one of my first games, but I dont know where to upload it to join competetion. Please help me. Thanks
So, after grabbing a few sorely needed hours of sleep, we are back at it and trying to git’er done.
I’m working on cranking out the last of the sprites and the background texture, while Arne is fast at work duct taping it all together.
I’m putting the stream back up in a few minutes, so you’re welcome to stop by www.twitch.tv/spoilars. Just don’t touch anything…
Updated with some new sprites + enemy spawning… anyone know how to change the time value of InvokeRepeating when it’s still going??? A quick snapshot mid-game:
Tags: #LD31 #LDJAM #LudumDare #GameDev #IndieDev, 2D, screenshot, unity
Play it, if your Christmas has been ruined by bad presents or overeating, if you are angry, because you were not able to find a parking space next to the supermarket, or if you simply feel bored and have an urge to pull out all your aggression.
http://snowybirds.christmas/ – check it out! Play the first demo version!!!
https://twitter.com/Snowy_Birds
So I’ve only just begun. I really wanted to make a game about a snowman, so I will! And fit him in one screen of course.
Going to be some sort of physics, snowball rolling… thing. Whatever I can get done in the next five hours or so.
That’s all !
Saturday was a hard day. I Almost didn’t worked on the game… but ok, it fine, i guess.
Now I Returned!
I made some experiences with the logo of the game, I didn’t like the RED in the title, and the art effect on fire, What you think about it?
My intrepid protagonist
Not so much but Im like what I have. =)
Well… Yesterday i have some serious fever. While i was drawing graphics, i… Fainted. Now, after about a 13 hours of sleep, i feel much better, but i don’t make it to the end. So, sorry and see ya on nexl LD
Whoo! It even cares about traffic lights!
Well it seems easier at first to generate random rooms from a pool with a random number and orientation of doors…but it’s not.
The placeholder rooms were kinda square with 4 doors, 1 on every side…so that script does not work anymore with a 3 door room with 2 on the upper side and 1 on the bottom.
So generalization will take up the most of my time today.
I think I can give up on sending to Compo. Monday is work, so I’ll work on this on Monday night too.
The Jam is still an option and if I can get some nice sprites and animation on this I can imagine working on this game for more after LD ends. A nice story would be a gread addition to this game.
As this is my first LD I think it’s nice that I could go this far and I look forward for what I can do till the end of this day.
Let’s get to werk. Good luck, everyone
Hello everybody!
Game is progressing good so far! Most of the mechanics are complete, almost only level design from now on (and sound effects, damn, I’m so bad at those)! 😀
If you want to follow the development, I’m streaming on Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/fede3751
Good luck to everybody!
Well so far today (In the US, where I am its 5:30), I have rebalanced the game mechanics and completely written my ai and made my game look prettiful. Time for coffee. Still have yet to sleep. Not going to sleep until I finish.
Waste of Time Shader
So, not looking so good for #LD48. Pretty much missed the first 24 hours due to sleep, family obligations, and some biological distress. Made some slow progress on a shader that probably isn’t critical. Glad to have it done for future projects but working on it was not the best use of my time.What I want to do is pretty clear in my head but it does involve the creation of a couple of new shaders. That always seems to take longer than expected, although these are not as complex as the first. The rest is fairly simple but nothing is easy and some GM:Studio functionality I was expecting to use appears to not be implemented (despite assurances it was implemented 4.5 months ago). Not sure how I’m going to get around that problem gracefully.
Time to sleep again. If I’m undisturbed for the final stretch, it’s possible to finish something basic. Otherwise, I’ll transition to the jam. I have a feeling I’m not going to be allowed the time I need, either way.
Finally finished my course! 14 hours to do graphics and sounds o.O
I hate the theme!
So we’ve worked hard on the hook and the graphics, now we’re working on the monsters and guns!
Don’t try to steal the gifts, you evil robot!
I made a lot of progress today, and learnt a lot about UE4’s animation system (and animation in general), which is was my main goal for this weekend, so that’s pretty awesome.
The Stickman Cometh is basically Limbo meets Max Payne. Here’s a test for the character movement so far.
I love bullet time.
D’oh! I had nice simple ideas for the Unicode snowman and for Artificial Life, but Entire Game on One Screen took me by surprise and I unwarily started making a game about an ant surfing down a pile of sand being sifted through an archaeological screen. And…it’s looking more and more like I’m not yet a good enough programmer to code software 3D and triangle collision *and* faux rigid-body physics from scratch in 10 hours, even if I’ve simplified them all as far as I can…
But I’m going to press on…maybe I’ll pull off a miracle…and there’s a semi-reasonable chance that I’ll finish in time for the jam deadline…
Okay, here is the time! I can start the level design…The engine is absolutely ready. The music is so gooood! Here comes the fun part: making a hard and fun game. Let’s do it
Ninja Cat has some trouble!
Unfortunately I’ve run out of time so am dropping out. I was only able to set aside about 24hrs for the Compo and for my first LD it just wasn’t enough. But I’ll definitely want to be involved next time.
What I’ve learned, based on the mistakes I made:
Well now I’m looking forward to playing the created games as some of the screenshots I’ve seen look awesome. Good luck everyone
~ CB1Dev
Well “All in one, scream” is officially a game. Not a very good one mind you, but a game none the less. We have lava flowing, huts and villagers being burned, points being given, villagers now stay on the island. Here is what I would like to accomplish today.
My game finally has a name and a title screen to boot! Almost done now, music is still missing and the whole thing needs polish. We’ll see what I can do in these last couple hours…
Hooray, I’ve finished! This is certainly my most polished LD entry, so I’m really pleased about that. It’s not a bad game, either! 😉
Since I posted the last build, the player physics is a lot more slippery and bouncy, you can knock snow off your opponent, there re particle effects, and even (a cappella) music and sound effects!
Game page is at http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=1049 and it’s playable online at http://atkinssj.itch.io/snowman-sumo. Find a friend, and give it a go!
Tags: final, game, progress, screenshot, unity, unity3d, update
We started a bit slow but now we’re back on track 😀
Here is some art for the upcoming GOTY “Snowmen VS Kittens”, they might just be placeholders or might not be, depends on how much time we have left after getting the gameplay sorted out.
So now you can run through the game and it feels nice with the music and everything. We just need to add some more props to fill the level, but other than that it’s great.
A neat experience if I may say so myself.
Remember that if you like the game later, let us know by sending a tweet with #cuberot
For the first time in 11 LD’s I’m out!
It’s not the theme, I just don’t feel motivated enough. It might have something to do with the fact that I entered the Indies vs Pewdiepie jam two weeks ago, or the fact that I looked forward to my 10th LD so much, that the 11th just seems boring in comparison :p.
But I did get some nice songs and useful code out of it, so I’m not complaining. My concept wasn’t necesarily bad either, I might finish it somewhere in the far, far future.
But, of course, today I have to bring machines in the data center up, so… no idea how much time I have.
After post yesterday I ran into more issues with color choice, and more “oh let’s just use this code here for HSV” “wtf is this doing why is it all purple/red/green” (and never all blue.) So, yeah, HSV is simple, really, and I’m going to just write a HSV thing that works today, and test it.
Because, again, it’s next weekend that matters (due to, again, the damage.)
Progress has still been slow and steady, I’ve given the art an upgrade (still looks bad but it’s the best I can do!) and added in mob spawners and a new enemy with different AI.
Check out a small clip of game play below:
http://i.gyazo.com/67cf44ba83e9cc8c2ea5db6612e823a7.mp4
Time is running out fast, I doubt I’ll be able to get anywhere near to the vision I had in mind, even if I manage to submit something!
Downhill shredding on a plasma.
Someone’s gonna sleep really well tonight!
I told myself that this time, I’d make some posts on the LD site while I was working.
Then I decided I needed net code.
On the plus side, I’ve got drop in / drop out multiplayer working, which is seriously cool.
In my as-of-yet-unnamed snowman racing simulator, players compete to be the first snowman to reach the end of a rocky, snow-covered path. Players join by visiting a URL on their phone, and move left and right by tapping the corresponding half of their phone screen.
The game looks like this right now:
How does this fit the theme, you might ask? Well, despite every player holding a phone, the entire game is on a single screen, that everyone looks at. Like a big TV or something. The phone screen just displays this:
Things you might find interesting:
HELKEGAMES TEAM – AZOR DEVELOPMENT COMPLETED
Alright… We have been working without a single pause since the last diary update (yesterday night)… and we are happy to announce AZOR is almost done!
So guys, are you curious about Azor development? Here are some screenshot!
Main Menu … You will see what happens ^^ !
We have a story, we have splash screens, we have AZOR!
Now you have to collect the “files” to leave the planet but always control your oxygen… if you don’t want to…. well to die alone… there will not be anyone to save you, you are so far from the Earth!
New updates and screenshot in the following hours!
– Joe (hellequin) Helkegames
Tags: Azor, helkegames, ld31
I have made a lot of progress and have got all but one of the mechanics implemented. I now need to add more levels, maybe a boss, music, sound and a few animations. I should be done by about 4pm gmt
I am going to stop work on the game now. I have learnt a lot this weekend even if my game isn’t very good. Ill see everyone again in 4 months!
Did I ever mention I was absolute crap at making ai? Because I am. Well, I’m okay at making them, and all, but they always end up being complete dumbasses… Well, I just hope I can finish coding my ai (which is, like, one of the only things I have left) in time for the compo. For now, here’s a ninja:
Screenshot time! Lots more to do, but my little space trade game is coming along. I spent entirely too much time on pathfinding, and it set me way behind. However, I am pushing along, and it is almost playable now! Looking forward to being done!
Against all the odds, it looks like I have a complete (if fairly simple) game!
Look at his smug face. He’s about to die and he doesn’t even care.
Now to try and polish this thing to the skies. Music, SFX and some title/game over screens wouldn’t hurt.
Here’s a build of the game in its current form (Windows executable, rar file): Dropbox link.
See you in a few hours!
aDFP
We have to add the graphics and the sound. Hopefully we will make it before the deadline.
it will be fun, they said (it’s a gif btw)
I think it’s time to make some bullet hell game *evil laugh* …in less than 14 hours left, ha.
Lili was a child, young brave and kind, but fortunately with a little bit of wild.
Once upon a night, a spine-chilling cry troubled her fairy-taily-harmony.
It was her little brother bothered by some unmerry mare rascals !
It is for us, Lili and I, Max Power the Torchlight, your awesome story teller, to brave the endless dark hours dreams, to rescue him.
There might be some rework and English Cheesy Accent SFX added. Some tonguejob as well, for prononciation. What did you expect ? Not Schwepps..
