This will be my first Ludum Dare and I’m really looking forward to this.
I am primarily a Unity developer and I will be cannibalizing a few helpful scripts from previous projects (mostly audio, language, and management stuff). I don’t know if I’ll finish in time, but I’d love to participate. Good luck and happy jamming!
First time for me. Getting really excited.
Wishing everyone the best of luck !
First off I would just like to say something that I hope at least one person will hear…
The prize for Ludum Dare is not money, a trophy, nor immense fame; the prize, instead, is getting the motivation to come up with a fun game idea that can expand into much more after the competition is over. With such a huge emphasis on the games, it only makes sense to help our fellow developers in clearly understanding the feedback we provide. I know it takes more time and effort, but I implore anyone reading this to be as descriptive as possible when writing your feedback. If you didn’t care for a part of the game, give plenty of detail. More importantly, make sure to give plenty of detail on what you enjoyed as well, even though it is easier to point out negatives.
Unfortunately, the unintentional side effect of the current rating system encourages quick ratings without much thought. However, even if you only give descriptive feedback to every fifth game you rate, I know that the developer will deeply appreciate the effort you put forth and may even return the favor. Together we can create a wonderful community for game developers. 
Anyway, I’ll talk about my plans for this Ludum Dare! This is my fifth participation so I’ll give a brief history to my previous attempts.
My first Ludum Dare was #22 in December 2011; I did not finish on time.
My second Ludum Dare was #24 in August 2012; again I was unable to finish.
My third Ludum Dare, #28 in December 2013, was more successful and I finished in time for the Jam! http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28/?action=preview&uid=7292
My fourth Ludum Dare, #30 in August 2014, was even more successful as this time I finished in time for the compo and had overall higher ratings. http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=7292
So now here I am, my fifth time. My goals this time are as follows:
And to help me accomplish my goals, I’m switching up my tools a bit to help me out this time as well:
GL;HF everone!
LET’S DO THIS
First time entrance to LD, looking forward to some friendly competition, and seeing what everyone comes up with. Good luck, and have fun everyone!
Yeah we’ll see,
Well ok, I will be
using:
unity.engine and c#
Graphics: sketchbookx, maybe blender
Sound: sfxr, audacity
Other stuff :whatever there is on my device :p
Anyway happy LD everyone ! 😀
I’ve entered in a couple LDs before, but I’ve never completed one before. Hopefully this year, I’ll be able to!
Tools:
… but I’m out of town on Sunday. Let’s see what a 24HR Ludum Dare compo entry turns out!
I’ll be using:
Good luck to everyone out there!
Here I go again, after pass succesfully all my first year college exams (In videogame Design) let’s do this.
Game Engine: Let’s try this time with Unity
Graphic tools: Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop
Music/audio: Sfrx and abundantmusic.com
Let’s do this mates, let’s rock this time harder
First timer here. What could possibly go wrong…
Nothing better to do this weekend so I might as well join in my first LD attempt, joining up with Fafner creating a roguelike(-like) in Unity.
Recent house moves have left me internetless, so I’m going in without protection.
tools:
Wish me luck!
Daring to Ludum.
Will be doing it with a crew using UE4, and whatever assets can be made in the course of the weekend. Looking forward to a good time.
In, but not all the way. Part-way in, as it were. Lurking in the doorway of Ludum Dare, letting in a terrible draught.
In my bag is Pygame (after not having all that much luck with Unity), PyxelEdit and ModPlugTracker if music happens.
This time I am going safe with tools that I already know well: 3D Unity game with VR support.
Unity
Oculus Utilites
Blender
Photoshop
Substance Designer & Painter
Bfxr
Audacity
Ice Cream
Right, I’m in! My toolbox will be slightly different this time.
Pumped for the first time I try making my own game with Unity! I’ve only practiced a bit, so I’ll try to keep my ambition low. I will expect having to read or watch one or two tutorials during development, so I’m gonna aim for a game with a very simple game loop. Probably none of that multiple level stuff I did the last couple times, boy was that time-consuming.
Good luck to one and all! May our Jam be sweet and righteous.
Couldn’t make the last one, so much musical potential!
Hopefully I can provide lots of songs this time! 😀
Going for the solo jam this time too (compo if I have enough time).
Unity and PS will be my friends.
Let’s do this!
This is our first Ludum dare although not our first game jam. Hoping to make something cool using UE4, C++ (blueprints is all else fails), and just see how its goes.
Good luck 😀
I’ll try for the first time in this LD.
Tools:
I hope to finish my game on time 😀
My first time doing LD. Main goal is to finish a (preferably playable and at least a bit good) game during the weekend 😀
Gonna be using Unity5.
Good luck everyone!
I’m excited to say that with a friend, I’ll be entering LDJam for the very first time, and look forward to see what my fellow participants make! wish you all the best of luck 😀
Hey guys first time here looking forward to the event and som completion
See jam
Get excited
Realize you cant program
Join anyway
Profit
We’re two software engineering students attempting to make a game.
Our tools will be:
Source code will be over at our GitHub.
I don’t remember which time it would be for me to participate.
But it’s again will be on my birthday the 22nd of August.
This time I will be on holidays in addition. I will be traveling to Indonesia with a stop at Seoul, Korea.
Anyway will try to create a game. Will look for inspiration in Korea. And coding during flights.
This time will be solo on my own. Will see if it works.
Will be using:
P.S. The word “game” in korean will be the same as in english LOL
게임 (kke-im)
We solved our first tech issue – we published Unity3D WebGL test build.
We use http://www.hostinger.ru/ as hosting and send build content by FTP.
No more troubles with Chrome and others
I had 0 plans to be in a hour ago but that suddenly changed.
I’ll probably do something with Contruct 2 or Twine.
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Shipwrecked didn’t make it. Fuck.
Now we wait
Still not sure I’m in for this weekend, but I posted some prep code to Github. It’s just a short set of functions that help me write visual-novel style scenes in the browser without worrying about async, as well as a scene selector that allows me to create a “deck” of scenes and randomly select one after another that meets preconditions based on game state.
I am ready for the game jam! Good Luck everyone, and ofcourse have fun!
Not sure i will make it this time, but when i do i will definitely be in: mask on!
What the title says. First Ludum Dare btw. Supah excited.
Hey,
I only just caught the info for this from Twitter, created an account just to see if anyone NEEDS a graphics artist.
I have been working on three platformers and a top down shoot em up using Stencyl. I’ve done my own coding just to test my graphics, but it is a slow process as I’m not a very good coder. I have a ton of ideas – times short – but I could spend the next 40 hours or so putting something together. I could also possibly do some of the work on sound. If you want to collab at short notice let me know – quick 😉
I’ve attached an image of one of my current games!
PS. I am very keen to create a graphic adventure like Monkey Island or the Indiana Jones games. I’d also like to create a fusion between platformer – shoot em up in this format – so I guess more like Zelda or something….
I’m usually not good with working with such a small time, but I will try to do something for this LDD (my first one btw)
As opposed to the last few times, when the Ludum Dare couldn’t be scheduled worse for me, this Ludum Dare happens exactly at the right point. No obligations and projects to worry about all weekend. It is without doubt that I can say: I’m in.
Just like the last few times I will be using Unity. I’d love to make a 3D game for once, but with my non-existing experience in 3D programs, I am delaying that for another time. I will be using Photoshop for sprites, and online tools in combination with GarageBand for sound and music.
I used to do livestreams, but last time I did not stream and for some reason I ended up with something better. I am not sure yet if I will be streaming my development this year. I am thinking about doing short stretches on livestream, but it depends if I can figure out streaming software on OSX. I might do a double-stream with a friend though.
I will be making a timelapse this time around though. I have never done one before and I think it’d be cool to try.
This year I will also try to hang around in the IRC a bit more, just to see if that makes it even more fun
I hope to see you all this weekend; I am looking forward to playing your games.
Hello!
This is our first time for my team. Let’s hope we do something interesting!!!
We will use Unity!
First time for me, sooooo excited!!!!!!. probably going solo or maybe whit a friend i dunno :I
Tools:
I’m taking part in the 48h compo again. Love it!
My toolset:
– Visual Studio Community 2013
– LMMS
– bfxr
Twitch: bradurdung
Perhaps I’ll leave teleportation out this time…
I just checked all voting results, and i like them :3
1. A World in the Skies 2. You are the MonsterJust those two got more than 300 points and they are really cool!
So… I try to gamble and prepare something for those two in my head.
Been a while since I have done one of these, and it seems like a good time to learn GoDot….
The universe has conspired to give me almost the entirety of the comp and jam off, so I think I’m going to give this one a go. I’ll see you all in a world in the sky (hopefully).
Tags: html5, javascript, Ludumdare
might be taking part this time, if i like the theme, and also if i find the time.
Not really sure what tools i’ll be using, it’ll probably be python/pygame, or js/phaser.
glhf
Looking forward to it! I’ve got all the ingredients for a big pot of soup and I feel more confident in my coding than I ever have!
I’ll be using Photoshop, Famitracker (maybe some Milkytracker), and Superpowers. The soup I will be making is a delicious Tom Kha Gai.
Good luck everyone!
It’s time to go again, this time it’s my sixth Ludum Dare! I’ll be working with the same tools as usual:
Language: Java
IDE: Eclipse
Engine/Framework: GoudaGamengine (custom one)
Graphics: Paint.NET
Audio: Not sure, but probably sfxr
I didn’t get the timelapse to work properly last time, but I’ll try again using Chronolapse! Let’s jam!
Let’s do this
This is my game log, aka GLOG because it sounds funny!
I’m looking forward to this ludum dare, I’ve done one a few years ago and it went well, looks like I’m going solo at the moment which is fine as a test of what I’ve learnt over the years.
I’ll be using unreal engine and potential 3D art, or full UMG gameplay :p we shall see.
Good luck everyone!
@rennfarnell
And I’m in… seems like 4th time now, as always – with new team, different ideas, a lot of boobs, asses, filth and gore (I’ll try to keep it kids-friendly) 😀 Can’t wait to see the theme, a lot of interesting ones this time
After two LD compos gone horribly wrong, I am in once again.
This time, however, I am not alone: My mate nerdy and I are going to try our best to create a game and hopefully learn a lot on the go. That is what we are participating for, to learn more about game making and techniques.
We are going to use:
My setup:
Prepared for anything and everything
Nerdy’s setup:
A good setup for even better work
Nerdy is going to stream part of the development process from his point of view; you can watch the game making at nerdyhype’s twitch channel or follow his status updates at his twitter.
I wish I could also stream my perspective, but unfortunately my internet really isn’t well-suited for live streaming.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to seeing all the amazing games this ld is going to produce and wish everyone good luck!
Third time participating on Ludum Dare compo. I will use the following:
So let’s hope for a good theme and many creative and fun games to play.
Ludum Dare is upon us again and we will need to spend as little time away from our computers as possible to meet the deadline(s)! Don’t forget to go out and stock up on some hassle-free foodstuffs that you can pop in the microwave or the oven, drinks, etc. Some choice selections:
Foodstuffs
Fluids
Stay fed and hydrated, and good luck!
Where, how can I register for the Competition?
Wow I can’t wait till theme announcement on Friday at 6:00pm here. This is gonna be so much fun. I am looking forwards to trying new things. I want to approach the design phase with the most simple Idea I can and add a story as simple as I can make it. Just I have never tried this and all my Ludum dare gameshave been overcomplicated. So i’m looking to make this a little easier on myself.
I will be using these tools:
Good luck to all, and have fun.
Didn’t think I would make it but turns out I’ll have a little time for this so I’m in again. Third time. Last time I actually got something out so high hopes this time. I’ll be in the Jam and I already have an idea which I will try shoehorn the theme into – probably not great but that’s my plan!
Tools
Visual Studio 2015
Xamarin Studio
Xamarin
Stock photos
Noun project
For the third time, I’ll join! Will be using
JavaScript with HTML5 Canvas
Procedurally generated graphics OR Photoshop (prefer the former)
Bfxr for sounds (probably)Guitar or piano + Mic for music
Cats (for cuteness)
Hoping for a nice theme. Like, maybe: “A world in the skies”. We’ll see.
Have a good LD everyone.
My first game jame yet, using ue4, 3ds max, and fl studios.
Good luck to everyone else.
Ninth time I compete and this time around I’m hosting a Ludum Dare party at the Islandworks’ offices. I’ll be teaming up with Ruben from Gamestad (A global but also city orientated community for gamers and game developers engaging with eachother) and with us will be @dickpoelen doing his own thing, the creator of Paca Pong 😉 It will be the first time I’m doing the Jam and the first time I’m hosting an Ludum Dare related event. It’s all so exciting!
For the upcoming series and Ludum Dare I prepared my normal toolset including:
And lastly:
Looking for last minutes hints and tips? Visit these blogs!
Some previous compo entries:
Follow us during our live blog
Tags: gamecreator, im in, islandworks, LD33
I’m in for the first time … again.
gonna use: “””Game Maker Studio”””
also: flash cs3 (i think?)
music: I dunno…
and maybe : eat mochi
I’m gonna be doing caricatures when the theme is announced so I wont get started until about 10p cali time (aprox. 4 hours after theme announcement). I’m gonna try and sketch out ideas in my mind based on the options in the final round of voting not in hopes of getting a head start, so to speak, but, just as an exercise for myself…
I might miss the beginning a little due to work, but I’ll be jamming for the first time! Super excited.
Engine: Unity + C#, Possibly Clickteam Fusion 2.5 for prototyping
Graphics: Inkscape
Sound: BFXR (I think)
Music: Where ever I can find it
First time for our team. Depending on the topic we’ll probably be using Unity 5. We are going to try to livestream as much as we can here: http://www.twitch.tv/rovingsquid .
This is gonna be my first Ludum Dare and first real GameJam, Im gonna participate in the Jam.
Tools
Hopefully some product will me made atleast!
My first LD. I will be participating in the compo. My biggest worry is that I won’t learn as much about myself as I’d like to, as that’s what people seem to say their most valuable takeaway is.
Gonna be using:
In for the first time …
finally…
Will be using
Unity
Photoshop
Flash
Black magic….
Language: Java
IDE: Eclipse
Graphics: Photoshop / Paint.NET
Sound: PulseBoy and SFXR
And i plan on streaming the whole 48 hours @ twitch.tv/themorfeus < be sure to follow me!
Tools i’ll use:
– LibGDX!
– SFXR
– FL Studio
– GIMP
Good luck to all participants, it’s all about the fun! 😀
Second Time.
– Unity
– Wacom tablet with Photoshop
– and some free stuff from internet as sfx or music.
Good luck for everyone and have fun!
This’ll be my first Ludum Dare. I’ve had some success in other jams before, most recently GBJam, but I haven’t made anything this fast before, so we’ll see how it goes.
I pulled out some generic-ish Unity scripts from previous projects that I’ve reused before and put them together into a github project. I can’t guarantee you’ll find any of it useful and there’s no real documentation, but it’s what I’ll be using to rapidly prototype stuff, so here it is: https://github.com/ironpencil/jamtemplate
You can check out some of my other games online at ironpencil.com if you’re interested. Good luck everyone!
This will be my first Ludum Dare. I’m sooo excited and I’ve got Monday and Tuesday off work to recover.
Good luck everyone!
I’m in for the third time. 😀
Ludum Dare is always a good time for me to experiment with new stuff. Even though most of the time I don’t make an incredible game, I always learn a lot of new things.
Getting my workspace ready both virtually and physically.
I’ll use :
looking forward to some hectic game dev. Good luck all!
I’m here for the 33rd Lewd, um, Dare. I’ll be participating in the Victoria Chapter in person, I guess. Might scuttle off to a more private place to work and then show up at the end.
Declaration: Yes, I declare
It’s a bit clunky but created a youtube account to demonstrate my work. It’s not really edited very well and takes a while on one game which is on hold. The final two examples are right at the end and a lot shorter.
I’m looking to work with a coder for this Ludumdare if possible – but generally future collaboration. I’ve got loads of ideas for games – but I’m keeping them close to my chest until I find someone I can work with! 😉
Hi,
I want into this business. This is my first time doing this, and I will probably fail, but I will do so whilst living the dream.
The Tools:
Game Maker Studio
MuseScore 2 (music)
Gimp 2.8 for art
BFXR for sounds
Going to use monogame, paint.net and figure out audio later.
Planning to enter something even if it is just a game where you jump. Haven’t finished an entry for previous ludum dares.
Will stream on twitch whenever I’m working on it at Scarty15.
We’re in!
We entered last time with our game Soul Breaker and we were very pleased with how well it did! Thanks again for your feedback (We hope our feedback is equally as useful)
Programming- @Hando
Art/Graphics- @Neith
Additional Tools
Also feel free to message/follow us on twitter, the thing I enjoy most about these competitions is making friends with other developers.
We’re also planning to upload time-lapses of our work over the Jam, so y’know, look forward to that! aha
Looking Forward to seeing what everyone makes!
-Neith
Also, I created some backgrounds for this competition if anyone wishes to use them, edit in any way you wish and whatnot.
1920×1080
1920×1200
2560×1440
3440×1440
This will be my first Ludum Dare.
The Tools I will be using are :
Adobe Photoshop
FL Studio
Stencyl
I’m in! Again.
Flash and cookies.
I’m in, but I said this already. The thing is, I will be posting progress updates on the IRC channel. I am pta2002, and I hope to see you on irc://irc.afternet.org#ludumdare!
My base code is not really ready right now. I just implemented streaming terrain with collision via quadtree, but I don’t have the full suite of swept shape colliders done, or biped movement routines and such. Just basic rays. Here’s what 100k rays looks like!
100k rays bury the terrain
So this time I thought instead of struggling with bugs in my base code the entire time I’d use a middleware package and maybe enter the jam instead. Looking back at My Author Page it seems I haven’t finished a single game since I switched from XNA to SharpDX.
So tentative plan is unreal or unity or maybe something 2D. I bought that humble gamedev bundle awhile back and it came with all sorts of wacky development tools.
The biggest hurdle will just be getting back into the swing of things. I’ve been too addicted to games to code anything for a long time.
I’m in using:
I will be working with a friend who will help me with the idea and the music.
We are not using any pre-LD assets.
Our developement will be livestreamed at Twitch.TV on the TiByte channel.
Good LD-Luck to everyone involved!
Greetings from Germany.
Me and my pal are getting in for the first time in the Jam category.
i will be using Unity to code, @Chaotic will be using whatever to draw stuff.
We are excited !
I’m in!
Tools:
– Unity
– Reaper
– GIMP
Good luck, lets have some fun! <3
I’ll be using Unity (fo the games) and Logic Pro (fo the music) to create my entry to the Jam Compo (hopefully!) category.
I’ve been toying with unity for a few years now, and have been modding games since I was a kid- this seems like the perfect excuse to get off my ass and make one!
Looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with
Bear
Not going to have much time on Saturday, maybe a few hours first thing, and with a bit odd luck the same at night, but I’ve managed to keep Sunday free, and am determined to submit something that I can be proud of.
Going with JavaScript and Pixi, and a toolset of Atom, GIMP, Tiled, SunVox, and Bfxr.
well i dont have much game development past expereinces but i have been working on a few games and know the basics of c#
so bring it on
I’ll be teaming up with Ester Vanhoutte. This is our first Ludum Dare, as well as our first cooperation!
We both have some previous experience with game jams, having both participated as artists in Global Game Jam 2014 and 2015, but in separate teams / locations.
This time around, I’ll mostly be programming and she’ll mostly do the art, sound and music.
We might do a livestream and/or keep a Tumblr devblog.
Our tools
You can follow us on Tumblr
Ester: SpiceOfMorning.tumblr.com / Me: JanTuts.tumblr.com
Use my js framework/crapcode/library thingy, Paint.NET, sfxr, and PxTone.
The result will be uploaded to github. The event might be streamed at Twitch/Hitbox.
(The letters read “rudumu? who?”)
It looks like it’s time for the 33rd Ludum Dare (And my second one! :D)
I had a lot of fun with Ludum Dare 32 so I’m hyped up for this one. I’ll be participating in the Jam again this time.
I’ll be using Unity as my game engine and Visual Studio for programming. I’ll also use Photoshop and Illustrator for art design. I’ll use Google for the audio 😉
If anyone’s interested in my LD32 game, here’s the link!
Best of luck everyone! :3
I have done other short jams before but this will be my first Ludum Dare!
I will be streaming the whole jam weekend at http://www.twitch.tv/candlesan
Tools:
I’m in.
This will be my first jam. I figure I am no where ready, but then the advice I was giving about having children comes to mind: “If you wait till you’re ready, you’ll be dead.” So no more waiting.
Ciao,
Timothy Wright
I will be doing my first LDJam.
Tools:
I’ll be using:
-Unity
-Gimp
-LMMS
-Anything that will keep me awake
I’m defiantly excited to finally be able to join everyone else in this Ludum Dare granted I finish my English homework today and have the weekend free. Its already the 21st here in NZ and I was worried for a moment that I had miss calculated when it would start 😀
I plan on using:
anyone else know of a simple free music creator? I like to use ambient music in my games but any simple music creators would be nice to know about thanks.looking forward to building and playing some games
This will be my first LDJam, but I think I’m ready to try it out!
I’ve made a couple small games before, and I think this will be super fun!
I’m gonna either make a game in game maker, or try my hand at doing something in unity!
This is my second Ludumdare failed in the first so cant wait for this one : )
Tools
Gamemaker: Studio – Engine
LMMS – Music
PyxleEdit – Art
OBS – Twitch Streaming
Team blackquiltro is in! (me, my wife and 11-year old nephew)
This is our first game jam ever and our only goals are to have fun and finish the game!
Tools:
Good luck to eveyone
I’m in, let’s gooooooo!
Language/IDE: GML/GameMaker Studio
Graphics: Made with Paint.net or GameMaker’s graphics editor
Audio: As3sfxr or Bfxr, Audacity
I’ve improved my pixel art and animation skills, I’ve remembered how to make FUN games, and I’ve crossed my fingers about getting a theme that is a little less, well, lame. (32! *cough*)
Using…
Unity
Paint.NET
BFXR
Audacity
Audiotool
Sarcasm
A computer
No coffee
Good Luck everyone!
