Hello fellow ludum darers!
Ludum dare competitions have helped me make an ios game.
Its super simple made for the web, as with the games made previously for the LDs.
Wouldn’t have tried making an app if it wasn’t for the experience making LD and getting feedback from the LD community.
Cheers and good luck on the next LD!
Oh im in!
The short, small and bad Point & Click Adventure I created for Ludum Dare 33 is now better! I reworked almost the whole game, the graphics and added some important features and more content. It’s still very short and maybe a little fun. You can try it on itch.io, it’s free. It is my first finished game and I’m quit happy about it.
And for LD 35: I’m in!
I’ll probably using MonoGame, PyxelEdit for graphics and still have no idea about Sounds/Music. But maybe i will use Unity 5 because i’m pretty new to MonoGame and maybe my idea will be easier implemented in Unity.
I have setup a Discord server for those taking part in Ludum Dare! People can come together here to share ideas, show off what they have made thus far, and just have a chat.
If you would like to join, then here is the link: https://discord.gg/0vg52oQolOvVQ91x
Me, ChaosChaot and spriteman will participate in the Jam again. Been a while since the last time we joined the fun.
We’ll use the Löve2D Engine for the Job!
Very excited that another ludum dare is behind the corner. This is always exciting and can’t wait to start creating something
My tools of the trade:
as you can see, I want to keep it simple this time around cause I want to get some sleep in first of all, and also because I hope for once to get it right with the scope of my game.
That is all for now. See you in the compo!
With a smaller team than before but the SPIRIT still remain !
I’m in, first time doing this ._.
” How do i code? ” applies 😀
This is my first time jamming, so I guess I should focus on just making something playable. Maybe I’ll learn something new! Maybe I’ll fall asleep and fail to submit my game! Yay!
This is my second jam. And im so excited about this… Because i have failed at the first Ludum Dare Jam.
Tags: LD35
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The font used is Orbitron Bold: https://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/orbitron
OK, in theory a week is longer than a weekend, but when you have 3 children, a wife, a job and a social life, it’s easier to focus on Ludum Dare for a weekend than maintaining a good productivity during an entire week.
So, my MiniLD66 is unfinished, but like always with Ludum Dare, it was not a waste of time. I’ve learned a lot again. I’ve used the Pro Builder plugin for Unity3D to create models, the “Marvelous Techniques Shaders” plugin and the Unity built-in animation system.
My mini RTS is not playable yet, but it may be a good start for a longer run project…
And HO! I’m probably in for the LD35 Compo!
Unity3D, Visual Studio 2015, Pro Builder, Inkscape, Audacity, Bfxr
This is my first ludum dare! I’ll be participating in the jam. I made a game for the latest Mini Ludum Dare 66, but I’m excited for this one as it is the real deal!
Hey guys! As usual, we’ll be organizing a Ludum Dare real-world meetup at our physical location, Tech Valley Game Space. Check us out!
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Tech Valley Game Space
30 Third Street Troy, NY
3 Space Cadets Attending
The time has come…to make games for the 35th tri-annual online game jam, Ludum Dare!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rLma_1RPU8No experience in making games necessary! This is just a fun challenge for all of us, and often serves as an educational moment to learn how to work with deadlines. We will be going through game idea brainstorming and …
Note that a VR/AR/Gaming hackathon will be going on at the same time, so things might get crowded in our office.
Similar to last time, I’ll be sticking to the Jam. My tools of trade are:
My past projects are:
hack.source.net
Can I Haz Monsters?
Star Driller Ultra
Unconventional Stick Swinging Simulator
Laundry Day
The Sentient Cube
If you follow my twitter handle “GregGreenGame” you saw on March 30th that I was working on a project for Ludum Dare when I posted this picture:
I entered in mLD #66 “Construct an RTS”, it started on March 26th and ended on April 2nd.
Throughout the whole month of March I haven’t done a lot of programming or any work on Greg Green because our pixel artist stopped contacting us for over a month so we assume she quit (sucks because she did good great work). So I put a pause on the games that I had in development. Then mLD #66 was announced, and my buddy Kai (who I met on Ludum Dare in January), contacted me and asked if I wanted to work together because our plans with mLD #64 fell through. He does 3D art (modelling and texturing) and I am in need of working with an artist so I saw a fantastic opportunity to get back in to the programming mood.
What you didn’t see is how the game actually looked when I first started it. All that was programmed was placing structures, there was no models but a simple UI and the feature for structures to not be placed on top of others. (indicated by color as shown below)
Needless to say, I got over ambitious and had tons of features planned that we ended up needing to cut.
I realized I wanted this game to be played in the web browser for ease of access to players, so I decided to use what I have before, the Unity3D Web Player. Never had issues with it before and it runs (used to run) on most web browsers.
The only browser I was sure it ran on was Firefox because Google Chrome stopped supporting the Unity3d Web Player Plugin near the beginning of 2014. I was unsure about other browsers but most people either use Chrome or Firefox.
I began programming Unit movement but the method I used was way to simple and became instantly scrapped, so I’m not even going to bother showing it. (See the new movement below in v0.3)
I never knew how easy it was to implement pathfinding into a Unity project.
The only issue I had is I had to change the type of water I was using. I originally had a pretty detailed water system with moving waves (shown in the first image up top) but it did not work with the pathfinding system so I used this other one instead and it actually looked nicer in the game so it was a win-win.
UNITS CAN MOVE NOW!
Video/Gif: https://giphy.com/gifs/xTiQyBheiIUMVRb904/html5
So as I explained in v0.2, Unity Web Player became deprecated and I was slightly unaware. Deprecated means that the feature still remains but is not recommended because it will be removed in a future update. However this wasn’t brought to my intention until I wrote this blog post.
I switched to using the HTML5/WebGL API which for a while now has been in it’s “(Preview)” stage, but it is slowly but surely taking over as Unity3d’s main web platform. I have had no experience building for this platform but I did not run into many issues at all, it actually worked with my UI a lot better than the Web Player for some reason (you can see the better menu below). The WebGL API is supported on way more browsers then the web player, AND it doesn’t require any type of additional download. I did have an issue by allocating too much memory to the game though. I thought the default (256mb) may not end up being enough so I thought I’ll just double it and crank it up to 512mb. This caused it to not be playable on some computers/browsers. Woops! I fixed this issue after Ludum Dare, in the Expanded Version.
Kai finished up some more models and textures so I implemented them into the game, the Gunner, the Tank, and the Berserker (they can all move). The color indicated structure placement was looking good and so did all the textures. I added more stuff to the map like an enemy base, satellites, and cities.
I began working on the title screen but it had some UI scaling issues.
I also started talking to my cousin Josh about writing some music for the game and told him that the game was due tomorrow. He said no problem, I can do that.
So as I realized I was looking at an all-night mission I got the Armory menu working fully functional, you can hire a unit and give it a location and it will drive out of the armory and move to that specified location.
Fixed up the Title Screen to look nicer, and with a functional music switch for the two tracks that Josh sent to me. They sound great, I can’t upload the audio here but really go check out the game and hear it for yourself.
I added on-screen controls so nobody trying out the game for their first time would have a hard time with a not-so-polished interface.
The beautiful addition here is Unit Stats on the bottom right of the screen, this allows the user to know what unit is selected, how much hp it has remaining, and if it is in attack mode or not. This helped understand the combat system a little more. (The image below shows the player’s Gunner unit attacking an opponent’s Gunner unit.)
After a stressful night of getting the damn game in on time I realized the version I uploaded had a resolution error and it cropped the top of the screen so people couldn’t see their resources. I fixed this as soon as I could.
Kai made some GUI Button sprites so we didn’t have to use the ugly default ones, I also fixed some ugly UI scaling issues in the controls panel, the stats panel, and the menus.
Then This. In my only attempt to build a last minute AI within an hour of time I gave the opponent an Armory that automatically builds units on a random timer that I set, and sends them towards your base. One thing I regretted was not spending another hour to get them to attack your base. They will only attack your units and/or move to your base and sit there.
I still made it possible to attack your opponent’s base and armory. Destroying the armory will stop your opponent from hiring more units. Destroying the base will allow you to win the game, causing the game to go back to the main menu (THAT MEANS YOU WIN!).
Yeah, I was over ambitious and me and Kai had to cut some features and assets such as: Airport Structure + Air Units, defensive structures (turrets), click+drag multi selection, a better AI, and taking over cities to gain more resources.
A couple other things I didn’t talk about were that I made the game give u resources on a set timer, and the game was originally controlled by mouse movement instead of Arrow Keys/WASD. It was Kai’s idea to add WASD control so we agreed it would be optional but I ended up liking WASD better than mouse so I never got around to making it optional. Oh and I realized after development that there is already an RTS game called Advanced Tactics that was released in 2013. This doesn’t cause any conflict because my game is titled Advanced Tactics: Mini RTS (/Expanded), but it was kind of funny to find that out. The name Advanced Tactics came from Kai and I believe it is a reference to Advanced Wars because that was one of our main inspirations.
I had no time to get in nearly everything I planned but I also was very busy on the first few days of the dare. I didn’t even have the time to post progress about the game on Ludum Dare like i did back in 2013 for the 7DRTS (My Entry). However it brought me back to that year and the caffeine fueled nights staying up coding. I needed that, it made me feel really good mentally and emotionally. It was revitalizing almost. It really encouraged me to continue work on a more frequent basis and even enter in future Ludum Dare events. I have no idea why it took me 3 years to come back to it!
Well anyways if you want to checkout the entry it’s right here: http://ludumdare.com/compo/minild-66/?action=preview&uid=24878
If you are interested in the future of this project you are welcome to see what I am doing after the dare. I am currently working on an expansion to the game and you can play an early build of v0.8 on Kongregate: http://www.kongregate.com/games/InDGaming/advanced-tactics-mini-rts-expanded
I will probably make a future blog post addressing any updates I make to this game, so if you follow my dev blog then be prepared to see more Advanced Tactics.
As usual I will develop my game on Unity. I hope that the theme will be interesting. Whatever happens, I know that this LudumDare session will be gorgeous with many many many good projects. I wish you the best friends. Are you ready?
PS : take a look on my Itch.io page to see my previous projects ++
Here’s one more option to the ever-expanding list of LD35 wallpapers
I’m Budaniel of AAGH Games, and this will be our sixth straight Ludum Dare. We hope it will be our best yet!
We plan on live streaming again this time on our our Twitch channel, which is always fun for interacting with people and sharing our work. Last LD was our first attempt with Unity and we will likely be using it again this time. Here is our team, their roles and their most commonly used tools.
Budaniel (art, programming)
Floata (music, game design)
We even have a few new toys to try out this time (I got a new graphics tablet and we received a MIDI keyboard) so we’re looking forward to getting this Ludum Dare underway. Good luck to everyone!
I Spy A Ghost is an experimental p2p multiplayer game made in HTML5/Phaser using WebRTC. It got #4 in Innovation for Ludum Dare 33, and I thought I’d clean up and put the source up in case anyone wanted to tinker with a similar idea without spending too much time figuring out all the networking.
Github: https://github.com/OmarShehata/I-Spy-A-Ghost
Will be using my usual setup of the following:
This Ludum dare should be good, I am trying to automate as much of the tasks that are not making a game as possible so I can focus on making the game :).
This is my first LD, so I can’t wait to finally participate
Engine: Gamemaker Studio
Graphics: Photoshop CC
Music and Sound: BFXR, Audacity, FL Studio 11, LMMS
Wish me luck!
This will be my second LD. This time I’ll try to keep it simple and add some sounds.
Setup:
I’m going super pro this time, going for two of the best tools I know of:
Unity (with WebGL target, so people will actually bother to try the game). Maybe just simple geometric shapes, so no art tool required. I don’t think I have the time to draw anything while trying to figure Unity out. I’ve never used Unity, so it might be pretty challenging to get anything submitted, but I felt it was high time to switch from Flash. I’m following this great free Unity tutorial in preparation.
For audio I’ll play with Ableton Live. My last entry was audio-only but did really well, which made me realize just how important that is. Ableton looks suuper confusing, but I’ve found it to actually be quite intuitive. It’s a bit like Buzz Machines used to be, allowing you to chain a lot of effects together in fun ways and can even do some melody generation with “arpeggiator” and other neat tools. It’s expensive, but has a free trial.
have been looking forward to this..my goals this time
good luck everybody
This is my third LD !
and my tools are:
ART: Photoshop or the GMS image editor.
CODE: GML.
SOUND: Flstudio + my bass + lo fi effects.
as always my little big companion by my side: Mocos ♥ (in english is “Snot” i think)… (my cat).
I had to miss the last 2 due to being out of town for work but it looks like I will be able to take part in this one!
Language / Engine: Most likely GameMaker for the speed.
Audio: SFXR or BFXR, autotracker.py, I don’t like autotracker that much so if I have time I will try to google something up.
Graphics: Paint.NET or Gimp
Second Ludlum Dare! The first one went great, and my Wife barely wanted to kill me after it was done!
Tools this time around are gonna be:
Hardware – MacBook (More mobile/flexible than my MB Pro)
Microphone – Blue Yeti (I did fully voiced dialog last time. Might do the same, or maybe just for SFX)
IDE – Unity (I do professional GameDev in Unity so…)
Editor – Visual Studio Code (No more Monodevelop!)
SFX – Live and bfxr
Music – Logic Pro X (I suck at music, just ask anyone who played my last game)
Sprites – AseSprite, Graphic, Photoshop
3D – Qubicle (I don’t know if I’m going to do 3D or 2D), Cheetah3D
Hi all,
I am an experienced music composer/sound designer, having worked on a couple of mobile games for Android/iOS. I would love to work with a team and contribute to creating the best gaming experience possible.
Please check out my music at www.soundcloud.com/nikhilkmusic or my website at www.NikhilKMusic.com to hear samples of my work.
Looking forward to meeting you all!
I’m actually starting to get somewhat experienced with this. Yeah! I have one problem though, I have not developed any games in a pretty long time. I have been busy working on some projects, some of them are related to games, some are not. But one of the projects I have been working on is a game engine that I can use for Ludum Dare competitions. Here is the github page. Unfortunately I have not been able to implement all the features yet so I have decided not to use that. I will be using these tools instead:
The next weekend is going to be really fun. Good luck to everyone!
All of you probably don’t recognize me, but I’m Masterfireheart. I participated in a few LDs/Mini LDs about a year ago, making music for several games before kinda moving on. I really liked the experiences I had then, so I’m going to try and get back into it! I’ll gladly help collab with anyone who needs someone making a few songs for their game
Someday I hope to get into game development as well so I can participate with my own ideas! But for now I still have fun writing tracks for others (and later remaking those tracks into something else) so hopefully this LD will be a great one to return to!
You can hear my (actually good) works on Bandcamp:
https://masterfireheart.bandcamp.com/music
and Spotify:
(I also do some art, if that’s a request :D)
Me and 2 of my close friends have decided to participate in the Jam 35!
Jake (me) – Programmer / Game Developer
Garen – 2D Artist (3D Modeling if needed)
Melissa – 2D Artist (Music if needed)
I participated in a previous dare as a solo and created “Sol Defender” which ranked #149th in the Jam (not bad I dont think)… Anyway, I had a lot of fun so I convinced my friends to join me this time! Should have nicer art and an overall cooler game to showoff at the end!
We will be using Unity for our engine, Photoshop for our artwork, and C# (Mono) for our code to make our game.
Looking forward to a fun time next weekend!
Its another Ludum Dare time!
I always love participating and I feel like I learn something new every time. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like I’ll have much time over the weekend but I will still try.
Since I didn’t really like my last entry that used Unity, I want to try again because Unity is very popular and it looks like it has a lot of potential if one can use it well.
I will also try using fellow Ludum Dare participant’s timelapse tool ProLapse for making a timelapse because they’re fun and I haven’t made one in a while.
Good luck everybody!
I’ll probably be using:
Heres my LD Wallpaper 😀
Download: https://www.mediafire.com/?h89m9pscsqkbod1
for the first Ludum Dare of 2016.
I’ve been lazy the last few months. I hope I didn’t get rusty.
Platform: Web
Language: Dart
Libs: dartemis and other stuff on pub if needed.
Base Code: some utilities to reduce the amount of boilerplate code I need to write
Graphics: Krita
Sound: Audacity
Good luck everyone and have fun!
I’m a long time web developer who just started trying to get into game development.
Luckily I have the whole week after off, so working for 72 hours straight is actually possible.
I’ll probably end up with some janky, half-baked thing that barely works (if it works at all), but I’ve always been really interested in these events and there’s no better time than the present.
I guess I need to spend the next week figuring out which JavaScript engine I like.
This ganna to be my first LD.
Tools in plan:
Engine: Unity
Code: Visual Studio
Sprite & Tile: Aseprite
Sound Effect: sfxr
Music: boscaceoil
Script & Design: Onenote, SAI
I’m looking forward to competing in LD 35!
First LD!
Going to work with GameMaker so I have enough time to finish the game.
Art will be difficult for me, but I’ll do what I can!
I’m in for LD35 jam. The tools I am going to use are
Engine: Unity
Pixel Editor: Paint.net
Audio & Music: SFXR, BFXR, PXTONE, INUDGE, and Audacity.
Map Editing: Tiled.
Misc Tools: Tiled2Unity.
Ready for my second jam.
Which Kind of Beat ’em up Game do you Enjoy More?
1.) Game with Weapons (Guns and other handheld items) and Fighting Without Weapons
2.) Game with Only Guns
3.) Game with Only Handheld Items as Weapons (e.g. Golf Club)
4.) Game with No Weapons (e.g. Hands)
Comment below please. c:
I know ya’ll are gonna make some great games, so how about having some music to accompany ’em? Yeah? Yeah?! Yeahhh.
I’m a composer! And I’m looking for someone/a team to work with for this upcoming Ludum Dare. I should’ve done this when I first posted on here (doh!), but thanks to someone’s brilliant suggestion, my eyes have been opened and now I have the foresight to share a link to some of my work! I also work in Logic and use samples from East West, if that means anything to you guys x)
So! If you’re interested in working together, HIT ME UP…otherwise I’m probably just gonna skulk around and see if anyone else needs music > u >
So I think I’ll give it a second go. Last time I used C and my custom game engine (Kawaii Engine). This time I’ll do something faster:
This time I hope to actually produce Windows packages (Un*xen (including OS X) should work from the source release). I really hope that using a language more suitable to rapid prototyping will allow me to produce a better game this time.
Tags: LD35
Hey everybody, I plan to join Ludum Dare 35. This will be my fourth LD already, and my second compo! I use these tools:
Engine: Unity
Language: C#
Graphics: Blender, Gimp, Photoshop
Audio: LMMS, Audacity, SFXR
I’ll be making a timelapse of development, like my last LD. Stay up to date @PowerSparkGames, thanks for reading and good luck this LD!
After participating in MiniLD #64 as my first Game Jam i’m now in for the main event!
Greeting all I am in for the 5th time. I will be using Linux OS only this time Experimental Beta Unity 5.4 Blender 2.7 for 3D modeling, LMMS Linux Multimedia Studio sound and music, Gimp artwork.
This time I will still be working solo but plan to do the Jam. (Real Life) business stuff is going to limit my programming time to about so no 48 hr for me more like 4.8 hr this will be fun
I will not be streaming, but I plan to do a video recap after the weekend for YouTube.
Have fun all.
I was on the fence about it for the longest time, as I’m going to be out of town and arriving home very late on the Friday of Ludum Dare weekend, but I just can’t bring myself to sit Ludum Dare 35 out after the last one went so well.
My tools:
My standard disclaimer about reusing code from previous entries applies – in particular, my level loader may finally be clean enough to just snag whole hog. I also keep Aron Granberg’s A* library close at hand as it’s served me well.
Let’s do this!
This is incredible
I’m in for LD35.
Engine: OpenGL/SDL
Language: QB64
Graphics: Blender, MsPaint, Gimp2
Audio: Audacity, Reason 5
Group: Apples & Astronauts
Stream: http://www.hitbox.tv/reddmandgz
I will join this Ludum Dare!
In my last ludum dare, I learned a lot about game design.
My tools for Ludum Dare #35:
Engine: OpenGL/SDL
Language: C++
Graphics: Blender, GIMP, Aseprite.
Audio: Sunvox.
Our team is eager to start voting on the themes for Ludum Dare 35.
We’ve done 2 jams before, and are looking forward to our third event.
Hopefully we can continue to improve
This time one of devs will be taking a break since he will be graduating on April 23rd, so all programming will be done by Phoenix Smith this jam. Congratulations Paul and we will see you next time!
We are working to secure more teammates, but no matter what, this will be a great event.
Phoenix is going to try and Stream the event on his twitch channel, and we will be posting screenshots and updates on Ludum Dare and our Twitter during the event.
Happy Gaming everyone
Hey! Looks like Ludum Dare real-world meeting at Tech Valley Game Space (Troy, NY) is mentioned on Hackaday!
And to draw in the hardcore game programmers, a concurrent Ludum Dare game jam will be run by the Tech Valley Game Space, with interaction and collaboration between the AR/VR hackers and the programmers encouraged.
Remember that if you want to check us out, you can sign up at the Meetup below:
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Tech Valley Game Space
30 Third Street Troy, NY
3 Space Cadets Attending
The time has come…to make games for the 35th tri-annual online game jam, Ludum Dare!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rLma_1RPU8No experience in making games necessary! This is just a fun challenge for all of us, and often serves as an educational moment to learn how to work with deadlines. We will be going through game idea brainstorming and …
ALSO!
We will be streaming ourselves playing Ludum Dare games during the judging period this time! It’ll be on Tuesdays and Fridays every week, from 7:00 PM to midnight, EST. So stay tuned!
Ready for some Ludin’ Darin’!
As my warmup I announced a couple of game concepts at IndieDB right now!
And:
Hello all. I’m definitely in for the upcoming Ludum Dare. In fact, I never miss one… if you ignore all the ones I missed.
One of the Ludum Dare game jams I definitely did enter a few years ago was MLD47 with its theme “Humble Beginnings.” For this I created Fireworks, a remake of my first ever from-scratch game, which was a survival shmup (or dodge ’em up, I guess!) set in a fireworks display. Later, when I was moving into the realms of mobile development I ported this over into an APK, both to get a feel for the platform and so I had something to play on the train. It got the interest of a few people and my friends encouraged me to create a full version. So I did.
There are a lot of changes over the original game, especially when it comes to the amount of content. There are multiple levels with unique patterns, the patterns themselves are a lot more interesting, and collecting spent fireworks results in a chaining system. The different levels and skill-based time skips mean it hits a variety of difficulties but keeps the sessions quite small. Instead of the clock being a set target the game is now endless, but at key milestones (1, 2, 3 minutes) you unlock stars for opening additional levels… Hopefully there is a lot here to sate the bullet hell aficionado.
Wowsers.
iTunes | Google Play | presskit() | website
I’m in once again, however I will unfortunately be unable to stream any of my game development this time around due to a strange work schedule that weekend. That also means I will have minimal time to create a game, but I should be able to pull off something again! Since I will not be streaming I will be doing a timelapse as well as constant twitter updates @CodeNMore!
I’ll be using my regular tools, likely Java with Eclipse, Paint.NET, BFXR, and who knows what else. Maybe I’ll switch on over to Love2D and try that out for a change and learning experience!
If I can pull myself away from Enter the Gungeon for long enough, I’m in for the Compo.
I’ll be using GameMaker:Studio, photoshop, SFXR, and Audacity.
Last time was a hoot, and I made one of my favorite entries. I also learned a ton about feel and feedback. Let’s make this time even better! (woo!)
I was just wondering if someone was going to add a Real World Gathering in California, I would love attend one. Favorite if you agree, comment if you have any information.
http://www.abundant-music.com/
So in essence, you plug in a seed and set a whole bunch of settings, and it spits out a midi. I’m PRETTY sure this is compo legal, but I thought I’d see what you guys thought.
So. In for a penny, in for a compo.
I think I’ll be using Unity, and making a 2D game. I’ll probably use Paint.net for my sick, sick programmer art, and http://www.abundant-music.com/ for my music if I can confirm it’s compo legal. Anyway, looking forward to it!
I’m in for the second time! 😀 Last time I said that I wouldn’t use Python again but I haven’t had time to play much with Unity yet so I’ll be using Python again.
This time I’m bring some peeps with me to handle the music and art so I can go full force on the game. (And not ruin the framerate with a fancy overlay effect to cover up the pixelart :’) )
Hopefully I can learn some new things again and make something better than last time. I already found a few fun Python libraries to play around with so I’m very excited!
I made my first 3D world recently and would really appreciate some feedback from some more experienced game developers.
Here is a link the to the game.
Thank you!
Last chance to Slaughter some themes for #LDJAM 35!
Just so you guys know….
I think I will make something havily focused on music/sound this time, of course if the theme allows.
Tools:
Have fun all!
i’m in and i will try to make my first ever V.R game
this warm-up weekend i managed to make the plugin for VR cardboard Android phone work
with unity.
I’ll be using Unity with Playmaker + “TrinusVR” plugin
I should receive my cheap plastic headset to have the full experience tomorrow
and be READY TO GO for LD35 !
This time I plan to make something in 3D. Only bricks and rendering.
And Unity 5.4 of course. If I’m lucky, I can after the ld35 to tie to prototype in-house Shader.
Last time I focused on the limited resources and bind to the season (HNY).
I had to put the resulting game until the autumn – HNY ceased to be relevant.
I still want to experiment with mobile interfaces (which differ from the mouse and keyboard).
Let your ideas will be really cool. And don’t forget to make a tutorial. 😉
I am in for my second LD (excluding the one MiniLD I’ve also participated in).
This time with no team, with SFML and not so much time, so I rather be in for a Jam entry.
I hope that something with time manipulation, space travel or creative restriction (3 colors, 3 buttons) will win as the theme, because I am in mood for those ones 😉
Tools:
Using Unity, Aseprite, and BFXR. Hopefully finishing this time around, have a string of misses and I’m determined to get one in.
again,
as always not sure how much time I will be able to spend, but as always I hope I will learn a ton. LDs are the only time of the year that I can get myself to carve out a small space for my dream / hobby: making games that ppl want to play (well, i am still quite a bit of that target, but rome wasn’t build in a day, hehe).
I will use
And the whole thing will be stitched together with the best IDE there is, Jetbrain’s PHPStorm 😉
I hope everyone will have as much fun as me and a satisfying LD
goeth forth and codeth
Tags: #phaser #phaser.io
Hi everyone,
My name is Siegfried Croes and this will be the first time I participate. I’m not new to game development though, I did a study where I learned both coding (C++) and graphics (3DS Max, Photoshop) and I’m a full time multimedia designer for over 4 years now. I’m also working on a game in my free time called Tales of Lena.
This jam might give me the opportunity to realize some of the small games I have on my mind and hopefully I will also learn how to work faster and not get lost in details all the time.
The tools I’ll be using:
Engine: Unity / HTML + Javascript
Graphics: Photoshop, Aseprite
Audio: EnergyXT, Audacity
Hi all,
I’ll try my first LD using:
I will make everything myself except the sound effects. I’ll use free open source ones. I can build stuff for web with Unity, but I’m not sure how we go about posting when we’re done. Hopefully I can get this done in time, because I have a kid, too! Should be a hell of a lot of fun!
Hello! I’m a composer looking for a team to collab with for the upcoming Ludum Dare. My soundcloud is below, and I’ll include a link to my site for reference. I haven’t done many games yet, and I’m looking to build my portfolio, so I’m open to any genre. I’m also proficient in sound design, and I’m up for any jobs relating to that as well.
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/countingautumn
Website: www.jerroddietz.com
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Hope to hear from you soon!
I’m available to start immediately!
In for my 4th (5th?—can’t remember) Ludum Dare with the usual tools.
I’m pleasantly surprised by the round 1 themes. Please pick a good one, people.
Quite hard times were coming in my life, forcing me to miss LD entirely for the rest of 2014 and in the entirety of 2015.
But now, as I created more content than ever for a game, and as I learned a new language, I want to be in, to provide a browser game for you this time!
Language: JavaScript! Lua was great, but the time of online content is coming.
Framework: PhaserJS! LÖVE is one of the best frameworks ever, but it’s time to learn something new.
IDE: JetBrains WebStorm! Quite a huge jump after Notepad++ I guess.
GFX: Paint.NET, as usual.
Sound: SFXR. I can’t forget the beautiful simplicity of it.
Music: Kev MacLeod! I’m about to realize that music is vital.
This time, I’d like to make a “promo game” for my worldbuilding project that has quite a lot of potential story-wise. I hope I can produce something successful, just like in late ’14 with The Last Beacon.
I’m in for Ludum Dare 35. I’ll be using Java.
PUNT: Rebirth, the project which my team and I have been working on for the past year, is live on Steam Greenlight! Please vote for us and share the page at: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=394046362
Please express your thoughts and feedback in the comments of this post or on the greenlight page.
Thanks!
BoxandRocks
Tags: greenlight, indie, PUNT, source, steam, Steam Greenlight
This is my second Ludum Dare I will participate in! Last time, the game wasn’t as good as it could have been, but now I think I will do great!
Tools:
Gamemaker : Studio
Paint.net
LMMS
Wish me luck!
I’m in, I’m a bit rusty with javascript development but I will use this week as a refresher. My favourite part of Ludum Dare is the incredible productivity that comes with the strict deadline.
Tags: LD35, motivation
This will be my 6th Ludum Dare, and 2 year anniversary of my first attempt! As always I am pumped! I’ve been spending this weekend rewriting the framework I prototyped and hacked out last LDJAM. Here’s what I am using:
I may try out a few additional Audio/Graphic tools depending on how things go. I also have a new rule for this LDJAM: Absolutely no alcohol. I’ve tried to employ this as a creativity enhancing tool in the past and it has not gone well.
Good luck to everyone participating! I can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with :-).
After 2 amazing LD33 & LD34, I’m in again ! This time I’ll have less time over the weekend but I’m taking the challenge !
Looking forward to all the incoming amazing games 😉
Hello, this is the first time we are going to take part in Ludum Dare!
We are going to use this event as an learning experience as our goal is to make a game that actually playable.
Anyway, good luck and have fun to other participants. 😀
Tools
Engine : Unity
Art/ Visual : Paper, scanner, paint.net and GIMP
Sound/Audio: Audacity
Tags: jam, Ludum Dare
This is my warmup game and an attempt to beef up my own game engine.
I’ve done a few past LDs with Javascript, but those gruesome days are over. I’ve rewritten my engine in TypeScript and so far really loving the language.
Euskit – A minimalistic HTML5 framework for 2D games written in TypeScript
The engine is now publicly available at GitHub.
I’m in for LD 35!
This time I will use:
Language: Java
Engine : libGDX
Sounds: SFXR
Music: Not sure
Graphics: paint.net
When the Theme Voting Round began yesterday, there was some text at the top of the list claiming that the themes has been “sorted by popularity” but I can no longer see this text. Did I just imagine this? Can someone more in the know clear up if the Theme Voting rounds are simply randomly sorted or if the top of the list were the more popular themes during the Slaughter?
Thanks everyone and have a great LD35!!
I’m not MrDestructoid
there is supposed to be all kinds of things here ..
GIMP, Love, Java, Phaser .. coffee
I’m in…we’ll see what happens
Unity-C#
Lmms/BoscaCeoli/Otomata we’ll see how music goes
sfxr/bfxr
It’s gonna be fun on a bun
I’m confident about my participation this time!
Engine
Gamemaker: Studio
Audio
FL Studio
Milkytracker
sfxr
Audacity
Graphics
Clip Studio Paint
OpenToonz
This is my.. fourth (big) Ludum Dare, at least with the intent to finish. Last time I entered with a workmate. This time it’ll be hard mode, for a change.
I’ll be using my favorite games engine: Phaser
IDE/Editor will be Atom this time, as it has really good javascript features (sorry, Sublime)
Graphics with Pixaki, Sprite Something (both on iPad) or Pixen (Mac)
During the week before the compo I’ll be making a base template game (with no logic, just a few screens) that will allow me to use ES6 with Phaser. I’ll be sharing that with everyone once it’s good enough to publish.
I’m in.
Using HaxeFlixel/OpenFL, Photoshop, BFXR, and Bosca Ceoil.
Have Fun Everyone! 😀
Hello! Much has happened since my last LD.
As I mentioned before, I din’t participate in the competition in LD 34, because I already had uncompleted games for “Grow” and for “2 buttons” themes. So, I used LD34 weekend to complete them and submit to the PlayMarket.
Also I was so inspired by the idea of Game Jams, that became the organizer of the very first Global Game Jam in Ukraine. With the help of higher educational establishments in my city, Kirovograd, we had a great event: 78 participants, 14 games and 1k twitch views.
One of the games created during GGJ was mine (I managed to get 6 hours of work for the cost of sleepless night).
So, here is my Global Game Jam entry: Cloudy Shaman
Cloudy Shaman
In March I presented my LD33 game, Something Deep, at the first International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons and Game Creation Events in Berkeley and got “Best in Showcase” award!
On the 12th of April we’ll be holding a local IT-conference and I’ll be speaking on my gamedev experience and give advice to the participants. I hope more developers from my city will Ludum Dare this time. I definitely will.
Also I’ll surely find the time to release my “Something Deep” game from LD33.
Anyway I only write two simple tactic game by JavaScript and pure DOM…
Language: Javascript
Graphics: Painter
Audio: MuseScore
Hi!
We are two devs, Céline & Zoé, from Nantes, France.
It will be certainly a Java game.
www.celisoft.com
Hello! This will be my first time Ludum Daring, so my only real goal is to end up with something playable that’s vaguely game-like!
Tools:
Strong coffee
Cheap alcohol
Panic
Tears
Shame
Good luck everyone!
I’m going to be in again. I’m planning on using Unity to make a 2D game. I hope this will be the first time I finish without a partner. I’m using Ableton Live for music (I’m planning on making the music dynamic). I’ll use as minimalist graphics as possible.
Alright people save a seat for one more first time jammer!
I’ve been informed that showing off the tools/programs you intend to use is tradition so I’m stepping in armed with…
Unity-
Blender-
Gimp-
Audacity-
Renoise- (At least one is not so prevalent heh)
Good luck and happy dev’n all.
Compo here we go again.. good luck to all and happy coding, drawing, modeling, composing.. oh boy.. i need a bigger supply of coffee.
j.
Hello people/other-semi-intelligent-lifeforms!
It’s been quite a while since I participated in Ludum Dare! According to the website, I’ve participated five times, but actually I should have participated six times. Last August some friends and I worked as a team for the first time and spent 2.5 days making a game before I realized we weren’t going to finish. So that was fun. Not really. I skipped last jam as well because it ran during the weekend before finals, but now I’m finally free again! I’ll be working alone again this time and entering the compo.
Tools:
Code: Unity – Wasn’t sure about this one. Usually I program my games in Java, but this time I think I want to focus more on the aesthetics so I’ll be using Unity to save time. C# for scripting.
Audio: FL Studio, Audacity, SFXR
Graphics: GIMP, Blender
Accessories: Pinot noir, cherry Bawls, instant curry
