Coming up this weekend :
Better planet landing/launching system
Add a pacifier weapon to make peace with the planets 😉
Add ship customization
And if I have enough time : add a tower defense (the initial concept of the game)
Also a bug that is now a feature : radio jam that scramble the UI and communications with the player 😉
Play right here : https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/a-small-world-in-a-big-universe
With judging up, I decided to share our game here too!
Sunless is a puzzle-platformer about small material landscapes, you should check it out! 
Tags: LD #38
“Saldanha” is the name of a subway station in Lisbon, named after the Portuguese Duke João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun.
It is also the name of my Ludum Dare Compo entry, which turned to be a psychedelic action rythm-based shooter set in an hypnosis trance.
Vote here:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/$25434
Play here:
https://isaque-sanches.itch.io/saldanha
See more about the real-world station here:
https://goo.gl/Z6gWHR
Big thanks to @vitogaming for his great help with this project
“You thought, you made a game, and end the LD? You are wrong. Now you are going to write a game for me and hack the ludum dare site! Muha ha ha!”
This is a emulator of old console, inspired by pico8. The game goal is to hack the ludum dare server, sitting in a small room, where you have only one tool – your very old pc.
By the way, did you know, that you can write a real game in this emulator?! Try it, that is insane! See the guide below.
To play the game, just type commands in the shell. If you are confused, you always can type help.
In the menu there are a few commands:
ping-pongs a server
P.S. If you need your saves directory, it is at $(YOUR_HOME) .MF100
Life is hard when global warming melts your glorious castle, and thus the invasion of the seal peasants. There is only one thing that you can do…
Hey everyone, check out this short, and “seally” game we made for this Ludum Dare 38. Promise, you won’t regret playing it!
You can find it right here – https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/antivirus
When the next Ludem dare 39 does any one know when the version 39 will take place
If you are bored with gamedev or programming, game jams is a thing you need to try. In october 2016 I found my self bored with c++ madness. Suddenly, I found a blog post about great game jam, that will help you to re-think your skills.
Ludum dare is one of the worlds largest and longest running Game Jam events. Every 4 months, people make a game from scratch in a weekend.
Sounds neat right?
I though, I will have a try. My first LD (37), I wrote an RPG-kind of game:
It was my first experience of java game development, I was completely to game jams. Any way, I did a great job, and I was proud of my self, because I did compo first try. Things I noticed:
But, what I enjoyed a lot, that I got new inspiration from the jam and the positive feedback from people. It was so lovely, to hear great words about your game!
Till the LD, there is always a few streamers, that stream their development. When I saw that on LD 37, I thought, that it would be nice to try this. I wrote a small plugin, witch can be found here. Not the best code ever, and the idea is taken from Drunk Devs on twitch.
The plugin it self is a twitch chat bot, that displays all of the users, that had typed something in the chat, on the screen. And every 7-10 minutes happens a random event, that users can vote for.
My stream got 0 viewers Strange, isn’t it? Also, my PC was not powerful enough. When the chat bot was active, my PC was lagging so much…
Next LD (it will be in summer 2017), I will record a time lapse, and post it on youtube. Hope, that it will go better.
Ah.. it was a complete fail.. First of all, in a few hours before jam, i found pico-8. I thought: “Well, I write a game-emulator, this can fit almost every theme..”. I created a prototype console, and got to bed.
When the theme was announced (it was Small World), I though, that this theme is great for writing an emulator.
The first day went alright. But on the second day, I just did not know, what to do.. I mean, I run out of ideas. My game was not playable enough. There was not enough time to start another game.
I just failed.
By the way, game is here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/mf100-hack-the-jam
Never start a brain storming before LD. Otherwise, you will fail.. Trust me. Next time, I will use lua + love2d for my game. And no ascii art!!
Improved the look quite a lot with shading, detail texture generation, background generation and that shadow effect.
New are the moons and I also improved the AI.
Moons, shadows, all years long#screenshotsaturday #UE4 #gamedev #LDJAM pic.twitter.com/l9Zde0oGOg
— David Hagemann (@TocoGamescom) May 13, 2017
Also new is this game mode in which you have destroy planets for precious debris:
New game mode is all about destroying planets
because you want to turn them into precious debris#UE4 #gamedev #LDJAM pic.twitter.com/2N4FcoDmBV— David Hagemann (@TocoGamescom) May 10, 2017
Furthermore there will be actual levels where you play against the AI in various scenarious.
The Armada release should be up this weekend adding new content :
+ Planets and sectors are now capturable and will generate ressources and ships
+ Armada Management: Manage a LOT of ship simultaneously, attacking or defending your territories
+ A LOT of new enemies to fight with !
Please try and rate the original game here :
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/a-small-world-in-a-big-universe
And make sure to bookmark it for the upcoming release
I am currently looking for a good game designer to collaborate with on an on-going mobile game development. If you are familiar with Shooty Skies then you have a good idea of what I am looking for. If you have good game design skills for top down shooters then drop me a line on callie@micazook.com please.
Cheers,
Callier
Just discovered this site today (3 June, 2017). I’m just feeling my way around and will begin contributing soon.
