At the very worst all that can happen is I fail. However I am committing myself and I think that's why I am getting nervous. A Full weekend rushing to finish a game. I'm pretty sure once the theme is picked all nervousness will drain away and the fun will start. See you all on the other side of the weekend
If you do comment below and include which headset. this way anyone who makes a VR game for LD can easily find an audience to try it out and get feedback :)
This is my first jam, so i'll be trying my best 😁 Good luck everyone!
If you need some good tunes to listen to during the jam this weekend, I highly suggest this Spotify playlist. https://open.spotify.com/user/autokad01/playlist/5wkeGciszFePBNJEs8ZyoQ?si=oJo11Op7SIqPLXqwyp0Z4A
It has some slow music, some have a few lyrics, but generally, I've found it easier for me to focus while listening to it.
I made a Ludum Dare 41 Vlog! I just finished editing and I'm currently rendering! It's 40 MINUTES LONG. I'm going to post it on my youtube channel.
Please watch it! I'll also be making another vlog this time, so subscribe if you want to know when it comes out!
The nervousness is also starting to get to me.....
I'm really looking forward to this particular game jam (my fifth LD game jam). This is the first time I feel ready for it although still one of the busiest times of the year in here since our Eid (holiday) is coming in 11 days :) Still, I feel it will be different...
Good luck to everyone and may you all make great games :)
There are only four hours left! Wish you all good luck!
The final list of tools I'll use: - Unity3d (Engine) - Visual Studio Community (Coding program) - C# (Coding language) - Blender (3d modelling) - Paint.net (Images) - Bosca Ceoil (Music) - Audacity (Sound effects)
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good morning i'm doing the thing
good luck to all
this is my first time doing this thing, but i've done other things before
I've been watching Ludum Dares a while but never entred because I didn't feel capable of doing a game so quickly. But now I think I've learned a lot of programming so I'm gonna try.
As nervous as I am, i am also feeling super excited for this edition to start :D
This is going to be interesting! I hope my creativty and endeavour won't get lost mid way through... :D
And going to sleep!
Hello, how can i know the theme?
Good luck boyz
First time participating in a game jam. Really looking forward to this weekend! :D But with only some months of game making experience, I seriously have no idea how it will turn out :P Good luck everyone!
Its my first time joining Ludum Dare, and i am with a group, but we dont know how to add each other here in the website so we can go like a team!! Thanks to anyone that can help, and good luck for everyone!!
Toolbag:
1) Unity
2) Hexels
3) Bfxr
4) Audiotool
5) Audacity
6) Bosca Ceoil
7) Photoshop / Illustrator (if need be)
This will be a fun weekend for me. After months of watching tutorials, I'm going to give this a go! Not actually made a game from scratch yet, so coming up with ideas based on some of those theme choices is going to be VERY tricky haha. Hopefully I can come up with something. Good luck to everyone else getting involved in LD42!
I'm here for my fourth time, and I have no idea what I'm going to do, but I am excite.
Can't wait for it to start! Good luck and have fun to everyone!
I cant add my pal to my team, idk why, anybody else is having trouble with this?
Tools:
1.Unity
2.Maya
3.Substance
4.photoshop (if needed)
The following is software that I may or may not utilize during the upcoming 48 hours
Hey there Ludum Jammers! I'm Tamanegi-K', an aspiring game dev who's learning the ropes of pixel art! Nice to meet ya!
I, along with my lovely team, am going to take a gander at this jam and see what we can do!
Here's who we are: (t@ for Twitter, i@ for instagram)
TamanegiK, t@TamanegiKay, i@pixelnegi_k Programmer, GUI Designer, Artist
SlashyTDashy, t@SlashyTDashy Artist, Music Composer
GBAer64, t@GBAer64, i@gbaer64 Game Concept/Designer, Music Composer, Writer
Pairadogs, t@pairadogs, i@omega_lupus Writer, GUI Designer, Artist
SkullNinja, i@luzusesinternet Programmer, Game Designer
We're in, folks!!
It's not gonna be easy but I'm in.
Tools at our disposal:
Ok, my second LD, but again, no time for practising, so let's keep it simple:
Good luck everyone!
This will be my first LD and I'm super excited! Hope you guys are, too. I'll probably be making some kind of 2D platformer-esque game for my entry, since I'm familiar with that genre.
Any 2D character animators out there?? :)
Also, check out this excellent (and short) YouTube video I found on how to keep your project scope small and produce your minimum viable product early:
https://youtu.be/UvCri1tqIxQ
The possibility of not finishing our game in time is probably the biggest threat of all, so let's prepare as best we can! Good luck all!!
My Tools: * Unity * Photoshop CC * Ableton Live 9 / Propellerhead Reason * Maya LT * Graph paper * Super strong coffee
Anyone have any other last minute tips or encouraging words? Leave a comment here! Love you!! --Jordan
Excited to participate in our first Ludum Dare!
Tools:
And maybe some others I've currently forgotten...
GL all!
Probably won't start today but I'll hopefully put something in this weekend!
So I have been excited about this Ludum Dare alot! The last one has been a catastrophic failure time management wise. Had to go to my usual 9-5 job as well, so I couldn’t even get close to what I imagined. This time I’ll have a day off on monday, so I can definitly finish things. Good luck to everybody!
This is my first LD and i'm super excited! On behalf of a newly formed eight-pont-o studio, I wish you all good luck! Let's have a good time!
we are russian team, but some of us speak english.
check out our previous game: we realy need gd this time :D
I've known about LD for years, and even entered a couple of times. Never finished. This time, though, I've got a new knowledge base. I've even finished a jam now! Super stoked to do this, and I'll be teaming up with a good friend of mine to make this happen!
Jam also starts 2 hours before I'm off work, so I have some time to think about how to work with the theme before I get started. So it's really a blessing in disguise!
Using Godot v3.0.x, all assets made as needed for the project. Gimme a good theme!
Excited to participate in my first Ludum Dare!
Tools:
Unreal Engine;
Photoshop;
Spriter;
FL Studio.
Good Luck all!
Tools: Game Maker Studio 2, Audacity, SFXR, Krita, possibly Spine, and maybe some other stuff.
Good luck all, I hope this LD is a fun one for you!
@philstrahl
I plan to use:
Good luck everyone!
I shall be streaming my progress here https://www.twitch.tv/shp__ after waking up
My tools are the FTE QuakeWorld engine, Blender for 3d, GIMP for 2d, Audacity for sounds, Sunvox for music, Trenchbroom for levels.
This will be my first time doing a Ludum Dare in almost 6 years!
Hopefully, I'll finish this time around.
Tools:
* Unity
* Pyxel Edit (get ready for some programmer art)
* BFXR
* Audacity
* An old Microkorg I have lying around and possibly an electronic drum kit.
This will be my 23rd LD48. My toolset will depend on if I'm making a 3D game or a 2D game:
If I use UE4, I might use my ue4util. Good luck everyone!
I'm super stoked about this jam and look forward to playing many of your submissions. I hope everyone has a great time and good luck!
First time for Ludum Dare. Also first real attempt at a Jam. Not sure what to expect. I asked some friends if they were interested. I'm not sure if they will drop by at all.
Tools: GameMaker 2 (as suggested by my brother), Audacity
Let's do this.
We are in !
Hello everyone, we are a two person team and this will be our first Ludum Dare and game jam.
We are fairly new to game development and to the tools we are using but we are going to dive in with the rest of you and do our best to finish and upload a game. Good luck to everyone around the world.
Tools we'll most likely be using:
Unreal Engine 4
Blender
Audacity
Gimp
Hey guys I don't really know what to put here other than this is my 1st Ludum Dare & i'm really excited for it :)
I guess i'll start with the tools i'll be using:
IDE: Visual Studio 2017
GameEngine: Unity2018.1.7
Graphics & Audio: 3rd party assets as i'll be doing the jam and want to focus mainly on the mechanics of the game
Thanks for taking the time to read this and good luck!!
I'm in.
Tools:
Javascript
Phaser 2.0
Phaser Edit IDE
My third LDJAM, I haven't managed to submit a game in time yet, but the experience and fun I had was priceless. Maybe this time I manage to create something before the compo ends,
Me and my supreme team "Niklas&co" are tots in! We'll be working in Unity, Photoshop and of course 3Dpaint for the weird stuff.
FFMPEG will be joining us as is mandatory. That's all folks, good luck and have fun!
Okay so this is gonna be my first attempt at a game jam, I'll be working alone this time. I plan to use Unity or VS Code and do evertything from scratch with SDL2 or SFML I'll be using third party resources such as sprites and sounds.
I'll probably be streaming the development on Twitch, I'll post the link later !
Have fun everyone !
My First Ludum Dare...All Set, hope I get to complete a game. Pre-Jam Setup ready! Will be Using #unity3d #lwrp #Photoshop #rfxr #github #visualstudio #audacity @ludumdare @madewithunity #gamedev #ldjam #ld42
https://twitter.com/ankit7sethi/status/1027996116330131457
I have limited time this go around because of work, but let's see if I can limit myself to some small arcadey sort of game this time then!
Tools, as always: - Unity - Audacity - Kenney's amazing assets
Yeah ! I'm still a newbie but I'm motivated and I hope I'll survive the weekend !
Using:
This is my first JAM and I'm really exited abut it, hope to have fun and good luck everyone.
3rd times the charm, right?
So, @traincraft and I are joining the Ludum Dare Jam again for the third time. Our first one was a real surprise "win" (10th place). Due to the second one we now know that it's very important to follow this tip: "Easy to pick up, Hard to master". When people can't understand the game quickly enough (a few minutes), they not gonna give it a second chance.
We will mostly stick with our usual tools: - Unity - Visual Studio - Aseprite - Affinity Designer - Krita (maybe) - Trello - GitLab
Themes are ok this time around. We've seen better, but it could be way worse...
Looking forward to getting a game done!
This will be my second Ludum Dare, and this time I'll be working together with my stepfather! I've never worked with anyone on a project so this is gonna be fun :smiley:
Hi, I've done the 2 last LDJam (more or less succesfully)
This weekend I'll use these softwares : - GameMaker - AsePrite - BoscaCeol
Have fun everybody.
I'm a solo dev, pretty new to gamedev, and absolutely new to LD. Hopefully things go well. Tools: - Tic80 (so Lua) - Visual Studio (maybe? on the off chance I get into format creation and all that) My style of working is somewhat chaotic, but I hope I can manage. Good luck everyone, this should be fun!
hello world
I just found out about this now. Seems awesome! Gotta be a good sign that I found this now, the 42nd Ludum Dare. After all, 42 is the meaning of life :D
First time for Ludum Dare. Also first attempt at a 48-hour coding challenge. Hope to finish this one. Good luck!!!
I'm in for Compo. Forth LDjam and nineteenth jam overall.. And always a little bit nervous before start.
Don't know exactly what tools I'll use yet. Depends on ideas. Here are my personnal preferences :
Engine : - Construct if 2D - Unity if 3D or 2D with complex objects
Graphics : - Photoshop - Illustrator/Animate if 2D/vector - Aseprite if pixelArt - Blender/Substance Painter if 3D modelling
Sound : - LMMS & Sunvox
Oh man, Ludum Dare, it's been a while, haven't been able to participate since Ludum Dare 35, so I'm really stoked about this!
I'm going to be using Unity for this one, I don't use it outside of game jams so I'll be a bit rusty, but we'll see how it goes.
I haven't prepared much, but will most likely be using Gimp or Paint.NET for graphics (yup, going 2D) and sfxr and LMMS for sounds and music.
Oh, and I'll be livestreaming it all over at https://twitch.tv/goudagames !
(P.S. is there a way to change your Twitter tag yet?)
Discord server: https://discord.gg/RSzAR7
We are trying out for the 1st time LDJam with my friend Tr1boon. Now we are setting ourselves for the event and on the list of things to do before the event are as follow: 1. Setup computers 2. Check that the softwares are updated 3. Eat 4. Sauna 5. ??? 6. Profit
What we may or may not use:
-Atom -Unity -Tiled -PyxelEdit -LMMS -Bosca Ceoil -bfxr -Audacity
Hope the best for everyone at LDJam 42 <3
Me and my friend Yoris are gonna participiate. It will be mine second ld jam and Yoris's first Hope the theme is gonna be "death is usefull".
What are we gonna use ?
Unity 2018.2 Photoshop for sprites and textures Blender (if the game is gonna be 3D) Bosca ceoil to make the music Trello for organizing And sketchboard.me for design
May all our game ideas be janky!
I've admired the work done in the Ludum Dares for a long time, but never really paid much attention to the starting dates (oops)
I started learning Unity a few years ago, but fell out of it mostly because of work and a lack of free time, but there have been a few other jams in the last few weeks, and since they've gotten me back into it, so I'm finally taking the chance and trying out my first Ludum Dare!
I'm going to put as much as I can into it, and I'm going to be streaming the process over on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/dylanseaman
I'm not much of a coder, and I can barely call myself much of an artist, but my fingers are crossed that it'll all come together! I'm looking forward to making something and seeing what everyone else comes up with!
This is our 4th Ludum Dare I think. Joining our Team for this Ludum Dare are our two friends focusing on storyline and art. Engine: Phaser.js Art: Photoshop / paint Music and Sound: Audacity / whatever else is determined last minute
Waiting for the theme, but the game is going to be narrative/dialogue based 2d top down. Phaser is brand new to me so hopefully, we aren't in too deep with using a new Engine. Can't wait to play all of your games and good luck all! Most importantly remember to have fun 🎉
Hello everyone!
I've wanted to participate in a Ludum Dare jam for quite some time now, but never had anyone to do it with. This weekend I've decided I'll go at it even if alone. So here I am, first time doing anything close to a jam on my own. Hopefully I'll do a good job!
Also, I'll be streaming the whole process at twitch.tv/cheesesky, mainly to keep me focused. So come by to chat about ideas or just to relax. Anyone is welcome!
It's been awhile, but I'm in! I was on a pretty solid LD streak (3 in a row), but now I haven't done one in over a year, so this should be fun.
I'll be using either Twine or Gamemaker Studio depending upon what idea I have for the theme.
Hey! This will be my first LD! I will participate if the theme is forgiving - I'm a begginner so I can't code complex games, gotta be simple! I'm not aiming for a high place, just here for fun :D
Will use GMS2 and Bosca Ceoil
Hi everyone! This will be my second LD but my first solo jam (friends couldn't be bothered to go through all this again xD). I'm about to start a game programming internship next month so I'm enjoying my freedom in making games while it lasts.
I'll be using Unity 2D and maybe GIMP but I'm horrible with art so we'll see about that.
If anyone wants to (mentally) support me you can join my (currently empty) discord server here: https://discord.gg/8c4eRQe Or if you happen to have a discord server you can always drop a link in the comments :3
Me and friend Nenivar are entering the jam.
Don't know what we're going to be using yet but it will be a web based game.
I'm preparing my broadcasting software (OBS) and I want to display Ludum Dare's timer. What options do I have? How can I open it in a separate window?
After doing a handful of jams alone, I'm glad to say I'll have my old partner back for this one. Good to have the dynamic duo together once again.
Looking forward to the jam, happy to see it starting early this time around. Best of luck, everyone!
And don't forget http://makerbook.net/ exists for acquiring free resources (images, audio, etc) if you need them.
I'm in! I may only get 36 hours to do it due to personal events but I'll make the best of each hour!
I have no experience, but a wanted so hard to participate! I'm in hahaha
This is my first Ludum dare!
I'm going to be using Gamemaker 2, GIMP, Audacity And bfxr.net.
Join Me at https://www.twitch.tv/andaron_noob
Und wie Ihr dem Titel entnehmen könnt sind auch wir (dazu zählt der liebe Garfilexx, mh-studios und meine Wenigkeit) mit dabei. Ich muss gestehen, dass ich zu Beginn nicht sehr angetan war, von der Idee bei der 42. Ludum Dare – Game Jam mitzumachen. Aber die zwei mitzumachen lagen mir so in den Ohren mit diesem Thema, das ich eigentlich keine andere Wahl habe… Hier schonmal unser Ludum Dare Profil.
Sei es, wie es ist, wenn wir schon mit machen, dann richtig! Ich werde auf dem gewohnten Twitch-Kanal. Streamen und Euch natürlich die 72 Stunden über immer am laufenden halten (ein oder zweimal werden wir ca. 5-6 Std. offline sein zum Schlafen)! Wenn Ihr mh-studios beim Erstellen der Grafiken zusehen wollt, könnt Ihr das auf seinem extra dafür gegründeten Twitch-Kanal machen.
English (Google Translate save my Time^^):And as you can see from the title, we too (including the dear Garfilexx, mh-studios and myself) are part of it. I must confess that at the beginning I was not very happy to get involved with the idea of the 42nd Ludum Dare - Game Jam. But the two of them were so in my ears with this topic that I really have no choice ... Here is our Ludum Dare profile.
Be that as it is, if we already do it, then right! I'll go on the familiar Twitch Channel. Stream and of course keep you up to date for 72 hours (once or twice we'll be offline for about 5-6 hours to sleep)! If you want to watch mh-studios creating the graphics, you can do that on his specially created twitch channel.
I'm pretty happy about my last game, but let's try to kick it up a few notches...
Not doing too well so far, though 😅 - way too little general purpose code prepped for a game even though I've sworn I'd get the basic stuff like the main menu out off the way - updating VS and/or Unity right before the event - way too much pizza sauce ready and pizza dough being prepped as I write
can we go pls?
ik ik nobody wants to go yet...just did everything I need to do ALREADY.
yay! happy to not have to put a stupid alarm clock in the middle of the night and then not be able to fallback asleep.again because ideas thrive in my head!
these year tools :
unity + playmaker +
phoroshop/paint.net +
maybe magicavoxel +
maybe bfxr +
lot of yerba mate
good luck to all !
Since you cant search LDjam posts(Pov please) I went back and collected all the wallpaper threads from the last few days for you!
Other Wallpaper Thread:
http://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/$102856/wallpaper-thread
Wallpapers:
http://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/$101468/wallpaper
http://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/$99752/all-the-other-kids-were-doing-it-so
http://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/$104192/speaking-of-wallpapers
http://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/$100039/trying-to-make-wallpaper-for-my-desktop-xd
http://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/$98423/hey-i-made-a-lil-atari-inspired-wallpaper
http://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/$100040/i-made-a-wallpaper-or-something
http://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/$98947/because-why-not
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/$98330/ld-42-wallpaper
-1 Memes:
http://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/$100730/my-ld42-wallpaper
http://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/$103189/the-final-countdown-3
http://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/$104208/my-version-of-ludumdare-42-wallpaper-is-out-size-requests-below
http://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/$98885/whats-up-with-wallpapers
http://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/$101665/im-addicted-to-the-forums
im in for the 12th(i think?) time as always i plan to make something super simple but we know that never happens
also in spirit of open source here is some dumb server code that ive copy pasted together for online highscores and such
good luck, have fun
It'll be my first time so i'll try do my best c:
I think this is my 3rd or maybe 4th LD. Haven't really done any game dev for the past 2-3 years, so I'm excited to get back into it.
I'll be using Unity, Visual Studio, GIMP, Audacity, BFXR, and possibly Blender.
My game jam group, PoQA Games, is in for our 9th 'official' jam. PoQA stands for "Power of QA", since we were all game testers when we first formed.
We'll be making a game in Unity. Although we'll be participating in the jam, we'll voluntarily observe a 48-hour limit.
i will be using pico8
Probably gonna use Unity and blender, maybe photoshop and illustrator, and bfrx for sound, dont really know yet
So, it's that time again is it?
We'll be entering our third Ludum Dare (second in a row) This time we will be using Godot for the first time after having used Unity3D for the first two. We feel more comfortable with the entire Godot workflow and hopefully this will result in a better game.
This time we will also hopefully avoid any injuries that will lead to massive time loss (one team member broke a leg during a break from programming last time)
Tools we will use:
Team Members: @Ranzor and @ThatSommes
This will be my first Ludum Dare, we'll be using sjgl, a Java 2D game library I made myself and Krita for painting as well as lmms for music and maybe bfxr.net or audacity for sound fx.
Just made a little video about my engine of choice:D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COFJO1JWXEs&feature=youtu.be
Just me and my bong. Im thinking to try Java + LWJGL but probably Im going with Unity
Good luck for everyone 🙆♂️
THIS IS MY FIRST JAM AND I WANNA BE THE VERY BEST LIKE NO ONE EVER WAS.
and i cant draw but nvmd
Hello!
Not too long until the theme gets revealed.
I want to take this opportunity to talk a little about the final -1/0/+1 votes I made.
Legend: 👍 = +1 👎 = -1
Okay. You probably think a lot different on most themes than I do, but what should I say... that's life and humans for you. Whatever theme gets picked in the end, I'm sure I will come up with a fun and feasible game concept to build within 48 hours. So will you! <3