Before Ludum Dare... here in 2 days a good Game Jam to you guys ;)

AWARDS: 1st place: 100 euros (and rising), thanks to our sponsors! 2 place: Sky Racket (Key: Game + Original Soundtrack) 3 place: Sky Racket (Key: Game)

BONUS AWARD: Our sponsor, MiniMicro, challenges you to create your game using the Mini Micro, where you can see the documentation. Jam Theme + Mini Micro Game Development if you win: 25 Dollars on a gift card (Steam or Amazon, winner's choice)

https://itch.io/jam/gamefreelaejob-jam?fbclid=IwAR0ZrhZrg1iIa879wwF9orRAElGYMTmVeDksAO605TSjZfuJNtNXT2CssHs

See you latter ;)

Hi! I'm new to making games (I mean ones that I actually finish) and think this is going to be great! First Jam.

I missed LD45 because of travelling and was about to miss 46 too, same reason. But, since corona kicked my ass back home, I'm in! My suggestions:

Here are my theme suggestions, hopefully I'll be able to participate this time.

Excited for yet another jam. Here're my themes!

With the amount of people who'll still be staying home and self-isolating all over the world, there's surely going to be a lot more submissions that usual, right?

Either way, I'm in again and super looking forward to it!

Hello Everyone, Hope you all are keeping safe in the wake of the outbreak. All the prayers to those affected. My name is Ashutosh, I am Composer looking to collaborate in the upcoming LDJam. This is my second one. Let me know if you would like to talk. Here are my Showreel Links:

Showreel 1- http://bit.ly/SohoniShowreel2019 Showreel 2- http://bit.ly/ShowReelSohoni Website- https://www.ashutoshsohoni.com/

Email: sohoniashu@gmail.com

Looking forward. Take care. Be Safe!

The website is not easy, I don't understand how teams work.

Also, is there an official Discord ? :smiley:

I had planned to be a solo jammer, but suddenly I've found a team mate! And it means that Titled Goose Team assembles again!!

while this will be my 8th or 9th LD, I really cannot wait to get started. Even the talk about the potential themes is hyping me up. This will be a great break to the monotony of the last weeks.

Does anybody have any links to any old blog posts about what makes a good theme in a (LD) game jam? I know I have read some very good ones over the years, but searching google now seems to yield very superficial analysis of good themes. Looking for something with more substance ...

Hey all, I'm considering learning Ionic React for LD 46, but I have no web development experience. I've mainly used C#, but lately I've been working in Swift as well.

Does anyone know how easy it is to get into Ionic React? Can I learn it in a week or so?

We could use more devs even, especially devs that want to stick their hands in art and music, but we especially need some artists and other roles. https://discord.gg/auzYAf

This is an ongoing channel where people will do weekly jams and other jams and teach each other in the future.

I have done some LD games in Go before (see for yourself, it's possible) and I want to encourage others to give this great language a try themselves.

Over at my Github I have created some libraries that help you create games in Go:

• Very easy to use, minimal API, cross-platform game framework
• DirectX if you want to go low level: Direct3D9 DirectSound8 DirectInput8 and Shader Compiler
• Windows API wrapper to go along with DirectX
• Windows GUI framework if you want to use GDI instead

Additionally I have made some tools that make asset creation and deployment nicer:

• Pack assets into one file and include it into your executable
• Create .ico files from images
• Read Gimp's .xcf files
• Read Tiled's map files
• Build atlas images out of smaller ones

I hope people find use in these libraries, I have used all of these to create my games and would love to hear from you if you use any of these yourself. See you around, have fun!

THEME SUGGESTIONS(){

//Only One Action

//Arcade Style

//Player Cannot Move

}

Last two jams, I had very limited time to finish the game - 9 hours both times. One time because I started over after 15 hours of going in the wrong direction, and the other because I had other plans for the weekend.

This time, it looked not great with two other events happening durin Ludum Dare, but both got cancelled because of the virus. Which means I will finally have the whole weekend to make a game.

I decided I want to make a puzzle platformer. I have several reasons for that.

• I haven't made a puzzle platformer yet
• I like puzzle platformers
• There is infinite space for innovation with the core mechanic
• Basic play through takes 20 minutes, but there is always space for speedrunning and time trial of individual levels with online scores and replays
• It is very flexible with pretty much any theme
• Puzzle platformers are fun
• There is always space for a cute story
• It makes me learn a new framework

So far I was pretty conservative with my technology choices, using vanilla JS for every single Ludum Dare and pretty much all my other projects. That is finally going to change, starting this jam.

One thing I learned is that making proper physics is pain in the ass. Even collisions of two squares took me like 6 hours to get properly in my first Ludum Dare. Is pretty much what they warn us about as "reinventing the wheel". So I am going with Phaser, let's see what all this fuss is about!

I am getting really excited about the jam, just like in the old days. I haven't made a webgame in a while, so I am especially looking forward to this one.