So here is what we were waiting for! The update is here! In this update, i have added a new 3rd map and the hitboxes are now a little bit smaller than before! (You can play my game in you browser!)
If you haven’t played our game yet, try it out now! - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/prison-escape
So here is what we were waiting for! The update is here! In this update, i have added a new 3rd map and the hitboxes are now a little bit smaller than before! (You can play my game in you browser!)
If you haven’t played our game yet, try it out now! - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/prison-escape
Play Necrofenser Hero now and let us know how far did your army got you!
Please play rate and comment, every feedback is welcome!
A little under a week left! Congrats and good luck to everyone competing!
Thank you to everyone who played and rated Millions of Minions! If you haven't played it yet, why don't you give it a try?
Hi, i decided to spent some minutes to extend the search for the Search Engine that you can now use keywords. Please note it only searches in the body (description text) but this should be enough for now :)
I did that as i wanted to search for VR Games (as you see below).
You can find the tool here: http://ldgamefinder.nerdvision.net/
Just a week till the end of LD45... Or a WHOLE WEEK! We still play some games from time to time, feel free to try our little game too! We appreciate any kind of comments. Thanks!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/while-youre-here
Today, we're doing another (probably second to last, but maybe last) Dare to Play stream on Twitch. We'll be starting soon over on https://www.twitch.tv/cyberlightgames
It's been quite a ride! Ludum dare is probably the most influental game jam out there. Nothing quite brings the indie game community together, like a whole community of jammers, playing eachother games for weeks after the intial jam, giving eachother feedback and bonding! What an amazing jam. This was my first one, can't wait to participate in the next one.
I've been busy IRL so I haven't had time to play and rate very many games so far, so please leave a comment linking to your games so I can try them out!
While you're here feel free to play and rate my game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/v-o-i-d !
We would love to get more feedback for our game the alpaca tales. :grin:
This time around we were just 2 programmers and have just finished in the last second but it was so much fun again.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/the-alpaca-tales
Have a nice day! :heart:
The Ludum Dare 45 was my first time participating in a game jam. It was a great experience and gave a short time frame to work on a new project. Over the last two years I've been working part-time on my "first" game. I'm getting close to finishing my current game but haven't had the opportunity to work on anything outside of that project. I have made a few small "games" but none of them were worth releasing to the public.
It was Friday evening, I was sitting in a hotel for weekend meetings, and I see that a few of my 'online friends' are working on the game jam. I think to myself "hey, I have nothing else to do the next few evenings... I can get something together in that time”. I thought about what I could do with my laptop and what the resources I had available at the time. It was a last minute decision to join the jam. I decided on a simple hangman-style word game that incorporates music from a band, Dt Surgeon, that I've been working with.
I only have experience working with 3D projects so I started making assets in Blender, imported them to Unity, and started to layout the game. I wanted to explore what could be done with Unity's Animator so I focused on that and wrote two really simple scripts to run the game. I then needed music and decided to make an audio management system that could loop individual parts of a song (i.e. drums, guitar, bass, etc.) so I can build a full song as the player progresses through the word puzzles.
Over the weekend I managed to get the game working and at the airport on Monday afternoon I got the audio into the game. Later that day I returned home with a few hours to submit the game. I had time to build the game for Windows and web, setup my jam page and itch.io, and made some art for the pages. When everything was ready I uploaded the game and submitted it to the LD45. It was a great experience finishing and releasing a game in that short of time. I ended up calling the game nothingEVERYTHING.
This is my first publicly released game and this jam gave me experience in the releasing process. The LD45 community has also been great to join and it is enjoyable to see what the other game creators have made. The response to my jam game has been better than expected and I have received some good feedback on how I can make the game better. I plan to take my game concept and apply it to another project I recently started. I think that the LD45 was great for my growth as a game developer and I encourage you to either do a solo jam or join a team if you haven't done a game jam before. The experience is great and will help your development as a game developer, artist, musician, programmer, storyteller, etc...
I'm looking forward to the Ludum Dare 46!
You can check out my LD45 game here: nothingEVERYTHING
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In my game you’d land on a planet with very little of the raw materials to support life, and you’d pick up and place the materials you did have to concentrate and combine them - by doing this, over time algae would form and fill your atmosphere with oxygen that could support more advanced forms of plants, you could then move your plants around to spread them across the planet and improve the soil conditions for so more diverse forms of life could grow and further transform the planet toward something eventually habitable for humans.
Obviously the scope of this concept is nuts and I could never nail down the exact mechanics where you could achieve this in a simple understandable and fun way that could be coded in 72 hours.
A small breakthrough was to simplify all the elements down to just three metrics, maybe soil quality / biomass or plants / air composition and each grid square of the map would have a value for each of these, maybe from 0-255 🤔
At this point I realised hey a really good intuitive non-numerical way of displaying this would be to have these three 0-255 values be displayed by a colour, assigning the three metrics to Red Green and Blue and printing the resulted additively mixed colour within the grid square 😳
At a glance you’d know if areas of the map had poor soil quality (low Red) / but good plants (high Green) / and good air (high Blue) - resulting in a cyan-y colour being drawn for that grid position.
Pretty cool visual concept, but I had trouble turning it into a game - everything felt too subtle and indirect, and play testing revealed it was actually pretty challenging to figure out the breakdown of the RGB colours on screen to make sense of the state of the planet.
In the end I enjoyed the challenge of accurately predicting the RGB colours more than playing the prototype I had made.SO - I decided to remake the game from the ground up - a really simple game where you just had to guess the colour and you’d get a % match score based on how far your guess deviated from the actual result. Feeling like this game I had made was just basically Messing Around In the Photoshop Interface ™️ and didn’t really feel like a game, I added fun goofy sliders that make sounds and help you synesthesicly gauge how much of each colour you’re adding to the mix. I added a little score table at the end so you could try to beat your average in a set of 8.
I’m very happy with the result - Valid criticisms of the game include that it’s alienating to colourblind people, that it’s not very ambitious in its scope, the sliders make irritating noises, and how does this even relate to the theme(?) but considering I lost a whole day due familyreasons and had to scrap my terraforming simulation concept 60% of the way into the time I had, I’m proud of this strange little micro game 🔬🤓
Thanks for reading!
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https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/dungeon-of-souls
I just learnt how to upload it to websites other than mine :3
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/spacecrafter https://youtu.be/V3ebWsHf3VU
We have a lot of secret mesSANDges in the game, but nobody found them… maybe you find them first! Share screensoots in comments.
🐱Find a cat here🐱
So here is what we were waiting for! The update is here! In this update, i have added a new 3rd map and the hitboxes are now a little bit smaller than before! (You can play my game in you browser!)
If you haven’t played our game yet, try it out now! - https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/prison-escape
(Play my game in you browser!)
Just made my fourth LD45 video featuring Revelator, Reworld, Sorrow Quest, Paint Rush & Small Town! Hope you enjoy!
https://youtu.be/zoLZXTxFt0w
Other videos containing Ludum Dare 45 games is under my YouTube playlist, "Ludum Dare 45"
If anyone wants me to play and rate their games, please comment below, I may not be able to record them, but I'd be happy to play them!
