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Ludum Dare 53
Ludum Dare 54
Zero gravity puzzle game!
"Get Rid of the Alien" is the name of my compo submission, give it a try if you like!
give it a try if you like!
I posted this by accident and cant delete it now
Ludum Dare 55
What makes a good theme?
As I'm slaughtering I thought I would write a couple of my personal opinions for what makes a good theme.
When I think about the themes I think about:
- If the theme makes me excited to participate.
- How varied everyones games would be.
- If I would be excited to rate everyone elses games.
- How much freedom vs restriction it gives the developer.
- How many possible interpretations there are.
As an example, while slaughtering I saw the theme "Pirates". I honestly really like this theme even though it feels pretty generic, there are so many different aspects of being a Pirate, like cannons, the crew on board, mutinies, the boats, the swordfights as well as gunfights, treasures, exploring oceans/islands, it could also be modern pirates, or cyberpirates. It is however very visually limiting, I think a lot of the games would look similar, which is not as fun. But overall I would be very excited to see what games people make with this theme and I would be excited to rate them.
A type of theme that I'm personally not a huge fan of are the ones that feel like rules. Like "Every 10 seconds", it felt more like a rule that I had to follow than a theme to inspire me. Even though the games that came out of that were really cool, to me it felt frustrating to think of something with that theme.
Theme measuring metric?
I think the ratio of sign ups to submissions could also be a metric of what makes a good theme. If people aren't inspired enough to finish their game or even come up with one then I think that is a sign of a bad theme:
If we use this as the main "good theme" metric, then "A Small World" is our golden standard for themes (so far).
My favorite
Personally my all time favorite theme was Game Off 2022, which was "Cliché". It felt like a million possibilities but it's still a theme across all games, there are so many fun interpretations and you basically get to set your own limitations. I didn't get the theme at first but the jam hosts explanation made me really excited to make a game:
Anyways I might just be overthinking this.
Questions for you:
1. What do you think makes a good theme?
2. What has been your favorite theme from previous jams?
3. What theme would you be most excited for from what you've seen in the voting so far?
I just wanted to come on here and say
I hate WebGL, nothing has caused me more problems and headaches in my game developing years than exporting games to WebGL. Thanks for listening!
Manage an arena of gladiators!
Ludum Dare 56
After a stressful weekend you deserve to relax!
Thats why I made this relaxing game called Flower Friends! You're gonna love the ending!
Play it here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/flower-friends
Ludum Dare 59
My first time only doing art for a game
I went to another country to visit my friend and make a game together! I usually do both art and coding myself but this time I could focus solely on art. I'm not very good at digital art, so we decided to do it on water color and scan each asset in with my phone. This was a fun challenge and I hope you enjoy playing it as much as we did making it!
