Finally I have some time to write down my thoughts about my participation in LD38 in this short post-mortem. First of all, this text is related to my Jam game “Saviour” and you can check it out here:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/saviour

Starting the Jam

This was my third LudumDare and I was looking forward to this event. I really liked the selected theme (I voted it with a +1) and as soon as I woke up on Saturday morning I started to think on the possible ideas for the game fitting that theme.

That was by far the worst moment for me as I didn’t find a good (i.e. fun and enjoyable) idea for my game and I was about to not participate in this event. To solve this lack of ideas, I opened the Unity editor and placed a sphere in the middle of the game scene (I wanted the game to be related to a small planet, so… I think it was a good way to start) and after a couple of hours thinking and making some sketches on paper an idea came to my mind…

Let’s make an arcade shooter!

I finally chose this game genre because it fits into the three requirements that I had for my Jam game, namely: * It’s relatively easy to implement. * Allows the player to play multiple shorts games in order to improve it score. * It was fun!

I managed to finish the core of the programming before going to sleep on Sunday and I left the remaining details for Monday afternoon (I had to work in the morning T_T). I'm really happy with the final result!

Differences between this jam and the previous LD

For me, the best thing of this LD is that I managed to organize correctly all the work and the time that I was going to take to do everything, from the starting sphere to the final game. Thanks to that I kept calm throughout the weekend (the previous LD were stressful for me due to my lack of experience), and that made me work in a more efficient way! :)

What do I expect from the next LD?

As I entered my three LDs as a one-man team… I want to find some people to collaborate and participate as a team!

And that's all! I hope you enjoy the game and any comments about it will be appreciated!

I've added a web browser version at itch.io of my LD38 game "Saviour" to make it easy for you all to try it (you don't need to download and unrar it anymore). Just visit the link to the windows download in my game entry and there you'll find the browser version ;)

The entry for my game is: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/saviour

PS: The game remains exactly as it was in the original submission.

Our game received a small update to fix a bug affecting powerups and it is more enjoyable now! WebGL version runs smoother now too.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/last-job

We invite you to try it and give us your feedback as we want to continue working in this game to make it better in the future. Of course we will appreciate your votes too ;)

Cheers!

In the last days we have already received a lot of feedback about our game (thank you for that guys!) but a lot of people told us that they didn't understand pretty well how to play it properly. Because of that we have decided to make this short guide about how our game works.

Last Job entry: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/last-job

The goal of the game

This is a survival game and your final score correspond to the time you have survived. In order to stay alive, you have to keep the boilers on by throwing coal into them as quick as possible.

How to do it?

It is easy, let's me explain it in three simple steps.

• Pick coal up from the pile in the center of the room. Just get near the pile and press "E" repeatedly to make the goblin pick coal units. The goblin can carry a maximum of 10 units (But be careful! The more units you carry, the slower you'll move!).

• Throw the coal into the boilers by approaching them and repeatedly pressing "E". You will have to wisely distribute the coal among all the boilers so they don't turn off.

• Keep doing that until the coal pile is empty. Then you have to use the lever to ask for more coal and it will drop in the middle of the room making a new pile.

You have to repeat this as fast as possible. You can see an example of this in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPpHHskbaZY

The power-ups

Each 20 seconds a power-up will drop, helping you with your tasks. Those power-ups (and their effects) are the following:

The boss

The boss will come if two or more boilers are completely turned off. If that happens you have to be quick and turn them on again as fast as possible because if there are at least four of them turned on it will leave the room again and you'll be safe.

If the boss catches you, the game is over :(

And that's it! I think it is pretty simple when it is correctly explained. I hope it helps you to enjoy it in the way we designed it to be enjoyed!

Important!!: As we want to continue working in this game after LD39 and improve this idea as much as possible, all the feedback you can give us is highly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your time!

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Hi guys! Our game (https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/last-job) is almost reaching 50 ratings! Thank you for that!

If you have not tried our game yet, we will appreciate if you do it and you give us feedback as we want to continue working in this idea. It will be nice if you vote us too ;)

Cheers!

First 24h. Small pieces of pixel "art" and most of the core gameloop already implemented!

Hi! Do you wanna be an evil summoner that summons creatures just for killing them and have their blood? Do you wanna use that blood to summon more creatures and... KILL THEM AGAIN TO HAVE MORE BLOOD? Fill your thirsty of blood and ascend to the definitive summoning level.

Play The Ascension! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/the-ascension

Don't forget to share your completion time! :stuckouttonguewinkingeye:

I'll try to improve the game and make it bigger in the future, so I would really appreciate if you share with me your feelings about the game, so do not hesitate to drop your comments.