I’m the top of the pyramid! Woohoo!!!!

Did you find your game yet?

http://williame.github.io/LD/Mosaic/index.html?ld=36&img=pyramids1.all.kuhn-munkres&tw=48&th=32

Also check out my game ON FIRE here or on itch.io

HYPE!

I’m going to use the same setup as before since it worked well and I didn’t learn any new tricks in the meantime-

Game Maker Studio for programming and graphics (yeah it’s going to be pretty crappy)

Audacity for sound effects

Maschine for music

I can only hope that it will go as well as the first one!

Here’s a gif from my LD36 entry 😀

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Tags: LD37

I’m going to sleep and die. This LD was much harder than the first one because of the nature of my game, and all that work for around 5 minutes of gameplay 😀

entry page here!

What went well:

• Decided to go with Game Maker Studio 1.4 instead of 2 because of two reasons:
  • I never used 2 for more than a few minutes and I think LD is not the best time to try and study something completely new.
  • It doesn’t have HTML5 export and I really wanted my game to be as accessible as possible.
• I threw away stuff that wasn’t a ‘must’ for me. This probably saved me since I almost didn’t make it on time.
• Made the graphics simple yet effective. Most of the animations are done by code, the others are 2/3 frames. So yeah, no animations basically.
• Theme usage. I really liked the idea of making a game about making a game, and LD people are the perfect audience for that.
• Game length. The fact that the game is short and there’s no punishment for death made it more accessible to people to play until the end.
• Most important: didn’t completely freak out. Tried to stay as chill as possible. Obviously it didn’t work that well close to submission hour when I had to cut my leg off as a sacrifice for satan.

What went not-as-good:

• I made the entire audio in the last two hours or so. I’m pretty happy with the “music” but the sound effects were pretty bad and lacking. (Most of them were made with my mouth or with junk in my room that I threw on the table). Also the volumes are really not balanced.
• Totally forgot to animate the player. Somewhere along the way I thought I could get away with it by having the dev say “If you’re not going to behave you won’t get any animations!” or something like that, but I totally forgot about that too.
• “Beta” testing. I really should have sent friends demos since the platforming part is WAYYY too hard for most people. For me it was really easy and my brother also managed to finish it quite easily, so I thought it was fine. Boy was I wrong…
  

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  (See? It’s easy!!!!!! Well for me at least)

• Having more debug shortcuts. Well, the game has different parts, and I didn’t break it to enough parts and didn’t make it easy enough to switch between parts. This led me to play the same parts over and over again, which is partly good due to testing, but mostly boring and making me want to kill myself.
• People expect to jump with space and not with up or W. I should’ve learned that lesson from the previous LD. Next time I’ll remember.
• I misspelled “procedurally”. And no, I did not misspell “mnoster”. That was on purpose.

More stuff that I want to say:

• So far I got lots of reviews and votes which is really encouraging. So I gotta thank you all for that.
• I got frontpaged on Newgrounds (again!) which blows my mind.
• I’m taking this whole experience as practice in making games, but also marketing the game. This LD made me open a Twitter (yeah yeah I live under a rock), but the thing that proved most effective is posting gifs here. So sorry-not-sorry for the spam.

Thanks for reading!

BLOG POSTING WORKS?

OH MAN 15 MORE HOURS TO GO I'M NOT GONNA MAKE IT

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/space-hummus can't speak. must sleep.

here is my ld38 entry SPACE HUMMUS

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/space-hummus

• GAME: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/space-hummus
• TWITTER: https://twitter.com/dietzribi

I have no idea how to do markdown.

I had tons of more ideas for mechanics, but I should've made more levels that combined them :(

PLAY THE GAME! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/space-hummus

Or do. I don't care.

Play the game though. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/space-hummus

People had a hard time understanding the mechanics of the game, and this level didn't explain it well enough so I improved it a bit (hopefully :P) This is how it used to be:

How it is now:

Feel free to check it out here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/space-hummus

So this happened apparently... Don't watch it, try playing yourself! (Web + Windows) https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/space-hummus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIGzPchgnJk

Did you know that? BTW play SPACE HUMMUS. It's in the browser so you don't have to download anything. GIF for those who suffer "text-only-blindness"

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/space-hummus

My nephews are TMNT fans so I made a special edition of my Ludum Dare game for them. They made the sounds and helped with the intro and ending art :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxDDICo39is

You can play Space Hummus here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/space-hummus

Thanks to Ludum Dare I made 3 games! It's insane since in the past 10 years I made tons of prototypes but never a finished product.

The first one (LD36 - ancient technology) was On Fire!

It's a short and goofy platformer about bringing fire to your family and friends by burning yourself to death and everything on the way.

LD36 didn't have ratings but I got really good feedback on this and I'm really happy with it. https://dietzribi.itch.io/on-fire

Second was (LD37 - one room) was levelone.

It's around 5 minutes of game, and you can't really die. This one is a bit weird, it has some more text and more "story" than I ever did.

It got some pretty good ratings! 8th place overall, 1st place in theme, 2nd place humour and also in the top 20 in fun, innovation, and mood. https://dietzribi.itch.io/levelone

And last but not least, for the current LD (LD38 - a small world) Space Hummus!

It's a space platformer with weird physics.

It has it's issues (the other 2 games also), but I'm quite happy with it.

From what I've seen, most people go into one of two groups: 1. They don't get the mechanics- it's not like most 360 gravity platformers where every planet has it's own gravity field. Once you're off the planet the gravity stays in the same direction. This usually results in frustration and/or rage quitting. :P I tried to improve a hint in the third level but I'm not sure if it worked. 2. They get the mechanics and abuse them to finish the game and they feel it's really easy. Most levels can be "cheated"- If you jump sideways you can just skip most of the challenge. This is my fault, I knew it was possible (actually it's possible to beat every level in one jump) but I decided to leave it because I didn't think so many people would realize that. Also I think it's kind of funny.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/space-hummus

I'll be really happy if you play any of them!

If you like what I do and want to support me- the best thing you can do is follow me on twitter! https://twitter.com/dietzribi

Thanks!

I used http://www.wordclouds.com/ which was the first google result for wordcloud. Then I copied and pasted the text of the comments one by one and converted everything to lower case.

Play the game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/space-hummus

You should. It's totally not the worst game ever. I swear. (????)

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/space-hummus

BTW, GO HERE AND HELP AS MANY GAMES AS YOU CAN TO GET SCORED!!! https://ldjam.com/games/danger/all

Thanks everyone who play and rated! And congrats to the winners!

Give Space Hummus a try here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/space-hummus

BTW these are not much worse than my previous LD entry, levelone:

Which you can play here https://dietzribi.itch.io/levelone

As usual using Game Maker Studio 1.4 + Maschine + Audacity

Follow me on Twitter to see progress gifs as they come (@dietzribi)

My previous LD entries on itch.io:

GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!!!!