Hey everyone, I've really been enjoying all of your games. So many of them out there are great and feel so polished. This was kind of our first official gamejam and we're just amazed at what everyone came up with. Such diverse ideas and solutions to this theme. Overall an amazing experience! I'll defintely be playing a bunch more games over the next couple of days.

Of course we are also trying to get as many of you to play our game ShadowRush as possible. It's a fun little racing game where you're chased by yourself as a ghost from the past. Try to stay ahead, dodge them and set some record time laps, please check it out and let us know what you think!

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/shadow-rush

Cheers everyone!

Hey everyone, just like a lot of you, we're still striving to hit those 20 ratings for our game. For everyone who is also still trying to get there, let me help you out. Tonight I'll play and rate as many, hopefully all, games you comment down here in an attempt to get you there. I'll give them an honest assessment of course as this is not meant to cheat the system, simply to reward everyone's hard work by giving it the attention it deserves!

If you happen to be interested in doing the same for us then please check out our game ShadowRush!

Cheers guys, I look forward to playing your games tonight!

First of all, great job everyone. All the art and work you've shown has been amazing already. Can't wait to see all the games the upcoming weeks.

We've created a story-driven game that explores the life of Peter on his phone. He has many apps that send him notifications. So many so that I think he receives one at least about every 10 seconds. To keep his phone from crashing you'll need to get rid of all the notifications. Only then you'll be able to meet Peter and all his friends, stories and apps he has to offer.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/peter-os

Have a look, click around. Open all the apps, try to get recruited by the FBI, it is all possible in Peter OS! If you feel like it: please leave a comment, some feedback, bug reports or ideally a rating behind! If you want you can comment your games here as well and I'll definitely check and rate yours too!

Noodle Egg is THE latest and greatest app developed by the software engineers at Noodle. Play it now amongst other apps in our game Peter OS! (https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/peter-os)

"10/10" - Annie

"Nobody can beat my record, just try and you will see" - Barry

"This looks interesting" - Secret Agent of the FBI

In our game PeterOS you'll find that Peter's phone is contaminated with all sorts of malware. Apps tend to crash and at some point the whole OS seems to freeze.

Nearly all of you keep asking: Was this intended or is it a bug? Our answer is: "Yes" ;)

Luckily most of you seem to agree that it does not really matter, since it's fun either way and feels in line with the story.

I'd be pleased to read some of your stories on bugs and features and their relations from your experiences!

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Someone got into the kitchen what do we do now???

Luckily for Peter he has installed the DomeAutomation (TM) app and InternetOfStuff devices in and around his house such that he can track the (potentially) unwanted visitors and alert the police if necessary. Wanna learn more about DomeAutomation? Check it out here

P.S. also very handy when the chatty neighbour comes by for a "quick" cup of Joe :wink:

As befitting of good developers we decided to patch a few glaring, gameplay limiting bugs in our game. They may not all be gone, but at least our game stops freezing controls from time to time which was a big help.

If you feel like checking out Peter OS and leaving a comment that would be great of course, but mostly I would like some suggestions to play of my own. Maybe some people still looking for those 20 ratings? Just post your game down below and later I will try to play and rate all of them :smile:

Cheers!

We love making games, but we're also sort of novices. Our first ever LD (and serious gamejam for that matter) was back for LD50 last year. We've learned a ton from the past projects, but we love to learn new things. So for this issue we wanted to really challenge ourselves in a new way. We've kind of found a system for making 2D games in such a short time span, but this time we decided to take in to a whole other level, I mean dimension, I mean...

For our game Don't let them bug you we decided to step into the world of meshes, 3d modelling, texturing, UV mapping, and materials. And I have to say, I'm proud of what we were able to make. Sure it's not perfect and there is so much more work we wanted to have done. But the core is there and with the low-poly approach and simple coloring of most faces you can really create a nice atmosphere without having to dabble too deep into all of the complexities for which AAA-studios hire whole teams.

If you can find the time to play our little game by trying to ward off all those pesky little bugs please do so and feel free to leave us some feedback. Compliments, but also tips or remarks are highly encouraged, please let us know!

Due to the timing of the jam we couldn't fully participate. So sadly we had to skip most of Monday except for the submission hours after work. This meant that we suddenly had to complete our game in roughly 48 hours instead of the usual 72. On top of that we opted for a 3D game which we have never tried before!

Call it luck, efficiency, or maybe we're just getting used to the gamejam vibe, but we managed to do it somehow. I am very proud of what we managed to do in the limited time span we had and really hope some of you can find the time to check out our little gardening tower defense game!

P.S. If you're still looking for those 20 ratings, so are we! so feel free to let me know and I will try to play your games as well!

I'm planning on playing some games later and would like to help some people get to twenty ratings. Our game Don't let them bug you also still has not yet met the threshold so let's help each other out. :smile:

Feel free to leave your game in some comments and when I get back for some more playtesting I will try to address them all. Currently I'm already amazed at what everyone has been able to build, good work everyone!

Cheers!

Yesss! We received the minimal amount of feedback needed, thank you to all of those that took the time to play our game!

For all of you out there that haven't had a chance to play Don't let them bug you yet I'll leave the link here for those who want to give it a whirl :wink:

We really liked working our game Don't let them bug you, but we recognize some of its flaws as well. Many of you have already given some great feedback on what to improve and how to polish the experience.

However I was wondering if you had any ideas on what features to add? Maybe more towers? What types, how do they interact with the game? Maybe completely new mechanics? Feel free to share those ideas as well!

Cheers!

Our game Morgue Mayhem is a local-multiplayer couch co-op management chaos game inspired by the likes of Overcooked!

You can play SOLO as well!

Come check out our first game made with Godot about being gravekeepers in this weird world. Just take one look at all we have to offer:

Glorious player selection & Customization

Helpful tutorials to get you started!

Hectic gameplay across various levels

UI elements

Handdrawn Pixel Art

Mouthdrawn SFX

Fingerdrawn Code

No Microtransactions! (afaik)

Come check it out and tell us what you think!

And of course, feel free to leave your game in a comment and I'll check it out and rate when I have time later today!

Great job everyone I look forward to checking out your games :)

Just wanted to give some of you the chance to suggest me some games to check out as I plan on playing some games now!

If you have the time feel free to check out our game as well!

Part of what we like doing during these jams is taking the opportunity to try out new things and work on mechanics or tools we have not had a chance to work with before. So for our game we took the opportunity to do the following new things:

Bigger team, more better... right?

We had a bigger team as some new friends decided they wanted to join in their first jam too. This was a lot of fun and resulted in some very recognizable moments for us slightly more experienced members xD

It was also a good lesson in work division and strategizing. The larger the team, the more important (and harder!) it becomes to keep the vision for the game aligned. Telling 5 people you're working on a couch co-op, hectic graveyard management game somewhat akin to Overcooked! where bodies are the recipes to be made, will result in 5 completely different views of what such a game would look like.

Lesson: Take some extra time to align visions

New Technologies and Mechanics

We also wanted to learn some new technologies along the way so we decided to do a few new things: - Build a couch co-op multiplayer game This involves a lot of extra handling as you need to track which player is doing actions rather that THE player doing actions. - Build an inventory management system Grids, item sizes, matrices, rotation, etc. Quite complicated it turns out - Work with a new pixel artist tool to make their art come to life - On top of that we decided to do all this in a new engine: Godot! New scene types, new ways to do UI, new ways to cut off corners that come back to bite us.

Overall it was a great experience and we learned a ton. If we got you excited feel free to check out the results of all those lessons over here

Heck yeah, We managed to complete another game! Congratulations to everyone that finished their game on time and good luck to those who still have a few hours to go!

Cheers, and if you could find the time come and play our game Vocatio! it is a lot fun if I dare say so myself.

I plan on playing some of your games later, feel free to drop some links to your games so that I can check them out and help everyone get to the 25 ratings!

And of course, if you have the time check out our game as well as it still needs to meet those 25 ratings :)

In our Vampire Survivors-inspire game Vocatio you play as a wizard trying to get to the bottom of why everyone is so aggressive and their journey takes you all the way from the forest through a (quaint) plaza in Rome, into a church and eventually even into hell itself.

Can you get out again? can you survive? Find out over here by playing our game :)

Thank you all for playing our game Vocatio! We got the required 20 votes to participate in the rankings thanks to you.

Cheers to all and good luck to those who just need a few more ratings! Feel free to leave them in the comments!

We did it, so proud of everyone! We managed to develop quite a complete game this time around and as luck would have it, it even runs in the browser! Feel free to check out our game and leave some feedback :)