Round 2 Theme Voting
My favourite out of the them would be teleportation, I think that could result in some really fun games.. or really disorientating games
View ArticleKITTEN CHALLENGE
This is an official challenge to all Ludum Dare gamedevs. This weekend, your quest is to put a KITTEN somewhere in your game as an “easter egg”. This “kitten challange” will be like a meta game in...
View ArticleLet’s Roll
Hi fellow entrants I’m feeling a little under the weather at the moment but that’s not going to stop me taking part! I have decided to go low-tech this time though, to make things a little easier for...
View ArticleAnd Go!
Just got started on my entry in he last hour or so. I’m jamming in meatspace this time, at the Manchester Game Jam, UK. Nice theme! Thank the gods it wasn’t exploration again. I came up with an idea on...
View ArticleTop 4 games that best fit the theme
While voting, I came across a lot of games that didn’t really fit the theme. However, among the games I’ve played so far I noticed four games which perfectly fitted the theme: 1. Cage by...
View ArticleHere we go again! :)
It has started… evolution… I was afraid of this theme. It’s cool and already have several ideas but they are seems too hard to implement. Must do some simplifications I think.
View ArticleFirst demo thingie
After the first day and most of the second one, I have something that’s almost a playable demo. *sarcasm warning* Woo, so fast! Might as well describe the game a bit. It is called Niribu XI (kinda like...
View ArticleFirst fifty, let’s talk about the theme
Okay LD-ers, you’ve actually had quite a long time to think about the theme this time, not just the 48 hours. That said, I’ve categorized games into 7 categories based on how they examine the...
View ArticleSelf.postmortem:publish()
Oh, so the voting has finished… Let’s look at my result ! With comments ! Bronze Coolness 67% : Hey, so 1 rating!=1% Because I have rated about 45 games…. #76 Overall 3.63 : Woooooooo … OMAGAD I’M 76th...
View ArticleLD25 theme voting round 1
I’ve seen a few posts from people talking about how they voted. Honestly, I’m not sure how I feel about that. I like the voting to be an organic decision, not something engineered by campaigning. That...
View ArticleLudum Dare XXV Theme Voting in Visual Form
I took the results of the four preliminary rounds of voting and graphed them to see how popular certain themes are compared to the others. I ranked them by the sum of the pluses and minuses. The top...
View ArticleThinking about the Theme
“You are the enemy” is an amazing theme, but not necessarily one that is easy to do. The simple way to do it is to simply create a game where your character is the bad guy. This sort of “theme as...
View ArticleTwo ideas:
I’m torn into two ideas at the moment: 1- QIX: you control the snake, the computer controls the ship. 2- Pacman: you control the ghosts, the computer controls pacman. Both ideas are rather simple, and...
View ArticleIt’s simple. We, uh, rate the games!
I got luck and had a nasty flu this week. This made me be stuck at home for a whole day – and this time was well put into rating games When I first heard the theme, I thought about a few ways that the...
View ArticleThis Theme…
… is terrible. Did people honestly find this more inspiring than Potato or ANYTHING else?
View ArticleThinking about Minimalism
That is a hard theme… but using the good, old “think of 5 ideas, throw them away, and pick the 6th”, I think I got something. I have this notion that “theme” is something your game should move around,...
View ArticleFighting For Minimalism in a World of Distractions
This theme had me thinking of something either way too complex or way too simple for this competition. I’m no novice to the tools, so doing the least bit of work would be a waste. Pushing myself beyond...
View ArticleSome Thoughts After My First Ludum Dare
I’ve been going around trying to test and rate some of the games. One thing that I like is how this competition heavily encourages you to rate games, so your own game gains visibility. I feel this...
View ArticleHow I made X=3-1 (Jam Theme winner)
The first thing I said to myself before the start of the Jam was this : “I will do my best to respect the theme in every aspect of interpretation or development.” Then the theme was announced :...
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