Time Flies Straight - a game of fractal time starring Carl Sagan
Step out of linear time and experience fractal time in this strange raycasted adventure that will open your mind. And probably make you feel a little ill.
I'll also add this is my third Ludum Dare and I love it every time - the community is brilliant, the blog works amazingly and as you work on your entry it's very easy to keep track of other people's work and failures too. I try to keep motivated by looking at the progress of others and keep myself working despite other people giving up. In the end, it's all about having fun making games and no game-making jam is nearly as cool as Ludum, it is the queen of game making competitions.
I made this in 30-ish hours for the compo. Client is made with Unity, and server with node.js.
It was very fun to come up with something original on the "10 seconds" theme: instead of the quite evident idea of having a very small-scale game you can play for only 10 seconds, I explored the idea of having a huge game but being able to play only 10 seconds of it. The result turned out - IMHO - quite interesting, related to the way we - humans - relate with time (warning: playing it might induce some feelings of impatience, nostalgia, emptiness or regret, depending on your view on life...).
Do you yearn for a simpler time free of the constant interruptions and pressures of modern life? Then look no further! Grab your favorite pistol, a friend or enemy, and join us on a journey to a world of dueling.
In a city where every little problem is resolved with a fight to the death, it's up to you, the dueler's second, to keep heads on shoulders and bodies hole-free. Bring your guile and skill to the table and outsmart your opponent in a battle for the ages!
I'm going to continue working on my game and release a version for Android, and probably iOS, at some point. I'd welcome any feedback. I'm aware that at the very least it needs sound, level transitions, instructions and a lot of work on the visuals. I'm also looking into ways to expand the game and add variation by introducing new or alternative enemies to the mix.
Terrible name I know. Platformer built in Javascript. No frameworks or libraries other than a sprinkling of jquery. SunVox for music, sound in bfxr, graphics in Inkscape.
Hey I remember that game.
I was able to get a dozen or so people to log in at the same time towards the end of the competition, but I don't expect more of that during voting. (Also I can't seem to keep the server up)
You are an NSA Analyst and your job is to track down Snowden and Assange, who are flying around the globe using assumed identities trying to reach a safe haven in a hostile country!
You just need to log into your NSA Cyber Remote Analyst Portal (CRAP) which is a Windows GOV edition thin client, and start ... hacking in SQL :)
Lacks an in-game tutorial, so be sure to wath the video first.
As far as theme was concerned I just used a ten-second level limit, so a bit lame in that sense, but I think the gesture input is somewhat innovative and mastering it is part of the fun.
Made in Processing so I'll probably keep working on it, polish it, and release an Android version as well.
The focus was largely on gameplay and balance, and the result is a decently balanced tower-defense like game. We tried some very new ideas in this genre, and it turns out they create a completely different style of play. Overall very happy with the end result.
You play an alien life form that pollinates itself by shooting out spore that live for only 10 seconds. Some of your pods give the spore special powers!
It's not technically a LD entry (I spent far too long on non-game bits and forgot to actually add a game) but I'm quite proud of it and resolve to finish the damn thing eventually. Warning, Chrome(+WebGL) only, hideously unoptomised and sits there unresponsive for a few seconds before starting abruptly. WASD to steer, shift to thrust. Do not press space, space is broken:
Step out of linear time and experience fractal time in this strange raycasted adventure that will open your mind. And probably make you feel a little ill.
Web: http://mrspeaker.net/dev/ld27/ LD entry: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...