Ludum Dare 28

We're less than 1 week away from Ludum Dare 28 (December 13th-16th). If you're not sure what Ludum Dare is, it's an accelerated game development event held every 4 months, with 2 concurrent competitions taking place over 1 weekend. Full rules can be viewed here, but here's a quick breakdown of the competitions:

Compo

• 48 hours long
• You must work alone
• You must use the competition theme
• All game content must be created within the 48 hours with a few exceptions (see full rules)
• Publicly available libraries and middleware (i.e. Construct 2) are allowed
• Source Code must be included when submitting

Jam

• 72 hours long
• Work along or in teams
• All creation tools are allowed

At the end of the weekend, entrants rate each other's games for 3 weeks. Winners are announced at the end of the rating period. On a more person note, I've found these competitions to be a great experience. Testing my game creation abilities under tight conditions with a strict deadline is a wild ride. Making it to the end, and submitting a game provides a great sense of accomplishment. Also, the LD community is one of the friendliest I've seen. I hope to see many of you participate, and a lot of great C2 entries.

To give you a good idea of what's possible in Ludum Dare, check out entries from the last event listed below.

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Theme: 10 Seconds

Top Compo Entries

Compo entries using Construct 2 (games rated in the top 10% overall are in bold/italics):</center>

<-Saccade-> - Rave Radbury

10 10 Second Game Design Lessons - douglasv

10 Second Dragon Feeder - Wertle

10 Second Paths - laserbeam

10 Second Planet Destroyer - Latency

10 Second Tower Defense - DEFEND THE TESSERACT! - Sean Colombo

10 Seconds for Fish - Ooya

10 Seconds of Love and Anger - kcpunk666

10 Seconds of Plagues - carlsommer

10 seconds to open - junt74

10Sec Switch - Arrow-x

30 Second Olympics - vee41

Anti - Explosive Babies

Baldaquin - Marcellus

Balloon Rescue - andreyin

Choice Matters - donan

Clockblock - Mnemusyne

Color Shift - Sandcrawler

Defusing Emily - ydg

Escape Base 10 - Jayjay

Feisty Forest - Feisty Forest

Film Leader - aquilicoco

Fugit - jerombd

Gone in 10 Seconds - panurge

Hair Cop - PixelRebirth

Hot Potato - Tater_hater

Hungry Dragon - skyr

Hungry King - NorthernCrux

Inversion - mutuware

Just 10 secs - llamaguy

Killer - tchem

Kitty Force 10 - Raiyumi

LABYRINTH10 - Nizan

LagBird - leparlon

Maze of Kaboom - pcfernandesjr

Metriclick - GarrettMickley

No Time For Dungeons - PixelMonkey

Oxy - hbocao

Perfect Ten - Zoey Frost

Platformer Roulette - Phobos001

Routine decisions (in 10 seconds) - Yozz

Run, Panda, Run! - Erkberg

Sands of Time - ljock

Sequor - Laddo D

Ten 2nd's - Nights57

Ten Seconds - bateriadejogos

Ten seconds to doomsday - bizn355

Ten seconds to midnight - TimKaidem

Ten Sextillion Zeptoseconds - Oxydam

The Breacher - DrZanuff

The Hero's Journey (or get the treasure and run) - Ludipe

The Ones You Love - zatyka

Timed Ninjas - rujo

Timeline - Lancey

Wizard Battle - benjim

workhorse: it's my life - kayupla

You have 10 seconds - Gus

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Top Jam Entries

Jam entries using Construct 2 (games rated in the top 10% overall are in bold/italics):</center>

1 to 9 in 10 - blackhornet

10 Seciond Patriot - mscholz89

10 seconds to PLAY - evilDan

Legend of Troll - Christina Antoinette Neofotistou

Mebby - 7Soul

Mechanical Covert Espionage - EncryptedCow

OOO - heartvine

Poppy vs. the Night - SecondDimension

Rabbits farm - Kyatric

RimorD - Sushin

The Office Duty - MRLIGHT234

Best of luck to everyone who participates!

Not long now! Theme voting has started, and I am making preparations for the weekend so as to ensure I can make a game uninterrupted. Looking forward to participating again!

I may participate again :)

Final round of theme voting is up.

If people vote the same as they did in the semi-finals, "Corruption" would win. Personally, I'm hoping that's not the case.

I'm moving my parents to their new home tomorrow and chaperoning a regional church dance on Saturday. Welp, this LD won't be my entrance to the compos, either.

And go! The theme is: You Only Get One.

Hmmmmmm.

Thanks for posting it here, PixelMonkey. Can't access the LD page,probably due to traffic..

Interesting theme.. I'm considering to join, will need to think a bit for this one.

Yeah the site always goes down once it's announced, best to look for the theme on irc or twitter.

I'm not sure what to make of this one! Lots and lots of possibilities, but nothing that's piqued my interest yet.

Hi all, I'm in again. Doing the Compo this time as the rest of the team are busy. Not entirely thrilled about the theme, but we'll see how it goes.

Once again I'll pledge to play and rate every C2 game in this thread at some point, go team!

I love the theme! Not so sure about my game now though...!

I just submitted my "game" for the Solo Compo. My first game jam ever. Couldn't have done it with out Construct 2. Although this is just a baby step in my journey to become more competent with code, feels great just to complete something.

My entry is: You Only Get One Ludum Dare 28 (currently on page 2)

Under the name: AKo

You can play it here:

ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28

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Share your info when you're all done! Looking forward to playing everyone's games!

Just submitted my game 'Orbit'

ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28

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Finished and submitted my first ever game jam game! Congrats to everyone else who has already submitted also.

Game is called 30 Seconds of Night and can be played on the arcade:

scirra.com/arcade/addicting-shooter-games/11511/30-seconds-of-night

Ludum Dare page here: ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28

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My first game jam. Think I will also join in the future <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle">

Game Scrap Wheel Robot.

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Ludum Dare page

Congrats to everybody that managed entering the compo.

This time again, my project needs a bit more time to be completed.

I'm running for the jam, once more ^^