Hello and welcome to the 27th weekend game making extravaganza known as Ludum Dare!
Final Round Theme Voting has begun. This is the one that counts! The highest rated themes from Rounds 1-4 have been collected here to battle for theme voting supremacy. Which will you choose?
Without further ado, lets move on to the videos!
Keynote
Keynoting Ludum Dare 27 is David S. Gallant, better known for his controversial Indie game “I Get This Call Every Day“. Check it out!
But Wait, there’s more!
Hey you know that Dezzles guy who keeps making all those PSA Videos? Apparently we can’t stop him from making videos. So here’s his latest, a ‘Shadow Keynote’.
That’s all from me. Good luck this weekend!
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Yayyyyyyy keynote \o/
Nice! But I still say “Dare” as rhymes with “stare” or “rare”… I don’t know if I can ever change
I don’t really understand why you would say it like the guy in the video in the first place, since “dare” is an actual english word spoken out like “rare”, there is even a song called like that from the gorillaz
The title in its entirety is Latin, apparently. Hence the daray.
But the actual compo is a ‘dare’ in the English definition of the word. Does Dare in Latin mean the same thing?
Dare apparently means “to give” in Latin.
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2010/08/18/a-shocking-question/
But when it starts actually? Theline above the counter writes August 23rd-26th, but counter goes to the 24th.
It starts when the counter reaches zero, which can be the 23rd or 24th depending on your timezone.
Thanks!
It starts at 3 am for me. Planning to just go to bed and wake up early… =_=
Dangit…. now I pretty much HAVE to make a game about potato cats that meow when you hit the space bar…. >_<
hm… I kind of made this game for the last ludum dare!
I like that he points out the problem of having too few or too many ideas, and then moves on to something else without addressing any solutions.
Get the Whiteboard! No?
Get the cork board and index cards! No?
Get sticky notes and put them all over your workspace! Heck yes!
Anyone else really want the strange power ups theme to win? I can already think of so many ideas for that!
IT. IS. NOT. A. THEME.
It’s a freaking mechanic
That’s fine, it doesn’t matter. As long as it’s something that can inspire us.
Depends on how you interpret it. Yes, many people would have made a platformer with weird items that give you new powers.
In my brainstorming, though, I came up with this:
You’ve got 4 computers. 1 of them is POSTing badly. Identify the computer with the strange powerup. I was going to have several rounds, where something odd appears on the screen, the beeps are different, etc etc. Some were going to be more obvious than others.
So it can be a mechanic or a theme, just like a lot of the proposed and path themes.
It’s not a bad thing to pre-plan before the announcement.
Soundtrack: Chrono Trigger “Another Fair” OC Remix by Dhsu
Did he find his SIN?
Please LD community, be creative and sensible with your choice of theme.
If you stuff this one up, I’m just going to take the second theme or whatever.
I’m crossing my fingers it isn’t 10 seconds. Maybe that’s just my personal preference, but I don’t see a lot of variety it can offer unless you’ve got a crazy wild idea. So many time-based games have already been made, I think it’s been explored already.
my first LD, the crowd was excited we hit over 100 entries
now there are many times more, and from what I have observed … the more people involved the more abstract the “theme” (which is rarely a theme anymore) gets.
generic is better
mechanics or phrases is not a theme
if you have an unscratchable itch to make a game based on some random unthoughtful idea, do it and leave us out of it
10 seconds sucks
If 10 seconds wins there will be a lot of games like this: its story will start with “many years ago, all the humanity has destroyed in just 10 seconds”. And then you will get your usual platformer.
I’m guessing there would be a bunch of Wario Ware, which I am completely okay with.
There was a 10 seconds theme before in an experimental gameplay project in 2010. Hopefully something else will get to the top here.
No more theme hate please.
What’s the point of a theme if not to be hated?
yeeeaahhh best keynote yet, mighty fine work…..let the gamesnessess beegin!….well in about 5 hours.
This will be my first Ludum Dare Excitement/panic .
I’ll be using Unity3D engine for the game iself.
Photoshop/Maya for assets
Protools/Reason for most of my audio needs.
Does anyone here know if the unity standard assets are fair game?
Kind of late to answer you, but the code should be fair game (because everyone has access to it), any art assets would not be (because of copyright and other issues).