It was our first Ludum Dare and it was a pleasure from the very beginning.

It’s great to see such a lifely community, so many creatives people !

We have spent a lot of time to test games, and i’ve to say that browsers games are a bless for this kind of event !

Some time it was really complex to download the game or install it, install additional strange library  to be able to run it… and when finaly it crash after 30 sec in the game it’s hard to really enjoy the experience….

On 400 games that we have tested it was really hard to make a choice, and because we are a team it was even harder !

There are so many different style of games, graphics and mood… Many finish or almost finish games, some absolutely not but with great mechanics, graphics or music… It’s truly amazing

We had a lot of disussions about why “this” is a genius gameplay, or “this” is a crappy  design…. eachone defending his champion ^^

Finaly we agreed on a top 3.

1st : Shapeshifter Biker

This one is just truly great on every points. Very tatsy graphics with great simple but very polished style and well working 3D even in browser mode or small configs. The music is perfect (just should not restart every time you die). I cant take it out of my mind, singing it in the morning or in the street ^^ The gameplay is also very tight and after a few minutes of practice  the game is pure pleasure. Crusin’ in the desert on our lowrider is really smooth and get ride of the ennemies dodging a rock at the last moment become so natural and tricky.

The shapeshifting in diferent animals form is also very funny and clever. It offers many variations on the gameplay. The eagle stay my favorite

You can really feel a real achievement playing this one and we really hope it will turn on a “real” game with a little more graphics environements and musics.

It’s the freshest thing we have tasted since a long time !

2nd : Splitter Critters

This is the greatest gameplay and innovation that we have tested in this Jam. It’s a great puzzle game with clever and full working mechanics. It fits absolutely to the theme and the graphics are such lovely. Very clean work, except for the backgrounds with this strange anti-analiasing on big pixels effect….

Everything make you feel like it’s a finshed game, great graphics, nice music, many levels and this amazing and perfectly polished idea of gameplay.

If you want to support them, its already on greenlight and we think it will be a great sucess on android and ios too !

We wish them all the good that they diserve!

3rd : It got Paul !

This one is less polished than the two first places or than many games in the jam but it offers you one of the greatest experience !

In our team we are all quiet big fans of the Carpenter’s movie “The Thing”. And this game is the dream game of this movie !

The gameplay is very simple and work perfectly, same for the pixel art and music, very minimal but 100% working. The mood is dark as hell. If you enjoyed splinter cell or metalgear solid… forget it, you wanna be this black hungry shadow !

The Ai should be a little more complex to make the game replayable to infinity.

Great, Great , Super, Good Game !

Here are some other good games :

Do-od is a great casual game with a super concept, plenty of levels and really great graphics. A must play !

Pluto’s Tears is an astonishing polished game with wonderful graphics and a perfect mood.

Werewolf Airline Simulator is game about a stewardess shapeshifting into a Were”animals”. Great graphics and music. Even if its not the same thing the game make me think to Theme hospital. Really funny one!

…”Zen and the Art of Transhumanism is a cyberpunk pottery game about improving the human race through technology.”… couldnt say this better ^^ behind this awesome teasing concept,  there is a really polished game with a very rare level of pixel art (probably the best of the jam) and a great ambiance. It takes a a few minutes to  get into it but it really deserves it !

Porknight is a nice game where you have to defend your king, there is no great innovation in this one and it is too short but the graphics are made in a wonderful style and its pretty fun to play.

Flesh Mess is a great Run’n’Gun game , very similar to our game on many points . The graphics style is ill and the game is really responsive. If you like to shoot this is a must play.

Blob Tales is a very nice ” lemmings-like “. The graphics are really a good and this is plenty of good ideas.

Muoto the Geometry Wizard is a great dungeon shooter where you have to kill constant shapeshifting ennemies with your shapeshifting magic . The pixel art is great and after a few fights everything become intuitive. It’s also quiet hard and offers  a nice challenge.

Look at your Feet is this kind of game wich use simple mechanics and beautifull pixel art to make you live a story that you didnt except… The work of this guys is great, you should definitly check their others games .

SLAHP is a platformer game with a great atmosphere and unique chillout rythm. You should give a try to experience the nice art style of this eye shaped planet. It quiet funny and addictiv.

Aftertile is the CGA game you have dream to pocess when you were a kid. The minimal graphics are amazing and the cga colors is perfectly balanced. The level design is good too .

Nyamo’s Adventure is a platformer where you shape shift to find your way in the levels. The graphics are really good aswell as the mechanics that shapeshifting involve.

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there is a lot more of good games. we will be back for a second round 😉

otherwise,we have commented every games that we have tested and rated, some comments are more complet and contrutiv than others so if we have tested your game you should know what we think of it

This is us working on 2045 Henkei no Densetsu, exactly 3 weeks ago in the basement.

Vhs and  Remon Jr  making all the graphics

Fabot making code and Alix making the music

… and it was pretty fun So many concepts and ideas, some incredible good looking and almost finished games… Having three weeks ,to discover all of it, is really a short time.

It was our very first ludum dare and we truly had a blast !

We will post tomorow a list of the game that we have prefered

We have more than 100 votes, which is really amazing for us and also great scores in our “leaderboard” meaning that some people really enjoyed the game.

Thank you all for the good vibes

Here are the pictures from our game that we have published here during this 3 weeks, you might have miss some of it 😉 .

Thank you for playing

Our great and talented friend Mitach Works was with us during the 72 hours of jam, making a nice sculpt of our main character in shapeshifting action.

and here is the real shapeshift ^^

Hi everybody,

We have just uploaded a Html5 version and a new build (and also created an account )on Itchio of 2045 Henkai no Densetsu ( 2045 Legend of deformation).  And so now it’s playable directly on ludum dare website 😀

Warning !  This version is not exaclty the same than the one we uploaded at the end of the jam. It didnt change a lot but make the gaming experience more confortable (a bit faster) and include all the elements designed during the jam (like the boss, the 4 musics and some backgrounds objects).
If you want to vote for us, maybe check the first version and make your own idea of the few improvement we have made . The Original uploaded build is available on Gamejolt

New Screens for our game !

Enjoy !!

Thx for the Jam !

Download Here: http://gamejolt.com/games/2045-henkei-no-densetsu/141991

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