IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO ALL USERS OF UNITY WebGL

Please link people with Unity WebGl to this post

Don’t be lazy. Do what i suggest!

To make unity WebGl work the best with Ludum Dare you should do this:

You have to options:

Build the project again (simpler):
When you are going to build the project go to File -> Build Settings -> WebGL -> Player Settings
Under “Settings for WebGL” and “Resolution and Presentation” change width to 880 and height to 544, also make sure WebGl Template “Default” is selected
On the Ludum Dare site, edit your entree so that width is 880 and height is 600, and unhook the full screen option(we dont need this since Unity creates its own full screen button)

Edit the already built project (faster, also if you have edited the project since submission):
Open the folder that was created when you built the project.
Open the “index.html” file
Change the width of the canvas to 880, and the height to 544 OPTIONALLY: if you are unfamiliar with html, use the replace tool in your text editor, usually Ctrl + F , and replace
height=”600px” width=”960px”
with
height=”544px” width=”880px”
On the Ludum Dare site, edit your entree so that width is 880 and height is 600, and unhook the full screen option(we dont need this since Unity creates its own full screen button)

Hey everyone! If you played my dragon game back in Ludum Dare 33:

This plays so much different than the release version lol The mechanics in this LDJAM entry were so confusing and awkward but I liked the basic idea!

I kept working on it and turned it into a full game, and just launched it on Steam! Figured it could be good inspiration for people participating in LDJAMs to keep working on their entry if they come up with a cool mechanic/idea…who knows, you might be able to to turn it into a full game!

Here’s the trailer:

Grab it on Steam here:

Click the pic to grab Dragon Rage on Steam!

My next game is ALSO going to be based of my LDJAM entry from Ludum Dare 35:

https://bulletproofoutlaws.itch.io/shootinggamething

Hope this inspires some people to take their games beyond their Game Jam entries if they think they’ve stumbled across something fun! With a few more months of work you might be able to turn it into an awesome game you might be able to pay your rent with! 😉

Follow me on Twitter at @BPOutlaws, I use it as a devBlog lol

– Jeff

When we reach the end of a Ludum Dare event and evaluate each others’ games, we grade each game with a series of categories: Overall, Fun, Coolness, Graphics, Audio, Theme, Innovation, Humor, and Mood. When the results are announced, the top 100 games in each category are displayed, and of course it is every competitor’s dream to land in at least one of those top-100 lists.

The Overall category holds pride-of-place. Arguably, the winner of the Overall category is the winner of the event. It’s satisfying to do well in the other categories, but until you’re ranked #1 Overall, there is still room for growth in your Ludum Dare performance.

Which brings me to this question: Have you ever wondered which other categories make the biggest difference in how you rank overall? For example, do people who do well Overall also tend to do especially well in Graphics, or Theme, or Innovation? Coolness is a measure of how much you played other peoples’ games; does a great Coolness ranking help you achieve a good Overall ranking? If you want to succeed Overall, does it pay to focus on Fun, or Graphics, or Audio, or Mood?

If you’re anything like me, you’re just itching to know.

And now you can.

For the last several Ludum Dare events I’ve analyzed the relationships between category rankings by looking at the scores of the top 100 Compo entries. In each event I’ve analyzed the correlation between how games did in each of the nine categories. What I’ve found is that there are strong correlations, and they’re not necessarily what you would expect.

Take a look at this.

Correlations per Event

What you see here is a chart of how well each category did relative to the Overall category in each of the last eleven LD events. The blue line represents Fun, for example. This shows that more than any other category, Fun correlates strongly with Overall. If you do well in Fun, you tend to do well overall; if you do poorly in Fun, you tend to do poorly overall.

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Hello, everyone! Do you remember Don’t Crawl? It’s been a while since initial LD#33 version (the theme was “You are the Monster”), and, oh well, we’re still developing it. And now… now we’re on Greenlight, isn’t that cool? (:

This is how it all began

We added a bunch of new monsters and traps, water, waving trees, fans, new levels, reworked the “ghost mode”, added shops and hero upgrades … Uh, sorry for the list, but these are far not all the changes that we have made.

And that’s how the game’s played now

Huge thanks to the LD crew and local community! To be honset, it’s YOU who enouraged us to continue developing Don’t Crawl.