Competition information for Ludum Dare 15, held August 28th-30th weekend in 2009.
The theme for Ludum Dare 15 was Caverns. Ludum Dare 15 had 144 entries.
For the announcement post (with keynote by Mike Hommel), click here. To see the results of theme voting see Round 1, Round 2, and Round 3. To see results of the user survey, click here.
Historically speaking, this was our first competition with the brand new submission system, a rudimentary compo website redesign (with logo), as well as a keynote.
Stay tuned for Ludum Dare 16, coming December 2009.
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Top Entries - Overall
| 1. |  | TOOLS USED:
- Game Maker 7 - Pro Motion 6 - Paint.NET - SFXR - Audacity COMPATIBILITY: - This game uses some video render ... |  - Theme - Overall - Graphics - Audio - Innovation |
| 2. |  | GAMEPLAY NOTE:
The in-game map is saved every time you play. So the next time you play you continue with the same map you drew last tim ... | - Fun - Overall - Coolness - Audio |
| 3. |  | An exploration platformer with lots of secret passages. Of course, I knew exactly where all of them were in testing, so I'm not really sure ... | - Overall |
| 4. |  | Win32 only, required DX9 and a Shader 2.0 card
See LavaCavernsOfDoom.txt in the .zip for more info ... | - Graphics |
| 5. |  | Windows | OS/X | Web | Source(Unity Project) I cant test the osx build so if its duff let me know plz ^_^
instructions are in the game, thanks for checking/voting :) ... | |
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| 8. |  | How to play: Follow the instructions in game.
Best played on a 1280x1024 screen. In case you don't follow the mission texts very well, ... | - Coolness |
| 9. TIE |  | IMPORTANT:
Freezed v0.6 compo version: http://www.tbam.com.ar/play--caverns-ld48.php Latest version (WITH HINTS SYSTEM): http://www.tb ... | |
| 9. TIE |  | Windows | OS/X | Linux | Web | Source Fly through a cave, collecting the white crystals and avoiding or shooting the red ones.
Tip: always keep the nose of your ship pointed int ... | |
| 11. |  | Journey deep into a cavern in search of fame and fortune!
Edit: Don't worry guys, it's not crashing or anything. The end is the end. In r ... | - Coolness |
| 12. TIE |  | Play on Web | SWF (Right-click Save-as) ANGRY CAVERNS - by HybridMind - August 28th-30th, 2009
Created from scratch for Ludum Dare 15's 48hr game competition Concept: You are ... | - Community - Theme - Coolness |
| 12. TIE |  | Web | Post-Compo Web | Source The world has been overrun by alien invaders, and humans have taken to the depths of the earth to escape the scourge. When the aliens find y ... | - Coolness |
| 14. |  | Windows | OS/X | Linux | Web | Source So there it goes, the DiggR. Where do all gravel go? Down his pants, no? This is a gold-diggeresque adventure for the weak nerds. Flooding y ... | |
| 15. |  | A short game that takes any file that you drop on it (any file under 10MB, at least) and creates a cavern from it. You then guide a bat thr ... | |
| 16. |  | The Killbots of Cavern Station is a real time semi-tactical game. Use cover to kill the evil killbots.
Check out the timelapse at: http:/ ... | - Fun |
| 17. |  | It is the year 20<near future>, and nuclear war is imminent. A shelter is constructed, deep in an underground cavern -- but you are not perm ... | - Coolness |
| 18. |  | v1.1 Post Compo (Windows) | v1(Windows) | Source Guide a bouncing ball through caves in this platformer, with a twist!
Due to the twisting nature of caves, you can go AROUND some obstacl ... | - Coolness |
| 19. TIE |  | Loot the gold! Beware lava.
Move ship with cursor keys. Ship automatically digs when moving slowly. Windows+DX9 ... | |
| 19. TIE |  | Download Akin Revenge Mirror 1 | Download Akin Revenge Mirror2 Akin's Revenge by Ariel Yust 2009
================================= this game was made for the ludum dare 48h competition which is hos ... | |
| 21. |  | EDIT-NOTE: M FOR MUTE, R TO GENERATE A NEW LEVEL. ALL LEVELS ARE RANDOM, A FEW ARE IMPOSSIBLE.
Okay, game is done. Is not bad game, but y ... | - Coolness |
| 22. TIE |  | Controls are arrow keys; space to zoom out.
Collect all of the gold, but beware... the gold in these caverns is not quite as it seems. ... | - Innovation - Coolness |
| 22. TIE |  | Windows | Web | Flash | Source Tools:
- FlashDevelop (+Flex3), coded in ActionScript 3 - sfxr - musagi - Inkscape - Gimp - OpenCanvas + Wacom tablet Librar ... | |
| 24. |  | Here it is! 8mins to go! Have fun! Source, OS X build is coming...
Windows build is 666kb! :O I am tired. There is ingame help! Doe ... | |
| 25. |  | Windows and Source | Post Compo Version By Comtemno
For Ludum Dare 15 Edit 2: I updated the post-compo version, which fixes many bugs (again) and adds new content; however, the ... | - Coolness |
| 26. |  | Windows | OS/X | Linux | Source **Update: Now on OSX too!**
Bugs fixed since v1.00: jumping bug; performance on 16bit displays; reflectors can no longer be placed on top ... | - Coolness |
| 27. TIE |  | I had a completely different game in my mind when beginning this, but this is what I ended up with. Fun for 30 seconds I'd say. :)
So you ... | - Coolness |
| 27. TIE |  | You control Mr Monocle riding on his Penny-Farthing inside a large and dangerous cavern. For more info check the intro "movie" after you sta ... | - Humor |
| 27. TIE |  | Greetings.
This is a Metroidvania style game made in Game Maker. Explore the inner cavities of a constantly rotating planet until you rea ... | |
| 30. |  | aggh aggh aggh 2 minutes left ... | - Coolness |
| 31. TIE |  | Into the Pit is a game heavily-inspired by level 2 of the original Battletoads for the NES. You play a cave explorer (who happens to look a ... | - Coolness |
| 31. TIE |  | A 2-human game.
Player 1 crawls the dungeon... I mean, caverns. His experience is all up to Player 2 (he who wields the mouse), who des ... | - Innovation - Coolness |
| 33. |  | My first entry into LD48.
Take control of a Dwarf and smash up some rocks! There are little tips at the start of each round. Don't ig ... | - Fun |
| 34. TIE |  | I wasn't satisfied with my earlier entry, so I did another.
Excavatorrr is about a mono-colour adventurer who seeks for riches in undergr ... | - Coolness |
| 34. TIE |  | Windows | OS/X | Linux | Web | Source And... I'm done! Cavernous Shooter! is a top-down shooter set in a cave environment. Try to fight your way through the entire cave system.
... | - Coolness |
| 36. TIE |  | v1.1 (POST COMPO) | Web v1.0 | Source UPDATE: Making serious plans for a bigger, better, and MORE! version of this game. Started on the art already, and started uncommenting a l ... | - Coolness - Humor |
| 36. TIE |  | Deep within the cave system monsters are hungry. Can you help guide the colored pellets to feed them? ... | - Coolness |
| 38. TIE |  | You're a person with a torch in a dark place looking for a way out. And you're not alone.
------ TO RUN: Worked out the problem I wa ... | - Coolness |
| 38. TIE |  | Windows (original entry) | OS/X (original entry) | Windows v0.3 | OS/X v0.3 | Source You are a cave shaft jumper. Seeking the thrills of treasure and excitement you enter the shaft hoping to acquire treasure and reach the bot ... | - Coolness |
| 40. TIE |  | A game about a ninja running through underground caverns. Controlled with just mouse movement. You Run! Fast! And Dodge! and Attack!
... | - Coolness |
| 40. TIE |  | I'll probably call it a day. I've been quite down with the flu this weekend, I slept almost two days and only programmed during the little t ... | - Coolness |
| 42. |  | Linux users: Run the EXE in Wine!
Unfortunately, I was not able to complete my Ludumdare entry for LD15. I did, however, find time to go ... | |
| 43. |  | Cursors to move, Z for jump/jetboots.
Collect 5 artifacts and then fly into space. Due to scheduling issues, I could only work on this gam ... | |
| 44. TIE |  | ... | - Graphics |
| 44. TIE |  | Game is simple - Swim around and munch things. The thingies will scream when they see you or sense you are close, and run away - persue them ... | |
| 46. |  | == INSTALL
* WIN32: the_eternally_grey.exe * MAC: ld15-ippa-mac.zip * Linux/Other: Ruby source available! == PLAY The Eternally Grey, ... | |
| 47. |  | Escape from a cavern full of spiders.
It's puzzle-type game, it has 10 rooms to explore (can you find the way into the 10th? ;). The room ... | |
| 48. TIE |  | UPDATE: For those experiencing bug(s) that make the game unplayable, the .zip's have been updated with (and only with) fixes for those game- ... | - Coolness |
| 48. TIE |  | Lead your team of stranded marines through the hostile caverns on an unknown planet. Left/Right arrow for movement, up makes you jump. Use m ... | - Coolness |
| 50. |  | Finally got it done. First time doing LD, it was great fun. Used Game Maker 6.1(I hate unregistered) and put in roughly 18 hours. Wish I cou ... |