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 - Graphics
| 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. |  | Win32 only, required DX9 and a Shader 2.0 card
See LavaCavernsOfDoom.txt in the .zip for more info ... | - Graphics |
| 3. |  | ... | - Graphics |
| 4. |  | 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 ... | |
| 5. |  | Here's my unfinished entry. The game logic barely works, but there's only one level and it doesn't detect the end of the game itself, so it' ... | |
| 6. |  | 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 :) ... | |
| 7. |  | Incomplete. But nifty level editor. :( ... | |
| 8. |  | ... | - Theme |
| 9. |  | Loot the gold! Beware lava.
Move ship with cursor keys. Ship automatically digs when moving slowly. Windows+DX9 ... | |
| 10. |  | 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 |
| 11. |  | Here is my entry, not finished, but partly playable. Use the arrow keys to walk/climb, Space to jump. Enjoy!
... | - Coolness |
| 12. |  | 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 ... | |
| 13. |  | 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 ... | |
| 14. |  | Controls:
Fire: A Move: Cursor Keys ATTENTION: I realized the instructions for my entry were a little sparse. There are two levels w ... | - Coolness |
| 15. TIE |  | *** I have fixed the bug that caused the game to crash on start-up. *shakes fist at MSVS*
CAVE DANGEROUS! You need to find the prized ... | - Coolness |
| 15. TIE |  | Deep within the cave system monsters are hungry. Can you help guide the colored pellets to feed them? ... | - Coolness |
| 17. |  | 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 |
| 18. |  | 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 |
| 19. TIE |  | 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 |
| 19. TIE |  | Windows | Web | Flash | Source Tools:
- FlashDevelop (+Flex3), coded in ActionScript 3 - sfxr - musagi - Inkscape - Gimp - OpenCanvas + Wacom tablet Librar ... | |
| 21. |  | 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 |
| 22. |  | 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 |
| 23. |  | This is unfinished. Progress was a little slow, and then I kinda got carried away making the music, and now I'm too tired to do anything els ... | - Coolness |
| 24. TIE |  | IMPORTANT:
Freezed v0.6 compo version: http://www.tbam.com.ar/play--caverns-ld48.php Latest version (WITH HINTS SYSTEM): http://www.tb ... | |
| 24. 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 |
| 26. |  | You found some mushrooms in a cave. You ate them.
Controls: * WASD + mouse to move/shoot * ESC to pause ... | |
| 27. |  | IMPORTANT NOTES based on comments I've seen below:
1. Thanks a lot for trying the game even though I didnt finish it! Yes it's lacking by ... | - Coolness |
| 28. |  | Greetings.
This is a Metroidvania style game made in Game Maker. Explore the inner cavities of a constantly rotating planet until you rea ... | |
| 29. TIE |  | Well It's something. Absolute minimal gameplay though. I won't be getting any Pellies this time. I really wanted to get a Raptor in ther ... | |
| 29. TIE |  | 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 ... | |
| 31. |  | **EDIT - Updated link to version that fixes the crash bug and a large memory leak.
GoblinHome is about a goblin clan who set out to make ... | |
| 32. |  | 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 |
| 33. |  | 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 ... | |
| 34. |  | A game about a ninja running through underground caverns. Controlled with just mouse movement. You Run! Fast! And Dodge! and Attack!
... | - Coolness |
| 35. TIE |  | 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 |
| 35. 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 |
| 37. TIE |  | 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 |
| 37. TIE |  | aggh aggh aggh 2 minutes left ... | - Coolness |
| 37. TIE |  | Well, it's not nearly as "finished" as I wish it was, and it's still buggy and rough all over, but there's enough here that you can fly arou ... | |
| 37. TIE |  | EDIT: Some have said that there is no sound. There is sound and music, if you don't have any let me know. Also some people are having proble ... | - Coolness |
| 41. |  | FLYING TIPS:
It seems the controls have received a lot of criticism. They are pretty tricky to get a handle on. Sorry for that! Improving t ... | |
| 42. |  | 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 |
| 43. |  | 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 |
| 44. |  | ... | |
| 45. |  | Ride your mine cart through a random generated cave, standing up to get points and collect gems and ducking to avoid stalactites.
Made wi ... | - Coolness |
| 46. 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 |
| 46. TIE |  | 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 |
| 48. |  | 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 |
| 49. TIE |  | This is my entry to LD15 - "Cavern Ghost"
It's not much of a game, but I hope you find it entertaining, The goal is to escape the cave, bu ... | |
| 49. TIE |  | ... | - Coolness |
| 49. TIE |  | Windows | Windows (Mirror) | OS/X Enter the world of the future dentist!
This is a game about miniature, laser-shooting dentists who operate within the cavern of your mout ... |