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 - Innovation
| 1. |  | 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 |
| 2. |  | 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 |
| 3. |  | TOOLS USED:
- Game Maker 7 - Pro Motion 6 - Paint.NET - SFXR - Audacity COMPATIBILITY: - This game uses some video render ... | - Theme - Overall - Graphics - Audio - Innovation |
| 4. |  | IMPORTANT:
Freezed v0.6 compo version: http://www.tbam.com.ar/play--caverns-ld48.php Latest version (WITH HINTS SYSTEM): http://www.tb ... | |
| 5. |  | Greetings.
This is a Metroidvania style game made in Game Maker. Explore the inner cavities of a constantly rotating planet until you rea ... | |
| 6. |  | 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 |
| 7. |  | 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 |
| 8. |  | 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 |
| 9. |  | 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 ... | |
| 10. |  | 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 |
| 11. |  | 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 ... | |
| 12. |  | 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 ... | |
| 13. 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 |
| 13. 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 |
| 15. |  | 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 |
| 16. |  | Flash Version History | Direct Embed Link | Source Code The preloader will hang for a couple of seconds between 95-99%. I ddin't have time to fix that.
The town was built over a cavern. Place y ... | - Coolness |
| 17. TIE |  | Loot the gold! Beware lava.
Move ship with cursor keys. Ship automatically digs when moving slowly. Windows+DX9 ... | |
| 17. TIE |  | 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 |
| 19. |  | 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 |
| 20. TIE |  | I'm sort of happy with this. It's definitely got some great potential. I wish I'd had more time to work on the level design and test for bug ... | - Coolness |
| 20. TIE |  | ... | |
| 22. 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 |
| 22. TIE |  | Deep within the cave system monsters are hungry. Can you help guide the colored pellets to feed them? ... | - Coolness |
| 24. |  | 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 ... | |
| 25. |  | == INSTALL
* WIN32: the_eternally_grey.exe * MAC: ld15-ippa-mac.zip * Linux/Other: Ruby source available! == PLAY The Eternally Grey, ... | |
| 26. |  | Make sure you read the READ ME FIRST readme before you get started. It also needs to be extracted before running.
Made with Construct (for ... | |
| 27. |  | This is a web based game that runs off of PHP and MYSQL. Everything is included in the source to run your own version. You just need to modi ... | |
| 28. |  | 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 |
| 29. |  | 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 ... | |
| 30. 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 |
| 30. 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 |
| 32. TIE |  | Mineral Miner
Controls: - arrow keys to move - space to jump into and out of the front of the tank Object: Collect all minerals on l ... | |
| 32. TIE |  | Windows | Windows mirror | Source *EDIT* IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE THE 20 SECONDS TO READ THE README.TXT (OR THIS POST, WHICH IS THE SAME THING), THEN KNOW THIS: IF IT DOES ... | |
| 34. TIE |  | Explore the caverns which are not made of cheese. Brave dangerous hazards, break through walls, and blast hideous rectangular creatures into ... | |
| 34. TIE |  | 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 ... | |
| 34. TIE |  | This is my first Ludum Dare entry. It was written in python and pygame with geany as an IDE. For the graphics I used gimp and inkscape.
... | |
| 37. |  | 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 |
| 38. |  | first ludum dare I've ever done. apologies for the simplicity, but none for the subject matter. I decided to take a less literal interpretat ... | - Audio - Humor |
| 39. 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 ... | |
| 39. 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 |
| 41. |  | Spaceman Jimmy has been stranded inside an asteroid! He is quickly discovering how inconvenient zero gravity is.
Shoot the aliens before ... | |
| 42. TIE |  | Windows | OS/X | Linux | Web | Source My goal was to make a game using a language I had never tried, Processing, using no art or sound that wasn't procedurally created. Well, tha ... | |
| 42. TIE |  | Windows | Web | Flash | Source Tools:
- FlashDevelop (+Flex3), coded in ActionScript 3 - sfxr - musagi - Inkscape - Gimp - OpenCanvas + Wacom tablet Librar ... | |
| 44. TIE |  | 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 |
| 44. TIE |  | EDIT: Thanks for the comments everyone! Yeah, I know the game gets dull - I'd originally planned to have actual levels, then just bunged in ... | - Coolness |
| 46. |  | ... | - Coolness |
| 47. |  | 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 |
| 48. |  | 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 :) ... | |
| 49. |  | Use the arrow or WASD keys to move.
Press Up/W to jump. This is an adventure type game where you control a person trying to do stuff. ... | - Coolness |
| 50. |  | More of a 10 hour effort than a 48 hour one. Too bad Saturday was a total write off.
I hope you enjoy the game. There is something like ... | - Coolness |