Ludum Dare 32 — April 17th-20th, 2015 — Theme: An Unconventional Weapon
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| 1. |  | Hi!
Mouton is a little multiplayer game. Run and survive! (Tips: Don't trust the shepherd) ... |  - Fun |
| 2. |  | You are an alien crab, and you were told that the most powerful weapon in the universe was hidden in this maze. You finally found a way to g ... |  - Fun - Coolness - Overall |
| 3. |  | First-ever entry for Ludum Dare!
Guide an ambitious young fire hydrant to fulfill her dream of SLAYING THE SUN! The game is straightforwa ... | - Fun - Coolness |
| 4. TIE |  | YOU HAVE A GUN THAT SHOOTS BEES
why are you still here!? Ok fine, Collect nectar from flowers to acquire vital upgrades. Defend the ... | - Coolness |
| 4. TIE |  | A video game.
Play with it. <3 Ditto ps. I messed up the theme kinda, thought I was adding enemies but I didn't.. Woops, sue me ... | - Overall |
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RIGHT STICK & D-PAD.......MOVEMENT / A..........JUMP / ... | - Overall |
| 7. |  | Survive as long as you can in the Beta Bot testing facility! Use the resources you scrap together and the always changing set of installed a ... | |
| 8. TIE |  | Instructions
- Hug those monsters until they become your friend. - You're vulnerable when you hug stuff - Friends will heal you if you ar ... | - Coolness |
| 8. TIE |  | You are a fireman turned on road full of zombies.
Mount your fire hose to hydrants and defense yourself by water jets! Sorry, no sound - ... | |
| 10. TIE |  | UPDATE: I've uploaded bugfixed versions which should help with the mouse aiming at different resolutions since players were reporting this n ... | - Coolness |
| 10. TIE |  | Game about reactor in unconventional space weapon.
[ Z ] - dash [ X ] - turn IF YOU LIKE THE GAME, TRY POST-COMPO VERSION! ... | - Coolness |
| 12. |  | A nice Day in the Park - by Tobias Baumann (@Polyganz)
Left click to play. Credits: Powered by Perception Neuron motion-capture syste ... | - Humor |
| 13. TIE |  | Super Burning Mummy is a puzzle platformer about leveraging your flammability. Help the mummy escape his tomb, because if a mummy is animate ... | |
| 13. TIE |  | WHISTLE COMMAND
--------------- Perform a training exercise with a new, experimental and very unconventional weapon - whistling! Use ... | - Innovation - Theme |
| 13. TIE |  | Clancy woke up one day to discover that, miraculously, his right index finger could extend and retract to a massive degree. Naturally, he di ... | |
| 16. |  | The city is full of grouchy people, always moaning and complaining. Just for once, you wish they'd just have a smile on their face instead o ... | |
| 17. |  | Play as a bumbling adventurer who falls into a cave while looking for artifacts. Can you escape with nothing but your helmet?
Controls: ... | |
| 18. |  | vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
>>>>>> SEE BELOW FOR LINK TO BOTS (if you have nobody to play w ... | |
| 19. |  | Weapon of choice: A two-cent piece
Use it to get through the levels and throw enemies into the spikes. Game Length: ~5 minutes ... | - Coolness |
| 20. |  | just wanted to make something about cars, ok!
its last car standing or something controls: - arrow keys to drive around - X to boost ... | - Coolness |
| 21. |  | this is another rhythm game
fight off demons using the power of music controls: left arrow right arrow enter - select escape - b ... | - Audio - Coolness |
| 22. |  | Welcome to Space Rebound!
The earth is in danger of an alien invasion! You must save it by defeating the alien HQ ship. But how will ... | |
| 23. TIE |  | BONEVENTURE, a game in which you play as a skeleton.
Your ribs are your weapons, but also prevent you from dying! What happens when you ... | - Coolness |
| 23. TIE |  | **IMPORTANT** Be sure to RECYCLE robot parts for the win! Look for the conveniently placed green bins.. :)
Junk robots have infested Ral ... | - Coolness |
| 25. |  | Young Billy McMath has a lot of problems! With what weapon shall our young hero confront the challenges of violent bullies, peer pressure, ... | - Humor - Coolness |
| 26. TIE |  |
Death Touch is an *extremely difficult* game inspired by DeadBolt and Gunpoint.
Use your teleportation ability to blow your enemies apart ... | |
| 26. TIE |  | Aliens have come to take our pizza! They have acquired our pizza toppings, and now they're coming for the cheese and crust! Fend off the app ... | |
| 28. TIE |  | Well, for my first Ludum Dare I had no idea how quickly things can go from fun as hell to stressing as sh*t.
SO what is the most unconven ... | - Coolness |
| 28. TIE |  | Welcome to the "Alternate Reality Boss Fight"!
Update: I released the game with an older version of Flash Player, so you won't see a blac ... | - Coolness |
| 30. TIE |  | Turn based action game.
Defeat enemies to absorb their power. Destroy the mimic crystal to ascend. ... | - Coolness |
| 30. TIE |  | When your enemy is disease, you don't fight with guns. The Rot threatens humanity and our only defence is the Global Wellbeing Ops. In this ... | - Coolness |
| 30. TIE |  | Shield Maiden
A Mega Man vs Captain America vs Thor ripoff. Best enjoyed with a gamepad. Keyboard: Arrows X Jump C Attack / Ret ... | |
| 33. TIE |  | What's the unconventional weapon in this game?
controls - move the mouse My idea was to make the room the weapon, it ended up turni ... | |
| 33. TIE |  | ¡WHOA pizza!
Arrow keys and space. ... | - Humor |
| 33. TIE |  | Game about a mouse that's home alone with his baby brother.
Might involve blood ._. ... | - Coolness |
| 36. TIE |  | Descend the endless, randomly generated Strike Dungeon while knocking out as many pins as you can with your Trusty Bowling Ball along the wa ... | - Coolness |
| 36. TIE |  | Oh my god what have I done?
---------------------------------- 4/20 Update: Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause you to get stuck wh ... | - Coolness |
| 38. TIE |  | Go dive into the dungeons, and beat the crap out of anyone in your way, with your unconventional weapons.
Your goal is to get to the fina ... | - Coolness |
| 38. TIE |  | You have died and gone to the underworld! The only thing that can save
you is a good head on your shoulders. Use your mind and your wit ... | - Coolness |
| 38. TIE |  | Agent Clepto has stolen all of Agent Barker's guns and replaced them with... what?!
Enjoy this top-down sneak-em-up with a very special w ... | - Coolness |
| 38. TIE |  | Aliens have invaded, but you don't have any weapons! Grab whatever you can and fling it at the invaders until there are no more left!
Co ... | - Coolness |
| 42. TIE |  | You know what happens, when you throw items into a running washer? Always wanted to try that? Transform this useful household utility into a ... | |
| 42. TIE |  | ***Description***
You are Hatchet Harry – legendary character of Guy Ritchie's movie "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels". You must pun ... | |
| 42. TIE |  | Created in 12 hours, changed from Comp to Jam as I used open source music.
You're a cluster of Eyeballs in space, attacking with your eyes ... | - Coolness |
| 45. |  | Blink Gun is a puzzle platformer where you control small white square character trying to reach the exit. You will use special kind of weapo ... | - Coolness |
| 46. |  | \\\ Controls \\\\
move and jump with arrow Spacebar to Kiss (not at the start of the game) R to restart Best played in Chrome or Explore ... | - Coolness |
| 47. TIE |  | It's time to overthrow the King! You plan to cause a riot by handing out gold to the starving villagers while the King talks. Beware the Kin ... | |
| 47. TIE |  | You're in a pink cloud abyss with falling worms. You must blow them off your cloud as quick as you can.
technical: coding - java + libgd ... | - Coolness |
| 47. TIE |  | Switcheroo - a platformer with a gun that trades your position with your enemies!
The game has some really cool PROCEDURAL MUSIC that I a ... | |
| 47. TIE |  | ALIEN HEADBANG!
Raise your fingers, sight the green guys at a distance, and squuueeeeze! (yes, this is pretty much a ripoff of the Kid ... | - Theme |
| 51. TIE |  | A little girl is fed up with her three brothers. Use her doll to teach them a lesson!
Control to throw, arrow keys to move. Up to jump an ... | |
| 51. TIE |  | In this game you play as Michael, a man who receives a magical flute that summons falling pianos to fight the shadows.
Edit 20/4/15: Smal ... | - Coolness |
| 53. TIE |  | keyTD is a keyboard tower defense game
Tap the keys on your keyboard to damage enemies that are passing over the keys. Upgrade your keys ... | - Innovation - Coolness |
| 53. TIE |  | If you stream, make a video, or heck even just write a post about this game, hit my up in the comments section or at @mkarpd so I can spam a ... | - Coolness |
| 53. TIE |  | Jump and dodge through 10 increasingly difficult levels with the help of your trusty peanut.
I spent my time like this: Programming: 7 ... | |
| 53. TIE |  | Bloops are mystical creatures which, for whatever reason, explode into a nuclear fire after 5 seconds.
There's no time to suit up or grab ... | |
| 53. TIE |  | Robots have taken over the world
Wield the power of the forest to take back control of the planet from the robot usurpers. Summon sna ... | |
| 53. TIE |  | I wanted to do something truly unique this time, and I think I pulled through. There is a readme included but it's not necessarily required ... | |
| 59. TIE |  | B000MERANG is a simple game that challenges you to use a B000MERANG to kill the enemies that are surrounding you. But be carefull, if you do ... | - Coolness |
| 59. TIE |  | You must protect your princess.
Humans are your weapons. Different creatures are your enemies. Madness, blood, bunnies, pain, zombies, ... | - Coolness |
| 59. TIE |  | Welcome to Cat-aclysm laboratories! You will be handed a brand new weapon: The Cat Launcher.
Be prepared to use it and be helped by your ... | - Coolness |
| 59. TIE |  | Your unconventional weapon is your football. You can use it to attack your annoying neighbours, and even (not so) innocent birds. Beware ... | - Coolness |
| 63. TIE |  | Kill the birds, dodge the eggs and, most importantly, don't drop the TV.
Movement: Arrow keys or a/d Throw TV: space or ctrl Your ima ... | - Coolness |
| 63. TIE |  | "Master Ninja doesn't use any finger to cut the fruits..."
So let's use Head Sword and cut many fruits! [Controlls] [Q][W] ..... Mo ... | - Coolness |
| 63. TIE |  | The goal of the game is to get up as far as possible, without touching any bats or falling to your death.
Use your exploding fishes to kill ... | |
| 66. TIE |  | You are in charge of a new prototype weapon, a bomb hidden on a sled.
Recommended to play fullscreen native build (Windows, Linux), but i ... | |
| 66. TIE |  | Wok is a top down shooter where your only weapon is... a WOK!
I did Sound, Music, Art, Programming Controls: W-A-S-D / Arrow Keys : ... | |
| 66. TIE |  | Note you will need to install the XNA Redistributable to play this entry. You can get it from the link below. The game can be played with ... | |
| 66. TIE |  | In Color Commander you try to control all minions on the board and make them follow you. A very unconventional fighting mechanic ( :-P ) let ... | - Coolness |
| 70. TIE |  | Make your last stand against the invaders in this retro inspired arcade toast 'em up.
Try to beat my high score of 1119. (this is doable ... | - Coolness |
| 70. TIE |  | SpaceSharp
I'm not as happy with this entry as I wish I was, but I'm happy I finished something atleast! Have fun and beat the online ... | - Coolness |
| 70. TIE |  | Wee Pon is a small Metroidvania that features a small cube (The Wee Pon) that you throw around, switch places with, and blow up.
Use the ... | - Coolness |
| 70. TIE |  | You are an assassin. The badass ones. But for your new contract, your clients want you to kill your target in an “unconventional” way. C ... | - Graphics - Overall |
| 70. TIE |  | Even the war has rules : some weapons are allowed, while others are forbidden.
They are called unconventional weapons. You are sent to ... | - Coolness |
| 70. TIE |  | Thanks to Sheepolution for the 64bit Linux build and WetDesertRock for the OSX build. ... | - Graphics |
| 76. TIE |  | -= Description =-
You try to escape from a laboratory. But you have only one weapon : a micro wave. By programming this micro wave, y ... | - Coolness |
| 76. TIE |  | TETRATOR.
Is it just a Tetris clone ? No, it's more. TETRATOR is a game in which you decimate invaders from your tetris-powered missi ... | - Coolness |
| 76. TIE |  | ###The story###
This is the story of a sheriff. The best one, the most RADIcal. Fighting crime as become so easy for him that he wanted to ... | - Coolness |
| 76. TIE |  | Bagelbot is a wild mix of the classic Dig Dug, Super Crate Box and the creator's crazy fanatics. Combined with a unexpecting theme: Bagelbot ... | - Coolness |
| 76. TIE |  | Hi.
My take on the theme is a weapon that lets you swap your physical location with entities of equivalent mass. You kill them with their ... | - Coolness |
| 81. |  | Kill or be killed in a submarine-on-submarine battle.
Your torpedoes have a panel you can edit. Make this panel as symmetric as possible ... | - Coolness |
| 82. TIE |  | Sticks N Stones is a game about utilizing an unconventional weapon - The power of language!
Insult everybody you come across to build you ... | |
| 82. TIE |  | Ludum Dare 32 Compo game with the theme "An unconventional weapon".
Game By: Jacob Eriksson (Glowygames.com) or @JacobEriksson98 on twitt ... | - Coolness |
| 82. TIE |  | Brave the depths of space in this cube on cube action-packed thriller! Take on the drone commander Ice in a HEAT-ed battle!
HINT: The (ve ... | - Coolness |
| 82. TIE |  | Pogo Dojo is 2D radical sports game. The sport is stomping on shadow creatures with your pogo-katana.
CONTROLS: Controls are provided ... | - Coolness |
| 82. TIE |  | Grab your longboard and put on your stereoscopic glasses, cuz we're heading into the distant future of 1999!
An evil sentient AI known a ... | - Audio |
| 87. TIE |  | "This is the story of how I escaped from The Dungeon of Torment! I was locked inside, forced to use skill and strength to fashion a weapon w ... | |
| 87. TIE |  | It's a really bad idea to shoot lasers inside an icecave. unfortunately that's the only way to escape - and since someone wannabe musician h ... | - Coolness |
| 87. TIE |  | It's a leaf blower. It blows leaves. But it also blows other things. Find out more by playing this game.
INSTRUCTIONS ============ - Cl ... | - Coolness |
| 90. TIE |  | You've been wrongfully imprisoned! All that you have to your name is a television! Say, that could prove useful...
Distract the guards by ... | - Coolness |
| 90. TIE |  | You are a ninja armed with nunchuk cats. 'Nuff said.
Does not work on Chrome. ... | |
| 90. TIE |  | Travel through a strange world and experience the tale of two friends.**
Sorry I couldn't make more levels. It's a pretty polished appet ... | |
| 90. TIE |  | HIGHSCORE: 230
Clumsy Crew: Incredible Tank is a shoot 'm up arena game with a twist: Your crew is repairing your tank, but they're not v ... | - Coolness |
| 94. TIE |  | In Sophistication Annihilation, you are cast as two gentlemen attempting to protect culture and sophistication from the boorish influence of ... | - Coolness |
| 94. TIE |  | So, your hill/cave has been infected with a plague of rats and your only course of action is to exterminate them all! Fortunately, you have ... | |
| 94. TIE |  | Get ready for a gun that can destroy everything*
It's the new B.B.B. (Black Beam Blaster)! Now nothing will stop you! Pretty short game ... | - Coolness |
| 97. TIE |  | There is an alien invasion just when you got a tee time.
HTML5 game using Phaser.io ... | - Coolness |
| 97. TIE |  | UPDATE! I've started work on the Post-Compo version. Changes so far:
- Added circles that pulse around your character to your current wea ... | - Coolness |
| 97. TIE |  | A game about being a toaster shooting incredibly volatile toast. Shoot with 'Z', move and aim with arrow keys. Aiming down while shooting is ... | |
| 97. TIE |  | So, here we go! It's done!
The only real challenge I faced when making this was that for some reason requestAnimationFrame was resulting ... | |
| 97. TIE |  | If you ever dreamed of driving a floating island into battle, this is the game for you!
* Build your settlement * Propel your island w ... | |
| 97. TIE |  | -
Description -------------- Be a hero! You couldn't find a sword, unfortunately, but a vacuum cleaner will probably do, right? Vacuu ... | - Coolness |
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