Ludum Dare 32 — April 17th-20th, 2015 — Theme: An Unconventional Weapon
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| 1. |  | 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 |
| 2. |  | ¡WHOA pizza!
Arrow keys and space. ... |  - Humor |
| 3. |  | A nice Day in the Park - by Tobias Baumann (@Polyganz)
Left click to play. Credits: Powered by Perception Neuron motion-capture syste ... | - Humor |
| 4. |  | You are the Randomsmith: the go-to weapon dealer for all the spy agencies in the world. Given any set of items, you can fabricate a very pow ... | |
| 5. |  | The T.M.I. Survey for Retrospective Understandment is a class WTF device used by the T.M.I. in affiliation with the U.S. government. It is i ... | |
| 6. |  | "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 |
| 7. |  | My homage to The Stanley Parable.
It's a short, narrative game with six different endings, depending on how well you listen to the narrat ... | - Coolness |
| 8. |  | Hi!
Mouton is a little multiplayer game. Run and survive! (Tips: Don't trust the shepherd) ... | - Fun |
| 9. |  | Step into the ring to face off in a battle of wits. Do you have the intellect to become the champ?
Controls: Mouse click to progress ... | - Coolness |
| 10. |  | Top-Down game where you play as bob, a man whose dreams of becoming an astronaut have been ruined by society and the common cold. The easier ... | |
| 11. |  | It's a leaf blower. It blows leaves. But it also blows other things. Find out more by playing this game.
INSTRUCTIONS ============ - Cl ... | - Coolness |
| 12. TIE |  | Your weapons are a bass guitarr and an amplifier. And your job is to quiet all the lame music in the world.
When you slap the bass your a ... | |
| 12. TIE |  | ***Description***
You are Hatchet Harry – legendary character of Guy Ritchie's movie "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels". You must pun ... | |
| 14. |  | 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 |
| 15. |  | Fish fencing is an honorable sport well established in the following countries: . Indeed, there are those who wish it were played at the Oly ... | - Theme |
| 16. TIE |  | The Bluetoids are on their way to invade Earth! You are leading the fight, by hacking into their favorite search engine and rearranging the ... | - Coolness |
| 16. 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 |
| 18. TIE |  | what is a pooby? i don't know, i can only describe it
cool facts about this game: -coded in java -plays like a really bad SNL sketch - ... | |
| 18. TIE |  | Bite or be bitten.
Fight to chomp on your enemy. 1 or 2 players. ... | - Coolness |
| 18. 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 |
| 21. TIE |  | EUROVISION: WORLD DOMINATION THROUGH THE POWER OF SONG
In this game you are the leader of a European country who wants world domination. ... | - Audio - Coolness |
| 21. TIE |  | Your name is adit. There are candies flying at your face as you drive, your only weapon is your ridiculously long tongue. Protect your visio ... | - Coolness |
| 23. |  | You know what happens, when you throw items into a running washer? Always wanted to try that? Transform this useful household utility into a ... | |
| 24. |  | You have to kill a mosquito with a homemade flamethrower.
But don't put your bedroom on fire ! Click to light the lighter. Spacebar to ... | - Coolness |
| 25. |  | Oh my god what have I done?
---------------------------------- 4/20 Update: Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause you to get stuck wh ... | - Coolness |
| 26. TIE |  | Battle of Tolzford
Is inspired by the old final fantasy games. I just wanted to approach the idea of the player having to continue an exi ... | - Coolness |
| 26. TIE |  | Surprise! Pianos are my Unconventional Weapon.
You are a scientist and you cause pianos to drop when you click around. Can you make it t ... | - Coolness |
| 26. TIE |  | This is a text adventure that will give you hope, break your heart, and maybe... just maybe... teach you a lesson.
I lied, it's a story a ... | - Coolness |
| 29. |  | 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 |
| 30. TIE |  | This is "Two Scoops". The sun god Helios has come down to punish man kind. Beware his scoops of wrath! All in his path will perish.
Left ... | |
| 30. TIE |  | ---------PLAY ON WINDOWS/MAC TO GET FULL GRAPHIC FEATURES----------
---THE GAME WAS MADE TO WORK ON 450x300. DONT TRY TO FULLSCREEN--- --- ... | - Graphics - Coolness |
| 30. 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 |
| 33. TIE |  | - Try out your own name, I might have included it in the word list -
Eugene is quite the nerd. And being a nerd might be a problem, when ... | |
| 33. 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 |
| 35. |  | RELIC
A space adventure --- This was my first attempt at a 2D game in Unity. Had to learn a lot (without internet!) but I had fun cre ... | - Coolness |
| 36. |  | I made this in like 4 hours because I had to take the ACT today and don't have any time to work tomorrow.
PROVE YOUR WRESTLING SKILLZ IN ... | - Coolness |
| 37. |  | You think this is a game? Because this is hardly a game. *
We live in a world filled with ~unconventional weapons~ (of mass destruction) ... | - Coolness |
| 38. |  | Things got pretty strange here, but I hope everyone can figure out how to play anyway. Just use your mouse to move around and shoot with you ... | - Coolness |
| 39. TIE |  | Sticks N Stones is a game about utilizing an unconventional weapon - The power of language!
Insult everybody you come across to build you ... | |
| 39. TIE |  | 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 |
| 39. TIE |  | Fart your way to victory while killing enemies and collecting coins!
Download the windows build for rebindable controls, glorious 144hz s ... | - Coolness |
| 39. TIE |  | Worst game ever, but I did have fun making it! c:
This game was made in 5.5 hours, and I have no idea what it is (okay, i do, but suspens ... | |
| 39. TIE |  | It's the zombie chicken apocalypse! Suit up and beat save the world with your weaponized chicken.
Yes, it doesn't make much sense to me e ... | |
| 44. |  | 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 ... | |
| 45. TIE |  | vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
>>>>>> SEE BELOW FOR LINK TO BOTS (if you have nobody to play w ... | |
| 45. TIE |  | Use the Web Link to get the pixel perfect version of the game!
First Ludum Dare entry! that was intense, and I sure hope you'll like it. ... | - Coolness |
| 45. TIE |  | Welcome to the vernissage!
Everything is prepared, but the food is not enough. Hinder the visitors from eating too much. Luckily, you h ... | - Coolness |
| 45. 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 |
| 49. TIE |  | My second Ludum Dare entry called 'Multilool':
Weird entities incoming! Use your Multilool, uhm, Multitool... to find their weaknesses ... | |
| 49. TIE |  | Send your gallant convention-goers into battle against other conventions! Make decisions that influence who you have to send into battle and ... | |
| 49. TIE |  | Controls - Movement
A - Move Left D - Move Right W - Jump Controls - Combat Mouse to aim Left click to attack Tips: ... | |
| 52. TIE |  | Here is my entry for the 'Unconventional Weapon'
Cornflake Capers - I actually got the idea from the initial Twitter post, with a picture ... | - Coolness |
| 52. TIE |  | You have a weapon. You don't know what it does.
Prepare yourself for an epic text-adventure including: - Mystery! - Adventure! - Cho ... | |
| 52. 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 ... | |
| 52. 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 - ... | |
| 56. |  | -= Description =-
You try to escape from a laboratory. But you have only one weapon : a micro wave. By programming this micro wave, y ... | - Coolness |
| 57. TIE |  | After hours of fruitless thinking and countless prototypes, I came up with tits. I mean this.
Requires a controller. Sorry. Your goal ... | - Coolness |
| 57. TIE |  | Savior: On the Advantages of Unconventional Weaponry in Combating the Zombie Apocalypse
A cure for the Zombie Virus has been found, but Z ... | - Coolness |
| 57. TIE |  | Save the world with no weapons against evil rats. Only science can help you!
Travel back and forward time! Smash monsters with your brand ... | - Coolness |
| 60. TIE |  | 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 ... | |
| 60. TIE |  | Totally forgot about LD, made this in 3 hours just to be able to vote.
Сonsider it as a postcard :3 Have fun. *** The path to game dir ... | |
| 62. TIE |  | ONLY CAMERAS CAN SEE THEM
ONLY SELFIES CAN KILL THEM NO FILTER. NO MERCY. SELFIE ASSAULT! ... | |
| 62. TIE |  | Hey!
Killing citizens just by giving orders? Isn't it unconventional? It's life of dictator. Now you can be one! This entry uses experim ... | |
| 62. TIE |  | Take the role of Cupid and use your arrows of love to found a thriving spa town and win the favour of the gods. Being a god is surprisingly ... | - Coolness |
| 62. TIE |  | An Unconventional Weapon
Background: FACT: The worlds reserve of fossil fuels is depleting. FACT: As you most likely have heard, fossil ... | - Coolness |
| 66. TIE |  | Play as Steve in this epic office adventure. Inflict terror on your mortal co-workers through the use of your supreme weapon, the double ba ... | - Coolness |
| 66. 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 ... | |
| 68. TIE |  | "Wordskill" can be "Word skill" or "Words kill".
Did your forget your most conventional weapon? Use words to praise and insult other people ... | - Coolness |
| 68. TIE |  | Super Burning Mummy is a puzzle platformer about leveraging your flammability. Help the mummy escape his tomb, because if a mummy is animate ... | |
| 68. TIE |  | What's the most people you can kill with your voice?
The Unconventional Weapon is your voice. You're an evil opera singer with a plan: yo ... | - Coolness |
| 68. TIE |  | [ ＣＯＮＴＲＯＬＳ － ３６０ ＣＯＮＴＲＯＬＬＥＲ ]
RIGHT STICK & D-PAD.......MOVEMENT / A..........JUMP / ... | - Overall |
| 68. TIE |  | The evil meta-demon Yalg'th has been terrorising the galaxy. Countless warriors have tried to defeat it, but it can only be slain using a we ... | |
| 73. TIE |  | Turn the quiet, sleepy town of Boringsville upside-down with your 'unconventional weapon'! Watch the world transform as you introduce laught ... | |
| 73. TIE |  | Game about a mouse that's home alone with his baby brother.
Might involve blood ._. ... | - Coolness |
| 73. TIE |  | "2003: Iraq" is a Visual Novel exploring the Blair government in the days before the UK joining the Iraq war. Experience the intrigue, ... | |
| 76. 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 |
| 76. 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 |
| 76. TIE |  | Play as Duck Quackson during an invasion Duck Lazer-welding sharks! Move and shoot the enemies, while gathering score. The Blue powerup will ... | - Coolness |
| 79. |  | Revenge of the Clones is a platformer where the character cannot jump! Luckily he possesses a powerful and mysterious gun that can clone him ... | - Coolness |
| 80. |  | You are your own weapon.
You are silverware. Knock the other piece of silverware down before it knocks you down. The first person to kno ... | |
| 81. TIE |  | In this game, you play as an octopus who uses whatever he can find to defeat his foes: robots and shades (classic predators of the octopus). ... | - Coolness |
| 81. TIE |  | How to make extra money : Catch unicorns with your butt and sell them to robots.
You can check the score table on Gamejolt link. Contr ... | - Coolness |
| 81. TIE |  | Dance.
Really dance, get into it, I knew you were a good dancer. up to four ( 4 ) players. 'esc' to quit 'p' usually returns you ... | - Coolness |
| 84. TIE |  | The Reviewer is a game about time management, deadlines, multi-tasking and tedium.
What is the strongest weapon of the gaming world? Crit ... | - Coolness |
| 84. TIE |  | NO TIME TO EXPLAIN: GET IN THE LLAMA!
Normal WSAD controls. Blow the aliens off their feet and into the water to accumulate score. I don' ... | - Coolness |
| 84. TIE |  | Your spacecraft's life support system has been irreparably damaged and is now capable of sustaining only one person, not three. The "Unconv ... | |
| 84. TIE |  | You must protect your princess.
Humans are your weapons. Different creatures are your enemies. Madness, blood, bunnies, pain, zombies, ... | - Coolness |
| 84. TIE |  | ... | |
| 84. TIE |  | Ohh no! A rampaging monster is loose! It's up to you to calm it down with the only weapons you have, your arms! Hug the monster until it cal ... | - Coolness |
| 90. TIE |  | Post compo version has been embedded. For judging, please refer to the Web link below!
Your walking-home friend wore her glasses to sc ... | - Coolness |
| 90. TIE |  | So, after many cups of coffee (and a couple of beers) I think I have finished as much as I can this weekend.
Monkey Business You are a ... | - Coolness |
| 92. TIE |  | Annoyingly, someone has booby-trapped an important UN Convention document ... anywhere the letters "AL" appear, a bomb is hiding, waiting to ... | |
| 92. TIE |  | First of all: This is more a toy than a game.
I made it within two hours and I hope it brings a smile upon your face. The gameplay is ... | - Coolness |
| 92. TIE |  | *****UPDATE*****
The download is now a .zip In the Magical world of Ludum Dare, Adults are always out for their child's candy. When swee ... | - Coolness |
| 92. TIE |  | Shoot birds with a Beliebler Blow Horn or Millennium Falcon.
WHAT I LIKE I love how the theme song turned out. Millennium Falcon sounds ... | - Coolness |
| 92. TIE |  | Not one but two unconventional weapons are in play here. The villain, Flat Evil, wants to make the world two-dimensional. The hero needs reu ... | - Coolness |
| 92. 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 |
| 98. TIE |  | "A poop in the park, a step in the dark, a stink in the air, should i not dare, through the park I must go, I hope the poop shall not show"
... | - Coolness |
| 98. TIE |  | You play as an angry man throwing ashtrays off of his apartment building.
Hit as many people as you can! Rules: -You get 5 ashtrays. - ... | - Coolness |
| 98. TIE |  | This is a text adventure with some animated characters.
You are a knight, you are in a dungeon without anything but a book containing biogr ... | - Coolness |
| 98. TIE |  | The life of a pygmy is a harsh one. That big dude has stolen your meat, but your sticky stick is too tiny to chase him away! And what's with ... |
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