Ludum Dare 32 — April 17th-20th, 2015 — Theme: An Unconventional Weapon
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| 1. |  | WHISTLE COMMAND
--------------- Perform a training exercise with a new, experimental and very unconventional weapon - whistling! Use ... |  - Innovation - Theme |
| 2. |  | 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 |
| 3. |  | A short puzzle platformer made in .NET and my own Game Engine.
In it you play a small character with the ability to cut and paste the wor ... | - Innovation |
| 4. |  | 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 ... | |
| 5. |  | when you encounter
one of your kind you must use their own weapons against them wise, humerous sensitive, ancient. four types o ... | - Coolness |
| 6. |  | This is one of Jack's adventures.
The author of these chronicles has, unfortunately, made minor spelling mistakes... and you have to fix th ... | - Coolness |
| 7. |  | Note: You can click the gramophone to mute the sound.
"The pen is mightier than the sword." You play an author recounting old war stor ... | - Coolness |
| 8. |  | Only one man had the courage to stand up to the villainy of the Red Squares and Other Various Red Things. Knowing he had limited time, Blue ... | |
| 9. TIE |  | ONLY CAMERAS CAN SEE THEM
ONLY SELFIES CAN KILL THEM NO FILTER. NO MERCY. SELFIE ASSAULT! ... | |
| 9. TIE |  | soundquake is a noise maker. Record and place your loudy weapons to offend your victim into the hole! Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance ... | - Coolness |
| 11. |  | 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. |  | Game about reactor in unconventional space weapon.
[ Z ] - dash [ X ] - turn IF YOU LIKE THE GAME, TRY POST-COMPO VERSION! ... | - Coolness |
| 13. |  | Slay cubes that want to invade your personal space by harnessing the power of the sun with a crystal ball. I can't tell you what is at the e ... | - Coolness |
| 14. TIE |  | 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 |
| 14. TIE |  | Controls - Movement
A - Move Left D - Move Right W - Jump Controls - Combat Mouse to aim Left click to attack Tips: ... | |
| 16. |  | Voice Box is a game that relies on the power of your vocal cords; Use your voice to propel and attract the red box of voice magic to slay yo ... | |
| 17. |  | 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 |
| 18. |  | 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 - ... | |
| 19. TIE |  | Hi!
Mouton is a little multiplayer game. Run and survive! (Tips: Don't trust the shepherd) ... | - Fun |
| 19. TIE |  | Fight the machine with a s̶w̶o̶r̶d̶ deck of cards.
My top score is 220800. ... | - Coolness |
| 19. 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 |
| 22. TIE |  | MineSweepears island is a minesweeper inspired game with some twists :
1/ the map is hex based 2/ You score based on sweep path you make ... | |
| 22. TIE |  | Super Burning Mummy is a puzzle platformer about leveraging your flammability. Help the mummy escape his tomb, because if a mummy is animate ... | |
| 22. TIE |  | QUICK TIP: Aim for the bubbles above the head of the NPCs, not the NPCs themselves.
NOTES: It's quite important to enable fullscreen whil ... | - Coolness |
| 22. TIE |  | 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 ... | |
| 26. TIE |  | "Shoot" your way through 11 puzzling levels to defeat hordes of horribly generic monsters using only most unconventional guns.
Made with Pu ... | - Coolness |
| 26. TIE |  | Controls: arrows + space + z
Alt controls: wasd + space + e ... | |
| 28. TIE |  | In Null Chroma, you use color as a weapon.
When an enemy is hit with a projectile, the color of that projectile is subtractively mixed wi ... | - Coolness |
| 28. 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 ... | |
| 28. 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 ... | |
| 28. TIE |  | ** READ THIS FIRST **
This game uses 3D positional audio and so it requires headphones / earphones, and also requires a somewhat new vers ... | - Coolness |
| 28. TIE |  | Music is your weapon!
WASD to move, Arrow Keys to match the patterns The more accurate your rhythm, the stronger the attacks are! Rea ... | - Coolness |
| 33. |  | 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 |
| 34. |  |
Pilot your drone-a-pult and fire projectiles to knock down the walls!
Tip: If you're having trouble making some of the longer shots, tryi ... | - Coolness |
| 35. 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 |
| 35. TIE |  | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Tabletop gameplay to a new level, were rolling ... | - Coolness |
| 37. TIE |  | Swap two materials with each other to complete physics-based puzzles!
*Instructions* Use WASD to move and the mouse to Swap materials. E ... | - Coolness |
| 37. 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 ... | |
| 37. TIE |  | Fatal Attraction is a gravity based arcade game. Rotate your ship and use your gun to change the gravity source. Try not to crash into anyth ... | - Coolness |
| 40. |  | The Unconventional Weapon would be a Magnet Gun! And when I decided to name the game MagGunner, it sounded a little like MacGuyver which ins ... | - Coolness |
| 41. TIE |  | You are the sun, your weapon is your planets. throw your planets into asteroids to save yourself. P.S. i've been told it's quite challenging ... | - Coolness |
| 41. TIE |  | OI is a high paste avoid game. you get scores really quick but loosing it is even easyer.
controls: qwerty or azerty or dvorak ' ... | |
| 41. TIE |  | Divide and conquer. You must separate your enemies from their allies.
If your enemies go too long without contact with others, they peri ... | - Coolness |
| 41. TIE |  | under the sea, alone.
your only tool is your breath. explore the forgotten trench. -----OBJECTIVE----- dissolve the jellyfish with ... | - Coolness |
| 45. |  | 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 |
| 46. |  | In the game you get absorbed by your TV and the only weapon that you got it's your TV Remote. But the remote buttons are missing. You must f ... | - Coolness |
| 47. TIE |  | 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 |
| 47. TIE |  | Transfer light through triangle, combine and guide it. No goal, just play.
Controls: Mouse (drag triangles) ... | |
| 49. TIE |  | Ever wanted to know what it was like to hold an argument on the internet? Look no further!
Keep shouting curses at people until they give ... | |
| 49. 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 ... | |
| 51. 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 |
| 51. TIE |  | A strategic Bingo game you can play through in about ~10m. Please read the rules below so you know how damage works. The action key is Z or ... | - Coolness |
| 51. TIE |  | INTRO : This is a board game, all of it has been made to be reproducible in a FabLab without any craftsman skills.
To make a copy of it you ... | - Coolness |
| 51. TIE |  | Vocal Power
Control | WASD to move. SPACE to play. HOLD SPACE to speak. Release SPACE to rest and have special interactions. Descripti ... | - Coolness |
| 51. TIE |  | Valo/Varjo is a moody puzzle game where you control a being of light. You have an uncoventional weapon in the form of a sphere of light that ... | - Coolness |
| 51. 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 |
| 51. TIE |  | Well this turned out to be stranger than expected... You are a space ball, tasked by a space squid to conquer space! Explore four different ... | - Coolness |
| 58. TIE |  | A quicky platformer where a bird is helping you visit its home. Platforms will rise when the bird dive bombs (the unconventional weapon) the ... | - Coolness |
| 58. 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 |
| 60. 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 ... | |
| 60. TIE |  | Even the war has rules : some weapons are allowed, while others are forbidden.
They are called unconventional weapons. You are sent to ... | - Coolness |
| 62. TIE |  | Take control of the traffic lights in a suburban intersection and smash those shady vehicles.
--CONTROLS: a, s - turn lights green ... | |
| 62. TIE |  | This is my first LD compo entry ever :)
STORY: You are a chef with a dark past. You've decided to rid the world of the tyranny of Kings. ... | - Coolness |
| 62. TIE |  |
Death Touch is an *extremely difficult* game inspired by DeadBolt and Gunpoint.
Use your teleportation ability to blow your enemies apart ... | |
| 62. TIE |  | It's a game about Coulomb's Law!
You have the charge gun and there are iron boxes around you. I think you've already guessed what this g ... | - Coolness |
| 62. TIE |  | TIMEstahp! was the product of half a weekend in which I wanted to make something silly but fun.
You have the regular WASD movement keys ... | - Coolness |
| 62. TIE |  | My first ever Ludum Dare entry is complete! :D
You are against a foe wielding a rather unconventional weapon; the forces of nature are de ... | |
| 62. TIE |  | 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 |
| 62. TIE |  | Your only weapon is your eyelid, use it to murder all the cubes!
Each level there will be more cubes and you will take longer to wink. C ... | - Coolness |
| 70. 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 |
| 70. 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 |
| 72. |  | In my second Ludum Dare Game, you play as a mighty knight with his trusty companion.
Actually it has proven as so useful, that the knight d ... | - Coolness |
| 73. TIE |  | Tetris with a twist!
You are invading a planet using Tetris blocks to destroy their buildings. Natives however do not react positively t ... | |
| 73. TIE |  | The powerful KADOOMERANG! Stolen by the rebellion! Turn the tide of battle!
An action game with an unconventional weapon. You can thro ... | |
| 73. TIE |  | Two player game. Players try to draw a line into the other by holding the button down to draw. Pick up ink bottle power-ups to increase your ... | |
| 76. TIE |  | Turn based action game.
Defeat enemies to absorb their power. Destroy the mimic crystal to ascend. ... | - Coolness |
| 76. TIE |  | Fight global warming as the dyslectic cloud Fluffy.
Made with html5 canvas (no WebGL). Developed on Firefox and tested on Safari. Opera a ... | - Coolness |
| 76. TIE |  | Some evil government has started a cyber war.
You broke your mouse yesterday, so you have to use your keyboard. MorpheusCat, appearently a ... | |
| 76. TIE |  | ---------PLAY ON WINDOWS/MAC TO GET FULL GRAPHIC FEATURES----------
---THE GAME WAS MADE TO WORK ON 450x300. DONT TRY TO FULLSCREEN--- --- ... | - Graphics - Coolness |
| 80. TIE |  | You are in charge of excavating an ancient maze which may on may not be an anti-alien super-weapon. Advance step by step and try not to brea ... | - Coolness |
| 80. TIE |  | EDIT: Anyone having trouble figuring out where to go next, keep in mind you can look around by moving your kite. The camera will pan to foll ... | - Coolness |
| 80. TIE |  | World War piZZa
A plague has destroyed civilization! You are the last pizza maker on the planet. Use your skills to halt the advancing ... | |
| 80. TIE |  | Mable is the story of a girl who is trying to save the forest from the demons who are draining it of colour. Unfortunately, her magical swor ... | - Coolness |
| 84. |  | Possess enemies and run them into each other. ... | |
| 85. TIE |  | Program a Defence Drone to protect yourself from the evil attackers. There's no direct control, only the forward-thinking and logic you feed ... | - Coolness |
| 85. TIE |  | Meet Telemage, that one guy at wizard school who always has to be the best. He learned the most difficult spell there is - teleporting! Unfo ... | - Coolness |
| 85. TIE |  | Battle your friends to become top gu...er, quill, in Porcupine Dogfight!
Porcupine Dogfight is a 2-player battle game - so grab a friend ... | - Coolness |
| 88. TIE |  | IMPORTANT: Some people are reporting a crashing bug on entering all of the equations. This doesn't happen to most people, but just remember ... | - Coolness |
| 88. TIE |  | The Song of Aria is a game about a Songcrafter; a girl called Aria who can craft magic with her voice. She is also blind and uses her singin ... | - Coolness |
| 90. TIE |  | Detune is a rhythm game with platform elements.
Something strange happened in your kingdom, and suddenly it is full of monsters and thorn ... | |
| 90. TIE |  | Use a game of Pong as your weapon to traverse this Tube of Deadly Trapezoids!
Not my strongest work, but fine for 20 hours and three dime ... | - Coolness |
| 90. TIE |  | Super Fruit World
Grow fruit, make juice and use it as ammunition to protect you. +++ Controls: Move with WASD Build with Mouse ... | - Coolness |
| 90. TIE |  | Bite or be bitten.
Fight to chomp on your enemy. 1 or 2 players. ... | - Coolness |
| 90. TIE |  | First person puzzler where you use "power words" to achieve your goals - opening doors, etc.
I know the graphics are very sub par - I am ... | |
| 90. TIE |  | Welcome to Unconventional Time!
There's you and a diamond, and a jungle full of obstacles between you and it. You have exactly one weapon ... | - Coolness |
| 90. TIE |  | 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 ... | |
| 90. TIE |  | Strategy game with some timing elements. I knew I'd made it too hard, but it's even harder than I thought. See below for tips and cheats.
... | |
| 90. 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 ... | |
| 99. TIE |  | Your weapon is an unconventional pistol - you can fire forward, and also BACKFIRE!
Why bother? Because when activated, all the other guns ... | |
| 99. TIE |  | Survive as long as possible against never-ending waves of self-learning AI opponents! Each wave, a genetic algorithm advances a step, making ... | |
| 99. TIE |  | Sorry, this game is unfinished. There is no audio and a LOT of features are not implemented, the balance is broken etc.
In browser, press ... | - Coolness |
| 99. TIE |  | You are a sentient parasite, an unconventional
weapon crafted for one purpose: to find and kill the nefarious Baron von Tophat! You ... | |
| 99. 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 |
| 99. TIE |  | Hit the streets in your creep mobile/ute (or "pickup truck" for the Americans) and harass as many women as you can before you crash.
In t ... | - Coolness |
| 99. TIE |  | 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 |
| 99. 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 |
| 99. TIE |  | The Orbital Ion Cannon. Able to fire tightly-collimated proton beams at any point on the Earth's surface. Perfect for all your giant-death-r ... |
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