Ludum Dare 32 — April 17th-20th, 2015 — Theme: An Unconventional Weapon
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| 1. |  | You wake up.
Walking. On a tundra. You're cold. Where are you? How did you end up here? - - - - - - - TUNDRA is a piece of intera ... |  - Coolness - Mood |
| 2. |  | Use your holy light to scare creatures of the night.
It's not great but it's your only weapon. Seek the pieces of an ancient key to bring ... |  - Mood - Coolness |
| 3. |  | Out Of Mind is a dungeon crawler in a Kafkaesque nightmare. Your enemies are delusions conjured by your paranoia, and your only weapon is to ... | - Mood - Coolness |
| 4. |  | This stealth game is about monk who has unconventional mind weapon. Purpose is capture MEDIUM.
NOTE: Some of player solutions may make the ... | - Coolness |
| 5. |  | Thanks to Sheepolution for the 64bit Linux build and WetDesertRock for the OSX build. ... | - Graphics |
| 6. |  | A game about Human.
It is a hidden object game. ====== ** How to play: Use your mouse to find the objects. Think before actions. ... | - Coolness |
| 7. |  | 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 |
| 8. |  | The game is inspired by "Full Metal Jacket". The idea was to mix message and gameplay.
Indeed, this is the brainwashing which allows this s ... | - Coolness |
| 9. TIE |  | _________________CONTROLS_________________
Keyboard: > Left/Right .................................... Move > Up/Down .......... ... | - Coolness |
| 9. TIE |  | A short experiment on characterization and one other thing.
It shouldn't take more than 5 minutes to play. I wrote an intention note whe ... | - Coolness |
| 11. |  | 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 |
| 12. |  | 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 |
| 13. |  | Super Burning Mummy is a puzzle platformer about leveraging your flammability. Help the mummy escape his tomb, because if a mummy is animate ... | |
| 14. |  | 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 |
| 15. TIE |  | I didn't finish it in time, but here's what I got done during the compo. An adventure game set in the future, or at least the beginnings of ... | |
| 15. TIE |  | ** READ THIS FIRST **
This game uses 3D positional audio and so it requires headphones / earphones, and also requires a somewhat new vers ... | - Coolness |
| 17. TIE |  | [ Description ]
Come pass through the little city of Lalyvilley. You might find a thing or two. It's a little game about exploring, a ... | - Coolness |
| 17. TIE |  | 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 |
| 19. |  | 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 |
| 20. |  | Game about a mouse that's home alone with his baby brother.
Might involve blood ._. ... | - Coolness |
| 21. |  | W,A,S,D or Arrow keys for Control
Spacebar to jump. If you feel like you're getting stuck holding spacebar should get you out of most situa ... | - Coolness |
| 22. 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 - ... | |
| 22. 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 |
| 24. |  | 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 |
| 25. |  | 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 |
| 26. |  | Where's Manno?
-------------- That is all you have to commit to memory while playing this dark, glitchy, first person exploration game. ... | - Coolness |
| 27. 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 |
| 27. TIE |  | when you encounter
one of your kind you must use their own weapons against them wise, humerous sensitive, ancient. four types o ... | - Coolness |
| 29. |  | A twin stick shooter where light is your only weapon, your health and the only way you can see the enemy.
careful, or you'll run out fast ... | - Coolness |
| 30. |  | A man unwittingly drinks a tea that leaves him at mercy of The Puppeteer, then meets The Redeemer who may have experienced the same fate.
... | - Coolness |
| 31. TIE |  | Use WASD or arrow keys ←↑↓→ to avoid obstacles
ATTENTION! Final scene in WebGL build doesn't work (you can hear music, but can't ... | - Coolness |
| 31. TIE |  | 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 |
| 31. TIE |  | under the sea, alone.
your only tool is your breath. explore the forgotten trench. -----OBJECTIVE----- dissolve the jellyfish with ... | - Coolness |
| 34. 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 |
| 34. TIE |  | this is another rhythm game
fight off demons using the power of music controls: left arrow right arrow enter - select escape - b ... | - Audio - Coolness |
| 34. TIE |  | A short vignette game made for Ludum Dare 32. Think of it as the first chapter in a longer work. Contains references to sex work and smoking ... | - Coolness |
| 34. 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 ... | |
| 34. TIE |  | [ ＣＯＮＴＲＯＬＳ － ３６０ ＣＯＮＴＲＯＬＬＥＲ ]
RIGHT STICK & D-PAD.......MOVEMENT / A..........JUMP / ... | - Overall |
| 39. TIE |  | Jump between parallel realities as you run to save earth!
Use the differences between parallel realities in order to move from ship to s ... | |
| 39. TIE |  | Sevastopol is a top down action game. You must fight for survival, escaping the doomed space station.
The idea is a mix between Hotline M ... | - Coolness |
| 39. 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 |
| 42. |  | This is my second Ludum Dare entry. It was made in 37 hours.
In this game you are a cold war Soviet officer who commands launches of uncon ... | - Coolness |
| 43. TIE |  | A nice Day in the Park - by Tobias Baumann (@Polyganz)
Left click to play. Credits: Powered by Perception Neuron motion-capture syste ... | - Humor |
| 43. 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 |
| 43. 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 ... | |
| 46. |  | WASD+Mouse to control.
Flares are your only weapon against the night. Collect more flares and try to survive until morning. ... | - Coolness |
| 47. |  | 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 |
| 48. |  | 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 ... | |
| 49. TIE |  | Stalk a gorgon with a sharp shard of a mirror. It will reflect her gaze.
You're always reflecting what's in front of you, unless your ... | |
| 49. TIE |  |
Death Touch is an *extremely difficult* game inspired by DeadBolt and Gunpoint.
Use your teleportation ability to blow your enemies apart ... | |
| 49. TIE |  | Mortpuno.
At least for me it seems to feel slightly more awkward not completing an atmosphere centric game then "normal" game mechanics... ... | - Coolness |
| 49. TIE |  | [Important Stuff]
I highly recommend playing it on the full screen. Unfortunately I haven't figured out why web version sets wrong resolu ... | - Coolness |
| 53. |  | UPDATE: I've uploaded bugfixed versions which should help with the mouse aiming at different resolutions since players were reporting this n ... | - Coolness |
| 54. 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 |
| 54. TIE |  | A nuclear bomb (or "an unconventional weapon", seriously, Google it!) was detonated a day ago. Our hero survived. The question is, for how l ... | - Coolness |
| 56. TIE |  | Sometimes the most common weapons used against us are the voices inside of our own heads. Especially in the context of artistic creation, it ... | - Coolness |
| 56. 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 |
| 56. TIE |  | Jedde uses her hair as a paintbrush, and paint as a weapon in this endless runner. I originally had plans to make all the game's art in wate ... | |
| 56. TIE |  | 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 |
| 60. |  | just wanted to make something about cars, ok!
its last car standing or something controls: - arrow keys to drive around - X to boost ... | - Coolness |
| 61. TIE |  | "The Worker" is an interactive story about the harsh realities of a factory worker. It is meant to convey the tedium and soul-crushing routi ... | |
| 61. TIE |  | Shadows is an adventure puzzle game where you play as a wisp (a ball of light) and your goal is to power the beacons to light up the area be ... | - Coolness |
| 61. 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 : ... | |
| 61. TIE |  | "In the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, the use of dangerous chemical agents were outlawed. In spite of this, the First World War saw la ... | |
| 65. 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 ... | |
| 65. 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 |
| 67. |  | Originally wanted to make a tower defense game, but couldn't find a way to use Construct pathfinding for side view game :/
So it's still ... | |
| 68. TIE |  | IF CHROME DOESN'T LET YOU DOWNLOAD, PRESS CTRL+J TO FORCE IT TO
This is my first try at both making a game, and at Ludum Dare. Use y ... | |
| 68. TIE |  | An unknown enemy is creeping towards the houses of you and your neighbor. The worst part is you don't have anything to fight them with, nor ... | - Coolness |
| 68. TIE |  | Recently I've been obsessed with bacteriophages (viruses that infect and kill bacteria), and thought about how people were using them to tre ... | |
| 68. TIE |  | You are Commando Kibbles, the pet cat of an eccentric mad scientist who lives in the countryside. Two Portals have strangely appeared near h ... | |
| 68. 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 ... | |
| 68. 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 |
| 74. 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 |
| 74. TIE |  | In a Future where trashed robots roam the planet, and nothing grows, a robot discovers a lost secret. Nature is waiting below the surface. T ... | - Coolness |
| 74. 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 ... | |
| 74. TIE |  | ---------PLAY ON WINDOWS/MAC TO GET FULL GRAPHIC FEATURES----------
---THE GAME WAS MADE TO WORK ON 450x300. DONT TRY TO FULLSCREEN--- --- ... | - Graphics - Coolness |
| 78. TIE |  | Marooned on a hostile planet, your enemies are trying to hunt you down with their thundership. Trees provide cover; mature trees release see ... | - Coolness |
| 78. 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 |
| 78. TIE |  | NOTE: You can use the SPACE BAR to skip the in-between sequences (if you're as impatient as I am).
Arrow keys to move. A game about a ... | - Coolness |
| 78. TIE |  | 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 |
| 78. 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 |
| 83. TIE |  | 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 |
| 83. 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 ... | |
| 83. TIE |  | Love Bomber - The Cult Simulator
Spread the love and convert people to your religion. Keyboard Controls --- Up, Down, Left, Right ... | - Coolness |
| 86. |  | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Collection is a top-down dungeon crawler. Play as Jimmy ... | - Coolness |
| 87. 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 |
| 87. TIE |  | Update 21/04/15: made boss battle easier.
Uploaded on Kongregate (in case my website's down) In this adventure game you play as Detectiv ... | - Coolness |
| 87. TIE |  | This is a small, serene game about collecting blossoms.
Blossoms will fall from the tree; you must touch them to collect them. + Touch ... | |
| 87. TIE |  | Hey this is my Ludum Dare 32 game i made called Clarinetto. I used Game Maker to make it.
There is only 1 level. Why is he in the woods? ... | |
| 91. TIE |  | One slow beat 'em up, where the only gun is poetry to bring happiness, while looking for his beloved... To play, think, and enjoy a slowly m ... | - Coolness |
| 91. TIE |  | Game about reactor in unconventional space weapon.
[ Z ] - dash [ X ] - turn IF YOU LIKE THE GAME, TRY POST-COMPO VERSION! ... | - Coolness |
| 93. TIE |  | Game about a girl which stuck in the city in war.
---------------------- WSAD or Arrows to move. Your goal is to find a safe place. ... | - Coolness |
| 93. TIE |  | You are a ninja armed with nunchuk cats. 'Nuff said.
Does not work on Chrome. ... | |
| 95. TIE |  | "ink" is a dungeon crawler set in a literal literary land that is procedurally generated. Tales of oriental adventures will summon ninjas m ... | |
| 95. 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 |
| 95. TIE |  | The idea I was going for was using the environment as a way to destroy the enemies.
-=INSTRUCTIONS=- Press buttons to activate traps. D ... | - Coolness |
| 95. 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 |
| 99. TIE |  | Build a landscape by selecting the pieces you want.
When you click on the pieces of decor that pass by, you actually make them move at th ... | - Coolness |
| 99. TIE |  | Description, There is one blackhole left, and its up to you to keep it alive by adding more matter to it. But be careful! It doesnt want all ... |
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