Ludum Dare 32 — April 17th-20th, 2015 — Theme: An Unconventional Weapon
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| 1. |  | [ ＣＯＮＴＲＯＬＳ － ３６０ ＣＯＮＴＲＯＬＬＥＲ ]
RIGHT STICK & D-PAD.......MOVEMENT / A..........JUMP / ... |  - Overall |
| 2. |  | 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 |
| 3. 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 |
| 3. 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 |
| 5. |  | Game about reactor in unconventional space weapon.
[ Z ] - dash [ X ] - turn IF YOU LIKE THE GAME, TRY POST-COMPO VERSION! ... | - Coolness |
| 6. TIE |  | Hi!
Mouton is a little multiplayer game. Run and survive! (Tips: Don't trust the shepherd) ... | - Fun |
| 6. 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 |
| 8. 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 |
| 8. TIE |  | Game about a mouse that's home alone with his baby brother.
Might involve blood ._. ... | - Coolness |
| 10. 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 |
| 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 |  | Instructions
- Hug those monsters until they become your friend. - You're vulnerable when you hug stuff - Friends will heal you if you ar ... | - Coolness |
| 10. TIE |  | Thanks to Sheepolution for the 64bit Linux build and WetDesertRock for the OSX build. ... | - Graphics |
| 10. 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 |  | 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 |
| 16. |  | 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 |
| 17. 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 |
| 17. TIE |  | Play as a bumbling adventurer who falls into a cave while looking for artifacts. Can you escape with nothing but your helmet?
Controls: ... | |
| 19. |  | 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 |
| 20. |  | 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 |
| 21. TIE |  | 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 |
| 21. 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 |
| 23. 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 ... | |
| 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. |  | _________________CONTROLS_________________
Keyboard: > Left/Right .................................... Move > Up/Down .......... ... | - Coolness |
| 26. 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 |
| 26. TIE |  | \\\ 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 |
| 26. 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 ... | |
| 26. 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 |
| 30. |  |
Death Touch is an *extremely difficult* game inspired by DeadBolt and Gunpoint.
Use your teleportation ability to blow your enemies apart ... | |
| 31. |  | WHISTLE COMMAND
--------------- Perform a training exercise with a new, experimental and very unconventional weapon - whistling! Use ... | - Innovation - Theme |
| 32. |  | 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 |
| 33. |  | Shield Maiden
A Mega Man vs Captain America vs Thor ripoff. Best enjoyed with a gamepad. Keyboard: Arrows X Jump C Attack / Ret ... | |
| 34. |  | -
Description -------------- Be a hero! You couldn't find a sword, unfortunately, but a vacuum cleaner will probably do, right? Vacuu ... | - Coolness |
| 35. |  | 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 |
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>>>>>> SEE BELOW FOR LINK TO BOTS (if you have nobody to play w ... | |
| 36. 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 |
| 36. TIE |  | Super Burning Mummy is a puzzle platformer about leveraging your flammability. Help the mummy escape his tomb, because if a mummy is animate ... | |
| 36. TIE |  | After thousands of years of breeding programs humanity has
finally bred the perfect ram fighter pilot. Their natural inclination to ram eac ... | - Coolness |
| 36. 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 ... | |
| 36. 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 ... | |
| 42. 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 |
| 42. TIE |  | This stealth game is about monk who has unconventional mind weapon. Purpose is capture MEDIUM.
NOTE: Some of player solutions may make the ... | - Coolness |
| 44. 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 |
| 44. 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 |
| 44. 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 |
| 44. 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 |
| 44. 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 |
| 49. 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 ... | |
| 49. 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 ... | |
| 49. 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 |
| 49. TIE |  | Gravitron is the weapon of choice of every space adventurer. It allows you to levitate any kind of objects.
Story: "Alarms ringing! Beep ... | |
| 53. 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 |
| 53. 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 ... | |
| 55. 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 |
| 55. TIE |  | 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 |
| 55. 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 ... | |
| 55. TIE |  | ***Description*** You are Hatchet Harry – legendary character of Guy Ritchie's movie "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels". You must pun ... | |
| 59. |  | under the sea, alone.
your only tool is your breath. explore the forgotten trench. -----OBJECTIVE----- dissolve the jellyfish with ... | - Coolness |
| 60. 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 |
| 60. 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 |
| 60. TIE |  | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Tabletop gameplay to a new level, were rolling ... | - Coolness |
| 60. 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 |
| 64. TIE |  | Turn based action game. Defeat enemies to absorb their power. Destroy the mimic crystal to ascend. ... | - Coolness |
| 64. TIE |  | You must protect your princess.
Humans are your weapons. Different creatures are your enemies. Madness, blood, bunnies, pain, zombies, ... | - Coolness |
| 64. TIE |  | Fight the machine with a s̶w̶o̶r̶d̶ deck of cards. My top score is 220800. ... | - Coolness |
| 64. 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 ... | |
| 64. TIE |  | Oh my god what have I done?
---------------------------------- 4/20 Update: Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause you to get stuck wh ... | - Coolness |
| 69. 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 |
| 69. TIE |  | just wanted to make something about cars, ok!
its last car standing or something controls: - arrow keys to drive around - X to boost ... | - Coolness |
| 71. 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 |
| 71. 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 |
| 71. TIE |  | How to become the best treasure hunter?
Get rich and buy "Coin Cannon", shoot coins at treasures to BUY THEM ALL! # CONTROL Mouse click ... | - Coolness |
| 74. 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 ... | |
| 74. 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 |
| 76. TIE |  | "Shoot" your way through 11 puzzling levels to defeat hordes of horribly generic monsters using only most unconventional guns.
Made with Pu ... | - Coolness |
| 76. TIE |  | Drill through space and destroy your enemies to claim yourself as the king of the galaxy! Star Driller Ultra is a Star Fox-inspired space co ... | - Coolness |
| 76. 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 : ... | |
| 76. 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 |
| 80. TIE |  | 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 |
| 80. TIE |  | Love Bomber - The Cult Simulator
Spread the love and convert people to your religion. Keyboard Controls --- Up, Down, Left, Right ... | - Coolness |
| 80. TIE |  | "It takes balls to launch a nuclear warhead. Pin-balls, even."
Unity Web Player version version available @ itch.io : http://ker0chan.itc ... | - Coolness |
| 80. 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 ... | |
| 80. 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 |
| 85. TIE |  | In a world ravaged by war, you, young scientist, must bring the general some HK-21, a gas your team has developed, to end the war without fu ... | - Coolness |
| 85. 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 |
| 85. TIE |  | 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 |
| 85. TIE |  | when you encounter
one of your kind you must use their own weapons against them wise, humerous sensitive, ancient. four types o ... | - Coolness |
| 89. 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 |
| 89. 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 ... | |
| 89. TIE |  | 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 |
| 89. 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 |
| 89. TIE |  | RTS/TowerDefense-ish game. You have limited units to defeat all enemies on each map.
Only 4 levels. Bibs - Tanky AOE damage Teddy - Tan ... | |
| 94. 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 ... | |
| 94. 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 |
| 94. 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 |
| 94. 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 |
| 94. TIE |  | Space Bug
For this edition of Ludum Dare I thought produce a platform game. I felt difficulty to translate the theme. I understanded as " ... | - Coolness |
| 94. 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 |
| 94. TIE |  | Even the war has rules : some weapons are allowed, while others are forbidden.
They are called unconventional weapons. You are sent to ... | - Coolness |
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