Ludum Dare 32 — April 17th-20th, 2015 — Theme: An Unconventional Weapon
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| 1. |  | [DESCRIPTION]
A Western rhythm game! You are Lefty the bounty hunter. Use your epic skills to take on a deadly crew of train robbers. ... |  - Audio(Jam) - Overall(Jam) - Coolness - Fun(Jam) - Theme(Jam) - Graphics(Jam) - Mood(Jam) |
| 2. |  | -SPRINGTIME WARFARE-
Developed in GM:S A game by Marty, Granfalloon and Intero! NOTE: The game has been updated to fix a gamebreaking ... | - Fun(Jam) - Overall(Jam) - Audio(Jam) |
| 3. |  | Harvest Boom is a first person twitch farming simulator.
You have 30 days to make 25000g, or else you lose your farm! Basic Controls: ... | - Overall(Jam) |
| 4. |  | A game about black knights, lances and riding wildly towards each other without fear of being decapitated, disemboweled or punched really ha ... | - Humor(Jam) - Graphics(Jam) - Audio(Jam) |
| 5. TIE |  | You take the role of Canvas! A girl trapped within the Doodle World by the Doodle King! In it, are a chaotic bunch of doodles and with it, a ... | |
| 5. TIE |  | Originally intended for the 48 hour compo. Sadly, it wasn't quite ready, so I decided to take an extra day and submit to the jam instead, bu ... | - Coolness |
| 5. TIE |  |
You play as a vampire holding a mirror. You can reflect beams of sunlight to use as a weapon, but watch your back - you’re vulnerable to i ... | - Coolness |
| 8. TIE |  | In Tipping Point you take the role of a starry eyed gnome named Tipp, as he embarks on a mission given to him by the gnome elder to scavenge ... | - Graphics(Jam) |
| 8. TIE |  | "Embody a Bio-hacker owning an High-Tech Genegun able to give rise to Genemons, some genetically modified creatures built up to struggle aga ... | - Coolness |
| 8. TIE |  | slappy the frog goes to town and needs to find some stuff? slap your way through countless enemies and towards new companions!!
arrows + ... | - Humor(Jam) |
| 11. TIE |  | Play as Pebble the Bear and help him run his small bakery.
Everyone loves your bread rolls, they are sold out very quickly! A fascinating ... | - Fun(Jam) - Coolness |
| 11. TIE |  | Defend the Earth from incoming meteors with your gravity orbs!
Click or tap to create gravity orbs. Orbs will catch small meteors and hal ... | - Coolness |
| 13. |  | Third Jam entry, third time we upload it in the last minute.
Anyway, this is a game about gunsmith, who should craft weapons for soldiers f ... | - Graphics(Jam) |
| 14. |  | Dischord: A game about blowing stuff up with music.
Bug Fixes Incoming! Strum sick tunes to traverse a dangerously cute dungeon & expl ... | - Theme(Jam) - Coolness |
| 15. |  | Collect skulls and use the power of "crayon" to venture your way up toward new beginnings!
Objective: Find your way to the very top! Ex ... | - Coolness |
| 16. |  |
Attempted to make some kind of "mini" Metroidvania.
"On the brink of mankind's destruction, Professor Janus discovers the secret of human ... | - Coolness |
| 17. |  | Gamepad encouraged
Gamepad ( Gods Amongst Men) Analog- Movement and aiming A- Jump X- Use Leafblower Keyboard (cool kids) WA ... | - Coolness |
| 18. |  | Anton Chekhov, a famous Russian writer, is very suspicious - every time someone mentions an object, he thinks that said object will be used ... | - Coolness |
| 19. |  | Our pig hero, in the hopes of discovering the lost grimoire of mystic food, wandered into the ruins of a once great chef. What he didn't exp ... | - Coolness |
| 20. |  | OBJECTIVE:
Help Glorch escape from a bizarre space-prison using his people's favored weapon: the telenade! Who needs to walk or jump when y ... | - Coolness |
| 21. TIE |  | Bio Fight!
You play as a virus with a mission to destroy human life, one sneeze at a time. Instructions: Infect all the organs by tra ... | |
| 21. TIE |  | Slugs. In space. Conflict. Salt.
This is the world of Super SALT Helmet! In this fast paced arena game, you play as a space slug strug ... | - Coolness |
| 21. TIE |  | Both keyboard/mouse and XBOX Controllers are supported :)
Well mostly. XBOX controller is not supported for the WebGL version :( Also shi ... | - Coolness |
| 24. TIE |  | Help Nana the monkey retrieve the three golden bananas to improve her BANANARANG and access new areas.
Top-down Zelda-like adventure game ... | |
| 24. TIE |  | Downloads now available. Thanks to everyone for the great feedback so far - I will be reviewing and rating your entries soon!
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| 24. TIE |  | Requires .NET 4.5 Framework: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30653
Endless hats abound in the Ultra Hat Dimensio ... | - Coolness |
| 27. |  | N.O.D.E. is a topdown shooter but with a twist! instead of shooting your enemies you use your kicks and your linking powers to overcome hord ... | - Coolness |
| 28. TIE |  | **An updated Post Jam version has been made available below (Same gameplay just with some annoying kinks with the browser and your cursor re ... | - Coolness |
| 28. TIE |  | Killigan Industries is looking for resourceful, versatile junior operators to fulfill staffing quotas in its Operations Division.
A brigh ... | - Coolness |
| 30. |  | A game completely unlike anything I've ever done in almost every way.
Note that it's impossible to get the "true ending" on your first tr ... | |
| 31. |  | Here is our Jam Entry Miyu, it's a fairly relaxed game about moving through and exploring a moonrise kingdom. There are some light challeng ... | - Coolness |
| 32. |  | I CAN'T BELIEVE I DID IT! This was one hell of a challenge to get complete!
I tried something different for once, I wanted to go for some ... | - Coolness |
| 33. TIE |  | In the near future... MONEY can't buy happiness, but it can buy you weapons to kill your friends.
Use those weapons to shoot more MONEY a ... | - Coolness |
| 33. TIE |  | FateOS is an interactive novel based in the Arab Spring and the use of information as a weapon. You deal with information and you choose you ... | |
| 33. TIE |  | Pigeon Potente
A quick casual action RPG in which you're a pirate pigeon! Fight to survive a series of increasingly difficult battles usi ... | |
| 36. |  | Underground Hangovers is a metroidvania platformer sorted with several bizarre super-unconventional tools.
Play as a member of a group of ... | - Coolness |
| 37. TIE |  | Find and eat fish, avoid enemies and explore in Lure, a relaxing deep sea game! Play as an Angler Fish, luring in unsuspecting fishies using ... | |
| 37. TIE |  | The bunnies are coming!
You are tasked with defending your carrot patches, using your trusty biplane. Armed with an assortment of random f ... | |
| 37. TIE |  |
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Here we are, the penguins are back! And they are really (really) angry... Incarnate one of them and ... | - Coolness |
| 37. TIE |  | A colorful, fast-paced, top-down arcade 'racing' game where you get to blow EVERYTHING up with a giant flail that also grows in size! If you ... | - Coolness |
| 37. TIE |  | Stick Quest
Controls : Arrows on keyboard Left click and Right click with mouse to do stuff ;) Team : Mélissandre Samson - Grap ... | - Coolness |
| 37. TIE |  | My Little Weapon Creator (TRIAL EDITION) is the ultimate package for designing your very own special melee weapon and sharing it with your f ... | - Theme(Jam) |
| 37. TIE |  | I scream! You scream! We all scream! AAAaaahhHHhhh!!1!
Art and Animation by Andrea Gerstmann (@AndreaGerstmann) Design and Programming ... | - Coolness |
| 37. TIE |  | Play as a yoyokid and save the shop!
Defeat the aliens, upgrade your yoyo! Game by: @Noxlof: http://twitter.com/Noxlof @The_TOME: http ... | - Coolness |
| 45. TIE |  | Crystalline is a puzzle platformer about multidimensional space exploration.
Controls: A/D: Run Spacebar: Jump Hold Q: Equip Weapon 1 ... | - Coolness |
| 45. TIE |  | Welcome into the arena! Test your worth killing the ghosts of those who came before you ... Use your harpoon to grab your opponents and thro ... | - Coolness |
| 47. TIE |  | <-- PATCH NOTE : Sound effects and music has been added post-jam, thus, you will not be able to rate the audio category. Thanks for your und ... | - Coolness |
| 47. TIE |  | Safer in the Dark
Objective: ======================== Remember when you were a child and you hid from monsters under your blanket? ... | - Coolness |
| 47. TIE |  | You are Daisy Dazzle and all of your friends are having bad hair days. Their hair all is all frazzled, so you go out with your trusty blow d ... | - Coolness |
| 47. TIE |  | Use the weapons your partner barfs up to lay down the LAW! ... | |
| 51. TIE |  | Weapon Shortage --
A game about a half-blacksmith/half-arena enthusiast, trying to make his way into the big leagues! Use your amazing bl ... | - Coolness |
| 51. TIE |  | IF YOU ARE STUCK' CHECK THE MENU FOR HINTS!!!
We will check every commenter's game, so be sure to let us know what worked and what didn't ... | - Coolness |
| 53. TIE |  | Battle with Cows in a Post-Apocalyptic Soccer-War with Cows Everywhere!
>Earn points by shooting or pushing the ball into either goal net ... | |
| 53. TIE |  | Hey everybody!
This time for our new jam we made Tourist Trap, a game where you have to lure tourists to your pizzeria through the narrow ... | |
| 53. TIE |  | Ricochette
Controls: WASD - Movement Mouse - Aim Left Click - Throw Chakram Spacebar - Slows Time The goal in Ricochette is to ge ... | |
| 53. TIE |  | A very short horror-themed "Alone in the Dark"-alike.
You are the carrier of a magic mirror making your way through a dark temple to reac ... | - Coolness |
| 57. TIE |  | Hugo has a laser pointer attached to his head.
All cats follow his beam. All cats follow his will. Hugo is the Laser Cat King. Obey yo ... | - Coolness |
| 57. TIE |  | Play as a journalist who is tasked with sullying a mayor's reputation using photos as your weapon. Follow her throughout her day (WASD) and ... | - Coolness |
| 57. TIE |  | After a long weekend and at least one birthday party -
Team Flare presents : Just Another Sketch on the Wall A jump'n'tag puzzle game. ... | - Coolness |
| 57. TIE |  | An acrobatic platformer where you jump between alternate realities.
Originally you would use the dimensional shift to "telefrag" enemies, ... | - Coolness |
| 61. TIE |  | A story of a boy ; transformed into a sword by the evil queen, he is wielded by his older sister who is determined to ascend the minion infe ... | |
| 61. TIE |  | We humbly present our LD32 jam entry:
"Dr. U and the bottomless pit" a game about a bottomless pit and bats and a deadly umbrella Tr ... | - Coolness |
| 61. TIE |  | Drop trees on zombies.
Tech: JS, WebAudio Engine: Phaser Tools: Photoshop, Audacity, BXFR Tip: Bait the zombies together with your t ... | - Coolness |
| 64. |  | This cellular automata based puzzle game tells the story of armor-eating nanobots living on a bullet in flight. Created as a military exper ... | |
| 65. TIE |  | You have been banished to the lower levels.
Use your heart to solve puzzles and defeat shadow creatures in order to get back to where you b ... | - Coolness |
| 65. TIE |  | Coats The Mod roams the VR Social Network looking for trouble. Using her social networking skills, she engages the internet's most ruthless ... | |
| 65. TIE |  | Shield Bash is a top down action game where you must use your shield to defend yourself, and attack enemies! Knock keys off enemies and use ... | |
| 65. TIE |  | Made last minute in 8 hours
You play as a computer worm patching code in government drones to make sure they abide to Asimov's 3 laws of ro ... | |
| 69. TIE |  | Rodney Piper, one pacifist must take down a war machine factory, using only an unconventional weapon, and L-shaped pipe! Levels are re-gener ... | - Coolness |
| 69. TIE |  | What if a Vacuum wanted to Clean the World?
Click and hold to inhale objects. Larger objects take longer to inhale! Click while full (gr ... | - Coolness |
| 69. TIE |  | Game about tavern brawling, your customers use furniture as weapons. But you spend your money on it! Maybe you can turn their aggression int ... | - Coolness |
| 69. TIE |  | France is Bacon is a game about using knowledge as a weapon. Play as bored college student Caleb as he roams his notebook, finding lost page ... | |
| 69. TIE |  | THIS GAME IS ONLINE ASYNC AND MORE FUN WITH FRIENDS. ASK YOUR FRIENDS TO WAR WITH YOU OR AGAINST YOU!
Rude Bear Raid is the 9th game in t ... | |
| 69. TIE |  | Take control of the glitch gun and run through all the levels converting scientists into zombies, couches into tetris blocks.
Arrows/WASD ... | - Coolness |
| 69. TIE |  | -----
Use the guitar on your back and the fire in your heart to fight through a procedurally generated dungeon. ----- NOTE: This game ... | - Coolness |
| 76. TIE |  | Are you ready for a photoshoot? In "Photo Fight," up to four players duke it out in the craziest networked camera FPS deathmatch you'll ever ... | - Coolness |
| 76. TIE |  | The enemies have arrived! They are gonna attack the village!
Only a legendary blacksmith can help us win the war... or can he? Nimble ... | |
| 76. TIE |  | CONTROLS: LEFT CLICK TO SHOOT, RIGHT CLICK TO SWAP COLOURS, ARROWS/WASD/ZQSD TO MOVE.
------- Use your Improbable Matter Gun to shoot your ... | - Coolness |
| 76. TIE |  | Avenge your gran's death using an unconventional weapon.
iFrame is a little funky so suggest you Toggle Fullscreen to play. Z to undo ... | - Coolness |
| 80. TIE |  | Oh no! Your owner fell asleep! She's such a klutz! Protect her from the evil frog nation, Ribbritania. Are you a bad enough umbrella to stop ... | |
| 80. TIE |  | "You play The Unraveller. Trapped in The Oracle's cavernous lair, you must contend with his UNDALEK minions, to reach The Oracle himself in ... | |
| 82. TIE |  | ScarKrow is an action plateformer
Controls: ZQSD or WASD to move and jump your Krow. SPACE makes you jump too. Aim and Lock enemies ... | - Coolness |
| 82. TIE |  | Match resources (diagonals are allowed) and get enough for the item you are crafting.
Click the thermometer on the right to increase curr ... | - Coolness |
| 84. TIE |  | Latvian Milk is a heartfelt, introspective look at the struggle of Latvian migrants in the early 20th Century no it isn't it's about shootin ... | - Coolness |
| 84. TIE |  | You have a special device, that allows you transfer charges between electonic devices.
Made with Game Maker: Studio. Credits: Roman " ... | - Coolness |
| 84. TIE |  | You've just finished cooking your favorite pie, just need to make it rest for a while and you'll be able to eat it...
Wait... Those damn ra ... | - Coolness |
| 84. TIE |  | In Sky Sword, you play as Fate, a young adventurer who accidentally discovered a broken ancient sword, Cross Blade, on the journey to uncove ... | - Coolness |
| 84. TIE |  | Oh my god, how can I say this game...?
It's kind of a narrative experience, but I think it's close to insane art. Kodama means echo in ... | - Coolness |
| 89. TIE |  | Help fight the aliens hungry for the delights of Grandma's cakes ... | |
| 89. TIE |  | UPDATE: Mac OS X version fixed!
YOU CAN SHAVE THE BABY : A minigame experience in which a number of unconventional things must be done ... | - Coolness - Humor(Jam) |
| 89. TIE |  | By Gareth Williams (@garethiw), Carl Hughes (@devilqube) and Paul Yendley (@gredgie)
The evil bankers are coming to reposess your farm. ... | - Coolness |
| 89. TIE |  | Bubble Becky is a short innovative platformer.
Move yourself through four unique levels with your magnificent bubblegum skills, and beat th ... | - Coolness |
| 93. TIE |  | Here is our entry with Lyne Hehlen and I, Thibaut Carcenac.
Florist vs Plants is a turn based game where you have to eliminate all the pl ... | |
| 93. TIE |  | Ludum Dare,
what is it, where does it come from, when did it start? what ever, where ever, when ever! Doesnt matter, had fun! http ... | |
| 93. TIE |  | Help biologist escape from monsters.
Music: 157 Shit or Bust - George Jackson ... | - Coolness |
| 96. TIE |  | IN THE YEAR 2084
ALL WARS ARE FOUGHT SOLELY THROUGH SINGLE COMBAT AND BECAUSE WAR IS FOUGHT ONLY FOR PEACE ALL COMBATANTS MUST W ... | |
| 96. TIE |  | VIDEO : https://youtu.be/oi5rJSDQJoI
You are the last Music Man on earth, with the final boombox of truth. Arrow keys To Move. Z an ... | |
| 96. TIE |  | You must try survive and travel as far as possible. Fight the freezing cold & darkness whatever means possible.
************************ ... | |
| 96. TIE |  | Mirror Mirror is a puzzle game where you hunt ghosts using mirrors.
Position your mirrors and activate the gemstones. Beams that destroy ... | - Coolness |
| 96. TIE |  | [The Download is SO worth it]
Have you ever wanted to trash your house to survive a zombie apocalypse? Well now you can in this survival ... | - Coolness |
| 96. TIE |  | Inspired by a visit to my hometown in Kentucky as an adult, this is a story about how I coped with a fear of tornadoes over the years. It is ... | - Mood(Jam) |
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