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. |  | 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 |
| 3. |  | 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 |
| 4. |  | "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 ... | |
| 5. |  | 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 - ... | |
| 6. |  | ONLY CAMERAS CAN SEE THEM
ONLY SELFIES CAN KILL THEM NO FILTER. NO MERCY. SELFIE ASSAULT! ... | |
| 7. |  | 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. |  | 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 |
| 9. |  | 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 |
| 10. |  | 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 |
| 11. TIE |  | 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 ... | |
| 11. TIE |  | -
Description -------------- Be a hero! You couldn't find a sword, unfortunately, but a vacuum cleaner will probably do, right? Vacuu ... | - Coolness |
| 13. TIE |  | 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 |
| 13. 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 ... | |
| 15. |  | when you encounter
one of your kind you must use their own weapons against them wise, humerous sensitive, ancient. four types o ... | - Coolness |
| 16. 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 |
| 16. TIE |  | ... | |
| 16. TIE |  | Even the war has rules : some weapons are allowed, while others are forbidden.
They are called unconventional weapons. You are sent to ... | - Coolness |
| 16. 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 ... | |
| 20. |  | 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 ... | |
| 21. 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 ... | |
| 21. 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 |
| 23. |  | 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 |
| 24. |  | "Shoot" your way through 11 puzzling levels to defeat hordes of horribly generic monsters using only most unconventional guns.
Made with Pu ... | - Coolness |
| 25. |  | - 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 ... | |
| 26. |  | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Take Tabletop gameplay to a new level, were rolling ... | - Coolness |
| 27. TIE |  | You must protect your princess.
Humans are your weapons. Different creatures are your enemies. Madness, blood, bunnies, pain, zombies, ... | - Coolness |
| 27. 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 |
| 27. 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 |
| 30. 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 |
| 30. 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 |
| 30. TIE |  | Using your combination sword and fishing pole, fish for fights.
Defeat all three enemies to win. ... | |
| 33. 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 |
| 33. 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 |
| 35. 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 ... | |
| 35. 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 |
| 37. 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 |
| 37. TIE |  | Controls: arrows + space + z
Alt controls: wasd + space + e ... | |
| 39. 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 |
| 39. TIE |  | It's a leaf blower. It blows leaves. But it also blows other things. Find out more by playing this game.
INSTRUCTIONS ============ - Cl ... | - Coolness |
| 41. TIE |  | You are a sentient parasite, an unconventional
weapon crafted for one purpose: to find and kill the nefarious Baron von Tophat! You ... | |
| 41. 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 |
| 41. TIE |  | Pogo Dojo is 2D radical sports game. The sport is stomping on shadow creatures with your pogo-katana.
CONTROLS: Controls are provided ... | - Coolness |
| 41. 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 ... | |
| 41. TIE |  | 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 |
| 46. TIE |  | Annoyingly, someone has booby-trapped an important UN Convention document ... anywhere the letters "AL" appear, a bomb is hiding, waiting to ... | |
| 46. 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 |
| 46. TIE |  | PLAYTHROUGH (in case game is too hard, or you just wanna see the boss/ending):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90iXR5FJr20&feature=youtu.b ... | - Coolness |
| 49. TIE |  | NOTE: If you have Love2D (www.love2d.org), you can run the game on Mac or Linux with the source file.
You are an explorer. With the aid o ... | |
| 49. 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.
... | |
| 49. TIE |  | [ ＣＯＮＴＲＯＬＳ － ３６０ ＣＯＮＴＲＯＬＬＥＲ ]
RIGHT STICK & D-PAD.......MOVEMENT / A..........JUMP / ... | - Overall |
| 52. 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 |
| 52. TIE |  | Game about a mouse that's home alone with his baby brother.
Might involve blood ._. ... | - Coolness |
| 52. TIE |  | ***Description***
You are Hatchet Harry – legendary character of Guy Ritchie's movie "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels". You must pun ... | |
| 52. 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 ... | |
| 56. TIE |  | vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
>>>>>> SEE BELOW FOR LINK TO BOTS (if you have nobody to play w ... | |
| 56. TIE |  | Super Burning Mummy is a puzzle platformer about leveraging your flammability. Help the mummy escape his tomb, because if a mummy is animate ... | |
| 58. |  | You're a prosecutor and your job is to annihilate those criminals (I mean, lock 'em up)! Use your rhetoric (or at least your knowledge about ... | - Coolness |
| 59. 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 |
| 59. TIE |  | Specter Snap!
You're a walking exorcist camera, out to save the world by snapping ghosts. Take a spooky close-up or zoom out to capture lar ... | - Coolness |
| 61. 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 |
| 61. 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 ... | |
| 61. TIE |  | Unikorn
Grab your plush, little girl, it's zombie night! Use your telekinesis power (or your mouse) to draw the path your Unicorn plush m ... | |
| 61. TIE |  | 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 |
| 65. |  | 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 |
| 66. TIE |  | You are a criminal in control of Cupid's arrows. Use them to distract the guards.
Controls: Use WASD or arrow-keys to move | Use mouse to ... | - Coolness |
| 66. 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 ... | |
| 66. TIE |  | How To Play:
You are a skunk. Do skunk things. Raccoons and owls will attack if you get close. Your spray shoots behind you. Rac ... | - Coolness |
| 66. TIE |  | You are a ninja armed with nunchuk cats. 'Nuff said.
Does not work on Chrome. ... | |
| 70. 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 |
| 70. TIE |  | There is an alien invasion just when you got a tee time.
HTML5 game using Phaser.io ... | - Coolness |
| 70. TIE |  | Earth is being invaded by hostile aliens. With nothing at hand to fend them off, the council of mantis men has decided to use the satellites ... | |
| 70. TIE |  | This is my 6th time participating in Ludum Dare. I love Ludum Dare, it's always so exciting yet so intense.
Frisbee Training is an Endles ... | - Coolness |
| 70. TIE |  | Play as a bumbling adventurer who falls into a cave while looking for artifacts. Can you escape with nothing but your helmet?
Controls: ... | |
| 75. TIE |  | 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 |
| 75. TIE |  | You have successfully infiltrated the secret testing facility of the mysterious corporation known as "Weapons and Advanced Technology" - W.A ... | - Coolness |
| 75. TIE |  | Defend the world from strange alien creatures with your trusty umbrella.
============================================ WASD to move, mo ... | |
| 78. 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 |
| 78. 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 |
| 78. 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 |
| 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 |
| 78. TIE |  | CONTROLS:
Click to drop bread and point ducks where to attack WASD or ARROWS for movement -------------- Use your power to con ... | - Coolness |
| 83. TIE |  | You are looking for the sacred Dino Eggs that are lost in the jungle.
Sadly you have no weapon other that your hair ! ... | |
| 83. TIE |  | "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 |
| 83. 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 ... | |
| 86. |  | 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 |
| 87. TIE |  | Bee the Monster's good friend Frank the Lich has been attacked by PCs (otherwise known as Player Characters). Help Bee use the mystical Mat ... | |
| 87. 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 |
| 87. TIE |  | Sticks N Stones is a game about utilizing an unconventional weapon - The power of language!
Insult everybody you come across to build you ... | |
| 87. TIE |  | Time to escape from this jail... with yummy carrots !
=========== Controls ========== WASD or Arrows = Move Space = Throw Carrot (you c ... | |
| 87. TIE |  | Take control of the traffic lights in a suburban intersection and smash those shady vehicles.
--CONTROLS: a, s - turn lights green ... | |
| 87. 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 |
| 87. TIE |  | "The Bureaucrat is a story-driven game (perhaps it's a stretch to call it that, but nonetheless) where our hero is a bureaucrat working in t ... | |
| 87. 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 ... | |
| 87. TIE |  | Humans have stomped out nature long enough.
It's time for REVENGE Click to place seeds Watch them tear buildings apart Goal is to kill ... | - Coolness |
| 87. TIE |  | - A lonely astronaut must make new friends by hugging them.
Just barely made it with a mostly playable game. Thought I could get more ... | - Coolness |
| 87. TIE |  | ---------PLAY ON WINDOWS/MAC TO GET FULL GRAPHIC FEATURES----------
---THE GAME WAS MADE TO WORK ON 450x300. DONT TRY TO FULLSCREEN--- --- ... | - Graphics - Coolness |
| 98. TIE |  | "ink" is a dungeon crawler set in a literal literary land that is procedurally generated. Tales of oriental adventures will summon ninjas m ... | |
| 98. TIE |  | 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 |
| 100. TIE |  | You fly THE CLAW in this shoot 'em up, the slight problem is THE CLAW doesn't have any guns!, that's OK though, you got a CLAW!
Click and ... | - Coolness |
| 100. 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 |
| 100. 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 |
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