Ludum Dare 34 — December 11th-14th, 2015 — Theme Tied: Two Button Controls, Growing
NOTE: Because of the Theme tie, we allowed everyone to pick either Theme. Using both was optional. To keep things simple, there will still only be one Theme category. Every category in Ludum Dare voting is an opinion, so you’re welcome to rate them as you see fit. But we encourage you to be fair in your scores to people that chose only one Theme, and not both.
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| 1. |  | PLEASE PLAY THE DOWNLOAD VERSION FOR A BETTER EXPERIENCE
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Frank & Stein are linked by a ... |  - Overall - Coolness |
| 2. |  | Humanity is extinct, but the possibility exists to grow it again. We have to get the initial conditions right, by building the first towns a ... |  - Fun - Overall - Coolness |
| 3. TIE |  | A simple survival/strategy game based on loosely Kingdom (http://store.steampowered.com/app/368230/)
Rebuild fallen towns while surviving t ... | - Graphics - Overall |
| 3. TIE |  | This is the most adorable game I've ever made.
Dedicated to the memory of my friend's dachshund Molly. What an awesome dog she was! Ma ... | - Theme - Overall |
| 5. |  | Destroy the infected cells in all 4 zones to prevent the infection from spreading
-- CONTROL -- [arrow keys] move [z] shoot [x] suici ... | - Coolness |
| 6. |  | Tilt the stage to help your stunt dog "Lil Houndini" stay in the spotlight and wow the audience! The audience may get irritated if Houndini ... | - Coolness |
| 7. |  | ___________________________STORY___________________________
your ship breaks up on the rocky shores, but luckily you've made it to the ... | - Coolness |
| 8. TIE |  | A simple sidescroller, controlled with two buttons only.
S + K (windows keyboard) DOWN + A (xbox360 controller) Have fun! ... | - Coolness |
| 8. TIE |  | Grow your line to reach the goal. With 24 puzzles, containing a variety of mechanics, this should keep you busy for a while.
There is als ... | - Coolness |
| 10. |  | Growing Sakura
A puzzle game about... Growing Sakura. You have a hexagonal field and a few sakura buds on it. Clicking on the buds you ... | - Coolness |
| 11. |  | You control a car that auto-accelerates and you only have two-buttons to control it!
* Press Left Cursor to turn Left * Press Z to toot ... | - Fun - Coolness |
| 12. |  | Guide the plant to the sunlight above the buildings. ... | - Theme - Coolness |
| 13. TIE |  | left arrow to go left
right arrow to go right hold left and right to : pick up object, drop object, ... | - Coolness |
| 13. TIE |  | A cute virtual pet game called "Tamamystery". Use the two buttons on the screen to take care of your pet and grow it big and strong!
Cont ... | - Coolness |
| 15. |  | TODO, uploading right now... ... | - Graphics |
| 16. TIE |  | About
A game about silkmoths escaping a certain death in a silk mill. Use mouse to control. Theme Went for all three themes: two ... | - Audio - Mood - Coolness |
| 16. TIE |  | Psycho Tennis!
Fast-paced and addictive - play an insane variant of tennis against some maniacal musical bricks. You'll need your refl ... | - Fun - Coolness |
| 18. |  | A 2 button space trading miniature. Buy, sell, dodge pirates, fling asteroids and get berated by your gran. ... | |
| 19. |  | GROWTH INDUSTRIES
-- "Bigger is Better" Inspired by tile-building board games like Suburbia, this game of mega-corp machinations has y ... | |
| 20. TIE |  | _______________________________________________________________
A young cop must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping ... | - Coolness |
| 20. TIE |  | Discover who is Heinsenberg, who you are. And the most important question: where is Alice?
PLEASE PLAY WITH SOUND ... | - Coolness |
| 20. TIE |  | IVY by TRAB
Use the Left and Right arrow keys to grow. Solve puzzles by connecting every stone! Don't grow too far, though, or you' ... | |
| 23. TIE |  | There's an alien invasion!
No-one showed up to help fight but you, so naturally, clone yourself over and over so you, and and only you, can ... | - Coolness |
| 23. TIE |  | [ ＣＯＮＴＲＯＬＳ － ＱＷＥＲＴＹ ]
LEFT / RIGHT ARROW KEYS (DOWN)....AIM LEFT / RIGHT ARROW KEYS (RELEASE)....THRUST ... | - Coolness |
| 25. |  | Eldritch Trance: A Lovecraftian Rhythm Game
Please play with sound! CONTROLS: Uses only: Left Arrow / Left Mouse Button / F / Left Bum ... | - Coolness |
| 26. TIE |  | Post-Jam update:
http://www.wyattcheng.com/games/ZookeeperDJ/index.html Theme: 2-Button Controls Help Z4KM4STER the Zookeeper DJ feed ... | - Coolness |
| 26. TIE |  | Theme: Two buttons & Growing (both)
NOTE: Ludum Dare Website makes the web build cropped somehow, here's the link: http://bradur.github. ... | - Coolness |
| 28. TIE |  | A little game about bringing life to lifeless worlds. Hope you like it!
Wellspring Wanderer was written in Scala using the especially ex ... | - Coolness |
| 28. TIE |  | [DESCRIPTION]
Your purpouse is to grow up flower to the light. Collect money for score. Powerup yourself with weapons. Watch out sun lev ... | - Coolness |
| 28. TIE |  | THEME: TWO BUTTON CONTROLS
**POST-COMPO EDIT** Thanks N427 for Oculus Rift support! You can download the Rift-compatible version of Mil ... | - Coolness |
| 31. TIE |  | Spin and dodge. Spin around the circle avoiding oncoming projectiles. Collect points to increase your score.
[Controls in game] Use mo ... | - Coolness |
| 31. TIE |  | All Sorts of Spooky!
An action adventure high score game. Collect coins, avoid spikes and graves! Controls: A/D or LeftArrow/RightArro ... | |
| 33. TIE |  | Two people are lost in the desert. Will they survive the wilderness?
#LD34: Growing, two-button controls REVIEW: https://www.yout ... | |
| 33. TIE |  | Commander Left Right
* You can maximize the window if you like, the game will scale accordingly * The online highscore is optional. You ... | - Coolness |
| 35. TIE |  | Overview:
========= A game about surviving in an Ice Age. You and your children travel to escape The Cold, though it's always close behind ... | - Coolness - Mood |
| 35. TIE |  | Plant seeds, protect crops, try not to die.
... | |
| 37. |  | DEMON TRUCK WILL SCRIBE FOR YOU THESE FIRST OF 666 TRUTHS:
1) YOU WILL MASH THE LEFT SIDE OF YOUR KEYBOARD TO CHARGE RAMFULLY 2) YOU W ... | - Coolness |
| 38. TIE |  | A game about growing older. Infused with feelings about time passing faster the older you get.
A top down action RPG where you age over t ... | |
| 38. TIE |  | Roll around. Inflate. Collect the things and the other things. It's an NMcCoy game, so if you know what to expect from that, expect it.
... | |
| 40. TIE |  | Pixel Nations is a randomly generated turn-based strategy game where you control a budding nation amidst a slew of moderately developed coun ... | - Coolness |
| 40. TIE |  | ________________DESCRIPTION________________
Puzzle/parkour platformer about a Wizard with an interesting fantasy plot. Use your trustw ... | - Coolness |
| 42. |  | Go, Go, Radzilla! is a simple game about destroying a city with your radioactive powers. It is played with two buttons (Z and X).
For the ... | |
| 43. |  | Having decided that 48 hours is far too long to create a game, the game creation process has been optimized to a mere 60 seconds of pressing ... | - Innovation - Coolness |
| 44. TIE |  | During the development of Wild Growth I tried to build both themes into the game. There are only two controls and you play a growing plant i ... | - Coolness |
| 44. TIE |  | No Rush is a fast paced obstacle runner which places you in a 1-bit enviroment. Move your way down the platforms to escape impending doom. B ... | |
| 44. TIE |  | Just feed your puppy, let him grow.
Fat guys are better, try to avoid te sick ones. Z - change move direction X - bat swipe ... | - Coolness |
| 44. TIE |  | Arcade action on the high seas!
Left click to use your pistol. Right click to use your Katana. ... | - Coolness |
| 44. TIE |  | In Alpha Aphid you play as an aphid trying to make his way to the top of the tree. Only by collecting dew, growing stalks, evading evil aphi ... | |
| 44. TIE |  | Fertilized Crops Xtreme
You are the best farmer in the world. Now is the time to prove it. Sell as many crops as you can, as fast as you ... | |
| 44. TIE |  | Get all rabbits and grow a good amount of grass to go to the next level.
Parts of lit areas can be turned to grass once isolated from lig ... | |
| 51. |  | I decided to fool around with a new style this Ludum Dare: Diagonal pixels!
It was weird to program, but I love how it turned out. I inc ... | - Coolness |
| 52. TIE |  | Made in 48 hours by Steven Miller for Ludum Dare 34.
Theme: Growing You are a plant. The military is coming after you. Defeat them in ... | - Coolness |
| 52. TIE |  | UPDATE: Post Jam version (See link + Web Version) added. Only changes are the new Calibration option, which lets you adjust input lag and m ... | - Audio |
| 54. TIE |  | This is a simple two button puzzle game.
Press D to grow the ball. Press A to create a new ball. Press A + D to restart the puzzle. ... | - Coolness |
| 54. TIE |  | It's 1979, and you're landing your groovy new spaceship on a cruelly revolving planet.
Just two buttons (the arrow keys) do everything: ... | - Coolness |
| 54. TIE |  | Your momma's been kidnapped, and it's up to you to defEAT those that took her away. The gameplay is a simple platform puzzler, where you ne ... | - Coolness |
| 57. TIE |  | Use the left and right keys - or tap the left/right side of you screen on mobile - to hop your way up 99 Steps and reach the top!
There ... | - Coolness |
| 57. TIE |  | Join Clara Stirzaker, adventurer and treasure hunter, as she explores the Crypt of Time in search of ultimate power.
Clara will move arou ... | |
| 59. TIE |  | Oh no! You find yourself trapped, chained to a desk with TWO BUTTONS in front of you. Play through each of the challenges to get to the MONE ... | - Coolness |
| 59. TIE |  | ===============================================================================
A game about a forest. Nurture your seeds and help them ... | - Mood |
| 61. TIE |  | U.G.O is a game about unidentified growing organism that's fallen from the skies and is now devouring everything that stands in it's way!
Y ... | - Coolness |
| 61. TIE |  | You are the tiny, frail beginnings of a plant
You have strength to begin with, but it will fade Feed yourself, reach the surface, and ... | - Coolness |
| 61. TIE |  | I tried to incorporate both themes, but focusing on two button controls. Hopefully no description or explanation is needed for the actual ga ... | |
| 61. TIE |  | Left Mouse Button : Cast
Right Mouse Button : Switch ability 1.02 Bugfix Changelog: -Fix for multiple monitors to help prevent clickin ... | - Coolness |
| 61. TIE |  | Rhythm Rider is a quite simple rhythm game. The basic mechanics are simmilar to Taiko: Drum Master. You need to get into a rhythm, using onl ... | - Coolness |
| 61. TIE |  | Puff Enough?
Control your little puff with left and right arrow key. Jump left with left and right with right. You start with 3 jumps. ... | |
| 67. |  | robot would like to leave please
......i ...[:.:] >[__]< ....| | help robot to leave the room robot needs your help ... | - Coolness |
| 68. TIE |  | Growing bacteria using light and solving puzzles doing so.
First time using Unity, didn't think the idea was good enough at first, but wi ... | - Coolness |
| 68. TIE |  | The Princess has been kidnapped by the evil Rigor Mortis. It's up to you, Sir Bouncealot to rescue her and bring justice to this world!
B ... | - Coolness |
| 68. TIE |  | A simple little game with two buttons where you dodge falling blocks.
...and a twist? (Please play with sound before rating.) = ... | - Coolness |
| 68. TIE |  | Ludum Party!
Challenge your friend, or your friendly CPU to a series of quick minigames using only two buttons! Each game makes use of ... | - Coolness |
| 72. TIE |  | Theme : Growing
This game is for my son. He was born July this year. I’m trying hard to be a good mother. Each thing I give to him ... | - Coolness |
| 72. TIE |  | Escape! A and D controls two boosters, wield them well to escape from the rolling inferno beneath you!
> Gather enough speed to gain esca ... | - Coolness |
| 74. TIE |  | A stupid little game where you are a cactus and you must escape from cardboard mazes. Use left and right arrows or A and D to turn left and ... | |
| 74. TIE |  | An explosive arcade game combining space invaders, bullet hell, some Vlambeer, and other influences. Plough through 13 waves and choose from ... | - Coolness |
| 74. TIE |  | -----
IMPORTANT NOTE: The web version of this game has been tested for Chrome! Other browsers may work, but there may be visual glitches. P ... | - Coolness |
| 77. TIE |  | press up to go up
press down to go down there is no real ending sorry ;( ... | - Coolness |
| 77. TIE |  | In Griffin Card you play different number cards to give your pet Griffin the power it needs to defeat the evil growing tree creature.
The ... | |
| 77. TIE |  | [UPDATE NOTE]------------------------------------------
THE new link has a game just a bit FASTer, just it. You can still play the old v ... | - Coolness |
| 77. TIE |  | Roguebots is a narrative roguelike about robots that grow consciousness.
Control with mouse (left/right button). There are 5 levels. It m ... | |
| 81. TIE |  | There's No Going Back is a puzzle platformer where you cannot move backwards. Use boost pads to move around the level in style.
This game ... | - Coolness |
| 81. TIE |  | Works better on Firefox than on Chrome.
Feel free to make videos, and please post links in the comments if you do. Changelog ======== ... | |
| 83. TIE |  | I went for the topic Two Button Controls. In this game you use up and down to move the lever up and down (it will automatically move left if ... | - Coolness |
| 83. TIE |  | Seedball is a puzzle game with few rules:
-the ball follow the walls -the ball go straight ahead on a one block hole on a rectilinear path ... | - Coolness |
| 83. TIE |  | A game tangentially related to Growing, with 2 button controls.
You're an unfortunate flower stuck hundreds of meters below the ground an ... | |
| 83. TIE |  | Here is another attempt to make a "game" for Ludum Dare. GrowingTrees is an incomplete game about growing... uhm... trees? I'm not sure. H ... | - Coolness |
| 87. TIE |  | I'm not even gonna try defending this
just have a look requires a mouse and keyboard hint: there are 6 screens in the game plus the m ... | - Coolness |
| 87. TIE |  | Theme picked Two Button Control
The game is about how a ball return to its owner from some post-apocalyptic ruins. But you do not contro ... | - Coolness |
| 87. TIE |  | A rather simple little infinite runner based on the "two button controls" theme. Your objective is to drive as far as you can without crashi ... | - Coolness |
| 90. TIE |  | Become a giant serpent breaking into a peaceful mall and violently murdering people. Try to get the highest score while dodging your own tai ... | - Coolness |
| 90. TIE |  | This is an experiment to see if a metroidvania with two button controls is possible (answer, yes!)
It is more a demonstration than an act ... | |
| 90. TIE |  | Release a part of yourself in order to gain the parts of others.
Grow. Survive. ... | - Coolness |
| 90. TIE |  | Destroy enemy Chaintanks and collect their scrap to build the largest Chaintank possible while under constant attack.
Controls: WASD - M ... | - Coolness |
| 94. TIE |  | In a diesel-punk future where all long-distance communication has been destroyed, you set out with a convoy of unlikely heroes in search of ... | - Coolness |
| 94. TIE |  | Two button sushi eating game,
Controls: Z (bottom rail) and X (upper rail) ... | - Coolness |
| 96. TIE |  | Xtreme Crop Duster Simulator '82 is a Commodore 64-style side scrolling flight simulator, made in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 34.
Controls ar ... | - Coolness |
| 96. TIE |  | You're blind and completely paralyzed, except for one finger.
Can you end your life with just that? ... | |
| 96. TIE |  | Play as a seedling desperately trying to reach the sunlight.
-Use the arrow keys to move. -Eat seeds for points. -Eat all seeds to unlo ... | |
| 99. TIE |  | About Lightreach:
You control a plant by making it grow with the Z and X keys. Z grows the plant straight up. X splits into two branche ... | - Coolness |
| 99. TIE |  | Plant a garden by murdering cauliflower monsters, twitch reflex style. When monsters get in range (GREEN LIGHTNING!), press left or right to ... | - Coolness |
| 99. TIE |  | Made in24 hours with a lot of hard work, a complete disregard for proper game creation protocols and a lot of enthusiasm!
This game is an i ... | - Coolness |
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