Ludum Dare 48: April 23rd-26th, 2021

[Deozaan]

Ludum Dare 48 is approaching fast! It begins three Fridays from now.

To be honest, I'm not especially motivated to participate this time, but it's kind of historic in that it's the 48th event of that which used to be called "LD48" due to its origin as a 48-hour game jam before being rebranded as "LDJam" a few years ago. So I feel I can't miss out on being a part of LD48. That said, I've never actually done the 48-hour "compo" and have always participated in the more laid-back 72-hour jam. Anyway, this time I'll be participating in the 72-hour jam as part of a team once again, so that should lighten the load.

Right now theme suggestions are open. Anyone can submit up to 3 themes, even if they're not participating. You just need to register a free account to be able to do so. If you'd like to suggest a theme, you may do so here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/theme


EDIT: My team made Let's Go Deeper for LD48.



See previous posts on DonationCoder about Ludum Dare:

Ludum Dare 47 - (My team made Chrono Crash for LD47)
Ludum Dare 46 - (My team made Defendeer for LD46)
Ludum Dare 45 Reviews - A thread about LD45 games
Ludum Dare 41 - (My team made It's Not Lupus! for LD41)
Ludum Dare 2017 Thread - A thread about games from LD37 and LD38
Ludum Dare 33 - A thread about LD33 games
Ludum Dare 32 - (I made Time Bomb during LD32)
Ludum Dare 31 - (I made Worm Wars during LD31)
Ludum Dare 30 - (I made Planetary Devourers during LD30)
Ludum Dare 29 - (I made It Came From... Beneath!! during LD29)
Ludum Dare [29] topic for other games - A thread about LD29 games
Ludum Dare 23 - (I made Be Tiny, World! during LD23)
Ludum Dare - Game Programming Challenges

[KodeZwerg]

Ahhh good old memories come up by reading your post.
When I was much younger (from year 1990 around), a friendly competition named "Assembly" was held in Finland.
Created with dozens of other crews different type of things.
Modules (Audio, with sub-group of Format and Channels), Art (Graphic), many kind of size bounded Demos (my category).
I loved it with all same minded people around.
No one stared at you with a "wtf"-face when you talked binary instead of real language 
If I should guess, thats why I still think "size matters" 

Anyway,
I really wish you alot of fun, no pain in fingers, lots of endurance and best of enjoyment possible!

[Deozaan]

LD48 begins in just over a week (9 days). Currently the Theme Slaughter is happening.

If you want to have some say in the theme for this event, then go vote.

[Deozaan]

It begins in less than 72 hours, and currently all 3 rounds of theme voting are currently open. Though I imagine they'll end soon and it will be time for the final round of voting.

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/theme/

[Deozaan]

Less than 48 hours until LD48 begins. The final round of voting is open:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/theme

The theme will be one of the following:

• Automation
• Containment
• Deeper and deeper
• Delivery
• Expansion
• Generations
• Hidden world
• Leave something behind
• Lost signal
• One time use
• One tool, many uses
• Parasite
• Shelter
• Split in two
• Summoning
• You are the power source

[Deozaan]

The theme is Deeper and Deeper.

I'm diving in! I'll come up for air in a few days.

[tomos]

The theme is Deeper and Deeper.

I'm diving in! I'll come up for air in a few days.

Best of luck

[Deozaan]

We made a game called Let's Go Deeper.

I'll be working on creating "pretty" artwork and screenshots to make the game page(s) look nicer over the next few days. Right now it's fairly barebones looking. And I'll also be creating the usual timelapse videos and will post them here with more stats when they're ready.

[Deozaan]

Here are the timelapses of our work on the game.

Deozaan's LD48 Timelapse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxTUxNIuDC0

Roidz's LD48 Timelapse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lyesbw3wLY

[tomos]

Here are the timelapses of our work on the game.

Deozaan's LD48 Timelapse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxTUxNIuDC0

Always enjoy these.
Plus it's nice to watch someone being so industrious

[KodeZwerg]

that video, is that made from your pc or other competitor?
i do also enjoy it much! great job!

[Deozaan]

that video, is that made from your pc or other competitor?

Each video is of a different person working on the same game as a team. The one labeled "Deozaan's LD48 Timelapse" was made using screenshots of my PC while I worked on the game. The one labeled "Roidz's LD48 Timelapse" was made using screenshots of my teammate's PC while he worked on the game.

[Deozaan]

Out of 3866 submitted games, here is my submission's final ranking:

Overall: 929th (3.5 average from 42 ratings) (76%)
Fun: 682nd (3.488 average from 42 ratings)  (82%)
Innovation: 1716th (2.538 average from 42 ratings) (55%)
Theme: 1336th (3.288 average from 42 ratings) (65%)
Audio: 414th (3.713 average from 42 ratings) (89%)
Mood: 1008th (3.438 average from 42 ratings) (74%)

We expected to place somewhere near the middle, so we weren't too surprised by our scores.