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Ask HN: The Ludum Dare 27 Entries of HNers

• Udo 13y ago
  Robots Save the Day: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=6821 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview... Platform: HTML / JS / CSS, jQuery, Handlebars, Howler.js Tools: Cinema 4D, Garageband, Audacity, Pixelmator
  • spindritf 13y ago
    Short and sweet. I'm killing the humans next time.
    • Udo 13y ago
      They have it coming.
• willvarfar 13y ago
  willvarfar: The NSA's Where's Snowden? You are an NSA Analyst and your job is to track down Snowden and Assange, who are flying around the globe using assumed identities trying to reach a safe haven in a hostile country! You just need to log into your NSA Cyber Remote Analyst Portal (CRAP) which is a Windows GOV edition thin client, and start ... hacking in SQL :) http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=10313 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview... We made the Windows look&feel and the SQL parser/runner from scratch for the Ludum Dare. HTML5 + canvas + JS
  • willvarfar 13y ago
    To add: I promise to play and review every single game* posted in this thread as a matter of duty :) * sans windows. Not a windows user.
    • Udo 13y ago
      Seconded. I'm looking forward to trying these out!
    • mkesper 13y ago
      Try Wine.
      • willvarfar 13y ago
        I have a mac. But its really downloading arbitrary code that I don't like.
        • sublimit 13y ago
          Arbitrary code? Don't be dumb, they're just games made by people like you.
• HeyChinaski 13y ago
  Professor Power and Powerbot http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=11211 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview... Terrible name I know. Platformer built in Javascript. No frameworks or libraries other than a sprinkling of jquery. SunVox for music, sound in bfxr, graphics in Inkscape.
• hughsk 13y ago
  Hurry! http://hughsk.github.io/ludum-dare-27/ http://hughsk.github.io/ludum-dare-27/ All JS, using browserify and a bunch of modules but no framework :)
  • willvarfar 13y ago
    Voting link? http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=21035 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview... I found it on the LD site, but others might not. Lovely Perlin? How how do you do the collisions exactly?
    • hughsk 13y ago
      Thanks! Collisions/physics are handled by box2dweb, using a 2D greedy mesher to simplify the grid into quads: https://github.com/hughsk/continuous-box2d https://github.com/hughsk/continuous-box2d The terrain is a mix of a cellular automaton (https://github.com/hughsk/cave-automata-2d https://github.com/hughsk/cave-automata-2d) with a bit of perlin noise to fill in the gaps :)
  • timinman 13y ago
    Impressive
• munchor 13y ago
  Multitaskor, can you multitask? The game: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=7348 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview... The source code: https://github.com/davidgomes/multitaskor https://github.com/davidgomes/multitaskor edit I'll also add this is my third Ludum Dare and I love it every time - the community is brilliant, the blog works amazingly and as you work on your entry it's very easy to keep track of other people's work and failures too. I try to keep motivated by looking at the progress of others and keep myself working despite other people giving up. In the end, it's all about having fun making games and no game-making jam is nearly as cool as Ludum, it is the queen of game making competitions.
  • spindritf 13y ago
    It's crazy once you really have to start multitask. Great idea.
  • robgough 13y ago
    Apparently I can't, you're game does something rather weird to my brain. Fun idea though!
• rincewind 13y ago
  Frozen Braid: A Frozen Synapse/Braid demake http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=7968 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview... Created with Python, PyGame, ASEprite, bfxr, Autotracker-c
• Peroni 13y ago
  BIRTH: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=23957 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview... Built in Haxe, OpenFL and HaxeFlixel NOTE: Built by https://twitter.com/grayhaze https://twitter.com/grayhaze - He's a HN lurker and doesn't have a profile here so he gave me permission to post it on his behalf.
  • grayhaze 13y ago
    I have a profile now. ;) I'm going to continue working on my game and release a version for Android, and probably iOS, at some point. I'd welcome any feedback. I'm aware that at the very least it needs sound, level transitions, instructions and a lot of work on the visuals. I'm also looking into ways to expand the game and add variation by introducing new or alternative enemies to the mix.
• mrspeaker 13y ago
  Time Flies Straight - a game of fractal time starring Carl Sagan Step out of linear time and experience fractal time in this strange raycasted adventure that will open your mind. And probably make you feel a little ill. Web: http://mrspeaker.net/dev/ld27/ http://mrspeaker.net/dev/ld27/ LD entry: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=9199 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...
  • theboywho 13y ago
    This game is one of the few innovative out-of-the-box ideas for this ld27 theme "10 seconds". The game is just brilliant. Very refreshing, brain-teasing and fun to play. 5/5.
    • minikomi 13y ago
      I enjoyed this a lot. Thanks!
  • teamnyble 13y ago
    This is my favorite so far - so insane. Plus, Carl Sagan!
  • jbaiter 13y ago
    This is seriously awesome, great idea!
  • asselinpaul 13y ago
    wow awesome. Thanks for sharing.
  • throwaway1979 13y ago
    Brilliant game! Loved the jingle .. it is going to be stuck in my head the whole day. What did you code it in (language, frameworks?)?
  • Jemaclus 13y ago
    Ha, this is awesome.
• aschearer 13y ago
  Second's Showdown: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=15160 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview... Do you yearn for a simpler time free of the constant interruptions and pressures of modern life? Then look no further! Grab your favorite pistol, a friend or enemy, and join us on a journey to a world of dueling. In a city where every little problem is resolved with a fight to the death, it's up to you, the dueler's second, to keep heads on shoulders and bodies hole-free. Bring your guile and skill to the table and outsmart your opponent in a battle for the ages! Written with TypeScript
• SneManden 13y ago
  10 Second Dash - a 100m running game Game and source: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=16779 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview... Written in Javascript (HTML5) with the micro-framework Coquette.js as a starting point. Used Pickle for graphics.
• robert-boehnke 13y ago
  Awoid: http://www.awoid.com/?utm_source=hn http://www.awoid.com/?utm_source=hn A slick two-player word game – challenge a friend or a coworker and see who has got a bottomless vocabulary. If you need someone to play against, hit me up on Twitter – I'm @ceterum_censeo Written in CoffeeScript + jQuery
• Sephiroth87 13y ago
  http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=26373 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...
• colinm 13y ago
  Inversion http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=14635 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...
• jplur 13y ago
  I made a multiplayer platformer with node.js, websockets, and box2D: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=1066 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...
  • willvarfar 13y ago
    Multiplayer games are so hard to get to work in LD where players arrive sporadically :( I had a similar silence for attempt a few LDs back: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/08/30/cage-flight-autopsy/ http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/08/30/cage-flight-autops...
    • jplur 13y ago
      Hey I remember that game. I was able to get a dozen or so people to log in at the same time towards the end of the competition, but I don't expect more of that during voting. (Also I can't seem to keep the server up)
      • savethejets 13y ago
        Where did you host it? Heroku forces you to use long polling instead of websockets, and long polling is not very good for keeping it speedy.
        • jplur 13y ago
          It's on a free tier amazon ec2. I'm actually amazed at how fast websockets are, I can get a good connection even on my smartphone.
• sublimit 13y ago
  Maximilian Lambda Caster, an experimental bullet hell: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=5551 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview... Use the enemies you shoot to create lambda functions that manipulate the battlefield. It'll go over people's heads so I'll have no chance of ranking very high. Which is why I'd rather have comments from a handful of people saying they "get it" than hundreds of bad ratings from people who try it for 10 seconds (heh) and give up. Nonetheless I enjoy doing esoteric games in game jams, questioning assumptions in game design. I feel like it's a waste of time to do "just a platformer" when you're in an environment where creativity flows. Edit: I see OP's now going around tagging people on the site as "Hacker Newser", please don't do that. I'd rather not be labeled as a HN user.
• mguillemot 13y ago
  The Legend of Epikouros - a Zelda-like Relay Marathon http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=26007 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview... I made this in 30-ish hours for the compo. Client is made with Unity, and server with node.js. It was very fun to come up with something original on the "10 seconds" theme: instead of the quite evident idea of having a very small-scale game you can play for only 10 seconds, I explored the idea of having a huge game but being able to play only 10 seconds of it. The result turned out - IMHO - quite interesting, related to the way we - humans - relate with time (warning: playing it might induce some feelings of impatience, nostalgia, emptiness or regret, depending on your view on life...).
• vanderZwan 13y ago
  "Sort it out" - separating bits through an obtuse (is that the right word?) mouse interface. http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=25238 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview... Lacks an in-game tutorial, so be sure to wath the video first. As far as theme was concerned I just used a ten-second level limit, so a bit lame in that sense, but I think the gesture input is somewhat innovative and mastering it is part of the fun. Made in Processing so I'll probably keep working on it, polish it, and release an Android version as well.
• ippa 13y ago
  Pretty short pixel perfect collision HTML5 platformer/puzzle, the theme "10 seconds" is pretty important when solving them. http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=1087 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview... Made with http://jawsjs.com/ http://jawsjs.com/ Source code? The JavaScript isn't minified.
• Ruphin 13y ago
  Placeholder - A game about defending a place. The focus was largely on gameplay and balance, and the result is a decently balanced tower-defense like game. We tried some very new ideas in this genre, and it turns out they create a completely different style of play. Overall very happy with the end result. Web: http://placeholder.tinco.nl http://placeholder.tinco.nl LD entry: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=27808 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...
• ensmotko 13y ago
  Jump Drive - http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=21481 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview... I've used threejs for the graphics and cannonjs for the physics.
• Afal 13y ago
  Tense Conds http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=27397 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview... I am bad at video game.
• drakeandrews 13y ago
  It's not technically a LD entry (I spent far too long on non-game bits and forgot to actually add a game) but I'm quite proud of it and resolve to finish the damn thing eventually. Warning, Chrome(+WebGL) only, hideously unoptomised and sits there unresponsive for a few seconds before starting abruptly. WASD to steer, shift to thrust. Do not press space, space is broken: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25413532/ld27/tenseconds.html https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25413532/ld27/tenseconds...
• Udo 13y ago
  I'm live-streaming myself playing the games from this thread: http://www.twitch.tv/udnozor http://www.twitch.tv/udnozor
• savethejets 13y ago
  Xhon - a 10 second platformer You play an alien life form that pollinates itself by shooting out spore that live for only 10 seconds. Some of your pods give the spore special powers! http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=15315 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...
• tigerj 13y ago
  http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=14172 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview... Chicken Snatch. Made with JavaScript. works well in chrome and safari. Firefox is broken because of an audio conflict.
• alnis 13y ago
  10 Second Platformer: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=3353 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview... Built in JavaScript using rot.js.
  • alnis 13y ago
    Sorry, *10 Second Roguelike. My brain hasn't fully recovered from LD27 yet.
• talentless 13y ago
  Reassessment - 10 second rts http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=8423 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...
• epaik 13y ago
  A bit late to the party. Chronodrive: A Time-travel SHMUP(shootemup)! Play in your browser (HTML5): http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=3876 http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview...