Damrem Games

@damrem

Damien Remars, game designer & developer.

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Ludum Dare 41 compo entry

#ludum dare #ludum #ld41 #gamedev #madewithunity

Waterbears can go without food or water for more than a decade. They can survive temperatures from zero to above the boiling point of water, pressure six times stronger than the deepest ocean trench, radiation hundreds of times higher than the fatal dose for a human, and the vacuum of space.

Exactement.

a series of composition tips i’d been sharing on twitter!

and since some people had asked, i’ve put up a pdf version of this on gumroad along with a layered psd of one of the example images too

tips would be really appreciated, but it’s up for free!

Reblog to support the lovely @genicecream

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Play Small Worlds, my LDJAM38 game: https://damrem.itch.io/small-worlds

#ldjam38 #madewithunity

ISOcalypse by Pixel Joint

Another traditional isometric collaboration is complete as 42 members of the pixel art community Pixel Joint (you can read about the history and the present of the site in Retronator Magazine) turned in all 92 pieces of the puzzle.

These artworks are created by setting a theme and some ground rules (palette, scale), and then subdividing the big canvas into diamond-shaped tiles. Each artist only sees the edges of the neighboring tiles and adds their own continuity into the image. As the title suggests, it was all about the apocalypse this time.

Full artwork with all the authors listed can be found on the PixelJoint forum here.

Quand je combine plusieurs bibliothèques

Par Grimka

#gamedev #haxe #openfl #edge

Play (& rate) our #LD33 entry, made in 3 days with thomasbaudon.

My Rules for Game Jams

This is how I cut corners in Ludum Dare and other jams:

non-modal interaction

no overworld

no menu-based combat

no world map between levels

simple graphics

stay in 2D unless gameplay is in 3D

keep animations to 2-4 frames

no scrolling,

orthogonal perspective

no alpha blending, only color key

keep the color palette small (5 per sprite, 16 per screen, 32 total)

no realism, take inspiration from cartoons

no fancy AI algorithms

no A* search

no learning

no constraints solving

simple mob behaviour

human-vs-human multiplayer for intelligent enemies

no online multiplayer

turn-based multiplayer can be played with only one keyboard

local co-op is tricky

simple game tools

bfxr for sound

autotracker for music

gimp for environment art (backgrounds/tilesheets)

aseprite for characters/animations

if you do a 3D game, use 2D tools and put the sprites on billboards

port to Microsoft Windows after the jam has ended

design the game with a lowest playable resolution in mind

only 5 minutes of content

players are slower than you anyway

This is what I always try to put in:

animation

sound effects

a title screen

a game over screen

a shortcut to take you to the LD rating page

colorblind mode if necessary

This stuff is easy to do and nice to have:

a main menu

gamepad support (if applicable)

music

screenshake

tweet your high score function

a help button

Reblogging to remind myself for GBJAM

Good info! Gotta shift my focus of I’m gonna actually do the Metroid Jam…

christopheryabsley

Dungeon builds redundant doors sometimes. Not sure if I should leave it in or not.

Why not?

Better late than never, here is my result sheet for LD30! (jam)

When I exit a program which is not responding on Windows

/* by Garrett */

When Windows decides to reboot while I am working on something really important

/* by Arekibian */

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