We finally settled on a title: our game is called Porté par le Vent which is French for… “Carried by the wind”.

You can play it now! (don’t forget to tell us what you think in the comments and/or rate it, thank you!)

So we’ve been working on and off for about 12 hours now on our entry. Our team is very organic, people join and leave all the time but I think there are around 5 people who made most of what we currently have.

Here’s a screenshot of our main menu and check out this little gameplay video.

Click to see a gameplay video

The link with the “Evolution” theme might not be very apparent yet, but we’re getting there! Stay tuned

In October of last year, I joined the October challenge to try and make one euro with CraftStudio, my project of a real-time cooperative game-making platform. Didn’t make it in time.

I set out to have a usable build of CraftStudio for Ludum Dare 22 in December. Missed the mark.

A chest made with CraftStudio by @ThomasFrick

Made my first euro in March when I launched a crowdfunding campaign (which ended up being quite a success!) but couldn’t make it to Ludum Dare 23 in late April because I was still busy getting scripting & export working. I finally launched CraftStudio Alpha in early june, which allowed me and a bunch of friends to make the first ever CraftStudio game, called CraftStudioKart (made over the course of a week-end, now we’re talking!)

So, just over a full year after starting CraftStudio, I’m finally able to enter Ludum Dare with it \o/ I’m not sure yet whether I’ll be doing it alone (jam) or with a team (compo) but I’m very excited!

In order to celebrate, I’m running a free Premium week-end so that all of you can take CraftStudio for a spin and make a game with it for Ludum Dare. Mind you, it’s still very rough! Also, there’s no sound yet. But maybe you can cobble up something cool with it anyway.

Whatever your tools, have fun and see you all on the other side!

Iron Man made in CraftStudio by @Crealinkarts