RedditLudum Dare 15
Competition information for Ludum Dare 15, held August 28th-30th weekend in 2009.
The theme for Ludum Dare 15 was Caverns. Ludum Dare 15 had 144 entries.
For the announcement post (with keynote by Mike Hommel), click here. To see the results of theme voting see Round 1, Round 2, and Round 3. To see results of the user survey, click here.
Historically speaking, this was our first competition with the brand new submission system, a rudimentary compo website redesign (with logo), as well as a keynote.
Stay tuned for Ludum Dare 16, coming December 2009.
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| 1. |  | Java, Original Upload | Java 6.0 | Java 5.0 | Source Inspired by the Kroz series of games. Move the hero through the monster hoards to the exit. Numpad moves the guy around, but the arrow key ... |  - Community |
| 2. |  | Play on Web | SWF (Right-click Save-as) ANGRY CAVERNS - by HybridMind - August 28th-30th, 2009
Created from scratch for Ludum Dare 15's 48hr game competition Concept: You are ... |  - Community - Theme - Coolness |
| 3. |  | You are a little monster that can fly and puke explosive bouncy goo, and you cannot die. Somewhere in the level there is a cake that you can ... |  - Coolness - Community |
| 4. |  | Windows | OS/X | Web | Source(Unity Project) I cant test the osx build so if its duff let me know plz ^_^
instructions are in the game, thanks for checking/voting :) ... | |
| 5. |  | Mineral Miner
Controls: - arrow keys to move - space to jump into and out of the front of the tank Object: Collect all minerals on l ... | |
| 6. |  | ... | - Theme |
| 7. TIE |  | I wasn't satisfied with my earlier entry, so I did another.
Excavatorrr is about a mono-colour adventurer who seeks for riches in undergr ... | - Coolness |
| 7. TIE |  | Linux users: Run the EXE in Wine!
Unfortunately, I was not able to complete my Ludumdare entry for LD15. I did, however, find time to go ... | |
| 9. TIE |  | Based the concept of the Allegory of the Cave, You control Glaucon around the cave to find old artifacts and leave the cavern.. but watch ou ... | |
| 9. TIE |  | Very short game about being stuck in an underwater cave.
Features: - falling rocks - skeletons - explosions - giant fish UPDATE: ... | - Coolness |
| 11. |  | Windows | Web | Flash | Source Tools:
- FlashDevelop (+Flex3), coded in ActionScript 3 - sfxr - musagi - Inkscape - Gimp - OpenCanvas + Wacom tablet Librar ... | |
| 12. |  | The Killbots of Cavern Station is a real time semi-tactical game. Use cover to kill the evil killbots.
Check out the timelapse at: http:/ ... | - Fun |
| 13. TIE |  | Loot the gold! Beware lava.
Move ship with cursor keys. Ship automatically digs when moving slowly. Windows+DX9 ... | |
| 13. TIE |  | Here is my entry, not finished, but partly playable. Use the arrow keys to walk/climb, Space to jump. Enjoy!
... | - Coolness |
| 13. TIE |  | Flash Version History | Direct Embed Link | Source Code The preloader will hang for a couple of seconds between 95-99%. I ddin't have time to fix that.
The town was built over a cavern. Place y ... | - Coolness |
| 16. |  | Download Akin Revenge Mirror 1 | Download Akin Revenge Mirror2 Akin's Revenge by Ariel Yust 2009
================================= this game was made for the ludum dare 48h competition which is hos ... | |
| 17. |  | Windows | Linux | Mac OS X | Source (.love = .zip) The game with moles, mushrooms, and velociraptors.
By Noé Falzon <firstname.lastname(a)aliceadsl.fr> You are a mole. You want to get al ... | |
| 18. TIE |  | FLYING TIPS:
It seems the controls have received a lot of criticism. They are pretty tricky to get a handle on. Sorry for that! Improving t ... | |
| 18. TIE |  | EDIT: Thanks for the comments everyone! Yeah, I know the game gets dull - I'd originally planned to have actual levels, then just bunged in ... | - Coolness |
| 20. TIE |  | Couldn't get it done in time. Le sigh. Still, got some good progress!
Windows and OS X builds are now up! Enjoy! Also, the windows build ... | - Coolness |
| 20. TIE |  | Deep within the cave system monsters are hungry. Can you help guide the colored pellets to feed them? ... | - Coolness |
| 22. |  | It is the year 20<near future>, and nuclear war is imminent. A shelter is constructed, deep in an underground cavern -- but you are not perm ... | - Coolness |
| 23. |  | Windows | OS/X | Linux | Source **Update: Now on OSX too!**
Bugs fixed since v1.00: jumping bug; performance on 16bit displays; reflectors can no longer be placed on top ... | - Coolness |
| 24. TIE |  | Make sure you read the READ ME FIRST readme before you get started. It also needs to be extracted before running.
Made with Construct (for ... | |
| 24. TIE |  | This is my entry to LD15 - "Cavern Ghost"
It's not much of a game, but I hope you find it entertaining, The goal is to escape the cave, bu ... | |
| 26. |  | UPDATE: For those experiencing bug(s) that make the game unplayable, the .zip's have been updated with (and only with) fixes for those game- ... | - Coolness |
| 27. |  | You control Mr Monocle riding on his Penny-Farthing inside a large and dangerous cavern. For more info check the intro "movie" after you sta ... | - Humor |
| 28. |  | Arrow keys to move, z to mine. Explore the cave to gain points. A mining a wall gets 1 point, a stalagmite 10 points, and finding a mushro ... | |
| 29. |  | Windows Version Now Available! Yeah!
This is the tale of a courageous, but tiny robot and her quest to defeat the evil group GNOME. (GNOM ... | |
| 30. TIE |  | Source (python + pygame) | Windows When asses need to be kicked, Lex is the man for the job.
Keys: arrows to move around, up to jump space bar to shoot m to mute the ho ... | - Coolness |
| 30. TIE |  | Win32 only, required DX9 and a Shader 2.0 card
See LavaCavernsOfDoom.txt in the .zip for more info ... | - Graphics |
| 32. |  | A 2-human game.
Player 1 crawls the dungeon... I mean, caverns. His experience is all up to Player 2 (he who wields the mouse), who des ... | - Innovation - Coolness |
| 33. TIE |  | ... | - Coolness |
| 33. TIE |  | GAMEPLAY NOTE:
The in-game map is saved every time you play. So the next time you play you continue with the same map you drew last tim ... | - Fun - Overall - Coolness - Audio |
| 35. |  | IMPORTANT NOTES based on comments I've seen below:
1. Thanks a lot for trying the game even though I didnt finish it! Yes it's lacking by ... | - Coolness |
| 36. |  | How to play: Follow the instructions in game.
Best played on a 1280x1024 screen. In case you don't follow the mission texts very well, ... | - Coolness |
| 37. TIE |  | Cavern Crawler (Final)
Posted by Osgeld August 30th, 2009 7:58 pm Well after many, many set backs I managed to cough up a finished "gam ... | |
| 37. TIE |  | Windows | OS/X | Linux | Web | Source My goal was to make a game using a language I had never tried, Processing, using no art or sound that wasn't procedurally created. Well, tha ... | |
| 39. TIE |  | Windows and Source | Post Compo Version By Comtemno
For Ludum Dare 15 Edit 2: I updated the post-compo version, which fixes many bugs (again) and adds new content; however, the ... | - Coolness |
| 39. TIE |  | Web | Post-Compo Web | Source The world has been overrun by alien invaders, and humans have taken to the depths of the earth to escape the scourge. When the aliens find y ... | - Coolness |
| 41. |  | Incomplete. But nifty level editor. :( ... | |
| 42. TIE |  | EDIT-NOTE: M FOR MUTE, R TO GENERATE A NEW LEVEL. ALL LEVELS ARE RANDOM, A FEW ARE IMPOSSIBLE.
Okay, game is done. Is not bad game, but y ... | - Coolness |
| 42. TIE |  | (38kb .exe single file) UPDATED due to major bug,. caused a crash, unforutunatly it worked fine here,. anyway, is fixed? now.., (slight grap ... | |
| 42. TIE |  | Windows + Source | Mac OS X (Just binary) | Linux (Just binary) Cavern Defense is a turn-based strategy game for two players.
If you like the game and rated it but are annoyed by the bugs, check out th ... | |
| 45. |  | Windows/Linux(AMD64)/Source | Dingoo A320 | GP2X-Wiz | Fixed Win32 Binary Moons of Subterrane - LD15
-------------------------- Steven "Stuckie" Campbell **IMPORTANT NOTE** If it runs too fast on Windows, PLE ... | - Coolness |
| 46. TIE |  | Ahhhh! I just want to get this in on time. :)
It's been pretty good, actually! I got most of the gameplay finished that I wanted - the ga ... | - Coolness |
| 46. TIE |  | TOOLS USED:
- Game Maker 7 - Pro Motion 6 - Paint.NET - SFXR - Audacity COMPATIBILITY: - This game uses some video render ... | - Theme - Overall - Graphics - Audio - Innovation |
| 48. |  | Here's my unfinished entry. The game logic barely works, but there's only one level and it doesn't detect the end of the game itself, so it' ... | |
| 49. |  | Windows | OS/X | Linux | Source simple shooter game like those on atari 2600 etc.
... | |
| 50. |  | update:
Please try version 1.2; I have made the game much easier in response to feedback. (If you are judging, you should base your scor ... | - Coolness |