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Ludum Dare 17

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1.

Windows | Web

The goal of Dare Islands is to goal the red boats into the red goal zone and the green boats into the green goal zone. The boats cannot be c ...
- Innovation
#23 - Theme
#35 - Community
#46 - Overall
2.

Web | Windows

You work for God. You're the guy in charge of drifting continents.

Z = Suck
X = Blow

Coded in AS3 with Flixel. 48 hours ago, I was a ...
- Innovation
#47 - Humor
#50 - Overall
3.

Win (Installer version) | Win (Non installer version + source) | Win v2 (Installer version) | Win v2 (Non installer version + source)

NOTE
====

Both the original version and the updated version now come in two flavours:

* A version that comes with an installer
* A ...
- Theme
- Innovation
#23 - Overall
#32 - Graphics
#36 - Humor
#40 - Fun
4.

GNU/Linux + source | Windows + source

Arks of Mercy
=============

A Ludum Dare #17 entry by Noe Falzon (Tenoch)
<firstname.lastname@aliceadsl.fr>

Be the savior of an enda ...
- Coolness
#4 - Innovation
#4 - Community
#4 - Theme
#17 - Overall
#18 - Audio
#49 - Fun
5.

Windows

Features:

1. 16 unique islands.
2. Amazing AI.
3. The sport of champions.

* 2 player, 1 keyboard supported!

* If it's too unplaya ...
- Humor
- Coolness
#5 - Innovation
#6 - Overall
#7 - Fun
#14 - Theme
6.

Windows | Browser Offline | Web | Source

Tools:
- code: FlashDevelop (Flash ActionScript 3)
- sound: sfxr + musagi
- graphics: Inkscape + Gimp

Libraries:
- Flixel v1.25 ...
- Community
#6 - Innovation
#12 - Overall
#14 - Theme
#20 - Humor
#38 - Audio
#39 - Graphics
#48 - Fun
7.

Windows

Keytrader is an experimental trading game that makes you play Twister on your keyboard. Only tutorial levels are complete.

Only had 8 ho ...
#7 - Innovation
8.
TIE

Windows | Timelapse

Some sort of shmuppy defense game (prototype) or something.

This is super rough, and probably not very playable in it's current state. T ...
- Overall
- Fun
#6 - Graphics
#8 - Innovation
#33 - Theme
8.
TIE

Windows & Source

Control the shape of the islands to let traffic safely pass! Stop ships grounding on the beaches and cars from crashing into the sea to gain ...
#8 - Innovation
10.

Windows | OS/X | Web | Source | Timelapse

An adventure, where you fish, and use the fish to do different stuffs.

and by 'fish', I mean use a grappling hook :D

controls are:
- ...
- Overall
#7 - Community
#9 - Fun
#10 - Innovation
#20 - Graphics
#27 - Humor
11.
TIE

Windows | Web | Source

Use the mouse to play.

This game was made with FlashPunk. I started about an hour late and took about 15 minutes extra at the end! Hopefu ...
#6 - Audio
#11 - Innovation
#17 - Overall
#23 - Theme
11.
TIE

Windows | OS/X | Web | Source

An island is an isolated place.

In this game, you control a lonely, socially awkward little cyclops creature. Guide him out into the worl ...
#11 - Innovation
13.

Windows | Source

TO RUN ON WINDOWS: Extract all files to a new folder, then run the exe in the Release folder.

TO RUN ELSEWHERE: Source code should build ...
#13 - Innovation
14.

Web | Source

So here it is, my first Ludum Dare game!
It's a puzzle game, and I sure hope playing it will be as tricky for you as designing some of the ...
#11 - Overall
#14 - Fun
#14 - Innovation
#19 - Community
#20 - Audio
#34 - Coolness
15.

Web | Source

Catalog the animals and learn to evolve.

FEATURING

*Total historical accuracy: Mystery protagonist!
*Catalog seven LEGENDARY animals ...
#12 - Humor
#15 - Innovation
16.

Windows

A game where you dive for stars. Get them all to win. ...
#16 - Innovation
#25 - Fun
#28 - Overall
17.

Web | Source #1 | Source #2 | Ante-mortem

Puzzle/adventure, 2D-platformer.

Engine: Flixel (FlashDevelop)
Music: Musagi
SFX: sfxr
Pixels: Graphics Gale and Inkscape
Map: Mappy ...
- Coolness
#12 - Audio
#16 - Overall
#17 - Innovation
#19 - Theme
#23 - Fun
18.
TIE

Windows | Source

Paradise Fort is a mysterious hybrid of tower defense and survival platforming. You guide a small fella, exploit the rescources found from t ...
- Coolness
#5 - Overall
#11 - Community
#14 - Theme
#18 - Fun
#18 - Innovation
#19 - Graphics
18.
TIE

Windows | Linux | Source

UPDATE: Thanks for the feedback on the crashes guys - seems it was a buggy opengl32.dll that a botched install of VStudio stuck on my machin ...
#18 - Innovation
#39 - Fun
20.

Windows

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#20 - Innovation
#34 - Graphics
#50 - Humor
21.

Windows | OS/X | Video | Time Lapse | Source

You are a lone risk-taking stick-figure going for the thrill ride of a lifetime, jumping from tiny island to tiny island near Iceland in a v ...
#9 - Overall
#21 - Innovation
#25 - Fun
#28 - Audio
#39 - Theme
22.

Windows | Source(.gmk)

Finally finished this! unfortunately there will be no audio due to unexpected complications. So feel free to just N/a on that one :P anyways ...
#15 - Community
#17 - Graphics
#22 - Innovation
#26 - Overall
#28 - Humor
#32 - Coolness
23.

Windows | Source

It's here! The stuff of dreams, an entry for the epic Ludum Dare has been made!

The game is a one button game where you hop from island ...
#23 - Innovation
#40 - Fun
#47 - Coolness
24.

Web | BugFixed Version | Source

Really quite huge top-down puzzle/exploration game.

Arrow keys (or wasd) to move around. Click bottom right corner to view map. Bottom ...
- Coolness
#4 - Overall
#5 - Community
#6 - Fun
#24 - Innovation
#26 - Graphics
25.

Windows | Source

Shoot forks down at the islands to destroy them--that is your only goal. (Try to conserve forks if you want, plastic is an oil derivative yo ...
- Coolness
#8 - Theme
#16 - Humor
#25 - Innovation
#34 - Audio
26.
TIE

Windows/Linux | (Bugfix)

You are the pilot of a bomber plane carrying out a nuclear test. Navigate to the island marked on the radar. The monotonous scenery and lack ...
#9 - Overall
#11 - Audio
#13 - Graphics
#18 - Humor
#20 - Fun
#26 - Innovation
#36 - Community
26.
TIE

Windows + Source

Paint by Numbers meets Tron in this puzzle game where you place bridges between islands to make one winding path through each island cluster ...
#26 - Innovation
#39 - Audio
28.

Web

Arcade-style platformer(?) - jump between the stone islands that sink in the lava.

For great awesome.

Additional notes and tips:
* T ...
#21 - Theme
#24 - Fun
#28 - Innovation
#36 - Overall
#46 - Audio
29.

Windows | OS/X | Linux | Web | Source

A very liberal interpretation of the theme. Warning: Has creepy crawlies!

Move with the arrow keys, and throw a torch with the spacebar. ...
#29 - Innovation
#32 - Graphics
#33 - Audio
#33 - Fun
#47 - Overall
30.
TIE

Windows + Linux + Source

Read crashes.txt if you have trouble running the game. (Ran out of time on that one)

It's a very short puzzle game where the aim is to fr ...
#30 - Innovation
30.
TIE

Web (Flash) | Web (Alternate Link) | Source

This is a game about an invasive species entering an island ecosystem.

There are two types of animals in this group of islands. Glompers, ...
- Coolness
#30 - Innovation
32.

Windows

I guess I'm done. Pretty happy with it. I could probably keep going a little longer but I stop when I stop enjoying working, which is now, d ...
#26 - Theme
#32 - Innovation
#39 - Overall
#49 - Graphics
33.

Windows installer | Windows .zip | Mac OS X 10.6 | Source

The planet is dying.

Monsters raise themselves out of the ocean monthly. The skies themselves blacken.

You, and your civilization, hav ...
- Theme
#12 - Overall
#28 - Fun
#33 - Innovation
34.

Windows

An Atomic bomb has exploded and your only salvation is a boat. You have to row with all your strength to survive.

If you row hard enough ...
#12 - Humor
#16 - Fun
#34 - Innovation
#37 - Coolness
#42 - Audio
#44 - Overall
35.

Windows

Elementary My Dear Watson

I am writting this 10 minutes before the deadline of Ludum Dare #17. This is my entry. The theme was islands, a ...
#35 - Innovation
36.
TIE

Web | Spoilers

I have verified that all the physics work correctly in Firefox 3.5.8, and the game is completable. There are several jumps that are only ba ...
#36 - Innovation
36.
TIE

Windows | Source

Made with ruby and gosu.

It's a fast paced game (should run at 60 fps) with 2 different phases : Land and water. Your fish gets out of ai ...
#9 - Community
#29 - Humor
#35 - Fun
#36 - Innovation
36.
TIE

Unity (Web) | Unity (Web) OLD | Source

I made a game about messages in bottles (on islands). Any re-upload will be mentioned on this page.

Made in Unity. You need the Unity W ...
- Coolness
#13 - Theme
#36 - Innovation
#46 - Fun
#49 - Overall
39.
TIE

Windows | Source/Crossplatform

Phew, making an RTS in 48 hours is hard.

Tiny Armada is a quick RTS game that is played entirely with boats, trading between colonies on ...
- Overall
#4 - Fun
#7 - Theme
#30 - Graphics
#38 - Community
#39 - Innovation
#44 - Coolness
39.
TIE

Windows | Source

EDIT: finally found how to edit my entry :) So let me replace the original link with the patch described in :
http://www.ludumdare.com/comp ...
#39 - Innovation
41.
TIE

Web | Source | Timelapse

Baby Leviathan likes to hunt the fishies hanging out by these islands. Use the right and left arrow keys to swim around and catch them.
...
#23 - Community
#41 - Innovation
41.
TIE

Play (Flash) | Source

A puzzle game. Escape & defeat the island pirates. ...
#16 - Community
#22 - Audio
#32 - Fun
#41 - Innovation
#50 - Overall
43.

Windows | OS/X | Linux | Web | Source

I took sort of a weird approach to the theme, and based it more on the unconscious significance of islands then on islands themselves. There ...
#13 - Community
#15 - Audio
#40 - Coolness
#43 - Innovation
44.
TIE

Windows | OS/X | Web | Source

Made at the Cambridge meet up! My game from day one didn't work out (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcHihVVheM8), so I started from scratch ...
- Audio
#25 - Overall
#36 - Community
#36 - Theme
#44 - Innovation
44.
TIE

Windows | Source

Not quite how I wanted it to turn out, but it's sort of playable...

You start by controlling one tank, on one island. Each turn, you can ...
#17 - Graphics
#27 - Community
#39 - Theme
#44 - Innovation
#47 - Coolness
46.

Windows | OS/X | Linux | Source

A take on the Weird Worlds/Adventures in Infinite Space formula, set in the Hebrides. Find your way to the enchanted isles ('the lost Hebri ...
- Theme
- Coolness
- Community
#4 - Graphics
#8 - Audio
#17 - Overall
#46 - Innovation
47.

Windows | Source | More

Fly around an archipelago of floating islands barbecuing al those delicious looking sheep.

The game play is very last minute because I ra ...
- Coolness
#40 - Humor
#47 - Innovation
48.

Download Original (Windows+Source) | Download Fixed (Windows+Source)

Coded in BlitzMax. Press F1 for help. Hover the pointer in the lower right corner of the screen to show the button for changing the difficul ...
#28 - Overall
#28 - Fun
#42 - Community
#44 - Coolness
#47 - Theme
#48 - Innovation
49.
TIE

OS Independent - Requires Love

FIXED WORKING DONE

Read the Readme for more info.
I'll do a postmortem tomorrow I suppose.

All versions are the same for each OS, and ...
#33 - Community
#33 - Coolness
#49 - Innovation
49.
TIE

Download (Windows) | Source (Game Maker)

An experimental, minimalistic microgame about loneliness.

Hopefully the theme tie-in should be clear.


HINT: At the beginning of the ...
#49 - Innovation

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