The dust settled on Ludum Dare's 26th marathon development sprint a couple weeks ago, but one very important question was left hanging in the air: who won? I mean, that's all games are about, right? Winning and losing? Oh, and TV, sports, and dogs. Urgh, sorry. The Xbox One reveal must have rotted my brain. In reality, games can be about quite a bit more,…
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Feature: Minimalism Maximized
Minimalism Ludum Dare 26 theme Haikus: fitting, no?
The only sound I ever heard during my playthrough of Gods Will Be Watching was the crackling of a fire. Slowly but surely, its embers would die, because when you're stranded in the freezing cold and slowly succumbing to disease, there's no easy fix-all. Just increasingly high prices that buy you a few more moldy scraps of time. So I'd heap more wood onto the…
Yeah, Notch's game got a mention on its own, because a big name is a good way to encourage those who otherwise wouldn't be interested to take a look at the many splendid things created as part of the twenty-sixth Ludum Dare global game jam. It is very important to reiterate, in this case via the medium of a post (and in addition to the…
Given that Ludum Dare 26 spawned several trillion games, we'll probably be talking about it for the next 30,000 or so years. I will, however, almost certainly do a round-up sooner or later, seeing as the theme - minimalism - has led to a teetering tapas tower of bite-sized, sometimes seconds-long experiences. Don't get me wrong, though: I have come across a few slightly meatier…