Coalesce

JAM GAME by James Dunlap (@james-dunlap), Anthony Dunlap (@anthony-dunlap), Cameron Dunlap (@cameron-dunlap), and Oliver Richmeier (@oliver-richmeier)

Welcome to our ninth straight Ludum Dare Entry! This time has proven more challenging even though our team was not really affected by the current events. We took it almost to the wire this time! We hope you enjoy.

Description

Aliens from another dimension have attacked a top secret laboratory and your work place, and it is up to you to stop them. These are no ordinary aliens though, because they are attacking in two dimensions!

The clever physicist and warrior you are, you have learned of their secret ability and now you must cooperate with your alternate self to find out what has brought this calamity.

However, both you and yourself must be careful to protect each other from these invaders, or you will die in both realities!

Contributions

Coding: James Dunlap

Graphics: Cameron Dunlap

Level design, props and graphics, sounds: Anthony Dunlap

Music: Oliver Richmeier

Screenshots

Special Note About Mac and Linux

The Mac and Linux (Not Yet Available) build have not been tested by us. We have trusted that Unity just works…

InfiniProspector

Welcome to our eighth straight Ludum Dare entry! While the team has grown, we feel that we have a good combination of talent going.

Description

Infinite Prospector is a game about a lowly prospector who finds himself at a hole in the ground with nothing to his name. He must begin prospecting the area for minerals and gems of ever increasing value. He must find some in order to be able to purchase more fuel for his lantern. Be careful, however, as there are dangers in the ground.

How deep can you go?

Update (Oct. 7, 2019)

We noticed a bug shortly after publishing that makes the game pretty unplayable in the lower levels. It was also mentioned in comments. The bugfix that has been uploaded is to fix this issue.

Controls

You can choose to use either WASD or ZQSD keys to control the prospector when he moves.

The arrow keys instruct him to dig in a particular direction.

Pressing the L key will place a ladder (if you have one) where you are standing.

Be careful how deep you dig at a time as you can only jump up two tiles.

Contributions

We divided the work as follows:

James: Coding

Cameron: Graphics

Oliver: Music

Anthony: UI, Sounds

Screenshots

Description

After decades of testing through experimental abduction, humans have been found as the most suitable laborers for the ever growing industrial outposts on Mars. Their capture and auctioning pays out handsomely, so you, Howard, have been sent by a slaving company to walk among their kind and abduct as many as possible without alerting their enforcers and being caught. Your salary is at stake, so get down there!

How To Play

You can fire mind control orbs with Left Click, they don’t travel very far though. Anyone hit by the orb becomes your slave. You can only have one slave, taking control of another human releases your previous one. Taking a slave to your ship increases you score by 1.

Being spotted while controlling a slave or releasing a slave will make you “Spotted”. While “Spotted”, Police will move in on your last known position. If seen in this mode, Police will move straight towards you. You will become “Safe” if nobody has seen you for 10 seconds.

If spotted by Police while controlling a slave you will become “Hunted”. While “Hunted”, Police will constantly move in on your position, even if you are not seen by anyone. To become “Safe” while “Hunted” you must change disguises at your ship by pressing E.

If a Police officer touches you while “Spotted” or “Hunted”, you lose – game over!

Controls

WASD or Arrow Keys - Move

Left Click - Fire

E - Change Disguise

Background

We are a family group who has participated in every Ludum Dare since Ludum Dare 38. For this entry, one of the sons’ friend joined us to compose the music. We have enjoyed every entry to Ludum Dare, and each has brought its own specific challenges. This one was no different. For this one, I (the dad) was out of town for work at the beginning of the Ludum Dare and was, therefore, not able to participate in the planning stage or the beginning of development. My oldest son had to take over most of my responsibilities as the programmer, and I joined in when I got back. Most of the work on this entry was done by my sons and the friend. I only implemented a couple of of systems and did some bug fixing (and probably missed a few…) It was fun to see what they did on their own, though!

Credits

James - Coding

Anthony - Coding

Cameron - Graphics

Oliver - Music

Closing

We hope that you enjoy playing the game as much as we enjoyed making it. We do try to give feedback to every entry that leaves us feedback, regardless of whether we like it or not. We are here to learn, so please be honest!

Description

Many years ago, the Dark Lord Balthazar was imprisoned in an alternate dimension by the great mage Yendor. The magic used was contained within an amulet that has been lost in antiquity - until now.

You are a practicing blood mage who draws power from Balthazar through the performance of human sacrifice. Your greatest desire is to free your master from his prison. You have discovered the location of the Amulet of Yendor and now descend into the depths of Balthazar’s fortress where the amulet has remained since its use to imprison him. You have collected some sacrifices to take into the pit with you. Recover it and return to release your Great Master from his prison.

Maybe he will be eternally grateful…

Notes

The game is what you would typically expect from a rogue-like. However, due to the time limit, there is only one spell and no additional weapons or armor. You will get hungry and need food and potions are randomized each playthrough, so keep track!

Unfortunately, we did not have enough time to add sound effects.

Theme

As usual, we hated the theme when it was first announced, but we quickly came up with the idea for this game. The game is full of sacrifices, and we had to make many to create it!

First, inventory space is limited, and you cannot drop anything! So, choose carefully what you pick up. Second, while you are not limited on how many sacrifices you can have with you, you will harm them if you step on them, so, again, choose wisely. Finally, you have the obvious use of sacrifices at altars to add mana.

Areas of responsibility

James: All coding

Anthony: Graphics

Cameron: Graphics and Music

Tools Used

• Unity 2018.2.3f1 (I was having a lot of issues with the most recent version for some reason)
• GIMP
• Bosca Ceoil

WebGL

We usually provide a WebGL version of our entry. However, this time around, we have not yet as it would require some refactoring since we use multi-threading to generate the levels and that cannot be done with a WebGL build. We may provide one after submission if we can find the time.

Thanks for playing and rating!

We hope you enjoy our entry to our sixth consecutive Ludum Dare as much as we enjoyed making it, and we look forward to LD44 (after a well deserved break, of course.)

Screenshots

Description

You’ve been hired by a shipping company! That’s some good news, until you see that their previous employee left a big mess. You must organize the boxes you have, while also making sure to manage ones coming in and out of the warehouse. Make sure all of the deliveries are made on time, or they might reconsider your employment.

Controls

WASD/Arrow keys/ZQSD - Movement controls

Esc/F1 - Menu

Space - Lift and lower forklift

Controller support!

Credits

James - Coding and Level Design

Anthony - Modeling and Level Design

Cameron - Music and Sounds