Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → HendrikBoom3
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Landscape? | unfinished | ||
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | CongestedMaze | compo |
So this morning I thought -- maybe I should do my first Ludum Dare sometime. Wonder when it is ... look it up on my phone ... Aaagh! Yesterday!
So here I am, with no toolset, no experience, and several hours already gone.
Idea: you have to run a maze to get from one side of the square to the other. The maze starts out with no walls. But walls appear at random every time you make a step.
Got a maze running, starting out empty. when you get across the square using the arrow keys, you start again with the next level. There are a series of levels, all identical except that the walls appear faster and faster. Eventually you get completely boxed in.
Saved and published, but it still isn't on the list of games.
Once again I can't even figure out how I should have gone about submitting it.
On what might have been the submission form (Now that It's 9:52 pm on Monday near the end of the submission hour. I can't even edit the form any more) I had clicked "Unfinished" and "Publish" about a day ago. Was that the wrong thing to do? At that time it *was* unfinished. No, it isn't really a game yet. But it does run and does generate another landscape every time you run it. I'd like to have people try it. It takes me about a second to click on the link and see the landscape, and that's all it does, but even so I wouldn't mind having feedback.
What should I have done? Is it really impossible to make corrections in a submission after saying "publish"?
All the site's instructions tell me about submitting is that they have to write that instruction sometime.
I really don't know how to navigate the website. Not even after doing Ludum Dare several times.
-- hendrik
That was fun. A lot depends on being able to move the mouse fast.