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Ludum Dare 28 winner turning one-shot movie making into full PC game
Daniel Haazen won the Ludum Dare 28 compo challenge – the 48-hour, solo competition – with his game, One Take. It turns players into camera operators on a series of movie sets, with the director's cues on one side and a limited amount of time to zoom in, move the camera and get the perfect shot. A player's performance is reviewed in the paper once filming is complete. Ludum Dare 28's theme was "You Only Get One." "I repeatedly told myself 'One ... one ...' and scrolled through the possibilities in my mind," Haazen told Nico Saraintaris, an indie developer from Faif studio, Beavl. "'One enemy, one bullet, one life, one ... one ....' Then suddenly One Take appeared. I don't know where it came from, it just happens like that. I must say that I had been thinking for three hours until I came up with One Take, so it took a while. I wasn't sure if I was going to use it, as at first it looked at too much work for 48 hours. But after another 15 minutes I decided to go with it. And I'm glad I did." Haazen said he's now working to make One Take a full PC game, and possibly iOS and Android versions down the line. Other top games in the compo challenge were blomster, Protogun, Super Sneaky Sample Stealer and A Precious Arrow. The Jam competition – the "relaxed," 72-hour challenge – gave top nods to Titan Souls, Match Girl, Javel-ein, Only One Chance and Yogo Rocketfist. All games are available to browse and play here. Congrats to the winners, but also to anyone who can make a game in just a few days. That's still impressive.
Ludum Dare 28 ends with 2,000 free games: Fountain, Monocraft, more
The massive, two-pronged game jam Ludum Dare 28 started and ended this weekend, and the completed games are up for judging now, for 19 more days. The theme this year was "You only get one." Ludum Dare comprises two, simultaneous game-making marathons: one solo, 48-hour jam with prizes, and one team-optional, 72-hour jam with more relaxed rules. Games up for judging include Terry Cavanagh's introspective Fountain, Mattia Traverso's one-brick Minecraft spin Monocraft, vallde's planetary annihilation game Bounty Hunting, Claw's minimized colossus title Titan Souls, and 5elephants' artistic archery shooter One Arrow (shown above). Also spawned in the jam is Hypnotic Owl's powerful story, The Day the Laughter Stopped – it's an intense, narrative-driven game heavy with trigger warnings, but well worth a play-through. Ludum Dare 28 received 2,064 entries and all of them are playable for free right here. You only get one 2,064.
