If you don’t know, Ludum Dare is a game development competition where you create a game prototype over a weekend.

Ludum Dare 55 was rolling up and I’d set aside time in the calendar to participate. I was planning on participating solo, as I’m mostly used to that, or as a “hired gun” – someone who makes the music (or other things).

Just out of curiosity I asked in a community I’m a member of, Gentleland, if anybody else was participating. Emiliano offered to join forces and do a project together. I jumped at the chance because it’s not often I get the chance to work with someone else.

On the morning of the compo’s start we started brainstorming together on the theme. We ended up with a sort of dungeon management idea and decided that I would do graphics and music, and he would code it.

It was a huge challenge as I don’t really consider myself a graphics person. While working on the skeleton I was trying to animate it and was reminded how hard it is. I started to feel the pressure because it was taking so long, and if I had to animate a handful of other characters I wouldn’t have time for anything else. For that reason we decided to simply make the sprites static.

Play on Itch.io

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The competition gives a theme and then developers have to craft something based on that. In this particular instance the theme was “keep it alive”. I considered things which give life, and one of the first things that popped up in my mind were eggs. I knew the game had to be simple to be made in such little time so I thought of the simple games of my childhood, such as Donkey Kong.

The aim of the game is to control Eggbert and guide him around a forest picking up eggs and then keeping them out of harm’s way as he’s chased by hungry foxes.

The game is available on 3 platforms for free. On Itch.io it can be played directly in the browser. These are the platforms:

• Steam
• Google Play
• Itch.io (polished version)
• Itch.io (48 hour version)

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