Dare to Jam

by tj101010

co-authored: @caerul, @odtray, @victor-hallock

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.88

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.81

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.79

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.88

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.91

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.97

Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.14

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.77

If you're anything like us, you have less time now than you used to. In fact you might only have 10 seconds per day.

Recruit your team, then implement features, throw bad ideas in the trash can, and squash bugs! But you don't have long - every 10 seconds, it's already the next day!

All code, art, and music (and design) was started and completed during the jam window (but it took us longer than 10 seconds per day).

For the best experience, zoom in your web browser (ctrl+scroll wheel) and have audio on!

Comments38

TJ101010author3 Oct 2022, 19:57

No idea why the link doesn't show about half the time. Trying to fix it.

LDJam user 3007453 Oct 2022, 20:23

Very good idea for a jam game!!! :smiley: :smiley:
With your help I have created a very nice game for the jam Spunky Car Saga. See what people think about it

Odtray3 Oct 2022, 20:27

@gotanod My favorite part about Spunky Car Saga is the comment "I dont drive. EVER". I don't think that commenter liked the game. :P Thanks for playing!

BugByte143 Oct 2022, 22:59

Really funny game, I ended making some banger games in your game. Love the meta idea of a game jam only lasting 40 seconds. It perfectly displays the chaos of a game jam. Loved it, great job! :)

confusedsoph3 Oct 2022, 23:01

This is the first game that has made me laugh. Like actually laugh out loud. After days of development burnout and fatigue, I needed this. So thank you!

Pusheeneiro3 Oct 2022, 23:29

WoW this is such a nice idea.

Odtray3 Oct 2022, 23:32

@confusedsoph I want you to know how much that means to us. We really just wanted people to have fun and hopefully laugh. Thanks for sharing.

Roroto Sic3 Oct 2022, 23:49

i Love it ! verry funny game with a lot of idea ! i made french circus something for the music haha ^^
the first bug get me !

monika4 Oct 2022, 04:16

Really nice tight game loop and a lot of polish! The favorite instruments thing is a neat trick, really cool feature!

Aes14 Oct 2022, 04:22

The audio was really great. Enjoyable to play and funny. ty :)

Falk Hoeppner4 Oct 2022, 04:32

This game is so solid! The play is simple but polished, the sound is excellent and I'm a huge sucker for getting to pick your own sound blend in a game :smiley: . One thing to improve: the readability of the items people are working on. The content is too funny and well thought out to not make easier to pick up on a glance. Heavier font might help there.

Super fun, super meta, and I enjoyed it thoroughly.

Caerul4 Oct 2022, 04:40

@falk-hoeppner Thanks for playing! It's a text heavy game and your feedback was one of our concerns as well. Especially with high resolution monitors, things are much smaller. You can use Ctrl + Mouse scroll to increase the size in the browser, then things'll be easier to read. We had a lot of fun making up funny things for the game. Glad you liked them!

chitoyuu4 Oct 2022, 06:00

The music being influenced by the team members you choose is such a interesting gimmick. I like it a lot! Humorous but also somewhat realistic in the sense that we don't have any time to really evaluate how much any feature benefits the game. Just have to implement them all! Really cool game.

Rincs4 Oct 2022, 06:49

That was a fun time~ I was quite clueless but managed to get through. I love how the music is affected by the team members -- that was a cool addition! After a while I just couldn't keep up with the clouds anymore, I think I just want to read all the text. Maybe shortening some or replacing with readable icons? Not sure there, but this was fun! :D

Foursay4 Oct 2022, 06:57

Its really a funny game! I love the overall art style, and I am wondering whether the music is generated based on everyone's "instrucment" or its fixed lol. Its a really polished game and nice work!

SaxOps14 Oct 2022, 07:02

Cool idea! It'd be cool to have a goal to achieve besides the humor, or some progression by using the same team, or building a network of devs to choose from.

Iluvatar4 Oct 2022, 07:04

Ok this was definitely more fun than I expected. Cool combination of "team recruit simulator" and "fast paced manager". It was very hard to read all the ideas though haha. But it added to the humor rather than being frustrating. Also, I really liked the little details and funny notes, characters' quirks and so on :)

defilerzero4 Oct 2022, 08:00

This is an adorable game. Love the little animation, and the gameplay is pretty quick to understand.

Odtray4 Oct 2022, 15:06

@saxops1 Over here going hard. All Brilliant devs. It would have been cool to build a progression system or even a talent tree (inside joke). The Quirk system was meant to be much more in-depth and would have allowed a more diverse skill set in teams. But alas, we ran out of time. Thanks so much for your feedback. I hope you had fun.

Moonblast4 Oct 2022, 16:33

A very creative game, well done!

savorytoast4 Oct 2022, 16:51

This game represents the real jamming experience pretty well :)

nyxkn4 Oct 2022, 21:41

Very interesting game! I thought the idea was great, but there was so little time to read the tasks that I had no idea what I was clicking on. I wish there was more time to read everything! Overall I think this is a really creative entry, with a very good amount of polish. Everything was really charming and had a great atmosphere. Great music and super cute art that I'm sure took a lot of work! Well done.

bravelytyped4 Oct 2022, 23:23

Aw, this was super cute! I like that you were able to make it hectic without making it stressful. Scrolling down the comments and feature list at the end was hilarious. Really great job, one of the best LD51 games I've tried so far!

ToSMaster5 Oct 2022, 11:00

A cool game with a nice idea. It was cool to read all the comments on "my game". They reflected the features which was a nice touch. :)

The best feature was hearing my team's instruments.

Sanemsky5 Oct 2022, 11:26

Woww what a great game and idea and execution!! the details were amazing! the sounds and the comments and the effects. Well done to you all!

Nolram5 Oct 2022, 20:29

The idea of having favourite instruments of different team members is great ! However, the game quickly got too chaotic, and it seems you basically only want brilliant people on your team, so whats the point of everyone else ?

Odtray5 Oct 2022, 22:03

@nolram There was a plan for many more quarks. The issue was time. We ran out of it and decided 1 quark was good enough to show off the potential of the system. I am glad you enjoyed the way instruments affected the music in the game.

Jag6 Oct 2022, 05:23

Such an amazingly cool idea! I love how you took a relatively boring theme and made something so creative out of it. I loved bombarding my team with tasks and literally squashing bugs along the way haha. Fantastic job with the comment generation, it was the cherry on top!

NikaZ6 Oct 2022, 10:45

The jam game about jam :) It's really cool game about project management. I like graphics and audio.

Erukolindo6 Oct 2022, 17:04

Pretty fun, very chaotic. Exactly what it should be.

ZungryWare7 Oct 2022, 03:15

How very meta. I like the idea of having music change based on decisions the player makes. A lot of the features were really funny. The NFT's idea went straight in the bin. And I think it takes more time to implement multiplayer than to add a double jump, at least from my experience. The typing animation was cute as well. Nice work!

Caerul7 Oct 2022, 05:37

@zungryware "The NFT’s idea went straight in the bin" Just like it was meant to be :D Each of us came up with ideas for different features from our past experiences and just loaded it up with funny stuff. Glad you had fun.

LDJam user 2883227 Oct 2022, 19:04

This game is SO GOOD. The graphics and audio are perfect, it's fun, and it fits the theme. I'm actually mind blown you could do all this in a weekend, amazing job! :smile:

MrBamboo9 Oct 2022, 12:53

I had good time to play this one. Good introspection 🤣

Flying Dog Fish9 Oct 2022, 13:05

This is as meta as it can get. Great idea and good execution. I really like the artstyle.

mikolak9 Oct 2022, 14:04

This is so meta I don't even. Don't know what the trash can did, except for the cathartic effect. Like the Don't-Starve-like idea of character being represented by instruments. Fun little frantic clicker.