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Post-Jam Reflection: Dive Into the Hive Mind
First of all – thank you to everyone who played, rated, commented, left feedback, recorded videos, laughed, cried, ran out of ammo, and punched a bee in desperation.
Pack Postmortem
Let's jump into it!
My 26th Ludum Dare's Postmortem: "The Moon Reconstruction Program"
"Red, come in! This is Mission Command. We need to talk about how the mission went."
Lifted Retrospective: Music
Hello Ludum community!
We lured you in, but didn't bite back - Post jam thoughts
The Game Jam is over, and we’re really happy we managed to carve out time to focus on something we truly enjoy. But everyday life caught up with us quickly – even though…
Into the Mousehole - A Quick Post-Mortem
Before LD47 wraps up for good, I just wanted to do a quick post-mortem of our (@baldurs and my) game, Into the Mousehole (which you can play in a browser here ->…
![Lily Adventuresses! Episode 3: The Explorer Sisters and the Deepest Depths [Pr.]](https://cdn.ldj.am/cover/40/408095-2bff662d.webp)
Lily Adventuresses! Episode 3 Prologue: Post-Mortem
Now that my game has achieved the minimum required amount of votes, it's time for me to discuss what went on in developing it.
Dwarvenshaft: Post Mortem
Hello! It's been a while since I've done one of these. My game Dwarvenshaft recently passed 20 ratings, and has already gotten quite a lot of engagement, so than you so…
Deepline - Retrospective
I have had some really positive comments on Deepline and a strong urge to take it a bit further and see what I can do with it. A few friends in the industry have given…
Sticky's Aquarium Post Mortem
Play the game here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/57/stickys-aquarium
Marianas Miner: Post-Mortem
## (Play Marianas Miner!)
Postmortem of my first Ludum Dare
I made my first fully playable game(a 3D sokoban puzzle) in this event! I’d like to share some things I have learned about using DOTween and tips for building with Unity WebGL.
walking simulator postmortem
What went well: idea for the game was easy this time fear of getting lost in a forest we need huge world tools, gameapi builder is awesome tool 3d model generation via…
Post-Mortem: Descent Protocol
Hey everyone! Here's a quick breakdown of our experience making Descent Protocol for Ludum Dare 57.
Hyperspacedive Postmortem and afterthoughts
Hey, you can still play my entry here!: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/57/hyperspacedive
Shrimply Fishing is out! (Ludum Dare 57 Postmortem)
Shrimply Fishing, my submission for the jam category, is out! You can go play it right now in your Browser of Web or download it on your Windows/Linux machine!
The Depths Post Mortem!
This was my first ever game jam, and I wanted to use my own game engine to make a 3D physics game, so I took the theme very literally, and made the first thing that came…
Post-mortem on my first-ever compo entry, Altitudes
I've done LD twice before, and had a great time, but ran right up against the 72 hour limit for a Jam entry both times despite initially trying to do a Compo entry. This…
My 25th Ludum Dare's Postmortem: "Prince Charmony"
"I better not touch that Postmortem Ruining Device 3000."
The long awaited post-mortem!
Greetings!
My Keyboard is Full of Ants postmortem --- and a special announcement!
First, a quick aside because I'm really excited to share...
Gettin Squirrely - A solo dev LD Game Jam Post Mortem
Participating in Ludum Dare 56 was a blast! Thanks to everyone who participated and those who took the time to review and leave feedback! I just wanted to share my…
Our Crap-tastic Retrospective
Heya, everyone! I want to take a moment here and do a retrospective on the development of our Ludum Dare 56 entry, Duke Flywalker's Crap-tastic Adventure.
Color Critters - Post-Mortem
First of all, I'd like to say a massive thank you to everyone who's played and rated Color Critters so far. I'm running out of time to get to 20 ratings, so if you…
A postmortem about a platformer where you can't jump!
So, I had a blast taking part in this Ludum Dare and haven't written a postmortem yet, so here we go!
Post-mortem for Play With Me
### Game It's a Tamagotchi with 3 monsters you can play with and feed. They each have their own minigames.
Snail Typing Post-Mortem
Seeing developers' afterthoughts on their entries inspired me to shed some light on mine, on the process of coming up with the idea, prototyping, and what I think of the…
A Brief Post-Mortem for The Last Swarm Warden
I often forget to write a "we did it!" post these days, and I regret that because back on the old website I was hugely enthuisastic in sharing my jam journal.…
Vox Regis - Post-mortem
Vox Regis is a game about a king who uses his voice to provoke conflict between the groups that are forming in his kingdom. For if a group were to grow too big, it could…
LD56 PostMortem - God Awakener
# A post-mortem thinking about Quasar Shrine's last Ludum Dare entry God Awakener
Making of the Apparatus - Post Mortem
Play the Apparatus in the browser
Ephyra - Post mortem
This was my seventh Ludum Dare and and our fifth as a team. I've never done a post-mortem before so I thought it was about time. We started with the goal of having…
Tiny Summons Post-Mortem (and Fan Art!)
Lets start with the fan art! I drew a doodle of a character from every game I played this event:
A delayed Post-Jam Update, Some Thoughts, Reflections, and a Retrospective
I started writing a post-jam update this morning... and then realized it was too late. Oh well.
My 24th Ludum Dare's Postmortem: "Demon Well"
As someone trying to become a more skilled writer, nowhere do I feel more inept than writing the first sentence in a postmortem. With every Ludum Dare postmortem I…
Small "Burn With Me" postmortem
Will try to keep short. As all of you, I have some reasons and targets in mind when participating in gamejams.
Retrospective
Took longer to get around to this than I thought!