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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | ethankennerly's comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23 20:58:00 | Treasure Island | I did not realize I was being eaten by the gray squiggles; maybe some sound effects for attacking? I love the gray squiggles, reminded me of aliens in Starflight. Nice job on the color palette and pixelated tiles. For the most part, I think the chiptune sounds are appropriately iconic partners for the images. Instructions also nicely minimalistic. After a while, though, being slowly chased felt repetitive. I guess I wanted something different to do? | |
| Dec 23 21:03:00 | 5m 00s | Dinosaur Dance-Off | I think you've got potential. It's a stretch of my imagination to consider the wobbly rubble that fell the skeleton of a creature. Dancing off with others interested me. But it like at least one dino (posted above) beat me without having seeing any bones at all. |
| Dec 23 21:12:00 | 9m 00s | It's A Frickin' CAVE | I like the attack sounds and the black corner tiles and brown palette, and the red fill when I die. But I died quickly, before I got cool toys to play with. I wasn't sure at first what determines when I get hit. I thought my timing was pretty good, but I must be missing some cue. |
| Dec 25 20:25:00 | 47h 13m | Search&Bump | I like the sound the and visual indicator of sonar. I also want more to do and think about doing. Oddly, on my setup, I could not get it to play in Chrome or Internet Explorer. On Chrome it said something like "overwrite sys.screen.draw". So I played in Firefox. |
| Dec 25 20:42:00 | 17m 00s | Anacalypse | I got all the things. It was a while before I found the last. I got upset looking around and finding duplicates of things I had without being able to distinguish what was something I hadn't found yet. I guess you have considered a system by which the player may infer some positions of some items? For example, sonar in LD19 search & bump, or minesweeper. |
| Dec 25 21:00:00 | 18m 00s | Voyage of Discovery | The depth of the system impressed me. I got stuck when I accidentally tried to colonize an island I already colonized. I couldn't figure out how to get out of the colonize prompt. I enjoyed finding islands and colonizing them. I was confused at first how I control the ship and how to attack, explore, and so on. Then I read the instructions. ^_^ |
| Dec 26 20:09:00 | 23h 09m | Ominous | besides the above comments, after half a dozen levels i got a little frustrated with clicking and being right or wrong, but usually not feeling like I gained insight into the puzzle. maybe I'm playing while too tired. |
| Dec 26 20:16:00 | 7m 00s | Dodge and Collect! | I enjoyed the first five seconds. Of course in the shoot'em ups I usually play, there's much more than asteroids, so my expectations are high. Maybe there was (or will be) more. |
| Dec 26 20:35:00 | 19m 00s | Disco? Very! | Love the funny title, music, the moves, and the disco dance floor battle! The room switching at the jump point from the underground after getting the X move nearly gave me a seizure. |
| Dec 28 18:33:00 | 45h 58m | City State: Inspired Destiny | I'm fond of Civilization, so the tech tree similarities stand out. It's nice to have a familiar set of options (Writing, Animal Husbandry, Irrigation). After I was wiped out by war in the 2000s BC, I didn't stay with this one to try again. Maybe there's some interesting divergence from Civilization just a thousand years ahead of me, but as I saw text counters incrementing, I did not feel the story of progress. I felt a bit impatient and expecting another aspect. |
| Dec 28 18:49:00 | 16m 00s | Penguin! | Brilliant tutorial on the controls! Besides the cute animation, the scribbled drawings cleverly gave me hints of what to do. I mistook the glyphs for "Z" and "X" for some sort of drawing. I got stuck at the first big creature underwater who ate me twice. I didn't try a third time, because neither z nor x seemed to get me out of the pond or out of the creature's mouth. I missed something. Also, the cute animation could be larger. While the character waddled across the screen, I got impatient. When I restarted from the beginning (hoping instead to restart just that screen), I got very impatient. Yet altogether, it's charming! I hope next time to _play_ as this adorable, pre-literate penguin. |