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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | stevejohnson's comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 20 03:40:00 | ...You Are A Duck! | Unplayable because the collision detection doesn't work well enough. And jumping is just odd. The help label is too small for me to be able to pay attention to it. I didn't notice it for five minutes. There was no sound. Can't really see how this relates to the theme. | |
| Dec 20 04:33:00 | 53m 00s | 10 Minute Galaxy | Great idea and good enough execution to be playable. I played this for twenty minutes without realizing it. Could use some documentation, but I managed to figure it out, so I guess it's intuitive enough. Surprisingly fun! <br/> <br/>Graphics get the point across. (But what is the purple stuff?) No audio. Eats a lot of CPU after a couple of games. <br/> <br/>Released a library to the community, which was nice. <br/> <br/>I had fun playing this. That's the highest compliment I can offer anyone in this contest. |
| Dec 20 04:35:00 | 2m 00s | 1492 | E for effort. |
| Dec 20 04:43:00 | 8m 00s | 1492Island | I liked this a lot! I couldn't keep straight which hero is strong/weak against which monster, so I had to take a screenshot of the instructions screen. <br/> <br/>Graphics look very good. Spot on with the theme. Congrats on your first LD! |
| Dec 20 04:49:00 | 6m 00s | 1958 BNL | Interesting idea. Tough to control and a little monotonous after a short time (two criticisms I would also level against my own game). |
| Dec 20 05:07:00 | 18m 00s | 2011 - Last Ride of the Discovery | Interesting idea, one that I've had in the past and am glad to see implemented. Looks great. I got tired of the main mechanic relatively quickly, but I'm sure you could add variety in a few ways. Great audio. |
| Dec 20 05:10:00 | 3m 00s | * AchooBoxes * (OSX) | I want to like this game, but I absolutely cannot play it with that hyper-distracting rotating overlay over it. |
| Dec 20 05:16:00 | 6m 00s | ancient codes | I could only figure out the one very simple rule about adjacent symbols. Not much else... <br/> <br/>Great audio. Even though you didn't make it. |
| Dec 20 05:21:00 | 5m 00s | Ancient Mystery III: The lost symbols | I couldn't get very far in this. There is no forgiveness if you can't catch the one you need when it flashes by. |
| Dec 20 05:28:00 | 7m 00s | Ancient Discoveries | This game is just awesome. Great storytelling, graphics, and audio. I forgive you for not letting me play again when I lose. <br/> <br/>The text under the rock is a bit hard to read. |
| Dec 20 05:33:00 | 5m 00s | Arise | Short and sweet. I like it. Too many checkpoints though. |
| Dec 20 06:17:00 | 44m 00s | Assimilation 4X | I like the concept. Scrolling was a bit irritating, zooming and drag-to-pan would be helpful there. Is it possible to give different ships different targets? How do you know when you are going to get a new ship and where it will appear? |
| Dec 20 06:25:00 | 8m 00s | Attack of the time travelling pygmy from outer paleolithic (aka Time Pygmy) | Much love, friend, much love. Well conceived, well executed. |
| Dec 20 06:27:00 | 2m 00s | Autoflotilla | Runs at about 1.2 FPS for me on OS X. |
| Dec 20 06:28:00 | 1m 00s | Batcave | Sonny, I wrote a Mac app packager for Love2D myself a couple of months ago. It's on the forums. Use that, don't make me download a bunch of crap. |
| Dec 20 06:31:00 | 3m 00s | Ball Pit | Sometimes cheap thrills are the best ones. |
| Dec 20 06:35:00 | 4m 00s | Beacon of Hope | So you just touch the lights? Not much to see here, I guess... |
| Dec 20 06:41:00 | 6m 00s | BEARoNAUT | This is my kind of plot. That bear is so hawt. |
| Dec 20 06:48:00 | 7m 00s | Cardboard adventure | Wow, that was small. But I lol'd. |
| Dec 20 07:03:00 | 15m 00s | Cardiac Arrest | This ran fine on OS X with KEGA. I dig the music. |
| Dec 20 07:12:00 | 9m 00s | Cauldron of Doom! | I got about halfway in but could never figure out how to make duck tape. Loved the concept though. |
| Dec 20 07:15:00 | 3m 00s | ChadyG's unnamed game for Ludum Dare 19 | That was one very angry robot. |
| Dec 20 07:20:00 | 5m 00s | Chain Of Discoveries | I like the puzzle concept, but the controls are needlessly difficult. Very zen though, I like it. |
| Dec 20 16:04:00 | 8h 44m | The Adventures of ASTROMAN! | I like the idea, but the ship is extraordinarily difficult to control, so I could never play for more than 60 seconds before dying. |
| Dec 20 16:24:00 | 20m 00s | Chaotic Spread | Nice physics. :-P <br/> <br/>I like the collaborative/competitive thing, but you don't need my email address. |
| Dec 20 16:49:00 | 25m 00s | Rememberance... | Loving the disorienting swishy graphical effect, but I'm not a big fan of the flat 'easter egg hunt' gameplay style. I got to 42 and got bored of staring at a grey and black screen. |
| Dec 20 16:59:00 | 10m 00s | Terra Nova | It took me a while to figure out the funky control scheme. It's like you're rotating the entire world, not your party... |
| Dec 20 17:03:00 | 4m 00s | Clarity | So there's a pair of pants, and Santa, and some gradients. Huh? |
| Dec 20 17:12:00 | 9m 00s | Code Monkey Trials | Nice tutorial, even if the level design is, as you say, uninspired. It wasn't clear if you also need to light the walls. (Apparently you do?) Could have used some sound. |
| Dec 20 17:22:00 | 10m 00s | Cold Fusion | Hey, this is pretty cool! Great snow effects and an interesting concept. I have the same gameplay issue as johnfn, after a while you just click four or five points one at a time until the bar is full. |
| Dec 20 17:48:00 | 26m 00s | COMPLICATED VIEW | This is the creepiest game I have played yet. (The enemy should move faster when you're not looking at him for extra creepiness.) The static effect on the walls was awesome. Controls were a little funky. <br/> <br/>I got stuck outside all the rooms after 3 or 4. |
| Dec 20 17:50:00 | 2m 00s | Compact Discovery | Very pretty, but I couldn't find much substance in the gameplay. You find planets, you shoot pirates, but why bother finding planets in the first place? |
| Dec 20 17:53:00 | 3m 00s | Control | This is the most confusing thing I have seen in a while. I guess that's the point, and it works! But I still died. |
| Dec 20 17:55:00 | 2m 00s | Corpse Runner | The movement was very jerky so it was difficult to see, but I beat the game in about 35 seconds. "Maze with a twist" is right, but not a twist that really affects the game play. |
| Dec 20 18:01:00 | 6m 00s | DEATHWISH | Well, that was morbid. |
| Dec 20 18:18:00 | 17m 00s | Dey See Me Fallin' | The intro was great. The falling game, I couldn't figure out how to score points or how to win or lose. |
| Dec 20 19:44:00 | 1h 26m | DirectionsTranscend | Cool idea! I liked the difficulty level. Graphics were so-so and it could really have used some audio. |
| Dec 20 19:47:00 | 3m 00s | Dinosaur Dance-Off | How can you have a dance-off with no music? (Other than that, I love it) |
| Dec 20 19:52:00 | 5m 00s | dis_covery | Cute. Art, gameplay, and audio work together. Simple but effective. |
| Dec 20 20:19:00 | 27m 00s | DiscHovery | I can see how close this came to looking really awesome. Better luck next time! |
| Dec 20 20:42:00 | 23m 00s | Disco? Very! | I laughed. I cried. I danced. And I made the other guy cry. YESSS |
| Dec 20 20:49:00 | 7m 00s | Disco?Very! | This, sir, is genius. I only wish it had gotten harder. |
| Dec 20 20:56:00 | 7m 00s | Discover the elements: Quest for Air | Arrow keys scroll the page in Chrome as well as controlling the guy. It ran really slow and then I fell off the bottom of the screen. |
| Dec 21 00:30:00 | 3h 34m | Discoveries | This is a fascinating concept. I have had similar ideas. Unfortunately, I had a very hard time determining when the game wanted my input and when my input had any effect. I have no idea why I suddenly lost. |
| Dec 21 00:47:00 | 17m 00s | Dodge and Collect! | Well, it's a game, I guess. Not sure what it has to do with discovery... |
| Dec 21 03:10:00 | 2h 23m | Dr Discovery | So this is a game where you run around and shoot things. Nice graphics. Not terribly original or thematic. |
| Dec 21 03:24:00 | 14m 00s | Grand Mystic Quest of Discovery | Classy! Definitely frustrating in parts, but the atmosphere is perfect. Could really use some sound though. <br/> <br/>I love the writing. |
| Dec 21 03:40:00 | 16m 00s | Husk | I didn't make it through, but I like the moodiness. Suffers a little from "a thousand twisty passages, all alike" syndrome. |
| Dec 21 03:49:00 | 9m 00s | Jungle | Yeah, there's really not much here. Better luck next time! |
| Dec 21 03:55:00 | 6m 00s | Researching String Theory | This is essentially the spell casting from Harry Potter, but the string theory context really works well for it. <br/> <br/>The subtle graphical hints really help since the dragging direction is ambiguous sometimes. |
| Dec 21 04:04:00 | 9m 00s | Dry Voices: who are you? | I explored in all directions for about ten minutes and found nothing. But the atmosphere was nice. It was pretty easy to get stuck somewhere you can't jump out of. |
| Dec 21 04:15:00 | 11m 00s | Epic Treasure Hunter | I won! Could have used more variation, but the names of the treasures kept me going. |
| Dec 21 04:31:00 | 16m 00s | Explosive Transcendental Circulatory System | This is...I don't even... <br/> <br/>When I finally go insane, this will be the only game I ever play again. |
| Dec 21 04:36:00 | 5m 00s | Eureka! Vaults of Knowledge | OS X link is broken and the web version won't work for me either (latest stable Chrome). |
| Dec 21 04:44:00 | 8m 00s | False Hope | This looks like a game that would be really cool if I could figure out how to play it. Documentation please. <br/> <br/>Nice graphical style. |
| Dec 22 00:40:00 | 19h 56m | Fog of War | I can't stand the music and the monster movement is maddening when it keeps going between a gold square and an adjacent square so I can't click the gold. And it keeps disappearing my already explored squares. Rawr. |
| Dec 22 01:18:00 | 38m 00s | Ghosts and Gemstones | This is awesomely demented. Gameplay is spot on. However, the screen is WAY TOO SMALL. I had to zoom in on my monitor. |
| Dec 22 04:58:00 | 3h 40m | Glassbox | Way too unforgiving and random. But I do like the collage style. |
| Dec 22 05:11:00 | 13m 00s | Great Discoveries in Human History | 66 matches in 584 seconds! <br/> <br/>By clicking a lot I was able to have some cards stay exposed. You can't modify your original submission, but you can provide an "alt" link in addition to the submitted link. |
| Dec 22 05:25:00 | 14m 00s | Here Be Monsters! | Very enjoyable! I wish those giant sea monsters would drop more than one measly coin, though. |
| Dec 22 05:32:00 | 7m 00s | Hey, Person! | I wish I had been able to avoid talking to someone whenever I moved. Other than that, I really loved the format and with a bit of polish I could play this for quite a long time. |
| Dec 22 05:37:00 | 5m 00s | HOMMage | I really appreciated the playthrough video, thanks. Keep working on this! |
| Dec 22 05:44:00 | 7m 00s | Impatient Archaeologist | Wonderful concept, and it looks great! I of course echo the criticisms of the other commenters (dynamite spam, audio), but definitely finish this. |
| Dec 22 06:00:00 | 16m 00s | In the Darkness I Shall Fall | Very simplistic, and the ball looked a bit jerky. Looks nice, though. And I do like the audio. |
| Dec 22 06:03:00 | 3m 00s | Into the unknown | I'm sorry, but if you won't bother to package this so I can just click on it like every other game, then I won't bother to play or review it. <br/> <br/>py2app and py2exe. There are plenty of community members around to help you use them. I don't have a Windows box handy but someone in IRC took care of it. |
| Dec 22 06:32:00 | 29m 00s | Introspect | Beautiful artwork! It provides a nice atmosphere. Unfortunately, the audio doesn't really match. <br/> <br/>I agree that the character does not move in a way that matches how it looks. Slow, floaty, and weak. <br/> <br/>But, great job! I love it. |
| Dec 27 05:26:00 | 118h 54m | The Jelly Caves | Movement was very jerky, but I liked the random caves and the general feel of the game. However I wish I had a way to replenish my rocks. |
| Dec 29 00:00:00 | 42h 34m | Q-Bers | Well executed, concise, and funny! I wanted it to be harder sooner (all degrees of freedom). I beat the very last one with 3 seconds to spare. |