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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | Cirrial's comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23 20:28:00 | A tale about life, death and a looser. | Nice art, depressing fatalistic storylines, and generally an interesting interpretation of the theme. Personally, though, I didn't find there to be a great deal of interesting gameplay here. This is almost the purest form of narrativism I've found, but I'm only beginning rating, so I might find more. Excellent work given the timescale, though! | |
| Aug 23 20:42:00 | 14m 00s | Slip Away | Pretty frustrating. Could do with a few more checkpoints. Very nice visuals and ambience, and the music really adds. Some of the parts to progress felt as though they needed frame by frame perfection. The phasing mechanism was really interesting and is pretty promising. Solid entry that could do with some tweaking, same as any LD game. |
| Aug 24 18:47:00 | 22h 05m | The Man Who Sold The World | Very nice! Controls are excellent, music really adds, gameplay was simple but enjoyable with some solid platformer level design, and I find very little here to take fault with. The length of the game is about perfect. An amazing entry. |
| Aug 24 18:53:00 | 6m 00s | Forever Running | Pretty hard. Hitboxes feel enormous (like the corners of the bounding boxes of boulders are sticking waaaay out. Also relies on some elements of precognition. Sadly couldn't play much further due to the fact level 1 seems so impossibly difficult, and I am pretty terrible at these sorts of games altogether unfortunately. Still, from the screenshots it looks like you got a lot done in the 48 hours, so kudos! |
| Aug 24 19:02:00 | 9m 00s | Red-Line to Shady Grove | Interesting entry. I also liked how the agents just wanted to follow you on the train, meaning you were free to do whatever you wanted to lose them rather than directly avoid them. Nice variety in the levels. A key press to advance levels would be nice as well. I enjoyed this a fair bit. Great work! |
| Aug 24 19:05:00 | 3m 00s | Escape from the Tower | Short and simple. Nice graphics and presentation. This shows great promise, it's a shame you ran out of time. But yes! Let that be a lesson - code first, graphics later. It's always better to have something that plays good over something that looks good. |
| Aug 24 19:11:00 | 6m 00s | blue man cthulhu escape | Simple one-button entry, mildly entertaining and diverting for a minute or so. |
| Aug 24 19:31:00 | 20m 00s | Escape the Normal Life | My system is pretty terrible and so the framerate was choppy, but I liked the art style and the gameplay seemed pretty solid. Shame I can't actually make it to the end because the framerate makes it pretty much unplayable. |
| Aug 24 19:37:00 | 6m 00s | Cells | Really short game (a common affliction among LD games), some nice potential here for further development. I really liked it. Nice use of graphics, although it took me a while to figure out the mouse was needed to use the hacking terminal (that'll teach me to skim the entry text). Great work! |
| Aug 26 18:20:00 | 46h 43m | 65-73-63 | Nice idea with the bridges. I ran out of level and died, though. Not sure if that was a bug or just running out of time, but I understand the constraints of the compo so I'll let that slide. |
| Aug 26 18:28:00 | 8m 00s | Asplosions! | I loved this game so much. The humour is amazing, timing of pop-up messages is spot on and with a new element each level this is an amazingly solid entry into the competition. Astonishing work. |
| Aug 27 17:15:00 | 22h 47m | Under a Watchful Eye | Awesome game. The things that the eye says nicely characterise it (considering it is the only character in the game other than the player). Needed to use the spoiler to beat it, but other than that was pretty enjoyable. Sounds would have really added to this. Excellent work. |
| Aug 28 09:29:00 | 16h 14m | Fires & Fights | Another person having to play this solo. Too difficult to do so. Couldn't seem to work out how to extinguish fires and then got bombarded with errors after I died. Still, nice aesthetic. |
| Aug 28 09:36:00 | 7m 00s | Still Dreaming | Very nice ambience. The sounds add to it and I love the surreal dreamscape feeling of the game world. Such a shame it's so short. I'd like to see more of this in the future. |
| Aug 28 10:01:00 | 25m 00s | Persephone | Game seems to keep flickering on my machine and makes it mostly unplayable. Shame because I liked it. Art style is pretty good. Movement is a little slidey but the floaty jumps sort of make up for that. Nice power mechanic as well. |
| Aug 28 10:03:00 | 2m 00s | Bounce-onium! | Excellent game and nice covering for the fact you ran out of levels. :D |
| Aug 28 11:46:00 | 1h 43m | Road to Escape | Nice atmosphere but I just find the visibility too low to play this game. Also it has a really low framerate on my terrible machine, but that's not your fault. |
| Aug 28 12:05:00 | 19m 00s | Martin vs Monty | Little hard to play this single-player, but looks pretty solid. I like the art style. |
| Aug 28 13:03:00 | 58m 00s | The Trap | I like the messages the facility gives you. Ending was a bit abrupt but understandable. Nice solid platformer. |
| Aug 28 13:23:00 | 20m 00s | Heartbreaker! | This is amazing. Played it with some friends. Hilarious, but also a bit cruel. Could do with some spawn area protection. Also, 1v1 is massively unfair in favour of the ice queen. Best multiplayer game I've seen yet. |