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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | johnfn's comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22 03:50:00 | Space Escape | Such sadistic gameplay. Awesome. | |
| Aug 23 03:39:00 | 23h 49m | Arachnid Escape | Reminds me of one of the first Flixel games, and I see you also used flixel. Simple but gets the job done. |
| Aug 23 03:48:00 | 9m 00s | You've Seen This in the Movies | Man, I tried really hard, but I got stuck at the guy who rolled back and forth. One hit from him took like 90% of my health, and he seemed to have an endless amount of HP. :( I died a lot. |
| Aug 23 03:51:00 | 3m 00s | Esc | Cute game, nice cute graphics. But (you already know this) I think the gameplay is way too linear. I want more! |
| Aug 23 03:57:00 | 6m 00s | EscapeBot2 | Although you seem dissatisfied with it, I kinda enjoyed it. nice job with the randomly generated levels; I never encountered one that I couldn't beat. I was hoping for more of a resolution, though, but it's understandable that you didn't quite get there. |
| Aug 23 04:01:00 | 4m 00s | Beak Free | Cute little game. I think it's a little too punishing on the player to demand par or better on both flaps and hits though! It takes a lot of work to clear a stage. |
| Aug 23 04:07:00 | 6m 00s | Huescape | Cute, if short, puzzle platformer, and that mechanic has a lot of potential. Nice job with the fuzzy filter over the graphics; it gave the game a neat feel. |
| Aug 23 04:22:00 | 15m 00s | Escape The Void | First: This is a really nice first game. Great job. Cute graphics, good level design. <br/> <br/>One of my favorite decisions was how you introduced the cannon before the powerup. That's a clever way to go about things. <br/> <br/>Don't explain too much - I think the first few levels were a little too walkthrough-y, since the player can probably figure things out on his own. <br/> <br/>I eventually got stuck in a wall and couldn't progress further or die, somewhere around level 14 I think? Still, I won't mark you down for that little hiccup. Good stuff. |
| Aug 23 04:33:00 | 11m 00s | Virus Upload | Good concept. Would like to see it expanded. |
| Aug 23 04:36:00 | 3m 00s | Many_Many_Spiders | Definitely move over to mediafire or something. This file host is really bad. |
| Aug 23 04:50:00 | 14m 00s | iQ | Crashes instantly when I play it. I'm running Windows 7, if that helps. |
| Aug 23 04:54:00 | 4m 00s | Planet RED | Congrats on your first game. I was having trouble figuring out what was going on - was I invincible? I couldn't see a health bar - and eventually I fell off the side of the world and got stuck :( Still - good job finishing. |
| Aug 23 05:07:00 | 13m 00s | Frickin' Laser Beams | Nice work. The graphics are well done and you have the distinction of being the first entry I've played to have decent sound. The game itself is good, and I like that the mechanics are somewhat forgiving - I don't die without at least a 1 second exposure to the frickin' beams. That was well thought out. |
| Aug 23 05:15:00 | 8m 00s | Scratchy Get Out! | I just couldn't figure out this game, and I died like 20 times. I got as far as sticking a boulder in the cannon, but it just seemed to disappear and not show up again. Maybe the game should clue you in if it notices you've died a lot or something. :) |
| Aug 23 05:22:00 | 7m 00s | Escape Infinity | Haha, nice game. Love the big black chompy thing and your (small) humor style. Showing health by bullet color was also clever. I liked that almost everything was destructible too. Solid LD game! |
| Aug 23 05:33:00 | 11m 00s | my escape | I almost wrote it off as totally boring but then I kept going. Neat stylish game that I would love to see further developed. |
| Aug 23 05:34:00 | 1m 00s | The Great Escape! | The archive seems to be corrupt for me. |
| Aug 23 05:41:00 | 7m 00s | Escape from the Wintry Fortress | Nice little game. Took me two tries to win, mainly because the first time around I didn't realize my health came back. The game could benefit a lot from some variation in graphics (instead of the uniform white and brown) but on the other hand I liked the filtered effects and falling snow. The soundtrack, while pretty simplistic, was nice. |
| Aug 23 05:47:00 | 6m 00s | Another Escape From Self Replicating Bugs 2 | Nice little game. The lighting system and ray-tracing gun show you have some definite programming chops. (So too does the internet death displayer, but unfortunately I didn't see any - not sure why?). I question why there are 5 different levels though, since they all seem to be pretty much the same (except for the introduction of shooting bugs). Still, nice game. |
| Aug 23 05:55:00 | 8m 00s | Robot Run | Nice little game. Good solid coding work for 48 hours; there are a lot of details here. <br/> <br/>I must say though, the mechanics feel a little backward. I get money from my own robot's deaths? Why? Doesn't it cost me money to make them in the first place? <br/> <br/>Cool concept though. |
| Aug 23 05:59:00 | 4m 00s | Untitled | Cute little game. Would be nice to visibly show what colors 1, 2, 3 and 4 map to, but otherwise I feel it does what it set out to do. |
| Aug 23 06:04:00 | 5m 00s | Escape Adventure | Haha, that was awesome. I laughed, I cried (at level 5... but not really). Awesome. |
| Aug 23 06:13:00 | 9m 00s | Self Destruct: Activated | Tough game but fun. Feels very old school. Also, it's REALLY hard. |
| Aug 23 06:31:00 | 18m 00s | We'd like it if you Stay | Ooh, eerie. I liked how you can move stuff both by yourself and with the mouse - that's a neat mechanic. The game was actually pretty creepy, especially since I was playing near midnight in a totally dark room. :) Couldn't quite figure out what happened at the end - some dark scary stuff came and then boom gameover. Still neat! |
| Aug 23 06:57:00 | 26m 00s | The Bachelor's Escape | Amazing instruction page. Really funny mechanics - kind of like a demented platformer version of pacman. The controls could have been a little more solid, and the death screen could go by faster, but I'm loving the concept. |
| Aug 23 07:02:00 | 5m 00s | Mind Enprisonment | Nice little game. Funny to see traditional platformer roles reversed. |
| Aug 23 07:06:00 | 4m 00s | Go, Fish! | Nice little game. Weird how you can run into 2 different parallaxing nets, but I guess that's how games work. Nice simple graphics and gameplay. Maybe you could have some sort of indicator onscreen (C=Blue etc) |
| Aug 23 07:14:00 | 8m 00s | Escaping the Rat Race | What an interesting game. I hate the rat-race part, but that's clearly the point. And the indie section is so much more enjoyable because the rat race is so painful. Really interesting idea and well executed. |
| Aug 24 04:53:00 | 21h 39m | Black Hole | The download link leads me to a google docs zip, and I don't want to download every file individually. Is there a better way? Could you upload to mediafire maybe? |
| Aug 24 05:24:00 | 31m 00s | Escape of the Psychic Trash Robot | The game works for me too, although I think I had trouble before. It's pretty good - congratulations on getting a game done. Some constructive criticism: the slidey controls make me kinda frustrated - it could have controlled a lot better, and sometimes I would fall realllly far down and have a long boring time getting back up. But still - the game is solid and kinda neat. Good work. |
| Aug 24 05:31:00 | 7m 00s | EscApe | Nice polished little game. Really nice graphics. My only problem was that the controls were so slidey that it ended up being kind of frustrating. Still, nice work. |
| Aug 24 05:35:00 | 4m 00s | Run Escape | Crashes instantly on Win 7. I noticed you said there were some requirements - would it be possible for you to package them along with the files so that I can just install them and go? I think that could help a lot of people. |
| Aug 24 06:24:00 | 49m 00s | Astar | Nice, cute little game. Cute isometric graphics that I really like. Good choice using mouse for primary control with isometrism because otherwise that's just a huge pain. Nice game concept too. Good all around. |
| Aug 24 06:26:00 | 2m 00s | Rooms | What an interesting little game. Good job on the graphics. I would have liked more story to it, but it works as is. |
| Aug 24 06:33:00 | 7m 00s | I Think In A Minute Or So I Will Explode | Nice little game with a clever mechanic. I admit, my favorite part of this game is that you can cling onto the side of blocks. It's a great mechanic that makes the game feel a lot more solid, and more platformers need to have it :) |
| Aug 24 06:40:00 | 7m 00s | Elastic Prison | Neat little game, with a clever concept. As for criticisms, I can do little but voice the problems that everyone else has already mentioned - very frustrating to get reset, and I had problems going in certain directions and I had no idea why. Still, this game is cool, and worth further exploration and development. |
| Aug 24 06:51:00 | 11m 00s | Who let the robots out? | Very ambitious - something I like to see! Would like to see this game developed further also. |
| Aug 24 07:01:00 | 10m 00s | Southward Lies Escape | This game has a great dark atmosphere, but is a little too repetitive. I didn't really feel like I was progressing until I suddenly won. It's still pretty nice, with great graphical style. |
| Aug 24 07:09:00 | 8m 00s | A memory | Very pretty game. Would have loved some nice music to go with it :) |
| Aug 24 07:13:00 | 4m 00s | Effugere -- an escape game | Voice instructions! That was a neat surprise. I would like more levels though - and maybe sharpen up the graphics a little :) |
| Aug 24 07:19:00 | 6m 00s | ""Escape the Flood 3D"" | Really interesting concept. Would like to see this developed further. |
| Aug 25 03:55:00 | 20h 36m | Facilitated Escape | Nice little game with nice little polished graphics. Nice overall :) My only problem was that it seemed like I would occasionally run into situations that were simply inescapable, for no problem of my own. Maybe be a little more generous? I mean, I'm going to die anyways... :-) |
| Aug 25 04:05:00 | 10m 00s | Ascape | Yay, the first command line game I've played! Congrats on finishing. Consider adding more interactivity next time - the game is pretty straightforward as is. |
| Aug 25 04:19:00 | 14m 00s | Left | Very nice, polished game, with a clever concept. |
| Aug 25 04:33:00 | 14m 00s | When I Was Human | Nice game, nice polish. Make the controls a little more solid and it could be great. |
| Aug 25 04:39:00 | 6m 00s | Escapism | Escape the Zombies is arguably the hardest game...ever. It seems like there should be some sort of strategy but I just keep dying over and over. It was kinda addicting though. |
| Aug 25 04:46:00 | 7m 00s | Ascii Maze | Nice little game. I checked out your source code (as you mentioned) and it's kind of amazing. 3500 lines, with a bibliography at the end..!!! We need a technical category for people like you. |
| Aug 25 05:05:00 | 19m 00s | Forklift Escape | Can't test this as it's only on OSX. Any plans of a port? |
| Aug 25 05:21:00 | 16m 00s | Captive | Nice little game - I like puzzles. My only problem: the rocks seemed to fall in totally random or irrational ways. I could not intuit their manner of falling at all. That made for some frustrating gameplay. |
| Aug 25 05:27:00 | 6m 00s | The Sky Is Falling | This is pretty cool. Graphics are great. Controls are solid (not sure what everyone else was talking about). Really impressive for such a short amount of time. |
| Aug 25 05:39:00 | 12m 00s | Extreme Beatboxing Bird Jailbreak | Lovely game! I'm a big fan of audio components, so well done! And the concept is hilarious. |
| Aug 25 05:45:00 | 6m 00s | The Wave | Cool mechanic you've got going! Music was very atmospheric and dark. |
| Aug 25 06:07:00 | 22m 00s | AWOL | Sooooooo pretty. I'm so impressed by your graphical abilities, especially in 48 hours. |
| Aug 25 06:11:00 | 4m 00s | Vampire Runner | Nice little game. I would like to see more gameplay mechanics though, to keep things more interesting. |
| Aug 25 06:13:00 | 2m 00s | Cacophony | I'm just here to phone in the same issue. I MUST SEE THIS ORGASMIC ENDING. |
| Aug 25 06:17:00 | 4m 00s | Flashlight Runner | I missed the first jump like 20 times in a row, then got 50 seconds. Hehe. The "see all past players" was cool, but since they weren't distinct from me, they started to really confuse me and I had to restart. |
| Aug 29 05:11:00 | 94h 54m | Fall Into Space | Also waiting on a windows port :) |
| Aug 29 05:11:00 | 0s | I Predict a Riot | The demo was agonizingly slow, but the rest of the game was much better. You should really look into that! Also, my general strategy was just to plant 1 peaceful protest and win, which seemed to work fine for me. Maybe you could make the gameplay more complex somehow? |
| Aug 29 05:13:00 | 2m 00s | A Crap Game | Your host seems to be down. I can't download the game :( |
| Aug 29 05:19:00 | 6m 00s | Escape Cat | Cute game! Pretty much the last thing I expected to be doing when playing Ludum Dare games. :) |
| Aug 29 05:27:00 | 8m 00s | Harvest | Too bad about the controls, cause this is otherwise a pretty nice game. Would like some more variation in later levels though. Also, more lives! The game is kinda unforgiving on that point :) |
| Aug 29 05:34:00 | 7m 00s | Heist | Neat concept. Definitely needs a play-again feature! |
| Aug 29 05:37:00 | 3m 00s | Escape(ism) | I really really liked this game, and if it was longer, I may have loved it. I could have stayed in that escape room forever... |
| Aug 29 05:44:00 | 7m 00s | Death Boulder Jones | Really hard, but shows a ton of potential that I hope is developed. My favorite part: audio goes slower when you slow down time. Awesome touch! |
| Aug 29 05:48:00 | 4m 00s | Escape | Seems to be influenced by Helicopter, one of my favorite games! With a little polish, sound effects, etc, this could be super addicting. |
| Aug 29 05:51:00 | 3m 00s | Escape the Space Nazis | Neat idea. More development? |
| Aug 29 05:56:00 | 5m 00s | UpRunner | I love tower climbing games. So addicting. They are probably my favorite genre. This one was good too - my biggest complaint was that the jump felt a little float-y and that sometimes you just couldn't escape because there were no platforms to jump to, but those are mostly me nit-picking. |
| Aug 29 06:03:00 | 7m 00s | Escape Kraut | Awesome! My play style is just to hold W all the time cause it's more fun that way. :D I'd like some more variation later on in the game, but the game does well. |
| Aug 29 06:09:00 | 6m 00s | Safari Park Escape | Hilarious concept. Decent execution, but I wanted lots more :) |
| Aug 29 06:25:00 | 16m 00s | 26 Prisoners | So intense. I have never felt so much agony as I have when I was watching my prisoners crawl slowly to the exit, one sacrificing himself for the other. |
| Aug 29 06:31:00 | 6m 00s | Castle-Game Engine | It seems to be just a tech demo right now, but definitely keep working on it! |
| Aug 29 06:34:00 | 3m 00s | Grappling-Hook Jones | Heh, + humor points for "The boulder will kill you!" Aww, really? I thought we could be friends. :) <br/> <br/>You should definitely develop this game. Grappling hook seemed inconsistent - was that because it could only go out to a certain length, or what? |
| Aug 29 06:36:00 | 2m 00s | Epic Escape | Nice first LD entry - congrats! You should definitely think on extending this, adding more features, stuff like that :) |
| Aug 29 06:39:00 | 3m 00s | The Remnants | Yeah, there isn't a lot here, but keep working at it... |
| Aug 29 06:44:00 | 5m 00s | graphite | Yeah, I am having the movement bug also. Let me know if you get the newer version uploaded. |
| Aug 30 05:36:00 | 22h 52m | Space Pirates Suck! | Nice game, but really unforgiving! Noobs like me need checkpoints every 2 seconds. |
| Aug 30 05:40:00 | 4m 00s | / ESCAPE \ | Whoa, one of the best entries I've seen so far. Simple mechanics, but oh so addicting. Well done. |
| Aug 30 05:52:00 | 12m 00s | The Villainous Villa | Lovely game. Well done. Arguably the best point and click adventure I have played. |
| Aug 31 06:45:00 | 24h 53m | Stratus | Very beautiful entry. |