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Apr 23 05:01:00 Castle Story Couldn't play it. :( I'm on windows 7 64 bit. I just got an orange dot that let me draw on the black background and "fetching images" in the bottom left corner.
Apr 23 05:08:00 7m 00s ToastBiome The game could use a bit more explanation, it was confusing at first to figure out what I could do as a player. But, the music and sound effects were quite good!
Apr 23 05:12:00 4m 00s Tiny World Thing The game would freeze up for short periods of time without warning, getting hit once would occasionally remove all 3 lives.
Apr 23 05:17:00 5m 00s Just My Immagination I really liked the concept behind this game. The water physics were wonderful, but the gameplay itself (movement, shooting) was a bit too unresponsive. Other than that, it was a very cute game, it made me smile.
Apr 23 05:21:00 4m 00s Bugs Planet Great job! This game was a lot of fun! I would have liked some smarter AI, but I know that's asking a lot from a LD game (especially one made in half the time!) But, good work!
Apr 23 05:33:00 12m 00s Tiny Hack/ I really liked the style of this game, but the gameplay itself did get a bit boring. Some more mechanics (levelling up, more threatening enemies) or places to go would have made it more compelling I think.
Apr 23 05:40:00 7m 00s Secrets of The Universe I really liked the mood of this game, the graphics and music helped this a great deal. The fighting was a bit tedious, and the zombie + boss took too long to kill. But overall, good job! I would have liked to see more.
Apr 23 05:44:00 4m 00s These Tiny Planets are mean This made me smile. :P WASD doesn't seem to work.
Apr 23 05:52:00 8m 00s It's a tiny world I really liked this one! The style of it was great, and it was pretty fun. Great job!
Apr 23 06:08:00 16m 00s dLeIaFtEh Really great presentation! I love your art style.
Apr 23 06:30:00 22m 00s Shrunkit Wow, great job. Amazing graphics, really great mechanic ideas, and they fit the theme quite nicely too! My favorite entry thus far. :)
Apr 24 00:16:00 17h 46m Dimensional It's a shame you only worked 5 hours on this, there are some interesting concepts at work here! I agree with you, spending some time at the beginning of the compo planning out the design can be extraordinarily helpful.
Apr 24 00:25:00 9m 00s Ant In Training Fun, interesting mechanics here! Nice work!
Apr 24 00:43:00 18m 00s Interstellar Planet-Ship Adventures: The Search for... $@#% Aliens!!!!!! I have to echo what others have said, the game is pretty inaccessible. I opened up the howto file, and then just decided "meh, I can probably figure out how to play it just by playing it a bit." I was wrong. So, I went back, read the howto, and then I got it. It's a pretty interesting concept, and the style of the game is very nice. Pretty nice music too. I liked the effect of the cursor above the peoples' heads too. But, most people are not going to want to read a manual to play a game. If you can, try to convey the goals, player abilities, things like that within the game. The initial inaccessibility will definitely turn a lot of people off. <br/> <br/>I found a couple of bugs as well. <br/> <br/>- The 7 bug that others have stated (no 'wheel_exists' variable) <br/> <br/>- If you try to train a youth in front of the brothel, some sound plays over and over making a very loud noise. Then the brothel goes transparent. <br/> <br/>- If you die and start a new game with a character selected, the cursor that was over their head will linger throughout your next game. Probably just a matter of cleaning up all of the objects after a game over. <br/> <br/>But overall, pretty nice job! One of the more interesting entries I've played.
Apr 24 00:51:00 8m 00s Bill in BSODia Really great graphics here. Fun gameplay, I just wish there was more stuff to shoot while you're exploring the level. Awesome intro as well! Great job!
Apr 24 01:01:00 10m 00s Skully's Microscopic World The difficulty curve could use some adjustment. If you take too long to destroy all of the bacilli, their spawn time increases exponentially and then you basically are screwed. They spawn to the max, and regain whatever you kill right after you kill it. Also, hard difficulty should just be renamed to "impossible." :P <br/> <br/>But overall, it was a pretty fun, charming game.
Apr 25 00:23:00 23h 22m The Lump World Yikes, the audio made me flinch every time it spiked up. Good ideas here, and pretty nice animations and things, just seems like you needed some more time to put it all together.
Apr 25 00:40:00 17m 00s Tiny World Cardgame Great job! Once I figured out how to play this (by paying attention during the tutorial the second time :P ) it was a lot of fun! Simple but well thought out mechanics, I loved it. The little characters on the cards were cute too, it would have been nice to have art on the building and resource cards, but I'm guessing you ran out of time for that.
Apr 25 00:44:00 4m 00s Microbial I get the same thing as Beanalby, an empty 1st level. :( It's a shame, this one looks and sounds extremely promising.
Apr 26 03:33:00 26h 49m Tiny War Of The Worlds This game was a lot of fun! Great job, really addicting!
Apr 29 21:18:00 89h 45m Rocket Boat Really awesome graphics and physics, and just good overall design. The visual style is really appealing.
Apr 29 21:29:00 11m 00s Tiny Island Adventure Great job on this! I loved it. Graphics were great, your character and her animations were really nice. A nice, succinct little story.
Apr 29 21:36:00 7m 00s Celluloid Combat! Pretty fun game, nice work!
Apr 29 21:43:00 7m 00s Tiny Squareheads I liked your music, and using guitar sounds for sound effects was a nice touch as well. Did you live record the music, or are they from a sound program? <br/> <br/>I didn't play through to the end, the controls felt a bit too "loose" and the collision detection feels a bit off. I couldn't get past that last fireball in that twisty vertical section. But, it was an enjoyable entry, good job!
Apr 29 21:46:00 3m 00s Tiny World's Lunar CTF I like the design of this, I'd like to see more added to it. The jump needs work, you can't really use it to avoid the enemy's attacks at all. And approaching the enemy is basically instant death. But, it's an interesting idea!
Apr 29 21:53:00 7m 00s Pro Stew Chugger Your whole graphical style was really nice, I liked it. The hit detection was a bit buggy, as you said, and I was not really sure about the whole door-combination puzzle thing. I just went in random doors until I finally got to the next room. But, pretty fun overall!
Apr 29 21:58:00 5m 00s Planet Defender A pretty fun little entry! You should change the name of your link from "Windows" to "Web" or something similar, since making it seem as if it is just a Windows executable will turn off many potential players.
Apr 29 22:05:00 7m 00s Lost Planet You might take a look at this: <br/> <br/>http://www.pygame.org/wiki/Pygame2exe <br/> <br/>And see if you can make it work for your game in order to get some more plays, as the majority of people are not going to want to install python/pygame.
Apr 29 22:12:00 7m 00s Tiny Contamination, well almost Awww so cute! Nice music too! I liked that you used the number of eyes on the character to indicate the lives left, a nice little touch. Great job!
Apr 29 22:17:00 5m 00s A Bathtub Story Really cute game! I loved the style, and the small window size fitting in with the "tiny world" theme, love it. Great job!
Apr 29 22:30:00 13m 00s Pixels World I loved this entry, great job. The music was wonderful, although I would have liked it to be a bit louder (I had to turn my speakers up a bit too much to hear it better :P ), and there were some pretty devious parts of your level designs. :) I liked the ending too!
Apr 29 22:34:00 4m 00s Toad Warrior Really amazing artwork and graphical design, but the gameplay is a bit frustrating. Maybe allow for more precise movements, lower jumps, etc. In the second level, I could not get up on the leaves at all, I just kept jumping all the way across the level. But, if you polish up the gameplay a bit more, this would be a great game to have on my phone!
Apr 29 22:38:00 4m 00s Gravity Force 3 Great graphics! The whole visual style of this game is just perfect. Nice mechanics as well, awesome job! I just want to know why gigantic space acorns are trying to destroy earth. D:
Apr 29 22:44:00 6m 00s GutsyBot vs the Universe I loved the music in this one!
Apr 30 23:17:00 24h 33m Rush Hour Really really difficult game, maybe a bit too difficult. :P I liked the animations on the player, they looked really nice!
Apr 30 23:24:00 7m 00s Disastronaut Great job, I loved this entry! My favorite part was definitely the music, and it was fun floating through space looking for parts. My only complaint is that the sound effect for using the jetpack was a little bit annoying. I think it would have been better if it was a little quieter, it clashed with the music.
Apr 30 23:28:00 4m 00s Great fish eat up the small Bosses are always so angry. D: I was a little bit unsure about what eating certain things would do, and was pretty much always unable to make my boss happy (I'm wondering if this was the point of the game, or if I was just really bad at it?) Pretty fun entry, though!
Apr 30 23:33:00 5m 00s My (Tiny) World I really liked your graphical style, it looks nice! It's too bad you ran out of time, the graphics combined with some nice action-RPG mechanics would have been awesome.
Apr 30 23:37:00 4m 00s Godly I couldn't hear any music either. D: But, I liked the game! I would have liked some more things to do in the game though. But you're right, it is somewhat relaxing. :P
May 2 00:21:00 24h 44m We're going to need another Gnomy! Pretty fun entry! A nice idea, but as others have said, the difficulty grew to a point where you really couldn't win, regardless of skill. Just needs some balancing.
May 2 00:26:00 5m 00s Hoperay Pretty fun entry, the bullet patterns were pretty tough. Would have liked for there to be a bit more too it.
May 2 00:41:00 15m 00s Equanimity A pretty interesting game, the player character was a bit too easy to lose track of, and it would have been nice for the movement to be a bit more responsive. But, certainly an interesting one. Good job!
May 2 00:46:00 5m 00s Stage 2 Chaos Pretty fun game, very much like Desktop Dungeons. I liked the lighting effects, and the random elements. Good job!
May 2 00:58:00 12m 00s Chisana Saga Great job! The auto-magic mechanic was a really interesting idea, I loved the graphical style as well. The difficulty was a bit too high for me, maybe a bit of balancing? It felt like enemies took too long to die, and the rewards for killing them were a bit too low. But, very nice job!
May 2 23:39:00 22h 41m Atomsmash I couldn't get past the title screen, despite my mashing of right alt, right ctrt, and right shift. :P I will bookmark this one though and come back in a week or so to see if there are more instructions or a web version, because I love the idea of this entry! And it's awesome that you developed this using 1987 tech, love it.
May 2 23:46:00 7m 00s Buggiest Game Ever Good idea for a game! Some pretty good mechanics here.
May 2 23:49:00 3m 00s Small Slime Adventure I loved this entry! Very Osmos like gameplay, and your visual style, while simple, looked really nice. The second level was a bit hard, the huge monsters move so fast, but I'll definitely come back to this one. Great job!
May 3 00:01:00 12m 00s Block Switch Awesome game! The mechanics are really fun, and I think the combination of block placement and dimension shifts works really well and makes for some fun and smart puzzles. Great job! I'd like to see you continue to work on this, polish it up, add some music, and make it longer! It made me sad when all I got for finishing the game was a deep hole to walk around in. :(
May 4 00:05:00 24h 04m Civilized Pixel Not bad, this was pretty fun! The audio levels on the sound effects and music were a little out of whack, the main menu music was really loud, and then the in game music was low, but the sound for destroying a building was really high. Just a minor issue.
May 4 00:10:00 5m 00s Get The FROG Off My World !! I loved this game! It's so simple, but it's really fun and the presentation is lovely. I liked the "Frogs that got yelled at" counter. :P Nice music too, pretty catchy. Great job!
May 6 02:44:00 50h 34m Catamari Meowacy Loved it, great job! The only reason I kept playing through that frustrating last level was to hear more from Zorlax. :P
May 6 02:52:00 8m 00s Rabbit Tiny Good design, and I liked the idea of an RPG-ish Bejeweled type game, and battling buildings. :P Also, I liked the music, personally.
May 6 02:54:00 2m 00s Tiny Ferrets Agreed, cool cursor effect, but that's really all there is here now.
May 6 02:58:00 4m 00s CastleMania Really awesome graphics! And a really fun game too! I feel like it would have been more fair for only arrows that miss to come back down at you (while hitting an enemy would simply make it disappear), but I liked this mechanic, very cool!
May 6 21:26:00 18h 28m SpermWorld Nice job! A good idea, and a fun little game! I liked your music as well.
May 6 21:29:00 3m 00s Penguin Penguins! :) I had some fun with your game! I just want to know who the jerks are that are dropping bombs on a penguin who just wants to sit on an iceberg! :P
May 6 21:34:00 5m 00s Bottlecolonies Very awesome game, great job! I loved the art style and the music, and I liked the implementation of the theme. Loved it, awesome work!
May 6 21:45:00 11m 00s Curse Of Grimwood Amazing job! Loved the graphics and the music. The gameplay was pretty fun, but it wasn't enough to make me want to hunt down all 100 enemies, so I don't know what happens at the end of the game. The pathfinding of the team mates was pretty good too, but they would often get stuck on corners and things like that. But, you did a really great job, especially for only 48 hours!
May 6 21:53:00 8m 00s Attack on the Planet XXS-01 Great job! I had fun with this one. One problem I had was that I would get a "get ready" message that would freeze me for a few seconds (as if it were the end of a level or something), but the enemies would keep coming. I don't know if this is because I got hit too many times, or if it is just the end of a level? I would have liked to hear some sound and music, but it was pretty fun regardless!
May 6 21:59:00 6m 00s Super Shotgun Showdown Pretty fun game, I liked the pixel art on the characters and the title screen. The music was nice too! I wasn't always sure that I had hit an enemy though, at first I just thought the gun wasn't working. A different sound cue for a "hit" would probably help there. But, nice job overall!
May 7 23:17:00 25h 18m Mr. Dibbins and the Island of Lore The player movement was too crazy, would have liked it to be tighter. Combat suffered because of this as well. It's a good idea though!
May 7 23:21:00 4m 00s Tiny Blastoff Not bad, a pretty fun little game! I would have liked some different sound effects though, the mario ones didn't really fit, in my opinion.
May 7 23:24:00 3m 00s Solar Sailor Fun little racing game! The controls did feel a bit off, but I have to admit I had fun bouncing around the screen off of the sides when I lost control. :P W/S to accelerate and A/D to turn would have been a bit more intuitive, I think.
May 7 23:27:00 3m 00s Home is where the robots are. Ha! Awesome. I loved the graphics and the premise behind the game. Some sound and music would have been nice, and it could have used a bit more depth. But, I enjoyed it, nice job!
May 7 23:29:00 2m 00s Biological Warfare Lots of fun! A really simple premise, easy to pick up and play, and I think that's a great thing. The graphics, while simple as well, worked for the game. Nice job!
May 8 23:58:00 24h 29m Exciting Electrons I loved the idea of this game, but I couldn't get it to do anything meaningful. When exciting it with to first energy level, it just flies off the screen. Cool cursor effects though, and a great idea!
May 9 00:01:00 3m 00s TTA - Tiny Theft Auto Sorry to hear that you got so sick during the compo. :( Would have been fun with more stuff to do.
May 9 00:05:00 4m 00s Crandell Stryder I was promised love and peace when I clicked, not explosions!! :P Nice graphics, and I liked the sounds (even though they were a bit quiet). The pretzel health gauge made me giggle.
May 9 00:10:00 5m 00s Tiny Tiny World Fun, simple little game. Strange music as well. :P I would have liked some victory conditions or challenges, but still a bit fun regardless.
May 9 00:18:00 8m 00s Free My World Yikes, my hand is tired now. Pretty fun little button-mashing roguelike. :P I agree though, some explanation of the controls would have been nice (did mana do anything?)
May 9 00:32:00 14m 00s [Darkness Creeping] Really ambitious entry! I loved it. The presentation was outstanding, especially given the time frame. The sound effects and mood were spot on, pretty creepy atmosphere. Great job!
May 9 00:35:00 3m 00s Tiny Planet When the first explosions happened, I had no idea what was going on and I was scared. :P I absolutely loved your game. The music was so fitting, and wandering around the little planet collecting stars and making explosions (once I knew what was going on) is really relaxing. Wonderful job!
May 9 00:42:00 7m 00s Propolis I loved your graphical style, and the music was very nice too. The backgrounds were nice, but I didn't have much idea of what I was doing. :P Also, in the area with all the brown baggies, the game just kind of stopped when I tried to go back out through the door. <br/> <br/>And as a side note, it's so cute that you and your husband worked on this together. :)
May 9 00:48:00 6m 00s Interstellar Moai Ranger Wow awesome job, loved the Space Harrier vibe. The character movement felt a bit wonky, it would have been nice if it was a bit more precise (pressing left and then right makes the character teleport), maybe not always make him default to the center when there's no input? <br/> <br/>But, great job folks! The intro, the music, the sounds, the graphics, it was all awesome.
May 10 22:38:00 45h 50m Bottled Worlds Awesome job! An pretty large game for just 72 hours! Really difficult too, I loved it. Great graphics and level design, the music was really good too. I liked the attack mechanic as well. The only problem was that the collision detection was a bit off when jumping. You'd hit your head on something that seems like you should be able to just go past. But, I really enjoyed your game, great job!
May 10 22:56:00 18m 00s Dreamworld The exe file you provided didn't work from the directory it was in. Moving the contents of the dist folder into the root folder (/Dreamworld) allowed me to run the exe. <br/> <br/>I liked your graphics and the music (I played it in the background while running your game :P ), but everything else was just incomplete. The controls were strange, collision detection with the walls was definitely off (you could cling to them by holding A/D) and I'm not sure if that was intentional or not. Once I had gotten into the dream world (and was standing in a place that didn't immediately make me fall), holding 'E' did nothing against the slimes, it just ended the game. It's an interesting idea though!
May 10 23:01:00 5m 00s The Great Adventure of Mr.Galaxis Wow, very nice job! Great aesthetic, solid controls, good sound effects and music. A very polished, complete-feeling game for coming out of just 48 hours, great work!
May 10 23:18:00 17m 00s Quantum Entanglement Really amazing job! This is the first really good puzzle game I've come across this Ludum Dare, and it's really well done. Well thought out mechanics and puzzles. Really nice graphics, and I liked the music (even if it was pretty simple, it fit nicely)
May 10 23:25:00 7m 00s Giant's Crash ! Pretty cool graphics and sounds, but the platforming kind of killed it for me. Having the camera flip on the double jump was very disorienting, and not something I really wanted to experience. :P Some mouse sensitivity options would have been nice too, since it was way too sensitive for my mouse. But, nice job given the time frame, I love these sorts of 1st person explore-em-ups.
May 10 23:30:00 5m 00s Save the World Very nice, simple little game! I liked the idea of the shots propelling the earth around, very interesting.
May 10 23:33:00 3m 00s Nom Nom Planet Pretty fun little game! I liked the "jumping around on asteroids" mechanic, and the cool weapons you could collect. Good job!
May 10 23:41:00 8m 00s Cells What I've learned from this game: <br/> <br/>Aggression = death <br/>Poison = world peace <br/>Poison with a LITTLE BIT of aggression once populations have risen = VICTORY, GLORIOUS VICTORY! <br/> <br/>Nice job, I enjoyed watching the little cells reproduce and float around and kill each other.
May 10 23:48:00 7m 00s Tiny Robot Island Very cool graphics, but I agree, the game needed a bit more instruction. I didn't realize I was fighting the other robot at first. Also, nothing was effective except "ostrich leg" I lol'd. :P Nice graphics though!
May 10 23:53:00 5m 00s NanoQuest Fun, simple little game. I liked the font you used in the intro, and the idea of not letting enemies past you was pretty cool (and having to let the little smiley-face germs go by in order to heal your host). Nice job!
May 11 00:00:00 7m 00s TinyBot Ha, very cool graphics. The people walking around in the background was a really nice touch. The game itself was extremely frustrating, getting knocked around by enemies and boulders. D: I liked the music as well, nice job!
May 11 00:10:00 10m 00s Searching for Heaven I enjoyed this one! Really impressive animations on the bunny and skeleton characters. Also, walking too fast around heaven allows you to orbit around at insane speeds, which I enjoyed. :P Heaven is much smaller than they want you to believe!
May 11 00:28:00 18m 00s The Dream Sequencer I absolutely loved this one! Point and click adventures are probably my favorite genre that doesn't get enough love. :P I really enjoyed your story too, depressing stuff.
May 11 00:36:00 8m 00s Tiny World Interesting! Very much choose-your-own-adventure, I liked it!
May 11 00:44:00 8m 00s Microscopia Wow, amazing job. Great idea for a game, very fitting of the theme. It became much, much, much more challenging than I expected it to be at first glance.
May 11 00:53:00 9m 00s Purgatorio Very well written, sir. Nicely done.
May 11 04:35:00 3h 42m Tiny Cubic Maze World Really cool concept, the animation for transitioning sides was nice and smooth. I agree with others' comments, it's a bit too easy. Adding some urgency or making the maze harder to navigate would be nice. But, good job! I had fun with this one! I liked being WIN. :P
May 11 04:48:00 13m 00s Orbiter Really great visual style. I liked your sound effects as well. The game was a bit easy, but also a bit addicting. All it needs is a bit more variety (in weapon types, enemies types, etc), but I think you've got something really great here!
May 12 14:15:00 33h 27m Empty This was a really great idea for a game. I'm terrible at these types of puzzles anyway without the added hassle of platforming. I couldn't solved your post-compo version either. :P The controls need a bit of work, it was a bit fiddly. I'd sometimes move a block when I was just trying to jump off of it. Maybe make a change like you hold Z/X if you want to move a block or something like that? I don't know how well that would work/how feasable that would be with the way you have it now. But, I really like this idea and I feel like you should continue to develop it. I liked the background music as well.
May 12 14:23:00 8m 00s Cells For those getting the error double clicking the jar file, you just have to run it from command line as such (as others have said): "java -jar CellCollection.jar". Having a batch file included with your game to do this would help those having trouble running the game. <br/> <br/>A bit farmville-esque, I feel, (without the whole "exploit your friends" bit) in that you just start it up with the two peach colored cells you can buy at the start, leave it running and check back later. It would be nice if it didn't take so long for everything to happen, or if there could be more player interaction. Pretty cool concept though, and I like the use of puns in your description. :P
May 12 14:33:00 10m 00s AquaWars Really great graphics! I would have liked some sounds and music. It was pretty addicting too. With a few more features and a bit more challenge, this could be a really great game! <br/> <br/>Oh, I just read through the comments and saw you released a post-compo version on android, that's great news! (You should post a link to that in your description (; )
May 12 14:43:00 10m 00s Tiny Pig Run Not bad! (Why am I running from pigs and why do they want to kill me? D: ) You should consider starting the initial pig and the player in different locations, since if you're not ready when you start, you lose the game instantly. <br/> <br/>As for the graphics, you should consider familiarizing yourself with a tool such as Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/). Gimp is a free image manipulation program that has similar functionality to Photoshop. It's not that hard to learn to use, but it helps you to make much better graphics (even if you're not an artist). The simple ability to have the background of your sprites filled with transparency will improve your graphics almost instantly. <br/> <br/>Hope to see you in the next Ludum Dare!
May 12 14:47:00 4m 00s Solar Thief I liked the graphics and your music as well! I would have liked to be able to get to the sun though. :(
May 12 14:50:00 3m 00s Urth Defense Pretty challenging game! Controlling the ship was a bit awkward, it would be more intuitive in this sort of game to have a "thrust" that propels you forward the longer you hold it, rather than just a constant speed that you can increase or decrease. But, the way you had it works too, it's just a bit more frustrating. ;) I liked the use of the tiny window, definitely made the game more difficult.
May 12 14:59:00 9m 00s It's a Tiny Life... This game was strangely emotionally effective for me. Even with the few French to English errors, just the idea of viewing someone's life in such a short and simple way felt so sad. The end made me laugh though. :P Very good job, a great idea for the theme.
May 12 15:07:00 8m 00s Necro Gaia This game was amazing, it's a shame more people haven't played it yet. Great graphics (especially that awesome title screen), great music, and really fun, addicting gameplay. I only came here thanks to kylerhoades' blog post about it, more people need to play this.
May 12 15:21:00 14m 00s Space Cabin I was completely blown away by your visual style, right off the bat. Great job there. And I loved the concept of combining an exploration based adventure game with a text-based adventure game. It worked really well. I was sad when I chopped down both trees and was told I only needed one tree's worth of lumber. :P Also, the first time I walked into the trees that were "just drapes." Outstanding job.
May 12 16:00:00 39m 00s Tiny Defenders Fun little tower defense game! Pretty challenging and felt well balanced. Nice variety in the enemy types.
May 12 20:00:00 4h 00m Housefly Ha! I loved this. Great artwork, definitely the best I've seen this Ludum Dare. Fun game too, great idea!