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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | vilya's comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24 14:09:00 | Tiny's World | Loved the music, but the gameplay is a bit slow-paced. Might have been because of the FPS being pretty low (around 20 during the game)? <br/> <br/>Also I found that if I was under the middle of the foot when it started to descend, there wasn't enough time to get out of the way - even if I was already moving at the time. Maybe either make the foot slightly slower or show some kind of warning before it comes down. | |
| Apr 24 14:17:00 | 8m 00s | In Delusion | Music is very atmospheric and the story is interesting, but the slow movement speed made playing a bit tedious. |
| Apr 24 14:24:00 | 7m 00s | Tiny World | Great game! Love the gameplay mechanism and the motion blur effects were a nice extra. |
| Apr 24 16:38:00 | 2h 14m | Lord Deadrock's Adventures | Love the background - looks beautiful! It's still a bit buggy (I got stuck somewhere I couldn't get out of), but I really like the idea. |
| Apr 24 16:46:00 | 8m 00s | Magniverse | I liked the minimalist look, but I couldn't really figure out what was going on. I wasn't clear if I was controlling the planet directly or some sort of crosshairs (and, if the latter, how to get the enemies to run into my planet). |
| Apr 24 19:37:00 | 2h 51m | Nano Spin | Couldn't get this working on Linux. I don't have lwjgl installed and installing it looks like it would pull in a lot of extra dependencies. :-( I'll try again on my MacBook when I get home. |
| Apr 24 19:49:00 | 12m 00s | I want to turn the heater on | Really enjoyed this! Had a glitch at one point where I managed to get the fisherman stuck outside of the room so I couldn't progress, but I restarted and got past that point next time around. Great job! |
| Apr 25 13:56:00 | 18h 07m | Phi-projekt | Looks cool from the screenshots, but applets don't seem to want to run in my browser so I couldn't play it. Sorry! |
| Apr 25 14:04:00 | 8m 00s | 0x17's-TinyWorld | Wow, that's hard! I couldn't get past the first or second obstacle on any of the levels I tried. <br/> <br/>The music wasn't really to my taste but suited the feel of the game. In fact, the whole things feels pretty polished - nice job! |
| Apr 25 22:37:00 | 8h 33m | Tiny God | Liked having the choice of game length - nice idea. Particle effects were cool too. Gameplay is a bit shallow though; maybe certain worlds could be friendly & you lose points if you click on them, or something? |
| Apr 25 22:55:00 | 18m 00s | Watercolour | I couldn't get the game to run on Windows 7 (64-bit) - got a crash on startup every time. I installed the XNA 4.0 runtime. Any other suggestions? |
| Apr 25 23:05:00 | 10m 00s | No Space | I think a tutorial that guided you through exploring, managing energy and the rest would make this game a lot more accessible. (I do understand how hard it is to find time for that as well as everything else though) |
| Apr 25 23:19:00 | 14m 00s | I Should Clean My Keyboard | Great fun! Really good work. It wasn't always clear whether my missiles were actually hitting the enemy or being shot down just before the arrived - maybe you could make the enemies flash when they get hit or something? That didn't detract from the gameplay though. Again: great work! |
| Apr 25 23:32:00 | 13m 00s | Pond: The Strider | When I downloaded this, Chrome gave me a warning saying "this appears to be malicious". Tried it out anyway after running virus scans and everything and... it's really nice! Love the look, the music, the gameplay - the tension between controlling and shooting is great. The only downsides: it's a bit hard to control and it was a bit confusing trying to figure out what was happening when I died. Overall, great job! |
| Apr 25 23:56:00 | 24m 00s | Core Buster | It's a well-polished effort & you managed to get quite a lot in, but the gameplay is all basically grinding - there's no challenge anywhere. Also found it a bit annoying that you couldn't hit things immediately in front of you. But add some enemies either defending the planets or trying to mine them before you do & I think you'd quite a good game on your hands. |
| Apr 26 00:12:00 | 16m 00s | Laser Coin Planets | That's really good! Nice graphics, nice sound effects, simple but effective gameplay concept... I wish there were more levels so I could keep on playing! |
| Apr 26 00:27:00 | 15m 00s | INSANE MEGASNAIL PENETRATION | We've actually printed out your title screen and stuck it on the wall at work - that's how much we like it! <br/> <br/>The game is great fun too. That snail can really shift! :-) There were some minor issues with the controls (it seemed like it was taking a while for them to re-orient after the camera rotated?) but apart from that I love everything about this game! |
| Apr 26 00:57:00 | 30m 00s | TinyInspiration | Nice to see someone attempting something a bit different! The puzzles were a bit obscure for me though, I had to use the hints page. |
| Apr 26 20:32:00 | 19h 35m | LittlePlanetBigRocket | Great game, very polished. I seemed to get stuck on the scenery a few times when it looked like there was a large enough gap to walk through, but that only happened once or twice. Could be improved by adding a limit on the number of lives as well, perhaps? Oh and a finish screen too. :-) |
| Apr 26 23:58:00 | 3h 26m | Bunny Cube | Pretty cool! Navigation is a bit confusing as others have said, but the story is good and it all hangs together nicely. |
| Apr 27 01:37:00 | 1h 39m | My Little Dungeon | Quite an achievement in the time you had! My guy died for no reason I could tell on my playthrough. Unlike others have been saying, I liked the pacing - it suited my playing style. The game didn't really have anything much to do with the theme though now, did it...? |
| Apr 27 01:49:00 | 12m 00s | Turtles, all the Way Down! | Full marks for innovation - I've never seen *anything* quite like that before! Loved the screaming sfx too,. Are you supposed to be keeping everything on the platform or off it though? |
| May 2 14:20:00 | 132h 31m | Teeming | I liked the way you introduced an additional game mechanic with each level & the dividing sound effect was great. Really good use of the theme too. The gameplay just didn't feel that compelling though, unfortunately. |
| May 2 14:26:00 | 6m 00s | Kumiho | This game is amazing! The teleport mechanic is really well done & above all it's great fun to play. The only problem is that it's an extremely tenuous connection to the theme... |
| May 4 00:21:00 | 33h 55m | Recluse | Absolutely beautiful. Well done! I think your snail is one of the most memorable game characters I've seen in ages -. |
| May 4 01:00:00 | 39m 00s | Bacteria | Needs a background, like others have already said. I found it really hard to hit the enemy bugs too, especially when they were up close. Maybe make them move slightly slower, so you have more time to target them? |
| May 4 01:15:00 | 15m 00s | Planetship | Love the look you've got going with the graphics & the audio is really good too. The gameplay was a bit confusing (to me) and I died pretty quickly - I think there's just so much going on on-screen that it gets a bit overwhelming! |
| May 4 01:48:00 | 33m 00s | Disregard All Humans | Very cute! Using the moon as a score gauge was a nice touch & the way the planet scales down as you eat more is good too. I found the music a little annoying (but at least you had some) & I wished there was more to the gameplay. Overall though it's a pretty good job! |
| May 4 02:05:00 | 17m 00s | THE TINY PIRATE KNOWS MAGIC | Is it possible to lose this game? After fighting a few monsters the health bar looked like it had gone negative. Also the island shrank down to less than the size of pixel - i.e. it was completely invisible - some time before the game ended. |
| May 4 02:22:00 | 17m 00s | Atom Planet | Very polished and nice relaxing pace. Well done! |
| May 4 21:29:00 | 19h 07m | snowglobe | Great use of the theme, but it's not a game as such. Maybe you could have turned it into some kind of a god game? |
| May 5 20:25:00 | 22h 56m | Space Rescue! | Good game! Really liked the way the exterior of the moon fades away to reveal the interior - that was a nice touch. |
| May 5 20:46:00 | 21m 00s | Atomic Galaxy Factory | On my first try I just got a blue screen, but reloading sorted it out. It's a very absorbing game, the pacing is just right. Maybe a little too easy, but very nice work all the same. |
| May 9 21:06:00 | 96h 20m | Giant's Crash ! | This is a great effort but could really do with a tutorial or some kind of gentle introduction to the gameplay - especially when it comes to the double jump (I thought the game was glitching the first few times I tried it!). It's impressive that you managed to get in a cut-scene for the intro in the limited time you had! |
| May 9 21:17:00 | 11m 00s | Desire | It's a nice concept & well polished, but I'm afraid the gameplay didn't do much for me (not your fault, I just tend to prefer action over strategy). Also, by the time I'd figured out how to play it was too late to undo my beginner errors from earlier & I was far enough in that I didn't want to restart either. However it's nicely different from the other entries I've played so far, so good marks for innovation. |
| May 9 21:30:00 | 13m 00s | Critter Clash | There are a couple of things here I really like and a couple I really hate. <br/> <br/>The graphics and music are great - fantastic job on those! <br/> <br/>Having an installer is awful - please don't require that next time. With 1400 games to evaluate, the extra hassle made it tempting to just skip the game (I'm glad I didn't though!). <br/> <br/>Also, the fact that it *has* to be multiplayer meant that I couldn't see the game at it's best: one ship was sitting there idle while I controlled the other. <br/> <br/>This game has so much promise. I really hope you develop it further after the judging period. It would be amazing to see a single-player version running in a web browser (Unity, perhaps...?). |
| May 10 01:27:00 | 3h 57m | Microscopia | Well done! Simple but effective. The music was very atmospheric. You did a good job of introducing each change to the game mechanic too. Great use of the theme too! <br/> <br/>BTW, congratulations on getting your game featured by Edge magazine! |
| May 13 23:55:00 | 94h 28m | Trees of Life | It's a bit difficult to play and there are a few glitches (e.g. I got stuck between a wall and a tree I'd just planted at one point). The graphical style is beautiful though! |