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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | bvanschooten's comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29 18:16:00 | Keep up the rhythm | Played it on Android. Interesting concept. Some of the best audio for a 48 hour game. I don't understand why there are different colours and shapes. | |
| Apr 29 21:42:00 | 3h 26m | The Killer | Pretty nice for the development time. How about making the game a bit harder to increase play time? |
| Apr 29 21:57:00 | 15m 00s | Minimum Friction | Pretty polished, and innovative, though I get frustrated quickly after having to restart every time. |
| Apr 29 22:08:00 | 11m 00s | Traite de taoisme applique aux canons lasers | Looks very atmospheric, only the game itself feels as if it's impossible. |
| Apr 29 22:22:00 | 14m 00s | Neverending bricks | I like your approach to breakout. The game looks polished. The moments you get extra balls are rather random, as the extra balls make the game much easier. |
| Apr 30 08:51:00 | 10h 29m | SimpleWorld | Looks promising, but I couldn't find much gameplay in the game. I tried digging deep but I did not find anything there. At daytime nothing seems to happen, at night I can only jump over monsters. Every now and then my block selection cursor disappears. |
| Apr 30 09:00:00 | 9m 00s | Collision | Nice idea! can't remember having seen anything like this before. I think a little polishing could make this into a fun game. Right now I have two gripes: (1) the + and - are not balanced, sometimes you get only + or - on the screen and you can do nothing. (2) selecting the circles is sometimes hard, because you don't get feedback until a second or so later, and sometimes it doesn't seem to register a click. |
| Apr 30 09:24:00 | 24m 00s | Adventures !inColour | A promising start, though it could use some more work to make it more fun. The fighting seems a matter of just pressing the space bar fast enough, and the level seems to go on forever. I didn't hear any sound. That must be a bug, so I didn't rate sound. |
| Apr 30 09:38:00 | 14m 00s | Pretentious 'em Up! | Nice polished little shooter. I completed it. Maybe it is even more fun when you are able to shoot faster, and with some enemies with more complex movement patterns. |
| Apr 30 09:57:00 | 19m 00s | Orbicular | Fantastic sound! I like the way you use a music channel for the pickup sound. Despite the simple graphics the game looks attractive. It would be nice to be able to start at any level (standard advice for any LD game). |
| Apr 30 10:08:00 | 11m 00s | Z Jumper | Very playable platformer. Makes effective use of simple graphics to create a nice mood. |
| Apr 30 10:14:00 | 6m 00s | Grab That Key! | I like the idea of producing a "you have to burn the rope" kind of game in as little time as possible. The graphics are good. |
| Apr 30 10:19:00 | 5m 00s | Space Elimination | Can't run it. It unpacks but then it says the zip is damaged. When I run the game, it just shows a dark blue screen after the unity logo. |
| Apr 30 10:30:00 | 11m 00s | hedraSeed | Very cool graphics. The skill jumps are difficult. Frame rate was slow (about 10 fps), even at the fastest graphics settings. This made making the jumps a little too frustrating. I think that having the mouse cursor on screen is confusing. |
| Apr 30 10:38:00 | 8m 00s | Everybody Fail | Very nice, I like the idea of minigames following certain design restrictions (like using only three rectangles). The game modes make this game more interesting. |
| Apr 30 13:00:00 | 2h 22m | ProductionVille | Won the game with $31940. One of the most fun games I've played. There's an annoying bug in the scrolling. If I leave the webpage, the game never stops scrolling, and scrolls right off the map, so you'll never find it back. |
| Apr 30 13:38:00 | 38m 00s | Battle Pixels | Nice game concept, and fun to play. I do want to be able to speed the game up, because sometimes you have to wait a long time for something to happen. |
| Apr 30 14:00:00 | 22m 00s | Drug Hunt | Very interesting idea, and very good presentation. Sound is some of the best I've heard, but it stopped playing at a certain point. A bug? |
| Apr 30 14:11:00 | 11m 00s | Tilegrid | Nice and well presented game. Good music, pity about the loud beeps which afaik you can't turn off. I do not quite understand all the game mechanics yet, so more instructions would be welcome. I could not figure out why I run out of tiles without the game ending, and why the grey spots sometimes appear only after clicking on a black spot. Also I have no idea what the blue tiles are. |
| Apr 30 15:22:00 | 1h 11m | Light the way | Nice polished game. You managed to make the minimalist graphics look good. |
| Apr 30 15:23:00 | 1m 00s | Mino-malism | Link does not work: <br/>Invalid or Deleted File. <br/> <br/>The key you provided for file download was invalid. This is usually caused because the file is no longer stored on MediaFire. This occurs when the file is removed by the originating user or MediaFire. |
| Apr 30 15:35:00 | 12m 00s | BloxMin - by Lody - Ludum Dare 26 | Interesting idea. I think it's a little too minimalistic as regards gameplay. |
| Apr 30 15:45:00 | 10m 00s | Gardener in Minimalism Spring | I like the graphics and the sound. The game itself is maybe a little too minimal. I beat it in only a couple of tries. |
| Apr 30 15:55:00 | 10m 00s | Way Out | Great graphics and sound and overall presentation! The game feels polished too. Can't figure out when you get hit by the swinging balls though. |
| Apr 30 16:04:00 | 9m 00s | Hell Hole | Nice effort. The game is hard because the view is too small to see the demons coming. Sometimes I randomly teleport (or die?) for no apparent reason. A bug? |
| Apr 30 16:16:00 | 12m 00s | A Cheap Atari Game | Nice full-featured platformer. Good graphics and sound. The sound effects are a bit too loud in comparison with the music. |
| Apr 30 16:24:00 | 8m 00s | Glide | This game creates an interesting atmosphere. It's a hard game, mostly because you can't see the objects coming. I keep crashing a lot, so I do not get into that flow experience you mention. |
| Apr 30 18:59:00 | 2h 35m | Unfalling Star | Fantastic graphics! However, the player is too hard to control because even the horizontal movement erratically follows the mouse pointer, making gameplay too random. I couldn't get past the second level. |
| Apr 30 19:07:00 | 8m 00s | Rainbow Rocket | Good game, love the graphics. You've got an eye for colour. Found the controls a bit too frustrating at times. |
| Apr 30 19:18:00 | 11m 00s | Minimal Ammo | Nice little game. I like the graphics. I also like the sound, but since you can't use 3rd party sound on the 48h compo I rated as if no sound. |
| Apr 30 19:42:00 | 24m 00s | Get Gold | Playing this once was an enjoyable experience, but it seems you can't lose and the game goes on forever, so there is not much strategy involved. Maybe it's not so bad if you can't lose, but how about having an endgame criterion (like, buy and upgrade all castles) and using the time taken as the final score? |
| Apr 30 19:54:00 | 12m 00s | Less is More? | Great game! Innovative puzzle element. Clever idea to use the Mondrian style levels. |
| May 2 19:05:00 | 47h 11m | Rocky Flight Balloon | Looks polished, and the graphics look nice. The gameplay is a little limited though. |
| May 2 19:11:00 | 6m 00s | Rhythm Serenade | The game look attractive, only I got stuck in the 2nd level. Could not make the jumps, kept dying for no apparent reason. Is this a bug? I did not get any sound on Firefox. |
| May 2 19:21:00 | 10m 00s | Soul Harvester: The Haunting | Pretty cool graphics, and interesting game idea. It would help just to explain the controls better. |
| May 2 19:30:00 | 9m 00s | Escape Shaft | Nice game, also has good graphics and a finished feel. Maybe it's possible to create more interesting strategies by allowing the player more control over the routing of the aliens? |
| May 2 19:47:00 | 17m 00s | ShrunkenAdventures | Cool and enjoyable game. Good graphics and level design. Overall polished feel. A minor gripe is that the score obscures the sign texts. |
| May 2 19:57:00 | 10m 00s | I Dream Of Circles | Some of the jumps are impossible! I don't advice having the player fall through invisible holes. |
| May 2 20:08:00 | 11m 00s | Squibble | Nice start for a platformer, only having one level and no emenies is a bit limited. The graphics are simple, but atmospheric. |
| May 3 22:22:00 | 26h 14m | Mingineer | Interesting experiment. Looks something like the powder game. In that game every element is only 1x1 pixel large. I would prefer it if you could draw in the zoomed-out mode. Maybe the patterns and interactions would be clearer. |
| May 3 22:41:00 | 19m 00s | Super 1-Bit Space Arena | Fun game! Pushing enemies off the platform is an interesting game mechanic. Like the graphics too. The bullet sound of weapon 1 is annoying though. |
| May 3 22:53:00 | 12m 00s | Maze of Argus | Nice, well finished game. Great graphics. |
| May 3 23:07:00 | 14m 00s | Stackman | Great concept, it feels like a programming game. It took some time to figure out what to do. The right mouse scrolling control is annoying though. |
| May 3 23:18:00 | 11m 00s | Tubulance | Nice game! Like the randomly alternating patterns. However, I would prefer if the difficulty was more progressive. |
| May 3 23:32:00 | 14m 00s | miNOMalism | Interesting idea. I found it rather hard to make the creatures do what I want, they kept passing through each other. |
| May 3 23:40:00 | 8m 00s | OktumBoktum - A minimal adventure of a boy and his crazy pet | Interesting game, nice music! I found cursor left for the right player and cursor right for the left player counterintuitive. The most successful strategy for me was just to keep both players in the same colour. |
| May 3 23:46:00 | 6m 00s | Minimal Shooter | Fun game! With some better graphics this would be great. I see there is a lot of discussion about the controls. I actually like the reversed controls. Moving rather than shooting with the mouse makes me feel more in control. |
| May 4 00:01:00 | 15m 00s | Coder | Very interesting take on the Tetris theme. The presentation looks good, only I think having the instructions permanently inside the playing area does not look so pretty. |
| May 4 00:08:00 | 7m 00s | There is no they. | It was an interesting experience playing this. |
| May 4 00:16:00 | 8m 00s | Keep It Simple. | Nice game. I like the idea of choosing between upgrades and score. This would probably benefit from a more complex upgrade system. I preferred more bullets and shields. |
| May 4 00:27:00 | 11m 00s | They're Multiplying! | Nice idea! Sometimes I get to place three same-coloured pairs in a row, that doesn't seem fair! The instructions said that rabbits would disappear of their own accord but mine didn't seem to. Pity I didn't get to hear any music. |
| May 4 00:36:00 | 9m 00s | IMBARINTH | The graphics and sound are spot on in creating a very interesting mood. What marred the gameplay for me though is that my dot kept getting stuck in walls, and sometimes I could not avoid being pushed into a blind corridor for awhile with nowhere to go. |
| May 4 00:41:00 | 5m 00s | Z | If you had more time, you could have made quite a few levels within the 48 hours. I hope you do come up with some postcompo levels. |
| May 4 00:48:00 | 7m 00s | PotatoTap | Simple, but fun to play. Scores high on theme for me. |
| May 4 00:59:00 | 11m 00s | Gist Structure | Very original concept that works well. The sound is really atmospheric. |
| May 4 21:46:00 | 20h 47m | Minimal Force | I completed the game. There's something about this game that keeps me want to play to the end. The text works to create a story. Though I completed each level through what seemed more luck than skill, it was an enjoyable experience. I would have preferred to have more colours than brown though. |
| May 5 19:10:00 | 21h 24m | Color Treason | Fun game! Graphics are great. I do lose track of the player cube sometimes, wbich slows down the game a little more than necessary. Also the movement seems a little laggy, again slowing down a little what I think is should be a really fast-paced game. Some block break sounds are heard in the left and right speaker only, which is unpleasant if you are using headphones. Better to balance them a little more to the center. But these are minor gripes |
| May 7 16:55:00 | 45h 45m | Atrakt 4096 | I played the postcompo version. Interesting concept and quite a complex game, I appreciate the effort of trying something new. The audio sounds like sfxr, but it is some of the best I´ve heard so far. As is, the game seems quirky though, maybe the game is too complex to get right within 48h? Sometimes the explosive ticks, sometimes it explodes immediately. The enemies also move randomly, sometimes they home in and kill you immediately and sometimes they wait or take a wrong exit, so you get more time and can complete the level. Completing a level seemed a matter of getting a lucky shot when the aliens open the door at the right moment. Also it did not seem useful to switch between the players, and I don´t understand when exactly the player characters die. Is level 4 the end of the game? It seems to be empty. |
| May 7 17:19:00 | 24m 00s | F*** This Job | Not original, but very well executed and a lot of content. My only gripe is that some of the sounds are a little grating. I got stuck at level 20 or so, where the first jump has to be pixel perfect. |
| May 7 17:24:00 | 5m 00s | Square | Nice start, the presentation is reasonable. Why move by pressing space, and not just cursor keys? |
| May 7 17:34:00 | 10m 00s | Tessitron | Great game! On FF I only got black on dark grey, so I played it in Chrome. A pity I have to restart at the beginning every time. |
| May 7 18:25:00 | 51m 00s | Colour Runner | I ran it in Chrome because it was way too slow in Firefox. Nice, but just a little too minimalistic I think. I'd like to see more interesting things to jump over. |
| May 7 19:10:00 | 45m 00s | sn | Appealingly simple presentation, and devious levels. One of the best uses of the minimalism theme I've seen. I would have preferred to see the direction the player was facing though. Sometimes it's not clear when to time the turns either. |
| May 7 19:28:00 | 18m 00s | The Quest for Philip's Glass | Great game! I played the postcompo because the controls were too sensitive for me. Good to have the walkthrough, at one point I thought I got stuck because of a glitch. |
| May 7 19:46:00 | 18m 00s | Binary Collider | This plays like an original action game concept. The bare-bones approach does not really seem to detriment from the fun, which for me scores points on the theme. I feel this could be great fun if only I'd get a little more control over my character. Sometimes I get stuck in impossible situations. |
| May 7 19:55:00 | 9m 00s | Minimal Malice Mighty Maze | Nice game. Pity I have to start on level 1 every time. Also there are situations where I cannot avoid taking damage, at least I think so. |
| May 10 21:41:00 | 73h 46m | Space, Space, Space! | Interesting piece of interactive art. Interesting enough for me to wait and see what happens when the pendulum gets to the top, but I think that part should have been a little more interactive. The audio is really unusual and atmospheric. |
| May 10 21:52:00 | 11m 00s | This is not a game. | I've played with the idea of making something like this, though I would have expressed different political issues. |
| May 10 22:18:00 | 26m 00s | The Minimalist | This game doesn't play fair, but I think it's funny and entertaining. I never found out how I beat the first level, but after I'd seen that, the others were a lot easier. I think it's good to make the 1st level a bit easier, otherwise people will really think you have to jump over the obstacles, and will never see the rest of the game. Pity there are not more levels, this could be a hit with more levels. It said I beat the game but I never saw the level featured in the screenshot. |
| May 10 22:29:00 | 11m 00s | Pillow Pets | Very polished, great art. Only I think there is not enough interaction and game balance here. |
| May 17 22:00:00 | 167h 31m | 8-Bit? 4-Bit! | Looks promising, apart from limited levels and bugs and flaws. Some items hurt you way beyond what you'd expect as tile boundaries or bounding boxes, and jumping randomly doesn't work. When you fall in the hole in level 2 you die instantly. In level 4 you can't see the difference between what hurts you and what doesn't. |
| May 17 22:13:00 | 13m 00s | Midimilism | Very nice music toy. Would like to see more like this, maybe it can be incorporated into a game too. It would be nice to have more instruments. Also I think you should stop the long notes as soon as you erase their squares. |
| May 17 22:19:00 | 6m 00s | Rainbow Train | The graphics look interesting. Unfortunately there isn't much gameplay as is. |
| May 17 22:29:00 | 10m 00s | Return Home | Looks slick, only gameplay is rather limited. The controls make it more challenging, only they feel a bit inconsistent. In particular the vertical controls are so inconsistent I do not like to move vertically. The graphics are nice, only the rock features are hardly visible. Giving them more contrast may make them look more interesting. |
| May 17 22:43:00 | 14m 00s | PotatoQuest | Interesting idea, getting powerups for abilities you need to solve the level. Platforming did not feel solid, I could float in mid air and walk through walls. The game was too easy. I completed all levels within 3 minutes without any sort of skill. |
| May 17 22:54:00 | 11m 00s | One Blocky Room | Interesting concept, transforming in different ways to get to different parts. The game feels solid, only it's a little too short. I think the controls are a mistake, simply use absolute directions instead. |
| May 17 23:04:00 | 10m 00s | Panzers | A lot of content here, I like it. The player hitbox is way too large, which is bad for a bullet hell style game. |
| May 17 23:28:00 | 24m 00s | What the fish !! | Graphics are nice enough, only the game could use some work. In particular the shooting mechanic is awkward. I keep shooting the fish that pop up on the left. Why not move the shooter a little more towards the middle? Also, what's the point of having a shot strength when the highest strength is always the best? |
| May 17 23:39:00 | 11m 00s | Robbery | The game suffered from huge flicker here, no double buffering? The game is a bit too minimalist as it offers little challenge. |
| May 17 23:46:00 | 7m 00s | MrHipst | Good start, pity you didn't get more time. What I didn't like is having to guess where my "feet" are. |
| May 17 23:56:00 | 10m 00s | Bucket | You really tried something unusual here, I like it. The game plays rather slowly though. Also I think it needs something extra to make it really fun. |
| May 18 00:06:00 | 10m 00s | Three Tiles | Innovative game, but very hard. The game looks polished and complete. I like the sound and music. |
| May 18 00:15:00 | 9m 00s | Toastergeist | Simple but original game. It has a refreshingly novel feel to it. I never found out how to make the toast fly high though. Also I have to spend most of the time waiting for the toasts to bake. I'd have preferred to have less waiting and more action. Maybe have more than 2 toasters? |
| May 18 09:17:00 | 9h 02m | Traffic Jam | I like routing games, but this one is unfinished. I think you should not zoom in so far you can't see where the cars are going. I like the music. |
| May 18 09:23:00 | 6m 00s | The Minimalism Quest | Well presented, only I didn't find it much fun to play. It is not clear what to do in the computer scene. The ending scene is too gross for me. I'd like to have seen more scenes. |
| May 18 09:37:00 | 14m 00s | And Then There Was Silence | You certainly got off to a good start! The game could be great with some fixes. It would have been nice to have safe points. The controls need some work. Jumping is unresponsive, and sometimes I make very small jumps (is that caused by the block I am standing on?). This is what killed me most of the time. Also I need three hands to play this. It would have been nicer to jump with the left mouse button. Also it is not clear where exactly I am landing. This is what killed me the remaining times. |
| May 18 09:54:00 | 17m 00s | Lightrail | Nice and original game, I got to level 6, which I couldn't pass. But why LEFT mouse button to move UP, RIGHT to move DOWN? I tried rotating the mouse but that's awkward too. I keep fighting with the controls. I would like to play a version with cursor up and down to control. |
| May 18 10:05:00 | 11m 00s | Existential Journey Into The Abyss Of Self Actualization And Peace | Very good use of the theme. About the fading blocks: maybe they would have been nicer if you can clearly see when you can jump through them. Also, making them so that you can (temporarily) jump through them and stand on them as well would have been better. You can also make different types of fading blocks this way. |
| May 18 10:14:00 | 9m 00s | Slice | Nice game that offers a legitimate challenge. I like the graphics. The move controls seem unresponsive. Also some enemies move off the screen, often I spend ages trying to find and shoot that last enemy. Also the enemies shoot a little too accurately and/or have a little too many HP, making shooting them a matter of repeating a move/shoot/dodge sequence a number of times. This is sometimes tedious. |
| May 18 23:23:00 | 13h 09m | Tulip | This game showed up in several favourites lists, so I thought, I got to play it. It's polished and well balanced even while the levels have some randomness, but I didn't enjoy it all that much. I suppose it's a little too simple for my tastes, or I've seen this kind of game a little too often (such as line runner which I also didn't like much). Also, minimalist graphics don't work for me (something I found out more than ever during this LD). This should make a good Android game with a bit of sightseeing added though. |
| May 18 23:46:00 | 23m 00s | A Puzzling Composition | A well done game, and innovative in some ways too. The timing puzzles are interesting. I don't mind the gentle difficulty curve, only I'd like to see more levels like the last few. I understand that will probably take a lot of time to design though. I have one gripe, which is that some levels require a bit too much "mouse dexterity", which may be off-putting. |
| May 18 23:53:00 | 7m 00s | Ants | Looks promising. I like this kind of game, only there doesn't seem to be a goal yet. |
| May 19 00:08:00 | 15m 00s | Psychodelic Disco Maze | Gameplay is simplistic, but it's funny. Avoiding the flashing objects is an interesting perceptual experience. |
| May 19 14:40:00 | 14h 32m | Quantum Strike | Look promising, considering I haven't seen many good shooters this LD. I could only play as player 2 in multiplayer. Graphics and sound are good. Nice thing to have a 2-player mode. The enemies are not very challenging though, until you run into that enemy that shoots at you. I never got past that part because player 1 keeps dying while I control player 2. |
| May 19 14:42:00 | 2m 00s | The Minimas | If you had implemented multiple minigames this would have been nice. |
| May 19 15:13:00 | 31m 00s | Robo-Workers Attack | A complete tower defense game, very good. As far as I've seen it's not original in the slightest, but good nonetheless. |