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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | CupcakeMedia's comment |
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| Apr 27 12:17:00 | GuppyShark | It's actually quite good, only unbalanced. There are both too many sharks (too tightly together) and too many beach balls. So in a way - it actually really well balanced. | |
| Apr 28 14:32:00 | 26h 15m | MBTS | Stealth! That's awesome! It works better than I thought it would, but damn is it challenging. |
| Apr 28 16:30:00 | 1h 58m | And the Moment Is Gone | This is VERY interesting! I don't know how well-thought out it is, but it plays really well. It's a really cool concept and you did it perfectly. It maybe helps that it's not all-over the place, the focus is what makes it so sweet. |
| Apr 28 16:49:00 | 19m 00s | Test Beneath the Surface | Interesting concept and for the time it took to create it is very solid. In the context of LD it's a pretty good game, and overall, the concept carries the slightly dodgy mechanics. With more polish this could become a REALLY interesting game. |
| Apr 28 16:55:00 | 6m 00s | The abyss within | It needs more feedback. If I could get a prediction of what might happen if I pick an option, this game would be perfectly fine as is, sans graphics. Not knowing what the options mean, aside from the short explanation on the button makes some choices seem positive and then a boulder kills you. <br/> <br/>Good concept, not executed as well as could have. Well done! |
| Apr 28 17:00:00 | 5m 00s | Pinger | Yesss. This is really good. Let-the-player-figure-it-out kind of game that makes you feel clever for figuring it out on your own. The different game modes are also welcome, although the first mode is perfectly interesting on its own! Well done! |
| Apr 28 17:10:00 | 10m 00s | Divided | Ok, so I jumped over the portals and then the road was just empty forever and then it ended, I fell out of the level. I don't think that's supposed to happen! This is a game that would love more investment into level design, I'd love to see more focus on that, rather than graphics! |
| Apr 28 17:13:00 | 3m 00s | Pug vs. Nemo | It's extremely hard! A bit more feedback for when you pick up bubbles would be nice! Interesting game though, I still liked playing it. |
| Apr 28 17:20:00 | 7m 00s | Beneath | Oh shit. This was the game I wanted to make initially, before I decided that I wanted to do an FPS. I think you did a better job of this than I could have, it's really challenging. I like it a lot, although it needs more balancing. I'd have liked to be underground some more. |
| Apr 28 17:24:00 | 4m 00s | Oh My Jump | At first I was going to complain that it needs better balancing, but then I got the hang of it and suddenly it became easy. I guess it needs more polishing in terms of responsiveness, more than anything. Otherwise it's actually alright. |
| Apr 28 17:39:00 | 15m 00s | Hollow Planet | This bent my mind, but when you get the hang of it, the level design makes the game flow really intuitive. Needs more polish on the camera movement and controls, but otherwise great! |
| Apr 28 17:45:00 | 6m 00s | Bloom | There is something here, the concept is good but I don't think you executed it well enough. For the feedback that the player gets, it would have been better to simply click on the roots, instead of having to drag the spheres. <br/> <br/>Alternativelly, you could make it so that the player has to drag the sphere along the trunk in order to deliver the water, and decrease the speed with which the water over-flows. That way you have a clearer agency. <br/> <br/>They way you did it makes it feel as though you are doing more work that it's worth. |
| Apr 28 18:07:00 | 22m 00s | DeepGlow | First of - I like the variety in creatures. That's really interesting to see. <br/>But it needs a lot more work on balancing. It becomes a clusterfuck pretty quickly. That being said, it's a game that throws you back into the action as soon as you lose, so I can forgive that. |
| Apr 28 19:35:00 | 1h 28m | Mermaid Scientist Massacre | I like the art style, even though I shouldn't. :3 The game needs more feedback, some signal before the scientists actually throw the net. Otherwise, the leveldesign is surprisingly good, the controls need a bit more polish and being caught and getting back in the game is quick, in spite of the cut scene. |
| Apr 28 19:39:00 | 4m 00s | Beneath the surface | Agreed. While having a lot of graphical assets is cool, the faster we can plug and play, the more likely we are to play it. <br/> <br/>Also, I can't really download 172 mb through the browser, my connection is unstable. :( |
| Apr 28 19:43:00 | 4m 00s | Doors & Secrets | You know, it's a pretty good competitive game, even if it requires some platformer experience. I played with my sister, and she found it way too challenging to the point where I sauntered in and took the brief case calmly. maybe it's the old problem with collision boxes, they aren't that clearly defined. I don't know. <br/> <br/>Anyway, aside from that, there's really nothing I can fault the game on, for what it is, it is very good indeed. |
| Apr 28 19:53:00 | 10m 00s | Ghost Story | You. Motherfucker. The controls are great, the visual effects are fantastic, the level design is great, the enemies are perfectly balanced, the houses (I love the houses) are well done. That's it. You win. You're the best I've played thus far. Unity will want to advertise this LD entry. You get my stamp of aproval. |
| Apr 28 20:06:00 | 13m 00s | Inner War | Ha. Ok, interesting idea and you have the graphical assets to back it up. The actual controls could have been more polished though. As nice as it looks, it plays kinda ... statically, rigidly, flatly. Although it might just be that I don't like those kinds of controls. <br/> <br/>I'll say this, for LD - this is a really good game, with the combat mechanics that slightly lessen the game, but the variety of combat areas at least make me want to keep playing to see what you've thought of next. |
| Apr 28 20:24:00 | 18m 00s | Any ship can be a MINESWEEPER... Once. | I like the controls, they are really solid. The sound is funny and get annoying slower than you'd think. |
| Apr 28 20:30:00 | 6m 00s | GroundBreaker | I think we all had the idea to first make this kind of game when we found out about the theme. :) You did pretty well. It's challenging, but rewarding enough for me to want to keep playing. The shop UI is a bit of a mess, but that can't be helped frankly. UI is always fucking hard to make. Well done! |
| Apr 28 20:36:00 | 6m 00s | Sewer Escape | Slooowmooo pacman game. The leveldesign needs reworking. There is a lot to level design, but here it would suffice to add in things that diffirentiate the areas. The point of dressing areas is to create visual noise and use that to your purposes. <br/> <br/>That being said, the forlorn feeling of being raped as you see the drones coming from both directions is real, so props to you for that. :) Good tension in the game, sounds used well, even if the sound isn't that great. |
| Apr 28 20:43:00 | 7m 00s | Crugrock | Man, those are som satisfying gameplay mechanics. "Bwoooop", I can feel them say. :) It's one of those games where you don't need to invest in in order to play them, but as soon as you start, you can't help but be absorbed into them. |
| Apr 28 20:51:00 | 8m 00s | Armadrillo | Nice tune. The controls are myseterious, but the upgrades are fair, although the distance to-money vs rate of aquisition is a bit too high, meaning that you cut it really close to not being able to progress due to fuel cost. Stressful, but I think it actually makes the game better. Makes every trip more significant. |
| Apr 28 20:56:00 | 5m 00s | Ghost of the trapped Miners | Fuck those dogs. But. I like that every level is a small story about you helping someone. It's a bit like a point and click adventure, but more fun and with more logical things to do. It was fun figuring everything out. |
| Apr 28 21:18:00 | 22m 00s | Neath | I love it! This is a trend that should go on, point and click games with controls for the characters. It's relaxing and I know that puzzles are simple, but fuck it. At least I was allowed to do them myself, I was in control. And out of a level-designer's perspective, the hints and the way everything was set up - well done. For LD, this is great. |
| Apr 28 21:33:00 | 15m 00s | Tomb: Your Last Adventure | Wow. 246 mb. I hope this isn't *just* a ludum dare game, because I don't know how many will put up with having to download that much. |
| Apr 28 21:42:00 | 9m 00s | Heart of the Cards | Haha. It's a good idea and I like the game a lot, but I have to ask you this: What does scrambling the cards add to your game vs what does it remove? <br/> <br/>Think about it - if the board was the same every time (by maybe with more cards on it), then the player could experiment with the story generator, with only three or so cards moved around for every new go. <br/> <br/>Where as now, there doesn't need to be a story generator, you could just make a story that fits the couple of images no matter their order because you can't really compare whether or not it would have changed. <br/> <br/>But then, if you did the aforementioned thing, it would beg the question of why this is a memory game at all. I don't know. I like it a lot as is, I don't mean to get you down at all, but there is something ... something that you could tweak slightly that would make the whole thing brilliant. I don't know what though. D: |
| Apr 28 21:50:00 | 8m 00s | Show a Little Love | I ... don't know. Let's look at the mechanics - the shooting is somewhat unresponsive, it could have been polished up a bit more. The feedback for whether you hit or not is good, although I'd personally have wanted to hear a different sound when I hit something, even just a change in tone. <br/> <br/>Overall, and I am saying this because I love you :3, you'd have been better off working on the mechanics more than on the graphics. Even the most astounding transformation effects would still be marred by somewhat by these mechanics. An alternative could have been to vary the types of people that approach you (but the different signs is a nice touch, "literally beneath the surface" - nice). |
| Apr 28 21:56:00 | 6m 00s | Beneath the Duck Face | I like the controls! Mechanically speaking, this is a lot of fun, instructing the duck, rather than controling it directly. |
| Apr 28 21:57:00 | 1m 00s | Super Water RPG | You bastard. :P |
| Apr 28 22:05:00 | 8m 00s | The Eggventure of Mad Mr Gregg! | Nice music, but the controls are somewhat less responsive than I'd like. Maybe the scale of the character is just too "snug" for the scale of the levels, fits just too tightly to the space. |
| Apr 28 22:09:00 | 4m 00s | Gold Diver | Oh man does this induce a lot of panic when you're low on air. The collision is dodgy, it's hard to actually tell when you can and can't pass through something. Good game! |
| Apr 28 22:30:00 | 21m 00s | Surface Runner | You feel so involved, even though it's nothing but "click, click, clickclick, click". Yeah, I like it. The collisions could have been made a bit clearer, but overall good for what it is. |
| Apr 28 23:43:00 | 1h 13m | Sub Human | Really good leveldesign, I'm seriously impressed. |
| Apr 29 06:55:00 | 7h 12m | Under the Vinegar | It feels somewhat ... slow and lacks agency, but it's a pickle with a tophat, so how can I comlain? ;) |
| Apr 29 07:25:00 | 30m 00s | Mission in Briefcase | A some kind of clearer art style would improve the game a lot, but otherwise it's kinda fun! |
| Apr 29 07:33:00 | 8m 00s | Necronomicon | It's impressivelly done! |
| Apr 29 07:38:00 | 5m 00s | Cognitive Dissonance | It's an interesting idea. If the game had been more responsive to things like left shift, it would flow a lot better. It's really innovative! |
| Apr 29 07:43:00 | 5m 00s | CTS | The controls are solid, as far as I'm concerned, you spent the 10 hours wisely. Well done. |
| Apr 29 07:47:00 | 4m 00s | Nether | I like the mechanics, the level design is well-planned out, well done! |
| Apr 30 08:02:00 | 24h 15m | They Launched a Probe! | Had this been in C#, I could see how this would have been interesting for me. Overall, had I known Java, this would be an interesting way of doing things. |
| Apr 30 08:07:00 | 5m 00s | Under | The dog scared the crap out of me. I didn't read the instructions before starting the game. Anyway, the mood is heavy and environments immersive. Well done. |
| Apr 30 17:44:00 | 9h 37m | Descent | This a lot of fun. It's easy to play, hard to master. Easy to sink a lot of time into, I like it! |
| May 2 03:28:00 | 33h 44m | Tentacle Rails | A top down rail shooter? That's surprisingly a not bad idea. Pretty fun, actually. |