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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | wolfmother's comment |
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| Aug 24 10:07:00 | Alice | Wow! Very clever, very avant-garde. The sounds and flashing lights are hypnotic and you quickly find yourself reciting the words of the story to yourself as you type them... really draws you in. | |
| Aug 24 10:14:00 | 7m 00s | Quantum Dash | Graphically very reminiscent of the early Atari days, even earlier than most people think of "8-bit" as -- nice take on it! <br/>I have to confess I struggled to work out the mechanics - since you can pass through tiles it's not immediately obvious how the game works, and I found myself dying when moving between worlds seemingly at random... |
| Aug 24 10:24:00 | 10m 00s | @tiny_astro_naut | Wow, what a creative concept! Dunno about calling it interactive though... |
| Aug 24 10:27:00 | 3m 00s | Imaginary World | Nice take on the accumulation genre. Traditionally you start to "unfold" the game after accumulating enough - interested to see whether and how you plan on doing this. |
| Aug 24 10:48:00 | 21m 00s | Lucican & The arcane king | Pretty obvious it you play it, but for those that aren't willing to brave a 90Mb download: <br/> <br/>I'm guessing this is a sample game for an RPG creation kit that's been hacked up (badly, because it crashes a lot) to have new dialogue and LD30's name on it. <br/> <br/>Probably no original work here at all, apart from the text which has similar standards of spelling and grammar to Kirkw00d's post above. |
| Aug 24 11:00:00 | 12m 00s | Wheel of Life | Half maze, half platformer - and simple but classy graphics. <br/>Really looking forward to seeing where this ends up going :3 |
| Aug 24 11:14:00 | 14m 00s | 1000 mph - The Breach | Great fun, love the visuals! <br/>Plays fine on mouse and keyboard. <br/>Really nice work :3 |
| Aug 24 11:17:00 | 3m 00s | Warp Pong | Simple, beautiful, clever. Kind of disorienting, in a good way (a la Super Hexagon) - maybe you could try to push that angle? |
| Aug 24 11:22:00 | 5m 00s | Matters of Perspective | Wow! Absolutely fantastic concept, and really impressive implementation. Best one I've seen on here so far! |
| Aug 24 11:28:00 | 6m 00s | Mirror - a tiny visual short story | Nice story! Cool little production. I don't know what you're talking about when you say you undershot - this is a story that you could expand greatly both forwards and backwards (ie you could explore what your world is like before the smash, then the changes afterwards will have more impact). <br/> <br/>Lots of potential, lots to work with. Keep at it :D |
| Aug 24 11:32:00 | 4m 00s | Energize The Portals | Those parallax backgrounds are really cool! |
| Aug 24 11:46:00 | 14m 00s | Red Universe | Beautiful fluid 8-bit graphics. Wanting to see if you can add a twist to the gameplay too :D |
| Aug 24 12:46:00 | 1h 00m | Hermes Express | Good solid platformer. I like that you've linked "connected worlds" to classical mythology - not at all obvious. <br/>:3 |
| Aug 24 23:22:00 | 10h 36m | Catgirl, Save The Moon! | Chrome flags your download as malicious and doesn't even offer the option to download it :( |
| Aug 24 23:35:00 | 13m 00s | Connectiverse | Very cool! <br/>Graphics are very nice for something made entirely of spheres - nice sense of depth. <br/>The music is very suitable - how'd you make it? <br/>I like that you've turned a classic NP-Complete problem (Wandering Salesman problem) into a game :P |
| Aug 24 23:52:00 | 17m 00s | Flipside | Had a crack at compiling it, and have these notes: <br/>- code also depends on GLM and GLEW (win binaries readily available thankfully) <br/>- code uses C++11 features, which VS2010 doesn't support - haven't got 2013 around to try building it on |
| Aug 24 23:57:00 | 5m 00s | 1548 La Rue | Very nice! Impressive that you managed to pull this off in 48 hours. <br/>Not sure about what the difference between "interacting" and "using" is though. |
| Aug 25 00:09:00 | 12m 00s | Annex Worlds | Nice simple shooter. Good fun. |
| Aug 25 01:19:00 | 1h 10m | The Link | Blind crash if you run it without XNA-FX, but you did include it at least... <br/>Simple, beautiful graphics and sound. A+. <br/>Gameplay is more meditative and less challenge-oriented. Suits the aesthetic well. |
| Aug 25 02:47:00 | 1h 28m | Universe of Color | Nice graphics and cool mechanics! Feels a bit aimless though. Also would benefit from sound and art. |
| Aug 25 02:52:00 | 5m 00s | Prim | Not a bad proof of concept! But this is very far from a playable game. <br/>My thoughts are the next step from here would be growing the world as you take over more boxes. <br/>Perhaps you could use a Lindenmayer fractal to create a detailed world (don't be scared by the name, they're dead simple to program -- google L-systems). <br/>Example: http://www.cgjennings.ca/toybox/lsystems/dragon-curve.png |
| Aug 25 03:02:00 | 10m 00s | Rift Walker | Very difficult. Art is pretty good. Music is nice to have. Platform switching seems to work well enough, though a few people used that. <br/>Fair effort :3 |
| Aug 25 03:45:00 | 43m 00s | Her | Excellent concept! Very appropriate to the theme. Great story, amazing graphics, good use of sound. I'm completely blown away. 5/5 |
| Aug 25 03:51:00 | 6m 00s | 6 Dimensions | Not a bad effort. It's a little too easy to solve each player character separately, since each stops when they reach the goal - the challenge in this kind of puzzle is in getting them to all work together. Making puzzles like that is a lot harder, though. |
| Aug 25 04:01:00 | 10m 00s | String Pong | Plus points for music/sound. <br/>Graphics are decent. Would have been cool if the ball inverted to white when in the right half of the screen. <br/>Concept isn't too bad, but the mechanics aren't doing it for me. It feels awkward in a bad way, instead of silly and fun like physics games should. |
| Aug 25 04:05:00 | 4m 00s | Sungates | Building a planetary 4X game in 48 hours is quite ambitious! I'm impressed that you managed to pull it off. <br/>However, the interface feels awkward and buggy. The art, while passable, brings it down a bit. <br/>This is something that needs more time and work. You've made quite a lot of ground in quite a short period though! |
| Aug 25 04:09:00 | 4m 00s | Super Shaker X | Screenshots look nice, but targeting OSX only really restricts your audience. :/ |
| Aug 25 04:16:00 | 7m 00s | Drug Reality World | 58Mb! Bloody hell. Very cool that you recorded music but maybe MP3 would be a better idea next time? No sound effects that I can see. <br/>Graphics are OK, get the job done. <br/>Points for trying to do a humorous concept. <br/>Gameplay is a bit vacuous, no clear goals or challenges other than wandering around. |
| Aug 25 04:21:00 | 5m 00s | STOP THE ALIENS | Not sure why there are separate links for various platforms. They all link to the same jar, which doesn't work. Rating withheld :/ |
| Aug 25 04:24:00 | 3m 00s | Edmon's Illness | Not too bad a concept. <br/>Good use of mobile touch screen. A bit frustrating to play with a mouse. <br/>Graphics are pretty decent, better than most on the app store. <br/>Mechanics are pretty straightforward but there's room to grow. <br/>Fair effort, with a bit more expansion this could be marketable. |
| Aug 25 04:31:00 | 7m 00s | Drop of Light | Very cool mechanic! Drawing a line with your trails to keep the drop alive is clever. <br/>Particle effects do not a graphical style make. Yes, they look cool, but you don't have much else going on. <br/>Nice use of music and sound. <br/>Theme connection was a stretch. <br/>Pretty good overall, definitely above average. |
| Aug 25 04:38:00 | 7m 00s | Jabba The Bot | Played the web-based one, so I'm not sure whether it was a huge game file or a slow host. One or both. <br/>Intro sequence is OK. Do you have the rights to that font? <br/>Music is present but terrible. <br/>Controls are sluggish and unresponsive. <br/>Mechanics are a pretty basic and tired "collect the stars" with a "press <x> to change worlds" add-on. Seems pretty popular for this theme. <br/>Graphics are terrible. <br/>I think he may have been going for humor, but there wasn't much to laugh about. |
| Aug 25 04:44:00 | 6m 00s | Chomp X Ludum | Had to rearrange game folder to get it working. Batch file doesn't use %JAVA% so you'll have to move all the files in /natives/ to the root directory then run the jar. <br/> <br/>I like the "roaming through cyberspace" theme, kind of nice, fits with the theme. Could use a little alpha channeling. <br/> <br/>Not much in the way of actual gameplay - just some basic platform-based movement. Feels a bit sluggish, accel speed is too low and top speed too high. There's potential here though. |
| Aug 25 04:51:00 | 7m 00s | TechnoTumor | Cool idea! Impressed that you went for an SDL-based RTS in such a short timeframe. Unit selecting worked OK, that was pretty cool. <br/>Scrolling doesn't follow the world, so it's easy to get lost. <br/>If this jam was maybe 2-3x as long, I think this could really be amazing. |
| Aug 25 05:05:00 | 14m 00s | Parallel Thinking | Had a bit of trouble running the standalone, even with Love's DLL files added in. You may want to look into other deployment options (there are a few other Love based games on here that ran without a problem) <br/> <br/>A+ for innovation! This is a really really clever mechanic. I love that enemies that you miss on the left screen turn into much bigger problems on the right screen. This is clever enough for me to give 5/5 fun even though it's still a bit rough. Good use of theme. <br/> <br/>No sound, could use it. <br/> <br/>Graphics are programmer art with no special effects. They get the job done. <br/> <br/>Really cool idea. Work with it! This could go far. |
| Aug 25 05:11:00 | 6m 00s | First Encounter | Interesting concept technically! <br/>Nice use of HTML, with small Unity web fragments as elements within the pages. <br/>Unfortunately it's a bit cumbersome as loading and unloading Unity every time you do something is slow. <br/>Story isn't half bad either. |
| Aug 25 05:24:00 | 13m 00s | A Broken Planet | A web text adventure! This is a bit different. <br/> <br/>Writing's not half bad, story is coherent and interesting. Fits the theme. <br/>Pretty cool. |
| Aug 25 05:33:00 | 9m 00s | Gravitas | For those that missed the download instructions, you have to rename the .zip to .love, then download Love here: <br/>https://love2d.org/ <br/>Then drag one onto the other. <br/> <br/>Graphics aren't too bad but it isn't immediately obvious what's going on. <br/>No sound. <br/>Gameplay very challenging, I can see some people playing to achieve mastery but only once there's more going on in the game. <br/>Not really getting the "connected worlds" vibe from it. |
| Aug 25 05:38:00 | 5m 00s | Reflections | Extremely cool idea. Very nice graphics! Would benefit from sound. <br/>Gameplay is good but slow, and it's a little too easy to get stuck on level geometry. <br/>Nice :) |
| Aug 25 05:45:00 | 7m 00s | Suburban Garden | I have no idea whether donationware hosting is considered acceptable for this contest? <br/> <br/>The idea of using real-world photographs in this context is cool, very unique. Makes for a big game file though. <br/>Not much in the way of gameplay though, and I think you'll struggle to get interest from game players/developers with a topic like that. <br/>You did create that bee sprite during the 48 hours, right? <br/>Nice that you used sound, but a single continuous buzzing sound adds little and gets annoying fast. |
| Aug 25 05:51:00 | 6m 00s | Alternate guardians | Concept is cool: Two shmups/bullet hells at once. Neat, but not groundbreaking. <br/>Particle effects very nice, backgrounds decent, sprites lacking. <br/>Sound and music present, check. <br/>Pretty fun, a real challenge for your coordination - controlling one ship the the mouse and the other with the keyboard. <br/>Pretty cool. Find an artist and it'll improve 10x. |
| Aug 25 05:56:00 | 5m 00s | Interplanetary | Wow! A+ to graphics and sound/music, and quite a big project to achieve in this timescale. Motion and mechanics are good, but you lose fun points for the insane difficulty curve. <br/>Despite how well you've pulled this off, it's not an incredibly innovative concept, but that's worth overlooking. <br/>Very impressive. |
| Aug 25 06:02:00 | 6m 00s | Journey Home | The first download link points to a screenshot, you may want to fix that. <br/> <br/>Automatic awesome points for using recorded sounds. <br/>Graphics are pretty good. <br/>Not much in the way of gameplay. Yeah, it's exploration, but that doesn't excuse a game from being boring. Perhaps some narrative text/sound could draw the player in more. <br/> <br/>Pretty cool overall :3 |
| Aug 25 07:10:00 | 1h 08m | Interstellar Wreckers | You should package the binary+data as a zip as well, so people can just download-unzip-run without downloading the whole source. <br/> <br/>Fun physics game. <br/>Left and right (A and D) feel the wrong way around - most people would expect A to be counter-clockwise and D to be clockwise. I would also expect S(/down) to stop the rocket, instead of double-pressing W(/up). <br/> <br/>I like the wrecking-ball action you've got going here. That was actually one of the first concepts I was playing with. <br/> <br/>Graphics are decent, get the job done. <br/>Didn't hear any sound. <br/> <br/>Overall good solid fun. |
| Aug 25 07:15:00 | 5m 00s | World Absorber | Mechanics are obtuse and difficult to understand. Couldn't get past the first puzzle. :/ <br/>Am I missing something? |
| Aug 25 07:24:00 | 9m 00s | Tubular: A Game About Tubes | Like many entries Chrome tried its damnedest to stop me playing this. <br/>Ran fine without unpacking, good work on the packaging. <br/>The splash screen is LOL. <br/>Nice use of a humorous concept, though I don't see how it relates to "connected worlds". I'll give you a 3 for that anyway. <br/>Music and sound are respectable. <br/>Graphics are adequate. <br/>The use of mechanics like inverting your controls when you're not paying attention is genius. I legitimately had fun trying to work it out. <br/>Overall, good work, tidy up your art/sound and you'll go far. |
| Aug 25 07:51:00 | 27m 00s | Sideline | Beautiful graphics. Fantastic use of lighting. <br/>Clever mechanics. Reminded me a little of Braid. <br/>Well-developed gameplay with a variety of elements and mechanics. <br/>Perfectly appropriate sound and music. <br/>A+, no criticisms. |
| Aug 25 07:54:00 | 3m 00s | World Islands | The binary download link points to the source repo. I don't see a binary anywhere in or around that repo. :/ |
| Aug 25 07:59:00 | 5m 00s | Star Crossed | Don't see why you needed to .zip that, it's a single file. <br/>Excellent intro. Is that you playing Moonlight Sonata on guitar? Very nice. Same with the in-game music. <br/>Mechanics are solid, tag-team shmup. <br/>Nice use of 3D models - not something you see done often in game jams. <br/>Sprites aren't half bad. <br/>Sounds are pretty good. <br/>Fair effort overall. |
| Aug 25 08:50:00 | 51m 00s | DON'T. BREAK. MIRRORS. | Intro sequence decent, but drags on a bit. MS Paint graphics, lol. The actual game wasn't what I expected at all - I was expecting some kind of mirroring puzzle game, but instead all I got was a simple side-view fight. <br/>Nice that you managed to get a game out though :) |
| Aug 25 08:57:00 | 7m 00s | A Tale Of Words | Love the creative interpretation of the theme. <br/>Humorous and cute gameplay and sound. <br/>Clever spin on Memory - you're not just remembering the cards, you're remembering the interactions between different types of card too. <br/>I can't really find any fault in it. Nothing huge and ambitious, just a well-produced, neat spin on a classic. <br/>My only objection is that I seemed to lose every round due to a Dragon card spawning at the last moment...? |
| Aug 25 09:09:00 | 12m 00s | Solar War | Multiplayer, eh? This sounds interesting! <br/> <br/>The trading idea is definitely cool, but there doesn't seem to be much strategy to it. Just bump into as many planets as possible for maximum score. <br/> <br/>Netcode works! (it's UDP broadcast, zero-config) A little jerky but extremely cool that you pulled that off in this time! <br/> <br/>The basics of combat look good, but it doesn't seem you can actually kill each other. Similarly there doesn't seem to be any kind of scoreboard, so only you will know how many worlds you've bumped into. <br/> <br/>Definitely a good start. Beef up and fill out the combat and trading mechanics and you'll be well on your way to creating something great. |
| Aug 25 09:15:00 | 6m 00s | Bellum Purpuram | Web version didn't run (Chrome, Win 7). <br/>Desktop version ran OK, but people don't like installers (too many games to install and play!) <br/> <br/>Sound and art decent. <br/>Game mechanic of mirrored dark/light enemies/shots is cool, but been done a few times. Legitimately fun though. |
| Aug 25 09:21:00 | 6m 00s | Parallel | Nice design. Having the mechanic of switching worlds works well. <br/>Graphics were mostly good but it's painful to see bad use of the alpha channel :( <br/>Music was good, sound effects basic but functional. <br/>Had me stumped on one of those puzzles. Sufficiently frustrating to make me want to come back and try again :P |
| Aug 25 09:33:00 | 12m 00s | Transmission | Cool idea, very literal interpretation of the theme. Oddly satisfying to connect every city in the system - I don't think there's much strategy that can be had, but who cares? It's fun. <br/> <br/>Graphics are very good. Complete lack of audio is a fault, though. <br/>Overall, one of the best I've seen so far. |
| Aug 25 09:44:00 | 11m 00s | Link | Cool demo. Fair way off being a game though. <br/>Interface is a bit obtuse, found it really difficult to do anything. <br/>The planets pulling each other together is a nice effect, but I'm not sure how you're going to use that as part of the game. |
| Aug 25 10:09:00 | 25m 00s | Acting Outcome | Graphics are cute, reminiscent of Pitfall. <br/>Ambitious to try and implement morality in such a short game but a lot more work is needed. <br/>Only two sounds (jump, and die), both highly annoying. <br/>Couldn't work out how to get to the bad afterlife, only good and neutral. <br/>Still, it's essentially playable which is quite a feat given what you were aiming for. |
| Aug 25 10:14:00 | 5m 00s | Blue Screen | Absolutely beautiful. <br/>Holding off rating until someone can tell me that this is 100% original work done entirely in the given timespan -- not that I doubt you! Just want to be sure :3 |
| Aug 25 10:59:00 | 45m 00s | Space Clash | 25Mb is big! <br/>Excellent graphics and art! Cool visual effects. Good sound and music. <br/>Gameplay pretty good fun, but I keep getting stuck on account of not understanding the mechanics of various elements. Lots of trial and error required. <br/>I didn't have a problem with the controls, they felt entirely appropriate for someone using a jetpack in space. <br/>Not really buying the "connected worlds" angle though. <br/> <br/>Overall very impressive. |
| Aug 25 11:15:00 | 16m 00s | Shared Mass | Interesting deployment of a Java program, but surprisingly it worked perfectly. Neat. <br/> <br/>Graphics and sounds entirely appropriate, do their job with no nonsense. <br/>I'm buying the "connected worlds" thing. <br/>Nice "fill the cup" mechanic going on here. Trying to work out the specifics with trial and error, but it seems there's some criteria which cause connections to fail that I'm not aware of :/ <br/>Pretty cool nonetheless. |
| Aug 25 11:34:00 | 19m 00s | Color Runner | Graphics are nice. Music is very good, but no sound effects. <br/>Very innovative movement mechanic, feels a bit like an infinite runner crossed with Mario 64. <br/>Loses an innovation point for using that same damn remove-obstacle-by-changing-color mechanic (getting a bit sick of that by now). <br/>Good balance of challenge, not too hard, but usually pretty obvious what you need to do. <br/>Worth a playthrough. |
| Aug 29 07:28:00 | 91h 54m | VENN | Very original concept. <br/>Presentation is flawless, good sound and graphics. <br/>Mood appropriate. Good use of theme. <br/>Game mechanics very obtuse, really struggled to try to solve puzzles in any meaningful way. Quickly devolved into clicking at random, as it was easier than trying to understand the mechanics. <br/>I suggest text guidance to nudge the player into understand the mechanics better, and perhaps modifying the appearance of the circles to make the mechanics clearer. |
| Sep 1 10:57:00 | 75h 29m | Acid Kate | 35MB! Let's give this a shot... <br/>Nicely animated but untextured dood hovering above the ground. Sounds and music straight from Super Mario Bros. Fairly plain game world with some coins to pick up. Not much else. <br/>Gets +3 humor for the butt wiggle though. |
| Sep 1 11:02:00 | 5m 00s | Moonwalker | Love has a really nice packager that some people here have used. You should check it out (no idea what it's called though). <br/> <br/>Attempting to run it returned: <br/>player.lua:12: attempt to index field 'sprite' (a nil value) <br/>in <br/>player.lua:12 : playerLoad <br/>main.lua:26 : in function 'load' |
| Sep 1 11:04:00 | 2m 00s | Asteroid Absorption | Game ran fine. Intro screen looks pretty good. <br/>I can see you were going for an Osmos kind of vibe. <br/>Fair effort considering you were playing with a few different ideas! <br/>Fair distance from a playable game though. |
| Sep 1 11:17:00 | 13m 00s | Archive Studios - World Link | Game boots OK. Music's pretty good, but it gets annoying fast. So bright and harsh! No sound effects that I can hear. <br/>Not sure why you chose "Tap to play" when you need a keyboard to construct towers. <br/>Graphics are nice, cutesy and pulsating. <br/>Collision detection/mechanics are unreliable, it feels like the E key doesn't respond when it should. <br/>Needs a minimap. <br/>Not buying it as a game. Gameplay seems to mostly revolve around grappling with the controls/mechanics. You can be damaged by the rays emitted by your own towers o_O |
| Sep 8 09:03:00 | 165h 46m | Double Dimensions | Surprisingly challenging. <br/>Graphics and sound minimal but functional. Music isn't too bad. <br/>Didn't buy the "connected worlds" theme at all. <br/>Some innovation, but essentially boils down to a shooter. <br/>You get a 3 overall because the core gameplay, while simple, is pretty good. |
| Sep 8 09:09:00 | 6m 00s | Connected Worlds | Congrats for finishing your first LD! You've already beat 90% of people just by making something :) <br/>MS Paint graphics. Kudos on recording some music but it's fairly annoying. Gameplay doesn't make any sense to me. |
| Sep 8 14:26:00 | 5h 17m | KiloWar | Worked fine for me first time. <br/>Nice hex grid and relatively straightforward interface. Some pretty good graphical work. <br/>No sound whatsoever. <br/>No instruction - not entirely sure how the mechanics of resource control and fighting work. <br/>Art is entirely appropriate to theme of a military territory control game. Don't see any connection to "connected worlds" though. <br/>Very hard to call it fun at this stage - needs more work on gameplay mechanics and a good tutorial. |
| Sep 14 03:07:00 | 132h 41m | Arcanium Librium | 160MB and the Unreal Engine! Cool. <br/>Very nice textures and stock model. World geometry fairly basic. Simple particle effects. Some sounds present. Shadow mapping, bloom etc is pretty cool. <br/>Not much in the way of gameplay. Walk around a bit and see the map. Vestiges of a "changing worlds" mechanic but very little actual effect. <br/> <br/>Pretty cool tech demo, but will need a lot more work to turn into anything playable. |