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Feedback comments for LD31

Timestamp	Since previous	Game	Tifu's comment
Dec 10 00:29:00		One Screen Story	I really liked this! I love the exploration, and the challenge area at the end was a good conclusion. Kudos!
Dec 10 00:39:00	10m 00s	Avoidotron	Cool, jumping to higher platforms could probably be better. <br/>Am I getting hurt when Santa hits the ground? If so, I feel that could be more clearly conveyed to player, I think I died a few times from that without realising... best score 32
Dec 12 00:46:00	48h 07m	You're Blocking The Screen!	Nice idea! Would be better I feel if the game in the game was one with a win condition.
Dec 12 01:48:00	1h 02m	Finish Your Project	Very meta. <br/>Cute mouse! I liked the ending a lot. It took me like 50 minutes to get there though, could have been a lot shorter =/
Dec 12 13:19:00	11h 31m	Snowman Saving	Good game. Nice risk reward with the trail of snowmen/increasing number of kids etc. <br/>Audio didn't work for me, I assume it had audio as there are audio files, but nothing ever played. Playing on Windows.
Dec 12 15:01:00	1h 42m	A Maze in Space	Fun game! My best score was 38.
Dec 12 15:21:00	20m 00s	Trapped	Nice idea with the overhead view of the school, darkened rooms where you can't see what might be happening in them... creates nice mood. I was going to comment on not being a fan of "you looked at a thing, now this thing will kill you" mechanics in exploration based games, but on second play trying to get good ending I realised you could just leave the room and the ghost stops - not too obvious as the ghost is clearly shown walking through walls to reach you =P <br/>Any small hints on how to get the good ending? I couldn't figure it out.
Dec 12 15:35:00	14m 00s	Mobius Dungeon	Love the idea, has a lot of potential. Want more :D
Dec 12 19:42:00	4h 07m	Game of the Probability Goose	The dice decision system is really cool, really clever mechanic! <br/>My two little critiques: When you're going 'up' near the end of the board, your head obscures what the square above you is - and when a bot won on a 4 player game, the game ended immediately putting me in third place (second place was still a possibility, if the second AI had got some bad rolls/I had got some good ones :P)
Dec 12 20:00:00	18m 00s	Hard Winter	Nice twist on tower defence! My lil nitpick is the magnifying lens screen does get in the way of the main battlefield which is a bit annoying/obscures the cannons you are trying to manage. Good job.
Dec 12 20:09:00	9m 00s	Screen Mover	Great idea! Could have done with a checkpoint after the moving platforms though D:
Dec 12 20:34:00	25m 00s	Starring Annika	If only there was a category for cute D= <br/> <br/>I tried Arcade mode after beating normal, and around round 5 or 6 I seemed to become immortal! The space aliens no longer seemed to be doing damage. Aside from that little oddity, nice game.
Dec 13 00:15:00	3h 41m	birdsong	For a few seconds I was wondering about the theme, then my mind exploded :O really cool effect! Great job. <br/>Really fun game too, perfect amount of challenge.
Dec 13 00:24:00	9m 00s	Dimensions	Clever twist! Nice job
Dec 13 00:40:00	16m 00s	BREAK	People with problems with running out of space: WASD moves the game window, its in the README D: <br/> <br/>Cool idea! Controls feel a little weird with the floatiness, but I see why that is needed for the end stuff. Good job. <br/> <br/> <br/>One prob: I think its possible to get into a dead end if you go down to the laser area before you collect all the gems at the top, can't seem to get back up due to spikes. Had to restart to do it the other way and finish properly.
Dec 13 20:36:00	19h 56m	Man on the Field	Kind of bright happy music for what is going on =p
Dec 13 20:59:00	23m 00s	Shifting Dungeon	Cool idea! Took a few tries to get to the end boss - seems to be a bit random as to whether I hit him or he hits me, so even with full health he ended up winning =[ <br/>Good game to that point, would be better if the money had some purpose, some random shopkeep sliding in who can sell upgrades or something. At least, if there is anything like that, it never showed up.
Dec 13 21:21:00	22m 00s	The Lonely Realm of Tom Thaum, the Space Wizard	I get its for the theme and all, but I feel too much information is off screen - maybe tower planet should have been smaller? At times the top of my tower was off screen at the bottom, so my ability to protect it from meteors was incredibly hampered, made the whole process of trying to build and protect the tower seem a pretty futile effort. I think if I could see what I'm doing this would be a pretty fun game.
Dec 13 21:46:00	25m 00s	Leaving	I got all the parts but I can't figure out what the next step is, everyone is saying the same things =/ <br/>Good game, love the animations, good humorous problem solving.
Dec 15 15:13:00	41h 27m	Quiet Life	After several tries, I lasted 1133 turns - cause of death: too many sheep blocking the way to my tomato patch resulting in starvation :P I'll have to try out the post-LD version later, was having fun, even though I couldn't figure out how to make most of the possible items. I couldn't even figure out how to get the fire working. Though I enjoy the mystery and exploration on that front. <br/>I managed to survive through the winter on tomatoes. Are the tomatoes supposed to be an option here? The game description implied my food options would be reduced, so I assumed the plants would stop growing but they kept producing food for me all winter.
Dec 15 15:34:00	21m 00s	RIZUMUDEKATTO	Playing with gamepad is kind of annoying as every time I die it reverts to the main screen which will only let me input by keyboard =/ <br/>The point at which you need to press the button should be clearer to the player, it felt intuitive to wait till they were very close but this got me killed. Flashing the button prompt white when it needs to be pressed maybe? <br/>Of course seeing as you can just spam the button to win, that doesn't really matter anyway... but for a rhythm game you shouldn't be able to spam buttons so I tried not to :P <br/> <br/>Graphics and music very good.
Dec 15 15:49:00	15m 00s	shootAbox	Not bad for a first game! Keep it up.
Dec 15 15:58:00	9m 00s	The Corsair Bay	I wasn't able to get anywhere, the game window takes up my whole screen, and there still seems to be platforms off screen/can't see the ground. Some hackers spawned off screen so I couldn't see them to reach them :( I'm playing on 1600x900 resolution.
Dec 15 16:16:00	18m 00s	Snake Runner	I liked the idea, but I can't play it... ducking doesn't seem to work for me, as it automatically uncrouches and gets me killed so the whole thing is impossible (tried in opera and firefox), and the java popup thing is annoying - the game using WASD and arrows means both hands are on keyboard, but then I have to move to the mouse to click OK and then refresh the page to restart... <br/>I'd love to see this polished though, the mechanic sounds really good from what little I saw of it.
Dec 15 16:49:00	33m 00s	Fabulous Escape	I suppose that is one way to interpret the theme =P <br/>Interesting game, I really wish I could just press 'up' to repeat the last command entered, would have saved some annoyance in that first room typing longjump a lot. <br/>Good job!
Dec 15 17:10:00	21m 00s	Tower Falling	Love this. I feel I would have loved it a lot more if checkpoints had been every level instead of having to repeat later levels over and over. But good game, love the graphics and the puzzle design.
Dec 15 17:31:00	21m 00s	Frostbite	Is... that a darkbasic icon? I don't think I've seen a DB entry before =o <br/>This is really impressive, I was fully expecting a "oh, two games? yeah, and neither one is going to be much, right?" but mind blown! This is really good. <br/>That first bit with "also: snowman" made me laugh out loud, good jobs :P
Dec 15 17:40:00	9m 00s	REPROPULSOR	Died 40 times but I made it! Very difficult to control, so I gave up on any hope of getting all the score dots after about level three :P
Dec 15 22:06:00	4h 26m	Escape Velocity	I can't download this, it just keeps stopping and giving me an error, I'll try again later =/
Dec 15 22:23:00	17m 00s	Rescue the princess	Jumping is too difficult to precisely manoeuvre the character, I could only get past the red bats by sacrificing over half my lives... and then I get the chest telling me I need to go back to the lake? Impossible for me. Seems like I'd really love this if the jumping was improved.
Dec 15 22:35:00	12m 00s	Miscreations	Good idea, fun game, I'm not a fan of mouse controls for this, WASD and Arrow Keys would have been better I feel. I like the random creations that can occur, very bizarre! I could only get as far as round three though :D <br/>One kinda big problem is, when you kill a boss your guy is frozen until you click 'next' - but enemy missiles and bullets still can harm you during this time, very unfair! <br/> <br/> <br/>bug I found: I held up key, the guy walked to the wall at the top, seemed to bounce off it, I tried again and just kept holding up key and... he then bounced all the way off the bottom of the screen where he is stuck to this day :( <br/>I think this is true of all directions, but I only tested it with the top wall.
Dec 15 22:52:00	17m 00s	Boss Rush	Yay, another boss rush :D <br/>This is really good, nice difficulty curve, the axe guy in particular was a real challenge (glad you included checkpoints... unlike mine :P), though eventually he succumbed to the same weakness as the others - back them into a corner and spamhit them so they can't launch any attack of their own :P
Dec 15 23:00:00	8m 00s	Spiral Wings	Beautiful! <br/>Didn't feel like I was 'finding' the souls so much as waiting for them to show up though. But flying around in circles and swooping around felt nice anyway, would enjoy this expanded on to have more interactivity of some kind, so I can fly around some more :)
Dec 15 23:25:00	25m 00s	You Are Lost	Yay, I made it! That... seems like a lot more than one screen :P <br/>I think having the footprints being permanent for your three-lives would have been a nice touch, and helped you get around. <br/>Great graphics, nice atmosphere. I did die once while in a safe spot, I was trying to lure wolves to one side of the fire so I could escape at the other, they ran through the safe spot, and presumably that killed me, but I didn't get the bloodied animation.
Dec 16 14:41:00	15h 16m	Where They Once Were	Managed to get all three endings! Nice game, great atmosphere and graphics.
Dec 16 21:39:00	6h 58m	Last Night	The two bars probably should be labelled, at first I though the one on the right was time and the one on the left was some kind of fear bar, as I only noticed it after the first bloodstain appeared, led me to play differently than I would have - ie I probably didn't need to keep my eyes shut as long as I did. I survived the night though, yay.
Dec 16 21:49:00	10m 00s	Ab Intra	Cool atmosphere and art, controls could have been a bit better - for example, the mouse icon kept changing back to the default use, when if I have it set to 'look' its probably because I want to look at several things, would be a little more convenient if it just stayed as what it was last at. Text was a little difficult to read too, with the colour choice, and no outline or border on the font. But overall, good short interactive horror experience. Huzzah.
Dec 16 22:08:00	19m 00s	Rooms	Cool atmosphere, love the pixel art :3 <br/>Had to use walkthrough once to realise I had to pick up one of the cards - I had looked at the cards more than once, didn't realise I had to look at them more than once without moving away to trigger new dialogues.
Dec 16 22:29:00	21m 00s	Cubed	Sometimes I am rendered unable to select items from inventory, had to restart twice :( <br/>Good game, I had to consult the walkthrough a couple of times, partly cos I didn't know what some items even were... hovertext over items saying what they are would have been good. <br/>I didn't figure out where to get the padlock code on my own, but that was really clever, and I recognise that I had all the clues available and can only feel shame for not figuring it out :P <br/>Good job!
Dec 17 14:21:00	15h 52m	Dino Dash: Rex's Run	Clever, with the fake LCD you literally can see the entire game on one screen, every possible game state :D
Dec 17 14:36:00	15m 00s	Snowman Stacker	Nice idea, pretty hard to get the proportions right, but it feels like the right level of difficulty for this kinda thing. <br/> <br/>Putting the instructions in-game probably helps, I know they are right there on the webpage, but people do pay more attention to things when they are forced to :P I played a few rounds just making weird upside down snowmen in as few shots as possible before I realised that wasn't actually the objective, and the game was a lot more interesting with the real objective :)
Dec 17 14:52:00	16m 00s	Hyper Soccer	Woah that AI is really good :O (well, aside from the grappler on my team grabbing me a lot...) I imagine that is pretty challenging for a sports game, especially given time limit. Good job, fun game with interesting specialisations. <br/> <br/>Using an Xbox pad, the movement seemed jittery, like I would lose momentum every second or two for a nanosec, was a lot smoother when I switched to being WASD controlled.
Dec 17 15:05:00	13m 00s	Scan Lines	61 deaths! Made it! That was awesome, great use of theme, really challenging! Great job!
Dec 17 15:31:00	26m 00s	Kuch Bhi !	Good concept, very challenging. <br/>I kind of feel with a game like this, where you can fail often, and very quickly, you want that 'replay' button to get you right back into the game, I know its just one extra click, but it does make a difference. <br/>Sometimes the ball can stick on the back of your... circle things... still slightly visible, but facing slightly away from the game board, and the game continues playing despite any move you make firing the ball off screen and making you lose, ideally the game should autofail you in this condition to save player time.
Dec 18 16:06:00	24h 35m	Orion	Runs really bad in Safari, with gameplay stuttering every few seconds, making the timing for the countdown absolutely impossible (tried three or four times, much frustration) - downloaded Chrome, worked fine in that. <br/> <br/>Really impressive graphics, though.. the planet being there all the time is certainly weird =P <br/>Not much interaction once you get into space and jetison the things, probably needs some kind of "oh no the thing is overheating, do the coolants" "there's a problem! radio Huston and they'll tell you what to do" kind of disaster or the like. Ideally some randomised things of that nature to really keep people engaged through several playthroughs. Obviously you wouldn't have had time for that here, but as you're considering working on this further, then those are suggestions I guess :P
Dec 18 16:21:00	15m 00s	Ricochet Heroes	Lacking in theme, but really great game! Super fun. Great music and art too!
Dec 18 16:33:00	12m 00s	Go Out Screen	Cool idea, I beat the game, but somehow the sliding tile puzzles (screenshot 3) never showed up for me? All I ever did with the computers was rotate the rooms to the correct position so I could make it up higher, but it looks like there was something else in the game from that screenshot? =/
Dec 19 23:20:00	30h 47m	Kevin's uncommon story	Really awesome level design! Good challenging but fair levels.
Dec 21 00:29:00	25h 09m	Attack of the Screen Scrollers	Clever idea! Really challenging.
Dec 21 01:31:00	1h 02m	20 Days at Sea	Great game! Was really difficult to make it to day 20 without doing unspeakable things. Great ending :o <br/> <br/>Only issue was character would never dive off the left side of the boat, but pretty minor thing.
Dec 21 01:44:00	13m 00s	Yuki and Snow	I love the interface and everything, the way the text boxes pop up is really good. Nice music. Nice graphics. I just can't figure out anything though, I've rubbed every item I have against every other item and am all out of things :P
Dec 21 22:10:00	20h 26m	CoinSlot	This unfortunately crashed my PC, I had to turn the power off :S <br/>I think it was the webplayer, rather than the game (I had this page running in the background while I played) as it is currently trying to load on this page and making my typing incredibly slow... the global machine also wouldn't work in Chrome. So I can't see the full picture :( <br/> <br/>Nice idea, would probably be pretty challenging if the synchroniser was removed, though I guess you were going more for an interesting communal creation experience over challenge :P <br/>Maybe upload a video of the global machine after the competition so I can see the whole thing? :D
Dec 24 00:17:00	50h 07m	Cam16	This is a really good idea, I couldn't figure out how to win though... cam 03 didn't have an item (did it have one at the start? I could have swore it did... but I never picked one up and its gone now if there was one) and I can't reach the top of cam 07 (I assume there's a double jump or something, but I couldn't find one?) I solved most of the other rooms though. Good job.