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Timestamp	Since previous	Game	Jod's comment
Dec 14 14:23:00		Concrete Jungle	Great work implementing the theme! Loved sound, gameplay and visuals. I had a few 'nooooo, little creeper, grow harder!'-moments. <br/> <br/>A nice and smooth game to play during my post-jam hangover :).
Dec 14 14:28:00	5m 00s	Arkham Madness	Loved the setting, Ia Ia Ia Cthulhu F'thagn! <br/> <br/>The gameplay worked, nothing was bugged. Animation was smooth, lovely little glowy pentagrams and elder signs. <br/> <br/>I was missing an end state. At one point I was sure I had all the cities eaten by Cthulhu's glorious tentacles, but the game kept going. I would've loved to see a message from Cthulhu that he was proud. :)
Dec 14 14:34:00	6m 00s	Growing (a Lump)	Solid writing. The story flows well! <br/> <br/>What would've helped set the mood would be some custom fonts (http://twinery.org/wiki/frequently_asked_questions#how_do_i_import_a_google_web_font) Google has tons of them and they're really easy to import. Perhaps changing the background and font colours. If I can help with that, let me know, I fidgetted a bit with that for my own Twine submission (whether it helped or not, I'll leave up to the reviewers :)). <br/> <br/>Cool stuff, keep it up!
Dec 14 14:44:00	10m 00s	It's Full of Stars	Loved the music and atmosphere, very well done! <br/> <br/>The controls were hit-and-miss with me. Sometimes I was able to drag a star, sometimes I wasn't.
Dec 14 14:57:00	13m 00s	The Winter	That was good fun! I loved the different stages of intensity! I didn't notice my dash depleted my Seeds bar, at first. <br/> <br/>Loved the little cracks of doom that would go after me, stopped me from using cover too much. Well designed, well balanced with great artwork! <br/> <br/>If there's anything to improve, it would be a little outro, which tells the player that he has defeated winter and that things are alright with the world again or somesuch. <br/> <br/>Great work!
Dec 14 15:07:00	10m 00s	Clara Stirzaker and the Crypt of Time	Gorgeous graphics and combination of visual and audio. Good puzzles, well done!
Dec 14 15:13:00	6m 00s	Spock The Pug	Loved it! Loved that he grew so big he can only roll. :D
Dec 14 17:08:00	1h 55m	The Organization	Liked it! Loved the introduction and the characters. Would love to have some more flavours in missions. All in all, good stuff!
Dec 14 17:17:00	9m 00s	One Man Spaceship	I. LOVED. THIS. <br/> <br/>You, sir, win the award for most awesome sound effects ever. Kudos! <br/> <br/>But besides the sound effects, the gameplay was very elaborate, you followed the team well and handled limited resources brilliantly. KUDOS!
Dec 14 17:26:00	9m 00s	Sir Carrot	Good pixel art on that carrot!
Dec 14 17:45:00	19m 00s	Growthia	Cool stuff! Loved the music. <br/> <br/>Loved how the units upgraded as they got bigger, and the artwork on the different buildings.
Dec 14 19:13:00	1h 28m	Taskeys	Pretty cool concept. Takes some real work to do, mentally.
Dec 14 19:39:00	26m 00s	St. Orchint's Orphanage	I decided to do a thoughtstream as I played... Here we go! Also, for those who haven't played; SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! <br/> <br/>-Hey, a letter, that's pretty... <br/>-Oooh, an orphanage! Yakuza flashba-... <br/>-Wait, what? Soldiers? One day you will make a happy game, huh? <br/>-Curse you, general T. Rutz! Curse you for taking the childhood of these poor innocents and crushing it! <br/>-Oooh, requests, many different things to juggle. Fun! <br/>-A children overview... what, sick children can't work? Well, they'd better not fake being sick, the little bastar-... -oh my god, what is this game doing to me? <br/>-Music... haunting piano music... I am so jealous of these skills. <br/>-COAL MINES? Jesus... that's harsh. <br/>-Huh.. I wonder what font they use... <br/>-Hmmm, I'd better get some medicine up front, these kids will probably get sick at the drop of a hat! Not like in my day, when we worked all day and then worked some more at night! <br/>-Huh, how do I add kids to military school? Oh, the game probably does that itself. Huh... makes sense. But am kinda sad I can't make my own kiddie army and take over the country from within.... <br/>-Hahahaha, chimney sweep has a lethality rating. They drop off the roofs! I really shouldn't laugh... really shouldn't... <br/>-Oooh, a paper. Ha, the Westport Independent! I love it... wait, are all these games somehow interconnected? Papers Please, Westport, St. Orchint's? Is this all part of some kind of huge bleak future metagame? Wow... ;) <br/>-Oh huh, I don't get food if I don't click the send button. Yeah, that kinda makes sense. Stupidity as a player, detected! <br/>-Oh wow... I love how this game makes me think. Bombing run? GREAT! More orphans for me, more monnnneeeey! I'm such a monster. Such a monster. <br/>-OH SHIT I have run out of food. Sorry children! I shall quickly order some more. Now, back to work! No complaining! <br/>-Oh no. Oh no no no no. The kids are sending me letters. I think I shall tell Emily her little friend went to fight for the glory of the fatherland, and we can all be proud for his soon-to-be-sacrifice. <br/>-Owww, I can't reply to the letter. Maybe that's a good thing. <br/>-OH NO! I can see the little deaths at the bottom of my screen... dear god, I'm a monster. <br/>-WHAT? No! Not an Epidemic.... goddamnit, there goes my medicine... grumbles <br/>-I have decided that the children that are working in the coal mines are the bad children. Those who did not behave properly. My consciousness feels a lot better. Or maybe that's the whisky. <br/>-Jean has the time to send me a letter from the coal mines? WHAT? If he has time to write letters, he has time to work! <br/>-Alright, I will put all new children in the sweatshop. That seems like the nicest thing to do. <br/>-.... <br/>-I just thought putting children in a sweatshop was the better option. Damn you, game! <br/>-I just had a horrible thought. If food costs me 4 per day right now... and kids eat one portion per day... putting them in the sweatshop really doesn't work. <br/>-Man, fuck these letters..... I'm not crying, you're crying! Will someone shoot that piano player already? <br/>-I have decided to stop my children sweeping chimneys. Instead, I'll fill the sweatshop until it bursts and let the rest do coal mine work. There's always dissidents.... <br/>-No wait, that doesn't work... okay, more kids to the coal mines then.... sorry, kids. <br/> <br/>-WHAT? Oh goddamnit, I didn't make enough money, game over. <br/> <br/>I shall try again! <br/> <br/>(Loved the game. So much)
Dec 15 07:30:00	11h 51m	Sanctuary Station	Awesome! Are you adding a web link? :)
Dec 16 09:52:00	26h 22m	Beatz!	Wow, first rythm game I've played on here. Excellent mix of audio with gameplay!
Dec 17 22:53:00	37h 01m	Growing Beat	Cool stuff, well done!
Dec 18 07:59:00	9h 06m	Need For Seed: Undergrowth	Supercute, loved the graphical density! Took me a while to figure out what to do!
Dec 18 08:07:00	8m 00s	Growth Industries	Gorgeous graphics. Loved the little in-between texts and the details on the desk.
Dec 18 08:14:00	7m 00s	Orbital Panic	HAha, that's pretty cool! Love the little dude on the planet detail.
Dec 18 15:02:00	6h 48m	Double Kick Heroes	Gorgeous. Gorgeous pixel art and matching art with music. <br/> <br/>When I reached the second level I died laughing at the blips that came zooming by the screen and I just started bashing buttons. I didn't succeed in surviving, which indicates to me that skill is involved. And that I don't have that particular skill :). <br/> <br/>Well done!
Dec 20 10:09:00	43h 07m	Grow Your Hoard!	Supercute! Loved the controls. Loved that arrows can hit each other and spin out of control!
Dec 20 10:18:00	9m 00s	Witch of the Grove	Gorgeous arcade-style feel! Loved the graphics and sounds.
Dec 20 10:28:00	10m 00s	Police Alien Training	Great work on the audio! Also nice on getting the theme right! Loved the intro screen, as well. <br/> <br/>Congrats on making a nice game! <br/> <br/>Perhaps adding some sound effects when shooting and hitting things would be nice.
Dec 20 21:04:00	10h 36m	Spinning Around	Gorgeous! Just gorgeous! Loved the whole feel of the game. Very relaxing, very pretty. The music paved the way for the 'smooth' feeling! Grand!
Dec 20 21:14:00	10m 00s	BoltStorm	Great graphics! I experienced some lag, sadly, while playing it on my MacBook Air. <br/> <br/>Nice chunky sound effects for the arrows, loved that. Great little animations and lighting, well done!
Dec 20 21:18:00	4m 00s	Seven Cannon Army	Lovely and clear graphics, grand! <br/> <br/>Great variety between the guns, although handling them is more of a challenge then hitting things. Some simple sound effects would have really spiced things up!
Dec 20 21:29:00	11m 00s	CICP : the Center for Interplanetary Pest Control	That was really enjoyable! Great music, lovely graphics. It felt a bit like cheating to quickly cycle through stations when the laser was discharging, but it worked!
Dec 20 23:16:00	1h 47m	Subject Is Compliant, Subject Is Defiant	Pretty damn cool! Lovely writing, very well done. I liked the ambivalency about the truth all through the game. A very creepy undertone indeed!
Dec 21 19:35:00	20h 19m	And the world kept on turning	Wow. That's just very well done. From the very awesome increase in scale, to the infernal hatred of everything triangular it made me feel! <br/> <br/>Loved the details, loved the snowflakes coming from the mountains. <br/>Loved how the game got harder by going _slower_, not faster. Cool design choice (happy accident? :D). <br/>The colour coordination was awesome. Great font, great styling, very minimal and classy! <br/> <br/>If I'd have to pick anything to improve, I think a second or slightly larger soundtrack would be nice.
Dec 21 20:37:00	1h 02m	Interstellar Cruise	I died so quickly... eep!
Dec 21 22:48:00	2h 11m	Pressure Run	Great style choice, both in music and graphics!
Dec 25 10:08:00	83h 20m	Frank & Stein	Supercool! That is a a lovely way to control two characters. And the art, music and sound effects are well done. <br/> <br/>I love the little details as well: bullets ricochet on walls, the exit button crumbling... well done!
Dec 25 10:17:00	9m 00s	Let Me Explain	That was very well done! That's a _huge_ amount of drawing, impressive! And animation too! I bet that took ages to do. <br/> <br/>You put music in there, as well as sound effects. Great! <br/> <br/>I think you could improve in scene transitions. We go from the house, to an escape where we're attacked by a dog, and then home. A simple black screen with a description wouldn't cost you a lot of time to draw, but it would help the player a little bit in understanding where the story is going too. <br/> <br/>An ending, if only just in text, would also give the player closure on what they just played. <br/> <br/>Keep on going! I'm dying to see what you'll do in the next Jam!
Dec 25 10:23:00	6m 00s	Last Chance To Green	Wow. That was a beautiful game to play. Just gorgeous. The graphics, the sounds.... everything! <br/> <br/>However, poor little Horace (I named the plant Horace) died because I got attacked by caterpillars and didn't get the action to remove them. That was sad.