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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | Thingo Studios's comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4 16:36:00 | Running Of The Ball | Has the peculiar problem that the first fifty seconds of the game are almost completely useless, since hitting 40 members from each team and hitting 4 members from each team don't impact the ending at all. If there was some alternate objective-- rocks you had to dodge or something-- for the first thirty seconds, you could have some reason to not just walk away from the keyboard for the first half of the game. | |
| Jan 4 16:40:00 | 4m 00s | Nibble Jibbles | The "yum" noises were charming, as was the little glob. The actual game is no fun whatsoever, since it's a guessing game where you can't tell how big the blob is until it's too late. |
| Jan 4 20:25:00 | 3h 45m | Old Planter | Not much of a game. It does have a clean interface, and the lack of an objective makes it pretty relaxing. Could definitely use audio or something. |
| Jan 4 20:33:00 | 8m 00s | Safe or Sorry | Very reminiscent of "Tower of Greed" or any number of games with the bank-your-points-now-or-risk-it-and-get-more. Which is a good thing, since it's a sick concept for a game! The anglerfish was a very neat idea for an enemy, because not only is it easy to animate, it's also an untapped vein of horror. |
| Jan 4 20:39:00 | 6m 00s | Cideogen | Wonky hit detection on the sword (?), plus a very unfun control scheme. The Megaman model (one hand for movement, the other for jumping and shooting) works much better than whatever's going on here, and even mapping jump to W would work better. <br/> <br/>Charming audio, though. |
| Jan 4 20:41:00 | 2m 00s | Ludum Deathray | Like everyone else, it seemed like there was literally no progress being made no matter what I did. The character design was charming and the UI was very nice, though. |
| Jan 4 21:26:00 | 45m 00s | FlOBA (fixed server!!) | A curious genre mashup. Well, not a mashup-- it's just very weird seeing this hyper-competitive style of game applied to growing flowers, a normally placid activity. (I'll avoid the obvious Undertale reference.) <br/> <br/>Charming audio-- I never would have guessed it was computer generated had you not said so in the description. |
| Jan 4 21:31:00 | 5m 00s | FEEDING TIME! | I played a LOT of Jelly Battle back in the day and have been waiting for a functional clone of the game. I wish there was more of an indication where you could or couldn't jump, either by highlighting those squares or having a check next to your cursor when you're on an OK square. <br/> <br/>You also don't spawn food often enough. |
| Jan 4 21:38:00 | 7m 00s | Gelatin | The other commenter's reference to Mercury is a good one. This game is really missing out by being in 2D-- it's not obvious why the controls work how they do unless you can see the board moving. |
| Jan 4 21:41:00 | 3m 00s | Beanstalkers Extreme: Takin' Out The Trash | I loved this much more than I thought I would. It's more like a collection of minigames than anything else, but I wouldn't have it any other way. The graphics are what make this game shine. |
| Jan 4 21:47:00 | 6m 00s | Multitasking Madness | Color coding all the minigames was a cute idea given the minimalism of the graphics. There was a game with a similar concept a couple LDs ago except it was skinned as a four-pronged assault on humanity by a group of pigs, and it was funny! Which is the real appeal of WarioWare type games-- the humor. |
| Jan 4 21:53:00 | 6m 00s | Super 2 Button Growdown | Ben Eath: the Surf Ace! <br/> <br/>Okay, there was other stuff too. <br/> <br/>It bothered me that every player had the same walking speed, so you could have a stalemate by walking in the same direction if you wanted. That's a minor complaint though. Very enjoyable! |
| Jan 4 22:06:00 | 13m 00s | Grow-O-Land | A very innovative game that has the minor problem of not feeling like a progression through time as it does through the game dev process. Having a platforming segment towards the middle struck me as weird since I don't associate the genre with Windows games. The lack of dialogue options was a little saddening. If you randomized them when you entered the room and only had one option you could have made interacting with the NPCs a little more fun. |
| Jan 4 22:12:00 | 6m 00s | Pressure Run | On the one hand, this is a perfect recreation of a Game and Watch, with charming graphics and an obvious ton of attention to detail. <br/> <br/>On the other hand, it's not very fun. I also wish the buttons for the inputs were A and L so that you had to use two hands like you would on an actual console, even though that would be kind of annoying. |
| Jan 4 22:19:00 | 7m 00s | Find The Light | I thought the graphics were a little odd-- you have these big pixelated rocks, but the rest of the graphics were at a regular size. The Wild West font just looks silly too. <br/> <br/>Still, this is much more polished than a lot of first time entries. I hope to see more games by you in the future! |
| Jan 4 22:25:00 | 6m 00s | Unintended Acceleration | It's very, very odd to me that you'd be trying to get the cones. I spent two minutes trying to avoid the cones like in a demented driver's license exam before realizing my objective was to collect them all. <br/> <br/>Still, not awful by any means. If I have a complaint it's that the car never changes no matter how many times you run into things; having it look visibly dented would be a much better HP meter than the vertical thing in the corner of the screen. |
| Jan 4 22:36:00 | 11m 00s | LOAD"KHOMODORIA+2.RPG",8,1 | Given that my game is also a C64 parody, I appreciated this. (I even already had the font downloaded! Ha!!) Very charming graphics. The music got irritating fast, though if it wasn't looping for ten minutes I'd love it. |
| Jan 4 22:43:00 | 7m 00s | Family Board Game Night: The Board Game | I think the inclusion of a solitaire mode of some sort would help greatly in terms of getting people to play it. <br/> <br/>This is actually very funny, even if it's borderline impossible to get five players to sit down and play through it. |
| Jan 4 22:47:00 | 4m 00s | Arc | Not much relation to the theme (which is kind of missing the point of Ludum Dare). I found this really fun-- like Super Hexagon but not crazy hard. Kind of a snake-y sort of challenge to it too. |
| Jan 4 22:52:00 | 5m 00s | Robo-Spider Attack!!! | Not being able to see where the bullets are coming from is a questionable design decision. Was also confused about how to eat the soldiers. <br/> <br/>Points for having a spider protagonist though! |
| Jan 4 22:55:00 | 3m 00s | Imagetchu | What a cute little monster! <br/> <br/>Problem, though-- you can do the prompts for each of the three options even when they're not selectable, so you can just spam Alt to get in free hits. <br/> <br/>Still, so charming! |
| Jan 4 22:59:00 | 4m 00s | Cipolletti | This game really suffers from the two button controls-- you really want more motion than you have here. On the other hand, it's very funny, and I appreciated the random name generation. (I played football with Charles Bukowski! He's better at sports than he is at writing, unsurprisingly.) |
| Jan 4 23:09:00 | 10m 00s | In this game, you can not jump | I feel like the snarky narrator was underused. The game did feel like it was trying to troll me with that final level. <br/> <br/>But gameplay wise it was fun-- the final level hints towards something really fun, more of a puzzle game than a platformer. I liked it. |
| Jan 4 23:28:00 | 19m 00s | hARBOuR | The distortion effect when you die is very cool-- I'm a sucker for glitch effects. Actually, the graphics here are all very very cool. <br/> <br/>I had no idea that I could double jump for the first three minutes of play and did not understand that I was supposed to head right to fight mushroom monsters. |