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Timestamp	Since previous	Game	rjhelms's comment
Dec 12 04:29:00		One Room Hotel	Nice take on the theme, and I love the visual style here. <br/> <br/>I think the gameplay would be a bit richer if there were more amenity types, but, well, that's Ludum Dare for ya. Great job!
Dec 12 04:43:00	14m 00s	Cold Day in the Office	This is giving me flashbacks to working in a cube farm... I don't miss those days. <br/> <br/>If you made the coworkers go on to infect eachother, this could be an epidemiology simulator. :)
Dec 12 05:03:00	20m 00s	Poopy R**mba	Great job, man! This is a really compelling puzzle game, with a hilarious premise and a great visual style. <br/> <br/>Some music would make this really shine - but it's awesome all the same.
Dec 15 03:40:00	70h 37m	The Chinese Room	I think I remember you talking about this idea on the IRC channel over the weekend. It's a great take on the theme! <br/> <br/>The hit detection for the welding beam felt a little fiddly - I couldn't quite get a sense of what it took to destroy one of my ineffective competitors. Between that, and the fact that you move at the same speed as them (which is a nice design choice!) it was really challenging to get a hang of the combat mechanic. <br/> <br/>The fog of war was a nice touch - a good bit of polish that deepens the gameplay in subtle ways. <br/> <br/>Great job!
Dec 15 04:15:00	35m 00s	Table Jockey	Really fun idea, but it gets bogged down with the physics a bit I think - for example, at one point I had a bed land right on top of a table, and it was impossible to sort out that I could see. <br/> <br/>Also - for me, at least - once I was a piece of furniture, Q and E were move and A and D were rotate. That worked fine, but was confusing when I was expecting something different.
Dec 15 04:21:00	6m 00s	Kitchen Wizard Pinball	Love the art - great work for 48 hours! <br/> <br/>Things are a bit jank, but that's unity physics for you. Making a pinball game in LD is very ambitious, and this is well done considering.
Dec 15 05:07:00	46m 00s	Room & Gloom	Great stuff, dude. As a few others have mentioned, this is a style of game that's been around for ever, but you did a great job of it. <br/> <br/>In particular, the difficulty progression seemed really well done.
Dec 24 04:04:00	214h 57m	Cozy Christmas Village	Beautiful game, great job. I feel like it's a risky choice to go with a slower-paced game for Ludum Dare, but it's paid off well with this one. <br/> <br/>Some of the navigation feels a bit clunky in places - I can't offer any constructive suggestions as that's something I struggle with as well. <br/> <br/>Some music would have gone a ways to make this game even more immersive than it already is, but even without it there's a great amount of polish and completeness here for just two day's work. Well done.
Dec 24 04:22:00	18m 00s	Non Euclidean Room	Super interesting entry. It's a bit short, but that's understandable considering how much polish went into the graphical style and level design - I had a ton of fun trying to wrap my head around everything.
Dec 24 04:47:00	25m 00s	CircL	Pretty cool, man. I find it really challenging - probably because I'm too much of an ass to make any friends, even in game. <br/> <br/>I love the idea, and the style. <br/> <br/>Just a Unity tip: in the Player settings, you can configure the supported aspect ratios - it looks like you designed this for 16:9, so restricting it to just that might avoid the issue of content getting cut off in some cases.
Dec 24 04:59:00	12m 00s	Conștiență	Very cool way of storytelling. The music fit the mood really well, too. <br/> <br/>I'd love to see this idea taken further!
Dec 27 02:31:00	69h 32m	Tim in Time	This was good for a laugh - great writing! You really used the limitations of the Pico-8 to great effect - the sound and graphics fit perfectly. <br/> <br/>My biggest criticism is: more please!
Dec 27 03:04:00	33m 00s	FUNRiDE!	Nice little party game! The visual style is great, and the sound effects are pretty funny and work well. <br/> <br/>The controls feel a little bit unresponsive - I imagine that's deliberate to keep things challenging and unpredictable, but they could due to be tightened up somewhat. <br/> <br/>Adding bots was a great idea - it's hard to find people to play multiplayer games with when I'm doing my LD rating, so having bots makes the game more accessible.
Dec 27 03:23:00	19m 00s	Creative Space	Very apropos to the Ludum Dare community!
Jan 2 04:11:00	144h 48m	Roach Escape	Cool puzzle game! I could have played this for a lot longer - the length was good for an LD entry, but I was hooked and didn't want it to end. <br/> <br/>The sound & graphics could have used a bit more polish, I think - they're fine, but I think a bit more time spent getting them better would have gone a long way. <br/> <br/>There was some nice emergent complexity around how the roach turned on its own, the layout of the levels, and the instructions I gave it. Good fun!
Jan 2 04:32:00	21m 00s	How To Cope With Boredom and Loneliness - A Guide For The Isolated - A Documentary Filmmaker Simulator	Wow, amazing. You've got lots of great feedback so I won't repeat it. <br/> <br/>I'm amazed at the amount of content you've got here - all scripted and voice acted, no less - in 72 hours.
Jan 2 05:13:00	41m 00s	Don't Eat My Babies	Nice stuff. At first I Thought there wasn't too much do this, but it gets surprisingly intense as the game goes on. <br/> <br/>Being able to move further when next to eggs and enemies was a good design choice - it adds a decent amount of depth to the strategy which I didn't expect. <br/> <br/>Good stuff!
Jan 2 05:20:00	7m 00s	The Box	Great visual style, and a nice take on a classic puzzle. I wish I had a PS Move so I could see how that plays, I could see it working very well for this kind of game.
Jan 2 05:28:00	8m 00s	King of the Room	This is a two-player game, yeah? Sadly, I'm rating solo so I can't get the full experience here. <br/> <br/>This is an interesting take on the theme, and the controls feel decent. I could see this getting really intense with two real competitive types going head-to-head.
Jan 2 05:36:00	8m 00s	Dwarfsplosion	Really polished! Great job.
Jan 2 05:50:00	14m 00s	Plastic Regiment	This is good fun. You did a great job making a small space feel huge, which is great for this theme. <br/> <br/>I feel like - as is often the case - a little bit more polish, especially around tuning the controls and polishing the sound a bit more, would have gone a long way. But what's here is a ton of fun, and an impressively well realized shooter for 48 hours.
Jan 2 21:55:00	16h 05m	Open-Plan Office Distractions	Oh god, it's just like real life! I lost in the end because I got two managers who both just constantly pestered the guy working on the final task. <br/> <br/>Some sound could really buff the humour here and make the downtime a bit more enjoyable, but it's a pretty solid humourous entry all the same.
Jan 2 22:31:00	36m 00s	Star Room	Great feel to this. A pretty classic idea, well executed. <br/> <br/>The angled grid was a bit confusing at first, but I got used to it. <br/> <br/>As others have said, being able to restart a level rather than the whole game would make things more enjoyable - especially for Ludum Dare, you want people to be able to see as much as your game as possible so it's worth it to be a bit more forgiving than you might be otherwise. <br/> <br/>Good job!
Jan 2 23:10:00	39m 00s	Decade	I'm really impressed this is made with Twine! You did a great job pushing the limits of that platform. <br/> <br/>I agree with much of @qzqxq's comments - it's really engaging at first, but once you're established and have everything up and running there's not really much that you have to do. <br/> <br/>Some random events starting in year 4 or 5 - nothing punishing, but things that would require the player to re-prioritize a bit - would keep things more engaging for duration.
Jan 2 23:50:00	40m 00s	Neuroleptic	This is the best entry I've played for setting a mood - well done!
Jan 3 01:13:00	1h 23m	Ludum Dare: The Game	It's true, I pretty much didn't leave the room during this Ludum Dare! <br/> <br/>This is incredibly polished, and the soundtrack is amazing. Great job!