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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | makenai's comment | |
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| May 1 03:41:27 | Where is mommy? | ♥ 3 | Pretty creepy! I thought it was a little dark on my monitor, so might have been good to have a little adjustment. I couldn't figure out how to light the second candle, but definitely has a good atmosphere, sound, and graphics. | |
| May 1 17:17:00 | 13h 35m | Small World of Mushrooms | ♥ 0 | Definitely some instructions would help here as I couldn't figure out what to do. If you can add a brief howto to the description here, I'll be sure to come back and rate your game properly! |
| May 1 17:27:03 | 10m 03s | A World In Her Eye | ♥ 2 | Fanciful and cute! Good writing and nice mood and soundscape. This was very well done! I'll come back and play this one again. |
| May 1 17:45:05 | 18m 02s | Eine Kleine Insektmusik | ♥ 1 | Cool idea! At first I was worried that my tone deafness would be a hurdle here, but I noticed the vibrating hammers as a warning. Then as mentioned above I noticed you could find safe spots that weren't used much. I guess some sort of penalty for not moving would help. Still, love the concept! I hope you find some inspiration to work on it after the compo too. |
| May 1 17:58:59 | 13m 54s | A Giant Hitch | ♥ 1 | Unique and fun series of mini games. Great story telling and direction with pretty simple graphics. The controls are a bit funny, maybe because of the squareness of the character? For example, the momentum it takes to get going, and not being able to jump consistently while the character is rolling (I guess because they are not grounded at the instant I hit it?) These do not really affect gameplay, but if any more reflex based scenes were come up later, they might good to address. Loved it! |
| May 1 18:07:34 | 8m 35s | Dot | ♥ 1 | Fun old school feel and gameplay! I hate that real estate tycoon and also the kamikaze food truck enemies that expect me to pay for their car even though they crashed into me while I parked. Loved the ending animation. |
| May 1 18:16:54 | 9m 20s | Naarrow | ♥ 1 | Pretty fun metroidvania stickfigure game! Same as above, I almost stopped playing because I thought it was one repeating level. Glad I stuck around and got some of the power ups. |
| May 1 19:40:04 | 1h 23m | Slimes in Panic | ♥ 1 | I'm not much of a resource game person, but this seems like a great start! The mechanics are solid. If you decide to continue this game, a little bit of tutorial mode stuff in the beginning would help a lot. PS: I love hexagon tiles and slimes! |
| May 1 19:46:02 | 5m 58s | herbarium | ♥ 0 | Great aesthetic and nice level design! I like that it's possible to overwater a plant and kill it. Nice puzzle game. |
| May 1 19:51:09 | 5m 07s | Water Bear World | ♥ 2 | The controls are really tricky, but I love the concept and graphics! I'm not sure how to turn or get the waterbear to go where I want to to despite trying different variations and timings of WASD. Sometimes he turns, but what caused it? With a little bit of control refinement, this could be really fun. |
| May 1 19:58:30 | 7m 21s | World of Echoes | ♥ 1 | Pretty fun! A little bit slow to start and I really wanted to be able to move while the text bubbles are going instead of freezing Some fun puzzles here! |
| May 1 20:02:53 | 4m 23s | Attack of the Planetary-Vampires | ♥ 2 | Nice old school shooter that feels a little bit of 8bit Satans Hollow meets Sega Genesis graphics! Fun to play and well executed. |
| May 1 20:20:08 | 17m 15s | Island Attack | ♥ 1 | Fun! This reminds me of an old CGA game I used to play called Sopwith. There are a lot more missiles and bullets to deal with in this one though! |
| May 1 20:24:31 | 4m 23s | Pixel Town | ♥ 1 | Seems really nice and complete, and the graphics and audio are very nice! Laying out the roads was a bit tricky to figure out as the visual indicator on the cursor didn't update for the context of the direction the road was going to face. Totally realize the time constraints. Great job on this! |
| May 1 20:26:37 | 2m 06s | SMALL WORLD of LOVER | ♥ 0 | Love is kind of hard and unforgiving! My relationship ended with a single mistake. Very cute graphics and music, and an interesting idea! Nice job. :D |
| May 1 20:33:02 | 6m 25s | Fixville | ♥ 2 | Heads up that this game might not play correctly if you have an ad blocker. Nice premise and story! The gameplay could be a little bit smoother. I hope you continue working on this as it looks like it could be a lot of fun with a bit more polish! |
| May 1 23:40:44 | 3h 07m | Barely There | ♥ 2 | Cute! I had to laugh at the little bee tongue (proboscis?) licking the flower. |
| May 1 23:50:47 | 10m 03s | Bunosphere | ♥ 1 | Super cool! Great graphics and I had fun playing. This is one of my favorites so far. I wish I had better directional sense. |
| May 1 23:54:17 | 3m 30s | BAD RNG | ♥ 1 | Nice! I love reimagining the classics. I liked the touch that you are playing on an arcade cabinet but the spiders in the game are actual spiders from outside the game. Really polished graphics and fun variation on the game play. |
| May 2 04:10:22 | 4h 16m | The Button Room | ♥ 2 | This was definitely interesting! I'm not sure what happened at the end, but I think that I made button happy again? Would love to know more about the mystery and the thought process that went into this. |
| May 2 04:14:42 | 4m 20s | Slice of Life | ♥ 1 | I couldn't figure out quite how this worked and the game was a bit high resolution for my screen. Though I deployed mushrooms and stuff, the mushroom house always exploded and covered everything with green spores. However, I give marks to graphics and theme because it's a game about pizza. Cheers! |
| May 2 04:19:58 | 5m 16s | Space Cowboy's Last Stand | ♥ 1 | This was fun! The difficulty was a little but unforgiving for me - I wish I had a few more bullets to start out with to ease into the learning curve. The controls are nice and smooth. I like the art and all around feel of the game. Well done! |
| May 2 04:23:32 | 3m 34s | RGB | ♥ 1 | What a great idea for a puzzle game! I get the concept, but there were a few times where I got Victory, but didn't know why. :D Maybe I'm just bad at color theory and lucky. |
| May 2 04:27:42 | 4m 10s | Insect Attack | ♥ 1 | "I'm sure there are more than a few bugs." - funny! I couldn't get this to work as I have a mac and cmd-click didn't accurately simulate a right click. This is a pretty decent effort for just 6 hours! Reminds me of the fly swatting game in Mario paint a little. |
| May 2 08:33:33 | 4h 05m | Beetle Archaeologist | ♥ 1 | Nice! I found some lost treasures (a cookie, a penny, and an earring). I was playing on a web browser and click and dragging the mouse wasn't great, but I bet this would play great on mobile with touch controls. The graphics were nice,I like this style. Nice polished entry, all it needs is a little jaunty bgm to be a complete game. Well done. PS: Oh, I was also surprised that hitting spacebar reset my map. I think I was expecting it to dig or something, but instead it made my target go right out from under me. |
| May 2 16:10:32 | 7h 36m | What Remains. | ♥ 1 | Cool game! Could use a few tooltips over the icons as I forget what they are sometimes. I like the graphics and style and enjoy the funny voices. :) |
| May 2 16:22:52 | 12m 20s | My Very Own World | ♥ 1 | Not my best genre, but I played it a bit to give it a go. I can see it's well made and the graphics are nice and it looks like it has quite a bit of polish. I like the scrolling mechanic. Quite a bit of work must have gone into the rules engine. Well done! |
| May 2 21:11:54 | 4h 49m | Snail Fighter | ♥ 1 | Pretty fun! The bullet wrap is interesting. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on, but the end result that I am more cautious with my shots. It's also nice to spam an area then get out of there so you can concentrate on the non-bullet ridden area while your residual bullet shower takes some enemies down. I could see some interesting strategies evolving around this mechanic alone. I like the graphics and the gameboy-esque palette. I would have liked some horizontal movement, but it was a good time either way! |
| May 2 21:22:38 | 10m 44s | Agoraphobia | ♥ 1 | This was a simple game with a great concept. I had to remember the definition of Agoraphobia to figure out why I kept dying. I love this interpretation of 'small world'. It's always interesting when we can take away some empathy for certain aspects of a mental illness from a medium like video games. Well done! |
| May 2 21:49:00 | 26m 22s | Ant Runner | ♥ 0 | Pretty cool! I like the graphics. I wasn't expecting that the ant would auto-aim for me, so it was confusion to start, but nice when I got used to it. I managed to get pretty far (I think) but a hidden pool of water took me out instadeath style when I didn't realize I needed to jump. If you go further with this one, adding some periodic checkpoints to continue from might make the sad reality of instadeath a little easier to deal with. Well done! |
| May 2 22:06:55 | 17m 55s | The Hungry Planet | ♥ 1 | Pretty fun - I like the zoom effects. I didn't play through the entire thing, but it was hard to get a sense of scale without a reference point, so I didn't always get a sense that my little planet was growing. There were a few times where I feel like I got out into the bad neighborhoods of outer space because there were no bodies to absorb for a while and I was just clicking around aimlessly. I think with a more visual indicator of scale, I'd get more excited. This is a total tangent but.. Have you ever seen this anime called Gurren Lagan? Toward the end of the series they keep getting bigger and bigger robots and eventually ones that are galaxy sized - they do a really good job of conveying that scale as they zoom out past planets, which become smaller, then solar systems, and then entire galaxies etc. I think that's something like I'd imagine for this game - maybe starting out in the orbit of some background moon and then seeing it shrink. I did see you have an Earth-like planet in the screens but I wasn't able to encounter it. Anyway, well done on this entry! |
| May 2 22:11:00 | 4m 05s | ZEUS VS MOLES | ♥ 1 | Super cute voxel graphics and a funny premise. Controlling with the mouse was a little bit hard, but it would probably be great on a phone with touch controls. Who would have thought that a god would have so much trouble with a rodent invasion! Good job on this! |
| May 2 22:23:44 | 12m 44s | Primordial Ooze | ♥ 1 | Cool concept and the graphics and mood are great! I think this is one of the more visually polished games I have seen. It's a little hard to tell what's going on as we zoom through different scales and sometimes it's hard for me to tell what's killed me. I got hit a few times, but didn't die except for when I do. Is there an energy bar somewhere? Nice job on this game - totally felt like I was looking though a microscope. |
| May 2 22:31:58 | 8m 14s | Potions recipes | ♥ 2 | Good start on a game engine! It could use a little bit more of a challenge component - something like enemies, or puzzles, or hiding the items with clues a bit. I hope you keep going after the compo. |
| May 2 22:34:14 | 2m 16s | New God in the Town | ♥ 2 | Interesting concept! Kind of like being Air Traffic controller for human interactions. |
| May 3 04:37:46 | 6h 03m | Little Asteroid | ♥ 1 | Nice resource game! I got caught up trying to figure out how some of the routing work and couldn't get selling to work to the space port. It would get to connecting the refinery to the space port, then ask me to sell a recipe. I'd select 'Sell Copper'Ore' and then I couldn't get past that 'Sell an item to continue' part. What did I do wrong? |
| May 3 04:41:53 | 4m 07s | The Core | ♥ 1 | Fun puzzle game! Minor annoyance was that I wish the 'Reset' didn't reset everything but let me move the pieces around again and retry without having to place all my pieces again. |
| May 3 04:46:31 | 4m 38s | SORLD | ♥ 1 | Cute game with a lot of things going on. I watched the YouTube demo video, but still wasn't clear on when / why I needed to pick up building or why I needed to put them down. I had fun shooting at the UFO's anyway though! |
| May 3 05:09:08 | 22m 37s | Starbob | ♥ 2 | Pretty cool! I managed to build a pretty big tower that was fairly unstable and toppled over. After that I kind of felt "We can rebuild it, we have the technology".. so out of curiosity I tried again. I realize that I can turbo-boost sort of by jumping and putting boxes under me and then jumping again, but I ran out of pieces. Finally, I collected blocks all around the planet and I *think* I escaped. Currently zooming through space. Nice that the feeling of curiosity was strong enough to get off the planet! Some of the mechanics were a bit tedious, but with a little smoothing this will get more fun. Nice job! |
| May 3 05:13:56 | 4m 48s | It's a Small World | ♥ 1 | Fun! I like the simple jump mechanic and cute graphics. All the jump combos made me feel almost like I was playing a street fighter game. Good controls! |
| May 3 18:43:49 | 13h 29m | LOST PLANET(oid) | ♥ 1 | Pretty cool! Reminds me a bit of Commander Keen. I wasn't expecting monsters to follow me across screens. I also think the shoot timing is a little off - that is, sometimes you hit spacebar and it doesn't shoot, so you need to hold it to make sure it's read. I likes seeing the literal edge of the world too. Nicely done! |
| May 3 18:50:32 | 6m 43s | Supermarket Sneak | ♥ 2 | Fun idea! The struggle for Thanksgiving shopping is real. |
| May 3 18:53:28 | 2m 56s | The Cookie Knight | ♥ 0 | Cute little platformer. I think the timing on the spacebar is a bit sensitive - it double jumps often when I don't intend to if I hold it for too long. |
| May 3 18:57:51 | 4m 23s | Space Migrator | ♥ 0 | I like the use of the theme in the story and the phrase "But wait, this planet if very small" stuck in my head like a catch phrase. Glad you added endless mode as the main goal is pretty easy. Well done! |
| May 3 19:03:59 | 6m 08s | Cathode Way | ♥ 3 | Amazing idea! My inner backstory is something about being stranded on an island where video game systems go when they die. Great graphics sound and concept. A+. |
| May 3 19:12:37 | 8m 38s | Little Fortune Planet | ♥ 2 | Great looking entry! I'm totally lost about how to play it, but it's fun clicking around and seeing bad things happen. I guess that's the point? Great entry! |