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Timestamp	Since previous	Game		AMastryukov's comment
Dec 4 16:39:12		Anxiety	♥ 1	Pros: The artwork and animation conveys a sense of anxiety. Cons: Bugs (getting stuck on the side of the platform), movement feels weird. Next game, focus on completing and polishing gameplay before making the artwork and animations. Not bad for a first game, keep making more!
Dec 4 17:10:03	30m 51s	Leaning Tower	♥ 1	Pros: Interesting game mechanic. Clean sprites and UI. Pretty graphics. Cons: Game is not quite balanced (pun intended); takes too long until it becomes challenging and becomes difficult too quickly. I would consider making the tower rooted inside the ground rather than bouncing around cut off at the bottom. Perhaps make the movements smoother as well. The game is clean and I've encountered no bugs so far, so good work on that.
Dec 4 18:00:23	50m 20s	Tank Thunder	♥ 0	Pros: Gameplay is solid. Graphics are decent. Fits the theme. Cons: Enemies spawn too quickly. No sounds. Sounds often add a lot to the experience. Try adding some sounds and maybe even background music for the game.
Dec 4 18:35:28	35m 05s	Growing Earth	♥ 0	Pros: Challenging gameplay. Nice graphics. Cons: Music doesn't match very well with the 'feel' of the game. Stars in the background would have been a nice touch. Colour shifting based on the consumed planets' colours would be cool as well. Good work, considering you made it in 6 hours.
Dec 5 03:18:24	8h 42m	Drugrun	♥ 1	Pros: Cool graphics, fun meth gameplay and feel. Cons: Options menu had words blending into the background. I like your take on 'drug running'. I found it interesting how both of our games have a similar idea, theme and even name but we took entirely different approaches.
Dec 5 03:29:51	11m 27s	Money transporter	♥ 2	Pros: Simple, pretty graphics. Gameplay was fun and engaging. Cons: A little bit too easy. No sounds at all. Consider adding some suspenseful music and/or sound. As others said before, try messing around with level progression. Very solid game overall, I like it.
Dec 5 23:08:58	19h 39m	Pirate Game	♥ 0	Pros: Fun gameplay. Cons: Controls are poor (it's difficult to keep your hand on the arrow keys and spacebar at the same time if you wish to move the camera around). The idea is pretty neat, and the game is pretty fun to play if you develop it more. The controls are pretty uncomfortable, but that is easily changed.
Dec 5 23:20:39	11m 41s	Drug Dealer	♥ 0	Pros: Interesting idea. Cons: Heavily underdeveloped; low-effort graphics, no sound. To be honest, the game had an interesting premise but was executed poorly. The graphics weren't just low-effort, they were bad. Instead of the stickman try using a circle to represent people, or even a square as those look much more neat than a hand-drawn stickman. Don't worry about adding more weapons or game progression if the game isn't polished enough. A short, 1-minute game that is polished and fun is better than a 1-hour game that is unpolished and boring.
Dec 5 23:34:19	13m 40s	Capitalistic Lootboxes Overwhelmed	♥ 1	Great graphics and attention to detail. Fitting music and sounds. Very polished and fun to play. Nothing negative that's notable. Love the social commentary!
Dec 6 04:48:58	5h 14m	Sad Knight	♥ 0	Pros: Addicting gameplay, cool powerups (powerdowns), polished graphics, matching music and sounds. Cons: Not very player-friendly controls; using the mouse to look around and change movement direction would have been much better. Nearly perfect - high quality, good polish and solid and entertaining gameplay. Wasn't expecting anything short of amazing from you, good job! Change the controls though.
Dec 9 14:39:07	81h 50m	dang homeless people!	♥ 0	Pros: Graphics are pleasant to look at. Gameplay idea is funny and matches the theme. Cons: Coin pickup is frustrating - colliders aren't very good. Homeless people are a little too fast, so the game gets difficult quickly. Overall a nice little compo game.
Dec 9 14:51:30	12m 23s	A strange mental disorder	♥ 0	Pros: Really cool concept - different abilities were fun to play around with. Interesting experimentation with particle effects. Cons: Music got annoying very quickly and didn't really match the game. Mouse kept going off-screen and alt-tabbing the game. This is an interesting idea worth reworking. Perhaps you could consider polishing the gameplay a bit more and not focusing too much attention on details like animation and particle effects until the end.
Dec 9 15:11:35	20m 05s	The explorer	♥ 1	Pros: Controls are intuitive; graphics are simple and clean. Cons: Sometimes controls are weird - feels like too much friction. Music fits the beginning when you have to escape but gets repetitive quickly. Overall a neat game, not too much to complain about. The controls are easy to pick up and hard to master, but are not that fun to play with. Game is too difficult right away, and there are no checkpoints, which made me quit after about 10 tries.
Dec 10 22:49:45	31h 38m	I took too many drugs	♥ 0	Pros: Great use of effects. Fun gameplay idea (requires strategy). Great atmosphere accompanied by matching music. Cons: No win condition. Some effects were a little bit overwhelming. Hilarious and interesting idea. I't's great to see you interpretation of the theme in terms of drugs, I've noticed a few games this Ludum Dare (including mine) that went with this idea, and they've all been different. Good work!
Dec 10 23:08:04	18m 19s	The Beforlorne Wander	♥ 2	Pros: The game is polished. Graphics are good. Music sets a good atmosphere. Different enemies and bosses were a good addition. Level design was well done. Cons: Controls are a little weird. Didn't match the theme. I like this game - it is simple and fun to play and the music created a unique atmosphere for each area. Controls were a little bit strange and I'm still not used to them. The game didn't match the theme, but it was a good game nonetheless.
Dec 11 03:53:22	4h 45m	Disaster Strikes	♥ 1	Pros: Simple yet elegant graphics. Awesome gameplay. Cons: Hard to read some text. Instructions were overwhelming at first, but then the game is too easy when I got the hang of it. This is a very fun game with potential. If you make a more interactive tutorial, more objectives and better text feedback it would be very addicting. Great submission!
Dec 11 04:13:12	19m 50s	Shooter Guy	♥ 0	Pros: Hilarious sound effects and graphics. Cons: Rooms were too big and empty. Enemies were too easy. The game had a classic 'Wolfenstein' feel like others mentioned. The way the bullets flew and enemies died was great, gave me a chuckle.
Dec 11 18:50:40	14h 37m	Games: Behind The Scenes	♥ 1	Pros: Great graphics. Very unique and fun gameplay idea. Fitting music. Pretty polished for a jam game. Cons: A few sound effects were way too loud. Poor in-game instructions (which you fixed in the description). This is a fantastic game! Like others say, this is definitely worth pursuing post-jam. Consider adding a short tutorial in the beginning, as it took me forever to figure out how to play before I read the description. Perhaps also try to make transitions between places take less time (or make them seamless), as the majority of the game you are going between rooms and transitioning seems redundant.
Dec 11 19:39:37	48m 57s	Yard Time	♥ 0	Pros: Hilarious and addicting gameplay. Top-notch sound effects. Beautiful graphics. Cons: It was a little bit annoying having to re-click each prisoner individually. This game is amazing - easy to learn, funny and addicting. The graphics are reminiscent of Prison Architect and Rimworld, and animations were great. Sound effects were hilarious. The game is very polished and simple. Right on point, especially for a LD Jam game. I would consider expanding this game further, and port it to mobile. I would have a prisoner remain selected after giving a move instruction, as having to re-click prisoners over and over again got a little bit frustrating.
Dec 12 16:52:44	21h 13m	Busted! An Epic Cops Vs Robbers Endless Runner!	♥ 1	Pros: Solid gameplay. Good setting. Cons: Side-to-side movement was not too great. Classic endless runner game with an interesting setting. Side-to-side movement in these games is usually locked to 3 lanes, so this was unusual, especially because there were 3 lanes of items on the road. Jumping was a little bit too sluggish. Definitely good for a game made in under 24 hours. There is potential to expand onto mobile platforms if you polish up the movement and flesh it out a little bit more. Good work.
Dec 12 17:17:20	24m 36s	Unsocial Media	♥ 1	Pros: Interesting concept & social commentary. UI design was cool. Cons: Buggy. No explanation/tutorial. This is an interesting idea with a somewhat unsuccessful execution. It is neither terrible nor great, but somewhere in between. It was a unclear how certain hashtags would relate to the moods and types of posts, perhaps because of a bug? I was also not sure how the game relates to the theme until I read your posts - in either case it wasn't explicit in the gameplay itself.