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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | Colossal Gnome's comment | |
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| Dec 4 06:15:19 | Beer Pong Arcade | ♥ 2 | Interesting take on, and really a great match for this theme. Graphics are basic but nothing more substantial is necessary. As others said I found the controls difficult, and that ultimately made the frustration overpower the fun. | |
| Dec 4 06:30:01 | 14m 42s | Save_Starship_R2D48 | ♥ 1 | Fun, could probably play this for long periods of time pretty easily. Pretty classic game idea, I like the multiple guns, and the responsiveness of said guns. Probably because I was using the web version, but none of the keyboard shortcuts worked for me. Nice job, fun game :) |
| Dec 4 06:40:32 | 10m 31s | Collateral Damage | ♥ 2 | Pretty classic asteroids-like game. I've never been good at mouse + keyboard controls, I'm not coordinated enough I guess, so the controls were somewhat frustrting -- even moreso on a laptop with a trackpad instead of a mouse. Seems like the aliens affect planets without actually shooting anything at them? I couldn't see them firing anything but the planets were definitely affected. Would probably be a lot more fun if I were coordinated enough to really be able to manage the controls :) |
| Dec 4 06:46:55 | 6m 23s | you are the coin master | ♥ 1 | I _love_ the graphics and audio.. tiny 8x8 pixel sprites. Fantastic. Really difficult to play though, the character moves so fast and there's too much on the screen to see what's going on (obviously that's intentional) ... 3 hours, really?! incredible! |
| Dec 4 07:19:27 | 32m 32s | Robo Tomb | ♥ 1 | Fun little game. Seems pretty solid over all, decent graphics, audio and gameplay mechanics. Well done |
| Dec 4 07:27:05 | 7m 38s | Spatium Calorem | ♥ 0 | Doesn't scale to fit in windowed mode on my macbook, and I couldn't get past the title screen either. Unfortunately can't rate without being able to actually play it. |
| Dec 4 07:31:35 | 4m 30s | I'm Over Encumbered! | ♥ 1 | I couldn't really figure out what to do with all the loot. Also found the controls very cumbersome (especially with a trackpad instead of a real mouse). Nice effort though, there are definitely some interesting things going on here. |
| Dec 4 07:37:08 | 5m 33s | Junk | ♥ 1 | Opened fine on my macbook. Fun little game, kept hitting up to rotate instead of z/x -- that screwed me up a bunch. oh well. |
| Dec 4 18:31:43 | 10h 54m | Greedy Merchants | ♥ 3 | Pretty fun little game. I like the graphics, I appreciate the piratey sea music. Nice artwork & controls. My only complaint would that it took me a bit to figure out which ship was mine when gameplay started. I think maybe the 'select a ship' needs to be more visible.. some of my trouble may be the game-jam hangover from lack of sleep though ;) Great job! |
| Dec 4 18:37:43 | 6m 00s | Dr.Acula, Busted! | ♥ 1 | Is it intentionally a scrubs reference, or coincidence? :D Would love to see a mac or web version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGSZlFcYnh4 |
| Dec 4 21:59:51 | 3h 22m | Untouched | ♥ 1 | Can't play for too long -- I don't want to wear out my mouse button.. ;) Really nice graphics, very responsive even with thousands of trees placed. Some sort of end-goal would be good, but it's still enjoyable throwing trees around on a map. I encountered at least one instance where trees wouldn't spawn where a building _had_ been after knocking it down. Nice job :) |
| Dec 4 22:07:00 | 7m 09s | Fred the Author | ♥ 0 | I made it to day 5. Kind of confusing how to get very far along as it seemed to end whether values hit either end of their respective level indicators.. All the way left ended just as all the way right did. Couldn't really work out if that was a bug or intentional |
| Dec 4 22:11:48 | 4m 48s | Carl Hates Christmas | ♥ 1 | Pretty fun. Was a little disappointed that it failed to load unless I disabled my ad blocker. Also struggle a bit to see how it fits the theme, but it was fun to play none-the-less. |
| Dec 4 22:16:07 | 4m 19s | Don't get drunk | ♥ 0 | Mac version refuses to open for me. Any chance of getting a web version to play? |
| Dec 4 22:26:40 | 10m 33s | SPACE FIGHT: THE TUTORIAL MENACE | ♥ 1 | The tutorial guy overlay seems a little buggy.. flickers a lot when other things are going on on-screen. I found the controls a little challenging, getting back up from that 'secret' room was frustrating, got to level 3, 4? the red one where you're supposed to attack.. I had no lasers to shoot or whatever he was tellin me to use, only the normal directional buttons did anything, and tutorial dude kept popping up making my character freeze, eventually it just stopped responding on that screen all together. I like the overall look, seems like it needs some work around a few of the various game mechanics still though. Nice art, and music. I guess maybe the connection to the theme is that the tutorial dude is just too obnoxious to be helpful...? Based on the graphic for him, I'm guessing he is inspired by 'Dustin' from stranger things? :) |
| Dec 4 22:49:31 | 22m 51s | Immune Invasion | ♥ 1 | This is a lot of fun. it's challenging, mostly until you work out the controls. I found continuously holding the right button (to always be attracting bacteria) and then periodically pressing the left to move around the be very effective. I don't know if the intention is to allow it to work that way but until I did that I couldn't win. Nice graphics, audio, great fit for the theme. Very well done! |
| Dec 4 22:59:56 | 10m 25s | Chaos Space Kitchen | ♥ 1 | Really fun. I found it to be very challenging, Love the graphics and audio. fits the theme well, level difficulty increases rapidly. Nice job! |
| Dec 4 23:04:45 | 4m 49s | Cholesterol | ♥ 0 | Nicely fits the theme. I must really suck -- I never got past early teen years. :) lol |
| Dec 5 06:25:28 | 7h 20m | Snowballing Out of Control! | ♥ 1 | Fun little game. I found the controls overly sensitive until I realized just tapping the left/right keys was a better approach, still took me several attempts to get to the finish and then it told me I was slow. :D lol |
| Dec 7 17:15:56 | 58h 50m | A Spark of Light | ♥ 1 | Pretty cool idea. The music was nice, I like the minimalist design quite a lot. I found the controls somewhat challenging and the lack of a defined goal is unfortunate. It was unclear how you would "sacrifice some light" as mentioned in the description, doesn't seem to be a way to shed it any faster than it wears off, and after a certain point I couldn't see any more appearing in the room, the room just suddenly started getting smaller. Due to these things, I found the actual gameplay to be kind of confusing, and frustrating. But I like the overall idea, with a little refinement you could easily market it as a nice little time-waster game for mobile. |
| Dec 7 17:22:58 | 7m 02s | Stealy | ♥ 1 | I experienced a lot of movement issues, I couldn't move up much at all, and most of the time when over an item I'd bounce back the direction I came from without being able to pick it up.. that was frustrating.. Looks like it would be a good game otherwise, but with movement mostly non-functional it's not really playable. Played in Chrome on a mac, for reference. |
| Dec 7 19:27:45 | 2h 04m | Conquer | ♥ 1 | Looks fun! Wish there was a mac or html5 version so I could try it... |
| Dec 7 19:44:53 | 17m 08s | Maze Crawler | ♥ 1 | Some interesting things going on here.. I'll have to take a closer look at your maze generation logic, much different style maze than the algorithm I used in my game, [Maze Trudger!](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/maze-trudger) Controls felt a bit off to me, like pushing a big rock around an ice rink. Definitely some potential here though. Nice job :) |