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Timestamp	Since previous	Game		GistNoesis's comment
Dec 4 11:39:44		MAMMONITE LD40	♥ 1	I played the HTML5 version. Some goblins were sometimes stuck in the pillars. I find it rather hard to hit without being hit back. Fun when you survive more than 10 seconds. The graphics 3d art and animation are really nice. Audio loot effect adds to the fun. Overall good game.
Dec 4 11:50:31	10m 47s	Mizu	♥ 1	Congratulations for fitting the theme well. Nice electronic music. You even took care of the little details like adding some sonic shoes to your slow bucket. I enjoyed the waterfall you must pass quickly mechanic. Overall good game. Extra Kudos for writing the controls on the walls :)
Dec 4 12:30:38	40m 07s	Secret	♥ 1	Nice concept. Played 3 times, the first one I didn't got how to break off and finished with negative 400. Then I tried again, understood the controls, and finished even worse at minus 520 :). I then strategized a little (wait before telling secret) for my third game and finished at 740. The mechanic is fun, and I enjoyed the lack of control. Although observing all the actions I sometime lost the focus of where I am. Quite realistic moving through the crowd effect when you try to stop a badmouth. Overall fun game but I would be very wary about getting/inducing any life revelations from such a simplistic simulation.
Dec 4 16:08:36	3h 37m	The more you baby...	♥ 1	To be played by teenagers in school as a contraceptive tool :) Fun little game.
Dec 4 16:21:31	12m 55s	Friends.OS	♥ 3	Nice satire of our current internet life. Fun but I'm not a fan of the genre. I found the audio rather annoying but it's probably intended. Btw, let's play Cluedo, who did you murder with the lava lamp?
Dec 4 16:35:26	13m 55s	Leaning Tower	♥ 1	Rather unintuitive (I didn't understand the tower's behaviour), tower almost doesn't move until around 45 seconds where suddenly one more person makes it twist by 45 degrees in a second from which it can't be recovered, but it's fun until them. Nice audio, I'll have to get it out of my mind now :) . You can probably add bonus points for squashing people. Also if you could make the tower jump, I'd really have liked for it to be able to do some flips.
Dec 4 17:05:42	30m 16s	Social Status Simulator 2017	♥ 1	Didn't play the Game (Linux here). I looked at your code. It looks promising for future simulations. Though I'm not sure it will be easy to debug and expand. You probably should look into the Immutable concept, or do a JS version, either with React/Redux or Vue.js . You may even use some sqlite3 for persistence.
Dec 4 17:18:29	12m 47s	Vacuum Invaders	♥ 0	Very cool project. Doing an old game, on the modern equivalent of the old computers but doing it with Python :) Well done getting it to work ! Embedded platform games coming to Ludum Dare LOLOLOL :)
Dec 4 20:32:28	3h 13m	As The Crow Flies	♥ 0	I couldn't direct the crow. Nice terrain, and graphic. It would be nice if it was more lively. It looks a lot like civilizations games but without any civs. Well done.
Dec 4 20:48:55	16m 27s	.SWARM	♥ 1	Nice original game. It's fun to see the ants wandering around just to get zapped by laser. But with only a few pointers you can really help them. I couldn't reset the level when I realized the path (first laser level) I sent them towards was hopeless, after a few minutes a few of them succeeded but not enough to overcome the growing boredom and I then quit. Maybe you can add moving predators, so we can see some flocking behaviours. There is some potential but you should probably limit the number of ants to give the player some challenge.
Dec 4 21:01:57	13m 02s	Paint all the Colors	♥ 1	Nice game, though it doesn't check for content like google quick draw does. Fun to try to paint an object without its usual color. Quite puzzling to use more colors than what's needed and still have a nice picture. This is a nice painting application but only as funny as the painter willingness to play. Ok audio. Overall OK.
Dec 4 21:15:01	13m 04s	Snowmans Dilemma	♥ 0	Fun little game. Could use some power ups and place to pause. After playing 9 levels I found it a little repetitive and it would gain from additional mechanic. Sometimes levels can't be beaten unless you have seen them at least once before. Overall good game. Difficulty is not to hard and not too easy (Well done). Ok audio.
Dec 4 21:39:37	24m 36s	Spin Attack	♥ 1	Really Nice physics engine. The puzzles are quite funny. The music is OK though it becomes repetitive. There are plenty of different way to solve a level. I did 10 levels and there maybe not enough diversity. Though I enjoyed the Jump level a lot. Probably adding more of those levels and less stack the cubes. Overall good original game.
Dec 4 23:55:16	2h 15m	EPIC Racing	♥ 1	Nice explosion effect (art and sound). I liked the fact that the audio stops for one second when you pick-up a disk. The game looks promising but there are still a lot of bugs in the collision detection (or is it a 3d-pseudo perspective effect) with the moving obstacles. Also the car is too small to see properly where it's going even more with flashy background colors. Controls have too much inertia. I don't understand your take of the theme, is it just making it more and more unbearable as you pick up some disc? Sorry for being harsh.
Dec 5 00:07:54	12m 38s	Shit happens #LDJAM40	♥ 2	Nice first Ludum dare entry. Very cool art and audio. Kind of a zombie like. Fun little game.
Dec 5 10:06:13	9h 58m	Power Play	♥ 1	Unfinished game. I couldn't get any money. I didn't understand the point of the map. The art is childish but funny. Try picking up a less ambitious game next time. Ludum Dare is a good exercise to meet a deadline.
Dec 5 10:14:01	7m 48s	Nano Life	♥ 1	Quite complex but very original. Nice game
Dec 5 10:31:08	17m 07s	Techno Fever	♥ 2	The global mood is good, very techno. Art and audio is great. A little difficulty sometimes to understand where I am. Is it possible to lose ? Very fun experience.
Dec 5 10:50:09	19m 01s	Asteroid Crasher	♥ 1	Well done. Nice art and audio. Cool original mechanic. Maybe a little too much randomness. Sometimes upon a retry the level is just too easy. Also it would be good to know how far the space gate is so we can adjust strategy. I enjoyed the "small" gate a lot.
Dec 5 11:25:48	35m 39s	Cosmiring	♥ 1	Nice first ludum dare entry. Controls had a little inertia for my taste. Nice audio effects. There are some interesting mechanics (balancing spark) which could get pushed further. I don't like having to press a button to collect the letters. A global map would help. Overall good game but missing local objective and incentives. Well done.
Dec 5 12:42:30	1h 16m	Mini Mod	♥ 0	Beautiful art and audio. Very nice mood. Motion feels incredible. Best game I've seen so far. Really impressive. Only negative points is the boss which is not targeting you and you sometimes lose track of how many hit points you still have. Well done.
Dec 5 17:06:43	4h 24m	Tomb Robber	♥ 0	Nice little dungeon crawler. The movement felt sluggish as if underwater and coupled with the time remaining gauge, it felt like I was exploring some ships wreckage (But I'm not sure it's intended as the spider don't live underwater :) ) Also I encountered a focus grab issue : every time I attacked by pressing space-bar the scroll-bar scrolled down half a page. Nice pixel art. Thanks for the lara croft remainder. Overall well done.
Dec 6 21:48:35	28h 41m	Dodge X	♥ 0	Nice graphic and music though I had to run it on my GTX1080ti computer where I got 60fps no problem, maybe fullscreen would have give it some troubles. Controls and gameplay aren't very funny. Kudos for distance field rendering, this is cool (I played with them too). I didn't know about webstorm (using vscode) will check-it out as I'm a resharper fan.
Dec 6 22:08:18	19m 43s	Life is money	♥ 2	Nice graphics and audio, though a little repetitive but I guess it's the point of the game isn't it? Make me think of the sci-fi "vicious cycle" short film ( ?v=9k5RKDxs2RA )
Dec 6 22:17:52	9m 34s	Asteroids Attack	♥ 1	When I'll drive a space ship in a few years time, this game will help me remember not to overload it because then piloting it is impossible :) Quite funny.
Dec 6 22:33:51	15m 59s	Life & Debt: A Real Life Simulator	♥ 2	My banker is rich :) But I've plenty of useless things to play with :)
Dec 7 15:26:58	16h 53m	Quantum's Rick	♥ 3	R&M is too smart for me. Well done! Interesting concept. Screw up a few things and it takes exponentially longer to put things back into place. Negative point is I'm just too slow.
Dec 7 21:02:56	5h 35m	Kritter Keeper	♥ 4	They are really cute. Well done. Reminded me of the tamagochis. The game is rather slow but ramps up. You should add interactions between the kritters.
Dec 7 21:14:35	11m 39s	Virus Eater Peter	♥ 3	Kind of an asteroid game, where you gain some power over time. It ramps up nicely. Audio and graphics are good. Nice work.
Dec 7 21:20:12	5m 37s	Not candy crush	♥ 1	Did you know about the parable of the polygons? Nice version of it as a puzzle.
Dec 12 00:43:38	99h 23m	Slightly annoying traffic	♥ 1	Very fun game. Cars are a bit too small to click when not in fullscreen. Well done.
Dec 12 00:52:12	8m 34s	Don't get drunk	♥ 0	Made me nauseous really quickly.
Dec 12 01:17:54	25m 42s	...	♥ 0	The game is OK but not very playable. Graphics looks nice. Fast to load. Controls are not good. Text rendering not very readable. I looked at your engine source, +1 for effort, C and webgl is sooooooooooooooo verbose. Kudos for getting text and shader to work, I don't even know how you can debug such thing through the layers of emscripten compilation. The mere fact of getting your engine to work is quite an achievement. Well done !
Dec 20 17:50:46	208h 32m	Castle Diorama	♥ 2	Nice graphic and audio. I got stuck. Not my favourite type of games, but I enjoyed the experience. Well done.
Dec 20 17:55:29	4m 43s	Smack`Em!	♥ 1	Colorful art, Nice audio effects. A bit too fast to my taste. Reminded me of real world arcade games, thanks.
Dec 20 18:01:52	6m 23s	Make Ludum Dare Great Again	♥ 2	I won. Nice animations. Ok audio. Hitboxes should be reworked to include head. A little repetitive. Overall a nice little game. Well done.
Dec 20 18:09:40	7m 48s	A Spark of Light	♥ 1	I became a supernova, only to realize that it meant that I lost :( . Nice mechanics. Nice art and audio, it set up the mood quite well.
Dec 20 18:23:32	13m 52s	Samurai Shaver	♥ 0	Nice art and audio. Quite repetitive. I didn't see the increase of difficulty between levels. The hard part is getting the first cut right. Far easier than DDR. Overall OK.
Dec 20 18:31:53	8m 21s	ICE RINK RALLY	♥ 0	Fun. Keyboard controls are not great. You should add an online multiplayer game. You probably should have some skaters go the opposite directions. And add a little IA for their movements as most were not moving a lot.
Dec 22 01:02:43	30h 30m	Reroute Reboot	♥ 1	Very fun game. Interface is overloaded particularly the vertical bars which connect town to corresponding port. The AI strategy is not very good (but it's kind of good otherwise it would crush any human rapidly). The text is unreadable on the switch. This is a simulation quite useful to understand influence in the context of networks. It reminded me of dns cache poisoning. What is fun is to watch your clueless opponents getting slowly overcome by an unstoppable wave of reinforcements once you grabbed a few main frames. To turn it into a business, it can be adapted to model accurately how you can change the opinion of people by turning a few key influencers via their friends on the social graph with ads or specially bot crafted ideas, then once converted they will convince their sheep audience. Then you show your technology to a few lobbyist/brand and show how it can help them at reduced cost achieve their agenda/improve branding.
Dec 22 01:27:53	25m 10s	Unnatural Occurrences	♥ 2	Nice incremental game. Ambiance well set (reminded me of Irenicus dungeon). The game seems rather pointless as I don't get to feel all the awesome things I can achieve with my newly crafted spells. Overall I enjoyed the experience. Well done.