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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | mahalis's comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 4 15:14:00 | Briiik | ♥ 1 | Gameplay’s simple but challenging, and the visual presentation is really nice. It’s clever that the changing bar height makes them harder to click on the longer you leave them. Nicely done! | |
| Dec 4 15:16:50 | 2m 50s | Leaning Tower | ♥ 1 | Fun! Simple and elegant, and the music’s really catchy. Nice work. |
| Dec 5 03:26:59 | 12h 10m | What is Art: Things that can be Stolen | ♥ 1 | This is really well done! I'm impressed with how elaborate the level design is, particularly for a compo game. The lasers are a little unforgiving since you can't see yourself, but they're a challenge I kept coming back to. Pleasant music composition as well. Nice work. |
| Dec 5 03:35:20 | 8m 21s | L.A.V.A.L.A.M.P. vs Evil Magic Alien Robots | ♥ 1 | Nice! This is really compelling - there's a fun interplay between the different characters you have and where to best position them on the battlefield. It could do with being a little faster - I spent a lot of time just watching characters and enemies trading shots. I like the cartoony art style and the color scheme. Great entry overall. |
| Dec 5 03:43:34 | 8m 14s | One Matter | ♥ 2 | This is really cool. Elegant mechanic and a nice minimal visual presentation. I did find the controls troublesome - getting stuck on things I was trying to jump into was particularly frustrating - but there's a really solid idea here and I'd love to play a version with some of the finickiness ironed out. Great job! |
| Dec 5 03:49:45 | 6m 11s | Dangle Copter | ♥ 0 | This is superb! I love the character designs, the frame story's clever, and the controls work really well (I can imagine how much fiddling it took to get those right). Fantastic work. |
| Dec 5 03:57:20 | 7m 35s | Color Bound | ♥ 1 | This is outstanding. Gameplay's smooth and intense - it felt like a ballet when I was doing well, and then I got totally overwhelmed around phase 7 and it became more of a frantic jig. Great visual effects; the pulses of color around things helped a lot with keeping track of what was going on. Some music to go with the visuals would have been a nice improvement, but honestly it works in silence too. One of the best games I've seen in this jam so far - great work! |
| Dec 5 04:05:21 | 8m 01s | The Infernal Knowledge | ♥ 1 | Clever! The art is really nicely drawn - the 2.5D thing threw me for a loop at first, but I like it; feels like fighting with cardboard cutouts. The book of Cthulhu Knowledge made me grin. Nice work. |
| Dec 5 04:12:04 | 6m 43s | Space Crash | ♥ 1 | This is fun! It's a lot tougher than it looks at first glance. I'm impressed you had time to make multiple music tracks - I like the fast one with the sort of arpeggiating bass line. Nice work. |
| Dec 5 04:44:03 | 31m 59s | Aimmo | ♥ 0 | Huh - interesting idea, a little frustrating in practice though. It would be interesting to score shots based on *how bad* your aim was at the time - award more points for harder shots, that kind of thing. Nice job. |
| Dec 5 04:52:34 | 8m 31s | AntiBucket | ♥ 1 | This is fun! As a few other folks have said, it's super challenging on a fast machine - that's not a bad thing though, just means you have to be a lot quicker. The background music's pleasant and the art is cute - great job. |
| Dec 6 02:48:54 | 21h 56m | Winter Break | ♥ 1 | I like this! The gameplay is pretty simple, but trying to direct snowballs either to the center or at the kids is an interesting challenge. Good artwork too - the snow falling in the background is a nice touch. Nice work. |
| Dec 6 03:00:02 | 11m 08s | Overcharged | ♥ 1 | This is impressive - the gameplay's unusually elaborate considering the amount of work you clearly put into the graphics. The enemies are really well-differentiated; there's enough variety there to demand actual strategy when dealing with them. I spent a fair bit of time confused about what was going on and why my guns weren't firing, so it could probably use some clearer feedback... overall, though, this is an ambitious and well-executed idea. Nice job! |
| Dec 6 03:06:11 | 6m 09s | Extreme Whiski Slalom | ♥ 1 | Outstanding and hilarious; this put a silly grin on my face and made me urgently need to go snowboarding (though probably saving the liquor for afterwards). Loved the music, the way the controls get plausibly worse and worse as you get "drunker", and the ridiculous, glorious "WOO"s. Amazing job - probably the best game I've played from this jam so far. |
| Dec 7 03:48:57 | 24h 42m | Bat Dose | ♥ 1 | This is great! The idea is simple, but the art and music are really charming - they make it sort of a peaceful, contemplative experience (though I was pretty alarmed when the HUGE owl-thing first showed up). Nice job! |
| Dec 7 04:00:09 | 11m 12s | Usagi Story | ♥ 1 | I love the art in this - the bunnies are adorable and everything's really well drawn. I liked that they had individual names, too. It gets a little repetitive; it might be more fun if the bunnies moved around, or if there were more different things they wanted (beyond just carrots and medicine, though from what I understand about real-life bunnies that's basically their whole deal). Overall, nice work! |
| Dec 7 04:10:49 | 10m 40s | Ni | ♥ 0 | Superb graphics work - I love the lighting effects and the colorful particles. Clever use of the level design to present instructions in-world too. It's pretty unforgiving - having to avoid touching *any* wall got a little frustrating - but I think if I'd stuck with it a while longer I would have gotten the hang of it. Nice job! |
| Dec 7 04:14:36 | 3m 47s | Cult Classic | ♥ 2 | Love the name - unfortunately I neither have controllers nor three other people to play LD games with me, so I can't tell how it plays. Great concept and fantastic art though - I'd love to try this if it had AI opponents to go up against. |
| Dec 7 04:39:32 | 24m 56s | Bloc | ♥ 1 | This is a really clever mechanic! It seems easy at first, but as your blocks and the projectiles multiply you have to pay attention to a lot of trajectories. It'd be helpful to have a more obvious indication of which block you currently have selected - the highlight when you hit a number helps, but something persistent would be useful - and it would be cool if the projectile movement were more unpredictable (parabolic or something). Overall, great work! |
| Dec 7 04:45:10 | 5m 38s | Conversations | ♥ 1 | Weird and delightful. Love the concept and the art style; I wish I'd been able to figure out what the other people thought was going on, though I think I did persuade one that I liked wizards and was definitely not a spider. |
| Dec 8 02:52:08 | 22h 06m | Deck the Hauls | ♥ 0 | Great entry! I love the music - it's the perfect soundtrack for joyous holiday thievery. I couldn't figure out how to get my suspicion level to go down other than just waiting, so it got a little repetitive after a while - do dancing / flipping actually do anything? If I were a security guard, I'd definitely be less concerned about someone stealing stuff if they were doing cool moves in the aisles. |
| Dec 8 03:01:15 | 9m 07s | Drugrun | ♥ 0 | This is cool! The grungy collage-y art style is unique, eye-catching, and fits the game really well. I liked the music change when I meth'd up, but I'm afraid I didn't get much farther than that - those syringe bullets are punishing. Great job overall though - I'd play a lot more of this if I weren't dying constantly :) |
| Dec 8 03:17:28 | 16m 13s | GrowboRally | ♥ 0 | This is a ton of fun! It's a great new take on a classic - the strategy is really engaging. Excellent art and music too. I'd love to keep playing this - y'all should port it to mobile! |
| Dec 8 03:45:03 | 27m 35s | Where The Grains Are | ♥ 1 | Stunningly pretty art - nice work! |
| Dec 9 02:13:43 | 22h 28m | EAT | ♥ 1 | Wow, the art is outstanding - I love the look of your character and of the buildings in the background, they make me think of carved rocks covered in bioluminescent algae. The gameplay is a little flat as others mentioned - being able to move in two dimensions rather than one might help, or a way of eating people beyond just running over them. Overall, though, nice work! |
| Dec 9 03:35:53 | 1h 22m | Space Suckers | ♥ 1 | This is great! Really unique art style, simple but challenging gameplay. Nice work. |
| Dec 9 03:41:59 | 6m 06s | Games Games Games | ♥ 1 | This is intense - really clever take on the theme. The transitions are well done too. Nice job! |
| Dec 9 03:49:55 | 7m 56s | Catch the Bag | ♥ 0 | Superb artwork - it looks amazing. The movement does feel pretty rough, though - I only ever managed to get two of them on the first level and it was mostly because I got stuck whenever I tried to jump :( |
| Dec 9 23:44:25 | 19h 54m | The Tulpa | ♥ 0 | The art is really impressive and I like the idea, but I can't even get out of the first room - I see the sparkles on the thing on the floor, but nothing I do - hit E, click, hit other keys at random - makes anything happen. From the screenshots it looks like there's some really cool stuff to see, but I can't get to it. :( I've tried it on Safari on macOS, and Chrome and the EXE version on Windows... no luck at all. |
| Dec 10 01:54:27 | 2h 10m | Needy Greedy Pirates | ♥ 0 | This is fun, and the art's really charming. It would've been nice to have some way to recover health, but it works well as-is. Great job! |
| Dec 10 02:02:28 | 8m 01s | Shapes Are Mean | ♥ 1 | Wow, this is superb! Totally unique gameplay and very well communicated - I knew exactly what I had to do after going through the tutorial, I just had very little chance of successfully doing it. Groovy music too. Fantastic work! |
| Dec 10 20:54:01 | 18h 51m | Project Vamparty | ♥ 2 | This is fun! Great music and art, and the gameplay’s challenging (albeit a little unfair for some start scenarios, as others have mentioned); it was really satisfying to finally turn the tables on the vampire hunters. Nice job! |
| Dec 10 21:19:06 | 25m 05s | Doug Bones and the Cursed Lava Lamps | ♥ 0 | There’s some clever ideas in here - I was impressed with the variety of the curses I ended up with over time. Unfortunately I had the same issue LeReveur did, not being able to get onto the upper platform on the second level—I don’t know if I missed something or what, but if there’s some trick to getting a higher jump it’d be nice for it to be a bit more obvious. |
| Dec 10 22:14:00 | 54m 54s | Kinball | ♥ 2 | This is fantastic. Incredibly well put together - good level design and superb music. Great job! |
| Dec 10 22:26:29 | 12m 29s | Keyboard Kitten | ♥ 0 | This is clever! The puzzles get tricky fast - I got stuck in level 6. Cute art and pleasant music too. Nice work! |
| Dec 10 22:35:09 | 8m 40s | Reyerta | ♥ 0 | This is neat - as others've mentioned it could use a bit more depth, but it's a kind of simple, pleasant, meditative experience. The artwork is really charming too. Well done! |
| Dec 10 22:38:54 | 3m 45s | Escape from the "Capitalism" | ♥ 1 | This is weird and really clever - I don't think I've ever seen a movement mechanic like this before. The vaporwave look is pretty great too. Excellent work! |
| Dec 10 22:44:45 | 5m 51s | Eat, Love, Prey | ♥ 2 | Simple but fun - the music and sound effects are really well done. Clever writing, too - I grinned at the "let's wolf" / "how to wolf" buttons on the menu screen. Nice work. |
| Dec 16 03:04:27 | 124h 19m | DaisyChain Galaxy | ♥ 1 | Whoa, this is fantastic! I love the art style, the sounds and music, the novel and challenging gameplay... absolutely top-notch. Great job! |
| Dec 16 22:09:15 | 19h 04m | Crimsonite | ♥ 0 | Wow, the art in this is really cool - the animated voxel style is nifty, and the color palette is neat too. Gameplay's decent, though it could use some tuning - it was clear from the beginning I had no chance of winning against the mob chasing me. Nice work! |
| Dec 16 22:17:51 | 8m 36s | escape🥚hatch | ♥ 1 | I'm really glad I stumbled across this - it's a ton of fun. Good puzzle design, great music and art. Nice work! |
| Dec 21 06:04:00 | 103h 46m | The Sun Revolves Around ME! | ♥ 2 | This is a super innovative mechanic. Great artwork too. Even without reading your comments I was able to figure out how to play by trial and error. Nice job! |