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Dec 4 17:50:00 Earl's Quest ♥ 3 Fun little game! I'm a huge fan of retro consoles (my entry is actually an NES game!) so it caught my eye. The coin idea was really cool and I think you executed it well. Your graphics were also pretty spot on, as was the music. I got a real strong Link's Awakening vibe from it. The collisions are a bit off, (as others have noted) but it doesn't really detract from gameplay that much from what I saw. If I had to give one piece of constructive feedback, I'd say the world felt a little big for how slow the player moves at start. Getting back to a dungeon after dying felt like an arduous task. Fun entry; thanks for sharing!
Dec 4 18:08:52 18m 52s Squared ♥ 0 Managed to get it working - pretty fun little game given the limitations. The controls felt kinda weird, but I got used to them. M3gXmR8.png For anyone who hasn't done Amiga emulation before, here's some steps you can follow: http://www.lemonamiga.com/help/faq_emulation.php - it took maybe 10 minutes to get up and running.
Dec 4 18:35:03 26m 11s Life's A Glitch ♥ 1 Fun little game - though I think the corruptions might have an affinity for the right side of the screen. I stayed left and avoided most boxes at the beginning and managed to survive 3+ minutes without too much trouble. (The timer also breaks if you get past a minute :)) I really liked the music and graphics in your entry. Thanks for a fun game 2017-12-04 13_31_32-Life's A Glitch by Gamepopper.png
Dec 4 18:44:21 9m 18s Don't get drunk ♥ 0 Windows build worked for me - this is so simple and fun; I loved it! The drunk mechanics were fun to play with (I got my character blasted and still managed to get to about 30) One nitpick - it'd be nice if the restart key weren't the same as the jump key - I missed my score a few times because I was trying to do that last jump and missed. Great entry; thanks for sharing! 2017-12-04 13_41_48-ParkourGame.png
Dec 4 19:26:41 42m 20s Bring Your Own Bullets ♥ 1 I had a lot of fun with this! As you stated the game's a little unclear unless you read the game's page. (I did, so I was fine :p) I managed to get pretty far along. The mini game really made this entry for me. It's something I haven't seen before, which is always welcome! Thanks for a fun game. 2017-12-04 14_24_18-readme.txt - Notepad.png
Dec 4 19:44:27 17m 46s Power Cells ♥ 1 Fun little game - quick note, the web version doesn't seem to capture the mouse pointer so it's a little bit hard to control. The Windows version worked without a hitch though. I was able to get through it. Worth noting - the door/wall in the starting area isn't solid; you can walk through it then fall through the world forever. Had to restart the game after doing that one.
Dec 4 20:06:56 22m 29s Being Plundered ♥ 1 Fun game - I got so close to winning but the pirates overwhelmed me. (97k and 1 asteroid very close to base) Liked the music and graphics quite a bit. Thanks for a fun game.
Dec 4 20:15:42 8m 46s Fireboy ♥ 0 I like it! The gameboy asthetic hit well - it's simple but works well for the game. (Though, I almost wanted to think of it more as a game-and-watch type game) I tend to build and be drawn towards that style, so that gets points from me. Didn't record my high score, sorry! :( I did have a little trouble determining which platforms were fire vs water - I had them backwards for my first play! Once I had it figured out it wasn't bad though. Thanks for a fun game!
Dec 4 20:23:38 7m 56s Sugar Addiction ♥ 1 Pretty fun game - the main character is adorable and I got drawn in by that.
Dec 4 20:28:20 4m 42s Office Escape ♥ 1 Short little game, but quite funny.
Dec 4 20:40:37 12m 17s Let's mix some drinks! ♥ 1 Fun game - I really liked the slow distortion of the game's appearance and sound. I managed to do alright. 2017-12-04 15_37_55-Let's mix some drinks!.png
Dec 4 20:45:11 4m 34s Ninjewels! ♥ 1 I'll agree with other comments that it was very easy - but I really loved the graphics. I didn't really have trouble seeing anything, though I'll admit I blew by most of the cannons without them getting a chance to aim at me. Fun game; thanks for submitting it.
Dec 4 21:23:24 38m 13s Temples of Purgatory ♥ 1 Managed to beat this one - the last few gems were in a sneaky spot, but I guess it's natural I'd want to check there first. I was panicking over where I could have left something behind. The graphics are great for the era you seem to be going for, and the sound's pretty nice too. I have similar nitpicks to a few other folks, in that movement was a little hard to work with. I think if you had added strafing it would have made a huge difference. Also, I was able to use my sword to tap buttons through some barriers, and sequence break a little. I was a little sad that there wasn't an end screen - the game just starts over. Still, super solid entry; thanks for making it!
Dec 4 21:25:07 1m 43s BulletCoin ♥ 1 Cookie clicker mixed with bullet hell - never seen that before. This played really well for what it was; I really liked it! I did have the same bug as Thomas Molby described above at one point, which was a little bit frustrating. Seriously though, well done, especially with the limited time you described having.
Dec 4 21:39:15 14m 08s I'm tired of all your stuff ♥ 1 Quirky fun little game - the voiceovers did make it pretty funny. (Though, the distortion on the voice sometimes got hard to understand.) I managed to get 7th on the leaderboards for a bit (used name "throwitall") I threw the phone in too; oops
Dec 5 00:12:01 2h 32m Delver's Sunset ♥ 1 Very cool idea - I'll admit I found the blindness levels impossible and quit early. (I even opened the game in a tab and tried to get it down, but couldn't get past the first level, so I had to give in. Well done.
Dec 5 23:45:36 23h 33m Enchain ♥ 1 Cool engine and fun little game - very reminiscent of shooting games from decades past. However, I may have run into a bug - after getting the green skulls and using the green pad to open a green path, (near the blue one that said "two blue skulls are elsewhere") I used the warp point and died while getting the blue skulls. I succeeded on my second attempt, but the green path had disappeared and I seemed to be stuck. There may have been another path around, but I looked for a little while and didn't find one. Still a cool game, at any rate. Well done.
Dec 6 00:05:00 19m 24s #realfeel ♥ 1 Quick, interesting little game. You did built a pretty interesting atmosphere with the simple music, then the sounds. Thanks for sharing.
Dec 6 00:18:30 13m 30s Cute invaders ♥ 2 Fun little game - I liked the music and sound. I only skimmed the text at first and was surprised when I couldn't lose or get a score, but you kinda already said that, soo, not really an issue. I kept it going a couple minutes. Thanks for sharing!
Dec 6 00:27:54 9m 24s Rhythm Bandit ♥ 1 I really liked where this game was going, though I'll admit I didn't make it to the end. Not really much that hasn't been said - the sound is pretty awesome as others have mentioned. The floor tiles were a little distracting but I could work with it. Don't really tend to see rhythm games in LD, so that was cool. Thanks for sharing!
Dec 6 00:40:56 13m 02s Pirate Cat ♥ 1 Pirate cat in a hot air baloon with more cat pirates trying to take your cat treasure. Who would have thunk it? This is amazing/hilarious. Thanks for sharing. I managed to get a pretty good score my third run: 2017-12-05 19_39_30-CatAirBalloon (64-bit, PCD3D_SM5).png
Dec 6 03:47:22 3h 06m Herd the Sheep ♥ 0 Nice game! I haven't played a terminal-text based game like that in a very long time. (I made a tiny mario-like sidescroller in the same style when I was in college; this reminded me of that) Thanks for sharing!
Dec 6 04:19:18 31m 56s Catamari ♥ 0 Of all the ways I could have ended my day, I never would have guessed I'd end up making futile attempts at making a cat faceplant onto a sausage, but such is life. Quirky little game - I found 8 of the 10 myself. Quite fun! (Also, I was surprised the music wasn't just someone going "na naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa nanana na na na na this isn't katamari" (But the included music wasn't bad)
Dec 7 23:15:45 42h 56m super rush boyy ♥ 0 Well done - really liked this game - particularly the in-game music. I'm always a fan of simple graphics/gameplay and you made it fun. (Though I'm guessing that's more a consequence of the pico-8 target!)
Dec 8 00:03:37 47m 52s Alchegator ♥ 1 Nice little puzzle game - the combining items mechanic was clever and not something you see often. It took me a little while to realize that there were multiple ways to work with what I started with (game jam games often really only have one path; it's not a bad thing, just not what I expected!) Thanks for an interesting game!
Dec 8 00:10:22 6m 45s Piggle Puzzle ♥ 0 Cute little puzzler - thanks for sharing!
Dec 8 00:23:03 12m 41s Sally's Dark Adventure ♥ 1 What on earth did I just play? :D Odd little game, but quite fun! I will say it felt a little easy, (the mother fight I just strafed backwards and hit cookie until it ended) but still, not a bad entry at all. Thanks for making it!
Dec 8 00:39:30 16m 27s Orbits ♥ 3 I like it! I didn't manage to get very far (legitimately, read on 😀) - I think I only got 3 or 4, but the mechanics were really well thought out. The collisions thing with the slowdown really felt natural, and with a little more drive I could have probably gotten a higher score. Of course, you included a feature you called buggy. I couldn't resist playing with it a bit, and, well... 2017-12-07 19_33_27-Orbits.png I got 104! Totally legit honest! 😅 Okay, so really what I did was die once, then hold right click while spawning as many planets as I could. For some reason it counted a lot of them as having orbited (probably because they did) bouncing off of me with my short burst of invincibility. Got a kick out of that. Really fun game all around; well done! **Update**: I managed to safe a gif; it's pretty entertaining. Too big for the LD site though; it's here if you want to see it : https://imgur.com/a/8lssv
Dec 8 03:23:09 2h 43m MAGNETOGRABBER 2000 ♥ 1 Neat little game - I don't think I've got anything to say that hasn't already been said - the movement does feel sluggish but the idea is pretty neat and the other mechanics play well into it. Well done.
Dec 9 23:06:15 43h 43m Slightly annoying traffic ♥ 1 Neat little game - I saw on discord you might be expanding this with more vehicles and such, and getting something onto the Google play store. I think that's awesome and has a lot of potential. I managed to get 1900 points at my best. Good luck going forward with this!
Dec 10 17:48:44 18h 42m Watch Out Your Head ♥ 1 This is a hilarious little game - I think my only real frustration is that I can explode my head with zero coins by simply walking into a wall the wrong way. The head explode sound cracked me up. Great entry; thanks for sharing!
Dec 10 18:02:41 13m 57s 10 inches or less ♥ 1 Wow, lots of folks have played this already and there's not much that hasn't already been said. Incredibly good, well-polished game given the time limits. Well done!
Dec 12 00:23:11 30h 20m Money Laundering Simulator ♥ 1 Fun game - I ended playing through a couple times and getting 72nd on the high score chart. (Not amazing, but I'll take it!) Very clever interpretation of the theme. Thanks for sharing this!
Dec 15 23:45:34 95h 22m Open the Moon Gate ♥ 1 Fun little game - I managed to beat it on my second try - never used the crystal blast. (I honestly forgot it was an option) It was hard but mostly fair. The music was pretty great. I didn't find the shoot sound effect grating - perhaps a little loud as others said but it didn't really detract from the game. I did find the hitbox for the crystals (or perhaps the length of the hook vs how long it looked) a bit frustrating. It seemed like the grappling hook would sometimes hit a crystal and it wouldn't actually count. Well done overall!
Dec 16 19:29:58 19h 44m Junk ♥ 1 I don't think I've got anything to say that hasn't been said, but really clever idea. Was fun to see my (sad, out-of-practice) impact on the world. Thanks for sharing!
Dec 25 22:59:57 219h 29m Santa's Factory ♥ 2 Very cute little game, with easy to pick up rules - I like it! The graphics and music were both enjoyable. (also bonus points, I played it on Christmas since I just noticed one of you commented on my game :D) My only complaint was that it didn't capture the mouse pointer in windowed mode, so it was a little awkward to play. I still managed, and from looking at other comments it was fixed in a newer build. So, no harm done! Thanks for a fun game
Dec 29 01:01:49 74h 01m Permanence ♥ 1 This is... incredible. The fact that you pulled this off in the compo timeline blows my mind. The puzzles were the perfect level of challenging, for me. The story was... unsettling, but in a way that worked extremely well. It also linked to the gameplay mechanic really well. The theme wasn't super present, but of course it doesn't have to be. I really liked the subtle lava lamp. You absolutely earned your win; congratulations!
Dec 29 02:57:08 1h 55m Epitaph ♥ 0 I just noticed that I completely missed your comment on my game from a few weeks ago; I try to make a point to play and rate anyone who plays one of my games; I feel really bad about missing it; sorry! Just gave it a quick try now. Your art is really unique; I liked it quite a bit. The atmosphere is pretty good too. Otherwise there's not much to said that hasn't already been said. Thanks for an interesting game.