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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | randomhuman's comment | |
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| Dec 5 13:09:07 | Shoot off their lumps | ♥ 0 | Wow, very visually impressive and moody, and I love the intense, sparring combat. I would prefer to restart somewhat after the introductory scene when I die though. | |
| Dec 5 14:36:43 | 1h 27m | Spring Clean – DO NOT CROSS | ♥ 1 | That sure becomes challenging after the first couple of levels! Fun though. The only thing I would like is that the roomba be a bit better at finding the dirt in whatever area it is in - not authentic roomba behaviour, perhaps, but a bit less frustrating. |
| Dec 5 15:16:58 | 40m 15s | 72CoCSD | ♥ 1 | That's so fun, I love the faithful recreation of the WinXP interface, and it works just realistically enough. Challenging gameplay, lots of fun little jokes, great stuff! |
| Dec 5 20:00:23 | 4h 43m | Cute Cats Daily | ♥ 0 | Amazing how quickly my existence became focused solely on feeding cats and cleaning up their shit! There's a valuable lesson about pet ownership in that I feel. I think I will take it a bit slower on my next playthrough. I love the art and the concept, but I did not like the audio so much, it was a bit grating. Good game overall though! |
| Dec 5 20:21:45 | 21m 22s | Babies! Babies! Babies! | ♥ 2 | This is surreal and creepy and horrifying and absurd, and I love it. You guys are really taking it to the next level. |
| Dec 5 20:48:20 | 26m 35s | Warehouse Panic | ♥ 1 | Gorgeous! I had a bit of trouble with picking up boxes - I see other people mentioning that you have to walk at them when pressing the pickup control, but I was doing that and it was not really working effectively. It was also way too hard for me because it is basically a memory game and mine is terrible :P But that's a me problem... I guess the main thing I want to say is that I love the art. |
| Dec 5 21:26:44 | 38m 24s | Curse of Greed | ♥ 0 | I was already blown away by this game, and then I realised that as well as modifying the health bar, the character was also becoming more golden the more coins I collected! Just an astonishing degree of style and polish. Probably the best interpretation of the theme I've seen so far. The only thing I didn't like was the wall jump - I think the problem was having to press into the wall to do one, rather than just being in contact with it. |
| Dec 6 19:15:09 | 21h 48m | Xmas Fair Drinking Simulator | ♥ 1 | That's a really gorgeous look, and you've really captured a christmassy feel! The music is great but it could do with some audio besides the music, in particular maybe some feedback on whether you've drunk an alcoholic drink or a non-alcoholic one. |
| Dec 6 19:28:14 | 13m 05s | Mushroom Délicieux | ♥ 1 | Pretty wild ride! I love the manic graphics and how it becomes more intense with each level. Could do with removing whatever those blue blobs are that do nothing, they are a distraction that I don't think add to the game. Very fun game though, and looks and sounds great :) |
| Dec 6 19:52:34 | 24m 20s | A Short Story | ♥ 1 | Really beautiful and evocative art and music, and a well told story. I think I found the stuff out of order but it didn't really detract too much or anything. |
| Dec 6 20:09:51 | 17m 17s | Save your diamond factory | ♥ 1 | Very fun. It's well balanced in such a way that you can only decrease the difficulty very temporarily, and I like that you can invest in the next round, very enticing! A bit quiet though. |
| Dec 6 20:37:08 | 27m 17s | Extreme Whiski Slalom | ♥ 1 | Woo! Really fun, and the impairment is very effective! SFX are very fun. Only problem is that when you hit something you usually respawn right behind it again and it is hard to avoid. |
| Dec 6 20:47:52 | 10m 44s | The Carrier | ♥ 2 | Great aesthetic and music. Tough gameplay - maybe a little too tough to start out with - but it is compelling and quite addictive. |
| Dec 6 21:21:34 | 33m 42s | OVERWHELM | ♥ 1 | This is so stylish and polished, I am in awe. Every movement is juicy and satisfying, and the art is gorgeous in its minimalism. The intro to the game and the tutorial aspects are also great touches. There's nothing quite like a long suspenseful intro to a game! However, having to go through it every time you die, when it is so easy to die, makes replays a bit off-putting. Overall a very impressive game, especially for the compo, well done. |
| Dec 6 21:41:14 | 19m 40s | Substance | ♥ 1 | Really fun, but I'm not sure there's anything to keep me in the arena rather than just collecting a few coins and then depositing them. Similarly, the wheelbarrow didn't add much for me. |
| Dec 6 23:42:35 | 2h 01m | Oh no! Humans! | ♥ 0 | Cute art! I felt really sorry for mars :( It's fun in a way, but failure seems inevitable. Nice sfx and music as well. |
| Dec 6 23:48:52 | 6m 17s | IntenSEAty | ♥ 4 | I love the graphics, especially the backgrounds. It seems like a strange choice to make the difficulty increase dependent on random interactions with the UI, but the way you presented the credits was very clever! |
| Dec 7 12:52:11 | 13h 03m | Cursest Dungeon | ♥ 2 | The art and animation are great, and I like the sound too. The mechanism you have for increasing the difficulty is very clever, and fits the theme well. However, the rope climbing is really janky, and that did not jive well with the orientation and the other controls shifting around and stuff. |
| Dec 7 13:01:23 | 9m 12s | ParanoWeed | ♥ 0 | Nice idea, I love the visuals after you collect the weed. |
| Dec 7 18:38:34 | 5h 37m | Cursed | ♥ 0 | Wow, that is just gorgeous. The rolling up the walls is a strange mechanic but surprisingly effective! Unfortunately the AI opponent was absolutely hopeless, so I'm not sure I really got a good sense of what the game would be like with multiple players. |
| Dec 7 21:06:20 | 2h 27m | Delver's Sunset | ♥ 1 | A really clever concept. Deceptively simple at first, it is just a treat to see what new twist is going to be thrown at you next. I made it to myopia. |
| Dec 7 21:28:43 | 22m 23s | Usagi Story | ♥ 1 | Kinda relaxing until the last few days really, I like it. I especially like the little bunny animations. The only thing that's missing is a few more sounds and some twee music. |
| Dec 7 23:31:51 | 2h 03m | Ignite | ♥ 2 | Great aesthetic and atmosphere. My mouse cursor didn't show up properly though which made it a bit tough to play. As with another commenter above, I am on a mac. |
| Dec 7 23:47:02 | 15m 11s | StackUp | ♥ 2 | The physics are a bit jiggly and chaotic to feel like you are ever intentionally making progress, but the graphics are great and the overall aesthetic and concept are really cute. It might be better to have the pieces lock into place so you are building a sort of ad-hoc platformer that you have to navigate as you build it. |
| Dec 8 17:02:33 | 17h 15m | Dead End Office | ♥ 0 | The controls are a bit hard to get used to, but once you do this is a really fun game with a great look and a great sense of humour. |
| Dec 8 17:14:58 | 12m 25s | Rokku Bando | ♥ 2 | I really suck at rhythm games, but I enjoyed this anyway, it's got a great look and a great sound, and I liked the build up. |
| Dec 8 23:32:34 | 6h 17m | unrogue | ♥ 1 | Really well put together. I usually find pico-8 games a bit overpowering visually, and this game really shows what can be done with the palette when the brighter colours are used a bit more sparingly. |
| Dec 8 23:50:34 | 18m 00s | Orbits | ♥ 1 | That's really fun and addictive. I love gravity simulations in general, but I don't think I've ever seen one put to such a fun purpose before! The graphics are simple but really stylish, especially the shadows, and I love the music. |
| Dec 9 15:32:19 | 15h 41m | Radical Relocation | ♥ 1 | Congratulations on publishing your first game! It is really impressive looking, especially with that hectic day/night cycle, and the gameplay is solid and challenging. I would go with an alternative control for rotating the camera in edit mode - right or middle mouse click maybe, but that is just a minor thing. Really well done overall. |
| Dec 9 21:16:17 | 5h 43m | SUPER COP HERO | ♥ 1 | Really great! I love the concept and the art, probably one of the best takes on the theme I have seen so far. Quite punishing on hard though, easy-peasy is definitely the play mode for me! |
| Dec 9 21:52:38 | 36m 21s | Life & Debt: A Real Life Simulator | ♥ 2 | There's some good jokes in here, but also quite a bit of waiting around to get to them. But of course, this creates impatience which encourages you to buy things on credit, and that sort of plays well with the moral of the story doesn't it? I wished there was some way to identify the things I had already bought after the fact. |
| Dec 9 22:28:37 | 35m 59s | Skulls n' Ladders | ♥ 0 | The art is gorgeous - I love the minimal palette, character art, and decorative features. The gameplay is really fun and addictive. I didn't make it to the top, but I was always eager for just one more go - I'd be playing this all night if there weren't so many other games to get to! The only thing I didn't like was the music, purely because it is too repetitive. |
| Dec 9 22:42:33 | 13m 56s | Bot Fishing | ♥ 1 | I like the idea, and it was fun and relaxing at first, but after my first upgrade I couldn't find enough fish to justify the larger boat. More fish or some way of finding them more reliably would make this a pretty cool game. Also sound. |
| Dec 9 22:47:13 | 4m 40s | Money transporter | ♥ 2 | I was a bit confused by being pursued and robbed when I had no money on the truck, but once I accepted that, this was a fun game. Some sound would add a lot though. |
| Dec 9 23:13:16 | 26m 03s | Cat Clicker | ♥ 0 | Even with a tutorial I didn't really understand everything that happened, but I made it to the end with no dead cats, and I had fun getting there. The kitties are cute and the sound is great. |
| Dec 10 00:09:45 | 56m 29s | Matchy's Kooky Cookies | ♥ 2 | Very fun art style! I loved the attention to detail with having different expressions on the banditos! It's a shame you are not allowing ratings on that :( The gameplay is definitely lacking something. I've nothing against lots of clicking, but I think it needs some variety - occasional opportunities to clear the wave in a click, power ups to increase your area of effect or change the mode of play, things like that. Also, more immediate and rewarding feedback for successfully cleared banditos would probably help the game feel better - currently they just disappear... Congratulations on completing your first LD! |
| Dec 10 00:33:52 | 24m 07s | I took too many drugs | ♥ 1 | That's a wild ride. I guess some of the effects are a bit too aggressive though, because two of the pills I couldn't click on after taking all the others. Fun concept though, great graphics, great soundtrack contributing to a really effective mood. |
| Dec 10 13:27:04 | 12h 53m | Space Crash | ♥ 1 | Congratulations on your first game and first LD! This is a solid entry, great concept and good gameplay. The music is really cool and varied - I would like to hear a lot more of it - but it doesn't quite seem to loop correctly. My only other criticism is that it could use more visual effects such as when enemies (or the player) are destroyed, or even when the enemies get stuck to the player. Good game overall though, well done :) |
| Dec 12 23:04:24 | 57h 37m | POKED - be social | ♥ 2 | That's a lot of fun, the art and animations are really amazing, and I'm impressed you were able to put together so many little scenes for the endings. There's not a lot of audio, but what is there is just right and really adds to the game. My only criticism is that the buttons on the alarm dialogs do not work properly - you have to click on the text instead of the button. But that's only a very minor thing. Great game, well done! |
| Dec 13 11:41:02 | 12h 36m | Crowd Control | ♥ 1 | Tough game, but addictive! It would be really cool with some appropriate artwork for the crowd and the scene, but I can't fault the gameplay or the concept aside from the difficulty. On the issue of the difficulty, maybe having some way to recover from being hit or even to intercept shots before they reach the mayor would be good ways of reducing it while also introducing new ways of interacting with the game. Very well done overall! |
| Dec 13 14:03:44 | 2h 22m | Please Come In | ♥ 1 | This is definitely an interesting concept and a promising start, but unfortunately the content just sort of peters out when Chris shows up and before there is any real gameplay. I would like to play it again if it is ever completed. I love the little pixel art portraits as well, they add a nice bit of flavour :) |
| Dec 13 14:25:00 | 21m 16s | Poser | ♥ 1 | Great idea, but a bit boring after a while. I didn't find it much of a challenge to avoid the cliques that I was not currently posing as, and I think what this game needs is for it to be almost inevitable for there to be some loss of reputation now and again, otherwise you can just do one group, then the next, and so on. I think it needs to be more of a balancing act. I don't really have any suggestions for how to achieve that though. I liked the different mechanics per clique and especially the change in the music, very fun ideas. |
| Dec 13 14:55:32 | 30m 32s | Stealy | ♥ 2 | The animations and other art in this are really great and the cutscenes especially make it feel really polished. The game loop is good, but starts to feel a bit grindy after a while, I think because there are not that many places to explore or higher rewards being dangled in front of you. There isn't really even any incentive to explore around the mansion because there's so much stuff between the start point and the exit, and for a similar reason I'm not sure why I would bother with the maze. The music is good as long as you don't spend too much time shopping :P Overall, a very promising game. |
| Dec 13 22:49:10 | 7h 53m | Sushi Factory Frenzy! | ♥ 1 | Nice balancing act game, but I think a little unfair - I think a game like this should cheat a little to ensure that the orders are actually fulfillable. I think I would prefer purely mouse driven gameplay as well - there is plenty to think about between watching the orders, what is coming through on the belt, and what you have already dished up, without also having to worry about where you are and what you are picking up (or not). But maybe that is just me! |
| Dec 13 23:01:30 | 12m 20s | Overdose | ♥ 0 | I wasn't reeeeally sure what was causing the heartbeat to go up (or not). Is it just when enemies remain alive for too long? I just kept mowing them down anyway and beat it on my second try. Nice little shooter! |
| Dec 13 23:20:27 | 18m 57s | Trip to the Earth | ♥ 4 | Interesting alternative to shooting things up! Nice little story with some great humour, and the soundtrack and mood are amazing, well done. |
| Dec 13 23:34:51 | 14m 24s | Western Hero | ♥ 1 | I really like the story and the way everything drops from the sky, in fact the whole aesthetic is really great. I like that the gameplay involves such careful dodging and aiming, it adds a bit of interest beyond most similar shooters. I experienced a bit of lag as more stuff was added in later waves, but other than that I really can't fault this game, it is great! |
| Dec 13 23:46:15 | 11m 24s | Slightly annoying traffic | ♥ 1 | A really interesting idea, and well executed, but the real appeal of this game to me are the gorgeous low-poly graphics and just perfect traffic themed music. |
| Dec 13 23:52:29 | 6m 14s | Cardhoard | ♥ 1 | Ooh yeah, that's really satisfying once you get the hang of it! The K key feels a touch unresponsive, but other than that this is a really simple and innovative concept well executed, and it looks and sounds gorgeous. |
| Dec 14 00:25:41 | 33m 12s | Drift Punk | ♥ 0 | Wow, the art and music in this game are amazingly cohesive and well polished. I'm even more impressed by how large and alive the city feels. I couldn't really get the hang of the controls, personally - the bike just seemed to turn too much, and I couldn't get the fine control I needed to precisely avoid obstacles. Maybe I should try it with a controller tomorrow... Anyway, really well put together, definitely one of the best I've played this jam! |
| Dec 14 00:47:48 | 22m 07s | A Platformer for Ants | ♥ 1 | Very interesting idea, and a nice length for a jam game too. It's a shame you didn't do the character art - I really enjoyed the rest of the art and now I'm not sure if I should give a graphics rating or not. The double-jump from the post-mortem version does feel better than the original. Good game overall, very clever. |
| Dec 14 00:55:36 | 7m 48s | CalligraTree | ♥ 2 | Very pretty and relaxing, I love the ink on paper look. I'm going to echo what a lot of others have said and point out that it doesn't really fit the theme - if anything the more you have the better it is :) A really nice experience regardless. |
| Dec 14 11:22:55 | 10h 27m | Be Yourself | ♥ 1 | Fun when you into a good rhythm, punishing if you accidentally get slimes blocking the holes! I like the message a lot, as well as the art and overall style of the game, especially the custom characters. |
| Dec 14 12:37:31 | 1h 14m | The lost strawberry | ♥ 1 | I really like it, probably my favourite I've played. I love the minimalist graphics and the mood you've created with the pixel noise in the wind and the flappy insects. The music fits perfectly. There's a good range of mechanics and they are introduced at an appropriate pace. Obviously, the game is hard to read, but I think that is rather the point, and is a novel mechanic in itself. |
| Dec 14 16:49:55 | 4h 12m | Snake Force | ♥ 0 | Really clever yet simple concept. Reminded me of cannon fodder a bit, but with friendly fire! It's easy to cheat though - I beat the last mission by commandoing around on my own and then collecting the bros later. Some solution to that problem would be required in order to take the game further I think. The art is really great - so chunky and fun! |
| Dec 14 22:18:06 | 5h 28m | Video Games | ♥ 1 | Really well done, so meta :) The graphics are simple, but effective - honestly any additional complexity to them would just have been distracting. The gameplay is challenging and innovative, but has a really well balanced difficulty curve. The tutorial is a great touch of polish. A big mistake I made was in thinking that the movement direction game required me to to remain moving in the indicated direction, but after watching your video I see that you only have to give it a little nudge, so I guess I will have to go give it another go now! |
| Dec 14 22:27:19 | 9m 13s | Micro Trooper | ♥ 1 | Very solid and satisfying action, this game feels incredibly polished, and looks and sounds great. The gameplay is not incredibly compelling, but it is impressive that you were able to pull it off after abandoning an earlier idea, and it is still fun. |
| Dec 19 14:52:30 | 112h 25m | Bug Juice 🐜 | ♥ 1 | The wall jump mechanic seemed very strange to me, and I think the game could have done without the death drop, because at times it was hard to tell if I was jumping down to platforms I couldn't see or if I was going to fall to my death. Other than that though this is a solid platformer with an interesting take on the theme. I really like some of the environment art details, like the human junk scattered around. |
| Dec 28 16:34:22 | 217h 41m | Rude Bear Rabble | ♥ 1 | Fun concept! I was a bear and I'm not sure if there were any birds around, but I think I messed things up for other people a few times by accident :P I really like the idea of some players subtly undermining the others. It might be a bit too easy to do for a few of the challenges though, and just lead to a stalemate. I really like the colourful art as well, very nice. There were a few bugs, but hard to avoid that when putting together an online multiplayer game in a few days I'd imagine! |