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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | Papaver's comment | |
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| May 1 20:13:22 | Sand and Blood | ♥ 1 | Congrats on finishing a game in 2 days! Nice graphics. I had troubles finding out how to attack enemies. It didn't seem consistent. I ended up avoiding enemies by zigzagging through the desert. I found 2 hearts and then traded blood for a new weapon (though I didn't see my blood level go down). It appeared that the enemies didn't move anymore after that? The space was too big, and I gave up after my third heart. | |
| May 7 14:19:20 | 138h 05m | Blood Chest | ♥ 1 | Awesome game! I like the graphics, with the chest going from cute 👼 to angry 😠. I love the music. Some more variations in the sound effects would have been nice. Good that you added a tutorial. On my first play, one enemy got stuck outside the octogonal playfield. I often lost my cursor in the heat of the moment, so maybe a bigger and brighter cursor would help. I think it would be fun to play on a touch device! I didn't use WASD that much. I found it funny to notice that I could move myself faster by pushing myself with an enemy in my tongue than that I could walk. The tongue was sometimes a bit slow, or maybe I was too impatient too move on to the next enemy. I enjoyed playing bowling with the enemies. 🎳 Somehow I managed to got to the final wave after a few tries, but didn't survive that wave. In the gameover screen it would be nice to see how far I got (possibly with some other fun statistics). Congrats 😄 |
| May 7 22:13:32 | 7h 54m | Timing of Ignatius | ♥ 2 | Wow, that was frantic. The music adds to this frantic mood, although it's quite repetitive. Everything seemed to work well. I like how the timers on the enemies work, very clever. I enjoyed playing, and played several times. I was not very good at it, and only got till stage 8. After a while, my arms hurt too much to play again all the way from the start. I sometimes had the problem of running into enemies and osbtacles in a new level, losing much time at the start of a level. Congrats on your first (game jam) game! 😄 |
| May 12 20:43:28 | 118h 29m | SPENDOTRON: 2019 | ♥ 1 | Awesome game! Addictive. :) The game runs smoothly, and I like the flashy but clean graphics. My highscore is 5.31, at the moment. ;) I wasn't really aware of how much momey I still had while playing, so sometimes I was waiting to respawn, but that never happened because apparently I ran out of money without noticing. 😝 A new level/wave was mainly hard at the beginning, finding a way to escape. |
| May 12 21:54:59 | 1h 11m | Chains & Ore | ♥ 1 | Congrats on making this nice game in one weekend! Nice graphics, story and cut scenes. I enjoyed playing it, but sometimes I got stuck. I once got myself stuck under an elevator. In the tutorial level (very good that you have one!), I got stuck at the first lever for way too long, since I assumed up&down (W&S) would move the elevator... I should read more carefully. 😛 It would have been nice to have some visual feedback that you are holding the lever. Also, somehow I didn't get that I had to hold E in order to mine (in stead of pressing E many times shortly), so that took a while as well. It's a cool mix of adventure and puzzling. Very well done! |
| May 13 21:50:29 | 23h 55m | Piggy Bank | ♥ 1 | Cute little game! It's good that you added some explanation in the beginning, but I was a bit annoyed that I had to click "Skip Intro" every time I tried again (I tried many times, but I wasn't very good at it 😝). I found it really hard, and I don't think I even got half way... In my experience, the enemies were too fast, and with too many. I couldn't really handle more than one at a time since I couldn't move or shoot fast enough, and often I encountered 5 or more enemies at once. I think I would have liked it better if the movement would have been with keyboard and the shooting with the mouse, because sometimes I wanted to walk in a different direction than that I wanted to shoot. The graphics are ok, but they all seem to be different styles. Did you make them yourself? Overall, well done. :) |
| May 13 22:10:54 | 20m 25s | Piggy the Bank | ♥ 2 | Nice game! I liked the graphics and the idea of the hammer chasing the piggy bank. As others said, I seemed to be able to play forever, as long as I didn't collect too many coins. Getting stuck also didn't prove to be that much of a problem, the hammer didn't catch up very fast. When I finally decided to give up, I expected a little bit more of the hammer smashing the piggy bank. ;) The music was repetitive, but that didn't bother me too much. I liked how the jump/fall sound and the music sounded together. When I clicked the Controls button on the right, I was a bit surprised and thought for a moment that it was a 2-player game (that someone would have to move the hammer). Overall, well done! 🐷 |
| May 14 21:43:11 | 23h 32m | Perfect Date | ♥ 1 | That was an experience! Awesome art. I enjoyed finding many different endings. The menu was funny, but also confusing. I spent quite some time in the menus before playing the actual game. ;) |
| May 17 07:56:46 | 58h 13m | Ludum Meta | ♥ 0 | Nice meta idea. I played many times, and completed a game twice, but I didn't really know how I did it. I didn't understand the mechanics behind the buttons or the progress bar. Is it about the ratio between work and life hours? Is it a realtime thing, or can you just enter two numbers and wait for it to finish the game? Why does the time bar start half way? I didn't find a way to fill it up. After I allocated 48 hours, and unassigned some hours, the assign hours buttons didn't work anymore. I like the art. :) |
| May 17 12:56:09 | 4h 59m | Billr | ♥ 1 | Interesting game. I enjoyed looking at the real or fake bills, exploring the different artwork. After a while though, this job got quite repetitive, and I started spamming the buttons, since there was no penalty for chosing the wrong option. The prices of the different bills seemed too random, sometimes a H5 was more expensive than a H100 bill. I completed my collection, and expected some kind of winning condition. Congrats on your game! |
| May 18 22:50:19 | 33h 54m | Coin Coin ! | ♥ 0 | Awesome game! I love the music and how the game looks. I really like the curves! I wonder how you make/generate them. I was a bit confused by the rules in the beginning, because some of the coin traps look like positive things to me. Some of the coin taps were unavoidable, for example if all the curves intersected exactly at the point of a coin trap. Also, if a curve has a positive slope, jumping on that curve didn't have much effect. I am not so sure how you could remedy that though. Because of the steepness of some of the curves, and because of the constant horizontal velocity, the player sometimes went superfast (vertically). Because the camera is following the player, I was sometimes surprised by incoming coin trap when I was on steep curves. It was satisfying to collect the coins. After a while I remembered that the left and right arrow could also be used. I tried to use this to my advantage, but the game is too fast for me to really do smart things with that. It is not really clear how/when coins are combined, only when they are next to each other? And you always lose the left-most one when you pick up a 6th coin? Also, there are so many different coins, that it can be quite hard to tell them apart, especially with this speed as well as their rotation speed. Perhaps it would be nice to visually show which curve the player is on, by highlighting this curve. Overall, very good job! Congrats! 😄 |
| May 21 11:36:40 | 60h 46m | Elevator Pitch | ♥ 0 | Short but sweet! Great mood. I really like the background story and how the text is displayed and the variation in beeps that go along with it (which makes it sound like talking). I also enjoyed the other sound effects, the different cool musics and the graphics, especially in the cubicle scene. I wanted to play more levels, but since they were not there I restarted the game. Then I found the intro was a bit too long and I missed an option to skip the text. :P It was very much fun to destroy stuff. I wasn't sure how the throw mechanics exactly worked, it was a bit hard to aim. Nevertheless, it was easy to win by just smashing my keys. ;) Overall, awesome game! 😄 |
| May 22 21:22:19 | 33h 45m | Coin-Op Kid | ♥ 0 | Awesome game! Well executed. Congrats! |