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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | automatonvx's comment | |
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| Apr 20 18:44:23 | The Adventures of Eggbert | ♥ 2 | Nice, does defintely feel pretty complete, the artwork was nice and cute, death screen especially,the music is my favourite part, had a nice fun 80s synthpop kind of a feel. The gameplay is ok in typical high score way (mine was 2100) agreed with @esben-jensen that was initially confused y the egg timer going down that i assumed was bad and i expected to have to do something with the eggs. having the progress bar going the opposite way probably would have been more expected. Tend to lose all teh hearts pretty quickly once you get hit and stuck where you are, could have done with longer invincibility or something. My strategy was to hand at the top of the screen next to a ledge, seemed basically safe there, only died when going down to get eggs. So maybe could have done with some other enemy or something later to negate that strategy, which would help the fun factor i think. Overall good job though, especiialy on the music. | |
| Apr 20 19:31:15 | 46m 52s | Bunny Plague | ♥ 1 | Really Liked the art style and music was pretty cool too, was pretty hard to aim those turnips and get them to hit.. maybe the bunnies ramp up a bit fast too. Was a bit annoying to have to refresh the browser for a retry, but nice to have gamepad support. stylish |
| Apr 20 19:41:04 | 9m 49s | Don't Lose Familiar | ♥ 1 | Took me a while to figure out what was going on how to play.. i think maybe the isometric look makes it more confusing than it needs to be. Once i figure it out it was actually pretty fun, feels like it would be better on mobile to me with the swipe mechanic, but still works well enough to get the idea... not much to say, fun little idea, liked the setting, art and music were ok and did the job. |
| Apr 20 23:15:44 | 3h 34m | Love the Baby | ♥ 2 | cute, liked the style, on my first playthrough i think my baby died but i didn't realise because rubbing still made it love me. Is there no way to get hearts back after the radio goes crazy? Anyway had fun with it, only missed more stuff to do. |
| Apr 20 23:27:39 | 11m 55s | Rampage | ♥ 2 | sweet game, liked the art style, remy was pretty cute and the random jazz band music fit pretty nicely. The gameplay was fun and actually not one i had seen before exactly, if there was any complaints I would say maybe a little lacking in challenge, I made it through all levels fairly easily without a death. Easily adjustable with the health packs counts i suppose. anyway good job, look forward to the postmortem :) p.s. the onboarding was nicely done with the notices spread out was a really nice way to set up the story and everything, and sidestep the wall of text tldr issue. |
| Apr 20 23:39:33 | 11m 54s | Medusa | ♥ 1 | That was pretty great, I'm a sucker for pico-8 style anyway but the art was really cute and I thought the mechanic was nicely done with medusa growing and shrinking. The little story, dialogues and stabiliser twist helped keep my interest till the end. Was only missing some nice little pico-8 chip tune to be basically perfect. Great job |
| Apr 21 00:45:00 | 1h 05m | Tiny Fragments | ♥ 1 | amazing job, great idea executed really nicely and really nice artwork. Only criticism was on some levels when he walks straight into spikes, with the death noise and reset gets a little bit annoying when i just want to be paused and look at the parts to work out the solution. but thats really minor. excellent work kept me interested to the end and I am not even really a fan of puzzle games generally. Weirdly the music didn't work when i played on firefox so i thought there was none, but i see there was, tried and worked ok in chrome so who knows... music was ok but the weakest part. |
| Apr 21 16:33:50 | 15h 48m | Dude Dont Die | ♥ 2 | I was initially a bit off by the mixing of different size pixel art for the walls and stuff, and the dialogue with the button labelled "button", but the basic concept for the game is solid enough and quite fun, took me a couple of tries to figure out what collectibles did what that i could return and heal the guy until found all medecines, I appreciated the randomness of the weird giant green blobs spawning mutants. So for me it just really needs a bit more focus on polish, but I liked the the theme and setting, and the balance was ok. |
| Apr 21 17:26:03 | 52m 13s | 8-Bit Soul Eater | ♥ 2 | liked the art style, cute characters and little touches like the particles. Liked the setting and the weirdly convoluted back story :). Found the combination of art and echoey SFX and weird little organ soundtrack pretty atmospheric. I felt gameplay was a bit basic but ok, felt the vines and platforms somehow didn't quite workout as a useful thing for me, maybe if i could have shot while climbing, i ended up always just sitting on the lowest level or one above that and trying to jump their shots. Would have been nice maybe if the sould had healed me or something had, so I could have had a chance to stay in the game longer, managed to make it past the first wave, little bit dissapointed that it seemed it was just more of teh same after anyway. Overall good job though as an arcadey atmospheric shooter. |
| Apr 21 19:31:17 | 2h 05m | Civilitris | ♥ 1 | pretty cool, interesting idea. It took me a while to figure out that full lines of same colour clear. I didn't understand any other rules though, at some point all my huts were suddenly on fire and i don't know why. I feel like at the moment it would be pretty difficult to keep lines in a single colour to be able to clear them and keep the game going very long. Presentation was nice simple but clear and effective and the background music was nice and fit well also. I feel like its got potential but wish i knew the rules better.... played one more time, ha i didn't see half teh quests because i was just one key for rotating so never cleared that quest.. quest should probably just be use Q OR E .. or make them separate quests.. then i was stuck on make an additional hut HOW? ..a and all my huts caught fire again :O |
| Apr 21 20:03:23 | 32m 06s | The Light Child | ♥ 1 | pretty fun, very reminscent of Don't starve, the gameplay is kind of fun but the cycling between objects to move around gts a bit annoying, the more orbs you find the more annoying it gets too, found all 4 but couldn't quite get them together before i got overwhelmed. The art style is charming in a programmer art kind of a way, might recommend that you use a smooth gradient for the light area though because the tiled effect is somehow kind of jarring when you move it around. some ominous background music or ambience would have been really nice though as i kind of feel this style of game lends itself well to focusing on atmosphere. really missed being able to craft a torch or something though. good job......geez only just realised too late now seeing the screenshots i was meant to put the orbs on the columns. darn |
| Apr 21 20:21:22 | 17m 59s | Bodyguard for Chicken | ♥ 1 | not bad at all. The first couple of times i played i didn't realise i had to carry the chicken, maybe the post processing blurring out the tutorial text is too blame. anyway once i figured it out, it was pretty fun to play and i made it to the end. Annoying that you can't reload until you fire all the bulletes, i just dropped teh chicken and cleared the clip between enemy groups to be sure i could get through. As others have said music was annoying after not ver long so i had to mute it.. maybe next time just go for some weird ambient drones and add in sfx instead if music isn't your strong suit. Gameplay was pretty fun and presentation was mostly pretty nice and I kind of like the post processing stuff to add a bit of interest, maybe tone it down a touch though. good job |
| Apr 21 22:56:50 | 2h 35m | One Tough Flower | ♥ 0 | I'm sorry i was just confused about this was meant to work i place down some flowers and random lava may or may not spawn and kill them? Shame because the art was cute and i liked the set up of the story and I have the feeling there is an interesting game there if i could figure it out. |
| Apr 21 23:31:49 | 34m 59s | My BFF! Glorpol! | ♥ 1 | artwork and presentation and feeling of polish are all really good, music is also nice and fits in well, gameplay is ok but gets a bit samey and the dialogues while initially sort of fun for setting the story and so on in the end gets too frequent and I want to just get on with the game, the spell effects were nice and fun but didn't really feel there was much challenge with the enemies, still good work though and impressively polished feeling. |
| Apr 21 23:36:59 | 5m 10s | Lab Rat | ♥ 3 | art is really nicely done, sort of a fun concept, gameplay is ok, scene setting and story etc. was nice and worked well. felt pretty polished over all, good job. Would recommend making a webgl version though as its easy to do with Unity and you will probably get more players that way, people tend to feel a bit uneasy about downloading and running random exes from the internet. good job. |
| Apr 24 13:40:02 | 62h 03m | NecroTyper | ♥ 1 | weird concept but pretty fun, I couldn't see anywhere on screen that told me how many points i had so when i could afford the new spells.. could possibly have done a bit better in explaining what i had to do without reading the intsructions, as like most people probably i try to dive into playing and then when i get confused go back to the instructions, but hey. Might be better to to be a bit more zoomed in so could watch the carnage a little better and maybe someway of incentivising resurecting a particular skeleton, otherwise it gets to be a bit just type any of the words it doesn't really matter which and also they start obscuring each other and sometimes dissapear while you are typing them which is a bit annoying.. anyway good job. |
| Apr 27 23:23:18 | 81h 43m | Keith's Flint & Steel | ♥ 1 | fun concept, controls took a bit of getting used, the automatic chopping that relies on being right next to the tree but not behind it threw me a bit. I've never seen so much pixel art dithering in one place, interesting effect. Enjoyed the music and the use of evil foxes :) |
| Apr 27 23:38:12 | 14m 54s | My Pet Rock | ♥ 1 | Yay made it to the end. Great use of sound for conveying the tense atmosphere and feeling something could drop and kill you at any moment, nice scene setting for the story, graphics while probably not winning prizes for beautiful pixel art worked well for the mood, gameplay could have used some more interactiveness perhaps but hey. A short fun experience |
| May 6 23:03:01 | 215h 24m | BUBBLE BOY | ♥ 1 | Cute, nicely presented, gameplay is pretty straightforward but the animations are nice, was going to say nice music, but you opted out of that so i guess that was 3rd party or something, well nice choice of music at least :) |
| May 6 23:21:11 | 18m 10s | Protect the Babey | ♥ 1 | weird game but strangely sort of fun after i figured out how it worked, didn't make it ot the end though The camera panning is a nightmare though and makes things harder than it needs to be. Appreciated the total weirdness of the setting, had to turn down the music after not too long, not resetting the tune when you die would have helped a little to avoid over repetetiveness. Can sort of see some potential in the mechanic. |