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Timestamp	Since previous	Game		TheseusInABottle's comment
Apr 20 02:33:35		dry dry	♥ 1	Really good. I found the score text could be a little hard to read but it wasn't completely unidentifiable. The sound effect worked really well for this. My only major complaint is that the yellow you use for your itchio page is horrifically bright and hurts my eyes quite a bit. I get the whole desert thing but its detracts from the game play for me personally.
Apr 20 02:41:20	7m 45s	The Game of our Lives	♥ 1	Ridiculously peaceful. I appreciate this for what it is. I don't know that I would call it a real game but I do think I would call it a bit of an art piece. Also your narration reminds me of Bennett Foddy's quotes when you fall down in Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy which is oddly juxtaposed with the relaxing nature of your game.
Apr 20 02:46:56	5m 36s	DITAZURE	♥ 1	I always appreciate when games have custom cursors. You did great with the wispers sound effect. I wish the monsters spawned a little bit further away from the player than what they end up spawning as it can feel kinda cheap to lose because one spawned to close for comfort.
Apr 20 02:52:08	5m 12s	Kill the undead - keep her alive (for as long as you can)	♥ 1	Really solid gameplay, but I wish there was an easier way to tell at what distance the camera was going to start moving. The number of times I went to fire a shot at a zombie only for the camera to start moving and slide right off the hitbox for the zombie was a little to high for my liking.
Apr 20 03:05:04	12m 56s	LifeLine - Music Pattern Obstacle Dodge	♥ 1	Once I figure out what was happening it was pretty fun. I'm not gonna mince words here I absolutely hate the graphics you wen with they make it nearly impossible to tell what it happening which is really quite important in a game like this. That being said the actual gameplay was fun it took me longer than it should have to realize that your life was equivalent to the yellow triangles. I also enjoyed the randomly generated music. It gave the game a very hippie colony lets listen to the sgt pepper and do acid vibe. Unfortunatley the contrast of neon colors and black eventually just hearts my eyes so I had to stop playing. I did reach a personal high score of 35200.
Apr 20 03:12:22	7m 18s	Dog Feeder	♥ 1	I love it. I love the smoking dog. I love the simple music loop. Actually really like the gameplay. As for what I find less stellar I am sure its no shock to you to hear that the graphics are pretty lacking. The controls can be hard to figure out. I wish there was a bit of time on the first level for the player to read the instructions you have written. I managed to beat all levels. I do wish that you had picked diffrent keys to control the game with XC and KL where weirdly hard for my hands to remember where they are on the keyboard.
Apr 20 03:19:43	7m 21s	Keep Vlad Alive	♥ 1	Took me a minute to figure out how to play I would really recommend even just a basic tutorial either the itchio page here on the ludum dare site. Gameplay wise I really like your idea and think it actually plays really well. The only major gripe I have is that I wish I was able to buy mushroom seeds with any tool equiped. The number of times I went to buy seeds and couldn't because I still had the scyth selected was really to high and its a pain to have to switch between tools and the hand.
Apr 20 03:26:17	6m 34s	Carry the Fire	♥ 1	Really good looking. I can really tell you put a lot of work into these graphics. The glow from the fire and the shadow the player cast are really cool looking. Gameplay wise I enjoy it but I wish you would have picked a diffrent button than space to use for the candle throw and pick up as I found that I often ended up trying to jump by pressing space throwing the candle into a way where I then had great difficulty picking it up again.
Apr 20 03:30:58	4m 41s	Guardian Angel	♥ 2	MORE EVERYTHING! I got a good chuckle out of seeing this. I also got a really good chuckle of the angel spinning through the air the first time a bomb blew up on me. I wish this had sound effect to really add to the comedy but it was still really enjoyable even without it.
Apr 20 03:38:48	7m 50s	The floor is lava!	♥ 1	Possibly the best twist I have ever seen on a game mechanic that is oh most as old as video-games. I never expected to play an Arkanoid(Breakout\Brick Break) Platformer but it turns out its makes for fantastic gameplay. I appriciate you having a nice simple musical loop and a mute button. I wish there was some variation on the sound the slime makes when he bounces as in rapid bounce moments it can become a little bit of an annoyance. Congrats on inventing a new sub-genre of platformers I am sure in a year or two somebody will have taken this idea and made it into a rage game and made thousands raking in the cash from twitch streamers promoting it to there audiences.
Apr 20 03:47:27	8m 39s	Swarm	♥ 1	Really good game. I wish you had a bit of a tiled pattern for the floor as just solid backgrounds with auto-scrolling can make it a little difficult to decipher if a block is moving or not. While you didn't have music I do like that you used really good crunchy sound effects for the power ups when you loose a swarm.
Apr 20 03:54:26	6m 59s	Keep cats alive!	♥ 2	Not much for gameplay but I enjoy the little thats there. The nice gentle drifting in the raft is really peaceful. I like the look of the artwork but I personally find it to be confusingly flat. As in I felt like I was getting lost because there was no sense of depth or location to anything making it very hard to keep track of direction and what islands I had been to.
Apr 20 04:00:45	6m 19s	Star Buffs	♥ 2	Enjoyable. I feel like more could have been done graphically. While I always love the geometry wars aesthetic of glowy ships I feel like you should have gone whole hog with it by making the walls of the arena light up and maybe even darkening up the floor a bit as because of the light circle on the floor it kind makes it seem like there is just a spotlight above the player.
Apr 20 04:07:55	7m 10s	campfire	♥ 2	I'm terrible at this game but I kept playing which means its good. I am always surprised by how good the games you guys and gals that do PICO-8 development end up. While personally my high score in this game was -49 I did really enjoy it and you have really nice music and sound effects as well. Truely a really solid game. You did a fantastic job (I didn't notice the japanese until after writting my comment so just to just to say it again 良いゲーム (google translate tells me this means good game in japanese)
Apr 20 04:18:38	10m 43s	Burndown	♥ 2	Really quite a fun little game. I want to say a big thank you for putting a nice clear outline around objects that you can pick up (including the rubik's cube) it is really helpful for letting people see things that are intractable and not enough games do it. I really enjoyed the nice soft beat you have going in the background and the pickup sound effect has a pretty good crunch to it. This I can see here in the comments you saying this is your first jam and all I can say is you did a really good job and made a really solid game. Also thank you for putting in a compass for those of us who are directionally impaired.
Apr 20 04:41:20	22m 42s	Shy Talker - Keep the Conversation Alive	♥ 1	I am absolutely terrible at Simon Says but I still enjoyed this game. I love you simple graphical style with the sort of film grain filter making everything look nice. I also really liked the sound effect you used for talking. My one big complaint is that the time blank time between directions is a little to short for my comfort but only when the arrow is pointing the same direction twice. I feel like it looks more like a graphical bug than something telling me I need to press a direction twice.
Apr 20 04:48:31	7m 11s	BBYS	♥ 1	I am always a sucker for the graphical styling of the PICO-8 fantasy console. As is to be expected from a PICO-8 game you had nice sound effects although I did notice that the music seemed to stop for a brief period. Also your graphics as previously mentioned are really nice. I wish the resolution of the game had been a little bigger but I believe that is a limit on the PICO-8 side of things not a thing you had a choice in so I won't knock you for it.
Apr 20 05:03:35	15m 04s	The Acolyte	♥ 1	I love your title and death screens. I can really tell you put a lot of work and love into those because they are absolutely gorgeous. I also really like your really simple rift that plays on repeat I don't know anything about music but it sounds very metal to me which works well with the human sacrifices. It felt a little like sometimes the distance I needed to be to hit enemys was visually inconsistent but that might just be that I'm worse at video games right now because its midnight and I have been awake sixteen hours making\playing games so I can't really tell. Last thing I really loved that you can tell when your near a hungry hungry hole in the ground by the low rumble that it gives (also the scream sounds are pretty sweet). TL;DR : You made a good game with great audio
Apr 20 05:08:57	5m 22s	VillageQuake	♥ 1	Ah yes mouth sounds the true patrician way of making music and sound effect. I love your graphical style although it is a little hard to identify what structures have been damaged. I wish there was some obvious visual data on what had been effected by the earthquake but as is things blend together a bit to much for my taste.
Apr 20 05:16:57	8m 00s	F E E D	♥ 1	Who would have thought it would be so hard and yet so fun to try and get people to join your cult so you can feed them the the eldritch beast from beyond the black veils of night that's shacked up in the back room. I really like the one bit style graphics you have going on and I also love the Zalgo text you used for the game over screen. I did feel that the text was a little blurry in the quest screen but not unreadable. Your sound effect where also nice and crunchy (in a good way) so good job on that.
Apr 20 05:22:16	5m 19s	Vital Signs	♥ 1	If this taught me anything its that I should not be a doctor. I really liked the growing difficulty of slowly adding more buttons to keep track of. As someone who is horrific at multitasking this game was really hard for me, but I did sorta find a rhythm to it. I really loved your sound effect (although the flatline at the end I personally found a little bit loud.) Congrats on coming up with such a cool way to utilize the theme.
Apr 20 05:29:04	6m 48s	Keep the Dreams Alive	♥ 2	You PICO-8 devs always manage to make really cool stuff. I think I might have to give PICO-8 development a try after this. I feel like this would have really worked wonders if Dream had won the theme rounds but for keep it alive I think its a little lacking. Other than not quite matching the theme though you did a fantastic job. I must say the Cork Gun is IMO the best weapon in the game (the worst is air strikes). Your sound effect are cool and your sprite work is really nice as well. Congrats on making a fantastic game this jam.
Apr 20 05:34:58	5m 54s	Stay Frausty	♥ 0	Damn boy that snow person gets THICC. Nice solid gameplay and I really appreciate the in game tutorial. Your music is a nice simply loop that isn't grating to listen to so good job on that front. Your jump sound is also really nice so that's a plus. I ended up losing with a snowman what had no top ball but a huge bottom hence my openin comment.
Apr 20 18:49:49	13h 14m	Keep IT Alive	♥ 1	Really good music and graphics. I found the gameplay to be a little confusing at first with the mouse being used to move the camera but the demon being moved by clicking. Once I figured out what I was doing it was fun to playthough.
Apr 20 18:56:25	6m 36s	Monster Keeper	♥ 1	Always enjoy a nice physics base game. You're graphics are really nice looking and I love that the little monsters have very clear readable moods. I did notice that sometimes while driving over an egg it felt like the car had no weight on its front wheel and so it was just sticking out into the air which looked a little weird. Other than that you did a really good job.
Apr 20 19:14:43	18m 18s	DR U's Magic Medicine	♥ 1	I love your voice acting and the really basic loop of beats you had in the background really added to that doctors office feel. I found that it was really more worth it to just get the ability to pop pimples faster than it was to be able to administer medicine more often. Overall you made a solid game. Congrats
Apr 20 19:21:24	6m 41s	An Afternoon Adventure	♥ 1	Pretty fun. The actual gameplay physics I found personally to be a little unpolished (it is possible to jump into the staircase on the left and hit the wall and simply continue to move up the wall without ever landing.) I wish you had put in some sound effects for jumping as without them many things in the game lack a certain weight (such as feeding you head). None the less this is a really interesting take on keep it alive as a theme.
Apr 20 19:31:32	10m 08s	Sourdough Starter Kit	♥ 1	I found that as time went on the game started to get a little slow handling all the physics updates for generating air bubbles, but it only took a little bit before that cleared itself up. Other than that this was a really enjoyable game. I do wish there was a little bit of background music or something but beyond that this is good.
Apr 20 19:38:02	6m 30s	Anti-Toxin	♥ 0	Nice solid twin-stick shooter. Your graphics and sounds are solid. You've got good solid gameplay. Not really anything to complain about (you even have multiple difficulty options so props on that level of polish.
Apr 20 19:48:02	10m 00s	Memes Never Die	♥ 1	Really nice looking. My meme always died with one person unfound and one or two posters unhung. I really love the amount of polish that you put into making the gameplay feel nice. Its highly satisfying to hear that slap sound effect when you hang up a poster. I wish that people that I had already told about my meme would lose the exclamation point above there head because I feel like that would make it easier for me to identify who I havent talked to at a glance, but beyond that you've made a really great game.
Apr 20 19:58:14	10m 12s	Protect the Egg	♥ 1	Who doesn't love pistols akimbo. I really liked the gameplay of simple shooting and auto scrolling. I liked that as time went own I started to see some new enemys like the guys that stop and turn into turrets. I do wish that there was some sound to give more of an impact to the shots though.
Apr 20 22:38:05	2h 39m	Buddy Rope	♥ 1	Really interesting control scheme. I absolutely love the boof sound effect of the blueberry looking buddy when he jumps it has just the right amount of crunchiness to make it very satisfying.
Apr 20 22:49:39	11m 34s	Keep It Powered	♥ 1	A pretty good game but I feel like you might have made the timing a little to tight for some of these levels. I found that I often died right at the exit which I found to be a little frustrating. Other than that you did really well with graphics and you did fantastic with the sound effects. I wish there was any sort of ambient music in the background but I mean this was made in 48 hours so I get why its not there.
Apr 20 22:58:37	8m 58s	Type it alive	♥ 1	Pretty fun its to bad you didn't have time to add music or sound effects as that could have been cool. I wish there was an option for real words rather than gibberish (personally I find gibberish very hard to type compared to real words). Also I wish the purple buildings beam didn't cover up the text your typing. I ran into issues many times of hitting the wrong letter because it was mostly obscured by my own tower.
Apr 20 23:49:27	50m 50s	Zero	♥ 3	PICO-8 Games always look really good. While I had fun shooting the enemys I wish there was some sound effects or music.
Apr 21 00:02:30	13m 03s	Lich Clicker	♥ 2	Really liked the Lich graphic it reminded a bit of the anime Overlord. Also really loved the voice lines like "Fathers say it hard to raise a family" and such I got a very hardy chuckle out of those.
Apr 21 00:18:38	16m 08s	Promethean Legacy: Fan the Flames	♥ 0	I didn't get the chance to check out the stream when you where programming due to participating in the Jam but I can tell by playing it that it must have been really productive. I like the fire crackle effect and the dice roll. Definitely a good game.
Apr 21 00:25:26	6m 48s	Ice Ice Baby	♥ 1	I love this. I love the little face of the ice cube. I love the general aesthetic of the game, and I love the very Super Monkey Ball-esqe movement method of moving the stage not the protagonist. This game is really good and I am happy I decided to play it.