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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | benbennett's comment | |
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| Apr 4 05:44:52 | Cold and Alone | ♥ 3 | I really enjoyed this game. The art looked fantastic and it matched the theme well. The movement controls for the vehicle took me a bit to understand, but once I got it it made sense. There was a point where I had purchased everything and had a bunch of resources. I kept trying to travel as far as I could in each direction to see if I was missing something and eventually gave up. Maybe that's the point of the game and you'll eventually gather all the resources and lose. Assuming that is the case, I think adding something to speed this along would have helped. Maybe requiring resources for repairing the heater or vehicle, something to speed it along towards the end. But overall great entry! | |
| Apr 4 06:20:46 | 35m 54s | X-1 - A Game About a Robot Shutting Down | ♥ 1 | Loved the art! The controls were great, the jetpack was responsive and felt good. I would have liked something else in the level to look for other than recharge stations. But overall great entry! For the sound effects I think it's fine to keep it under compo, but maybe remove audio from the ratings. I did like the song tho |
| Apr 4 06:55:10 | 34m 24s | Glide | ♥ 1 | Great entry! For me the start was very disorienting. It seemed to always start with the glider flying directly at the camera (and sometimes directly into a wall 😆). But once I was able to get control it felt really good to fly around! |
| Apr 4 21:41:15 | 14h 46m | Clear Skies with a Chance of Meteors | ♥ 1 | Fun game! My high score was 165. There were a few times where I got two of the same card, would have been nice to guarantee that they were always different so the player always has a decision to make. But overall great job! |
| Apr 4 23:14:50 | 1h 33m | Etiquette | ♥ 1 | I liked the concept. It's like a typing, spelling, and memory game all wrapped into one. I did run into a bug where packages wouldn't start coming if I started after previously finishing a game. Had to refresh the page to play again. Overall great job! |
| Apr 5 07:40:38 | 8h 25m | We All Die | ♥ 2 | I enjoyed this one! My high score was 172. Once I read the instructions and realized you could sweep the laser it became a lot easier. I think the music could have been mixed a little quieter, seemed really loud compared to the sound effects. I played in Chrome and didn't run into any issues btw |
| Apr 5 08:04:35 | 23m 57s | Stacktics | ♥ 1 | I loved look and the way it controlled. I think I'm running into a bug in the web version, the ceiling crushes everything but the game never ends. I can still move around and the time keeps ticking up but there's nothing to do. |
| Apr 6 05:38:25 | 21h 33m | The Mark of Time | ♥ 1 | Fun game! The achievements were a nice touch that I definitely wasn't expecting for a jam game. I think the biggest thing missing is some kind of feedback when you get hit. Overall great job! |
| Apr 6 06:03:18 | 24m 53s | 4&1/2 Lives | ♥ 1 | Nice job for a first jam! The music wasn't bad and the goo shader did look good. I ran into a few instances where I wasn't able to reach the any platform from the start. I think another aspect that could be improved is the movement controls. The side to side movement had pretty slow acceleration and made the character feel a bit unresponsive. Another thing that I think could make it feel a lot better to play is input buffering for the double jump. There were a lot of times where I tried to time the double jump to execute at the peak, but I hit the button fractions of a second before the peak and the input was ignored. If you can track when the player last hit the jump button, once you detect the peak was reached if the player pressed jump in the last 0.5s (for example) execute the jump. Little things like that go a long way in making platformers feel good to play |
| Apr 6 06:37:18 | 34m 00s | By The Fire | ♥ 1 | So much polish! Everything felt very cohesive. I thought the throw seemed a little unpredictable, especially if it was from far away. But overall great entry! |
| Apr 8 05:52:24 | 47h 15m | Between My Shadows | ♥ 1 | The audio and atmosphere were amazing! The combat was a little too easy, but it didn't bother me too much because of how good everything else was. Great entry! |
| Apr 8 06:25:06 | 32m 42s | Impending Doom | ♥ 1 | I really like this one! The art and music was great. It's pretty easy to break the economy by just upgrading the passive energy generation until you're getting like 50k per second, then buy the laser and laser upgrades as fast as you can click them. The asteroid goes from no damage to blown up in like 2 seconds. I think having some small asteroids at the beginning forcing the player to buy the laser sooner would help with this. But it's also pretty spectacular to just delete the entire asteroid immediately 😆 |
| Apr 8 06:37:46 | 12m 40s | Stuck In Space | ♥ 1 | Fun game! Smart to add the fuel leaking mechanic to stop players from camping next to oxygen tanks until just before they run out. |
| Apr 8 23:20:03 | 16h 42m | LakseCounter 3000 | ♥ 1 | Always fun to have a leaderboard for a jam game, nice job! Once I realized I didn't need to hit enter after typing the words my score got a lot better 😆 |
| Apr 9 06:22:22 | 7h 02m | Moonshot | ♥ 2 | The graphics and sound were well done and felt very cohesive. Sometimes it seemed like the asteroids were moving too fast to dodge, not sure if intentional or not. Either way it matched the vibe of the story. Great entry! |
| Apr 9 06:45:00 | 22m 38s | Re-Re-Robot | ♥ 1 | Fun concept and so many levels! I never felt like there was a huge difficulty spike and I never got stuck for too long so great job on the level design, especially for a game jam. I did have a little trouble with the high speed of the character, it made it pretty hard to control at times. But overall great job, one of my favorites so far |
| Apr 9 07:12:15 | 27m 15s | Hex'd | ♥ 1 | Fun game and well polished! Restarting the game on game over was pretty brutal, wanted to see more of the content but didn't want to have to play through everything again. Overall great job |
| Apr 9 08:09:28 | 57m 13s | Fight or Flight | ♥ 2 | I liked the concept and loved the art and music, great job! I had some trouble figuring out the upgrade mechanic and couldn't figure out how to get the resource needed for the mortar. I think some more information presented to the player would help, things like upgrade cost, what the upgrade actually does, upgrade level, etc |
| Apr 9 08:51:58 | 42m 30s | Ghost Caretaker | ♥ 2 | Nice game! I upgrades were balanced well, it was fun trying out different strategies |
| Apr 9 09:39:37 | 47m 39s | Galactic Crash | ♥ 1 | Nice job! I really like the look. I ran into some issues with the text getting cut off |
| Apr 9 09:40:34 | 57s | Sundae Driver | ♥ 1 | The driving was fun, but a little hard to control with all the engine upgrades. I loved the engine sound! |