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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | cakts's comment | |
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| Apr 5 15:40:02 | Choboro | ♥ 2 | Great entry, the art style is like a combination of "Aww" and "Eww", and I love it. Super polished, well done. | |
| Apr 5 15:51:01 | 10m 59s | KEYMASHER ULTIMATE | ♥ 3 | PERFECT GAME, MADE ME LAUGH AND ALSO GAVE ME ARTHRITIS. I LOVE IT. |
| Apr 5 16:03:38 | 12m 37s | Colony Defender | ♥ 1 | Not much to say that the other comments haven't already, but I really liked the aesthetic you went with, and the camera movement is really great. I felt the game was way too easy, you could definitely make each ship need 5 or more shots to die and I was a little confused about what to do when my human numbers hit 0, and why they went down when I built turrets, but other than that it was a great concept and kept my attention. Good stuff π |
| Apr 5 16:11:20 | 7m 42s | The Assessment | ♥ 2 | Had lots of fun playing this, my only complaint is that I think showing the rocket between each mini-game can be a bit abrupt and ruin the fast-paced flow of the games for a 5 second cut-scene between each one. The art style was super great and I loved the audio as well. Great work! π |
| Apr 5 16:20:15 | 8m 55s | Losing Your Sheet | ♥ 1 | Loved the art style and music, however I feel like there wasn't much incentive to follow the intended gameplay loop and I got a score above 200 by letting the boat move for 2 minutes without me doing anything. It's a great concept and I'm sure you can take it somewhere. Good work! π |
| Apr 5 16:32:39 | 12m 24s | Black Holes for Dummies | ♥ 2 | Really great stuff, found 3 Bad Endings and 1 Good Ending so i'm hoping that's all of them. Good job π |
| Apr 6 03:00:42 | 10h 28m | Devil's Revenge | ♥ 2 | Cure.PNG Loved the artstyle and the concept. however I wish the boss fought back somehow. Maybe some boss music would be beneficial as well. Great entry π |
| Apr 6 03:48:10 | 47m 28s | Life Finds a Way | ♥ 1 | Super polished and fun game, got difficult quickly but stayed enjoyable. Really funny entry as well, I laughed when the demon started cat-popping. Such an enjoyable entry that fits the theme fantastically. Great stuff π |
| Apr 6 04:40:16 | 52m 06s | Back2Work | ♥ 1 | Super cool stuff, liked the low resolution, gave the game a very nostalgic feel. Great Stuff :D |
| Apr 6 05:22:19 | 42m 03s | Mia's Bear Service | ♥ 1 | Super cute game with some really nice audio and gameplay! Great entry and thanks for playing my game on stream :D |
| Apr 6 08:33:14 | 3h 10m | Nightwaker | ♥ 2 | Really nice mood and narrative, however I feel like all spamming J and L did for the game was hurt my fingers lol. Maybe if instead of J and L you had to type "wake up" or "keep going" or something similar, as it felt like the game had two mechanics that fought each other, and I also think that you could remove the need to manually move completely, as the only time I had to move left was to read the letter, but I feel like I could have worked out the word without it. This could let you focus on just the typing, having to multitask between typing "wake up" and "slay" etc sounds more fun than multitasking holding D, spamming J and L and typing the words. Congrats to this very large team of people however, great entry! π |
| Apr 6 08:55:39 | 22m 25s | Balloon Rush 2 | ♥ 2 | Loved this game, really meditative and addicting. Graphics are simple and work well. Great work! :D |
| Apr 7 16:39:04 | 31h 43m | Lumberjack | ♥ 1 | Great concept, I loved the graphics and audio. There were a few typos but I didn't punish your score for that as I assume English is not your first language. I think having only one tree makes the game a bit easy, maybe if it was a forest of trees being burned down by the ghosts and you had to manage 100 trees instead of 1 then it could definitely be a very stressful/strategic game. Great entry! Good Job π |
| Apr 9 06:49:20 | 38h 10m | Can't Tax Me | ♥ 1 | Really cute game! Graphics, audio and animation were great and I had lots of fun playing it. The platformer controls were really smooth, however I feel like this game could have worked better as a top down game, as constantly fighting flying enemies and gravity did get a bit painful at some times. Despite this, I think you have managed to implement the platforming controls well and I would be very happy with what your team achieved in (what appears to be) your first Ludum Dare! I will also check out your Ludum Dare devlog on YouTube after I review a few more games and I hope to see your team competing in LD51! Great work, keep it up π |
| Apr 9 07:13:03 | 23m 43s | Dilate the time! | ♥ 1 | Genuinely impressed with how long I played this for once I understood the mechanics, easily one of the funniest games I've played this jam. Music and audio was good and the graphics gave me some old flash game nostalgia. Platformer mechanics worked great, game was almost philosophical haha. Really awesome work, one of the best (and most unassuming) games I've played this jam. Great work! π |
| Apr 9 10:44:32 | 3h 31m | The Short Dark | ♥ 1 | Super impressed what you guys achieved with CSS, I would probably cry if I saw how many divs there were. Love the art, definitely a very impressive technical feat. Great stuff! π |
| Apr 9 11:17:43 | 33m 11s | Thermal Runaway | ♥ 1 | Awesome graphics! Some improvements I can think of: - Render the weaposn on a different camera layered on top of the normal view to stop the weapon clipping through walls - Visual indicator for death - Maybe an easier way to tell how close the reactor is to splodin - Maybe a map? - Bug when reactor explodes (you already know about this one) - Smoother/More responsive FPS controller Apart from these minor things, this is one of the most polished games i've played. Great Job π |
| Apr 9 11:27:41 | 9m 58s | Glide'r Die | ♥ 0 | Really fun game, made me really happy playing it for some reason, so good job on that haha. My only suggestions are to implement a parallax background with some clouds and mountains to make it easier to understand how fast the player is moving when the ground is not on screen, and a distance travelled statistic when you crash the glider. Super cool game, good work! π |
| Apr 9 11:51:50 | 24m 09s | Giraffe o'Clock | ♥ 1 | Fantastic visuals and insanely self aware. Only few problems I have are the dialogue, which was funny at first but it felt like every bit of dialogue was 4th wall breaking to some degree, and didn't feel very genuine until the end, and the game was a bit too easy imo, even on the harder difficulties. Overall, this is one of the best games i've played this jam, and the team should be very proud. π |
| Apr 9 11:58:56 | 7m 06s | You Are A Bomb | ♥ 1 | Super cute game! At first I was sceptical of another bomb game but you really nailed the theme in a unique and addicting way. Great work! π |
| Apr 9 12:04:57 | 6m 01s | 1 Man 6 Bullets | ♥ 3 | Such an impressive game! Fantastic work, I hope you release on Steam because I will 100% be supporting this project. π |
| Apr 9 12:44:08 | 39m 11s | Battery Buisness | ♥ 3 | Hey dude, super cool project! Congrats on your first Ludum Dare, I'm impressed you managed to create a fun gameplay loop in scratch! You definitely have a bright future in game development if you stick with it over the next few years, and it's always exciting to look back at what you've made! I'm 18 and have been making games since I was about your age, here's some of my best tips: - **Start learning how to code in game engines as soon as you can,** it might seem scary but it's definitely worth it. I use Unity engine for my games, but I'd recommend you start with GameMaker Studio. Follow some tutorials on YouTube (I learnt GameMaker from Shaun Spalding www.youtube.com/c/ShaunSpalding) and maybe try recreate some games you've already made in scratch with code! - **Don't delete any of your old games.** You might one day look back at some of your games and think they're cringe or bad and feel like deleting them. Don't! Every game developer starts somewhere and it's always fun to explore the experiments you made when learning game dev. For example, here's my first ever game I made in GameMaker: Capture.PNG When I compare it with some of the images from my newer games, I see how far I've come and that makes Game Dev really worth it. My final advice is to have fun, you're young and already a very talented developer. I wished my games looked as good as this at the age of 12. Hope some of this helps you in your game dev journey and I hope to see your next game in Ludum Dare 51! π |
| Apr 9 12:50:13 | 6m 05s | Crystalysis | ♥ 1 | Cool graphics! Definitely need to fix those performance issues, but apart from that I liked the concept and the atmosphere, good work! |
| Apr 10 01:44:00 | 12h 53m | Inevitable The Game | ♥ 1 | Nice concept, reminds me of some of my favourite old flash games. Only problem I had was during delay the cat, where clicking on the space between letters doesn't count as clicking the word. Great entry though, fits the theme well! π |
| Apr 10 02:11:08 | 27m 08s | Re: Placement | ♥ 4 | Fun game! My only suggestion is to move the camera higher or to a top down position, as it's quite difficult to see the components in the back row. Great stuff π |
| Apr 10 04:41:57 | 2h 30m | The Itsy Bitsy Jumper | ♥ 1 | Capture.PNG This was a super fun jam game! I can't think of anything I didn't like about it so great job! π |
| Apr 10 05:57:12 | 1h 15m | Paddle Panic π£ββοΈπ± | ♥ 3 | Super cool game, one of my favourites so far. Maybe add a vertical display on the left under the wind symbol to show the player where they are positioned on the river. Apart from that, fantastic game! π |
| Apr 10 05:59:29 | 2m 17s | Carrot Grove | ♥ 3 | Not usually a big fan of visual novels but this one was a good experience. Great art and story, good job! π |
| Apr 12 01:44:01 | 43h 44m | Bitboy | ♥ 1 | This is a really solid entry! Loved the 3D object effect and the UI is incredible (for real, I've never been mesmerized by menus and death screens before). My only suggestions are: - Settings Menu - Explain the base mechanics in-game, not with dialogue (something as simple as having the spacebar above the first gap and C above the first slide area etc.) - Work on the player animations, it felt odd having the slow framerate pixel art animation transition to a smooth slide animation. Both work on their own, but if instead of slowly moving the players head down when sliding you just switched to a 1 frame sliding pose it would feel much better to slide. Apart from these very minor and nitpicky issues, I really liked this game. Like I said, easily the best UI I've seen yet. Great Job π |
| Apr 12 03:52:41 | 2h 08m | Somnipathy | ♥ 3 | Very spooky entry, great mood! My only big complaint is that some of the art assets didn't match, for example all the items like the phone and coffee cup did not match the pixel art used for the rest of the game. All the art was fantastic I just felt the composition of these elements could have been better. Apart from that, movement was great, the concept was great, I loved all of it. Super good job to everyone on the team, and good job to @vixenmink who has managed to find me in every single live stream I join hahaha. π |
| Apr 12 03:57:31 | 4m 50s | Delay The Inevitable | ♥ 0 | Very short game but you did say you did not have a lot of time to make it so I won't judge that too heavily. I really liked the graphics and audio but I think you could have added a bit more variety and tried to fit the theme a little better than just naming the ship "the inevitable". Good entry and it appears you achieved what you set out to do so good job π |
| Apr 12 04:04:02 | 6m 31s | The Adventures of: πΊπππππ π±ππ | ♥ 1 | Really nice art! I'd recommend telling the player the controls in game because I usually try not to rely on the game page for control information. A bit more variety (moving platforms, lava balls flying up from the bottom of the screen etc.) would definitely make this game replayable for longer. Great entry, you should be proud. π |
| Apr 12 04:15:41 | 11m 39s | Ambulance Simulator | ♥ 0 | Really nice entry! I loved the art and how the music kept in time with the heartbeat, and the gameplay was addicting and kept me playing multiple times. You should be proud! Great job π |
| Apr 12 04:21:36 | 5m 55s | Crystal Castle | ♥ 1 | Really fun once I got the hang of it. Art and sounds were cool, however I did randomly die after going through a portal? This is an overall great entry and you did a good job :) |
| Apr 12 04:30:54 | 9m 18s | Deloop | ♥ 0 | Really interesting concept, I liked the art, and the pathfinding enemies impressed me. Here are some small issues I noticed: - The player can't move diagonally - The player constantly gets stuck on the box's colliders - Some enemies will run inside the player and not be able to be killed. - There is no way that I could find to kill the rocket launching enemies. - I couldn't see my health bar when the screen covered it almost straight away These issues are very small and didn't impact me too much however. I feel like this game has some potential and you should be very proud of what you accomplished in such a short time. Great job π |
| Apr 12 05:04:58 | 34m 04s | Final countdown | ♥ 1 | Mouse controls were a little painful but this game is easily one of the funniest I've played, had fun getting every task done and I think the game fits the theme well! Great job :D |
| Apr 12 05:11:21 | 6m 23s | ORANGE ROLL π | ♥ 1 | Couldn't see the connection to the theme but I liked the graphics and gameplay, wish there was a bit more variety and sound effects though. Overall, decent entry, good job :) |
| Apr 12 05:21:18 | 9m 57s | The Coup | ♥ 0 | Little confusing at first but once I got the hang of it I really enjoyed it. This was one of the most innovative games I've played this jam, and I loved the graphics and sounds. Great work! |
| Apr 12 05:28:46 | 7m 28s | REWOB | ♥ 2 | Super cute game, loved everything about it. The simple pixel art graphics were mesmerising and remined me of some of the effects from Celeste, and the chiptune soundtrack was really good. Gameplay was fun and easy to understand. Great entry, the team should be very happy with what they accomplished. :D |
| Apr 12 05:35:48 | 7m 02s | The Death of Time | ♥ 1 | Congratulations on finishing a game in 72 hours! I liked the concept and the lore, but I think you should have stripped down the complexity of the graphics by a lot, as it was very difficult to tell what was happening when the background has as much detail as the characters. Overall a good entry, hope to see you compete in LD51 :) |
| Apr 12 05:41:42 | 5m 54s | Newton's Law | ♥ 1 | Nice little game, I liked the effects for when you spun the apple 360 degrees. Great job π |
| Apr 12 05:46:28 | 4m 46s | Reckless Reaper | ♥ 0 | Capture.PNG Nice game! A bit difficult and very luck-based but I enjoyed it. Maybe allow the player to smoothly drive between lanes to add a bit more skill to the gameplay? Overall, great entry! π π |
| Apr 12 05:51:52 | 5m 24s | A Last Stand | ♥ 1 | Nice gameplay, however the spike traps could be used to cheese the enemies pretty easily. Wish there was a bit more variety but apart from that this is a solid entry :D |
| Apr 12 06:17:38 | 25m 46s | Cat in the Bag | ♥ 3 | Really funny game with an interesting premise as well. Graphics and Audio were amazing and the dialogue was well written and funny (probably my highest humour rating yet). Great entry and a big congratulations to the team that put this great game together in such a short time. :D |
| Apr 12 12:52:33 | 6h 34m | I Will Not Die. | ♥ 1 | Super atmospheric and moody, art and sound is amazing. My only suggestions are to add checkpoints because it isn't very motivating to have to play the entire game again, and to make the movement feel a little more responsive. Apart from those small issues this game is truly something to be proud of and a great entry. Great job! π |
| Apr 12 14:47:07 | 1h 54m | EMBEJEAL | ♥ 1 | I found this game really cute, graphics were nice and the concept was cool. As someone who makes a lot of platformers, my best advice would be to watch this video by Mix and Jam on recreating Celeste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STyY26a_dPY It goes over some really nice points on how to make a smoother, more functional platformer controller with concepts such as coyote time and climbing. Still impressive how you managed to create a decently lengthy game in such a short time, and it was really nice to hear the idea of the game came from your son, I found that really nice. Great entry! You should be proud π |
| Apr 13 13:47:29 | 23h 00m | Claim your FREE BitBuddyβ’ TODAY! | ♥ 1 | This game made me feel guilty. Probably the most unique take on the theme I've seen so far. Fantastic entry! |
| Apr 18 05:32:23 | 111h 44m | Shakhmaty | ♥ 1 | This was a super cool concept that fit the theme well! Only issue was I was able to move the king into check, which ended the game. Graphics and Audio were great. Overall a great entry that you should be proud of! |
