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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | Diego Escalante's comment | |
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| Apr 9 03:11:12 | Exclusion Zone | ♥ 2 | This was a great entry! It felt like a puzzle I needed to crack. I was a little bit confused at first but after a couple of restarts I got the hang of it. Maybe having the radiation go _around_ walls as it spreads instead of ignoring them would add more strategy! | |
| Apr 9 03:29:03 | 17m 51s | White Death | ♥ 2 | Really great entry! In my first playthrough, I was a little confused because it I had a fire at home but I wasn't getting warm. That part was confusing but I figured out on my second playthrough that I needed a bigger fire. The game looks simple but I noticed a lot of careful detail and love was added to it! Especially the sounds like the footsteps, the ever-strengthening wind, and even those crows. Really gave this game a fitting mood. The stylized snow was great too, along with the very unique way of indicating to the player that they are getting cold. Fits the theme quite well too! All in all, I am impressed with this entry, you did a great job! |
| Apr 9 03:34:57 | 5m 54s | Lazer Bean | ♥ 2 | I'm not entirely sure what I was supposed to do or how to play. It seemed like the rocks just crashed through all the levels instantly and then maybe I had to shoot the portal?? I would get to the game over screen in maybe 10 seconds every thing. Despite my confusion, the game has some great visuals. The pixel art and animations are really beautiful! |
| Apr 9 03:47:33 | 12m 36s | Serious Royal Business | ♥ 1 | I don't think I am a good king. I felt like I didn't know what I was doing. I liked how unique the game was though! I haven't seen another game like this in LD50. |
| Apr 9 03:57:16 | 9m 43s | Last Robot Survivor Needs Energy | ♥ 0 | _OH YEAH THAT'S THE GOOD STUFF_ I loved the the voice acting for the game and all the sound effects. More games in LD should experiment with that! I think the game would benefit from faster movement, it felt like I was crawling and I eventually had a hard time dodging shots. Good game, nicely done! |
| Apr 9 05:41:25 | 1h 44m | Tantric Adventurer | ♥ 2 | _Phew, what an adventure!_ As everyone has already said, the music with the vocals is really wonderful and gives this game a lot of character. I would love for this game to have a little more variety in terms of gameplay, but you did a nice job anyway! My high score was 1013. |
| Apr 9 05:50:41 | 9m 16s | Lava Land | ♥ 0 | I don't think I was quite sure how to play the game. Was I supposed to put the structures on the lava's path? I didn't notice the lava slowing down but I am not quite sure. I really liked how you implemented the spread of lava. That was very cool. I wonder how it works? Great job! |
| Apr 9 06:04:52 | 14m 11s | Carpentangle | ♥ 2 | Love the unique mechanic of this game! It works so well! Really enjoyable to play. Did you ever consider the ability to rotate the clusters of blocks before you place them? Could be interesting, but I also did enjoy the limitations of just trying to fit them in wherever I could. Really well done game! Bravo! |
| Apr 9 06:22:51 | 17m 59s | Nighty Night, Nosferatu | ♥ 1 | Really cool idea! It almost felt like a spatial puzzle to figure out what path you needed to take to stay in the shadows. My one criticism is that the shadows' edges were very diffused the farther they were casted from the objects; makes sense in real life, but in this game it meant it was difficult to know where they started and ended (especially with the second blue sun). I'd personally like to see this game with crisp solid shadow edges. Still, this is a wonderful experience, nicely done! |
| Apr 9 19:16:47 | 12h 53m | Life of a Mosquito | ♥ 1 | Neat game! I liked the graphics; it all fit together nicely and provided a neat little challenge for a while. The voice acting was a nice touch! |
| Apr 9 19:36:52 | 20m 05s | The Flower of Marasca | ♥ 0 | I got stuck after retrieving the flower because I died and didn't have any more of a few powerups. Also I think I used the flower right when I got it because it seems like it works like other powerups but then I just had zero of it. Not sure if that was going to matter later on. But in general, the level design was alright, just need to design away places where the player can be softlocked. Having said all that, this is a pretty good LD50 entry! There's a lot of content in this game and everything is pretty well fleshed out! Nicely done! |
| Apr 9 19:48:16 | 11m 24s | MoonDoggle | ♥ 2 | 2:35 with 203 bugs killed. Neat concept and the visuals are really nice! I do wish I could hold the button down to just fire as soon as the cooldown is done. Or if there is a way, I didn't know about it; the game doesn't teach you the controls. With some more variety you could have a really neat game in your hands! Well done! |
| Apr 9 20:00:21 | 12m 05s | Tree Protector | ♥ 1 | As others have said, aiming is really difficult in 3D space with a camera that only stays on one side and especially in orthographic mode. Really messes up our monkey brains trying to interpret a 3D space when far away things are the same size as close things. Having said that, I love the unique idea of this game. I wager that this is the only game in all of LD50 where you play as a squirrel! I think that if you redesign the camera and aiming a little bit you could have a really neat game in your hands. Well done with this one! I was able to disintegrate 26 woodcutters before the tree fell. |
| Apr 9 20:24:22 | 24m 01s | Hotel Lazarus | ♥ 1 | Very ambitious game! I like all the different things that the guests wear, that's a nice detail. Camera control is a little difficult, and I didn't even know you could zoom out until after I finished playing when I saw other comments. Brings me back to my days playing Tiny Tower. Ah, good times. Thanks for the fun! Nicely done. |
| Apr 9 20:43:42 | 19m 20s | Etiquette | ♥ 2 | I think it was a nice experience. The packages coming in from the top was a nice sneak peek into possible difficult countries; that was a really nice detail. I think the game felt a tad slow. You had to wait a long while between each package. Maybe this could be a way to increase difficulty as you go: keep the same time limit to tag each package but decrease the time between each package so that the player has to keep constantly typing. Nice game! I bet it would feel very complete with a few sounds and some background music! Well done |
| Apr 11 00:36:03 | 27h 52m | Death, Taxes, and Bananas | ♥ 2 | _There's always money in the banana stand._ Two bits of feedback: - It would be nice to have some kind of feedback for damaging the tax agents. A depleting health bar, making them flash red, or something to let me know that my shots are connecting. - This only applies to people with multiple monitors, but since the cursor is not locked, you can accidentally move the cursor to another monitor, try to click to shoot, but now the game is no longer the active window and you probably end up losing. This issue is understandable though; it is probably hard to catch if you only have one monitor. Aside from that feedback, pretty fun game! I like how frantic it is. The music was sort of simple but honestly it was very fitting and quite a bop! Title screen with the camera around Grandma Betty was a nice touch too. Well done! |
| Apr 11 00:53:24 | 17m 21s | Block Wizard Arena | ♥ 1 | It's a neat concept, Kind of luck based but I had fun! I got through round 8 before losing. I liked the music, somehow it had a very nostalgic vibe to the 00s. I was ok with the blocks that you have to click, but it was not as easy to parse what they would do at the beginning. Although graphics weren't a huge priority, I think you made it work though. It was fine to me! Nicely done! |
| Apr 11 01:03:08 | 9m 44s | Delay the CATastrophe | ♥ 1 | Tough game but really cute! Real easy to start back up and try again. Loved the cat animations, and the mum voice acting! Really neat game. I wasn't quite sure if my best strategy was to just try to keep all cats separated or to try to make a few like each other. I was able to get 6 cats in the house before disappointing mum. I have no complaints. Great job! |
| Apr 11 01:35:16 | 32m 08s | From Dust | ♥ 2 | It took a few tries but I was able to beat the game with a score of 550! I think the game is well rounded, the animations, the scrolling scenery, the dust, the music, it all ties together nicely. Perhaps the gaps between some of the obstacles is a little too tricky. Also, if you want to go for bonus points in the future, this game is a great candidate for some jump buffering to make it really feel good to play. :) |
| Apr 11 03:18:00 | 1h 42m | Papper | ♥ 2 | Loved this game! Super relaxing and enjoyable to play for a while. Good use of the theme! Admittedly, I wasn't 100% sure what some upgrades did for me, and the little boosts were hard to see since everything is a light shade. But regardless it was a escape for a few minutes. Very well done! I got to 74m! |
| Apr 11 03:28:58 | 10m 58s | Asteroid Defense Force | ♥ 2 | I like how frantic the game is! Especially in the first attempt when you are just learning the ropes and everything is new. The robot voice giving you the ETA also added to the pressure nicely. I feel like I mostly ignored the feed telling me when things were ready so maybe there's a better way to show you when things are off cooldown from the main screen. But that's a minor nitpick. I think this is a really neat submission. Awesome job! |
| Apr 11 03:40:49 | 11m 51s | Dilley and the Sacred Stones | ♥ 1 | Funniest game I have played for LD50 so far! Really good jokes. Although I guess it's good that I saw some of the last few MCU movies. Came for the gameplay, stayed for the cutscenes! |
| Apr 11 03:47:20 | 6m 31s | Hurrikeyn | ♥ 0 | A simple concept but really well executed, I had a lot of fun! I got to 93 words / level 29 on medium. I liked how the individual letters fell out after completing a word, that was a nice detail. But by far what I liked the most was the dynamic music. It really took the experience to a whole other level. Nicely done! |
| Apr 11 03:56:45 | 9m 25s | Listening to Rama | ♥ 2 | Huge mood on this one! The art was beautiful and the rain sounds set the tone nicely. The gameplay is simple but it draws you in with the promise of hearing more things. Although I must admit, it took a few too many collapsed pieces before I understood what was going on. Perhaps it would be nicer to the player the game told them when they could let go of a piece and it would snap back. (Or maybe even snap back automatically even if the player is still holding the button.) I think that might have been what the beep was for, but it wasn't too clear to me. Anyway, really great entry, you all did wonderful. Excellent job! |
| Apr 11 04:11:18 | 14m 33s | The End? | ♥ 0 | I was getting close to fueling up the rocket but then I accidentally boosted the asteroid towards me somehow. :( I think timing the boosters correctly is pretty difficult, and having them work against you is a little tragic. Having said that, this is a pretty cool game! I like how frantic it is. I couldn't quite win just by myself but maybe if I enlist a player two, I might be able to pull it off. (Actually, is it balanced for two players? Or one?) The art was wonderful too. Really fun to play! Well done, you two! |
| Apr 11 04:20:43 | 9m 25s | Chess? | ♥ 1 | I liked the concept! I feel like tweaking a little bit of it for balance and adding an enemy AI that made moves like you did would make this idea incredible. It took me a few turns to truly understand what I was doing. I cannibalized a lot of my own pieces! Oops. Great work! |
| Apr 11 04:33:45 | 13m 02s | This Special War | ♥ 2 | This game has really big mood. It's a very serious and lonesome game. It feels very isolating and dark. The gameplay itself is pretty simple but everything around it really ties the whole setting together. Sum of its parts, I think. Thanks for the experience, really well done! |
| Apr 11 04:42:31 | 8m 46s | The Squeel of Time | ♥ 1 | _Oof!_ Simple but really fun! I like how quickly it is to just keep trying again and again and again. I got to level 15, after that I found it a bit too difficult to find a path. It seemed like I had to get lucky for a path to clear up before my slowdown timer ran out. Maybe there's a way to guarantee paths in the future so as to not just "get lucky?" In any case, well done, had a blast! |
| Apr 11 04:50:03 | 7m 32s | Mike Quarter (The Kitchen Porter) | ♥ 1 | Dang this is difficult! But I think once I started making use of the stop/start ability I was able to get further into the game. That mechanic adds a good amount of depth! I like the overall look, but the thing I really liked was the music. Real good bop! It was the main driving force for me to try to keep the dishes going! Nicely done! My highest score was 6559. |
| Apr 11 19:28:48 | 14h 38m | ENTROPY | ♥ 1 | It's a neat concept. Seems simple but it can get unwieldly quickly! |
| Apr 11 23:55:11 | 4h 26m | Tin Can | ♥ 2 | A little difficult to know what I am doing: I ended up doing things pretty randomly and seeing what would happen. Visuals are lovely! A very interesting game for sure. Nicely done! |
| Apr 12 00:06:36 | 11m 25s | International Shipping Simulator | ♥ 2 | Really cool concept. It works pretty well, although I admit I wasn't quite sure what I was doing initially. I was 20 seconds away from winning, but it looks like nobody is getting GPUs now! |
| Apr 12 00:11:19 | 4m 43s | FUSE | ♥ 1 | Pretty simple game, but it's well executed and well rounded. Music was pretty good! I found it a little difficult to click on the flame, I wish it was a little more forgiving on where I clicked. Still, nice work finishing the game! I lasted 100 seconds, saved all 3 fuses, sparked 331 times, and got 16950 points. :) |
| Apr 13 00:47:10 | 24h 35m | BOX IN OX | ♥ 0 | Super cute game. It's old school and really well-rounded. The music, sounds, graphics, and gameplay really feel like I'm being whisked a few decades back. It took me a whole playthrough before I really knew what I was doing, but on my second playthrough I was having much more fun! I don't think I'm very good at it though. I got 27! |
| Apr 13 02:30:50 | 1h 43m | Tree loves Sun | ♥ 1 | Unique concept. I had a pretty relaxing time playing this game! I like how dynamic the tree growing is, that's very cool. I like the UI style of showing the score and health with the flower and heart, but perhaps I would move it off to a side. It kind of got in the way of the gameplay when I had a really tall tree. Nice work! |
| Apr 13 03:34:17 | 1h 03m | Escape from Lluna | ♥ 2 | Seems like a quintessential shoot em up. I think it could use a bit of variety to really become something of its own. But I really liked the visual style and the music! The ship movement was good too. Nicely done! I survived for 44 seconds. |
| Apr 13 03:57:03 | 22m 46s | Soul Dilemma | ♥ 2 | Wow that was really good! I was surprised how huge the scope was for this game and you pulled it off! Sometimes the lighting was a little glitchy so I couldn't see the field of vision from the guards, but aside from that, there's nothing to complain about on this one! The gameplay was really fun, the difficulty ramp up was smooth, the different abilities felt powerful but not over-powered, and being able to be extra risky for additional souls is great. My favorite detail was all the sounds that play when you break into a house. There were so many of them and they were all really fun to hear. You should be really proud of this one, it was a blast! Nice job. |
| Apr 13 04:07:57 | 10m 54s | PsyDog | ♥ 1 | I like the pixel sprites! The dog is fun to move around and bark/bite with, so at least there's that! |
| Apr 13 04:20:33 | 12m 36s | Live For Later Or Live For Now | ♥ 1 | I feel like I learned something.... It was a good experience. Very surreal and the audio really aided in that. I did a couple of day cycles as these little skulls popped around; very evocative and I really wanted to know what they meant. Eventually they turned red. And a little later, the game was over? Did I die? I think I died. I like how unique this entry is. This was really good. Nicely done! |
| Apr 14 04:20:17 | 23h 59m | Tyranny Defense Simulator 2984 | ♥ 1 | A bit loud at the end! If you wanted to go for that overwhelming feeling with all the voices, maybe you could turn down the volume as they begin to pile up. It's a neat concept! It might be cool to have some "benign" messages that you might not want to censor, so then parsing the messages themselves under time pressure becomes part of the game, rather than just how quickly you can press the buttons. The graphics were great, and the voice acting was a nice touch! Well done! |
| Apr 14 04:34:09 | 13m 52s | Singularity | ♥ 1 | _Look at you in all your glory._ I found the credits pretty funny. I wasn't entirely sure what I had to do at first, but I got it down once I caught the first animal. The concept is unique and nice, but I had a tough time outsmarting the AI. I just needed to hope that they would move into a corner so I could trap them. Graphics were really nice! Nicely done! |
| Apr 14 04:44:13 | 10m 04s | Into The Light | ♥ 2 | I got a score of 72! I love how the UI is integrated into the environment, with the phone showing your health and score, the game over text slightly behind trees, and the flashlight turning on when pressing play. All of those are super nice details that I really love! I never imagined I would be trying to help mosquitoes, of all the animals out there! |
| Apr 14 05:11:59 | 27m 46s | Eschaton, Dark Forest of the | ♥ 1 | This really awesome! I super enjoyed it. It almost felt like 3D Undertale, especially with the characters and all the dodging. The visuals are simple but they really work. Additionally, the sounds really add to the mood. Especially when the Eschaton is arriving and everything is all purple. The way the calm music blends with the high-action music is also top notch too! The story felt deep and meaningful. Both existential and peaceful somehow. I almost wish _I_ was the one who made this game! You should be really proud of this one! |