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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | extar's comment | |
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| Apr 4 17:35:30 | Meteor Rain | ♥ 2 | Lots of respect for making your first game in Unity in 48 hours, can't have been easy! The movement of the ship feels nice and I like how the shots accelerate too. I think the best thing to add would be some sound effects to give everything a bit more impact. :) | |
| Apr 4 17:58:41 | 23m 11s | Timeflight Alpha | ♥ 2 | First off, and most importantly, this is a really fun game! I love a good shmup. I liked the element of hunting for power-ups and weighing up how much time you had left, really fits the theme well. I like the fact there are good sound effects for everything that happens and some music too--lots of Compo games seem to neglect audio. I think some of the objects like the ship and especially the power-ups could do with being a lot bigger on screen, playing the game in WebGL without fullscreen they felt too small. |
| Apr 4 18:35:05 | 36m 24s | If you try hard enough, you can win. | ♥ 2 | I love the graphics and music in this one. There's a cool selection of power-ups and I liked how quick the gameplay was, it didn't feel like I was waiting around to get a power-up and you could feel your character getting more powerful. I think adding a bit of momentum to the movement would improve the feel of the game, and it'd be cool if the enemies didn't just move straight towards you. Nice job! :) |
| Apr 4 22:22:02 | 3h 46m | White Death | ♥ 1 | Great art style and some nice character animation. This really nails the theme, I like the feeling when the storm gets worse and the camera starts closing in around the character. It's cool how you can pick up the furniture and burn that too when things get desperate. I wish there was a bit more to do in the game, it'd be great to see an extended post-jam version. |
| Apr 4 22:27:48 | 5m 46s | SwimCity 2000 | ♥ 0 | The screenshots for this look really cool but the link doesn't work? Edit: Link working now :) Very cool idea, it was interesting just watching the simulation run. I love the pixel art style of the graphics. My dams kept leaking, I had a hard time placing dams on slopes facing away from the camera I think. It would be really cool to have some sound effects added to help highlight when things are happening. Nice job. :) |
| Apr 4 22:50:25 | 22m 37s | BLACKSUN | ♥ 2 | I really liked this. Not a genre I'm familiar with but the icons for what each task and job required were clear and understandable so I managed to figure out enough to start having fun :) I liked the Aztec theme, the statues with the names of different gods were really cool. Really interesting, and fits the theme well! :) |
| Apr 5 11:05:37 | 12h 15m | Infested hole | ♥ 1 | Nice simple endless platformer. I really like the mood the graphics and music create, the limited colour palette works really well and there are some nice little animations to make things feel more polished. Really cool music. All fits the theme very well. The biggest issue for me is the controls. The arrow keys are far easier to use than the odd qsd/asd controls (if multiple mappings for controls aren't an issue, why even bother with the azerty/qwerty switch? I missed it the first playthrough and nearly gave up on the game straight away) I would change the title screen to make the controls a lot clearer and simpler, I didn't even realise until I went back to check after starting with this comment that the arrow keys were alternate controls. |
| Apr 5 11:49:45 | 44m 08s | Fire Punch | ♥ 1 | Nice graphics and platformer movement. The fire enemies were quite hard, I'm guessing you were going for a Souls-like 'dodge-a-lot' approach to combat? I got to a glowy orb which I hoped was a checkpoint but when I went back to the previous room to finish off the two enemies I went around I died and got kicked back to the beginning. The in-line tutorial is a very nice way to introduce the mechanics, helps onboard players, which is good. I just wish it didn't put you right back to the beginning each time you die. I liked the character animation and the fireballs looked really cool. Nice job. :) |
| Apr 5 15:18:01 | 3h 28m | Save the sun | ♥ 3 | The music really sets the mood in this, love it. Great graphics, really interesting style, lots of personality. The music, mood and graphics reminded me a lot of Into The Breach. I wish there were more of the ore asteroids to pick up, I seemed to spend most of my time searching, especially before the radar upgrades. Great work :) |
| Apr 5 15:43:45 | 25m 44s | Tomorrow's Problem | ♥ 1 | Fun little game! Got as far as the yellow skip, I think an item must have bounced off screen or something because I had everything lifted off the floor but it didn't go to the next level. Nice graphics and an interesting physics-based game. :) |
| Apr 5 15:50:40 | 6m 55s | Delay the Raptors | ♥ 2 | Weird game! The animation was pretty funny and there's a charm to the bizarre half-finished looking cars. Interesting idea to combine a bunch of minigames together like that. :) |
| Apr 5 15:57:33 | 6m 53s | Can You Out Run It? | ♥ 1 | Nice simple twist on the endless jumper formula. The Gameboy-style graphics and sound give the game a nice feel. I like the fact the game just automatically respawns you, keeps things moving along nicely. :) |
| Apr 5 16:13:08 | 15m 35s | Cat in the Bag | ♥ 4 | This is a cool idea and has very nice illustrations. It felt a bit arbitrary trying to guess what items would work for a given puzzle, it would be great to see this expanded out in a post-jam version. Nice music too, helps set the mood! |
| Apr 5 16:17:42 | 4m 34s | Color Clock | ♥ 1 | Nice simple idea well executed! It feels like there should be bonus points for hitting an area on the first pass rather than letting the clock hand keep going round, that was the way I was instinctively playing it before I realised I could just wait to get the right timing, that could be a nice risk/reward element to add :) |
| Apr 5 16:24:24 | 6m 42s | Reactor Meltdown (The Simpsons) | ♥ 1 | Really cool cartoony graphics, not something you see very often from 3D LD entries. I couldn't work out what to do with the six numbered buttons puzzle? Maybe some more sound to give the player feedback if they're doing the right thing? Anyway, cool game! |
| Apr 5 16:42:00 | 17m 36s | Hydropy | ♥ 1 | I struggled to get what was going on here, upgrading the terrain just seemed to be a case of waving the mouse around the centre of the screen? Getting water felt too random. I tried just leaving the game running and it didn't seem to advance, or it did so very slowly, seems counter-productive to do what the game tells you to? Is there some strategy that I'm just missing? |
| Apr 5 17:30:40 | 48m 40s | Cold and Alone | ♥ 1 | This is so much fun and I love the graphics. Best gameplay I've seen so far in LD50! Reminds me a little bit of FTL with the way you choose the activities for the day. This would really benefit from some sound or atmospheric music. I liked how the diary entries fluctuated between hopeful and pessimistic. Incredible work for a Compo entry! |
| Apr 5 17:53:44 | 23m 04s | Delay The Inevitable | ♥ 0 | Nice movement to the ship, it's always good to see some shmups in Ludum Dare. Nice particle effects on the shot and it's always good to hear Gruber's music :) |
| Apr 5 17:57:20 | 3m 36s | Escape from Lluna | ♥ 1 | Really cool graphics in this and I love the music. It really needs some power-ups or some kind of progression. :) |
| Apr 5 18:05:50 | 8m 30s | ENTROPY | ♥ 0 | Fun little physics puzzle game. Nice level design! The music was a strange but welcome inclusion. :) |
| Apr 5 18:32:53 | 27m 03s | Jam Time! | ♥ 1 | I really liked the upgrade system in this, feels like there's a lot of depth that can be uncovered in it. It could do with an alternate button for fire it was hard moving around and firing all with the left hand. Great gameplay though, good job :) |
| Apr 5 18:38:03 | 5m 10s | Leaf the Ghost behind | ♥ 3 | Really cool game. I loved the character design and having the 2D animated characters in a 3D world gives the game a unique look. The furthest I got in was about 90 seconds and I didn't see many areas that really used the depth movement which was a shame but besides that the level design was really good. Nice work :) |
| Apr 5 20:28:07 | 1h 50m | Les Aventures de De Lay L'InĂ©vitable! | ♥ 1 | So much fun, I love seeing Pico-8 games at Ludum Dare. I love the French Revolution as a setting, great humour too, let them eat baguettes. Beautiful Pico-8 pixel art. High five. :) |
| Apr 5 23:50:20 | 3h 22m | Balloon Rush 2 | ♥ 2 | Great art style and presentation. I liked some of the little touches like how holding the mouth makes a more powerful gust of wind (like you're breathing deep) |
| Apr 8 16:58:49 | 65h 08m | Adelie - Chasing Pavements | ♥ 1 | I love finding Pico-8 games on Ludum Dare, as a platform it's so well-suited to making cute little games for jams like this. Great little Pico-8 game, I love all the animation you managed to include and there were some cute bleepy bloopy sound effects. I've posted a review too: https://youtu.be/qxkNPOozqCE |
| Apr 8 17:27:52 | 29m 03s | Flooded Caves | ♥ 1 | Really cool water mechanics in this and I love the interpretation of the theme where being to 'delay the inevitable' doesn't feel futile. :) I've posted a review too: https://youtu.be/qxkNPOozqCE |
| Apr 8 22:50:01 | 5h 22m | Warming up! | ♥ 0 | I really enjoyed this. Nice simple little platformer and so cool to see 2-player implemented! I posted a review of this over on my YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/qxkNPOozqCE |
| Apr 10 18:05:47 | 43h 15m | Overheat | ♥ 1 | There's some good platforming in here, although I found a couple of the jumps really difficult. Thanks for showing me the end section when I had it on stream, that was cool. Best thing that could be added would be some sound effects, especially for the interactive buttons. Cool game :) |
| Apr 10 18:06:50 | 1m 03s | Void Prison | ♥ 2 | The graphics and presentation in this one are great, lovely colour scheme and particle effects. I'm pretty horrendous at games like this, but it's still pretty fun. I'm guessing Enter the Gungeon was a bit of an inspiration? |
| Apr 10 18:09:28 | 2m 38s | Doomsday Run | ♥ 2 | This is hilarious, I was cracking up playing this on stream. I really liked the character designs and the animation. It's a simple game but really well executed, and most importantly with the sense of humour it's a lot of fun :) |
| Apr 10 18:12:26 | 2m 58s | Eschaton, Dark Forest of the | ♥ 1 | I love the visual style of this and the mixture of sprites and voxel graphics, really unique. The gameplay was pretty simple but was fun. I think the difficulty of the stabiliser battles could be increased without harming things though I understand how it's always safer to make a jam game 'too easy' rather than 'too hard'. I loved the fact that each of the strange characters you meet have their own personalities. :) |
| Apr 10 18:13:38 | 1m 12s | Billy you must run! | ♥ 1 | I appreciated the Frozen-Synapse-style gameplay in this. The game has an interesting puzzle feel to it when at first it looks like it's going to be more of an action game. The story was pretty funny too! Great work :) |