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Timestamp	Since previous	Game		JHax's comment
Apr 5 10:16:33		Dating under the Comet	♥ 2	Great game - thought the generated character art and names were particularly good. It's a fun interpretation of the theme and the art style of the whole thing is gorgeous! Nice one!
Apr 5 10:27:22	10m 49s	Tree loves Sun	♥ 1	The tree growing mechanics are good and there's plenty to keep you engaged to move the sun around to try and keep the lower parts of the tree healthy (I had a pretty major setback when half the thing fell down XD). As a few others have mentioned the tree going red is a bit confusing at first because I thought that meant it needed less sun - but it's not too tough to figure out with a bit of playing to experiment. Really solid game overall enjoyed the sombre tone of the music as well as it links in well with the theme.
Apr 5 10:50:46	23m 24s	Death By Balloon	♥ 2	Really enjoyed this, the wall jump mechanic really gives the player something to try to master to really get the most out of it! I've got a great deal of admiration for anyone who can make Pico-8 graphics look this good as well (no shade on Pico-8, I'm just not great with it). Managed a high score of 3920 BubbleKnight.PNG Would be nice to have another level or something and I did sometimes feel like it would be useful to have a button to reset the game mid fall if you mess up early on - but these are minor things for sure! Great game :)
Apr 5 11:07:44	16m 58s	Tax Haven	♥ 1	Super enjoyable! Great interpretation of the theme and a good sense of humour to the whole thing 😄 I would have liked a way to get more documents when you run out (apologies if I've missed something) Really good game overall though, the little sea birds just flying around and chilling is a nice touch too!
Apr 5 11:19:25	11m 41s	Locomorphosis	♥ 2	I'm a sucker for a train game so I was keen on this one right away! There's a great ramping up of tension as the area you've got to navigate around gets more and more complex. Lots to think about with all the different track pieces too!
Apr 5 12:19:45	1h 00m	Anemos	♥ 2	Nice idea and well executed - I'm very bad at this game but it's fun to play nonetheless! Art style is delightful!
Apr 5 12:26:17	6m 32s	Click to Continue	♥ 1	Really well written, really well acted! Nice one!
Apr 5 12:38:54	12m 37s	Floodgrid	♥ 1	Good easy to understand mechanics and really well executed!
Apr 5 12:42:50	3m 56s	Find, Fling, Repeat	♥ 1	Really well put together game overall. Nice straight forward mechanics and fun to play around with. Some nice bits of polish too with the button animations and the stars in the background.
Apr 5 12:49:48	6m 58s	Lava is Deadly	♥ 2	Great interpretation of the theme turned into a really cool puzzle mechanic. Super clever game!
Apr 5 12:54:59	5m 11s	Hydropy	♥ 1	Didn't fully get what was going on to begin with but it's a good but of fun once everything clicks 😄
Apr 6 12:45:08	23h 50m	Battery Low	♥ 5	Really charming game! The graphics and the sound work well together to make Rovar cute and endearing. Nice way of laying things out to make it interesting to approach the game in different ways to get all the way to the end.
Apr 6 12:56:13	11m 05s	The Bedtime Resistance	♥ 3	Really like the interpretation of the theme on this great to delay the inevitability of going to bed (very on brand for game jamming too...)
Apr 6 13:07:26	11m 13s	Little Time Hero	♥ 1	Pixel art is really lovely here. Mechanically it's a great streamlining of sort of inventory min / maxing in RPGs, which I normally get tired of quite quickly but, as I say, it's been really nicely streamlined here to make it a lot of fun.
Apr 6 19:41:50	6h 34m	Wizardfall	♥ 1	Really well written, and I'm absolutely blown away by the animations - they're gorgeous!
Apr 6 20:10:58	29m 08s	Beavers Inc.	♥ 1	Really solid puzzle mechanics here and the beaver dam holding back the inevitable river is such a nice way to tie it all into the theme. Writing is very charming as well, all in all a solid game!
Apr 6 20:33:42	22m 44s	Inevitabone	♥ 2	The game's good fun and the framing of it being trying to get into the afterlife is enjoyable. Really enjoyed the animations on the skeleton. Also felt the controls were a bit floaty, but it fits the general vibe of the player being a ghost of sorts I suppose!
Apr 6 20:46:12	12m 30s	The Hill I Die On	♥ 1	There's a great like sombre "delaying the inevitable" vibe to the whole thing, it's really well put together. The 2.5D graphics letting you have the crisp pixel art casting shadows is a cool look too. I appreciate you were a bit pushed for time, but if you do end up coming back to it, I'd love to see how this looked if the light source gradually moved over time and you could really see the shadows elongating and moving (it's been a while since I've worked in Unity but you might be able to do some shader magic to get some nice dusky colours on the pixel art too). Very effective at creating a mood and the pixel art is top notch!
Apr 6 20:56:35	10m 23s	Balancing Balls	♥ 1	Congrats on your first game! It's a really solid entry! It might have been good to have a score that increases faster the more balls you're balancing (or something along those lines), but it certainly doesn't need it. I thought I was being clever not necessarily needing to keep the blue ones balanced so thought I'd tip them off to make it easier, but each time I tried I lost the black one too - so probably didn't need a point system to encourage people like me to keep everything balanced XD Having the white spots on the balls to make it easily readable how fast the balls are starting to roll away was a really nice touch too! Well done!
Apr 6 21:08:57	12m 22s	Muzketeerz	♥ 1	Enjoyed this! Definitely a cool idea and I'm glad to hear you're thinking of adding a few more things after the jam is over. Particularly intrigued to see what you do with bayonets! Might be interesting to see some options for other formations as well but that's just a vague idea floating around my head, I'm not totally sure where you could go with it or whether it'd add much XD
Apr 8 18:53:18	45h 44m	Workplace Accidents	♥ 3	Good game, really hits a good level of feeling like you've got to keep a bunch of plates spinning which really suits the theme. Enjoy the slightly macabre sense of humour to it all as well! Did find that the keyboard controls didn't work at first because I had a gamepad plugged in (the gamepad stick did work for movement but I couldn't figure out if any of the buttons were mapping to the repair action and seemed to block the spacebar from the keyboard) - but worked fine once I'd unplugged it, and that's just a minor technical thing, nothing against the game itself! Nicely done, enjoyed my time playing this!
Apr 8 19:11:01	17m 43s	The Arc	♥ 1	This game is really cool! Does a good job of capturing how terrifying it must be to navigate through space - definitely on the edge of my seat following the signal and going in a direction where I can't see the next cluster of asteroids. Absolutely nails the vibe!
Apr 8 19:25:57	14m 56s	Duct Tape in Space	♥ 1	Cool game, seemed quite difficult at first but actually pretty good difficulty wise once I'd got the hang of it! "Percussive Maintenance" is excellent 😄
Apr 8 19:37:10	11m 13s	Light Souls	♥ 1	Nice concept, definitely felt like I was getting better each time - as others have mentioned having a score or time might be good to get a stronger sense of the improvement. Really liked the low poly look and the little trail the grim reaper leaves behind!
Apr 8 19:56:16	19m 06s	Witch's End	♥ 1	Cool game, the graphics all fit nicely with each other and the sort of distant firework like explosion noises really sort of hit the right vibe of "encroaching darkness ending the world". The darkening edges of the screen when you take damage also worked well to create the right sort of atmosphere. Enjoyed it and will probably come back and play a bit more!
Apr 10 12:23:41	40h 27m	Hamstronaughts	♥ 0	Starts off quite tricky but good fun once you get the hang of it. Art and sound are both really nice. I think it might have been a bit nicer if you could let a few enemies past you without losing straight away but that's just my preference. It's definitely got a really cool central mechanic in the movable respawn point!
Apr 10 12:29:31	5m 50s	Road Rage Mage	♥ 3	Graphics and audio are absolutely top notch and it's fun to play around with different strategies to try and get ahead (although I'm yet to settle on a winning one XD)
Apr 10 12:36:17	6m 46s	Guardian of the Sand	♥ 0	Really cool interpretation of the theme, I've definitely spent a lot of time trying to engineer a beach in a way that will hold back the sea from my wonderful sandcastles (I haven't figured out a foolproof way yet). Graphics are nice, particularly enjoyed the crabs. I did think it maybe wasn't super obvious the effect the the sand breaks actually had, but other than that, well put together game 😄
Apr 10 12:54:58	18m 41s	Meteor Storm	♥ 1	Quite mechanically simple but the art style is lovely and it's really well polished overall. Might be nice if the stars scrolled in the background depending on which boosters you've got active just as an extra bit of feedback? Otherwise it's a really solid entry though!
Apr 10 13:00:50	5m 52s	Untitled Arrow Game	♥ 0	There's a really great sense of like, consistent art direction here where you start off with a very clean and simple look to the game, but as the difficulty increases there are sort of more and more levels of visual noise to make it tougher to track exactly what's going on. Really well put together!
Apr 10 13:10:19	9m 29s	Enlit	♥ 1	Really lovely and thoughtfully written game. Very effectively produces the right atmosphere and the graphics work really well.
Apr 10 13:25:39	15m 20s	Shepherd's Island	♥ 2	Brilliantly designed puzzles in here! Could maybe have been a bit more forgiving in some places, although that might end up just making it a bit too easy. Really enjoyed this overall though, excellent stuff!
Apr 10 13:38:17	12m 38s	Dino Savior	♥ 1	Really nicely put together overall, movement is fast enough to keep things feeling fun and manageable but slow enough to punish you a bit for not keeping on top of things. I thought the difficulty increase was well paced as well, started off feeling confident I could keep going for ages then gradually it dawned on me more and more that it was just a case of delaying the inevitable! Well done, always a sucker for a dinosaur theme as well!
Apr 10 14:41:35	1h 03m	The Pit	♥ 1	Really fun card battler here! Nice depth to strategising about how to make the most of the camps on top of when the best time is to use up cards vs. ending your turn and taking damage. Visually it's really clean and looks great. Straightforward to pick up as well which is a real plus!
Apr 10 14:47:36	6m 01s	Stuck In Space	♥ 1	Awesome! Simple mechanics but so well polished! There are so many nice little touches in here like the intro sequence, the visor nudging up and down to show which way your moving, the colour change as the oxygen starts to run out. I also quite like that the game doesn't automatically hit you with a game over if you run out of fuel and leaves you to float for a bit, definitely adds a sort of "oh no I've messed up here" vibe.
Apr 10 15:49:06	1h 01m	HutHut	♥ 1	Wow! There's so much to this game! There's obviously tons of depth to the city growth mechanics that I've only just started to grasp from my time playing. The retro style pixel art looks very cool and does a great job of conveying what everything is and how you can interact with it. Music fits the vibe really well and just straight up really fun to play! Easily one of my favourite games from this jam!
Apr 10 16:06:37	17m 31s	Isn't-Land	♥ 1	This is really well made! One of the better ones I've played that's gone for a rising sea levels / environmental angle on the theme. There's clearly a lot of depth to all the interconnected systems that keeps it nice and challenging!
Apr 13 17:49:00	73h 42m	Will There Bee Another?	♥ 0	It's lovely to see a more positive spin on the theme of delaying the inevitable, especially as it's a theme that I feel naturally leads folks towards a slightly darker tone. Graphics all look brilliant too!
Apr 13 17:54:50	5m 50s	Doomed Spacequest	♥ 1	The central mechanic here is fantastic, there's a real sense of playfulness to it. Had a lot of fun playing this!
Apr 13 18:07:29	12m 39s	Don't Wake Azathoth!	♥ 1	Really stylish game! Loved the black and white look to it and a very solidly put together rhythm game! I liked that the sort of "lives" system was how many Z's Azathoth was snoring with! Managed to keep it going until finally screwing up on exactly 1000 points XD DontWakeAzathoth.PNG
Apr 13 18:23:23	15m 54s	Interstellar Transport Pod	♥ 1	There's a really striking look to this game that reflects its sort of abstract method of story telling really well. Thought the way of giving the player a bit of a glimpse into the character they're playing as via the things that came up and positive and negative thoughts was a brilliant touch.
Apr 13 21:14:39	2h 51m	Dino Village	♥ 1	The sort of hand drawn-ish look to this is very cool. It's a really nice sort of encapsulation of management type games. The dinosaurs are cute and the whole thing has a lovely sense of levity about it!
Apr 16 20:13:02	70h 58m	Track Switching	♥ 1	This is really nicely put together, particularly for a Compo entry AND a first Ludum Dare good job overall. There's definitely a great sort of feel to the difficulty increase. Starts off nice and simple and gets more complex at a pace that is satisfying but also boosts the tension effectively.