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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | Josh Bothun's comment | |
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| Apr 5 18:13:14 | Apartheid | ♥ 1 | Breathtaking art style and really polished looking for a jam. The game is pretty direct with its message but I think that works well for this. Nice work! | |
| Apr 5 18:22:46 | 9m 32s | Everlast | ♥ 1 | Impressive amount of stuff for compo! The visual style is really nice and I love that there's voice acting. Only complaint really is the player movement and camera could have used a bit more attention. |
| Apr 5 18:23:46 | 1m 00s | Hard Light | ♥ 1 | Really fun and addicting, the fxare simple but effective, especially like how the wall lights up. Nice game! |
| Apr 5 18:27:44 | 3m 58s | Over the Rainbow Bridge | ♥ 1 | Super cute game, simple but effective; nice job! |
| Apr 5 18:32:34 | 4m 50s | Cooperate with your shadow! | ♥ 1 | Wow i really like this mechanic especially when you gain the ability to control the delay, pretty original. Good challenge level, not too hard but still tough. One small point of feedback, you should let your music track play consistently instead of stopping and restarting it every level -- if you finish levels quickly the player doesn't get to enjoy the full music you created! |
| Apr 5 18:35:49 | 3m 15s | Road Weaver! | ♥ 1 | Solid game, the effect of the buildings moving with the camera looks great and is a good solution to the problem of how to have skyscrapers while still seeing the ground easily. |
| Apr 5 18:36:23 | 34s | Volcano | ♥ 1 | Super cute graphics and good concept, reminds me a lot of katamari obviously. The controls do seem a bit finnicky though. |
| Apr 5 18:41:30 | 5m 07s | STAY | ♥ 1 | Really impressive game actually! Thought it was going to be a simpler runner until i beat the first level. Also I absolutely love the aphex twin-like acid/techno track on the second screen :) |
| Apr 5 18:43:55 | 2m 25s | Taoreta Mura | ♥ 0 | Awesome game, you should enable the graphics category because this deserves a high rating, it looks wonderful! |
| Apr 5 18:55:44 | 11m 49s | PRESSURE | ♥ 2 | Nice game, the movement feels really solid and smooth, kinda reminds me of a combo of mario and sonic. I've been meaning to jump into rust one of these days, sounds fun! |
| Apr 5 19:07:25 | 11m 41s | Carpe Diem | ♥ 1 | Addicting game, great look, really hard but i wanted to keep trying because it was so fun! |
| Apr 7 06:31:50 | 35h 24m | Say Something | ♥ 1 | Nice color palette and mood for sure. I found the platforming controls a little difficult as i kept sticking to the edge of platforms, but overall nice work. |
| Apr 7 06:43:10 | 11m 20s | Hurry Mommy ! | ♥ 1 | Cute toy graphics! The perspective also looks pretty cool but makes platforming a bit hard. Would be nice to have some audio for sure though. And it wasn't clear what the penalty for the baby crying was as it seems he just cries immediately after you give him a toy but it doesn't seem to matter -- i think the mechanics needed a bit more fleshing out. |
| Apr 7 07:10:49 | 27m 39s | Future me problem | ♥ 1 | Strangely addicting game, simple concept but really well excecuted! Obviously the physics can get a little bit finnicky but thats part of the charm of these types of games. |
| Apr 7 07:36:01 | 25m 12s | 4&1/2 Lives | ♥ 1 | This is amazing work for your first jam! I'm really impressed. Simple concept but well done with the different platform types and awesome that its procedurally generated as well. I like the music too. The main piece of feedback is that the player movement just needs to be a bit more responsive (more acceleration?) and less physics-y to feel fun i think. It would be good to feel like you have more control over the player. |
| Apr 7 07:40:43 | 4m 42s | The world is breaking | ♥ 0 | I dont really get how the sand and water items work so i only really ever built wood bridges. But the idea is really cool and original, really nice work! |
| Apr 7 07:52:51 | 12m 08s | Avagiance | ♥ 1 | Really wonderful graphics. Needs audio of course but thats ok. The mechanics could use a bit of balancing - the attack seems much stronger than the projectile weapon. But solid gameplay overall having to balance between fighting and charging the portal. |
| Apr 7 21:15:47 | 13h 22m | Dilley and the Sacred Stones | ♥ 1 | I love that you made cutscenes, thats a lot of work for compo! The animations were really cute too. As far as the game mechanic, its actually quite clever to combine a rhythm game with a shooter, but i think there are some problems that arise since the movement of the ships youre trying to shoot is not synchronized with the music. I think with a bit more attention and tweaking you could really make it work though. Nice work! |
| Apr 7 21:22:37 | 6m 50s | Gomma | ♥ 1 | Cool systems in this game! I struggled a bit at first but its fun running around trying to balance everything. The sprites you drew look nice especially the glowing effect -- would have really benefited from a tiny amount of sound effects too. Nice work |
| Apr 7 21:24:24 | 1m 47s | Timeless | ♥ 1 | Best game i've seen all jam so far. A complete experience, feels like a classic, easy 5/5. Simple concept which is executed very well, easy to understand, right level of difficulty, consistent and tasteful art presentation, what else is there to say? Fantastic work, great game. |
| Apr 7 21:42:51 | 18m 27s | Weed it & Reap | ♥ 0 | Cool idea and executed well. The graphics look really nice and are consistent, and the audio is good too. I noticed i could sort of stunlock the zombie for a long time, not sure if that was intentional, but ended up quitting after 10 mins or so because i felt like I could go forever, so perhaps the difficulty needs to be turned up a bit. Nice game overall! |
| Apr 8 02:43:11 | 5h 00m | Impending Doom | ♥ 1 | Great clicker! Ending was hilarious. Really good for first entry as well. |
| Apr 20 16:09:57 | 301h 26m | Shadow Crash | ♥ 1 | Decent little platformer, I like the colors a lot. I had trouble understanding what to do with the cats though -- I took them all to the machine in the lower left but couldn't seem to do anything beyond that. Nice work though! |
| Apr 20 16:13:56 | 3m 59s | Gladiwaitor | ♥ 1 | The combat feels really great, genuinely challenging and fun! The intermission screens where you talk with an opponent were sort of confusing though, none of the dialog options seemed to do anything and I had to wait a couple minutes before the next fight. I could have been doing something stupid though. Nice game overall! |
| Apr 20 16:19:18 | 5m 22s | Summer Vacation | ♥ 1 | I loved this game! The graphics are nice and consistent, its well designed and balanced. Its really challenging but not too frustrating. My only point of small feedback is that the fruit on the trees was a bit too hard to see at first, you might want to make it stand out more either color or size wise. Really nice job! |
| Apr 20 16:30:43 | 11m 25s | Singularity | ♥ 1 | Interesting idea for a game. It actually looks quite promising, but personally I found it confusing trying to determine exactly how to catch the rabbits. At first it seemed turn based and you needed to force them into a corner, but eventually I ended up being able to catch them by moving multiple spaces and they didn't seem to move for one of them? Not exactly sure. The gameplay concept and graphics are nice, though, good job! Unfortunately the music cutout for me in the beginning which I would have liked to hear, im on Chrome on windows 10. |
| Apr 20 21:55:25 | 5h 24m | Balloonz | ♥ 0 | Cool idea! A bit challenging but fun to play. |