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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | Alex de la Cour's comment | |
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| Jan 9 21:31:45 | Homunculus | ♥ 2 | Cracking job! I laughed so hard at the end when I woke it up. Great pixel art (of course), cool moody music, quality retro point and click vibes and just the right length for a game jam. | |
| Jan 9 21:47:32 | 15m 47s | Frozen Dragon | ♥ 3 | What a cute, cosy, adorable game! I really liked the isometric pixel art and the music and mood was great, the whole thing made me feel warm and fuzzy inside. |
| Jan 9 22:08:19 | 20m 47s | Human resources | ♥ 4 | I enjoyed all the interactivity and changing dialogue - I had a really good laugh in places! Gameplay-wise, the concept of matching the colours with the attacks is a cool idea, there was perhaps a bit too much back and fourth though, and the game crashed when I was talking to a gargoyle on Friday so I didn't get a chance to complete it. I was hoping I'd find out what was behind the other two doors! |
| Jan 10 12:00:30 | 13h 52m | Tony Crow's Pro Scyther | ♥ 4 | I loved this! Great graphics, awesome audio, good controls (although they took me a minute to get the hang of) and hilarious all around. Really impressive - I played it through four times before coming to comment here. This is one of the first games I've played from this year's jam and it's set the bar very high!! |
| Jan 10 12:22:15 | 21m 45s | The Harvester | ♥ 1 | I loved this! Beautiful pixel art, great atmospheric music and fun gameplay that requires thinking and planning - difficult but not too difficult. I thought it was a lot of fun to play. |
| Jan 10 12:53:58 | 31m 43s | Money grows on trees | ♥ 1 | Really beautiful art style!! I saw a couple of people did what I did, maxed out Bananas early game and then click click click, so maybe the prices could have been a bit better balanced, but other than that it was a nice, fun, pretty game. |
| Jan 10 13:20:23 | 26m 25s | Harvest for a Murder | ♥ 2 | This really reminded me of the Oregon Trail, that sort of hopeless travel where death is always one move away. I liked the music and the sombre mood, and the game has tons of character and personality. I died a lot and sometimes it seemed like the RNG or whatever was really against me - perhaps some balancing with regards to that could have helped, often I went across what seemed like 4 or 5 clicks without getting anything - I like a challenge but this just seemed a tad unfair at times. Apart from that though, I thought this was a great take on the theme and a fun game that made me want to try again each time I lost. |
| Jan 10 13:39:51 | 19m 28s | Agent 001 | ♥ 1 | Great stuff! Awesome art and cool music, this really felt like I was playing one of those 90's shooters ripped right from my childhood, and I thought it was just the right length, difficulty and complexity for a game jam. I had a blast! |
| Jan 10 13:47:38 | 7m 47s | Cute Baby Animal Organ Harvesting Simulator | ♥ 2 | You had me from the moment I saw the name of the game. This was a good laugh - cute retro music overlaid by a chorus of five unending Whilhelm screams could never get old! |
| Jan 10 14:01:24 | 13m 46s | Fox Puppies Want Food For The Winter | ♥ 1 | Stunning art - in particular I loved the design of the scarecrows. The music was adorable and super relaxed and catchy. The controls were nice and responsive, although the movement felt a big sluggish - with so much back and forth across the map, perhaps a bit more speed would have helped. |
| Jan 10 14:47:19 | 45m 55s | Shroomer Caves | ♥ 2 | Cute pixel art! The game itself felt pretty well balanced - a nice loop of going underground, getting resources, coming back up and upgrading so that you can spend longer underground each time and find even more resources. Really smooth, responsive controls as well. My only criticism is that I started to feel a bit OP from about the halfway point. |
| Jan 10 15:55:15 | 1h 07m | Arrrrrvest! | ♥ 2 | Took me a few deaths to get the hang of it, but once I did - a really fun game! It was really satisfying planning what to upgrade, what I needed and how long I had. I had a good laugh while I was playing, harvesting my cannonball plants and watching the pirates complain as I was defeating them. Unfortunately a bug removed the number from the final boss when I clicked on it so I didn't have a chance to fight them. |
| Jan 10 16:09:27 | 14m 12s | Harvesters From Outer Space | ♥ 2 | A cool concept and a really good take on the theme. I loved the little "moo" as I was beaming up the cows. Controls were good - straightforward, intuitive and responsive. A full screen mode would have been good - because I had my mouse cursor near the bottom of the screen to aim, it kept moving off the gameplay screen. |
| Jan 10 18:56:36 | 2h 47m | Mun Fields | ♥ 2 | A chilled little game with a fun soundtrack and a cool new spin on the genre. Intuitive gameplay, although perhaps some more reward features would have been nice - getting back time or a win condition (I'm assuming there isn't one from a few playthroughs?). Either way - good submission! |
| Jan 10 19:40:11 | 43m 35s | Blood Harvest | ♥ 1 | Good job - really cool pixel art and music, the art and audio matched perfectly with the vibe of the game. Movement was nice and smooth, and I really liked the harvest mechanic - it brought me back from the brink of death a bunch of times, I thought it was really innovative! Good difficulty level - I died a few times on most levels but none of them were unfair or unbeatable. |
| Jan 10 19:55:13 | 15m 02s | Soullector | ♥ 1 | Really amazing music, it fit game perfectly and created a really sombre mood. Nice variety in enemy designs and good player controls as well, I liked the auto-fire feature although for me it made combat a bit too easy. There was perhaps a bit too much back and forth over the map to get all of the souls. |
| Jan 10 20:21:52 | 26m 39s | The Soul Harvester | ♥ 1 | I've got a ton of respect for anyone who makes a metroidvania for a game jam! What a ton of work that must have gone into this - it'd be tough for the jam, let alone the compo! I thought the idea of enabling and disabling abilities was really cool, and the controls felt smooth and responsive, with the exception of the bounce down when you hit the ceiling - it made some of the jumping/platforming elements quite frustrating. I also got trapped at this room my playthrough - I got to the bottom of the room and couldn't get back up. map.png |
| Jan 10 20:41:29 | 19m 37s | Thrown Harvest (for LD52) | ♥ 1 | This was really hard! I actually gave up in frustration but I came back, and once I got the hang of it the second time around my experience improved considerably! At one point that damn bird ate all of a single colour in one pass and I nearly through my computer out the window but other than that this was really cool - lots of skill required but very satisfying to master and complete. |
| Jan 10 20:54:27 | 12m 58s | Sleeping Potion | ♥ 2 | What an adorable little game! The music was soothing and fit the ambience perfectly, and the pixel art was pretty and charming. |
| Jan 10 21:21:01 | 26m 34s | Inked Garden | ♥ 0 | Nice job! I really loved the main character design and animation - the run cycle looked amazing! I liked the idea of the enemies respawning if you don't harvest them, and also getting health back from harvesting souls. Combat felt a little bit sluggish but not so much as to really effect my enjoyment. I remembered playing your game at LD51 and there was definite improvement in every aspect for this one! |
| Jan 10 22:30:56 | 1h 09m | GMO Contained! | ♥ 2 | A really chilled, calming game with a great soundtrack, beautiful art style and intuitive gameplay. I lucked out an bred a vegetable fairly early that took a day to grow 10x and just rode that until the spaceship rescued me, but I'd imagine balancing a game like this for a jam is incredibly difficult. |
| Jan 10 22:43:04 | 12m 08s | Bow Knight Drifter | ♥ 2 | Really loved the art, really loved the music, and the upgrade and crafting system was a great touch - an impressive, cool features for a game jam game! My only criticism is combat was tough - I think having an anticipation frame for a player character can really make melee combat feel laggy despite looking cool. I think it feels much more snappy and responsive if the attack happens straight away and makes combat smoother and more enjoyable. But other than that - good job, I had fun playing! |
| Jan 11 12:44:37 | 14h 01m | Organ-ized Crime | ♥ 1 | What a game! Quality, hilarious dialogue, mechanics were straightforward but remained fun and interesting through the whole game. I really enjoyed it. Level 6 took me ages to figure out - I was actually coming here to comment that there was a bug before it clicked in my brain. Congratulations on a really good entry! |
| Jan 11 17:03:28 | 4h 18m | Hermesh | ♥ 3 | Good job! I'm always a sucker for game jam metroidvanias and pixel cats so this was right up my alley - I normally abhor attacking ducks but here it seemed like a worthwhile cause. Cute minimalist pixel art, and a nice bite sized playtime. |
| Jan 11 17:56:24 | 52m 56s | ZenBox | ♥ 1 | Well done on a truly stunning game! The art is perfect, and the whole experience was almost dream-like, wandering around this beautiful peaceful garden helping my trees grow, watching as the place became more green and picturesque with the birds chirping in the background. I genuinely lost myself in the time I was playing this - great job! |
| Jan 11 18:13:05 | 16m 41s | Children of the Combine | ♥ 3 | What the hell did I just experience?! Every time I thought this game couldn't get any more outrageously, ridiculously, hilariously surreal, you managed to outdo yourself. I loved every second of it. |
| Jan 11 18:47:42 | 34m 37s | Farm to Table: Wizard Edition | ♥ 1 | Great art, nice music and some witty dialogue and ideas! I really like the concept, and I like the mechanic of being able to drink your own stock to keep going. I thought it was a bit too fast paced though - I played it through a few times but consistently lost my first customers because they'd given up and left before I'd grown and brewed their drinks. |
| Jan 11 21:07:31 | 2h 19m | Death 'n' Veggies | ♥ 2 | A very charming game! I love the feeling of urgency as the music speeds up, and I thought the art was adorable. It was perhaps a tiny bit unforgiving, and putting down the scythe to pick up the bucket and vice versa was a bit frustrating, but every time I died I wanted to play again. |
| Jan 11 21:27:34 | 20m 03s | River of Souls | ♥ 2 | I like the pixel art graphics and effects, and the core mechanic is straightforward yet challenging and engaging. The background sound effects were cool, they added an almost psychedelic vibe that went well with the floaty, wavy effects of the pixel art. Congratulations getting this done in a day!! |
| Jan 11 22:04:41 | 37m 07s | Shadow Harvester | ♥ 4 | Absolutely stunning art and audio, that background is a masterpiece! |
| Jan 11 22:13:36 | 8m 55s | Otter Seaweed Restaurant | ♥ 1 | What an adorable game, I love those otters with all my heart! Absolutely beautiful hand drawn art. |
| Jan 11 22:32:49 | 19m 13s | Dead End Job | ♥ 1 | Cracking job - incredibly polished graphics and audio, slick gameplay and controls and a cool upgrade system. A really good submission! |
| Jan 11 22:44:42 | 11m 53s | WARVEST | ♥ 0 | Hey man - it's good to see your stuff on here! I really enjoyed this - adorable pixel art, as I'd expect from you, the game was really fun as well. I found the risk/reward loop was a really clever idea - wanting to have more seeds on the ground to get the combo but only having a set time to get there before they become enemies, and I thought it improved the experience how forgiving the hit boxes were - especially when I had 20 plants shooting fireballs around the screen! A fun, addictive little game - well done. |
| Jan 12 11:01:17 | 12h 16m | Sky Harvest | ♥ 0 | I've got a lot of respect for any game that uses one input and is still fun! I died a ton but I kept wanting to try again and beat my high score. My main criticism is that the hitboxes were pretty unforgiving - often it seemed like part of my player went through the crop but didn't stick. Overall, this is quite an achievement for one day's work! |
| Jan 12 11:21:02 | 19m 45s | DatenKraken | ♥ 3 | I loved this! Really funny content, smooth controls and a generally all around unique game. I enjoyed taking a minute to read all the ads on each level - quality stuff! |
| Jan 12 23:15:29 | 11h 54m | Necrosis | ♥ 1 | Nice job! I got my ass kicked pretty hard the first few times but once I got the hang of the loop my luck improved. I like the variety in plants and the risk/reward of wanting to harvest before they're corrupted but wanting to leave the crops there so they spread. |
| Jan 12 23:29:53 | 14m 24s | Bullet Harvest | ♥ 1 | This took me a minute to figure out what was needed of me, but I really liked the concept - that you have to keep going back to the boss and getting more seeds to get more ammo and eventually kill him. Nice art too, I loved the bouncy little robot and even giant corn. Unfortunately I died when I had about 30 bullets and 4 or 5 seeds to harvest, I reckon I was pretty close to being able to kill him, hoping for better luck next time! |
| Jan 12 23:39:00 | 9m 07s | Slime Crime | ♥ 3 | Nice job! Cute pixel art, I love the little slimy fella, the controls were smooth and well implemented and combat felt fair and balanced. I really liked the upgrades you get along the way too, they helped keep it interesting. An enjoyable little game! |
| Jan 13 10:49:55 | 11h 10m | Harester | ♥ 1 | What a cute game! Pretty punishing unless you take your time, but I definitely liked the challenge - even if my poor bunny ended up on the menu quite often. Controls were smooth, I liked the cute pixel art and the sound effects of those growling dogs was awesome. |
| Jan 13 11:13:08 | 23m 13s | Rollin' | ♥ 6 | What a stunning, adorable game! Such a nice environment to get lost in, with that beautiful music playing in the background - the map is huge, with loads to explore! The gameplay loop is straightforward yet engaging enough to keep me playing each new day. I'm not sure if it's intentional but it seemed that level up points don't carry onto the next day? I was stuck at 5 and all the abilities I wanted cost 8, yet my points just never went up any further. Either way - definitely one of my favourites of LD52 so far. |
| Jan 13 20:57:51 | 9h 44m | Crop Rush | ♥ 1 | Nice job! A well balance and thought out game with a fun central mechanic that increases in difficulty throughout. It was a fun challenge figuring out the path for each level - so close to a full set of three stars but fell right at the end! Crop Rush.png |
| Jan 13 21:08:25 | 10m 34s | Ice Tactics | ♥ 1 | Nice game! Interesting mechanics that are built up in complexity as the levels progress, although I hit a bug in one of the levels that wouldn't let me progress. Cute pixel art and a good level of difficulty, requiring thought but not too punishing. I look forward to seeing where this goes! |
| Jan 13 21:15:47 | 7m 22s | Crazy Harvest | ♥ 1 | Nice smooth controls and clean minimalist pixel art, I really liked the glitch effects and screen shake. Some sort of upgrade system - even something simple like more powerful bullets, faster fire rate, more health - as you kill enemies would have gone a long way, but what's here is done well! |
| Jan 13 23:26:06 | 2h 10m | Gunther Needs a Friend | ♥ 2 | Quality stuff! A fun little play, perfect length for a game jam game - nice pixel art and audio, it gave me some Zombie Ate My Neighbours vibes, and I thought the gameplay and controls felt polished and smooth. I loved Gunther's dialogue! |
| Jan 14 10:22:56 | 10h 56m | Anne & the Carrot Islands | ♥ 3 | What an adorable game! It felt really smooth and polished, and the puzzles seemed well thought out - difficult enough to stop for a bit to try and figure them out, maybe restart a few times, but not so hard that I wanted to give up. Cute pixel art and chill background music that suited the game perfectly. |
| Jan 14 10:42:45 | 19m 49s | Fields of Fire | ♥ 1 | Really great art and slick, responsive gameplay. I got pretty OP quite early with maxed out chainguns and then just sort of sat back - I'm not sure if I did something wrong but the last 3 weapons never enabled for me, they just had "???" next to the coin sign and nothing happened when I clicked on them despite having about 6k coins. Anyway, a few balancing tweaks aside, I thought this was a fun, accomplished entry! |
| Jan 14 10:57:50 | 15m 05s | Harvest Pen | ♥ 1 | What an absolutely beautiful, innovative idea! A fair bit of trial and error, especially getting the hang of the blue pen, but it was a fun challenge. I had a few issues - restarting a level in particular tended to slow it to a crawl for a few seconds, but nothing that I couldn't put up with to play this stunning game. |
| Jan 14 11:08:51 | 11m 01s | Human Harvest | ♥ 1 | Very addictive indeed - "just one more game!" Beautiful pixel art, especially the backgrounds, along with simple yet fun gameplay with intuitive controls and a decent risk/reward system. A really good submission! |
| Jan 14 11:22:03 | 13m 12s | Hamster Hangry | ♥ 3 | Awesome!! Those rats were quite terrifying - definite nightmare fuel - in the best way possible. Controls and combat were simple but really well executed, and I really liked the low res underground textures with the roots sticking out the walls. |
| Jan 14 17:45:33 | 6h 23m | Poo Farmer | ♥ 2 | Well, that was certainly something! Surprisingly chill and relaxing for a game about killing goblins and picking up poo. I liked the pixel art and the music was really cool, the controls and combat felt pretty well balanced and I really liked the selection of guns. |
| Jan 14 18:24:41 | 39m 08s | Pig Polly | ♥ 1 | I loved this! The audio was great - that sort of disjointed music track and the snorts grumbles of the pig were great backing sounds. I thought the gameplay loop was straightforward but fun and the controls were tight, if I had one criticism perhaps the cooldown times were a bit too long - maybe spending truffles to upgrade them would have helped, but obviously for a compo game adding anything extra is a big ask! Either way, impressive work - I had fun playing! |
| Jan 14 23:12:48 | 4h 48m | Collector of _ | ♥ 2 | My kind of game! I loved the low res pixel art and the music suited the game perfectly. Controls were good - the push/pull mechanic was just jarring and unique enough to catch me out a bunch at the start but by the end I had it down pretty smooth, I thought it was an interesting implementation. |
| Jan 14 23:34:03 | 21m 15s | The Feudal in the Rye | ♥ 4 | I loved this! The art is adorable, and the gameplay is addictive, especially after you've died a few times and start getting the hang of it. Perfect length, perfect difficulty, and really fun. |
| Jan 14 23:49:37 | 15m 34s | Harvest Me, Harvest Me Not | ♥ 1 | This was awesome! Killer art, great dialogue, humour and some surprisingly poignant moments. |
| Jan 15 15:08:05 | 15h 18m | You Will Be Fertiliser. | ♥ 1 | Some cool ideas here - I liked the mechanic of unescapable death and that choosing where you die impacts the next run. Controls were intuitive and smooth, although I thought perhaps the timer was a little bit too unforgiving. |
| Jan 15 15:19:52 | 11m 47s | Untitled Squirrel Game | ♥ 1 | Cute game! I saw a few people mentioning the camera but I actually thought it created more of a unique experience having it fixed the way it was. I really liked the ambient background chirping sounds - it made me feel like I was in a garden in spring! |
| Jan 15 15:26:52 | 7m 00s | Oasis of Souls | ♥ 2 | What a beautiful atmospheric game - stunning graphics and perfect ambient music, an all around great mood throughout. |
| Jan 15 15:35:40 | 8m 48s | Reap N' Sou-l | ♥ 2 | Stunning art, banging soundtrack and slick gameplay! I'm a bit confused as to how to progress though - I played the first level a couple of times, I had five souls in the well when but when the time ran out it said I'd lost. |
| Jan 15 19:06:12 | 3h 30m | H. R. Vest | ♥ 2 | Beautiful art, one particularly brain teasing puzzle, creepy background music and unsettling vibes all around! |
| Jan 15 19:17:28 | 11m 16s | N.O.A.S. | ♥ 3 | Quality art and some good dark humour, I thought the gameplay loop was pretty addictive - all too easy to go back for one more game when I died - but the hitboxes were a bit tough all around. Often I got hit by a pineapple when I felt like I dodged it, got stuck running against a pot or pressed E next to a plant and didn't harvest it. Despite that, still a fun experience! |
| Jan 16 10:24:40 | 15h 07m | Rapid Produce Dating Simulator | ♥ 2 | Absolutely phenomenal pixel art, I loved the voice overs as well. The game is nice and short and easy to pick up, it's also easy got a nice hook to keep going back and trying to beat your high score. |
| Jan 17 10:04:27 | 23h 39m | Tough Luck Mr. Harvard | ♥ 0 | Definitely took me a minute or two to wrap my head around the gameplay and the controls, but once I got the hang of them I thought this was a fun, original game! It was very easy to just play "one more game" after I completed a level, and I liked how forgiving it is, that dying (which I did a lot to begin with) doesn't set you back to the start. |
| Jan 17 10:15:09 | 10m 42s | Star Crystals | ♥ 1 | This was HARD - but awesome and very unique. Nice clean graphics and a simple straightforward mechanic that can also be made incredibly difficult, I liked that you could skip levels because some of them were very tough. My first thought when I messed up on the second level was an indicator to see the previous move and I saw that a few other people mentioned that, I think that would have given more incentive to keep replaying those levels where the player is one or two orbs away from 100% but that's my only real criticism for a very cool game! |
| Jan 18 16:27:22 | 30h 12m | (Test) | ♥ 1 | I really liked the farming sim on the mood idea - a good, pretty foundation for a game and I'd be interested to see what comes of it. It was cool to have a character creator - not something I'm used to seeing on a jam game, and I really liked the colour scheme. Going forward it might benefit from diagonal movement instead of only moving directly up/down or sideways. |
| Jan 18 16:53:28 | 26m 06s | H. (A Harvest Puzzler) | ♥ 1 | Wow - this was HARD! But incredibly unique, interesting and well thought out. I'm not sure if the pests are a stroke of genius or the most infuriating game mechanic I've ever experienced (it can be both!). Either way, despite my struggles with this, it's a very memorable games, and definitely one of the most original that I've played for this jam - well done! |
| Jan 18 17:13:30 | 20m 02s | Slay the Harvest | ♥ 0 | Really charming, great pixel art and a fun gameplay loop. I liked the variety of enemies and that they all attacked in different ways, and the upgrades were a nice touch. I found I became pretty OP pretty quick by selling all of my harvest and upgrading my weapon, although even then it was quite satisfying to mow through the field of evil produce. |
| Jan 19 10:43:49 | 17h 30m | Scream of the Crop | ♥ 1 | I can't get over how incredibly stunning the art and animation for this game is! I loved all the characters and their abilities, the power up system really made a noticeable difference each run - and gameplay was fun and well balanced. |
| Jan 24 20:30:19 | 129h 46m | Shred-A-Bunch! | ♥ 1 | A really fun take on the theme - the controls felt really smooth, that slow motion when I mowed down a zombie never got old, and it was fun coming up with ways to kill them without taking damage. |
| Jan 24 20:52:23 | 22m 04s | Elonkorjuu - Live Harvest | ♥ 2 | I loved this! The art and the music and audio were just perfect, and I liked how the game got more challenging as the levels progressed - I died a ton on that penultimate level! A cracking submission, well done. |
| Jan 25 15:00:44 | 18h 08m | BROCOMAN | ♥ 2 | What a trip! Every punch landed on those little broccolis was so satisfying and I laughed far too hard playing this game, but that inverted y axis with the mouse movement nearly gave me a nervous breakdown! |
| Jan 25 15:10:55 | 10m 11s | Turtle Atoll | ♥ 1 | What a beautiful, chill experience! I loved the graphics, the gameplay was straightforward yet remained fun for the short playtime, and the whole thing felt smooth and polished. I also thought the music and background ambient noise suited the vibes perfectly. |
| Jan 26 10:37:40 | 19h 26m | They Hide in the Fields | ♥ 2 | Wow!! I jumped so hard every time that monster caught me. What an unnerving experience - definitely one of my picks of the jam! |
| Jan 27 18:38:12 | 32h 00m | Pollen Angel | ♥ 1 | What an awesome game and idea! I'm really happy I found this right at the end. Incredibly hard (like the true retro games that it evokes) but it gets easier as one gets the hang of the movement and momentum. I still died a lot!! |
