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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | Ategon's comment | |
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| Jan 10 08:18:23 | Lavender Fields Forever | ♥ 1 | An extremely fun game! The art and music are great, the palette choice of mostly purple in your base makes it feel really feel like a complete city and the cues in the music such as certain motifs playing in the day song when its near night was nice to keep track of time. Was a bit confused at the start since its not inherently obvious you can interact with the spire but eventually figured it out. One thing that felt was missing was a way to delete things you placed down. I sometimes accidentally placed roads in my farming fields and couldn't remove them. Also ran into a slight issue with the friend AI where they would till things on the other side of walls even if it took a really long time to get there. Overall though very enjoyable and a great entry | |
| Jan 10 08:35:43 | 17m 20s | Sleeping Potion | ♥ 2 | Pretty fun game! The art and music are nice and compliment the gameplay really well. One thing that felt a bit off was the lack of anticipation frames on enemies damaging you as it didn't feel like it had enough weight to the action. The way the map was set up though was great with the winding rooms that make you feel like you can get lost. Was easy to learn how to play and was a nice short experience. |
| Jan 12 06:29:50 | 45h 54m | Hex-Yield | ♥ 3 | Really fun game! The 2.5d style works really well and it was fun to try to discover all of the combinations. I managed to get every single one somehow. As other people said the needing to hit x was a bit annoying as well as the fact that you could accidentally remove all your built up points (maybe having a feature where you cant harvest until every tile is filled up with something to prevent it as it feels annoying to accidentally hit it but chill mode is too easy). The music and sound effects complimented the game nicely and gave some nice chill vibes amount.png |
| Jan 12 07:34:28 | 1h 04m | Click On Fish | ♥ 1 | Fish have been clicked on Overall a very fun game that starts out fairly easy but quickly spirals out of control as more and more fish get thrown onto the pile of things that you have to remember. Music compliments the game really well and the fact each fish has a different main thing that differentiates it (hue, mouth, gills, etc.) makes the gameplay of spotting the different fish not get old. Definitely gives the feeling of continually wanting to play one more round so you can try to get to the top of the leaderboard. Well done :) edit - forgot to mention but the voice acting is also great and also compliments the vibes of the game really well |
| Jan 13 05:00:37 | 21h 26m | The Gold'n Apples | ♥ 1 | Fun little city puzzle game. Art and music are both great and compliment the game nicely. Unfortunately a player can be affected a lot by rng to lose by no fault of their own which tends to not feel great especially in a puzzle game. The refreshing helped offset that a bit but as the currency is apples for it it tends to still mess you up by taking away your resources (maybe have 1 free refresh per island?). Managed to get to the end and the mechanic switch up with the castle acting as multiple tiles was a nice addition to change up strategies as a sort of final boss |
| Jan 13 05:38:38 | 38m 01s | The Bountiful | ♥ 1 | This was an absolutely phenomenal game. The crow voice acting was great with getting the player to do worse and worse things. The music complemented the game really well and did not get tiring at all due to the long loop. It is absolutely something I would listen to outside the game if posted on youtube or spotify or something. The one thing I got stuck on for a bit was the stage of planting the pumpkin as up to that point I was only clearing the left side of Bills farm and didnt realize there was a specific hole you were supposed to plant it in that spawned over on the right (edit after playing the game again looks like I accidentally clicked on the soil over on the right without realizing it in the first run which created the hole and then I couldnt make another). The little polish details such as the wind particles and the corn physics were really nice touches that helped make the game feel very good to play Overall 10/10. Ive loved your games in the all ludum dares since ive been participating and cant wait to see some other games made by you |
| Jan 14 18:55:29 | 37h 16m | Combine Harv-racer | ♥ 1 | Really nice racing game implementing the mechanic of harvesting well with making the player both be able to see where they were last lap + encourage them to take other paths. The music worked well with the vibes of the game and the corn regrowing was a nice effect. On the first lap it was a bit difficult to see where you were supposed to go for the turns since the fence blends in to the background a bit plus the lines of no corn around the turns made it seem like there actually wasnt a turn there |
| Jan 14 19:22:40 | 27m 11s | Crops Survivor | ♥ 0 | Fun little bullet heaven with a solid core. The main thing that felt was missing was more variety in the weapons / upgrades as it tended to just become doing the same things over and over but the little polish details such as the wavy text and transitions between scenes were great |
| Jan 14 19:32:13 | 9m 33s | Boar'd'Hell | ♥ 1 | Fun game with the nice twist of needing to control two things at the same time. Both vehicles interacted well with each other and gave enough different mechanics that the gameplay didn't get boring and was fun to chase high scores. Got around 500k as my score |
| Jan 14 21:38:24 | 2h 06m | No Harvest | ♥ 3 | Really nice take on the theme with reversing the concept to preventing harvests. The two kinds of colors (red and blue) provided some nice variety in gameplay especially since the ways to get rid of them require different strategies |
| Jan 14 21:58:15 | 19m 51s | Drake's Fortune | ♥ 2 | Really fun take on the theme with harvesting gold from cities. The different cities you attack with each one having a separate increasing gold amount added some nice depth. Only major thing that was missing was music to go in the background (some metal music while destroying cities would work really well) |
| Jan 14 22:15:58 | 17m 43s | Organigrow | ♥ 1 | Really nice visuals for a jam game with everything being great to look at while playing. Took me a while to find certain tools on the map which hindered my score a lot but the overall concept is great and had a nice loop once I had everything required to farm. The one thing if you push some more updates post jam that I feel could make it better is instead of having a how to section with a bunch of info, spread that into the gameplay to teach it to the player over time (as once you enter the game you tend to forget most of it since its a giant info bomb) |
| Jan 14 22:37:00 | 21m 02s | Slime Crime | ♥ 2 | Really nice take on the bullet heaven genre. The addition of the harvest theme through needing to manually harvest your enemies works really well and leads to some nice risk reward gameplay with trying to find a good time to collect them before they despawn (as well as an upgrade to lower the effect of that when the player would start getting annoyed at it also was great). Using the enemies as a secondary currency for other upgrades as well was a really nice concept that further complimented the harvesting gameplay. The visuals also felt extremely polished with the glitch effects and particles |
| Jan 14 22:51:54 | 14m 54s | Harvest Dune | ♥ 2 | Pretty nice take on the theme. The fact its balanced to make people always experience the giant sand worm is great. The low visibility mechanic worked really well to add to the game vibe, the gameplay was straightforward, and the sounds and art complimented the game nicely |
| Jan 14 23:02:55 | 11m 01s | URSA MAIOR | ♥ 3 | Really fun little game. The fact the text rhymed was great as well as the progression into eating entire planets lol. One thing if you continue post jam is to have a way to either replay text or make sure people arent spamming the button since I accidentally skipped a section of text and had trouble figuring out what to do for a bit. The art and music though worked well to compliment it and was definitely great humor wise |
| Jan 14 23:54:17 | 51m 22s | Hi!Waste Tomato | ♥ 0 | Nice little sokoban game. Speed is a bit slow but the art and sound does a phenomenal job of building up the game vibes |
| Jan 15 00:20:24 | 26m 07s | 9CELL | ♥ 2 | Very interesting concept that worked really well with the theme. The mechanics are simple but they don't get old and the struggle of trying to make enough to feed your family was a nice goal. The vibe of the game got built up really well as well as the slow introduction into the fact youre harvesting the people youre feeding |
| Jan 15 00:41:09 | 20m 45s | Chop Crop & Drop | ♥ 2 | Really well polished game. The art and music were great and complimented the gameplay nicely. The mechanic to build up how the wave of enemies would be worked well for players to set their own pace and have more risk to get more rewards. The tutorial could be spread out into the game a bit more rather than just being completely thrown at the player as it tends to be a giant info bomb but the fact its there in general is great |
| Jan 15 01:09:33 | 28m 24s | Catchy | ♥ 2 | Fun little fishing game. The old map cartography style worked really well and the fishing was nice and relaxing. My strategy tended to be to throw a line behind the boat and move around collecting the fish on the hook as I traveled |
| Jan 15 01:46:01 | 36m 28s | Harvest Survivor | ♥ 2 | Fun little bullet heaven. The graphics were great (I especially liked the rolling tomato). The upgrades felt a bit off since they primarily only changed stats rather than having build changing aspects as is usual in the genre but the concept of switching it up with needing to control certain points on the map was nice |
| Jan 15 02:04:47 | 18m 46s | The Hunt for the Legendary Lobster | ♥ 3 | Nice chill fishing type game. The graphics and audio compliment the game nicely (although the hook was jittering a bit as it descended). The transition from the boat to the hook is great and the addition of a leaderboard is nice as a overall goal to achieve a high placement on |
| Jan 17 03:25:51 | 49h 21m | Protect the Garden | ♥ 2 | Fun tower defense. After trying to get past the starting couple waves a few times managed to make it through with just a strategy of spamming pumpkins as they have a net gain of +3 and are cheap at 7 gold. The main mechanic of needing to uproot your defenses for your economy works really well. If you continue this a bit post jam one thing is it would be nice to be able to drag to mass remove defenses as it can get a bit annoying to need to rapid tap over and over and its easy to softlock yourself at the start of the game by accidentally harvesting a plant early. Visuals complimented the game nicely and I managed to make it all the way to the end |
| Jan 17 18:04:31 | 14h 38m | Untitled Shooty Game 2: The Harvesting | ♥ 1 | Fun twin stick shooter. Seems to be fairly well balanced although getting more cannons early game can give you an advantage. Art compliments the gameplay nicely |
| Jan 17 18:11:32 | 7m 01s | (Test) | ♥ 1 | Nice start to a game. The art looks nice and I especially like the character selector + palette swaps you created (with the palette swap also affecting the ship). Was going to mention diagonal movement but looks like youve already handled that |
| Jan 17 18:41:21 | 29m 49s | Cereales Trading Simulator 2023 | ♥ 1 | Really well made trading game. The way the prices fluctuated were well balanced and the music set the mood well (plus the addition of the death counter really added more to the mood even if its purely informative). |
| Jan 22 18:41:41 | 120h 00m | Lil Death | ♥ 1 | Very fun arcade game lil.png Music and art worked well (I especially like the moving fog). Only thing I felt was missing was the double jump resetting on a hit. Tends to make it very easy to accidentally break your streak and makes it more rng of if you have a zombie that spawned to where you accidentally side hit yourself to. (I notice the double jump resetting sometimes but I have no idea how and it tends to not be consistent) Overall feels really good to play though |
