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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | congusbongus's comment | |
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| Apr 16 11:39:54 | Lift Summoner Deluxe 1997: Kitten Edition | ♥ 3 | I really love this idea, but the difficulty just spikes too hard. I think with the right amount of tweaking and playtesting, this can be a real gem. Some observations: hard to tell where the lift is, the only indication is the red/green light which could be hard for colourblind folks; when people get in the lift you can't see which floor they want to go anymore. Loved everything else about it, the hilarious cats, raging customers, cozy art and audio. Great game! | |
| Apr 16 12:54:28 | 1h 14m | still unnamed | ♥ 0 | :( don't take it too hard on yourself man, jams don't always turn out well and it's totally fine to tap out. Hope you take a good break and come back stronger! |
| Apr 17 12:46:19 | 23h 51m | The Summonator | ♥ 1 | pretty smooth game, with a few more tweaks and polish it would be really awesome - like auto shoot and more levels (or just ramping up waves)! The summon theme is a bit underutilised as I feel your own spiders didn't do much, but I like the concept of summoners battling each other! |
| Apr 17 13:03:02 | 16m 43s | Faust | ♥ 4 | There's a lot in this game - lots of art, lots of visual effects, big levels, music and sound effects, it was pretty fun playing it. The platforming is a bit janky but I blame unity. Impressive work! |
| Apr 17 13:10:38 | 7m 36s | Sigils Of Abyss | ♥ 2 | The gameplay was quite opaque but it seems promising - there wasn't enough feedback to experiment and figure out winning strategies though. A cool idea! |
| Apr 17 13:16:53 | 6m 15s | Blood of the Altar | ♥ 1 | Gameplay was smooth and juicy, nice simple fun. It's a cool take on the theme! |
| Apr 17 13:27:11 | 10m 18s | Limbo Solutions inc. | ♥ 1 | It's an interesting take on the papers please like gameplay. It took a bit of guesswork to figure out the gameplay but it was satisfying once I did. The gameplay doesn't seem to ramp up or get harder though. The audio is great too, very moody. |
| Apr 17 13:31:43 | 4m 32s | Demon Lord Revenge | ♥ 3 | Hahaha I love the random art cribbed from all sorts of places, it has real placeholder vibes but is also hilarious. Cool gameplay! |
| Apr 18 12:57:44 | 23h 26m | Upcard Writ | ♥ 2 | This game is really polished, love the effects everywhere and cozy music. The card descriptions are also very fun! |
| Apr 18 13:15:04 | 17m 20s | Conjured | ♥ 4 | This is a very fun game! Art, sound and music were all pretty good, although one problem with the gameplay is that it easily snowballs, so I wonder if you add things like random pickups or buff reset abilities like the fireball, it can help balance the game. I think there's something great to build off here. Great job! |
| Apr 18 13:32:34 | 17m 30s | Summoning Tower | ♥ 1 | Nice remix on the tower defence genre! The game plays pretty well. I think it would help if the initial attack had auto shoot, and the towers were a bit easier to summon (3 or 4 directions instead of 5). Pretty good overall. |
| Apr 19 10:34:04 | 21h 01m | Barshen Breakout | ♥ 1 | Pretty fun game, using the numpad was a bit weird (some people don't have numpads), the variety of gameplay was nice, like the number of enemy types. The pace of the game was a bit slow - the player bullets especially - so the gameplay was not as satisfying as it could have been. Solid entry! |
| Apr 19 10:40:22 | 6m 18s | Cat Summoning Terminal | ♥ 1 | Neat idea, although I wonder if you chose a good framework for this kind of thing, it would have been much easier to make - and thus leave you more time to flesh out the gameplay. It was a nice short game anyway, the graphics were cute! |
| Apr 19 13:09:04 | 2h 28m | Akino's Dungeon | ♥ 2 | Rage inducing game, it is quite a compelling game, but after so many tries I had to give up! It may just be a tad too much on the difficult side, but otherwise the gameplay is almost perfect. Yeah alternate controls would really help! |
| Apr 19 23:05:37 | 9h 56m | Demonic Dominion | ♥ 0 | This is a very fun game, the graphics and sound are simple yet satisfying - love the little wiggle when characters move! Dungeon generation and pathfinding are also solid. I think similar to other games that summon familiars, the game suffers from snowballing - basically the dominant strategy is to just summon a huge army and the massive DPS will roll over any opposition. But once you solve that problem and flesh this game out a bit, I can see a pretty fun coffeebreak action roguelike in the works! Great entry |
| Apr 19 23:55:39 | 50m 02s | Abyssal Diner | ♥ 1 | This is an ambitious entry, with multiple game modes; if only you closed the game loop by adding a way to spend the money (on upgrades perhaps) then it would have been fantastic! Pretty decent game, and impressive that this was done as a compo entry. |
| Apr 20 00:10:08 | 14m 29s | Necrotyper | ♥ 5 | lots of sagittarius I guess having 100 sagittarius is also a way to break the game? It was fun, reminds me of those old defend the castle flash games |
| Apr 20 00:31:35 | 21m 27s | Revenge on Grim | ♥ 2 | Damn, this game has a simple premise but the features work together just right so the game is really really fun. I love the 3 classes of summons giving it high replayability. I think the only weak point is the audio, which could be a bit more punchy to make it more satisfying, but it's still pretty decent. Everything else is superb! |
| Apr 20 04:49:38 | 4h 18m | Sophia's Spirit Journey | ♥ 1 | I like the level design, it was fun to prance around the levels and they weren't overly confusing. Challenging game! |
| Apr 25 09:54:24 | 125h 04m | Cards of War | ♥ 1 | Interesting mechanics, it's an ambitious game idea! I hope you try it out using a real card game! |
| Apr 27 12:10:06 | 50h 15m | Summoned to Another World to Fight the Demon Lord! | ♥ 1 | Interesting take on a JRPG! The battle mechanics are well thought out, although it is quite difficult. I wonder if you had used RPG maker or something like that, it would have been easier? |
| Apr 27 13:03:04 | 52m 58s | Stay Away From The Summoner | ♥ 1 | Not bad, the mechanics of the game were simple but worked well. I think some tweaking and it could be made pretty compelling, for example extending on the mechanics of running away from enemies, maybe more enemies to avoid, and other ways to stop them like running around obstacles, setting traps and so on. |
| Apr 27 13:10:55 | 7m 51s | Dreamcat | ♥ 4 | Very cute game, the platforming was a bit janky though which made the tricky platforming parts frustrating, but thankfully the cat's ability and resetting were relatively forgiving. The trippy ending were very interesting to see! |
| Apr 29 12:55:59 | 47h 45m | Summon Or Unsummon | ♥ 1 | this was a really interesting idea. I can see a lot of areas for improvement but overall the game is still pretty well executed. Nice graphics, simple and effective audio, and the gameplay is quite smooth. I think the other comments covered the main issues, but basically the gameplay could do with some smoothing over - typing opposites is really hard, what about typing 0-9 but the opposite required you to type the opposite number? Having to pause between summons breaks the flow a bit, it would be nice to be able to type very fast and stay in the flow. The mid game drags on a bit, it would be nicer to have some indication of closeness to the end. Pretty sweet game! |
