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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | Thomas Gelman's comment | |
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| Apr 17 03:13:11 | Siela | ♥ 3 | This is a cool concept! I'm not sure if there's something I was missing, outside walking to pick up the souls and building the bridge it didn't seem like there was much to really do/experience. Maybe there was some enemy a-la slender that I was lucky enough to miss? Either way, the mood of this game is incredible. Love the low poly aesthetic, and the atmosphere set by the lighting and the audio. Good job! | |
| Apr 17 03:33:14 | 20m 03s | Summoning Salesman | ♥ 1 | This is a quite fun game! The system of fusing cards into stronger cards is very unique, and intuitive, and I had a lot of fun seeing what different fusions would create. I love how adjectives keep getting added to the really strong ones, it was very funny! Overall, very much enjoyed my time with this one. Good job! |
| Apr 17 03:43:50 | 10m 36s | Attack of the Teves | ♥ 2 | Fun little game! Love the visuals, and the detail with the audio getting more wacky the lower your health is. I wish you could restart at the end, but thankfully alt + f4 still works :D. |
| Apr 17 03:56:34 | 12m 44s | Gacha Panic | ♥ 2 | THIS GAME IS SOOOO CUTE!!!! The art, fun, music, and voice acting all fit the vibe super duper well. Love everything about this little gem, great job! |
| Apr 17 04:41:16 | 44m 42s | Fashion Demon | ♥ 2 | This is a really cute game! Love the little details in the environment like the parallax and the background getting more blue to simulate a misty forest. The platforming was a little floaty and I found myself getting stuck on some walls. Also, loved the different ending screens (the death one got a good chuckle out of me). Good job! |
| Apr 17 04:51:10 | 9m 54s | Star Seed: Apocalypse | ♥ 2 | Cute little game! Love the art style a lot, the GameBoy era is a vibe I always have appreciated :D |
| Apr 17 05:03:10 | 12m 00s | Wittle Wizards | ♥ 3 | This is a very epic game! Really impressive given the time-limit. The characters are super cute, and I love their animations. Can't wait to 1v1 some more people in the future! |
| Apr 18 04:52:12 | 23h 49m | Summon Island: The Robot Pirate Invasion Was Today?! | ♥ 1 | I really like this game! It's a simple and fun twist on the tower defense genre, with cute art and an overall fun vibe! It felt super polished, especially for a jam game. Great job!! |
| Apr 18 05:05:14 | 13m 02s | John's Visage | ♥ 2 | Fun little visual novel! Love the general aesthetic, and this game has a generally good atmosphere overall. Especially impressive as a compo entry, good job! |
| Apr 18 05:21:46 | 16m 32s | Hell Spawn | ♥ 3 | Really enjoyed myself with this one! The art was absolutely gorgeous, and the character designs and sound effects were really cute too! There was one time I managed to somehow glitch myself into the Z-axis a bit which was kinda funny. Overall, great submission! |
| Apr 18 06:01:24 | 39m 38s | Polarity | ♥ 1 | Fun little entry! Nice little spin on Asteroids that felt pretty polished both mechanically and visually. I found myself using the bombs a lot more than the gravitational field and I managed to get the game to lag a ton by placing maybe an excessive amount of them haha. Good job with this one! |
| Apr 18 16:28:08 | 10h 26m | Ink Summoner | ♥ 2 | Fun little puzzle game! Love the mechanic of drawing to cast your spells, but sometimes I did feel as though the drawing step didn't always behave exactly as I expected and I had to start over. That said, still felt very rewarding to come up with solutions to the puzzles. Good job! |
| Apr 18 16:51:41 | 23m 33s | Zarguuf The Summoner | ♥ 1 | Super fun game, I hope more people find this one soon! Felt super polished, and the theme was integrated very well. I loved the audio in the game, the use of music and sound effects was very fun. The art was also very good. Overall, super solid entry. Good job! |
| Apr 18 17:12:09 | 20m 28s | The Deep Madness | ♥ 2 | Pretty cool game! Love the vibe a lot; the visuals and audio helped create a really cool atmosphere for the game. Sometimes I felt that the harpoon was a bit jank, but it never got in the way of the fun of the game. Also the boss fight at the end was sick. Well done! |
| Apr 18 17:34:58 | 22m 49s | wiz | ♥ 1 | Fun little game! Good amount of replayability with the different abilities, and the 1-D-ness of it felt super unique. The visuals were simple but charming, and I found myself wanting to play again every time I died. Good work! |
| Apr 19 04:39:52 | 11h 04m | Sumo nin': Demolition Experts | ♥ 0 | This is an interesting concept! Hilarious how much you can lag out the game by spamming sumos, and it was fun to find the optimal way to destroy certain buildings, good job! |
| Apr 19 04:50:12 | 10m 20s | Summon Auto Pets | ♥ 0 | This was a cool concept! A little variety further down the line would maybe be nice in a hypothetical final version of this game, but I understand that this is a game jam and time is but a fleeting resource. Loved the visuals, and creating the characters was very fun (even though my wrist started to feel it a bit after the first 50 floors or so haha). Overall, well done! |
| Apr 19 05:01:37 | 11m 25s | Sage & Summonion | ♥ 1 | The polish in the visuals of this game is really good! It was fun too, the friendly fire nature of the attacks led to some funny deaths on my part. Well done! |
| Apr 19 06:28:01 | 1h 26m | MEOWTERSPACE | ♥ 3 | This game is really cool! And WOW is it gorgeous! That art is seriously fantastic, this is a seriously strong contender for the graphics category. Would have liked a few more sound effects for things happening in game but overall still very good aesthetics and gameplay. Good work! |
| Apr 19 16:01:32 | 9h 33m | Summon Proof | ♥ 1 | This seems like a cool concept! Unfortunately the goal is a little unclear though, would maybe have appreciated some guidance on what exactly our objective is and the puzzle mechanics themselves! |
| Apr 19 16:12:15 | 10m 43s | Evocation | ♥ 1 | This is a neat visual novel submission! Always impressed by these because writing so much in so little time is always very challenging, especially due to art demand! And this one delivers on art and atmosphere completely, enough to help me look past some of the jankiness surely caused by available time. Well done! |
| Apr 19 17:23:53 | 1h 11m | Grave Dogger | ♥ 1 | Cool little game! Love the time-management aspect. I do wonder if keeping the game locked to a grid was strictly necessary for it, as it adds a little clunkiness to the game feel IMO. Visuals are super cute though, and the atmosphere is pretty good as well! Good job! |
| Apr 19 17:32:46 | 8m 53s | Swordmancer | ♥ 1 | This is a cool concept! I think some of the text during the tutorial could be more clear, some of the buttons did not behave how I expected given their descriptions. Really like how the theme is implemented with the summoning circles. Good job! |
| Apr 19 20:23:21 | 2h 50m | Summoner's Basement | ♥ 1 | This game has some good visuals! Love the voxel models and the particle effects. I think the minigames could have used some more visual fidelity as well but seeing as you're a solo dev that is totally forgivable given the time crunch. The minigames could also use maybe a bit more variety and be a bit shorter, because they do get repetitive after the first few times. However, still pretty solid overall. Nice work! |
| Apr 20 06:29:51 | 10h 06m | Master of Elements | ♥ 2 | Really cool visuals! Maybe this is just my color-blind eyes, but I have trouble seeing the spikes against the background. Some more contrast on those may be worth considering. Summons were cool though, the theme was integrated very well! Overall, nice work! |
| Apr 20 18:43:40 | 12h 13m | Pony Summon Quest | ♥ 1 | Cute little game! I had some trouble figuring out what to do, but the idea of the minigames seems cool! I think there may be some scaling issues, at least in WebGL, but overall still had fun :D |
| Apr 20 18:48:37 | 4m 57s | Polymancer | ♥ 1 | Fun little game! The idea of changing your class and upgrading your summons is really cool, and the theme is incorporated well. Good job! |
| Apr 20 18:52:19 | 3m 42s | Vampire Summoners | ♥ 1 | Fun little game! cool that you get to decide when the waves come, so you can pace yourself however you feel like you need to. Ended up spamming right click just to see what would happen and I couldn't be happier with the amount of enemies on screen at once! Good job! |
| Apr 20 19:01:03 | 8m 44s | Mable’s Realm | ♥ 2 | Really solid submission! The visuals were super cute and the audio was fitting. The tetris-like gameplay summoning characters to fight for you adds a little chaos and rewards strategic and quick decision making. Well done! |
| Apr 20 20:31:48 | 1h 30m | Soul Pact | ♥ 2 | This is a cool game, and WOW is it gorgeous! The atmosphere set by by the visuals, lighting, and audio is really top-notch. I had some trouble figuring out what to do though. I read about a bottle that I would need to find but I swear I couldn't find it anywhere! maybe some tutorial or a guide for those who get stuck would be helpful! Still though, nice work. |
| Apr 21 06:05:31 | 9h 33m | Room to Grow | ♥ 2 | This game is super cute! The character art is really good, and the music fits the vibe pretty well also. I think the map is a touch too spread out though, there's a lot of empty space that could probably be reduced. Otherwise, still pretty fun! |
| Apr 21 06:13:31 | 8m 00s | Necrogirl | ♥ 3 | This was a fun game! The idea is interesting for sure, and I had fun checking out what all the different summon classes could do. I wish things like mana were a little more accessible or that your player could fend for themselves just a *bit* more, but still overall very well made game. Good job! |
| Apr 21 06:35:52 | 22m 21s | Exorcist Pianist | ♥ 1 | Super cool and innovative integration of the theme! As a pianist I love it when pianos appear in different games and especially when they are playable in some form. I will typically stop whatever it is I am doing and futz around with it for quite a lot of time to find what I can play, and I certainly did the same thing here. I think that means you did an excellent job, so well done! |
| Apr 21 07:11:14 | 35m 22s | Butler! Summon the Imps! | ♥ 3 | WOW. The level of polish on this is absolutely insane. The art is amazing, and so is the music and SFX! The puzzling is unique, and challenging, and fun enough to keep me retrying over and over. I had to stop myself from playing to make this review! This is a serious contender to win this year. Good job! Very well done :D |
| Apr 22 07:43:25 | 24h 32m | Nexus Conquest | ♥ 5 | This game is very well made! There are some small things regarding UI. In particular I think the tool-tip/pop-up transparency should be more opaque as it can be kind of hard to read the text, and similarly tooltips can occasionally be displayed off-screen, but overall this doesn't really harm the experience that much. The gameplay loop is spectacular, I honestly could have kept playing for another hour! The tactics are kind of simple, but there is much possibility in that simplicity, and I found it super engaging to get paid, upgrade my fleet, and get paid again. The audio and artwork is also incredible, great work all-around 👌. |
| Apr 23 02:01:56 | 18h 18m | Globeba | ♥ 2 | This game is actually kind of insane. The level of polish and just amount of level design in this game baffles me, this is so much for 3 days! The art looks good, the audio sounds good, and the game plays super well. Each of the dungeons having unlockable abilities that are necessary to find, and use to solve the rest of the puzzles was really excellent. Honestly I'd love to see this with a few more dungeons and some final polish uploaded to steam sometime down the line! I think my only complaints are that some screen transitions can be a little awkward since you may walk right into an enemy or off a cliff, and as someone else mentioned the player can sometimes feel like they're not where they look like they are, which can make pushing things or walking down thin walkways a bit of a challenge. Overall, this is a fantastic entry, and a serious contender to win this ludum dare. Well done! |
| Apr 23 07:31:46 | 5h 29m | Sophia's Spirit Journey | ♥ 1 | Honestly pretty impressive that you made a whole metroid vania by yourself in such a short amount of time! Gameplay was pretty good, although there were some level design decisions such as the placement of certain checkpoints and the fast-moving enemy cycles being a bit cumbersome to play around. Otherwise though, the platforming felt pretty good, and the abilities/integration of the theme was really interesting! Well done! |
| Apr 23 20:41:20 | 13h 09m | Where Have All the Globbletops Gone? | ♥ 2 | This is a fun little game! Love the Dr. Seuss esque art style! Felt really trippy with some of the horror elements as well. Overall, good job! |
| Apr 23 21:33:39 | 52m 19s | GODAI: The Ninja Way | ♥ 2 | Cool aesthetics! Love the retro vibe, it fits this game really well. I didn't seem to be able to use the summon abilities in the first level though, the second level was fun to use them with but a level where you could use everything without the tutorials would have been nice, but maybe that was just out of scope for this project? Either way, still very solid product, liked the controller support a lot. Good job! |
| Apr 24 04:51:39 | 7h 18m | Freezing Hell | ♥ 2 | Fun little jam game! Especially impressive as a compo entry! The product felt very polished especially considering the time constraint and team size of 1. Sometimes I felt like the camera would benefit from paying more attention to where you're walking/aiming, as sometimes when you wind up anywhere besides south of enemies it can be challenging to get distance and also be able to attack them since they go off-screen. But the core mechanic here is unique and was fun to experiment with. Well done! |
| Apr 24 05:54:44 | 1h 03m | Throes of the Javelin | ♥ 3 | This is a super solid entry! I am a sucker for good 2D platformers, and this one checks all my boxes! Super simple mechanic that is easy to understand, and hard but incredibly satisfying to master. I also think the theme's integration into this game's core mechanic is very clever and well done. I do wish that the end was a little more clear, there's a lack of finality to this game caused me to run around for a while looking for more when I reached that final room full of collectibles. However, I understand that 3 days is incredibly short, and there was so much polish put into the character and the existing level design that I can for the most part look past that. And I haven't even *mentioned* the presentation! The art and music are so well done here, this has got to be one of my highest ratings for each of the graphics, audio, and mood categories for how well it suits this game's atmosphere. Everything came together super well, and I'm very very impressed. Great job, everyone! |
| Apr 24 06:08:54 | 14m 10s | Dachi in the Game World | ♥ 0 | Clever twist on Tetris! Simple idea that is executed pretty well. Surprisingly challenging too! Congratulations on finishing a game solo too, that takes effort. Overall, well done! |