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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | Untitled Studios's comment | |
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| Apr 18 00:26:40 | Literally me | ♥ 5 | Fantastic stuff. I love the combination of creative freedom and obtuse restriction here. This really feels more like a creative tool than a game in the traditional sense. Lots is obfuscated here, but in a way that I found deliberate and engaging. I liked the combination of the randomly generated world already populated with things and ideas with the amount of liberty the game gives you to make your own. I like the limited inventory and the odd controls. There are plenty of UI and performance nitpicks I could make here, but I think that this work achieved what it set out to do. Really great stuff. Screenshot 2024-04-17 191830.png P.S. The capacity for creative expression and the poetic theming in this kinda reminded me of one of my all-time favorite jam entries; this->https://delivery.madbarron.com/entry from last jam. | |
| Apr 19 04:47:57 | 28h 21m | The Fifth Seal | ♥ 1 | Excellent. Mysterious and well-written. Typos galore and some routes were certainly more expertly written than others, but nothing more than I would expect for a compo entry. Satisfying to unpick what was going on here, interesting magic system, good stuff. The wonderfully witchy magic reminded me of J.C. McCrae's *Pale*. **SPOILERS** The ending I settled on was the one where I convinced the willow tree to ward my glyph and successfully summoned the creature I was trying to. It seemed like a 'good ending,' but it was left to interpretation in a way I liked a lot. I liked how the reveal of backstory was handled; simple but effective. I liked the initial implication that Anna left our perspective character in a more traditional sense of the word, only to reveal that she died in a ritual. Neat. The only moment when I felt fully taken out of the story is when the shadows on the wall of the columbarium said "BLOOOD MAGIIIIC" -- it felt a little goofier than the tone set by the rest of the work. Besides nitpicks like that though, this was completely excellent. I adore text-adventure stuff like this, and this is exceedingly well done. You should be really proud of this. Mysterious; moody; magic; masterful. Good. |
| Apr 19 04:52:55 | 4m 58s | Battle of the Serifs | ♥ 2 | Silly, creative, funny. Obviously quite simple and easy, but I don't think this is exactly intended to be complex. What it lacks in depth it makes up for with charm-- which is honestly all I need. Felt like a 2010s flash game (in the best sense of the phrase.) Deeply hilarious concept- good stuff. Screenshot 2024-04-18 235056.png |
| Apr 19 05:02:50 | 9m 55s | Bone Train - For Ludum Dare 55 | ♥ 1 | Evidence that good juice and excellent sound design can make something super simple way more fun than it has any right to be. I won't lie, I spent more time on this one than I meant to, which is a pretty good indicator that it's a fun one. Well done! Super impressive for only 8 hours. Screenshot 2024-04-19 000046.png |
| Apr 19 15:27:58 | 10h 25m | Cat Summoning Terminal | ♥ 0 | Simple but charming! Great idea, although lacking some depth. |
| Apr 25 05:12:44 | 133h 44m | Summonere | ♥ 1 | Some pretty neat design here! Super impressive that this is in your own engine. I found the puzzles to be well designed and the realization required to solve the last level (**spoiler??**: the fact that you can have multiple summons out at once) actually hadn't occurred to me before then and felt like a neat twist. Screenshot 2024-04-25 001121.png |
| Apr 25 05:33:59 | 21m 15s | STUPID LEGS | ♥ 2 | Loads of fun, loved watching my strange offspring fumble about in this world of delightfully charming visuals. Great spin on the theme, wonderful, funny. Great stuff. Screenshot 2024-04-25 003253.png |
| Apr 25 06:00:44 | 26m 45s | SoloChanting | ♥ 1 | Honestly way more fun than I was expecting based on my first impression! I really loved slowly unpicking this knot of a map, and figuring out where I should go to get what I needed. I also *loved* the "twist" ending where you get near-infinite guys to summon. Fun stuff! Screenshot 2024-04-25 005834.png |
| Apr 26 01:43:43 | 19h 42m | 6 Kadabra Resurgam Ocus | ♥ 1 | Cool concept! Very innovative. I wish I'd had a keyboard to play it the way it was meant to be played, as I think that the toggleable fingers unfortunately take a lot away from the game's charm and intuitiveness. I'm, however, extremely glad this was an option and therefore made the game playable even on my keyboard. The fingers moved a bit slowly for my liking and the gameplay was relatively shallow, but I found this game quite fun! Good stuff. |
| Apr 26 01:51:41 | 7m 58s | Spirit Chant | ♥ 1 | Simple and fun! Loved the sound design and visuals of course. The gameplay is nothing to sneeze at, either; making a rhythm game is **hard**, and this one works quite well. Bravo! |
| Apr 26 02:01:43 | 10m 02s | Against the Titan | ♥ 1 | Loads of fun! Really cool to combine this sort of rhythm game-thing with this other strategic bit. Really cool! By the end, when I was using both sets of arrows and it was going really fast, I felt like a wizard weaving spells with both hands-- which I feel like was the game's intention, and it was conveyed expertly. Really good! (Also, fantastic art.) Screenshot 2024-04-25 205930.png |
| Apr 26 02:13:35 | 11m 52s | The Summoning Circle | ♥ 1 | Mostly did not care about the dialog (passed by too slowly, I wish there was a way to pass through it faster), but the mantis saying "bye" actually made me laugh out loud, and the ending gave me a good chuckle. I actually quite liked this one-- though the puzzle design could use a bit of work, I overall enjoyed my experience a lot. You packed an impressive amount of content in here! |
| Apr 26 02:27:11 | 13m 36s | Summon Inc. | ♥ 2 | This is a deeply funny game, and though unpolished, it shows a more thorough understanding of how to create a cohesive gameplay narrative than a lot of the jam-winning hyper-polished stuff I've seen in my years jamming. The moment I realized that nothing my managers had to say had any value at all, and I could ignore their summons completely once I had what I needed, was both deeply funny and genuinely had something to say. All that being said, it's still a bit of a buggy and unpolished mess, but that's something that's much easier to improve at than the fundamentals that you've already shown to have mastered here. This is truly awesome. Good stuff. Screenshot 2024-04-25 212458.png P.s. the insane circus music really added to the whole thing |
| Apr 29 01:24:42 | 70h 57m | SLEEP PARALYSIS | ♥ 1 | Simple but fun and well-polished. Sick mood, excellently juicy and creepy sound design. I'm a big fan of the lanky shadow fella. Good work. |
| Apr 29 01:43:05 | 18m 23s | Fire Quota | ♥ 0 | Nice game! Cool music, and a unique concept. The visuals are very nice and the gameplay is pretty fun. Good stuff. |
