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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | BestJess's comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7 20:39:58 | Betrayers' Anthill | ♥ 1 | The writing made me smile! I wish there were more decisions to make than just the one at the end -- I kept wanting to give letters to people other than their intended recipients | |
| Oct 7 20:46:44 | 6m 46s | Flower Friends | ♥ 1 | Cute game, relaxing mechanic! I do wish the gameplay had some variation in it though -- maybe new flower types as it progresses? By the time I reached the end it had gotten monotonous for me |
| Oct 7 20:53:21 | 6m 37s | (o o) | ♥ 2 | The implementation for this is FASCINATING, what a fun technical project! As a game it took a while to ramp up for me -- it was so easy to avoid enemies, I didn't even get shot at until the 100 mark. The slow start makes me reluctant to replay it, but once it warmed up it did make a fun little bullet hell. |
| Oct 7 21:05:37 | 12m 16s | Brood Defense | ♥ 1 | LOVE the mechanics and the simplicity of it! I found the difficulty curve very easy -- I had no trouble getting through every round, but I see lots of potential here for more strategic depth. Playing on different maps would be super fun, so we would have to anticipate how the pathfinding would play out. |
| Oct 7 21:19:15 | 13m 38s | That One F*cking Fly | ♥ 1 | Fun concept, but it took me a moment to figure out the controls, the score bar (?) in the upper left is clipped off so I can't read it, and the human never got close to me. I just landed on a cake and stayed there for a while. So I wasn't really able to play it as intended, but I like the spirit of the game! |
| Oct 7 23:48:40 | 2h 29m | My tiny friend and I went on a puzzle adventure in the forest... | ♥ 2 | Puzzles feel really well done, but definitely too hard for me! I'm a casual when it comes to puzzle games, and found myself stuck for frustrating periods of time just on the 3rd and 4th puzzles (did not make it past the 5th). Certain mechanics (like the fact that the turtle can move WITH the mouse, or can also carry rocks) could have been communicated more clearly. But when I did succeed, it felt great! A slower difficulty ramp up would have made this perfect. And the writing is delightful, especially the raven and the toad. I would've given up much sooner if I hadn't been genuinely interested to see what they would say next! I could see myself replaying this! I want to know how it ends! |
| Oct 8 00:03:06 | 14m 26s | Ghosts! in the Garden | ♥ 0 | Cute art, love the frog animations especially! After saving the frogs I wasn't entirely sure what the goal was, but the glowing mushrooms did help me figure it out. |
| Oct 8 17:05:24 | 17h 02m | Tiny Beast Hunter | ♥ 0 | The pixel art is cute! Unfortunately I had a hard time playing because the A and D controls didn't work for me. I had to move with the arrow keys, which on my laptop are super small. |
| Oct 8 17:41:00 | 35m 36s | The Pasture | ♥ 2 | Wonderful game!! Lots of fun, I almost didn't want it to end. It feels great in late game when there are so many bunnies that you're accidentally making matches without realizing. One note: I didn't realize that my lives were going down, and was surprised when I hit game over. |
| Oct 8 17:59:46 | 18m 46s | Ants War | ♥ 2 | Core mechanic is solid, made it to 1000 points before I got bored. Providing some kind of indication when enemies are being hit would be useful -- at first I thought bullets just didn't work at long range, because they didn't seem to do anything. I eventually realized the damage probably just falls off? But I thought I wasn't hitting them at all. |
| Oct 8 19:14:30 | 1h 14m | Beetle Tower | ♥ 4 | Extremely well done! The gameplay was fun, the difficulty ramped up well (although I'd have liked more time at the higher difficulty level -- that's when it was really starting to get fun!), the art and animations were precious, and the sound effects were delightful. |
| Oct 9 00:33:33 | 5h 19m | Bugicide | ♥ 2 | Fun! I had trouble figuring out if I was using the controls correctly, especially with the delay between clicking the dynamite and having it appear, and also the day/night mechanic confused me. But I enjoyed it! |
| Oct 9 01:09:00 | 35m 27s | Destroy these tiny creatures, they are nasty and swarming | ♥ 1 | Extremely clever take on the theme! As minimalist as the assets were, they were cute and communicated the idea clearly. Gameplay was most interesting to me at the worm stage, but what otherwise fine. Well done! |
| Oct 9 17:12:39 | 16h 03m | Tiny Ghost Creator | ♥ 1 | tiny_ghost_creator.png Adorable!! Only thought that occurred to me (aside from expanding on customization options) was that it'd be super cute if the ghost had a light floating animation, just some bobbing up and down while the shadow changes in size. Would add some life to the screen! But the concept and execution is great as-is |
| Oct 10 01:43:02 | 8h 30m | Critter Switcher | ♥ 0 | It's very cute, but I had trouble figuring out how to play. In the very first room I entered, I was immediately cornered by two enemies and just died. Eventually I figured out you can kill enemies if you attack them at the right time, but it was a bit confusing and hard to figure out. I just kept dying a lot. I didn't get far enough to find any of the other animals :( |
| Oct 10 01:48:37 | 5m 35s | Stacoon | ♥ 3 | Adorable art, amazing music, and it's a fun concept! I appreciate the slow tutorial introduction, but found it hard to memorize all the controls |
| Oct 10 05:34:24 | 3h 45m | Boba Teeny | ♥ 1 | Extremely clever concept, and very cute execution! Took me a few tries to get the hang of it, I kept panicking trying to defend the the other bobas from the straw and ended up sacrificing myself haha. Fun enough that I replayed a couple of times! |
| Oct 10 05:53:00 | 18m 36s | Bee Incremental | ♥ 1 | Simple concept, well executed! Like any good incremental game, I had trouble tearing myself away (and indeed stuck around until I won at 12:30). Nice job! |
| Oct 10 18:08:50 | 12h 15m | walking pet | ♥ 1 | Adorable concept! Some aspects (like getting the cat to move) are a little unintuitive, and on my first play I ended up with the cat and the pomeranian(?) at opposite ends of the screen, such that I couldn't reach either of them anymore. After refreshing and trying again, I managed to win. Confusing, but cute! |
| Oct 11 16:49:26 | 22h 40m | Tiny Escape | ♥ 1 | Very well done! The early levels teach mechanics in a nice gradual way, and the puzzles are satisfying and interesting. I did die on the last level and wished I could restart just at that level, because going through the first 14 again didn't seem fun, but overall I was very impressed! The sound effects especially are fun :) |
| Oct 14 17:04:00 | 72h 14m | Pot Life | ♥ 1 | Very cute concept! It was both relaxing AND stressful to play -- I was not good at protecting my flowers haha. I could see this having some Tower Defense-like gameplay features -- waves of increasingly pesky bugs, defenses you can set up to deter them, etc. But even as-is I spent way longer playing it than I expected. Nicely done! |
