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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | pickens-inc's comment | |
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| Oct 8 21:41:35 | Necrohorde | ♥ 3 | Love the presentation! What stands out most to me is how amazingly detailed all the screens outside the game itself are, with the menus and transitions. It's lovely! The gameplay is a touch confusing but I quickly get the gist! Nice satidfying little game, love the chain lightning. The only thing I really felt was missing was the game feel impact when using those bailities. YOu have sounf effects for a lot of the interface stuff but not for the abilities themselves, which is a shame! Still it's a very solid entry and the visuals are perfect! Well done all. | |
| Oct 8 23:03:23 | 1h 21m | Blood Crux | ♥ 2 | Thoroughly enjoyed this one. The visuals are one point and whilst I was confused in-game at first, I then actually went and, you know, read the instructions, and all made sense. Very smooth! A touch easy but that's not necessarily a criticism! The only thing it needed to me was punchier effects and sounds when you hit enemies and got kills to make it more satisfying, and perhaps faster, more thumping music! (this music wasn't bad! Just I felt faster more energistic music would fit better!) I absolutely love the style and the designs, especially of the vampire herself. Blending the poses with movement is super hsard so I appreciate the way you did it in the end given the time available. I also love a good scoreboard, and the presentation using the graves is great! Managed to get #6, which I will take! Very well done. bcimage.png |
| Oct 8 23:07:23 | 4m 00s | Waddle | ♥ 3 | Adorable, and very beautifully presented. I found the mechanics a touch confusing at times, particularly how the splitting up mechanic worked with stopping, but it was a lovely, simple game with so many details. Love the little touches like the leaves and the wind. Well done! |
| Oct 9 11:47:06 | 12h 39m | Scrubby Shrimp | ♥ 1 | I had a lovely little time with this! It's a good shrimple game. I thought at first the other sealife were obstacles, but once I bounced off of the crab harmlessly I just spun around eatin' up all the algae. The art is very cute! A little more challenge would have been nice but I think this works as just a nice little toy. |
| Oct 10 22:25:05 | 34h 37m | Mini Beaker | ♥ 5 | Top quality entry, so glad I played blind without reading comments! I saw your team was pretty big but I am still very impressed. The initial theme really had me convinced I knew what it was about, and then- nope! The only shame there was that the design for the scientist lady is adorable! Quality stuff! And pretty darn challenging! Well done. |
| Oct 10 22:27:56 | 2m 51s | Shrimpy | ♥ 3 | Had a great time with this one. The concept is just very clever whilst also being quite cute rather than perilous (even if you can get eaten), the art is lovely, the little nibbling animation is adorable. The only nitpicks I have design wise is what others have said - the biggest being that sometimes jumps are impossible. I think you were really clever that most of the time that's mitigated by the nature of the gaps being closed as the jaw closes, but sometimes even that's not enough. The others are much more minor, in that sometimes facing the right direction was tricky and the spikey platforms felt like they should be hazards. But I completed it first try with a score of 12 so I'll take it! In particular I want to highlight the sound design and music. I really love the music and calming atmosphere the audio helps cultivate. I think it's a splendid entry. It's my favourite shrimp-based game I've played thusfar, and that's not even a small compliment! |
| Oct 13 09:38:33 | 59h 10m | TinySlime | ♥ 10 | Severely disappointed and calling out that this person leaves ratings generated by chat gpt, not even editing out the fact that the screenshot and description was fed in: gptReview.png Please stop this, it's lazy and the antithesis to what this community is about. Dreadful. |
| Oct 14 23:24:57 | 37h 46m | Vox Regis | ♥ 2 | This was wonderful, my favourite compo entry so far, easily! The moment I saw the name I realised what the theme interpretatio nwas, and I thought that was magnificent. I found the game quite easy, but that's just because it was so elegant. The visuals were lovely, and I especially loved the silly latin "speeches". The rate at which the crowd joins new factions in general was perfectly tuned for the single-playthrough a LD game often gets. Top scores. |
| Oct 15 22:48:40 | 23h 23m | Echo Echo | ♥ 1 | Lovely little game. I had hoped the echolocation would come more into the gameplay elememtns for navigating as I thought it was a great idea, but the execution of the game was lovely. Very zen, despite the fact I'm bad it. Love the visuals, the soundscape music is very fitting. Well done. |
| Oct 15 22:55:00 | 6m 20s | Neckmeat's Tiny Adventure | ♥ 0 | That was a surreal experience! Not much of a game beyond the balancing of stats, but the visuals were lovely. I enjoyed the warm lighting to everything, and the ugly-cute paper sprites were very charming. |
| Oct 15 22:56:32 | 1m 32s | Play With Me | ♥ 2 | Finally gotten round to commenting, though I played the game days ago! Quality work from you guys, big step up from the last jam! Got a genuine spook out of me, for one. But the individual games were lovely too! I think the effects worked great, the way it's all framed into the tamagotchi console, the little minigames. Love the way that only the middle one's is an endless game with no win con, and you figure out why eventually. Well done! |
| Oct 17 20:10:51 | 45h 14m | Ladybug's Underworld | ♥ 2 | When I started this, you were still in the danger zone! This might sound harsh but it's a compliment: I wasn't expecting to enjoy this as much as I did! It starts off feeling a bit clunky, like a bog standard slightly-awkward-to-control platformer. But when I unlocked the roll, with that gorgeous little effect, I knew I was dealing with a wonderful little metroidvania. Very Hollow Knight! I found the rolling controls a bit clunky at times and some parts got me very stuck, but I thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing. The atmopshere is top, the visuals are lovely. So pleased my video game instincts kicked in when Ig to the "end" thinking "I swear I left some coins behind down there, this wall looks jumpable..." and lo and behold, there was another gate! So I am pleased to say I got the true ending, even if I got stuck for a stupid amount of time until I figured out that first coin where you need to speed and then jump pad. Placing the jump pad there was the most difficult part of the whole game, ahaha. The design of the ladybug interesting. Cute, but the red eyes and hunched posture give it a slightly sinister vibe to me, like those gates were placed to keep us inside. If you've never read Lovecraft's "The Outsider" I recommend it, it gives me similar vibes and it's the kind of narrative that would fit a game like this well if ever you extended it. Well done! Especially for a solo entry! |
| Oct 21 21:32:11 | 97h 21m | Among The Deep | ♥ 1 | Absolutely beautiful little game. Certainly didn't expect that tone shift, even though our research partner (who which was just delightful! What an excellent VA!) hinted at it as time went on. I should have suspected! Everything lends to the atmosphere so perfectly - the lighting of the stones and mushrooms, that wonderful music, the parallax background. You captured some quite satisfying gamefeel, such that mining the stones wasn't boring but satisfying, and the amounts required were pretty much perfectly the right amount. If I were to nitpick anything, I'd just have liked the laser-swapping wheel to be a bit faster. That's a real nitpick though. I'd have been happy for this to be a chill little game about the wonders of researching tiny creatures, ahaha. Most importantly, you managed to make me worried for a faceless character in a jam game, so damn good job all around. Even with a bigger team, this polish is impressive. Well done! |
| Oct 23 10:06:21 | 36h 34m | Regenesis: Bacteria King | ♥ 1 | It took me a while to understand what I was looking at, maybe some more information on the actual LD page? But eventually I started to get a better idea of what was goign on - build your bacteria and fight with it - the matrix of numbers was very confusing. The art style is nice and the music is a vibe. You have something here but just need to strip away a lot of the buttons that don't do anyhting. I think I locked myself as my bacteria couldn't move in the second level. Not sure why! Glad to get you out of the danger zone though! |
