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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | Theo Ratkin's comment | |
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| Oct 6 04:11:24 | Unholy Black Hole | ♥ 0 | Very well-polished game! Quite unique idea with directing the crowd. This might sound weird, but I love the little screams haha. | |
| Oct 6 04:42:41 | 31m 17s | Far Fetch | ♥ 2 | Very enjoyable 3D platformer! I kept replaying to get better and better scores, couldn't beat you though haha. (The medals didn't render for me correctly, probably because I was playing on Linux with Wine) 20251006_00h33m13s_grim.png |
| Oct 6 16:27:51 | 11h 45m | ECHΓRA β The Silent Painter | ♥ 1 | Such a beautiful and relaxing experience! Love the way the story is presented as you make the world more and more colorful. And the music, despite being made by AI, is quite mesmerizing. My only complaint is that some text fades too quickly, at some points I had to pause to actually read it. But I still enjoyed the game very much. Fantastic job! 20251006_12h02m53s_grim.png |
| Oct 6 18:06:10 | 1h 38m | THE HUNTER | ♥ 0 | The level design is genuinely so good! Each level gives a good challenge with cleverly placed traps and enemies, requiring several tries to master, while not being overly difficult to the point of frustration. Also THANKS SO MUCH for the quick restart button and not making the players wait several seconds between retries. The art is also very well-chosen! By the way, I think you should clarify in the description that RGS_DEV only created the art. Currently it can be misinterpreted that they are creator of the game. 20251006_13h39m41s_grim.png |
| Oct 6 18:46:01 | 39m 51s | Collector`s Insomnia | ♥ 4 | WOW, what a beautiful game! I assume you are still in the process of finishing touches/uploading, since there's only a non-live web build at this page (which I was able to run locally), and the character keeps getting stuck on a previous screen. Please ping me when everything's ready, I'd love to play it until the end! |
| Oct 6 19:25:03 | 39m 02s | Collect or die | ♥ 2 | Wow, I didn't expect such detailed levels! The truck was difficult to handle at first, but it got easier when I figured out that you can hit breaks with Space. Honestly impressive game for such a short period! Also, the Discord sound has thrown me off for a moment haha. 20251006_15h20m33s_grim.png |
| Oct 6 19:58:05 | 33m 02s | Stargazer | ♥ 2 | What a relaxing game! Love the little constellation journal with quotes! They aren't hard to remember, and getting one is very satisfying. I noticed a small issue - the stars can appear behind the score text and they aren't clickable. It's not a big deal though. Great job! stargazer_score.jpg |
| Oct 6 21:55:06 | 1h 57m | Wasteland Workshop | ♥ 5 | Oh wow! This is SO well-polished! Very nice cel shading graphics, super cool steampunky UI styling. The 2D customers look awesome and blend surprisingly well with the environment! I love different interaction types with the objects (assembling, polishing, dipping in water), very satisfying. The occasional roof trips add a nice gameplay variety. I only wish the hatch stayed open while I'm on the roof haha. Lots of fun trinkets to repair and collect. You even included an interactive tutorial! I actually played 2 times, got the bunny and then the dollhouse. :-) This is one of the best games I've played yet on this jam. Fantastic job everyone! 20251006_17h32m34s_grim.png |
| Oct 6 22:42:48 | 47m 42s | 30 Seconds Till Winter | ♥ 1 | For the first ever game jam entry this is nice! Could you tell more about how to play the game? No matter how much wood and bushes I clicked on, I still couldn't craft the fire. |
| Oct 7 02:07:22 | 3h 24m | Predincament | ♥ 1 | The pixel art in this game is so cute! Love the silly alien creatures and their funny dialogues. |
| Oct 7 13:47:30 | 11h 40m | Give It Back! | ♥ 0 | Doesn't open for me either, that's too bad, because the game looks great! Please ping me when it's available, I'd like to play it. |
| Oct 8 03:51:10 | 14h 03m | Interstellar Collector | ♥ 1 | Absolutely charming space game! Reminded me quite a bit of Outer Wilds (arguably my favorite game ever)! It's really cool that you made an actual solar system simulation! It's a bit challenging to fly on the planets, since the ship isn't affected by their gravity, but understandable given the limited jam time. I had fun flying around abducting little shape guys. Thanks for making this! Would love to see a full version of this game. 20251007_23h33m28s_grim.png |
| Oct 8 04:12:26 | 21m 16s | God is a nerd collecting video games and such, but | ♥ 1 | Wow, did not expect the voice acting and those smooth transitions! Very impressive for a jam game. I also learned a valuable lesson from the story: if there's a game I really want but can't get, I shouldn't resort to causing natural disasters. Thanks! |
| Oct 8 17:45:20 | 13h 32m | Super Sucker | ♥ 2 | Very very cute artstyle and impressive scale of the world! Seems it would take at least 1-2 hours to clear everything. Love the clever moving block puzzles. The music/sounds are awesome! |
| Oct 8 23:13:03 | 5h 27m | The Scab | ♥ 2 | Very unique interpretation of the theme. The journal is such cool concept! And the graphics look fantastic. My 3D open-world game was made with Godot too, and I was surprised with how relatively easy it was! It's not as polished as yours visually, but still. 20251008_19h05m25s_grim.png |
| Oct 10 15:46:30 | 40h 33m | Metal Undergrowth | ♥ 1 | I loved it so much! Such a gloomy, but still somewhat cozy atmosphere. So much fun collecting different kinds of cleverly designed bugs and the addicting upgrade mechanics. And very nice 3D art-style with pixel-art textures! This is something I tried in my game as well, but I'm yet to learn to reproduce this design on such a cohesive level. Congrats on making such a cool and polished game! |
| Oct 12 20:15:16 | 52h 28m | Dan The Beaver's Dam | ♥ 1 | I actually considered making a beaver game for this jam, glad to see someone else has done it! Very lovely scenery, and a cute beaver model! Definitely wish this game had sounds. I also think it would be better if the logs were more spread out in the forest. But I still very enjoyed the art style and the ambience. Great job! 20251012_15h41m17s_grim.png |
| Oct 12 20:45:57 | 30m 41s | Scrap Soul | ♥ 2 | Honestly very unusual and atmospheric! I love the sense of scale from the skyscrapers, and very impressive lighting! I actually completed it 2 times to see if I can find the core on the 2nd run (but alas). I agree that the walking is quite slow, even though it adds a bit to the experience of being a rusty robot. Perhaps you could set walking to the current running speed, and increase running speed 2-3x. Also very cool cutscene at the end! 20251012_16h24m24s_grim.png |
| Oct 15 15:34:55 | 66h 48m | THINGS I KEEP | ♥ 1 | Beautiful storytelling. I appreciate that you made a game on such an important topic. I truly hope there will be a time when no child has to endure what Lily did! |
| Oct 15 16:09:40 | 34m 45s | Butterfly Gathering | ♥ 3 | Very calming game, love the butterfly journal idea! I agree that it gets a bit boring after you've planted all the flowers. I wonder if this would have worked better as an idler game? I.e. make butterfly collection automatic and instead focus on the upgrade system that increases their quantity, rarity chance, etc. |
| Oct 15 16:46:51 | 37m 11s | The Cult-lector | ♥ 2 | Wow I feel so bad hahaha. Surely that fire demon is actually nice and won't do anything horrible to babies and puppies, right? Riiight? But seriously, very impressive for a 72h game! Amazing graphics. Good on you for taking it easy on yourself! I'm always tempted to go for all-nighters on game-jams π 20251015_12h35m34s_grim.png |
| Oct 20 22:53:42 | 126h 06m | CONTAINMENT BREACH | ♥ 3 | Very atmospheric! Great pacing and story presentation. I like the simplistic art style, though it felt a bit too dark at times. @ace17 the game worked great for me on Arch Linux through Wine (with DXVK). π |
| Oct 20 23:21:58 | 28m 16s | Astraay | ♥ 2 | It's so cool that you made this using your own engine! Very moody space station atmosphere, perhaps even exceedingly so! I concur with others that it's a bit too dark. A brightness slider or a flashlight would go a long way in improving accessibility. But I was still able to find all 6 fragments! Fun fact: as I was playing the game, a huge lizard quickly crawled on the other side of my window, which spooked me quite a bit. π¦ So, 10/10 for immersion π 20251020_19h02m02s_grim.png |
| Oct 21 17:53:35 | 18h 31m | Cryptozootography | ♥ 4 | The on-rails movement is a great choice for this game! I enjoyed sitting back and taking pictures, while listening to the funny comments. The one about Bush really got me for some reason π I got 32K, the most expensive ones being of the Bigfoot and Nessie. |
| Oct 22 16:38:38 | 22h 45m | Lambball | ♥ 1 | Very cute game, nice graphics, and the sounds are just top-notch! π Pretty cool idea with walling off sheep/wolves. |
| Oct 22 18:42:10 | 2h 03m | Squish ! | ♥ 2 | Very nice art style and music! The slimes are super cute! But, unfortunately, I'm a terrible slimekeeper that should be fired. π I couldn't figure out how to feed them, so they kept dying from hunger (I think). I planted the berry slime on a farm next to others, but it didn't help. There doesn't seem to be an option to harvest any food from it. Also, I built a house and put some slimes inside, but they still were cold. After the pink slime died I got softlocked, since I couldn't tame any new ones. When a slime dies, it seems that its station can't be taken by another. I.e. my woodcutter died, I tamed another, but it couldn't stand on the stump where the other woodcutter slime used to be. Same for the berry slime and the pink slime. And I couldn't build new stations because the builder was already busy with a half-finished mine (which I couldn't cancel). Hope this feedback won't discourage you! I enjoyed the game despite everything, and overall it would be extremely fun if some UX issues were fixed and it was clearer what to do! If you release an update I'd love to give this game another try. 20251022_14h08m04s_grim.png |
| Oct 24 01:15:57 | 30h 33m | Collecthrow | ♥ 1 | Very nice concept! I'd love to play this with friends, even though the AI is surprisingly smart! I would argue that the theme is a bit loose, since this game is about holding onto something rather than collecting. But if you think about it as collecting seconds then it starts to make sense. :-) |
| Oct 24 02:17:00 | 1h 01m | WonderBot: A Lofty Return | ♥ 1 | This is so overwhelmingly cute! I mean, REALLY, a cute pillow-eating robot vacuum and a CAT on top of it? Who can say NO to THAT? The gameplay is incredibly addicting. There's just something inherently satisfying about leaving a trail of cleanness behind. The upgrade system works wonders π for motivation, increasing the cleaning efficiency and freedom of movement as you unlock more and more. Fantastic job everyone, loved every moment of your game! 20251023_21h46m11s_grim.png |
