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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | aruseus's comment | |
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| Apr 22 16:52:03 | Signal Slasher | ♥ 1 | I had fun. Having 20 levels to play is really cool. They're all relatively short and easy to complete, and they add enough variety to keep the mechanics interesting. Small technical nitpick: using wav for audio bloats the download size. If only we didn't get this signal theme. The game could be even better when being able to move freely. | |
| Apr 22 17:12:41 | 20m 38s | Average League | ♥ 2 | The mechanics were easy enough to intuit and I liked the theme. I would've liked some kind of goal or ending (at least I don't think there is one. I only played until getting each hero once). |
| Apr 22 17:22:28 | 9m 47s | Sigul Signal | ♥ 1 | The controls are a little rough. There's not a lot of air control so it's hard/impossible to evade the enemies when they're too close. I quite like the music and the clean and coherent visuals. |
| Apr 22 17:43:57 | 21m 29s | The Marshaller | ♥ 3 | Nice idea to make a rhythm game given the theme. I'd have liked some indicator to tell me how well I'm doing throughout the song. It'd also be nice to have more variations when the buttons appear, but I can see that being difficult to do in a jam. Being able to import your own songs is pretty cool! |
| Apr 24 09:17:56 | 39h 33m | Tappy Towers | ♥ 0 | From a technical standpoint the game seems quite polished. It has a couple levels and other features to make you engage with the clicking/tapping mechanic (bunch of towers with upgrades, armored enemies and stealth enemies etc.) The gameplay gimmick unfortunately isn't for me though. Clicking on each tower to attack gets chaotic and spammy quickly in a way that's not that fun in my opinion. |
| Apr 24 09:42:29 | 24m 33s | Decoder | ♥ 1 | I liked the simple design. The UI could be improved a little. The tutorial font overlays the main screen making it a bit hard to read. The font in general is not ideal. It's easy to misread some letters/numbers under time pressure. Going from signal tuning to entering the data felt a little clunky at times. The field where you enter the data covers the signal slider, and sometimes it took some time to disappear, even though the signal had moved already, so it made you lose some time before you could adjust the slider which felt annoying. Could probably be made more by placing the slider such that it's not covered by the data entry. Idk if you're thinking about turning this into a bigger game. You could then probably juice up the mechanics a little, by making things light up and shake and make more sounds when you establish a connection and when you successfully decipher something. I quite liked the simple premise of decoding satellite signals. Would've been fun if there was a twist at the end that the messages you decode turn out to be about something else. (Although maybe there is and I just missed it). |
| Apr 24 10:03:05 | 20m 36s | Fresneltic | ♥ 1 | I felt a little stupid at the beginning. Took a me a little to realize that I had to click on ships to send a signal, but I figured it out eventually. The game was harder than I expected as more and more ships spawn, but getting the ships to the harbor felt satisfying as a result. Thematically it makes sense the way the signals are implemented, but the only thing I didn't like about the gameplay was that it created a big communication bottleneck. You can't really quickly manage multiple ships because sending a signal and turning the lighthouse beam takes too much time. And as a result I often got into situations where I knew I was fucked already but I could really steer them away anymore. Would've been cool if there was a way to speed up the lighthouse maybe make sending signals faster. Pretty cool entry overall though. |
| Apr 24 10:14:29 | 11m 24s | Signal Defender | ♥ 1 | You say it's half-finished, but it was actually really fun. Wish there was more :) |
| Apr 24 10:18:29 | 4m 00s | ..LANGIS.. | ♥ 1 | Maybe I just didn't get the mechanics, but I wasn't able to catch the signals reliably. |
| Apr 24 10:28:12 | 9m 43s | Inter Signal | ♥ 1 | The first few levels are easy, but then the game gets quite difficult very fast. The timer is a little annoying. I had fun wiring things up initially, but when I got hit with too much interference, I didn't really have time to rethink and rewire the circuit, so I just lost. Maybe a skill issue :D |
| Apr 24 10:36:52 | 8m 40s | LD59 SIGNAL STRIKE | ♥ 0 | Haha, cool plot twist. Fun game :) Your github link doesn't seem to work though. Maybe it's a private repository. |
| Apr 24 14:15:42 | 3h 38m | Signal's Shift | ♥ 2 | The game looks cool. I like the atmosphere and how it hints at a larger world beyond the game. Small detail that could be improved is the camera. It follows the player with little to no smoothing making the movement feel very harsh. The gameplay was a little simplistic. Changing the amp/freq match was a little too easy, but I didn't mind it. Simple gameplay like this would perhaps fit well within a narrative-focused game (if you wanted to continue working on it). |
| Apr 24 14:35:11 | 19m 29s | ANALOG TUNE OVERRIDE | ♥ 3 | I encountered one minor bug. If I scroll all the way up to square wave, the slider gets stuck somehow and I can't scroll down again. Really fun game though! Simple mechanics with a couple creative levels. I liked that each level challenged me in a different way and kept it fresh that way. The levels were great at showing me how much I suck at multitasking without being frustrating :D It was fun to keep trying until I got good at the mechanics. 2026-04-24-162714_1306x740_scrot.png |
| Apr 24 15:01:15 | 26m 04s | Signal Path | ♥ 2 | Exploring all places is interesting because that's where the fog mechanics come into play. The exit is always really easy to reach though. You can in principle speedrun the game without interacting with the fog obstacles at all. I can see why you did it that way, but I'm not sure if that's a good design tradeoff. Finding the input sequence to finish the map in one go however felt more like work because one fuckup means starting over from scratch and having to input all instructions again. The morse-code-like input fits the theme but doesn't really make it very efficient to do that unfortunately. I'd have wished for a way to change like one instruction without having to start from scratch. These are small nitpicks though. I hope I'm not sounding too critical. Cute game though. Overall very smooth. The graphics and the background audio make it feel very cozy. |
| Apr 24 15:15:29 | 14m 14s | Ray of Hope | ♥ 1 | The gameplay feels a bit uninspired. The level is big and looks very cool. Just having a 3D environment like this at all is impressive for a jam, but in the end you just walk from one spot to the next to press E. You don't necessarily need to have complex mechanics, but as it is right now, the whole level lacks some substance. It all just feels a bit empty, and needs something else. |
| Apr 24 15:23:59 | 8m 30s | Long Distance | ♥ 1 | Top score for innovation. I don't know if it's intentional or a bug that the mouse pointer disappears. Makes it hard to play. |
| Apr 24 15:33:07 | 9m 08s | Switchboard Sprite | ♥ 1 | Got softlocked at day 5. Was fun though. Only the controls felt a little unreliable. Made me feel like I was a rather hamfisted operator :D The music was cool too. |
| Apr 24 15:56:48 | 23m 41s | Sieze the Means of Production | ♥ 0 | Fyi, it's seize, not sieze :) It's fun until you randomly lose all your bots to a random landmine. There are lots of mines and I don't think there's a good way to avoid them. |
| Apr 24 16:36:07 | 39m 19s | Kiipu | ♥ 0 | Not an easy game, or maybe I just suck at platformers. Also, not sure if there are multiple paths to take, but I had to figure out the bounce mechanic on my own before I reached the guy explaining it to me which felt a bit weird. |
| Apr 24 17:08:18 | 32m 11s | Below the Light | ♥ 4 | Had some technical issues. In the web build, my mouse became invisible. In the native linux build, I had a mouse pointer, but I couldn't click on stuff. The native windows version worked though via proton. The puzzles were fun, except for the one with the typewriter where you have to type a word (trying to keep it spoiler-free). The hint for that was a bit obscure. Except for that the puzzles were all very cool and it was always clear what to do. I also liked the overall mood. Great job! |
