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| Timestamp | Since previous | Game | ScrapMetal's comment | |
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| Apr 21 03:58:12 | Avalanche | ♥ 1 | WOW. first game of the jam I played. 🤘 Vibe-wise and aesthetics... you KILLED it. 🔥 Sounds design is phenomenal.. snow particles would've been awesome. But also... i love the way you can get around the environment. Good stuff!! | |
| Apr 21 13:52:32 | 9h 54m | My AirPods?! | ♥ 2 | I didn't quite get the gameplay... just when I thought I got it, I'd lose to finding the wrong airpods? 😬 😝 A lot of UI to take in. The art and overall vibe is so great! |
| Apr 21 16:18:48 | 2h 26m | Rail Rush | ♥ 1 | Awesome game loop and progression. The wooden block theme is super cute. Just made it so playful and appealing instantly. Having a collision was soooo painful and hard to recover from. The pain part created a really nice tension. But the loss was so hard $$ wise, it was impossible to recover... I usually just had to start over. 😰 😅 |
| Apr 21 23:40:32 | 7h 21m | Cadence of Glob | ♥ 3 | The character in this is just INCREDIBLE. Love the expressions and art style. The mix of 2D and 3D works well. I love how the lighting affects the 2D characters. Maybe it's just me... but the dialogue might be too much?. I had to bail after a while. It's hard to read quickly with the animated effect. (As cool as it looks!). The rhythm game was fun, but wish there was more juice there. Also... I got derailed in the beginning and thought it was about the ball. I spent the first 5 min trying to get the ball in the device. 🤦 It was crazy hard. lol. Impossible actually. |
| Apr 22 01:27:06 | 1h 46m | Scary Chef | ♥ 0 | I didn't really understand it. 😬 The controls felt like they took over at times, and the physics and controls were all over. It took me a while to get I needed to use the arrow keys to fill out the code? Trying to understand the lava thing and signal theme? Either way, I thought I was going to play a cooking game by the thumbnail image. 😹 😢 |
| Apr 22 01:36:13 | 9m 07s | Do it Right | ♥ 1 | The art and setting is SO well done. It has so much charm. And i love the living space. It's a cool concept but I had a hard time focusing with the voice going on that long. (And the mix is pretty loud) 😅 |
| Apr 22 11:03:18 | 9h 27m | Seagnal | ♥ 4 | WOW. this one is SO impressive. 😮 I played yesterday morning, but didn't have a chance to finish and rate. I found myself really looking forward to playing this again all day. The initial impressions... it sets the stage and atmosphere so well. It's instantly immersive. I found it fun to just wander around on the boat and just look around. The water and boat movement just blow my mind. It feels so good driving the boat. I love how you handled the boat control AND being able to move around the boat. Everything felt so good. And those waves on the water!!! What. 😳 I love the idea, and getting to the points on the map to find the signal is super cool. Part of it is just the way you delivered info. I didn't have to read the directions beforehand and felt like there was a sense of discovery on what to do in the game. All the info was there built in. LOVE IT. When the cops started chasing me, I was slightly confused. Maybe I was going too fast? 😂 Then I realized, they are just coming at me no matter what? It had a nice element of danger and needing to avoid certain areas. I liked that it was possible to lose them. But I think it was a little unclear how to deal with the police boats. One X point looked like I had to go through the rocks, and it felt fun to try and figure out how to get there. I was having fun checking my map and comparing the actual terrain to see how I needed to navigate. But then the cop showed up and ruined my fun. Made it a lot less peaceful. Probably not in scope for the jam, but it might've helped to have a 'danger zone' or off limits area that you knew the cops might come after you if you went there. Having them coming after you no matter what made it pretty hard. I never found the first X. The writing is really funny and very well done. 👌 The radio was great. It felt a bit loud imo? I wished I had a way to turn it down or switch the radio for a bit. I kept looking for that on the boat somewhere at first. 😆 It just sort of dominated the nice atmosphere you created. Overall, this is incredible. One of my favs so far of the jam. 🙌 |
| Apr 22 11:23:33 | 20m 15s | SIGNAL | ♥ 1 | This has such a cool atmosphere and vibe. The driving is really well done. I loved your camera! I wish I knew how you did it. 😳 😆 It followed the car nicely, but still had some nice rotation etc. I feel like the steering and accel could have been a touch faster. The slow steering made it really difficult to avoid the bots or get away easily. I do love how weighty the car felt though. The detection radius on the bots felt super high. I didn't know how to avoid them in some areas. Made it near impossible when I had 4-5 bots on me. I wasn't sure how to deal with them. Overall, I really loved the concept. Nice work. |
| Apr 22 12:07:04 | 43m 31s | Laser Beat | ♥ 2 | WOW!! This is super cool!! Had a lot of fun with this one! Is such a neat idea to not just play with the mirrors, but to try and match the rhythm as well. Felt fun to mess with and not punishing if you messed up. I felt like it worked better within the browser than full screen (as the buttons got small and far away). And I couldn't figure out what the blue circle button did. But super minor nitpick. 😛 Overall, LOVE it!!! Nicely done. |
| Apr 22 12:20:33 | 13m 29s | Morse Defense | ♥ 2 | This is awesome!!! 😮 I feel like I know morse code now. 😄 Kinda. lol. It's pretty amazing that in just a few min, i felt like I was able to pickup basic morse code that quickly. The UI feedback and audio is phenomenal. I still felt it was tricky to nail the timing exactly right, but I felt like each time I played I got better. It got really cool when you started to get into more full words. Such a neat concept and so well executed. So polished for a jam game. |
| Apr 22 12:40:01 | 19m 28s | i love you, too | ♥ 1 | This is fantastic!!! I liked the forgiveness on the matching, but still accurate enough you had to be pretty 'dialed in'. 😝 It was fun just turning the knobs. Felt very tactile. I liked the 3 ping thing. You knew when you were getting close, but not close enough. At first I turned the speed dial manually trying to match. Then realized I could actually just match it closer, and not have to track by hand like that. lol. The text was hard to read playing in browser. I just guessed at which knob did what at first. This was really satisfying to play! |
| Apr 24 21:06:44 | 56h 26m | Melting Sun | ♥ 1 | SO GOOD. 😮 🙌 🔥 Damn. The atmosphere, art, sound, everything... engages you immediately. I love the papers please inspiration.... but building off it with something new... and managed to squeeze a story in to this short jam using this method. Unbelievable. One of my favs. I wish I had not read that last comment tho... 😬 😰 I had been doing each one by one.... ooops. 🤦 |
| Apr 25 12:56:35 | 15h 49m | Plume Tactics | ♥ 1 | This is a cool idea!! Love the art and animations! |
| Apr 27 17:39:30 | 52h 42m | Missed Signals: Road Rage Frenzy | ♥ 1 | Wow. this just confirmed it's a good thing I don't run street lights IRL. 😬 😆 The idea is really cool. But my brain had a hard time tracking all the diff traffic patterns. It made the choices feel a bit more haphazard than deliberate. |
| Apr 28 02:22:52 | 8h 43m | Dot Dash Mash | ♥ 0 | The art and music overall create a very polished feeling experience. Unfortunately, I didn't quite understand it. I tried the first time and must have failed, then no matter what I entered, I could only reset the puzzle. I also couldn't figure out how to get the dialogue to skip ahead faster. It felt pretty slow to read the text. The buttons feel very tactile though. Which I love. |
| Apr 28 02:31:10 | 8m 18s | Brain Rot | ♥ 1 | not sure if it was just me, but when I finally made it outside... the cars were driving backward and crashing all over. Looked like a typical Monday morning. 🤣 If the controls were meant to be hard. SUCCESS. 😬 😝 Made for a challenge for sure. But also made it pretty hard to play. Maybe if it didn't slide? Often times, I would try to stop, then let up, and my character would drift. I love how the brain seemed annoyed at you for moving at all. LOL. 😆 |
| Apr 28 03:00:15 | 29m 05s | FixTheDamnSignal! | ♥ 1 | This was great!!! LOVE the simple but super effective art. Audio is super funny. Controls are fantastic. 👌 That tv sux tho. 😠 🤣 I do wish I could have a few more clues to find the right spot, but yelling Dad every few min is a part of the experience. LOL. I'm now going to need therapy from this toxic relationship. |
| Apr 28 13:26:50 | 10h 26m | Cardboard Delivery Service | ♥ 1 | This is such a cool idea! And love the cardboard theme and aesthetic. The art and little details are perfect. I felt like I was actually driving around in a little cardboard play area and map that someone built irl. My fav detail is when you hit something... the sound and feedback on the van looks so great. 🙌 I really love the gameplay loop idea. Connecting the tower signals works so well for the theme. I had a little trouble understanding I needed to find the main hub to start with, (I kept trying to connect to any tower at first) but it clicked as soon as I found that one. My other minor point of feedback was the camera felt pretty bouncy when stopping. The follow cam overall felt SO nice, but something where you are starting/stopping a lot, it got a little motion-sicky for me. 😝 (And took away from the nice controls a bit). It also took me a sec to realize I needed to connect to the towers twice with 'E'. One time to connect the signal, and another time back to my van. A lot of times, I thought I was connected and drove off to the next one, only to realize I hadn't connected twice. That part was a little confusing. I also got my van stuck in a few spots where I couldn't get out or move. (Which, for a jam game is totally understandable) 😆 . But I wish I had a reset van option instead of abandon. I had to restart the whole game when that happened and lose all my towers connected. Which made it more painful. And I just kind of quit the second time that happened. |
| Apr 29 01:28:08 | 12h 01m | New London 3D Turbo 2000 | ♥ 2 | This is INCREDIBLE. The car controls... camera... rear view mirror. 👀 😮 what?? car damage.... 😰 😵 city and everything. 👮 I love that I can play with a controller. (even tho I think it is easier with keyboard). The amount of polish and detail you managed to squeeze in to a weekend jam is astounding. I wish I could adjust the sound levels a bit as the music was pretty loud. But... I mean... you had polished music and SFX too!! what the crap. it's so well done. 👏 I had a blast with it. |
| May 4 02:24:56 | 120h 56m | Distant Driving | ♥ 1 | The physics on this felt so good!!! The bounciness of the suspension especially. I loved the art and the UI was so polished for a jam. I understood the mechanic pretty quickly... but I didn't quiet understand what to do about it? Like, my car could only go so fast... so I just felt helpless during the offline bits. It's an interesting idea and the coding felt solid and complete. But I didn't feel like I had enough tools as a player to deal with it. Maybe a boost on a cooldown, so I had to time it right? Or getting enough air to collect signal booster items? Idk. Some way to deal with the disconnection part. That was the main thing lacking for me. That combined with the car being pretty slow, there wasn't a lot of choice. I kept thinking I failed. But adding some additional way for the player to deal with the loss of connection and this could be pretty fun. |
| May 4 02:28:00 | 3m 04s | Signal Towers | ♥ 1 | This was short. But a cool idea. It'd be nice if I could pick them back up too. A little more playful toylike tactile-ness would make this fun. |
| May 4 03:24:05 | 56m 05s | SILENTIUM | ♥ 4 | WHAT. THE. CRAP. 😮 😮 I don't even understand how this was possible.... hands down The winner of LD59 for me. 🙌 I don't always feel compelled to finish LD games... but this one I was SO immersed right from the start. I wanted to see the end. It's so freaking good. The immersion, the art, audio, vibe, mood, music, interactions... WOW. It took me a while at the start to figure out how to even start my car. But I kind of liked it. At first I was trying to put gas in, jump start it etc. Before I found the key. But it was a nice way to introduce the world and my car. I loved driving around. The mood and atmosphere was just incredible. I'm so blown away by what you were able to accomplish. It's just astounding. I enjoyed it immensely from start to finish. I didn't quite get the end completely, but that ending cutscene was EPIC. 😆 😮 😄 Also... how many banger audio tracks can you fit in ONE jam??? 😱 👏 😊 🎵 Overall, I give this 1000/100 She-Kitties. 😺 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ SheKitty.png |
| May 8 20:27:09 | 113h 03m | Short-Range Robot | ♥ 0 | This is really cool concept! Took me a few tries to realize I could actually shoot back with my mouse. 😬 😝 And before I understood how it worked, I was thinking... these controls are too sluggish for this type of game. 😂 I love the idea of balancing dodging and trying to stay near the signal... but tbh, a few things sort of took away from the 'fun' of it for me. I do wish having a good signal meant having really snappy controls, or a shield, or a way to dodge, or a powered up gun or something. Some reason to have a good signal. Having it go from sort of normal-ish controls to no control at all made it get frustrating real fast. I also felt like the orb or signal source should have small or no collision? Like... I'm supposed to get near it, but can't get closer than a 2M radius around the thing. 😬 it felt kind of punishing in that way. But I do think this could be a cool game loop. Nice job! |
| May 8 23:17:02 | 2h 49m | Small Among Storms | ♥ 3 | WOW. The mood and sounds and atmosphere on this are SO GOOD. Love the setting and vibe. I'm not super into hard jumping puzzles, so after missing a lot of jumps on the tiny leaf, I had to bail. Maybe it's my keyboard? But sometimes I thought I hit jump, but walked off the edge instead. And died. But I really didn't want to bail. I wanted to see the end so bad. Everything else about it pulled me in so much. I loved the digging. I loved the sense of danger and needing to hide before moving on. All of that was so great. Such a neat take on signal. The way the animations and audio and background all come together, it really set an amazing mood. |
| May 9 01:58:01 | 2h 40m | The Lighthouse | ♥ 0 | Wow!!! This was just incredible. 😮 😍 I am in awe. As a lover of old school lucasarts style adventure games... this really hit in the nostalgic sweet spot. The art, audio, story and level of polish are astounding. Killer job. I immediately loved the tone and vibe it set. I wanted to snuggle up in that chair with a cup of coffee. ☕️ I even failed and started over because I wanted to explore the other options and see the end. Just AMAZING stuff. |
