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Ludum Dare Simulator

By hempuli

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall583.8548
Fun883.6848
Innovation234.0249
Theme2123.5748
Graphics2233.4348
Audio1293.3848
Humor154.0649

Comments

acoto87 2018-12-03 06:50

I liked the strategy of chosing what piece to use, considering the space left and the energy. Good job!

evan-overly 2018-12-04 01:18

(I see what you did there smartypants.)

My Score

_____________

*mostly negative comments*

*score of 0 for fun*

"CONGRATULATIONS YOU SCORED 1ST PLACE"

*falls off desk* ____________________ All in all, brilliant idea and I'm slightly pissed I didn't come up with it myself.

firebug 2018-12-04 01:23

Interesting concept and fun interpretation of managing your time and efforts. The pixel art is charming, and I appreciate small details that add to the mood, like having the waste basket tipped over, or the hand-drawn letters that add to the feeling of this being a game within a game.

swanijam 2018-12-04 01:24

This is awesome! the game goes far behind the initial joke of making a ludum dare in a ludum dare game, and introduces an interesting puzzle that made me excited for the fictional game i was making. I favored decorative and extra elements over actual gameplay and got a bad score.

Also, the generated comments are hilarious. Great job.

shahroz-khan 2018-12-04 01:25

I found the live webcam of developer pretty cool. I am guessing that the movement of the character were relative to what you chose at the grid.

hempuli 2018-12-04 01:56

Thank you very much for the kind comments!

Yup; every hour of livecam roughly corresponds to a square on the grid, from left to right.

jaynerdworld 2018-12-04 02:09

Was a pretty fun game and great concept.

commanderstitch 2018-12-04 04:31

I really enjoyed playing this. Everything felt like a game. and the end video thing just flat out surprised me entirely. I have no idea how you did all that but it felt amazing. Great entry Hempuli. :D

myfriendtames 2018-12-04 06:09

I think your game is pretty awesome, it's a great idea and it gave me a funny time.

Good job!!!! :muscle:

lontrus 2018-12-04 18:31

Brilliant idea, nice take on the theme.

bulb 2018-12-04 19:10

INCEPTION !

yaroslav-kravtsov 2018-12-04 22:20

Get 1st place in overall on the first try with a lot of free energy. A little tweak of balance and this game will shine like a diamond. Webcam idea is overwhelmingly super.

You can check my game too. We made our interpretation of participation in Ludum Dare too.

luis-guariglia 2018-12-05 02:48

i really enjoy the game, the idea its fantastic!!

josh-bothun 2018-12-05 04:15

Amazing concept, I LOVE the song and love the timelapse webcam animation. I guess the fact that its just turn based tetris didnt really bother me, was just having so much fun with the concept. Awesome job :D

epicruins195 2018-12-05 12:12

This was fantastic! A nice simple idea executed well. I really liked the ending cutscene that matches what you selected for each hour, that was a nice touch, as well as the random (I presume :P) comments. I could see this being very replayable with a bit of balancing. Good job, one of my favourite entries so far.

call-me-nutty 2018-12-05 14:05

Great idea and well executed! I like the little details and the art-style is bliss. I would just say that the text muddled together for me in the review bit. Also the algorithm for calculating some of the scores seems a bit off. But I came first overall with my own LD43 game, so I'm not complaining! 135ce7662eabdf101c925a8f421fd6a0.png

simonhutchinson 2018-12-05 17:16

This looks like fun! Any chance for a Mac or web build?

hempuli 2018-12-05 19:25

Again, thank you for the very kind comments!

@simonhutchinson Sadly no, I use a lua plug-in that to my knowledge hasn't been ported on the tool I'm using. :( It'd be sweet, though.

@call-me-nutty (& others commenting on the balance) Yeah, the "Overall" score and standing are affected purely by your score total and I underestimated the scores you can get pretty heavily, resulting in it being easy to win (while getting very low scores in some categories). Also Fun/Innovation/Humor scores are kind of arbitrarily calculated - maybe for a post-compo version there could be more clearly related systems :)

mruniverse 2018-12-05 22:19

The LD style rating system at the end was icing on a pretty good cake.

nick-rafalski 2018-12-06 04:26

This was so cool. Somehow I got 3rd with most categories being less than 1 star, but hey, that's LD for you. Great innovation

skettynmeebs 2018-12-07 05:38

This was really sweet hahaha I loved the little cutscene where it showed you freaking out. It was hilarious, good job. very creative.

shulololo 2018-12-08 04:57

I really like how meta this game is. The live webcam was a nice touch, it made me laugh several times. Great entry!

chao 2018-12-08 05:59

Nice management game, it was fun trying to figure out the best positions for each piece. I was a little confused by what it meant by small clusters for objects though.

Love your other work by the way, can't wait for Baba is You release :)

dob 2018-12-08 06:07

Very fun, and a very cool concept. I managed to do OK (rank 1). I liked the video feed part (although I think it could have run faster - I didn't want to watch all 48 hours) and the user comments especially. Really neat entry - I hope it does well.

dcrdro 2018-12-08 14:25

Pretty fun, cool idea :)

pompi-pompi 2018-12-08 16:01

Really fun game!

wisstopher 2018-12-18 14:56

This is such a cool idea! The only thing I dislike is how the first game I made in this placed higher than I ever have for an LD :cry: Great entry! I'll keep a look out for what you do next time :smile:

aurel300 2018-12-21 18:40

Nice … Got 1st place for my game, surprisingly – makes me wonder how this is actually calculated, given that other people in the comments got that as well :) The webcam at the end was a nice addition, although I was expecting the screen to reflect the individual features we worked on. Granted that would be a lot of additional graphics work. Had a laugh at the random comments at the end as well.

dunin 2018-12-21 23:33

Nice packaged game.

In fact, I think I prefer everything that's been added around, rather than the gameplay..

And my results were... unexpected...

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g12345 2018-12-29 14:38

I :laughing: LOL'd so much while playing the game. It's genuine funny, or perhaps it just resembles how much time I didn't spent on making the game during an LD.

Before I played this game I feel really bad not spending all my time developing during an LD, but now I don't feel that bad now.

The graphics and the music is also much better than I ever can do in 48 hours, well done!

sebastianscaini 2018-12-30 14:12

A neat entry! I really liked the results at the end and the gameplay is very challenging but fair!