npckc 2023-10-03 01:10
these microgames are all great! the pacing is nice and i love the way it all comes together.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD54 → The Big Crunch
By ghayoub, ategon, Vulkaara, coeur and NnY
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 235 | 3.90 | 85 | |
| Fun | 114 | 4.00 | 84 | |
| Innovation | 515 | 3.42 | 84 | |
| Theme | 977 | 2.95 | 85 | |
| Graphics | 197 | 4.21 | 85 | |
| Audio | 82 | 4.07 | 84 | |
| Humor | 415 | 3.21 | 41 | |
| Mood | 445 | 3.67 | 43 |
these microgames are all great! the pacing is nice and i love the way it all comes together.
Love the art and the consistency of the games to the story. Great job with the music! Each track had its own unique vibe in such a short amount of time!
This was such a fun game to play! Great to play, art was beautiful, and the music made everything fit perfectly. You all did such a Good Job!
Retro Warioware! I'm a huge fan of it!
Crazy!
Love the style and design of the game! Different tracks for each level was really cool as well. Some of the levels I felt like were not super clear on the directives but overall I enjoyed the game!
Really loved the game, the art, and the music. It reminded me of warioware (albeit I haven't played warioware in years so I could be completely wrong). Good job and congratulations, best graphics and audio combination so far!
I really like the pixel art style, and the gameplay of the mini-game collection is also interesting
This is 10/10. You guys crushed it on all fronts. Doing nothing while staring at pixelated coffee was the icing on the cake.
This is excellent. I love this visual style and how consistent it is throughout the different games: it's quite nice to look at. I like how you included global and local high scores as well. It took a bit to figure out whether I was succeeding or failing certain games - the way the lives animate is not very prominent. The last life I lost always stopped in the top-left region of the screen and stayed there until I lost another; I'm not sure if that was a bug or if I just didn't understand what was going on.
Really enjoyed the mini-games. Great art and music.
Instructions were a little unclear at times, but I figured things out over time. Relevance to the theme was difficult to determine.
Oh my goodness, this game just pulls you in and doesn't let you go. I've always loved this style of game, and the space theme is very nice. I love the music for each minigame, especially the "do nothing" one. Very well done!!
Very well polished, cool art, nice gameplay and sounds, keeps you on your toes, never knowing what's next. Coffee break is hilarious. This is a top entry for sure.
Super idea, the art style is really good. There are a few bugs but super polished. Good job on this jam game.
Love the art style! The game gets tough very fast!
Good job ayoub!
Nice work! The description for what to do could be displayed a bit longer, or even better, adjustable for people like me who are slow readers. I think I had one bug where the repair WASD instructions were displayed, but a different game started.
Great "WarioWare" like! Impressive that you pulled this off in 72 hours. The only minigame I disliked was the one that required you to shoot the asteroids, I don't like W being the key for shoot and it seemed way harder than the rest. Otherwise very fun game that I enjoyed multiple plays of! Thanks for bringing it to the stream!!
Very nice game, not to hard nor to easy, although the tea one is impossible haha, just kiddin. the music is nice, the art is also nice, I also can not believe Mark Zuckerberg himself helped make this game :O
This is amazing! Probably my favorite game of the jam.
The music, the pixel art, and the snappy gameplay makes it all come together nicely.
Has a small bug with a black circle at the center of the screen for a while.
I love wario ware in space, what a brilliant idea.
Incredible! A lot of games in one jam! Really god work!
Well done! Take a candy! :candy:
I love games like this in the "Wario ware" style. They are great for playing as a couple. Your game was simple, but really good. I didn't notice any kind of bug or technical failure.
Congratulations on the great work.
Incredible simplicity with fun here. The spaces really are tight, but maybe not that much. The idea of minigames is very original, but they seem too fast to allow for any fun. I think there could be more time on each of them for appreciation.
Amazing job! I love the art, the music, sound effects and the microgrames! Everything feels so polished.
Only one thing that I would like to point out is that it was hard for me to read some of the instructions during the intermission. I think it was mainly because of the way the font is displayed. It's hard to discern between words at a glance. I don't know if it's a problem on my end only, so I'm posting a capture of what I'm seeing. Capture.PNG
I also believe that I got the prompt for a different microgame when starting a new run.
Other than that, this game is so well made for the amount of time given!
**edit**: I downloaded directly from the submission, everything I pointed out was already fixed on itch. My bad.
I love this game, will past the jam for sure! I LOVE THE MUSIC. Is a bop.
I really enjoyed this game! The mini games were a lot of fun, great idea for a jam game! The graphics, although simple, looked really nice. The sound and music matched the game's look and feel perfectly, basically the whole game felt polished and cohesive! Im very much into score attack games, so having a leaderboard was awesome for that extra challenge and replay value.
Also, the difficulty curve was spot on. It eased you in, allowing for a learning curve at the start, but then it picked up the pace and got quite challenging pretty fast.
Overall a fantastic game, great job :smile:
PS. Here is my score :sunglasses: my score.png
Also, not sure why you disabled the mood category, this game has a fantastic mood. I would have rated it highly there!
@simon-rahnasto Yeah for Mood and Humor I was rushing a bit at the end and running on no sleep so just disabled them both since we didnt really target either of them (Although both probably could have been enabled)
@ategon Well it is not too late to enable them, if you do let me know and I will return and add a rating :)
@simon-rahnasto Oh huh never realized that could be done retroactively. Just enabled them thanks
@ategon Yeah :smile:, on the flip side they can also be accidentally turned off (Which almost made me miss getting a rank for a category we really focused on once haha). Anyways I rated them now so thank you for the ping!
aww yea real fun game, love everything about it. Needs more mini games hehe
Im comin for #1 >:)
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Beautiful and fun to play! Very well done. Some games could use some better communication what counts as a loss (like the asteroid shooting one) though. Nice entry though, good job!
Tried both versions (jam and postjam) and while I rated based on the former I think everything I would criticize on it was already addressed on the latter. But it was fun playing either one :)
Nice mini games. Some graphics are moody and well done. The vibe reminds some sort of TV shows with short and ironic sketches.
Disclaimer: hyperactive context switching games aren't usually my thing. That said, this had a lot of charm! I loved the minimal art style, and the color palette was really effective. The music was an excellent pairing, too. And I got a good chuckle out of the "do nothing" stage! All in all, this was well made!
Very fun entry! Lots of variety, pleasant audio, solid graphics, simple and accessible controls. For a few games it wasn't obvious at first what the goal was, but I kind of feel like that wasn't a problem; part of the charm of a rapid-fire anthology like this one is the moment of initial discovery (and failure) followed by quick improvement. Probably the main potential weakness is that the design doesn't allow any real opportunity for deep play: it's a series of candy-floss bites that dissolve immediately on the tongue. But, not every game needs to be one that someone could play for dozens of hours--quick bursts of joy are great, too. Really solid submission!
@guardaro the deeper part comes from the fact the games get faster and faster the more you survive. A bit easier to get further in the post jam version to get to that point and heres a quick gif of me around level 80 (yes this is actual in game speed) (ignore the glitching, for some reason licecap doesnt like recording the game)
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Having a full assortment of mini games is incredibly difficult especially during a jam, everything looks and feels very crisp and polished, all felt fair. Really a great entry, thank your making this, great concept and I hope to see more of it in the future !
You've included a variety of mini-games, and they progressively become quite challenging. Great job on the jam. Extra: I love the post-jam screen! Top 7% is my best.
Super fun microgame collection! Nice themeing throughout. I enjoyed how each game had a unique color palette. The music is also great. Great work!
[Thanks for submitting your game to stream!](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1944529420?t=01h01m36s)
I loved the style of this one. Y'all did a really good job capturing the chaotic Wario Ware feel. :smile:
Super cute! Took me a little bit to figure out what to do... then I noticed the text XD
Cool graphics ! I like how you gave meaning to all of the minigames ! And cool touch to have a minigame that asks you to do nothing, I kept losing at that one because I can't read instructions properly... The graphics are pretty good, for the rest it's quite classical wario ware stuff, I don't have a lot to say about that, except that it's cool to use only 4 keys for minigame input, wario ware has a different way to interact for almost every minigame, but with keyboard controls it would be annoying to learn the keys for every minigame, so it's good to keep it simple. Good job !
Always love to see some microgames! Had a lot of fun with this one. I'm not entirely sure how it relates to limited space (it takes place in space and your time is limited? dunno) but I had a lot of fun with it regardless. Fantastic work!
To give an honest jam rating, I started with "Jam" version. It's cool how you made it a choice so I could try out both versions. The suggestions I write here are taking into account changes you've already made for the updated version. + In the 'change a row' part, would be nice to have a more clear understanding of row borders, by some visual cues like lines, streaks in the BG, etc. + When I have to dash from the sun, if I just mash ALL the buttons (wasd) I go so fast it's not even an issue getting away. I know the game overall is easy, but not sure if that's how you wanted it to be. + I like how you highlighted the target zone for landing in the updated version, it's so much better this way!
Overall: I really liked the game! It's quite addictive, with simple mechanics. The way you change up randomly between different tasks keeps it fresh for a longer period of time. Graphics are definitely my taste, music and sounds are great, and it is fun! At first I was a bit confused as I am a slow reader, so I was still reading&processsing the instructions and did very badly in the levels because of that ^^'' but I think that's not a huge issue as you can repeat the levels however much you want ^^
Awesome work! I played and rated the Jam version, this is feedback based upon it:
Loved the art style (big fan of 1-bit :P), and adored the music! These type of games are always entertaining (no idea what is coming up next! :D) which gives great variety to keep things interesting. My only issue was the description of controls at the bottom of the screen. Since all the words were spaced out, I couldn't quickly ascertain the control scheme correctly for a few of the minigames, the "Shoot the Asteroid" on in particular. I got A/D to move, but it took me 3 deaths to finally realize W was for shoot XD.
Outside of that it was more just a learning curve until I understood the rules of each minigame, then I was able to clear it rapidly :).
Loved it, keep it up! :D
The art style was lovely and I haven't played minigame collections like these in a long time, this was pretty unique among the games I've played so far!
Love the warioware style mini-games!
Really awesome game jam game. Had a lot of fun playing it! Just wish I was better at that dang asteroid shooter (':
Heya! Thanks for sharing your game. I really liked the minimalist art style and the funky music. It felt a lot like a WarioWare game or Rhythm Heaven. I thought the mini games were a little hit and miss, with one or two being kind of hard to learn how to interact with given just the intro cue, which I felt was a little too fast and cramped to read clearly at least at first. I would have loved for a chance to recover health, though I don't think that not having one let you down at all, just that this might have given a bit more incentive to try harder on some of the more skill based games.
To be honest, there's not too much to complain about since the game is pretty tight as is. I think given what you produced here you could probably look to innovate with your next entry to push the boundaries a little harder.
Thanks again!
Just wanted to say that the post jam version fixes every single point of feedback I was planning on giving for the jam version, so great job on identifying the problem areas and implementing good solutions for them!
Ah, a collection of minigames. A great concept.
I love minigame collections!!!!!! Congrats on the awesome entry.
Really solid game(s)! my only suggestion on stream was having a mini preview of the minigame in addition to the name and instructions. after a few runs you start to pick up on what you need to do pretty quick and a lil preview can prepare you quicker for the next minigame than text instructions TheBigCrunch.png
Loved the audio and visual design. I feel like the time between games could be reduced, and time in games could be increased. Great entry!
Oh I love games that have a lot of mini-game one after the other! Nice job with the game, the art style is really nice and clean. It was fun to try it out!