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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | ||
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| 2015 | 33 | You are the Monster | H.A.V.I.C.K | jam | 174 | 3.67 | 3.57 | 3.05 | 3.81 | 4.43 | 2.84 | 3.20 | 35 | |||
| 2013 | 28 | You Only Get One | Y.O.G.O HARPOON | jam | 253 | 3.12 | 3.30 | 2.78 | 3.64 | 3.12 | 2.97 | 3.04 | 2.66 | 63 | ||
| 2012 | 23 | Tiny World | Stade 2 (Mr.Oizo) | jam | 67 | 3.41 | 2.97 | 3.08 | 1.88 | 4.08 | 3.88 | 2.00 | 3.68 | 62 |
30dogs leaves an average of 24.0 feedback comments each event.
Now THIS is an innovation in gameplay. Very cool idea and creative take on the theme. The art and overall presentation was really well done too. It's kind of a pet peeve of mine when a game is done in pixel art and many of the assets are different widely varying resolutions, but it's still a terrific job. I appreciated the intro scene.
Super job. You obviously put a ton of passion and time into this submission. My only criticism is that I wish there was more gameplay involving the perspective shift. It felt like by the end of the game (which was enjoyable to play to) you had introduced almost too many features that they detracted from the coolest feature.
I don't really get the connection to the theme, but wow, this is beautiful. The music rounds it out so nicely and the whole thing is just lovely and relaxing and...addicting! Great work, you really know how to make an inviting game.
We had the same idea :)
Very nice job, the controls were very smooth and I like that you can block the enemy projectiles with your harpoon. Good audio and eerie mood as well.
One problem arises however when one of the big guys spawns on top of your dropped harpoon, making it impossible to retrieve it.
Really fun and the graphics are slick. It's a lot like my game, except... well-designed :)
Great work.
It was short but you did an amazing job on so many aspects. It's rare to hear some really great narration. The voice and style reminded me a lot of Thomas Was Alone. The whole thing was very charming and well done.
While I respect that you are serious about the one life idea, it unfortunately means that I didn't get to experience very much of the game. I died on the boulder apparently like many others. I did float around most of the cave and I must say the art is really good. Sorry you guys had technical difficulties.
Woahhh cool concept! Would be nice to see some more constraints or objectives to make it more interesting or challenging. The combo system seems a little buggy, but I had fun building this monstrosity: http://i.imgur.com/S3N2MCR.jpg
I love it. At the end I felt like young Simba in a stampede... of cats.
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Crashed for me after killing a few zomibes. I have a high end computer so I don't think it was lack of power.
Could use a bullet graphic or at least a line drawn when shooting for better feedback. The ambient sound was a nice touch.
The defenses are very tedious to place because the mouse is always accelerating the camera while the mouse button is held down. Maybe instead of clicking to drag touching the edges of the screen to scroll could be more fluid.
Funny :)
The walk cycle after he lets go of the hostage was well animated.
Awesome atmosphere. Good use of the 3D sounds. I'm sure you learned a lot about Unity in the process. If you make another first-person Unity game, I recommend using Screen.showCursor=false and Scree.hideCursor=true once you go to play mode from the menu. Nice work.
Hilarious. Too bad we don't get to see the finished product. I find myself having trouble giving you a low score on anything besides Fun.
Fun and challenging! You did a good job balancing the pace and leaving room for the player to improve their skills on multiple tries.
Well you certainly accomplished your goal regarding the graphics. I work in Unity as well and can really appreciate the effort squeezed into the 72 hours. There is more to be desired of course from the gameplay. It reminded me a lot of one first games for the original xbox called Nightcaster (had to look it up). Basically the exact same mechanic as your game.
Take note that honestcritic didn't submit a game, so it's no surprise that he offers 100% negative feedback.
Creative and fun. Had a Katamari feel to it.
Really impressed by the mood you created here with such assets and Unity experience. The ghosty thing scared me as well as some lightning crashes. I hope to see more at the next LD!
Wow, great game. The music was very nice, and the string of objects and interactions was very well planned and written. Lovely graphics, too!
Looks and plays great. I'm really impressed by how much difficulty you managed to pack into the puzzles.
Combining the 3 different minigames was a cool idea, and the whole premise is very funny. I was a little confused on the 3rd stage, but it was satisfying once I found the right spot ;)
Very poignant. And pretty :)
I'll be honest, I don't get the connection of the rain to a "health" bar. But I found it very enjoyable to stand there and watch and listen to the raindrops tap on the umbrella.
Music and graphics were great and went well together.
The platforming mechanics were however very frustrating. Very steep learning curve on the gliding which I think most people would not be able to pick up very well. If I'm even understanding how it works, it behaves like a jump which can only be triggered in midair. Works well for falling and steering, but jumping gaps was very difficult and I found myself spamming Space and Up keys because that seemed the best way to ensure that the glide up would trigger.
After I picked up the ghost (which looked very cool btw) and went through the 2nd door, I appeared in the 3rd scene with no ghost, and a seemingly empty scene. I couldn't figure out how to progress from there, as all I could do was fall into emptiness.
The hexagonal effect of the water really stood out in a good way. Very pretty.
The torpedo settings really need a button to remove a command. It's a really fun idea, but as a player I felt very limited to trial and error because there was no visual indication of how far a knot was on screen (unless I missed something). Maybe Direction+Distance would be easier than setting Direction+Speed+Time.
Good job though, everything seemed to work as it was intended.
Took me a few tries, but I'm glad I got to the good ending. The story was interesting and I am left wanting to know more about MegaCorp and the experiment, and what became of the protagonist's wife. Nice work!
Very nice aesthetic. I found it awkward that your character always faces to the right. Pretty buggy, but the AI is very effective at chasing you down. I never got more than 2 orange cubes to spawn. I'd get the second one, and then no more cubes until eventually time runs out. Looks great though, and I had fun running and flying around the cool scene. (I played alpha2)
Fun little game. The "decoy" balls definitely made it more challenging (still a little too easy unfortunately). I thought I was being super clever by nudging derpina into a corner to more easily protect her...but if you let a ball slip past in that scenario it will ricochet and hit her several times! Might be more interesting if derpina had some random movement and you had to keep up with her.
Simple yet really fun! The terrain generation and destruction was very ambitious, nice job. I wanted to pause the game for a second and instinctively hit Esc which killed the app and I lost my progress.
It will probably be hard to find someone to play against, but it looks like it could be fun.
The harpoon trail looks nice. It took me a bit to figure out the movement controls. Turns out it's just Up/Down/Left/Right movement, but I'm not sure why you have to use [Space] instead of [W] to move up.
Cool Peggle adaptation. I like the idea of triangles instead of circles. The large degree of flexibility in setting up your shot is nice, but since the triangles are spinning it felt pretty pointless to deliberate over the shot, so instead I mostly left it up to pure chance.
Nice lighting and sfx. Shooting up and down was awkward.
I liked how the light guided you to your objective, but it would have been nice to see the theme tied more into the mechanics.
We had very similar ideas! You guys executed it extremely well. Pretty much everything is awesome. The jagged edges of the map to make the bounces more unpredictable is brilliant.
Cool idea. Unfortunately it was a bit too easy to really notice that the clone became more dangerous. It looked like he exploded a few times without me shooting and I'm not sure why.
Nice use of lighting. You made a really cool scene with very minimal assets.
Wow I loved this. I got to the house with the ghosts, but I want to do some more reviews so I'll have to finish the rest later. Very immersive and intriguing. The mechanic of the 'cognitive static' was way cool. Awesome job.
Brutally fast but luckily that's my kind of game! A shorter delay before starting a new game would make it more enjoyable. Great job.
A little bit confusing at first, and then a bit too easy. I think with some more constraints on the player it could be really fun. I liked the color palette and the ambiance. The blocks looked really cool too. The fuzzy black edges sort of give an illusion of refractive glass blocks. Keep working on it!
By far the most LOL-inducing ludum dare game. Very well done. Bahahaha his haaands!!!
Awesome writing! I loved all the great one-liners. Once I got into it I really enjoyed it. The clues were not too obvious and not too difficult.
The only thing I didn't like was the controls scheme. When 'W' didn't make me jump, naturally I tried Space, which takes you to the world selection. This was sort of confusing. Also pick-up/drop could be the same button.
Overall, great game--fun to play.
The sound and lighting changes you made in the post-compo build were really good. Even without those the mood was still awesomely creepy and scary. Pretty difficult but I made it to the end and felt sweet relief. Maybe add just a tiny bit of light on the walls when you are wall-climbing like you do with the floor.
Great entry! When all of the red eyes appear that's just awesome.
I was about to turn in my 5th item when I suddenly died. Started a new game to see that indeed there was a countdown timer. Your description really adds a lot to the meaning of the game. I think it might be more fulfilling if it was perhaps easier to find items but you could provide less time to play. Very interesting concept.
Captivated me for several tries, but I couldn't grasp the rhythm aspect. I got to the third track, but I'm not sure how the 'groove' was tied to the gameplay. Also, the only way I could figure out how to restart after falling was to refresh the page, not sure if that was intended. Cool game.
^Oh I broke alll of the pots. Even as I was doing it I just knew it was pointless as the game gives no promises of rewards. And yet I left no pot intact.
This game was awesome! Felt like a Zelda meets Commander Keen. Best 48-hr adventure game I've played. I have too many compliments so I'll just leave it at KUDOS!
Like everyone has said-- superb graphics and music. It was reallly tough even with the floating at the beginning. I tried probably 20 times and eventually got near the bottom of the screen. I'd love to try it again perhaps with lower gravity or maybe a greater light radius (or both). But even still an awesome entry!
Nice job. I love the perspective and lighting you chose for the scene. I too wasn't very sure why my ants died when the did, but that first playthrough was great even just for the atmosphere.
Aw man I wish I could try this out, the screenshot alone looks very promising :)
Short but sweet. I wish there were some baddies to shoot! The environment is good and I think the core looked really cool. I didn't like that you cling to the walls when trying to jump up a ledge (unless I missed something), but hey I know that Unity platformers are way harder to make than one might think.
Really fun and creative. Great use of the theme. This game really stood out!
Lots of good suggestions for the camera already, but I think for the stealth element to work you really need to be able to free look around easily. I see the challenge of making the controls work for the usable objects though.
A nice crisp remake of the classic worm/helicopter game everyone loves! Would have been nice to see a little something added to the gameplay like others have said, but the controls are perfect and the graphics are charming.
Simple concept, I understood immediately what was going on. However it was pretty difficult for a few reasons you probably already know of. I think right off the bat a huge improvement would be if you could control the height of your jump slightly with your click duration. Good stuff though, the screen-wrapping was a good choice!
Great idea! Excellent polish. I did have distinguishing the letters U/V/Y occasionally due to the font, but I still enjoyed the game.
I like the idea. You should keep trying some more level designs and try to make it more challenging. Also, I noticed it is possible to crash all of your friendly ships on the planet and still win.
Thanks for the kind words about my game, FireFlash!
Obviously yours is much more complete than mine and I loved it. It was a very different experience from AYIM because your game mostly focuses on controlling the secondary objects. Made for some pretty challenging stages. Nice job all of you!
LD33 — You are the Monster (11)
Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum by Justin Stahlman by stahlmanDesign 2015-08-27T17:26:00
Really hard but fun. Awesome concept, and I liked the graphics. Those Jacks are tough to stomp, and my damn golden goose waltzed into one of the house all by itself, haha. Nice job.
Greetings, Human by boardtobits 2015-08-27T15:19:00
Really cool take on the theme, very unique, nice compo entry. Not a great amount of depth to the gameplay but I can see where it could go with a little more time. Imagining the weird greetings/farewells was hilarious.
Dinner In The Dark by DinnerInTheDark 2015-08-27T04:18:00
Damn, really nice work guys. Great atmosphere, audio, concept. This is the first one I've played where I really 'felt' like the monster. Kudos.
Quarantine by BoskoSokolov 2015-08-27T04:10:00
Surprisingly fun for such simple gameplay. The music combined with the rabble of fleeing people is hilarious.
Creep by Koneke 2015-08-26T20:04:00
Took a while to understand how the wall grab works, but pretty fun once you got it. Cool atmosphere.
Monster Doodle Battle! by superjai 2015-08-26T19:51:00
Super creative idea, and great art. I had fun getting ruined by the AI. Would probably be a lot more fun vs a friend.
To Buy a House by slarrimer 2015-08-26T19:43:00
Simple and fun. Love the background art.
Slavery Simulator 2015 by Sébastien Bernery 2015-08-26T19:38:00
Very nicely executed and balanced and great take on the theme. The only problem I had is that there is no max quantity shown for tobacco and sugar, so I ended up way oversupplying and having hundreds of both deleted before I could get enough boats to keep up.
Brog The Builder by mungoman1 2015-08-26T19:00:00
Really fun. I played quite some time but enemies kept getting stuck in the walls, even on the first wave. It was a little confusing to figure out where the enemies were going to come from, especially with the large empty space in the wrong direction.
Great style and gameplay overall.
Lair of the Scare by RockhopperGames 2015-08-26T18:33:00
Clever idea. Took me a few tried to get it but it was fun.
I wish there was a little more difference between the types of heroes...thought you were trolling us for second there. The overall look and story was really great though.
Eat Humans by BoyWithStick 2015-08-26T17:22:00
The music fit the humorous mood nicely.
It was pretty difficult to avoid the grey guys especially since they can zip around the tables pretty easily. I think the aiming in general could be a little more forgiving.
Neat idea!