Mages and Essay Pages by Haastregt 2022-04-05T23:00:21Z
Awesome game, great lighting! Mages can spawn out of bounds which can be hard at times, love the card idea! Would be nice to have a way to heal. Overall great submission.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Agent p
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 59 | Signal | 👥 | Sinking Signal - Physical Rules Edition | jam | 410 | 3.58 | 3.57 | 3.95 | 3.68 | 3.70 | 3.18 | 3.69 | |
| 2025 | 58 | Collector | 👥 | 30 Days in the Fog | jam | 425 | 3.47 | 2.93 | 3.17 | 2.91 | 3.81 | 3.82 | 3.25 | 3.75 |
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | 👥 | TUSK | extra | |||||||||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | 👥 | Like a Boss | jam | 1372 | 2.60 | 2.08 | 2.37 | 2.64 | 2.68 | 2.26 | 1.95 | 2.23 |
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | 👥 | Tug of Warriors [Local 2-Player] | jam | 1266 | 3.07 | 3.03 | 3.26 | 2.96 | 2.03 | 2.73 | 2.83 | 2.38 |
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | 👥 | The Whole Game | jam | 1888 | 2.45 | 2.14 | 2.11 | 2.90 | 2.38 | 2.69 | 2.42 | 2.47 |
Awesome game, great lighting! Mages can spawn out of bounds which can be hard at times, love the card idea! Would be nice to have a way to heal. Overall great submission.
Awesome game! Cool Mechanics! The different types of turrets a nice, but it would be neat if there was a distinct way to tell the difference
Looks fun from the images and comments! I wasn't able to try out the game yet, though, but want to get you guys to 20 reviews!
Incredible fun! I can't believe I missed this for most of the jam! The decisions and split second choices with the upgrade variety and pattern variety is top notch! Plus the movement gimik is pretty cool and inventive! Although, the x2 power-up seemed confusing on how it activated. Overall great game though!
A lot of fun! Very nice and polished. I'm surprised you guys aren't more noticed! The art side and sfx are all very well done! Though on the first level that had around 4 red bats and bouncing corners for the blue signals to bounce off, I don't know if it can be beaten? Maybe I'm just bad at puzzles, but it seems that there is no way to get a signal to the bat thats slightly below your downright diagonal signal. Additionally I don't know if it was on all levels, but there seems to be a visual glitch where the blue bomb is behind the digging meter. Overall great game though! Its awesome!
Probably one of my favorite games this jam! It's very well polished and inventive with fun upgrades and decisions without feeling to repetitive! Overall good job!
Super fun game! Its very polished, cozy, and cute! It ended up being a super fun and powerful ending reminiscent of rouge-like games. Very fun!
Super fun! I love the theme and gameplay! Though it was kind of confusing, that once you succeed in making a logo, correct color, and positioning, what do you do? So it kind of lost me there. But overall super innovative and awesome!!
Fun! I love the cool art style and gameplay! The ball physics are great as well. There was a point at times where I was just sitting around doing nothing waiting for a signal though. Lots of fun and laughter aside though! The game is really cool! Keep it up!
Tons of Fun! It has a hard learning curve of effective strategies, but thats what makes it fun! (At least to me). Though, one thing to watch out for, as it is the way explained of how to beat the Gnolls, (Figuring out you have to place the matching item, and flag, then click the okay button when you r mana is refilled), is not really there I guess.
But once I got the hang of it, it was super fun! My most enjoyable played game this jam so far!
Very fun Ideas and theme! I especially liked the mechanic of trying to pick up the dropped phone! Though a combination of some bugs, made it tough to enjoy the story and game, such as the gameplay and story screens being kind of tiny, dogdeball players spawning on top of you, and maybe its a skill issue on my part, but many of the dodgeballs seemed incredibly difficult to dodge due to their speed, let alone three to four being fired at you at the same time! Overall super fun game and concept though! Great work!
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Trying to get a screenshot in here, but I'm unsure if it's working.
Fun game! Very nice gameplay loops as well! It's pretty smart to do the turn enemies into resources things at one point as well! Two critiques though would be that the music is good, but it loops the same three seconds over and over again though, which can kind of get annoying for some people. Plus during during the upgrade abilities moment, your character doesn't freeze along with the rest of the screen. Overall very fun game though! I'm excited to see what comes of it!
Thanks so much everyone for the awesome feedback and comments! @kayrum, @lingzhao, and @onedozenbagels photos would be a good addition yes! Part of the reason they weren't included in the first place was due to not wanting to showcase strategies, but for all future updates or iterations they will definitely be a must have! If there is any clarifications that we will be able to make for the Ludumdare version in the meantime, let us know!
@janku, thanks for the great feedback! It's always fun to see another Kingdom Rush enjoyer in the wild, we'll have to see where the project leads us in the future! I for one, am hopeful though! Thanks again for all the kind words!
Thank you everyone for the kind words and comments! @krawa it's an entirely single-player game, so you don't have to worry about getting extra players. @eden-zorro I'm glad we were able to rekindle some of your fun childhood memories! @ursagames very true! Forbidden Island is a classic, I'm glad we were able to bring some of its fun in our game for you to enjoy! Thanks again everyone for all the great feedback and support!
@pfeyffer that's incredible! I'm happy that you were able to test it, and liked the game enough to make crazy cool physical pieces! But yes, we will definitely be adding images to the rulebook for any future iterations!
@hazel-c thank you so much! Hopefully it will give you and your friend a fun time!
@alchemic thank you yes! I'm glad our game is fun enough to reach the cool mass-market vibe! Those are some pretty pressing issues yes, the things about multiple dice in the same row and re-ordering will be things we'll need to fix for future iterations! A temporary good fix would likely be following the written rules of rolling up to three pairs of dice and if none of them at all cover items, and are in the same row, you'd get a free turn probably due to how rare it would happen, but we'd need to adress them in written rules eventually. I didn't even realize some of that myself honestly when writing it. So thank you for the advice and kind words!
@ursagames thank you again for your feedback! I just realized you've been reviewing our games the last couple of jams, so thank you for sticking around!
Awesome Game! My family made a physical game as well! Overall the art and theming are really great! The only critiques I'd have would be that the physical cards should be multiple to a page for easier pdf to print style, and that the on your turn section could probably be better consolidated, as how it is seems spread out like "how you can do these things, but also you can do this, and oh this sometimes", rather than it being "You can do this, this and this". Overall superb game though!
Sad to see low reviews for such a good game so late in the jam =( Hopefully you got decent feedback from people outside of the Jam though!
Fun art style and sound effects! The mechanic ideas are pretty cool too, with sending signals to counter strategies, though having more fights or new signals would help show off the cool features!
Very funny and cool! Wish there was more game to play through. The humor was top notch though!
Super fun mechanics art and vibe! Though I seem to be missing something. The players weapon hit box is really small, and enemies seem too fast to to effectively hit without getting hurt. Great Job overall though!
Very fun art and polish well with smooth gameplay! Unfortunately lack of a tutorial along with ghosts being un-stunable and hitting you in the back out of nowhere makes the experience tough. Tons of fun otherwise though! Reminds me of the recent popular tv shows like the amazing digital circus or hazben hotel! Plus, this might be a feature or not, but walking backwards while facing forwards seems to be only one image, and not a complete animation, so I'd just recommend to have animations there, as it keeps the fun polished immersion you know!
Super fun game! Humor and progression are great, though, at some points, it felt like any number of enemies could come and hit me regardless of what I did. But it evened it self out in the end. Though my only critique would be that the barbed wire felt it was destroyed to quickly. The music and art are really great as well! Overall amazing first gamejam!
Super Fun game! The waiter is pretty dumb though, you need to throw everything off the table on the same point the wait comes. Really well designed though! It's probably my favorite game so far! My brother "VorceShard", will probably be streaming this on his twitch page in one hour today!
Super fun! I can't believe the game hasn't been played more, it does what some of the most reviewed jams this year do, but you do it so much better. Having to memorize the signals is great, along with having to keep giving more things to the increasing cats, and the ring doorbell-esque view is a nice touch. Plus new mechanics introduced felt intuitive and easy to understand! Overall 5 stars from me.
Great game! Most fun I had so far this Jam! I love the theme and super cute art! Though the controls were kind of finicky (I guess that just for cats being stubborn though=]!) I was able to figure out you needed to move your mouse right in front of the cat slowly in my second play through, but I had alot of fun figuring out the secret paths and combos! Keep it up!
It was a lot of fun! It had a somewhat tough learning curve of figuring out what item went to what piece of dialogue, but overall it was pretty enjoyable!
Lots of fun! Though the jump-scare animation seems to have a glitch were you can still walk around and jump while the monster is eating you. Overall good game though!
Super Fun! Probably best atmosphere I've seen all jam! The buttons, phone, and sim-chip mechanics are great as well! My only critique would probably be that sometimes when you respond the agent is sometimes right on top of you, and that you can sometimes get snagged on platforms. Super cool though! Can't wait to see where you guys go from here!
Super Fun! Very origional cutesy platforner with audio cues! Though I do second improvements to the danger sounds being more distinct or louder. Maybe there could also be some space between sounds? It felt like the bird or thunder popped off every couple of seconds, reducing tension. Overall great job though!