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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | 👥 | Tokokyo | jam | 2.50 | 1.88 | 3.00 | 3.66 | 4.40 | 3.77 | 3.11 | 3.50 | |
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | 👥 | Overtime | jam | 546 | 3.60 | 3.48 | 3.12 | 3.32 | 3.96 | 3.72 | 3.84 | 3.75 |
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | 👥 | Speed Delivery | jam | 2.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 3.00 | |||||
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | Into The Deep | jam | 1257 | 3.31 | 3.11 | 2.77 | 4.09 | 3.65 | 2.97 | 2.14 | 3.35 | |
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | 👥 | Ludum Fair | jam | 479 | 3.72 | 3.65 | 3.70 | 3.90 | 3.85 | 3.63 | 3.55 | 3.30 |
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | 👥 | LD-46 Tower Defense | jam | 1500 | 3.37 | 3.29 | 2.82 | 3.26 | 4.16 | 3.57 | 2.31 | 3.21 |
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | 👥 | Saving the SS Titan | jam | 2.25 | 1.75 | 2.75 | 3.08 | 3.85 | 3.16 | 3.25 | ||
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | VR Game | unfinished |
I enjoyed the simple concept for the game. The audio was also very well done. I think the end game could use some tweaks because once you got to a point that you basically were stuck it would take another minute and half before you reached the line. As a solution you could try adding flaps higher up so skilled players could redeem themselves instead of waiting that time.
I would like to start out and mention that I really enjoy the design and gameplay. The sound is hilarious and I really enjoyed it. It did however take me time to understand how to play and what to craft the people coming in. Perhaps during the players first run you could offer some sort of UI helpers or basic hands on tutorial for the first couple people. Other than that was a really good entry. I did however couldnt really seem the entry too much in this submission but I guess as you get really far the table would start to get really full.
Should see if you can make a quick VR port of the game would love to try it out using my mixed reality. Also being able to thrown basically everything in the room was awesome so keep that up!
Interesting concept, enjoyed the audio.
Interesting concept, I feel a bit more UI is needed during gameplay though specially to show something such as each person for quickly jumping around the ship. It took me a couple of tries to realize I had people in other rooms. Some balancing could be used as well, I was on normal and the oxygen depleted in about 30 seconds. The main menu itself was nice and had good animations on the UI content as a whole. Perhaps tweak the background a little so it looks less of a noise map though. The 3D, and animations are good for a game jam so a plus there. I had the sound turned down in the menu and applied but when I went into game it became quite loud again. The tutorial also mentioned about left clicking to move the characters but was instead the right click. Overall a nice entry for the game jame. I am like @timbals though and really couldn't fine the theme in the chunk of game I was playing. This could be due to the level design which could of started you out in a large room with multiple people forcing you into tinier rooms thoughout the gameplay or something.
@gastricsparrow For sure a UX pass over everything would be a great addition to level the game up.
I did end up having the same UI issue as others, but overall I think the general idea and gameplay is interesting. Just touching up the UI in terms of showing the connected lines on top and it being scaled proper and you'll have yourself a good entry.
Make sure to come and try out my jam game as well :D https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/ld-46-tower-defense/
Great submission, well polished entry.
Would be nice to see some sort of dodge type mechanic but other than that the game was rather fun to play. I like the kitties on the back part was a really nice touch.
Would be awesome if you could come check out my Tower Defense game I made for the jam: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/ld-46-tower-defense
Enjoyed the art direction on the game, everything felt cohesive and together.
Minor tips to improve things a little further: - I would reduce the post processing blur as it felt over powered. - For Animations you can uncheck the time it takes to transition to reduce that extra half second that the walking is still going on after lifting a key.
Overall a really good complete entry! I enjoyed that it was a complete simplistic experience that "just worked" as intended.
Couple of minor feedback and improvements - Would be nice to have a hover state over the upgrades on what they do rather than relying on the player to read the submission page. - Upgrades that you cant purchase are greyed out and have a hover state to tell you how much you need. I often found myself just waiting wondering how much the need auto feeder cost. - As a balancing thing would be nice to have a max amount of feeders or animals per room size.
If you have a minute or so to check out my entry I would really appreciate it :D https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/ld-46-tower-defense/
Good entry.
Enjoy the physics of the car as I got going. Was a little confused on the objective from the very beginning and when I hit escape to bring up a menu it would exit the game.
Feedback:
- Consistent visuals which are nice - The camera movement switching 180 degrees is a little jarring and perhaps smoothing that would be a bit better - Some sort of UI direction on what to do for the game. Spent like 40 seconds on the first pickup trying to repair the bridge there - Removing Escape as the quit button
Thanks @ryan-paton, will check out your entry later on today :D
@gibss yeah was something I wanted to add in this weekend for sure; surely enough was the last item to go in but I believe it was worth. Makes me want to try over and over again for sure.
@tyler-miller Yeah I agree on your points I think the difficulty ramp would help a lot
@madbeagle Thanks!
@ninnec No kids harmed in the making of this; they were dolls ;)
@pschichtel gave you the classic ban hammer
My very first thought was like why are you spawning so many mobs. I died and then realized why; great hidden mechanic I was expecting was fun to play. With some SFX and audio if would be really good.
I agree with the other commments on making the colours match a bit more specially the pinks and reds can be kinda hard. I thought it was a bit awkward that sometimes that didn't move away after confirming it was their stuff and made me wondering do I need another version of that color before moving on.
Very nice work on the overall game!
Pros: - Art style is consistent and fits very well with colours chosen for important parts of the game which are quick and easy to pick out - Audio: Very Minecraft cave style vibes, very fitting for this volcano cave game - Gameplay: Fun and challenging to master!
Cons: - Perhaps some what to ramp up the swing at the start (not much at the start until after x amount of distance), found the very first tries to get going and understand what was going on.
Nice Entry!
You were right, very similar to my game.
Pros: - Ship Upgrading - Ambient animations (fish, whales etc)
Cons: - I think a general lighting pass may really help here. I think for the sub in general you could add a blueish overlay to it to make it feel more like it was under water. Currently it feels like its sitting above - The resurfacing mechanic felt a little odd and the UI placement of the Oxygen the first few times I didn't even know what was happening. - Some sort of in game indicator around the ship to know Oxygen is below a certain percent could really help the above comment
@sesca Thanks for the comment! There is actually no end to the game :laughing: but I'm glad you had fun playing it for as long as you did. One of my goals was trying to create something polished so I spent a lot of time on shaders and animations making that first trip down memorable.
@john-harper Pun always intended :smiley:
@milan8890 @mikeandtherest For sure will continue tweaking the sub speed. Currently it speeds up as it reaches its max tilt and also increases the amount of bubbles coming out to try and sell the effect.
@nicso you can still progress without the lights just takes you a few runs :wink:
@natalia-dushkina Thanks for the playing the game! 5 pearls is still a worthy accomplishment no doubt.
https://www.redpandagames.ca/LD49/
Overall great game to play, love the screen shake and impact when placing something in the circle. Felt really nice to do. Would like a better way to close the book and as others have said being able to save the pages.
@uniOwl Thanks, for the feedback. Yeah I tried using the continued to drag "feature" and thought it was a funny side effect that just worked.
@heuser Thanks for the feedback! Love the coined phrase Whirlwind Wendy! Yeah balancing for sure will make it nicer, at about an hour left it was too hard and I wanted to make sure people could win the game.
@grimw0lf Thanks for the feedback!
@thomz12 defiantly hit a good fair share of problems that we had to fix. One of the biggest things was that I integrated in the scripting for the gameplay into the engine on the Friday before the LD started. So we often hit API roadblocks where my buddy @ghayoub would need some sort of call to preform an action in the engine. An example could be to get another script from somewhere or flipping the facing direction.
Sound was also something I have never really done so I integrated that in while we make the game so our sound person could have all their work shown off. Excited to see if the next jam goes more smoothly.
@leparlon That is correct, the engine reads the .aseprite file directly and will compile a texture sheet for the shaders to use. Would highly recommend the .aseprite file documentation, it is really good.
For the sprite sheet I basically put 1 animation on each row of the sheet so animation determines y uv and x is based on frame in the animation. Takes into account that not all animations are the same length.
@dimi-kaye Thank, you!
@litterattus Yeah still lots of work to do on resizing the window for sure :stuck_out_tongue: Hopefully something I can fix up for future jams.
@sarafilipa Thank you
@mephistase Sorry to hear that, the game by default runs at 1920x1080 and I havent really added window scaling sadly to the engine yet.
If it helps you can open the project.rpg file in a text editor and change the resolution from 1920x1080 down to 1280x720 which should work for your monitor and not cause in game issues.
Really nice work! Loved that it was a small polished example and think it was an interesting take on the theme.
Art style is really nice and together. Thank you for the tutorial it really helped. Enjoyed that the spells were different shapes. Was a bit hard to get at enemies coming from below though where the UI was.
Good entry, I think one piece of feedback would be to add some sort of effect to when you get hit by something so the player understands it a bit more.
Im finding the web build is not loading for me, even waiting for a while. May need to check that out
@safalevent Awesome will give it a shot over there
Great entry! Once I figured out what to do it got a little easier for. For some possible polish it may be helpful to use some sort of UI to direct the user downward at the start. Your eye initially catches all the cool stuff you can buy and by then you other wasted half your time. I would avoid starting the round timer at the start until you start moving so people can get their bearings straight and read any text that you had on screen for diretion.
Great job! Art and sound is awesome, I did have one small issue and that was the intro cut scene was just pure black with some audio playing. Overall nice work!
Simple to pickup and play, was a fun game to play. Great job everyone! Randy the Raccoon is overpowered but thats the way she goes.
Would be cool to see the AI not overlap in the future as a polish item but overall great job.