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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | 👥 | Demon Doodles | jam | 243 | 3.88 | 3.80 | 3.55 | 4.32 | 4.44 | 3.58 | 3.88 | 3.85 | |
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | 👥 | Food for the Worms | jam | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | |||
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | 👥 | Reap What You Sow | jam | 240 | 3.73 | 3.36 | 3.43 | 4.37 | 4.44 | 3.80 | 3.95 | ||
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | 👥 | Robotbotbot | jam | 62 | 4.15 | 4.15 | 3.96 | 4.54 | 4.00 | 2.91 | 3.85 | ||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | Countdown | jam | 286 | 3.86 | 3.60 | 3.98 | 4.26 | 4.00 | 3.50 | ||||
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | 👥 | Wizards On The Rocks | jam | 189 | 3.97 | 3.75 | 3.43 | 4.01 | 4.42 | 3.94 | 4.09 | 4.04 | |
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | Disaster Dig | jam | 697 | 3.64 | 3.62 | 3.05 | 4.10 | 3.19 | 3.27 | ||||
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | Exit Only | jam | 75 | 4.18 | 4.13 | 4.42 | 4.32 | 4.00 | |||||
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | 👥 | Sparky's Joy | jam | 80 | 4.18 | 4.21 | 3.85 | 4.41 | 4.18 | 3.53 | 3.97 |
alpharock6 leaves an average of 14.0 feedback comments each event.
Not used to such a dark story for a Game Jam! I really liked the novel feeling of the controls, they didn't feel unreasonably difficult, but definitely felt thematically challenging to fly while carrying something.
Lot of great stuff going on in this! Especially the juicy polish on each of the plant interactions. Super solid entry for a jam :)
Wow, this is a really detailed game for a jam. The tutorial was really helpful, I went at it freestyle at first and did not even realize I could connect towers!
Main criticism is that I wish I could connect towers *through* other towards instead of one being in the way and blocking it (and really grateful that you even had a tooltip/toast explaining that). A lot of great stuff going on here, solid work everyone!
Impressive scope for a gamejam! I was especially surprised to hear a fully VA'd intro. With a bit more SFX and juice mixed in on the bullets it would read pretty similar to some Vlambeer games, nice entry!
Tried it about 10 times before I was able to get a sub-10s 😎 Fun physics toy!
That was fun! Reminds me a lot of some of the Flash "park the car" games I used to play, but with a very neat twist! Well executed concept too, once I realized there were markers on the ground to help guide my corrections it felt much more strategic, nice entry!
Fun game! Also a lot of content going into this for a jam game, I didn't expect a whole level system in addition to the "survive and build your objective" gameplay. Nice work!
Just about fell out of my chair when I realized I'd have to start doing math! That was a super fun game, very nice polish, very satisfying to play, easy to get into flowstate. Only thing I think could be improved would be slightly more readable direction on the arrows so there's no need to individually study each one. Awesome entry I had a ton of fun!
The simple aesthetic was a nice choice to make it clear what objects there were to interact with as either puzzle or speedrun :) I think I cheesed one of the levels because it seems like the door doesn't reset on 10 second reload? Perfectly paced puzzles for a jam entry though, well done!
Super impressive with how much is going on here, especially for a compo game! The art is super cohesive and really supports each minigame. The overall audio and mood are awesome, and fun minigames! Really solid all around entry :)
A nice survival game, I don't think I've ever played one on a hex setup! The screen fading effect while freezing was a really nice subtle indicator that kept me feeling anxious to head back to the fire
Very neat concept! I've not quite played anything like this and would love to see how it could be expanded with more obstacles and a bit more of an ability to catch up if you fall too far behind the beat. Great art and sound as well, super solid entry nice work!
Made it up to 500 points! This was a really creative set of controls! I also love that the enemies are utilizing the same set of movements, it gives a huge variety of combinations of cat & mouse interactions. Lots of great art and subtle UI cues, great job, love this entry!
Nice entry, especially for such a short self-imposed deadline! Would love to see what it could be like with some additional items and more elaborate puzzles in the future :)
Super ambitious, and really impressive how much you got done within the scope of a jam! The atmosphere is fantastic! I feel like it could really benefit from even more open space to make use of the 3D weightless navigation, though probably hard to not make it feel like even more of a maze then. Nice entry!
Great concept! I found it a bit confusing at first which color would be shifted to on each rotation, but got the hang of it by the end. Would love to see how much more could be added to the boss fight, the multiple targets over time added a nice new layer of complexity :)
I just got done playing a bunch of Vampire Survivor, so this felt quite familiar :D I really liked the formulation of the upgrade system as drinking various potions!
I LOVE coin-pushing games, so no matter what I had a great time playing this :) Love the addition of upgrades/shop, thought it was a bit confusing to me if I had to click to switch what I was dropping, or if there was a faster way to do it? Nice entry :)
Fun endless runner with really cute overall aesthetic :) I liked the hat a lot more than the sunglasses and kept trying to avoid them as if they were my own made up obstacle :P Nice work! I really like that running into a wall wasn't a failure condition like a lot of endless runners
I had a pretty hard time jumping into tight spaces at first, but overall there is a lot of great stuff going on here! Gorgeous art, good sound design and UI cues, and I absolutely adore the main character :D Nice entry!
There's a lot of great ideas going on here, but I did feel like I had to watch your walkthrough video to understand how to play/what was going on :) Thank you for including the additional playthrough video to help with that confusion! A lot of creative ideas going on here, would love to see how it feels with some more polish, great job :)
Wow, this was one of my favorite games I've played in this jam for sure. Reminded me of lemmings meets falling sand games and I couldn't get enough of it. As a future extension, it would have been nice to have the option to tweak my design a bit if it was *close* without needing to rebuild it entirely. Fantastic job all around!
Controls were a bit tricky at first, but I also find it very refreshing to try exploring something different than most. Overall I had a lot of fun, could use some polish but what jam game doesn't! Great entry :)
Wow this was a SUPER impressively put together mechanic for a game jam!! Overall polish is wonderful, and a lot of the silly physics really adds to the fun (feature not a bug like others said!). Nice entry!
Very neat strategy/timing game! I'm impressed by the mom's pathfinding once I realized i could delay distracting her until the last minute to get even more time and she would walk all the way over to the distraction :) Nice entry!
I'm REALLY impressed with the volume of content that is here. Nice job putting so much together in such a short time! I managed to get lucky and find a potion that healed quite a lot very early on :) Nice entry!
This was super well polished! Gave you a follow on Twitter because I'm definitely excited to see what more y'all can put together (and on a Metroidvania mentioned in your profile I'm definitely interested). Nice entry!
Very interesting controls setup! I'm glad there was speed adjustment on the side as well, agreed with others that it felt a bit slow when I first started. Super cool idea with a lot of potential, great entry!
My spacebar on my laptop was not up to the task lol. Had to switch to my desktop to get that real paddling action. Awesome mood and theme matching, was a bit difficult to read which number was needed to patch, but other than that great submission :)
A lot of great stuff going on here! So many interesting interactions accounted for. Very impressive amount of work for a jam entry :) Since this is so UI heavy, I feel like the text could have used a bit more contrast/scaled up to be more easily readable, but beyond that I don't have many criticisms! Great entry!
So sad that the death of the forest is inevitable D: Nicely polished, I really love the design of the main character and the forest spirit! Nice entry :)
I also found the red 4-arrow image to be a bit confusing at first. Overall nice polish and satisfying movement/interaction. Solid entry that fits the theme quite well :)
Very satisfying audio design/selection. Also props on the coding exercise for doing your own object pooling, etc :) Very calming to play, nice entry!
Agreed with some others that I was a bit surprised by the 'G' control, but after rearranging my hands a bit it all felt pretty natural, just not a setup I was used to :) I think it would have been nice if I could move a bit faster and the jump were a bit less floaty, but overall this is a really polished entry, nice job!
My funloving impulses led to me immediately draining my money down to 0. I could still clearly see this was going to happen, but decided to play it "realistically" and that's where my first round ended up :p Very satisfying UI movements tied to the decisions, impressive polish, and a laudable concept- Nice entry, especially for your team's first game! Great job :)
I got sucked into this a lot more than I expected! It would be nice if the animation/timing to go in and out of chopping was shortened a bit, but this may be part of how you decided to balance running between chopping/building? Overall really great entry :)
This was a super polished experience, I think it would have been nice to have some additional powers that periodically could wipe out more blocks, but I suppose in the end it needs to be too much or else it wouldn't be inevitable! Really nice entry, I had fun playing :)
Surprisingly scary funny game! Extra impressive that you did the models from scratch for the jam
404 on the link now :(
I didn't realize at first that completing tasks recharged the battery, I was worried it would always die in 5 seconds! Beyond that though it's a very cute world and neat little puzzles to figure out how to assemble. It may have been nice to hide the list a bit so that it wasn't covering so much of the screen while trying to figure out how to solve tasks :) Nice job!
"New vegetable dropped that will blow your gotdamn mind" This was HILARIOUS, thank you for the excellent little minigame-fest, it was a delight :)
I really really like that the movement slows down when you shoot, made it feel like there was a more mindful reason to decide when to start/stop firing and prioritize where to move instead of just spinning and spamming fire the whole time :) Nice game!
The humor reminds me a bit of the older flash games like The Impossible Quiz. Really nice job especially for a first entry!
I definitely didn't expect the pixelart to rotate around as physics objects, that was a funny realization the first time I threw down a bowl! The market is a really nice design addition instead of the time constraint that comes with Overcooked (since you listed that as inspiration) nice entry!
This was absolutely DELIGHTFUL and an incredibly impressive amount of polish for a gamejam. Congrats on a great entry!
Made it all the way to infinity, nice :P That was a really fun mechanic to play around with once I got the hang of it. Nice entry!
This is so cute!! I love the character and the cats, both very adorable :) I was walking so slow I didn't realize there was an edge to the world at first haha
Gorgeously presented concept :) I think you did a good job of teaching through "show not tell" design on the platform destruction requirement (and the # of hits it took to destroy them). I caught your game on Vim's stream originally and managed to make it further than him ;) but I'm also not the best with iso view navigation especially when it got on to the moving platforms. Nice entry!
Beat it! It felt like in general I needed to stay completely out of sight range in order to not get hit, so it almost felt more like a stealth game than a shooter sometimes :) Nice work on your entry!
I made it a week! :D Nice concept, I found it a bit difficult to anticipate what would change since I couldn't really tell what the purple/green bars were at first. I love games like this, good work :)
Once it started getting to swapping new adapters out on the fly my brain couldn't keep up anymore 0_o I had a lot of fun playing this, nice job!
Very chill 🌧 🌱 thanks for making a nice experience!
Pretty tough! Very sad the first time I finally got to a chest and realized I had to pay to open it D: A lot of really nice polish on this, with some cleaned up room/map generation and a couple other enemies this has a lot of potential as a fun roguelike :) Nice work!
*phew* finally made it! Agreed with others above that both the precise jumping sections at the end (small platforms and falling down narrow gaps) felt like they had a bit too much randomness to them. Totally see where you're coming from with the balance of randomness/precision for "Unstable" theme and I think it works quite well! Maybe there could be some way to overcome that instability over time with skill/progress?
In any case this was a really, really well executed entry and I poured way more time than I expected into it, fantastic job!
Nice entry! Stacking is thirsty work, could use a nice refreshing bottle of Dr. Salt after that
I REALLY like this concept and execution. The sounds and overall feel are satisfying, the graphics are delightful, and after I picked up on the color-matching to do more damage I had a lot of fun playing this :) Great entry!
Agreed with @xmagpie42 I've run into a lot of issues with similar looking jitteriness from updating player+camera positions at different times (perhaps Update vs FixedUpdate since this is Unity?)
Nice entry, I could feel a bit of the differences between the different ships I was switching between, I think this could be improved a lot with some added clarity of what the ship's abilities are, and maybe more visual indication of you and the enemies shots? Good job overall :)
Really enjoyed the overall mechanics! I'm curious how you set and coded the waves/movement? The aiming tips were really nice, but after I while I found myself running and gunning as fast as I could. But that only got me up to 20/30 :)
Nice job!
Fun game! Our time considered something similar, I like the addition of cost when scoring :)
Very excited when I realized that the tower "falling down" didn't reset the game and immediately started building chaotic piles as tall as I could :D
These are hilarious questions, and I'm honored to have wound up a pirate 🚣
This game is gorgeous and really fun to interact with :) I feel like it would have been nice to have the recipes open simultaneously along with mixing screen- opening and flipping between going back and forth felt a bit tedious.
I LOVE the pixies that pick up the things you drop, unfortunately they got stuck in a loop with the mandrake root and kept dropping it and picking it back up :D
Nice work all!
I love endless runners, and there feels like a lot of potential in this one :) Super well polished, very satisfying jumps when they go well! Agreed with others that it would be nice to have a faster respawn cycle. It felt like reversing direction if I overjumped a platform happened a lot more suddenly than I expected, but that's down to taste/difficulty. Great entry!
I wasn't very clear what my "health" was the first time I played, but even with that it was quite fun, really juicy combat! Very enjoyable :)
I burst out laughing from the surprise of *ripping this house's wall off* after learning how to pick up a lamp, I definitely wasn't expecting that escalation :D
Gorgeously executed! Pretty easy to pick up without any background or reading, and a really nice escalation of tension as you progress
This is one of my favorite entries I've played this jam :) Really well polished, rewarding gameplay loop as your descending. I feel that the boss could have been made a bit more difficult relative to the rest of the descent, but really great job overall!
Wow! This is a really clever concept. I didn't understand that I had to move onto the buttons to "press" them at first, but other than that it was quite straightforward, but strategically interesting! My favorite design element was definitely the "life" system of reducing the number of options you had each turn once you were hit. Great job!
Made it! I definitely found it difficult to direct more than just the one haha. At the very end I ran out of resources and the last one managed to correctly find its way in the dark! Yay!
Curious how you went about doing the procedural generation! Would enjoy hearing more about your techniques!
Really nice job, an impressive amount of systems work for a game jam :) And that soundtrack really made me want to play some KSP...
Really great implementation! I found it a bit confusing to understand where to get resources at first and somewhat aimlessly dug around while trying to figure the systems out. Impressive AI RTS scope for a game jam!
Agreed with others on the speed/responsiveness feeling a bit slow, but still definitely had some challenge due to the momentum before reaching turns!
Congrats on your first entry :) Also neat seeing a p5js submission! I love Processing!
Nice entry! I was a bit started when I hit the first star and suddenly everything lit up haha. I wasn't able to find all of the resources, but I enjoyed exploring around through the darkness
Always impressed by the skill of anybody homebrewing their solutions in OpenGL :) Nice atmosphere, and solid world design! I enjoyed a number of the easter egg-ish artifacts (like the horizontal sliding block turning into stairs to climb up to one in the horizontal room early on)
Oh man, this is a really well put together entry! Excellent polish for a jam game, and an interesting and engaging mechanic to play around with!
The only thing that felt a bit wonky was the backwards movement controls (is it led from the head or the tail? when does the tail decide to turn?), but other than that, I have almost no criticism! Difficulty progression felt very comfortable and I couldn't stop playing until I got the fruit at the end :)
Took me a few tries to pick up on all of the mechanics, but once I figured it out it wasn't too hard to pass 15K points! I think this would really benefit from a bit more downward visibility/predictability so that the player could route intentionally between resources. It felt like steering only occasionally had impact when I was directly on top of something, but I still felt like I had very little control over planning upcoming resources besides food/heat.
Lot of great stuff going on here, nice entry :)
Finished all 3! Cut it pretty close at the end! I liked that there was a slow animation punishment mechanic built into the axe to stop you from just spam clicking
Nice entry! Reminds me a lot of Crypt of the Necrodancer, but that's one of the only turn-based Rouge-likes I've actually played a fair bit of haha.
Wow this is great! That tiny twist of changing the step size really lent itself nicely to a lot of surprisingly tricky puzzles!
Amazing art and atmosphere! Wonderful animations and environment art wrapped up in an incredibly unsettling experience :)
Nice atmosphere, and it's a neat perspective to have 3D platforming from, but it works pretty well! It felt like a pretty big setback to go all the way to the beginning while jumping between small platforms, but overall really nice entry, especially for a first submission for some of the team!
Nice job! I kept bashing into things before I realized I cloud slow myself down!
Wow, I was really ramping up for something frightening as the light kept dimming. What an unexpected and wholesome ending :)
Super well polished mechanics! Very fun experience with a really nice difficulty ramp-up
Took a few minutes to figure out how all of the parts worked together- I think I was mostly confused by where my inventory was before realizing it was distributed! A neat somewhat chaotic entry :D
I am now terrified of Death Eels, thank you :) I made it down to 50,000 depth and there doesn't seem to be any more life here. I'm not sure if that's reassuring or even scarier 0__0
Congrats on a first submission! Really nice atmosphere! I think I accidentally swam through a wall the first time because I wound up under the chest somehow :)
I agree with some of the comments above that this feels like it would be really interested to play with a human adversary controlling jokers and having a restricted move set as well! Neat concept, great work! Glad I tried it out :)
I felt like I had a pretty good grasp on the controls once I finished collecting all of the powerups, definitely would have enjoyed another level at that point, so kudos for getting me invested in the mechanics! I found the screen to be a bit noisy, especially when looking in the distance to plan upcoming routing, maybe a few less illuminated poly lines on the environment models in the distance? Nice work! :D
Easy to pick up at first, but surprisingly difficult to remind myself that I could use the mouse to aim and start incorporating that. Fun new mechanics twist, I don't think I've seen anything quite like that before with a paddle game, really enjoyed it :)
Definitely enjoyed finding some of those easter eggs :D
I think the most confusing part for me was that I reset every time I picked up a trophy, so at first I thought I was dying. A really nice baseline for some neat levels!
Oh this was super fun! I was able to get pretty good at just rolling my thumb in a circle around the buttons and got a pretty fast fire rate going :P Nice touch on having each weapon explode into a circle of bullets when it is hit, really helps give some breathing room if you were overwhelmed enough to receive a hit! Nice entry, great work :)
Excellent job with the unsettling atmosphere and nice consistent polished style and look for a game jam! Really really enjoyed this, and glad I played the 0.4 version, because the corner flashes were definitely a highlight that multiplied the creepiness factor of the questions :D Awesome entry!
A lot of great pieces coming together here! Nice work :)
Neat mechanic! I did struggle a bit in the first level with wanting to dive way off screen because there were so many flies outside of the zone with pads, but definitely a lot of good stuff going on here! Nice entry!
My biggest criticism would probably be what others above have said about adding in more incentive to move. I found that I could beat some levels with like a 50% chance by just not moving
Haha agreed with the fast text, made me wish I could read faster :P Very cool concept!
Fun game! Impressive polish for a jam game, didn't expect it to be timed, definitely helped me get better at the controls pretty fast haha
Grateful that you implemented checkpoints, it was fairly challenging :D As some other mentioned I think it would have been nice to be able to move left/right a bit while jumping, but I can also see why that would be a challenging restriction? Great job overall, very impressed with the visual style :)
Truckla! Controls were quite fun, especially once I had upgraded my speed a few times and got to reach some of the camera effects for sick drifts 😎
+1 to everyone talking about this having a really solid frame! Feels quite well done for a jam game, and like you have systems in place that are just waiting to be expanded upon :)
Having been spoiled by 500+ hours of Factorio, I found myself accidentally using hotkeys that were in my muscle memory, which definitely shows that I was getting immersed!
Very touching :') I don't think I've seen such a polish VN submission to a game jam before! Really great work!
Really cool concept! I think my biggest issue was that I kept accidentally clicking through screens after dying/continuing because I was spam clicking shoot haha. Great job, especially for a first entry!
Wow! I did not expect to hear nearly that many fully voiced variations. Really impressed with the work put into this, and quite funny as well :)
Agreed with above on a bit of motion sickness after a while. Would have also enjoyed elevation controlls with Space/Shift as I often see with 6DoF games.
I did not expect this to be so unsettling when I first opened it up! Really impressive atmospheric work across the board, especially for compo! Excited to see where this ranks, I really enjoyed it :)
"reallyFinalVersion7" while loading in was too real :D Super well polished and really funny. Wasn't expecting to have to start dealing with additional variables and fan speed, really great overall submission :)
Had a hard time figuring out where the initial goal (Medical Bay) was, but I did have a lot of fun flinging myself into space :D
Super Hexa-... circle! Fun game, I'm not sure if it speeds up as you go further, but it definitely felt like they could be coming more frequently :)
Once I figured out how to shake off the gum I had a pretty good run :) It was not entirely clear to me what each of the pickups did, but the overall feel/sound/visuals was quite enjoyable! Nice submission!
I had no idea there was so much bullethell in a washing machine! A lot of impressive variety here for a gamejam, I really liked the second phase of smaller enemies homing in
Really enjoyed this! I was a bit confused at first because I think it loaded in with me right on top of the debris and immediately went to a win screen haha. Very chill visual/audio experience. On computer I think I would prefer left/right navigation, but one tap seems like it would make perfect sense for mobile :)
Incredibly overwhelming (in the best possible way). Loved this.
Really nice concept! Pretty intuitive to pick up after a few well arranged intro levels, enjoyed it a lot :)
Very fun concept and really well polished! With a few more mechanics explored over additional levels this would be a solid standalone game!
I actually did get stuck on the sign, thanks for the flavor text to remind me to click the strategy tab :'D
Fun game! I enjoyed the touch of safe water surfaces in the home, and the physics material changes like bouncing on the bed :)
Super fun! Really nice visual feedback and interesting powerups for the planet :)
I love this concept! I think I was a bit confused as to which button was supposed to do which action, so some more distinction there could help, but I really enjoyed it once I figured it out!
Fantastic atmosphere in the presentation. I love the "hand-drawn" animations to intro levels
"Incentivize them" lol :D
I really like the "fog of war" layer at night!
I had some instances where the cards all lost text, but I really enjoyed all of the creative situations :D
Wonderful little simulation :) RIP John Conway
LD55 — Summoning (1)
INFINIWITCH by drainkid 2024-04-16T02:58:51Z ♥ 2
I can't believe the first LD55 game I played was THAT fun, that was such an interesting idea, and the execution was very solid, I sat down for a quick play and couldn't put it down until I had won :) Curious what each of your records are, I only had like 15 remaining by the time I finally won!