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YearLDThemeGameDivisionRankOvFuInThGrHuMoCo
201533You are the MonsterThe Accursed Starecompo6452.942.413.162.663.342.113.1059

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Comments by ArchBang

LD33 — You are the Monster

Gleeok by recursor 2015-08-26T08:57:00

Delicious little game! Perfect scope for a jam, mostly fun to play and the art and music work well together. Enlightening wisdom at the end too. My extra heads kept getting me into trouble!

Telepath by Spotline 2015-08-25T23:37:00

Beautiful work, good concept which could have conceivably been linked to the theme too. Something to definitely develop.

Primary objective by Aurel Bílý 2015-08-26T15:56:00

Impressive! All that art in such a short span and what an evocative mood overall. Nice throwback to the heyday of point and click. Decent music too. Good work! Was I the monster?

Storm the Castle pt2 by vanZeben 2015-08-26T21:06:00

Looks great and it's well polished but the gameplay isn't fun. Also my screen flickers white now and then, not sure if this is an intentional lightning effect but it was quite disorientating. Wonderful look and feel though.

Goomba Simulator 2015 by LandoSystems 2015-08-25T22:14:00

Absolutely excellent. Taking such a classical reversal and then sticking to it so devoutly has paid off handsomely. So many delicious nods and references. Also loved the music! Good job!

Monsters create monsters by NamNam 2015-08-27T21:34:00

Nice! Good art, good humour, dark and monstrous. The basic concept proved more fun than I expected and I happily made my way to the end.

Burglar Basher by MRvanderPants 2015-08-25T20:44:00

Nice looking and sounding game! Fits the theme but is quite simple, not very challenging. Nice to be able to move on from crashes using Ctrl.

My Cup of Fury by One Seed Fruit 2015-08-25T22:00:00

Good little game! Nice art and interpretation of the theme. Quite funny too. Either the level or the controls could be a bit more forgiving. Also I wasn't that keen on the audio.

Constrained by oyster_crusher 2015-08-26T09:42:00

Elegant concept and stays fun surprisingly well! Could well imagine a bunch of levels with this mechanic so keep working on it. Shame the concept got scaled back but glad that the end result is fun. Could really do with some kickass retro music.

The Wrath of Gandhi by greysphere 2015-08-25T21:33:00

Very nice! Such a complete game befitting the theme. The endgame is a bit painful as tends to be the case in 4x games but the completeness of this entry is very impressive.

Gargoyle Simulator by Raspadsistema 2015-08-25T20:49:00

Nice art! Works just fine but needs to be made more challenging. Good work in the time you had.

Road To Hell by Hyoga-3D 2015-08-25T09:33:00

678m! Nice game. Good responsiveness to the controls and a fair amount of variety and a good amount of content. I liked the police cars that came to chase. There was some odd behaviour from the civilian cars as they would drive through obstacles. The music got a bit repetitive. One time the 'Play again' button didn't show up.

Alien Plant II by internetpaulicy 2015-08-25T23:53:00

Very satisfying entry. You've done the monster behaviour really rather well, it is a bit slow-moving though. Fun!

What's a monster? by jaegerpicker 2015-08-26T09:49:00

Monsters and robots in space! Pretty cool!

Barrel Roll Ultra! by Saf 2015-08-25T23:45:00

Very neat! Reversal of a classic - anti-mario games are clearly the way to go. Looks good, plays well, good idea to force the player to dodge barrels too. Nice and complete for 48h effort.

Adula by conormn 2015-08-25T16:33:00

Beautiful, beautiful small game. Could easily imagine this developing into a nice little adventure.

Passengers by nerial 2015-08-26T10:40:00

Stunningly good and complete serious, topical game. Great use of PICO-8, packs a lot of content in and does it well. Music gets a bit painful. Excellent work!

Nice Monster by walaber 2015-08-26T10:07:00

Tricky but got to the end! Man that kid is a dolt. Sounds got pretty grating and could have done with some music but can imagine many more levels of this. Good challenge and nice to be able to restart without any delay. Inspiring me to look at Pico-8, good job!

Dienasties by Colthor 2015-08-26T09:10:00

I got the idea thanks to the annotations! Got through the game once I understood the principle - it was ultimately quite easy but I feel there is something here to be developed. The notion of mourning affecting morale is good. Kind of fits in with the theme too! Would have been good if the opponents mounted some kind of counter-attacks I thought, so if you can then please develop this further. I liked that spouses could be of any gender.

Bad Kaiju Ju by synchingfeeling 2015-08-25T21:07:00

Solid retro! Easy to beat but love the fidelity to the theme and nostalgia.

I AM THE MONSTER by hbirler 2015-08-26T09:54:00

Cool voice acting! I always get swallowed by monsters :( Not quite a game but a fun entry still.

Eye of the Basilisk by dkdwrek 2015-08-24T08:09:00

Cool little idea nicely done. Didn't encounter bugs. The graphics are fitting.

Lovers on a Park Bench by peterthehe 2015-08-26T10:21:00

Remarkable! I'd rather play this than that other quadrilateral game, thomas block or whatever. Tasty!

Sky-Worlds by Secret_Sage 2015-08-25T20:38:00

Felt like a nice throwback to the 90s! I like the ambitious depth and the very notion of being in charge of your own world ship generally speaking but I didn't feel it matched the jam theme that well. I had some fun in trying to find a balance between finding new worlds to exploit and keeping restlessness at bay. I wasn't able to win the game, nor lose it, and having bottomed out on happiness seemed ultimately to not matter that much. Could do with better guidance and more of a direction for gameplay but I'd be happy to see this game develop and get more balanced.

Poust by madmaw 2015-08-25T21:37:00

Nice game, theme notwithstanding. Losing momentum is really quite bad and it's easy then to slip back down quite a lot. Do like the ability to reverse direction and gain speed with a wall jump.

Mindvasion by Fanaen 2015-08-26T09:24:00

Not massively intuitive but there's quite a neat idea at the base of it. Feels like the idea needs to develop further, there is a good puzzler here somewhere. Should perhaps also be able to jump further along the chain at least when moving. Good music!

Project Jumpius by kirilllosev 2015-08-25T20:55:00

Indeed a very polished game with a neat core mechanic. Most complete out of the half dozen I have tried so far. Have to respect taking an idea for a jam and polishing it well - I find it quite challenging myself! Throwing helicopters out of the sky is fun. Would have been nice to have more buildings or vertical levels to play with.

Whoops was that alive? by Benjaminsen 2015-08-26T09:34:00

Got stuck chasing the moon! Nice work in such a brief time, the explosion effect is particularly impressive. Took me a long time to hit the first moon. Some odd directions some of the time when I tried to shoot. Good effort!

Prowl by HThomson 2015-08-25T21:41:00

Nice aesthetic! The mood is good and the player artwork and heartbeat sounds especially add to it. Feels like this desperately needs just some more content to make it more challenging. Good entry.

Monster Fighters by REIN1 2015-08-26T08:51:00

Simple but nice game, definitely something to build up further. Given the cool way you can push enemies off the ledge it might be fun to put in more momentum, and make the level a bit more complicated perhaps. Nice work!

Monster Positioning System by Shawn 2015-08-24T01:27:00

Looks very neat!

Forlorn by MrFreakys 2015-08-25T21:04:00

I clicked Creator and nothing happened! Certainly fits the theme, is obviously quite dark and has apt, good art. Could be developed further.

Ewe are the monster by torcado 2015-08-26T10:00:00

Tricky! Nice game still, chomping is fun. Love the character animations. Got stuck at the top border one time. Goes fine with the theme. There's another game entered in the jam where you are a monster killing sheep so this is a great counterpart to that.

Carewolf by Sheepolution 2015-08-30T17:39:00

Great take on the theme, the game is both funny and fun. Think I ate a few too many townspeople... Shame there's no audio! Awesome work

The Daily Report by dsoft20 2015-08-26T10:13:00

Puts you in an awkward place! Sickening sounds and really does work with the theme.

The Daily Report by dsoft20 2015-08-26T10:13:00

Puts you in an awkward place! Sickening sounds, mad music and really does work with the theme.