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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | ||
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| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Filicide | compo | 316 | 3.65 | 3.10 | 3.28 | 3.72 | 4.16 | 3.83 | 4.03 | ||||
| 2017 | 38 | A Small World | Alone Together | compo | 320 | 3.19 | 2.24 | 3.19 | 3.95 | 3.71 | 2.65 | 2.72 | 3.62 | |||
| 2016 | 37 | One room | Me, Myself And The Room | compo | 398 | 3.12 | 2.35 | 2.61 | 3.95 | 3.59 | 3.57 | 2.83 | 3.38 | 100 | ||
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | I've Bean Stalking You | compo | 632 | 3.06 | 2.63 | 2.51 | 3.37 | 4.02 | 3.20 | 3.27 | 100 | |||
| 2015 | 33 | You are the Monster | The Congress of Monsterdom | compo | 114 | 3.72 | 3.86 | 2.93 | 3.91 | 4.26 | 3.50 | 3.40 | 3.72 | 82 | ||
| 2015 | 32 | An Unconventional Weapon | Rare Drop | compo | 462 | 3.27 | 3.09 | 2.58 | 2.52 | 3.42 | 3.08 | 2.55 | 3.14 | 82 | ||
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | Beyond the Surface | jam | 491 | 3.00 | 2.59 | 2.89 | 2.53 | 3.22 | 3.27 | 2.44 | 3.06 | 68 | ||
| 2013 | 27 | 10 Seconds | INATIME | jam | 484 | 2.67 | 2.67 | 2.61 | 3.09 | 3.26 | 2.59 | 2.33 | 2.41 | 52 |
Artylo leaves an average of 12.4 feedback comments each event.
The monochrome graphics and the game's mechanics are just wonderful. My only difficulty was hitting the ground units. Other than that the music and sounds seemed fine. You certainly get top marks on the mood scale, since it really gives you that Godzilla-esque experience. Great submission overall.
I'm terribly sorry, this game is good, it looks great, it sounds fine and it handles well, but this is Devil Daggers. From the hand, to the skulls, to the small map, through to to the slight dithering on the graphics. I can't give you a good rating for that. You apparently have the skills and the knowledge, just put them to good use in something else, not something that is already made and published.
You shouldn't have used the right mouse button to pan the screen, it serves no purpose gameplay wise, except making basic navigation unbearable. Otherwise it's a fine game.
There are some balancing issues when it comes to variables like speed, item cost and wave size, but otherwise it's a good twin-stick shooter. The turrets were a nice touch too.
A great little game. Just a little tip - when working on a full-screen game, always add a key to exit the game, otherwise, as it is right now, you have to Alt-F4 or use the Task Manager.The lack of sounds, outside of the amazing music is also a minus. You could add reeling sounds or water splashes to indicate that a fish is being caught. Otherwise it's a fantastic simple fishing game. It makes you feel like you could do that for hours.
A really interesting twist on the theme! My only complaint would be that most of the clicks feel like they don't register if at all. Some of the buttons made a sound after multiple clicks, but I couldn't say so for the grapple points. With a bit of polish, you'll have a fine game.
I'm sorry, but this is a poor excuse of a glorified lego builder of a game. All the assets have been taken from somewhere, the gameplay is non-existent and so on...
This game is a beautiful satire, minimalist and I simply love how the surprise in the end of the bad path crashed the game. Stunning!
The game plays good, and it's a good thing it has multiplayer, but the graphics are pretty downscaled or just pixelated overall, which makes it look like it was cobbled together from a lot of assets.
This feels more of a puzzle game than anything else and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
The thing is in my opinion is that your gameplay was mostly collision based, with no actual thought needed.
What the game lack in gameplay, it pays for in music. The score is more epic than the gameplay itself, which in my opinion is a weak point in your game.
The game looks great. You've captured the spirit and mechanics of the old dungeon crawlers pretty well. Mo only complains are:
1. The interface is pretty cluttered. You could have removed the armour UI piece, since it was never put into the game.
2. Why does the game suddenly stop when you right click?
But, overall it's a pretty good game.
Your game reminds me of a newspaper game by Lucas Pope, which had the same sort of gameplay. This one is fairly well executed, but there isn't much variation in the gameplay in my opinion, when posed next to some games of the similar style.
Ether you made a really difficult game, or I'm really confused about how you're supposed to pass some levels.
You introduced one enemy at the start and that was all okay, but you then introduced there gun turrets, that shoot three random bullets at every input. I had no idea how to counter that, so I found myself dancing around bullets like I was in the Matrix. And some sounds are obnoxiously loud
Playing it, I feel the only thing it lack most is some sort of readability. The mechanic is fairly good, and some of the effects (referring to the lightning one) are pretty spot on.
But overall, the size of the game's screen is pretty small in my opinion. You could have gone without the outdoors area, in order to have some more space for the actual gameplay rather than just filler for the screen.
The other thing is that it becomes disorientating at times, with all the sound bubbles, depicting your current position. I feel like I'm on both sides of a wall at times.
I really can't understand the gimmick of this game. Probably not your fault, but due to my lack of knowledge in Japanese culture.
It's a really weird rouge clone in which I'm not really sure if I'm doing combat or just walking around a series of corridors.
I'm sorry, but I feel that I can not give a fair review of your game.
The first set of controls doesn't seem to work for me. I would prefer to use that, because using Q for shooting the disks, having to move my middle finger over my ring finger is not a comfortable control scheme in my opinion.
Otherwise, the mechanic is pretty clever and I'm giving you a fair score for innovation and theme execution.
Nice game overall, but still has it's flaws.
Score: 6226.
Awesome music, fluid controls and cool gameplay. Now you get a high score too!
Sorry, but my anti-virus marked it.
This is awesome
Innovation is a billion out of 5!
Awesome. Reminds me a lot of Magika.
Nice game, You could have made the drums from moving and shooting fit with the music, but good game overall.
Doesn't seem to work for me
Nice atmosphere. If you could get someone to do some unified graphics for this it would sell!
Nice story, decent graphics, nice music, and solid gameplay!
I don't understand it, but it's surreal as hell. Looks awesome.
Actually a pretty good ending imo. Simple mechanic and fairly simple gameplay. Looks nice overall
Sorry, but it doesn't work on my Win 7 64bit
Has tutorial, decent graphics, nice sounds and interesting gameplay. Cool game overall!
You might have a bug. Menu is all good, but then it just shows a white screen with the music. (И май сте българи така че здрасти)
Really nice, interesting puzzle mechanic. The upgrades are cool!
Looks interesting, but web controls don't seem to work. Anyway. A nice combination of two classic games.
I really liked. Story was kinda weird, but gameplay was solid!
I don't even...10/10 IGN
Pretty complex to figure out, but nice presentation, cool game overall!
Looks great, plays great! Easy to learn but hard to master.
I can't run this game. The screenshots look appealing, but I can not score an unrunnable game.
Cool graphics, innovative mechanics, nice sounds. Great and challenging game overall!
Good graphics, but really confusing as to what is what and how to play in general without written instructions.
Really cool and innovative! Gameplay and music were awesome, but controls were a bit finicky.
Didn't really see that I was dying, or that I was hitting anything. Kind of a mystery to figure out, but once I got it it was a fairly good experience with some cute graphics.
I try playing games without looking at the instructions on the page, and yours is the first one that explains itself pretty quickly. I like the aesthetic, the sounds are nice. Could do with some music. Gameplay is great and difficult.
Simple, good difficulty curve, but lacks some graphics, and maybe some sound. Doesn't really fit with the theme for me, but as a standalone it is pretty fun. Has different enemy types and an innovative mechanic
A good and simple game. Could go with some music to really TENACE UP THE ACTION. Couldn't really understand the bacon falling from the sky, but I went with it.
I liked the humour of the game and it is really difficult. Music can do with a little more, since it loops quite fast, but looks promising overall
It's a good start, but it's not really a game. I like that you tried something new and tried to make it for the theme, but sadly I can't really give it a high score. It's more of a toy for playing around with, rather than a game.
Really clever for a twine game! I like how it shows you completed boy band at the end. Humorous overall!
Really cool game, reminds me of "Pokemon Snap". Music is rally relaxing.
A fairly common mechanic, but you made it fun again, simple, yet challenging. The music is kinda repetitive but I couldn't ask for more from a 48 hour game. Overall, a fairly good game.
A very impressive game. Your team is really talented. The 2.5D gameplay is amazing in every way, but may be a bit boring. Enemies didn't seem to have effect on me in any way. Overall an amazing game.
Controls are kinda choppy at times, and it is kinda strange opening a chest with spikes.
Only one slight problem is that I start the level beneath the platform and die on the first spikes. That really isn't a big problem, because when I restart it's fine.
Really cool feel to it. I really felt like a man on a mission.
Amazing game, really cool music. Sets the mood perfectly. Overall a very solid game.
Nat anything to complain about. Getting around 1200-1500 every level, but it's a bit repetitive.
A really atmospheric game. I love how the cold colors, the ambient music and the subtle sound effects added up. Really, a great job.
Seems really nice. Not really anything I can say. Maybe a bit better graphics. I don't really understand why you have separate camera modes.
Nice to see another MMF2 developer. Anyway, amazing game and I learned some stuff from your source code.
Very nice game Local, needs some sounds and the controls somewhere, but anyway a nice concept for a proper game.
A very nice game, simple mechanics, beautiful art. For me, not really fulfilling the theme to much, and lacks some basic audio, maybe.
Really nice game, the music is a bit repetitive, but all in all a very nice piece of work.
Well man, you sure did something...I'm speechless O_O
The concept is really nice. Animations and art are amazing. Gameplay is solid. The AI can be strange at times, but it works fairly good.
Overall, I think this is a very well made compo game and you'll probably get a really good score for it. Best of luck, Quill.
Looks like you may have had some inspiration from Mirrors Edge? :P
LD46 — Keep it alive (12)
The Mad Piper by psychic_ash 2020-04-20T15:09:43Z ♥ 1
Fairly simple TDF game, with a unique spin on it. I don't really see the enemies going anywhere but the first building and just going back to the start, so no point in really having any towers outside of the first few slots. The first tower doesn't really seem to do much, even when I had 5 of them, they could barely take an enemy down. Maybe also zoom the game in.
Protect The Artifact by WillyPa 2020-04-20T15:05:42Z ♥ 1
Frankly, not much going on. If this is your first outing in game development, it's a nice start, but I couldn't even exit the game without having to Alt+Return and exit manually. The graphics aren't really anything but simple shapes and colors with a filter on top and it's horribly silent with only the odd SFX in it.
Bullets & Babies by David Bohan 2020-04-20T15:00:27Z ♥ 3
Really nice! The screen scroll is very slow for a one-shot-one-kill shoot-em-up, so maybe either increase that as the player clears enemies, or have it locked onto them. It is also really easy to lose the baby in trees, as they have more depth the closer they are to the bottom of the screen, obscuring the baby.
Hospital Ride by The1 2020-04-20T14:56:39Z ♥ 1
Really well made! The only problem is that you can clip into walls a lot and you practically get damaged every frame at 60 frames per second, so hitting a wall at the hinge means you get slammed for all your health. I also got stuck in some walls, which also did the same. Maybe increasing the knockback or staggering the damage would be a more secure implementation.
Sleepwalker by Sheinxy 2020-04-20T14:47:12Z ♥ 1
Pretty good! My only complaint so far is having the mix of keyboard and mouse controls for the free look. I also instinctively wanted to jump on the button, instead of clicking on the button, which took some time to figure out. I think having to reposition the mouse after jumping is a nice dexterity element to the game's complexity, but I think having the character move slower would have felt a lot smoother. Thanks for making this!
A Cold Walk Home by Stefanie Leitch 2020-04-20T14:17:09Z ♥ 1
Really reminds me of a Firelit Room, and other idle/incremental games like it. The active elements to it are a nice break from the norm. I can understand the intro not having music, but upon unlocking the overworld with it having music, the tent menu becomes weirdly static in comparison. Also starting off with storage upgrades is usually a bad idea, as a player will usually leave those for last - starting with the attack would have really changed the tempo of the game. The player is also really lightning fast in the overworld; going slower could have been interesting in a way limiting the reach they have before needing to go back. Overall a very impressive showing, considering the amount of content. Thanks for making this!
Keep Vlad Alive by zimny11 2020-04-20T14:03:01Z ♥ 1
Here are some notes from my experience with the game: * Press right button, instead of right arrow key. (which you already adressed) * Really nice that it has a story * The get more seeds button almost felt like a part of the bone art, not as a UI element. Maybe make it more visible (different color or position). * Clicking multiple times with the bucket seems to reset the animation and possibly stop the shrooms from growing. * I like how the shrooms can spoil if left for too long. * Maybe start the game off with a full bar. Thanks for making this! Hope the feedback is helpful.
KIA by CristiNemrak 2020-04-20T13:52:53Z ♥ 1
Really good! The whole thing felt a bit futile, considering you get only 5 pollen per flower and the queen loses a lot more health than that in the time it takes to gather it, so the guitar music made it feel quite somber. Maybe put the controls in the instructions on the main menu rather than having them as you are flying. Thanks for making this!
The Blind Hummingbird by Webox 2020-04-20T13:46:29Z ♥ 1
I think the beetles would have made for interesting enemies, considering that they move around and can be found by the sound they produce - my first instinct wasn't really to eat them. Outside of that, my only gripe is that the music has this one part where it sounds like a severely distorted guitar, which really grates on the ears. Other than that, a pretty solid effort! Thanks for making this.
Peculiar Farming by Arcus 2020-04-20T13:39:11Z ♥ 3
Here's some notes on my experience: * Clicking for menus is really at odds with everything else being almost entirely keyboard driven. * The music is kind of loud and very energetic for what is really a farming game where you wait for crops to grow. * Harvesting the crops before they matured would make the soil underneath them disappear * I sold all the wheat from my first harvest and bought eggs, but they didn't show up in my inventory, but the money was still spent, so now I had no seeds and no eggs, so I got soft-locked. Hope this helps! Thanks for making this.
Slime Knights by Kittennation 2020-04-20T13:29:05Z ♥ 1
I couldn't seem to effect the game in any way. I tried clicking like the instructions said, but the game seemed to be playing itself. The audio was all in my left headphone on the left channel, with only the odd sound effect coming in through the right. Honestly, it seemed to be playing itself - the slimes didn't really lose any health beyond the odd chip damage, which they would regenerate enyway, so there wasn't really any threat.
Vampire BloodLust 3D by polegar 2020-04-20T13:23:13Z ♥ 0
From playing it for a bit I figured that I should just ignore the women in green and go for the ones in blue - I don't know if that's always true, but since the ones in green always hit me, I figured might as well not waste time and life on them by using the power. Another thing I noticed is that the depth buffer is ignoring sprites behind anything that has alpha, so staying close to anyone, would make everything else invisible. The sprites also don't turn towards you relative to the camera, so most of them are invisible when you look at them from the side or the back, which made navigating the level without hitting the women in green a bit of an invisible maze. Thanks for making this!