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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Overall | |||
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| 🥈 | 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | Less is Moore | compo | 4.52 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | |||
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| 🥈 | 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | Less is Moore | compo | Graphics | 4.68 | ||
| 🥈 | 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | Less is Moore | compo | Theme | 4.68 | ||
| 🥉 | 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | Less is Moore | compo | Humor | 4.52 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | ||
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| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | A Bug's Wife | compo | 33 | 4.09 | 4.06 | 3.26 | 3.90 | 4.21 | 3.81 | 3.68 | 4.03 | ||
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | Less is Moore | compo | 2 | 4.52 | 4.36 | 4.21 | 4.68 | 4.68 | 4.52 | 3.96 | |||
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | Return To Sender | compo | 8 | 4.35 | 4.27 | 4.09 | 4.33 | 4.38 | 3.83 | 4.21 | 4.02 | ||
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | Reap 'n' Roll | compo | 121 | 3.59 | 3.57 | 3.52 | 2.72 | 3.46 | 2.66 | 2.24 | 3.17 | ||
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | Yogurt's Quest | compo | 123 | 3.69 | 3.40 | 3.31 | 3.51 | 4.31 | 2.30 | 3.65 |
Aurailus leaves an average of 22.0 feedback comments each event.
I love this game! The core mechanic is super cool, I gasped a little when I realized what I was supposed to do. The bullet patterns and the effects they cause when you block them were a lot of fun to figure out and counteract. The intro sequences with the little descriptions for each enemy were super cute as well. I really like this game, I think it could go far. Fantastic job!
Super fun game! I love how hard it gets to pack everything fully in if you're not careful at the beginning. The different shapes create more challenges as time goes on, as well. Very nicely done!
Great game! I had a lot of fun playing this over and over to get on the leaderboard. I think the course might be a bit too long given the random nature of the gameplay, it's annoying when you're almost a minute in and then you get pelted by a random car and lose everything. But I had a ton of fun, it was great! Awesome job.
This is a fantastic little puzzle platformer! I had a lot of fun playing, the art is cool, the music is soooooo good, and the design of the puzzles is really well done. I enjoyed having to find your abilities each level, it made them all feel really unique and interesting. Great job!!
I like the unique ideas presented here, the three different health bars are fun to manage, and I like how you can see the types of damage a bot will do based on the colors on their chest. I found the bullets a little hard to see because of how small they were, and my slow projectile speed made me miss a lot of shots. I also found it hard to quickly switch between what things I'm healing while in combat. I think it would be interesting if instead of having the healing reduce the power of bullets all-around, it only reduced the power of the bullets against the colors that you're healing. So if you're healing blue, you do a lot less damage to enemies shooting blue at you. Then you'd have a more active prioritization challenge as opposed to just turning everything off in combat. Either way though, the ideas presented here are strong and it would be really cool to see this game expanded upon. Nice job!
I love this game! It's such janky fun, the music is boppin, the art is really clean and calming, and the whole atmosphere is perfect. I think that you executed this game perfectly. Short, sweet, and satisfying. I laughed out loud at the solution to the last level :) High scores from me all around. Fantastic job!
Nice, calming, and cute atmosphere! The gameplay is really chill, trying to fit the fish on your boat is a fun mini-game, and the special fish provide a fun challenge to try to collect! I thought the mermaid shop was really cute, with the ships in bottles, ah it's great. This game definitely scratches the tranquil relaxing game niche and it does it great. Nice job!
I LOVED THIS GAME! Okay yeah the physics were a little janky, the hitboxes were a bit cruel, but this sort of challenging platformer is my THING. I beat all the levels, and even managed to do that glitch you were talking about where you can walljump off of a boost pad (AND i got to normal jump off of a boost pad as well). The game was super well done. The wall mechanic is cool as hell, the little addition that you can walljump off of them adds a whole new dimension to the gameplay. This game is great. Fantastic job!!
Nice game! The physics feel snappy, the penguin pixel art is adorable, and the wall jumping feels really solid. I was surprised when I realized I didn't have to jump to wall-jump, but I think it's actually a good control scheme, maybe it shouldn't fire when you're grounded, though. Collecting all of the salmon was fun, I like how you get to see an overview of the whole level before you start. I had a lot of fun playing! Great job!
This game is so ambitious and cool! It feels like a baby The Witness, which in my opinion is one of the best puzzle games I've played. The puzzle mechanics were interesting, and the open world layout was really cool. I found myself getting lost in some places, particularly the left side of the map which felt pretty empty, and there were also some difficulty jumps that I wasn't sure how to get past. But wandering around, I felt a huge sense of accomplishment every time I completed a new puzzle. I think it would be nice if the symbols were a little clearer on the pads. If the pixelation effect was to the geometry to avoid it jittering when the player moves around, that would probably help a lot with clarity. I didn't end up beating the last puzzle because I got stuck on one on the far right, but I plan to try again soon. Despite my critiques, I think this game is super fun, and I'm really impressed that you got it all working in the timeframe. Fantastic entry, scoring this very highly!!!
This game is super addicting, despite the relatively straightforward mechanics. I had an infuriatingly great time trying to get through the whole gauntlet, before giving up in the maze room where the door doesn't open for like 30 seconds. As with the other commenters, I also experienced the bullets spawn killing, and occasionally multiplying when I died, which was frustrating. I think with a little more polish this game could be really really fun. Nice job!
This game was a lot of fun! I really liked the art and the music, they were super *chill* (pun intended). I do wish that the game was a bit more consistent with spawning new icebergs, it felt like most of the time I died was because the game just wouldn't give me anywhere else to go, which was a bit frustrating. Nonetheless, I had good time playing! Nice job :)
This is a super fun little game! I had a great time playing, I got to about level 16 before dying because I couldn't tell where the output I was for the new piece. It would be nice if the game highlighted unsatisfied generators / consumers so that you don't lose track of them when the game starts getting more hectic. It would be really fun to play this as like a five-minute high-score game on mobile!
This game looks super super good! I was reverse catfished by the image in the game post, so when I saw the super polished low-poly graphics I was really impressed. The gameplay was a lot of fun, especially the post-jam hardmode, and the world looks really nice. I found the easter egg ;) Great game!!
This game is super vibrant and really fun to play. I loved the online leaderboard. The parallaxing on the buildings felt a bit jittery and gave me a little bit of a headache, but that might be a me thing. This game is super polished! Nice one.
This game is pretty cool! The speed of the gameplay feels pretty fast, and the bullets are quite hard to see on the background, but the core movement is solid. A lot of the levels feel the same, since you can usually just do one jump left or right to complete them. But I definitely think there's an interesting core here. Nice job!
This game is super cute! It took me a bit to wrap my mind around the mechanics, but once I did I had a lot of fun. Fast mode is wayyyy too much for me. Great job!
The art and style of this game slaps. I love the concept of a joke-throwing typing game. Everything was so polished, that the only negative things I can say are nitpicks. I suppose the biggest thing for me is that I wish there was a hard mode. Maybe I've just spent too long on computers, but my 130 wpm typing speed crushes the game's scoring system, and I think in a demographic of programmers there's probably a lot of people like me. I was also annoyed that the text you typed didn't always match with the guide until you wrote the whole thing. Either way though, this game was a ton of fun, and I think it was great. Awesome job :)
I have literally nothing negative to say about this game. It was sooooo well done. The baby throwing mechanic was hilarious and unique, and it made for awesome gameplay. The art and music were incredible, I loved the low-color palette, it made everything pop. Dashing, slashing, and homing in on targets felt so smooth. The celeste inspiration was clear, but this game stands perfectly on its own. I *need* you to make this a full game, *please*. You have a gem here, and it would be an affront to gamers not to expand on it. Incredible job.
This game feels really polished and complete. The art and sound design is great, and the gameplay is a lot of fun. I found the $200 goal a bit high for the map size, I ended up just circling my track at the end there, but the game was a ton of fun, and a great experience. Nice job!
This game's vibe is solid as hell. I got shivers when I jumped into the water, and stumbling across the massive ground-eyeballs was gross in all the right ways. Really incredible art direction and implementation, damn. The gameplay felt pretty simple, it seemed like I was just hitting a button every time a new enemy showed up, but I wasn't too concerned with that as most of the time I was just running to every corner of the island looking for cool stuff. I swallowed my fears and ran through the water out of bounds, and I ended up on top of the eyeball cube in the sky, which was a super fun moment. Your environment design is wild, please keep using these skills. Great job!!
This. Game. Is. So. GOOD!!! Seriously, please make a full game out of this. The primary mechanic was super inventive and unique, and it lent itself really well to puzzles. I loved the occasional quick action levels where you had to do something that put you in harm's way before an enemy returned to cut off your charging line. Each level had a new and interesting challenge, and my only complaint is that there wasn't more. Top notch presentation, super involved puzzle design, and a really unique gimmick. Amazing job!
I like the concept of hex-based movement games like this, although I noticed a few rough edges when I played. For one, having to click tile by tile over and over on a map this big was pretty tiring, it would have been nice to be able to draw a path or something and have the whole thing be executed at once. The terrain difficulty mechanics were super cool, but I got really frustrated when I realized that the bandits didn't get affected by them at all, so entering a mountain or a desert was just a death trap if any of the enemies caught sight of you. I also encountered an issue where I'd have a package to deliver to a location, but I couldn't because they had a quest for me to deliver something elsewhere, resulting in me having to go in a big circle to deliver the second package, and then return to deliver the first. The art was really well done, and it reminded me of classing turn based games. I also liked that fighting wasn't a mechanic, just fleeing. Nice game!
I really like games like this. The graphics are super polished, and the movement is smooth. The tight corridors really challenged me, which was neat. When I got to the surface, I had a bit of a wow-moment as the moon spread out in front of me. Super fun game!
Such a cute game. Helping a little dog get home by infiltrating a post office, that's a unique concept. I got hit by a glitch in the final room where re-entering it from the left would instantly agro the enemies in there, but I managed to avoid it by kiting them over to the other side of the room before going left, which stopped them from seeing me when I returned. The minimap seems a bit unclear with their view radiuses, it felt like they didn't always match up 1-1. The stealth mechanics were fun, and the levels were laid out neatly. I liked this game a lot. Great job!
This game feels and looks so smooth! I love minimalist bullet-hells like this. I liked the subtle theming with the enemies coming out of boxes. The attack patterns felt smooth, I felt like I was in control, and the difficulty curve was pretty good given the time it was made in. If I had to complain about one thing, I don't really like how the enemies can fly off of the screen and come back at mach speeds, but that is a matter of taste I think. Super great presentation, and the gameplay was a lot of fun. Great job!
Really simple but calming concept. I really liked how the notes were linked to the background music, it gave it a really pleasing atmosphere. It would have maybe been cool to have analog control over the map rotation, by using the mouse or something. Regardless, this was a quick but enjoyable experience. Good job!
I really love the concept here. The game totally thrashed me the first few times I played it, when I realized that the bars on the generators were how much power they were producing, and not a stored power meter, things made a lot more sense. Seems like tripling up power lines between the producers and the destinations is the winning strategy if you have the time to do it. I think the power line decay was a little too quick, and hard to keep up on, and I would have appreciated if there was a buffer time in between a building not having enough power and you losing life. It would also be cool if the different generators had different ranges of outputs they tend to give out. I think with some polishing this game could be even more fun. Congrats!
This game is so atmospheric!~ I had so much fun just drifting around exploring all of the different locations. What's in the Jam entry is already super impressive, and as I was playing I was just wistfully thinking about how much fun I'd have if the islands were more fleshed out and you could walk around them. Definitely no shade for not implementing that though, what you have in the timeframe is already crazy. Catching the wind was super fun, although it took me a bit to realize I didn't need to angle the sail in the direction that I was going, but the direction that the wind was. When I was far away from any landmarks, it was a bit hard to tell if I was moving and how much, maybe some sort of radar map with a movement vector on it could be cool for that, or a wind trail behind the airship. Either way, this game was great, congratulations on putting something so cool together in such a short time! :)
Oh my god, I played this game on stream a few weeks ago (sorry for taking so long to review -.-) and it was so much fun! The humour had me laughing my ass off, and the gameplay was difficult but enjoyable. I always felt like I was in control, even when stuff got really busy. Super impressive that you got all of this made not only in the Compo period, but also using PICO-8. Great job!
Pretty neat take on the theme! I would mirror what some other people said here about the sort of unwieldy movement controls. The enemies are also quite hard to dodge, as it seems like they jump when it's almost impossible to dodge them. Definitely impressive to make a platformer like this in the Compo timeframe though!
This game is pretty challenging! Driving around the map is fun, the main ice-cream is solid, but a little bit simple, and the amount that the game expects you to make per day is satisfyingly challenging. I think that more complex main mechanics would be nice, and the music in the background feels a bit tonally dissonant with the difficulty of the game. It lulled me into a sense of security before I totally bombed my first run. Nice job!
This game is super addictive! I really enjoyed playing it. The controls are easy to understand but hard to master, the game speeds up and gets really challenging at a solid rate, and it looks and sounds great. Great job!
This game is so cute! The texting and driving segments were my favorite, I was hitting cars left and right while reading the dialogue. The characters and music are expressive, the story was funny, our protagonist was lovably terrible. This game has great energy. My only suggestion would be that maybe the driving gameplay could be a bit deeper? It's also fun how it is, though. Awesome job!
This is a super cool idea! I like the way the balloon controls. It would be cool if the camera was aimed so you could see a bit more ahead of the card, so that you have more time to react. If I was to make a suggestion, I think it would be cool to be able to choose the type of card, between maybe Attack, Buff, or Heal. Maybe you could even have special cards and have a bit of a deck-building mechanic! That way you can strategize a bit more than just trying to get the highest number to the top. Great game!
This game is hilarious! The levels got notably more challenging as I went through, and I had to start strategizing what packages to throw where to optimally kill all the drones. I initially thought the 3 health system was too punishing, but as I got used to the game I really started to like it. The intro sequence is hilarious, and the conclusion is a perfect punchline. The game did run quite poorly on my GTX 1060, probably around 20 FPS, but even through the lag I had a great time. Thanks for the super fun experience!
This game is great fun! I enjoyed just swimming around collecting squares, and the fact that the physics gets weightier as you go (which I initially thought was placebo) is very satisfying. I do agree with the other commenters that there should be more tension to having a longer tail. Self collision would be good, and maybe if the tail collides with a black square it cuts the tail to the length of the segment that collided? Great game!
I don't know why, but this game was giving me intense Pocket Frogs energy the whole time I played it. It has just that right blend of MS Paint art and realistic aliased JPEGs to give me a wonderful wave of nostalgia the whole time I played. The mechanics are simple, but enjoyable, and the difficulty progresses very naturally with the timer speeding up as you deliver the fruit. This is just a good feels kinda game. Great job!
This game broke my brain for the first while, but once I got a hang of the controls I had a lot of fun! The art is charming, the number of different environments you managed to cram in the timeframe is impressive, and flinging yourself through space is great! Space zombies are an... interesting choice 🙃 but they made the gameplay more hectic and intense. This is a super solid game, great job! Oh, and I definitely recommend playing with a controller ;)
This is a cute little game! The social commentary is amusing, the mechanics are fun. Dogs booped: 4. I think it would have been nice to only show the drop-off points after you get to the pick-up point for a package, as once things got a bit more busy I kept getting distracted by drop-off points I couldn't do anything at yet. The procedurally generated (I think) environments are really cool! Great job!
I'll admit that I'm not a fan of this genre of game, I think it's too punishing and frustrating. But I'll keep the review to how I feel it works mechanically, as I know it is a genre that people do enjoy. The skeleton's movement feels surprisingly snappy for a game like this, I would have expected more frustrating quirks to moving. The game felt as though it had a lot of straight stretches that just had to be spammed past, which wasn't the most satisfying. The tight corridors when you first go into the ceiling were kind of frustrating as well, as the skeleton would often get near-softlocked in the little one block rises. I like the mood and the art of the game, and I think that it could have been enhanced with music. It serves its purpose as a rage game, I did end up quitting after falling into the fire like five times in a row. I appreciated that there was no lengthy respawn sequence. For its genre, I think this is a solidly built game, so good job!
This is a fun bullet hell! The lines from the generals were funny, and I liked the low-bit aesthetic of the environment. I think the items are a little too difficult to use properly, as they're mostly reactive items to get you out of colliding with a bullet, but if I had the reaction speed, I would have just ran out of the way anyways. More passive / not-time bounded items would probably work better, like a permanent shrink, or a piece of armor that protects you against one extra shot indefinitely. Even a temporary invincibility like the Star from Mario would work, but it would have to have a long enough duration that you felt safe using it. I think that for the time provided, you guys managed to make a very polished and enjoyable experience. Great job!
I am hilariously bad at this game, I got like -16000 points, but it was a ton of fun! It definitely felt a little bit like Beat Saber. The note arrangement was good, the music was snappy, and flinging the cubes was really satisfying. I will say that the game performed really poorly on my system, but I do have a somewhat dated graphics card so that could just be a me thing. I also found it hard to understand what to do if two notes were going the same direction back to back, I kept accidentally flicking one the other way. I definitely think with more tracks and maybe a few more mechanics (big boxes you have to hold the mouse to the side for maybe?) this could be a full game. Great job!
This is a neat game! I agree with the other comments that a trajectory line would be ideal, and also a mark on the meter to show your last hit strength maybe. The concept is intriguing, although I think some of the levels play a bit too slowly, particularly when there's ice involved. The physics also feel a bit inconsistent, kicking at really low intensity would sometimes make the package fly across the level. I think that with some refinement, this could be a fun mobile game. Good job!
This game is wildly good! I don't have a single criticism. The art is beautiful and evokes strong Celeste energy, the music is fantastic, the platforming feels great. I would love to see a full game with this theme. Amazing job!
I gamed Zeus by asking him if that hypothetically, if he had a favorite number, maybe one of special magical significance, what might it be? It was fun teasing the AI, I also managed to get Heracles to spit out a bunch of universal concepts, like pi, when I asked him for special numbers. It was a bit too easy to trick the AI into believing what you write to it are literal actions that are occurring. After playing this game, I tried out a few prompts on my own to see if I could reduce that by specifically prefixing player speech (Player says: ...), and I had a decent bit of success.
As far as the game goes, I've been really interested in seeing AI used as NPCs in video games, so I quite enjoyed this project! It was a unique interpretation of the theme, and I had fun just messing around and dorking on the characters. It would be nice if there was a bit more to do than just getting one number, but for a jam game, it was a good bit of fun! I'm excited to see how LLMs can create more convincing video game characters as the technology develops, and that's coming from someone that generally has a fairly negative view on AI. Good job!
This game makes my brain feel wobbly o.o
In all seriousness though, it's such a sweet message, the gameplay is inventive, and the disturbing presentation is pretty hilarious :) I had fun playing through twice to try to max out my human-ness, to fairly limited success. I love how all the changes you make animate in linear time after the level is complete. Great job, you two!
Hey there devs! I just wanted to let you know I'm going to be playing your game on my [Twitch](https://twitch.tv/Aurailus) in 20 minutes here, if you wanted to be there! I'll edit this comment with my review once I've played it.
This game is really cute! I really liked the strategy of spending your downtime storing eggs for later. The gameplay got crazy fast. The graphics are clean and nice, and it's a solid experience. Nice job! My only suggestion would be some audio feedback on picking up, putting down, and delivering eggs to the people :)
This is such a cute concept! I suck so bad at rhythm games haha. I loved how when you mistimed beats the characters would just go 'hmm,' 'huh,' 'err,' 'uh...' Great job!
Pretty fun game! I enjoyed the challenge of trying to avoid the same-colored snails. The time limit was incredibly tight. The compass felt a bit weird, like the waypoints weren't quite where they should be? Maybe that was just me though. Good job!
This game is cuteness overload oh my god! The plotlines for the levels were all super charming, I loved the LGBT rep! The art and music are so charming. The gameplay is a ton of fun, it's legitimately challenging to score perfectly, and I like that! It would have been cool to see an online leaderboard to compare my score against others. This game is top tier, incredible job!
This game is wildly fun! I couldn't put it down until I was done. The end scene is definitely worth it ;) I didn't expect to have so much in-flight control, and it was a super refreshing iteration on the Angry Birds formula. The levels were challenging, but not too challenging, although I think a couple of the later levels were a bit too long to not have any checkpoints in them. The humour was great, the music was great. The art was really pleasing to look at, except for the janky parallax, but I imagine that's because you ran out of time. This jam is definitely top scoring in Fun for me. Amazing job!
This game is really fun! I played a few times to try to get a good score. It's a very solid arcade-like experience. Your character bears a shocking resemblance to a pizza delivery boy in a certain franchise... what a coincidence! The gameplay is solid and hectic, I like how you have to hit A and D while you're trying to move around at full speed. Great job!
I helped the cats, I have fulfilled my purpose. It's so much fun running around, trying to get those little dorks contained before they do more damage. The progressively more absurd cat sprites were a lot of fun, and the whole concept is hilarious! I would have liked to see a slightly steeper difficulty curve and maybe another final level with extreme challenge. Why are my cats so antagonistic? Great game!!
Damn, it's so hard to keep all the boxes in the truck. I played twice and only ended up with one box both times. I really like the concept, and doing little circles to try to re-adjust your packages is fun! Good job :)
This game looks absolutely gorgeous. Your team deserves like 10 high-fives for pulling this off in the jam period. The music is also beautifully composed, although I think the track that plays when you're not delivering a package feels a bit too high-spirited for a post apocalyptic setting? I think that the gameplay falls a bit short for a couple of reasons. For one, I feel like the world design doesn't contribute very well to the driving gameplay. There's very few straightaways and more often than not I feel like I need to lose all my speed to get somewhere, which isn't fun when the car feels so good to go quickly with. It's hard to tell where you're supposed to go without a minimap, as there are lots of tight streets with only one way in / out. I also got screwed over by alleyways a *lot*. I assumed that I could squeeze through them if my car would fit, so I could waste a little time to get past a row of buildings, but almost all of them had clutter in them that stopped me from going fully through, and I wasted a ton of time backing out of them. I think that allowing the player to drive right past the pickup / drop points instead of slowing down would be more satisfying as well. The game had a nasty habit of forcing me to 180 right after picking up a package, which was frustrating. With such an interesting world and character, I would have loved to see more story / character development. I think that having the character on the screen 24/7 was a missed opportunity for expositioning as you were driving around. Maybe if you pushed her to the corner and had textboxes occasionally run across the bottom of the screen from her? I really enjoyed the aesthetic, and the gameplay had a strong concept that could be pushed further with some tweaks. Good job!
This is a super fun game! I love the choice between getting perfect launches to go horizontal quickly, or boosting as much as possible to gain height. Just being a helpful little robot and watching the world burn as a result of your actions was super satisfying. The difficulty curve felt a little shallow, the impacts of my actions didn't seem to hit until several minutes had passed, but I eventually did die because the mob wouldn't let me land long enough to get a package. I liked the quirky dialogue when you delivered a package. Great job!
Holy hell, the effects in this game are top notch! From the screen filters to the lighting to the music and the sound effects, everything just comes together for an incredible presentation. The gameplay is fun and hectic, I never feel like I'm in control of my vehicle and I think that's the point, and the timers are strict as hell, which is great for replayability. My only complaint is that reversing feels backwards to my brain, I don't know if it's just me but I expect the directions to be swapped when going backwards, like a real car. Either way, that's a small nitpick that doesn't affect my rating. Great job!
Nice game! Through the five (four?) levels that the game had, I ended up making a different vehicle every time. For a game that didn't limit what I built at all, that's really impressive! It speaks to the level design. I really liked how the falling level and the end level pushed against your assumptions and forced you to design *for* them. I think that the game misses a little though, with a lack of limitations. If certain levels restricted the type / number of parts you could use, that would be more interesting to me at least. For QOL, I would have liked to be able to restart and modify my vehicle instead of having to start from scratch every time. It would have also been nice to know why I was shipping meat. I've heard an explanation now but when I was playing the game I was sort of confused. Either way, it was a lot of fun! Good job :)
I hope you get enough ratings to qualify! Your game is really impressive for the time you had to develop it. I've reached out to a few other jam participants to see if I can get you a few more ratings. Good luck!
Silly but enjoyable concept. I like the voice lines!
This game is so incredibly cute! It's such a loving homage to Doki Doki Panic / Mario 2, all the art and characters were super well done and adorable. I really liked the different gimmick plants you could collect, like the Cherry Bombs and the Leek Propellers. The character dialogue was fun, and I love that you have to be nice to the NPCs to get a perfect score. I have no idea how you guys managed to cram so much content into a jam entry. Incredible job!
This game was pretty fun, I played it a few times and enjoyed it! I didn't end up surviving the full 4 minutes any of the times I played, mostly out of carelessness. I feel like there should either be collectables or a timer, not both. Or at least show the score when you die, instead of just booting me out. Good job!
This game is incredibly cute! The art is gorgeous, I was sucked right in when playing. It's a bit odd to me that the apples collide with other apples, it can make it difficult to get any apples above any others down to the hedgehogs. I liked the smart hedgehogs, but after my first few I basically found myself ignoring my original ones. Maybe if you could upgrade basic ones into smart ones somehow?
My god, this game looks and plays great for a compo game. I definitely thought it was a jam game when I played it. The gameplay is super snappy, the chains feel impactful, and the sound design is great. I had a ton of fun playing it several times. Super impressive!!
I really liked this game! The progression is fun, the story is simple but sets the tone immediately, and I liked the idea of travelling deeper and deeper into the depths. I think the environment could use some more variation, such as environmental hazards and puzzles, and going deeper didn't really produce any more challenges. I didn't end up getting to the end, but if I had more time to play it I could see casually chipping away at the upgrades until I get there. Good job!
This game is great! I love the art, the effects, the design, and the implementation. I mirror the other commentors in thinking that having to press OK for each effect feels a bit redundant. I also think that the amount of plants that grow every time you destroy some is too high, I believe it cycles between 4, 4, and 8, which is a *lot*, as when you get absolutely optimal placements, which happen rarely, you can only get 9. Upgradable spells would be very cool. I definitely wasn't thinking of puzzle games when I saw the theme, but this game shows me how well they work. Super cute game!
I liked the disconcerting deep fried energy of this game. The music made me feel like I was dying, but in a good way. I was pretty unclear on what to do until I was informed by chat, but once I figured it out, I had a good time. Perhaps a bit more direction in-game would be helpful. I also didn't realize that only one type of enemy made you progress. Thanks for the lemonade :3
I really enjoyed playing your game! The fruit was super spastic when I tried to move it, which I actually think added to the experience a lot. One thing I think could be improved is it doesn't seem like the game will give you all of the fruits you need to fulfill all your orders. I think a semi-random system that ensures that enough of each type of fruit are dropped (with some margin of error) would be good for that. Great job on your first jam!
The art is this game is really nice! The slow zoom out is interesting, and the animation is a bit jarring with how it scales the pixels, but somehow the art looks good when zoomed in and when zoomed out. I like the idea of the game, but I find it pretty hard to play, at least as a single player. It would definitely be easier with others, but I think it's missing some more flexible aiming controls. Only being able to fire ahead of you was really limiting when there was dozens of flying enemies around. I also found that the pipes weren't really dying, their passive regen seems really high. The game didn't end until I jumped off the bottom of the map :) I think you guys have a great concept here, that could be polished into something really fun!
I liked this game a lot! At first I wasn't sure how it would become difficult, but as more and more sheep crowded onto the board, I realized it wasn't about trying to herd them away, but simply trying to have any space to plant at all :) The voxel art style is really appealing, and it's super polished for a Jam game. Great job!
Great concept, the art is simple and appealing, and it's really enjoyable to slam a bunch of vehicles into each other for points. I think the game could benefit from requiring more strategic placements of various obstacles, maybe if it was designed more as a puzzle game than a sandbox, and right now it feels like placing walls is usually the best option. The fact that you got a level editor in in time was impressive! Great job :)
This game is fantastic! The art and music are both beautiful, the particle effects are juicy, and the enemies have so much character to them. I love the theming. The variety of plants and enemies is great for a jam entry. I wish there was a bit more strategy with choosing what to attack, as right now it feels like just spinning in a circle is the optimal strategy. When I first saw "Stackable" in the seed descriptions, I thought it meant that you could place multiple in the same tile to bolster that plant's effect. That turned out not to be the case, but I think that would be a great idea if you wanted to expand on the concept. Great job all around!!
This game is super cute! I love the art, and the plants. The growing animations are great. The controls could use a bit of refinement, particularly with jumping on vines, and I wonder if it would be easier to just use the mouse to select the current seed instead of buttons, at least on keyboard. I love the blend of puzzle and platforming mechanics. I played to the end, I hope you make more of this game!
This game is maddeningly impressive. I would buy it, right now, in its current state. I streamed playing it on Twitch, and it entirely derailed the rest of the stream because I wanted to finish it. The controls are fluid, the abilities augment the platforming well. I love the aesthetic, and the levels were *so* well designed. You've created a nearly perfect the precision platformer in three days. Stop it! You're scaring me. Your team did absolutely amazing, and I 100% want to see more from you if you choose to continue this game's development. Thank you so much~
If you want to watch my gameplay, I uploaded the VOD here: https://youtu.be/mwYiD6fR8PE (gameplay of this game starts at 1:42:09)
I enjoyed the simplistic art style of this game, and I liked trying out the different plant turrets. I did not immediately realize I could zoom out and access more plots, and I wish that there was longer gaps between waves, but I enjoyed the gameplay a lot! This was a fun, cute game, and I'm happy to have played it!
I really enjoyed playing this game! It was mischievously fun to dig into (imaginary) people's personal lives and steal their data. I'll admit, when I saw the disclaimer in the description about the AI generated assets, I was skeptical, but I think that this game was the best example for the value of such tools that I've seen to date. I think there's a balance between empty searching and activity that was *slightly* off, where I felt like I was scrolling through looking for data a bit too much, and I wasn't spending enough time actually discovering things, which I think could be improved with smaller social media feeds for your targets, but it's super hard to balance things like that on such a short timeframe, and it's pretty damn good already. The game could have benefitted from an interactive tutorial that showed me what to do, as I definitely got lost a bit in the beginning, but that's something that could be added in a post jam release, if the dev chooses to continue. I really loved the aesthetic of the virtual browser too, it sucked me right in, it was very inventive and enjoyable. I hope you guys polish this up into a full game after the jam, I'd love to play more!
A really fun and enjoyable take on the theme. The controls felt fluid, and I really liked the online scoreboard, I played a couple times just to get my initials on there. (AJC if you want to contest me!) I liked the art and the music, and the gameplay was interesting, with how you have to take different actions depending on the type of enemy that approaches you. The lighting stood out to me a little bit, given that it was a pixel art game, but it had very realistic shading. I think a bit of undersampling & posterization of the shadows would go a long way to adding to the atmosphere. Great job, guys!
This game was incredible! I loved the voice acting from the very beginning, both actors were so talented! I'm super impressed by the amount of polish your team managed to cram into 3 days. The story was interesting to hear unfold, the atmosphere was mysterious and foreboding, and the underwater craft felt clunky in all the right ways. I can't help but feel like the story would have hit a bit harder if you were actually travelling down the same ocean vent that was being described in the black-boxes, wondering if you might discover the same creature as the quiet creaking of your ship made you painfully aware of how vulnerable you were, but given the insane time constraints of this jam I perfectly understand why that didn't happen. I'd love to see you guys flesh this game out into a beautiful environmental horror, it's already 90% there. Amazing job, all!
Gorgeous low-bit graphics. I really like the tileset, and the little bits of wheat that you can cut with your scythe add to the atmosphere in an appealingly abstract way. The player controls a little bit funny, occasionally losing velocity in mid air, but it's very fun to play regardless! I agree with the above commenter that it can be a bit frustrating when the soul flies out of reach, and I was slightly confused initially that I had to jump into the soul instead of hitting it with the scythe. I really enjoyed playing your game on stream!
Very cool! I actually like the super minimalist art style, really lets you focus on the game. The controls were a little too floaty for me, but a lot of fun!
Hilarious game! I loved the voice acting, it brought the whole piece together! The mechanics were fun as well, all in all really enjoyable.
Great game! Really interesting mechanics, although it feels like the enemies shoot you from a little too far out, I should at least have a chance to kill them before they take away my health.
I loved it! Most complete game I've played so far. The concept and execution were spot on!
Really neat! I was disappointed to see yet another clicker but when I unlocked the first box it totally flipped it on it's head. I loved the interactive stuff and how it compounded to create more difficult gameplay as you unlocked new areas.
Great game! I loved the meaning behind the positive words lifting you up and the negative words hitting you down. I encountered a few bugs but all in all a great first game!
LD56 — Tiny Creatures (17)
Miku's Minion Madness by Miku 2024-10-25T08:16:58Z ♥ 2
This is a cool game! I liked the music, and the gameplay was fun. Played through a whole round. Great job!
Tiny World Mayhem by Transkuja 2024-10-25T08:02:32Z ♥ 3
Wow, the art is so polished, damn! The mechanics felt smooth and fun, I ended up playing a few times. Great job!
Zombies Ate My Fruits by smiley405 2024-10-25T07:58:05Z ♥ 2
This is a cute little game! It feels very PICO-8, very retro. I enjoyed trying to figure out how to get through the game using the fruits, and I managed to get to the end. Nice job!
Blob, To the Top! by MetRiko 2024-10-25T07:48:25Z ♥ 2
Waow, this is so much fun!!! Such a great and polished game, I'm super super impressed! I got through most of the levels and then messed around with spawning in a bunch more blobs with I. The graphics, music, and gameplay were super polished. Great job!
Lucky Lefty Loves Lofty Little Lodges by TheBookSnail 2024-10-25T07:10:00Z ♥ 2
This is cool! Physics puzzles in Jam games are very rare, so it was a nice sight to see. I really liked the music, and the snail was cute as well. Would have been nice to have some sort of pressure in the gameplay loop, like losing if I don't meet a quota or something. Nice game!
Little Chef by DERRIXX 2024-10-25T06:29:14Z ♥ 3
This is a super cute little game! I know rebinding controls is a bit out of scope for most jam games, but I will note that I found it really hard to control on my split keyboard, but I really enjoyed the concept! I thought it was funny that you could just give someone an empty plate of food and go to the next person. I also struggled a bit to find the right ingredients at times. That said, the presentation and music are great, and the core mechanics have a lot of potential. Very cool!!
Snail Trivia Race by GameDevTraum 2024-10-25T06:19:05Z ♥ 1
Cute little game! I liked how the snails all had different shell textures. Some of the questions I found a bit too America-specific, or maybe I'm just kinda dumb. Game worked perfectly though, I played it twice to make sure I won. Nice job!
SNANT by Cobear25 2024-10-25T06:10:17Z ♥ 2
Cute and fun! The mechanics of having to collect and return ants to the anthill were really interesting! It took me a bit to get used to the fact that the ant and I can wrap around the board. I enjoyed the music as well! Great job!
Among The Deep by Langotriel 2024-10-25T06:01:42Z ♥ 2
The voice acting blew me away! At first I was surprised that there were voiced dialogue lines in a sort of retro-art direction game, but the earnestness of it paired with the beautiful music sucked me right in. Definitely a little light on gameplay, but I played through the whole experience to see where it would go. Poor research partner, maybe she shouldn't have been so trigger happy with lasering all the creatures :) Absolutely fantastic presentation, this is super super cool. I could see this expanding into a full atmospheric / horror experience if you wanted to take it further. Great job!
Small Problems To Grapple With by Tetracold 2024-10-25T05:46:23Z ♥ 2
Oh my god I love the art style here! The sticker & paper aesthetic is so unique and cool, I can tell a ton of work was put into it. It reminds me of Little Big Planet, I'm getting nostalgia for a game I've never ever played. The mechanics are simple and fun, although I think it's held back by the camera a little. Typically in platformer-esque games, the camera follows ahead of the player rather than behind them to let you see what's coming up. I found myself limited a bunch by simply not being able to see what was ahead of me while I was flinging myself. I also found that the bugs kept stunlocking me, and I wasn't sure if I was able to kill them or not. That said, I had a good 5 minutes playing around with it, I got around 50 points. I was charmed by the screen-space paper effect on the frog, and the music was excellent. Great entry all!
Proto Deus by cliva 2024-10-25T05:36:29Z ♥ 3
Wow! The theming of this game is on-point! I'm super impressed with the CRT terminal aesthetic and the pre-rendered(?) 3D graphics. Both super cool for a jam game. I found it a little hard to work around controlling the tank and the little droids, as it felt like getting enemy tanks within range to click on for the droids also made me vulnerable for attack. That said, it was a super cool and shockingly polished experience, especially with all the worldbuilding, that's super cool. Great entry!
Inside Creatures Out: What is your gaming MBTI? by CatZP 2024-10-22T21:29:02Z ♥ 3
Wow! I'm generally not that much of a fan of survivors-type games, but this one was super inventive and unique!! The art was stylish, the music was great, and the whole experience was very polished and clean. The spin of theming it around a personality test was really cool as well. I didn't really expect it to actually give me a score at the end, so I was pleasantly surprised when it did, and ended up being really accurate! I was super impressed by how many different variations of each creature there were! I didn't really understand *why* they were changing and upgrading as I was playing, my best guess was that the creatures levelled up as you dealt damage with them, but after reading through the post and realizing that they scaled based on your answers, I gained even more respect for your entry. Amazing work all around, I think this project could go far!!
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Frog's Bedtime Story by Biene.maja 2024-10-22T20:13:03Z ♥ 3
WOWW!!! This art is absolutely GORGEOUS! I love the almost watercolor aesthetic with the pixel art, ya'll employed the palette so well like oh my god, goals. The parallax had so much depth, I loved it! This was the most 3D-like 2D game I've seen in a while. It's a shame you didn't get all the gameplay in, I'm not sure if I was missing something but I couldn't seem to progress past digging up the worm. But wow, this is a beautiful and charming start to a game and I hope you continue working on it! ❤️
Ant Ascent: journey to the top by ITSTIMOTHY999 2024-10-22T19:55:50Z ♥ 1
This is really cool! The install process was kinda funky, and I definitely think you could benefit from packaging it as an exe in the future, but I really enjoyed playing!
Blob stomp by Noobman64 2024-10-18T23:20:18Z ♥ 2
Ahaha, I love this! Such a funny little game. The writing is hilarious, and the sounds were great. I loved the ritual at the end. I wish I were able to fullscreen it on the web version, I had to just zoom in really far. Very cool!
Lil' Chimeras by EyeofBholden 2024-10-18T23:15:41Z ♥ 1
This is a super cute concept! I enjoyed seeing the different chimaeras, and rerolling until I found the perfect non-mixed up ones. The gameplay has a lot that could have been expanded on, for example a simple drafting mechanic where you can choose some of your hand to discard every time it refreshes. Very nice!
Blobbies by tuism 2024-10-07T01:36:51Z ♥ 1
This game is super cute! The concept and execution are super-well done. Did you make the music? It's so incredibly relaxing, I'd love to add it to my playlist! ❤️