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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 38 | A Small World | Holy Shit! A Spider !!! | jam | 103 | 3.90 | 4.09 | 3.26 | 3.76 | 4.45 | 3.76 |
I never spend so many hours chasing an apple xD That last level was really hard for me, but since I already collected all the previous apple, I HAD to get the last one :p
The fact that the character is really responsive makes it really addicting.
I don't really see where is the time travel in all that, why the inside of the planet change that much depending on the year, but hey! :no_mouth:
I feel like more that a game, it's a prototype with a lot of potential. It could become a very interesting complete strategy game. I encourage you guys to continue on that path ;p congrats
(Like everyone else I didn't figure out what to do, your video is good for that :ok_hand: )
That game as a really strange vibe. Why ducks? Why protecting the earth? And what are those aliens? That + the hypnotic music and you have a really particular experience.
Maybe having a better feeling of progression would have been cool, because I have no idea how far I went through the game before dying.
Still liked it :p (Why my baby ducks have to die? :cry: )
This game shows that you can have a great mood with simple graphics. So few little pixels can transport you into an other story. I wish I could do that. Good job!
A little bit more juiciness would have been great. Sound could add a lot more (even to locate enemies more easily). Either than that, the game can be quite addictive, it's pretty cool :p
Remind me those Zelda games :p
Sometimes I pushed blocks without wanting to, because unlike in Zelda, you push them instantly when you are near them, I had to restart twice because of that x)
The sounds, the graphics are really mastered. I had a good time playing your game. Good job!
It's a good platformer. I finished it, so it's says a lot already :) I liked the level where you have to avoid the rain (reminded me my game a little bit)
I wonder if it's possible to do the level with the giant plant without getting hit? If not, It means that you need to scale down the difficulty a little bit. Never funny to get hit without being able to do anything!
The music is good, a little bit repetitive but it adds to the charm. And the walking animation is the best! :D Good entry, keep it up.
Maaaan mountain goat live the good life eating grass all day. I like those kind of short experiences. The sound and the mood are really good. Wish you had more time to see more from you :p
Really simple, but really fun. A multiplayer mode would make it really addictive!
Really good idea. Strategy games are really hard to make and finish completely on a jam, but you managed to do it. The covert art is beautiful also!
Nice concept. I'm sure with more time you could have improve it a lot. Adding sounds of course, but also having some goals, or at least a score system :p Good work!
It doesn't feel like a jam game. That game has a lot for himself : Perfect music and fx, funny lines, and a challenging boss fight! (A boss fight game where you fight all the planets would have been crazy good)
With a keyboard, the game is really hard, but it's the platformer style that want that. The moons are also easier to avoid than to fight, that is maybe a problem.
Very impressive for a compo game! Good job!
I love Ludum Dare for those kind of games. Really relaxing, with a original mood. The end is perfect. Best game that I tried so far ;)
Don't explain the end in the comments also :o So that everyone can have his own opinion about it. I didn't understand the system with the water also? Is there a specific way of putting the tiles together? I just placed them randomly and it worked so...
Congratulations for your amazing game anyway !
I can't play it, unreal crash at launch :( (The two files)
386 is my high score :p . I like the music and the sound effects, it gives a real arcade and retro vibe to the game. I don't know if the recoil is on purpose, but it makes the game really hard for some reason x) Maybe also having the generator heal up would have been nice. So that you are not doom after a certain time.
In any case, good job!
Really cool game, I like the humor. More challenge would have been good, because for now it finishes too soon. But very impressive considering the amount of time that you had!
Good concept. At first I didn't understand how to put my citizens in their working station. I had to check the instructions a second time.
The yellow numbers are hard to read on the characters, when they are in front of each other you also don't see them, it's hard to keep track on everyone. To not loose them, the best strategy is to just put them in the food because you can't keep track of everyone. (specially because of the hard to read numbers).
I like the mood of the game anyway ;) Good work!
Maaaan, it reminded me some minigames in Crash Bash on Playstation as a child https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBtEfTc3CBg The sounds are just perfect, it feels like a true fight. A true juicy game!
You could have done it an easy way and do it multiplayer (which would have been really fun btw), but you did a really good AI that feels alive and everything. Good job, one of the best games I played so far.
Yes! I definitely don't regret having added those little audio jokes in the last hours of the jam :p You guys seems to like it. I'll definitely keep that in mind for my next games, it was also really fun to record! Thank you for the feedbacks people, I want mooooore :D
@ikigaiseitetsu Yes! The multiplier is also what I like the most. That's why it's a shame I didn't explain it more clearly in the game. It's really about the dilemna! Glad you like it as I do :smiley:
@sagarpatel25700 Thanks a lot! Always cool to see that people find it good :grin:
@christian-koch The freezes happens only with the WebGL version. I'm really new at all that so I don't know where it comes from. You can still try the downloadable version if it's really not playable :p Thanks for your comment.
@chloravirgo and @zarkonnen I outted myself from audio because the sounds and music, except the voices, are not from me. Since it plays a lot in the mood of the game, I didn't want to take the room against people that made everything themselves.(And this is often very impressive)
And comparing my game with The Stanley Parable is a little bit too much :laughing: (I LOVE that game)
@camilo "I hate spiders"... oh no! my spider ~~propaganda~~ game is not working at changing mind as it should! :cry: Glad you liked the lines :p
@pkenney Thank you for your comment!
Congratulations, I think you are the first to beat the dev high-score (2000), well done! Now I want to beat that :p
I'm aware of that bug with the spraycan, I'm not sure if I'm allow to fix since the judging already started. I also don't have much time since I'm already working on a new game going out soon! (follow me on itch.io)
Thank you again for your very long and constructive comment :thumbsup:
Thank you all for the feedback. I have a pretty good idea of what works and what doesn't in my game now :p I also think the seamless gameplay loop is really important in my game. ( I tried first with a "game over" screen, it was not working. @richard-michael-smith That's funny, I had EXACTLY this idea. But didn't had time to implement it. The animation would have not been easy to do for that also.
This is one of the best story telling ever. Until the end, you really care about that little worm! I had more emotions in 5 minutes of gameplay than in 5 hours in The Last of Us!
The ants are really unfair also, put a checkpoint or something like that, for us that are not so good at controlling the worm! Anyway, nice entry! Loved the ending!
I'm not really aware of how difficult it is to make a game for the NES. But even without that in mind, the game is still fun to play and complete.
Really good sound design. I would have really appreciated some goals, points or objective in the game. Is there an end? Still, very relaxing game, good work on that.
You seems to have a lot of level, that's good! The tutorial was maybe not needed. When we play the game, we don't feel like we will see something new (like a new animal) because you are already showing everything on the tutorial. I know it's really hard to come out with those level designs, so it's pretty impressive in a so short amount of time. Nice entry :thumbsup:
The game is pretty good overall. I have some notes : There is some parts where it seems you HAVE to loose hearts to move on. Also some times, you respawn on an enemy, or in the last part, when climbing the ladder, the snowman throw you an inavoidable snowball :o
Still, congratulation for your game :grin:
The concept is really interesting, I hope next time you will be able finish it. I'm sure you will make some crazy good games in the future :p Good luck!
Most scariest sign ever! :p
The sound is really crucial for this kind of game. It's a shame you didn't had time (can you imagine a Zelda game without music?).
The world is interesting, I like the hero (what is it by the way?), and the dash has a really good feel. I would definitely look into your next games and see your progress in the game making universe.
That game has everything! It has square, it has disco...And also a way to cheat!!! Perfect for me :upside_down: I want a dev commentary for this game :p
Best score: 810 ( I always like when there is a score system!)
That's a really good first jam entry, the dash attack is my favorite. The level is nice, it makes you want to navigate in it, using all your skills at your disposal. I like the slight screenshakes also.
I would say the downside is (except the graphics but you know it ;P) the physic of the shooting, it would have been good to be able to shoot where your mouse his I believe. It makes it clunky to only be able to shoot in straight lines.
Good entry !
the riddle levels are the best, try to put more of these next time :)
The idea is really interesting. I like the tooltips, it does not brake the flow of the game. Why did you put a button (T) to switch power since you don't use them against the same cubes anyway? (I didn't get to level 4, so maybe it becomes relevant then)
The intro makes you want to know more. It sets up the mood of the game and yes! The music is really good. I didn't quite get the fight mechanic though, sometimes, the game just say that it's not my turn, but there's no indication that tell me if it's my turn or not?
The little Prince had a lot of work! How does he find the time to look at the sunset?
Good realization indeed, a shame that there is no audio :(
Still! Good Job! :grin:
+1 for the mana potion idea, it would really fix the "stay in the corner and shoot" problem. The game would win a lot of fun with that!
The dialogues are gold. The music is also really good, it's not too repetitive as we can often see in compo games.
I also didn't know what to do after I became a red ant. And I couldn't find a way to carry the food and the dirt. Hope you can fix it so that I can know what happen at the end :p
I don't know if I'm bad or if the game is really hard. But the second level is really impossible for me. I like the concept still. A smoother learning curve would give this game a huge improve .
The animations are pretty good. It was really hard for me to figure out which circles are which keys on the keyboard. It would have been great to have an option to display the keys on the circles. I like those type of game where you have to go fast, but I struggled a lot on this one x). Glad I'm not a kung-fu cat :p (you, in an other side, are really good as I can see)
The graphics and the concept are really basic, but it works! Wish the environment were more detailed, because it would really be perfect for an exploration game were you discover some new stuff on each planet :p The music is also very repetitive, no music and sound effects would have been good :p
Still, nice entry! It's also really addictive to power up your character! Thanks for your game :thumbsup:
Like said above, the level of polish is pretty impressive for a ludum dare game! And it's the kind of game that you can pass hours on, trying to master it. Far funnier than regular golf, good game :p
Wow, so you can do a roguelike in a gamejam :o
What I could say is that the game miss a lot of "juice", like other said, flashing enemies, more dynanism etc...
Always impressive to see what people can come up with! It's a lot of content for a so short period of time, good job!