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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 59 | Signal | Signal Surfer | jam | 595 | 3.33 | 3.29 | 3.96 | 3.79 | 2.64 | 3.01 | ||
| 2025 | 58 | Collector | Ghost Collector | jam | 655 | 3.10 | 3.13 | 2.95 | 3.50 | 3.50 | |||
| 2025 | 57 | Depths | Dwarven Depth Runner | jam | 707 | 3.13 | 2.86 | 2.60 | 3.58 | 3.34 | 3.48 | ||
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | Tiny Creature Breeder | jam | 552 | 3.54 | 3.64 | 3.25 | 3.81 | 2.75 | 2.81 | ||
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | 👥 | Spirit Stone's Summon | jam | 457 | 3.68 | 3.81 | 3.60 | 4.04 | 3.47 | ||
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | Multiplosphere | jam | 314 | 3.82 | 3.88 | 3.76 | 4.36 | 3.92 | |||
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | 👥 | RogueLike Delivers | jam | 788 | 3.38 | 3.24 | 3.08 | 3.82 | 3.13 | ||
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | Match-3: Crop Rotation | jam | 460 | 3.42 | 3.38 | 3.14 | 3.88 | 3.61 | |||
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | 👥 | World Warp | jam | 1127 | 2.86 | 2.58 | 3.01 | 3.62 | 2.75 | 3.22 | |
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | My Story | jam | 972 | 3.30 | 2.78 | 3.51 | 3.85 | 2.64 | 3.44 | 3.54 | |
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | Unstable Robot Soccer | jam | 368 | 3.79 | 3.86 | 3.79 | 3.81 | 3.69 | 3.57 | ||
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | 👥 | Deep Sea Mining | jam | 211 | 3.99 | 3.93 | 3.43 | 4.14 | 4.03 | 3.80 | |
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | WhileLoops | jam | 227 | 3.95 | 3.71 | 4.18 | 4.47 | 3.47 | 4.16 | 3.76 | |
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Keep The Spirit Stone Allive | jam | 1058 | 3.56 | 3.38 | 3.27 | 3.80 | 3.42 | |||
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | Genesis 1 (God Simulator Procedually Generated) | jam | 762 | 3.23 | 3.20 | 3.38 | 3.98 | 3.91 | 3.08 | ||
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | 👥 | Swords and Kreatures | jam | 922 | 3.02 | 2.87 | 3.32 | 3.15 | 2.28 | 2.81 |
To all the speedrunners out there: He runs faster while rotating. 5/5 Hair animation, should be a category
Really cool. I had a lot of fun. Only downside is that it is not always obvious which areas you are not supposed to be. EG in the first scene on the right of the level i drove up the ramp and then dropped into the tunnel only to never make it out again :D
Wow really good game, nice take on the theme and overall very polished. I beat it on the second try after realizing it is wise to not spend a lot of life since it keeps adding up then. Score was 605 :)
@wolar I like it the way it is, that you have to figure it out and dont get pushed too far in that direction. Otherwise it would have been too easy in my opinion, so great job :)
Nice Game. In my oppinion you should not be able to hit your opponents life points directly if there are still cards on the board, because only focussiong on your opponents life points always wins you the game (at least 5/5 times for me)
Overall I think your game is verry innovative and well done. Since we also developed a board/card game, I can see that you have a lot of the same issues. It is a bit overwhelming in the beginning with all the mechanics and you should focus on giving more feedback to every action that happens. I also think i encounterd a bug, because sometimes my handcards were randomly dissapearing, but I could not reproduce it reliably. Overall good job and well done especially for the limited time :)
@dreamingdice They were not in the discard pile, I looked for them :D also I had a card that discards other cards, but never played it. I think I tried to play some cards in the wrong phase, if you want to look into it, but as I said I could not reproduce it
The game mechanic is verry inovative and fitting for the theme. Hoever the game is too slow paced in my opinion. I killed everything a second after it entered the screen
Nice game I really enyojed playing :) I loved the Audio first game I rated 5star in that so far ;) A couple things, I personally did not like: 1.The walking speed felt verry slow imo. I'd have made it faster with maybe less of a timer. 2. The old people stopping you even if you made sure to keep quite a distance. I would have reduced the trigger distance of that. But those are personal choices more than anything
hi does this game have an end? i think i am far enough that i could survive forever now :D generally great mood nice gameplay and quite challanging in the start. As soon as you have a row of walls with canons it is very easy tho. And a small bug i noticed: When you try to upgrade something and the position of the upgrade button is on top of another canon it upgrades the other canon instead. Overall I really enjoyed the experience :)
Nice, only I would have apreciated if you could skip the first couple levels after the first time. This would have made it less tedious getting to the challanging part
This is Extremly beautiful and also a very nice take on the Theme. I had a lot of fun playing one round, but i think it is a bit too repetetive to play more. Overall very nice
Great game. Collected a few too many speedpotions at once and crossed half the map in a second. I'd have loved if it was a bit more challanging tho
The game is quite challanging, mostly in a fun way but if one of this superfast purple thigs spawns basically directly on top of you, that is not much fun :( Other than that I really like the way you guys used the theme :)
hey I can't play the web version, did you take it down by accident?
Hillarious, I had a blast playing this
@kovakomes We played this "game" while still sitting on ours in a short break. Literrally started laughing out loud. Gave us some motivation to finish our project :D As yu can see I instantly commented the game (first comment :D) Thank you a lot
Congtats on Those reaults :D
Stopped after i got eight times my money :) News are not working aparently. Fun Take on the Theme anyway
Retired age 53 with kids, nice. One of the best I've tried so far
Neat little game, I especially like that you have not dragged it out too long :) The different guns are cool, I maybe would have added ammo too the game so you cant just spam the best gun the whole time
Nice game I love it :) Can you ajust the scroll speed on the buy menu? I found it way too slow
Right now this is very hard to play with a lot of bugs like the prevois mentioned clipping issues and so on. I'd love to play a ploished version of this tho
@jestemstefan Thank you for the feedback I have published a board game before, but my first digital one. Plus I have a few unfinished gems on my harddrive. I entered this game jam to finally finish my first game xD. We are both computational physicists so we know our way arround code :)
@clementine yeah the balancing still has to be worked on, we plan on giving people the ability to build their own decks in the future. Also the graphics are of course a prototype
@jestemstefan Yeah thank you. This games was made from one of my board game prototypes. We also took the card design and the art from that prototype, while not spending too much thought on how it would look on a screen. We planned on implementing a zoom mechanic on a right click to make the stats more visible, but ran out of time in the end.
@jeremia Yeah the mixing up has to do with the way we implemented things. We noticed that but decided fixing it wpuld be too much of a hastle since a lot of stuff depended on that. Glad you enjoid the game, We did not do life regeneration because it would drag games longer than they have to be :)
@andreadbx Thank you for the feedback. The tutorial was done within the last 2 hours before the deadline. We will keep working on the Project and keep this in mind :)
@lemur Thank you for the kind words :)
@fluffy-kaeloky Nice to hear that you had fun :)
@fluffy-kaeloky @hestrateja @entropy I added a windows version where youcan set the resolution, hope that fixes stuff also if you have a FullHD monitor if you press the full screen button on the web gl it should work
@sakkia we spend the 72 hours doing nothing but eating sleeping and coding with few breaks to not go insane. In the beginning we had everithing slightly better looking with assets from the store, but we decided in the spirit of Ludum dare to do it ourself. There was really no time to work on the art much more. However for the next Ludum dare a friend who is quite talanted with arts has offered to join us, so look forward to that. Also as we said before we are planning to keep working on this, we plan on having the board in an xcom like stile with actual 3D models for creatures(from the unity asset store). So keep an eye out for that
@sockyman I think it is quite interessting that we get such mixed feedback about the complexity. Whith people saying they skip the tutorial and still figure it out and then some people just being outright confused. I think it is on us to make the game more accesible to everyone, with a huge emphesis on a better tutorial.
The sound and particle effects are a good point you are bringing up. Especially that the attacks have no feedback other than damage counters displaying. We actually had a sound libary ready loaded in the project. If there was one more day in the competition you would have had your sound effects for sure:)
@kromeboy Thank you for the Feedback. We had the mechanics of the game working only after two and a half days of nearly non stop coding, therefore we only had time for a bare bone UI, since we also worked on the ai after that. The problem with the information size is completly on us and something we will definetly learn from, since this was our first game ever :) We are currently working on a complete graphical overahaul of the game so keep an eye out for that after the rating is over:)
@tattomoosa Thank you a lot, No currently there is no way to recover health. Spells for that will come in future version tho :) We will keep your feedback in mind when designing the next version.
@veilastrum stay updated, we have news about a better executed version in the hopefullly not too far future :) We've been working a lot since LD is over
@littlew00d Thank you for playing and the suggestions. I am really Happy we chose something bigger, because now we started a project out of this. In the current state of the game we got rid of the counters completly, every creature now has its own 3D model and if you hover over them, all important stats will be shown. The world is in 3D and the camera can be controlled like in a RTS game. Also every piece of art has been replaced by some Assets, visually it looks amazong now. We will probably drop a Trailer in the next week or two. The gameplay is still completly the same for now, we will touch that once we got the new version in a playable state (Only some Bugfixing left for now).
@jestemstefan @clementine @hestrateja @entropy @jeremia @lemur @andreadbx @fluffy-kaeloky @belug23 @sockyman @sakkia @kromeboy @tattomoosa @kovakomes @veilastrum @littlew00d @soundgnome
We worked a lot since LD and can announce:
The first Pre Alpha Teaser for the Post LD version is out (Full 3D world now).
Subscribe to the youtube channal to stay updated.
Thanks to all of you for your genuine feedback!
If you are interessted in Alpha Testing message us at QuantumSpaceGames@gmail.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igjGjeeIIEE
Haha did you one of you do all the sound effects with a microphone? I love it
Nice Concept, reminds me of Deism. Controlls are verrsy clunky tho.
Zip up the whole folder containing the exe and upload it that way instead of just the .exe :)
rly.png Found an infinite live exploit. Jump over the first brickwall offscreen use two boxes and a key to unlock the chest and kill yourself on the spikes. Gives you 10 lifes costs you 9 xD. Farmed my lives to 40 as a proof of concept :) Great game!!
rly.png @generalanimal Well i found the jump over the brickwall on my second playthrough (I guess that is an intentional shortcut?). After I died on the last level the first time. Then i noticed in some other level that the chests reset when you die, so i put one and one toghether. I also got boxed in in a level once after the box had fallen of a switch and build 4 boxes on top of each other to get out again xD
@generalanimal Sure, sounds like fun :)
Hey please package the whole folder containing your .exe file into a zip and upload that. The .exe alone is not enough to play your game. Pls Tag me when you did that the game sounds interesting
I'd love to try it but the website is chinese and if i press the button that i think is the download I download some chinese software instead of the folder with your game. Please upload it to itch.io google drive or something else
I got a highscore of 304. I lost quite fast in the end after 280 or something my concentration really dropped :D
It requires a lot of Hand eye coordination:)
The art is beautiful. I love the moving clouds in the background, makes the whole game feel a lot more alive.
I especially like that there is always a way to catch the tomato without taking even if a rock is falling in the same position. You can always either grab the tomato before the rock fell or after due to the fast speed of the rocks. I don't know if that was designed deliberately, if yes that was very thoughtful.
@avon the only impossible scenario i can think of in that case is if two stones drop right after one another on top of the tomato. Because if one drops you are always able to catch the tomato either before or after. Genius accidental game design in that case :D
@avon nice your accidental game design skills are incredible
Kinda Funny, And perfect take on the theme :) Altough I want peanuts now
I had the same problem as @starblast the first time, but the room worked the second time, when i first went the other way. I really like the art style, gives the game a nice mood together with the sound. I'm not really a fan of the combat. It's innovative yes, but at first it feels clunky and when you got used to spamming h i t in the correct order it gets super easy.
Hmm I used the Android version and my game crashed shortly before I won. Frustrating... Generally I like the gameplay and the artstyle. One thing I think you can improve on is to make the choices tougher. Way too often the best choice is very clear.
@phyro it froze. I think i clicked a card, it still played the animations and did the gameplay stuff but then nothing happend anymore. No new cards etc. But i'm not 100% sure if it still played the animations
Haha I can't believe you and that other guy had the exact same Idea :D The movement is very clunky, but generally the game is quite easy. The Narration is top notch tho :D
Cool Idea. But it was kind of hard to figure out what to do. A few indicators would have helped a lot. Also I don't really like that type of artstyle. But since that is not your fault I won't grade you for graphics. But Solid game overall :)
Very cool, What I enjoyed most was smashing Minotaurs into each other. I would have liked it more with continuous movement instead of tile based, I think. But that's just a personal preference. The levels were nicely designed. And the art is lovely. Good Job overall
I played the web version first, had no idea what i was doing, went instantly for president and spend all money. So I wanted to restart but no matter how often i reloaded i got the black screen with sound that others have reported. So I got the windows version.
Overall fun concept that could use some polishing. I feel there should be some more feedback, like current polls on the outcome of the election. I went for major run many local ads had over 75% popularity and ended third, I have no idea what i should have done different...
Great game really awesome. I had to restrain myself to not watch the stream while I was working on my own submission. 102 Was my score :) My strategy: I gave the gronkas only Hp upgrades (got them offered every time) and hoped to get enough range damage on my Flubbies to negate that. At the peak I had like 20-30 nearly fully upfraged Flubbies :)
More of a Tech demo of a much bigger game to come :smile:
As so many say the general presentation of the game is beautiful, and the general mechanics work well. In my first try all my buildings spawned on the very left and I had basically no chance defending them (I thought that was bad level design until i found out on the second try that i was just super unlucky). I think either you should pre-place them or constrain the random placement so that it is not unfair.
I would love to see this develop in a direction with deck building aspects, similar to slay the spire.
Wow Hit and run +potions is the winning tactic all the way :D The levels were hard at first. But once you figured out how to inch forward to not trigger multiple enemies at once and using hit and run from there, made it nearly too easy. So balancing is needed, but that is expected from an LD game :) Many people had a similar interpretation of the theme as you guys, but I love how you introduced it in the game, makeing this extra intro scene really makes it stand out from those simmilar interpretations. Good job.
@yeomsley haha I like how you played the game the exact oposite way I did, read the comment right before yours. Great that there are multiple viuable strategies. I think it is a good thing your game was on the harder side, or at least you had to figure out a strategy. I enjoy a challenge
Seemingly no one online :( I found one battle in the beginning, but nothing more... You should include a single player in LD games.. Ships with randomly selected guns would have been enough The visuals look good, I like all the different gun options. Also does this have audio? I did not get any audio
Church Lootboxes :D I really like this game. So many paths, so many different lives. Really cool artstyle. Incredibly polished for a LD game. Not much to criticize really. I like how it captures the darkness of the middle ages while still staying humorous. Good job
I have no idea whats going on. Every card I place just gets attacked and dies, no difference in the cards whatsoever. If I place the cards alway away from the zombies I also never die, cause I can play more then they can destroy. So basically nothing ever really happens... Idk if this is supposed to be a funny take on the theme, that you can actually do nothing usefull at all. But then you have humor disabled. I really like the graphics and mood tho
@kothead I'm on chrome. I could not reproduce it right now just went all the way to win. But what i can say is that i used the run tactic on the first wave to build a huge base yesterday. And then it crashed on the second. So maybe that has to do with it.
I really think you should explain the rules. All the different mini design differences on the cards seem so cool and I'm sure they all have an effect. It would be really cool to know what they do. Maybe you could still start with the you know nothing, but once you unlock a certain design for the first time it tells you why you unlocked it and what it does.
This game has huge potential, and it is sad to see som much of it wasted.
Do you plan on developing this further? I'd like to see many more cards, maybe even some deck building (you have to chose 6) and a two player mode where you both start building a base in oposite corners :)
Hey man,
you did not create the grass, trees, ground textures flowers etc. These are all standard assets that come with gaia.
I don't think you were trying "fool" anyone, I just think you are unaware that you have to opt out of the graphic section if you did not create the assets yourself. Same goes probably for the audio.
Please still opt out, you still have the option on your game page. It is unfair to all the creators that spend their time creating assets. I myself used premade assets (some of which are the same as yours, that's how i know for sure), which is why I opted out of said categories.
Game feel and plays great. The graphics are really nice. For some reason I could not build mines, so I never got metal tho... It said building cant be placed here for every place and with every character i had...
@aayph cool:) will try another round later maybe :) Another thing: I often forget to move people that i can still move. I know you already have the indicator but maybe do it similar to civ where it asks you for every still active unit i before you can end your turn. Maybe I'm also just too stupid :D
@aayph Just played another round understanding metal now. Realy cool. It's tough but winnable :)
Yeah I won :) Great audio and Mood but I don't really see the connection to the theme
This game misses an end goal. I just kept creating more and more rockets hoping for something to happen...
The graphics were cute and the audio fits very well.
BIG MONEY I GOT BIG MONEY NICE
Very cool once you get your initial few workers it is ok. But geting the first workers is hard
Felt like CS:GO surf on steroids. It was quite fun but also buggy, most of them were gone after jumping pr moving, sometimes I had to die and once i had to restart the game. (Some of many examples: i once jumped and never stopped jumping until everything disappeared below me, the audio never started playing the first time,i got stuck on some slopes and could move only super slow).
The movement needs some fine tuning and I would suggest an option for mouse sensitivity, but overall it feels very cool to surf those doors.
The checkpoints were also placed very fair. If I died due to a bug or my own stupidity I would never loose too much. Also the bossfight was much fun.
Would love some multiplayer shooter action with this movement, but I know how hard that is to implement.
Kind of addicting :D I love the general gameplay loop, but with the rng it is sometimes impossible to win. I enjoyed the asthetics, but i found the audio quite annoying
I gave up early. You'll see my message ;)
Very cool entry. Glad you got the bugs figured out. The graphics are really cool and the Audio is amazing. One thing I would change is to give the player a maximum ammount of resources they can carry from island to island, because I was able to delay the food collection and could farm a lot of the other resources before taking of. I managed to leave the first Island with nearly 500 wood and 27 extra workers (that don't even consume food anymore on the new Island) Also you can't die from food on the island it just goes negative. Generally the gameplay is hardly challanging at all. So really solid basis, but the gameplay needs some polish.
Wow very cute graphics and the best audio I've seen up to this point. Gameplay Idea was cool, but getting repetitive after a little while. Good job overall
The game is really cool. I love the concept the athmosphere the artstyle and the audio. But for me it also was a little frustrating. I always die due to starvation. I choose all the options for starvation not to come up, but then it comes up as the next event anyway. I don't know if there is always a chance of starvation apearing and I'm just very unlucky or if it's bugged. I also try to collect food and enlightment to be able to beat starvation but then it comes up two or three times and I'm out of resources :(
As a Chess player I love it. But it is very easy to win every time (If the ai does not do a stupid perpetual) i'd like to see a challange mode where you get less pieces or something
@baturinsky I played a couple of years of club chess as a child, but I am not extremly strong 1300 on lichess if that tells you something.
I found the Human Wavemode the easiest out of the 3.
I guess your AI is based on Tree search but does not consider the possibilities of placing extra pieces. Am I correct? Did you write your own AI or did you use one of the open source libaries?
One of the things that makes it so easy is that the AI always brings the queen into play very early, which would make sense if your oponent had only very few pieces remaining. But like this you can improve your position with a tempo on the queen nearly every move. This makes it very easy. Also every time your AI desides to attack a piece you can place your piece to attack a second piece and the opponent can't defend both threats at once.
For the human wavemode you just keep placing pawns with a tempo on your opponents pieces untill you have an unbreakable wall. This would all be not possible if the opponent opened a lot more reserved, starting with a forward pawn structure for himself.
Still even with a better ai that takes the placing into account white should be inherently better, since he can open however he wants and the placing basically gives you extra moves. Which is why i suggested removing some of whites pieces as compensation :)
Using only the first two rows is a lot more challenging but mostly frustrating since your ai basically tries to bring the king into the center, which is again a strategy for when you have few pieces left but very stupid for this game. I managed to win that as well once I convinced the ai to bring the king to safety.
Only second row is not an option because it gets full.
btw @kekkodude this is called a draw by 3fold repetition, not a stalemate. A stalemate is a draw because one side has no legal moves but is also not in checkmate
@baturinsky I don't think that is possible. Placing a queen without attacking any piece for example is nearly impossible. What I would do is make a disadvantage slider in random mode, measured in pawn value. if you set it to 0 you'll get all the pieces in the end. If you set it to 1 it will give you 1 less pawn. If you set it to 3 it will give you either 3 less pawn or 1 less bishop or knight etc.
@guitarbro did you kill the chicken and pigs with the staff to then resurect them?
I liked the voxel style graphics, they are very well executed. But I don't really like the background grass texture. I think you could have put a bit more work into that, but overall its very good looking.
The general game play mechanics are working very well and as many others I would like to see a bigger version of this.
Have you considered a two player vs and coop mode for the future? I'd be the first to buy a Post LD version of this game with multiplayer :)
Overall well done :)
song 1:722
song 2:630
and i got to tired to try song 3 Generally it is very minimalistic, which is not necessarily bad, but that makes it very repetetive in this case.
Very nice. On top of the suggestions of @wolfrug I suggest you decouple the respawn placement from the learn new mechanics placement. So you can spread them more evenly
Very Cool and creative interpretation of the Theme. Good Job. I did not like the rng when the corners where reshuffled every shot. I would have had a highscore of 3 but the last shot was impossible because the corner got removed. so I got a 4 instead... Better make them fixed once they appear.
Nice Idea, I went pen and paper all the way after I failed the first time due to errors. Automated it got it to some subfraction of a second and saw the money coming in. Clicker games are kind of addictive, although this one needs some poish and balancing :)
Increadible game, One of my favourites so far.
I tried myself on a card game last time, made it kinda too complicated. You kept it simple for such a short time. Good Job on that. The graphics are better than mine last year but still nothing award winning :D The audio was great. I got a clean 3:0 victory :sunglasses:
I kept trading with the old lady while the bratty kid always traded with the familliar plumber xD
Very cool Idea and great interpretation of the theme. I suggested quite a few new elements. I hope some people can find them :) Find the Burned Steak!
@spiced-pigeon I hope you did not cheat as the developer ;)
@spiced-pigeon I'll believe you this time, but I'll keep an eye out for suspicious element finding :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
@f1krazy I had similar problems a few day ago (on other games), they vanished after I restarted the computer. This runs fine on chrome for me :)
Nice game. It would be nice to know how the different ehhm goods influence the attention level and how much reducing attention generation actually helps.
HTML5 Crashes all the time. So I went to the Windows Build. I set it to normal played for over half an hour and got a score of 150 million than it crashed... i wanted that highscore :( it would have been 50x the previous one. I got the "No way" highscore afterwards instead
edit: if anyone beats my no way highscore tag me I want it back
Yes another clicker game! I don't know how many I have seen this LD. I mus admit that I had that Idea as well, because it's a straight forward interpretation of the theme. But I decided for something else. But there should really be some sort of auto click. clicking for a total of 350 times for the wallpaper in the end is just not fun anymore... I liked the Audio :)
Cool short game. The art is quite nice. I would have loved some indicators which direction the closest food piece ist. Because searching for them and not knowing the direction is more frustrating than fun. Overall good job:)
Very moody I liked that. But it was soo short... Would love to play a post LD longer version
I like the game design. The Artstyle is alo really nicely done. Could have used some anti aliasing too make it look even nicer. I had a lot of problems with the controlls tho. I had to press tab and controll at least 20 times before the merge or split happened...
Ok this has potential, but as it is right now there are some issues. 1. the controls feel clunky. I would either increase the dropdown speed or add a swim down function to the "s" key. 2. the hitboxes of the junk are off. I often die while the junk is clearly still away from the turtle. Also why do I die if a straw hits the back of my shell? Turtle shells are hard. At least for some of the items i would not count hits to the shell as kills. 3. RNG sometimes gives you impossible configurations where there is a hook on top and fishes and Junk create an inpenetrable wall. Rework the placement of the Junk to make sure such configurations don't happen. 4. The Star ammo has no skill attatched to is as it is. Since there is a timer on it and not an ammount you just spam shoot as soon as you get it. I would not limit it by time but by uses.
Other than that adorable art and nice game.
Really cool Idea. I have two sugggestions. 1. Endless mode: your score is counted in pawns (pawn1 bishop/knight3 rook5 queen9) so you can go for a highscore. 2. Hard mode: you loose if you make an illegal chess move. You'd have to find a way to deal with the queen tho. like making her move on her own next to you sometimes, or having hardmode only for endless and simply accept that you can never capture the queen. (In that case hard mode might actually be decent training for ultra bullet chess)
Also please play and rate some games yourself. This comunity relies on everyone doing their part :)
Haha of course I did not read the instructions. Then I saw i win if I build the statue. So I build like 20 houses farmed up to level 15 super quick and won. Great game, nice aesthetics. But the audio was a bit annoying.
Haha what a cute little game. really awesome artstyle. I can offer you to write a basic AI for your game if you want to, so people can play single player. :)
Well designed Puzzle game, very nice how you introduced the mechanics self explanatory step by step. One suggestion: make the cubes in the UI rotate with the view. It is quite confusing which block points into which direction. I would have loved a few more challenging levels. I loved the graphics, very clean and nice.
Wow what a fun game, good job :) The Ai could be a bit improved and I think you could place some obstacles to make shooting less overpowered. But I enjoyed the game as it is already
For me it accepts the space input for jumping only like 1 out of 100 times pressing it. I checked if something is wrong with my spacebar, but it's still working perfectly fine... I could not really play like that.. so If you find a fix to this please tag me
Haha great little game. How do you even come up with that? :D
Wow very innovative, takes a lot of hand eye coordination to do well.
I love the mood and the artstyle good job on that. I also quite like the general gameplay Idea, but this part needs a lot of polish 1. Minions Bosses and even the character sometimes glitch through walls etc. 2. It gets super laggy with many minions (I guess write one script to controll all minions and not a script for each minion in unity could help here). 3. The RNG in this game is terrible. Sometimes there is no reachable portal room. (once I only had the three neighbouring rooms with none of them having furtner connections). Sometimes every neighbouring room spamms enemies while you have not a single minion. Sometimes you get like 10 minions in the beginning and the enemies are not even a challange at all.
You really have to rewrite that random generation algorithm. Place only easy rooms right next to the player where he can find like 1-2 minions and 0-1 enemies. an make the rooms harder as you get further away from the start. also only generate rooms which have further connections until you have generated the portal room.
This game has a lot of potential and I would like to hear about an update if if you adressed the points I mentioned.
Computational Physicist here. And for that I have to subtract points for scientific inaccuracy :D
Just kidding. But the antiverse ending "you created something totally different". Actually you would not be able to tell that it is different as antimatter behaves exactly like normal matter :D
I got the Universe antdthe Antiverse and the boring ending. I also once got a big amount of matter on the right side of the screen and a big amount of antimatter on the left. Unfortunately that also counted as boring even though it was the biggest amount of total mass i managed to contain.
All in all a funny shortlived concept. That was fun to play
Congratulations on finishing a game for the game Jam. Keep making games and watch tutorials to improve! Maybe find someone to work with together. Your Ideas are good and with a bit more experience i am sure you could create some really good games :)
Wow literally the only complaint I have is that it was so short. Which I cant blame you for since this was a game Jam. I want more!
I love the way you introduced the mechanics, it was very intuitive, also the movement felt incredibly polished. Also also you included an Indicator of where to go! I don't know how often I have commented under similar games that something like that makes a game a lot less tideous.
The graphics are incredibly clean and nice, which is extra impressive for such a short time and the audio was very good as well. I don't know what to say other than I hope you win this ludum dare! (I haven't seen all submissions of course but this one is the best by a landslide!) 5/5 on everything except humor, you should have opted out of that.
@xenoxygene Well it's 5/5 on everything now :laughing: I whish everyone on your team all the luck in the world for your game making careers, you really have the talent :)
Hmm The game is very short and easy. I just spammed the fire ball and mana potions. The gerneral concept works good, but the game needs balancing for sure.
Wow quite a big team you have there. And it shows. The graphics are amazing. The controlls are all over the place though, so it is hard to play. This game needs a post LD version with fixed controls
@helen @bionicsonic @bredera Thank you for all the kind words Please share some screenshots I'd love to see all your worlds :D
@glowt I worked solo this time, so what I could do was limited. Therefore, generating the world was the priority. If I had more time I would have added some interactions with the world :)
@huskitch of course it is
@siarhei-pilat Isn't every game an 'interactive experience’ :D But I know what you mean. Going for high points in humor and theme this time ;)
@zunye you know it ;)
@addnone Well no one forced you to pick the will smith options ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@manomeu It might get unresponsive, in that case you just have to wait a bit longer, but it should work eventually
@manomeu good to hear. Glad that you enjoyed my little game :D
@asterisk That was actually my main concern. I asked some people for feedback before the deadline and they said that actually having a biblical font fits the game so well that its worth the tradeoff in readability. So I left it in, but thank you for the feedback :)
@nachtwitch Had to make sure will smith looks as great as possible;)
@iak I'm not really active on meme sites. But I give you the permission to do so if you want. Just link the post here :)
@xenoxygene @morilia haha you let me win humor, I let you win all other categories, deal? :D
@flying-dog-fish I feel as a physicist I should have come up with the matter anti matter idea instead of god 😂😂
Got something with 9000. As others said the hitboxes are a bit too unforgiving. And sometimes collecting a carpart counted as a hit and did not give me a part...
Me: OK i got only seats left. At least I can pick up everything except seats now.
Game: Do you want some Front seats.
Me: no
Game: Do you want some Back seats.
Me: ahhhhhh
Those tight squeezes feel so good now after the update. The indicators also make it soo much better. But I'll leave my rating as it was for the LD release version as I think that is the only fair way :) But good job on those updates
@f1krazy I can confirm you do not win when you assemble the whole car :(
@t-bo I believe the Highscore counter is glitched atm. In your first webgl version i scored 9000 with no problems. I last a lot longer on the current versions and rarely get over 500 (while lasting a lot longer than in the release version). Then sometimes I get 300 before i saw the first obstacle. I tested the windows versions (all 3 of them) and the highscore stays at 1 the whole time. Once it got to 4 but that was it.
Having the webgl version minimized while waving the mouse across the screen (sometimes) makes the score go similar to the initial version, but that can't really be the solution.
So somhow the score is not added consitently. Moving the score counter into the fixedupdate method in unity could solve the problem. otherwise you could try multipying the updated score with time.deltaTime if you use the regular update or define a delta time yourself between when the score updated the last time.
Good luck bughunting ;)
I'm soo hyped, I figured out why my highscore was working properly yesterday, it was because I played on microsoft edge instead of google chrome. So I used edge again and oblitarated the highscore boooooom (you still should figure out why chrome and windows highscores don't work) Desktop Screenshot 2019.10.13 - 19.53.57.16.png
And broke it again :muscle:
The game got really laggy from 55-60k onwards and the car started driving in between lanes.. Desktop Screenshot 2019.10.13 - 20.23.05.50.png
@itsdanidre It's my title now and I challange you to take it back again ;)
@itsdanidre Desktop Screenshot 2019.10.15 - 00.16.41.85.png Just got a new one :) @t-bo I'll also upload a video of the record on YT where you will be able to see how the car starts driving in between lanes and the games starts lagging after ~60K points. But my upload speed is not great so uploading a 15 min video will take ~ an hour. I really love your game, otherwise I would not have wasted another hour right now trying to break my own record :) I could also upload a video with the broken highscores on chrome and windows if that helps you
Here is my Highscore run video https://youtu.be/Kx54p1vzuZc
edit: quality at 360p right now, but should improve once youtube is done processing
@t-bo Yes you can share the video of course :) I don't know if I'll find time today to make a video of that problem but I'll leave one here as soon as I can :)
Here is the video with the bugged highscore on chrome: https://youtu.be/B4cF3fpAk-s
You are probably the more experienced game developer so ignore this advise if you don't think it helps you:
I think the lagg issues at around 60k are due to unity's garbage collector, since they are micro laggs that come up every few seconds. You could try to not instantiate and destroy your gameobjects, but set them active and inactive and reset their positions. The driving inbetween lanes is probably due to small errors for every lane switch. Instead of adding to the position, you could try to find a way to set the position every time.
@t-bo The new update felt very neat. Generally it felt a bit easier. Chrome version and the lags arround 60k are fixed, good job, but the car drifting to the right is not. from~100k on, it drifted a full lane to the right so that I could avoid all obstacles by dring right of the rightmost lane (see video). I can basically farm endless highscore. So Highscores are useless over 100k. I recorded 200k points for the lols https://youtu.be/XoyOmHDzjJM Desktop Screenshot 2019.10.18 - 00.28.25.13.png
@t-bo did you figure out the drifting to the right problem? Btw it also happens if you do not change lanes at all, so the swapping lanes is not the issue of that bug.
Cute graphics and nice gameplay. There are a few things I would adjust:
1. When you try to change the tree type while you are in a position where you can plant, you will plant the currently selected tree before switching over. I would suggest you check if one of the tree buttons is pressed and if so don't plant the tree. Alternatively only plant trees when the mouse is above the groundplane. 2. New patches of grass grow too slow. Even with multiple trees of live you can not replant fast enough against the bulldozers. I was accumalating a lot of water but had no way of spending it fast enough against the bulldozers Overall a very good entry, well done
The Jump button only worked for me one out of 3 times or somtething, which made it incredibly frustrating. Since I could not really experience the game I wont rate you on overall and fun. The Interpretation of the theme was very unique, I quite liked it. Also overall the visuals and audio was nice
Awsome artsyle and atmosphere. The game mechanics work really good as well. With a bit of a story and some more mechanics I can see this beeing a great game outside the LD bubble as well. Good job
really nice game. the concept is great. I had a lot of fun playing. That said there were some frustrating things. 1. it was really hard to see who is higher so often i rammed into some triangle thinking i was on top only to be confused about why i lost health. 2. you just brought one opponent down to very little health and there spawns a new opponent right next to him stealing your kill.
My suggestions are: 1.give some indicator around enemies that are above and below you, like a green and red outline. 2.give the kill to the one who did the most damage. Otherwise good job
Hmm as others said the visuals were stunning, exept for the very white background. The platforming felt a bit unresponsive, i would have liked some higher movement and fall speed.
The first time I lost my hat I actually respawed as just a hat and thought I had to find the wizzard, but i think it was only a visual bug :D Would be a cool game mechanic tho.
Maybe you could also try to find a complimenting team for the next jam, so you can work to your strenghts :)
Was very glitchy for me overall. I even ended out of bounce once (see screnshot). In the room on the screenshot I tried to roll into the corner to get the enemies into the pit and rolled right through it. The puzzles were short and easy to understand. The graphics were a bit too simplistic for my taste. but you opted out of that anyway. Overall solid game. Ld45 - Swordmaster Windows Build Screenshot 2019.10.12 - 19.21.17.61.png
I liked the Idea. But as others said it is not really clear what to do. I also have to press each button roughly 10 times before the game accepts the input. I plantet two trees then ran out of oxygen. The graphics are very simplistic, but I like the audio it is very fitting.
Nice Reminded me of Orcs Must Die with the mix of tower defence and shooter. Amazing that you managed to do all those models, animations and gameplay wihtin 48 hours. The controlls felt a bit clunky, but that is understandable considering the time constraints and the amount of mechanics you implemented within that time. Good Job :)
First of all, congratulations to your first LD entry. If you managed to finish a game in that short of a time, you have already archived a lot in my oppinion. The art is programmer art as it goes, but it works. Overall the game was quite well designed with a nice little story that I enjoyed. Now to some more constructive feedback I feel the maze in the garden was pointless, since it was more of a twisted path, which means the only thing it did was making the walk longer and walking in a game is not som much fun most of the time. I would suggest either making it an actual maze with some wrong turns or making the path to the key straight. I found that the hitboxes for the switches on the barrels where a bit too large, I often accedentaly hit two switches at the same time. And finally other than @scott-redrup I don't think the map was too big, I feel the view should have been zoomed out a little more, to figure out better where you are going.
I liked the logic puzzles. The comnbat was very simple and not challenging, but I don't think it was supposed to be. So all in all a nice short game :)
I think i upgraded attackspeed 4 times and movement speed twice to win with 1hp :D The game feels really cool reminds me of some old flash games I used to play as a kid (ON that note why no webgl? :( ). Unfortunately it is very short. The graphics are nice and the audio is spot on.
Cool idea, but I'd like to have an indicator where the enemies are. Searching the map is not much fun at all
I really liked how responsive the controlls felt. Also the interpretation of the theme is quite unique. The general gameplay works. But i found it tedious to look for the last energy ball or activator thing when I missed one. I would sugest adding some extra so you don't have to look so much in the end. Other than that I realyy enjoyed playing. Good Job :)
Edit. I also really liked the simplistic art. Way to turn time constaints into a strength of the game ;)
Puh i got so many fish that the waves nearly never reached the screen so i nearly never got new sand. But I found out that i could collect sand from outside the actual game window on the left. Then I won quite easily. Solid simple game
basic attacks are rock paper scissor lizard spock and advanced are normal rock paper scissor? Cool :) quite a funny game you made there :)
Idea is pretty cool. But you need to find a way to make use of the jumping mechanic, right now it is pretty useless and just spamming left mouse click wins every time.
Edit: you also seem to be new here, so first of all congratulations on your first entry. If you want more people to play your game, you have to play other people's games. The more games you play the higher up your game will be shown on the games page ;)
Really cool game :) Movement felt a bit clunky, I would prefer a higher rotation speed. There is a way to farm infinite points by placing yourself infront of one of the big robots and killing every small one it spawns after you clear the rest of the wave. Graphics audio and gerneral gameplay are top notch tho. The theme was not really there but that's a fair tradeoff for such a good game :)
@geoff-nagy If I see a possibility for an exploit I go for it always ;)
Nice Idea, but very shallow gameplay. Very easy in the beginning you refill your lives instantly (so the start with one is kind of useless). It stay easy till like 1:25 when it gets super hard and you lose in the next 15 seconds.
Nice I also made a god created the world game :P
Great fighting mechanics. I dod not find it hard to understand at all. In the end is there no win screen? I just got fight after fight after fight in the end. I felt I should have gotten a win screen once I could found my dojo. There are some balance issues, the mages do like nothing and the warriors are overpowerd with insane damage and HP. I also had some bugs where members from my party got deleted over and over again. I won and after I won I had one less character in my party. So I had to do the same fight again and again. after like 3 times i could finally add a new member. I loved the graphics. That was adorable. Such great work for so few days Good Job.
Saw your Blogpost.
Is it worth a replay? What bugs did you fix exactly I can't find no changelog
Interesting mechanic. Would be awesome with twin stick contoller support. Graphics are ok for a solo project. The weaopn building is not instantly intuitive, I would love a short section where you can try out all the types in the beginning, but you probably did not have time for that.
Haha Lol randomly mapped controlls. That was crazy. I liked the neon effects :D
Really cool Game. @mimusangel I thought exactly the same. As so many here I loved the atmosphere with the music and the audio. If the controls felt a bit more smooth this would have been my favourite so far. Still one of the best
Nice short platformer with precice jumps. It was very short even for a LD game, but I prefer that when the game and especially the movement mechanics are polished like that. I found the path was pretty obvious, but maybe I have just played too many similar games. (Your missdirections were not working on me muhaha).
Your game works very well. I guess the biggest complaint I have is that it feels just like every other platformer. There is nothing new or special about it.
Since this was your first LD i think you learned quite a lot and the next time you can make more levels and try some more innovative mechanics :)
@jakemchugh1 Same problem as everyone here. Won't start... I hope you find a solution. Pls Tag me if you do this looks really promising
@jakemchugh1 still does not work... I'm on windows and it just opens some sort of window and instantly closes again
@jakemchugh1 it works now, thanks for fixing it. Really cool game you made there. I think the start is a bit slow, nut otherwise good job:)
Will smith was here
Hi will smith is Back. This time some actual feed back.
Gameplay was a bit confusing but fun nontheless. I loved the Audio and 3D models.
@birdybirdkirby If you want to, I can integrate Accorgians and Techno-Spiders into the God simulator Genesis 1, so they can roam the fields of will smith :D
Really cool interpretation of the theme. Why do the speechbubbles have hitboxes? W and A are not working so I had to maneuver with the arrow keys. I also would have liked some more hints. The trial and error was a bit frustrating. But I love the noises the characters make and also the art is lovely :)
Wow these aliens on the planets are worse at managing their resources than us humans :D They always waste everything. Can't you teach them sustainability lol :D
Had Fun Playing this for a while. I managed to keep two planets alive for a long time then I got bored. Some end to the game would be cool
I wanted to try to dance with boobbleheads!
@Ausstein no you didn't you were only guilt tripped by the monologue of @jk5000
Are you sure? Dancing with bobbleheads seemed so much fun
@Ausstein if you think so you should join @jk5000 at the Booblehead therapist
Why because I have a conversation with myself?
@Ausstein NO! because I you pretend to like Bobbleheads
I can proof that I like Bobbleheads!!
@Ausstein how do you want to prove that?
I made a Video keeping the Boobbleheads alive for 450s!
https://youtu.be/d8EeRbzOHP8
@Ausstein Ok go to the Bobblehead therapist right now!
Here is my Playthrough of the Game
https://youtu.be/7bcYTSzSVRk
I really liked it a lot, thanks for the sugesstion!
I don't know if this was on purpose for the old school feel, but the movement felt really slow and unresponsive. Other than that I liked the game a lot. Three levels with one boss fight in only three days, good job you guys. Only it was a bit easy for my feel.
Unfortunately the fixed version is even more buggy than the original. The snake is somewhat influenced by the input but then also moves weirdly in some strange direction sometimes and usually in the opposite direction of what I am pressing. The graphics however are lovely and the sounds are awesome!
penguin_Space_Program.png I found the gameplay slightly dull so I went to go for a penguin Space program instead. I really like the art, it is very well done. Unfortunately the animations stopped working after a while. Overall a cute little entry
I instantly knew this was inspired by the BBC Earth Documentation when I saw the picture.
This game needs one thing: David Attenborough Comentary.
"A near miracoulus Escape" once you get to the water.
Or the opening statement "The snakes eyes aren't really good, so if the hatchling stays still it might avoid detection" could be the tutorial for this game.
I don't know if you were worried about coppyright, but I think that would have fallen under fair use. (I'm no lawyer tho)
The gameplay was quite cool, but short. And I would have loved if you included some gameplay from the "escape the snake coiling" part.
Usually people tend to make very shallow but well polished games during the game jams. This is quite a deep game with lots of mechanics for such a short time, but on the downside it is missing some polish (This is a tradeoff, I don't nescessarily see this as a bad thing).
I myself usually do more cool mechanics for the cost of polish.
Playing something slightly more complex was a welcoming change. I hat quite some fun trying all the different characters. Right now the gold is useless, after the first wave I had enough gold to unlock everything, so the way to unlock was just by doing the challenges.
Here are some quality of life improvements i would suggest:
- Figuring out what an ability does right now is pretty much learning by doing maybe have the range indicatros already lit up when you hover over the ability and maybe add a short description of the abilities in the party tab?
- Figuring our what the enemies do is even more difficult. Maybe have a little enemy wiki even just in text form in the game description. I just sometimes suddenly see poison and then one of my characters dies and I don'T even know which enemy did it.
-Drag and drop for placing would be nice and much more intuitive (But if you do a lot of mechanics you usually don't have time for stuff like that) Also there are a few bugs. E.g. Once some poison effects were already on the board when it loaded.
Overall A great game with a lot of potential for Post LD versions
Sometimes enemies get stuck in the bottom right corner. I waited for an eternety for a parasite to randomly walk to the left, but he never did. I was a bit stubborn about this and in the end still had to abbort.
Overall I liked your game, but a lot of Optimizetions and Player Feedback needs to be done.
I suggest next time You playtest some more with friends and family because it is such a shame. Mechanically this could have been one of the best games without those annoyances.
Here is my Playthrough min 13 until min 37 is just me waiting for the parasites to walk to the left
https://youtu.be/KXAVtxfKGbs
Edit: Unfortunately the Microphone was not picked up in the Video so here are the main points I made during the Video:
1. Between 13 min and 37 min I started talking about random stuff like the meaning of life while waiting the parasite to move left. I also played my own game a little.
2. I liked how it simulated the actual types of virus, bacteria etc.
3. I hated the waiting at the end of stages when only a few cells and or parasites were left. I would have loved a fast forward button or a timer on enemies that they die after they have not interacted a certain time
This is too much for my Brain at 5 am :D
@miklo you completeky missed the best part of the game then. Please play it again and get the 600 coin item it's a must, will make you reevaluate the game ;)
@ohfiddlediddle I can see how this can be a problem, maybe consider giving the players a few more coins so they can experiece the 600 coin upgrade, without waiting.
The QR code was cute :)
But I was promised hot singles in my area and couldn't find any :(
5/5 on Humor
Haha the CEO videos are a nice little extra :D I was wondering why it said play video instead of start game :D
@frostbyte4k go and rate some other games and leave them some feedback. This will cause your game to be shown on the front page so you will get more ratings!
really neat, The shooter gameplay felt quite good. If I had to be picky about something I would say the movement felt a bit slow and unresponsive, but that is cherry picking.
I loved the cinematics and how the opponents actually moved like the chess pieces. Overall it felt verry good to play!
Very relaxing experience. I really liked the artstyle and the audio. THey also fit very well together.
The gameplay was a bit repetetive tho.
Overall a beautiful entry
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Hilarious game with a not so Hilarious background, at least I saved the virtual ones :) Really polished, you even thought about a sensitivity slider, that was perfekt. Also the audio and Graohics were really nice
Incredible game, I think this is my favorite so far.
I am happy that I found this before the jam is over.
Took me three tries to win (or loose? :D).
Incredible graphics sound and suprisingly complex for a jam game but still quite polished.
The only thing I do not agree with is the "zoom in" on the upgrade menus. I want to still see if I am getting attacked while I upgrade stuff. But if I zoom out the windows are too small
Here is my Playthrough
https://youtu.be/pzHqPOPVcPA
I got the world record :)
I really loved this entry one of the best so far!
I only had two minor points:
1. the spawn RNG makes it so you can get really lucky or really screwed
2. the game rewards fast clicking. you should limit the fire rate to what you get when you hold down left mouse
@convg got it back :)
Video coming soon
Btw the run took forever, so this was my last attempt, if you steal it back it is yours forever
@extrone yes :D The video processing on youtube is taking forever, but I'll post it here once it's finished :D
Edit: btw I think anyone will be able to get such highscores after watching my video. In the end I just decided to stop. If There was a score counter I would have completed 1000 for sure tho :D
@Convg Could not agree more ! This needs to be continued! Also there are many directions this could go! Story mode, multiplayer mode, or just A highscore game with more maps and maybe some powerups and enemies :D I'd be exited about the future of this if it gets continued!
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I managed to nearly off screen my fish so he was out of the way of all predators and I could farm infinite High score.
Playing this normally however is quite challenging. This also is programmer art at its best!
One thing: I would have disabled collisions on the food pallets. If they get stuck on a predator your fish will steer right into the predator, which is not much fun.
@themadprogramer After I finished in the last 1% for graphics on my first entry I went for jam entries, used assets and opted out of graphics ever since :D so good job for sticking to it :)
Cool Idea very simillar to this: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/a-tale-of-rebirthism At first I tried hard but died with 4 colonies. Then I switched to easy and won :D
https://youtu.be/WLiXZ3zYOVo
Here is my Playthrough. My microphone volume is a little low.
@radow Yeah the map was just a sugestion. But I do feel that it is really hard to remember what you have and have not explored especially since everything looked quite similar. Maybe instead of a Map overlay, you could have a paper map with the layout on a pillar or Wooden Board near the Spawn. But in the end this is your descision!
A more elaborate fix would be to differentiate the different parts a little bit more so you can remember more easily where you have been.
Wow This looks amazing! Congratulations on the graphics score!
Congratulations Man!
@lcstark Really cool game I liked it a lot especially for a compo game.
As i have gathered from your other replies, you are not intending to do a post-LD version which is a shame. But I will therefore focus my review on what could have been done on a compo timescale.
The graphics are fine and get the job done, but they are not what this game is about. The Audio is suprisingly good since you said you have no experience with that!
The mechanics are quite complex and polished at the same time for a compo game and this is what makes this game stand out.
Here are a few Ideas of what I might have done:
I would have added more feedback in general: for hits, a little screen shake a small explosion, for picking up missing parts a little screen glow or some sparkle effects etc.
I would have added bouncing projectiles, this game needs bouncing projectiles :D
I would have added some difficulty settings because right now it was very easy.
Also a fullscreen option, (Usually just setting itch.Io to "click to launch fullscreen" does this automatically unless you are doing something with fixed pixel sizes, since this is only a modification to the hosting and not the game you could even try this now)
The enemy AI is fine for the timeframe.
Overall Well done
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Yeah Bouncing bullets!!! I will try this later today :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqgxMWl--so
Unfortunately it did not record my commentary
I could not figure out how to cook the fish. I tried clicking on the fire i tried clicking on the pot but nothing ever happened :(
I liked the graphics and the audio. However, the audio could have profited from a bit more variety, the constant wind sound got annoying after a while. For the graphics only the sidewards animations were a bit wonky.
I think Diagonal movement is faster than straight line movement. You will see me moving diagonally towards the end.
I did not like the alt click interactions and would have prefered a more classical press e to interact
@preda my comment really sounded a bit harsh, overall I liked the game which would have been more apparent if I had recorded the audio :D . I just wrote down more of the things that you could improve on :)
The Graphics are really well done and the overall gameplay also works very well. But I really can't find where it says that you have to cook fish on the main fire. That also does not make much sense in my opinion. Maybe do an in game tutorial next time, it is nearly alway worth investing some time
But as I Said overall I quite liked it!
Yeah many 5 stars from me as Well what a good job. When I died on wave 16 it told me I had just spend over half an hour on this and I did't even notice. That basically says everything. Charming art addictive gameplay and good audio. Well done
This was a lot of fun! The esc key was not the best choice as it is the same key for escaping the full screen in chrome. Meaning you would always have to hit it twice and then re-maximize the window.
The puzzles were not too easy but also not too hard. I would love an update with a few very hard levels. @ me if you ever release one. The new hand drawn concept art looks also absolutely beautiful :)
Really cool Story and artstyle as well as many details. Lots of complexity for such a short time. However, the movement was soooo slow, moving from one place to another felt like a chore rather than having fun playing a game. This is very unfortunate. I would have played this a couple more times after I initially died, but for me this is unfortunately a deal braker :( Let me know If you release a post-LD version with faster movement I would very much like to play that!
Here is my playthorugh of your game
https://youtu.be/qgLdQN7hyKw
I had a lot of fun with this!
The game was fun to play, it got really close for me in the end but I did it, I found the mammoth. I really liked the gameplay. The game would have profited a lot from some mor work on the graphics. Like actually showing the camp, the fire the drill etc. Or even just something more than white boxes for the names. Might be something to work on in the future :) But nice take on the theme and good job in general!
I liked the Hand drawn Artstyle, really makes this entry stand out. I lasted for 47 days. And I think that is a good time because much longer and this would have become a little repetitive and boring. The little News Headlines are Hilarious as well. Good Job overall!
Faze was my absolute Favorite last Year, my eexpectations are high for this one :)
Haha no will smith this time, I promise xD
Yeah good job again :) Is it intentional that walk left is on Q instead of A? That was a bit unusial :D
I see, that game meachanics is good, but in my opinion it is cruel and bad to create game about killing saint people.
@borodaolen Hmm i have not seen the first bug yet. wave nine and ten take longer on purpouse so your forest has time to replenish
Yes a wave timer and a next wave button are good ideas I will add them when I do the quality of life update. For me the game only starts slowing down noticably if i play a lot past the last wave. But I can check for optimizazions anyway
Thanks a lot for the Feedback :)
@draelent Thank you I used assets for the graphics tho :)
Also I am planning to add a peaceful mode to the game in a Post LD update :)
@maximeg hardest difficulty from the start isn't possible. True, but you can prepare a bit on easy then change it to hard if you like :) thanks for your input.
@ohfiddlediddle Sounds come with the next update I started working on it yesterday. Upgrade indicators follow later :) right now, upgrading only effects spawn rate as said in the tutorial, but I plan to expand on that. Thank you for the review
@fabula-rasa Thank you so much for the kind words. As I said sound update with music is coming soon :) Do you know when your game started lagging in fulscreen? From the start? Do you mind sharing your system specs?
@otisdev Thank you so much :)
@hwaet I lost a lot of time trying to get a good fightsystem working but I had to scrap it and do something simple to not run out of time. Currently every Creature and animal just has health and attack points. Some health bars etc are coming in the quality of life update
@fabula-rasa hmm that is odd, I have nearly an Identical system and for me it starts lagging (like below 30fps lagging) only about 5 min after the win screen. Did you go for a lot of grass early? and what browser did you use?I will try to reproduce it so I can fix it.
@fabula-rasa I have uBlock active as well but on chrome. I will try firefox later.
On a side note:
Actully going for a lot of grass is not as viable as it seems, there are diminishing returns on the np generation, so more than 1-2 upgrades are mostly useless. (It counts the log of the number of grass spawned, to prevent exponential growth)
Took me quite some time playing to realize why I am always loosing when going for lots of plants early :D
@codexus don't be so impatient the first enemies show up after 45 seconds on default difficulty. So you have enough time to Grow some plants and get your first animals to defend ;)
@codexus yes the difficulty changes how often enemies spawn on the lowest setting they spawn every 2 minutes I think :)
Maybe try again and put the slider somewhat in the center. Then it is not too hard but you also don't have to wait forever
alternatively start with low dificulty until you have enough animals and then change it to high so you can see them fight in an epic battle ;)
@dylan-fries Hmm the build size is not so large with roughly 85 MB, it uses roughly 1GB of Ram on my Computer.
I'll have a look into performance in general soon, but the lighting quality settings are not too high either. But since this procedually spawns more and more objects there will be lags at some point sooner or later.
A Windows Build is up right now, but I haven't tested it for bugs
@prothean Thanks for the detailed feedback, I apreciate it a lot.
- I ran out of time for the sounds but I am working on a Post LD sound update right now - Hmm i might play around with that, although there are no given paths, the enemies are pathfinding on the fly right now - yeah the keep playing button is supposed to transition this into a forest sandbox, i should have made that more clear
@ramonsimarro Press the NatureTree Tab, then Press on the Icons of the plants and animals and they will start spawning. Monsters will spawn every 45s if you do not change the difficulty slider on the top.
Presiona la pestaña "NatureTree", luego presiona los iconos de las plantas y animales y comenzarán a desovar. Los monstruos desovarán cada 45s si no cambias el deslizador de dificultad de la parte superior. (deepl Translate)
@avek That is a good point. I myself have the Nature Tree open very often. I will redesign the Tree in one of the coming updates and I will definetly take that into consideration, Thank you ! For the performance. IN my experience the windows build is not mut better unfortunately. However, In the current dev build I have switched to GPU instancing for plants which keeps my fps close to 200 constantly.
@anthony-pengelly Thank you for the Kind words, I will notify you when the quality of life update is out. Also the current dev build already has much better performance :)
@fabula-rasa The problem seemed to indeed have been the huge amounts of grass. I have switched to GPU instancing for plants, which will help alot with lag. Thx for your help!
@dreamingdice Thank you so much for the in depth feedback I really apreciate it.
The first Post LD update: A Balance, Performance and Sound update is out right now. I will now start working on the quality of life update, which will adress most of the polish problems you mentioned. Currently upgrades only increase the spawn rate, this is briefly mentioned in the tutorial, but will change soon.
Did you play before the last update? Because it fixed issues with the wizard. That would also explain why your session froze. You did make it to the final wave right? Probably a Wizard got stuck in the Trees and was never killed, so you never got the win-screen. both of these were fixed in the last LD patch.
The Animals sometimes not defending is actually intended but needs some rework. They don't have the Task to defend the spirit stone. They only live peacefully in the forest, but if a creature comes into their sight they will try to attack it. In the future there will be abilities bought by Nature Points. One of them will cause all of your creatures to attack the nearest target they can find.
Again much thanks for the detailed review :)
@hakro Sound and Music update has just released. Perfect timing ;)
@everyone Somehow on the new update it unseclected the opt out graphics category. This was not intended! It should be fixed again
@convg Thank you very much for the review. Can you make a screenshot of the water bug by any chance?
@convg hmm I'll have to take a look at it ingame. The foam is still there on the sides and water looks basically transparent if not lit up. But you are right it looks kind of odd. Thank you, I'll see what i can do :)
@convg Thx for the Review. Just hit the play button to go to normal Speed. Not sure how to indicate that in game tho
@vernalbehemoth thank you so much for the review! There is a difficulty slider in the settings (button in the top right) that you can adjust at any time during the game. In the last update i lowered the default setting because people found it too hard :D
At the moment animals recognize enemies in a 15m radius, in the future there will be abilities (which you also pay with nature Points) that allow you to order your animals around a bit :)
The disadvantage of having the typical setup for the camera in this sort of game is that you cant move your mouse to the buttons without moving the camera which is why i went for this sort of setup which is more like RTS and TBS camera movement (like in CIV)
Yes I am using the Unity audio mixer. Also in the settings you can adjust master volume, music, ambience and sfx to your liking.
That Bug is Odd, I always start close to the spirit stone.
@gameovermexico Did you play the Post-LD version? it has many sound effects
@lyrcaxis Thank you very much for the kind words. The Bug with the final wave is very annoying and I am aware of it. I hope I can fix it with the next update :) Also Performance is the next big point I want to tackle :)
@lyrcaxis if this was a bug in the jam I would have gone for something like that :D but since I have all the time in the world now I will find the root cause and will get rid of it once and for all ;)
@lcstark Thank you so much for the in depth review this means a lot!
> **Enemy units get stuck often, seemingly on nothing.**
Hmm this was a known issue only for spawned in units like the small spiders not for the wave units like the Cobra stuck in your image. I will have to further investigate. Fixing this is one of the top priorities for sure.
> **The units spawned by wizards bug out horribly**
Yes I am aware of this and it is also on the top of the priority for fixes! This seems to happen only in webGL and not my editor so it will be a tough one.
> **HP bars are not visible through the trees**
In general I am not very happy with the health bars at the moment. I tried a few different things and was not really happy with either of them. So I just opted to get the best of the bunch in for the update, but this will recieve further work for sure!
> **Plant and animal spawn location is (mostly) restricted to the area behind the stone**
At the moment all Spawns are tied to grass: everything spawns where grass spawns. So if your first bunch of grass generates behind the stone the rest will also generate in that area. This ensures a natural growth of everything. But you can get unlucky and have everything behind of the stone as has happened for you. There are no plans on changing this, because in a future update there will be abilites that you can buy for Nature Points like "rally at the stone" or "look for enemies" to deal with these kind of situations. There is one thing that I will change that might help this somewhat: I want to increase the closet distance that two grass plants can spawn next to each other which will force the grass to spread out more, faster.
Again many thanks for the review!
@joamd higher difficulty is available in the settings! (Top right)
The next update will be a performance upgrade, I think the major offenders are the path finding for so many enteties at once.
For the grass spawn delay, it still has an effect if you buy it, the menu just does not show decimals which will be fixed soon. Thx for the review!
@jonathan Lorentz. If you played the post jam version the difficulty slider is in the settings on the top right. ON the LD-version it is on the top left
@adhesion Thank you for Playing and thx for the input. I am still thinking about the best way to do difficulty. I think I will have presets as well as sliders in the future as well as indicators on the sliders what the current value means!
@loginaut agreed with the UI, this is already on my Priority list and will come with the next update I think. The current best strategy is indeed to just pick one animal and upgrade the hell out of it. I have the follwing change in mind: Every upgrade increases the cost of all other upgrades on the same animal. So you need to choose more carefully what you want to upgrade. The next update is a performance Update. I hope I can find other solutions than limiting the entities, but if that has to be done then so be it.
Thank you for playing and the review!
@elysiagriffin you will love the button feedback on the post-LD version ;)
@convg @patrickjr @loginaut @joamd @lcstark @loveapplegames @lyrcaxis @dreamingdice @vernalbehemoth
#### 10.5. Minor Bugfix&Performance + Mothers Day Update
- Name Changed to "Nature Defense - The Spirit Stone"
- Added Mothers Day Suprise - Upgrading one thing on an Animal now increases the cost of all upgrades for that animal. (OP Bunnies are no longer a thing :( )
- Fixed bouncing Terants
- Panning now disabled if the mouse is over any UI element
- Fixed Creatures getting stuck
- Added Info on how much NP every Plant currently Generates
- Performance Should be slightly Better (The main offenders are animation updates tied to FixedUpdate (animate Physics setting) and later there are serveral fixedUpdates for each Update. I increased fixed Update timestep and did minor optimizations in other places But if anyone knows a solution for this please let me know. (Other than Switching away from root motion and not using the physics system, which I want to avoid))
Edit: just got some stuck creatures again god dammit
@loveapplegames Thank you for the great review, :) Can't wait for you to play the Post-LD version. You will love it ;)
@lcstark Thank you again for the review!
> As for the creatures getting stuck… Still happens. :(
I have localized the error with the stuck creatures, but my attempted fix did not work. The path finding system has problems with the low poly terrain at certain points. I used a third party animal controller that I had and it seems to try to put the creatures in a climbing state once it thinks the creatures are off the traversable path (which helps some of the animals recover from falling in the river). However for the enemy creatures, they just stop doing anything at all. I think I might write my own animal controller, since I don't need much of the advanced functionality and it is hard to debug third party code.
> A simple change to sorting order of your canvases should fix that. ;)
Actually I think changing the sorting order would not help since the canvas has to be in world space to allow for 3D elements. So the 3D objects actually stick out and are physically in front (Idk maybe there is a trick for this ). I think I will just close the nature tree whenever you open the options.
> It would be great to add some minimal width to all of them.
You are right about the Health bars, as I said in my last reply I am not happy with the current state either. But I don't think giving a minimum width would be a good choice either since it would look like a rabbit with 30HP might have the same health as a deer with 100HP. I was thinking of maybe scaling both sides so that double the area means double HP. This would make each side scale with the square root of the health and the bars would always keep the same shape. Therfore, each sidelenght is not as different as it is now. Maybe I also just don't use linear scaling. So a twice as longe healthbar would still mean more HP, but not double. This however is less intuitive than the current system.
As I said I need to play around with this, maybe get some inspiration from rts titles. It is just hard to depict a healthbar with 30 HP and one with 5000HP in a graphically cohesive way.
> One quality of life feature I’d like to see is to have the mouse scroll direction reversed.
True, this could be a 5 min fix I can definetly implement as an option.
@lcstark
> If you wanted to keep it open, though, I had an idea that could potentially work. Have you considered using render textures to display your 3D models?
Working with render textures is a pain in the butt. I find using them is very performance hungry and not preferable for larger scales. They are good for small things like a portal effect, but not for many UI elements in my experience.
If as you suggested I only use one raw image for the whole UI instead of one for every 3D Object it might be feasible performance wise, but I don't think it is worth the hustle. If I would want to move a button, I would always have to move the UI object first and then try to match the movement with the 3D object in the scene. Right now the 3D objects are children of the respective button, so if I disable the button it automatically disables the 3D object, which I would have to re-code as well. Furthermore the glow effects on the UI do not work in screen space, since it is unaffected by post-processing.
If I wanted to keep both open at the same time I would make two canvases and make sure the option canvas is physically closer to the camera, so that it can hide the nature tree canvas including the 3D objects that are sticking out.
So thank you for the suggestion, but no :laughing: . (I was fighting a lot with render textures in another project as you can probably guess :sweat_smile: )
>As for the health bars:
Thank you for the suggestion. This is certainly a better solution than the current one. I'll keep it in mind and just try different stuff :)
https://youtu.be/4XZ6ZDYqkSE
here is my playthrough of the game
Edit: Unfortunately the video did not pick up my microphone, so here are the main points I made.
1. This Game needs some feedback on hit detection as well as feedback on what the Items in the shop do
2. The shop is very akward to use and I once bought some cat cookies on accident while not even having the shop open
3. The Starter Gun is by far the best because you can spam click with it, I would limit the fire rate
4. I liked the Graphics and the Narrator Voice was excellent
Nice take on the theme. The jumping felt good and responsive, which is always the most important thing. There were a few jumps where it felt like you needed to half clip through a platform tho. The Sound got a bit boring after a while, I would have liked some music and some constant fire rustling effect. I would have liked a Hard mode where water kills you instantly. Also sometimes i managed to double jump, i think that is a bug?
Thanks for suggesting your game
https://youtu.be/PZeAGlkgy5U
Dying was harder for me than surviving :D
Here is my Playthrough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reM58GXuzmY
good job overall!
Edit: so it did not pick up my microphone. Here are the main points I made in the Video
1. This is A nice short Entry
2. The Oldschool style really gives it a good mood
3. The Audio is good, unfortunately the main music does not loop correctly
Unfortunately it did not pick up my microphone. (This was my first time recording something like this) So you have some uncommented gameplay :( https://youtu.be/inyLpQLUFXQ
I liked the game a lot the only negative i mentioned was that I would have liked slightly faster movement speed. I played with a gamepad!
Mother Shroom had given me one objective: to protect her. I was determined, it was my destiny. Soon Slime creatures startet showing up, but mother shroom gave me the spores to protect her. It got harder and harder, I planted spores only to see the baby shrooms getting destroyed by the slime creatures, it was horendous. Just about when I thought it was over, that I had failed, there was a slimmer of hope. Mother shroom had provided me with a new shroom spore I have never used. It emmited a poisonous cloud, that would hit many slimes at once. This was it, I needed to build an inner circle out of those. And So I started. Suddenly defending was easy again I thought I had built an invincible setup.
shrooom1.png
But I was wrong: One Slime managed to take down one of the poison cloud shrooms. It was a race now, I had to build more poison shrooms than the slimes cold destroy, all other spores became nothing but decoys to distract the slimes for a short while.
I fought and fought, but in the end they were too many. **I have failed you mother shroom, I am so sorry** :cry:
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Great game! , btw In the end it got very laggy with so much on the screen at once
Really nice job on the Post Jam version, It is not much different but it feels so much better because of how polished it is. Good Job!
The two things I would add next are coin sound effects and pathfinding for the old man :) Then maybe add some new shiny armor for the coins :D
Most things have been said already and I don't want to repeat everything so here are two things I found that were not mentioned:
- Diagonal move speed is faster than straight line. There are some good tutorials online on how to fix this. like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whzomFgjT50 Watch until 9 minutes afterwards he does animations.
- Spamming mouse1 makes fights now way too easy in the post LD version, I liked the lure out and finish the enemies strategy you needed for original version. I would add a cooldown on how often you can click.
@convg actually you can not really abuse this for speedunning. if you move a straight line in a zig-zag pattern you are not actually faster, your speed is higher but also the distance covered is higher which cancels out. (the zig zag just feels faster) Your Speed along the straight line is the same in both cases. You need some code to transfer your diagonal momentum into forward momentum if you want this to be a speedrun strategy. (kinda like bunnyhopping in source engine games like half life)
I never played Titanfall but I just watched this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lUoA9q0jnM
It seems like they really nailed the movement :D
If you want to I can help you making a momentum based movement where you can use diagonal movement to gain speed.
@convg unfortunately I don't know if there are any tutorials for what you are trying to do.
I would need to see your movent code to know exactly what to do, but I'll try to give you a general rundown:
in your variable declarations do the following:
private float momentum =0;
private float old_momentum =0;
private float momentum_factor= 0.9;
- //this is a value between 0 and 1 that you can change to make the movement feel good. 0 means no change 1 means never loose momentum
you probably have a velocity x and a velocity y variable maybe they are seperate maybe they are in a vector 2.
if they are seperate use
momentum=mathf.sqrt(velocityx^2+velocityy^2)
if they are in a vector2 you can simply use
momentum=velocity.magnitude
Set momentum initially to 0 and do this at the **start** of your update function
At the **end** of your update function set
old_momentum = momentum;
before you update the position do the following:
if (old_momentum > momentum && momentum !=0)
- //the first part is so that it only affects keeping momentum and not building up momentum
{
velocityx \*= ((1-momentum_factor)+momentum_factor \* old_momentum/momentum)
velocityy \*= ((1-momentum_factor)+momentum_factor \* old_momentum/momentum)
}
@convg You are welcome
you might have to modify everything you are doing with max velocity as well, depending on how you have that implemented
@convg cool If you run into any problems, let me know
One of my favorite Compo Games so far. I got a highscore of 91 don't know if that is much or little :D
I really enjoyed the sound effects. The Graphics are simplistic but charming.
If there is one thing that I would have changed it would be the rng. I would have used a bag system instead of plain rng. (Check this if you don't know what I mean: https://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/shuffle-bags-making-random-feel-more-random--gamedev-1249)
"Make the game less random to make it feel more random"
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This game is fishy, but only literally, because this is amazing work!! One of my favorites so far i got a highscore of 65. Nice Art nice sounds and the controlls feel good.
quick tip: on itch.io set the Embed options to "click to launch in fullscreen" to make the fullscreen work better for everyone.
tip for everyone in the current verion: if you want to play fullscreen, wait for the game to load then hit the blue arrows and not the transparent white ones that are overlayed.
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I think this is the record so far?
@everyone come and take it :)
then @ me so i can take it back xD
@Doot no actually it is still not in fullscreen before you click, but as you said try out the different options.
I improved my Highscore to 164 but i keep dying to early difficulties because they are too slow to pay real attention. Maybe you could add a Starting dificulty option like in tetris :)
I'll beat the 207 tomorrow ;)
After fish_highscore1.jpg and fish_highscore2.jpg and fish_highscore3.jpg Finally I did it!! fish_highscore4.jpg
Tell who ever had the 207 to get the record back :D
seems like @doot will have to practice some more :D
@fishmasterino Good Job I tried quite a bit today but only got 213.. I'll keep pushing tho.
Hi, I ended up Giving up on the highscore on the old version, because it was too much of a hustle to always start so slow. So the new fishiy mode is a welcome change. What is the current best score?
I got 172:
https://youtu.be/fnQvzVoyfwg
Tbh I expected like 2 even harder levels after everyone said how dificult it was, i found it not too hard (I died once) :/ Beat it.png The text was very slow, which I did not enjoy. Other than that good job I liked playing it :)
Really Cool Game, As you said with the scope of the game came missing polish, just as for my game :D
The Post LD version already feels a lot better. It just needs even more polish. Progress bars for the quests, an indicator of where to find home because you can get lost easily, What are the actual huts doing and so on.
Just in general a lot more feedback so you can feel what you are doing.
Final verdict: Would die to a cow the size of 2 Mountains again xD
https://youtu.be/qpYngbDHoOw
Done with your Playthrough. Enjoy!
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Overall the game felt quite good. The Use of the Assets was really good and I liked the overall dificulty of this.
The movement mechanics were better than most games, but in a game where the movement is the main aspect you notice small stuff faster. It was a bit slow in my opinion and the wall slides/jumps felt not really good.
The Lanterns as a checkpoint were very clever!
First of all good job for finishing your first jam game! The graphics and the Audio were really used good :)
As many have said the controls need a lot of improvement. I suggest this tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwcT-Dch0bA
Also there is a follow up video for animations.
Pretty standard platformer otherwise
Very nice platformer. Graphics and audio are nice. The rythm sectuins could have been a little clearer maybe play the correct rythm once when you enter the room? i found it hard matching the expexted rythm from just the visual indications but figured them out eventually. Also i dont mind some hard jumps, but for my taste some of the jumos set you back way too much if you missed them.
https://youtu.be/nNZNgn0NDp8
Here Is my Playthrough enjoy :)
Felt verry good to play, like many others I came to like the fast movement Speed. The art was amazing however the music only played every second level and did not loop properly, maybe you can fix that.
Two small things I would change: limit the fire rate and the range of your fireballs because I was just constantly spamming left mouse to kill most enemies before I even saw them :D.
This would also be fun to speedrun as well maybe I'll give that a try later :)
Here is my Playthrough of the game:
I managed a perfect Speedrun in the end (41s)
https://youtu.be/I5ZKTWmKp-8
Edit: Unfortunately the video did not record my microphone so here are the main points I made:
1. I liked the feel of the Movement, it is well implemented
2. The graphics and audio are nice
3. Overall a good implementation of a classic platformer Good Job!
plant.jpg 46 highscore :)
Loved the arstyle and the sound. Feeding felt verry satisfying. Only the release was a bit tight i would have made it more forgiving.
@texz
"If my jokes offends you
1. I'm Sorry
2. It won't happen again
3. 1&2 are lies"
-deadpool
5/5 on Theme, hope you get through it :)
Great game many 5stars from me.
I don't know so much about the theme. Yes the fish die if you don't feed them but its a bit of a stretch :D
Art and audio are absolutely stunning for a Jam game good job.
Fun Game!
The birds are really hard to dodge, for the falcon you basically have no chance :D
The sound effects are really funny!
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What the *** did I just play :D
It definetly had a giant loop tho!
@indigo like for the score you need to stay close to the present for a long time and not actually touch it ;D
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Very cool game. After a while you get very used to the controls, Always counter steer instantly guys! Then you have more control over your plane than a fighter pilot.
Hey quick tip: on itch.io use the click to launch in fullscreen option for displaying. It is usually far more pleasant. And also it does not force you to play in fullscreen.
A fun Platformer with a nice mechanic.
The controls felt good only the dash felt wierd with how you instantly lost all momentum.
I don't know you still have 2hrs til the deadline. You could try to modify it a little
Indeed very similar to my game. Only I used original Windows sounds and submitted in Jam :D
Edit: yes I used an autoclicker for my highscore sry
Sounds really promising, I am looking forward to playing this. @ me if you want some playtesting or when you publish the game :)
Hmm I think there is a bug in the game. I think you are only supposed to place pieces starting from your own pieces. But I can just select any empty square as a starting piece. This means I can just win on turn 1 by placing a group straight to my opponents base... Other than that cool idea.
Very cool game, I managed to beat it :)
It is a great package, I love how quirky it is. The artstyle on top of the real computer photo, together with the audio is perfect. Much charm, much like :D
The only problem I found is the performance. It tends to have some micro lags (which are very annoying if they let a bullet pass through), that such a game should not have. It happens in the web version and the windows version.
Wow very cool game! The Art and music are amazing!
Somehow at first I thought I could only hit enemies from above, which made the game harder but not impossible, and I think I enjoyed at even more with that restriction :D
Maybe enable fullscreen? I always find the "click to launch in fullscreen" option works best on itch.io. That option does not force fullscreen which you might think.
Pretty basic game. The recipie mechanic worked but I did not really find it very rewarding. It was doing the recepies for the sake of the recipies, which I did not enjoy too much. I really would have liked it, if there was like a small reactor building up with every recipe you finish. Also the looping mechanic with the timer felt more thrown on top, rather than atually integrated in the game. However I really enjoyed the graphics and the audio! They were wonderful :)
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What the Hell did I just play??
Verry funny game. The audio is very good and overall the game feels very polished good job!
haha "winscreen" maybe 30 sec after I opened the game :laughing:
Not even on puropose
quickest from loading a LD page to winning the game I ever archived :D
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@remzo I tried for a while, but this is just too random. For a Highscore, basically you need to hope that the other cars crash in the very beginning so you can drive tight laps undisturbed to the end.
I mangaged to get to more 50s and one 54s with two invalid loops.
Also I dont really understand when a loop is counted invalid. Sometimes i clearly stay on the track and it counts as invalid and sometimes I crash like half the yellow things in the middle and it still counts as good
Hi, both web versions for me load only to like 95% and then stop. I am using Chrome on Windows10.
I tried the windows version and it realy is a nice game! good job! creative interpretation of the theme.
I solved most puzzles by just building up lots of momentum. maybe that is a bit too op. I would maybe use some sharper acceleration but capping the top speed of the balls.
Very cool game! I finished it. The art is just perfect as well as the interpretation of the theme. The short story was nice as well!
Congrats on the Overall victory in the Jam Category! :)
Pretty much a Slay the spire clone, which is not nescesarily too bad since it is one of my favorite games.
However the theme is a bit of a stretch for this one.
Overall cool that you managed to get something this complex working in the timeframe!
My game suddenly ended and I got the following message:
############################################################################################ ERROR in action number 1 of Step Event0 for object oButton:
Unable to find instance for object index 100056 at gml_Script_anon_EndTurnButton_gml_GlobalScript_Button_12760_EndTurnButton_gml_GlobalScript_Button ############################################################################################ gml_Script_anon_EndTurnButton_gml_GlobalScript_Button_12760_EndTurnButton_gml_GlobalScript_Button (line -1) gml_Object_oButton_Step_0
very cool game!
I played in "super expert mode" and only used left and move, so I had to type three times left for a turn right :D
Nice game. But for me the whole screen just went black once the timer ran out..
Yes I managed to beat it!
The silver key and golden key are very hidden tho.
Very moody game. The controls feel good and after some searching you will find the secrets!
Dont give up too easyily everyone!
Hmm the elevator did not seem to work for me, so I played up to that point.
I love the ragdoll animations, they are great!
You were not kidding when you said aim for the limbs. As a seasoned FPS player i was giving them soo many headshots and nothing happend :D That's a nice touch.
I really liked the funny descriptions like "I don't know why it's called healing station" :D overal great job, cool entry!
Congrats on the Overal victory!
The chicken is too damm good. I stood no chance...
You know ** chicken are one of the closest living relatives to the T-rex**
I can see that now
I am terrified of chicken now
Oh have mercy dear all mighty chicken!
@dominium11 actually the easter egg is a bug that I declared a feature :D
@vanea @tolmera @123seven3 @peace-of-cake-games
Thank you for the feedback. Don't forget to rate the game, now that rating is enabled!
@tommy @quak @rhewid @crazi456 @untitled-studios @xenon27 @testuser @vollfeiw @merkisoft @somnium @manspider @ryan-hallmann @danielcmcg
Thank you for the kind words. I did not expect the feedback to be this positive. I am glad you all enjoyed playing
For the Highscore hunters in you here are the dev scores for the current version to beat:
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@remzo it is supposed to be or. if X or A or B is below the treshold the while loop continues ;)
Only once all three are above the treshold the while loop breaks
@superunknown same as I said too remzo. it has to be "or" since the condition does not say when the loop breaks but when the loop continues.
if X or A or B is below the treshold the while loop continues ;)
Only once all three are above the treshold the while loop breaks
@convg hmm that is a first, no one else has had issues. maybe try to clear browser cache and cookies or try a different browser?
@remzo yeah while loops are confusing and you can easily mess them up, which is the whole point of the game :D
If it is of any consolation, I showed the game to my mother who has been coding for over 30 years now, and she said shouldn't it be "and" :laughing:
@dracominer @nerdytopic @coleslaughte
Do you guys think a version with changing font color would be better? Or should I do something entirely different?
@rhoff95
Thx for the Feedback!
I already decreased the first loop from 1000 to 500.
The problem with going even further is that I run out of jokes too fast :D Plus I wanted to give the player some time to really understand the concept before I start spamming him with pop ups. It is always hard to find the right balance for a game jam audience. You seem to have gotten the concept instantly, but that is not true for everyone. Introducing even more would have made the game too confusing for most I think. Although I also think that it would be more fun.
@rein
is the font a problem at the default size or at fullscreen. Maybe I should add that I recommend fullscreen
@all Thank you so much for playing and leaving these lovely comments. Reading through them makes my entire day everytime. You guys are awesome <3
@ghuyajil No cheat you need to get to loop number 6-7 and then have some luck with the multipliers. They can go over 2x in the later loops. If you have a score of maybe 4000 going into loop 6 you only need to find 3-4 good multipliers. In a dev version that was not much different to the current version I scored over 700 000 which is just 3 more good multipliers.
The growth starts mostly linear but it goes exponential rather quickly ;)
@elysiagriffin I forgot to ask on stream, what is your opinion o the classic Windows 2000 button feedback :D
I build a raft and when I tried to escape I just looped back in on the other side :(
Then I found some other players who seemed to be afk, so I stole all their stuff. (If I stole your stuff just go south)
Cool little game you made there
Same here I get the same error. Using chrome on windows if that helps.
Also the window seems too small for the game. In the Itch.io settings I recommend hitting "click to launch in fullscreen" which works the best imo. Also, it does not force fullscreen contrary to what it sounds like.
Very cool concept :) I am amazed by the different ways peoplw have found to make a game out of this theme. I love the art and music. Qutie lovely and fitting for such an entry. All in all very good entry :)
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I think sub 28 is possible, but that run was already very optimized
@arthurds try to beat me to sub 28 ;)
hit 28.00 this time on video:
https://youtu.be/mY-ns8nnxXk
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27.96 the barrier is broken!
https://youtu.be/KnOIyzbqzyk
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I think the best possible score is around 27.5 The run for this one was near flawless
@peachtreeoath
I spent way more time than I'd like to admit optimizing the speedrun 0.1s at a time :D
I hit exactly 28.13 3 times before I managed to shave off another .13s. I feel if you use the strategies from my speedrun videos you should be able to make the sub 30 club. Just hit the turn key about 0.5 secs before you actually need to turn.
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I used to improve the record .1 s at a time. It seems to be down to .03s at a time now :D
Highscore was 94, but the screen changed back to the title screen before I could take a screenshot.
I got to Wave 9, that Wave is insane!
Overall a fun little game, but I think the theme is a bit of a stretch.
@superunknown yeah i don't know myself how I got through level 7 and 8. somehow managed to punch a hole through it.
Game is much easier nowm got a highscore over 500
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@superunknown takes a long time to get challenging maybe increase the difficulty a bit faster
@superunknown there seems to be a bug with the hit detection in the current version. My shots often went straight through the platforms...
@superunknown yes that is what I suspected. Making the hitbox much longer behind the bullet would be a quick and dirty fix :)
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Very cool and polished game! Good that you made such a big team work, that is not always easy. The controls felt realy tight, which is alreay most of what is needed in a game like this! I loved the voiceovers, the models were great and the theme was well executed.
Overall good job in all categories
@bongard22 i dont think i played your last game, but I did play the one before that, which I quite liked.
Very cool "Game". More like a relaxing tool than a game.
Well graphics depends on the user I guess, so I have to give a bad score because mine did not come out great :D (joking of course)
Impressive work for the timeframe! Everything just works so smooth mandala.png
Really cool concept!
For me personally the sensitivity was way too high. Generally in shooters there should be a sensitivity setting imo. Also, a fov setting would have been nice.
Other than that the monsters were cute. The theme with the looping room was implemented very well. And the shooting and movement felt very good! Audio was also on point. Oveall well done!
Very cool game! Has a great overall feel to it. You should add a screenshot to your page!
One thig that would have been usefull is a fast forward button.
"The Cow handles like a fine drift car" is not a sentence I thought I would ever use...
But The Cow handles like a fine drift car!
The game is pretty well polished for the timeframe. The animations were not perfect, but most games don't even have animations... So I can't complain too much
One suggestion: on itch.io enable "click to launch in fullscreen" I would love to play this in fullscreen
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@convg Wow you improved a lot since LD-46 good job!
Really liked the game. The movement feels very good. I did not do the boxes in the final level, so I had to abuse the movement to get to the portal :D Luckily I recorded a shadow, so I have a gif of how I did it :D
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The shadow mechanic was a super cool take on the theme.
Keep up the good work!
Whats the best time?
I got 2:31 Video is still processing
ok 2:17 now will upload the new vid
https://youtu.be/tSVigNKPKi8
Sub 2 definetly possible
Nice :) No real competition tho Honestly before the first run I practiced wall jumping for like 5 min against one of the walls until I had it mostly figured out. You just press left as soon as you hit the wall and then press right imideately after.
I like the graphics, the artstyle is lovely!
The gameplay is a pretty basic Tower defence, with some twists, like you only have a fixed amount of Traps. Overall it is fun to play, but you need to figure out what the different traps do.
The theme is a bit of a stretch here tho.
Nice! impressive game for the compo!
Love the Audio art and music. It comes together perfectly! Can you beat the final boss with the helicopter equipped? Because I could not find a way to inflict damage so I had to restart the game
Yes the Helicopter Bossfight is absolutely amazing well done, and in time before the compo deadline as well. Good Job.
My favorite game so far, speedrunning this seems like a lot of fun as well :)
I got 4:36 on my first try, not so good, even though I used to be quite good at space cadet.
Very cool interpretation of the theme, I liked it a lot :)
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By far the easiest game I played so far this LD. The mechanics were absolutely boring and the voice acting was terrible. It was not at all funny. Overall just a bad game.
Only thing positive was the red lasers. They were super easy to make out and the hitboxes were very clear!
p.S. the opposite of everything i just said
@arthurds So go and post your speedrun. Challange accepted xD
I am always ahead of your runs up to level 6. Then I am just really bad with the magnetic arms...
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Enjoyed playing this. Keeping all turrets active is hard. I think the longest I lasted with all turrets was something like 20s. The Audio is really well done!
I won, I beat blue (was ahead after 3 Laps and continued to do so)! took a lot of grinding tho. seriously the racing got me hooked more than actually getting out of the loop. Optimizing the corners and jumps until I could finally be faster than blue was amazing! The controls felt realy neat which is why I could optimize the race so well. (Blue still said he was first tho even if I was in front of him :D.)
Very cool game!
Nice interpretation of the theme!
The looping mechanic works quite good. I only saw the gravity indicator very late. maybe you could have made that one a bit more obvious?
Other than that well polished small game!
Haha Snake Loops, that's a hilarious interpretation of the theme.
I realy love the artstyle, it looks very lovely.
The gameplay is a bit monotonous and the game could have profited heavily from some indicators about where to find berries and snake-loops.
Overall nice entry!
Ehh maybe don't publish your game before you are done? This is stuck now on the front page because you gave some reviews but you cant recieve any...
Congratulations for finishing your first game Jam. I hope you learned a lot and had tons of fun! That's what it's all about.
The game is buggy and far from perfect, but that does not matter. It is your first game!
Great game about spotting fake news:) However the only way to win is to report accurately. I think there should have been an ending for if you share the stories for only one side or the other, and maybe a third ending if you only share the love stories etc. (Or I missed if there is a way to do this)
The theme is strong with this one!
loops within looops within loops within loops
I gave 5 Stars on Theme. Not sure why it ended up so bad :(
@peace-of-cake-games I don't think its only trolls. Many people only vote good on theme if it actually ties into a great game in general. Theme is by far your stongest category and I just think not many people would give 2 star overall but then 5 star on theme or simmilar... Also probably many people think you forced the theme way too much. You did not build a game around the theme you just threw the theme on everything. You got 100 ratings, so you can not just explain it with a few trolls. Just respect everyones opinions. I think you did great on the theme!
Cool Idea, good job!
Is there any point in keeping your mouth closed? If yes I missed it, I held spacebar down the entire time.
I really liked the artstyle and the collision physics :)
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I named the screenshot WierdDrugs.png lul
5/5 on theme for the second game! Well done
No I could not get out of the loop :(
Haha it is true, one spends way too much time. However it makes you realize that you spend way to much time in any RPG :D
it is just like any RPG ever, which is exactly what you wanted.
Many points on Humor and Theme tho
Cool game. I really liked the controls, they felt really good which is already 90% of what you need for a good platformer. The graphics are charming programmer art. And the audio was funny, too. The only thing I have to critizize is the difficulty. It is way too easy for me. After 3000 points and still 100 health I got bored too much and stopped. I could have gone on for ever. It is hard to get a difficulty that is right for everyone. So I would suggest you could put in increasing difficulty or maybe just stop giving healthpacks after 1000 points or something.
Please don't publish a game if you are not done. It is now on the front page and since no one will rate this it will be stuck there...
Please don’t publish a game if you are not done. It is now on the front page and since no one will rate this it will be stuck there…
Please don’t publish a game if you are not done. It is now on the front page and since no one will rate this it will be stuck there…
Hi,
I tried playing your game however the game did not recognise the button presses something like 80% of the time. I don't know if you have a fix for this bug but the game was nearly unplayable.
I decided not to rate overall and fun, since I can't really rate that without the controls working properly
I'll post my attempt of a playthrough on Youtube once it finished uploading
@zathnic yes my monitor runs on 144Hz. I'll try downloading again later then. Yeah as a joke the flute is maybe ok, but constantly listening to it just hurts my ears :sweat_smile:
Here is my Playthrough of the fixed version
https://youtu.be/XLhk-6TLy4I
Hi,
here is my Playthrough of your game
Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/gSfyqByEVQ4
Cool little game. In really like the core concept, but it is missing some finishing touches. You either die within your first 3-4 fights or you become so ovepowered that nothing can stop you. I leveled all the way up to level 10 where I often one-shotted enemies with a normal attack. The UI is not very nice looking, but the general stickman art is cool. The inventory system has some bugs.
Hi,
here is my Youtube Playthrough of the game:
https://youtu.be/R6sE6ZP-lZ4
enjoy!
Very Cool Idle game, I think if you add some procedural levels and tidy it up some more this could be a working mobile release !
@chrissx2 yeah I found arghhh difficulty not as hard as medium or hard difficulty, since at that point I started memorizing the patterns. It was just longer. I think my medium and hard runs were much closer than the arghhh one 🤣
I think the only bomb that exploded was the one while I was introducing the game 😂
I usually use the "click to launch in fulscreen" option on itch. That one causes the least issues in my experience.
Very Cool mix of an Idle-Fighter and Slay the Spire style level progression. This could allow for many different strategies in the future
Hi,
If you want to see someone play your game, I recorded my playthrough on Youtube
Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/KRaCaoUTH4s
Awesome!
Game stays fairly easy till the end. I lost only one live very early because I did not pay attention enough :D
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Hi,
here is my playthrough of your game on YouTube enjoy!
https://youtu.be/PNEZD-ChBJA
You owe me a Virtual Handshake!
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I'll post the full video Playthrough once it has uploaded to youtube!
Here is the full Video:
Hope you enjoy!
https://youtu.be/EqeyVj74Duk
@raffe Thank you for the kind words <3
I mostly do this since I'd be playing and rating anyway, so why not just hit record and make some videos that help the other devs😊
Hi,
here is my playthrough of your game, I really enjoyed it! I hope you enjoy my playthrough as well!
https://youtu.be/2TBEYIayBx8
Wow I beat you only just, so close!
First try!
Amazing game!!
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@wolfier Someone took the record right back with 90 Now I got 93 I recorded it this time and will upload to youtube so it does not seem "too perfect" ;)
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@wolfier Highscores in LD games are easily hackable so I could see how someone might think an 81 Highscore shortly after it was posted to the main page seems suspicious, so I just wanted remove any doubt :)
@peace-of-cake-games Haha I can't resist a good Highscore or Speedrun challange. I was thinking maybe I could develop a Highscore and Speedrun system for LD as a Unity Plugin or something that there could be official Highscore and Speedrun challenges in future LDs :D
This was intense! Did not record this run but highscore :)
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Hi,
here is my Playthrough of your game I hope you enjoy!
https://youtu.be/Eln-GXyhztk
Here is my Playthtough of your game as you requested:
https://youtu.be/NgghhSVaBlQ
hope you enjoy!
I'm glad it was helpful <3
Hi,
here is my Youtube Playthrough of your game as you requested.
I hope you enjoy!
https://youtu.be/1ykwctpd2P8
I heard there was a highscore competition :D
@ me if someone beats it :)
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Why was the Highscore reset again?
Anyway I beat my score from yesterday by a lot. However the hit system seems buggy. There were quite a lot of moments where I thought I should have died. I recorded the run so I'll upload it to youtube
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I just realized all the pieces that I thought should have killed me were 4-big pieces, maybe this is a feature that the 4 pieces are not strong enough to crush you?
Anyway Here is the Video:
https://youtu.be/jUjDeXSEZIU
@javasaurus
I use no auto clicker, but I can click very fast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN9evVZp1tA
Now for this I used two fingers, with one finger as I would use while normally playing I can get something like 7 klicks per second
https://klickspiel.net/
Absolutely awesome game.
Here is my playthrough :)
https://youtu.be/9T4PjN-3iVs
Hope you enjoy!
This was fun I farmed a lot of lives at the one up thing in the start only to realize later that you can simply use fake quarters :D Certain sections become tedious after a while especially if it takes ages to reset just so you get another chance at a shot that would let you progress
Hi here is my YouTube Playthrough I hope you enjoy! https://youtu.be/F-VMUzH2Ghg
Hi,
Here is my Video Playthrough of your game, I hope you enjoy
https://youtu.be/wO0MVUZ7yEg
@patrickjr Thank you so much, I added a day one post LD patch that should adress both your major points somewhat.
@thebox193 Oh this seems to be an itch.io issue. I think I fixed it now
@ambear try to explore a bit further out. Then you find yellow crystals. If you mine those and bring them back you win :)
@patrickjr The Post-LD version should now adress all of your critisism. You no longer have to move and shoot at the same time. Light becomes 360 degrees if you upgrade. And the Camera no longer lags behind while moving.
@bongard22 I Implemented it so that you only move with right click now in the Post-LD version. Fighting should be much more fun like this.
@yellowkamel You can now shoot whithour accelerating in the Post-LD version. Maybe give it another try
@zeusonator Check out the new update on the post LD version
@hanna-knop Fighting should be a lot better in the post LD version since you no longer have to move and shoot at the same time
@jake-marks thank you so much for playing. Yesterday I published a patch that allows you to only move when holding right mouse button. Check it out if you want to
@fpeg Thanks so much for the kind words. This has indeed been fixed in the post-LD version 😊
@exopunk Thank you so much for the helpfull review
> i would have liked them to be disabled after the first time they were shown
this is already done in the Post LD version
> for the dialog i would have liked to able to skip to the finished phrase instead of going to the next phrase when pressing “next”.
thx I'll keep that in mind for the next post LD update
> but i would have preferred to lose a fixed amount of money on death
yeah not sure if your solution is the best, but definetly something that needs some tweaking, I agree
>I liked the graphics a lot and the little touches like the shattering of the crystals and the enemies dissolve. Great job overall!
@mellifera You did a great job with the graphics I can only agree ;)
@flying-dog-fish Glad to see that you are still here. I remember playing your LD 45 game :)
Yeah the gunplay is one of the weakest points of the LD version, but I fixed it in the post LD version :)
@dob thanks for the extensive review. I tried many things for movement and guns and they all somehow felt even worse. Someone playing my game on twitch said, "what if you only move with right click" such a genius solution, I wish I came up with that during LD haha. Skipping the dialogue to full text together with hit sounds/animations for the player are the two things that will come with the next patch.
@peace-of-cake-games Ah yes I was trying to come up with an easter egg for when you ignore the "stop going left" message. I guess I Will activate Smith then ^^. The Story is not actually the trigger for the win screen. But you only need to mine ~0.5s to gather enough to win (I gave the yellow crystal ridiculous values).
How come you tried Genesis 1 now? I was a bit dissapointed after so many people told me they'd give 5 points for humor and it ended with less than 4 points on average. I guess humor is subjective and some people must have found it not funny at all, Imo it is better in theme and humor than "While loops".
@john-llyod-apolo @wizard-sino The combat is fixed in the post Jam version if you want to check it out
@dob @exopunk New Post LD patch now skipps to the finished text and added hit sound and animation to the Player submarine
@zathnic Have you tried the Post LD version? I basically inverted the logic for shooting: the bullet travels exactly to where you click and the submarine rotates to a position where the shot would be believable. Or do you mean the position of the Drill that changes? That is a little bit annoying still.
@honey-pony
Thanks for the in depth review.
> One problem I ran into on my playthough in the post-jam version is, I decided to buy the rocket launcher first. However, I found I couldn’t really use it
I am Suprised by that. The rocket launcher is target seeking, maybe you have not noticed that? you don't have to aim at all with the rocket launcher, which makes it the most over-powered. With the rocket launcher you don't even have to stop mining to keep fighting
> But then I was down $5500 and so it took me a very long time to get enough money for a fast ship–so I had to keep going really far down and mining crystals with a slow ship. I think a selling system would help here, so I could sell my gun or my old submarines, even at say half price, so that I wouldn’t be punished too much by selling things out-of-order.
A selling system would of course throw the balance off since you could get everything faster, so I would need to rebalance the prices at the same time. I think what makes it frustrating is that you have to go so deep down, so maybe a quick fix for this would be to regrow the Crystals after a while.
> I think that the punishment for dying is too much–it should probably be a fixed cost, like $400 or so.
I had mixed feedback on this. Some people thought it is fair that they get to keep the upgrades some people would have prefered a fixed cost. I'll experiment with this. The problem I see with a fixed cost is that in the late game it would be like peanuts. Maybe this could be scaled with the ships value. But again I think the most frustrating part is that there are no crystals left close to the top, so regrowing crystals would be a quick fix while I can experiment with the rest.
> It also seems like it might be possible to burn through so many crystals that the game becomes outright impossible? I’m not quite sure.
Yes it could run out, but I think this is more something you would actively have to try and archive.
> One thing I found frustrating about the combat is that often, a very large number of enemies would spawn, and I would essentially have to go back up to the surface–trying to fight them off would result in a great loss in health. Especially when I was stuck with the slow, unupgraded ships, going really deep for a couple more crystals, I would often lose like 3/4 of my health in a matter of seconds and just have to pray that I don’t die before I can upgrade my ship, as that would result in a ton of lost progress.
I don't see this as a bad thing necessarily. It is a risk reward situation. The spawnrates increase with depth. This is of course a problem if you are forced to go deep because all the surface crystals are already mined.
**tl;dr I will add regrowing crystals, which should be a quick fix for most of your problems**
@shakedimus Thank you very much. Have you tried the Post Jam version? it has much better shooting
@emperor-eagle Thank you so much for the review, Same as for shakedimus: Have you tried the Post Jam version? it has much better shooting, although I have not yet tried it with touchpad.
Hi,
Here is my playthrough of your game. I hope you enjoy watching!
https://youtu.be/rMymvTXdqUM
I did not really read the description my bad! So I did not try placing blocks and I did not know about the laggs :sweat_smile:
@ogelgames
Ah Yes I missed a very essential feature :D
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Hi,
here is my playthrough of your game, I hope you enjoy!
https://youtu.be/hvWm-AIaeuI
Hi, here is my playthrough of the game.
I got a highscore of 318
https://youtu.be/80c0VXQp7nw
Enjoy!
@frogman I'm glad my Video helped. Yeah these small quality of life features go a long way, but they often fall short in LD games. Feel free to @ me when someone beats my Highscore :D
Hi,
here is the Video you requested :)
I just watched it again and I sound a bit over critical.
I just want to reiterate I am totally amazed by the game! Even with the flaws I mention this is still one of the better games I played! It just overall has this unfinished feel and I think with your team's talent, if you had opted to make a simpler, more polished game you could have been a real contender for some of the top spots!
Anyway here is the Video!
https://youtu.be/zpT7EO38FpQ
Hi,
Here is my Playthrough of your game as you requested
https://youtu.be/P1QeSAgRLSg
Hi,
here is my playthrough of your game
https://youtu.be/DloG77Ow288
hope you enjoy!
Hi,
Here is my Playthrough of your game enjoy!
https://youtu.be/JNPEiaRY5-I
Just FYI I got a copyright infringement claim on the video for the background music. This is not a problem since my channel is not monetized anyway. But make sure you have the rights to the music you use :)
I really liked all the meme fish. That was a funny idea and the reason why i tried this game. I actually managed to find all of them. The gameplay is a little boring after a while, you just go left to right and back until you find all of them. The graphics are great tho. And it fits the theme how you have to go deeper and deeper to find all of them
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@patrickjr thanks for your fanstastic feedback on our game again. I have now implemented most of what you suggested. Give it another try if you have not already
I really liked your game. It was a lot of fun and I tried getting a new highscore for quite a while. I love the art and the audio. My biggest critisicm would be the difficulty curve. The game starts out easy, stays easy till ~25k points and then just seems to get very overwhelming very fast. I would increase the spawn rate more slowly after maybe 20k so that you can spend more time at the sweetspot where you can just about keep the enemies in check if you don't mess up, because that is where the game is the most fun.
Haha lets See if I can get the Highscore again :) I also made a Deep Sea themed game this time. I am in the final phase of publishing maybe Check it out later.
1708 Highscore is done!
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Since you asked for a Youtube Video under my Post,
here are some Record attempts Including a PB ;)
https://youtu.be/qDTTlqDKnk8
@arthurds new version is soooo much easier Record on the first attempt @stefan-laimer
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I also recorded it but uploading takes time
Finally finished uploading:
Here:
https://youtu.be/sLzuBe2ZkAc
Hi, Here is my YouTube Playthrough Although you seem to have found it already!
https://youtu.be/rvVwNNE1Dfo
@luddegodofpain Glad you found it helpfull. Although you might also try to get someone with no bash experience, I think it might be a lot harder if you don't have any bash or other console experience.
@luddegodofpain I think one simple fix for that would be to have the look command show directories in addition to the files.
Hi,
As you requested Here is my Playthrough of your game.
https://youtu.be/EQxwoy63ltw
I got stuck a little bit before realizing the lighter is in the kitchen.
Other than that it was a fantastic game. Watch the vid for more feedback :)
Also check out our game if you want to.
Hi,
here is my attempt of playing the game:
https://youtu.be/0z55FhSrZ-A
Enjoy :)
@acdia Yeah it seems like you don't really develop a feeling for the Hitbox since it is first person. Have you tried how the game works in third person?
Here is my playthrough
https://youtu.be/NFvfoV-8N1A
hope you enjoy!
Hi,
Very nice game!
Here is the Youtube Playthrough you requested :)
Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/VkKpqw6paa8
Hi Unfortunately I lost my first recording of a playthrough, but I have recorded it again.
Here is the Video:
https://youtu.be/OdRbYJ8lNSU
Hi :)
Here is the youtube Playthrough
https://youtu.be/TJ00kOWcPGU
Enjoy :)
Hi, Here is my Playthrough of your game:
I hope you enjoy!
https://youtu.be/YBGdsFh47rc
@dmitrygalias Yeah I think the last level you can't logically exclude any of the boxes to contain a bomb and all the others you just follow the zeros. I think the original Minesweeper mechanic would have worked better. Other than that awesome game!
Hi,
here is my Playthrough of your game, enjoy it!
https://youtu.be/mD0nOADV3n4
Hi,
Here is my Playthrough of your game as you requested.
Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/AR7K2Xyf8k4
Cool Game! The hit dectection is a bit buggy and at a certain depht it becomes to narrow for the submarine and it starts glitching into the walls. Other that that cool game!
Hi,
Here is my playthrough of your game
https://youtu.be/IZvn4zpDR1k
I did not really understand how you get points. Especially since dying over and over just helps you increase your score. And I tried to figure out if you get more or less points by going faster but it did not seem to matter, so I am not sure. In the end I just died over and over until my score was over 3000
Hi,
Here is my playthrough of your game :)
Why can't I rate this on humor? Totally deserves a humor grade :D
https://youtu.be/8nnmeL6zboM
Very Cool graphics, a tutorial would have been helpfull. It took a while to understand the mechanics without one. But it plays well once you understood them.
Quite cool game, I liked it :)
I would have loved a sensitivity slider for the mouse, I don't really like the high sensitivities.
Also on the morse code one you could just hold down the button.
I managed to save the reactor :)
Interessting Concept. I could only play against myself, which is not Ideal, would have loved a rudimentary ai
To the pepole that can't figure out what to do, you need to shoot the flag roughly 10 times, there is a litte sound effect playing when you hit it :)
Game was very funny :)
This Game is absolutely brilliant, so simplistic and fun. Well deserved win!
Awesome Graphics! 5/5 I hope to see this in the Top 10 of Graphics at the end :)
Really cool game overall :)
Very polished and adicting game! I had a lot of fun playing this. My score was 153414 x28. The controls took a little getting used to but then it works quite well.
please mark your link as Windows and not HTML5 Web if you don't have a build that is playable on the web
@peace-of-cake-games Thanks for the very kind words. I am not sure yet if I'll find time to develop this further.
Can't wait for Honk-IV ;)
Everything else has been said :)
Volume sliders don't work :(
Also I would have loved a checkpoint system, it got really frustrating to always start from the beginning. And I agree with previous commenters that everything needs a little bit more polish. Next time maybe scale a little bit smaller with the project but actually have it well polished.
That being said the graphics and audio were really good! There would have been a lot of potential for this game!
incredible work! This game creates an atmosphere that is just astounding and then tells a story without really using words. Just WOW! Keep up the good work!
Game is verry well done :) However, I am garbage at playing this :D SO I Don't think I'll attempt records this time... :(
@arthurds I think I found the strat :D
Check the Leaderboard :)
Hey, just found this game with exactly the same concept :) https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/block-it-neon
Saw a streamer play it and knew I had to try it myself. Did not get dissapointed. The game is very well polished :)
Nearly the exact same concept as this game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/unstable-tricky-table
very nicely executed! All the different angles you added really helped!
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Perfect Score :)
Nice Game, I liked it a lot :)
Cool little story Game, I liked it :)
The font was a little hard to read especially if you were distracted by the acess code and had to catch up fast. Was there a way to find the acess codes? I just did trial and error :D
I had the same bug as @r3dleg, alse had quite a laugh :)
Overall absurd and funny game :)
Hamster Vibing in Space <3
I got a score of 1700, The strategy I came up with was to build a ring of yellow throw everything else out and then fill it up with blue rods. My runs always die because I accidentaly pick up one of the yellows and everything starts to tumble :(
Maybe I'll grind for the highscore later.
Overall very good and polished entry!!
Cool little platformer. Overall it worked and was quite a lot of fun. Sometimes you had to wait quite long for the axe to swing back which killed the flow a little. I had 39 deaths in the end. Mostly I was just impatient :D
Very cool Idea, Highest Level I got was 11. Sometimes the layout of the higher level screwes you over so much that it is impossible to complete them. Other than that I had much fun with everything. Good job :)
Very cool Game I reached 16000 points :) , I really liked the pixel art! A little tutorial would have been nice, I could not figure out what the burning ninja in the bottom right is supposed to do also I did not figure out the sword. I only used the ninja star and the dash :D But other than that the game work really well!
Very cool game! Nice take on the theme. I went for a banana strategy and had it in a stable equilibrium at about 10 banana plants. Then I got greedy for more profits and everything collapsed. Lessons to be learned :D. Cool concept and nice execution!
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Very Cool Game I managed to get over 100 on normal after a few tries :)
NeonHighscore.png 150 new highscore :)
Wow, I loved this! So Incredibly Well done.
I'd maybe add a Zen mode without the timer, or maybe I'M just bad :D
The visuals and audio were absolutely stunning good job!
One of my favorite entries so far :)
Quick tip for the webGL build bind the options to something else than escape since it also closes Fullscreen. Makes it impossible to play for me in fullscreen since I can't change the sensitivity
Nice Concept, Overall it works quite well. Here are a few points of critisism:
1. a little buggy in some places. You can get stuck under ladders etc. Make sure you clip off everything.
2. The shots of the gun landed always to the bottom right of the crossair, starting from the first shot. you can maybe look into getting a better recoil model.
3. Hit Feedback. Make the enemies glow a little when they are hit etc. Like this I was never quite sure if I was hitting them.
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very addicting!
in the end I was getting nothing that increased my dps for a long time... Is that on purpose, or was I just unlucky?
@joewan ahh too bad, in that case I guess I have to play more rounds hoping for better luck xD
I got 1K Really cool concept! I like :)
Very cool Idea! Nicely Done! I really liked the puzzle aspect. My biggest criticism is the responsiveness of the mouse. Most of the time it takes me two or three clicks until the game reacts. Once the mouse is held down the game works just fine. Only the initial click is troublesome. This is very problematic because it makes certain passages near unbeatable since you need quick mouse movement.
Later when i come home I might come back to try this game on a different system, maybe also others can comment if they have issues or if this is an Isolated problem for me?
Also I had no Audio Available here so I might give an audio score later also.
Very cool game! I liked it a lot. Very cool take on the theme!
It lacks a little bit of polish since it is so feature rich, but it is amazing for the timeframe!
@makio64 thanks for the longer review <3
Unfortunately I could not really find time on the weekend so I did the whole project on Monday after work, just so I don't loose my 6 (now 7) LD streak. This is actually a 12h Game not a 3day game so I did not have time for anything fancy :D
I should have made the Ballspeed increase quicker but I did not really have time to play test that..
@wegpast Yeah I did not find much time this LD :(
This was more supposed to be a story with some short interactive parts, that apparently got a little too long. I just did not want to loose my consecutive LD streak. Thanks for the honest review! I apreciate it :)
Overall super solid entry!!
I found it a bit counterintuitive that the energy drained not by how much distance was driven, but rather how often I clicked. Once I figured that out, beating it was quite easy :)
Other than that, I liked the art style, I liked the interpretation of the theme and I liked the rover of course :)
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Very cool game! really interessting take on the theme I like it a lot. The game lagged a little bit for me, but that might be because I played on a 4k monitor
some more notes from my highscore hunting:
maybe having the snakes not spawn from the corner you are closest to could be an improvement. it is incredibly frustrating when a snake spawns basically right on top of you.
I can confirm the lags do not come from the 4k monitor but probably from the pathfinding and collision resolve
Really cool game!
The art style was absolutely beautiful, I really liked it :) The story was also cool and funny.
One criticism I have is that for me the text speed was much too slow. However, you can't skip to the end of the sentence, because if you hit space it starts the next sentence instead of completing the current one. This would be a small fix that would make the game much more enjoyable for me :)
Really cool game :)
I would have loved some sort of score or timer, so that you could compete for highscores or something :D
Also when I hit restart the game freezes and crashes :(
A Pomo game with janky physics? What could you want more from a LD entry. Let the Highscore battle begin
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Unfortunately I missed the tournament since I was on Vacation.
It took me a long time this LD but I finally made it to the Top of your leaderboard.
One speedrunning trick for anyone wanting to beat this score: Sideways acceleration is faster than forward. So use your mouse to turn yourself sideways and accelerate with a or d as often as you can! It is tricky but, once mastered, it makes especially the start much faster
I made it to round 6 :)
Really well polished. I very much liked the chill vibes this creates. Audio and Viusal work very well together here. Good job overall!
I got 19 rounds. It got incredibly stressful towards the end!
This is one of the most polished games I have ever seen in a Ludum Dare! And this has the best audio of any LD game I have ever played! Definetly very strong overall!
Made $22.6 Million $99,999.99 Subscription definetly worth it!
Very Nice entry! Got 180s. Not sure If I want to try to challenge the Highscores on this one tho xD
In general a really cool game, but for my taste way too much luck dependent. I got 160 on my first try (or my first real try after figuring out falling things kill you) and then never got close again to that score for half an hour of playing. I was just very lucky on the first run. Lucky with the drops, lucky with the bounces... The inconsistent bounces are very frustrating while playing.
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Really cool concept in general. I liked the art. The tutorial was also really good. I had to play it muted so I won't rate audio. However, there needs to be some sort of limit on how many or how often you can place things. Maybe a shop system where you get points for killing monsters and then can spend them on buildings. I just built this undefeatable setup in the first minute which killed most things before they'd ever reach the visible area. Was not really much fun that way.
@velvetlobster I used Stable Diffusion instead of Dall-E or Midjourney. It gives a lot more creative control, making it a lot more predictable. On the downside you have to spend time fiddling with all the different settings every time you want to generate something. But once you have found some good settings for a certain asset you can quickly generate a lot of stuff in similar style.
@velvetlobster that varied a lot. Some assets went rather quick like the platforms for normal type. I first asked text to image to generate platforms. that did not work well then I drew a big brown blob into one of the backgrounds and asked it to generate platforms from that. then it took like 3-4 more iterations of choosing the best output image and it was spitting out one great platform after the other. The Ice platforms were trickier. It did not want to turn a white blob into an ice platform and just kept erasing it. eventually I slapped a glacier from google images onto one of the generated backgrounds and, from that, after a few more iterations it was again spitting out one great platform after the other. Then every asset took like a minute of cleanup on photoshop. In total I would say it took ~ 5-30 minutes (it varied a lot) to get a good setup for a new asset and then it would take 1-2 minutes for each variation of that asset.
I had practiced a lot with stable diffusion the last two weeks before LD started. You really need to get a feel for what all the different settings do.
I also plan on making a blogpost about my process when I find the time :)
@velvetlobster https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/world-warp/gernerating-assets-using-ai-for-our-ld-games
@bredera @brandon1037 @keffk5 @velvetlobster @d-j-o-v-i-c @immow @simon-rahnasto @erlioniel @savolae @paul-avallone
I accidentally checked "Do not rate on Theme" in the beginning. If you guys could quickly leave a Vote on Theme, that would be much appreciated! Thank you!
@ping78 actually with the artstyle I was going for, many of the common style words in the prompts made them worse. Instead of High detail, Sharp, 4k, Trending on artstarion etc. I often even used low detail and blur :)
mail.jpg I think the game does not display correctly for me?
I have a 4k display on chrome
Really Really fun game. The taunting Tank in the back strategy is very overpowered :D I got destroyed by that on one playthrough and then implemented it myself. Its crazy :D
Really cool game! 5/5 on Mood for sure. The Audio was also fantastic. The Theme feels a little bit just slapped on top and dying due to not finding a firefly quickly enough felt a bit annoying. But those are minor negative points for an overall awesome game!
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really cool Game!
I got the final robot and it did not take long for my resources to overflow.
The only slight negative I have, is that the clicking got annoying at some point, a click hold and brush would have felt nicer I think.
Really Cool! I am really interested in the exact settings for stable diffusion that you used.
We made our game completely with AI generated Assets from Stable diffusion. I wrote about the asset creation process in a blogpost here:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/world-warp/gernerating-assets-using-ai-for-our-ld-games
Would be cool to share experiences about Stable diffusion
Very cool game! I really liked the art and it seems very polished. Good job on coordinating such a big team! The switching mechanic was very cool. But I'm just repeating everything that has been said before. Good job overall!
Virus scanner detected something in the file...
I opened it anyway. Just hope you are not malicious :D
I liked the artstyle and the unexpected things coming from the conveyor belt :D
Great Game Again Pomo! , I'll have to get that high score some time :)
Link is Broken, pls fix :)
Very cool game, you really improve with timing the auto attack with your movements. I played three rounds, my highest score was 67 :)
Hey guys :) you should not publish your games until you have provided a playable link. Right now this game is at the top of the list, because no one can rate it.
Really cool game, the controls really hurt my brain, but in a good way :D
I have to come back to this once I got some sleep after jamming
Very cool to see an fps game. However for my taste the sesitivity was way too high. The game needs a sensitivity slider :)
Snail Stuck!
Still faster than our local snailmail haha :D
Finished all 12 Levels. The difficulty curve was very well designed :)
@martenscedric I actually enjoyed the timer, you could think through your moves before starting the timers. Without the timers this would have been just another puzzle game for me and would have gotten a lower innovation score for sure :)
Thank you so much for dropping by My stream! I really enjoyed the game :)
Thank you so much for dropping by My stream! I really enjoyed the game :)
I just ran in with the scout and ran back out lol
So Creative! I love it!, Very polished and well designed! Played through all the levels, definetly one of my favorites so far
Insane!! best game I played in any Ludum Dare so far, crazy!
5/5
Please hook me up to your drug dealer, you must have been on some real Soma 31-37 to get this out in three days!
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found a weapon that filled the entire screen with bullets and killing everything almost instantly, was easy after that :) Don't kno if i collected a dev weapon or if the extra bullet upgrades did that
Thank you so much for dropping by My stream! I really enjoyed the game :)
Crazy cool 3D modelling, impressive for the time.
I killed all enemies collected all artifacts and brought them to the respective stations but then nothing happend... I guess a bug? I think the sword got stuck in the rock somehow and did not prroperly trigger the ending.
A Sword Stuck in a rock is kinda fitting tho lol
@manmantas just post it here in the comments, then I can at least see it :)
@manmantas I get a bunch of errors trying to extract the zip now
The name of the target folder is too long:
"That one time I became Merlin's apprentice and was tasked with destroying his magic artifacts and tax papers_BurstDebugInformation_Do_Not_Ship"
lol
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ok got it to work by manually specifying a shorter folder name, but you might still want to look into that haha
@Kroos unless you got super unlucky and none of your villages generated merchants, there should be one or two merchants in every village. simply click on them
@bukaanka very good suggestion :D why didn't I think of that haha so simple. I blame sleep depravation
@ripz Congrats! your the first one on the list!!
with the weak butter Knife Equipped haha
@niz Thank you so much for the Feedback :)
not every town has two merchants. If you hover over the village name in the contract, you can see the merchants that will be available in the next village.
Your Money should be in the top left as you can see in all the screenshots here. What aspect ratio are you using? We did test most common aspect ratios.
and yes we did run out of time for music :(
"From the second mission onwards, an empty dialog appeared. Not sure what should be in there. " yeah it's a bug I am aware of, have not tracked it down yet tho.
@ludumdarevd6xh No we used a bunch of Premade assets mostly from the POLYGON Series from the Synty Store. We opted out of graphics for that reason :)
@i-iv-v-i Yeah Unfortunately ran out of time for adding music :( I have some Sound libaries from the Asset store with fitting music, but I might come back to you, if we actually continue to work on this. :)
@batony-robson Agreed our project was over scoped, however making it 2D would not really helped at all since we used pre-made assets anyway.
But maybe it is a also little bit your frustration talking? Several players now completed the game which means they enjoyed it enough to play the ~ 45 min required to do so. You, on the other hand, made a less complex game with more people and yet, somehow, yours is more broken...
Personally I have learned a lot from this project, which is always my main goal for any game jam. So I don't regret doing this :)
@someone WOW thank you so much for the detailed review!!
> The final fight was really easy compared to some of the others with massive armies.
I know :( this was one of the first things I complained about to @yaboihz after the game was done, he was responsible for balancing, but we were tight on time as you can probably imagine. Also Armor is ridiculously OP at the moment, once you reach i think 700 you are invincible.
I will consider all of your feedback for a potential post jam version. Most of it came down to the large (over-)scope of the game, so it was impossible to fix everything.
Thanks again for the detailed feedback :)
@juutis
Another very detailed review! Thank you soo much :)
>Some additional feedback for hitting enemies and getting hit. Yeah, there’s the health bar but it only appears when you hit someone for the first time, so some additional indicator would be really nice. In the beginning I had really no idea if I was hitting them with my butter knife (turns out I was out of range).
yes that was on the very top of my list of things to do, right after music and SFX. One more day and it would have made it in for sure
>The enemies would often get stuck in obstacles (which frankly made the bow even more powerful sweat_smile). I suggest you check out Unity’s NavMesh. It’s super easy way to get basic pathfinding into your games.
yes I have used NavMesh before and similarly it was on my list of things to add to the game, but time ran out
Ill also keep the other things you mentioned in mind for a potential post jam version. Most of them were on my list anyway :)
Thank you again soo much for the review!
@archaeognathus thank you for the bug report :)
may I ask why it prevented you from finishing the level?. You can always just ignore the enemies. Going on a pacifist run with just armor and movement speed is intentionally a viable strategy ;)
@archaeognathus
Oh yeah that's an issue... on that gate you sometimes have to wiggle around a little bit so the cart hitbox actually passes the gate. That will be fixed on the post jam version.
@markais thank you for the review, I'm currently reworking the combat system for the postjam, so this is good insight :)
About the controls, I think the way they came about was the order of operation. The first thing I implemented was the player movement with the cart to the goal, only later I added the combat. And I was quite happy how the movement with the cart worked :)
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working on it
Still much improvement possible :)
Finally got a run I am half way happy with
my time on level 4 still can be improved a lot tho
https://youtu.be/EEUQuvG5nYE
@cheesepencil resetting the game reset the cycles. I had the cycles for the first 2 levels optimized, after that my runs had too much variance. Btw does the time advance between levels (both for cycles and highscore?) and how about after a death? Important things to know for optimization haha :D
@cheesepencil Interessting so I can save a few more seconds by more quicky pressing circle to continue haha. I think i can also save one more cycle on level 3 with that :) Also you could wait after cart load to get different cycles.
Man I can see myself grinding this another 1-2 hours tonight lol
Ran a few more attempts today, the fast cycle in level 3 is possible but insanely difficult. I only got it once so far.
if you turn around and flap on the same frame you maintain your speed, its too inconsistent for me right now for the speedruns but potential for a lot of timesave
@cheesepencil
one thing you could fix that would drastically improce speedrunning is that when you hit the new level button for more than one frame it does a flap at the start of the level. that makes it e.g. impossible to clear the first formation on level 2. Maybe make it so it does not register the flap input if it was pressed on level select?
Thank you so much for dropping by My stream! I really enjoyed the game :)
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thx for hanging out in the stream, beat my highscore again after you were gone ;)
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1814791051?t=6h01m53s
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was not recording video unfortunately
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@markais getting close
@markais got a 52.00 on stream rn :)
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Thank you so much for dropping by My stream! I really enjoyed the game :)
A bit janky, after the tutorial the back button did not work
After completing the tutorial I started the first game and imediately I could not recognize the item on the order with anything on the shelfs. I picked up somthing that I thought could be it, but it was aparently wrong. After I packaged the wrong item. Nothing worked anymore and every time i pressed q a green marker spawned, after a while the whole screen was full with green markers
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On my next run I managed to create the package for the first order, but then the package disapeared and I could not deliver it giving me no revenue. The item was cleared from the queue. When doing the second Item the queue, same thing happend again
I liked the Idea of the concept, And this is probably a bunch of fun playing with multiple friends if it works properly, but for me was unfortunately kinda broken :)
I just saw you tried to fix some of those already but it seems like stuff is still broken :(
POMO!
I love this!!!
Your best so far IMHO
I'll grind this a lot I think.
My highscore run was pretty early with a lot of good rng, since then I have gotten so much better at the movement (it feels truly fantastic), but not such RNG again...
Congrats man, deserved :)
Very Relaxing game haha. But you can't really loose if you pay just a little bit of attention :)
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Thank you so much for dropping by My stream! I really enjoyed the game :)
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Died on purpose because it was starting to get boring haha
really clean, but there should have been more levels after 5 so that at some point it does get to hard to continue :)
really liked the asthetics :)
Thank you so much for dropping by My stream! I really enjoyed the game :)
Thank you so much for dropping by My stream! I really enjoyed the game :)
Fun little game :D does this just go on forever or can you win somehow?
Also I would make the whole dungeon a viable target for tha drop, not just the small white square :)
Haha you can also play the Game the exact opposite way, trying to make the worst possible Dungeons, nothing preventing you lol
@sprunth if you ever include that stuff in a post jam version, tag me. I'd love to try it :)
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MEEEGA cute game OMG So adorable. I love it :)
The only minor critizicm is for me the obnoxious pop ups got old after a while.
Other than that mega fun to play, and the exact right amount of challanging!
Well done, really great work!!
@lara-menendez
That is awesome, I always wonder how you coordinate so many people, I have somtimes struggled working with only one other person lol
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Looks very cool!
unfortunately the game does not register my mouse clicks :( So I can never use the money I eaned in the shop
How do you even coordinate such a team? haha
I really liked that you included an option to invert the controls, for me they were inverted by default so I had the option to switch them back to normal. However everytime I restarted the level I had to manually switch them again.
I found the easiest way to play was to stay at the station and just shoot the packages. It took me way less than 10s on avarage to deliver a package like this, so I could basically play infinitley.
I stopped at 100 packages haha
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the satallites got really annoying after a while, I think the game could have done without them.
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@mateo-fabbri
https://youtu.be/TEZIAaVeZSw
Recorded some footage for you :)
At first i tried to play with mouse, but, on mouse, correcting for the sattelite impacts took to long (maybe I could have increased dpi?), so for my second run (starting at 3:40) I switch to controller and again manage to build up quite some time :)
I really liked the Artstyle very cohesive.
Controls felt a bit sloppy but other than that I liked this game a lot.
Good Job guys!!
AHHHOOO!
tschschschschsch!
those sound effects hahaha!
really fun entry. enyoyeyed my time with it soo much haha
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played some more off stream #7 world is ok for now i guess
Very Cool Idea!
I really liked the Art and Audio. And overall the Game felt really polished.
I have two minor points to critizse:
-the RNG makes it so that the difficulty varies a lot, I feel like with some more constraints on what to generate next to what this could be improved a lot.
-The grabbing feels a bit inconsitent at times. I think it is because if a grab is sucessfull is defined by where the hand is, and the hand has some delay on the movement. So sometimes it feels like i should have grabbed a ledge while in reality the hand was simply not on top. Maybe a solution could be when the mouse is released try to grab. if it fails, let the hand move to the last mouse position for another like .2s or so and try grab again.
But other than that Really great entry. I would say best I have played so far, but that does not mean much since it is the first I am playing this LD lol :D I might come back later to confirm if it is still the best ;D
Another Suggestion: It would be soo cool to have a Speedrun timer on this for replayability. Since you track the time already this would be as simple as displaying the time at the end of level 1 + at the end of level two. Should be super quick to do.
Can you maybe release a post jam version that displays the time if you win? I would love to hunt this :)
I keep coming back to playing this haha. I would love some more levels :)
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Amazing, very well done!
This game is so well polished :)
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very funny game.
For me (windows build) the controls were very hard. i hat to spam spce like 20 times before the dismount worked and also had to spam the lasso many times before it would register a hit. This made it unfortunately too frustrating for me to complete.
I'll check if the controls are better on web, but other than that (which seems like a bug) the game was fantastic
Haven't played yet, but before I forget, it is never good to use escape as a bind for a WebGL game, since it will just close the fullscreen :)
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Very cool game Overall. I think it shoold increase to more than 3 seagulls at some point. because It gets boring after a while with just three seagulls :)
@mitur Yes enter should work or P for pause is another common one ;)
@mitur are you planning on updateing the game to more than 3 seagulls? if yes ping me in a comment once you do :)
@mitur finally got back to trying it. first place first try :)
8 seagulls finally got me, told you 3 is to little haha
Very Cool Idea!
How does it recognize if you drew correctly? i never managed the third word on the second interaction "to be" it always failed...
1824 Dollars, I am RICH!!! I wish you could earn that in a day of deliveries haha
very fun game :)
and here is the video proof, took some time to render to youtube :)
Also in the first run in the video i get stuck for a while and can't move, I had that bug several times while playing, so you might want to look into that :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUsWYskjaYI
@waptaincaffles
0:15 Stuck Bug
2:30 High Score Run starts
@waptaincaffles I was spamming A and D the whole time, not sure if that effected anything, also I might have hit jump before actually landing. so adding coyote time to the jump inputs might be a solution
@waptaincaffles Oh yeah there is coyote time :D part of the reason why the movement feels so good for sure :) I tried to reproduce the bug, got it a few more times, but I haven't found a consistent setup. I can say for sure it does not have to do with spamming any of the buttons as I managed to get it without that, so I think the collider thing is likely :)
The Rules say
"Certain Bug Fixes are allowed. You can’t add new features, but if something broke or didn’t work correctly as you were finishing up, you can fix this after the deadline. You are asked to highlight the changes you make in your submission (a short change log). You probably wont get a 2nd chance with some players, but at least it wont be a problem for future players."
so this is fine I think
Thank you so much for dropping by My stream! I really enjoyed the game :)
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very addicting trying to beat the highscore haha, buit deliveries don't reset between runs lol
@francis What is the appropriate spot? I think it always ended at that spot hmmm.
@francis In that case I dont think it ended at the appropriate Spot even from the start :(
If you make a post jam version whcih you can properly Speedrun, please tag me in the comments :)
@francis cool, I'll give it a try once I am home from work :)
i liked the game on my first playthrough, but going for highscore is soo incredibly boring...
you die at some point because you got too bored and stopped paying attention. If you keep your attention I think you can go forever
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1185 Highscore
got to 1800 on one run but did not return in time haha
very cool little entry. 10/10 would pee on fire hydrant again
Very cool game.
One thing I feel is missing, is an indicator from where the police is coming.
would have benn such a small and simple thing, and yet it would have increased my fun with this game manyfold.
Increadible graphics and Atmosphere!! I, too, struggled to figure out the controls, after a while I managed to find out how to move the platform up and down and collected some crystals. But at a certain level the platform got stuck and my fps started going down the drain. At some point it was seconds per frame rather than frames per second. As a final act i lifted the platform to the top and walked off screen lol
I did not expect that, that was sooo much fun!!
Could use some coyote time for the jumps, other than that the controls felt verry good.
Very funny 5/5 for humor :)
@kitira
Those controls felt so good for you being a total noob!! Major respect.
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very cool game!
dont think i can add much to everything that has been said already, good job :)
Thank you so much for dropping by My stream! I really enjoyed the game :)
I liked the Idea behind the game, with a bit more polish and variation this could have been really cool and fun to play. For me the game broke on day 2.
But as you said, take this as a learning experience. As long as you learn somthing a jam participation is never a failure :)
I think there is a bug when you catch a boxe back, and lose it again it counts as two pizza boxes lost, because sometimes I find that I lose whit like half the pizza boxes still there, and its usually after I did an impressive "everything flew out and I caught them again" moment. This is such a shame because those are the coolest imo, but they get punished.
Also How is this so hard? haha
Really well made overall. I like the artstyle, and it gives you this, "i feel like i was so close, just one more try" feeling Haha.
in level three if you never catch the boxes in the start you can win without boxes due to the same bug haha
Very cool game! I tend to die when I try to kick out other balls. Just trying to survive would probably the better strat haha.
Had to play muted audio at work so wont rate audio or mood.
Thanks so much for dropping by my stream. I really had some fun with this one :) Unfortunately the Vod seems to be gone...
Found the VOD afterall if you want to see it again :)
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1946756082?t=2h48m40s
@im-not-a-robot Thanks so much for playing
making a settings menu for sound and sensitivity etc was on top of the to do list the entire jam i think but I always thought I'll do it later until I ran out of time.
Currently the game is broken in the editor. Trying to do a webgl build corrupted the project. I have some backups from noon last day so I'll try to reinstate everything and do a post jam version with fixes.
A quick fix would be changing the dpi setting of your mouse
@im-not-a-robot
Post Jam with sensitivity slider is there :)
@ayxs Thank you so much for the detailed review!
Actually there is a bug with some of the upgrades in the jam version. Everything that does not have a base value of 1 does get way smaller upgrades than intended. Those are: bullet speed, fire rate, and movement speed. Maybe I forgot some more. This has been fixed in the post jam.
The game is a Highscore style game. There is no "beating" the game. And as such it is designed in a way that you will loose eventually. With the right upgrades you can go on for a long time though. The best strategies I have found involve the bombs. Luck to spawn more of them, growth to make them grow quicker, explosion power to increase their blast radius. If you get the right power ups you can get very satisfying bomb chain reactions. Balancing is still an issue, you can become very overpowered and the game will become boring. Eventually the spawn rate will catch up and you will loose but it's not a fun experience once you get past a few million points. The post jam is slightly better but still has balancing issues.
The jam version has a bug where the green time spheres and blue point spheres are still collected after you die and get applied as soon as you start the next game. This is also patched in the post jam.
One thing that might not be really well explained in general: The spheres are growing and will divide once they reach twice their initial size. Hence the name "Multiplosphere". So it can also be smart not to take the upgrades, bombs and gold spheres immediately but wait for them to multiply first.
Thanks for submitting this to the steam I enjoyed it quite a bit. Unfortunately the Vod seems to be gone...
I found the Vod! I thought it was lost but turns out it was just not published!
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1941509314?t=00h39m29s
Really really cool game, very well polished!!
Minor point of critique: sometimes the dragging felt a bit off. It did not place the tiles where I wanted it to. I think the point where the pieces are relative to the mouse coursor is pre defined and not the point where it is actually clicked. As long as the game is slow-paced, this is not an issue as the ghost blocks show exactly where the block will be placed. However, once it gets faster, there is no time to watch for the ghost block. At that point intuitevly you just move the mouse to where you want to place the particle. Now if the pickup point is pre-defined and not where the mouse is actually clicked, this feels off. and you don't place the blocks where you actually wanted to place them.
This was especially frustrating on the final level.
Other than that, I really enjoyed it a lot. I had to play with muted audio since I played this at work. This means I wont be rating audio and mood but I probably will do that when I can play this with audio from home :)
My second Favorite Pomo game after Package Punk!!!!
Found the vod :)
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1946756082?t=00h06m46s
Thank you so much for submitting this to my stream! I enyoed it a lot and got better with driving over time. Unfortunately the vod of my playthrough seems to be gone
I found the Vod! I thought it was lost but turns out it was just not published!
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1941509314?t=00h14m33s
Was playing this at work with muted audio, so did not leave a reating for that and mood, will probably come back to try with audio at home though.
I enjoyed this verz much! I think this is my fovorite game this jam so far. A lot of strategizing. From my experience such games require a lot of coding so often polish falls to the side. Not with this entry. Really well done! Good job!
Thanks for stopping by my stream today! Unfortunately it seems like vods are not saved on my channel at the moment. Unfortunately the game kept crashing on my best runs :(
I found the Vod! I thought it was lost but turns out it was just not published!
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1946756082?t=0h39m25s
Also as you saw in the score chaser discord. I'm going for that WR :)
Thank you so much for submitting your game to my stream! I had a lot of fun with it. Unfortunately the Vod of my playthrough seems to be gone.
I found the Vod! I thought it was lost but turns out it was just not published!
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1941509314?t=00h04m58s
Coolest interpretation of the theme I have seen so far!
I had to play with muted audio at work, so I won't rate on audio and mood, but I'll probably come back to play it at home since people are mentioning that the audio is fantastic as well! Very well done!
Thank you so much for dropping by my stream today. I enyoed this quite a lot. My personal highlight was the 72$ Heist :D Unfortunately the Vod seems to be gone...
Turns out the 72$ heist was not lost forever but can be relived on video xD
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1946756082?t=0h56m57s
I liked it quite a lot. The akward controls make the game challanging and fun. I think you found the right balance between very easy controls and too akward that it becomes frustrating. At least for me. Graphically there was a lot gooing on which added to the feeling of limited space.
Overall Good job, really nice entry!
Really cool game, I never quite figured out which sheep like which tune so I was more randomly selecting them haha.
Love the art style, and it is one of the most creative interpretations of the theme I've seen so far!
Maybe a link to the how to play page from the ingame menu could have been helpful but I figured it out anyway :)
Thanks for dropping by my stream! <3
here is the vod if you want to rewatch
maybe I'll find some time to complete the final levels!
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2123241621?t=0h41m36s
@0x0961h no worries :) feel free to drop by the stream anytime. Or latest next LD <3
@roman-dubrovin thank you so much I love it 💕
Hey, while my stream was quiet I found this on top of the games list so I played it,
you can watch it here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2126084861?t=0h33m10s
Thx for dropping by my stream pomo!
here's the vod with your game!
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2123241621?t=1h24m11s
Very cute game!! one of my favorites so far. Nice interpretation of the theme, nice artstyle, just overall job well done!!
Thanks for dropping by my stream! <3
here is the vod if you want to rewatch
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2123241621?t=2h39m15s
@usenrame no worries :) feel free to drop by the stream anytime. Or latest next LD <3
Had a lot of fun with this one, thanks for submitting it to my stream,
you can rewatch the VOD here
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2126084861?t=0h49m49s
Improved to third place
got super close to level 10 as well
I also just spotted that the name of the friends are taken from the leaderboard. That's awesome!!
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OMG first place but 1 friend away from lv 10 :(
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Sorry for spamming the comment section, but I got level 10 :balloon: :fire:
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The game has a bug. Happend to me twice now, IDK if the first time was exactly at the same spot but it was half way trough level 12 as well
At level 12 35/70 friends, the game stops accepting friend matches, but you still get negative points for switching. After roughly 20 seconds maybe, the game resumes as normal and almost inevatably you loose a live. Right now I had a live to spare at that point but the first time the bug happend my run ended right there.
Would be nice if that could be fixed ;)
I'll try to record it happening if that helps.
Detailed description:
-you reach level 12 35/70
-when a shape hits your summoned friend nothing happens, the shape dissapears, no sound, no points, no live lost.
-shapes keep spawning like normal
-you still loose points for switching
-after maybe 20 seconds game goes back to normal
-I reached that point twice, both times the bug happened
@benjamin-halko thx!
Got to lv 12 51/70 without it triggering, so it seems to work :)
Since the bugfix I'm experiencing quite frequent Lag Spikes.
They definetly weren't present before and I restarted PC, cleared browsing cache everything, so I don't think it can be anything on my side
this one https://benjamin-halko.itch.io/make-new-friends
it was running fine on my laptop before and its still running fine on my desktop. So maybe the issue is on my end.
btw the difficulty increase from 12 to 13 is insane. I got into lv 13 with full health 3-4 times now and lost very quickly every time :D
@benjamin-halko its fine I got used to it and beat it now :D
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https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2126084861?t=0h18m7s
Thanks for dropping by the stream here's the VOD for you if you want to rewatch
Congrats on third place!
Thanks for dropping by my stream! <3
here is the vod if you want to rewatch
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2123241621?t=2h5m9s
Thanks for dropping by my stream! <3
here is the vod if you want to rewatch
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2123241621?t=0h24m38s
Thanks for dropping by my stream! <3
here is the vod if you want to rewatch
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2123241621?t=0h4m18s
@lonelygamedev no worries :) feel free to drop by the stream anytime. Or latest next LD <3
Thanks for dropping by my stream! <3
here is the vod if you want to rewatch
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2123241621?t=2h57m1s
Berg Berg Berg Berg Berg Berg Berg Berg Berg Berg!!!
Thanks for dropping by my stream! <3
here is the vod if you want to rewatch
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2123241621?t=2h28m3s
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I think that is the highest so far? :)
I really like the game design and especially the audio, both sound effects and music
Creative interpretation of the theme
The only small critizism i have is the insane difficulty increase from level 8 to 9
I played three rounds all ended in level 9
Level 8 feels like I can play it forever and then 9 is already impossible
Hi @Ategon,
Nice to see you here on my little game!
I only started working on this game Monday at around noon maybe 13 hours total... Just so I wouldn't loose my 12 LD streak. So there was no time to add more variety.
I wanted to add some reference images and different backgrounds. E.g. bacteria viruses molecules atoms so that one gets a better sense of the current scale, but again no time :(
Yes it always stops at 5.61E-30 fm, I guess that is the smallest value a float in unity can represent, and I have non zero and non negative protection in the code so then it just stops. But I think you have now officially created the tiniest creature in the whole tiny creature game jam. Congrats :medal:
And for sure you can use it for Score chasers :)
Very nice entry!
I like the sound desing especially!
The biggest issue as some others have said is the RNG. It is quite frustrating to die because the next platform simply spawned to high.
But a very nice take on the theme, a tiny creature eating even tinier creatures!
Very cool! Impressive scope for a jam game!
One point of critisism: I think the exhaustion mechanic was very annoying and unneccesary. It added nothing to the game for me.
Other than that, I liked it a lot. Again Impressive how many mini games you managed to get into the game in such a short time frame!
Definetly very high on the Mood scale :)
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Very Nice game! I never even used the poop just got all the dogs on the map in range and then used the fleas as a powerfull AOE.
I use a 60% Keyboard without arrow or num keys, so the controls were even more akwward than usual maybe ijkl could be added as ab option?.
Like manys others, I was never cutting one item I was never able to cut a second one. If I cut the cucumber first I couldn't cut the tomato and vice versa.
I hope you'll fix these issues soon, because other than that it was a great entry!
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Very Nice Game! loved the graphics. In the end i just kept pulling random blocks from the bottom of stacks hoping it would do something. Somehow that worked. Not to different from other match3 games sometimes. So well done I guess!
The art on this game is absolutely stunning, and so is the audio. Together they create a great atmosphere. Inceadible work!
The gameplay is abit buggy and slow. Several times I had to restart because something broke. Can't move under water, suddleny the game thinks I'm swimming while I'm on top of the ship etc. I hope you get a more stable version going. Ping me if you do! Unfortunately I have to rate based on the jam version, but this has great potential!
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Awesome game! I loved the fight mechanic with the swinging anchor. The absolute highlight is of course the artstyle with the animations and how fluid everything feels. Good job!
Increadible game!
I played all levels until 1100m and I think i will come back after the jam is over to finish tahe remaining ones. What a game!
Graphics and Atmosphere and Audio were absolute top!
I would have prefered to be able to air strafe just a little, e.g. I died a few times because i wanted to go to a platform essentially just below me, but when I walked off the character kept that speed so i flew past the platform I aimed for. Other than that I have no complaints. Good luck with your ratings!
Very Nice Idea.
I feel like the timings were a little off. I had to intentionally try to hit the buttons when it switched to the next block. But it was a bit annoying. Maybe some input latency issues were involved? idk After a while I was able to somewhat adjust but it still felt off so I did not try for higher levels.
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@riggen thx I am on it, My first priority was to fix the bugs though, since I really screewed up the game in the last hours... Bugfixed Version is out now, I'll see if it compiles for web and how much worse it is performance wise and visually. Pics will also come obviously
@riggen Converting the Project file to WebGL has been going on for over 40 mins now, I guess I try to let it finish overnight. In the meanwhile I uploaded some images :)
Project Folder has 24,0 GB mostly from audio assets... Guess it takes a while to convert that
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@riggen Done Converting. WebGL is up and running but more laggy and looks worse (especially the lack of anti-aliasing)
@floppynub @braeden @clink About the jump section. You will see that the broken part is at an angle, it is higher on the right. So if you jump close to the right side you won't loose any dwarfs :)
I always put the best rewards on the left after a jump, so you have to jump on the right then carefully manouver back to the left. Risk reward kind of gameplay. One more thing I should have made more obvious :laughing:
Thx for all the kind words!
@floppynub @sevadusk @fancyreckless @clink @keeta About the Camera. Actually the camera is at a fixed position and the level is moving below it :D That significantly simplified coding, but is of course annoying with the walls. I will certainly adress this if I find time to work on a post jam version! Also nothing forces you to keep the dwarfs far away from the camera. You can keep them close, that makes the game much easier. I definetly should have reduced the maximum forward movement.
@ronalchue Can you tell me more? That would be very helpful. I have not heard of such a bug in the current version. Could you at least see the intro?
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Awesome game. The polish on this one is unreal. Can't agree more we need a steam version :D
I think I will go back and hunt the highscore a little more after I reviewed some more games!
@glurgludor
The game already has the feel of a full game, it is just lacking the scale. But there are different ways to go about this. Endless mode, story mode, progression upgrade system, different environments, online 1v1.
The core gameplay is perfect as it is maybe a little more variety in terms of blocks so that it stays just as good at a larger scale :)
Very nice Idea!
How do I change my name for the leaderboard? just saw it as user01 didn't ask me either. Or do I have to play non Web version for leaderboard?
@sevadusk Okay thx must have missed it when I played the intro the first time. Then I used skip into :D
I know what happend now after the intro i pressed reload and then did not want to do the intro again, but never talked to the guy at the bottom xD
I am going to sleep now but I'll go for highscore tomorrow :)
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@sevadusk ping me if someone beats it xD
@sevadusk
You can just play it safe and collect score, no need to go for any risky points close to the death blocks. Maybe you could introduce some difficulty progression so that ou actually have to go for some of the riskier point pickups early on.
Maybe something like slowly increasing gravity the lower you go so that it gets harder and harder. (You can then somehow counteract that with the upgrades but not fully). But that is just one idea, could go about it in many ways!
@rhoka @sevadusk
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almost got highscore but it really is a grind at that time. Will wait for post jam patches before attempting again
btw A few times I got this bug where I get super jump abilities. It always resets when I upgrade jump and gravity the next time. (not sure which one specifically since I tend to upgrade them together)
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Very fun game! The artstyle was very charming. I did not quite understand what the goal is. Beat the level? then I can just jump of the side. Highscore? How do I get points, every kill is a point? Does time play a role? Does it make any sense to try and survive a level further after I killed all the enemies?
Previously I Accidentally commented the feedback for the wrong game here. Then I realised you can't delete comments just edit so now after I am edeting the comment to actually have the correct feedback after having played the game :D
The Artstyle was really unique and in general i liked it, i just felt in some sections the very high pixelation without anti aliasing just hurt from looking at because the pixels changed to rapidly when moving the mouse. Especially with the bright glowing jellyfish in the end. I don't really know how to fix this without throwing overboard the incredible artstyle. Maybe more muted colors?
Strongpoint is definetly the mood that this game delivers!
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I had all but the last so quick then it took forever...
anyway such a gem to find in the danger zone, hope you make your 20 ratings
Nice Idea, very goot take on Collector!
The last round is quite tough with the resources flying so quickly.
Like others I was also wondering if it is just random or if there is any predictable behavior. One thing i figured, if you let the king snatch too much early on, you cannot come back.
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Collected the good stuff !
Really great atmosphere! The art and audio came together very nicely into one cohesive experience. I really liked it!
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small and fast game quite nice!
til: acryllic paint was invented in the 20th century
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I also got 89% and kept opening packs in hope for a secret rare xD
Wow you made such a mechanically sound fighting game work in 72 Hours. Great job!
I also thought of making an creature collector type game but decided it would be too big of a scope. So congrats to you for actually doing it!
@bjornstenlund Thank you for the detailed Feedback!
Speed is normalized on the diagonals, but I did not implement acceleration. Instead you immediately move full speed in the direction you point. Which is effectively infinite acceleration. So yeah infinite might be a little too strong :D
Wow very nice Idea, really good take on the theme. I personally would have liked Cards for past LD themes. Or A Common spell card that says "Bugfix" etc. The potential for meta jokes would have been insane :D
And then Rare Cards like "Bugfix (without introducing two new ones)" or similar!
But I also like your more classical take :)
@littlegamer I feel in a game Jam like this, where the audience is other game devs, creators etc. You cannot put too many meta jokes. They always land well :) On the other hand if you want to show your game to your friends they might get a bit confused xD
Really cool game! I liked it a lot!
I hit an integer overflow or similar bug and suddenly had almost endless gold. (or do gold piles add ridiculus multipliers?)
The main critique would be that it was not clear which upgrades did what. Some stats on hover or short explanation of the differnt ability would have been nice
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I played the Jam version and it was very buggy. Might also have to do with me being on a 16:10 and not standard 16:9 display?
Sometimes the penguin kept sliding forever and it seemed like the same move sometimes let me cross a barrier and other times did not.
Overall the idea was very nice, I really liked the musical bits and shooting the penguin into space :D
Really nice and chill game. I wish I could earn money this simply in real life.
One Wish I would have is that you could start using the next level items as soon as you bought them.
in the first level I bought the rod and the dock before starting to restore. I had hoped I could use them as soon as I buy them but got dissapointed. I thought you did not have time to implement the fishing rod xD. Was happy when I could use them later
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Very Nice Game!
I think to be even more addictive it misses the kind of insane scaling ala cookie clicker. At some point the progress slows down a lot. I felt like I had seen evetything and the last bit of getting to 1200 felt more like a chore than fun!
But up to that point it was really a lot of fun!
Some more user feedback would have been nice. Like some indication as to why I died or how the crash chance is increasing. it was quite unintuitive.
But I liked the overall concept of the game. Good Job!
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Quite fun, I liked the humor, I also collected all the animals!
also get the 404 error...
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Very nice entry, so much complexity in a short time! good job!
I once made a game with annoying windows effects for the theme Stuck in A loop. This reminded me of that, although way more soffisticated. I would have liked some more hints I had to rely on the document quite a lot...
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Very nice entry, one of my favorites so far!
Made it to the end, although I would have hoped for some sort of victory screen. I gess jam time ran out :D
Overall great entry!
Was fun to play, I liked how suddenly a miner I had lost suddenly came back flying in I think it was hit by an asteroid far out :D
I really liked having space to break that made it much more controllable. Very simple and I would have liked some sort of progression system, but other than that good job :)
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I like the unique artstyle and atmosphere!
Some of the puzzles where also a little challanging, though most you could solve by just moving the pieces to the target location :)
Nice I Played all three levels!
I liked the funny sound effects! Good job!
@nicardo which Browser? Firefox seems to give trouble. Try Windows or chrome :)
@orangeoceans
Here is an image of the collider, It is definetly not the issue :D
The SOS is just a visual, it does not affect the physics
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https://youtu.be/kcrvE2qqZfg
Here is a playthrough of the Game. I have not figured out fully myself what the best way is to play the last level.
Right now I get the best times if I play it safe. If I try to go for boosts, I maybe chain 1 or 2 and then get stuck like you. But I think if one gets better at it this can be very satisfying.
@Dwang
It is not hard just hard to learn because it is not some normal control scheme.That's why I put a lot of effort in the tutorial you can re-activate the tutorial in the settings.
Once you have the hang of it it becomes very satisfying :).
Maybe watch the playthrough video
@lasha Yes I was thinking this has not much input so could be feasible for mobile :)
@penagwin
Thx for the nice comment. I am not sure how to improve the controls really, if you have any suggestions let me know. It is just not very intuitive to indirectly control the terrain and has a little steep learning curve. But once your brain adapts to it, it becomes easier and even more satisfying :)
@orangeoceans I found it is best to go higher initially to charge the boost meter quicker and the at some point go for flatter jumps to travel faster.
@hiretsu
Thanks for the feedback, you can disable the tutorial in the settings menu :)
@orangeoceans @Dwang @penagwin @tesseus @hurp
I reworked the control scheme and ditched unity physics to write my own system, which makes it feel much nicer, check out the post jam version: https://ausstein.itch.io/signal-surfer-post-jam
Now that that is done, I really need to start playing and rating some of the other games haha :D
@ironcutter
you can just go backwards with the uphil, then accelerate again on the previous downhill :)
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Best rythm game of any LD i have played. Wow this was so much fun and usually i dont enjoy rythm games that much. Good job!
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Quite Nice, would have liked if I could use wasd as well :)
Overall I liked it!
The detector is kind of useless, you can find the boxes much easier by looking, also the rendering of the entrance hole in the ceiling was inconsistent Just before the end I stayed close enough that I could always see it, but than when the warning came it was suddenly no longer rendered. I had also seen that before that the hole sometimes just randomly stopped rendering. Very annoying, because of that I could not find the exit
But Overall I like the atmosphere, I collected like 1300$ before that :)
I liked the overall design and mood. I actually liked the controls, gives it more of the vive that you are contolling the device and not playing the player like in other games. But I got lost and did not know what to do sometimes. I think some hints or some more obvious route or something would have been nice.
But the atmosphere and mood this game created was absoulte top notch!
Nice I had a similar inspiration that you have to tune a wave form with frequency and amplitude, but I made it so that you then have a player surf the resulting signal and adjusted the phase so that it will always remain in phase right below the player. Called it signal surfer :) check it out if you like.
Your gameplay is also nice, I played the jam version, beat level 1 and almost made it through level 2
Like the art and the mood very much!
The controls with the sound waves feel a bit clunky. I am not sure how to "exploit the weakness" I was never able to activate yellow crystals, all other colors I managed, but for yellow nothing happened at all so I was only able to dodge monsters, then I got stuk at the lower points and did not manage to go back up :(
Game has a lot of potential! The mechanics are unique and inovative. With a bit more polish and slightly reworked controls this would be increadilble. If you ever release a post jam, feel free to tag me :)
The UI does not scale properly, on WQHD I am not seeing some of the elements, and in the small browser view I dont see others.
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I really liked the atmospheric feel! The sonar was also nice, I would have loved if It would also highlight the energy packs for pickup. I explored one whole station and did not find the locator (what is a locator) I also reached another station, but the monster always got me. (Does it ever keep tracking you? I feel like I should have de-aggroed it but it always kept reappearing...)
With some more polishing this could be really great. The strong point is really how audio and graphics come together to create thie mysterious eerie mood!
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I like the art and mood. Especialy the vfx.
once I realized there was a map it was quite easy. And there was not much more to it than following the map. I feel with some more work the other mechanics (collecting batteries, lighting up the way) could turn this into something much more engaging. For the limited time, it is a very nice entry!
I really like the concept, I also tried the post jam version but I am still not getting the hang of it.
I think what is missing is some sort of feedback "too early" or "too late" with visual and sound cues. I am trying to hit the butone to the beat but If I miss i am not sure why. Sometimes I manage and sometimes i dont and I don't know how to improve.
Another benifit of this is that it lets the player automatically adjust for things like input lag etc.
If you incorporate more feedback, i would love to come back and try again :)
Wow you really would not think this was done for a game jam! I really liked the art and the animations are so smooth!
Also the platform controls feele very nice and responsive, not like your usual game jam game!
This is your first ludum dare entry, although one of your accounts is 9 years old :) So what inspired you to finally go for it and make an entry? Really cool!
@penagwin
Ah thats too bad, I started participating in Ludum Dare 44 and have not missed one since. Has become somewhat of a bi-yearly ritual.
Coming back was definetly worth it, you guys have delivered a really great game! Are you professional game devs, or just Hobbyists? Because this is on a similar level to what the celeste team delivered on ludum Dare 53!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/neo-city-express
@shanzpro best of luck with that, feel free to tag me if you release some post jam updates :)
We had the exact same IDEA! Only in my game you control the Signal and not the Player :)
Just add a "-2" to the url to find it :)
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