Sleep Consultant by flashkick 2013-09-06T01:20:00
Surprisingly fun game! After getting a hang of the mechanics I absolutely crushed all who opposed, though. It ended sooner than I wanted it to.
Who's up for 28 ATK, 17 Heal, and 48 uses?
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → awppy
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | Sprites.CSV: Cute,Snuggly,Versatile | jam | 27 | 4.04 | 3.96 | 4.26 | 3.00 | 3.74 | 3.73 | 3.83 | 3.71 | 51 | ||
| 2013 | 27 | 10 Seconds | Shuutshimi | jam | 62 | 3.73 | 3.78 | 2.88 | 3.48 | 3.84 | 3.70 | 3.75 | 3.21 | 83 | ||
| 2013 | 26 | Minimalism | Ai'n Av Diortem | jam | 292 | 3.07 | 2.96 | 2.42 | 2.04 | 3.36 | 3.07 | 3.10 | 2.91 | 50 | ||
| 2012 | 25 | You are the Villain | Hubris of the Bone Lord | compo | 219 | 3.26 | 3.03 | 2.39 | 3.26 | 3.65 | 2.29 | 2.93 | 3.07 | 61 |
awppy leaves an average of 24.8 feedback comments each event.
Surprisingly fun game! After getting a hang of the mechanics I absolutely crushed all who opposed, though. It ended sooner than I wanted it to.
Who's up for 28 ATK, 17 Heal, and 48 uses?
There are a few good ideas at play here but it's lacking a lot in polish. There was a great joke at the end that made me smile, though!
A game about small underdog fish fighting sharks? You've got Good Taste, my friend.
Ran into some hit detection issues in the level where you get 3 batteries off the hop, and the fact that enemies don't move make it more akin to a puzzle game, but for a first timer I'd say this came together pretty well!
Very interesting gameplay - this would be great to see on a DS or similar. Noticed in the beginning that RMB and LMB are switched around - it says RMB is draw black, but it's draw white.
Pretty short, and after one playthrough with a bit of back-and-forth I got the hang of drawing the fireball and just wrecked house with it
not a lot of game CONCEPTS make me laugh, but there's something about the magic of burritos that hit the mark
Game closed when I hit "Play Again", but other than that it ran fine
That had a powerful narrative for a game about circles rolling through squares in order to survive. Well done!
It ran a little slow for me and jumps felt too floaty (not being able to hop) but the reverse time mechanic was well-implemented for the most part. It was fun seeing it actually rewind, but if you were in the middle of a platforming section it was hard to recover, since there's no prompt, it just immediately jumps back in
Didn't realize how to win the first couple times, but I got it eventually!
Loved the dialog, and the mechanics were pretty nifty as well! Also liked how characters would turn around with this "What the hell, man?" look on their faces when you forced them to bid on something
Couldn't figure out what to do once partway into the castle. Saw a button I could hit with an arrow firing up through a tunnel, but it didn't seem to do anything, or I couldn't find the companion button.
The decision to make it impossible to go backwards was a good one imo, otherwise it would have been too easy to pick up fuel at high speeds
Got to the final boss but there was no feedback on whether or not my attacks were doing anything. I'm assuming they weren't, because after a minute or two of healing/hitting, I eventually died
Found hurdles to be fairly easy; beat it on my first try. Long jump, however, took me more tries than everything else combined. That one was tough.
Clever ending!
The music was awesome. I'm not sure if I got the "ending" or not; as soon as I used the bat it brought me right back to the title screen. I'm assuming I was wrong, because I played through the game again (all doors were unlocked) several times and just systematically hit each dude one after another but it always just brought me to the title screen
Would have preferred the collect type only change once every five seconds, or only on some special trigger as opposed to every second, but other than that, it's more than I'd be able to do in 2 hours!
Staying to the far right allows you to dodge everything.
This game is chaotic otherwise! Makes you feel awesome when you navigate a minefield flawlessly
Fairly easy, but still fun! Good work, and a good selection of levels!
I clearly cannot think quick enough :(
The first time a space helmet fell out of the rocket, konked me in the head, and broke the helmet I was wearing made me laugh. Same goes for the first time I realised you can stay at the far left and be invincible...until I got smoked by a meteor. Kinda sucks that health crates can damage you, but realistically, it makes sense. Pointy corners and whatnot.
Collision detection was a bit too sensitive for my liking. I touched the lava while trying to round a corner in the level with the long winding halls and that effectively disabled the game, since you need those +10's to make it there and they don't respawn. It needed a bit of polish, but for a jam this is a pretty big game!
The black = good things, grey = bad things could have been telegraphed a bit better, such as having enemies be red. Border indicators would have also been nice; you need very good reaction time to avoid running into them. The flies sometimes did their best to dodge me and it gets hectic trying to find a mate with a ton of enemies chasing you, but that's what makes it fun. Very challenging, though
Being able to pan with keyboard and not mouse would have been a huge control improvement. Other than that, it was a solid entry. The greedier you get with the housing, the tougher it is to deal with upkeep, so there's an interesting balancing act at work.
Lack of audio was disappointing and controls were a bit finnicky, but I felt myself drawn more into the game the more I played. I felt like the boss had too much health, but all the same, it kept me moving around and on my toes.
Then, that bit at the end.
Well, I'm not going to give anything away, but it got down to the wire. I mean right down to the wire. You've got some pretty solid design ideas in this little wonder.
Nice FF-esque sounds and sprites. Audio was really good, but I didn't feel any incentive to keep playing after a while.
Knowing that I don't have to type spaces is nice, though. Time saver
Very polished entry. How do you skip the intro quickly? Every time I died I sat through it for quite a bit, but since the only way to lose is to be forgetful, I couldn't let myself give up on it. Finding the green fish was a little annoying as were the aiming controls, but the visuals and mood were top-notch!
It had a lot of charm, but I found the game far too frustrating to play all the way through. One simple mistake brings you back to the beginning of the game, and I've played the first six to nine dimension instances dozens of times. Some of the agents move at such a speed that you can't jump over them until they turn around, but they won't turn around until after your time is up.
I cheated and looked at the walkthrough twice (getting the shoes and train ticket)
This is sizeable for a LD game and plays fairly nicely, but the gem rooms were a bit frustrating to me
VERY interesting concept, and well-executed!
Pretty solid entry. It was a bit easy but the level designs were good and I'm pretty sure with the mechanics you have in place you could flesh out a deeper game with more interesting puzzles and challenges.
I can't say much more than what was already said, but good job and I'm glad to see another STG out here! :D
That dance mode! :D
It gave me a real demoscene kinda feel to it! :D
Very easy to understand, pick up, and go without even remembering to read your introduction. Very clever game design. It was really fun!
I felt kind of at a loss for what I was supposed to be choosing. I won the first round I played (I don't know why) and lost the next two I played (I don't know why).
The writing was pretty strong. I just wish I had a better understanding of what was going on
This is a very impressive game, both visually and functionally, for something made in such a short amount of time! Good job!
I didn't see any groceries on the shelves and there only seemed to be one item per game?
Found it much easier to control when going backwards. That's how I'll do my shopping from now on...
Took me a few tries to figure out what I was supposed to do, but it was pretty neat! Loved the idea of reversing time to achieve something that takes more than 10 seconds in 10 seconds
I really wish you could click on a tile to select it, as that is my natural instinct and I did so several times, placing tiles I shouldn't have placed. It was a bit overwhelming and complicated, which is a bit of a burden for most people. I think the learning curve can easily put someone off.
I played around a bit after watching the tutorial, but still didn't fully understand what I was doing or what my objective was :(
9880. Pro-tier internal clock?
I found the score to accuracy discrepancy pretty forgiving. I'd think a discrepancy of 0.5s would be worth more than the 50 point penalty that it was
Simple game, but a very unexpected concept!
Looking forward to seeing where it goes.
Overall a fun little jar-smasher. Cool song.
Great work. This is a really unique concept that puts a pretty cool spin on the 10 second theme.
Didn't really fit the jam theme at all, lack of audio is a shame as the visuals are cool. Wrong place wrong time for this one, as it's not bad, it just doesn't fit the jam.
Nice simple concept. Really makes you work to get that world-saving score. I liked that I also saved Saturn.
You really nailed the WarioWare aesthetic. Some of the games play really well (Space Invaders, Mario) while others are less responsive (Angry Birds). Would have liked if the rounds ended once you died instead of having the clock run down. But overall, a good use of the concept and fun to play.
Ah, final level was tough. I had to start in reverse to get through it. Wasn't until the level prior that I realized I was a vacuum cleaner vacuuming literal piles of dust. Vocal levels were a bit low but other than that it was a very solid entry!
Controls for shooting felt a little finicky - oftentimes if I moved my mouse out of the canvas after clicking it just wouldn't shoot, but I eventually got the hang of it. Round 1 headshots are very satisfying! Nice entry, and clever take/wordplay on the theme
Nice and chaotic, especially with all the parts flopping around, but the fact that the parts are kind of hard to click on and don't always snap to the object can get a little frustrating. I found it pretty hard to get more than two rockets attached, but the game certainly made me want to try several times!
-GV
The audio grew old quickly, since it would repeat after each failure, but once I got the hang of the physics the game itself was entertaining. Nice menu aesthetics, too. Very simple, very elegant
1198 to complete from the getgo. Took me a while to realize WASD and the arrows were different things (and that the arrows actually did something)
I get what's going on with regards to moving and turning rooms, but this is WAY too high-concept for my dumb ass to figure out. Still, it was curious enough that I kept stumbling blindly around until I cleared all the rooms.
The audio was extremely fitting, so good job on that, too!
This was a lot of fun for a little distraction, and feels just like what a game-jam game should be. Excellent work!
Funky Lincoln Teaches Typing
This game was really neat. Congrats on your clever idea - it was well executed and the difficulty ramps up quite nicely. Around level 10 I started getting bored of it, but kept going to see the end.
The controls were quite confusing, but I soon discovered the magic fun of doing endless doughnuts!
It's impossible to keep your score from plummeting, isn't it? I didn't feel like there was any goal or point to it, so I wasn't able to play it for long.
The controls felt very nice and smooth, but a turbo/dash would have been nice
The music kept cutting out on me in stage 2 and stage 3. After about 20 seconds or so, it'd just stop.
Took me a while to really figure out what was going on, and the lack of direction made it feel like I was wandering aimlessly until I started to learn the level layouts.
I have to give credit to the visual design. They way you start out on the clouds, then make your way into what I thought was a hospital gone wrong, to the final area, to the ending - it put EVERYTHING into perspective and wow. I didn't think about what I was doing until I was done, and by then it was too late.
Very potent.
Also the kick animation is adorable. Bunch of happy little hearts clinging to you. So satisfying to kick them away. Piss off! Needed more knockback, though.
Made with Blender? Kudos, I have a hard enough time figuring out how to map textures with it, let alone code something!
I'm not really sure, but I feel as though you may have spent too much time on the graphics and not enough on the gameplay. It takes too long for the game to become interesting, and it also becomes overwhelming pretty quickly.
There are two things this REALLY needed: Voice acting (and some more sounds to enhance or relieve tension) and the ability to advance text at the user's own pace. Would have helped the game become significantly more enjoyable.
The movement of the reindeer felt pretty good after a little bit. I couldn't see where where to take them at first, but it became clear after a bit.
As others mentioned, a few tweaks could really help - less obstacles, roaming reindeer, and the ability to herd multiple reindeer at once. Ah, but what can ya do?
Gotta give you full credit on the theme. It definitely SHOULD be a crime. It took me a little while to figure out what to do, and the third stage got pretty hectic. Fun idea!
Melee attacks should move with the player, I think, so it feels more like a sword. The ability to deflect bullets would be neat, too. The ability to shoot through walls confused me at first, but I quickly realised it's better to just leave all the sentries alone. If they're smart enough to stay out of the way, they don't have to die. Lucky them!
It's a good effort none-the-less, and the character sprites are pretty solid.
Interesting idea for a logical puzzle game. A shame you weren't able to get the game done, it could be lots of fun and plenty challenging with more space for AI instructions.
It seems to be just about impossible to open doors without waking everyone nearby. It's also far too difficult to maneuver around sleeping people. Sound also doesn't seem to actually alert people, just wake them up.
It's a solid effort, but I didn't find it all that fun to play - it felt too luck based, and you couldn't do anything quietly.
This is fun. A couple things seemed odd to me (goalies being opposite colours of the rest of their team, for one) and you could score by sliding into the net from behind, but that aside, it's a lot of fun.
I found it really hard to arouse suspicion by just /playing/ but if you kick people out who didn't do anything wrong, well...makes it easier. You'd think once the referee scored a goal everyone would stop and go "hang on a second..." Nope. Didn't even TRY playing as an actual hockey team; ref was too fun.
Some of the players started getting REALLY mad at me though.
Text runs off the screen in some spots, so I wasn't able to grasp the entirety of what was going on. The gameplay basically consisted of mashing Z and Up until the enemy died; I didn't have any use for strategy or kicking.
It looked pretty good, though, and there was definitely effort in coming up with a storyline to play through
I actually found this to be a bit frustrating. Having to click at the top to change weapons is very inconvenient; being able to quickly switch traps via numbers on the keyboard would allow for better micromanaging. Placing a trap too close to another trap/the princess results in the trap being destroyed, and I did that by accident fairly often.
The agile characters are a bit much to deal with. Running by spike traps and crossbows is fine, but bypassing walls renders the wall pretty much pointless
A few minor tweaks and wider levels could really improve the game
This game was FAR more enjoyable than I was expecting it to be based on the screenshot and title. The sounds were great, but the comments when shooting the floor/ceiling/allies was too repetitive.
I wanted to do some silly voice-overs for my own game as well, but ran out of time. Glad someone got some in, though!
Lots of fun for such a simple game, and it looks and sounds absolutely beautiful. When viewing the leaderboards, the title screen would not refresh properly upon pressing a key (x, escape, enter) and pressing x a few times would display either the credits page or the How To Play screen, drawn overtop the existing leaderboards screen, but it would fix itself after that.
Wasn't sure what was going on during my first play, but I had it figured by my second. Good fun!
BADDIEMAN reporting in from the current top of the leaderboards (level 12 currently)
Holy wow, I'm seriously impressed with this. Music is great, graphics are...actually a bit underwhelming, the concept is brilliant, and the gameplay builds upon itself in such a brilliant way. The ability to only see the first ~16 commands makes things interesting, because I just finished a 45-round battle so the second 2/3 are a mystery to me.
I've got a few strategy tips for how to play. I'd say DON'T READ THIS UNLESS YOU'RE COMPLETELY STUMPED.
For the first few battles, focus on a strictly attack/counter-attack pattern. You shouldn't have any trouble until the boss starts casting A Strange Spell.
Ensure you have these abilities at all times (with the exception of the round after you lose your primary ability)
Attack
Counter Attack
Ghost Punch
Disruption
I've been using those four primarily for a back and forth battle, which has lasted well so far, but I feel it's going to become a problem as battles get longer.
Make your first attack distinct. Use something you never use, like Defend, as your very first command. This acts as a flag to tell you when the boss' attack pattern has finished execution and is starting from the top again (for those of us too lazy to keep track of every attack)
I also like to take a screencap of the analysis for reference during battle because I can't be bothered to memorize things!
You can tell from the size of the comments that I like this.
Just as Crowbeak said, there needs to be something more to this to make it feel like a game. Moving enemies, or a time limit or something. Right now it's a bit lacking, even though the music is delightful
oh my god that was fun
I didn't like driving directly into pedestrians nearly as much as I liked drifting into them and swatting them like my car was a big ol' baseball bat. I wish there was some kind of "handbrake" button that would exaggerate your car's drifting so you could swerve in wide arcs and slam pedestrians around better.
For what it is though it's a lot of fun.
707, augh! I find it best to save the missiles for large clumps of enemies. It increases your chance for cargo drops when you can take 3 of them out with a single missile.
Great game, and hard to believe it was done in 48 hours! You must not be new to it.
With the dependencies installed, the game crashed immediately when I opened it in "Sandbox mode" (avast is very nervous about EXE files, even ones that I've created myself). Opening it normally, it runs fine, so anyone WITH the dependencies getting it to crash, check file/folder/user permissions is my best guess.
This game is awesome.
Visual novels really aren't my thing, but there's a nice amount of diversity to what you can do for a quick little game! I think I lack the emotional attachment to appreciate it, though
It's a very fun little puzzle game concept, but unfortunately it's very short (at present). The visual style is great
Regarding controls: from my emulator days I used to map WASD to face buttons on a PSX/SNES controller (or ESDF if you prefer), keeping jump in the middle and run on the left. Using a WASD setup, that'd be A to run, S to jump, and either W for fire D to eat, or D to fire W to eat.
Eating things needs to be more usable. It's pretty much impossible to eat villagers without backing them into corners, so being able to move with a claw outstretched, scooping them up, would work better. There's still a delay while eating, so it wouldn't overpower an armed crowd.
the fire also felt a bit underpowered. It was much easier to trample everything, and the best designs give every ability its place.
On the other hand, this has been one of the most impressive 48-hour games I've seen so far. Good work!
I love how you can hide in the tall grass to evade pursuers. It took me a while to get used to differentiating between policemen and regular folks, and it's really cool that citizens have different levels of awareness when you walk by them.
Some of them are aware of the fact that I just knifed 50 people in the past five minutes.
Very cute aesthetic, nice music. The input lag is painful for me, though
Playing as a creeper is a pretty neat idea. The bunngoat sprites look like they have scrotums hanging from their chins, though, and it's a tad off-putting for me
It's pretty fun, but enemies can shoot through walls, which can be irritating once the hunters start showing up. It can be tough to tell who is armed and who isn't until you're close, but the progression is pretty good
Very nice mood to this game. The aesthetic was nice, too. A bit straightforward, but held my attention.
Pretty fun, and an interesting reversal on Missile Command. I ran into two bugs in the five rounds I played - in my second game, the drill wouldn't shake all the remaining people away, and in the third game one of my bullets didn't explode, which locked up the turrets and forced a loss. After refreshing the page I didn't have any problems, and it was pretty fun. I actually found it a tad easy, though.
Could do with either swinging on an angle or doing arc sweeps. Those knights are pesky when circling. That stomp really comes in handy.
Wow, this game is actually very fun! And kudos to enfyrneaux for the tunnelling comment. It comes in handy.
Enemies have the perfect level of persistence. The longer I try to ignore them in favour of finishing off the last little island on earth, the more of a problem they become.
The only complaint I have from a gameplay perspective is enemy spawn location; it appears to be completely random, so if you're unlucky an enemy will spawn on/right next to you for some quick damage.
It's very fun though - I found myself playing through it multiple times
The game lacks any sort of challenge, from what I can tell. It's as intense 10,000 points in as it is at the beginning. The enemies could use some properties, such as HP, speed, or moving in a wave pattern to make some of them harder to destroy.
Noticed my ship started firing blanks after a while. Was that intended, or due to stress on the garbage collection? I was mashing the shoot buttons like a madman.
Played the web version. Controls were a tad frustrating and could use some polish, but the concept was nice, if a bit thin in action sometimes. Cameras were a nice aesthetic touch
Being able to subjugate minions is a nice touch, and actually becomes important in stages 8 and 9. Everything prior to that feels a bit pointless though.
Having a beacon point to the nearest energy crystal would be really nice though.
Does this require a 32-bit OS? When I run main.py I'm given the following error:
couldn't load module. DLL load failed: %1 is not a valid Win32 application. (from main.py line 171, 17)
It also says NameError: global name pygame is not defined, but this is after installing pygame
I'm running the 64-bit version of python 2.7
The game crashes on me when attempting to restart from the game over screen (and there's a typo in "Resart", but no biggie).
It would be better if the tiles moved in sync to the music, but the gameplay is slightly behind the beat.
Zone 4 doesn't appear to be possible to clear. There's just one narrow hallway, and invincibility tiles only protect across one panel, and they're all spaced 3 panels apart.
Though, I suppose I can just edit the zone data, and that'll let me see the ending!
Really neat idea. There's little in the way of gameplay but the interactivity with the environment is very cool
LD29 — Beneath the Surface (8)
Sub Bomber by Rahazan 2014-05-03T01:47:00
http://puu.sh/8wR69.png BIG AAAAAAIR
This game is very difficult but also very fun. Checked this out because I saw a neat-looking gif in the post mortems
Sadly, you do not get Front Flip For Style points, nor do you get points for backflipping through a gate you've already crossed and that makes me very sad
You did some really cool stuff with the music, too. Congrats on a solid entry!
Ogre's Gold by asotelo94 2014-05-03T01:36:00
It started off interestingly enough, but the torches you throw are completely useless once the ogre starts chasing you and are frustratingly weak in general, and the fourth stage is unreasonably difficult. Once the ogre spots you it will not stop chasing you, and because you have to stop to throw a torch that will only light one or two paces ahead of you, it becomes unwinnable. Enjoyed the first 3 stages a bit more than the 4th
One Cold Night by hyouko 2014-05-03T01:19:00
Didn't fully read the controls before playing, since pressing the dig key skipped the text. Did eventually figure out what sniffing and digging did; never figured out what the point of barking was. Finally found the last trapped person, but as soon as I approached and pressed the dig button, it counted as "found" and immediately skipped the text ):
FALL! by DanDias 2014-05-03T00:58:00
Game locks up when asking me to submit/not submit. Luckily this did not stop me from actually playing.
It's quite a fun concept, but a little hard to control what with the whole spinning and smashing into things!
Beneath The Surface In The Sky by tomhunt 2014-04-29T03:52:00
Could not collect the two rings that spawned outside of the tunnel :(
SkyManta by snickersnacks 2014-04-29T03:46:00
The boss' OHKO attack was kind of a bummer but the rest of it was pretty fun.
The lack of a crosshair and having your shots aimed at your score meter took some getting used to and made it harder to learn though
Mr. Fluffykin's Great Sorting Adventure (AKA where your internet comes from) by Two Scoop Games 2014-04-29T03:36:00
Does a great job at showing how to play within the game itself thanks to the clean, simple visuals, and the theme is cute. The multiple control schemes is a nice addition, but none of them work quite perfectly and that adds to the already-stressful gameplay.
DRAANG by Magdev 2014-04-29T03:14:00
I EAT MUCH
HAVE MANY FOOD
SMELLS DRAANGY BUT FULL
SLIPPED ON BURGER