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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | 2011 | 22 | Alone | The Love Letter | jam | Theme | 4.18 | |
| 🥈 | 2011 | 22 | Alone | The Love Letter | jam | Innovation | 3.90 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Cm | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 25 | You are the Villain | Space Lord | jam | 32 | 3.75 | 3.55 | 3.85 | 4.10 | 4.10 | 4.00 | 2.58 | 3.47 | |||
| 2012 | 24 | Evolution | Ninjural Selection | jam | 75 | 3.35 | 3.22 | 2.80 | 2.76 | 3.78 | 3.71 | 2.53 | 3.36 | 81 | ||
| 2011 | 22 | Alone | The Love Letter | jam | 10 | 3.64 | 3.56 | 3.90 | 4.18 | 4.03 | 3.97 | 3.41 | 3.31 | 2.84 |
Interesting - I wish I were better able to understand the dynamics and relationships between the objects I added. It didn't help that a lot of the time they appeared overlapped with each other and I couldn't see everything...
Awesome art and mood. It's some of the most inspiring pixel art for a game I've ever seen, 48 hours or not! I liked the beginning few minutes but I couldn't seem to get very far...
@mappum that sounds just like the game I made, Ninjural Selection. :P
I fell through the floor in the first level and couldn't respawn. :(
I tried to play but couldn't figure out what was going on.
I wasn't even sure what color I was supposed to be controlling... I went for the fried eggs. :)
Yay, I beat it! It would have been really nice if on the upgrade screen, it actually showed you how many points you had and how much things cost. Even further, bring up the upgrade screen at natural points so the player doesn't have to think of doing it - I died the first time because I had no idea I had any money to spend in the first place...
Nice! I'm really glad to see a game with evolving enemies like this. :) The fixed-direction shooting is a great way to make the ship design significant.
I couldn't tell what the orange spikes are for - at first I was hoping I could use them to ram other ships... Repeatedly clicking to shoot was tiring and unpleasant, though. It was a lot more fun once I got a second gun - maybe you could make those more likely to appear. I would have liked to see the enemies speed up once I got more powerful. It gets boring otherwise.
Awesome mood. This could be like a weird game-like dream. It feels so cool. The gameplay was confusing at first, but I kind of enjoyed figuring it out. And the tedious completionistic filling-in of every box actually appeals to me, because I get to see the world transform as I do it (and the EvoGem rewards help too). I really enjoyed seeing that first 6 box hidden across the water, and trying to figure out how to get across.
One of my favorites in the competition so far! :D
I like the art style (the overall mood is cool) but I am terrible at FPS controls, especially with the mouse as twitchy as this. I kept dying right away. I would have appreciated if the vertical axis were ignored, like in Doom, where you just have to aim side-to-side.
Darn, I was hoping that I'd be able to gain immunity by getting hit by an enemy of a certain color! If your health slowly regenerated, you could play it that way, where you can only build up immunity to one color, so you have to choose - kind of like Ikaruga except way slower...
I couldn't find any red cells smaller than me. :(
I couldn't run either executable, even after running the OpenAL installer. :( I was hoping to try this game, because I'm really curious about the procedural level generation...
I liked the art a lot. The movement felt slow relative to the spaciousness of the environments - though maybe that was just my computer being slow, I'm not sure.
Art and music were great, personality and humor were great too. I wish the game moved faster so I spent more time making choices and less waiting for the animation to hurry up already. Maybe my computer just chugs when the tree gets too leafy. :P But still.
It would be great to see this on an iPhone or something. Something faster.
Yay, I got to the credits song! :)
Really funny. But I have to say, there's no such thing as a "boring" theme, only uncreative game designers. ;)
Once I watched the video, then I had fun with this! Very nice. :)
The turning speed is so slow and the bullets are so tiny that it is really hard to aim to hit even one circle. Some tuning would help a lot. I don't see the evolution theme though.
Nice concept. I found it hard to manage six keys at once - the turning was a bit much, but I'd probably get used to it with practice. More fluid mouse controls with ragdolling attachments and a fast pace could be awesome...
Works great for me. :) Really glad to see a game that actually involves evolution as the basic mechanic.
Really nice mechanics - reminded me of Triple Town (in a good way). I think it could have worked better with a different theme - the "grass, bush, tree, hut" progression of Triple Town worked better then the "one circle, two circle, three circle" of this game. Could be worth expanding on.
I see only a source link... Something playable would be helpful if you want to get more ratings.
I really liked the music. I liked the concept too, but I was disappointed at how un-cat-like the experience was. I tried to pretend that it was an imaginary non-cat creature so I could enjoy it better. ;)
I liked the concept, and the music is awesome. But there is no feedback during the battle to see how the stats and abilities are put into play. I think there could be a lot of potential here, it's just too invisible...
It seems promising, and I like the pixel ants, but nothing I did seemed to affect the game... :(
Sounds really cool - glad to see actual evolution mechanics - but wouldn't run on my computer. :(
I really like the concept. I've thought along these lines too before, and I think there is a lot of potential to explore here.
I think I'd prefer to play this as an action game rather than a puzzle game. I like the feel of swiping off pixels, but I think it would flow a bit better if the broken-off pixels moved around less, so there's not this big break in the action just to collect them again. And I would have liked to be able to collect the pixels and have them add to my structure, not just repair my structure.
Really intriguing mechanics, but maybe tuned a bit too hard at first. Would be nice to ease into it more. Worth exploring further! :)
Cool concept - would have been nice to try playing against someone. Also, I had a hard time seeing the whole screen on my 1024x758 laptop...
Great music. I like the concept and the personality of the game. I found the colors hard to tell apart - maybe they could be more saturated. I also found it hard to know how to affect things in a useful way - there was no way to remove kitties that I didn't want...
I really liked the style of the first world, but I got stuck trying to jump up the building on the second. How is it possible?
I had my eyes closed the first time I got eaten. That was really scary! (in a good way) :D
I really like the way you create a mood with the art and sound, and I like the pixel art. I like how the avatar is more abstract, a red bubble rather than a person walking around - I think the game is actually better because of it. It would have been nice to have the experience a little more fleshed out, but overall it was great.
I just don't see the connection to the theme at all...
I like the idea of it, and the way turning is tied to left and right movement was cool, but there was one big frustration with it - I would quickly get my guns shot off and then have nothing to do but kill myself to get a new life. Because of that I never got into the flow of it.
I could not figure out how to choose to attack or mate. I could only move around and starve to death. :(
Awesome graphics! :D I like the simplicity of the gameplay, the nice way it fits together. And the cute humor of the story and setting is nice too.
Heh, almost like Tetris... in reverse, somehow. I like the way digging feels. :P
Heh, that was quick. :P I beat up one guy and then I win? Not sure if that's a bug or not...
I like the dancing palm trees.
Thanks for all the great feedback, everyone! :D I just updated the post-competition version with faster acceleration, to address the concerns about the controls. I'm still working on adding goals - I wish I could spend all day working on this but I'm supposed to go to my real job now...
Oh, here's the algorithm for creating the creature sprites:
Make a blank white bitmap.
For each pixel on the left half:
If a coin flip is heads:
Turn the pixel black.
Turn the opposite pixel black on the right half.
Flood fill the outside with transparent pixels.
:)
I'll be back!
Hmm, the formatting didn't turn out so well on that algorithm. Let me try again...
- Make a blank white bitmap.
- For each pixel on the left half:
- - If a coin flip is heads:
- - - Turn the pixel black.
- - - Turn the opposite pixel black on the right half.
Flood fill the outside with transparent pixels.
Urgh, okay, one more try...
- Make a blank white bitmap.
- For each pixel on the left half:
- - If a coin flip is heads:
- - - Turn the pixel black.
- - - Turn the opposite pixel black on the right half.
- Flood fill the outside with transparent pixels.
Okay, I added a goal! :D Check out the updated version, and let me know what you think! You have to evolve the invaders to look like a certain one...
Thanks for all the great feedback! :D
The speedy performance is thanks to the Flixel engine, which is made for this kind of thing (low-res platformers).
I'm definitely going to do something with the nice platformer controls and the character. Mixed with evolution gameplay it's pretty broken, so I might just rip that out if I can't get it to work with some radical changes, but I'm definitely going to do something with the ninja guy...
Great concept, I enjoyed the change of perspective - didn't quite see the connection to "evolution" though... Navigating the rooms was a bit clumsy, especially without the ability to back up.
Cool to see a more storytelling-focused approach pay off. Nice. :)
How do I start the game? I'm guessing there's a button that doesn't show up on my 1024x768 display... :(
Unfortunately going fullscreen with alt-enter didn't help. The screen is still cut off at the sides. :(
Nice polish, but I have to say the confetti and box that pops up after each level was less of a reward and more of an annoyance - I'd feel more rewarded by getting to play the next level sooner!
Reminds me a bit of IvoryDrive's game Orange... Did you ever play that?
Love that graphic, contrasty style. And the robots with swords. ;)
Looks great, but runs at about 2 fps for me. :/ There's no reason that a Flash game should have to depend on GPU-acceleration for this kind of art style...
I had two spouses, a boyfriend and a girlfriend. :p
I didn't realize there were multiple screens until re-read the instructions. I did find it odd that I was giving my attention to the things I didn't want instead of focusing on the things I did want, despite the fiction of the game. Seems kinda backward.
Nice polish. I like the solid chunkiness of the art and the mechanics.
Ha, I'm delighted to see someone actually make a game about refactoring. I have to say, though, the blocks being different colors really threw me off - I was trying to match colors the entire time my first try until I realized it was probably more like Tetris. As far as being minimal, keeping all the blocks the same color would make a lot of sense and also make the game more understandable. Another thing that would help is to make sure the player gets a successful line-clear early on, so they know what they're going for. I wasn't really sure what "success" would like look at first, and I ended up guessing wrong. If you have time, it might be worth prototyping a version of this where blocks disappear when four or more of the same color are touching.
Wow! Very reminiscent of the minimal exploration of Small Worlds but you've also managed to distill the essence of Metroidvania progression in a really elegant way! Almost like a reverse-Katamari... :)
Terrible ending, though. ;)
Very cool to see something (perhaps?) inspired by Iaido. I found it difficult to learn the cues for which block would counter the coming attack, so I wonder if it might be a more enjoyable experience if it started with only one height level, then two different height levels, then three. Still very cool though.
Wow, I love the art style! It's so cool to styles that have formal constraints along the lines of pixel art but aren't actually pixel art - maybe I should try it sometime. :) I also really appreciate the simplicity of the gameplay system - it feels like something I could have programming on my graphing calculator back when I was in middle school (nostalgia!).
Cool idea. I couldn't figure out how to do the mixing. It would be nice to make the drawing itself a bit more strategic, somehow...
Hahaha, the music totally makes this game. It was great when I first went into a town... then stole stuff, and fought chickens... Heh.
I love the art style, but I did not understand what I was doing. I could make the towers grow, but there didn't seem to be much challenge or expressiveness to explore.
Very nice. I should mention that for a long time I saw the text as coming from the other robot in the middle of the screen. But it didn't really detract from the experience.
Were you intentionally going for a "notgame" approach? :)