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Year	LD	Theme			Game	Division	Rank	Ov	Fu	In	Th	Gr	Au	Hu	Mo	Cm	Co
2013	26	Minimalism			Hopper	compo	664	3.07	3.10	3.00	3.34	3.07	3.31	2.00	2.59		71
2011	20	It's Dangerous to Go Alone! Take This!			Fish With Weapon	compo	142	2.94	2.88	2.38	3.00	2.88	3.38	3.13		1.70	7

Year	MiniLD	Theme			Game	Rank
2010	16	Constraints			Let Me Pass!

The Ethereal Stage by Brassawiking 2013-05-20T11:14:00

it could have done with a slightly longer music loop, and perhaps some sounds on the "hymns" would have been nice.
Otherwise yeah not bad :)

The Only Winning Move Is Not To Play by csanyk 2013-05-16T08:14:00

Heheh nice. Although I'm sure it cheated. I'm positive that I won!

Save Bug by Badger 2013-05-15T20:44:00

WINN!
Okay that was good fun, if a little short. Bit more explanation would have helped. I found that constant clicking made movement easier for example and didn't realise until half way through that eating people increased my health.
Otherwise enjoyed it. Music and art very good :)

Pulcino by Vincenzo 2013-05-15T20:37:00

Not sure I quite understood everything that was going on, but I found some of the text funny! Went through a few of the endings, they were pretty cool :)

Art and music were eggcellent :P

Escape from Minimalism by Pisti 2013-05-15T20:31:00

Liked this yeah. The talking head reminded me of an episode of Red Dwarf so that was a good start ;)
Then the gameplay itself was compelling. The regular upgrade system was a great idea. I only scored 2786 but found there's certainly a touch of tactical play involved in avoiding the herd of baddies.

Left & Knight by toaster 2013-05-15T20:03:00

Wow, kinda spooky in a way but I liked it! Had a level where only mines appeared and I couldn't progress but otherwise worked very well.

Placeholder Title by The Jahn 2013-05-15T08:14:00

You definitely feel like you've accomplished something by completing this! The big spider puzzle was fun to beat, but the one just before was a bit of an annoyance ;)
Nice game!

Minimalist Moe by davidwparker 2013-05-14T22:36:00

Nice concept, simple but clean I liked it.

Few issues for me: Aiming was a bit annoying as it didn't seem to go where I was clicking. Couldn't hear any sound. Sometimes there were long gaps between the different waves in the levels.

Otherwise yeah, good stuff :)

You can't step out of my way so we must fight by C.D Buckmaster 2013-05-14T22:25:00

Great take on the theme, One of the most minimalistic games I've ever played. And it actually is a game still! WOuld have been cool to have 1 player, but on the other hand since it was just me here, I never lost!

Prison Retreat by JaydenB 2013-05-14T16:30:00

Certainly fits the theme! Nice entry :)

Chick by alwaysinbeta 2013-05-13T22:08:00

Good fun! Loved the level with the big set of steps and all the eggs were coming down. Bit of an :arghh!: moment, but in a good way :)

Tale of MiniMale by finefin 2013-05-12T21:50:00

Found 3 endings so far!

I love the fact that if you decide to kill everyone, more people appear to kill! Brilliant :D

Enjoyed it, nice entry!

Friendship in a Post-Apocalyptic World by marnaouf 2013-05-11T13:37:00

Phew, took me quite a few turns to win for something so straightforward :)

Really enjoyed that, one of the best games I've played of the compo so far!

X0RQUE by qgi 2013-05-11T09:28:00

Not too bad, certainly fitted the minimalism theme for me. The music got a little repetetive, but the gameplay was fun!

Would certainly play a more in-depth version where there was a more long term goal.

A trial by blood and fire by nilstastic 2013-05-10T11:52:00

Wow, enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would! These kind of puzzles always appeal to me though :)

Nicely thought out and fits the theme well, good stuff!

Mondrian Click by CherryNukaCola 2013-05-10T11:41:00

34! The ripple idea made it a lot more interesting than I thought it would be :)

Essence by Make A Game 2013-05-08T16:33:00

Really love the atmosphere to this. I seemed to have a few odd game-overs (couldn't see what I'd done to cause them) but generally nice to play!

MEGAMINIMAL by InfuriatedCoder 2013-05-08T16:26:00

Very cool, got a bit frustrated that I had to start all over again once I experimented by jumping down one of the holes! But very nice to control and pretty fun!

Brutaliz'Art LD26 by lotusgame 2013-05-08T08:41:00

Clever stuff! Cool video before the game and enjoyed a couple of rounds. Kind of wanted it to get to my game so I could smash that up too!
Does it ever find your game on the site? Does it turn into the infinite smash lotusgame project? :D

Friggin Lazors by Fenmar 2013-05-07T16:35:00

Enjoyed this, had a bit of portal to it because of the laser stuff. The sound started off good when the lasers turned on, but I really felt that on achieving a door open that some kind of melody should have played in the same style/key as the laser sound. That would have been awesome.

Otherwise I enjoyed it enough to get to the end and it worked well as a minimalist game :)

Kill The King by Myyyvothrr 2013-05-07T16:09:00

Love the idea here, a nice minimalist adaptation on chess.
It's a shame there was no single player mode, but I can imagine how tricky that would be for a 48hr compo!
Music got to me a bit after a few goes. Otherwise liked the game :)

Seventh World Problems by N427 2013-05-07T09:41:00

Interesting entry, some errors in the collision detection (where bullets went through walls that were not visible) made things tricky but otherwise good fun!

The story texts were pretty cool too :)

Trapped by Hopps 2013-05-07T09:27:00

Whee, escaped! I never trusted that old man.

Dot by Frolacosta 2013-05-07T09:16:00

Okay that was pretty awesome :)

I think I broke my mouse! But enjoyed discovering the different methods required to win.

Great entry sir!

The Despicable Caverns of Deadly Doom by BumpkinRich 2013-05-01T12:21:00

Coolies!

Felt easier once I knew I could go diagonally and got my head around the fact I could simply switch left/right without having to go through up/down first.

Nice music too :D

Stalker by The Consul 2013-05-01T10:17:00

Nice atmosphere but seemed a bit short unless I wasn't supposed to get stuck after going down the stairs (there didn't appear to be anything to click on and I suspected it was an ending screen because of the colour?)

Graphics were fantastic, but the music did get to me a bit.

Overall nicely done!

Bezier Challenge by Travis Irby 2013-04-30T12:13:00

Really nice, very much appealed to my programmer brain!

Got very tricky very quickly though! Would help to see the initial velocity of the stream as I kept forgetting the angle it would start at!

Would have liked some music, but the various sounds made up for it. Very nicely presented :)

CompositionTD by Wilson 2013-04-30T11:45:00

Also agree that a little more needs to be added to the color to indicate their function. However nice way to incorporate the minimalist artwork!

Could have done with some music but enjoyed a few rounds of this :)

consequences by Hypnohustla 2013-04-30T09:53:00

Awesome work! Love the little messages along the way (especially that last one!) Great concept for a minimalist game.

Took me 3 attempts to realise I could fly through the building like structures. Then I found I could cheat a little by flying right to the top and shooting a lot.

The second part was a lot trickier for me though!

My only annoyance was the music, but that's probably just a personal thing ;)

Good stuff!

Your Efforts are in Vain by BarrensZeppelin 2013-04-30T09:45:00

It was a bit tricky to see my character. I didn't feel I was being skillful as much as lucky most of the time!

The music could have progressed a bit further but the woosh by sound effects were good!

Otherwise it was all well put together :)

nadir by zillix 2013-04-30T08:36:00

Weird and cool :D

The multiple endings were great and it was well written. One of my favorite entries so far!

Aaron and Alex by smilingrob 2013-04-30T08:22:00

Uh...ah...wha?

I think that was good, but I'm not sure. Is good bad? Or is bad bad? The voices confuse me!

Yellow Space by Leginar 2013-04-30T08:13:00

Good fun! Couldn't beat it (yet) but I think that's because I refuse to slow down! Must go faster!!

The game played really well, although a slightly further draw distance would have helped. Both the art and the music worked with the theme well :)

Rocky Flight Balloon by Smaxx 2013-04-30T08:02:00

Certainly goes with the theme, very minimalistic, liked the silhouetted style. The sound was a bit disapointing, no music and only a few beeps. Also there was no indicator to how I'd done on my two failed attempts (I had no idea if I was improving at all!)
Very smooth game play though, good feel to it.

Defender. by Tainted_Code 2013-04-30T07:54:00

Defended! Great stuff, enjoyed that and really loved the style :)

Not too hard once you know how to aim. Could have done with a restart option after being defeated the first time (or even when I won).

Execute by ShinkiroCode 2013-04-29T21:11:00

I also really like the idea behind the game. But there are a few things that made it trickier than it could have been to play.

Some tooltips on the actions would have helped. Being able to remove a single action from the list would have saved time. And in that case it could have recovered your last action list that didn't succeed last time when you restart the level.

Also there was no sound that I heard :(

otherwise it looked great and played pretty well - good stuff! :D

Bird's Eyes by galman 2013-04-29T14:48:00

Agh that music! It's nice then it goes "aha, you're going craazy!"

Liked it but it begs for *upgrades* you can get by achieving long distances (something like learning-to-fly-2)

Silly balloons!

Yeah liked it :)

The One Road by Dietrich Epp 2013-04-29T14:41:00

Nice, won on easy mode, didn't go for the hardest mode (I felt clever by then and didn't want to ruin it!)

The attack sound effects were a bit lacking and in stark contrast to the music which was good.

Good stuff :D

Pete Hated Circles by bgr 2013-04-29T14:28:00

Really like the way you incorporated minimalistic art into the game. The bugs are an annoyance but you can avoid them most of the time.

My biggest issues were that there wasn't any real indicator on how well I was doing other than the number of balls I had - perhaps the number of frames I'd created would have been a nice figure to have.

Also I couldn't get past the end game screen, not sure if I was pressing the wrong thing or if it's a known bug or what, but I just wanted to try again and didn't seem to have an option to do so.

Overall very cool :)

minimatch by berjah 2013-04-29T14:09:00

After 20 wins and 10 losses I decided to quit while I was ahead!

Nice simple idea, would be great to have had other objects other than just circles, but then I guess it wouldn't have been so minimalistic.

Full points for theme for sure ;)

We Call it Tactics by the31 2013-04-29T14:02:00

I liked it - I was rubbish at it! But could see where the tactics came into it.

Felt a bit unfair that the enemy kept spawning loads of new chaps in.

Would have been good to play some missions with this control system (but where there were fixed numbers of enemies!)

SUMOMIMAL by Conve 2013-04-29T13:48:00

Agree with ZeroDivide about the controls. Left and Right are the wrong way around! otherwise I found it to be fun knocking those shapes off.

If you gave all the shapes angry eyes it would be funnier though :)

::.::::::. by rwos 2013-04-29T13:34:00

I think I just beat the matrix...

Seriously though that was quite the experience. I think my ears need to pop.
I wasn't entirely sure what was going on but there were coloured blocks to shoot so that was ok. The disorientation brought on by being hit was pretty cool. Don't think I could play it again right now but yeah, memorable!

Wandering in the void by hmmvot 2013-04-29T13:11:00

Very minimalistic, liked the idea behind the game. I found it to be a bit frustrating, even once I'd figured out what to do. It's a tad too unforgiving if you stray too far from the path in my opinion. Otherwise I liked the characterisation of the shapes and the music :)

Nerdogochi by tiffi 2013-04-29T12:53:00

Great stuff, I initially (stupidly) skipped the instructions but figured out what to do quite quickly. Some really funny bits in there, enjoyed it a lot :)

You don't mess with the internet!

Chao Ab Ordo by ZeroDivide 2013-04-29T12:38:00

Liked it! Very simple idea and executed well. I think had you added some sound (unless I just can't hear it) it could have added to the panic when things suddenly go wrong!
I did get to a point where I could manage the remaining blocks ongoing. Generally though I thought it was very cool.

BloxMin - by Lody - Ludum Dare 26 by stipple 2013-04-29T12:20:00

There was quite a satisfaction to be had by finding the tiles for sure! Although past that I did wonder why I was doing it at all :)

There wasn't much of a challenge, I half expected bad guys to start flying around so that it wasn't just as straight forward as finding the right square to activate.

Pretty nice otherwise, could have done with a touch of music imo ;)

Peacemaker by Jod 2013-04-29T11:46:00

Wow, quite heavy that! I managed to get the good ending though so quite pleased.
The story did drag me in, I was definitely keen on finding out what had happened to Evelyn. I died plenty of times though :D

There wasn't much in the way of sound, not sure if that's because I'm on Win8 or anything.

Thanks for sharing your game!

The Time Saver by HELLO23 2013-04-29T11:19:00

Hey, well the controls were a bit frustrating. The text at the top of the screen saved the game a bit for me. I didn't get any music either (win8?) but had a listen in the assets folder and it was nice but very short.
Definitely scores high on the theme but otherwise needed something else to make it more interesting. Personally I stopped when I got to the shooting levels (when I somehow was slow enough to get shot and the whole level restarted)

Minga-Me by blay09 2013-04-29T11:10:00

A bit too much text for my liking but managed to play through. Nice take on the minimalism idea :)

I laughed when I selected "magic" and that was suddenly disabled!

Overall pretty good, thanks for sharing :)

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