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Games

YearLDThemeGameDivisionRankOvFuInThGrAuHuMo
202659Signal👥Space Pawn Space Shopjam5953.333.252.983.163.833.593.873.63
202558Collector👥Reapurrjam1993.773.973.303.844.083.563.723.89
202557Depths👥Deep Truthjam5343.413.293.103.553.273.443.973.63
202456Tiny Creatures👥Unlucky fried chickenjam4933.603.433.673.633.673.523.953.43
202455Summoning👥Rise of the CatMancerjam3403.793.933.194.123.303.624.063.75
202047Stuck in a loop👥The Backseat Gamerjam3.503.313.182.453.403.684.343.66

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Comments by Bananplyte

LD47 — Stuck in a loop

The Backseat Gamer by Daniel C 2020-09-27T11:10:40Z

Ey whatup fam its yo boy, gameboy94 here

HONK II by Tricky_Fat_Cat 2020-10-05T22:21:28Z

This was absolutely awesome

LD55 — Summoning

Advanced Algebra IV by mvasko2 2024-04-26T09:55:59Z

Cute game! A little bit short maybe

I loved the art, very cute - and also cat

Rise of the CatMancer by Daniel C 2024-04-16T12:08:57Z

@ghostdev708 Everything is very much bitcrushed :)

And yes - the game is definitely extremely loud and chaotic I think the mainmenu being quiet in general is actually more of a case that I discovered a bug where our "mainlevel" just ignores all the volume options and "please don't be extremely loud" settings we had. At the end of the day we just went with it.

Thank you so much for your nice review!

Edit: I will strike my co-developer on the finger for not normalizing the diagonal movement ;)

Rise of the CatMancer by Daniel C 2024-04-16T12:37:48Z

@Tudvari Thank you so much for the nice words <3

Rise of the CatMancer by Daniel C 2024-04-16T13:01:53Z

@potatofinch @drgcandle Hell yeah, thank you so much <3

Rise of the CatMancer by Daniel C 2024-04-16T14:25:20Z

@pelmanable No way, I think you're the first one to reach S tier!

THE SCORE OF THE GOOOODS

Rise of the CatMancer by Daniel C 2024-04-17T07:27:18Z

@sargonius Thank you so much for letting us know :D !!

Rise of the CatMancer by Daniel C 2024-04-17T15:26:21Z

@janinna21 @orbitaldot @matthewdrake @drgcandle Thank you so much :D This is going to put me in a good mood for the whole day!

Rise of the CatMancer by Daniel C 2024-04-19T07:49:40Z

@artemy-zen Thank you so much for those nice words!

@theheheo THE SCOOORE OF THE GOOOODS You're the second documented person ever to reach that far! Well done!!

@baluj There's always tomorrow!! Thank you :D

Rise of the CatMancer by Daniel C 2024-04-19T19:27:00Z

@cainetinyarms @sstyles93 Thank you so much :D

Rise of the CatMancer by Daniel C 2024-04-19T19:31:44Z

@pegasys Thank you so much <3

Rise of the CatMancer by Daniel C 2024-04-19T19:41:14Z

@alexis-brochec <3 Thank you so much We made our own voice lines!

Rise of the CatMancer by Daniel C 2024-04-20T09:35:05Z

@nishikku Wooo cats!!! 😺😺 makes any game better!!

@alxander Absolutely! The cat-screens were a last minute addition, and I would have loved for our artist to have as much time to make a pixel-art beautiful version like the menu - but we ran out of time

@risminator Yeah, it goes crazy at the end, thanks for playing!

Rise of the CatMancer by Daniel C 2024-04-20T13:16:10Z

@akusan Cheers man! Thanks for playing our stupid game!

@pattedecanaard Hahaha thank you! The graphics were often times the programmers throwing in random stuff and then our one artist trying to keep up replacing our placeholders with pixel art - in the end - he couldn't replace it all

Rise of the CatMancer by Daniel C 2024-04-20T21:24:25Z

@pres2300 The holy killdozer!!!! I made that!!! I love you hahaha thank you so much for appreciating our dumb game! The spikes are absolutely unclear, that is valid criticism! Next time we will do over and do right!

@trevor-lentz I also did the leaaaves!! Sorry about the options, they only work in the menu haha, I didn't have time to bugfix it! The volumes are tied to the "max of master" and it's also unintuitive. Your quote is word for word perfect I believe from memory!

Rise of the CatMancer by Daniel C 2024-04-22T07:57:32Z

@klemen Thank you so much!!!

@bjornstenlund The voices are always with me, I'm just introducing them to everyone else <3

Rise of the CatMancer by Daniel C 2024-04-22T20:04:18Z

@zablas Honestly we just threw the spritesheets together in photoshop and used the paper flipbook thingie, but we have a great artist leading the way in @isacb!

@hadik Thank you! Yeah the audio kind of goes too far, but I feel like that's almost part of the charm

@lancejz Sorry about the windowed shenanigans but then again you got to hear the B-theme which is one of my favorites - RISE OF THE CATMANCER HEYY, RISE OF THE CATMANCER HEYY

Rise of the CatMancer by Daniel C 2024-05-02T07:04:45Z

@utopia @lixiao Thank you so much for playing our game!

Virtua Bob by MSolomon 2024-04-21T16:04:20Z

I loved that! Great voice acting! I felt like John Wick with a stapler.

po-jo-pé by kiv 2024-04-26T10:11:50Z

Cute game, really like the idea

I think my experience was ruined by bugged hitboxes playing in firefox, because I could hit right above a little dude and it would hit maybe one out of ten times

Chefs from the Dead by Linky439 2024-04-21T15:49:18Z

Cute game, but I feel like the gameloop could definitely have been expanded upon, really liked the idea of chefs and your graphics were great

Devotion - A fairytale by daandruff 2024-04-16T08:44:48Z

Such an amazing mood!

Summon Death by TheMadPangolin 2024-04-16T12:06:08Z

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Super cute game :D!! Loved it!

Kalòmancer by BinarySpark 2024-04-19T17:16:40Z

Wow! I can't believe you did all this in a weekend!

The Last Summoner by atomicptr 2024-04-19T18:22:36Z

Cute :)

Treant Wars by Tudvari 2024-04-16T12:43:36Z

I loved this game! Love the "income engine" and thought it was super chill! More trees for the people!

Infernup's Ablazummon by Colisan 2024-04-16T13:17:00Z

Loved it!! Absolutely banger!

Jamomant by Friend_Pirozhok 2024-04-16T10:40:25Z

I LOVED the filter - this was really dope - medieval martial arts - who would've thunk it !

Orion by Ben Toosey 2024-04-16T10:46:54Z

Your artstyle is the best so far - such a mood and I love the idea

I can tell that you didn't really have time to finish off the game, but the concept is 5/5.

Capture the King by ZEN 2024-04-19T17:56:08Z

Great game!

The randomization made the game a bit easy at times though, but great efforts (and great grade)

Devil's QWERTY by SakuH 2024-04-16T11:16:30Z

Beautiful - in all regards. Loved the game-loop <3

Demanager by satacat 2024-04-26T09:52:25Z

Loved the audio effects being part of the demon information, finished the game!

Overall great! I do think maybe the game could be a little bit tighter if you would lower the "wrong information" and just lower the timer a lot so that you got rewarded more for memorizing the correct information - but that's just a minor thought, overall it was a great entry!

Dungeon Overlord by GodKnows 2024-04-16T10:30:45Z

AMAZING innovation with the drawing - loved that aspect Just wanted a lot more of it! Great music!

Had some bugs, but loved all in all

Honse by rickylee 2024-04-16T14:51:36Z

Too good man - it's a 5 across the board

WE MAKING IT OUT OF THE HONSE WITH THIS ONEhonse.png

Trial by Combat by Gravityflip 2024-04-16T14:18:30Z

This is a 5 out of 5 from me - loved it! Screw Devin! Gave me Norm mcDonald vibes, perfection

Hell's Company by Himiko Morena 2024-04-20T13:18:43Z

Cool game!

CHAZM by amarokczukay 2024-04-16T10:21:44Z

My favorite so far! Love it! chazm.png

Would you still love me if I was a worm ❤️🪱? by samsface 2024-04-19T17:42:38Z

This is my favorite!!

Rukker were maybe a bit overpowered! [worm.PNG](///raw/384/43/z/6477a.png)

Exorcist Pianist by Aviv Levy 2024-04-26T10:05:07Z

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Very cool game! Like many others I did feel like it would be really cool if I ended up playing a song instead of random sequences, but this was a great tech demo and really nice art!

Reverse Rituals by freakyzelga 2024-04-26T09:57:29Z

Cute game! Bit short

Hellmouth Pizza by FunnyPumpkin 2024-04-16T11:03:33Z

So gorgeous, such an amazing artstyle and audio was lovely

I was very confused at first though, all of my stuff was going wrong because I had a hard time seeing the "cheese". Loved it though.

bergs by burnttoastdev 2024-04-19T18:35:44Z

Berg!!

Super Pal Summoner! by Meepster 2024-04-16T08:55:42Z

Cute game!

Summon Cats by tinyfinn 2024-04-19T17:49:04Z

Very cute!

Cube's Calling by Icaka 2024-04-16T12:15:25Z

I loved the CRT effect! Crazy that you did this in your own engine, mad props!

Unfortunately my computer seems to destroy the .exe file once I reach 5 minutes in for not being an accepted program licensed by microsoft w/e - but I can see the work you've put in and commend you on your brilliant little game :D

TANKZ by Funday Games 2024-04-16T12:56:20Z

Sooo good! Amazing little game!

LD56 — Tiny Creatures

Microdominion by LeReveur 2024-10-08T18:04:09Z

I thought this was a fascinating game. I was a little bit confused about what was happening at first - but when I got it I loved it. I think you said it best with describing the game as contemplative.

dna.png I won game after game against the opponent with this distribution - I actually think the perception might be a disadvantage - the winning strategy seems to be to just flood the petri dish with as many splits as possible without getting distracted.

Blobbies by tuism 2024-10-09T07:37:33Z

This was a wonderful little game.

Fate of the Dice by Joror 2024-10-08T07:57:02Z

Game looks sick! Loved the in-depth tutorial, way to go the extra mile!

TINY PACK by xk_the_name 2024-10-08T21:19:00Z

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You're the clear winner. It's a 5/5 in all categories from me. I wanted more. I'd buy this. Please make this into a real game on steam.

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-08T06:46:55Z

@stalemeat Thank you so much for the praise! I spent way too much time on reinventing the concept of animation blueprints for a silly doom joke

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-08T12:21:46Z

@supersayafynn So glad to hear you enjoyed the game! The drunk driving truck is for sure one of my favorite late additions, a shame to hear that you suffered from it - but a vigilant chicken farmer must always be ready for ghost trucks!

If I remember the points correctly that must be A-tier or B-tier? That is an amazing score! I think that's sort of where my own record ended up - and I played a LOT of times to reach that score!

Also thanks for the sound effect praise 😊 it's 90% my own mouth

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-08T15:15:55Z

@joror Are you implying that my 2D programmer-art isn't as good as the 3d art from actual artists??

Jokes aside thanks for playing! The game gets insanely hard in the end - the throw instead of drag actually got in the last day, so I think the tutorial might be off, sorry bout that

Thanks for the praise for sound! I will gladly let that go to my head!

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-08T15:30:45Z

@nevercontent People weren't ready for the microwave oven either. Me and Björn are the new Steve Jobs of the fling-like genre.

So quiet down, Wozniak.

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-08T18:56:52Z

@bastelbasti Thank you <3 We had two amazing artists in @isacb and @daniel-c that really made some magic happen - I'm also incredibly jealous of their ability. I made the farmer-head and grade screen. As you can tell my art-skills are much more mortal.

@vladmirps Thank you! That means alot!

@heiden-bzr Oh wow! Thank you so much for those lovely words! I had a lot of fun making the music, especially when everyone else was setting up everything!

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-08T18:59:39Z

@noah-mazard Thank you!! 🐔

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-08T22:22:26Z

@pacelin @onabing will be over the moon to hear his tutorial being praised - truly one of those tasks that are sorely needed but not very fun to do!

Thank you for the lovely words - I was debating prioritizing putting the volumes in - but at the stage of making the options menu there were 150 sound assets that would need to be categorized into their separate BUS settings - and I didn't want to chance someone turning off my glorious music - so I instead wasted time on putting in way too many screen resolution options to make up for it.

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-08T22:38:42Z

@pacelin You're of course right, the smart thing to do is to implement it as one of your first things and just build new sounds upon the cornerstone of already in-place foundations.

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-08T23:07:57Z

@julesleech Thank you so much! The real assets were the friends we made along the way. And my sounds.

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-09T05:56:40Z

@beadyeyes That's alright, that's clearly the most vital feature of the game anyway.

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-09T09:25:23Z

@ryzhovalex Yes sorry the brown one is the rooster and the egg is mostly actually to get you unstuck if you mess up

Thank you for the lovely words - there's way too little management games in my opinion!

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-09T10:20:58Z

@komarebi Thank you for the lovely words - we were definitely up against the clock with this one and it's a very hard game in the end. Thanks for playing!

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-09T12:14:17Z

@hexstart My fling-like sibling! I fully agree that the game becomes so dang hard in the end that there's barely any time to think about anything except "oh shit oh shit oh shit". Right now the "needs" of the chickens degrade faster and faster with the difficulty - which increases every 45 seconds - and honestly maybe the game becomes hard enough even without chickens dying unsupervised in 5 seconds just because you played for seven minutes, but we were up against the clock and didn't test enough!

Thank you for playing and the lovely feedback!

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-09T12:21:45Z

@tetracold Honestly I made the game and I can't get higher than a B, I think it's just a bit unbalanced. A C-tier is a great score and probably more like a B+ at worst.

When you say that they ran off-screen do you mean that they moved to a place where you couldn't reach them even if you moved the camera? I don't think we're too transparent with the fact that we have quite a lot of camera movement freedom. But if you did reach C-tier - it's also possible that the chickens just became so dang fast. Their speed scale with the difficulty quite a lot.

Thank you so much for the feedback and thank you for finally calling out my stupid doom-joke 👌 I put waaaay too much time into that piece of code.

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-09T12:40:46Z

@tetracold That's certainly not your fault - we never mention it anywhere - the tutorial was made midway through and never updated because there was always other areas to work on!

I definitely believe you could achieve the B-Tier easily with that bit of info!

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-09T14:26:08Z

@eerongal I agree with you about the chicken meters - it's actually tied to the timer - so after a few minutes it becomes almost impossible. I think the game would be way more awesome with a day of just polish and balance. Thank you for your kind words <3

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-09T19:46:43Z

@ziobob A c aint much but its an honest score!

Good job and thank you for the lovely words <3

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-11T10:08:20Z

@serenewind We definitely suffer from a bit of feature overscope - as you say - it is definitely a bit unclear your first round and the tutorial was made too early and didn't fully reflect everything. There is of course also a ton of different visual polish we needed to add. With one day more the game would've been great - ( but isn't that every game jam? )

@budaniel Yes, you're absolutely right. I loved B&W growing up, and it's probably no coincidence that the game reminds you of it. The main difficulty of the game is definitely that the chickens become almost impossible to keep alive after 5~ or so minutes, and we needed a balance pass - but thank you for the lovely words!

@ember44 I agree with everything you said - and it's something we also said in our internal post-mortem afterwards. It's the classic issue when you have an eager team that loves to add cool funny features up until the last second where you end up with a game that's great fun once you figure out what is even happening!

Thank you for the lovely review!

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-11T19:24:26Z

@nazariglez Thank you so much!! I think we're just looking forward to bringing the teachings into LD57 and call this one a nice little project that turned out pretty good with room for improvement next time - we had a great time, but I think the little project is done and I think it kind of goes against the game jam spirit to go back and change it retroactively after the bell has already rung imo, not that I think less of people who want to make their games into the best games they can be

@ember44 Haha yes I ageee! Next time for sure!

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-13T12:58:34Z

@ryusui Thank you for the feedback!

We did dabble in having the gauges be visible at all times - but at a certain point it felt a bit overwhelming for the player. I think the best option would maybe be to have it be "toggle-able" in the options - but we simply ran out of time for those quality of life things.

Personally I really like the flinging - but it obviously transforms the game into a "flinging-game" more than an actual management game - so it might be a matter of preference. You might be right in that a bit of a makeover of the game balance and features would result in a better game - but there's just so many hours in three days and we definitely worked up until the last minute.

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-15T08:56:05Z

@zeias Thank you so much for your lovely review! That warms our cold chicken-frying hearts.

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-18T10:50:56Z

@rohun Thank you so much for that lovely feedback! I fully agree with the game only making a lot of sense once you've played it - and it's the fault of us not doing a proper enough tutorial I think - and don't feel bad about losing your chickens - it's 100% part of the game loop!

@byshla Thank you!! What lovely words! Wow! <3

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-19T13:12:19Z

@dangitspang Thank you so much! If you enjoyed the rating system with the music you can feel free to play our previous entry "Rise of the Catmancer" from April which introduced the beloved feature that we also love internally in our little group :D

Thanks for the lovely feedback! Look forward to have you play our future games!!!

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-21T07:01:18Z

@literato-games Thank you!

Unlucky fried chicken by Daniel C 2024-10-21T22:28:16Z

@zhu-guangle Wow! Thank you :D

Bento Bugs by superjai 2024-10-28T08:12:04Z

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Such a well deserved win. I feel like I was playing one of the historical greats when the first smart-phone apps came out. Pure dopamine hack.

Squirrel puncher by eerongal 2024-10-08T21:28:55Z

I thoroughly enjoyed the north star powerup.

Cheddalier by outstar 2024-10-20T20:57:05Z

This was so damn good!! I'll give you 5/5 across the board - I loved this. WELL DONE!

Sammich by ColeSlaughter 2024-10-08T22:30:51Z

Damn that was amazing! 5/5! No notes!

Flea Patrol by Sviborg 2024-10-08T17:45:30Z

That was absolutely great. So cute art. Mood was for sure 5/5. Wish the music was a little less repetitive.

Critter Clash by Frogravity 2024-10-08T18:19:12Z

This game was so cool! I love love loved the idea! Really want to play a real thing of this.

I just wish the AI was better - it never felt like I was in any danger of losing.

Critter Cannon by Stefan B. 2024-10-08T19:16:41Z

"Frooog. I'm a frog that helps you jump hIGH!"

This sound will haunt me from now on. What a great little game, great work!

Tiny Economy by Hawkin 2024-10-08T19:50:41Z

Cute little game - I love dorfromantik and you nailed the feeling.

Wish there was a high-score or gameover-condition or something, but I liked it a lot.

Derpy by Mololo 2024-10-08T17:53:27Z

This is very well made. I can't believe you managed to do so many cars in such a small time. The menu screen is very clever to tie it into the theme

Gob by rickylee 2024-10-08T22:37:11Z

frog.png You've done it again, Ricky

Are you listening? by Sockenpuppe 2024-10-08T21:25:20Z

Great and powerful game.

Made me feel like listening to Mount Eerie again. Feels sad man.

Grablin Battle Festival by HaaYaargh 2024-10-09T09:41:06Z

This was such a sick game - it's a 5/5 from me - loved it. I would pay for an extended version of this!

Laverino by Kirass 2024-10-09T07:41:43Z

Cute game

Bump League by soffu 2024-10-08T19:29:21Z

I thought it was really cool!

I would love for there to be more of a "you can only unlock the next track if you reach an average 10th place for each racer" or something, but what was there was brilliant.

Leafling builders by Kotolazer 2024-10-13T14:10:58Z

It's obviously a 5/5 for mood - the game is also beautiful and sounds beautiful. Maybe there could be some more "gamey" elements - to flesh it out to have more of a game state - but you definitely achieved a nice little time that transported you to another world. Nice game :)

Zeus Needs You by Geoffroy 2024-10-29T21:57:15Z

So good!!

Rat Race by Kawhi-w 2024-10-08T18:25:33Z

This was a cute platformer, great art! I liked it.

Knowing how far you could jump was a bit hard.

Cat and Box by DragonMain 2024-10-09T07:53:54Z

Really cute game - I really loved the meme you posted. I had some issues "dropping the box" and I think your game could really use a "restart on R" hotkey - but that's just small things, great game for the jam.

Horseless Headman by SwanBoat 2024-10-09T08:01:26Z

ace.png Did it! With only an ace in the hole!

Such amazing animation! And the whole chess-theming was great - especially for telegraphing enemy movement and HP bar. Honestly, the game isn't very long but the time it lasts is so polished and nice that I can't not give you 5/5. Reminded me of castle crashers in a great way.

LD57 — Depths

Tidehold by outstar 2025-04-08T17:19:56Z

I loved it! What an amazing game!

Heavy Anhinga by Koolruz 2025-04-08T18:09:50Z

Holy holy holy shit. I did it.

I give you 5 / 5 in everything, I honestly dont care. What a blast.

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Deep Truth by Emily C 2025-04-08T05:33:51Z

@thomas-higgins Hahaha well worth the insanity it almost caused me to make them!

@noodlehoof Thank you!

Deep Truth by Emily C 2025-04-08T17:35:50Z

@slow-chaz Thank you so much for playing our game! Here, have two health packs for the road: [ :heart: ] [ :heart: ]

Deep Truth by Emily C 2025-04-08T18:10:56Z

@vangrail Hooray! Super glad you enjoyed our game!

@beebster-games Sorry to hear it, yeah UE5 is a power sucker.

Deep Truth by Emily C 2025-04-08T19:07:22Z

@profugo-barbatus Dang!! Thank you so much for those kind words! Happy you loved my deep thought generator!! It took over 10 hours to make with everything that went into it!

Deep Truth by Emily C 2025-04-08T20:38:33Z

@mamboman Thank you!

Deep Truth by Emily C 2025-04-08T21:03:05Z

when im in a "ramble like a dumb nerd about laser pointers competition" and my next opponent is @bjornstenlund images(1).jpg

Deep Truth by Emily C 2025-04-08T22:00:48Z

@bjornstenlund :heart:

Deep Truth by Emily C 2025-04-09T04:57:20Z

@ssakuray Thank you kindly!

@genesis That's a shame to hear, hope you had some fun anyway

@broco One must embrace madness and burn it as fuel on your journey for truth. Pot and beer will merely guide you.

Deep Truth by Emily C 2025-04-09T15:18:08Z

@karenchik Wow! Thank you! I think you can probably get an S if you keep going, I believe in you!

@scoobysnacks I'm so happy everyone seem to be enjoying them haha I thought I was going insane myself for a bit there

@kamuniaft Yes, the gameplay can feel a bit clumsy, I kind of agree, but you should have seen it before haha, our own @bjornstenlund made it feel ten times as good as its first iteration

@hernandack Thank you! We wanted to do a unique take on the theme!

Deep Truth by Emily C 2025-04-09T16:42:47Z

@ezard94 Wooho! Glad you loved the conspiracies! I do too!

Deep Truth by Emily C 2025-04-10T03:03:15Z

@anderson-job-loeffler Thank you!!

@mestrerothld We accidentally set a value wrong and spawned a gajillion geometric shapes in a row instead of say "four" haha

Deep Truth by Emily C 2025-04-10T11:38:22Z

@pppppppp A trade! This sounds perfect for my minion @bjornstenlund as I'm currently in Japan on a phone network desperately updating my own gamepage for new comments.

I SEND THEE.

Deep Truth by Emily C 2025-04-10T22:05:20Z

@gamurmakesgems Woo! Thanks for that! Yes, the music is a little cool system that I keep remaking whenever we make a game!

Essentially you have a couple of random arrays of instrument stings that all go together - and then you just have level one play one instrument randomly looping its segments and adding another instrument on top for each level. It's so much bang for the buck, honestly!

Deep Truth by Emily C 2025-04-11T01:41:36Z

@jormundly It's a hard game and / or we all kind of suck at it aswell. I reached S-tier once out of lots of attempts.

Deep Truth by Emily C 2025-04-11T21:16:54Z

@on100ruykajop Oops haha - but also part of the trip, no?

@xpoho Thank you for the magnificient compliment, we aim to please

Deep Truth by Emily C 2025-04-12T06:54:27Z

@surweaver Thank you for the lovely comment!

I agree that the gameplay becomes a little bit muddy when the game throws everything at you, but then again, there's kind of where our difficulty lies, haha

Deep Truth by Emily C 2025-04-15T02:39:11Z

@floppynub "[Did you know that] [I once read on a mongolian fabric forum that] [Carl Sagan] [Always used to rant that] [the Spotify Shuffle Algorithm was actually made by the NSA to measure global mood loops?]"

Thank you for the lovely review and best of luck in your stoner mission!

@braeden Yes I would kind of agree haha, turns out making a dropper game is kind of hard. It really does work in first person, but then we wouldn't have the funny green-haired dude which is ultimately just a prize too high to pay

@silkworm-sweatshop Haha yes they are actually modular so they're built up in [Intro] + (50% chance)([Pre-Character-Sentence] + [Character] + [Post-Character-Sentence])([Pre-Writing-Sentence] + [Writing] + [Post-Writing-sentence])) + [Argument] + ([Therefore] + (50% chance)([Pre-Character-Sentence] + [Character] + [Post-Character-Sentence])([Pre-Writing-Sentence] + [Writing] + [Post-Writing-sentence])) + [Argument])x[how-many-extra-paragraphs-you-want]

I then had to break this down to a binary format and parse it through a meta sound file where it plays about 30 minutes of my voice acting. I think the vast majority of our filesize is just my crazed late night rambling

@guitarbro Open your eyes to the truth, bro, it aint theories, them's facts.

That being said, super-valid criticism

Deep Truth by Emily C 2025-04-16T19:20:35Z

@empyreans Right on, brother, you've seen the light, welcome to Nirvana and the REAL world Neo.

Thank you so much for that lovely review!

Deep Truth by Emily C 2025-04-20T23:38:39Z

@knarf Thank you so much for your lovely review! I love that you cracked how we did the deep truth system haha, it's definitely the one system that has the most potential for the [Unnecessary-Black-Hole-Of-A-Development-Time-Sink] haha!

Cool that you liked the trippy music too! That's also on me messing around with side-quests before we even had a game loop lol

I absolutely agree that if we had more time some more bonuses would have been super cool, but as for the difficulty I think we made it somewhat hard on purpose to have you play more short runs rather than one long round

Deep Truth by Emily C 2025-04-22T10:44:42Z

@deadroach Haha thanks again for playing! The critique is super-valid, and you were definitely not terrible getting an S and everything!

Deep Truth by Emily C 2025-04-24T04:40:48Z

@joror Right on, man. Your eyes are open.

Deep Truth by Emily C 2025-04-27T01:54:31Z

@outstar Hahaha, thank you! Good luck with those pesky toe nails!

@antoine-bodin Thank you!!

Welcome to Veinridge! by jinglecookie 2025-04-08T17:34:35Z

Noooo! You can't end me on a cliffhanger haha! I want to know about The Hollow!!

Great job, I can't believe how much writing you must have done haha! Solid game!

To The Core by izzqz 2025-04-08T18:23:42Z

Really cool game. Made me yell out of rage. Several times. In a good way. The best way.

LD58 — Collector

Reapurr by Emily C 2025-10-07T18:17:03Z

@tearei Thank you kindly for the compliment! The tutorial was unfortunately a last second thought!

Reapurr by Emily C 2025-10-07T19:12:06Z

@stuckne1 Thank you!

Reapurr by Emily C 2025-10-09T21:03:01Z

@koroleva-olya Thank you!! I agree :D

@wishes Right?? Thanks!

@anete-ainjarv Haha thank you! I have a ton of fun doing sounds!

Reapurr by Emily C 2025-10-09T21:04:35Z

@tryam Thank you for appreciating the music! I tried my hardest!

@nesteriuc-denis I can't get enough of sound appreciation, thank you!

@xparker Hahahaha praise for the last second tutorial I jammed in was unexpected but welcome!

Reapurr by Emily C 2025-10-09T21:05:22Z

@jadener Thank you!! Polish is the best part!!

@thierry Great to hear! Thanks!

@eugenik Thank you so much <3

Reapurr by Emily C 2025-10-10T18:41:15Z

@6knowledge Thank you!

Reapurr by Emily C 2025-10-11T09:12:37Z

@nomelu So the slow update for the shop is a shame and it has to do with the way we wanted to slow down time when you entered the shop - which unfortunately caused some of the updates to be CPU-dependant which is a shame. Classic jam-mistake. Essentially the delta-time has become 0.01 Maybe the children didnt use delta-time, which is also a mistake, but the timer and hunger + what not is at least not ticking

Yes the conversion of candies were deemed a good to have at the last day - but we didnt quite have time to polish that input - I agree that holding would have been a super nice thing to have!

And about your F-tier - that's so sad to hear, and actually it may have to do with you buying every upgrade, the score is a bit unfair like that because its calculated with every bit of candy you have when the game ends. If you used the conversion to turn all your candy to buying upgrades - you likely used up all the candy and ended up with a lower score. That's obviously not fun especially since we don't tell the player.

If we had another day I wish I could act on all your feedback <3 this was a great comment! Thank you for playing our game and I hope you had a good time anyway! If its any consolation, I think the F-tier image is my favorite piece of graphics that I made in the game!

Reapurr by Emily C 2025-10-18T16:25:24Z

@adam-konig Thank you! Yes, we unfortunately didn't explain score vs upgrades too well, but essentially the best player in the world could end up with F if they spend it all

@someone It's almost like one of the programmers stressfully threw together 36 unique icons for the upgrades haha Absolutely fair take

@mahalis Thank you so much!! And thank you for reading the Candypedia! We had a backend system-programmer who hadn't worked too much in Unreal and he worked on everything he could, like json databases of candy, until he in the end dove headfirst in!

@kayrum Thank you for the lovely feedback!

@sergs-workshop Yes it's not obvious that you have to leave the shop physically, but anyone complimenting my soundwork makes my heart soar anyway!

@arwen-sylveck Thank you!! Yes, honestly I think it's probably close to 200 man and woman work hours!

@kaba Thank you so much, I did my absolute hardest making that music and system for it!

Reapurr by Emily C 2025-11-03T20:36:05Z

@arkadi-voronchenko Thank you!

Yes, I definitely agree, that part was a learning experience for us to keep it simple.

LD59 — Signal

Signal Weave by alexhonor 2026-04-27T11:35:46Z

This is my favorite game of any Ludum Dare. I was completely hooked. Would buy for real. 5/5 in all categories. Loved it.

Space Record Studio by kayrum 2026-04-24T10:01:40Z

Really really cool game idea - this was a sick jam idea

I just wish there were some upgrades or such to really tighten the game loop - I imagine what you could have made with one more day of jamming. Really really sick.

R.P.S.G.F. by mr.kvinter 2026-04-27T12:30:03Z

This was amazing! What a game! Great in all regards!

Cadence of Glob by Orjan 2026-04-27T11:50:45Z

Super lovely game!

WiFi Trouble by rangoiv 2026-04-22T14:29:48Z

Very cute game! Nicely scoped! Great theming!

Avalanche by JulienLussiez 2026-04-29T15:17:09Z

Cute and minimalistic

Signal Tozoku by Profugo Barbatus 2026-04-25T13:34:02Z

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I will say this in the nicest way possible - FK this little gremlin -

What an amazing game - took me three tries - and I was EXTREMELY invested. Great grades all around!

Holy Light by Tvorojok 2026-04-29T13:07:42Z

Okay dude. Let's walk this through.

At first - art, mood and audio had me gripped immediately. The first battle - I was incredibly confused and didn't understand who I was playing as or what I was doing. As soon as I got it - the gameplay became very nice as well.

I definitely thought the atmosphere was the heavy carrier of this game - and I didn't get the humor or theming - up until I got the ending.

Ending? Masterpiece.

5 / 5 in all categories.

Space Pawn Space Shop by bjornstenlund 2026-04-22T14:03:34Z

@awalone Thank you for playing and calling us HD haha - we are unfortunately not Catmitts - but I can say from the bottom of my heart that I wish I were.

@kseniya I love that so much, thank you <3

Space Pawn Space Shop by bjornstenlund 2026-04-22T16:23:16Z

@universeflow Thank you! We lost our usual 3d artist friends this year - so our very creative programmer had to step in with his trusty pen, pad and scanner!

@bambutcher Hahaha you might have a point there!

Space Pawn Space Shop by bjornstenlund 2026-04-24T08:40:28Z

@theg I actually 100% agree with that assessment - I think with one day of just tightening the game loop we'd probably have killed it - but that's the jam-life

Space Pawn Space Shop by bjornstenlund 2026-04-25T13:19:37Z

@profugo-barbatus Oh my god thank you hahaha - and yes - this is the same ramblings of a mad man - but this time I put way too many hours into the radio instead of the deep truths

@eeva Hahaha thank you! SPACE PAWN, SPACE SHOP!

Space Pawn Space Shop by bjornstenlund 2026-04-26T10:48:22Z

@axlplosion Oh we definitely aim to please on that front hahaha - thrilled to hear it

@conduit Oh thank you so kindly, it feels great to know that my spazzing with a guitar into the mic and wasting 12 hours into the radio feature wasn't wasted hahaha - the graphic style actually came from a decision where our 3d artists couldn't make it this time - so one of our programmers just brought out pens and paper and scanned it all in!

@apt-prose7 Well said man, haha - hopefully we left you relaxed

Space Pawn Space Shop by bjornstenlund 2026-04-27T16:46:46Z

@VenomousMouse Thank you for that lovely comment!

Space Pawn Space Shop by bjornstenlund 2026-04-27T17:51:03Z

@ionhaven Hahaha thank you! Super-polished we might not be - but handmade and charming we certainly got in spades!

Space Pawn Space Shop by bjornstenlund 2026-04-28T18:45:19Z

@cptnero Thank you!

Space Pawn Space Shop by bjornstenlund 2026-05-01T23:09:45Z

@mr-relanium Thank you!! So happy you liked it!

@zhangzhimu Haha thank you also! We definitely tried to stretch the word signal into different ways! Glad you liked it!

@tomssuli Thank you enjoying my soundtrack!

I cant speak for the Kalevala hat, but my artist no doubt might have inspired by the great and mighty Finns as they are our neighbours to the east!

The gameplay I agree could become a little bit frustrating and there's a ton of little rules with the alien races that may not have been as well described as possible - such as the snails just lying, and snakemen always wanting fair-trade and plastic - even when they say the opposite. If we had more time, maybe we'd be able to get that across better and just ban them from asking the things that their ruleset overrid anyway.

Thanks for enjoying!

Space Pawn Space Shop by bjornstenlund 2026-05-05T20:49:16Z

@alexandr-gerya Haha yes, you figured them out!

Space Pawn Space Shop by bjornstenlund 2026-05-08T17:05:58Z

@alex-o Thank you kindly!

Mixed Signals by universeflow 2026-04-22T14:34:10Z

7161!

Great little game!

POKER FACE by T4RAN 2026-04-23T21:15:41Z

Did not expect the ending! Fun game!

Fellowship of the Signal Fire by OttoBroccoli 2026-04-26T13:20:45Z

Really cool idea! Loved it!

Traffic Jam by MountainGoose 2026-04-22T14:37:33Z

This was a very cute game - but there seems to be one single solution for all the levels

GIMME TV by pocketdog 2026-04-26T13:39:36Z

This was my favorite game! Very satisfying loop!

There seemed to be some sort of lagspike when reaching the end of day 3 - it seemed to me to be the bullets from the "big bullet gun" that maybe didnt despawn when going off screen - because suddenly the game became very laggy - but other than that - almost 5/5 in everything from me!

Last Frequency by Catanus 2026-04-26T13:27:17Z

Very cool game! Great theming!

RedFlag:SOS by ReiMi 2026-04-23T21:08:37Z

Amazing! This was so tense!

Signals of God by Geeni 2026-04-24T08:49:46Z

You absolutely killed the mood part - this was crazy. Very human.

Small Among Storms by ShanzPro 2026-04-26T13:14:52Z

Very cool graphics! I like the way you implemented the theme!

i love you, too by tolviere 2026-04-22T14:18:45Z

Wow! That was incredible!