GobEx by WeirdBitGames 2023-05-05T16:10:55Z ♥ 1
Great game! I found it pretty tough, but good fun! Love how polished it is!
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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | Orion | jam | 698 | 3.47 | 3.07 | 3.96 | 4.13 | 4.37 | 2.29 | 3.41 | |||
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | Mystic Logistic | jam | 618 | 3.56 | 3.48 | 3.26 | 3.04 | 4.00 | 3.28 | 2.54 | 3.62 | ||
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | We Harvest as One | jam | 55 | 4.10 | 4.08 | 3.66 | 3.58 | 3.93 | 3.61 | 2.43 | 3.56 | ||
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Fly Trap Dash | jam | 1688 | 3.29 | 3.10 | 3.02 | 3.90 | 3.19 | 3.14 | 2.31 | 3.25 |
Ben Toosey leaves an average of 29.8 feedback comments each event.
Great game! I found it pretty tough, but good fun! Love how polished it is!
The pace was unbelievably fast! I struggled to grasp what to do/who I was, even after reading the tutorial. But I like the idea and theme, even though I don't really see the link to 'Delivery'.
I love this idea for a game! Great entry, had a lot of fun!
Fun game, although sometimes I would simply get unlucky and there not be any way to fulfil a request... I really liked the audio and visuals too though, very cute
Great game! I enjoyed the controls, a little difficulty to turning but the game significantly more challenging than it would've been otherwise!
This is impressive for such a short amount of time, great entry! I got a little confused to start with, but I had fun!
Great game! I really enjoyed it, and the art is fantastic!
The only issues I had were with the camera going back and forth randomly when I tried to jump sometimes. But other than that, a very enjoyable little platformer! It was just the right length :)
Great entry! Got down to my last life on the last level so it got tense as I tried to stay alive! Loved the art too!
My first dating sim, and I had fun! It had a great mood, as well as great art/audio! Great entry
What a fun game! I completed it first try, but I don't think it was too easy, just the right level of difficulty. Always carrying the boots and prioritising upgrades helped so much! Good entry!
Lovely game! I like the use of canon-firing camera shake and the waves to block the player's view, very clever!
Fun logic puzzles! I feel like I might have bypassed the intended mechanic by just turning an enemy car before the start so they drive out the map... A great entry though, it was very easy to grasp and good fun :)
A tough fight! I felt like I didn't get much warning with the bullets! The art and animations are spot-on though, great work!
I really like the art! The map seems a little big so takes a long time to travel between checkpoints though
A fun platformer! I like the mechanic of throwing and having to retrieve your weapon! I had a few problems with responsiveness so couldn't play in full-screen mode, though! Good job :)
Great entry! Exemplifies what a game jam game should be: very simple and very effective! It has a lot of polish, and is surprisingly difficult if you get caught between two vehicles! Great work!
I got to day 34 :) I really like the 2.5D art style, and the game was really fun! Unlike so many other games, the aim of this one is to kill the plants!!
I really like the use of a slightly shallow depth of field! That, plus some vivid colours and nice models and you get a really good looking game scene!
I found it quite tough to start off with, got killed by raiders very quickly most of the time, but really enjoyed it, great entry :)
I never thought I'd see a tamagotchi-esque game that;s so depressing, it's great! Great work :)
Super fun! The track is short enough to make you want to play again and again to beat your fastest time! Good job :)
As a big roguelike fan, I loved how polished this experience was! Plus it wasn't easy, it was exactly the right level of difficulty to make you want to keep playing! Excellent work! You could win the whole jam with this!
Funniest game so far, didn't think I'd enjoy harvesting organs so much! And what a twist at the end haha
I like the idea of a small rural farm needing to buy a new harvester daily because the farmer doesn't know how to drive one and crashes them every time they want to harvest a field. The true farming simulator!
Probably one of my favourites so far! Aesthetic is great, music is great, face fruit is great!
The visuals all worked for me. I really like the idea of combining a dash and attack in the same button, it's a fun mechanic I might explore in the future myself. I didn't really understand what I could use my souls on because TAB didn't work for me, but I enjoyed in nonetheless. Good job :)
Really enjoyed this! The 5x5 pixel sprites are tough to design, so you did a great job with them! Maybe making them 8x8 or 12x12 would've made the game a little bit more readable. I also really liked the introduction of new mechanics each level. Great game!
Fun game, but also quite difficult to get started. I love that the factory literally just spits out the buns as they're created, funny tough to the game!
Perhaps the only Steampunk escape from I'll see this game jam, so you've gained originality points there! I really liked it, though sometimes I wish my player would move a little faster. Good job!
Wow, I can't believe you hired professional singers for your game ;) joking aside, it's a very cute game! I waited around and the foxes would drift a bit, clipping through the giant Minecraft blocks, but that was the only bug I noticed! Great work!
I like that you have to harvest your ammo. Very fun!
Difficult, but also good fun! I enjoyed the first time I got two combos in a row a lot haha
Excellent little game, I had a lot of fun. Shame the scorecard at the end didn't work for me, I think I got to about 20 sheep?
A great game, especially considering it's your first ever! Would be great to have the aim target follow your cursor instead of being fixed a certain distance away from the player. Really enjoyed it :)
Very clear gameplay loop, it was fun!!
That art is something else, very impressive to have done all that 72 hours!
Really innovative controls, and I love the variance in movement speed from walking/flying and empty/full bag. Very clever!
Struggled to get to grips with the controls, but I love the top down look of the home base, and the music!
Loving the GB artstyle. I struggled to navigate the controls because they were'nt what was dispalyed in the tutorial screen or the hints. But very cute, I had fun :)
I love this idea for a game! Never come across a game that's based around this mechanic, you benefit from staying closer to the source of danger. Really impressive, though super difficult as well
Fantastic game, super relaxing! The best thing about it is it has music that isn't horrible to listen to on repeat! Great work
It's chaotic and well-paced! Took a little while to get used to the controls, but I guess that's part of the challenge, good job!
I put 7 roses down in a row. I ended up with 3fps. I liked it :)
What a great game! My favourite thing is the main character, he's adorable! Great job!
Great game, and good fun! I found myself camping the bottom corners to safely collect humans without the worry of being shot from different angles. Great fun though!
A couple of really nice simple mini games!
Cute game! I didn't really see the point in earning all this money if I couldn't spend it, and it was quite hard to keep up with all the plants being ready to harvest all the time, but it was really nice! Good job implementing a working inventory/UI in such a short time as well :)
Unfortunately the HTML5 link just takes me to a blank page
Great game, I enjoyed harvesting thousands and thousands of litres of blood from my victims, great job!
A lovely game, and a great take on the theme, I really enjoyed it :)
Nice game! I love the graphics and audio. I found my depth perception was really off for a long time, so it was quite frustrating jumping over platforms all the time, but once I got used to it, I had a lot of fun, good job :)
Amazing cutscene to introduce the game! I love the concept of GMO plants that grow ammunition, and the combination mechanic was great, but it wasn't all that clear what I was combining, I ended up just mashing the combine button and spamming the shoot button, but had lots of fun nevertheless :)
Everything worked for me apart from the "restart" button when I lost on my first try. Very nice, simple-to-understand game! Fairly easy once I realised I could place all my cannons as close to the centre as possible, but I enjoyed it! Good job!
Not entirely sure if you can use those sounds/music as they might be copyrighted :/ but good concept, I enjoyed it, if not for it being a little slow to start. I quickly figured out how to upgrade my farm though, and I like all the art :) good job!
I got stuck when I had to ripen the oranges using the apples. The oranges never seemed to ripen faster, even with 2 apples surrounding them, am I missing something? I really like the gameplay concept though. The idea was very easy to grasp :)
I couldn't find the game on itch.io? It says there's no page set up yet
My score is 73! I like the art style in the background, and if you make the sprites from the fruit in the foreground nice and crisp it'd be a really nice looking game! Unfortunately I often got bad RNG luck and had fruits spawn on opposite sides in a row, so it was impossible for me to catch them. But overall, nice job!
I can't imagine how many times you guys have heard the words "pay pistachio" (or whatever he says) whilst making this game, I heard it a lot playing it haha. Good job, I really enjoyed it, though it's quite difficult! I couldn't get past level 6, perhaps the first few levels could introduce the different mechanics one by one, and then the puzzles can start to get harder? Great work though, impressive!
I like the story and the take on the theme! I haven't seen an interpretation like this yet! Very familiar gameplay, but it's quite hard to think of multiple 9+ letter words for initial guesses!
Very easy to grasp the game loop as soon as you look at it. I think you had a very large scope for a game jam, but I like the end result! Structure descriptions would be great when choosing what to build, and unfortunately the camera movements don't work too well when full screen. Great work!
I enjoyed it! Satisfying when you get a few combos in a row! It took a little while to figure out that tiles grew into more valuable tiles, but it was very well executed! Well done :)
Great game! Had a lot of fun with it :) Really enjoyed balancing the RGB to get the perfect colour! And the audio fits perfectly! Great job!
I managed to play it on Chrome :) I enjoyed the level design as I had to retrace some steps to find the right path, but sometimes I would get stuck between two cars and would have to spam jump to escape. I like the sprites used as well, good job :)
I would go to different stars and scan each planet, and send drones to some too, but would never get any creatures as seen in the screenshots above. Am I missing something? Aside from that, I really like the look of the game :)
Love it! It felt a little easy, but overall the game is extremely polished and beautiful to look at :) I didn't find myself needing to use the Protect Hostage and Change Target buttons, but I had a blast playing it. Great job!
This is a super polished game for only a few days work! I think the art is charming and very well done! And the controls are perfect for the pace of the game! Perhaps it is a little too easy and the space you swim in feels quite large, but I guess that's the ocean for you haha. Great work!
I really like the character model and animations! However I couldn't get through the first gap, my crouch wouldn't work? Another thing I noticed was if I died, the fish I'd collected would remain as part of the counter! Shame I couldn't get further, the game looks great!
Fun game and nice sprites :) I really like the interactive start menu as the tutorial!
Super fun game! I love the look of the planet and background, however the asteroids don't stand out enough in my opinion. A little more contrast would improve it a lot for me.
Fun game! I tried the medium and hard difficulties and enjoyed both :)
Challenging controls in terms of moving and dodging enemies/attacks at the same time. But good fun, great job!
I love the animations! And it gets difficult quickly, which I really like! Makes it easy to try again and beat your high score!
So much fun! Great job on an all-round great game!
Just goes to show you don't need a game to be complex to be fun and engaging! I really enjoy the gameplay, I don't recall seeing this type of gameplay in another game! The pacing and difficulty progression is well thought-out which just makes me want to play again and again! This would be a great mobile app if refined and expanded upon, great job!
Really enjoyed playing this! It's a refreshing take on the theme to slow down the pace of the game when so many other jam entries are really fast-paced! The sound at the end of the game was unexpected and a little loud compared to the rest of the game, which caught me by surprise, but I enjoyed the drawn aesthetic and the story. Great job :)
What a beautiful game! Can't fault the art and the music worked really well too! I got a little frustrated when I hadn't realised my phone had wheeled past my defences and ended up losing a level, but that's my own fault I guess haha. Had great fun playing it and it fits the theme very well. Great job!
This is a lovely game! Great graphics and audio, had a blast and enjoyed the little twist!
The longest I've spent playing someone else's game today, great job!! I like the fast pace of the movement, and I'm impressed in the level design!
I love the art in this game!! Unfortunately the aspect ratio of the game was a bit too large for the screen I'm using so I had to keep scrolling up and down to see all of the locusts, but aside from that, a great interpretation of the theme!
This is a great idea that fits the theme very well! I found that I often had water spawn quite far away, which gave flies a lot of time to eat the flower before I could get rid of them. But it was good fun, great job!
I really love the music. That and the pace of the game really creates a fitting experience for the theme! Good job :)
This is a really fun game! I enjoyed playing through it :)
LD55 — Summoning (30)
Literally me by TPace 2024-04-29T08:33:19Z ♥ 1
This was a very cool experience for me, as I've never really dived into a world like this before. It's amazing how you can glean the 3D form of an object through moving layers over text. An escape-room game in this artistic style and with the use of poetry would be incredible, and a no-brainer purchase for someone like me! This has inspired me to go outside of my comfort zone a bit in the future and try some more experimental games, well done!
Last Ritual by Vitaslayer 2024-04-29T08:21:16Z ♥ 1
I think I have RSI from all the clicking, but good entry! I think an autoclick would be nice (perhaps as an upgrade), and collecting souls by hovering over them instead of clicking would also go a long way. I won pretty easily with a single slime upgrade and both attack upgrades, so incentivising other upgrades would be nice, but I thoroughly enjoyed my time with this game, and the idea has a lot of potential for a mobile app I think!
Doomsday Care by Kyrio 2024-04-24T09:35:49Z ♥ 1
Firstly, the creature design/art is fantastic! It wasn't too clear what B, W and S stand for, and although the game is a little slow/easy, I still had a lot of fun discovering the different creature designs. Great work making it compatible with Gameboys too!
Summon Dots by look_for_happiness 2024-04-24T09:23:54Z ♥ 1
Very straight-forward on what to do, and very nice audio/visual feedback. It also reminds me of an old game I used to play on miniclip or somewhere, but I can't remember its name either. Great entry!
The Curse of Lake Pineview (Gameboy Color) by zagony2613 2024-04-24T09:18:13Z ♥ 1
Fantastic entry! I really enjoyed the story and battle mechanics, plus the fast that it brings me back to the gameboy days is always nice to see :)
Super Pal Summoner! by Meepster 2024-04-21T20:55:37Z ♥ 1
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Super addicting, spent more time playing than I'd like to admit! Thoroughly enjoyed that, well done on making such a fun game!
Duck Spawner by Myse 2024-04-18T20:52:27Z ♥ 1
I was impressed by the depth of the duck-summoning mechanic, very well thought-through! ;)
VampIrO by nox282 2024-04-17T22:03:29Z ♥ 1
Great art, and impressive to use your own engine! But wasn't at all easy! I found that the hitboxes may be slightly off, as I was seemingly being hit from nowhere a lot of the time, but great work! A simple exp/upgrade system (even just a single upgrade type) would've gone a long way! Great entry :)
I Summon Bounce by nardandas 2024-04-17T21:56:05Z ♥ 1
Addictingly tricky, well done! Had a lot of fun juggling pixels!
Summoning of Qasimar by arzi 2024-04-17T21:51:04Z ♥ 1
Very cool aesthetic and mood, but I think it's a little too difficult. I found the symbols too cryptic, but the writing was excellent!
archmage by OldDog 2024-04-17T09:11:02Z ♥ 0
Good take on the tower defence genre! Found it a little easy to win as I just pumped all of my upgrades into one unit type, but still had a great time! Good job!
Summonundrum by James Greenleaf 2024-04-17T09:00:22Z ♥ 1
Very fun concept, and a great base to expand from too, so many potential mechanics come to mind!
The Summoning of the Ice Hammer by Pawciu 2024-04-16T18:44:03Z ♥ 1
Amazing art style for a game, enjoyed it a lot! The straight-forward gameplay meant it was nice and relaxing to play, too! Well done :)
An Other Survivor... by Pierre CILLUFFO 2024-04-16T15:58:48Z ♥ 1
Lovely art style, and engaging gameplay too! I like that you don't get as much space to move around like you would in many other Survivor-likes. The limited space fits well with the hand-drawn, lined paper aesthetic. Great entry :)
Echos of Players Past by Jezzamon 2024-04-16T15:40:50Z ♥ 2
That was super fun! And such a clever idea, executed really well! Probably my favourite entry so far!
Dungeon Summoner by Pomo 2024-04-16T15:32:22Z ♥ 1
Fast-paced and music really fits with the aesthetic, but sometimes hard to keep track of where all the enemies come from!
Sir Lancelittle by BaggerSmurf 2024-04-16T15:23:27Z ♥ 3
Died a few rooms after the first boss! Fun take on the theme, and the name Lancelittle is very funny! Great entry!
Clone fest by Tori 2024-04-16T14:54:37Z ♥ 4
I've not seen the theme taken to the extreme as well as this game has, so well done! Very enjoyable, and the music/art is unbelievably good!
Luminth by crushedsummers 2024-04-16T14:35:38Z ♥ 3
Cool concept, and very charming art style! I found it quite difficult to navigate (I know it is a maze haha) so ended up just running a round hoping to find the exit on multiple occasions without taking much care for the aggressive fish. Overall though, I had fun, it's a great submission with a fun take on the theme!
Will to Fight by TheGamerASD 2024-04-16T14:29:00Z ♥ 1
Cool to see a Papers, please style game in the game jam, and I like your take on the theme!
TERRIBLE TILES by oatsbarley 2024-04-16T14:22:31Z ♥ 0
Sometimes when clicking on a row it would push two on instead of just the one, but that's the only bug I found. Would've been nice to restart at the current level instead of going back to level 1 each time, but I had. Overall, a great little match-3 game, especially as it was all done for Compo!
theGRIMOIRE_ by 0x0961h 2024-04-16T14:17:51Z ♥ 1
Brilliant game, and I can see how complex level design must be for it, so well done! Seems very polished, and was a good brain-melter!
Summongrel by James_7777 2024-04-16T14:09:26Z ♥ 2
Really good platformer puzzle game, good submission! I especially like the dog suspended in a sphere, thought that was funny. And I also had a go at developing a speedrun strat for the last level (managed to complete it only using one jump pad, no walls or dashes needed). Had a lot of fun!
God's Apprentice by Kimday 2024-04-16T13:17:41Z ♥ 3
Fun game, completed at 100%, though must admit I had to use some trial-and-error for the zombie/smart cats achievement! Lovely art/music, and loads of potential with the gameplay mechanic for future level development! Great entry!
Vocatio by Mantsje 2024-04-16T11:35:57Z ♥ 2
Fun game! I really liked the art, especially the level 3 floor tiles and enemies! Clever take on the survivor-like genre, getting the player to draw each spell. Great entry, well done :)
DURO by Fenix131113 2024-04-16T10:53:27Z ♥ 7
Good puzzle game! There's so much scope to create super complex level designs! I would have made a few more levels just focusing on 2 elements. Perhaps new elements could be introduced as you progress? Art is very nice! Good entry!
Cloudy with a Chance of Fall Damage by Moritz Jaeger 2024-04-16T10:30:32Z ♥ 3
Didn't make it to the top, but it was fun! Unbelievably unforgiving, but a really cool mechanic to use as a rage-platformer. Great entry!
⌰⟒⏁⍜ (leto) by Sodoj 2024-04-16T10:15:02Z ♥ 1
To start with I really enjoyed it, as each ring, overlapping with the last, was making some really lovely music (who doesn't love a good polyrhythm)! But in the later levels the sounds weren't matching as well. I'm sure this was done on purpose to make the game harder, but it also made it slightly less enjoyable for me too. That being said, I still had a great time, very moody and always fun to see a rhythm game in LD! Great entry!
Mass Move Minion Magic by obittner 2024-04-16T10:02:19Z ♥ 5
Reminds me a lot of my entry to LD52, actually, just more developed than mine! Some great puzzle designs here too, good work!
Would you still love me if I was a worm ❤️🪱? by samsface 2024-04-16T09:44:06Z ♥ 4
Completed! :) a lot of fun and felt very polished too! It had so much content that I never saw what the lightsaber worm could do before my run ended! Well done guys, great entry!