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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | 👥 | Claustrophobia | jam | 1255 | 2.48 | 2.27 | 2.12 | 2.68 | 2.66 | 1.83 | 1.90 | 2.62 |
| 2017 | 39 | Running out of Power | 👥 | Mad Trax | jam | 120 | 3.85 | 3.47 | 3.70 | 4.13 | 4.35 | 3.86 | 2.35 | 3.62 |
i liked the autonomous feel you gave to the player. how the player approached the enemy and the goal was on there own time as long as they protected there own base and the fact the goal was on the other end added to the Theme given. i also like the use of the art even though the art wasnt spectacular it was used well.
Love this, its style may be simple but its depth is amazing, and its also very addicting to play.
i feel like you didn't actually play test your levels, it feels like you made some sort of mathematical calculation that says that its possible just barely and thought this was human standard. i loved the idea of the wall climbing and the characters design being so simple yet interesting, in fact i would have loved to see this entire game based on the character solving puzzles with only the wall climbing ability to its advantage but i feel you ruined your levels by making them stupidly difficult. to be far i didn't get very far into the game, but thats mostly because of the puzzles being designed to have not only picture perfect accuracy but also the platforms not having proper physics with the character, so my surprise at when i landed on the platform and it moved only for me not to move was pretty genuine. overall i still liked the idea and its humor at the beginning was fun but i also found i couldn't skip the beginning cut scene made it more frustrating when i wanted to replay from the beginning.
that being said i loved the character and story, if the puzzle/platforming section wasnt so hard i would have done the entire game based on that alone just to figure out what was going to happen. i found the character to be neat and although his sound was a bit weird it was comical at the same time :).
i think i got most of this game understood, i only had 1 problem. it said i have 0/2 or 0/ etc number of guys and i tried to click on them so i could get them and attack bases and it wouldnt let me. . .maybe tyhis is just a problem by playing on the pc? idk but it made it unplayable because i couldnt attack as often and when it finally did work my power was so low that i lost anyway if i couldnt select enough dudes to fight.
Amazing. loved it, although the AI was a bit better at shooting me then they probably should have been i noticed that they did very little damage to compensate, so i liked it alot
Neat little game. seems like an experience though but it does have a score counter so nice. also relaxing type feeling with the audio and game mechanics and giant elephant passively walking through the endless field.
The rocket ship should have had legs.... thats my only complaint, besides that full marks. it was funny, creative, and it worked well and unique among the other themed games.
i enjoyed this, i dont 100% know why... but i did lol it was fun to try and park but i didnt quite understand why there was a build up of people? or what to do after the parking lot filled up but i did have fun simply messing around with the cars and pushing them around.
Neat concept but... i didn't really see the game portion. Every time i went to a computer and ran the virus thing and the cleaner and then went to the door and shut down nothing persisted.. like the game resets after you look at a computer.
so there's no win state and there's no progression, all that i could do was view some humorous pics and folders which is a bit funny but not really fun.
wow.... wasnt expecting that... one question, what were the random blue things? thought they were like checkpoints or powerups but nothing seems to do anything so i beat the game without knowing.. maybe they were markers for where to go? not sure... but wow amazing experience and it has an end! i love it.
Nice and relaxing which i wasn't expecting from a tetris type game. I did enjoy it, Though i haven't played it terribly long yet so i don't know if there is a win state but it seems to just be play for score so i guess that might be a design choice, personally like games with endings but it was still pretty fun all the same.
Hey @josemachado @gord10ahmet , Thank you for your critical feedback. sorry about the troubles you had with the games controls, Our team ( Nevermore, Liz, and I) Are very adaptive when it comes to playing games, we often use strange controls and switch from keyboard, to mouse, and have lots of experience in using all sorts of weird mediums for games from growing up with both PC and console games. because of this when we prototyped the games controls we didn't really think much on the trouble other people might have with them but your feedback helps because we know not to make that mistake again :).
I am also sorry we also didn't think on the Replay menus being controlled by mouse click either, honestly we were just happy the replay button worked lol.
As for the sticky blocks, ya we only realized latter after the jams was finished when we began some play tests that the blocks were sticky and needed to have a friction-less physics material added to them.
As for unforgiving hit boxes, you would be surprised how much we shrank them down, but the green blocks (the acid blocks) were pretty unforgivable still by the end so my apology's. Anyway thank you again for your feedback and while this isn't technically my first jam, it was for my two teammates and this was my first time programming for a game jam so we really appreciate it :)
This was pretty fun, i find the controls were pretty easy to understand and it felt silly to me also with the football and the flame thrower and the dialogue lol. Eventually i just did donuts in the street till i died but i could see some neat little strategy spew from the game. the art was cool, and fit for the setting. though the theme was a bit low, i guess its more up to interpretation since more enemies did mean you were running out of space. Overall pretty awesome game!
I felt this game was more comedic than serious but at the same time i couldnt help but think '**** those blocks!' and try to beat the game XD. i enjoyed it i liked the interpretation of a tetris like game.
Holy sh** That was awesome! Wasn't expecting such a deep thing from this theme but i guess someone had to involve death itself! i'm not gonna try and psychologically evaluate this but i will say that's awesome use of choice and simple graphics. far closer to an experience but a nice take on the whole "Papers please" concept.
Neat idea, couldnt play too long though, controls were kinda annoying.
Ill be honest, it was really fun. i have a few pet peeves but mostly because the game itself has no end which i don't really enjoy personally but i know its more of a design choice than anything else. I will say that the game stops being fun when the enemies lag so much off screen that i cant prepare for the wave to build up my defenses in time and its just pointless to continue after that.
in terms of innovation i didn't quite see anything i haven't seen before, i also felt the lack of an actual tutorial was also annoying, if there are hidden controls past the press R to rotate than i have no idea. hell i didn't even know the laboratory was for upgrading until i saw a your 'tips' which is actually just how to play the game itself? kind of a d*** move...
Now that the peeves are out of the way, i love tower defenses! and this was fun and it totally fit the theme! awesome art and the music was good to listen to also! Good job!
i... i dont get it?
Loved the Feel of the pixel art, very neat vibe. good use of theme but there didnt seem to be much to actually do besides cut trees and stay alive? my attention span didnt last too long but i tried. Great game i can tell you and your team worked very hard!
neat idea, unfortunately didn't get far. only got to the key part because... well it was a bit depressing... because my name is Benjamin and it was too much real for me XD
its a neat game, but i consider your use of the words to be more of a cop out with the theme... Having a business called 'Space inc' and a character running out of it isn't that creative in my opinion... its arguable but barely holds water.
Game was pretty well done, but i did feel that it was a bit... open worldy and made me feel like i didn't know where to go? the arrows helped but overall it didn't have much direction. not necessarily a bad thing, just wasn't to my tastes.
this game.... is deceptively hard!!! You start off the game has a derpy ball and just get shot at by cannon balls and you just derp along as your paths are blown away. but then you realize you have to last the 2 minutes and for what had to be 10-12 times i got to 36 seconds! i finally make it to the full 2 minutes and then die and just hear reloading im like WHAT!
f***ing love this game its amazing in all categories, and i like to think that i judge fairly and don't exaggerate when i say that. and i would give it full marks!... if the jumping wasn't such a pain in the ass. so you get pretty good marks from me and congrats on making such an amazing game.
Nice innovation, and simple gameplay, Not really my kinda game but i can see the effort that went into it and could see this being expanded or just clearly being a comedy game. Props to both of you for your first Jam!
Oh my god that was addicting... awesome game! leveling up type games always touch my heart deep, and a pong/ shooter combo with upgrades seems like a strange combination but its no exaggeration to say this game was probably one of the more fun jam games ive ever played. It might not mean much but this was awesome!.
Cool little game, funny twist on the theme, but lets be honest, you just wanted to make players fart there way to victory or defeat XD.