Crab It Alive! by Naca 2020-04-26T13:54:36Z
Just beat it with 2 left! Very clean and simple gameplay, challenging enough and fun to play. The art is incredibly good as well as the music & sound. Great job!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → bittripbrit
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | 👥 | That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Crab Girl And Summoned Slimes To Fight For Me | jam | 232 | 3.90 | 4.07 | 3.28 | 3.88 | 3.51 | 3.51 | 4.07 | 3.86 |
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | 👥 | Baby On Board | jam | 2126 | 3.04 | 2.97 | 3.10 | 3.11 | 3.17 | 2.90 |
Just beat it with 2 left! Very clean and simple gameplay, challenging enough and fun to play. The art is incredibly good as well as the music & sound. Great job!
A genuinely wonderful game, if a little tricky to get used to the controls of. The combat is interesting and the lighting is gorgeous. A bit more animation in the player character would be nice, but honestly that's a minor point in the overall experience of the game. Very good entry, well done!
Love the graphics and the influence control aspect. As mentioned by others, checkpoints would definitely help. Good job!
A very fun little game with wonderful pixel art and nice controls. The music and the pixel art shine here, and the animations are very fluid. Great submission :D
Absolutely stunning pixel art and animation, really incredible stuff there. A suggestion would be to add some penalty for mashing the keys, as you can just mash all the keys down repeatedly and pass all the challenges. Other than that, it's a great game with wonderful graphics. Amazing submission!
Great game, very fun to play! This idea definitely has legs and would be awesome to see taken further. I feel I could get quite far with it by just spamming the healing dice, and some of the dice that had 4+ red sides never seemed worth the risk to roll them. A great entry!
An incredibly fun meta game that really captures the spirit of the game jam as a whole. Just the right amount of challenge versus simplicity. Wonderful game, guys!
Very good overall experience, I really enjoyed it. Difficulty ramps nicely and gives a satisfying challenge at the end.
Very interesting game, very innovative. Definitely felt like the wind was a bit choosy as to if I was behind my shield guys or not, which felt unfair at times. I really enjoyed the lore and the concept behind it.
This is such a cool concept and a nice twist on a timeless classic. It's definitely harder with some levels compared to others, and would certainly be a bit easier to plan if you knew more than just the next piece in the chain. Really good concept though and I'd love to see it taken further!
@krakadushka Thank you! :)
@fedora We thought GMod would be an interesting thing to work with, and it was certainly a fun experience learning it all!
@the-sin-preacher Aye, it doesn't lend itself well to a quick test, so we're accepting that we won't get as many ratings as other games. It was more for the fun of it and to learn something new! Thanks :)
@kent-reese We're glad to hear you enjoyed it! Hopefully it was balanced well enough to play!
Very cute game, a really nice idea. I can see how you'd be able to take this across various planets/environments. Great job guys!
Incredible game, honestly. The artwork is astounding and the sound design is great too. I'm getting huge Little Shop of Horrors vibes from it and I love it! The amount of work that must have gone into the art and animation is mind boggling for a game jam submission, really well done!
Honestly, for a first time jam entry and with as much experience as you claim to have, this is very impressive. I loved the little interactions in the dialogue, though it seemed not overly receptive to trying to progress with it (others have commented on that already though, but just thought I'd mention it!). Lots of potential and I look forwards to your submissions for future jams!
Very nice, fast game. I seemed to get stuck on enemies a bit, but it was overall fun! The music was incredibly good - well done!
Really polished and well put together game. The idea of using the lil' guys for both resource collection, combat, and building is really fun. I can see it expanding into a more non-linear progression with branching paths to explore. Really amazing job, well done!
Gorgeous artwork and style, fun gameplay. Challenging without being too tricky. Takes a bit to get used to what you're meant to be doing but the tutorial is super helpful with onboarding. Amazing job!
Utterly adorable. I love the caw paw thwapping when you click, the best feature of any game I've ever seen. Really fun gameplay, love the PacMan rules with the sushi!
Really fun game. I love the old school graphics and sound design. The CRT effect is really cool as well. It's challenging but once you get a good summon and start going, it's a lot of fun!
Really fun little puzzle platformer. It was certainly challenging with the puzzles, especially with physics doing its thing. The humour is pretty great too, I love the characters.
Absolutely incredible for a jam game. Super super impressive!! I love the world building, the abilities and the platforming with them, the music, and the art. All so so good. It did crash after the ending cutscene but honestly, that's a very minor point, the rest of the game was really good.
Very cool idea, a bit tricky at first but fun once you get into the swing of things. I like the idea of a recipe book that you explore over time, very unique idea!
Genuinely feels like a finished game that you'd find on Steam. The art is gorgeous, the music is great, the gameplay feels smooth. It's challenging but not overly so. Love the mechanics. Amazing job, truly. I'd love to see this released as a full game with more levels/cards/mechanics, you'd have my money in an instant.
I LOVE the graphics and the soundtrack. Absolutely incredible work there. The gameplay feels tight and fun yet challenging. Definitely plays better with a gamepad, agreed!
It's giving very QWOP vibes in the best way possible. It's challenging to get it to match at times - I really enjoyed summoning rain for my feline serfs!
Love the idea, really enjoy the cards and the summons. Took a little while to figure out what was happening but after that point it becomes quite fun!
A fun little platformer with a unique spellcasting system - reminds me of the Helldiver stratagems. Really good job!!
Really love the visual style and the art direction of the game. I couldn't figure out what else to do to escape the house but the world building was really good fun.
Love the theme, love the feel of it. Gattling skeleton is terrifying and will haunt my nightmares. 10/10
It gives very Age of War vibes! Really like that there is a level select, an upgrade system, and you can select your loadout of units.
The units could definitely do with moving a bit faster, I think. Otherwise, really good job!
Incredibly fun puzzle game, really good mechanics and challenging levels.
Really solid job on the game and really cool concept overall. I love the art direction a lot.
Incredibly polished game, really fun and responsive. Love the pixel art expecially. I've never forgotten how to touch type as much as I did while playing this.
I am a simple person. I see a cat game, I play the cat game!
Super fun game, I was not expecting a rhythm game but I was pleasantly surprised when it turned out to be one! Very cute art style, really responsive controls, and a good scoring system. All really good stuff, amazing job!
Time to try and summon my own cat using the same methods.
Really fun concept for a game, I would love to see more levels - it has a lot of potential to expand into further puzles. I like the idea of having multiple separate outcomes and objectives for each level as well! Great job.
Really nicely done. It strikes a fun balance of buying new cards while also trying to save money in the final days to get to the goal. It would be awesome to see more request types and card types. It definitely felt like combining 2 cards and then another card was more powerful than combining three cards at once, so there was some strategy in how you combined. Love it - great job!
The artwork and art direction in general is gorgeous. Love the concept and really enjoy the themeing. Definitely needs a bit of balancing but overall very good. Great job!
Really fun game, challenging yet very satisfying when you see the blue slowly take over the right side of the screen after a string of successful links. Really good job!
I feel like I've transcended onto another dimension where all I perceive are betting and mystifying horse races. I'm scared and alone, and the garbled voices are speaking sweet nothings into my ear as I watch the world warp around me. But hey, I won some dollars. And that's alright.
10/10, a very strange and very cool experience.
Absolutely adorable, the cats are so so cute.
Really solid game. I like the salt mechanic a lot, it means I can block off a doorway while I'm clearing out a room and know I have some time to be protected. Artwork is very good too, great job!
Really REALLY cool idea. It gives Cultist Simulator vibes in the best possible way. It's very chaotic and hard to keep up with at times, but once you know what you're doing it's very fun to grow things. I agree with others, a more "cosy" version would have me invested way longer, as it became very difficult to keep up with everything going on. Can't wait to see what you do with it! Amazing job.