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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Cm | Co | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 37 | One room | Keeper of the Altar | compo | 12 | 4.16 | 4.13 | 2.90 | 3.94 | 4.03 | 3.61 | 4.00 | 64 | ||||
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | Super Space Invader | compo | 74 | 3.90 | 3.98 | 2.83 | 3.66 | 3.80 | 3.87 | 3.76 | 78 | ||||
| 2014 | 31 | Entire Game on One Screen | Labyrinthian | compo | 146 | 3.68 | 3.39 | 3.30 | 3.75 | 3.73 | 3.66 | 4.26 | 78 | ||||
| 2013 | 27 | 10 Seconds | Triad | compo | 47 | 3.87 | 3.80 | 3.87 | 3.94 | 3.15 | 3.35 | 2.13 | 3.53 | 87 | |||
| 2012 | 25 | You are the Villain | Amongst Shadows | compo | 27 | 3.89 | 3.60 | 3.09 | 3.14 | 3.66 | 3.56 | 2.08 | 3.79 | 67 | |||
| 2012 | 23 | Tiny World | Rock 'n' Slash | compo | 583 | 2.73 | 2.82 | 1.98 | 2.93 | 3.25 | 2.72 | 2.08 | 2.54 | 79 | |||
| 2011 | 22 | Alone | Uncorrupted | compo | 34 | 3.63 | 3.13 | 2.59 | 3.67 | 3.53 | 2.82 | 2.35 | 3.70 | 3.38 | 37 | ||
| 2011 | 21 | Escape | Facilitated Escape | compo | 140 | 3.21 | 3.16 | 2.21 | 3.32 | 3.11 | 2.94 | 1.38 | 2.36 | 4 |
BlackBulletIV leaves an average of 35.6 feedback comments each event.
Beautiful graphics and the gameplay is pretty good (especially with the strategic switching of robots). It did some more sound effects and levels to be seriously polished though. Still a great job.
I like the concept, especially how the creature adapts to what you eat. Would've been nice to see it fleshed out more.
Really surprised you disallowed audio ratings. The different tracks of music was great! The concept, graphics, and execution were all great too. Well done!
A couple of things though. Starting back on the menu with the last level attempted selected, or having a restart button would be nice. Also, the "miss" screen seemed to appear even though I successfully got the nucleotide.
Great stuff. I like this take on interactive fiction. Had a great mood to it too.
Great music and implementation of the theme. Found it really hard though.
Brutally hard, but still fun and with a nice concept.
Had a lot of fun trying to improve on this one. Great mechanic. Very polished game overall.
I like the graphics and music, but it really needs some gameplay other than pressing E once.
I probably found the snowman with five top hats more amusing than I should. Well done, nice game.
Lovely music and fun gameplay. Kinda needed another button to fit the theme though.
Very funny! I like the take on the themes too.
Far too difficult, but I like the concept and graphics.
Brilliant game! Got rather hard pretty quick, but still, wonderful work.
Very good for two hours work, a good minimal aesthetic with an original concept.
Very engrossing atmosphere. A shame it was so short. I was looking forward answering more questions.
Dunno if I'm doing something wrong, but I cannot win a war. Literally declaring war on 2-tiled enemies that I have greater power and income than and still losing every time. I do like the notion of the game though, and the music was nice.
Nice graphical style. Shooting mechanics would be improved by allowing it to be 360 degree (exactly where the mouse is point).
Surprisingly had a lot of fun, even if it was difficult. Would be a lot better with sound.
Great audio and atmosphere! For constructive criticism, controls were somewhat buggy and the implementation of theme is very weak (I didn't even notice the eye's power growing).
Also, I'd advise against telling people how to rate something. Not saying I didn't rate audio highly because of it, just that it comes off poorly.
Very nice! Good graphics and a great mood. Narration was a nice touch.
Did get stuck in level 2 just before the corridor heading south. I hadn't killed every enemy yet and attempted to go through the door. He said he couldn't open it, but the camera had already switched and wouldn't switch back.
Pretty cool concept and decent graphics. Nice job.
Very finicky, and scoring is a bit buggy, but still so fun to play! With some improvement this would be something great. Also loved the crowd sounds.
Great visuals and interesting gameplay. I found it difficult to work out the combo moves though.
Very fun! I do wish I wouldn't lose a stack of corpses because one died.
Wow! Great game guys. The artwork is brilliant, the gameplay fun, and the music sets a nice rocking mood. Splendid.
Very nice pixel art and music. The mechanic felt difficult to grasp though, especially as the game went on.
Interesting concept (very well fit for the themes) and good graphics. Held my attention for quite a while.
Nice little game with smooth graphics. Spikes are too unforgiving though, as others have mentioned.
Not much too it, but I found this pleasant, even amusing (got a chuckle out of the character walking on his eyes), to play. Well done.
Very original concept with nice graphics. I found the difficulty to be very frustrating though, as I just couldn't avoid going to bankruptcy in the early stages trying to placate all the needs. Perhaps I was overbuilding, I dunno.
Very unique concept. The night went a bit quick for my taste, but I still managed five.
More fun than I thought it would be, though I'm not quite sure how it fits either theme. Music was good though.
Quite amusing. I imagine you had some fun recording those sound effects. :P
Very interesting concept, though it seemed based heavily on chance (maybe I'm just bad). Nice graphics though, and amusing satire on LPers.
Good concept, visuals, and execution. It's simple, but an excellent game overall.
Very addictive. There's not much to the game, but what is there is implemented very smoothly. Well done.
I went directly to the game's repo and downloaded it from there, but you really should fix that link.
Overall it runs fine (apart from a couple collision bugs), though I do wish there was more depth to combat than hacking at passive enemies.
A very interesting concept! Props for innovation. With a some more work this could really be something nice.
I like the concept, but the game is buggy as all hell. My player got stuck many times forcing me to restart from the beginning.
On a strong point, the lighting and background static really helped give a dark mood.
Had quite a bit of fun with the movement mechanics. Nice graphics too.
Interesting game. Got a great mood to it, despite limited sound. Not sure why you've put the post-compo version with voices on this game page; it's a little misleading.
Probably the best theme I've seen so far. Too hard for me, but the gameplay was still great.
Great graphics and theme. Nicely polished as well.
Very nice, polished game with a great mechanic. A shame it wasn't longer.
Holy shit, this scared me a couple times. Excellent mood. A bug I noticed was where the monsters were just within range, the musical "hit" would trigger many, many times.
Solid and fun tower defence game. Graphics could use a little more polish I think.
Great concept. I've seen a console concept before, but this one was far more fleshed out and fun to use. A shame you couldn't finish your idea.
Some interesting semi-strategy mechanics in there. A little too minimalistic in presentation, but it has a solid foundation.
Nice and fun.
Had a good mood to it, with nice graphics. A shame the background sounds didn't loop, would've helped with the mood even more. I don't see how this fits with the theme though.
Graphics, sound, and gameplay are all nicely done. It's very simple, but it works.
Love the concept! Eventually I got tired of manually placing things and just watched my colony evolve. It looked like it was primed for domination and then suddenly it began eating itself down and was promptly finished off by the straggling blue colonies. Fun to watch.
A highly unique take on the theme, but I'm afraid it just feels impossible to properly play.
Nice gameplay. Would've been a lot better if you had more time to devote to it.
Love the gameplay concept. Very challenging.
Wasn't sure as to what powerups did or what the score meant. Graphics were nice and polished though. I really loved how it zoomed in on the player. It seemed to convey a cinematic feeling of helplessness.
Nice graphics and gameplay. It was actually a little difficult (not a bad thing), even with that teleport feature.
Great graphics and good mood thanks to music. The gameplay is a bit lacking, and without reading your guide outside the game, it's unclear what to do.
Nice little arcade game, quite challenging. It took me a long time to realise that the "red flash" with the ticking sound didn't mean I was taking damage.
Good lighting and some nice level design, but the spinning made the controls very hard to use.
Well polished arena game with good graphics and animations. Didn't have other people I could test it with, but I got the concept.
Graphics are nice. Gameplay was frustrating because *every* shot would miss, except for those of the sniper.
Great graphics, concept, and gameplay.
Nice graphics and gameplay. The bomb's proably should've been more deadly and less frequent though.
Great graphics. Not so fussed on the gameplay, but it was alright.
Nice graphics and a great take on the theme, but the gameplay of mashing LMB got tiring.
Nice gameplay with well polished graphics. Was hard to aim sometimes, as has been mentioned.
Great game! The take on them and its execution is really good.
Good concept, though the games themselves felt a bit rushed.
I like the concept. Gameplay is reasonably fun also, though the controls feel a bit floaty, and the camera angle makes it very hard to tell which blocks are higher.
Very well polished and beautiful looking game as expected. The game's only glaring issue (unless my flash player is messing up) is its lack of sound effects.
Interesting concept. Everything got so tiny after a few resets though.
Great concept! Would've liked to have seen it fleshed out more.
A note on the controls: I found the player movement way too fast, making control a little difficult.
Interesting concept and gameplay, but too hard in my opinion. Try as I might, I couldn't get past the first level.
Some pretty neat graphics and an interesting concept, though I felt smoothness in gameplay was lacking.
A great puzzler-concept, even though it doesn't precisely fit the theme. Controls and tile collision felt a bit off though.
Graphics are nice, though as has been mentioned, the controls are a bit unresponsive and the perspective can make it hard to tell what is a solid surface.
Overall it feels rather unpolished. One of the biggest issues is that the score often isn't properly added. The hand drawn art is interesting though.
Do I really have to install the game? Or does that installer just extract the files to a specific location?
Nice concept. The AI seem a bit overpowered, as in, not smart, but just more powerful than you.
Interesting concept. It wasn't implemented the best, as stuff will often just appear out of nowhere and shoot you out of the sky, but despite that, I had fun.
Love the concept. Unfortunately it felt a bit too hard and the controls were way too floaty.
Far too hard, and very frustrating. From what I've seen it looked quite interesting; wish I could've completed it.
The music is awesome, and I like the concept. The game moves too slowly however, and the mechanics (such as gem capture and how units fight each other) isn't clear.
A well-rounded entry, with good variety. Got stuck on that bomber vs turrets one. The boss behind the turrets wouldn't take damage.
The traps are a bit unclear/random, and the controls feel very rough (I'd have preferred to hold down the arrow keys). If the movement were smoother and it had more levels I feel it'd be an interesting game.
A very interesting concept, although I found it wasn't clear how to keep track of preferences and the like, so it mainly a game of chance for me.
The graphics and audio are nice. Creates a good mood. Gameplay wasn't particularly fun; I think the movement was a bit too slow and clunky.
Seriously?
Interesting idea, although the connection to the theme is a bit loose. Although too easy, it was still somewhat entertaining to play, more than can be said for some games.
I'm not entirely sure what was going. I think I'm meant to collect those numbered blocks. Eventually they stopped spawning entirely though.
Nice music and graphics by the way.
Way too hard; it kind of felt unfair. I do the like the mechanic of jumping while falling, even though I couldn't really get used to it.
The lack of gameplay, audio, and theme is a real shame, but I was amazed by the environment you constructed.
Getting the "main class main.main" error. :/
Well, I liked the shadows and the menu screen. I found the gameplay annoying as the enemy can see further than the screen and there's practically no cover any description.
A nice, simple concept. The lack of audio and a timer is a problem though.
A cool concept. I had fun getting chased by those blue things. It doesn't really fit in with the 10 second theme though.
Wow, that is such a cool concept, and implemented quite slickly too.
That was a really nice platformer. I really like the way you intertwined the strange powerups theme with 10 seconds.
Didn't last too long, it's pretty difficult. But an interesting concept, and you did a good job in making the place relatively scary.
I love the graphics, and the platforming is pretty solid too. I got stuck pretty soon into though.
Great theme, graphics and design. It'd be awesome with some audio.
Problem is I have not a clue how to solve it, and I certainly don't have the patience to keep banging my head at this for hours. What am I meant to use for this anagram? The IOU message? The scratchings on the desk? The "test_" text on the other computer?
Wow, couldn't get past level 4. I like the concept of mouse control though. The minimalistic graphics are nice too.
I'd say the death sound is too loud in comparison to the music. It was pretty jarring whenever it played.
Not entirely sure how it fits with theme (you mentioned something about 10 second difficult increases, or something?).
It's good that you took the time to write music, though I did find it somewhat jarring.
Interesting platforming mechanics, though I'm not a fan of restarting the entire game. I thought by "start at the beginning" you needed to restart each level. :/
Ugh, I just can't complete that C puzzle. I've tried writing a C with both lights, moving in a C on the pad, jumping on the pad, moving towards all the light sources... nothing works. (Don't worry, I didn't rate your game.)
Really like the minimalistic style. I have no idea how I'm meant to put the parachute on, but I quite enjoyed what I could complete.
Damn, that was intense, and really fun. Probably my favourite game thus far. The audio, the graphics, the overall polish... it's all great.
Waaaay too hard. The controls are too floaty, and it seems one particularly bit is impossible to get past. Nevertheless it did keep me trying for a while, and the graphics are very nice.
That was awesome. Very fun. I love your use of the theme.
Once I got past that strange crash bug, I found the game terribly confusing (yes I read the tutorial). Somehow I ended up winning. The game doesn't seem to communicate much who's winning, apart from in the console window. I did like the graphics though.
The intro gave a nice sense of mood. It, in combination with the screenshot, kind of gave the impression that it would be a dark, moody game; thus I was a little disappointed when the game started and it turned out to be bright and happy.
I like the concept though; it's a shame you didn't have time to flesh it out.
Good music and interesting graphics, but 10 seconds just isn't enough. The player doesn't move fast enough and the collision with objects seems buggy.
Wow, what an intricate game. I'm very impressed you managed to code a UI and SQL system within that timeframe. Must admit I didn't have the patience to see it through to completion, but I did experiment for some time (I think I missed the flight or something).
Anyway, well done.
The pixel art is very nice, as is the music. A shame the game isn't complete.
It was hard to tell when I going to run into those red things. It's a bit too hard overall I think. And many times when it restarted, it would glitch out, saying "you are dead" are not letting me move. The graphics and audio are nice though.
Your concept is excellent and the abundance of control of your soldier's actions is great (something my game didn't have). In practice however it feels somewhat bulky and convoluted (I guess the floaty controls don't help with that). Having two teams both subject to the dynamic system is really cool, but ends up being a bit messy I feel.
But nevertheless, well done on getting such a system complete within 48 hours.
The concept was confusing at first, and the character is pretty hard to control. I like the simple, minimalistic graphics though.
Wow, I'm impressed. All around a well-polished game, with a great concept and graphics. The slightly dark/desperate atmosphere is very nice too.
Man, that was really fun, and the graphics are so aesthetically pleasing.
I know you have a timer-based life system, but from I observed it's based more around 60 seconds than 10 seconds. Therefore I don't think it really fits the theme at all.
Aside from that, great game.
A nice simple game, with good art and fun gameplay. However, as others have said, the difficulty ramped up way too fast.
Wow, nice job! Probably the most fun entry I've played thus far. Graphics are very nice too.
Having now played your entry, I'm confused as to why you took issue with me using a literal ten seconds (well, actually three sets of ten seconds) in my own submission, since you also use a literal ten seconds (in a different way, of course).
Anyway, good job.
Well, it's certainly interesting. The atmosphere was somewhat disquieting, which is more than can be said for any other game I've played thus far.
However, I find the concept is far too hard to grasp without reading the "spoiler", and even when you know what to do, the gameplay just doesn't feel satisfying at all.
The music is great, and I like that "build-up" sound which plays in the last two seconds.
As for gameplay, let's just say it's WAY too hard to kill an enemy when starting off. It takes nearly the whole 10 seconds to do so, and there's not just a few enemies, there's 10-15 of them.
Also, I know it's probably the itch.io site, but having to go through a pay what you want system for a Ludum Dare game leaves a bad taste. I recommend just linking directly to the zip files.
Very confusing, especially at first. I'm guessing I was meant to collect those smaller bricks, and not run into the large bricks? It was somewhat enjoyable once I figured that out.
The tutorial doesn't give you time to read the instructions. Also, I recommend not making players sit through that very long bootup sequence every time they want to restart.
I like the concept. The controls were difficult to use, mainly because of the really fast moving player.
Very polished game, graphics are audio are great. Nicely done.
Ha ha, well this is amusing. The concept is good, and I like the chiptune music as well.
Gameplay felt decent, but only having a single level is certainly a problem. Also I would've really liked it if you could just hold down the arrow keys to move.
Ooook then...
Nice concept, even if I couldn't experience it in full (single-player). Took a while to get the hang of it. It'd be nice if the controls were displayed somewhere other than the intro screen.
Yeah, the wall jump is very tricky. Sticking to the wall for a bit, as Zephyr said, would help a lot.
A neat concept. I didn't seem to be able to use my sword though.
The artwork is great. I only wish that the player would rotate, but given that the game is somewhat isometric, that's a tall ask.
Also, I would've let the bar regenerate at a certain rate, rather than instantly, when inside the chopper.
I like the theme; it's an interesting twist. I just found the gameplay quite dull and drawn out. I suppose it might be better if I had a lot of time and weren't tired. :P
I love the style of this game; the visuals and sound work together in complementing the mood.
My main issues are with gameplay. Jumping is really tricky and enemies often land on top of you. Besides that, I really I wish you didn't force fullscreen. On my 2560x1440 monitor, it's *massively* pixelated.
But anyway, with a bit of polish, there's a lot of potential here.
I like the the idea. The gameplay is too slow for me; making it faster would have been good.
From dansludumdare's comment, I'm not sure if the lack of audio is intentional, but I didn't hear any.
A pretty decent and amusing game.
Wow, that was incredible. Not really sure how you keep pulling stuff like this off, but bravo!
Yeah, that was pretty disgusting, although the rest wasn't too bad compared with the end. The music was... disturbing. I muted the game after the radio changed.
I didn't really like it, but I'll certainly give points for innovation and mood.
Wow, that was a really simple tale, but very effective. Unsure what happened in the end. Did they make love at the end, did the last sheep kill you, or did the two merge together?
I'd really prefer to not have to use an installer.
The shortness of the game was a bit disappointing, but the mood and theme were very good. I'm guessing the character is the black death, right?
For some reason the game wouldn't let me attack, making the maximum score 60.
Well this is a very interesting concept. I had fun testing out various songs with it. One problem for me is that it's too hard; I had a really even getting to the good bits of the songs, and when if I did get there, all hell broke lose and I lost. This could be helped by having a replay option, so I don't have to browse to my music every time. I'd love an invisibility option, just to see what it does with various tunes.
I don't see much relation to the theme though. Yes, there's the description on this page, but nothing in the game itself.
The game's pretty bugged. I had to restart a level, and apparently it sent me to a completely different level. Once I'd completed that level, it just reset the level, not moving on. The game also kept refusing to throw bodies.
Another minor problem is that the instruction text goes by too fast. It took a bit for me to get the controls because of that.
Good job on using Love2D though. :)
Wow, the music is amazing; really enjoyed it. The art style was pretty cool too. The gameplay was alright, but it kind of got boring quickly.
Quite like the idea, but it's too difficult I think. The other guy doesn't make mistakes and the controls are somewhat cumbersome.
Wow, that was a really cool twist. I quite enjoyed the dialogue as well. The fighting... not so much. But still, the story was really cool.
I found it quite frustrating. The enemies know exactly where you are, they shoot straight through walls, their bullets travel further... ugh. But, I did like the feel of the controls (jumping, moving, etc.).
Also, congratulations on finishing your Ludum Dare.
Quite fun, though there's no challenge to it, as the AI is completely clueless. The controls felt a bit awkward too.
Wow, the AI was really good! I had a tonne of fun trying to outwit it.
On the negative side, the sound and graphics weren't very good, but the excellent AI makes up for it. I would've loved more levels too.
Overall, great job!
After the small text intro, the game just stalled on a grey screen for me. Can't play it unfortunately.
Well made! This was one of the most fun entries I've played yet, in spite of having buggy collision and getting a little easy towards the end. The graphics, although very simple, had a uniform aesthetic and looked quite nice.
I didn't get particularly far. So much command guessing! The help command only lists a few. I wasn't able to guess how to talk about subjects and the like.
A nice art style, but incredibly hard and glitchy to control.
The sound in combination with the lighting worked really well to create a dark atmosphere. Gameplay was pretty cool too; I would've given another star to the fun rating if it weren't for a scarcity checkpoints.
The text in the game had quite a few mistakes, but I assume English isn't your native language, so that's fine.
The graphics are quite impressive; definitely the best part of the game. The sound is well made, although there's quite a few sound effects "missing" (like footsteps, people, etc.).
The gameplay... well, it isn't clear whether there's a goal (like, keep going for a number of days or something) or not, and it does get boring somewhat quickly. Good of used some story too.
Also, there's some problems with the cursor. The web version's cursor isn't locked at all, making it impossible to play. If you Alt+Tab out of the Windows version the cursor will be unlocked as well.
Got a blank command prompt as well. :(
Ha ha, that was pretty funny. Nice job.
Very nice. I didn't find it particularly fun, but the theme is pretty sweet. I particularly liked the post-processing effects, although there were quite a few visual artefacts and glitches from them.
Pretty sweet! I like the concept, and the graphics were well made.
A wonderful game. The music was good, the graphics decent, and the gameplay was fun.
It would've been nice to be able to drag a selection of where you want the minions to dig; constantly clicking got annoying after a while.
Quite an intriguing theme, but the controls (especially the walking speed) were painful. Lack of sound was also an issue; some mild, disturbing ambience would have been brilliant.
An interesting concept. I quite liked the theme, and especially the image for Dracula scaring goats. The gameplay got a bit boring soon in though.
Sorry if this seems stupid, but what do I do? I can't get past those people in the in the hallways. Am I supposed to interact with them somehow?
I can't seem to run it. It says "exported games won't work until you upload them." I open index.html and just get a black page with a link to Construct 2.
This was great. Simple, but innovative idea, implemented in a minimalistic way. Well done.
Most of the time I missed the raindrops; it's very hard to hit them. It took me a while to work out that I was supposed to aim in the first place.
Nice! The hacking system was clever, though it took me a while to figure out its rules. Tiled movement would've greatly decreased the frustrations I had with moving around. For example, I had trouble placing connectors in the right spot when hacking, and trouble getting through door ways.
The Microsoft Sam voice was a bit annoying, and the game would've definitely benefited from some ambient sounds or music.
Anyway, the game definitely needs some polish, but its got some good concepts.
A nice little game! Even though I don't last long due to some frustrating controls on the planet side, it was still fun. The music was cool, although some sound effects would've been nice.
Same as everyone else, the windows opens, but nothing displays.
The gameplay wasn't very good. Enemies and bullets travelling through walls, jetpack cutting out, no motivation to move around the world, and so on.
There's no indication of your score, how many more hits you can take, or the jetpack's fuel, if it does use fuel of course. Not having this information is kind of annoying.
One good thing that stuck out for me was the music; that was pretty cool.
The mechanics are there, but everything to do with units was terribly buggy, mainly on the last level. Their was hardly any content, only three levels that seemed like introductory levels. And once I'd finished, it just kept playing level one.
The audio was... horrid. It sounds like some sort grinding wheel, with a motor in the background and then a guitar of some sorts shows up for a few seconds.
Also, in-game instructions would've been nice. I eventually figured out how everything works by the description on this page.
I'm not trying to sound overly negative, this is just what I'm observing.
Very frustrating. It's impossible to get the first key it seems. Falling a tiny height will kill you, and the jumping is very annoying and buggy.
Having the entire world in one screen is quite cool though.
The game was quite fun, and the "puzzles" were pretty cool too. I like how the whole world in round too; that's pretty unique.
However the fun is degraded by terrible enemy collision (the bounding box must be double their width), and touchy controls. Also, the game does lag a bit.
Good job for six hours, and it's your first game too! As has been said, the arc-firing is cool.
Of course, the game suffers from a lot of issues like enemies spawning on you and collision detection. Not being able to fire to the left means that the game pretty becomes a process of running to the right and shooting as fast as possible. But I'm sure you know that already. :)
Wow, nice job! After I figured out I needed to collect coins it was very fun. I do think it's a bit too hard though. Perhaps some more lives or something?
The graphics were pretty decent, though some corner tiles would've really helped. The audio's good too.
Well done!
The art's pretty cool, but I really had no clue what to do. I chopped some wood down, fought an enemy, lost most of my health, and just started wandering around trying to find out what to do.
Damn it, the slow controls and buggy collision detection were driving me insane. The lighting was pretty awesome though.
Also, it when moving to the left the character sprite doesn't flip, and it looks really weird.
The controls are horrible; only being able to move one direction at a time is a serious pain in the gluteus maximus. And although the art is decent, it just doesn't seem to look right against the backdrop.
The one thing I did like was the audio; that was pretty cool.
Quite short, but interesting. I did like the peaceful chiptune music in the background.
There were some issues with the conversations; for example, when we'd migrated the bird indicating we were still migrating when I asked where we were going.
Finally, there's a typo in the main screen. It says "press espace to interact;" I thought it meant escape at first.
Very nice! A simple idea solidly implemented. It kept me engaged for the whole round, which is pretty impressive.
Quite a humorous little game! The voiced music and sound effects were funny, although the music got really annoying after a while. Controls were awkward, especially with the camera.
But still, a nice game, even if it is a bit unpolished.
This ends up being a click the enemy game, especially because you have unlimited mines. The enemy movement eases the difficulty even further.
The ending text was kind of amusing though, and you made it in Love2D, which is awesome.
One last thing: you credit sfxr for sound effects, yet I heard nothing play? Is this a bug?
It just sat for ages on the command prompt window. I'm running Windows 7 64-bit.
Some very nice graphics, and interesting, albeit slow and sometimes grinding, gameplay. Well done!
A very nice concept with very nice art. I like how you can see the next "world" through the centre of the current one.
But damn, this was the most frustrating Ludum Dare 23 game yet. This is mostly due to bugs with jumping on slanted surface which constantly sent me down into lethal objects. This bug ruined the gameplay experience for me and forced me to quit on level three. If that were ironed out, then I'm sure it would be quite fun.
Ha ha, that was pretty cool. The graphics are great, and the game is generally humorous. The gameplay isn't the best though; my hand was starting to hurt trying to collect all the resources and repel bombs at the same time.
My situation's the same as vilya. I'm running Windows 7 64-bit with XNA 4 installed, and I get a crash on start up.
This wouldn't run for me. I'd a see a DOS window pop up and then immediately close down. After a while of waiting I checked the task manager to see whether Python or some other process related to the game was running, but I didn't find anything.
By looking at the comments it looks like I need PyGame, which I really couldn't be bothered with right now.
For some reason I had to use the version without shaders, even though I know my machine (a 2011 iMac) supports shaders. Don't worry though, I'm basing my graphical rating mostly on the video and screenshots.
Anyway, the game's graphically impressive, but the gameplay is very limited and there's no sound. Also, it seems that the vaporize power doesn't reload after a restart.
An interesting and rather fun idea.
An nice, polished, and solid game. It was frustrating though; it took me a while to work out where I was supposed to go, and I quit at round 2 due to it taking ages to advance. But anyway, good work!
I liked that, the gameplay was fun and innovative, and the graphics looked good. The audio didn't sound too good, but it wasn't really annoying.
The graphics and lighting were great, although the character felt under-animated. I found the gameplay to be a bit boring, and slightly frustrating at times.
The music became really annoying; I ended up turning it off. As you say, it was rushed. I think some background ambience would be better. Also, the music kind of ruined the mood that I was getting from the graphics.
Great job! I wasn't able to complete it though, because I just kept getting lost.
The biggest problem I had is with the sensitivity of the mouse movement. And yeah, I'm on Mac.
There's also a number of bugs/glitches, such as lights from another room cutting through the wall, or falling through the floor when hitting that moving red wall, but they're not major.
Nicely done, but a shame it's so short. As has already been mentioned it could definitely use some sadish music in the background.
Ha ha! Funny, original in concept, and nicely implemented.
Nicely done! I enjoyed that. A few problems:
* No audio.
* Difficulty scaling. As iforce2d brought up, the level where you have to race up to platform is the hardest, it took me a few tries to get it.
* A bit short. (This isn't really "problem" I guess, but I do wish it were longer.)
Good job! Great music, and pretty good graphics.
Unfortunately a serious bug stopped me from progressing in that first dungeon (I think that's what you'd call it) located in the forest. I would attack something, and then the player would just started moving across the world from top-left to bottom-right, through the walls and everything. I'm using a Mac.
Regarding art, the architecture is very nice, though having simple white objects without textures didn't really fit with the land.
For me, the mouse was EXTREMELY sensitive, so it was really hard to move properly. The physics also felt a bit weird. I didn't collect all the items, mainly because I couldn't be bothered struggling with the mouse sensitivity for 30 minutes.
Also, that big dome object near the player's friend didn't seem to have a mesh attached; I could walk straight through it.
A pretty cool game. Unfortunately, because this game is obviously made for the iPad, it felt very awkward to play on the Mac because I had to use the mouse. However, it looks like it would be great on its intended device.
Great concept! I really like the idea of programming a robot with instructions. If it the idea was fleshed out some more it would be a pretty awesome game.
The audio wasn't good though, especially the music, which was really annoying. Also, I didn't play all 16 levels, but the ten I did play seemed to only increase in instruction count rather than using any new instructions.
Wow! This is amazing! Great graphics, great gameplay, good sound, and lots of polish. Well done guys!
Pretty cool gameplay, it was quite challenging at first, the lava that was just sitting there got me a number of times.
The graphics don't look that good, and there's no audio. Nevertheless, a nice little game. (And of course, bravo for using Love2D.)
Some fun gameplay, and nice graphics.
As said by the others, it's really short, but add lots more levels and it'll be much better. I would also recommend displaying text only once; when I backtracked the text displayed again (I'm not talking about the game restarting either).
Very nice game. Simple graphics, but they looked good. The game mechanic of switching between "experiences" is great; it adds a suspense sort of feeling to it.
The thing I don't like is the difficulty, largely caused by the fact that you have to restart all three if you die in one; not sure if there's a way round that though.
Finally, I think it would've been good to have two slightly different sounds for the tokens to add some more audial variety.
Didn't get very far, got swarmed by enemies. However, you've got some great graphics in this game!
Very hard for me, I kept getting trapped because of those spawners! Still looks like a good game. Graphics are pretty cool too; some good colours you use there.
My biggest annoyance is jumping. For it's too slow, and too low.
Very nice game. The story line is interesting, the music is nice, especially the stuff that plays outside earth, and the platforming can be interesting as well.
I'm not quite sure how it relates escaping. Is it that there's no escape for the human race?
Also, how do you choose wisdom in the final stage?
LD37 — One room (32)
hoplitelite by Attrition 2017-01-02T00:16:00
Very nice puzzler concept with decent graphics too. Well done.
Xenopunch by Pietro Ferrantelli 2016-12-31T11:20:00
Wow amazing game! Brilliant graphics gameplay, and decent use of the theme.
Exam Simulator by nlbi21 2016-12-31T05:21:00
Very amusing theme, and a good and fun implementation of it too!
Back To Your Room by jramell 2016-12-31T05:15:00
Very nice pixel art, and decent platforming controls (even if some of the jumps are very hard). Bouncing on a lizard's corpse like a trampoline will never not be funny.
Sight by alfie275 2016-12-31T05:10:00
Wow, this was a really trippy experience. Going in the blind with all the changes occurring gave it such a great mood.
The Boxing Ring by Haveachin 2016-12-31T05:00:00
Nice concept here with pleasant graphics, though it does feel a bit easy since they all spawn on the left side it seems.
Karate Basketball by SeaDads 2016-12-31T03:59:00
Hahahaha, this is too perfect! Who knew Draymond could sink 10 half court shots in a row after practicing his natural shooting motion, and Delly could dunk on fools. I love everything about this.
One Room Factory by Zgragselus 2016-12-31T03:22:00
Gotta hand it to you, this game is quite in-depth for the time spent on it. Looks very pretty too, and UI is clean. Well done!
Escape the Room by CoderDozer 2016-12-31T03:05:00
Ha, Pachelbel's Canon was amusing. Very hard game though, especially with the twitchy controls. Maybe lower gravity a tad?
SLIPSTAR by ciaodavinci 2016-12-28T13:09:00
Great game! Love the physics on the craft, and that you have different drivers/ships. As has been suggested ghost replay of your best lap would be an amazing addition.
Escape Your Room by AthelGS 2016-12-28T13:01:00
Not bad first attempt man. It was short but cohesive, and the computer bit (that fullscreen too) was quite cool.
Window Crawler by Chao 2016-12-28T12:55:00
Wow! This is definitely the most innovative I've played so far; really clever the way you've done it. I would gripe however that because of how small the windows are, it's so easy to click to another one in the middle of battle, causing me to quickly die. Would also appreciate a way to quickly restart the game (closing all but the main window) within the game. That said, great game, nice graphics too.
Prison Inspector by Hamsternator 2016-12-28T12:45:00
I really like your take on the theme, and that it does vary between sessions. Could always use more variations of course, but you've definitely put together something decent.
O No! She's Grabbing the Mic! by youngbrothers 2016-12-28T12:40:00
Hahaha, I was laughing before I even played it! Good game man.
Echo Chamber by masterkrepta 2016-12-28T12:29:00
I like the concept you've got here. Controls felt a bit wonky, would've like to control rotation with the mouse, but they worked well enough as is once I got used to it.
The Library of Babel by Ancient_Pixel 2016-12-25T08:45:00
Great concept here, with good art too. A shame you couldn't get it feature complete.
ORSSST by Insederec 2016-12-25T08:38:00
A shame you ran into problems; nice that you explained in game why it didn't relate to the theme. Java certainly isn't the easiest choice. Keep learning and you'll get there though.
DarkLight by Minato4th 2016-12-25T08:31:00
An intriguing abstract concept you've got here. Reminds me of Antichamber a bit.
Masquerade by xWarZonex 2016-12-25T08:24:00
I can see where most of the time went; the music was great. Interesting mechanic too.
Hotel To Hell by shrapx 2016-12-22T01:27:00
Game clearly has a great atmosphere, which is helped by the visual style. Unfortunately it's just not made clear enough what objects are interactive or not; also I don't think walls are clearly defined enough.
Final Boss by Karai17 2016-12-21T23:34:00
Graphics look great; always impressive using a 2D engine to render the 3D scenes. The attack controls felt pretty clunky though, making the boss fight overly hard imo.
The Living Room by smaganik 2016-12-21T23:22:00
Great concept, brilliant graphics.
Cat and Robot by Vadim Ivshin 2016-12-15T10:02:00
Haha, this was an amusing entry. Engaging game mechanic too.
Fish.zip by buckle2000 2016-12-15T09:56:00
Interesting puzzle mechanic you've got here.
I'm intrigued that you say LOVE isn't good for game jams. It's definitely been my favourite for a number of years.
One room apartment by hunttis 2016-12-14T23:08:00
Definitely amused me, the concept of a timer being a gross factor. You should definitely scale up the graphics though to make it easier to see.
Interrogation Room by DiscoFish 2016-12-14T12:28:00
Fantastic man! I loved it. Great mood and graphics.
The Coin Collector by mediocrity 2016-12-14T12:20:00
Haha, this amused me. Kept me playing for longer than it should too.
Alone In Space by Mango Malarkey 2016-12-14T12:10:00
I love the concept you've gone with here! I think, however, that speeding everything up from combat to your character move would've gone a long way to making the gameplay more satisfying.
AREA 51 by Megalink 2016-12-14T12:00:00
Nice amount of content here, and pretty neat graphics too. One complaint would be having enemies respawn every time you switch from a room you've cleared; accidentally went through an exit multiple times while backtracking in a fight.
This One Room by MoonlightBomber 2016-12-13T10:58:00
Very impressed by the UI, with even a full-fledged options menu. Every aspect of this is well made except for the story and gameplay; it dragged too much and the flow was hurt by the constant fourth wall breaks ("no sexual content", etc.). Also having no interaction was a shame. Fix those up and you would definitely have me interested.
DISCOCUBE by BathPirate 2016-12-13T09:51:00
Wow, great game guys! Very well polished in all areas.
The Barn by tinykidtoo 2016-12-13T09:33:00
Nice graphics and a good atmosphere to it. Would be helpful if you listed the controls somewhere to make getting started quicker. Also wasn't able to exit from the code entering screen, which was annoying.