Darkspace Arena Ultra II by BlueCalx 2019-05-02T09:07:59Z
Thanks everyone for playing and providing feedbacks :smile:
We really appreciate that you took time to play our game and [maybe] enjoyed it for the few minutes it lasted !
Cheers
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → BlueCalx
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 59 | Signal | ๐ฅ | SpaceRider | jam | 408 | 3.58 | 3.53 | 3.79 | 3.84 | 3.70 | 3.58 | 3.06 | 3.67 |
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | ๐ฅ | ://XCELL | jam | 3.50 | 3.75 | 4.50 | 4.37 | 2.75 | 3.37 | 3.00 | 3.83 | |
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | ๐ฅ | DeepDive | jam | 3.12 | 2.38 | 3.11 | 3.16 | 3.00 | 3.27 | 3.83 | ||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | ๐ฅ | Watcher Patrol | jam | 1090 | 3.19 | 3.16 | 3.25 | 3.63 | 2.91 | 3.27 | 3.11 | 3.41 |
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | ๐ฅ | WONKERZ | jam | 1000 | 3.32 | 3.37 | 2.95 | 3.93 | 3.32 | 3.39 | 3.15 | 3.30 |
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | ๐ฅ | Watcher Patrol 4 | jam | 1250 | 3.32 | 2.88 | 3.72 | 3.40 | 3.41 | 3.33 | 2.45 | 3.27 |
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | ๐ฅ | TimeSplitters 4 | jam | 887 | 3.43 | 3.12 | 3.89 | 3.77 | 3.06 | 3.41 | 3.17 | |
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | ๐ฅ | SuperOgre64 | jam | 1125 | 3.53 | 3.50 | 3.73 | 3.92 | 3.10 | 2.85 | 3.39 | 3.31 |
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | ๐ฅ | World Shaper 4 | jam | |||||||||
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | ๐ฅ | Darkspace Arena Ultra II | jam | 779 | 3.20 | 3.46 | 2.68 | 2.79 | 3.14 | 3.27 | 3.18 | 3.57 |
| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | ๐ฅ | Limbs Quest VII | jam | 1026 | 2.39 | 2.12 | 2.10 | 2.56 | 2.56 | 1.37 | 2.47 | 2.31 |
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | ๐ฅ | RhythmCity | jam | |||||||||
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | ๐ฅ | ColorFilters | jam | 2.33 | 2.50 | 2.33 | 2.16 | 2.00 | 2.50 | 1.83 | 2.33 |
Thanks everyone for playing and providing feedbacks :smile:
We really appreciate that you took time to play our game and [maybe] enjoyed it for the few minutes it lasted !
Cheers
Simple yet elegant gamedesign. I really like those kind of compo entry that feels like a complete Proof of concept. The puzzles are well designed and the last one actually forced me to link my remaining brain cells together ! The take on the theme is a bit light though (especially considering the main focus of the game seems to be its gameplay). Overall I had fun, so congratulations for your entry !
Loved the mood ! great work
Made it to day 85 ! The gameloop is smart and kept my entertained throughout my journey to reach day 100. Never managed to reach my destination though. Overall a solid jam entry and nice take on the theme, congrats ! I would have loved roads to link cities and make adventurers travel faster in later stages of the game.
Got stuck after the water tank level during the story cutscene where I supposedly met a survivor :(. Great entry though, I had a good time playing it. Mood is completely on point and graphics served the game very well. Making such an adventure game which feels like an actual adventure in a jam is hard so congratulation !
Reminded me of LSD on PS1! Loved the atmosphere it really feels like some weird nightmare. Mood is on point and world's emptiness really fits the short storyline. Looking forward the total annihilation planned by the Planet Keeper. Some camera movements in the intro feels a bit awkward because of its speed though.
Loved the mood of this game ! It's hard to survive the flood though the coal goes down really fast and I can't really manage to overcome the flood with my mighty straw demon or big flying lizard. If I don't move the bear at all I can manage to survive with what I can see on screen for a little while but I eventually run out of soul and die within a minute or so of gameplay. Overall I had fun so thanks for the game :)
Not bad for a first entry ! Took me some time to figured out controls though. For the next players : WASD + SPACE to manage left planet and arrows + enter to manage right planet. Anyway, spawned Midgar and Sauron Eye, so I'm happy with that :smile:
Thank you all for your feedbacks. We're very happy to see that you had a great time playing our game despite the convoluted UI/lack of tutorial. It makes the sweat worth! @abvadabra Thats some great positive energy you're sending here. Thanks mate!
Didn't manage to end the game with all eggs YET, but I'm getting there. Good job on making a fun game you can easily hop-in. The mechanics preventing the player from putting an egg in multiple nests per run is a bit confusing at first, but ends up adding a nice touch of strategy in pathing. Nice **double** take on the theme also !!
Time : 168.4 // Rage wave 7 ! Had fun playing the game so thanks for that. Also I liked the theme interpretation you made. Those damn hotplates dealing 10 damage at 1ยตm/s tho
Nice entry ! Didn't manage to reignite the sun but had some fun tryin to :) I was a bit frustrated by the pace of the game though. The gameplay made me want to swing around the level full speed god's will like a pro MountYourFriends playa ! But the volcano god said no and kicked my ass until I complied to a slower pace. Maybe the sacred lamp's weight is a bit too light ? Music was nice and didn't got old throughout my tries so good job. Anyway, thanks for the fun and have a nice day !
Thanks for your feedbacks :) Indeed our game might be a bit too difficult, especially towards the end. We like when it gets spicy, but it might have overshadowed the initial taste. We're delighted that you guys had some fun playing it though.
I found the mystic staff near a wizard questioning the meaning of life. Also found a nice hat to pimp up my charisma. Unplayable though.
Nice compo entry ! I got shredded by a L2 volatile essence when I thought I finally had a good grip on the game :( R.I.P my ticket home it wuz close !!
You provided a nice relaxing mood and it was really enjoyable with a morning coffee. Also good job for making this in a single battery charge. I just wish it had a bit more RPG mechanics, like if possessed essences had impact on battle performances.
@holyblackcat About how much if this mess is intended : For sure everything is not intended. We crafted wonky features then we tweaked them until a playable state. It took a lot of play-testing to fine tune this mess so it meets our vision of the game/theme. For example, in the turnips section we hide meshes between the player and the camera to enhance visibility because it was too frustrating. Conversely, in the pillars section, we chose to only adapt slightly the camera to make it more comfortable because the layout is quite easy to memorize. Another example could be the track's decorations ( floating crystals & such ) which moves in unexpected ways. We tweaked it to ensure it gives nice visuals, we rolled with the bug instead of fixing it because it added something interesting to the game. So it was kind of a 'transform' this cool bug into a feature with, hopefully, true randomness in it to maximize the unstable feeling.
Thus it was quite fun to develop this game ! But for a post-jam game freed from the LD theme, we would fix most of those 'issues' as they wouldn't be relevant anymore.
Thanks for all your feedback, we're happy to see that most of you found some enjoyable parts in our game !!
952 ! Russian roulette got me... Good jam game with a nice synthwave mood. Was fun to help johnny in his vendetta against yakuzas & rocket-powered-kittens. The idea of having both positive and negative modificators is neat, but it might need a bit more pace.(change more often, more than one at a time,..) About graphics, the background on stages is very cool, it just lacks of small animations/visual feedbacks on the foreground. Props to the music fitting the game nicely !
Yoooo the game design is on point in your entry! The take on the theme is clever and well executed. For a 48H solo entry I don't have much more to say honestly, congratulations !! Having combo strings that gives score multipliers/visual feedbacks would have been the cherry on the cake.
A nice relaxing/puzzle game. A bit laggy upon card selection on my side. There is a lot of levels and a nice variety of card, quite impressive for a jam ! I just wish i could see my frogs populating the city :D I felt it was a bit off the theme though, as the event to check my tower stability weren't occuring very often.
GG and thanks for the game!
Runned around, fed Kevin with green goo & cakes to protect grandma's lamps, watched him throw a tantrum while keeping his favourite rocket for myself. I gotta say I had a fun time. Would have been nice if the house was tiny bit bigger, like if kevin could open doors & such. Thus, it was a bit too easy to keep track of kevin's location. Poor soul also took everything I gave him without any noticeable difference beside the blood sugar thing. Would have love simple rules such as he doesn't want the same object 2 times in a row. Anyway, good take on the theme, GG !
I wanna be the boshi, Ludum Dare version. Neat simple graphics with good color palettes that serves the game well. The hitbox on the platform's edges could be a tad bit more generous, but very nice platformer overall.
Very nice 'escape game' entry ! The terminal feels good even if the commands are a bit weird. I was happy to see that you kept command history, but sad that I couldn't edit my command with Left/Right arrow :(
The mood is so on point I felt like a true h4x00r. I had a great time unfolding the plot and tracking down the bad guy. Also had to open a notepad on my own to keep track of the hints I uncovered along the way, which is a good sign of a well executed treasure hunt.
The only real downside for me is that I felt that the 'unstability' wasn't really incorporated in the core game. Rebooting because of CPU overheat felt gimmicky and not really needed. Maybe I shouldn't have opened a notepad on my own and use ingame /write command to keep track of the hints I gathered.
Anyway, thanks for the game, I had a really good time playing it !
Well designed game with a solid arena gameplay. Strong polish and fun experience overall. Went from being a drunk spaceship pilot to an expert garbage collector quite fast and it felt nice. I found that the take on the theme was a bit light though.
Clever puzzle game using chess mechanics. Puzzles are smart, and that is the tricky part of making such a game. Good job !! But I felt that the take on the theme was a bit light as everything is 'predictable' and thus 'stable'. The twist with the K is a sweet extension of the concept.
Nice take on the theme and the 'drunk' rendering effect works really well. Good job for the mood also with a fitting audio track. The drunk effect is very strong though, so there is this side effect of the game being not so enjoyable to play after a few minutes. Nice ending that adds humor to the game. Anyway, this is a very solid entry for a solo jam. Thanks for the game !!
Simple yet effective game design. I enjoyed the game but had trouble moving letters around for the first rounds. The power upgrade/downgrade to select in between rounds was a nice touch to keep the game fresh. Also the music adds to the chill mood. Nice jam !