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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | 👥 | Excuse Me... Are You Summoning Crokel? | jam | 40 | 4.27 | 4.31 | 3.91 | 3.87 | 4.14 | 4.06 | 3.04 | 4.04 |
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | 👥 | Parcelmecium | jam | 83 | 4.16 | 3.96 | 4.33 | 3.90 | 4.24 | 4.01 | 2.88 | 4.01 |
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | 👥 | Lower Lower | jam | 89 | 4.16 | 4.01 | 4.29 | 4.48 | 3.96 | 3.63 | 4.35 | |
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | 👥 | That Dream Again | jam | 84 | 4.15 | 4.01 | 3.87 | 3.88 | 4.26 | 4.20 | 3.00 | 4.31 |
This was a genuinely interesting concept! The game is very well done and the game is legitimately funny. I will say the intro and the ending were my favorite parts! A very interesting "simon says"/"memory game"-like!
I love this art style and the gameplay is great! this is very polished!
i thought these puzzles were very clever. I made it to level 4 and the lasers broke my brain! I think the puzzles were well done and I enjoyed thinking laterally between rooms
I really love the atmosphere! The level design also felt pretty clever because it allowed me to sequence break things if I wanted to get risky! My only feedback is that I wish I could have restarted whenever, there were times I knew I really messed up and wanted to restart but had to wait until the threshold was reached
I really dig the vibes here! It was challenging at first but once I got into the rhythm everything clicked; I wish there were some more visual and especially audio feedback to actually hitting a note because it took me until i got a "combo" to be sure I was actually doing things correctly. But, I really dug it overall
This is incredibly polished and feels great to play! I love the upgrade system and the complexity of choice the debuff element introduced. I wish there was a way to keep track of all the upgrades since I ended up taking so many! The sound design was particularly impressive, as well. Really just a joy to play!
This is a neat gameplay loop! I think the idea of building the platformer level as you playing is a novel concept and it was cool to see your exploration of that idea.
A couple of points of feedback: I think it would have maybe "felt" better, if when the player was leaving a clone of themselves, the camera lingered longer and gave some type of audio/visual feedback. Speaking of audio/visual feedback, I think adding some to the jump would go a long way in improving the "game feel"
All things considered though, this was a neat game and a great idea!
@herman-chau Thank you for the feedback! We've realized that the hookshot is not as intuitive as we had originally hoped. I think players are expecting it to work at any height or speed but it doesn't function really at heights lower than the player. We designed it to be used like a slingshot where you hook onto something while falling beside it, gain momentum, and let go at the correct time (around the apex) to get a slingshot effect.
Like this: GX9cey.gif
This was really helpful feedback though, thank you!
@finn-truman Thank you for playing. There is no set path! it's just designed to be open ended. We added the compass upgrade at the beginning of the game to add some guidance, but we wanted it to feel like the player was exploring an unfamiliar place, searching for upgrades and learning about the world. We may have leaned too hard into this though! Thank you for this feedback!
@rhoff95 thanks for playing! Yeah we thought that was the case so we added some items to help navigate but maybe we tucked them away too well!
We’ve also implemented that exact suggestion regarding arrow keys on the post-submission build on Newgrounds
@dev-dwarf Thank you very much for playing and for the feedback! We implemented this mechanic with a fixed rope that grows with each hook upgrade and we do a check to see whether or not the hook-point is in range.
We attempted to convey this range with a hook indicator that would appear over the hook-point but I suspect this indicator is much too small. This is really valuable feedback and something we will address in a post jam version.
Wow! I found myself playing this for far longer than I thought I was going to. You nailed the ~vibe~ for this and the upgrade progression was great! I am not usually a fan of clicker/idle games, but this triggered a response deep in my lizard brain and I played for quite a long time
This was a really cute game. It took me a moment to realize, not only was it a puzzle, but I also had to be quick with moving my bee! I was expecting a hare & hounds-like and I was not disappointed!
The rewind mechanic is very interesting and the puzzles are neat!
I really appreciated the cool upgrades like the mask that undoes the blur effect and the flashlight. This was a really neat game and while the core mechanic of swimming isn't all that engaging, the world you built and upgrades to find kept me interested until the end. Really cool game!
You really created some very clever puzzles with this mechanic. Really satisfying to wrap your head around 2-3 layers at once. Super well designed and well executed. I loved this.
This was a nice experience. I really like the ~vibe~ that was put together here.
This is a really clever concept and it was executed really well. The shifting ground is beautiful and really adds an interesting wrinkle to the gameplay. A lot of great ideas here!
The central mechanic is really polished and feels satisfying. the art is really well done as well.
This game was super unsettling in an amazing way. Really, really cool
It took me over twenty minutes but this was a really cool mechanic. It remined me a lot of Getting Over It. I really appreciate how satisfying you made the "stabbing" feel
The sword mechanic feels really great and is super fun to play around with. The sound effects are phenomenal.
As others have mentioned, it is super easy to softlock yourself by getting your sword stuck in an unreachable place. This happened to me in the spider fight, as well as somewhere else early on. Also, it was an interesting choice to allow the player to walk off the level just to die?
Regardless, this game was super fun and really rewarding. Awesome enemy design!
Really tight little gameplay loop. I found myself saying "just one more run" several times.
I did run into an issue where one of the maggot enemies somehow wound up in the elevator and I was unable to shoot/kill it or enter the elevator so I was essentially soft-locked.
The visuals are really cohesive and this is nice, polished experience
This was a really neat setup for a game. The gold system really added an interesting level of complexity. The sound design is really really well done. I really enjoyed my time with this entry
Really cool game! I really liked the main mechanic and how it fused a dynamic movement element with what felt like a puzzle game.
This was a really neat mechanic and super clever. you managed to make stabbing very stressful! The art is really cute as well, and the sound track is great.
I wish the minigame expanded a bit to become more of a puzzle rather than a speed test (maybe something like curved blades and two openings in each column so that you had to create a path (other than a straight line))
I really enjoyed this mechanic though!
I am genuinely flabbergasted in the amount of art, music, mechanics, and polish you added to this game in 48 hours. this [lays like a feature complete mobile game. insanity!! well done!
Amazing presentation. The gameplay was superfluid once getting used to the novel control scheme. Really cool game!
Lots of polish here! Movement feels fluid and juicy
I really found this to be a cool sokoban-esque exploration game and with so few moving parts you really managed to make the game world feel "alive." The ocelot mechanic and day/night cycle were really cool, I enjoyed exploring this game world!
I really appreciated the net mechanic and learning to use it effectively was very satisfying. The controls are fluid and the fish ai is really compelling! I really enjoyed this entry!
I really liked the artstyle, this game is dripping with a really cool ~vibe~. The mechanics are well polished and feel great to play!
The art and music are so well done!
It took me a moment to realize what the actual gameplay was, as the objects floating down the river were not immediately apparent. But with that being said, this was a really nice and relaxing experience!
I really liked this mechanic and it was super rewarding to get right. Part of me wishes the bow behaved a bit more like a bow and had a "draw time" mechanic or something because as is firing with a fixed delay felt odd at first and took some getting used to. Regardless, I had a lot of fun with this game.
This was a really clever idea and a fun auto-battler! I wish there were slightly more things the player could besides bumping dice, but as is, it kept me engaged and the upgrades were really fun. I would love to see a longer version of this game. Really cool entry!
@iorena thank you so much for playing! We have noticed the game runs very very slow on Firefox(but not chrome or edge), I am just curious if that was the browser you were using? It may be that you were experiencing this performance issue.
@trusty thank you for this feedback! we had included the ability to navigate with the arrow keys as well, just in case WASD felt too cramped with the Z and C buttons, but I don't think we did a good job of advertising it=) Thanks for playing!
This was a really fun entry. The main mechanic was very satisfying and new wrinkles were introduced at a good pace which kept the level design fresh and interesting.
So much polish and juice went into this, it's pretty remarkable. The opening cutscenes were fantastic and the game ~feels~ great to play. The sfx & music are also super satisfying
My only criticism is that the "level end" felt a little strange where you could pass through the bubble only to get sucked in when you land within a certain radius.
Really loved this entry though, nice work, all!
The controls were very good and the game feels nice to play.
My slight complaints are that it is difficult to be sure which block you are going to break (an indicator would really help) and some jumps that I think are the "correct" way to solve the puzzle(jumps that are made while in a 1 block niche) rely on coyote time as mechanic instead of just a convenience feature.
But all in all, I liked this game!
This was a super interesting game, I liked trying to poke at the little ecosystem I was creating to find it's underlying rules. Really relaxing, puzzling, and interesting gameplay loop. I really liked this entry!
Wow! what an incredible Pico 8 cart. I loved my journey to the airship, and enjoyed the progession as I explored the small world you created. I wish I could spend more time above the surface!
I really enjoyed this entry. Fantastic ramp up in difficulty and I really enjoyed the alternating pattern of upgrades/difficulty enhancements.
This was a really nice polished little experience.
I loved this idea; it was simultaneously relaxing and stressful to make these shapes. Things really clicked when I realized you could hold multiple items at a time. I really enjoyed this experience, and it felt great to play!
Incredible amount of polish, all the little details you were able to add, like screeching tires, the tire marks, the speed cameras all really came together to elevate the whole experience
Beautiful entry. So much character and whimsy!
I really enjoyed this game. It's a super chill one(well 3) button experience and a ton of polish and love went into the level design and mechanics. I really enjoyed the slow ramp up of new mechanics.
Overall, a really cool game!
Awesome progression of introducing new and interesting wrinkles on the core set of puzzle mechanics. Feels very elegant!
Great game. Great art, lots of polish and and I loved the subtle ramp up of new mechanics. I feel like the game really shines in levels 16/17 where everything comes together. I'd love you to keep iterating on these puzzles and explore the whole puzzle space because this was a joy to play!
Wow! this art is so well done. I loved all the details that were put into the character designs and mission texts. Really created a palpable vibe!
Neat art style! You managed to create a really great vibe with the gameplay, dialogue, and quest system
Very nice game! very relaxing to organize the truck and make deliveries! I really enjoyed zoning out and playing this. The art is nice and everything comes together for a solid experience!
This is a really cute game! The way the different animal behave is interesting and creates a unique puzzle mechanic!
This was a really fun concept, and you made it quite fun to play.
The player controller felt great to move around and the main loop of picking up the boxes to use as smash attack ammo was satisfying! The game looks really good too.
Good job!
This was a really fun concept and I really enjoy planning routes and going on delivery runs! Like others have mentioned, the slow down when building feels like the game itself is lagging and it wasn't immediately clear that his was meant to represent different terrain types.
The art is great too!
Overall, awesome job!
Clearly a lot of polish went into this game. All the controls feel great, and our pigeon friend feels great to control. Plenty of juice to go around. The main mechanic is fairly interesting. There's definitely more for you to explore with it, gameplay-wise! Cool game!
Really interesting mechanic and great art!
The pixel art is amazing! the jump of the PC feels really nice!
Amazing art style, maybe my favorite so far. It was interesting how the music and aesthetic were so comforting while juxtaposed to the frantic difficult gameplay. Tried very hard to beat but couldn't quite deliver the letter!
I really love the art style, and the main Gob character is super cute! The physics were fun to play around with too!
Awesome art, love the Philip J. Fry inspired player character! Lots of polish in the game; the cell phone menu is super juicy and it looks amazing
i keep getting hit by the derailed d train!
Awesome art style! I wish steering were a tad more responsive, but this feels good to play!
Tons of polish on this one! feels really great to play, and easy to get lost in the gameplay loop. Really nice experience all around!