Another One Loops the Dust by limered 2020-10-06T10:22:05Z
A little bit confusing at the beginning, but it got me when "Take on me" started playing in the background. Funny one. :D
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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥉 | 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | Cute Little Spider | compo | Graphics | 4.60 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | Cute Little Spider | compo | 18 | 4.12 | 3.93 | 3.62 | 3.57 | 4.60 | 3.84 | 4.09 | 4.09 | |
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | Looped Fellas | compo | 111 | 3.80 | 3.37 | 3.59 | 4.25 | 4.37 | 3.59 | 4.00 | 3.76 |
A little bit confusing at the beginning, but it got me when "Take on me" started playing in the background. Funny one. :D
Terrifyingly addictive to watch how light bulb slowly gets loaded. And when it does and dynamo goes wrrrrrrrrrrrrr, damn boy. :smile:
And yes, I was trying to defend it at the beginning. :D But only because it reminded me one, small mobile game called Gyro (it is not my game, I'm not advertising here, but it is cool!).
And about the code part - don't worry. I think that game jam is also about creating OBSCURE AND UNMAINTANABLE code. That is how it is, we're gonna fry in hell.
Great atmosphere connected with creepy graphics. It does its work! The riddles are nicely balanced, but I got beaten by nr 4. It is really annoying that you need to replay everything after failing one, that's probably I decided to give up after some failures at 4. Also it would be nice to have some special sound informing that you already found correct answer. I know that it would allow player just to use every possible interaction trying to find correct answer, well, then it would be nice to not restart everything after failure. But it would lead players to use everything anyway. :smile:
For sure you guys need to add all answers somewhere, maybe on that google drive? With obvious spoiler alert, I would like to know the reasoning behind them.
Very good entry guys, congratz!
It wins in the terms of mood created, really. No music, only robot sounds and some ambient in the background. Gosh, I loved it. The rest is really good too, nice, pixel art graphics. I'm not a fan of point & click though, but as it is short game, I managed to finish it.
Very good entry!
I was expecting something similar to Factory.io, don't know why, maybe because of title. BUT I'M NOT DISSAPOINTED AT ALL. Got nice amount of laughing, it also turns out that I can' type fast enough to make a perfect game. :/
Very good entry, it would be ironical if it would win, or at least take high place. I would like to see that, good luck and thanks for the game!
It was interesting, but I couldn't make it to the end. Mostly because after getting into that pyramid (?) I got stuck in the slope and couldn't proceed. :/ Beside that, that mysterious mood that you were trying to create is awesome!
First of all, I didn't finish the game, so keep that in mind. I got stuck (hehe) after finish all the obvious puzzles (box, first pin code, button on chair, button on wall, fast clicking one).
I love SAW themes, so this game was really like crafted for me. Your voice over - perfect one! Mood is on right place, the gameplay is reassembling escape-the-rooom type, which is fine. But I have a problem with games which, instead of coming with some gameplay change, use loop as "restart and try again". Well, every roguelike game is probably perfect for current theme, because you do the "same" over and over again. :smile:
Despite my complaining about life etc. I liked this one, good job my fella!
Music makes it sooo relaxing, even if all you need is to hold right key button. :smile: At the beginning it reminded me about that one, old, mobile game where you were controlling red ball ("Bounce"?).
Anyway, cool one, simple, but mood makes it.
What a cool concept!
After 1st death you immediately know what's is going on, and I was like "Hell yea!". :smile:
Visuals are simple, but well connected. Music isn't annoying, gameplay is nice and even maps differs for each play.
From bugs (or maybe it is design decision), door opened with pin code doesn't open in next iteration.
I won't be original, but I must point it out - it is Super Hexagon, but with loops (are we stuck in a loop of people pointing it to you? :smile: )
Not so original, but very well executed game. Addictive, nice graphics, funky beat makes me to play it a little bit more.
Good job!
Mood is nice, but I have few problems with this game. First, with every collision I get like 0.5s lag. And after one everything went upside down, I was running with my head stuck in the ceiling.
The topic is also not very well used, but bugs running in the circles got me. :smile:
I'm wondering, because I have this strange feeling, that the story is highly inspired by Bloodborne, am I right? :smile:
Cool spelunky like graphics, but it lacks background. Mood would be perfect with proper sound. Right now game seems unfinished, but with huuuge potential. Anyway, congratz on posting something to ld!
FINALLY A CLICKER/IDLE GAME!
Nice one, lost it at the beginning, with that perfect voice over. "Mememememe" xD Fantastic job!
Tons of small details which makes it better. Perfect entry.
But there is always something "bad", and I think that right panel with tabs is covering to much and I don's see an option to hide it. And I'm sure that there are spots to place rats.
Edit: Okey, it gets fixed later, when you get a promotion.
Very good entry in terms of gameplay, graphics, sound! So in almost everything. :smile:
Not much can be added, you had an idea which is executed perfectly, with attention to the detail. It surprised me that I could block arrows with vial by turning back.
The biggest weakness of this game will be the reference to the theme. It's so-so, very contractual.
Beside that, good job guys, I had fun playing your game! :thumbsup_tone1:
What have you brought to this earth, you sick fck!? xD
Made me laugh, but I couldn't won, this chicken is too strong.
Holly molly, you actually need to read warning/error messages? NO WAY! :smirk:
Simple, but slightly addictive game. It reminded me of the times when I had Windows 98 which was terribly infected with viruses.
And that's it, it's hard to add some suggestions, as the game seems to be a complete product. Very nice entry!
Still doesn't work. You made the same mistake as me probably. On itch.io, in **Edit Project** page, in **Visibility & access** you need to setup game to **Public**. Woopsie doopsie. :smiley:
It is literally Super Hexagon, but you are supposed to shoot loops. It is not something bad! Even more, game is even pretty cool. Game should show your score after losing, I got pretty far and wanted to send my score here, but I can't find it. And at some point, gun is shooting too slow to actually protect itself from loops.
Make it into mobile game, it would be great there. :smile:
Edit: Hey, nvm, you can actually upgrade reload time, so I take back part which says something about not being able to shoot fast enough. Also I found "highscores". :smile:
It's is nice piece of game, rythm games are always cool. Everything here is okey, but "Theme" part is forced here. Nothing wrong with it, but this game would probably work much better if keys wouldn't be arranged in circles.
Anyway, good job my fella!
It would be a great co-op game, even hot-seat, where one players uses from 3 to 4 buttons to control his hamster. Right now it is soooooo much to control for one player. But it has its own charm, it creates a huuuge chaos. :smile:
Nice entry!
Very cool concept and nice usage of the theme. Graphics is really nice, together with sounds it creates nice mood, right after story/introduction panels. Moku gets pixelated while expanding, which probably wasn't planned. Also spikes are hard to spot mostly. Controls seems a little bit weird, but you got used to them rather fast.
It may seem like I'm whining, but I really liked this one. :smile: It looks like crafter totally for mobile, one-button game. And it would make totally sense on mobiles, so guys, go for it!
Very cool and relaxing entry!
Beside what @evogengames suggested, I would also make input field bigger, also actually indicating that I'm editing one. Sometimes I had to smash my mouse button to actually start typing something. :smiley:
It looks like a cool game that would be ported to mobiles. Just make everything bigger, add option to export to image and voilà ! $$$ many is coming and you have created relaxing, chilling, nice looking wallpaper generator.
Solid entry!
Everything - music, graphics, gameplay - is nice and fits the rest well.
I would also (if you are planning to work on it after game jam) to add some type of enemies that would e.g. break your loop. I found very quickly that the best strategy is to start with huuuuge line/loop and close it when there is no planet inside. It makes game very easy. That's why I suggested that line breaking enemy type.
Good job!
@amkingtrp There is cat "meow" sound just before the swipe. :smile:
At first, I thought that the game about the hamster in a circle would be overused in this jam, but your games is the first one I see here. :smiley: Nice looking, simple, kept me interested to at least finish first "level" (collecting 10 nuts).
Good job!
Edit: Also this "ouch" after being slapped - it got me. :D
I'm not sure if I like it. The reference to the theme is almost non-existent, everything is in a plot, the gameplay itself does not refer to the theme.
BUT, as it is your first time attending game jam, congratz mate, this is the first little step.
Hi Buddy!
It took me a while to get rules completely, but after that I actually got to play and proceed. :smiley: I don't think that a theme is well used here, game would totally work without that going back mechanic. Btw, when you press R during that rewind animation game can go crazy. But the game is interesting and kept me busy for some time, also it was a good time.
Nice entry!
Hello buddy!
It is rather basic approach to the theme. Visuals are reaaaaaally nice, physics is cool. Music gets annoying after some time. And that's would be it, gameplay is simple, but got me busy for few minutes, which is okey for game developed under 48h. Also it would be cool to see some special player character, instead of that... ball? :balloon:
(Btw, it is first game I have found here which is created with unreal engine, nice!)
Oh buy, this is a full product, not a game jam entry. You have created something that would be totally neat on mobiles, don't waste it!
@rhoff95 Holly molly, you are right. It was my first time uploading something to itch.io. :face_palm_tone2: Now it should work.
@tadeas-paule Oh yes, I really regret that I did not add training and I did not limit myself to "Push space" to speed up. Please, check a **Short How To Play**. In a terms of cooldown there is one, very small to prevent player from spamming mouse clicks. You should be able to click and speed up on every cyan field.
@stuffed-wombat You are right about lack of information. But as a part of experience, I wanted to make player a little bit lost, like a child dropped into running wheel in a dark factory. At the beginning you don't know that to do, but after few lighting shocks you get the idea. :smile:
Thanks for opinion guys!
@masaru Dropping from 8/8/9 to 1/1/9 is obviously some nasty bug. BUT I guess that it went to 10/10/9, just some some displaying problem, that's why it seemed very similar to the previous guy.
So I bet that you got the "bad" ending, as it is the only one that you can get by just being idle. :smirk:
@edomiyamoto I'm usually inspired by Evgeny Viitman for my artwork. I like his dirty style connected with Adventure Time goofiness. Make sure to check it out, this guy rocks.
@meek-bits So now you know my deepest secret. I really love Capybaras, they are friend-shaped. But don't get fooled, alpacas are also really cool (and soft).
@all Thanks for feedback guys!
@namnam Check "How to play" section then. :smile: It is the biggest problem with this project, I thought that making player a little bit confused at the beginning would be cool (You are a kid dropped to some wheel inside some dark factory, you should feel confused!), but ye, it makes game hard to play for some people.
@namnam Yes, you are right about possible improvements! I always appreciate good feedback, buddy. But I don't think that I will work on this game after LD, it was just quick shot just to check how game jams look. And it was really fun!
Thanks again, to you and everyone else, for feedback!
@trizalio Chicken tastes better. :smile: And restores you always to full energy.
Thanks everyone for feedback! I appreciate it! :heart:
@arad-hamidsamiee In fact, there are two ways to escape. Just be a lazy, fat kid and wait for power to drop to 0%. Or, like @remzo said: gotta go fast! :smiley:
@ismael-rodriguez Everything about your critical feedback is on point, I must admit that. Also, I would say that I made the wrong design decisions from the beginning. I wanted player to be lost, as a kid dropped from the sky into running wheel in some dark factory. It was a point for me and part of an experience. But as this sounds good on paper and from the "artistic experience" point of view, it is really confusing for the player.
Your idea with shadow guys joking about player is great! "Hehe, he is nr 4 and he still doesn't now that he need to press on lighter part of the wheel"
But it is also an experience for me, for the future game jams - spend some more time on user experience and don't expect players to came up with everything by themselves. It is okey to help them a little.
@arad-hamidsamiee It is based on Steel Panther song, check it out (but only if you like glam metal :stuck_out_tongue:): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WntbeS8xY0Y
@food-lovers I don't know if it need to expand the zone for clicks. I mean, at top speed you can click even without looking at screen if you can get a rhythm right.
@jusw85 Yup, you are right, some people already pointed that game itself doesn't communicate gameplay mechanics very well. Somehow it was planned, because I wanted to make player feel lost. But it turned out to not be the best decision at all. But if you managed to get good ending, congratz. :smile:
@croxel-studios Nope, I'm creating graphics only for my games, and I don't feel like I need to create any.
@mykola If you don't know how to get specified ending I think that it is fine. I mean, you need to think outside the box (outside the loop, hehe), play against AI which tells you to slow down. If not, then you will be stuck in a loop forever. That's the point. :smile:
@creamybacon2 I think that boost marker is fine, the lack of proper training is a problem here. Now, after playing some other games from jam and reading comments under mine game - almost noone reads game description, so it is terrible idea to put instructions there. :smile:
@zombiebust3r Nasty bug you found here. :smile: I think that it was "Thanks, bye!".
@lombax Yea, it is a common problem with my game. You should check game description, but as I mentioned before - I shouldn't make player to read some extra text outside my game. My bad, but thanks for playing!
@erlioniel You are right, but at this point I'm 100% aware that I should put some ingame tutorial. :smile: It is a nice lesson for the future game jams - spend some extra hours on user experience, not only on your "artistic" vision.
Thanks for feedback everyone!
I loved a part when swearing and drinking improved my patriotism. And it is even more funny, because I'm from slavic country. :smile: Maybe I didn't notice it, but I've missed possibility to do a slav squat.
Anyway, sticking to the topic, simple game, but that does not mean bad. I laughed. :thumbsup_tone1:
Really nice pixels, buddy! Is this game somehow related to the movie "Looper" with Joseph Gordon-Levitt? :smile: I just got that small feeling after the name of your game.
I think that it would be already mentioned, but game lacks some of death indicator. At first I was killed and dropped from game, I was like "That's it? Ok, very short game :O".
It is a perfect game about working in a corpo. I have started as "Okey, I will do my job just ok, keep everything clean" and so on. But after some time I went like "Awwww, fck that, I will be dirty nasty bastard". Stopped with cleaning bullshit and showers. Were always working super hard, felt into endless loop of being dirty, smelly programmer. But got rich, which is nice.
Good entry! :smiley:
I was expecting way more games about life in big corporation from this Theme. This one is cool, the endless loop of rotating workers. Graphics is fine, music is fine, mood is on point. Got me busy for few minutes. Nice entry!
Nice one, of course I've skipped tutorial and after that it wasn't obvious for me how to shot. :face_palm_tone2: Beside that, it looks cool, it's fully qualified mini game! I didn't finish it though.
Nice entry!
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Round 20 is my best result so far. Cool little game! Movement debuff is a absolute killer later in the game, I'm losing always because of it. It took me few games to understand stats and changing weapons tho.
Oh boy, I love clickers. And at the beginning I thought that it will be a simple joke - you go ou of time and game restarts... and here comes a little twist. Lovely, really nice for a big comeback to the compo after rough weekend. :thumbsup:
I like hot the enemies start to run away before we unleash THE POWER OF THE 10 SECOND BLADE. It would be nice that it would have wider hitbox, because right now it is hard to smash big group of enemies. And it would be so satisfying.
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The best thing I've played so far. A simple little game, and a "full" one at that.
Well, first of all, very nice entry. Second, I felt style similar to some old LD entry, called Ribbon. And after looking at your previous games I see now why. :smile:
Ye, twist in the second part is worth spending some time on this game. Nice experience, because as you noticed yourself, it works nice.
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Srsly, it doesn't fit on my screen.
Other than that, it is cool game. :smile: And cure little pixel art graphics.
The biggest drawback of this game is the disposal of the theme, and it's pretty funny. :smirk: Just waiting for reload get boring quite fast, someone mentioned that it would be nice to have some other ways to kill oponents, and that would be a good direction. Bayonet, team kills and so on...
Overall cool little game for COMPO.
Oh boy, I mean, visuals and sound here is epic, nice work on that guys! The biggest problem with it is that it is super laggy on html version, can you add some hotfix for that?
I didn't rate it yet, I will wait for some HTML version update.
@lincoln-sin Chrome on Ubuntu 20.04
@lincoln-sin Fu** me, I even got it here xD Didn't think of using it, and yes, it works muuuuuuuch better on Firefox.
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At which point I can say that I saw every possible dimension? So far the one with dino is my favorite one.
EDIT: In Canabalt there was a little timespan when you could still jump after leaving a platform. In your game it seems that it is pixel perfect and sometimes it looks like jump wasn't credited.
My village dissappeared after upgrading. :ghost: It is vaguely obvious at the start what is expected from us. There is also a little to do, but I can see that you put a lot of effort into coding probably. I mean, those UI features are cool, slow motions, trajectories and so on.
Game doesn't load at the beginning, but I left tab open for a while and it started. But it also is really wanky in web, going really slow after some time.
Lots of bird games in this compo. And by a lot, I mean as many as.... two.
The game itself very cool, surprising, with simple animations, but beautifully done graphics. For me, top marks, I don't know what to attach to here, especially since it's a compo.
It seems like I have 2 left hands, because this one is really hard for me... Fun tho.
@chuckiee Forks and spoons are not such a bad strategy for "easy" ending. Just upgrade gold income and "Steady Hands" for level 2 and u can just spam single button forever. But you don't know that from me! :smiling_imp:
@LauraHur For some reason link to itch.io dissappeared. Gonna try to fix it soon.
@oddballdave Well, in terms of humour, the funny little thing is... the whole game is an adaptation of a veeeeery poor/dad joke type. And as I'm a fan of the poor joke, I couldn't let it go. And the punch line, or ending, is meant to be what it is because of the many repetitive scenes of the spider asking for the cute little hammer.
Thanks and take care!
@davidbradbury This is this part from features:
**debatable decisions in game design**
I thought that animation and carpenter saying that he keeps forgetting recipes like every 10 seconds... There is also a shuffle sound for that. But you never know!
Valuable suggestion for future jams to make sure that everything is obvious.
Thanks everyone for feedback!
Unfortunately, I don't have time to answer everyone.
@osh-studio About items swapping instantly, it is a problem with Unity layouts. By default there is no option to do smooth movement between cells out of the box. I know how to add nice animation there, but unfortunately, I had no time to develop it and test it during this compo. :worried:
@frib It is not a bug, it is feature! :smile: Jk, it is obviously not intended, but I won't remove it. Such bugs add charm and show that actually the whole thing was done in a really short time
@matt-green I have trouble sleeping and drank a lot of energizers :cry:
Thanks again everyone, take care guys!
@roroto-sic You are right, it should be MUCH MORE visible. But it is compo, rules are strict so we need to live with my bad decisions. :smile:
Nice use of the theme, but tbh, I didn't understand the ending. Extra plus for little easter eggs like "Here is Johnny!".
Other suggestion would be something like extra signal that you threw up something through window. I was spamming E key and first time after smashing it it seems also that I threw glass shard through it. And because of that I was stuck for long moment.
Acid rain - :white_check_mark: Delivering stuff - :white_check_mark:
Holding weird stuff like baby in a jar or banana - :white_check_mark:
Story that makes no sense - :white_check_mark:
Ending which leaves you confused - :white_check_mark:
Hideo, is that you? This is what Death Stranding would look like if it were made on COMPO .
Amazing atmosphere. The lighthouse itself did not help me much, more lightning and a lamp on the top of my lifeboat. A very pleasant few minutes.
Although the use of the theme here is... By force? What we have here is a really nice, fully executed game with which to spend a pleasant few moments.
I don't know what to complain about, because I liked the game itself, and the controls involving the operation of the engine are interesting. The only such drawback really is the fact that you can accelerate to the max and before hitting the ground press shift to prevent a crash. It would be nice if speed mattered when landing.
Most likely already mentioned, but it is a shame that you need to restart after every fail. :(
It would be also cool to add more game mechanics to it, some reactions of the narrator when you fail, stuff like that. But I know it is a compo game, so it is easier to say than to do within those 48h. :sweat_smile:
Simple, little game, and the birbs. I have parrot Pionus Menstruus myself. :bird:
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Cool use of theme, had fun with it.
EDIT: Btw, you can break the game by pressing ESC in main menu. :smile:
Please upload an online version too, e.g. on itch.io. I see that you tried, but on the ludum dare site it still has its problems.
Nice relaxing entry, but there is not much game play here I would say. You can mash Z & X and u still get points because there is no lose condition.
Composed music is cool, the track for buttons also nicely fits it. Good work on that!
Cool concept, and I mean the whole idea of changing every 10 seconds who is your enemy. Almost like some Jekyll and Hyde, but this time it is about being nerd and jock. But sometimes I didn't want to wait for swap, so I was trying to rush locations (and dying). It would totally use some early indicator that you are going to change in upcoming seconds, not doing it instantly.
Overall, good job and congrats on your first LD game!
Only 3 levels? :worried: It is nice take on the classic game, but ye, a little bit too short. And it would be nice for levels to change automatically after success.
AS mentioned above, very quickly it turns out that the best strategy is to move everything to the merchants and just hope that it will be a match.
And if I would like to play with huuuge mess I would sit down to my life, not play a game! :smile: Jokes aside, as for compo, cool game. Simple, short so you won't get bored with its mechanics.
Dark Souls of platformers. I got lured to lava (???) by some drowning girl screaming for help. Congratz on finishing your first ever game jam entry guys!
Can you upload zip/rar/7z archive with exe and stuff here? You will probably get more plays this way.
Anyway, big ++ for using C++ here. :v: