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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | Collector | Outward | compo | 13 | 4.06 | 3.85 | 3.44 | 4.33 | 4.47 | 4.11 | 3.23 | 4.16 | ||
| 2025 | 57 | Depths | Down Golf | compo | 71 | 3.73 | 3.95 | 3.75 | 3.70 | 2.86 | 3.44 | 3.75 | 3.47 | ||
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | Pot Life | compo | 143 | 3.58 | 3.22 | 4.01 | 4.38 | 3.56 | 2.85 | 3.08 | 3.45 | ||
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | Tiny Shop | compo | 3.33 | 3.50 | 3.83 | 3.66 | 3.50 | 2.83 | 2.50 | 3.50 | |||
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | Pizza Game | compo | 160 | 3.60 | 3.82 | 3.32 | 3.72 | 3.85 | 3.02 | 3.15 | 3.45 | ||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | The Heist | compo | 304 | 3.45 | 3.75 | 2.83 | 3.07 | 3.59 | 2.78 | 3.11 | |||
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | My Little Tree | compo | 407 | 3.51 | 3.24 | 3.84 | 4.06 | 3.48 | 1.90 | 3.28 | |||
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | Self Surgeon | compo | 70 | 3.78 | 3.63 | 3.72 | 3.89 | 3.95 | 3.03 | 3.52 | 3.42 | ||
| 2017 | 39 | Running out of Power | Cannon Ships | compo | 265 | 3.42 | 3.68 | 3.52 | 3.47 | 3.00 | 2.89 | 2.06 | 2.56 | ||
| 2015 | 33 | You are the Monster | Hell Court | jam | 231 | 3.59 | 3.22 | 3.77 | 4.13 | 3.62 | 3.00 | 3.77 | 3.59 | 66 |
Interesting idea. The controls are a bit weird and it's hard to tell when you're about to collide with a ship, so I just kept jamming the spacebar and that helped :P. The sound is cool and creepy, and I think you good the mood of the game very well done. Thumbs up ;)
Great aesthetics and mood. The sounds add to that too. However, I came to the arena some other way the enemies did not start spawning. So at first I didn't know what to do (and walked through those houses).
So from a gameplay perspective, it's OK. From aesthetics, it is freaking awesome!
Nice concept, well executed.
Download link says that the folder is empty...
Or is it just me?
Oh my god! I love the game. It's a shame that no sounds, but still cool.
I love the graphics and style. The water looks really cool, unless you enter it :P.
The UI looks and works nice.
So I'm punching this small tree with my hatchet, and it breaks and a bunny spawns inside it and keeps flying in the air :D.
So I keep collecting stuff and my inventory gets full. I almost died of hunger because I could not make arrows or a weapon (full inventory). Also the arrows seem to pass through the animal and not do anything...
I can't kill anything...
I just found out there a sprint button!
OK, I'm done. Cool game!
That is really cute!
Nice graphics but the background music gets irritating after a while.
Awesome game, the animation is really great. I love the read sound :D.
Also, I'm not sure this it the way to walk: http://imgur.com/xn5sYPp ^_^
Cool idea, maybe a little too easy, but otherwise cool :)
Great game, really well polished. +1
Interesting idea. First game I played that wasn't about killing the player. Nice!
I wish I could make graphics like this. Awesome game!
Thanks everyone for playing! If you have time, please answer these 2 questions:
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Thanks again! :)
Thanks everyone for playing and feedback!
Based on the feedback and statistics I updated the game a little. I will continue to work on the game, hopefully making it into a full one ;).
The game has a very nice graphics and sounds. I like the concept and gameplay mechanics of the game. But... it is HARD... Still a good game.
Haha, I like it :P
Cool game! I like the graphics, effects and physics, but the sound is not that good. Overall, simple idea and well executed.
I like how trees catch on fire, nice small detail. Nice little game you have there!
Cool style. Great game :) although I found myself only using the lunge.
What a lovely graphics and music! I at first could not interact with the old man, but I restarted and everything is good now.
I saw a water pit. And I fell into it...
Killing all this animals :(. I do feel like a monster.
One issue though. Not all the sprites have the same pixels per units ratio - some are more detailed that others.
I just fell though a ground :O.
Hmmm, so that was a hole.
The game would benefit from a sprint button :P.
The first boss just stood next to me and could not damage me :(.
I won't spoil the rest, but I love the game!
I feel bad...
Baaaah, dieee tanks! <camera shifts> Whoa, didn't expect that one coming. Baaaaaaah, hahahahahahaa!
The embedded version doesn't work for me (chrome console: "Refused to display 'https://www.dropbox.com/s/funxinz8bh9r8wf/New%20Folder.html?dl=0' in a frame because it set 'X-Frame-Options' to 'SAMEORIGIN'.")
Anyway, the game looks nice, I like the style and the isometric view. But it would really need some sound... Also, the controls are a bit weird, but I got used to them. The text disappears too fast, I could not read what it said. And I'm not sure if that is intended, but the particles seem to go in the opposite direction?
Nice game. I got the logic after about 3-4 rooms and managed to finish it. Nice graphics too!
Took me a while to figure out what to do. But the sound when you finish a level is hilarious!
Awesome graphics and sound effects!
Cool concept, too bad you could not finish it.
The bard is the best part :D Awesome game!
I love games like this, great job. However, after a couple of minutes playing, the game becomes laggy and eats a lot of cpu. Not sure what's behind that.
It took me a while to figure it out, but good solid gameplay! I made a lot of money >:).
Awesome transitions, animations and cutscenes! :D Even your voice :P. But the music...
The sound is not that good. Also there's no real goal, just avoiding stuff, which was not that much fun for me. Graphics are okay.
The music is kind of annoying and I felt there was not enough gameplay. It was also confusing for me, I didn't really know what to do besides pulling the level and clicking on cities.
This was made in 3 days??? Oh my god, this is a great game!
Awesome first game! Keep it up. The graphics are nice, sound effects are great. Also I like that you have just 1 health, makes the game harder.
Really cool game. Just one minor thing. You could have made the ships coming from both directions. Other than that, I enjoyed it :).
Awesome intro, awesome humor! Great gameplay, graphics, sound... I can't find anything bad about the game :P.
The game is promising, but movement is really tough to control.
Muhahaha, so much fun. I like the effects.
I got 1458 souls.
Pretty cool game, I like the aesthetics. Solid game mechanics. Nice entry.
"Stop right there criminal scum!" :D :D
So I died and died and died... And then figured out how to kill enemies! And then fell out of level.
A nice and relaxing game. Great work!
Arrows work but using W and S doesn't work for me. I guess that may be an issue on my side, but I have no idea :(. No error in the console either.
Awesome game! I also like the silence (=sound design :P). It's a lot of fun.
This is the best game. Period.
My score: 95. I had a blast playing this game! Perfect!
Awesome graphics! I thought I was totally screwed and then the "You survived" screen popped up :smiley:
Thanks! I tried Bosca Ceoil but failed to create any music lol :D.
@fusionnist of course you can upload it! Thanks for playing man :smile: if you want, you can link my Twitter account @9chuckeles9.
Thanks for playing guys :ok_hand: :video_game: love the comments!
Thanks guys! :heart:
Looks cute! Unfortunatelly I did not have enough patience to get through the third level (with the elevator).
Nice game. The best part, of course, is the story behind the scenes. The combat is not that great and I just avoided enemies instead. When I got the choice to loose a leg or all my money, I selected money and it displayed an error :laughing: I gues you weren't expecting that...
It took me a while to figure out the rules. Great game! Simple and fun. I only found one downside – the whole game is played with a mouse, I would appreciate if I could also click in the menu instead of having to press ENTER.
The graphics look very impressive. I love the occasional cutscenes/images that appear in important moments. You could make the grass and tries slightly less saturated to make it easier to distinguish enemies and walls in the level.
Very minimalistic, but when it's used, it fits the situation very well.
I could not even get past the first forest. The second blue guy just always kills me!
Great game! I like the story and the gameplay. I just didn't see much of the game because of hard enemies.
I also use Unity + Aseprite, great choice! :laughing: The game is very hard but looks good. I like both graphics and the simple music. :thinking: I think I have to also start using Bosca Ceoil some day.
So I trusted you and turned off all antivirus measures. But this error pops up.
Would you be able to make an OSX version? Otherwise I can't play but the game looks cool! :disappointed:
@corny you it should. In the meantime I switched to my Windows PC :stuck_out_tongue:
Well, first of all, I love the splash image! :laughing:
Anyway, I played the game, had a little trouble understanding that I have to use the door to continue. You should mention that somewhere, too. Then I got into the random level and mined a few hearts, found a bomb, and it exploded before I had any time to react. Maybe you could make the timer just slightly longer.
After I died, I tried again, but this time I got thrown into a random level that I just could not finish. The door were out of reach. The problem is that you can't hang on the dirt tiles, only on the stone tiles (correct?).
Overall, I love the graphics and the sounds. The game has very good polish. However, it is very hard and I assume that it is not always possible to finish the level.
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Example: I cannot get the heart above me :disappointed:
First of all, I had to download an auto-clicker just for this game :laughing:
With that out of the way, I was just about to make a screenshot of my "industrialization" (all available spots replaced by buildings) and place the first diamond hut when this happened:
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God dammit :sob:
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I got to a point where I always started with these 4 cards :laughing: I like the game, it looks very well polished. There's just missing variety in cards and, more importantly, enemies.
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Fixed! This is a really cool and unexpected game. Just the waiting time between plays is too much. Anyway, I lost all my fingers and could only play "stone" but the opponent always did the same, too. :thinking:
Haha! I actually made a game in a similar theme, you also harvest and sell your own body parts! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/self-surgeon
I also played your game, I must be honest, after selling all my organs and purchasing another life (I guess it's another life?), I think I could go forever. Maybe I did not get the main goal of the game?
There is a potential but the title screen bug makes it very hard to enjoy the game. The interface itself is clean and animated, good job!
You could a few screenshots and description to both this page the Itch page.
Well, the game looks and sound good. But I just did not have any fun with it. The monologues are too long, the questions are repeated... I like how it's made and polished, it's just not fun.
@jjjjason @jsec @danidev @caspercaper17 @memel06 thank you for the feedback guys! :yellow_heart: I'm glad that you like the game!
@evolus @paragonraptors @jani-nykanen @saladon thanks for feedback!
@saladon I did not stream this time, that means that someone was working on a similar game :scream:
@corny thank you :yellow_heart: I must admit that I did not have any time to balance the levels, some of them I just created and never even tried to finish myself because there wasn't enough time for that. The chest one in particular is way too hard...
@suchista thanks! I agree with the syringe, I had more plans for it but in the end I did not have time. All it can do now is to heal cells and also make red blood cells faster.
Thank you all for the amazing feedback!
@nexusviper @repine @omercanbalandi @jamesolivermusic @daniel-moreno @awesomealliterationalliance thank you for the feedback guys!
Thanks for feedback! @wassim @duke @flamus @jorbits
I'm well aware that there is not much progression in the game. I did not make it in time for the compo. It makes the operation levels very repetitive and boring after a while. I plan to improve this in the future.
You can read more in my post-mortem post: https://www.notion.so/dzejky/Self-Surgeon-Post-Mortem-Public-3486c9da66574ef5b76419b316037799
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Knights killed my entire village... How do I even defend against them?
I found out that I spend a significant portion of the game hunting for elderly people and sacrificing them before they die. :clap:
Nice game but very challenging! The achievements are the best part of the game. I played a little and still don't know how to survive longer than a minute or two.
This is a really good game! Did you get inspired by Kerbal Space Program, btw? :smile: The only problem which made the play harder for me is that sometimes the controles were mirrored for some reason.
> Freshly stored in the players balls...
:thinking: Hmmm
I love the sense of humor in this game. The intro video is perfect! The gameplay itself is very simple but I like the "cheat prevention system" :laughing:
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What a lovely day! What a lovely kingdom! Looks like..... <48 chickens just ramble over the poor farmer while searching for more eggs...>
I had a lot of fun finding the eggs. Feels like Easter Egg hunt. I frequently got stuck in dialogs and could not finish a single request. First I feared that I would lose my chicken when they get stuck somewhere but I found I could just draw the screen and handle it that way.
Oh...
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> You are now an adult and you can live as you like...
Lol
Amazing game! I love the simplicity of it. The graphics are amazing, sounds are fitting. The interface and the game is very consistent. And the sprites, oh... Perfect. :eyes:
Looks cool. Too bad you did not make an OSX export.
I would like to play this game, however, you forgot to export the game for **OSX** it seems. :disappointed_relieved: The Mac link takes me to the Itch page, which contains a single download for all platforms. However, when I unzip it, there's only **.exe** file and no executable for OSX. Could you please fix that?
@caspercaper17 in the meantime I switched to my Windows PC so I can actually give you feedback for the game :wink:
@caspercaper17 yes it works! Nice job.
The graphics look great. I love the low-poly art style. However, the rest of the game is not that good. The music fits the game but you quickly notice that it's very short and repeated. As already mentioned, the camera is very jittery, and quite frankly kills the game. :disappointed: If you polished the game a little, for example add a fog to simulate water, move the fish up/down or to the sides to simulate water currents (instead of it just standing there when you don't move), and *fixing the camera*, you could gain a lot!
I honestly came here because of the cover image :laughing: but the links don't work
Interesting idea for the current theme. It's sad you did not finish this, it could have been a great card game.
Are there any enemies?
Evermind... found one. The camera is too close.
When I started the game the first time it froze and did not load. Second time fixed it. The controls are really bad but the levels themselves look terrific.
Cool! Looks good, music is great, gameplay is smooth but repetitive after a while. Good entry :thumbsup:
Too bad there's no MacOS or HTML version :disappointed_relieved:
@grena oooh, great stuff! :raised_hands: Amazing game, I love the graphics and the sound effects. It was a tad confusing at first but I figured it out. Great job!
I added an HTML5 build to the Itch page so the game is now playable in the browser! I'm not sure about the performance, though....
Thanks for the feedback! :raised_hands:
@vitor-figueredo I wanted to make an endless ground but I did not know how to quickly do it in Godot and there was not enough time to learn it. Maybe next time. :slight_smile:
Thanks everyone for the amazing feedback! :yellow_heart: :raised_hands: I really did not expect such a positive feedback for this simple game, wow!
Hey @yulotomorrow , the red bar is the tree _STABILITY_. It's working kind of as a ratio between the tree branches and the roots. But yeah, it's broken, because the roots are almost always bigger than the tree. I did not have the time to balance it. :shrug:
And thanks for the feedback. :blush:
@grena thanks for feedback! :raised_hands:
As for the bug, it appears that you have to download both the EXE and the PCK file when downloading the game. I'm on Mac so I did not know what build is the PCK file used for, it appears that it's for Windows. I'll mark it as such on the Itch page. :slight_smile:
@ping78 nice! :joy: I see you've discovered that the ground does not actually limit the roots in any way, did not have time to solve that :laughing:
Nice :slight_smile: But I agree with others, it was hard to keep the beaver on a button once the submarine starts moving. Amazing graphics and sound!
Thanks everyone for playing the game! :heart_eyes: And yes, I'm aware of the performance issues and I tried to address them at least a tiny bit in the *Fixed* version of the game, but truth to be told this was my first time doing 3D in Godot and I probably made some dumb mistakes and decisions performance-wise. :shrug: Oh well
Huge thanks to everyone who played the game! :blush:
I agree with you, I wish I had more time to add sound effects and tweak the gameplay so it is actually possible to loose. But that would the game into the Jam category and I was aiming for Compo. That being said, I'm continuing development and slowly fixing all the issues and adding missing features into the game. I've already fixed the bug where the police "merges" into the player, the police AI, and many other things. If you'd like to check it out or even follow along, see the game's [Github repository](https://github.com/martindzejky/heist-game) or follow me on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/martindzejky).
Such a beautiful and polished game, with a unique game mechanic as well. What a little masterpiece! BTW I love your commit history :joy:
Fun little game. Congrats on making a game with Godot! It's a lovely engine and I also love using it for Ludum Dare! :laughing: This time I even tried 3D and still can recommend it :thumbsup:
Cannot run this on Mac :cry:
@jovialknoll I have the latest 2022 Mac :grin: . Actually the problem was that I'm lazy, I did not see an `.app` file which I could run, nor any setup instructions, so I gave up :shrug: . I'll give it a shot hopefully today now that I know how
Very cute game and, well, what an emotional journey!
There's no way to play this on Mac. The link you state is for all platforms only contains an EXE :confused:
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Nice little game :slight_smile: At first I had trouble understanding what are the costs of buttons so I just smashed keys randomly until something was built :laughing:
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Unfortunately I only saw this in the HTML version.
And I'm on Mac so I can't try downloading the game. :disappointed:
It's a really cool game! Just a little too easy to get stuck in a wall :laughing:
@zimonitrome yeah sorry about that, it seems that my Godot 4.0 beta's HTML exports don't work. You have to download the game to play it (although I was only able to test the Windows version).
I'm super sorry about the Mac version. I just got my Mac back today so I'll try to rebuild the game on it and get it running. 🤞
@linus-lindberg @martin183 guy, I just loaded the game project on my Mac in the new Godot 4.0 beta 2 and exported the Mac version. It works on my Mac so I uploaded the release both to Github and to Itch (linked above). Can you try running the game again and let me know whether it works? Thanks! :slight_smile:
@mauvegrover thanks for playing! :heart: Yes indeed, the order system is a little too opaque at the moment and I did not have any time left to improve it. A timeout bar would be excellent, also I wanted to add a little preview (colored squares) to the smaller order card to give you an idea of what ingredients does it require.
@steffo haha! I did not really know much about making pizza when I started working on the game. :laughing: Even the tomato base was added much later in the development and I nearly skipped it. Pizzas with only the dough and no tomato looked a little... raw.
@chemicalcrux thanks for playing :slight_smile: and giving the game a shot on Mac. Actually, this is not made in Unity but in Godot 4.0 beta. I guess if I properly configured the OSX build and had the file signed somehow, Mac OS wouldn't complain so much about it. :shrug:
@aligator @zubspace @jonathang @tess thanks for playing and for the feedback! :heart: It's great, I already fixed most of the problems you had in the game in the upcoming post-compo version. Hopefully released very soon...
@otterfaelure thanks a lot! :laughing:
Yeah putting the orders randomly like that wasn't a great idea, now I know. In the post-compo version the orders look like this:CleanShot 2022-10-18 at 13.58.11.gif
@ghostbomb haha thanks! :joy: All the ingredients were modelled based on pizzas offered here in Slovakia
It's a nice little game. Initially I was greeted with a heavy tutorial which I though I understood. But when I closed it I did not really manage to understand how to gather resources. I was building towers and randomly clicking on the asteroids. Sometimes the drones went to get the asteroid, sometimes they did not. Not really sure why. Eventually all my towers were destroyed and the enemy ships overwhelmed the base.
neovim! <3 but no Mac version... :'(
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Very well made and polished game!
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It took me a while to figure out what to do. I got stuck on this, two boxes went away and then no new box arrived anymore. So I at least placed the items on the conveyor for the lady to take them :grimacing:
Cool game! :stars: BTW how did you get Godot to run in HTML? Mine just refuses to work (Godot 4 that is)...
@doubley hi, thanks for playing the game! (even before I wrote any sort of tutorials for it heh...)
I agree with the baskets. I did not really know what to do about them in Godot, and did not have the time to try to implement a pushing system. But I think it ties nicely into the theme - Limited Space, heh? :laughing: But they can get really annoying. And with the upgrades, yep that was the plan, but I ran out of time. Maybe I'll continue working on the game in the future and implement that, not yet sure.
@noya great to hear that the Linux build works! YAY :rocket:
And also great idea with the rent due each week... :thinking: I only thought about ordering products for the next day, but the rent is a really good idea as an additional motivation to sell more each day.
Honestly, I did not understand what to do and could not even get through the very first level. No matter what I did, I always lost. 😞
Haha, the most random game I played in this jam. :laughing:
Haha that was a lot of fun! Such a nice and simple game, great job.
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Just out of curiosity, what interactions would you guys like in the game? I was thinking about this game as a "manage the ecosystem", so some way to feed the creatures and plants would be nice. Some mechanic to hurt and kill them (something better than the random fire there is right now...). Maybe giving the creatures more types of resources so they could have more complex behaviour. :thinking:
Thanks everyone for playing and for your lovely feedback! :heart: I agree with everything you wrote and I'd love to add more interactions into the game. I'll see whether I will have time and motivation to work on this after the jam.
Lol @dmitrygalias that's a ton of skulls you got there. :joy: @dgspitzer lovely flower!
Great idea that not all creatures are bad! I was playing with a touchpad and that was terrifying haha. :laughing:
Cozy and nice game. :blush: My only issue was that every time I clicked on a button in the UI, I would start moving the camera again.
No Mac or HTML build. 😥
Very cute game, the graphics are amazing! Some 8bit sound effects would fit the theme a lot, too. Anyway, I had a lot of fun.
It has promise. :slight_smile: A little difficult to play on the touchpad, I would increase the clickable areas on resources so they are easier to gather. Fun!
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Oh I was really hoping to find something at the far left end! Quick feedback - I did not really like that the mouse was hidden, it was a little difficult to orient myself when I could not see any pointer.
Nice little game but the car is super difficult to control, especially when it gets up to speed, and the timers are super tight.
I had a great time playing this and figuring out the interactions. Great idea! The charming cute graphics are just the best. :star:
Wow, incredible work, I had a lot of fun playing! The game gets pretty hard pretty quickly, especially on a touchpad lol. Very nice entry, great job!
Lol :cookie:
Coool game! I almost got to the top but some alien jumped from the edge of the screen and got me! :laughing:
BTW there's a bug in the game which sometimes causes the ball to get stuck in a wall. I knew about it but wasn't able to fix it, it looks like Godot is not handling the high velocity of the ball correctly, even though I told it to use ray tracing for collision resolution. :shrug: Perhaps I'll take a look into it later.
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Thanks everyone for playing! 🥳
@manabreak @javasaurus yes, the quality of my drawing skills was going down steadily as the deadline was approaching, haha. :laughing:
@lazycoffeepanda not impossible but it is a bad situation that I was not able to fix. What you can do is to position yourself right next to the trampoline and try to hit the ball just before it lands on the trampoline.
@sharploaded yeah, the physics are sometimes super weird. And this is normal rigid body in Godot! I don't really understand. 🤷 The camera is actually trying to keep the player, the ball, and the current pole in the view. All 3 at the same time, while the player gets the priority of course.
@av-shustov thanks! ☺️
Hey everyone. I pushed a small update 1.1 with a few fixes and quality of life improvements. I was also trying to make the ball physics a little more consistent but unsuccessfully. I think Godot physics are not thaaat reliable for golfing. :laughing: More info in the description at the top.
@knarf @johnnysix @she-wrote @ditam thanks a lot for playing! :star:
@ditam haha amazing you noticed the tree! Yeah it's one of the first little things I made in the game, I thought it would add a lot of character. Also regarding the aiming - I wrote about it somewhere in a comment, but I just was not able to fix this. Maybe I'm using Godot's physics incorrectly somewhere or maybe the physics are unreliable and undeterministic somehow. I don't know. I debugged this a lot and I'm sure I am applying the same impulse to the ball when you hit it, but sometimes it seems like Godot does not fully register it. :shrug:
@jake-g wow, thanks a lot for the kind words! After all the feedback I received, I'm actually seriously considering making this into a full game. We'll see...
And about the aiming, actually the way I implemented it, it should not matter at all where you are standing in relation to the ball. Only how you aim and the strength of the shot. But I think there's a bug in the Godot physics OR I configured something incorrectly. I don't know. I'll experiment with the physics a little. :blush:
Simple fun game. :relieved:
Interesting idea. Some sounds and/or music would help the atmosphere I think. The jump is super glitchy as others have said, and honestly I did not really feel the need to press the space bar any time at all.
Whoa! I did not have the patience to actually finish the whole game, but I really enjoyed how you implemented the platformer. The graphics are nice and the music fits the game very well. :ok_hand:
Very nice and simple idea! Very well executed, good job. :joystick:
Very cool game and very well executed! :heart_eyes: I would just add some sort of indicator when a farmer is about to shoot. Also aiming with the shovel was hard because when I got too close to a farmer, I could not hit them. :laughing:
The pause menu is super nice! Hah, nice little game, although I just kept pressing 7 directly and that's it I guess. :thinking: But the graphics are really nice. Maybe it you choose a key randomly and the player had to press that to make the next platform grow by one cube?
The simplest idea, well executed, wins. :rocket:
Great game but a little too long and difficult I think. But the idea is very well executed.
Just like others have said. I was curious, enjoyed the graphics, sounds, and atmosphere. But I just had no idea what to do so I eventually just gave up. :shrug:
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Really cool little game and I think you executed the idea really well. :raised_hands:
Super nice cozy game, great atmosphere! There you go, I made your day. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Fantastic atmosphere! I just wish there were some sort of checkpoints so I wouldn't have to restart the whole game when I fall.
Cool game! I think I need to look into that Pico-8 for the next jam... :thinking:
Cool idea — it’s a solid start! 👍 The game does feel a bit barebones and unfinished right now, but what’s there already works nicely. I think adding a few more mechanics or layers of depth would make it much more engaging.
I really love the hand animation though — it feels super smooth 👌 Aiming was a bit tricky for me, since the arrows didn’t seem to fly exactly where I was pointing, but still, great foundation to build on! 🎯
This looks wonderful but unfortunately I can't play it on Mac. 😥
@threeli thank you! Yeah I feel terrific about this game, I will definitely try to make it into a proper demo, hopefully for Steam. I have a ton of ideas and mechanics that just did not make it into the compo entry. So far I've been getting feedback that I nailed the "feel", which I've never done before, so pretty excited! :stars:
@soloadventurergames @02fc @t4ran @khton @tykki19 @aleksey-salion thank you very much for playing! 🙏
I'm sorry about the issue with music, I did not have time to fix it since I noticed it after submitting and I was spent. I added a big warning at the top of the description. 🙈
I really appreciate your feedback. I feel that I have something going on here and I have a lot of motivation to keep working on this one. It's a lovely game and I would at least like to make it into a proper demo or vertical slice, if not a full game. We'll see but so far the reception has been very warm.
Next things for the game I have in mind: placing buildings, better upgrades, spending resources to get better and stronger village and villages, enemies, enemy waves (you have to defend), and prominent locations in the world.
BTW if anyone's wondering, I drew the biggest inspiration from these games: Majesty, Anthill Village, and Sok pop games. I'm so grateful to these games for great ideas!
@re-markable thanks! 🤩 I really appreciate the feedback!
I outlined some rough ideas in a comment above, but essentially, I want to experiment with building simple buildings. Those buildings would provide more units, gear, and improvements to the village. It would make you stronger, faster, etc. And those buildings would spend the resources you collect. In essence, incremental game. :laughing:
The expanding area is done using a simple shader, see the source code on Github if you are interested. :wink:
And I don't know about Far Cry 2 map editor, never used it haha. But maybe I randomly used the same simple who knows.
@wouter52 thanks for playing. I just pushed a simple fix for the music issue! In the end it was super, it wasn't a bug in my code or in the engine, just a stupid human mistake - 1 of the 18 samples I exported from Ableton was broken and contained all the others. Oops... 🤦
I'm glad you enjoyed it. For the sound effects and the ambience, I used samples from the internet. There unfortunately wasn't a chance to do a recording myself around here.
@anachrone @grid96 @maimai @diralf @lereveur thanks a lot for playing, I'm glad you enjoyed the game! :heart_eyes:
@maimai yeah, the priority system: there isn't any. Those guys just choose randomly. I was thinking to maybe expand on this but at the same time I did not want to overcomplicate the controls, at least not for now. Maybe this could be one of the upgrades you get? :thinking:
@lereveur thank you! There will be a purpose for the resources, but it did not make it into this compo version. It will later!
@lesdremlet @nadan @wouter52 thank you all for playing and your nice comments. :relieved: @nadan yes I definitely plan to continue working on it, although I've been catching up on other work since the Ludum Dare and haven't touched the game yet... :sob: But soon! @wouter52 thank you! I'm a little blown away by them. :heart_eyes:
Thanks to everyone who played and left any positive feedback, rating, or kind words. The game got really good scores, best scores I ever got! 🤩
This little game is now my daily long-term project. If you are interested, follow my journey on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@martindzejky
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So like others have said, the game gets too easy once you realize you shouldn’t upgrade the souls and should just keep shooting. At first, I understood it differently — I thought you only got the souls by touching them and converting them directly, and that shooting just killed them without giving you the soul. I actually think that could be an easy fix — it would force the player to choose between staying safe and shooting, or risking it to get closer and capture the souls.
That said, you’d probably need to reduce the number of enemies, because when there were too many, it was impossible to get close without instantly dying.
But overall, I really enjoyed it. The pixel art looks great and the soundtrack is an absolute banger 🎶🔥 It’s amazing that you managed to pull this off for the compo — and seeing you used Ableton and Arturia plugins made me smile. Beautiful work! 👏
This game is so cuuute! Very well done! 😍 Edit: oops I broke the subtitles by alt-tabbing to a different tab and coming back.
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Unfortunately I think I broke it and I did not figure out what to do. 🙁
The game looks great! Too bad there are no sounds. The controls are a little strange, took me some time to get used to. A little bit too floaty, like when I mashed the arrow right key I could get supersonic! Haha :laughing:
Interesting concept. The game itself felt a bit blunt — I honestly had no idea what was happening, so I just ended up clicking around randomly 😅
What actually caught my attention the most was that you mentioned all the art was made by AI. That made me curious to play, just to see how consistent the visuals would look. I’d love to know what tools and prompts you used for it.
That said, I feel like relying on AI art might’ve taken some attention away from your own design and mechanics. Still, it’s an intriguing experiment 👀
@feraligatr thank you for sharing that, that's very helpful. 👌
Cute game, very innovative! I like it! 🤩
Really cute game, I think you nailed the chill atmosphere. I collected almost all bugs on the first train! 😆
@threeli oh don't worry about that. Get well, health is always the top priority. :four_leaf_clover:
Good job, it's a nice game. :blush: I did not finish it entirely but I collected a ton of candies. I love that the player's head makes a proper halloween light! Nice detail.
A little feedback: I think you should increase the gravity because right now the player feels too floaty. Also the camera controls are a bit messy now. You should pivot the camera around the character when moving the mouse up and down, and not just rotate the camera itself.
Damn, this hit deep. You embraced the limitations and got out maximum! Very well done. 👏
Too bad it's windows only. 😕
@fullbuff thanks, I played it and it's good! Great job. One small feedback: I think the ship should have lower friction when moving, it's in space after all. So it should float more and not slow down as much. Also the rotation is a little too fast and also stops too fast, it was a little difficult to aim.
Wow, I’m genuinely blown away by the quality here. This is such a well-made, polished game — everything just clicks 👏 I had a lot of fun playing and got totally into it, trying hard to beat it. I eventually lost around the 5th level, but it was a great ride.
You’ve got something really solid here — definitely worth polishing further. Great job! 🎮🔥
There’s a small bug — if you hover near the top of a creature’s head, the tooltip keeps popping in and out.
That aside, I really appreciate the fast-forward button; it makes the pacing feel much better. This is a super polished game overall 👏 The art is beautiful, the sounds fit perfectly, and the whole thing feels cohesive.
I didn’t have the patience to finish it all though 😅 — maybe if it were a bit shorter for the jam (around 5 minutes of playtime is usually a sweet spot). Still, really solid work! 🎮✨