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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | Dr Shrink and the Horrors of the Infinite | jam | 268 | 3.83 | 3.82 | 4.17 | 4.39 | 3.87 | 3.73 |
I am so glad I got to play this one before game ratings completed. What a great little gem of a game!! Extremely cute story premise that perfectly matches the theme, and some genuinely head-scratching puzzles that got me genuinely stumped for a while (particularly liked the frog/crow puzzles where you're having to play leapfrog moving them on and off the same button). Well done!!
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I cannot get over this goofy hairy fly. Genuinely inspired character design. Also I loved all the household items that have their names printed on them like "BREAD" and "KITCHEN SINK", and then there's just "BUZZ SAW" :laughing:
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I found you on itch.io a while ago from your SNAKE SNAKE SNAKE game, so once I saw your username I new I had to play. Knocked it out of the park once again, particularly with the visuals and the latin mumblings from the king :laughing: pretty unique idea that I haven't seen anywhere else too. Feels like this concept could work as some sort of board game as well!
Incredibly unsettling. Well done devs :no_mouth:
Great little game! Hope more people get to play it before the ratings shut off because you deserve a propper rating with this one! I particularly love the chef's little voice lines. Very funny
Art is absolutely top notch. Loved this one :)
Not only does the plot of this remind me of a particular Simpsons episode, but there was a direct Simpsons reference in the ship AI's dialogue as well. I see dev is a person of culture too ;)
Loved this one. Fun quick action adventure in space that was genuinely quite challenging at times. Great job :)
Incredible entry from the Keyboard Cowboys. Five stars all round if you ask me. Absolutely top-tier game that I'll 100% be coming back to after the Jam
Fun addicting little game :) I always love playing a Pico8 cart, fills me with joy
Loved the redbull joke ;)
Very fun and clever take on the theme, and the art is so frickin cute!!! Love when the dog scratches himself
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Exellent work from the devs. Really fun and satisfying to blast through all the fishes. Top tip: try shooting the enemies with the gun
Absolutely stunning art and presentation. Love the little noises and I can't believe you made a whole ass alphabet for this!
LOVE this one! Super satisfying once you've got the hang of it and you start emassing a big huge gang of monsters :smiling_imp:
The frog's animation is hella smooth as well. I'd love to see this one expanded out into a whole game with a bunch of different bosses!
If I had one suggestion, it would be to have the main guy have some very weak attack so that you at least have a chance to recover if you've lost all of your guys, but that's only a minor suggestion.
Great job guys, you should be proud :)
Verrry creative game, and genuinely ingeneous puzzles for such a short development time. I'm very impressed with this and would love to see it expanded into a full game :)
This is my favourite game that I've played in the Jam so far. Super simple and challenging concept executed really well. The balancing has been done excellently to make it a challenging but doable game.
I really think you should develop this into a full experience after the jam :)
Holy moly this one is fun and adictive :o
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Unfortunately it didn't really work for me but I love the concept and the art :)
Fun concept, executed really well! Feels like the sort of game that you could accidentally sink like 5 hours into while chatting with your friends :)
JUST about made it!
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I've seen quite a few "Protect the picnic from the ants" games in this Jam, and this is 100% the most creative and well-executed of that idea. Very singular vision and a wonderfly viby art style too.
Congrats dev :)
Very viby, love the style :)
Really smart and fun idea and well implemented!! The art is fantastic as well. A very cohesive, singular design.
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If I had one complaint, it's that the middle mouse input can be finicky in browser because the auto-scroll gets enabled, but that's purely a nit-pick because you've already got alternate key-bound controls that work really well :)
Love all the creature designs, great application of the theme :)
I would say that I spawned too many goblins, but I reckon there's no such thing as too many >:)
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Cool vibes to this game, but for some reason I can't figure out how to attack, enter doesn't seem to be working for me!
Very cute, love the art :)
Got to the end! This one was super tricky for me but I managed to make it :)
The voice lines are absolutely inspired, very funny :laughing: great work!
I simply love all the voice lines from the hamster. Adorable. Also, the leaderboard is a hell of a nice touch :)
Very cool, very Limbo, all the assets from the audio to the visuals are top tier :)
This is a great little gem :) loved it and genuinely might come back for it
Absolutely stunning game. Reminds me of an old browser game I used to play :)
Great job guys, and JUST in time for the holiday season ;)
Cool game, very viby, feels like the kind of thing I could just play casually while chatting over discord and suddenly I've sunk 6 hours into my hamster army :hamster:
Incredibly funny idea executed in a humorous way. Everyone knows that a woman's cervix is filled with tiny fuzzy enemies.
Ayy we had similar concepts - your game could be a sequel to my game!!
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Had a lot of fun with this, congrats devs on a great submission!
Great job on your first ever game jam!!!!
This is a split-screen multiplayer browser game! I feel like I haven't really seen much of that sort of thing since the golden age of Miniclip/Newgrounds. Very nostalgic, great job!
My cat was fixated on my computer screen while I played this. That's the highest praise.
(Good game, you should all be proud :) )
Cool concept! Once I had figured out the controls (which, if I was to give any feedback, I would say that they're a little unintuitive without reading the instructions directly), I had a blast getting through all the puzzles!
Reminds me a little of Thomas Was Alone :)
The art for this is genuinely awesome :smiling_imp:
Love the aesthetic of this one :) The final boss was particularly fun, and congrats on your first LDJam!!! This is an incredible first entry!
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PS: Sorry to hear about your parents cats, hope the Jam has been able to help brighten your week :heart:
Very chilling and spooky game. For me, the intro text was a bit long as I wanted to get into the gameplay, but otherwise the atmosphere was well presented :)
Really viby diamond in the rough here!
The mood-setting here is masterful, great little demo, would love to see it expanded!
This is the first game that I've played in this Jam that has genuinely scared me. You've cultivated a perfectly chilling atmosphere and I am so unsettled by the lore.
Well done, excellent job, would get spooked again.
Very serine and pleasant experience playing this one. Loved it :)
Nice and simple to understand concept, really well executed and really cute. This feels like a very complete package of a game. The sort of game that teachers could get their students to play while learning :)
Great job all round here guys, good fun especially once you get on a roll with multiple little dudes
WOW!! What an incredibly well executed game!! The visuals, the sounds, the gameplay, it's all here!
Absolutely stellar work guys you should be very proud :)
Great job :) It was genuinely kinda scary when the screen got filled with all the little beans :open_mouth:
Absolutely love the visuals :)
Excellent application of the theme, really impressed with the magnifying glass effect, genuinely still not sure how you managed that in such a short space of time!
Thanks for the feedback guys! :)
Also, turns out that the ldjam.com embedded build is actually working on some machines. Please use the itch.io link if it's not working for you!!
So glad that you guys seem to be enjoying the game :smile: And I'm genuinely loving the constructive feedback, I'm writing it all down and will iron out all of the edges (and spell everything correctly) after the Jam!
The music not looping in particular is super annoying because I had it looping fine and then I must have disabled the loop somehow just before exporting :rolling_eyes: oh well it's the nature of the beast that some things would go wrong.
@ginxel that's an issue that seems to only be present in the ldjam.com build. I'm not sure what causes it but I've seen it with a few other Godot games during the jam (as well as other general problems when playing the ldjam.com version of games).
The itch version should be working fine though!
https://quietlantern.itch.io/dr-shrink-and-the-horrors-of-the-infinite
Thanks so much to everyone who played and rated this game!!! I'm absolutely thrilled with the result.
[The post-jam version with all the fixes to the bugs you all found is available on the itch.io page :ok_hand:](https://quietlantern.itch.io/dr-shrink-and-the-horrors-of-the-infinite)
[I also made a Post-Mortem blog post that you can find here :smile:](https://ldj.am/$406585)
See you guys next time :v:
Really cute, love the contrast between the music and the cute slimes. I do agree that the level is a bit big and overwhelming, but otherwise it's a lot of fun to hold space and spam down a whole bunch of slimes in a row :)
5 stars for the pun name alone
Fun classic tower defence game, excellent work all round :)