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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | No one makes the Grand Warlock wait! | compo | 139 | 3.61 | 3.50 | 3.34 | 3.34 | 4.02 | 3.75 | 3.56 | 3.47 | |
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | Rogue Elevator | compo | 197 | 3.76 | 3.65 | 2.47 | 3.26 | 3.77 | 2.77 | 2.02 | 3.17 | |
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | Minute Sniper | compo | 3.75 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 3.25 | 4.50 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.50 | ||
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | Bloodlust | compo | 30 | 3.95 | 4.12 | 3.45 | 3.75 | 3.61 | 3.42 | 3.11 | 3.62 |
Pretty neat game, multi shot is a little overpowered though!
Overall the biggest thing I think to add to the game is 'juice', add some screenshake and more particles etc. A good place that needs particles is when you do damage to the boss, but not kill it.
Great job overall!
Very creepy atmosphere, needs polish and more to do, however the base is there for a pretty spooky survival game. It gives off great vibes and atmosphere!
Pretty funny game, I loved the sprite of the main guy running around. The game is a little hard to play for an extended period of time with the bright red background, but the game itself aside from that is pretty cool! I'd love to see that dungeon packed with a few more items in which you can discover their purpose or use
I will never stop working. The exit is right there, but I must work.
Cool game!
The title screen unfortunately does not go away for me either
p.s. You should upload some screenshots or something!
Cool game, screenshake is a little much though!
Dang this game is so cool, everything is just so well rounded. The voice overs, the music, the subtitles, seriously great stuff.
I'd love to see the concept expanded with more interactions created!
Graphics Quality: Godly. 10/10
Hey dude cool game, I enjoyed the color scheme of the walls especially. It's a really neat idea though and with some polish could feel good to play, there were a few 1 second clenchers there. One thing I might change is to reduce the time between levels, I wanna move as fast as I can in the game!
This game is HARD to figure out, but very cool concept when you get it! I think you should be penalized for staying still like "Time is money!", so you can't stand still and go slow to maximize, but then running and making money should be easier and balanced out.
Cool game!
Amazing art! The game is very cool. As far as feedback, I think poise should regenerate a little quicker, and maybe fill up immediately outside of combat. This will allow you to shield more often but for shorter times, and not just be out of luck once it stops
Cute game! It's pretty easy though.
I loved the mashup between open world and tower defense.
Good stuff!
That game is hard! I agree the introduction of the mechanics is perfect. Great job, loved the game! I wasn't too sure how "saving" the energy worked or what that did, but the rest of the game was legitimately fun!
This game is great! It's actually fun and would be a perfect mobile game. Great soundtrack too!
I don't have much actual critical feedback, other than I think more content would be pretty cool, like more things to dodge and more ways to impact the environment.
Cool stuff though!
This game is amazing! Seriously wow that's so cool. Bullet time is cool, but the real game started when I figured out shotgun jumping. Seriously amazing job!
It looks beautiful too!
Cool game! The graphics were very charming. It would be nice to have a shoot sound effect/particles.
Good job!
That was great! I loved the theme and the whole lesson and everything. Great job. Movement could use a little polish, and you can't do regular jumps while on a platform that's moving downward. Great job though!
Cool graphics! The game could use a little more "oomph" when you hit something as it's a little floaty when you don't have sound.
It looks really good though!
Oh and, it's a little annoying to have to take my hands off the keyboard to select something on the UI, then place both of them back on the keyboard to play
UFO Fishing is super smooth and looks really nice. It is insanely hard and needs to be balanced though as it feels very impossible to get anywhere.
With some music and balancing it could be a very satisfying game!
@notb @commanderstitch @c0d3d @moonlens @mrwillowb @b3agz @chawls-v @memel06 @danga @corny @youpeoples @poisondart00 @nick-rafalski Thank you all for playing my game and leaving feedback, it actually means so much to me!
If you enjoy the game but find it too difficult, here's a video of me getting to wave 13. It might show some new tech that you may not have known about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQzA1RluGBE
@fanmanpro Sorry that it doesn't have keyboard support! I felt like with the limiting amount of time it was important to focus on making one style of input very polished and make it feel good.
Wow this is actually amazing, I can't believe you made an NES game!
It plays well too! It's hard but not impossible (as NES games are), and the graphics are beautiful, seriously great job.
My only feedback is that there should be some sort of animation when you successfully hit something, because at first it was hard to tell if my punches were doing damage.
Great stuff!!
- For those going to play, make sure you read the readme!
Cool game! It plays and looks really good. I liked the progression idea of spending health to get a higher max health, and then some upgrades costing more health than your current max so you need to upgrade etc.
I think adding more bass to the sound effects would really give the bullets more punch!
This game is gorgeous!
It looks great. The gameplay is fun, sharp, and satisfying. I really liked it.
I do however think the game would have benefited a lot from a simple "doom-like" soundtrack, because it has that style of gameplay, however of course under the time constraints it would have been hard to pull that off when you work on a game that looks this good. The game was also a little easy, but this is a fix that would be had if the full game came out later!
The base game you built here is really cool and could definitely be expanded upon.
P.s. I did fall off the map on the 3rd world and had no way to get up (but killing all the enemies with mouse2 was a pretty funny experience)
Great job!
This game is hard! Pretty cool though. You can just keep spamming click to keep bullets off of you though I think?
I also could not figure out exploding bullets.
One other thing is that I think that camera should be closer to the character, because the character was very often near the edge of my screen
It's a great idea for a game! I think there needs to be some highlighting where you can place tiles, and some information about how each unit attacks, but it's a great idea and I enjoyed playing it!
Man that message cuts deep. Cool game! It's a great piece of art
It's hard to tell what the difference between health and life is, as well as what's hitting you and if you're hitting the creatures. The random generation is pretty cool though. Also, your sword's durability doesn't reset on death.
Cool game though! I love roguelikes, and the art style is cute
After a spooky night, it was relieving to see the light again.. then I found a lovely stream. Wow that water looks amazing! I think its time to go for a swim, maybe see whats on the other side of the river. RIP.
Great atmosphere!
It looks super fun and like a great party game, but unfortunately I don't have anyone to play it with right now!
Awesome game. I loved the puzzle mechanics with having to time your digs against enemy movements. Really excellent job with the graphics & audio as well!
Nice the game feels super good to play. I think something that would go a long way is some sort of blip if you try to shoot before the cooldown, or just lower the cooldown. It feels a little clunky to only sometimes shoot when you want to.
Awesome game overall though, I love the initial elevator starting effect. I got to like 1500m~
I think the game idea is very cool, and execution is about 85% of the way there. With some more polish it could be quite good. Maybe having a narrower width screen and zoomed in might help for readability.
Awesome music
Stellar game! The production value is outstanding for 72 hours. Your team should be really proud!
A few pieces of constructive criticism: - The guns should feel a little "juicier" to shoot - The dash could maybe be shorter & faster? It seems a little clunky to use
Cool game. I also agree about defining the 5k win point with a win screen or something. Also something to explain what the buildings do in-game would be nice.
Very cool game. I think it needs to be explained a bit more clearly or differently how the harpoon needs 1 turn to recharge, but once you figure that out it's very good.
I think you can get stuck in the final room if you start incorrectly though!
Thanks for the great feedback everyone!
@eric-smith @redspine If you pause with escape there should be a mouse sensitivity slider!
Good stuff! I enjoyed playing it. I agree with making the shooting a bit juicier. Maybe also explain how to pick up weapons since that felt a bit weird
Wow this is so good! Super polished and just a cute game overall.
Only nit is that it would be nice to have a pause menu for volume control, but that is not a big deal.
Really great job, and a funny interpretation of the theme.
Cute game! I loved subnautica, and so this is a great interpretation of that kind of game. I agree having some more inventory management capabilities would have helped, it was also a bit hard to tell what some items in the crafting menu were (the ingredients, not the craftables).
Nice job!
Art was super good! I played through it all and thought the vibes were great. I did have to look at the hint for the book because I wasn't quite sure what I could interact with. Awesome job!
That was good! Once I learned how it worked it went super smoothly. Golems seemed a little OP but it was great to summon a bunch of them and watch them go. I enjoyed it!
I think the obvious things for improvement are graphics and lack of audio.
It would also be cool if there were some more dynamic reasons you needed to summon different things, like maybe some type of pokemon type advantage deal.
Great job!
It's like flappy bird on the Atari
Jokes aside, nice job - it was fun but very hard! I did get a bit confused when I found text that said press J to shoot but it wouldn't work (I hadn't found the staff yet)
Okay I played for awhile and got so close but couldn't quite finish the very last word! Here are some notes I took through playing:
Visually looks great, love the art style Need sensitivity bar, my mouse sensitivity was 10,000 Need a longer loop for audio, but I like the vibes
I didn't realize I could input things into the switch until reading the "general gameplay" portion (I didn't realize I could actually click the symbols).
SPOILERS AHEAD:
It took me awhile to find EARTH, but I did find WATER and FIRE pretty quickly, Finding EARTH made AIR clear. You can sequence break to walk to any of the puzzles by walking around the outside, starting from the left console. I was able to get RAFT + WRITE (though I wish they were on theme with eachother similar to the elements!) FART made me laugh, that was great
Didn't love just guessing words at the end until I realized it was alphabetical on the wall Didn't accept WRATH :( that seems very on theme THAW also could have done something? I think when you have a game where you can make words, the more words that do stuff (even if its not critical to the story) the better. FART was good there. It was made in 48 hours though so that probably isn't really feasable.
There needs to be some better hinting at the words in the last puzzle besides being alphabetical, there's too many words that fit into the slots. I also would have had no idea about looking for words between +++ if I didn't read the hint
I got WAR but couldn't find the second one, even though I have RAT and RITE surrounding them. I tried every 3 letter word containing R but it didn't work, so I have no idea if its bugged or what but I have to stop there.
Really cool idea overall and loved the visual style, but could maybe use some playtesting.
This game is good! I love the theme and all the visuals are great. The music fits perfectly. It took me a couple tries to realize that my score is how many humans I get on the platform - and shortly after had the realization that I spent all my humans on score and couldn't escape the lava. That risk/reward incentive is great.
I think an indicator of how far you can place/collect humans would go far, and maybe not being able to accidentally collect the ones you've placed.
Loved it though, nice job!
Nice entry! All in all I cleared about 15-20~ rooms on my last run, but eventually had to stop because a minotaur enemy bugged out and couldn't be hit and wouldn't hit me or my summons.
I do have some notes:
- The game is nearly impossible before you get your first summon (Also, after you die you keep your last summon?) - The summon UI makes it hard to tell how many summons you have banked - It's one of the few games where summoning feels cool, so nice job - It would be nice to have an ending goal - I loved how the music had the same theme but different instruments/vibes in each room type - I think combat needs a bit of work to make it feel more "solid", right now it feels like you phase through enemies and it's nearly impossible to dodge enemy attacks because they are instant
Really cool game overall, jealous that you had such a big group to work with!
This game is hilarious and the perfect length for a jam game. Great art style & sound design!
Cute game! The controls were definitely tough, especially when the camera would flip around. I did find the wizard though!
This is unreal for a jam game - super polished graphics, audio, and even gameplay. You could tell it was gonna be good because even the card images on this webpage look great. Loved the environment too, well done!
This is probably my favorite game I've played from this Ludum Dare so far! I really loved it. There's a surprising amount of depth in the small set of mechanics, it works really really well.
I think the only thing keeping it from being "complete" is music, but honestly it doesn't really need it.
This was so good! It took me a round to figure out what was happening but after that developing a strategy and having it play out was fantastic.
My only nit is that I wish when you picked up cards, the center of the cards went over your mouse instead of the corner, so it's easier to place them.
Really nice job!
Have to update .NET runtime to play :(
Mario's got some moves
That was pretty funny, I liked the game. I think a better tutorial would go far because it's a bit stressful to memorize all those spells with 10 seconds, but I remembered 3 of them so it was fine.
Also the cutscenes between waves went by super fast so I couldn't read the text - maybe that is a computer-specific problem with faster/slower FPS.
Nice job overall, I had fun!
edit: here I am just now realizing the spells are also in the bottom right
Picked this game to play because I loved the name and could immediately tell the kinds of things you do in the game. The visuals were great, it felt juicy and was fun to play. I really liked the 3 gene slots and being strategic about which ones you combine to not accidentally override OP genes, so anything you can do to increase that decision making is great.
Nice job!
This is such a cute entry! I really liked the vibe.
The controls are a bit hard, I think thats mostly due to walljumping being a bit finnicky. I think the character needs some extra stick to the wall - I kept pushing away from the wall early in anticipation but then wouldn't wall jump at all.
Really think it's a great entry though
Great art - it was a little confusing the first time I ran into an enemy but that's because I didn't realize enemy zombies look slightly different. I think having a minimap with enemy locations or something would be cool, so you can try to build up your army before running into someone and have a little bit more choice in what you're doing.
Cool puzzle game forsure! I would love an undo & reset on the keyboard so one mistake doesn't make you restart entirely but that's tough to implement in a jam duration. I think the other thing is that it's a bit weird that the only wizard you have to click on to interact with is the earth wizard.
Nice job, graphics & audio are great too.
Very funny and stylish. It would be nice if the rounds were slightly faster, but I know the intent is for characters and vibe over the actual gameplay so maybe that isn't great feedback.
Awesome job overall!
Probably worth taking the HTML5 version off since it is quite buggy! Super cute game though and great job with the theming of the game, it's very relevant to everyone's experience lol