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Daniel Klautsch

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YearLDThemeGameDivisionRankOvFuInThGrAuHuMo
202250Delay the inevitable👥Civil Servantjam6263.573.253.013.073.873.403.853.50

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Comments by Daniel Klautsch

LD50 — Delay the inevitable

Deathline by ping78 2022-04-05T11:18:31Z

First of all, good job of including a volume bar for a browser game, most people -including my team- always forgets such a basic quality of life feature. Secondly, darn thats a good game. Its a really simple concept a space shooter where your terrain to ddge slowlly gets smaller over time and fits perfectly to the theme. And again I really enjoy the small touch with the fact that you can lure enemies to fly into the deathline thus killing themselves, it makes the player feel like a real smug ace-pilot pulling that off.

My top-score is 1:26, I dare people to beat my time!

Geometry Survivors by udo 2022-04-05T12:00:04Z

A very fun game. Very simple and yet very fun, the music excellently underlines the action and its just so fun to weasel in and out of bullets. The red squares are like Zombiehordes you need to outrun the purple cricles are intimidating but easliy dealt with once you realise that thier attacks are easily dodged if focused on and the blue.

The blue pose a difficulty spike that feels more like a difficulty wall. Its really a shame because the game is so good, but then you get to the blue and they kill you so quickly. It s very hard to dodge them and even if I stockpile items and powers, I can barely power my way through them. Maybe I just suck but the blue feel way to hard to me.

But seriously really fun game, please make a version of it without the blue specifically for me. =S

Tide of Rot by ryusui 2022-04-06T15:30:48Z

Excellent utilisation of the team, a bit hardcore only giving the pplayer one life but very fitting, I enjoy the deifferent kinds of attack patterns of the enemies and power ups and how the player needs to strategize between shooting the rot and shooting the enemies.

Excellent game !

Tide of Rot by ryusui 2022-04-07T06:26:11Z

@ryusui Sorry, what I meant was, its an excellent utilisation of the theme. Goodness, would you believe that I am the writer of my Team with all those spelling errors?

Procrabstination by sebastianscaini 2022-04-07T09:45:35Z

Claw-some game. And while I must crab-mit that the whole pinch-sertion of crabs was a bit… crab-stract, I cant help but to tip my hat to the shell-cellent pun crab-pacity you have demonstrated, well done !

Gone by Joshuc 2022-04-06T15:52:55Z

Incredibly well polished game. Honestly I am really impressed by how well everything works and how you managed to make such an immersive experience, good job !

Your Regime by deniskazantsev 2022-04-05T10:27:01Z

I really enjoyed, it it took me a couple of runs to get the basic mechanics though. It could really benefit of some basic ttorialisation or something since some options are so important that unless you know where they are and what they do you will loose no matter what.

Really great game, check out my team's games as we did something very similar with a lot of paperwork too. =D

Popiel Defense by Minus 2022-04-06T15:24:00Z

This game is pretty fun, a decent normal tower-defense that entertained me for long enough, I even competeed with my team to see who got fuurthest. Wave 7.

Anyway, only problem is, why did you invert the mouse ? That is really my only gripe, its just feels so... off.

But otherwise excellent game. =D

By-place by creativ4eg 2022-04-05T11:40:33Z

Hey, I had a look at the game and so far I have managed to figure out how to move and not much else. I would recommend putting a liits of controls on your itch.io page so that people playing your game will have an easier time figureing out how to play. =D

For now I just had a walk around the scenery and just took in the atmosphere but once you have put a more ocmpleted list of controls out I d be happy to give it another shot. =D

Extremely Exteme Sports by kuviman 2022-04-07T10:04:48Z

Honestly best game I have played so far, It is a genuine joy to roll down a hill with other people just for all of us to run into the same rock and die. 10/10 would skate into rock again

We Need To Talk by Doot 2022-04-07T09:35:56Z

Very interesting idea to cmbine taking options with combat style inputs, really enjoyable!

Malpractice by ikelucas 2022-04-07T10:19:10Z

Really cool and hectic game. Very impressive, dman bird always catches my off guard though. *shakes fist at birs.*

Super Mowser Bros by Guilloteam 2022-04-07T11:20:26Z

Fun game, but I gotta say that Bario fella isnt a very pro-gamer guy. I watched him struglle with the same three minions for about 10 minutes. At some point I just felt sorry fo rthe guy.

Really cool concept guys!

The Railroad to Elsewhere by Save Sloth Studios 2022-04-07T11:52:30Z

*Chefskiss* Absolutely splendid game ! Seriously I love me good narrative games and this hit just the right spot. Great aesthetics, great atmosphere, really nice aand funny interactions. Absolutely love it! Really great job !

Also... did you leave this note on my desk ? Train.png

Lava Run by BlueDingo 2022-04-05T12:08:21Z

Very nice short and sweet game, I adire the effort to make the track be randomly generated. Its really fun and the chunks really encourage the player to takke risks to get shortcuts and then fall to their death due to their own hubris. I only wish that there had been some more emphasis on the lava, since its behind you all the time you barely ever know how close it is to catching up to you. But its a really fun parkour game at the end of the day! =D

Job at METeA by Kiseki 2022-04-05T21:01:46Z

That was really fun. I enjoyed the humour a lot and when I did the final upgrade, the concequences of it got me did catch me offguard. Very good game.

Asteroid Anarchy by Mateu 2022-04-05T21:15:43Z

Personally I had troubles getting my ship to maneuver around, it feels clunky to steer and eeven clunkier to change directions, which is kinda problematic when you try to dodge bullets. In my fiirst couple of tries I tried to be careful maneuvering bullets as I see em coming. But the bullets fly so fast and changing direction takes so llong that its just not possible to play the game that way. Only option I had was too keep moving, always keep moving. But then I didnt really feel like I dodged the lasers but more like their aim just diidnt catch up with my momentum.

Anyway, this all might just be cause I am not as good at videogames. Still the game looks really ccool and you managed to pull of an impressive amount of things in it. Bullet-hell, intro outro. Heck you thankuflly only made me sit through the briefing once instead of every time I died. Oh and I loved that whole revolving planet thing you have going on. Really cool game !

Darko by Sodoj 2022-04-07T10:29:56Z

I like the concept and the dashing to enemies is great, but my main gripe of the game is the poor maneuvrability mid-aid. You can't really control your momentum other than by utilising an additional jump, but even with said jump you cant make any precision input, this leads to most often overshooting aimed platforms. And even if you do manage to get there you barely have any seconds to orient yourself for the next move.

I really like the game idea, but right now its way to hard.

Company Calamity by JacobArtis 2022-04-05T11:30:15Z

First of all, congratulations on your first game ! Thats a huge milestone and I hope you look at it pridefully. This is really good considering its your first and you made it under time-pressure. I really enjoy the idea of the different board-mambers all having their own personallities and likes and dislikes that you need to cater too to stay within your condition, I think you really executed well on thta. But I really wish there were a bit more of a tutorialisation in there. Its really hard in the beginning to wrap your head around all the spinning mechanisms, especially in such a mechanically compplex game.

But as I said, thats just a minor nitpick, I really like this, good job!

Civil Servant by Daniel Klautsch 2022-04-05T11:08:44Z

The overall ending does not change no matter what, seing as we tried to stick with the idea of delay the inevitable and all that, but and I am not sure how many people have noticed, under the instructions your boss leaves some personal notes, which change depending on how you perform. Not sure if the text made it clear enough or if nobody ever tried looking under the instructions but its there. There is also some other minor things that change such as the requests you get on a floowing day and stuff. But it all leads to the same place and might have been to subtle for its own good.

Still really gald you people all enjoy the game as much as you do =D

Civil Servant by Daniel Klautsch 2022-04-07T13:09:44Z

@velvetlobster We had a couple of people having similar problems. What you need to do is drag the stamped Start game paper over the counter. Naturally you couldnt have known that since you stamped over the instructions. Try it out, hopefully the game will become even more fun then. =D

Unlimited Boxes by InfinateFalcon 2022-04-05T12:31:32Z

This is incredibly good for your first Game Jam game. Really good job,, pat yourself on the shoulder ! I really like that you put the keys of each band on top of them as that helped me quickly figure out what to do, the beginning its really hard to get by with the timer but once you do and get ore upgrades it becomes much much easier, really nice game !

Caffeine Kid: Sleep is for the Weak by Sharcoal Studios 2022-04-05T11:49:06Z

Nice enjoaybale game, Took me a bit to figure out the ideal strat. But once I had it down I was able to get much further. Its definitely quite a hard game, but very fun I could see this becoming quite addicting as a highscore chasing style of game. Overall really cool and fun concept.