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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Cm | Co | |
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| 2013 | 27 | 10 Seconds | It lasts longer when you're a genius | compo | 878 | 2.71 | 2.59 | 2.77 | 3.38 | 2.15 | 1.81 | 3.43 | 2.36 | 100 | ||
| 2012 | 23 | Tiny World | Dessert Planet | compo | 427 | 2.97 | 2.90 | 2.42 | 3.45 | 2.52 | 2.64 | 2.81 | 2.83 | 56 | ||
| 2011 | 22 | Alone | Alone at Ludum Dare | compo | 706 | 1.25 | 1.16 | 1.16 | 2.15 | 1.80 | 1.00 | 1.72 | 1.28 | 1.10 | 14 |
It is more like two hours and forty minutes of work, which is what I had left after it was clear to me that my other game wasn't going to work out.
Had I posted my other project, you'd get a black screen that says "Option 4 / Option 2 / Option 3" on it. But thanks for the feedback!
There's a lot of promise here, to be sure. The basic concept of building your "hacking route" and then flying through it is quite interesting, though I found that many of the mobs take far too many shots to kill, which gets a bit dull after a few rooms. The time before the coins despawn could do with some lengthening, too; if you kill a mob at long range, it's sometimes not even possible to collect the coin even if you fly straight towards it.
I can verify that this runs in Opera as well. It's a pretty fun game; I might suggest that the timer not start running until the player actually moves, though, since it can be a bit hard to pick out the player sprite at the beginning of the game.
I managed to get a positive score, but I ended up standing in one place for the last 20s of the game because I knew if I moved I'd break more stuff. :-)
Good stuff, though I notice the world updates for several frames following a bark -- this can be a bit tricky to get used to.
It's pretty hard, since the AI is happy to play chicken with you all day. I think the only time I managed to kill one was when he was locked fighting another dude, and so I had a free shot. :-D
I liked it! Reminds me of the "Monkey Fight" party game from the Super Monkey Ball series. It does seem to run a bit badly for me (Opera 11.62/Win32), periodically freezing for a few seconds. The impact sound is also delayed a bit.
Transitioning from the second sideways orange screen to the first upside-down green screen, I fell through the "floor" and had to restart.
Fun stuff! Nothing useful to add to what others have said; just wanted to let you know I enjoyed it. :-)
It's a bit hard to hit the mobs with the ball; seems more a matter of luck than anything else. Also, I don't know if this is intentional, but sometimes I just suddenly stop moving to the side. Pretty fun idea overall, though! Super Mario Strikers has nothing on you. ;-)
I love the graphics and sound, and the gameplay's off to a good start -- I ran into one Sucker, though, that kept blinking in and out of existence depending on where I was standing. Made it a bit tough to shoot.
Good fun. Learning to play the bounces off the bad guys was interesting. And I definitely appreciated the "gentlemanly upgrades" for high scores!
I like it. The green eyeball-y monster reminds me a lot of "It" from Gauntlet 2. :-)
It's a bit frustrating not having any idea where the trees are; the core gameplay is pretty fun, but it seems relatively random whether or not you'll survive long enough to get all the stars.
The ending got a laugh, I'll admit. It's a decent start, but could do with a bit more challenge; increasing the spawn rate on the obstacles wouldn't be a bad idea by itself.
Excellent concept! I was totally confused by the fish, since I also got the pot just by warping behind the guy, but I did it by accident -- I was all the way to the left while warping passed through that board, and suddenly had a pot in my hand.
Also, does the lever / ball-and-chain room do anything? I must have missed it.
Thanks, everybody! Glad you're all enjoying it. Also: too many doughnuts? What madness is this?? ;-)
I was hoping for that effect. :-D
The rectangular window is intentional -- my thinking was that a wider field of vision to the sides would give the player a great impetus to keep rotating all the time rather than staying still.
Thanks for the feedback! Perhaps I should flash the player sprite to indicate powerups are about to run out.
Hi guys! Thanks again for all the feedback. Just to let you know where I am right now: the Android port is up and running, and once I get the kinks out of it, I'm going to be adding a few more features (such as persistence across sessions, so your high scores don't reset every time you play), and then I'll do another balancing pass incorporating much of the feedback I'm getting.
I like it, and it looks good; I would greatly appreciate an "invert Y-axis" option, though.
Very good; graphics are outstanding, though I agree with the other comments that the full-screen white flash is a bit over-the-top. Also, getting shocked on level 2 causes the large black areas to display a status code for a second; is that intentional? Level 2 also seems to think there are only three total crumbs, when (I believe) there are eight.
Other than that, though, great job!
I like it. Did find a bit of a bug, though -- I fell out of the level on the right side of level seven, but I didn't die. I just ended up falling out of the level and couldn't do anything but quit.
It's a good start, to be sure.
A kick animation would be very helpful; I thought it just wasn't working for quite a while. Also, I couldn't get the "stun" move to work at all.
I concur that initial movement is too slow. Other than that, though, I liked it!
Lots of promise here, but the field is so big and the fruit distribution so random that far too often there's just no chance of reaching enough fruit in time.
I absolutely love the concept. Please develop this more! In practice, I found it really really confusing, but with a bit of work I think it would be a really great game.
Oh, this is fun! Like everybody else, though, I found the final boss a bit too hard. I think one thing that would help, at least for the "fighter" character, is an autoswing rather than having to mouse at things to fight them.
I didn't understand why sometimes I could open a door, and sometimes I would explode when I touched it.
It's a decent first game, and I love that there's a stat called "Freak." Still and all, my "mind" kept decreasing, and I couldn't find any actions that would restore it.
It's a neat idea. Sadly, the theme is definitely detrimental to the game; requiring each choice to be made within ten seconds forces the player to rush through the dialogue.
Reminds me of Yoshi's Fruit Cart a bit. Not bad! A "restart" button for when you lose would be nice to have.
I couldn't get this game to work at all. I tried it in both Opera and Chrome, and the applet would load correctly, but clicking on the "play" button did nothing at all.
"Why take apart bombs when you can blow stuff up!?" My kind of game! :-D
It's a great concept, but in practice it often seems like I'm just hitting buttons at random. I think a longer time limit could really do wonders.
I get the error "could not find the main class" when I try to run it. Couldn't get the web or local version to work.
Probably I'm just a dope, but I got absolutely *nowhere.* Lack of an "invert Y axis" option doesn't help; since time is so sharply limited, mousing the wrong way gets extra frustrating.
Also: your .zip file contains the executable with a .txt extension. Is that by design?
I like the minimalist graphics a lot. Main menu or no, I think it would be nice if the game didn't begin until it received input, since the applet didn't have focus when it first loaded and I lost my first life before I could even act. :-)
Game looks great! I really like your graphic style. Also I appreciate how, in the first level, you're a little fish eating other fish, and then suddenly you're a monster devouring the city. Kind of like E.V.O. with a surprise twist. :-)
Love the concept. The lasers seem really random as they are, since the laser-detect power is rather... unuseful. Also fun is that you can walk right into a guard and not get caught as long as you're not in his light beam. :-)
I have no idea why this is so great. But it is! BEAR TIME!
Only trouble is that, after bear time, the pong game is pretty much totally broken. The other paddle stops moving, maybe the ball stops moving -- pretty much doesn't work anymore. But I can't remember the last time I laughed that hard at a game.
What's here seems to work more or less as advertised, but it's not much.
Not bad for eight hours. It would be nice to be able to restart the same level if you lose instead of going all the way back to the beginning.
I like the idea, but it all kind of comes to nothing in the end. It would be nice at least to have a total of money made/lost on the various investments.
I really like this! The different weapons are great fun, and I love the graphics. Good work!
Definitely doesn't seem to be working right. Did you hard-code a resolution?
At first, this game seems like it'll be a Blackthorne update, but then later it turns into Super Meat Boy. Only trouble is the controls aren't all there; the fiddly jumping later in the game gets *really* frustrating. Also would be nice if you'd alias "retry" to space, since my hands are nowhere near the R key.
Always nice to see more Flashpunks! :-)
Fun stuff; I like bullet hells, and you've done a pretty good job of balancing increasing firepower with increasing enemies. It runs just fine in Opera, though I echo the people who said it would be nice if it were a bit larger.
I'm not sure I really get it. It would be nice to have an indicator of my remaining health, since it kind of seems like game overs happen randomly.
24.075 seconds to completion for me! It's a fun little game, though I'm not sure I'm sold on the sound you make when you hit a trap.
Really fun stuff here. I love how the water gradually floods in when you run out of time, instead of just being an instant-lose. It would be nice maybe if you don't automatically take the stairs whenever you step on them, since sometimes there's money on the other side. :-)
The interface is a bit cumbersome, but it's a neat game with a really unusual premise.
The hit detection seems way off; I get killed by aliens when they aren't very close to me. It would also be nice to have a visible indication of the level borders instead of just bumping into an invisible wall. But it's a good start, and I like the concept of being the slowest gun in the west. :-)
The hit detection on attacking enemies seems a bit off; sometimes I swear I'm hitting them, but I end up getting bounced way back anyhow.
I've downloaded the .jar, but it seems neither to run nor to return any error at all.
It took me a few tries to figure out what to do; the "symbols" bar on the right implies that you'll be dragging those cards onto the play field, or perhaps pressing keys to select them, and I had to play it a few times before I realised that I was supposed to click the squares in order.
I don't know what I was doing wrong, but the game would let me strafe left and right but not move forward and backward.
It's a great base for a puzzle game. It would be a huge help if there were some clear indicator of which pieces had already been placed; there are already boxes there, maybe just place checks or dots in them to show they're used.
The theme isn't that strongly represented here, but the graphics are very nice, and the interface is well-made -- even a volume control!
Graphics are fantastic! I love the combination of 3D world and hand-drawn models.
It's a good basis for a jumpy-shooty; rather reminds me of Hocus Pocus, except a bit less forgiving. :-)
Really fun game! I'm impressed! I agree that the theme seems pretty tacked-on, though. Also I noticed two bugs:
-- The music sometimes skips very badly, which is grating.
-- In the "mainframe" area, I was able to get outside the level boundaries, and I ended up stuck and couldn't return to the field of play.
Other than that, great work!
Very nice game! The only thing I don't like about it is the shaking effect when you're at 5 power or below. It's a bit distracting, and, at least for me, it causes some slowdown.
Excellent presentation, but not very much connection to the theme. Also interesting the way the difficulty picks up in March, since all of a sudden all the poll points you haven't earned are now stacked on *one* opponent instead of spread around.
Great idea; Frogger + chicken jokes + weirdy-beardy philosophy. Trouble is the hit detection is really strange; Sometimes I get bonuses or get killed without seemingly being anywhere near anything to collide with.
Great idea, and interesting, but there are often tiny "hiccups" between sound segments on playback that can make them sound wrong even when they're right.
It's fun to see a new take on the theme. Well done. :-)
Excellent! The early-game is very dull, since you're waiting two minutes for any new money to come in, but once things get rolling it's pretty fun, and it looks great. My beer needs more vespene gas!
I liked your graphics and sound a lot, but the duels themselves run a bit too long, especially in the earlygame when your stats are low.
It almost requires three hands to play, since the keyboard buttons are so far apart, and you need the mouse to attack. If you'd alias jump to the up arrow / W, you'd gain a ton in playability.
Good game! Classic Zelda-like fun, and the added zaniness of the special effects every ten seconds works really well. The music's a bit too hyper, though, if you ask me, and the lava sound is REALLY loud. But otherwise excellent!
Also: check-plus on your username. Bullwinkle FTW.
The music is a bit loud. Other than that, you have a pretty fun platformer here, with shades of A Boy and His Blob; after I cleared the first area, though, it returned a "fatal content error" and just stopped.
The physics are fun, but the car moves a bit too slowly for a ten-second time limit. It seems my time is half up before I've even touched the ball.
Doesn't seem to work for me; I land on a splash that says "Flowkore Entertainment" and then nothing else happens.
I couldn't get this to work; it fails with the rather unhelpful Java error "the application failed to run."
Excellent overall, though I agree that the constant running back and forth gets tedious. Also, I don't know if you intended it, but I found an alternate (and much easier) solution to the final Pipe Dream: (spoilers, obviously) http://www.perfectlydarien.com/personal/altsolution.png
Excellent look and feel. It's possible to clip through some of the environment, though, which is strange.
I'm not sure this was working right for me; it seemed like, no matter what I did, my dude just wandered off the left side of the screen and never came back.
Great fun. I love that there's no penalty for causing mayhem. The only complaint I have is that the controls for getting on to the bus can be a little fiddly; you have to hit the door fairly accurately.
Solstice-y. The controls are a bit odd, but the concept is nice and the graphics are surprisingly effective.
Really fun overall, in a Lost Vikings kind of way. It might be nice if the aliens didn't despawn when reaching the exit, though, since sometimes getting one guy (usually blue) to the exit requires using one of the others as a stepping stone, and if they've already left you have no choice but to restart.
I really like this! It starts out almost insultingly easy, but you really put the mechanics to good use by the end. Reminds me a bit of the timed flip-panel levels in Super Mario Galaxy.
The only trouble is that, in the bigger levels, I would get noticeable stutter; this made the last level basically unplayable, since you have to go so fast and hit such small targets.
Wow! This is really good! I'm really impressed you guys got this done in 72 hours. If you post the English script as a single file somewhere so I don't have to tease it out of the game, I'd be happy to edit it a bit for you, though I think you should leave the voiceovers as they are -- they're great!
Decent silly fun. The ending is pretty weird. Also: I'm Brock, right? I should be able to send my Geodude after that guy.
Pretty fun little game; there's a King Arthur game on the SNES this reminds me of somewhat. I love the mouth wind effect!
I don't understand why sometimes all my units except the one in the front stop advancing, though.
Your "web" link appears to point to a .zip file.
It's a fun idea, but it could do with some greater variety of questions, to be sure. Most of them are about movies and TV, subjects I know nothing about. :-o
Nice Ghouls-n-Ghosts homage. I'd suggest the time shouldn't pass while a text box is up on the screen, though, since it's a bit annoying reading long dialogues while the timer is still progressing.
I really like the backgrounds here. Very charming!
Awesome title. "Crook" should be used as a verb more often! Looking forward to seeing where you go with this, since it's a really neat idea.
Pretty fun; looks great. The music is a bit out of place, though, for a game about fighting slimes in a crypt. Also: are the blue blobs immune to sword? I never managed to kill one.
I agree with the above that WASD-only is not a good control choice, especially for a platformer. It's also a bit odd how the entities don't reset when you die; it means a few wasted deaths while they line up properly for another attempt on the harder levels.
That said, you have a good beginning here. Your music is pretty catchy, and the whales are brilliant.
Excellent use of the theme! I really like your idea of ten discrete seconds rather than a single ten-second period. A bit of Chrono Trigger here, yes?
The very first puzzle -- the Roman bit you allude to in an earlier comment -- is by far the hardest in the game. Once you're through that, it's pretty straightforward.
Super, super hard. Fun idea, though! I think it might be better if, instead of having to spam-click on the student to raise the grade, that took place automatically and the player could focus on distracting the teacher.
A bit Civilization-y; seems to be lacking a goal, though. You expand for a while, but then that's about it, yes?
Welcome to game development. There's always one more bog to fix. :-)
Fun, silly munching game. PUNKIN PIE!
Would be more fun if it were a bit more complex; a one-question personality test wears thin pretty quickly.
Good stuff! Not too hard just to get through it, but the added aspect of chasing high scores is a good plus. Only nitpick I have is that I wish movement were aliased to arrow keys also; I'm not very adept at WASD, and since I'm a lefty-mouser I really have to crunch my hands up. Other than that, great!
This is surprisingly addictive until you get to that point where, as you say, it becomes too easy. But it's pretty fun learning how to juggle the urns! And a great, unusual concept, too.
The web link isn't working for me; brings me to a Dropbox page where I can choose to download an .html page.
I really liked this! So creepy and disorienting. And the ending is brilliantly weird.
I gotta be honest with you: I kind of liked it. Reminded me a bit of the old favourite Montezuma's Revenge on the C64.
Graphics and sound are top-notch, but I found the controls frustrating.
I really like the idea, but the execution needs a bit of work. It's basically a ton of grinding and not much else.
Reminds me of classic BBS door games like Caveman Wars and Food Fite. I also echo the complaint about the random skill rerolls rather than a predictable upgrade path, but except for that it's quite good!
This is quite fun! It has a bit of a problem with movement sometimes not firing when I press the key, though, which is a BIG problem in the last level (where you have to move quite quickly).
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. This is actually the closest thing to a balanced game I've made yet; most of them are impossible to win. ;-)
Wow, Llamatron and Joust? High praise! :-D
Thanks for all the kind words, guys!
Grats, Cryovat! :-D
Thanks everybody for the comments and feedback! I'm glad you're enjoying it.
I'm afaid I'm not; coincidence, sadly. Thanks, everybody!
Yeah, better sound was next on my to-do list, but time ran out. Glad you enjoyed it, though!
Thanks again to everybody who played and rated my game! You'll all awesome. :-D
Pretty fun! Not sure I dig the stamina mechanic; it seems like an extra headache attached to a game that's really about running around and trying to find the stairs by the deadline.
The graphics are quite nice, but I'm not sure I really understand what to do here. I click on the dudes, and little !s appear above them, and then... I guess that's it?
Quite tense, what with the creepy music, but it ran rather poorly on my system, which detracted from the experience.
Seems a bit buggy; am I right that the mobs turn 90 degrees left whenever they come in contact with anything? Occasionally I've had them turn at other times and completely spoil my hiding spot. Great concept, though!
Lots of promise here for sure. As others have said, the later levels are a bit too trial-and-error grind-y, and there's no real attempt to incorporate the theme, but you have a great base for a clever puzzler here!
The theme seems sort of like an afterthought here, but the core mechanics of grab-and-fling are fun. I don't really understand why the dudes sometimes bounce off the edges of the screen instead of flying out, though.
Wow, that noise at the end of the game is... loud.
It's a cute joke, but that's about it, yeah?
I will punish the Doombots!
Good stuff. I love the interplay between trying to rush through the levels and dodge robots and having to veer off course to grab air bubbles. Also, the interesting moment when you have to decide if you'll lose more air running for a bubble than you'll get from it.