Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → David York
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | Fairy Haven: The Search for Home | jam | 759 | 3.33 | 2.90 | 3.13 | 3.59 | 3.81 | 2.65 | 3.95 | ||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | Cold and Alone | compo | 34 | 4.03 | 3.72 | 3.67 | 4.15 | 4.27 | 1.91 | 3.00 | 4.04 |
Really fun concept for a game. I had no idea why I would get various bonuses. +$100 one time, not sure why. If I knew it would be more strategic, I just placed the words with the highest values and called it a day.
You've got the core together. Sweet. I'd recommend a higher camera angle though.
Cutscenes! Cutscenes with piano playing with background! So cool!
My first attempt at fishing, horrifying. My second attempt, I had an entire aquarium swimming inside me. That's a really neat effect BTW.
I love the idea! A assume there is 1 level that cannot be beaten? That was my experience. Technically I created a "draw by repetition" but the queen didn't care! As for the narrative and story, well, I think it's great and you should make more. Keep building, it's wonderful.
Huge effort! Large amount of space to explore. I had fun.
Wow I got 50,000 points on my first go! I love when scores are like that. The killing of demons is super satisfying, I love that. The music works as well. I found the controls a little bit floaty but nothing I I couldn't get used to. Also the screams, perfect!
Beautiful game. I really liked the feel of the world. The area was just the right size and the interaction with the world really resonated with me. I wish more RPGs would have this much care into them!
I am really happy to see you included a distance to home. That gave me a clear goal to work towards and a sense that the game wasn't going to be endlessly repeating. Also the graphics were very charming.
What an interesting and fun game! I love the mechanics you built and the idea of delaying bachelors from finding true love, hilarious! Full marks in humor for sure! The graphics, sound, and polish were all in a very good place. Personally I found the first level too difficult and the difficulty jump to level 2 was also a bit much but it was worth the effort to overcome that difficulty because it's a really rewarding play experience.
I love this control mechanic. Auto-fire and aim at the mouse is my favorite for bullet hell games.
Very interesting idea
This was really fun. It seemed so easy at first, and then... pain! So frantic. I learned late to the game that I could hold down the mouse button though. I'll save more than 9 people next time!
Lots of apparent depth. Very hard to figure out how to play. Not a bad effort and I really liked the visual aesthetic.
Hodor! I feel the mechanic could use more options than stand at the door and grab stuff from the box. Very unique idea, I would love to see you explore what you could do with it more.
Pretty funny. I love seeing narrative games in LD. Well done on finishing.
Good time. I like the concept. I was at the edge of my seat waiting for the catapult to finally fire off the fruit seconds away from corruption. My only gripe was that fighting off the badges didn't feel very satisfying.
Nice, complete game! I really enjoyed playing for a while. I stopped because the combat was dragging on, maybe if it were faster paced (e.g. dangerous monsters appear faster) would help? Overall a good effort and I *really* liked the art style.
Fun and very complete. Well done. I especially like how the visuals were all very cohesive.
The mood of this game was great. The music, story, darkness, brief flavor text between waves, all felt great. I died when I was pinned against a wall.
I laughed really hard at the end. #crablife
A game about trying to keep your plants alive and inevitably failing, I wan relate!
I like the voice and the music - the parched "WA-TER" voice was the best. I really like how the whole things felt well put together, really has a professional casual game vibe. Being able the choose upgrades was unexpected and great.
I love it! Well done building a rewind mechanic, that's tough. I like being able to undo my endless list of failures. Fun sound too.
This concept was amazing! I love having a series of mini games where you can buy upgrades to get more chances to play them or make them more effective. It was very hard but in a way that feels fair. Also text messages from "Prez" were pretty great. Text to speech was really smart.
I love the aura bar and the music. OMG the music! So good!
Brilliant! Game feel was great, field of view was perfect, and I loved dodging the cops and their bullets. Well done.
Excellent interpretation of this genre, specifically the ability to blow up your own ship creating a blind spot. That made it much more interesting than without that.
What a fun concept! Being the evil GPS was really cool. I think I've met that GPS before!
I enjoyed the game but your credits claim 3 people worked on it? This is a Jam, not Compo game, correct? It's great, I just think it may be mis-categorized.
I loved the art and the energy of it. Great visceral feel. I wanted to know what was next.
Excellent concept. Really innovative use of delaying in inevitable. Well done.
I survived for 453 days on my first game. About to start my second now that I know how to play.
I really liked this game. A lot. My favorite things were definitely: * Excellent strategic depth, a really good resource management game * Wonderful art * A great job creating an extra time pressure with the gods timers making me constantly adjust my strategy * No clear "better than the others" resources but rather "what ingredients do I need to keep god x/y/z happy"
Really good game, one of my favorites.
Some feedback: * I would have like to see my score go up. It counted down how many days until the end of the world but I didn't see how many days I was alive. * After I had researched a lot of jobs I couldn't see what the job on the bottom did because the mouse-over popup was hidden under the screen * You have a lot of empty space on the screen early on (before unlocking all the jobs). I would recommend you put the rules there for people that blasted past the text at the beginning so they could learn what they are doing (skipping instruction text is common for gamers).
I'm so excited to see a card game in LD50! This is the first I've played from this jam. It played well, good mechanics, very solid. Very impressive for 2 days.
Not a bad start for a space combat game. Physics felt great. Just FYI on my monitor it has issues: Screenshot.png
I really enjoyed that. Hilarious concept! The frenetic feel as the pacing gets more extreme was perfect. My main piece of constrictive feedback is that the game didn't work in WebGl fullscreen, and I kept clicking off the edge of the game in the window causing it to pause.
Interesting concept. Could be a really fun game if fleshed out some more. Do the doors do anything? They look like they should. As for it begin "inevitable" that I catch and defeat the wizard :laughing: I don't think that's true!
The controls did not work for me at all. Looked great though.
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OMG the art is so amazing! I love the shark! This is interesting and very frantic, you captured the sense of urgency really well.
Ha! This game was hilarious! I love the throbbing ship graphics and the overall look and color palette. All the colors, why not it's a PARTY!
I tried on both Windows an Mac. On Mac the window briefly flashed something then went black. Windows was just a black window. Sorry!
Really nice. I wanted more. You really nailed the mood on this one.
Whoa a really interesting and good take on minesweeper. I like it. More forgiving than the original and the water mechanic is super interesting.
I couldn't figure out how to place anything. It just said "no place" and had an X on the screen. Clearly other people are smarter than I am and figured it out. Sorry!
Okay thank you, that helped a lot. I had fun. Didn't have a strong sense of which soldier I should recruit but it was a good time.
Mac build doesn't work, I think it needs a file extension. My Mac opened it in a text editor. The windows version opened in a really tiny window. Otherwise it seems cool and I like the hand drawn art.
I laughed so hard at the S8E8 part. Very unexpected. Yeah this was a fun ride and the visual and auditory aesthetic you put together is pretty fun. Nice job.
Solid game! I love the 1 bit art style. Need an evil deer? Add a pentagram to it! Loved it. UI mostly felt good. I don't like that the cards resolve in opposite order to the order they were played, and the confirmation dialog I feel "enter" should work for "accept". Overall though I really like the mechanics. Deckbuilders are hard, this is a really solid creation for a couple days.
Wow, well done! Excellent scoping of the project. Fully playable and fun game with good balance. I played and now I want to play more.
This is one of my favorite games so far. A good city builder, a lot of depth. Really great effort. I know what you mean about people finding or not finding things obvious such as building a road over water. That's why we give feedback! :)
Ambitious entry! So much work clearly went into this.
Brilliant idea. I really like what you did here. I immediately fully understand all the complex movement mechanics because, you know, chess.
Really great concept. My favorite part of this is how you handled the theme. Many people (including myself) decided "you're going to die, delay it" was a good way to interpret "Delay the Inevitable". You took it a step further with giving the player a positive purpose and specific goal to accomplish *before* the inevitable zombification occurred. Excellent!
I was completely taken by surprise by the card game battle, and it was a good surprise. The card game fight was strategic and fun.
This game is great! I love the depth to it and the multiple play mechanics. You are right, our games were very similar in many ways!
Your game reminds me of the old Star Control 2 game, one where you kept driving around planets grabbing resources and avoiding aliens.
I really like your art, audio, and overall design. I would *love* to play a bigger version of this game and it's one of the LD50 games I plan to play many more times as-is. Good job.
I really like the look of this game.
You're trying to teach me how to type lol! Seriously I like it, very good creation. Visually great!
What a great concept! I played the first level and although I enjoyed the movement physics I was like "what's the point, just hit the special box?" Then level 2 arrived and I was all "ooooooooh! brilliant!" Very good concept. Also the drumming was wonderful. How did you do it? Just hands on the table with a cell phone microphone?
Very interesting. I like the idea behind it. The controls were very tricky for me to figure out but your instructions on the web page helped a lot. Retro music was spot on. Graphics were very charming.
Extraordinary! Very beautiful game. Music was spot on as well. Very well done.
You know, you were right. Upgrades are where it's at! This is a lot of fun and it's the best gameplay representation of an asteroid I've seen all jam (I've seen a loooot of asteroids :smile:
I received ` Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/david/Downloads/south-bastule/main.py", line 1, in
I recommend something like `py2exe` as an option for users that aren't willing to try and run the python code from command line.
Sorry! I really would like to play it.
Really great work! These were every interesting puzzles. Also I killed my guys many, many, many times learning what motivates them :smile: A+ for art and music.
ZQSD? I found that hard to work with. Gorgeous game otherwise. I recommend adding arrow keys. As for the art and feel, WOW this game is beautiful.
Wow this was really fun. I got super into it. I like how clear the icons were for everything. Not an art masterpiece but extremely functional and clear. I like the slow progression of things you can build.
Wow @fed44 You're a beast! That is such an impressive build!
Loved the graphics! Absolutely wonderful!
So much personality! I love it. Really good entry, I want that rover character in more games.
Ambitious! I love the map and zooming in and out. really game the game a great feel for scope. It was hard to tell which building was which, maybe if the color of the buildings was matched by the color of the fonts with the building names? Or a 2 or 3 letter abbreviated building name on the buildings.
Very impressive you built all this, well done. Also the intro scene is great!
What a fun idea, I really love it. People running for all the trophies, messing with them, a fun idea for sure. The wall of rules at the beginning was really intimidating and didn't stay in my brain, I would recommend placing the effects of the currently selected weapon onscreen somewhere so the player doesn't have to commit the interactions to memory in advance. Otherwise it was fun, felt good, and was really funny.
I made it 341 seconds, wave 5. Pretty happy with that, now to try again. This is really solid gameplay, well done. I like the variety of enemies requiring that I adapt how I play.
A fellow "survive the freezing cold" developer. Yay! I really like the mechanic.
I loved your creative choices with the art. Nice level design as well. The window for the game was tiny on my monitor so it was tough to click the objects fast enough and place them in the right spots which I found a bit frustrating. Overall an excellent effort.
Cool concept. I appreciate how many asteroids it takes to destroy a building, reminds me of the Rampage monsters doing damage.
This is so cool! I love this idea! It's a real challenge in all the good ways. I've never seen a mechanic like this before. Also your art and music are stellar.
Wonderful aesthetic and great idea for the core gameplay. It wasn't clear to me why I would want to prefer kick to sword. I loved the giant pile of running zombies though!
Oh man, apologizing for difficulties? Bah! You made this game in less than 100 hours. It's an exceptional accomplishment and you should be very proud of it. Honestly a very fun experience. Thank you for creating it and sharing it with us.
I found it difficult to figure out initially how to play, and the "play" button was so small it took me a while to find it. The game itself was very interesting and unique, I love experiencing completely new game experiences like this.
The HTML 5 link to itch,io is a 404. Did you make sure to publish and make it public? Too bad I wanted to play your game
Extremely well done. Looked great, played well. Nice job for sure!
Wow I really enjoyed exploring this ship. Excellent use of Synty assets and style. I *really* appreciate the signs everywhere telling me which rooms were which way. I get lost in so many first person games, this was a real pleasure to navigate. Production values were nice, atmosphere was great, really a wonderful effort.
Score: 37667. I cannot imagine getting almost triple that! This game was fun. Hard the first time, the second time I felt more on top of it. My first score, not so good :laughing: I did the audio and graphics especially. A very Offroad vibe. Having the car be a RC car really helps my suspension of disbelief, I've always had issues with racing games and their invincible cars.
Beautiful game! I love the pixel art, especially the environment. The delay on the weapon attack was a bit rough for me but fits the theme well. Jumping felt really good and I liked the badguys.
Great take on tower defense. I like the added mechanic of being able to block the path of the heroes. I really would like more than 3 levels, level 3 feels like the tutorial is over and it's just getting interesting!
Simple execution, I like it. Excellent job with scoping the project. I would like it to speed up a bit, I was getting a bit bored after a while.
Very nice. I love the visual polish and how clear the platforms are. Also having different gameplay mechanics was really nice, very good for such a short amount of time!
Yay a Pico-8 game! I loved this. So good! The graphics were perfect, you really nailed it. The weapon is much better than the typical "Asteroids" gun. I would have appreciated knowing where the home base was so I didn't have to re-find it. Overall an excellent effort.
Quality offering on a solid and simple premise.
LOVE the art style. So much in this game. Nice job.
Very solid core for a game. I'd love to see what a more developed version would look like.
That was great! I found myself developing all these mnemonics for remembering cards, trying to come up with systems for which cards I've already picked, and even then beating 3 rounds was a challenge. Great game. Also I *love* the aesthetics. Visual and auditory for sure.
I like the visuals of the character and the baddies. The audio really worked. All the little effect sounds, feedback, etc. was great. I would like a bit more challenge - more badges don't mean more challenge really because they heal me when they die.
Of all the games I've played on LD50 this one probably made me laugh the hardest. Well don't.
This is wonderful. I'm a bit fan of trying to find out how to uncover all the endings. It's unique and a really good jam entry.
I absolutely love the concept! Really fun game.
Incredibly immersive. Excellent atmosphere. I really like this world and want to see more of it. The sound effects were amazing, I love the slurping sound of losing my sanity! Really well done.
This was a really interesting game. I've never seen or heard of anything like it. There's so much to explore here, I really like this idea. Right now you're leaving me inspired to think about what more can be created with this format. Works on my Mac :)
Excellent use of depth. I want to play this in a printed paper form now!
Very fun concept. I liked learning the story. This guy needs to play basketball because *man* he can jump!
Very interesting. I loved the hand coming out of the wall to swipe at me. The core is there but it wasn't very compelling to me as-is. With more time I think you could build a really good game. One thing, it was a *tiny* window and really hard to read the text because of it. I would have loved a fullscreen option.
So funny! Loved it.
Wonderful! Loved it! Really a fun concept and the visual look was amazing. I especially loved the transitions when getting hit and the edges of the world. Two things, I kept clicking outside the window and the game lost the focus. I think it continued to play during that time. I would recommend something like fullscreen (even if it needs black bars to force 4:3) or pausing the game when clicking outside the window. Other thing, the Mac build didn't work. The PC version did, but the Mac one refused to launch.
It's a solid solitaire game, nicely done.
Wonderful graphics. Great idea. Hard for me to strategically pick a move. I'd recommend the player action buttons be larger.
Clean and simple, very good work. Some of the jumps were extremely challenging which will delight some players. I like the whole shooting + flammable objects on the ground mechanic.
The progress bar on the bottom covered up the tiles and the UI buttons making the game mostly unplayable. Still, trying to click around that and take wild guesses as to what the buttons did it was still pretty compelling. I'm a sucker for hexagons, pixel art and strategy games so thank for for delivering all those!
Whoa this game scared the hell out of me when I first saw a screenshot. I was like "it's going to be all chaos!" and then it wasn't. It felt very satisfying when I started clearing work, like I had really accomplished something. Then after a while it started to feel slow sine I just had everything cleared for a really long time. For me I think increasing the difficulty a bit faster earlier on would help a lot. Overall though great game and very genuinely entertaining.
The blood splash! So good!!! I love it. The worm swipe hits me and teardrops of purple blood everywhere! So good! This game is great and I *love* the aesthetic. Music is just right. Well done.
This game is great! I love the telegraphing of attacks, also the "you must attack or you'll get sad and lose" mechanic was excellent. Really good mechanic. No frills, nothing you didn't need, just a great execution of the core game that's really fun. Good job.
Fun premise. I think this could be expanded into a really large game. I loved that you could swim for a bit, I expected water=lava and was pleasantly surprised. Also having the capsule fall over when I'm not moving then immediately get back up was pretty funny.
So much good stuff in this game! I like the stressful push your luck mechanics - do I use the card now or more efficiently later, but a bad roll = :(. Yes, this was really fun. Especially liked the graphics.
Really funny, I loved seeing the guy swim after the ship. Truly a unique mechanic. Good stuff!
I really loved the "fly for your life" lyrics in the game. Super great. I think the graphics would be much better if you used the aesthetic for the emery cubes for everything. the cubes looked great! The ground could be some synthwavey parallel lines on a dark background, or a series of cubes of different sizes, something like that. In any case well done on completing the game.
Wow, caring for people in an assisted living home with death being inevitable, wonderfully dark yet also light and fun.
I waited for about 2 full minutes before giving up. :cry: I love the art and graphics though, high marks for that. I'm curious, why did you opt out of audio for ratings? It was quite good.
Windows Defender claims it has a virus and won't let me extract it. Due to the very real risk that you did upload I virus (sorry, I don't know you) I'm not going to proceed.
Haha this reminds me of a friend in school whose mom grounded him for giving the computer a virus because he was typing with "unclean hands". Man he was mad! I'll try again now.
Sorry buddy, still being blocked by Windows Defender
Wonderful art style. I love the parallax, atmospheric projection and orange accents on greyscale. Really good stuff. Game feel is also good but the hits on the enemy don't feel great, maybe the enemy needs to register the hit more clearly?
This is a very solid title, well done.
Oh man, I laughed so hard and felt guilty doing it. Mission accomplished
I love having a pinball game where you're hitting coworkers away! Great idea. The music felt really, really good. I would recommend a faster moving ball the increase the energy and excitement and bigger paddles to counter it.
You requested criticism which is a really smart and mature thing to do. Good job with that. It absolutely is a very impressive creating for such a short time, you should be really proud of it.
I think the things that are weak about it which definitely cost rating points are the following: * You started by telling the player to read the tutorial, then had a very long and wordy tutorial. That will always hurt, better to teach the player how to do things with onscreen instructions. * You required keyboard input in a primarily mouse-based game. The first time I played I couldn't figure out how to build a building. This is because I skipped the tutorial the 1st time (which most players *will* do, just gonna happen). The second time was better. * The units were too small and fast moving initially. I built several buildings but the very first guys snuck past. It's far better to make the game so easy for the first couple of waves that the player can basically ignore the units and fiddle with looking at the units to build, etc. * Several times I couldn't build but couldn't figure out why * The art needs a more unified color palette. * Not much visual feedback for things.
Daniel Username has much wisdom to share, I don't want to double post but honestly I pretty much 100% agree with his points.
It's a good core of a game.
Oh man, just the right amount of horrifyingly frustrating. Good game and good concept.
Wow RTS games are a ton of work, you actually pulled it off. Well done! I had a tough time figuring out how to aim the unit formations, but they mostly pointed in the directions I wanted them to go. Except my first game's first placement which was a giant pile of horses that just ran off the screen. That was pretty funny.
Wow. beautifully crafted. I really like how the collectibles matched the emotion of the story at the moment.
I got the error "Cannot be opened"on my Mac. It worked fine on my PC. Interesting idea. The instructions were super long, maybe not necessary to be that big?
Excellent use of assets. Solid game feel and mechanics. Good entry.
Best boat building game all jam! :stuck_out_tongue: Honestly I really liked it a lot. Putting together a wacky boat and then watching it sink after a few kilometers was really fun. Interesting concept. I loved seeing all the text on the side. My favorite piece of info was "debug = true".
Interesting and fun. I love donating a pile of cats to the grim reaper to not die. If only...
A very unique game. I like your take on dungeon crawling and RPGs. Also I love the pixelart!
@jess-from-online I cannot express enough how excited I am by your kind words. You drew a map! That's so sick! I might work on the game some more, we'll see. It could use more content, balance and polish for sure. I doubt I'll turn it into a commercial release though.
Wow @pepper-boi that's such an in-depth quality write-up! I love it. I agree with you're points for sure. The not freezing to death, well, insulation is OP. That's a funny thing to say when describing a game about freezing to death but it's so true in this game. I'd love to spend more time balancing this out, adding mechanics and upgrades, more art, and of course sound. It could really use some of that!
Thank you again for the kind words.
Thank you @udo! I don't want to put any spoilers here, but your freezing to death is inevitable. :smile:
Wow @fae-pdf what a wonderful review. Thank you so much! I'm really glad it resonated with you. Yes absolutely I was going for fending off despair with humor. I had no idea how it was going to work., maybe it would land or maybe I'd make a joke about bears and people would just not get it. I watched one twitch streamer blast through the text without reading it, then rate the game very low because "a game like this doesn't have honor in it" :laughing , then another streamer laughed at that so yay.
So glad the numpad scheme worked for you! It'd been very hit or miss with players.
Thanks for the 5 star ratings! I just checked out your game - the first folder-based game I've seen. Brilliant. Loved it. Soon I'm going to binge your work on itch.io. Cheers.
@pious Wow! That is absolutely the record (I've seen) for the longest streak alive in Cold and Alone! I am so inspired to see this screenshot, you really played well right up to the end. 1020 battery capacity!? Incredible. 80 days? I hear you can travel around the entire world in a hot air balloon in that amount of time!
Honestly this is the first time I've seen that much red temperature on the screen at once.
I never imagined this game would receive as much love as it did or resonate with people as much as it has. I'm truly humbled.
@frizuo Thank you for the kind words. I agree music would be nice, sadly this one was really down to the wire so I ran out of time. Most likely I'll try a less ambitious title next time and create the audio right from the beginning.
@ty1rl Thank you! I'm very happy the art worked out.
@billnotic I'm so glad the core game loop worked out and you enjoyed it. The humorous quips were the easiest thing to add, a trick I'll probably throw into a lot more games. As for the control scheme I get it, many people had trouble. The map was made of hexagons which wasn't obvious because I didn't draw the edges of the hexes so there was no way to tell and having 6 directions mapped to the keyboard is awkward for sure! So many had this trouble, learning the issue with the control scheme is my #1 learning from this game. Next map traversing game I'll ditch the hexes or figure out something different.
@benbennett I'm glad the movement finally clicked with you, for many players it never did! As for the point of the game being that you eventually die well, yes that is correct, but I was hoping to add more combat and balance/challenge so it would be very hard to upgrade 100% of everything and nobody was killing time at the end. Alas it's a 2 day video game so this is all I could make, but I'm very proud of it and happy you like it. As for the rover tilt and audio I 100% agree that would add a lot to the game!
@jgur Thank you!
@widdershin Oh man I love Into The Breach and saying my art is reminiscent of the work of David Ma is a really high praise indeed! Thank you so much. I completely agree the endgame is lackluster. Sadly I had the game pretty well balanced but way too short right up until the last hour. Then I added crystals (which were originally going to be fungus but I couldn't figure out how to draw fungus so... crystals!) and the highly OP insulation made the game last twice as long without twice the content. That's too bad but I'm very excited to learn you were engaged enough to play all the way to 200+ batteries. Well done!
@sirjupitron Aww, Alpha Centauri has so many great memories. Thank you for the kind words and the comparison.
@oadt I'm glad you found it well-balanced, and thank you. I planned to make a crashed ship (in fact the batteries and scrap were supposed to be parts of a broken ship) but I ran out if time. I also planned for building solar panels to recharge the batteries and a day/night cycle that controls when they would actually work. Ambition!
@foxwater Thank you for such kind words! Yes I would love to add music and sound effects, next time I'll add that to the project earlier. As for the quotes they were so simple to add and such a big hit. I suspect they will appear in more games of mine.
@castitatis Thank you so much!
@jefvel Thank you, I'm glad you liked the mood and exploration! Battery hoarding is a very real problem. Sleeping through the second act of the game really is an indication that the game could use better balancing. Sadly I didn't budget enough time for balancing, too much ambition I guess. Maybe next time :)
@claytonrumley Thank you so much!
@jess-from-online I'm so glad 14 people have :heart:ed your post, it's really such a wonderful and in-depth write-up. I'm still so amazed you created a map! I've been on the fence about whether to continue this project and this post is the #1 temptation to continue. I've decided not to, I have another larger indie game I'm working on that really needs to get finished, but thank you taking the time to share your thoughts about the game. You are correct about the game eating the messages sometimes. I buried the worst of the text engine bugs but yes, there were quite a few. As for the user interface I'm very glad you liked it. Designing a temperature representation was very tricky but I like how it looked.
@coderaurus Thank you! I'm pretty happy with how the graphics turned out, I'm glad you like them. 100% agree about the amount of batteries, one more day of play balance would really help a lot.
@circle Honestly I'm surprised the art is as popular as it is. I mean, I'm happy with it, it's just a very small amount of the time I spent on the project so maybe I got really lucky there. As for the theme yes, the entire game was 100% theme driven. I was, right before the theme was announced, expecting to create an RPG honestly. I haven't tried to build one of those in forever so I really hoped the theme was very RPG-friendly, maybe a hex crawl with lots of wandering monsters. Lol. I guess that's not what happened! Yeah, making this game on the Delay the Inevitable theme was super fun.
@pvg Ha! It takes one hour to get home, just really hard to notice. Seriously though I couldn't figure out how to properly limit the rover range other than this. I considered giving it a number of steps of fuel which would have been a bit clearer to watch, but then what happens when it's really late at night? Does the character sleep in the rover (I considered this)? Or does the player get to do more stuff in the Hab in the evening? It all felt messy to me so I did it this way for simplicity, but I agree it doesn't really make a lot of sense as-is. My head canon (which I guess I could probably declare as *actual* canon) is that the player goes to sleep and autopilot takes him home.
@szym If I do update this game, which I'm not currently thinking I will, your suggestions are 100% spot-on. More resources, more Hab buildable things, soundtrack, controller support and definitely no minimal. Good game design instinct you picked up on that, it's much better without one. Stress and urgency can be really tricky, I'm very glad you felt it worked out and thank you for the kind words in the review.
@robowarrior1982 You're right! No sound in space! Tell **that** to all those people that gave me the 1.911 average rating in audio! Seriously though, this number means some people gave me 2 stars for audio? Or maybe 3 stars? Who would give a game with literally no sound such a high score for sound? I'm completely baffled, I was predicting a solid 0.5-0.75 stars. Oh well! As for deactivating the category, you're right I should have done that.
@scalphamission It was fun watching you stream my game, thank you for checking it out!
@tengusheath Thank you so much! The depth surprised me as well, but those pieces worked together I guess.
@garazbolg2 I'm so glad you like the story and jokes, I was a little bit worried the jokes would be cringe but no it seems to work out so yay. Making it 56 days is very impressive, quite a long run. You're absolutely connect the content needs to be doubled or the number of batteries halved. As for crafting the batteries that's a really interesting idea. I was planning to add solar panels which recharge the batteries but ran out of time. Also thank you for your interest in it as a full game, very nice to hear.
@nethead Thank you so much! Next time I build a map exploration game I plan to have a lot more to explore.
@recursor Thank you! I like those games too.
@iguanana I packed the content and systems in until the veeeery last minute. This was despite hoping to make a game in 6 hours and spend the rest of the 2 days adding content and polish. Lol! Maybe next time.
@orionhart I love that we are all reviewing each other's games. I didn't enter this competition to win it, I got into it for the practice, the challenge, and the feedback. Hearing so many people tell me they would like to see the controls, content, end game, etc adjusted was really good for my skill development as a game dev, hopefully you had a similar experience.
Distance: 354 on game two. Pretty happy about that! Fun concept, great art
Possibly the most unique and original game I've seen all combo. Very nice.
Such a great take on a clicker! Gets really tense as the tine asteroid bits get really close to earth. I love the letter from the president, nice touch.
Very unique idea. I like how you played with the theme of the jam. Good stuff.
Artistic direction, mood, atmosphere, spot on. Graphics were clear, minimal, functional, and attractive together. Well done.
I love the atmosphere, idea, and font so much. I really loved trying to force the user (who appears to be an idiot) into uncharted territory. Cool idea, I'd definitely play a larger version of this game.
Very unique mechanic and use of theme. I really like it.
Good Reign-like game. You nailed the core and added a lot of polish.
I love just how specific **gas-operated rotating bolt 7.62×39mm rifle** is, it really adds to the humor. This is great, really funny. I love how buff doggo is!
Well done for a first jam!
You have all the bones for a dungeon crawling twin stick shooter, I really hope you build it into a bigger game later so I can play it!
Great visual aesthetic. I like having business management sim logic in the game. I love the giant grin on the faces of happy customers!
This is the best title screen I think I've ever seen. Amazing.
This game creeped the crap out of me! I'm pretty sure that's what you were going for, and well done you nailed it. So creepy! So awesome too.
It took a while to get a hand of how to manipulate the hand to keep it from locking onto the scratching areas but once I got the hang of it I felt really good. I really enjoyed overcoming that learning curve, this was really fun.
I think my favorite part is how _visceral_ it felt, I really wanted to just scratch the itches on my monitor myself! Well done!
Just one question - what part of the body has such a massive surface area?
Very cool, very interesting. I *loved* the visual aesthetic and the audio. I really felt like a game I want to lose tons and tons of time in.
Gameplay mechanics were easy to learn, it only took a few probes to figure out how to optimize for minerals. Thing is it seemed like I would send a probe, it would survive, and my $$ score would not go up. I had previously elected to "sell for research" instead of "sell for $$$" but is that a permanent decision? I'm honestly not sure what happened there.
I think the game has an awesome core but I'm not sure I'll go back to it. I feel like it's "almost there" for a really awesome game, I'm just not sure what the tradeoff is. Like, I don't have a target amount of $$$ to get and I try to keep the dwarfs alive, so maybe if I have a clearer motivation to get a particular material or reach a certain depth or something it would really land for me? Dunno.
Overall I really like it. Your games are always really good Jimbly.
Tough but very complete little game. I get stuck a lot, is climbing or wall jumping possible? Seems like a no. This is pretty sweet and I really liked the graphics.e
Absolutely perfect game jam game. Hilarious concept, hilarious music, fun mechanic. It took some problem solving but I got to the end without too much trouble. Thank you, this was great.
Brilliant! Absolutely wonderful game. The puzzles were interesting, the difficulty ramp felt 100% spot-on, and it was very easy to learn. I was hoping for a game that reminded me of Lemmings and you did not disappoint!
OH MY WOW WOW WOW! I love the premise for this game so much! It's amazing! I laughed the entire time I played it.
I made Bjordas and I loved him and I also made Torengrin but then I couldn't afford food so I had to sell Bjordagas and then I had three more ent (unt?) friends but then one had exclamation marks over his head and I kept dropping food to make him happy but he was in the corner and some asshole was camping over the food drop part of the cage so my ant friend exploded into a pile of food and poop and another ont ate him!
FIVE STARS!
It took the first playthrough to figure out how to play it - the main thing I didn't understand at the beginning is that it's a Ratatouille simulator (which I 1000% approve of!) I love that the dominant strategy is just to cook everything as much as possible and cover the tables with it so people can just wander in, sit down, and a meal is already made for them.
Alas the food wastage! That conveyor belt got out of control! So much food thrown in the trash!
The one question I have is - if the entire kitchen is rats cooking everything why is it that a rat can come through on the conveyor belt? Is it a mob hit? Somebody got too drunk on the job and ended up getting served up as food? Seems the rats are working so hard they didn't even notice.
Pretty awesome and impressive title!
Wendigos? I laughed at that one. Excellent game. Really good. I love your scope, you really built a full, meaty experience that can be done in a perfect amount of time for a game jam. It all felt polished and good. I really like the fact you made an interactive fiction game with good, fun mechanics that were easy to learn and master. Really well done!
Did you opt out of ratings? Oh well, I would have liked to give you some high ratings!
@jimbly Thank you for the detailed write-up. The idea behind the game is that if you explore a lot you lose resources but gain stories, and the stories upgrade the quality of all locations you find. You'll get the best ending with the highest quality location and the most resources, and locations have somewhat random qualities to begin with. So, honestly, I think the core is good but it needs a LOT of tweaking to be a better game.
As for 1 event per location I considered that but never got around to testing it.
Thanks for playing!
Thank you @dinobobbo . Yeah, the mechanics are very invisible which I feel harms the game. The idea is that each location has a "quality ranking" for each of the 4 aspects of it - animals, plants, magic and beauty. As you gain stories these stories upgrade those ranks for the places. The better the ranks the better the ending. It needs several days of play testing and balancing for sure! Thank you for playing and giving me the feedback.
Very charming! I love me a good farming sim. It took a while to figure out how to play, the mechanics weren't immediately obvious but I was able to figure it out. The art style is super charming and the game felt like it had a lot of depth that takes a bit to discover and explore. Overall very cool entry.
Very solid entry. I played 5 or 6 areas. I really appreciate that there wasn't always "one solution" for the room, but rather there was the solution suggested by level design that shows a clear obvious path up the platforms but also there was "make a tough double jump and skip half the level" solutions which I really loved.
Well done
I like the vibe and the look a lot. Seems like t has potential. I could;dn't figure out what to do after reaching the "4 cards onscreen at once" part so I had to stop playing.
Fun concept. I love that you built a tower defense game that isn't a top-town grid. It's probably too easy - my strategy was just to spam a lot of turrets and then sit back and watch as all the ants and caterpillars just died without any real tension. Still, I was very entertained and I think this could be developed into a larger and very fun game.
Well done.
Brilliant. Really well done. I found the rules pretty easy to figure out but I wasn't 100% sure on details until I learned more. This type of game - you nailed it. As for difficulty I found it easy until 3-6, then it got hard. I think different people will find it hard at different levels which tells me you did a really good job balancing it, something that's so rare in game jam games. Well done!