ddr2

Year	LD	Theme	Game	Division	Rank	Ov	Fu	In	Th	Gr	Au	Hu	Mo	Cm	Co
2015	34	Two Button Controls / Growing	test	jam	500	3.34	3.14	3.79	4.14	2.89					57
2012	23	Tiny World	Tiny World Hero	compo
2011	22	Alone	Alone in the universe	compo	670	1.67	1.20	2.92	1.58	1.42	2.43	1.00	1.38	1.43	14

Growing Ties by drludos 2015-12-21T14:13:00

that theme oO 5/7 perfect score ;)

Spectral Sprinter by Acuity 2015-12-19T08:41:00

some jumps are really tough. I had trouble getting used to jump and then dash, it seemed counterintuitive.

+1 on tutorials and an incrementing score somewhere on the screen.

Crazy Tornado City by Zener 2015-12-19T08:34:00

interesting controls, but there is no difficulty increase or anything ? The controls don't get harder with a bigger tornado (getting out of control) ... which makes it not really re-playable.

good job though, I had fun playing it.

Cant Stop Moving by Darkflint 2015-12-16T21:35:00

chat was funny ;) I played while XtremePrime was there and ended up trying his strategy, except I was still in the chat window and ended up posting something like this in the chat:

ddr2:addaadaadaddaaddadaadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadaddadadaadadad

Anyway, fun idea, I will just +1 everyone that said lack of visual feedback, it's very important for that kind of game to know whether you've hit it right or not, and constantly monitoring the score at the bottom gets you distracted ;)

Two buttons planting game by Genpaku 2015-12-16T21:23:00

omg omg omg between the graphics made with Paint and the sound when you loose <3 It's just fantastic ;)

btw, I ended up stuck in an infinite loop "U loose" > *presses start* > game screen flashes > "U loose" > *presses start*, probably the game figured out I was a looser and made me loose auto-magically ;) ?

Anyway, funniest game I've played so far, those graphics were just so cute ;)

Easy Job? by TajamSoft 2015-12-16T21:18:00

That need for pixel perfection is just making it impossible to solo imho.

That said, it's an interesting concept and brings definitely more challenge than all the cook serve delicious-y games out there ;)

Grow with the Flow by jww608 2015-12-16T21:12:00

As mentioned by nonetheless, the noise of hitting black / not hitting white (e.g: of failing ;) ) are annoying over the music. You could have tried dimming the music volume to indicate a failure maybe ?

I did try to do some MIR a while back, I would be curious to know what algorithm you ended up using ?

Line/Dash by Eingya 2015-12-16T20:54:00

I love minimalist graphics. Gameplay is interesting but would deserve a better explanation or a way of more gradually getting used to it ?

Another issue is the lack of symmetry (the first one will ALWAYS go down and THEN go left) is annoying me (I really don't know why, it's just ... weird I suppose ?)

Anyway, great game ;)

Lawn Mower Fight by WizzardMaker 2015-12-16T20:44:00

Seems like the Mac version is broken, I get the error mentioned on this thread when trying it: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/181026/lsopenurlswithrole-failed-with-error-10810-cant-open-install-os-x-yosemite

Ball Street Journal by modenv 2015-12-16T20:34:00

Well, it's quite agar.io-ish (not that it's a bad thing, there is some big gameplay similarities).

That said, I love the idea of hovering over the city like that and the graphics are gorgeous, lacking a bit of color but that's it. The audio is very well done as well.

Good job

Lane King by LukeZaz 2015-12-16T20:19:00

Interesting to play. I am definitely confused on the whole level-ing part, is there any visual indicator of it ?

Anyhow, I think I got a pretty good strategy by basically spaming 5-6 units consecutively in each row (which means that they will end up being "clustered" together and one-shot everything at that point, which probably eventually snowball with the leveling thing ?)

Croc Climber by thegypsyknight 2015-12-16T20:05:00

I loved the menu and that idea of growing a plant to move forward in the level, it makes a quite old and not-so-fresh genre interesting to play.

Breathe by Galvesmash 2015-12-15T23:34:00

Controls (both for charge and moving the cursor around) are a bit delayed which makes it quite hard to be efficient.

I am also not completely sure it's worth meditating to the second bar if you react quickly enough to kill what's surrounding you with the first ?

Art and audio (my first 5 on audio ;) ) were amazing and very well integrated.

Great job guys.

Backwards and Bonkers! by CartoonJenn 2015-12-15T23:27:00

graphics are amazing.

the idea is interesting, of actually "reverse"-ing it. In that type of game, we usually expect objects to come from the top and us controlling a character at the bottom of the screen. Here, constantly seeing what's going to eat you is quite interesting. The downside of it is that you loose visibility when big items appear, which could limit game design if you were to pursue the game further with more levels / more obstacles.

Oh, and it's definitely too damn short / easy

I don't want to finish on a bad note, so really ... the graphics are amazing ;)

Hero's War by murlsousa 2015-12-15T23:21:00

gets repetitive quite quickly but it's definitely enjoyable for a while.

Laser Jump FTW by Crashmore Studios 2015-12-15T23:16:00

Playing with that recoil is just a superb idea. First game that gets me hooked enough in this jam to make me retry and want to get better at it.

After a couple of games, I am still not completely sold as I would have loved to be able to completely out-brain some of the ennemies just by movement, but they eventually still find you tracker-style which means that any dodging movements is actually useless: you HAVE to kill.

Anyway, great idea. graphics and audio could use a bit more work but the concept / gameplay just makes it fun so great job guys.

The Dancing Sunflower by aemiliu5 2015-12-15T23:06:00

web version worked fine for me on firefox.

graphics looked cool (though, why that weird blurriness on the tree ?), music as well.

the only thing that would prevent me from trying to beat my record (46) would be the fact that it's completely random and you end up just doing a left-right and hope that you will find the next zone to grow which seems to be completely random ?

UpgradeShipWinGame by Digitaldude555 2015-12-15T22:59:00

automagnet++ as well.

not sure about the horizontal thingies also considering they are impossible to shoot.

overall, run well and quite enjoyable, good job.

Whack-a-Mouse by Xitavos 2015-12-15T20:48:00

Extremely hard to play with a Mac trackpad xD (I just could not figure out a way to do both left click and right click at the same time)

Except from that, obviously I like the concept since our games are somewhat similar and the execution is quite nice, definitely trying it on a smaller grid (3x3) could be interesting (and keep the difficulty by increasing the pace ?)

Good job

Snow Growth Island by Pontus_LSS 2015-12-15T00:58:00

Love the idea of accepting / declining what the game pushes into the player at first, but it gets old quite fast.

Graphics are really nice, audio fits well though a bit repetitive.

Overall, a pretty interesting experience, good job ;)

Endless Rallye by mnill 2015-12-13T23:10:00

quite simple but it works well. the sounds are a bit irritating though. I love the fact that you did not completely stop the game when a crash happen and that car behind you can also hit you, creating bigger crashes (could be fun to have a counter of how much of a mess you made by crashing on the road for instance :D )

Games

Performance over time

Correlations

Feedback left by ddr2

LD34 — Two Button Controls / Growing (21)