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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
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| 2026 | 59 | Signal | Sheep Trials | jam | 639 | 3.24 | 3.00 | 3.59 | 3.75 | 3.08 | 3.25 | |||
| 2025 | 58 | Collector | Star Relics | unfinished | ||||||||||
| 2025 | 57 | Depths | The Depths | extra | ||||||||||
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | The Summoners | jam | 944 | 3.24 | 3.23 | 2.62 | 3.56 | 3.20 | 2.33 | 2.79 | ||
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | Space Trucks | jam | 836 | 3.25 | 2.98 | 2.80 | 3.91 | 3.46 | 3.76 | 2.44 | 3.16 | |
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | Delivery City | jam | 1125 | 2.87 | 2.52 | 2.42 | 3.92 | 2.80 | 2.30 | 2.09 | 2.55 | |
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | Harvest City | jam | 813 | 2.43 | 2.10 | 2.56 | 3.37 | 3.21 | 1.98 | 2.37 | ||
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | Digital Bacon's Every 10 Seconds | jam | 1223 | 2.37 | 2.15 | 2.39 | 2.41 | 2.54 | 2.13 | 2.23 | ||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | The Legions of General Critter | extra | ||||||||||
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | Unstable Prototype | unfinished | ||||||||||
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | LD48 Deep Lab Droid | jam | 1735 | 2.87 | 2.82 | 2.50 | 3.33 | 3.22 | 2.38 | 2.85 | ||
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | The Machine in the Woods | jam | 1601 | 2.63 | 2.30 | 2.47 | 2.89 | 2.66 | 2.30 | 2.74 | ||
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | Running out of Space | jam | 1246 | 2.50 | 2.38 | 2.02 | 3.06 | 2.05 | 1.74 | 2.02 |
Nice puzzler! Excellent graphics, and good mechanics around the jelly spreading. Simple controls mean no struggling with weird key combos. Good sound, especially the "squawk" when you die (which for me was often!).
Interesting concept. Nice graphics, and the _Hitchhiker's_ theme as bonus flavour. Good fun.
Nice game, love the mechanics and the graphics were nice and clean.
When you said "NSFW", you weren't kidding! :open_mouth: Loved the dark humour, the stark graphics, all juxtaposed with a jaunty tune playing in the background. Well done!
Nice blend of _Frostpunk_ and _XCOM_ :laughing: I liked the graphics and the voice signaling the start and end of the day.
Interesting game. I liked the graphics style and there's definitely potential for a solid game here. My curiosity was piqued by the giant pair of legs wandering around outside -- "Guri" you say?
This is just a fantastic game, and after watching your YouTube video on how you made this, I'm extremely impressed. The graphics are gorgeous, detailing the planet's slow demise and the sound perfectly echoes the decay Controls are brilliantly simple -- how much simpler can you get than point-&-click?
Easily the best game I've played this Ludum Dare -- very well done!
Awesome work: loved the graphics (very polished, professional-looking) and the gameplay is pretty frantic (even on lazy).
Really liked this game. Nice clean graphics, simple controls (though it did take me a bit to work out how to use the teleport). Love the way the enemies spawn by digging themselves out of the ground. Well done!
Fun little game. From the initial screenshot, was expecting something like _FTL_, not a first-person perspective. Navigation was tricky, really needed something on the minimap to show where the player is and/or which way they're facing. Sometimes breaches occurred behind something so I couldn't get to it.
Liked the graphics but the sound of the people getting kicked off the train was very grating after not very long. Still, turned into a frantic kick fest -- lots of fun!
Interesting idea. Simple graphics, easy-to-grasp gameplay. Some music or sounds wouldn't have gone amiss.
Some potential here. Nice work on the graphics, especially the animated cloak behind the player character. Sound and/or music would go a long way to immersing the player. Good effort.
Lots of fun with this game -- I kept playing long after I'd rated it. Graphics are nice and clean, and the gameplay is solid. A minimap might make a good addition -- I lost a lot of time on one level trying to find the islands!
Very fun game. Clear graphics. The H key and pause mode are a must! I found level 2 got overwhelmed very quickly, but I probably need to play more to get passed it.
Well done!
Oh that was fun! Loved the way the drivers ragdolled out of the forklifts when the hit something _and_ the bodies stayed on the level. Great graphics, easy controls -- very well done!
Nice! Graphics are pretty, movement is perfect speed for a snail (not sure about the jumping, though!) and the puzzle platformer gameplay is pretty spot-on.
Very nice and colourful game. I really appreciated the cutesy art style. Took me a while to work out the animals had to go on the grid. I spent far too long on the first level trying to find the giraffes _around_ the grid instead!
Procgen seemed to always give me no way out but the game otherwise is fun. I loved the graphics, and the music was pleasant to listen to while playing. Good effort.
Thanks for the comments!
@call-me-nutty: Since this was my first jam, and I was working solo, I decided to keep the game as simple as possible and add extra features later. There were plans for more variety -- different size crates that would slow the robot down, power-ups to make the 'bot faster, explosive crates that would cause havoc if not got rid of in time -- but by the time I uploaded it was 2am and I was falling asleep at the keyboard! I _really_ like your idea about more conveyor belts though. The music I found on OpenGameArt.org, [DST Tower Defense Theme](https://opengameart.org/content/tower-defense-theme).
@tomeks: That was a bug I came across sporadically, but was never able to chase it down in time. I couldn't reproduce it regularly enough to know what causes it. Voices were again from OpenGameArt.org, by [Winter Walrus](https://opengameart.org/content/announcer-voice-pack-general-phrases-female); the actual voice is [Aimee Smith](http://www.aimeesmithva.com/), an Australian voice-over artist.
Thanks @bungalow, all the graphics are "programmer art". I did originally plan on using graphics from places like OpenGameArt.com, but it ended up looking inconsistent. I figured it was between to go for a minimalist yet consistent look so ended up using all my own "art".
Thanks for all your comments. Definitely needs some extra polish, and I've been getting some great suggestions for extending the gameplay. The bug shown in the screenshot was hard to recreate so I couldn't track it down in time for submission. One of my colleagues mentioned he ended up with a ring of crates surrounding him as he ran around the level which added some extra challenges for him since he couldn't pick up any other crates.
I think I'm definitely going to keep working on this :smiley:
Thanks @hauo!
@zicboy: That's the plan!
@flaterectomy: Thanks for the comments, anything constructive is useful! That is a known bug that several people have mentioned; I think I know how to fix it and I'll try and get that into a post-jam version next week. You're the first person to mentioned the crate placement, which I implemented to get a bit of variety in the crates. I might just tighten up the "spread" and/or limit it to the crate's rotation on the conveyor belt. Duly noted about all the grey. I initially wanted to have all sorts of marks applied on the floor to break up the monotony (possibly even hazards like pools of spilled chemicals) but ran out of time.
Thanks @speedysloth99, I was deliberately trying to keep it simple: first game, first time using Unity “in anger”. I’m planning on continuing to develop the game so hopefully I’ll get the bugs ironed out.
@samusoidal Thanks for the feedback!
Nicely done game. Interesting playing area layout, nice graphical style and sound that doesn't bash the eardrums. Great work!
Interesting. Graphical style nice, and I liked the "not-quite-a-game": lots of fun to be had just clicking around and seeing what happens. Well done.
Nice concept, but it was hard getting used to the control scheme: I kept trying to steer with A and D, and accelerate/brake with W and S, as driving games over the years have "trained" me to do. But it did add to the desperation of trying to get to where I wanted to go :smile:
Cute graphics, catchy music and old school sound fx. Simple controls -- always a plus! Only thing that spoiled it for me was the almost pixel-perfect jumps required to get through the level. Also got caught on some of the scenery, leading to an early death. Plus a couple of times I died for no apparent reason. Still, plenty of potential to build a fun little playformer. Good effort!
@bungalow yes, took me a while to figure out that the lighter areas were safe to land on: kept trying to do slow landings on the dark areas 😁. Good idea using different shades (rather than different colours) to differentiate as I don’t believe there are visual impairments that would make the game difficult to play.
That was interesting. Liked the narration and the graphics style. A bit hard to see how it fit the theme.
Fun game! I hurt my fingers trying to get the 200 characters puzzle, but it was worth it! Well done!
Beautiful game, no problems running it on my PC. I think others might have mentioned it, but you need to be careful with colour-based games, as people who are colourblind may struggle to differentiate between colours. **Edit:** Also nice to see someone using Unreal.
Interesting game. Loved the pixel art graphics and the mechanics of having to sacrifice your raft to move, although it did get a bit much having to move between the two sides of the screen constantly to make progress, especially once the monster showed up. Really liked the Cthulu-like monster, and the way the clouds rolled in during the big fight.
Great game! Interesting take on the theme, and probably a great starting place for a typing tutor. If only I could stop hitting backspace when I hit the wrong key :laughing:
Very good! First time playing an ARG, and quite a bit of effort has obviously gone into this. Well done!
Cute little game. Love the art style, and putting a track editor in was a really great idea. Only problem I had was the small window size which made it difficult to play on a 4K monitor.
Nice game. Difficult to control, I suspect it'll take a while to get used to the controls and the plane's response to them. Liked the graphics. Well done!
That was fantastic, love the retro stylings and music. Great little puzzle game, well done!
Interesting idea. Cute graphics and catchy tune. Bit annoying to have to install LOVE before I could play it
That's a really interesting game, I can see myself getting really caught up in it. I loved the graphics and the gameplay; only annoyance was I routinely flipped a card instead of playing it: it was too easy to click the "flip" button when the card slid up from the bottom of the screen on mouseover. But other than that, really great work.
Lovely graphics and music, loved the screen shake effect. Very addictive. Minor bug where the money counter at the top-right didn't update until I returned to the store. Great work!
Fun little game. Great work!
Interesting idea.
I like the minimalistic graphics; a bit of sound would have been nice. Also, I hadn't noticed the Add Bot button so after getting rid of the previous bot, I was just coasting around collecting stars -- maybe some automatic spawn of a new bot after *X* seconds.
The game got a bit laggy after a few minutes, dropping frames quite noticeably.
Oh this was really fun. Great pixel graphics, great audio. Nicely balanced. Managed to wipe out 63% of the dinosaurs. First time I've played a PICO8 game, pretty impressed. Very well done!
Nine-and-a-half hours to go... :grimacing:
Done. Well, not really. I was trying to push myself out of my comfort zone and, well, it shows. First time I've seriously picked up Unity since LD42; first time trying a 3D game; first time I created my own 3D assets in Blender.
I'm not happy with this game, and I seriously thought about not submitting (but since I took a couple of days off work to do LD47...). It doesn't come close to the vision I finally had after some three hours of trying to come up with an ideal; there is so much more that I wanted to put in -- research trees, more resources, more sounds, animations, proper win condition, a really big explosion if you lost...
Two big problems for me were (1) not putting in the effort of practicing with Unity and Blender in the months between when I decided I wanted to do the jam, and the jam kicking off; and (2) poor time management.
Still, six months until LD48. Plenty of time to practice.
@holly @twilight-world @plloyer @tangomango @cax Weird, the WebGL worked for me. I'll have a look, thanks for letting me know.
**Edit:** Just checked and it's not working for me either now; it was *definitely* working when I originally uploaded though, so I'm wondering if it's an issue at GameJolt's end. Modified some of the release settings (turning off fullscreen, switching to http) but none of them fixed the problem so they're back at the original settings. Continuing investigation.
**Edit 2:** Uploaded it to [itch.io](https://digital-bacon.itch.io/ld47-the-machine-in-the-woods) and it's working there.
@joey-vrij Thanks! I originally had the idea that you *wanted* to be stuck in the loop of gathering resources and feeding the machine, because bad things would happen if you didn't. Unfortunately, I ran out of time to put in a proper "bad ending" so the game just ends.
And darn right I'll be doing LD48! :grin:
Thanks @dwink! The yellow on the upper half of the gauge was yet another idea that never managed to get to fruition. There was going to be a win-condition, where if you fed the machine enough and got the needle into the red-striped zone, it would go back to sleep. But before it did, its demands would increase insanely.
@melvinng Thanks
@djayne There's a few YouTube channels I can recommend: Imphenzia (who has also submitted a game for LD47) for Blender/Unity, Brackeys and Jason Weimann for Unity.
https://www.youtube.com/user/ImphenziaMusic https://www.youtube.com/user/Brackeys https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX_b3NNQN5bzExm-22-NVVg
Thanks for your comments!
@steambrain: Yes, I realised Q/E would've been better but even though it've been an easy thing to change, for some reason I never did it. Had that "D'oh!" moment about 10 minutes after submitting, when I was on the way to the supermarket to get lunch! "*Working* 3d game"? -- you're too kind :laughing:
@thingus: thanks for the tips!
Thanks @gamescodedogs, definitely have ideas for a bigger objective (along the lines of automating the feeding of the machine).
Great work, definitely a scramble to get the suitcases to the right people. Bit of a problem with the score covering up what a person had in their luggage so often had to guess based on only one or two items :-)
Really nice game loop. Well done!
Fun game, liked the Cluedo-style gameplay.
Nice work! Addictive gameplay, functional graphics.
Echoing @nubbyninja, very unforgiving -- had my best run the first time I played it, when I thought the goal was to *catch* the things flying in from off-screen :laughing:
Fun idea, loved the humour and the graphics style (which reminded me a bit of "Covert Action"). Great work!
Fun retro style shooter. Nice clean cartoony graphics, audio a bit tinny. Love the rewind effect when you die :-)
Loved the art work, though a bit tricky finding what I was supposed to be doing. Didn't seem to have a big play area, could only move around a narrow strip of grass.
Bonus points for the "Mmmm, nice and plumpy!" v/o when you die -- lol'd to that.
Fun little game, liked the pixel graphics. Movement controls were nice and smooth, but attacks seemed a bit slow and there wasn't much feedback when the attacks connected, so I wasn't sure if I was actually doing anything. Clicking through all the introductory story was a bit of a chore, and I found the font hard to read (and clashing a bit with the fantasy setting), but all-in-all a good effort.
Really great work here! Love the graphics and the idea. Found the background music a little annoying. Very polished.
Very pretty game, but not clear on what I'm supposed to do
Interesting. A bit bleak and there wasn't much gameplay, but you got your point across. I did like the graphics, though. Very good work.
Very nice. Love the pixel art. Good work!
Very dark and moody game, with some gorgeous graphics. Sound was a little off-putting, but I guess it was supposed to be :laughing:
Only a couple of possible bugs: * when on full health, you can't pick up the health bottles and they become almost obstacles. In one part of the level (the first time I encountered one of the horses), I had full health so I couldn't collect the potion. Unfortunately, it was in a low corridor, which meant I couldn't jump over it; the only way to make progress was to slowly push it until I got into the next room, and then I could jump over it. * game got stuck in a loop after defeating the final boss, running towards the right-hand side of the screen into one of the wall pieces; no response to any keypresses except Escape :cry: I was looking forward to what came next!
Apart from these two annoyances, I thoroughly enjoyed your game. Well done!
You've put in some effort here. The animation of the player is nice and smooth, but the game's let down somewhat by the controls and physics. A number of times I got stuck in a position for no observable reason, and no amount of button-mashing could get me out of it. You've the beginnings of a good little game here. Good work!
Neat game, nice clean graphics and audio, gameplay clear. Good work!
Very nice, moody world. There's the beginnings of an interesting game here, so I hope you keep at it!
Fun little game, I like the sideways take on the theme. Loved the graphics style and the audio. The cactus disguise was hilarious! Great entry!
Really great game. Novel mechanics, retro graphics and I love the sound! Excellent entry!
That was loads of fun, and one I'm keeping on my hard drive for future plays. Love the retro-ish graphics, music and mood are perfect, really cool variation on Tetris. Love it, can't wait for the post mortem video :smiley:
Loved the graphics in this, the jellyfish look beautiful. Good work!
Beautiful game. I loved the art style, and the mechanic with using the sword to manoeuvre around the map is an interesting one (though I got stuck in tight spots a little too often, so it became frustrating after a while). Well done!
Great game! Loved the graphics and the adorable little robots. Bit tricky working out the "programming" language, and I had an issue with items being (accidentally) dropped behind the rocket, and not being able to pick them up again. But it was a lot of fun, and there's a lot of potential here. I hope you keep working on this!
Fun little game! Great art, great sound. Really great entry!
Seriously fun game. Needs a bit more explanation on what goes where, but figured it out in the end :smile_cat: love the graphical style! Well done!
I love this game! I had so much fun with it, the desperate scramble to fetch resources before the monsters arrive, and the graphics are absolutely gorgeous! I really liked the limited palette as well, brilliantly set the mood. First class entry!
An interesting take on the theme. Unfortunately, it was a little vague on what the goal was; I'm guessing that dragging the books onto the selected teacher is supposed to impress them to give you a better grade? But it wasn't clear on how to make that decision.
But aside from that, I adored the graphics. A very nice hand-drawn style, and I laughed at the way the panda got more gorier the more times he gave you an F.
There's a good foundation for an interesting game here. I hope you continue developing it :smiley:
Nice game! Great story, and the graphics were great (though I thought the change between the 2D graphics of the town and the 3D of the world was a bit jarring -- I think I preferred the 2D!). The music was really nice. I first thought the jazz didn't fit with the fantasy world, but once the story was explained, it made perfect sense. And the card mechanic fits really well into the game.
The tooltips for the cards are a good idea, though I feel they would be better if they appeared while hovering over the cards in the player's "hand" rather than making the player drag them into the drop area to see it; also, it's not always clear what effect the card is going to have, and when an effect is in play, some kind of timer showing how much longer the effect will last would go a long way :smiley_cat:
Great entry, well done!
I absolutely loved this game! Lots of fun gameplay and minigames, lovely cartoony graphics with music, sound and voiceover to match. This was a really highly-polished production, and a brilliant entry! More please!
I wouldn't describe this as a game, but it was certainly a very interesting introduction to the life of a person with autism (like my son). I do like the metaphor of the cauldron at the end, and the clear dichotomies of how autistic and non-autistic people experience the world. Extremely well done!
Nice game. A bit hard, I died waaay to often. Love the art style! Good work.
Impressive! Loved the music, the graphics style, the chill gameplay. Well done!
What an odd little "game", but very enjoyable :grin:
@hcs-hades @nyanpierre I've just noticed that too. I put the web version on Game Jolt because the web version in LD47 wouldn't work on itch.io :laughing: I'll add the web version to itch.io; hopefully it'll work this time.
@theawesomeshaz Thanks for the comments, I had plans for much larger levels (and more than just one!), but my time management went out the window on this one. Coupled with a migraine on the last day, a severe-bout of impostor syndrome which almost led to me giving up before the halfway mark, plus children and I'm amazed I got as much done as I did.
@silas-reinagel Thanks! Games that don't have instructions annoy me somewhat, so I always try to put an instructions page in. I don't trust myself to make game with intuitive controls! And I think General Critter might become a recurring villain in my games :grin:
I do intend to keep up with developing this. I'm not happy with the art design for starters, I really wanted a more cartoony look; plus there's obviously more levels, enemies, powerups, collectibles to implement -- all the stuff in the design doc :laughing:
@notpjriavs Ah, looks like there's a gap in the colliders! Thanks for the comment. Gameplay was supposed to be much more than what I was able to implement (see previous post), but I'm going to keep going with this -- the kids really want me to finish it!
Thanks for your comment, @kenforest! It is waaaay shorter than I was hoping (and I want to put more enemies (and of different types) as well as powerups and puzzles that need to be solved), not to mention having more than one level. The kids want me to keep working on the game, so I'll be doing that over time (and I'll update the itch.io page as well, once the voting is over).
@sheinxy Thanks for the comments! Speed of aiming was something I kept meaning to go back and fix, as was the rate of fire. I think I set it low to help with debugging some of the mouse aiming (which still doesn't work as I wanted), and never set it back up again :grimacing:
Thanks @rkhadder. I'm not 100% happy with the graphics, but it's programmer art :shrug_tone2: I mentioned above about how the snappiness (or lack thereof) in the mouse aiming was a setting I forgot to raise, but I'll fix that as I keep working on it.
I was trying to keep the gun aiming in a 180 degree arc above the player -- do people think this was good, or would 360 degree aiming have been better?
Thanks @remram44! Not sure what's going on with the web build, I suspect it's something to do with me using the latest Unity LTS version. Glad your wife liked the graphics! :grinning:
Thanks @shone! Yeah, the shortness is something I really regret, but I just ran out of time. I'm thinking of dropping the web builds off, since they don't seem to work for anyone :sob:
Hi @phil-lesnar, thanks for the comment! Spent waaay too long getting that tilt to look right :laughing: and I was already thinking that the scale was off, and that you needed to be able to see farther ahead that you can at the moment.
Thanks for the comments @mira and @crispybun!
@mira For getting stuck in the walls/floors, I think I need some adjustment is needed to the colliders. As for the music, not mine unfortunately, but taken from opengameart.org (Space Boss Battle Theme”, Matthew Pablo https://opengameart.org/content/space-boss-battle-theme).
@crispybun Yes, you're not the first to comment on the slowness of the gun rotation! :laughing: I lowered it to help me debug something, and forgot to reset it back up again. Not sure what's happening with the cannon pointing the wrong way, it *should* always be pointing at the mouse cursor. I agree that the combat isn't interesting. I had planned for more interesting enemies, powerups for the weapons, other weapons. @phil-lesnar made the comment above about seeing farther to be able to use the gun more effectively, and I think that'll make for more interesting gameplay (you'd have more opportunity to plan what to do).
I am planning on continuing to develop the game, and I'll be taking all these comments on board when I do so :smiley:
Hi @lrvstudios and @spyturtle, thanks for the comments!
First thought @lrvstudios: "wait, were you playing *my* game?" I wouldn't call it amazing, the graphics are programmer art and the music was uplifted from opengameart.org :laughing: but the comments are appreciated! :hearts:
And @spyturtle, content is coming, it just may take me a while since it's only me :laughing: and I'll need to update the instructions to include "aim with the gun". Also need to adjust the targeting reticle, because its a little on the small side. And I love robots too, not least because they're easier (for me) to draw! :robot:
Thanks for the comments, @m1nd0frafa and @pat-cleaver!
@m1nd0frafa: A proper HUD was always planned for, but -- guess what -- I ran out of time :rolling_eyes: I thought I'd turned the volume on the effects and the music down (I'm not a great fan of loud noises), but I may have missed it -- sorry! You don't need to use the arrow keys to go up and down the lifts; W and S work as well.
@pat-cleaver: yes, I wanted something to break up the monotony of the grey walls and had fun making the posters. Ongoing development is planned!
@elllelel Thanks!
@tomtomgome Thanks for the comment! Totally agree with the enemies blending into the background. It wasn't until I first got them into the game that I realised I'd made them the same colour as the walls :rolling_eyes: I've played around with the tinting for the sprite, tried to make them stand out that way but it doesn't really work, and still could make things difficult for players with colour-blindness. Definitely something to remember when designing games.
Thanks for the comments!
@fabula-rasa: Like a lot of things, you were supposed to be able to find pieces of the weapon (as well as all sorts of power-ups) as you progressed, but I ran out of time. All will be implemented as the game progresses.
@thesyntheticbrain: I'm glad people like the tilting, took a while to get that feeling right (funnily enough, a couple of days after the jam ended, I watched an old Brackeys video where they mention doing something like tilting to give a feeling of movement :laughing: ). My original vision for the game didn't have levels stacked like they are; rather, there would've been larger open spaces with more room for the player and enemies to move around, as well as giving everyone the ability to move vertically. In fact, my QA department (otherwise known as "the kids") have insisted that the game needs this :laughing:
Thanks for the comments, @phi! Your first three bullet points are all definitely bugs :bug:
The 180-degree shooting was put in because originally, there were going to be ceiling-mounted turrets and flying enemies; I never got around to fixing the angle of the gun to point only in the direction the robot is facing.
Thanks for the comments, @soul-grinder!
I've put up an v1.0.1 version which has taken some of the suggestions above into account, including that the camera is too zoomed in. I've pulled it out slightly, so you can see more of the level. If you were playing this version, do you think it needs zooming out more? (Maybe I should just implement a zoom control so the player can control the :video_camera: themselves... :thinking:) Glad you liked the posters, I probably spent waaay too much time on them :laughing:
Thanks for the comments, @unplugred!
Thanks for the comments!
@phoenix-gi, @alprog: yes, the shortness of the game is one of the bits I hate the most, but I'm planning to continue working on it and extending it (and it's not my first game jam -- this is the third time I've done LD).
@gamescodedogs: there is a bugging in the aiming code, something on my buglist. And I like the music too, it's a pity I didn't write it :laughing: Credits for the music and a link to opengameart.org are above.
Thanks for the comment, @trixydevs! The downloadable Windows version can be played at full-screen (and the Linux version, I think).
@initialposition Thanks for your comment!
Nice entry. I like the graphics, thought the styling of the enemies and the background clashed with the player's sprite (was this a deliberate choice? or a ran-out-of-time thing?). Gameplay was okay. The controls were very responsive, though the firing didn't appear to do much. Some UI would've helped (and I know, that sounds hypocritical since there wasn't a UI in my game either.... :blush: ). But a good effort -- well done!
Interesting idea, but I found it really difficult to control. But good effort!
I like the concept, and the graphics are cute. Some audio would've been nice. Good effort.
Odd little game, but an excellent entry.
This is a really good game. Rare to see this kind of factory game in an LD jam. Nice graphics and audio. Great entry!
Cute game. Great graphics, and nice, simple controls. Well done!
Very chill game. Nice graphics and in-cockpit animations. Suitably relaxing music. Very good entry!
Would've been nice if there was some way to figure out where items are, beyond going off in a random direction. Never did find that teapot...
Nice game, loved the graphics. Audio a bit sparse but it gets the job done. Great entry!
Absolutely **loved** this game! Stunningly beautiful graphics, awesome audio and voiceovers, and perfect gameplay. A real joy to play! Brilliant work!
Great game! I love the art style, gameplay and music is nice and relaxing. Really well done!
Great little game! Loved the graphics and gameplay. Opening music was nice, unfortunate that there was no sound in the game itself. Terrific entry!
Nice, classic game here. Heavy screen flickering when I ran in it fullscreen mode, but fine when in a window. Graphics are bright and cheery, pity there was no sound (could just imagine it with a happy little chiptune :notes:). Gameplay was good, controls responsive and clear instructions given at the beginning. I don't know if it's a bug, but enemies would stop digging at a tile if I was standing on it; might be a bit more fun if the enemies could ambush you by dropping you down :grin: Good work!
Gorgeous game! Easy controls, cute graphics, catchy music. Love it! Well done!
Really enjoyed this! Loved the graphics and the nerve-wracking gameplay. Well done!
This is an absolutely delightful game! The cute graphics and the nice relaxing music fit perfectly together, to make this a pretty, chill experiencing. I like the simple controls, and the mechanics for resupplying yourself with oxygen as your go deeper (very Sonic-esque!) And I loved the way the light item appeared on your character once you found it.
An excellent entry, and I look forward to seeing what you come up with later!
Nice game. Really liked the graphics and music; sound fx were a bit annoying after a while. Also on level 1, I kept moving left or right too soon, and colliding with obstacles I thought I'd already dodged; not sure if this was a deliberate design choice.
A fun little game. Good work!
Oh my goodness, what an adorable robot! :robot: This is a really nice platformer, loved the graphics and sound. Easy to play (though I could never hit the parachute key in time and died waaay too often from falling damage :rolling_eyes: An excellent entry!
Nice game, love the graphics and music. Found the way text appeared to be really annoying, though: I'd've preferred something that showed all the text at once, and without the tapping sound (which doesn't really make sense in the context, it's not like she's using a typewriter :laughing: ). Very good entry!
Nice graphics and sound, but found the controls very frustrating. Couldn't seem to do anything except move around (I was playing the Win 0.2.2 build); X and L didn't do anything, either by themselves or with a directional key. Perhaps some hints (like the "up to stash" hint) when on something to collect would be good, too. There's a good foundation for a solid game here -- good effort!
Nice little mini-RTS, I haven't seen many of this style in a LD jam. Nice clean graphics, clear instructions and challenging gameplay. Good work!
Odd, can't seem to find a download link on the itch.io page. :cry:
Really enjoyed this game. Loving the retro graphics, the uncomplicated gameplay. Really well done!
Great work on simple but enjoyable game. Loved the graphics and sound. Well done!
Strange little game, but I loved the graphical style! The music was suitably sombre, but could do with more sound effects. Good work!
Interesting game. Wasn't 100% sure that I was doing the right thing, but it was easy enough to play around to see what the effects of various things work. Graphics were good, though I did sometimes have trouble remembering which way was "forward". I liked the music, it really added to the atmosphere. Very good entry!
This is really great. I love the Ylands-style graphics, and the mood is really good. I like the low-key music too. Some instructions up-front would be good, I struggled for a bit finding the key to actually do the kill (Space? Ctrl? Alt? Ah, it's E....) and I'm too sure how it fits the theme, but this is still really fun. Great entry!
Not a bad little game. Nice clean graphics, simple controls and classic gameplay. Only gripe is with the web version: it's too easy for the mouse to move out of the play area leading to loss of control or worse (the number of times I switched to another tab when the action got a little too frantic... :laughing: )
Well done!
A great little puzzler. Loved the graphics and the gameplay, music got a bit annoying after a while though. Great entry!
Good game, shades of Bioshock looking out the window and seeing whales swimming :whale2: Good effort!
Nice, love the different little puzzles and the buzz of connecting clues to the puzzles. Graphics are nice, audio a little annoying after a while. Great entry!
You've obviously put a lot of work into the graphics and audio, but I found the puzzles to be frustrating. I was honestly more annoyed than satisfied when I found the solution to leaving the first room. Also, you might want to tone down some of the graphical effects: I found the bloom extremely grating, and I'm not sure if this is the effect you were aiming for.
You've got a good, solid foundation for an interesting narrative game here, but some more logic in the puzzles (rather than "click-everything-and-see-what-works") would go a long way.
Nice game. I liked the graphics and the soothing ocean sounds; easy controls and straightforward gameplay. A good entry!
Tricky game but pretty good. Love the graphics.
Good compo game. I like the graphics, but the lack of sound is jarring. Also, it's a bit unforgiving to have touch-anything-once-and-you're-dead.
Interesting game. Congrats on taking a chance on a new engine, well done!
Well done on your first Core game! Interesting basis for a game (dare it say, the "core" of a game :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: ).
Absolutely friggin' insane -- I loved it! Well done!
Interesting game. Love the graphics and the desolate music playing, really upped the mood on this. Well done!
Such a beautifully made game! Love it!
Thanks for the comments @fabula-rasa!
On my "nice-to-have" list, there were more enemies (including bosses and mini-bosses) but I just ran out of time (again). :alarm_clock:
Removing the auto-balance would make things easier :laughing: I was thinking of replacing it with something that would just move one power-up from the heavy side to the lighter side, so the player can still balance things out, but not as easy as having the game do it for them.
Yes, the icons definitely need a rework. They look fine in Aseprite, but once I got them into the game I realised I'd accidentally made them too large so they have to be scaled down to fit with the ship :rolling_eyes: And you're definitely right wrt the star size -- way too distracting.
Thanks @tardif-adrian. Still not sure if I'll continue on with this particular project (I'm rather crap at following on with stuff made during game jams :grimacing: )
Great little game. Interesting blend of Angry Birds, Pong! and Portal. Well done!
Another beautiful game; really liked the graphics and the mechanics. Well done!
Interesting game, but very confusing on what the player is expected to do.
Good entry. Clear instructions, and fairly intuitive. Cute graphics, bouncy music, frantic gameplay. Love it, well done!
This was a really fun game! Well done!
Interesting little game. The conflict between the keyboard layouts made controlling the bus a little difficult, but that just led to more giggles!
Interesting game, well done for a first game jam!
Neat game. Loved the "engine sounds" :laughing: Graphics reminiscent of the old _Stunt Car Racer_ game, which tickled the nostalgia bone.
Would've been nice to get some instructions. A bit of trial and error to find the turn controls, and I don't think I ever found an accelerator (playing using keyboard only).
Well done!
This is great! I loved the nice tidy visuals, the music was great, and the whole concept was very meta for LDjam.
Only problem I had was finding where paper for the printer and the lightbulbs were kept. When I found them, I couldn't pick up the lightbulb so was never able to fix the light.
Other than that, I really loved this game. Well done!
Nice game. Simple, clean graphics. Easy to learn gameplay.
Had one problem where no adventurers spawned, so I was just waiting for something to happen.
Good effort, well done.
This is really fun game, jumping controls got a bit finicky sometimes (usually when the timer was about to run out), but I made it to the big party in the sky with 7/9 hourglasses, 3/5 pigs (?) and 8/8 guests.
Love the pixel art graphics and retro colour scheme; catchy music and nice sound FX. Gameplay was engaging. I really enjoyed playing this. Well done!
Thanks @thecritterscove!
Rebalancing is definitely on the list of things-to-do!
Oh my god, the vertigo with this! Loved the mocking voice, the concept and the graphics. Nice and simple gameplay, but fiendishly tricky. Never made it more than 9m (the wind got me every time). Well done!
What a beautiful looking and sounding game. I loved playing this (managed to max out my fame and ended up dead at the hands of the church :laughing:). The humour was great, and the gameplay was easy to understand, but I still ended up getting some recipes wrong :rolling_eyes:
Only gripe was having to open the spellbook, then move to the close icon to close it again (especially when I was just reopening it to check the recipe). Might be better to just be able to click on the spellbook icon again to close it.
A truly fantastic entry, well done!
This is a really neat little game. Well done!
This is a neat little game! I loved the graphics style and the general concept, managed to get to the 10 days and eliminated 12 protestors. Only frustration was being unable to influence which resources turned up: I kept getting money, but none of the protestors wanted money.
Overall, very well done!
Very interesting idea, very confusing too! Thanks for the tour of your apartment ;-)
Nice little game. Navigation is a bit unforgiving, trying to manoeuvre through the doors, and sometimes I'd pick up the "wrong" item (particularly in the living room, I kept grabbing the laundry instead of the books). Good graphics style though, well done!
Awesome! Loved the retro-ish graphics and the thumpy music, and the mechanics and upgrades were great. Fantastic work!
Nice evolution of Tetris, great work!
A nice relaxing game, though a bit short on the gameplay side -- just clicking from a selection menu. I love the art, though -- just beautiful, and I was hoping I'd see more during the game. I think there's some potential to build an wholesome game here, and I hope you continue with it. Good work!
Good work getting this done in only 12 hours! Neat little game, good mechanics and nice, clear graphics. Pity it didn't quite fit the theme, but it works better as a game like this. Brilliant work!
Thanks for your comments.
@whumpuswu : yes, there are plans for a "store" of some kind that would appear between levels to allow you to purchase more cards/spells to add to your deck. I also need to add in animations so that there's a visible effect to when you select a spell (bolts fly across the screen, healing takes place) as well as health bars so you can see what's going on. At the moment, only text appears in the message box to tell you what's going on, but things happen so fast that the text keeps getting replace -- you only see the last message that was displayed.
@reliodan : I needed to add a description/instructions page to explain, plus some of the visual effects I mentioned above will help provide the player with more information about what is going on. The pixel art is cute, but I can't claim credit. As I mentioned in the game description above, all the characters are by Vimlark; everything else is placeholder/programmer art I knocked together just to have something to throw up on screen. You do *not* want to see what my goblin looks like... :laughing:
Thanks for your comments
@attala Time management's always an issue 🙄 Once the rating period is over, I want to go back and start implementing things like visual feedback.
@chrisdedev Yes, totally agree. I usually add in an instructions screen, but as previously noted, time got away from me. Haven't ever tried a proper tutorial mode before; might try with this.
Thanks for the comments, @jonmerrin!
Health bars were one of the features that didn't make it. Super annoying, because it was something I'd spent quite a bit of time on in LD50, but I never thought to just grab it from there!
Thanks for the comments!
@mrbamboo animations are definitely required, not just to bring the game to life, but to provide visual cues for the player on what just happened.
@chasen-nesbitt can't argue with you :grin: deckbuilders are great!
Thanks for the comments!
@baylock That's the plan!
@asbjorn, @matt-ravenhall It's the thing I hate most, the lack of feedback to the player about what's happening and what the game expects the player to do next. First on my list of things to implement.
Thanks for your comments, @drdunkel and @cataclysmicknight! Yes, I'm really disappointed in myself with how poorly (or failed completely) to communicate how the game is supposed to be played. Still, got a whole three months before *Ludum Dare* #52 :grimacing:
And yes, the art is cute. Pity it's not mine, but [Vimlark's](https://vimlark.itch.io/vimlark-asset-pack).
Thanks for playing and your feedback, @busisen!
Thanks @f1krazy!
Thanks for the comment, @coderaurus!
This is a really fun game. Nice clean graphics, simple to grasp gameplay and neat effects when planes collide. Audio was a little on the quiet side, but overall, great work!
Nicely done, I liked the cartoony graphics. Potential for a real bullethell shooter, though the enemies' rate of fire and speed would need to be upped. Also, bullets going in any direction except l-to-r would have their shadows in the wrong place.
Well done, though: I had lots of fun playing this.
You've done an awesome job here! The graphics are adorable, the gameplay is very straightforward but still ends up being a frantic effort to bring the boss his coffee. The number of times I'd almost got his anger bar down to zero, only to accidentally drop the coffee on the floor in front of him :rofl: Excellent work!
Nice little game, love the 1-bit pixel art and the retro sounds. Good work!
Loved it! Starts out looking easy, but very quickly got frantic. Well done!
Challenging game. Love the graphics. Well done!
Interesting concept. I liked the graphics, though I felt nighttime got a little too dark: literally impossible to see anything. Also, I managed to get myself thoroughly lost at one point, wandering all over the map and completely unable to find my garden! A lot of good work, though: well done!
A very polished game, well done!
Nice game. Controls were a bit finicky, and it was a bit confusing on the opening screens to "press start" but no obvious indication that you needed to press 'X'. Graphics were nice and simple, and the soundtrack was suitably frantic for the gameplay. A solid effort, well done!
What a fun game! Love the graphics style and the frantic memory scramble to click the right things in the right order. Kept missing out by seconds, but that is kinda the point :rofl: Well done!
Nice game! Had that just-one-more-go quality, although I never did find all the circuit boards. Well done!
Quirky little game. Nice graphics, interesting concept. Well done!
Nice! You almost got me with the "don't press the button" minigame :rofl: Well done!
I found it a bit difficult to see the enemies coming towards me (too dark), but otherwise a competent shooter. Liked the psychedelic graphics though :-) Good work.
Awesome little game. The music and the limited field of view made this really tense, loved it! Only problem was I managed to get the doors open and the time stacked up in the doorway, but didn't get any kind of "you win!" screen.
Good work!
Strangely cathartic game! I loved the cartoony graphics and the general concept. Not sure what I was meant to do with the "Trapped Luggage" message, though. Well done!
Cool game, looks and plays very polished! Well done!
Interesting game. Controls are a bit confusing at first, and feel a bit sluggish/unresponsive. Love the art style though, good work!
An interesting game. Quite a unique concept, and two different gameplay modes, both of which fit the jam's theme, but in different ways. The graphics were good, but felt a bit flat, especially with the 3D pen. Also difficult to judge where I was going to land with the boost. But quite fun, good work!
Fun game! Bit difficult with targeting, when I selected a card it would often cover the column I needed to see so I sometimes missed because I couldn't see which ring the enemy was in. But I liked the graphics, the soundtrack provided extra urgency to the time limit, the gameplay is solid and I had a lot of fun playing it. Great job!
Nice little platformer. Cute graphics. Controls felt a bit unresponsive for me, but I still managed to get through several levels. Good work!
Interesting little game. Only frustration was that the computer players were much faster, and had better reactions. I only managed to get points when I just happened to be much closer to the gems than the others. But I liked the simplicity and the clean graphics, nice work!
Interesting idea! Struggled to actually use the repeating moves to help me beat the enemies, but that's probably just me :rofl:
The only problem I had was if I tried shooting while still waiting to reload, the bullet would immediately fire as soon as the reload had completed. Would've been better (IMO) if the "shoot" keypresses were ignored while the reload was taking place.
Good job!
Interesting idea. Clear graphics, simple mechanics, easy to pick-up and play. Well done!
Cute game, I liked the stylised graphics and the catchy audio. Slightly confusing about where I was supposed to be going, and got frustrating that sometimes I couldn't go back the way I came for no apparent reason. A solid effort. Well done.
An interesting game. Loved the graphics and sound. Tricksy little problem-solver, well done!
I found the ship really difficult to control, and it wasn't immediately obvious what I'm supposed to do, but I really had fun playing this! The art style is terrific, and I think you've got the beginnings of a really decent game here. Excellent work!
Entertaining game! Love the art style. Well done!
Cute game! Love the cat-based take on the theme, and the retro graphics -- reminds me a lot of the old PC game Alley Cat (https://www.mobygames.com/game/pc-booter/alley-cat/screenshots), which I adored as a kid, so thanks for nudging the nostalgia! Well done!
Nice game. Cute graphics. Could've used more player instructions, but otherwise, very well done!
Love the retro graphics, sound and gameplay. Very tough, though! Excellent work!
A beautiful game. Loved the art style and music, and humour in the phone conversations. Excellent work!
Nice game. Love the pixel graphics, and the gameplay's solid, though I think the night was a bit short, so was difficult to gather enough coins to buy upgrades. Well done!
Nice game, you've got some cute graphics and the beginnings of a good game here. Well done!
Interesting game. Love the graphics. Good work!
Fun game! Nice, simple gameplay, retro graphics and lots of humour. Loved the intro! Well done!
What an awesome and relaxing game! I love the art style, and the music is really soothing. Gameplay is straightforward, but still loads of fun balancing what needs to be done within the 3-actions-per-day limit. Excellent work!
Really frantic button-mashing fun game! Loved the graphics, and the increasing density of incoming aliens. Well done!
Such a cute little game! Stuck on the second puzzle for way too long, but the cute graphics and soothing music stopped it from being too frustrating. Excellent work!
Fun game! Straightforward gameplay, nice and clear graphics, easy controls. Well done!
Cool game. Nice progression on the puzzle complexity, though it was very difficult to find the sunflowers unless you were standing in the right spot. Also, some of the tooltips were hard/impossible to see against a bright background (kept trying to click the hint button in the sunflower room, because I couldn't see the "press H for hint" text). Decent graphics, nice puzzles (and all within theme). Well done.
Nice game, though I couldn't use the shotgun so I never got to experience the gratuitous violence :cry: Nice retro graphics, great humour, good gameplay. Well done!
@cameron-paxton The gun worked the first time I pulled it out, but the second time it just refused to shoot (either mouse or spacebar). Tried holstering and redrawing the gun, but that didn't fix the problem.
Unless there's a reload mechanic I missed....? :face_palm:
Giggled when I first saw the name and the thumbnail :laughing: Loved the graphics, the jaunty sea-shanty like music and the story. Very well done!
Awesome game! Very grim story, beautiful graphics and music, engaging gameplay. Nice to see a Python game, too! Excellent job! :thumbsup:
I'm a sucker for top-down pixel art, so I loved the art in this one. I'm not very good at this kind of shooter, so I never got a very high score, but the gameplay was nice. Very well done!
Cute game. Love the graphics, reminds me a bit of Cuphead in style. Gameplay toughness ramped up quickly when I suddenly went from only one available plot, to all of the plots being available, and there never seemed to be enough time to get crops planted in more than one, even when dashing. Lots of potential here, I feel. Well done!
Thanks for your comments, @tuomas!
I'll admit that the driving part had more attention: making the city (including creating the buildings) was a lot of fun! (And wasn't that how Wil Wright invented SimCity?)
I have seen Pixel Architect, love his Ghibli-style work.
Thanks for the comments @jaj!
I usually have a Trello board put together before I start working on the game, but this time round, I inexplicably didn't do this until near the end of day 2 of the jam, which is really mad because I'd found them very useful (for the exact reason you said) in previous jams. Oh well, lesson learned :shrug:
Thanks, @triangle-point !
Thanks @bo-dangles!
Thanks for all your comments!
@justin-c @t90 As I mentioned above, I'm usually a bit more organised, with a Trello board to keep me focussed, but this time I just jumped in without one until 2/3 of the way through the jam. :face_palm:
@xoreaxeax I won't lie that Stardew Valley wasn't a source of inspiration, especially for the art style; I really love that game! I'll keep in mind your comment about the feeling of "coming home".
@elmoeinstein The farmhouse was the last pixel art I worked on, and comparing it to the earlier buildings, I can definitely see a progression :smiley: It's something I want to keep working on.
@profan Yes, there's no tracking what crops are planted during the scene swap, so it resets the farm every time you return. It's definitely on the bug list, and something I'd want to fix, especially with crops that take longer to grow. Definitely, building the city as large as I did took up way too much time (personally, I'm amazed I didn't try to make it bigger...). Will be back for LD53 in April :smiley:
Thanks for the comments!
@toosalty0000 I'm not sure I'd describe the art as "beautiful", but it's very kind of you to say so :blush: Definitely learned my lesson on focussing on the gameplay ahead of the art assets. The sell system is bugged, not something you missed. It was one of the last things I implemented, about 2 hours before the end of the jam (for me, this meant 7am Tuesday NZT, and I'd been up since 6am the day before...)
@thunderchief Yes, the core part of the game design revolved around selling the harvests, so it's kind of missing that bit at the moment :face_palm: Definitely have "plan ahead" top of my Lessons-Learned list.
Thanks, @lintfordpickle!
Thanks, @tildecat!
Thanks, @flying-dog-fish!
That was on the nice-to-have list, @asfdfdfd... :laughing:
Thanks, @pope-paf!
Thanks, @juicybrucey!
Thanks, @projectaroid!
Thanks, @chase-of-bass! It's a pity the farming bit wasn't more developed.... :rofl:
Thanks @yvanor!
Thanks @ciaranw!
@honey-pony: There was certainly intended to be a progression in vehicles, so you could take bigger loads into town (the functionality to increase the size of the vehicle's payload is already in there!). I don't know if I could've articulated the plan as well as you have, but encouraging progression was certainly something I was trying to put into the game. Thanks for describing it so wonderfully: it's given me more ideas to consider (like putting the farm on the same map as the city, so you literally have to drive all the way).
Nice game. Beautiful art style. Good work.
Nice little game. Good graphics and audio, fun gameplay, and a really annoying antagonist! Good work!
Art was a bit weird, the robotic voice didn't really fit the fantasy aesthetic, gameplay was nothing special. I'll stick to human-made games.
Cute little game. Love the art style and the gameplay. Well done!
Great little platformer, love the retro graphics and sound. Excellent work!
Had a lot of fun playing this, had the right balance of building up the crops with dealing with invading insects. Loved the nice clean graphics, and the music suited the game well. Well done!
Nice game. Liked the retro graphics, good puzzle-solving gameplay. One of those easy-to-understand, difficult-to-master games I really like. Well done!
Not bad for an afternoon's work! Nice graphics, annoying music, fun gameplay. Good work!
Interesting game. Nice cartoony graphics, and catchy music. Good work.
Very interesting entry. Sets the mood very well, and I like the art style. Good work!
What a wonderful game! The art style is just beautiful, and the card-based Missile Defence-style gameplay is a lot of fun. Excellent work!
Nice game. Love the graphics, and the worm made me jump the first time I saw it. Well done!
I had a lot of fun playing this! Cute graphics, an interesting take on farming, and a the puns in the title mad me giggle. Excellent work!
That was really fun to play, and I love the art style! Excellent work!
Nice game. I also had problems with mouse sensitivity being too high, and everything turning into crystals when I dropped them, but the graphics and environment were great. Well done!
Interesting game. Found it a bit difficult to aim with the default arrow cursor, but the graphics are really nice, and the music lends itself well to generating a frantic atmosphere. Well done.
Great game. Retro graphics were great, though there were a few times when items (tables, chairs) blended into the floor and I got caught up trying to go around them. Music was great in building the tension, and I always jumped when I triggered the alarm. Very well done!
Well done getting the N64 look and feel down! Excellent work!
It only took me 117 days, but I finished it. I liked the retro graphics, and the tractor occasionally driving past added some life to the scene.
There doesn't seem to be a lose condition; it felt that it was really just a matter of time and getting the right crops in the card drops.
It would also have been helpful to get a hint on what cards would be available (i.e., the chance of getting a com mon, uncommon or rare seed) for each of the boosters. Too often I'd be buying a 2-star booster trying for a particular seed, only to have it finally drop when I bought a 1-star booster.
I really like the research and card-based play, though. Very well done!
Fun game! Cute graphics, jolly music. Excellent game!
Cute little game! Nice graphics, easy-to-grasp problem solving gameplay, and a cute little robot to top it all off! Some camera controls would've been nice, but otherwise excellent work!
Looks like a pretty little game, but I had issues with the controls for moving not wanting to work :cry: . Still, it's obvious you've put some effort into this, and I think it's a good foundation for an entertaining game. Good work.
@phillip-scott: when I used the movement keys (WASD or the arrows), the robot would judder in the right direction a very little, then stop moving and return to its initial position.
Interesting to see a visual novel submission. Beautifully presented. Well done.
Nice game. Liked the retro graphics and the woodwind music. Perhaps some hint as to what each plant's powers did? Did like the chop-the-rose-to-finish-the-level, fits nicely with the theme. Well done!
Great fun! Love the graphics and the janky physics. Music seemed a bit incongruous with the mad fun, but you forget about it quick when you've got a harvester barrelling towards the nearest cow. Great work!
Nice game. Liked the way different plants grew differently (with most being one-shots, but the tomatoes growing repeatedly). Good graphics, easy gameplay. Good job.
Good game. Liked the graphics, simple controls for the minigames. Nice work.
Fun game. I liked the pixel art, and the little trail effect when moving the carrot left or right. Jump effect felt a little underpowered, though: it felt like I wasn't jumping high enough, which made it harder to jump over enemies. Well done!
What a cute little game! Love the graphics and music, gameplay is simple but challenging. An excellent game, well done!
Fun game. Never got higher than 13, but I think that's because I never got used to the tray snapping back to the middle when I released the key. Good clear graphics, nice sound. Well done!
Interesting take on the theme! Physics-based puzzles can be tricky to get right, but I think you've done quite well here. Like the retro graphics and the overall style of the game. Well done!
I think you've got the beginnings of a really interesting game, here. The graphics are good, and I like the harvested parts actually showing on the player model. The lack of camera controls made playing difficult -- even a simple zoom mechanic would make things a bit easy. Good work.
Beautiful game! Love the bunny animations! Straightforward gameplay, nice munching sounds. Good work!
Nice game. Very relaxing, with pleasant cartoony graphics and I liked the floating dialog boxes. I found the music a bit annoying, but thankfully you'd added a mute button. If you added a bit more to the gameplay, could be very fun. Good work.
Nice game. Controls are a bit "slidey" -- felt like the farmer was on roller-skates. Graphics are good, gameplay fun. Well done.
Lovely game! Nice bright graphics, clear gameplay, tutorial thrown in at the start. Great work!
Only problem I had was the sound on/off button at the top-left of the screen covered up the info box for the crop in the top-left of the field.
Interesting game. A bit too frantic for me, but still fun. Cutesy graphics and retro sound FX. Well done (and congrats on finishing your first game).
Nice game. Like the addition of the radio station and the totally-not-a-Pizza-Planet-truck. Good work!
Wonderful little game! Great graphics and sound, an actual story, nice skill progression. Excellent work!
Wonderful! Thanks for the extra dad-joke ammo to inflict on the kids! Nice clean interface and music, and I really liked the voice instructions and responses. Excellent work!
Nice little puzzle game. Bit tricky getting things to combine sometimes, but entertaining. Well done!
A great little puzzler. Loved the minimalist graphics and sound, the simple controls and the gameplay. Brilliant work!
Awesome little game. Love the graphics, especially the apparently infinite street. Only got into trouble when there were four items stored in the van :laughing: Very enjoyable, well done (and welcome back to LD)!
Very pretty! Love the retro graphics. Good work!
Interesting game. Definitely needs a tutorial and/or instructions. Good work.
Nice fun game, really loved the retro graphics and sound, cute gameplay. Well done!
This was a fun game, and kudos for adding a tutorial. Loved the graphics and sound (especially the voices, although I heard "Hey! It's broken!" way too often :laughing:). Excellent work!
Interesting game. Loved the music! Well done!
A very fun game. Nice art style and cute little sound effects. Only issue I had was the aiming of the cannonballs seemed to be a bit off, especially when aiming towards the left-side of the screen (was playing in fullscreen mode). But otherwise, excellent work!
Nice game! Interface is nice and clean, and the portraits are top notch. Well done!
Nice game. The physics is pretty good, and the graphics aren't *that* bad :grin: Ability to move the camera would've been good. Good work.
Very moody. The effort put into the soundeffects really paid off. Graphics really contributed to the atmosphere, and sense of menace. Well done.
Good game. Controls felt a bit sluggish, and I kept banging into the bottoms of the decks instead of jumping through the gaps, but that's probably just a small tweak. Nice graphics and a suitably sea-shanty music track. Good work.
Nice little game. Good clear graphics and gameplay. Well done!
:rofl: Loved this, made me laugh out loud (the puns in the names of the kingdoms and the King), as well as the inevitable result of trying to get a message delivered by ballista. Good graphics, great sound, very fun. Excellent work!
Nice little game. Great graphics and sound, and decent gameplay. Was a bit unsure what I had to do next after dropping off all the goods, so there was a bit of "wander around until I stumble across something", but that was okay. Great effort!
Nice game. Loved the cutesy graphics and music. Would've been nice to have controls to discard a package if it wasn't one I needed. Excellent work.
That was an awesome game. Love the *Spirited Away* vibes. Gorgeous music and graphics, surreal "landscape". Very well done!
A nice game you've got here. A bit frustrating when I managed to get the imps stuck in the corner and couldn't punch them out, and I found the controls a bit fiddly (the have-to-be-jumping-to-punch gave me a bit of trouble, I could never seem to get the timing right), but I love the graphics and audio. Excellent work!
**NOTE** Currently having issues with getting Unity to do an HTML5 build. Once I've got it fixed, I'll post it here.
And fixed, with 12 minutes of the submission hour left to go... :sweat_smile:
Thanks @oter!
The arrows were added in the last hour of the jam, and I'm happy I managed to add them in.
The colliders for the buildings were done in the early hours of the jam with a "fix these later" note, and later never came :cry:
Thanks @mkraw, I thought I'd managed to close off all the escape points!
Thanks for your comments, everyone.
@fuse-in-a-bowl: Yes, as other people have mentioned, I need to have another look at the colliders.
@oddballdave: One of my original ideas was to have a "vehicle dealership" so you could purchase vehicles as the game progressed, letting the player move faster and carry more packages (and therefore, have more jobs on the go). Glad you liked the kachings! :moneybag:
@codeforjoycaro: thanks!
@kierogi: I spent the week before the jam playing around with Unity animations, so I'm quite proud with how well they worked :smiley: Definitely want to add music and more sounds, and have a proper animated player sprite that isn't always facing forward :eyes:
@sjpixels: I definitely want to have a bigger city, but I was wary of spending too much time on it (like I did in my LD52 entry). I'm thinking pedestrians and vehicles for hazards, maybe thieves trying to steal packages. Also, as I said above, I did have plans to add vehicles, but I just wanted to get something playable working first. The suggestion about make the timer more visible is really good. Apart from the Post Office, all the other buildings were taken straight from my LD52 entry (just to cut down on time spent on asset creation, which hobbled me a bit last time), so I only had time to do big green arrows to indicate destinations. I also want to include a minimap and/or an arrow at the edge of the screen to point in the direction the player needs to go, if the destination is off screen.
@milano23: There can sometimes be a problem with the colliders, where the game doesn't detect the player is in the right location. If you can see a street sign at the bottom right of the screen with the location's name, you should be able to interact with a building.
@ruslana: I haven't noticed any issues with it myself, though it can sometimes be a little slow to load. What particular issue were you having (and what browser were you using -- I've only tested on Chrome)?
Thanks @shimmerscale! I'm planning on revamping the city map, which will include reworking the colliders completely.
I do have plans for a vehicle shop so players can move around faster and carry more packages, but now I'm wondering what other kinds of shops I can include -- thanks for the suggestion!
Thanks, @bmanstudio! Yes, there's problems with the colliders on the buildings. I think someone else may have mentioned it... :laughing:
Thanks!
@frelude: I've got a couple of sound effects in there (which is waaay more than in the last two jams), but I want to add more (and music as well). Thanks for the note about the hole in the colliders, I'll fix that.
@prismapunch: The arrows were a last minute addition, and I was trying to use the up arrow to indicate "pick*up* here" and the down arrow to indicate "*drop* here". I didn't think that it could be taken to mean "pick up from the back", so that's great feedback. As for moving faster, there was supposed to be vehicles you could upgrade to, but I didn't have time to implement. Glad you like the artwork!
Thanks @tompudding. Unfortunately, apart from the Post Office and the player avatar, they're all taken from my LD52 entry :laughing:
Thanks @philipprapp95. I keep saying that I want to keep working on my games post-jam, but I never seem to be able to :cry: but I have made some changes based on feedback here, and I'll release version 1.1 soon.
Thanks @remco!
I don't like having to use the mouse to click on things either, but I just didn't get around to implementing gamepad and keyboard controls for the menus. Coming in version 1.1 :grin:
The colliders for the buildings are wonky and need a rework. Something else for 1.1 :grinning:
Finally, the Unity web builds have always been a bit hit-and-miss for me. It's almost guaranteed that the web build that works embedded above won't work embedded on itch.io. Chromium-based browsers seem to work more consistently.
Thanks for your feedback:
@reed-molbak: there's an issue with the colliders: backing away (down the screen) from the building, then moving up again, usually fixes it. I've also updated the Windows build on itch.io with a number of fixes, including the building colliders.
@kyboon: I've just added "minimap" to the feature list for v1.2 :laughing: I'm also thinking of having an arrow that points in the right direction if the destination is off-screen.
@fabula-rasa: see comment above on the colliders :laughing: Music and animations are also on the to-do list. Also plan on increasing the difficulty and having more to do. Long-term plans for a storyline and quests.
Thanks for the feedback!
@sarah-alexa: I do plan on increasing the size of the city, though there's a few issues (including the hitboxes) that need sorting out first. It'll probably be a progressive expansion though, slowly increasing the size of the city as the player's capabilities increase.
@squidgod: to be honest, the strategising wasn't planned -- somebody else mentioned figuring out about not selecting a job until they're near the pickup building... and I hadn't thought about doing that before. I'd always assumed the player would immediately select a job on opening the noticeboard. (I'm not complaining: I love it when players find things I hadn't thought about.) I did think about not letting the noticeboard be closed until a job had been selected, but that seems harsh. I think changing it so you can only collect jobs when you're at your "home base", but I'll have to make the time limits more generous. Another alternative is having a time limit on how long a job stays on the noticeboard before it disappears. Animations -- not just for the player avatar -- are planned, but take me a while 'cause I'm not a very good artist.
Thanks, @stephenwhoskins!
Thanks, @roka-josh! Unfortunately, the "scaling pay" is an illusion. It currently randomly decides payout, penalty and time limits for each job, with no relation between the different values, or the distance between destinations (it's on the to-do list :laughing: ).
Thanks @tangiblegames!
You do need to be in close to building to be able to interact with it. When the street sign appears at the bottom-left of the screen with the name of the building in it, you'll be able to interact.
Planning on a major rework of the city -- increased size, abandoning the grid layout, etc. -- some time in the next few months. Already added a minimap for version 1.2.
Thanks @interpixel! I've got a lot planned for continued development, including an expanded map, a story line, hazards, etc.
Thanks @acearcher !
Nice game! The noodly arms are a bit disconcerting. Would've been nice if the end-of-day screen had told me what mistakes I'd made, rather than just a count of the number of mistakes. Great work.
Really fun game. Loved the music, cute graphics, responsive controls. Very well done!
Interesting game. Adored the pencil art style. Well done!
Nice game. Cute graphics. Not so sure about having to wait until leaving the village before getting feedback, I think some more immediate feedback from the villagers on whether you've delivered to the right person would be better. Great effort, though: well done!
The hitboxes certainly made this frustrating, but there's definitely some potential here. Good work.
Nice game. Loved the newspaper headlines! Good graphics, soothing music. Well done!
Neat game, love the asethetics. Getting the body parts into the museum is pretty tricky, not sure if I missed something in the instructions. Great little game, though: well done!
Interesting idea, but very difficult at the beginning. Maybe start off with small orders of one or two items to begin with?
I was hoping someone would make a *Kiki's*-based game!
Absolutely loved this. Even just flying around exploring the town was fun. I liked the vehicles and trams roving the city; adding some pedestrians would really make the town come alive!
The graphics are beautiful, really in keeping with the Ghibli-style. The music also helped with the aesthetic.
Really excellent work!
Interesting game, but the controls were a little tricky. The shadows made it really difficult to see, and I would've liked a fullscreen option. Very stylish design, though. Good work.
Interesting game, loved the graphics, sound and gameplay. Only issue I had was the recruitment screen, with it being difficult to gauge the synergy between characters without having to memorise what each one had. Perhaps some kind of indicator, when you mouse over a character's traits, showing how all the other characters feel about that character.
Anyway, this is some excellent work, well done!
Interesting game. Well done on all the voice acting (and the verbal instructions at the beginning :laughing:). Cute graphics, interesting premise. Good work!
Nice game! Well done!
Such a beautiful game! Loved the art and music. Gameplay was frustrating initally, but got the hang of it eventually. Well done!
Nice game. Car physics a bit frustrating, especially trying to get back on the road. Would also have been nice to be able to deliver the pizza on either side of the van. Liked to large (for a game jam) map to explore. Good work!
Nice game, very relaxing. Maybe adding a time or fuel limit on the boost, if you want to add some difficulty. Well done!
Nice little puzzle game. I especially liked the way you use the game's main mechanic as the start button! Nice clear graphics, pleasant background music and a satisfying "ding!" when you match the parts of the world. The only problem I had was when dragging letters across the screen, if I happened to cross over the wrong word, it'd immediately drop what I was dragging back to its original place: I feel it should let me "hold" the piece until I released the mouse button over the correct match.
Excellent work!
I found the controls very frustrating (probably a me-problem :laughing:), but the idea is pretty neat and well executed. Graphics and music are nice. Good work.
Love the early GTA vibes. Fun little game, only problem is the vehicle handling. Well done!
Interesting game. The upgrades are a good feature, adds to replayability. Decent graphics and sound, great gameplay. Well done!
Very strange game. Needed clearer instructions on the mechanics. Well done.
One of more favourite games so far. Loved the art style and the chirpy music in the background. Excellent work!
Lovely game! Adored the graphics and the music is fantastic. Bit confusing finding where to go initially. Excellent work, this is a beautiful game.
I really love this game -- the graphics and art are beautiful, the sounds are perfect and the gameplay is very, very chill. Would've liked an easier way to tell the denominations of the stamps -- that page seems to be missing from the notebook (though I can see it in the gif above).
I would love to rate this game (and rate it highly) but the ratings are missing from the page above. Doesn't seem to be a problem on any other games, so not too sure what's going on (@pov, any idea?). I'll try to keep checking back before the rating period ends.
Awesome, ratings added!
I did see the comment about using the scales to determine price, but I always had the parcel on the scale at the same time (and got an error). Never occurred to me to just put the stamps on the scale :face_palm:
This is a really fun game, you've done some excellent work on it. Well done!
This was fantastic! The mood is set perfectly my the grim graphics and ambient music, and I was impressed with the rain effects. It's a pity you didn't get time to add story to this.
Great effort!
Nice game. Love the art style. Found the controls a bit frustrating. Good work.
Nice game! Enjoyed the graphics and soundtrack. Found the wall climb a bit difficult to use, but that's probably just me :shrug: Well done!
Fun little game! Nice graphics, sound & music, great gameplay. Well done!
A difficult game, but a very interesting take on the theme. I found the graphics to be a bit cluttered, but that's the nature of GoL. Definitely a great idea, and I'll be interested to see where you take it. Well done.
Fun little game. Cute graphics and sound. Speech bubbles could be a bit annoying stacking on top of each other, and there seems to be a small bug when selected the person to offer the package to (sometimes, it'll offer it to the person behind the one you want to offer to). Very fun and frantic though, well done!
Very nice, love the graphics and the Western-theme music. Very well done!
Great game. Took me a couple of goes to get used to it. Nice graphics and sound design, well done!
Unfortunately, I couldn't get to play this. The title screen appears (great art, by the way) but I only got a black screen after clicking "Start".
Great retro style, love it!
Lovely little game. Adorable graphics and the music was perfect. Well done!
Nice game! Controls for delivering packages were a bit fiddly. Loved the graphics and gameplay. Excellent work!
Nice game, good work!
Awesome game! Loved the retro aesthetic and the gameplay is top notch. Very well done!
Loved the pixel art and sounds, and the animations are really good. Unfortunately, I found the controls to be just too frustrating, especially when playing on a screen larger than the window. Good effort, if you fix the controls, this could be a really good game.
Nice puzzle game, love the simple retro graphics. Excellent work!
A very relaxing game, well done!
Nice little game. Love the chill music, good work!
Driving controls a bit unintuitive, but otherwise a fun little game. Good work.
Interesting game. The narrative is intriguing, I kind of want to know more about the game world you've created. The opening dialogue was a bit slow to reveal itself, but it did a good job of setting the scene. There's a very moody atmosphere you've created, with the lighting and scene-setting doing a great job of making me feel very nervous crossing to Phiatho (even though I only ended up talking to two people in my first playthrough).
I'm in two minds about the fixed viewpoint. On one hand, fixing the camera so it only looks straight ahead amps up the tension -- I kept wondering if something was going to jump out at me from the sides. But on the other hand, I want to be able to look around as I travelled.
This is a great effort. Well done on your first LD jam game!
Nice to see a point and click adventure. Wasn't expecting the dark turn at the end, but I did like the art and sound. The selection point for the mouse pointer seemed to be in the middle of the leaf; moving it to the tip would make selecting things a bit easier. Also, maybe add a highlight to something that can be selected when the cursor passes over it.
Bonus points added for the herb puns :laughing:
An excellent entry: well done!
Interesting game. Pace was a bit too fast for me: I had trouble reacting to incoming fire and completing jumps. But a good effort, well done!
The most chill game I've played this jam! Lovely graphics, enjoyable scenery and perfectly placed sounds. Would have liked some soft music to go along with the big ride. I'm really happy the YouTube algorithm suggested your video to me :grinning:. Excellent work, really well done!
Cute game! Enjoyed the graphics and the rage-inducing gameplay :laughing: Good work for your first jam, well done!
You've got a good foundation for a *Paperboy*-like game. Definitely need to do something with the music, because it's a bit annoying. The minimap was a bit too small to really be useful; consider changing your UI canvas to "scales with screen size". Good work.
Fun little game! Cute graphics and adorable bark sound :grin: Love the reversal on the theme. Great effort!
Interesting game. I like the historical context, though the Soviets never interfered with the airlift directly so not sure what the Yaks are doing :shrug:. The graphics are simple but very clear. For the tutorial screen, set the Canvas scaling to "Scales with screen size", so the text fits on the screen. Also, I wouldn't call a tutorial, more a set of instructions -- tutorial implies something a bit more interactive. Good work.
An interesting twist on the theme. Nice little game, well done!
Nice little GB game, loved the retro graphics and sound. Controls felt a bit unresponsive, and some indicator for the range of the time freeze would've been nice. Great effort, though: well done!
Relaxing little game, nicely presented with cute graphics and audio, and a very helpful how-to-play screen. Very impressive for the compo. Well done!
Clever little puzzle/reaction game. Love the art style, gives me a bit of a nostalgia kick to some children's books I had growing up :baby: The belts switching around caught me by surprise, and sometimes I had trouble distinguishing between red and orange packages (something to remember when doing a colour matching game).
A fun game, excellent work!
I spent a lot longer playing this game than I originally thought I would, but ended up building two colonies in 45 years. Interesting idea, and strangely addictive gameplay. Some form of time-advance controls would have been good.
Excellent work!
Very cute, loved playing this. Well done!
Cute game, just adored the graphics. Frenetic music to go along with the desperate button-mashing. Excellent work!
Nice game. Graphics are good, though the controls were a bit tricky (deliberately?) and the camera would occasionally glitch out, spinning madly around the car. The background "music" got annoying after a while. Good work.
Tricky little puzzle game. Nice graphics, but controls were confusing. Good work.
Fun little puzzle game (apart from the terrifying flashbacks to my driving test :grin: ). Nice graphics, pleasant music. Love the little band-aids that appear at collision points. Well done!
Beautiful game, love the gorgeous retro graphics and sound. Fantastic work!
Nice game! Always love pixel art, and the puzzles in here are pretty chill (a time limit could've ramped up the tension, but there was enough in the backstory already :rainbow:). Great work!
Interesting game. Nice art style. Good work!
Good idea, but the controls are a bit unintuitive. Also crashed on me a couple of times (playing on Windows).
Nice little puzzle game. Rules need a bit more polish on the explanation, but I think you're almost there. Great work.
Cute and fun little puzzler! Excellent work!
Fun game! Love the different minigames, and the humour ("Bossxolotl" :rofl:). Well done!
Interesting game, though I didn't feel there were enough clues to really decide on what to put in the truck and what to put in the bin. Nice graphics though. Good effort.
Nice little game. Easy to play, tricky to master. Some sounds would've been nice. Good work!
Awesomely fun game! Love the low-poly art style and general gameplay. The "special" carparks are a real treat :rofl: Sound would've been nice, but otherwise -- excellent work!
*Edit*: whoops, ignore me, have sound issues on my PC -- sound is great, and rating has been amended accordingly :grinning:
Nice game. Very tricky -- the random generation through up some real doozies; one game I didn't get any treasures! Love the art style, and the background water sound really added to the atmosphere. Well done!
Strangely cathartic gameplay! Nice pixel graphics, though the music got a bit annoying. Good work.
Nice game! Got caught by the spike traps a couple of times, trying to catch the snakes in them. Love the retro graphics and moody sounds. Great work!
Nice little puzzle game. Excellent work!
This is such a beautiful and fun game! Fantastic work!
Very interesting little puzzle game. Excellent work!
Loved this! Beautiful graphics, nice sound and interesting puzzle-play. Well done!
Very fun puzzle game! Mechanics are inventive, and love the semi-retro graphics. The chromatic aberration effect is very cool. Excellent work!
Lovely game. Lots of fun, cool graphics and sound. Well done!
Nice game, well done!
Very polished, well designed game. Love the art style and the Sims-like music. Excellent work!
Nice game. Took a minute to figure out what I was supposed to do, but got there in the end. Well done!
Cute little game. Love the animations! Well done!
**NOTE:** Please, please, please: if you rate my game, please leave a comment so I can go and rate yours! :smiley:
Thanks for all your comments!
@puppycat: Ironically enough, the soundtrack was the same that I used way back in my first jam, Ludum Dare 42 (with the theme *Running out of space*...).
@abdul-zakkar, @breadstick: I think the difficulty scales a bit too slowly. It starts out with a crate arriving every 10 seconds. After two trucks have been dispatched, it reduces the limit by 0.5 seconds. I usually start to struggle when the time between crates gets down to 2.5 seconds, but it does take a while to get there!
Thanks for all the comments!
@doubley: yes, the timing of the crates needs fine tuning. I was thinking about multiple trucks, or being able to upgrade to a bigger truck and/or warehouse, but I was very careful about staying in scope and getting something finished.
@imontheweb: after a few games with no/minimal sound effects, and no music, I was determined to include it in this one.
@congeesetador: yes, the timing seems to be the main complaint with this game :rofl: it does get faster and more frantic the more trucks get dispatched, but the rate is waaaaay to slow (-0.5 seconds every two trucks).
@t-c: thanks for the bug report -- it's a side effect of how the input is coded, have to have a think about how to mitigate that. Different shaped packages were originally planned, but removed to reduce scope.
@bot-hopps: it's not clearly explained in the game, but you get $5 for each small crate, $25 for each large crate, and -$1 for each empty space on the truck when it dispatches. You get more money by using the larger crates, but they only reduce the used storage in the warehouse by one when you put them on the truck (as opposed to four small crates).
Thanks for your comments!
@pax-lefay: *limited space* in the warehouse, *limited space* in the truck, working for a *limited* liability company ... in *space*. I reckon I should get triple score for theme :rofl:
@hierarch, @prox, @zircon332, @shidygames: speeds definitely a problem. I kept it slow for testing purposes, but completely forgot to ratchet it up for the final build. (In my defence, I had been awake for nearly 24 hours by that point.) There's only square crates in the game at the moment; trying to get weird shapes would have been a lot of extra work, and scope-creep has caught me out before, so I stuck to the squares so I wouldn't have to worry about rotation.
@edearth: glad you like the music, definitely caught myself dancing to it in my chair while I was working on it. The $$$ at the moment are just for score, but there's definitely room for some kind of shop, and I like your idea about certain cargoes needing a particular truck.
@mrs-wheelsx: I hadn't thought about playing in one-handed, but I've just tried it and you're right. I figured using WASD and the arrow keys for movement, and using the central space bar to do everything else would make it easier for left- and right-handed people. (Then I had to spoil it by using the Tab key to send the truck off.) It also has Xbox controller controls, but I haven't tested those so who knows if they work...?
Thanks for the comment, @aweskybear!
- Yes, this has been pointed out a couple of times before :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: Working on a v1.1 which starts with a crate already on the shelf, and the delay between crates reduces by 1 second after every truck load, which helps get it frantic a lot quicker :smiling_imp: - More blocks with different shapes is the next thing I want to get done... - ... as well as different trucks with different size/shaped cargo areas.
Thanks for all your comments!
@crami, @bloodbane: :blush:
@fabula-rasa: I like your thoughts on the difficulty curve. It makes sense for the delay to be slow at first to let the player get used to the game, but then ramp up the difficulty quickly to make it more enjoyable/challenging. I'll have a play around with the timings, see if I can find the "sweet spot" you mentioned.
@gamedevtraum: I hadn't thought about having a preview of the next crate. It could be a help for the player on deciding how they're going to play, though since the crates turn up at random locations in the warehouse, it won't be a complete giveaway.
@wrong-timeline: yes, I didn't explain the costings very well. The small crates earn $5, the large crates $25, and an empty space loses you $1. So a completely empty truck will lose you -$10; with 1 crate, -$4 ($5 - $9); two small crates is the minimum load to make a profit ($10 - $8 = $2). I did think about putting in a "current value of load" UI item, but didn't get round to it.
Thanks for the comment @skel3ton! I did want to put in some kind of character to give the player instructions, with the possibility of adding some humour that way, but again: I was keeping a tight control on scope in order to finish something with a complete game loop.
Thanks @walaber! Yes, that seems to be the general consensus about the difficulty :rofl:
Hi @lachlan-james, if you play on itch.io, you should be able to scroll the embedded game window at the bottom-right and see the blue full-screen icon.
Thanks for the comments, @jkyd and @annabl-grant!
Thanks for your comments!
@bongo227: it's a small thing, but it helps me when I'm playing other people's games, so I always try to put the controls in somewhere.
@acarc: I did try having it "remember" where the cursor last was, but ran into issues when the crate size changed,so I had it reset to the first position everytime. Might look into changing it to what you suggest.
@voidsay: yes, I think someone else pointed out the timing issue :grin: Glad you like the animation!
Thanks for the comments!
@mikropiru: No, as shown in the credits, I got the music from opengameart.org, and the sound FX from freesound.org. I've always taken the attitude that audio isn't just about the quality of the individual sound FX and music, but also on how the audio is used (does the music fit? do the sounds happen at the right times?). YMMV.
@nusan: Thinking about it, having more than one crate show up at a time could make things ... interesting. I would like to have had time to implement different shapes, but :shrug: Different trucks (sizes and/or shapes of the cargo area) also had to be left on the altar of avoiding scope creep. I did think about being able to take things off the truck, but I thought it would be better to just send the truck off if you made a mistake.
Thanks for the comment, @redsti!
Thanks for the comments!
@lachlan-james: thanks for coming back and trying it again! Ideally, you could use the money to upgrade your truck and warehouse, but I've been caught out multiple times before in game jams trying to cram too much in, so I scaled back those plans.
@frank-gevaerts: Yes, at the rate the delay between crates decreases, the game doesn't start get challenging until the 20th truck! I've had multiple suggestions on how to improve that (speed up the rate of change, starting with a shorter delay, having multiple crates arrive at once).
Thanks, @dsk!
Thanks, @egormnc!
Thanks, @jelch! (It does speed up, but the rate of change is far too slow.)
Thanks, @keely-brown!
Thanks, @kristinamay! I haven't seen the movie, but after reading the plot summary on Wikipedia, I think I may have to hunt down a copy.
Thanks for the comments @sgtweirdo and @herman6006 (and I'll have a play around with that suggestion)!
Thanks, @tris-w!
Thanks for the feedback, @lincolnsalles!
Thanks, @oadt!
Thanks, @dan-str!
Thanks for the comments, @sinclairstrange and @saramartins!
Fun little game. Loved the graphics, and the scrolling background was neat (though I'm not sure I've ever been in a lift with a window that big :grin: ). Great work.
Nice to see a good, old-fashioned text adventure. Managed to complete 7/7 in 49 moves. Good work!
Fiendishly tricky puzzle game, loved it! Pretty graphics, though sounds would have been nice. Excellent work!
Nice puzzle game. Very pretty art and music. Well done!
Neat game. Nice low-poly graphics, good sound, interesting mechanics. Love the humour! Excellent work!
Congratulations on making a finished game -- that's something to be proud of!
An interesting effort. Some of the physics got a little annoying, ending up in situations where I couldn't move *anyone*, so some people got stuck on the train, but the concept was straightforward. Good work.
A very unique game! Love the pixel art (outside of the painting recreations :grin: ). Well done!
An interesting idea. I like the art style and music, but I found the gameplay a bit frustrating. Good work, though.
Lovely game. Beautiful graphics and moody sound, just like we'd normally expect from you :grin: Challenging platforming gameplay. Excellent work!
Very retro! Love the graphics and sound. Good work!
Nice game. Love the graphics and the car handling is pretty good. Only issue is there doesn't seem to be anything to detect when the player launches themselves out of the parking building (yes, my driving is *that bad*). Excellent work!
Beautiful game! Love the art style and sound. Gameplay is an interesting take on the theme. Excellent work!
Awesome game! Love the art style and sound, gameplay was really interesting and challenging. Fantastic work!
A pity you couldn't get it finished in time for the jam. Good work with the voice acting, don't often see that in a game jam. Well done!
Nice game. Interesting mechanics, good graphics and sound. Well done.
What a fantastic game! Audio is brilliant (it needs to be for a game like this). Loved it, excellent work!
I just adore this! Great gameplay, fantastic retro graphics and sound. Love it! Well done!
Nice game. Like the concept, graphics and sound. Well done!
Neat little puzzle game. Good work!
There's a certain satisfaction in just crunching into the other cars :rofl: Enjoyable game, loved how I managed to complete level 3 even though I was "parked" on the side of my car. Well done!
Interesting concept. The energy seemed to drain a bit too fast: I'd only ever have enough to go directly to the next, there was no leeway for making a small mistake. Good effort.
Nice game! Loved the art style. Good work!
Nice game, good work!
Interesting game. Good graphical elements. A few sound effects would've helped. Good work.
Nice game, beautiful art work. Excellent work!
Neat game. Nice music, clean graphics. Couldn't fire in all 8 directions, just to the left and right. Love the screen cap option. Excellent work!
Interesting game. The stylised pixel art is very pretty, but can make it hard to see what's going on. Good work!
Fantastic game! Tricky platforming, interesting mechanics, beautiful graphics, and really moody music. Well done!
Lovely game, beautiful art style. And the music helped set a suitably surreal mood.
My only complaint is using the `C`, `M` and `Y` keys to select between the different colours. I know *why* you chose those keys, but they're not close together on a standard QWERTY keyboard, so trying to select between them often required looking down at the keyboard. I'd suggest using three keys that are in a row on the keyboard (maybe `B`-`N`-`M`) so that the player's hands can rest on them, but also being suitable for left- and right-handed players.
But very well done, I enjoyed playing this!
Very cool game, love the art work and the gameplay. Excellent work!
Don't normally like rhythm games, but this was really fun! Nice graphics, and I like the way the music changed as band members were killed off :rofl: Excellent work!
Nice game. Great art style. Good work!
Very polished game. Cute graphics, catchy music and solid gameplay. Excellent work!
Nice little game. I liked the minimalist art style, the simple concept and easy controls. Well done!
Neat game. Love the graphics (especially the crew portraits), and the variation in events. Well done!
Some interesting ideas here. Really like the CRT effect laid on top, adds that little bit extra to the retro graphics. Great work!
Cute game! Love the retro art style, lots of fun. Excellent work!
Nice game. Art and sound very cute. Great work!
Nice game. Got pretty frantic at one point! Good mechanics, retro graphics, interesting idea. Good work!
Interesting, you've got a good foundation of a game here. Nice graphics. Hope you're able to fix the problems, could be a really interesting game. Well done!
A very interesting game. Nice use of the theme, and I loved the art and music. Excellent work!
Nice little shooter. Good work!
Very cool game. Love the retro graphics, and the music really sets the mood. Interesting puzzles and fascinating mechanics. Excellent work!
Nice game. Liked the art style and the simple gameplay and controls. Love the noise when you pick up a coin! Well done.
Nice game. Interesting mechanics. Got stuck a couple of times (fell into the space between platforms that the character's hair couldn't fit through). Good work.
An interesting game. Reminds me a lot of old Flash games. Good work!
Interesting game. Wasn't overly clear on how to capture new territory or move/fight troops. Nice graphics. Good work.
Fun little game. I did think it could do with some sounds, but then I realised sound doesn't travel in space, so it doesn't matter :grin: Nice graphics. Controls were a little tricky, would've been easier if W and S had been reversed (or mouse for pitch/yaw and WASD for lateral and longitudinal movement).
Nice game though, well done!
Nice game. Beautiful graphics. Thanks for adding the video explainer, made the rules of the game that much clearer. Good work!
Nice little mini-games. Cute graphics and good use of audio clips. Well done!
Interesting game. Managed 29 out of 40. Good use of the art assets -- the ones you've picked work well together. Good music too -- suitably medieval. Well done.
There's potentially a nice game here, but there were a number of bugs (like items stretching out weirdly -- see image) and unhelpful physics that made it really difficult to do anything (tapping one object accidentally would send it flying across the platform). There also didn't seem to be any feedback on whether I'd placed an object in the correct location.
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The graphics are very pretty and I liked the music. Good effort.
Good tension, but took a while to figure out what to do. Good work.
Cool game. The edge detection is a little unforgiving, but the controls are solid, nice graphics and great sound. Also, bonus points for the checkpoints! Excellent work!
Interesting little puzzle. Good graphics and sound, but I kept getting negative responses even when I fulfilled the customer's requests precisely. Only got 2366 pts. Good work.
Great little game. Love the graphics and gameplay, simple to pickup. The hiss when you dump a body in the chemicals is very satisfying! Excellent work!
Nice game. Love the retro graphics and sound. Well done.
Nice game, well done!
Interesting game. Like the animation at the beginning, and the use of an animated custom cursor. Decent graphics and nice music. Controls are a bit mushy, and using the cursor on Monata just sent her flying into an empty area. Good effort.
Nice little game. Love the art style, and the puzzle mechanics. Well done!
Interesting game. Physics got a bit wonky sometimes: the drawers seemed to get "stuck" to my hands, so I just ended up pushing stuff around the floor. Also managed to get stuck in the wardrobe. A good effort though, well done!
Good character control, nice graphics and sound. Could do with more feedback (slash animation, indicating knockback vs. damage, etc.), and there doesn't appear to be a win condition (maybe I missed it). Good effort.
Nice game. Like the nice clean aesthetics. Good work!
Interesting game. Good work.
Nice game. Good graphics and music, interesting gameplay. Movement of the player felt a bit sluggish, I assume there's a power-up to fix that? Great work!
Interesting game. Nice clean UI. Gameplay a bit confusing, and in-game tooltips for the various abilities would be useful. Good work.
That was fun! Excellent work!
Fun little game. Probably needed some instructions or how to play (like @air-dinghy, I tried dragging demons together before figuring out how to join the demons together). Well done!
Awesome game. Love the graphics, the limited palette works really well. Interesting gameplay, a bit trial-and-error, but I'd love to see you keep working on this. Excellent work!
Fun little game. Wasn't sure what I was supposed to be doing initially, but eventually worked it out. Interesting summoning mechanic. Loved the graphics, reminds me of old DOS games I played as a kid (yes, I'm **that** old), so bonus points for the nostalgia kick. Excellent work!
Fun little card game. Love the deckbuilding aspect, and the clean artwork. Well done!
Pretty little game, loved the retro graphics and sounds. Tricky gameplay but very enjoyable. Excellent work!
Love the idea of summoning chefs to cook the meals. Perhaps add some cards to buff the chef's performance? Nice graphics, good work!
Well done for an interesting game. Love the art design, really helped set a mood for the game. Excellent work!
Interesting game, well done!
Interesting game. Love the graphical style. Seemed to end abruptly, though. Not sure if that's intentional or just the game crashing inside the browser (Chrome). Excellent work!
Very cute game, loved it! Well done!
Interesting game, love the death blossom. Excellent work!
Nice game. Love the moody art work. Found it a bit hard to see when I was dragging a recently-summoned minion to a role, but otherwise really enjoyed it. Good work!
Interesting game. It was sometimes hard to read what word needed to be selected next, due to the torn corner in the notebook. Some kind of progress indicator as you're saying the words -- perhaps having the phrase stay on screen until it's complete -- would ease some of the frustration. But otherwise, a very good effort. Well done!
Awesome game. Love the concept, and the art and sound are perfect. Excellent work!
Fun little game, love the graphics and the interesting mechanics with the bees. Excellent work!
Interesting game. Gameplay's a bit confusing, but I could sort of see where you were going with it. Nice graphics. Good work.
Fun little game, well done!
I may be a little biased, but I love deckbuilders like this. Beautiful art, nice clear gameplay loop. Excellent work!
Interesting concept, cute graphics. Good work!
Terrific graphics, moody music, and tricky puzzles. Fantastic work!
Classic arcade shooter with a bit of modern bullet-hell thrown in, gotta love it. Excellent work!
This is a fun little game. A bit frustrating at first, but nothing another 24 hours couldn't have buffed out :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: Good work!
Great little game. Difficulty ramps up quickly, so I never managed more than ~230 kills, but bringing tenti in when the screen's full of enemies?
Love the graphics, though they were hard to see on a large screen. A full-screen option would've made playing a bit easier (I'm on a 4K monitor).
Controls were great: responsive, easy-to-master.
Some of the hit collisions seemed a bit off: I'd use A or D to just walk out of the way of a missile, but it'd still hit me, even though I was nowhere near it on the screen.
Overall, a fun game. Loved tenti's personality: the humour is perfect. Great work!
Thanks for the feedback @human-writes-code!
I realised how ambitious the scope was about 48 hours in. Right about the time the panic set in :rofl:
The *Sellsword* card is OP due to a bug. I'd been using a Godot resource to keep track of the player's data (health, gold, cards, etc), so didn't think about doing the same for the enemies. Unfortunately, I forgot that resources are effectively singletons (analogous to Unity's scriptable objects), so every time damage was done to one goblin, it was done to all goblins. With the *Sellsword* card, it would take 10% of your current gold, divide it by the number of enemies on screen and apply the portion to each enemy. But since they're all use the same health pool, each enemy effectively got the full damage amount. Basically turning it into a nuke by the time you get to the Boss. I should probably also put a cap on the amount of gold it converts.
Yes, I wanted animations, but I'm no artist and the thought of trying to do animation scares me :laughing: Ditto for music and sound effects.
Thanks for playing!
Hi @konstantinreed, thanks for the comments. There is still a bit of balancing to do, so the health potion is a bit OP. Currently working on a post-jam version.
Thanks for the feedback, @jkyd. I was tempted to re-use an asset pack of Vimlark's that I tried a few jams ago, but decided that I needed to practice my pixel art (I'm still not very good).
Working on a post-jam version, I've spent a lot of today implementing bloodsplats that appear on something whenever it takes damage, which goes a way to providing visual feedback. I'd also like to use tweens to have melee combatants dash forward and hit something, while ranged combatants launch missiles.
I've also tweaked the difficulty, so the boss starts with more hitpoints, and can heal himself once during a battle.
Hello @nardandas, thanks for the comments. Unfortunately, I've fixed that bug :rofl: so the encounters at higher levels are a bit harder now (in the current build).
@mitur: if you had fun, did you really fail? :grin: Glad you enjoyed it!
@zablas: there's definitely some glitches *in the jam version* around the minions' and enemies' health. It was one of those I-know-how-to-fix-it-but-I-also-know-there's-not-enough-time-left moments, in the last 20 minutes before the jam ended :confounded: I've fixed it in the post-jam version I'm currently working on.
@lachlan-james: Thanks! There's a few things I wanted to add in (artefacts, which would provide the player with bonuses like extra mana; more variety in the enemies and minions; etc.). There's still plenty of balancing to do, but as you say, that's usually not easy to do in a jam for a solo dev. Definitely had fun making this, so hopefully you'll see more!
Thanks for the comments!
@wheelsx: you say "weird", I say "very annoying". I'm trying to decide between a simple mouse-click closing the dialog, or a proper "close" button.
@fabula-rasa: The damage bug was quite stupid, although I'm blaming lack of sleep :dizzy_face: I had set up a resource to hold details about each enemy and minion type -- their maximum health, their attacks, etc. -- and for some reason I decided to store their *current* health in there too. But since resources can be thought of as singletons, that current health was for *all* minions or enemies of the same type. So if an attack injured one goblin, it would injure all of the goblins. Also, because the current health never got reset back to the max health, all new instances of minions and enemies would appear with zero health. I've fixed that in the current version I'm working on, but I didn't have time to do it before the jam ended. Also working on animations, and I'll have a look at the rest areas too.
Thanks @wolfier, yes the Great Eagle is in the game as a card, but I never managed to implement the actual minion. Same with the Armour buff.
Thanks @zomk! And yes, working on a post-jam version :grinning:
Thanks @lenne, yes I'd noticed after the jam that the new game button only works the first time (it also doesn't work in the Windows version). It's to do with how the two scenes (menu and map screens) switch to each other: Godot doesn't like it when two scenes try to pre-load each other, it ends up in a recursive mess of error messages. Easily fixed by telling one to load the other from file, and everything works correctly in the post-jam version I'm working on.
Thanks, @creeper-nade!
Thanks for your comments @yxure. I did want to have animations, but (a) ran out of time and (b) the thought of trying to animate scares me :rofl:
Thanks for all your comments!
@pacelin: yes, I didn't really do much balancing during the jam. I've tweaked it a little in the post-jam version I'm working on, and the fights are a bit more fair while still being challenging.
@uniowl: Thanks! I've never played *Slay the Spire* either, but I have seen some gameplay on YouTube (I'm not sure if *StS* has summoning), which was where most of the inspiration came from.
@tryam: Thank you!
@bulba: Thanks, I will!
@kaesterin: Thanks! I'm working on a post-jam version, which I'll probably publish after the jam has finished.
Thanks @bloodbane! I obviously need to tweak the balance, make it harder for you!
Thanks @lancejz, I'm a bit partial to the 8-bit look myself!
Thanks for all your comments!
@zirconcode: I never thought of having persistent minions. Guess I know what's being added to the future features list :grin: thanks!
@meranolean: yes, the rewards for each level are calculated based on how many enemies were on the level, and since the big boss is the only enemy on his level.... :shrug:
@pattedecanaard: plenty of things to add, including some from suggestions on this page :grin:
Thanks @deltamain. Actually, I don't think I've ever heard of *Peglin* before.
Thanks for your comments, @piero-pbes-studio and @negator2vc! Yes, visual feedback on what's happening is definitely lacking. There are text prompts at the bottom of the screen, but they're not particularly obvious. Definitely working on that for the post-jam version.
Thanks @thesmellofoxygen! I do have plans for cards to top up your mana, and artefacts that will give you more mana and health. The sellsword card is definitely OP in the jam version, with a bug in the damage distribution turning it into a nuke. In the post-jam version I'm working on, I've fixed the damage distribution, and made sure that sellsword does a maximum of 5 damage to any one enemy, It's still effective, but a bit less overpowered. Armour is still to be implemented, I put the card in just to flesh out the deck a bit. Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for your comments!
@petr-vejchoda: annoyingly, I figured out what the bug was and how to fix it in the closing minutes of the jam, without enough time left to actually fix it.
@dovodx: I had misread the rules and thought only bugs that stop the game from running (or cause it to crash) were the only ones that could be fixed once the jam ended. I'll remember for next time, thanks! I think I can add some more, especially in providing feedback to the player on what's happening. And yes, I've already fixed the need to use the keyboard in the post-jam version.
Thanks @atan. I did intend to have a randomly generated map each run, but -- like so many things -- ran out of time to implement it properly, so there's just a single "test" map each time. And I'm also working on a way to indicate who is attacking what.
Thanks for your comments.
@cosmic-dust: Yes, there's a bug in the jam version where the different types of enemies share a health pool, rather than keep track of their own health. I've fixed it in a post-jam version (there's a Windows version on the itch.io page). I like the idea of the minions doing their own targeting, but I'll have a play around with your idea.
@oller125: Yes, there's a bug with the enemies' health tracking which makes the jam version way too easy; and feedback for the player is definitely high on my priority list.
Thanks @rhyst.
The 0 health bug and all enemies dying in one hit bug are actually the same bug, where I accidentally used a Godot resource (which act like singletons) to store the current health, rather than one each individual enemy.
And there's minimal balancing in the jam version. In a post-jam version, I've rebalanced Sellsword to do a maximum of 5 damage to each enemy.
Thanks @matt-ravenhall !
Thanks, @pauldee427 ! I'm certainly interested in seeing where I can go with this, including using it as inspiration to improve my art skills. I've also got ideas for artifacts that will increase your mana pool, but I like the idea of saving mana between turns/battles.
Didn't expect to see a rhythm game! Nice concept, good graphics, and I like the difficulty levels. Bosses could do with energy bars or something, so you can see your progress against them. Excellent work!
Excellent game! Really enjoyed the deckbuilding mechanics and the variety of strategies available. Very well done!
Cool little game. Love the gesture system. Graphics and sound are pretty cute, and the gameplay is satisfying. Excellent work!
Interesting game. Gorgeous visuals, as expected. Good work!
Interesting game. Nice simple concept, well executed. Great work!
Interesting game, some definite potential here. Would be helpful if the mouse was limited to the window; had a few instances where I'd accidentally click outside the window (and into another window) while trying to aim and attack at the same time. I had fun, though: good work!
Beautiful game, I think this is what I was envisaging when I tried my hand at a deckbuilding roguelike. Could only ever get up to level 4, but it's very satisfying. The art is amazing, and the music fits the theme nicely. Excellent work!
An interesting idea. Art is nice, though the icons for the map tiles are a bit unclear. Good effort!
Very nice game. Love the art design. Great concept, and would be immensely improved by showing connections between stars. Excellent work!
Fun little game, very satisfying dropping meteors on the villagers. Good work!
Quite a polished game for a jam, loved the graphics! Excellent work!
Pretty little game. Some instructions would've been nice -- I struggled try to figure out what I was supposed to do at the beginning, but I got there in the end. Good work!
Nice game. Very nice artwork. Found the game a bit tricky, but I can see it growing on me (pun not intended). Excellent work!
Interesting game. Some hints when you get the recipe wrong would be helpful. Well done.
Interesting puzzle game, excellent work!
What a fun game! Excellent work!
Nice little game. Controls took a bit of getting used to, keep hitting up to jump. Good art and sound. Good work!
Very nice game. Interesting mechanics, though I ended up inside a wall waaaaaay too often :rofl: Love the limited-palette graphics. Excellent work!
Fun little game. Cute graphics (especially the chibbles). Only suggestion would be a slight delay between when the spell pattern hint is displayed and when it starts showing the key combination. Frequently managed to fail the summons when I missed the first keystroke.
Excellent work!
Nice game. Well done!
Very styly game! Love the modifiers you can add to the summonings, really add an extra level of strategy. Excellent work!
There's the bones of a fun little game here. The controls were a bit sluggish for me, even with my mouse sensitivity turned up: felt like I was running through jelly the whole time. Nice clean graphics, good audio. Good work!
I don't think demonic sudoku was on my bingo card, but here we are :rofl: Cool little puzzle game, nice graphics, music really sets the mood. Great work!
Great game. Loved the visuals, very reminiscent of *Among Us*. Interesting gameplay; difficulty ramps up rather quickly. Excellent work!
The artwork is beautiful, but the UI doesn't provide enough feedback on what's going on. I ended up just dragging attacks at random. But I think there's a good foundation here, and with some more work, it could become a really fun game. Good work.
Fun little game, gorgeous artwork and interesting outcomes. Well done!
Interesting hybrid game. Well done!
Very nice game. Love the art, and imaginative combinations. Well done!
Nice little game. I like the two separate objectives (dodging the fireballs and clicking on the sigils) running side-by-side, really kept me on my toes. I liked the graphics, although I found it tricky to differentiate between the good and bad sigils, based on colour alone (and could also be difficult/impossible for colourblind players).
Great concept though. Excellent work!
Excellent little deckbuilder, awesome work!
Neat game. Love the graphics and the intro cutscene, excellent work!
A very beautiful puzzle game, easy to learn, and plenty of fun. Excellent work!
Interesting game. Beautiful art, very moody. Excellent work!
Very pretty game, loved the adorable artwork! Interesting variation on tower defence. Excellent work!
Confusing to begin with (I skipped the tutorial), but very interesting game mechanics. Good work!
Very unique game, don't think I've ever played one quite like this. Excellent work!
Interesting game. Love the graphics and art design, and the way the demon's names are called when summoned. Took a bit to figure out how to play. Good work!
Interesting game. Nice art and sound. Some of the mini-games could do with a bit of a lead-in before starting the action: the flappy-bird clone kept catching me out. Good work!
Interesting idea here, unfortunately I was frustrated by the exclamation marks making it difficult to see what kind of emergency I needed to respond to, turning it to a guessing game. The graphics are otherwise very clear, and it's quite enjoyable otherwise. Excellent work.
Cute little game. Love the pixel art. Very frustrating controls though; jump would've better on the up key, with the other movement keys: I kept throwing the book when I wanted to jump. Good work.
Cute game. Love the graphics. Found the summon controls a bit tricky, but I can see what you were aiming for. Excellent work!
Fun little game, very polished. Got completely annihilated on Acolyte level and was giggling the whole time. Great work!
Nice game, loved the art and music. Great gesture-based mechanics. Excellent work!
Interesting game. Nice music, and good difficulty curve (which I ruined slightly by going to the graveyard first). Excellent work!
Decent little game. Definitely could be expanded into something more. A little more clarity on what you were summoning and their capabilities would be useful. Good work!
Neat little game. Healing the summons is a bit slow, especially when out of combat. Well done!
Interesting game. I like the switch in summoning enemies instead of something helpful. Nice graphics. Seemed to run into a bug where the timer ran down to "1s" and stayed there; never got the game over screen.
Good work!
An absolutely beautiful looking game! Love the concept, only suggestion would be a notebook of previously tried recipes, to avoid unhelpful repetition. Great work!
Interesting game. Love the historical setting! Very slick. Only thing was the constant popups offering upgrades, especially in the later stages.
Great work!
Cute game, love the art design. Controls feel a bit floaty, and the combination mouse/keyboard controls were a bit clunky. Good work!
Interesting game. Beautiful art. Well done!
Love the graphical style! Straightforward, easy to learn gameplay, with excellent, gradual introduction to new animal types (mutants, sick). Very well done!
Cute game, enjoyed the casual vibes -- excellent work!
Interesting game. Only problem is the player obscuring the view ahead when it's in the middle of the screen. Gameplay was fun though. Good effort, well done!
Very interesting game, beautiful graphics and very moody. Excellent work, well done!
Nice game, made it all the way to the end with a little bit of health to spare.... Good work!
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Beautiful game, absolutely adored the graphics. Excellent work, well done!
Cute game, love the sound and graphics -- excellent work!
Thanks everyone for playing and leaving your comments!
@ntmalichi : Fixed that bug, the submarine shouldn't get stuck in the wall any more.
@mavrick, @aleksey4adoff: I ran out of time to do more levels -- as it was, I was up well past midnight (on a work night!) getting level 4 "good enough". I've architected it so adding new levels is pretty easy -- just takes time -- but I have a list of mobile enemies and bosses I wanted to add.
@aweskybear : Easy enough to tweak those settings, although I've found if the submarine goes too fast, it becomes really hard to move through narrow spaces in the level.
@static-leap-studios, @she-wrote, @ditam : thanks -- the SFX I've had kicking around for a while, and used them in other projects, while I found the music on [Pixabay](https://pixabay.com/music/video-games-8-bit-retro-game-music-233964/). And ditam, I've upped the damage dealt by the mines on level 4.
@oadt : I started drawing the submarine first, before I knew what I wanted the game to be -- one of those "game jam rules" that I usually don't break. I didn't want to simply flip the submarine around when it turns, so I animated it and learned how much I suck at 3/4 views! Hopefully the animation is fast enough, no-one notices :laughing:
@euler-moises : I spent so much time trying to decide on which way around to do the palette, but eventually settled on the white background because I wanted it to feel "lighter"
Thanks @codechomper !
Thanks @aizomon and @ciaranw !
Thanks for the comments!
@stending : I missed LD56 due to illness, so I was determined to get something submitted for 57, even if I didn't have time for the Jam.
@texugo : thanks!
@gustavo-christino : I originally wanted a winch to come out from under the bottom of the submarine to grab the cargo, but (surprise, surprise) didn't have time to implement that, so there are two small collision boxes -- one under the sub, one on top of the crate -- and the sub only grabs the crate when the two overlap. I've been thinking about a narrative, so if I continue, I'll probably add that it. I wasn't really trying for humour or mood, just wanted to get something vaguely playable!
@lloydlobo : the sub changing direction is probably faster than it should be, mainly to hide my crappy pixel art! A lot of the things you mention weren't include due to time limitations. Certainly want more levels, not sure about inverting colours but I'll keep that in mind. Had to look up *Baba is You*'s OST, but I see what you mean.
Thanks @kseniya!
@lloydlobo : there's quite a few ways that I could play with colour, even while keeping to my quasi 1-bit style. I'm always impressed by how many successful games started as game jam entries.
Nice little game. May be programmer art, but I thought the art style was cute. Audio was very atmospheric, really suited the ghost hunt theme. Good foundation for a game here, well done!
Cute game, with some tricky gameplay. Love the art style, well done!
Interesting game. Nice to see an XCOM-like game in the jam. Good effort.
Awesome little game, loved the art design! Very surprising gameplay -- nice and short, and a bit weird: love it! Well done!
Nice game! Excellent work, well done!
Love the art style, gameplay fun -- excellent work, well done!
Interesting little game, but I found the controls are really hard. A bit different, though, and that's always good! Great work!
Very interesting little toy you've built. Good work.
Good looking puzzle game, nice music and interesting game play. Excellent work, well done!
Oof, that's a hefty download.
Nice graphics, very atmospheric, great effort -- well done!
An interesting idea. Unfortunately fell through the floor while trying to tag objects (near to the door on the far side of the room). Lovely graphics, very moody. Great work!
Very nice little game, lovely graphics and sound. Excellent work!
Great little game (in 5 hours?!), excellent work!
Very interesting game: I like the "try to figure out the rules while also trying to win". Good work!
Great little game, lots of fun (and I don't normally like bullet-hells). Well done!
What a fantastically unique take on the theme! Loved doodling away with this, would have kept going if I didn't need to go to bed! Well done -- excellent work!
Thought this looked interesting when I watched Phil Strahl play it on his stream last weekend.
Nice little game! Neat graphics, very responsive controls and clear UI. Love the frustration when you have to stop moving when a signal is just out of reach!
Excellent work -- very well done!
Interesting game. Unfortunately, it stopped responding to controls -- all I could do was spend the money I'd already accumulated.
Good work -- well done.
Interesting game. Cute hand-drawn art style, solid platformer mechanics. Good work!
Ummm... keep getting itch,io's 404 page for the game. Did you forget to publish it?
Fascinating -- love the logic puzzle you've built, and the beautiful graphics and sound to go with it.
Excellent work -- well done!
Tried to play, but it crashed after ~30 seconds. The concept sounds intriguing, and I love the art style -- very reminiscent on 80's/90's cartoons.
Nice little puzzler! Some of the colliders seem a bit large, but the gameplay's solid. Cute robot sprite, and nice clean design.
Excellent work -- well done!
A very basic collection of games. It would have been better if you'd focussed on just one game, and iterated over that.
Interesting concept, I'm looking forward to seeing where you go with it. Clean interface, clear feedback and graphics, nice audio.
Excellent work -- well done!
An absolutely bonkers story on top of a really solid game. Great execution, plenty of humour. Loved the music (had my dude-bros "dancing" to it on the way to their destination!). Neat graphics. My only suggestion would be a bit of parallax on the starfield to add a sense of motion.
Fantastic game -- excellent work!
Great little shmup. Love the 90s disc loading sounds. Frantic action and retro graphics.
Excellent work -- well done!
Loved this game; graphics, music and text all really building the mood! Beautiful art, lovely music and an engaging story.
Excellent work -- well done!
Well done for putting this together in such a short time! Loved the graphics, story and flight mechanics, though I did find one bug:
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Excellent work -- well done!
An adorably cute little game! Love the art style and the music. Took me a while to figure out I could fly the drone **over** rocks (probably lack of sleep?) but got there in the end -- that last battery was a real grind to get!
Well done, excellent game!
Interesting game. Love the desperation when trying to keep multiple boats, all going in different directions, on course. Good clear graphics and audio, nicely simple controls and fun gameplay.
Excellent work -- very well done!
Very moody game. Interesting concept and really good, eerie music.
Excellent work -- well done!
Neat little game. Loved the graphics and sound, gameplay was pretty neat though the controls are a bit fiddly with a mouse.
Excellent work -- well done!
Absolutely hilariously awesome game! Loved the whole concept, the art style, the reactions of the totem head to the insults. Totally loved this game. Excellent job -- very well done!
Thanks for playing @yueyao-wang!
Sometimes (most of the time?) that works, but other times the sheep scatter in all directions and it's more of a mission to round them up. I think I need to add in scattering to the sheep's initial positions.
Thanks for your comments!
@steven-garberg : that's hilarious! just like our dogs when *any* kind of animal appears on TV
@judjudson : yes, it's more fun when you're chasing down the sheep. Got an idea for the scattering, might implement in a post-jam version.
@shivvvy : thanks -- it's all programmer art, I wish I could make them cuter
@khaotom : thanks -- I noticed the whistles were quite loud (compared to the other sounds) so I added the option to turn them off!
thanks for playing, @naidove !
I agree about spreading the sheep out more at the beginning, and the whistles being quite aggressive (hence the option to turn them off). Tried adding music in the last half-hour of the jam, but it didn't work for some reason.
Thanks for playing and commenting, @poboy !
Thanks for playing!
@julia-nistel : yes, just like real life, apparently :grin: The art could be improved, especially the dog's sprite (which originally looked like a hellhound before I tweaked it).
@jpat : Sometimes it's easy, and sometimes you've spent a few minutes chasing down that last darned sheep! The whistle-off feature was as much for my sanity while testing.
Hi @balimaarthebassfish, that's odd -- no-one else has reported a problem. What browser are you using?
Alternatively, I do have Windows and Lunux builds you could download.
Thanks for playing and commenting!
@chusui77 : yeah, sorry about that. I probably should have spent some time in Audacity tweaking the volume of the clips (it's also why I put the option to turn whistles off into the game).
@franklyn01 : glad you enjoyed it; not sure what you mean by "real recorded whistles" -- they were.
@balimaarthebassfish : glad you were able to play it eventually!
Hmm, just noticed a bug where the game finishes at level 5, when it should finish at level 10 -- which is a bit more challenging. I'll get the version changed soon.
Edit: bug fixed, all 10 levels can be played now (I might have also moved the sheep spawn point and fixed the scattering bug so they're not as clustered any more at the start).
Thanks for playing and commenting!
For everyone "bleating" :grin: about the volume of the whistles, I've modified the audio assets so they're a bit quieter now.
@pipetto : apologies for deafening you :grimacing: -- see previous sentence
@rynti : an early idea was to have different dogs that would have different skills (faster, able to get closer to the sheep, etc.) but decided that it would increase the scope too much.
@frowsyfrog : yes, I don't think I did a very good job of explaining the controls in the game.
@rinnnzy : thanks! I did start with grand ideas of different dogs and breeds of sheep, but cut those early on to avoid running out of time (something I've been **very** guilty of in previous jams).
@wouter52 : speak for yourself, the last time I tried Level 2 after fixing the sheep spawning, it took me over two minutes to get the second sheep into the pen! The idea wasn't mine: my wife called me about four hours into the jam, and asked how it was going. I had to explain that I was having trouble coming up with an idea. She said, "What about whistling to dogs?" And I said, "I can make a game with that!" And this is the result ... so blame her :grin: It's not specific, except that we love dogs. And according to [the website](https://www.thebordercollie.co.uk/collections/whistle-command-sounds-and-how-to-use-a-sheepdog-whistle) I used, the signals are what real herders use. There's a few more that are used, but I didn't include them to keep the complexity/scope down.
@blue-pin-studio : real herding looks to be a lot easier (though farmers usually have at least two dogs, who are much more well-trained and smarter than the dog in the game!). I've turned the volume down on the whistles, so they should be a bit more bearable now.
@dywanix : Thanks for playing!
@jasmin : Thanks for playing! I think I'd be worse -- my whistles are pathetic....
@ternarycat : Thanks for playing! I usually get told my games are too easy. I think I may have over-corrected this time :laughing:
Thanks for playing and commenting!
@bananabobbert : if you leave the sheep long enough, they'll eventually start wandering from behind the tree (though I'll probably still need to look at the colliders).
@j4cko16 : yes, I need to do something better about explaining the commands for the dog. Level design was limited by what I could put in the level, and that was down to deliberately limiting the scope of the game.
Thanks for playing and commenting!
@jiawen-hu : thanks, I'm somewhat happy with how that sheep head icon came out. Level design is one thing that definitely needs some attention.
@deraxus : yes, I need to make the instructions clearer.
@3blackpixels : interesting idea, I'll have a think about how that could work -- thanks!
@cedaoan : yes, the instructions are a bit unclear -- need to work on that.
Thanks for playing and commenting!
@djtequila : the pathing needs work, I agree. Walk-on just finds the centre of the flock, and heads there, while the two flanking moves (come-bye and away-to-me) finds the nearest sheep.
@loveapplegames : I think I mentioned in an earlier comment that I did have an idea for different dogs (faster, stealthier, etc.) but kept them out to keep the scope small. Unfortunately, I forgot to increase the default dog's speed to compensate! I also did think about having multiple dogs, but again, kept them out for scoping reasons.
Thanks @python-b5 ! I think you're right about the reset option. There's also some work to be done on level design, which should get rid of a lot of the "press W to win" problem.
@ieee333 : Thanks! Not sure what you mean by "voice acting"... unless you meant the sheep and dog noises?
@mrtroy : Yes, I need a reset option. There is an actual dog command to "return to me", but I didn't implement it. Guess I should :laughing:
Thanks for playing on stream @philstrahl !
Thanks for playing!
@kahztein : I love old retro games, so I'm always trying to recreate the vibe.
@ellas : glad you like the sheep!
Thanks for playing and commenting @artur-hawkwing ! I need to write better instructions!
Very fun game with gorgeous graphics effects and great gameplay.
Excellent work -- very well done!
Nice little TD game. Nice graphics, good gameplay, clear instructions. Good work -- well done!
Really cool idea -- would love to see a finished version. Excellent work!
Great work on recreating the look, feel and sound of an old console game! Loved charging around looking for that last gem. And the easter eggs ...
Excellent work -- very well done!
Lovely puzzle game. Adorable graphics, satisfying gameplay. Absolutely loved it.
Excellent work -- very well done!
Nice little puzzle game. Love the art and sound design. Only quibble was trying to get the plugs into the sockets: took me a bit to figure out the mouse cursor needs to go over the socket, not the tip of the plug :rofl:
Excellent work -- well done!
Interesting game. Cute characters, catchy music, intriguing concept. Including the hint book is very useful, due to the number of combinations possible. Seemed to be easy to get the birds into a unwinnable combo.
Fun little game -- good work!
Fun little game! Loved the graphics, and the music was pretty catchy. Interesting concept. Excellent work -- well done!
Interesting game. Loved both the 3D level graphics, and the pixel art buttons, though I'm not sure they really go well together? Great concept though -- excellent work!
Neat application of the theme, gives an idea of what it's like for NASA driving the Mars rovers! Great graphics, challenging gameplay. Feedback on the buttons to confirm I've pressed it would be good.
Good work!
Very interesting concept. Love the noir-esque art style: combined with the music, really sets the mood.
Excellent work -- well done!
Interesting concept! Good graphics and really good sounds.
Excellent work -- well done!
Neat little puzzle game. I like the graphics, though an option for full-screen would've been nice (playing on a 4K monitor, I had to squint a bit to read the text).
Excellent work -- well done!
Interesting game. Like the concept, and the art's beautiful. Jump seems a bit overpowered, but I guess that's just because the platforms had to be so far apart. A minimap of some sort would've been nice (maybe with a FOW effect), so backtracking would be easier.
All in all, a solid and fun effort -- well done!
Cool little game. I don't usually enjoy rhythm games, but this one held my interest. Love the art style!
Excellent work -- well done!
Interesting way to mash the theme and TD genre together (not normally my type of game, but I enjoyed this one). A hint as to what each of the towers did would be good, as well as sound effects to accompany the towers' firing and enemies' dying.
Excellent work -- well done!
Interesting concept! Love the art style and the sound design. Was a bit of an issue when reorganising the network, where a twin-tower and two single towers would form a loop, meaning I had to destroy and rebuild another tower to get the network back -- not sure if this is a bug or a deliberate feature (but smells like a bug to me).
Excellent work -- very well done!
Nice game. Like the signal effect, though hadn't realised that I only had a limited number before I ran out! Nice graphics, good sound, suitably atmospheric.
Good work -- well done!
Tough little game. Serious SimCity vibes from the graphics! Difficulty curve is a little steep: starting out with only a couple of cars going through the intersection, or maybe a simpler intersection, would make learning the game easier.
Excellent work -- well done!
Awesomely fun little game! Loved the graphics and sound (and the mini jukebox -- didn't notice that until day 3), and the comedic messages and images from the signals.
Excellent work -- very well done!
Interesting game. Good graphics and sound, great atmosphere. I got surprised when I ran out of battery power. I know that there was a gauge at the top-left of the screen, but some kind of visual or audio warning when battery power was low would've been useful.
Good work -- well done!
Odd little game. Instructions are a bit vague, and I didn't find the tutorial much more helpful. I do like the art style in the background, but the lack of direction, feedback, and sound all hurt the game. There's potential here, but needs a bit more work.
Good effort, well done.
Very nice little game. Beautiful art and sound design. Nice, simple controls. Easy-to-understand instructions.
Excellent work -- very well done!
Interesting game. Definitely some potential here. The postprocessing made it a little hard for me to see what was going on. Good effort!
Interesting, more of a sandbox than a game. Some good ideas, and I could've really had fun if there was a mirror option on placing the elements.
Good work -- well done!
Lovely game, really enjoyed the music and the spot SFX. Interesting idea, and I did like the progressive hinting system -- I needed that on a couple of levels. Loved the handdrawn art (especially the background for level 5).
Well done, a fun little game!
Very moody, beautiful hand-drawn aesthetic. Sound design absolutely perfect. (And I'm not a horror fan.)
Excellent work -- well done!
Neat little puzzler. Clean graphics, clear objectives. Nice difficulty curve through the levels.
Excellent work -- well done!
Fun game, really loved the art style and the concept. Excellent work -- well done!
Beautifully drawn game, but as I don't speak Chinese, I wasn't able to play it. Also couldn't see any connection to the theme. It certainly *looks* like it has some good ideas, but I couldn't fully appreciate it.
Interesting concept, and I love the retro art style. Would've really liked to have played this -- are you planning on working on it further (maybe even submitting in the **Extra** category)?
Awesome retro game. Adore the graphics and sound, and the inversion of the *Frogger* gameplay.
Excellent work -- very well done!
Very cute little game. Adorable graphics, cute sound and an interesting take on the theme.
Excellent work -- well done!
Lovely little game. Art style is very cute, and great use of the theme. Excellent work!
Cool game. Love the three-step decoding process. Pretty art style, easy controls, great sounds.
Excellent work -- well done!