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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | ||
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| 2025 | 58 | Collector | Auction Antics | jam | 437 | 3.46 | 3.27 | 3.38 | 4.17 | 3.29 | 3.25 | 3.33 | ||||
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | Orchid | compo | 3.57 | 3.29 | 4.29 | 3.21 | 2.93 | 3.43 | 2.86 | 3.14 | ||||
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | 👥 | Arithmancy | jam | 905 | 3.28 | 3.03 | 3.75 | 3.88 | 3.08 | 2.50 | 3.18 | |||
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | Diableotes | jam | 386 | 3.76 | 3.86 | 3.54 | 3.46 | 2.79 | 2.94 | 3.74 | 3.26 | |||
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | 👥 | Smoothie Operator | extra | |||||||||||
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | 👥 | Nuclear Waste Disposal | jam | 844 | 3.25 | 3.25 | 3.58 | 3.60 | 2.90 | 3.00 | 3.16 | |||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | 👥 | Love Finds A Way | jam | 969 | 3.31 | 3.12 | 3.77 | 3.49 | 3.50 | 3.43 | 3.10 | |||
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | 👥 | Giruffled | jam | 213 | 3.95 | 3.84 | 3.82 | 4.23 | 3.84 | 3.54 | 4.00 | 3.67 | ||
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | 👥 | Boglin's Escape | jam | 3.50 | 3.00 | 3.33 | 4.17 | 3.67 | 3.67 | 3.50 | 4.00 | |||
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | 👥 | Sheep Sheep Halloumi | jam | 749 | 3.69 | 3.52 | 3.58 | 4.06 | 4.00 | 3.43 | 3.58 | 3.55 | ||
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | Slave Story | jam | 266 | 3.72 | 3.58 | 3.33 | 3.56 | 2.81 | 4.14 | |||||
| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | God of Fingers (HTML5) | jam | 606 | 3.34 | 3.12 | 3.48 | 3.78 | 3.22 | 3.50 | |||||
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | 👥 | Happy Chicken Farm | jam | 105 | 3.95 | 3.48 | 3.33 | 3.91 | 3.91 | 3.88 | 3.19 | 3.70 | ||
| 2017 | 38 | A Small World | 👥 | Shelton's Detour | jam | 551 | 3.09 | 2.68 | 3.32 | 3.59 | 3.14 | 2.14 | 2.57 | 2.91 | ||
| 2016 | 37 | One room | Snakes and Letters | jam | 495 | 3.27 | 3.38 | 3.88 | 2.69 | 2.88 | 2.48 | 2.82 | 56 | |||
| 2016 | 36 | Ancient Technology | Helisculptor | jam | ||||||||||||
| 2016 | 35 | Shapeshift | Wings for Ska Li | jam | 577 | 3.21 | 3.11 | 3.78 | 3.33 | 3.10 | 3.06 | 2.44 | 2.83 | 41 | ||
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | Carrion Forge: Fusion Gunship | jam | 344 | 3.50 | 3.72 | 3.84 | 3.80 | 3.23 | 3.00 | 2.67 | 3.23 | 51 | ||
| 2015 | 33 | You are the Monster | Hindenboxer | jam | 313 | 3.47 | 3.53 | 3.14 | 3.87 | 3.47 | 3.64 | 3.33 | 3.25 | 71 | ||
| 2015 | 32 | An Unconventional Weapon | Bubble Becky | jam | 89 | 3.86 | 3.71 | 4.11 | 4.35 | 3.70 | 3.35 | 3.43 | 3.45 | 100 | ||
| 2014 | 31 | Entire Game on One Screen | Skreen | jam | 435 | 3.28 | 3.31 | 3.28 | 3.71 | 2.97 | 3.22 | 2.96 | 3.07 | 49 | ||
| 2014 | 30 | Connected Worlds | Intergalactic Express | jam | 345 | 3.28 | 3.50 | 3.45 | 3.58 | 2.84 | 2.83 | 2.37 | 3.15 | 63 | ||
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | Juno's Garden | jam | 458 | 3.07 | 2.48 | 3.78 | 2.93 | 2.52 | 2.52 | 2.79 | 3.09 | 47 | ||
| 2013 | 28 | You Only Get One | Don't forget your old shipmate | jam | 281 | 3.07 | 2.81 | 3.04 | 3.24 | 3.08 | 3.68 | 3.37 | 3.00 | 52 | ||
| 2013 | 27 | 10 Seconds | The theft of the magic potato | jam | 506 | 2.61 | 2.39 | 3.03 | 3.26 | 3.31 | 3.00 | 2.81 | 2.52 | 66 | ||
| 2013 | 26 | Minimalism | SDFJKL | jam | 89 | 3.64 | 3.62 | 4.03 | 3.52 | 2.51 | 3.28 | 2.66 | 2.87 | 100 | ||
| 2012 | 25 | You are the Villain | Ninox the Nightbringer | jam | 69 | 3.46 | 3.36 | 3.48 | 2.69 | 2.77 | 2.94 | 2.74 | 3.18 | 96 |
| Year | MiniLD | Theme | Game | Rank | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 63 | Fusion | Polar Bearer | |||
| 2015 | 58 | PONG | CentiSoccer | |||
| 2014 | 55 | Preparation | Sheepwalkers |
Dining Philosopher leaves an average of 20.1 feedback comments each event.
Back from vacation and finally got around to this - and boy is it stressful xD I feel like in theory it should be possible to use just the lollypop, dog and an occasional hand to keep all the children fenced in, but couldn't make it work. Great humor and I really like the graphics, although there seems to be some tearing for me (on Firefox), as if not all parts of the map/walls are redrawn at the same moment.
Fun game, I love picking upgrades like this :D Got 4416 points. I didn´t pick charm, perhaps explain what it is in the description.
With the use of AI I'm not sure how generally frowned-upon participating in the graphics and sound categories is. I don´t know what the rules say about this, but then again in the Compo and Extra categories you're not expected to make everything yourself anyway.
Nice concept, it's rare to see RTS entries :D I agree with @rpgwanderer that more conventional movement (select a group, send it somewhere) would better though, the slow mouse moving and having some bacteria stay behind is a bit tedious.
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Wow, super pretty and fun gameplay! Frustrating but not unfair. I lost count on the levels, but for some reason I didn't get scores for level 7? Also just noticed the instruction to play whichever level you want, that's very useful :D
Super enjoyable game, it took me way too long to realize the resources were not created by me (by pressing E in the right places?) or random chance, but were actually loot drops. The motion of the hat is nice and fluid. Some extra suggestions: give the player the ability to create a preset-combination of resources to summon in one click, and the ability to destroy existing towers (perhaps I missed how this is possible?). I accidentally placed a few towers in nice locations with only a few resources, and no way to improve this later.
Hello fellow Godot enjoyer! The programmer art is strong with this one but it's a cool concept! The info in the top bar is clear, info mode would have been a lower priority for me. For the UI I'd suggest using right-click to move a unit, and have some hotkeys for the different spells. Unit-wise I think it would be nice to have some variety in the costs of units (mixed resources) but I like the different strengths of the units that you have.
The game could be nice for a bot programming contest :)
Polished game, I like the zoom-out effect at the start. Gameplay-wise I'd switch up the combinations for spells after a while, spamming is too easy without even looking at the enemies. Or incentivize not casting a certain spell because a power-up is incoming that you would destroy with that color. There are lots of other options of course, like giving bonus points for a wave destroying many enemies at once, hit points for some enemies so you need to cast the same wave multiple time to destroy it, having mixed colors (waves that destroy multiple enemy types/enemies that die from multiple wave types), etc.
Cool submission!
First game I'm playing this LD55, and such a nice one! The QWER took me a while to get used to, it might be nicer to have the notes scroll vertically (I don't look that far ahead at least) - like rain drops :P I also love the villagers + lightning mechanic, and the art style is fitting. The fonts on the opening screen and between levels are very basic and too large for me, perhaps they are not loading properly?
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How did you make the notes line up so tightly with the audio? I'm assuming you just play the audio file, do you need to actively synchronize or can you just animate the notes based on time?
Good game, I especially like your choice of music! Add the freesound link maybe.
I love how you're making a consistent series, amazing intro :D Nice gameplay too, my suggestion would be to make the regular attack "always on" so players don't have to mash for no reason - there's no cost to attacking as far as I know after all. The player then only has to choose when to use their queued mutation.
Nice and simple, I liked the challenge of level 13. Often I just skipped the star, I suppose the idea is to get it AND be as fast as possible, but getting it always slows you so these objectives feel a bit conflicting. I'd also leave R for Restart even when you're in-game, the risk of accidentally pressing it is very low and it feels better than crashing into the wall.
Funny dialogues, and I was pleasantly surprised at level 3, very thematic. I then promptly died though because I didn't know what the counter resets to after a collapse :-\
Nice style with the isometric view and good pixel art. I don't have anyone here to play the game with, but I can imagine it's also strategically quite challenging. Some sounds and music would have been nice of course.
On itch.io the game is very large for me on 100% btw, I could initially not see the "end turn" button or the build options, and also not scroll while the game has focus. I can make it smaller just by Ctrl-minus before the game has focus, but ideally you would have a fullscreen-button to automatically fit it.
Also very nice that have support for different numbers of players!
Ooof, hard! Made it to level 5, it took me a while to figure out that I didn't have to solve the level before the ship reached the end, but had to hold out until then - which I think is a great mechanic.
One thing that would be nice is to clearly indicate which blocks must stay in the ship, and which ones the player can swap out. Also, being able to unload a block with right click, and possibly having a panic-key to unload everything would be nice.
Very original! The game reminds me of the podcast "Welcome to Nightvale", the game could be used to create episodes of that :)
Great writing for the cards, I like how the events encourage introduction of new characters and leave open lots of room for interpretation and creativity for defining (historic) events. Recommended it to my sister + husband who are really into improv comedy, I think the game lends itself well for this. I didn't actually play it myself yet btw.
One idea for the optional rules that occurred to me is that a player can draw two cards and answer both while making a connection between the two events.
The only spelling fixes I could find:
14 - Something rare and valuble -> valuable O Why was that site targetted? -> targeted, usually
Good job!
Nice idea, I always struggle with making graph problems sufficiently game-like. As @nathmate says the shared cargo space works really well. I couldn't buy more resources, maybe you didn't implement this? And there seems to be only one level where the shortest path is a solution as @verttixpertti notes, unless the game crashed on the "on to the next system!" screen, but I figure "thanks for playing" means it's the end.
Pretty pixel art btw.
Very cute, I especially like the music/audio and how well it fits with the game. My only suggestion would be to automatically detect when there are no more moves - or I'm very bad at finding moves, I did three runs trying to lock myself in and couldn't trigger a "no more moves".
Whoah amAzing visuals and a super fun idea! I'd have the same suggestions as @antti-haavikko
Ooof, I love it, so atmospheric, great ambient music, and brutally hard; I can't beat it. Made it to four fireflies. I quickly started not pushing the fireflies at all, since they will (permanently?) move slower afterwards. Maybe a life lesson.
Perhaps a pull on the fireflies would be nicer as a game mechanic? It's tricky to predict their trajectory and lure the monsters into it without getting far into the darkness, where new monsters might be. The hitbox also feels unfair at times, with the stakes of getting hit being as high as they are it would be nice to feel every hit is justified.
Having a new firefly at exact minute marks would give the player something concrete and known to look forward to, now I sometimes feel a bit frustrated and desperate when I'm running around on one heart with no potions dropping despite having multiple upgrades on those.
Somehow I felt that the difficulty first seems to get easier and then harder again, I wonder if more people feel this way.
Your game is actually kind of similar to mine, and you might also enjoy this one with a similar mechanic: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/vade-ratro
Yaaay found the bugfam! Good visuals and concept, looks polished indeed! My two suggestions would be to free the fire particles since the game gets really choppy over time, which I can only imagine is because they are not removed. Other than that I'd pick a slightly different color for the walls, it was a bit hard to recognize them as walls now.
Oh, and having the fire also illuminate an area would be even better.
I don't know what I'm smoking but the trees sure look glitchy. Maybe just the dehydration.
I love the idea, though it was a bit difficult to figure out what to do or understand why the little guy is sometimes working away.
No idea how to select the products that will make a profit, since I have no idea who's going to show up, and even then I'd have no clue what they would buy except by observing over the course of multiple games which seems a bit tedious? Also the day is really long, it would be nice to add a fast-forward button if not simply resolve it in one go.
Cool idea, I don't see too many fighting game entries :) Couldn't beat the first opponent though, either I wait with my attacks until there's an opening, or I spam them. Either way I lost by a fair margin. Audio is a bit repetitive - maybe the opponent's line gives some cue that I missed?
At first sight I thought this was going to be a game about not scratching other people's cars.
Boy was I wrong.
Didn't get profitable, first try I spent all my money and then found out I had to buy at least one farmer to be able to play :D The thing I miss the most is a play-to-end button. It also feels pretty arbitrary what moves where, so I set up the fields kind of randomly. Nice Diablo-reference on the clouds, but it's a bit confusing that north apparently points down 😅 Interesting game idea and open to lots more creative additions. Congratulations on your first entry and hopefully Godot 4 web supports get easier soon!
Interesting idea and nice graphics! Instantly dying to the darkness is pretty harsh. It might have been nice to always place the "next" card wherever the player clicks to be faster and/or to respawn the player somewhere (possibly adding lives). Also, the player does not have that much control to keep the critter away from the ghosts in my opinion (apart from the arrows). Perhaps some item would lure the critter onto the neighboring tile but I did not figure that out.
Great take on the theme and really impressive visuals. I also liked the enemy design and combinations of enemies, on the whole this game feels a lot like Mr. Shifty. One slightly frustrating aspect for me was that I unwillingly picked up marks right after punching it out of someone, since this interfered with the optimal strategy of littering marks all over the place to then pick them up in one window and eliminate as many enemies as possible in a single marking.
Oh, and one bug report: on the second-last (I assume) level, I won without really beating it - after restarting (in quick succession?) I suddenly found myself in the last level.
Well done, I kept going until I built together a 256-sized block of health (although I only afterwards realized that green was health). I find the best mechanic in this game that leveling up introduces bigger tiles that cannot be combined with the others, encouraging the player to try and clear one color to the point where all of the old tiles have been eliminated. Combining tiles at will is a bit too flexible though, taking much of the challenge from the game. The original 2048-style combining or perhaps combining two colors into a new one would make for some more interesting player choices.
Good Wario Ware, I especially enjoyed the "controlling the flag" level. Difficulty is all over the place though, and as others said, randomization of some puzzles would make it better.
Hahaa, I flippin' did it! xD Really fun idea and good execution with the level design.
Beautiful game, played it to the end! I especially like the artwork, gameplay-wise I mostly miss a restart-button but then again 10 seconds is not too long to wait. Favorite spell: squirrel patrol!
I used to be a cat person but then I played this game. Excellent writing, it would be nice to have more of a game mechanic - currently it doesn't even seem to matter how many hearts and skulls you get.
Day 28, I feel like I'm pretty much done here. I was half hoping that there would be some signs of alien life, ancient civilizations or signals from home out there for me to discover. Some way to further improve the hab or rover, or a way back home. With those, some music + sfx and better rover controls (I'd suggest mouse click + pathfinding) I could get used to this.
Very nice, especially the singing children. My only frustration is that I lose my cookie if I press spacebar anywhere.
Made it to 1787 on my first try, the difficulty increased quite steeply at some point and I forgot that I could stun all the mice :-\ And then I broke it on my second play, realizing that button mashing is a valid strategy.
Great game though, I love how the typing is only for one hand (we should have done that as well in [LD37](https://jellenauta.com/games/LudumDarePostCompo/LD37/)). Graphics are super cute.
Incredible graphics and the "You've won" made me laugh xD The pace could be a bit quicker though and (though it may sound contradictory) it would feel a bit more fair to pause the monster during dialogues.
- Atmosphere, everything goes together really well - Graphics, I love the Limbo style - Music also sets the scene
- Make it work on Firefox. For me the backgrounds were all black, I could only see the characters, eyes and JL. At first I assumed it was supposed to start like that. - ...or make it clear that people should use Chrome. - The keep-your-eyes-open mechanic could be a bit more varied/interesting than typing two letters. - Give stronger feedback when the player dies and why (monster or eyes closed?) - Currently backgrounds do not always extend to the bottom of the screen, music stutters at the end of the level.
Good job overall!
Made me love corporate interests and recruitment! Really nice concept, it just wasn't always clear to me where the river would flow exactly (clearly it's not just left to right), when a dam would disappear completely, and whether or not I'd be able to replace it. I feel like there are lots of creative directions to go with the mechanics :)
I enabled/disabled oxygen and the heat shield, but other than that mostly let the timer run out in 3:44. Really wondering what the rest of those crew members are doing, I'd expect them to panic or at least help out a little bit with the rationing/repairs, but they seem to have completely accepted their fate :-\
Very cool, music could sound a bit more urgent (although technically you have all the time in the world of course). And what is the timer at the end of the game? It counts down from 50 years, so my own lifespan perhaps?
Amazing entry! Played it quite a few times but never got further than 8:25 - it seems like outrunning the adults is the most important in the long run. Really love the mix of mechanics, the well-programmed AI, the inevitable end because more adults enter. The music and sound are very fitting as well.
Wow, the moment where the camera turns to bring the earworm into view really got me xD Hard to play but a very nice entry.
Wave 12 on endless, really polished entry! The theming reminded me of Age of Mythology :) It would be nice to have some more diversity in the towers (e.g. shape of where they can shoot, synergies).
Wow first time I see such a huge team for a game jam! I'd be interested to read a bit about the development process, when and how did you make decisions for the game? What was the biggest challenge in making it? I think a big risk with such a large team is that everyone has their own idea what the game should be (especially the game designers) and noone feels ownership anymore. I liked the diversity and absurdity of the artwork, gameplay is not really my thing and the difficulty scaling is too sudden for me at level 3.
Stunning artwork, fitting music! I also love the building gameplay, though for me it could do away with the clicking for repairs - just designing a ship and perhaps defining a priority order for the repairs would be better - I'd prefer just watching the ship sail over frantic clicking, especially with the calming aesthetic.
Beat it on normal, very hard was too hard. I love the concept and how you made it work in such a short time, especially the diversity in rock types combined with the limited digging power works well. It would be good to give the player a fast-forward option, and the water mechanic is not always working as expected (I had a mountain of water piling up at the start that would not move left).
Cool with the 3D buildings, difficulty curve could use some work (I felt that the longer you play, the easier it gets).
On my second try I figured out that the Enter key reset my health, I'm guessing this is a debugging feature you did not disable?
Cool artwork! It took me a few tries to figure out how the drawing mechanic worked, but I managed to get everything then :)
Great game, it took me a while to try and beat - just to find out that you can go for multiple laps! Very creative idea, loved the anxious "switch?" at low health. I also wondered for a moment how you programmed the segways following you, but of course they simply follow your route exactly :-P
Nice mechanic to have the wolf be faster than the human form! Very hard imho, difficult to keep "saving up" enough human time, and I did not bother with the space bar spamming.
Pretty rough around the edges but I enjoyed the idea, and some of the puzzles. I was also oddly comforted by the abundance of stars, never worrying that I'd run out of mana. And funnily enough the evil witch did let me keep my bro when she caught me after I picked him up :)
Nice and polished with a clean, abstract look! I got to 675 points, all those bombs got confusing quickly!
Awesome, reminds me of a (winning!) Alakajam entry: https://alakajam.com/7th-alakajam/799/rook/. I really like the bouncy pixel artstyle (like the flowers in our game) and variation in the sound effects. The most frustrating thing is that the pathing of the coins(?) is not always clear and temporarily changes when I place a piece, making if seemingly infeasible to place them during waves. Perhaps just showing the player what the current path is would improve it?
Very fun idea and visuals, but I also couldn't get through levels 2 and 3 due to getting stuck (sometimes, after switching items). This would indeed be a great concept for Overcooked, having to scan a wound before knowing what to do with it.
Nice visuals, pretty hard to keep up though! Keyboard controls would have been nice, I'm not a big fan of mouse controls for fast-paced games (although ironically our submission does exactly that...). Cool choice of music and sounds too, and nice to see you're using Godot as well.
What a great game and interpretation of the theme! And quite challenging too, the last level took me quite a few tries. My only suggestion for improvement would be to tighten the control of the slug a bit, and possibly make it smaller. Cool choice for enemies in hazmat suites too :D
Dreamy! Beautiful aesthetic with the color palette and star character, hard to get the hang of at first and difficult overall (colliding with the obstacles can be a little frustrating) but I like difficult games. Lovely sound effects too, especially when you complete a level.
Very nice, I love the rotating world idea and the plants are super pretty! The big problem for me was performance though, the stuttering made it quite a frustrating experience in the end where I couldn't plant new flowers or rotate the planet properly. And I tried WASD/arrows to rotate the planet but this did not work - what are the key controls? I think hotkeys to auto-rotate to a particular plant would be useful.
Haha fun idea, there was no winning/losing mechanic of course but I found it very refreshing; it leaves room for creativity. I'm assuming you cannot be playing "simultaneously" (i.e. seeing what other people are buying as they do it?)
At level three the health on those saucers got a bit too ridiculous for me, but I was relieved to see that the cats can survive a fall from high altitude! I like the variation in the attacks of the saucers, controls could have been a bit tighter.
I think this is the first time I see a text-based game during Ludum Dare, and also the first time I made one myself! Funny dialogues, I deposited one life and then got too prudent with my remaining two... Got hit by a car and at some rat poison, lights out :-(
Whaha, defeated the Coinomancer! Great to see a hybrid game done well like this, the coin puzzles really heightened of the platforming.
Loved how your legs move apart when jumping xD Really good game, I just tried very hard to stay alive even though I was so low on health that Tom couldn't sell me any more upgrades :-\
Phew, cool and indeed really hard! My #1 cause of death was always falling into the abyss, got a little under 3000 points in the end and did not use attack at all.
Nice game and sound effects :D Having the controls for the time stop and shield in different positions so they're easier to press with the other hand would have been better I think. Good job!
LOL funniest and weirdest game I've seen this LD so far, loving the origami animals, Einstein and the banjo music!
Also love the art, especially the clothes! I'm not sure about the voices, I usually prefer reading text over voice actors anyway and the synth voices don't really make it better. Somehow the game reminded me of the film "Stalker", which is a really good thing.
So I finally got around to playing your game @zondarg! Great job, the green slimes felt really retro, reminding me of the Keen-days :D Music is also good, even though it's not what you'd expect for this game. After getting the Iron and Gold keys I was unfortunately too low on health to beat the game but it was fun to see what you did with Godot. How did you create the maze? I used to use Tiled for that, but I don't know yet how easy that is to import into Godot.
Finished 351 meters above the laser, could have been a bit harder, with moving elements to avoid or blockades that allows the laser to stay close behind you. I like the different pixel people and how the background changes, gameplay reminds me of the Toxic Tower from Donkey Kong Country 2. Fond memories :-)
Same as commanderstitch, I couldn't figure out how to win... Also it would be good to see from which state a group of warriors is.
Love the end-game statistics! 358 jumps, 80 dead colliding skeletons, 19 dead bone-meranged skeletons, 106 bone-merangs thrown, 162 enemies defeated. Good concept, being able to "exchange" skeletons for enemies (enemies also die upon contact) makes it a bit too easy on the player but the difficult level design made up for it.
Lake Bled in the background, how romantic! This is such a crazy game, disturbing music, sound and being a tooth. Controls are lacking as others said, but fortunately there's always dead teeth to climb over.
GG! I didn't manage to finish it though, focusing on only the frontmost soldier got the rest killed (nice take on the theme :D ), and eventually even the front guy ate a bullet. It's hard to think of improvements, I like the elegance of having only one button but perhaps it would be better to select a soldier to run with, select a path, and then having to sacrifice soldiers to enable the others to pass. Oh, and good graphics ☮️
Cute idea, I like the stuffed animals but I also found it really hard, even post-jam and with the unstability-handicap (the easiest imho) because of some collision wonkiness. Also the goal wasn't completely clear, I tried jumping way to the top in the first level, but couldn't get on top of the blocks.
Love the pixel art and setting, gameplaywise the safe strategy is a bit boring (making large, circling movements to get around and retreat early)
Fun finished game with minimalistic graphics. One "bug" is that you can get an ice shard in autumn already, which is accepted for the sacrifice - and then only three spawn for the Winter Sacrifice. Level design could be a bit better, now it's quite frustrating to do essentially the same types of jump in a long sequence, and having to start over completely if you make a mistake.
Beautiful pixel art, the mechanics reminded me a bit of Total Party Kill: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/total-party-kill Level design could be a bit more interesting.
Ahoy! Really good game, I wasn't always sure what would give me lift, but I just tried to put everyone on the back of the zeppelin and not have too many people.
Great execution, I loved the graphics and music! Finished level 3 twice because I didn't know it was the end and wanted to shoot some more asteroids to save up - so I exited >.<
For dogfights I think it would be better if the ships had a (visible/predictable) cooldown, so you can engage at the right time. Now the optimal strategy seemed to be hanging back, taking your time to aim and take them out one by one, which is not as much fun imho.
Great job, quite a different twist on killing sheep than the one I chose! :D Loved the artstyle, and mood. Controls were a bit fiddly, I wasn't sure whether I picked up a sheep and what throwing would do exactly. The end-of-level phone overlay should also be skippable I think.
Pretty cool, nice writing. I wish my decisions would have had a noticeable impact based on which I would have to make other decisions, and some atmospheric music (opengameart.org?) would have made the game a lot better. One typo: under station state it says ressources (instead of resources).
Cool idea, placing pirates was a bit clunky (kept glitching to the sail? Maybe I just don't get it).
Despite not being win/losable, it still looks nice, the controls feel tight, and I liked how the sheep get a hole in them. The music is also pretty sweet, did you make it?
Cute game, nice fire graphics :D I also liked the erratic music, although it gets repetitive after a while. Feedback: the mechanics encourage the player to shoot as much as possible, all the time. Combined with the fact that you use a mouse click for this rather than a key makes this quite cumbersome.
Phew, took me some time to figure out how to be efficient! I love the graphics, especially the money storms xD Could have done with a button to skip the day if you don't want to do anything.
Beautiful! I love how you're not sure whether you got the "intended" solution to a puzzle, or found a new one.
Welcome to LD, I hope you had fun! Nice game, I would have liked to have a larger field of view though. And a tip for Godot, you can export without the debug-option.
Sweet, looks polished and pretty fun. As others said I think the + and - should be switched.
Awesome idea, I got 94 of the critters, then ran out of ammo. Would be nice to get an indication of where they are I guess, especially given the limited ammo. Also it took me a while to empty all my clips so I would be light enough for the first obstacle. At first I was a bit disappointed that the enemies cannot hurt you, but in some sense it was also a relief :P
Impressive looks, but the motion sickness got me already before the monster did. The sound effect halfway was a nice, scary touch :D I also do not see how this is related to the theme though...
Fun to play, quite immersive despite the gamemaker vibes :) My only frustration was that the boxes in the bungalow could get in the way, but that was probably a feature (to force the player to drop items). Good job!
Really hard going from 4->2 and 2->1, got it eventually with quite a bit of luck I guess. One suggestion: if you fail from the starting position there is no benefit to getting it right over just resetting (by quickly failing a few more times). I guess it would be better to start from the worst possible situation.
Awesome game, takes a while to start seeing patterns. I liked the narration with the AI (reminded me of Portal ^^), but an immediate level reset would be nice to have.
Great entry, I spend a lot of time finishing it. I downloaded the source to figure out the ***SPOILER ALERT*** step of using a walkie talkie in the gramophone, after that it went pretty smoothly. Very atmospheric, the only thing that broke the style a bit was the happy face on the monster, I'm guessing time was up ;) Hope to see another game from you next time!
I played the first two levels, but could not figure out the third one. It is not clear to me what the influence of the planet is, apparently I cannot just launch two cows after each other, with a temperature different from that on the planet. The interface brought back some childhood memories of Millie's Math House.
I exploded my planet once but did not feel very compelled to try again. PeachTreeOath made a good suggestion.
Fitting audio, I finished all three levels (The last one did not work... Was the world too _small_ for another level?). Innovative idea, but not very challenging from a puzzling point of view. I just created a planet behind the first one, moving in the opposite direction. Perhaps having multiple starting planets could help, a limited number of player-created planets, a timer before which all planets must have crashed, friction to make the near-misses a bit more forgiving, and special interactions between planets? The downside would of course be that it would take away from the minimalism. GG
Awesome game, extremely polished! Usually I do not enjoy the WarioWare-type of grinding (once the puzzles start repeating), but I liked everything about this one. I "unlocked" four animals, with a high score of 2640. Photographing the bear was the best minigame in my opinion.
Awesome music, and the game feels finished right up to the end ;) Finding the right routes is a bit tedious though, since not all triggers give a sound and there does not appear to be much logic to them. I got 9 coins!
Cool idea, I managed to beat it on hard, unfair was too much. As others said, it's a bit frustrating that the AI can instantly build, giving it an unfair advantage. The music could have been a bit more industrial for my taste, but the shooting sounds and explosions were nice. Good work!
Not only the health and mana bulbs reminded me of Diablo 2, but also the panic as I desperately try to run away from an overwhelming horde of enemies while trying to reach the spacebar with my pinky. Well done! The insects also move very well.
Some suggestions (although you probably thought of some yourself):
-use WASD (or equivalents) for movement, with F to down a potion.
-Let enemies be provoked (in groups) when you attack one of them. Currently when my army died and I had not aggro'd any enemies, I had to wait too patiently for my mana bar to fill up (perhaps add mana potions as well?) and kill several until I could get the upper hand over the last few without instantly losing my army again.
-Add more enemies with different strengths and weaknesses, so that the player has too choose a balanced army. It did not seem to matter very much whether I picked ants or wasps to reanimate.
"The Destroyer emerges again only to find a universe armed to the teeth and ready for it. After a brutal war across many worlds, The Destroyer is put down, ending the cycle for good. A shining new age begins as life flourishes in this brave new universe."
Does that mean I won?
Funny planets with the "other info" and races, I also went through several universes to find out what results I would get with the different properties.
BTW, I did not hear any sound (Firefox).
Very nice! We had fun playing this game. :)
Nice ambient sounds, and I like the colors. The story was a bit hard to follow though, and brute-forcing was easy just by clicking all the icons. One of the better entries! :-)
Fun idea, but too slow for my taste. Perhaps adding extra (moving) obstacles would also be interesting.
Good potential, but as you say not very difficult "puzzles" ;-) What took most of the time in creating the game?
Really good, especially the graphics! The concept is also very interesting, I like multitasking games. I did not get very far though, making it to the treasure seems quite impossible. Game over for me when a Murlock hogs the wheel as I run into an island and there's a cannon pounding the starboard side :S
Nice touch with the fish jumping on the deck btw, that really is a welcome freebie :-)
Decent graphics, especially the knights. On my first playthrough I suddenly won and I did not know why; I hit Da Vinci from far away.
For the controls it would be better to let the arrow keys change velocity, and update the position with that (like the gravity works).
Funny how you used Da Vinci, in the last LD both we and a friend of ours made games themed around Da Vinci :D
http://ludumdare.com/compo/2016/08/29/leonardos-painting-machine/
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-36/?action=preview&uid=18490
Congratulations on your first game, I hope you had fun and will make more in the future!
Nicely polished game, but the progress is too slow for me. I'm embarrassed to admit that I played for about half an hour, and still only got 7 generators and no coin collector.
I was hoping that the robot would also evolve somehow to strengthen the sense of progress, but perhaps I had to play longer? :-P The controls said that "Enter" did something btw, but this did not work for me. Was this intended to be used instead of clicking "Charge"? If so, that would make the game a lot more playable, but having a more interesting mechanic would in my opinion be better still.
I could not get the hygiene low enough, just the air and power in the green. Perhaps that's because I took too long? Either way, the gameplay does not really 'click' with me, but it does nicely remind me of "spaceteam", a cooperative shouting game-app :-)
Web does not work for me, neither on Firefox nor on Chrome. Just an ad :-(
Interesting game idea. I played it for a while, but most of my tenants left very soon. Maybe I did something wrong. ;) I missed a 'next day' button. The music was not my taste. ;)
Short and sweet, nice artwork!
I played the web version though, and got stuck on the first floor after some time. Also some items that I threw in the bunker bounced off and were stuck to the ground after that.
Unplayable for me on Chrome, way too chaotic and framerate varies wildly. Did not vote :-(
My god those controls are infuriating XD Pressing F9 did not work for me (in the web version). Original idea, good music, graphics and finished feel :-)
First rule of Radnet: don't make people superuser.
Second rule of Radnet: don't download any files.
Managed to win on my third try, after some time it gets too chaotic to follow any conversations, but the game is pretty much won at that point anyway. One problem I found is that the names and controls for banning/promotion are not aligned well, so that I had to count from the top which user I wanted to ban. Perhaps a browser problem, I'm on Firefox.
Dear AcuadoyStudios, congratulations on finishing your first game. Although I can open the game and can go through to menus (but can't find a way to get back to start screen), in the main game I can't seem to move the character. Moreover, the game doesn't fit on my laptop screen. Playing on Windows 7. Didn't rate your game therefore.
On another note, I noticed that you posted the same generic comment to many different games on December 17. I understand that you really would like people to play your game, but so do the other game devs! Don't play the judging system, people will notice! (http://feedback.ld.intricati.com/?event=ludum-dare-37&uid=124049) Please actually play their games and give real feedback! ;)
Good job, creative stuff :D The 3D gives me a bit of headache though. Perhaps the viewport could be set a bit differently, and strafing would help a lot.
Fun idea and smoothly implementated but at least initially lacking in difficulty. At some point (after 7 levels or so) I clicked a wrong button and was returned to the main menu, so I haven't seen the later levels.
Surprisingly good sword fighting mechanic! I'm glad I stayed through the initial parts which were a bit boring.
Good job, nice graphics. I could not see the full viewport though (had to pull down an order to be able to see it), perhaps that's why I saw no timer? For the orders it would have been good to put the numbers below the ingredient, now I was sometimes confused whether a number belonged to the ingredient before or after it.
Score: 8450
Time survived: 57.22s
Total score: 9022
Cool game, just when I felt like playing a bullethell :)
Controlling with the mouse is a bit frustrating though, maybe because I'm not playing with a gaming mouse and "jittering" a lot. The music and sound effects suit the game very well. Congrats!
Promising graphics, but there doesn't seem to be much of a game? I walked until I reached a wall, and couldn't do anything useful with the objects. Am I missing something?
I win! :D Good level design, I like hard games and especially the last level took me a while to figure out. The web version worked fine for me (Chrome).
Very nice game! I enjoyed playing it, although the end was a bit vague...
Nice entry! I like the concept, although all the white make things hard to see. ;)
Nice entry, it gets quite busy after a while! :) I also had the bug that some customers stopped in front of the milk. There is another bug when you replay a couple of times: at some point I had 4 player characters (4 different colors) but 2 characters moved with the arrow keys, and the two others responded to WASD. Other than that, I enjoyed playing it. :)
Nice take on the theme! The gameplay is fun and easy to understand. A replay button would indeed have been nice, because I played it several times. :) The game didn't fit on my laptop screen, and like someone already mentioned, some of the robots were a little hard to see, but I had fun maneuvering around the dancing robots. :)
Wow, nice game! It was fun and challenging to play! I managed to complete it wice in hard mode, but I completely ignored the animals. The rotating of (slices of) the room worked fine, but made me a bit dizzy at times. ;) The graphics are nice and clean. Very nice take on the theme. :)
Nice entry! The levels were fun, but the game is too unforgiving, some checkpoints would indeed be nice. I was quite interested how the game would end, but I didn't want to start over from the start once more, but then I found the post-compo version. :) The graphics are quite cute, but could be expanded. I liked the makeshift wings and the tutorial thought bubbles, which explain the game without using words. :D
Nice game! The graphics are very nice and have a nice coherent style.
It was a bit unclear at first how to shoot the arrows, but once I understood, I had fun playing with the unlimited amount of arrows. I liked that the used arrows stayed during the levels. The levels were indeed a bit too easy because of this unlimited amount of arrows though. ;)
Oh, and I like the subtle background image of the web page. :)
Great work!
Nice graphics, animation, lighting and effects! Indeed, not much of a game yet. ;)
Nice entry. I liked the cute graphics and the music is fine. :)
The concept is quite original, however, as some others pointed out before me, the game is not that fun to play. After figuring out how it works (squeezing in between the legs of the table to get to the pie for example), there is not much to do other than collecting randomly spawning ink bottles in the bottom left and then going to the machines. Furthermore, it was a bit to hard to read the message of the customer, since the UI covered most of it.
Still, good work! I can see you put a lot of effort in. :)
Cute point-and-click-game. It works well, but it is a bit short. I like the use of the shadow & the light of the torch using Illuminated.js. The graphics could be more harmonized.
Nice entry! It looks very polished, and you picked nice music. It was quite fun to play, but I couldn't find all the words. ;)
Nice game, great concept! What I didn't like was that I had to use space bar for jumping, I would have preferred W. Also, the jumping sometimes seemed delayed or ignored. Nice graphics. :)
What a great game again, @Frozen Fractal! I really enjoyed playing it. :) So far I got half way. :D In the first level I got confused, because I thought that I also had to paint the middle with white paint, since there is an option to change color.
Very polished entry, especially for a compo game. -A
Congratulations, very nice game! It seems we had a similar idea, but your execution is much better. :) Well done!
Wow, congratulations with this great game, amazing!
Nice job, a multi-player game for Ludum Dare! It reminds me of agar.io. Pressing space seems to result in a random shape, sometimes the same shape.
Nice game! I had fun playing, but I also got stuck (at 101 points). Cute graphics, but perhaps next time you could choose a color palette and a line thickness.
Nice game!
I didn't see the timer and score at first, so I was quite surprised that the game stopped. A restart button would be nice. :) I think the game is hard and fun enough without the timer. After some tries I got a glimpse of the triangular alien, but then my time was up. ;) Cute graphics and music!
As many people mentioned before: very nice graphics, but the controls are a bit off. Also the level design needs some more attention. But overall, good job!
Wow, it was quite hard to retrain my brain. Sometimes even frustrating. ;) I often wished I could see the next set of stones, to be able to plan ahead. Nice job!
2600 points, pretty hard imho... I agree with others that shooting should really be done by holding a button rather than tapping it.
Cool idea to use a cellular automaton to create the paths! The stable region makes the game too easy though, and perhaps a longer generation interval would be better.
Nice game! It took me some time to figure out what I could do with the two different shapes, but I managed to complete all 5 levels. Congrats on your first LD game! :D
I agree with the previous comments.
Also, at some point it really should say "circle".
You could indicate how many levels there are to give the player more of an incentive. The sound was pretty good, but I don't see it in the rating categories; did you get it from somewhere?
Looks slick, nice puzzle mechanic!
My only suggestion would be to give an overview of what each block does, now the player has to find out by just trying a few moves and then resetting.
Nice to see you used frozenfractal's jfxr :D
Haha, Plumber Pete, I had to think for a moment what the reference was ;-) Loved the graphics, especially the bear with the little moving crown. Sound effect of the bear had some crackling, otherwise sounds were fine.
Perhaps the idea has some potential, but I think the game should be more challenging or provide some new things to discover.
Haha, this is extremely similar to our game!
Crashes quite quickly for me though...
Fun concept, would have liked more variety in the trees, and perhaps it would be better to have the upgrades visible without the upgrade button (which pauses the game). A tree of upgrades could have been fun too ;-) Also, the game is very easy, next time try to keep some time for balancing. Very well done overall!
Couldn't start the game by holding a and d simultaneously, neither on Firefox nor Chrome (on Ubuntu 14.04).
Surprisingly fun, making images of colored keys would perhaps have cleared up the confusion (probably with very little extra work).
Technically a one-button game if you play with two ;)
Wow, for five hours this is very nice!
Kind of frustrating that:
- I can't use hotkeys to quickly select what to build (although that goes against the theme so ignore that),
- I HAVE to build a lot of turrets even though I can't produce enough ammo to fill it all, making it hard to shoot around. I guess you could consider that a kind of balancing, but it feels like a lack of control on my part
- when I aim at something it's often not the nearest turret that shoots first, which given the slow bullets is very irritating
Other than that, very engaging game :)
It's unfinished, but it's a nice start for a choose-your-own-adventure game. I would speed up the text though, or allow insta-finishing typing it.
Well the graphics are nice at least :)
Are you still going to build a full game with it?
You don't seem to have added any links to your game, so I could actually play it. :(
Reminds me of that Sonic & Knuckles minigame.
Great game! A frictionless, spherical penguin in a vacuum (because no sound) must be every physicist's dream. I love the artwork on all the non-gameplay screens, would have been fun to see that style in-game as well!
Look at my hair, my hair is amazing.
Swing physics are a bit clunky but everything else is great. Had fun playing this. Also, I want to see the Hairy Godmother appear in more games!
Nice interaction between the limited controls! Not being able to fire or collect fuel with shields up makes for some engaging and difficult split-second decision making.
I think the difficulty level could increase a bit more slowly, but overall very well done for a first game! Congrats!
Fun in all of its simplicity! Very charming entry :)
It looks like fun, but I get a "start node not set" message when it tries to load a level. I'm running Linux. I'd like to give it a try so hopefully you can fix it still!
The droplet graphics make for a nice style, and the audio is very soothing. "Fun" is of course a bit lacking, but that's not what you were going for after all. Altogether a pleasant surprise for the first game I'm rating this LD.
Very nice and polished entry! The music is great and the gameplay is clear, fun, zen and addicting. :) Well done!
Very good entry! As others said, figuring out to do took a while. Once I got stuck at Dorben, there wouldn't appear any new tiles after I clicked the last one.
Nice audio and graphics. Well done. :)
Cute game. :) The music is very cool! The rules are not very clear, the first few times I thought there were only a limited number of doors, until I noticed that I shouldn't skip a door or leave a package behind. The bird is a bit hard to control, but I delivered 23 packages in the end. :)
Very good game! Nice graphics, nice story. Well done!
Nice! Very good for a first game. :) I had fun herding the people, although it was not easy. The diagonal movement of the people made it interesting and hard. I found it annoying that when I failed a level I had to go through the menu to select the level again, in stead of an instant replay. Also it took too long for the first human too spawn. The music was not my favorite part, but this park is really clean and tidy!
Haha, I had fun playing this. ^^ Nice graphics, and well polished. Well done!
Well done! It was quite fun to play (got till 754), the music is nice, and the sound effects were funny. Sometimes, the (random?) pitch of some voices was way too high for my taste. Also, the pitch forks that were thrown were sometimes hard to notice, and they fly at a peculiar angle. ;) But overall, well done! :D
Cute. :) Has potential for expansion!
Nice game. :) Cute drawings, I had fun. Fits the theme. :)
Somehow I didn't try right-clicking...
Well done!
I really liked the music, and had fun while playing. I got till 21. Funny that the hat changes after a while. :)
Well done! I really liked the game. The controls were shown quite quickly in the introduction, but luckily they were also written below. The controls felt quite natural after a while. The graphics are very nice, there is much detail, and I probably still missed a lot while I was focusing on playing. I also liked the music and the commentators. :)
Well done! Nice drawings, many choices and much text. :)
At first, it is a bit hard to see what is important in the game, since there are many distractive elements around the game itself (the buttons, title, ChoiceScript link). Perhaps you could seperate the game more from these other elements?
Hey, you also made a typing game (sort of) :D
And memory, and musical interval training.
Fun little game, I liked how in the end the mortal mimics the player. The eyes were a nice touch but I feel there could have been some more to the transformation of the mortal. Also, a lose condition might have helped to create more of a challenge.
Nice game, at some point I thought my face was on fire xD
It's surprisingly difficult as well, but sometimes because the monsters move randomly and get stuck in a way that makes it impossible to win (in the last level for example, if the tree stump stays left of the fireball)
As jugglers we just had to try this game. Man, that was hard at first! But eventually we got a quite stable 'cascade' going, and we got to 31 and 39. :)
The rats are a bit too bouncy, and button mashing sometimes gets you quite far. Other than that, well done!
Very nice entry!
The cases were interesting. The fighting was a bit less fun, since the movement was not so smooth. The music is good. I like the art style. Well done!
Smooth interface! And some nice tools you used.
I have two suggestions: firstly, the graphics should reflect the story of the game. Perhaps next time you could team up with a graphics artist?
Secondly, the gameplay is not very challenging. I did not really understand the rules but easily beat the game by succubussing almost everyone. The win/lose condition should be clearer, and there should be more of a challenging to it.
Found out in level 5 that the potions replenish health... Previously I only tried to collect them with full health, and expected them to do something else. Using the convention of a heart for health would be more clear.
The controls are a bit primitive, especially the jumping would be better if you made it dependent on how long you held the up-arrow.
Also, while jumping it would be nice if the player could stop the character. Now you have to alternate going left and right to emulate this. It may be intended as a feature to make the game more challenging, but it feels frustrating.
There is a bug that causes some sprites to change on reload (for me on Firefox). Perhaps you forgot to reset some indices? In particular the player and the enemies get different sprites.
Now for the positive: ;-)
I loved the art style between the levels, quite rare for Ludum Dare. The story was also nice, very creepy. I'm glad there was a respawn-bug, otherwise it would have been very hard to finish, I think. It took me two tries, but it still felt quite hard.
Haha, that was great. I somehow didn't really pay attention to the description, so I was quite suprised that there were more heads appearing! One time I still had some green heads when I lost (while the rest were grey blocks) and I could still move them and get more points by killing some more knights.
Well done!
Haha, great game, I had fun playing it. I got till 2410 after I worked out the controls.
Then I tried some button mashing and then I got till 2980, hehe. ^^ Well done!
Another typing game! :D I had a lot of fun playing this, "Don't you dare to steal my princess, Magister Holger!". :) I like how the speed of the knights depends on the length of their name. Well done!
Nice game! We had the same Loch Ness idea for a while, but we eventually switched to something else. The game is a bit hard at first, I had to get used to the swim controls. It took a while to get through the first level, but then the sound of finishing a level was very satisfying. ;) I noticed that sometimes I also hold my breath IRL. ^^ Well done!
Nice graphics. :)
Very nice game! Had fun playing. :)
Very nice and original game! The cutscene was nice, but since I had to reload the game after the rewind-bug, it would have been nice to have an option to skip it. Well done. :)
Nice concept, but indeed quite unfinished. Sometimes the texts would overlap. We used Crafty.js as well for many LD entries, it is nice but indeed it takes a while to get used to. :)
Congrats on finishing your first game! The concept was a bit vague for me at first, and the buttons very random, but on the second try I liked it more and found the more satisfying ending. :)
Funny little game, the colors could be a bit more outspoken for me to make the monster-matching easier. Perhaps using the keyboard for controls would also have been easier. Good effort for the short time you had though!
Wow, great work Thomas! Beautiful color scheme and animation, and a good difficulty curve. I liked the challenge of collecting hearts, it's such a doh-moment when they all fly over your head :P
The game did get a little choppy on my laptop when there was a lot going on, I made it to level 7 - twice. At that point I mostly had to play by my sense of guess to time the wing flaps.
Another PlayCanvas user! And a familiar face from the PlayCanvas Q&A ;)
Your tongue looks great (did anyone ever tell you that? :P)
We were wondering how to do such dynamic animation, but could not figure it out in time. Great insect models too!
As others said, collision with the flies does not work that well, and it can be frustrating when your control of the tongue is limited by the mouse reaching the edge of the screen. Perhaps it works better with touch interfaces?
The gameplay is a little simple, I think it might be improved by, for example, encouraging the use of a backlash to catch a fly on the opposite side of where you catch the first one. I hope that suggestion makes sense...
The moving eyes and fattening of the beast are nice touches.
Nice concept! The game has potential. :)
Indeed, being able to move faster to the left or the right would be nice. Also, when I make a line (which is indeed quite hard with such a wide screen), the beds and unfinished blocks stay floating in the air.
Oh, and nice music. :)
Nice game. :D
Interesting! It was surprisingly fun. The music was funny as well, which kept me playing for a couple of times. Nice that you have some new images every time you play. My best was 35 seconds. :)
Nice game! I like how the visibility of the guards depends on where you are standing, although it took me a minute to realize that. Maybe the field of vision of your own character can also be made visible, to emphasize this? I had fun quickly peeking behind a doorway to see if there was a guard there, although I had sometimes problems to get through the doorway quickly enough, because of collision. Nice voice acting. :D
Surprising combo of bubbles & space shooter! Since the color faded too slowly from one to another, I often found myself shooting a different color than I expected. Other than that, nice game. :)
Hehe, nice and funny game. :)
Very nice game! On a restart sometimes the workers got stuck for no reason. The music is great. :)
Nice. 03:13, 202 clicks ;)
Nice concept! It was hard to see the effect of the tank and how to stop the riot without killing most of the people. The audio fits very well and adds to the mood. :)
So cute! ^^ I enjoyed it. :)
I had fun builing my monster and watching it destroy the buildings, although it took a bit long. Nice graphics!
Great creeepy game! The controls were a bit funny, in the end I only used W to go into the direction of where I was pointing with the mouse. Since the glowing ball could go through walls, it was a bit too easy. (Although I also died once when I touched a mouse that was on the other side of a wall, which made the game a bit harder.) The music really helps to set the creepy mood. Great entry!
Hehe, that was funny and hard.
Haha, what a great innovative concept. ^^
Very nice game, mechanic and concept. Like others said, the throwing of the seeds can be quite frustrating; I see what I have to do, but I have to try so many times because I just miss by very little. Other than that, I like the art and that you created several different seeds to throw with. Great entry!
I also get the Linux file when I click Windows.
Fun original idea! I found the controls a bit hard, and even in the room with the gas tanks I could not manage to protect myself against the many enemies...
But the idea is fun :)
Interesting concept! I was not sure at first if I was supposed to force it to shoot or to try to prevent it from shooting, and then I read in the description that I should fire, I did not know which emotions would help it to do so...
Its something, I am sure you learned a lot and that is what it is all about!
The pixel graphics are cute :)
Awesome fusion! Very hard as well, I got to 21 points. The hitboxes seem a bit unforgiving sometimes, but perhaps that's just the frustration talking :-P As suggestions I'd say an asymmetrical level would be nice, and it would be nice if there was a bigger difference in how the weapons work.
A tower defence with some unconventional weapons!
Such a cool game idea! Key input was clever and fun, and I enjoyed playing this!
It was not so clear what would trigger the trojan suspicion. Obviously being upside down and losing men, but sometimes the meter would go up and I wouldn't understand why.
Also, the game is at random sometimes impossibly hard, so I never made it to Troy :(
Great entry!
This looks good and works fine! The gameplay is a bit repetitive, and I couldn't figure out why he is shooting letters...
The pixel art is super!
Yay, Icecream!
Sweet game! I couldn't make it past the lvl with the 3 people underneath the lovers though. How should I solve it?
Nice game, wonderful graphics and sound!
Sadly, I couldn't beat it, after getting the 'sound' weapon, there seemed to be not a single combination that would get me to the next weapon part, I tried all!
Cool game!
It took a while to figure out I could double jump.. and the checkpoints seem a bit useless since I need to go back after every death and beat all the enemies before I can continue..
I really like your weapon choice! It is a good weapon in real life too, it melts even your worst enemies :)
Nice game! I had fun swinging the ball around the screen. :D
Nice concept, but it seems to be very repetitive, as all the levels were almost the same and not that challenging. Luigi looks cute. :)
The controls were quite hard, I kept forgetting which key would do what. But after a while I had fun listening to the music that I made while destroying robots. :)
Fine game, but it would be nice if you could start a bit faster after dying! I died a lot ;)
This is great use of the theme! Such cool 'weapons' :D
I got the special ending! Well done "serious" game, doesn't come across as too preachy, and looks polished enough. The audio and colors are very eerie and fitting.
What an unconventional weapon! xD
Good difficulty and I liked the levels that took advantage of the fact that the water does not have to be contained in something.
Sort of refreshing to not have to avoid the "enemies", very relaxing ;-) And on top of that the whole school is in love with me! Too bad you couldn't finish the mechanics, but the art and background music are lovely.
This is a very very unusual weapon!
Landing unicorns was so hard, but I managed to get one!
Beautiful graphics, as always!
The game is hard and unforgiving... But you got a lot of material for a compo entry!
Haha, this is one of the best weapons I have seen so far! Well done :)
Cute pixels and a funny idea. Too bad that it feels very unfinished!
Super fun, though hard not to die ;). Highscore: 9000
Interesting game mechanics! At first the controls were a bit frustrating (the stair case + a very tiny jump on space release), but after I got the hang of it, it was quite fun! I managed to complete it. Well done. :)
Awesome game! Very funny. :)
Well made game, you made great use of your 72 hours!
This would also have been a fine entry if the theme of the jam would have been 'companion', the one which I was hoping to win ;)
Nice puzzles! A bit faster movement and shooting would have felt comfortable.
I like your graphics!
Such a good name! hah :)
Such a gorgeous game!
Such a fun game! We tried for an hour to beat the second level, but the controls were too tricky for us (a visible gauge on how far you are about to throw would help, and the wall-jump mechanic is very frustrating - it should be possible to drop down).
Nice game, looks pretty polished and we liked the music.
It was not very clear to us how the game worked though. As others pointed out, coloured buildings and more clear feedback on how money is gained/lost would be helpful.
Interesting strategy game!
It's easy to get into a sort of deadlock though, after 10 minutes we were still not close to beat each other because every move you can make sure the other cannot effectively attack you on the next turn (unless you get really unlucky). Perhaps it would have been better if you could move and attack in the same turn.
Haha, epic weapon choice! The pixel art is very nice :)
I just wish I could shoot faster, that would make the game more fun. Perhaps more baddies to compensate.
Which file should I open to play? I extracted the jar but can't find the game file...
Such a huge file, but no game! Also a 'failed to load mono' error..
Haha, converting soldiers to hippies was great, the guitar made me laugh when it first appeared!
I am just disappointed that our hero is also using a gun... Can she not lovingly throw the flowers at the soldiers instead?
Nice game! It tickles my brain!
Challenging entry!
It was a bit hard to move the weapon in time to aim properly..
I do like your story :)
Gravity as weapon is funny!
Why are the controls in such uncomfortable places? For 2 players there are more comfortable layouts, maybe switch shift and space...
Very innovative!
Too bad that we don't have a controller, we hoped to multiplay it!
I always like multiplayer games :).
The opposite colored pillows were a bit confusing, and make you forget which character you are playing with!
Music was nice ^^
Nice game! The character is a bit hard to control, but the visuals are pretty!
Hah, this is nice! I know this game :). Too bad, I think I am a better player at this in RL than in the digital version ;)
Spread the love!
The camera could use some work, so that you can see where you are actually going. I enjoy the concept :)
Nice game! It is fun to throw the spaceships around!
Just a pity that the ships also seem to crash themselves if you just wait long enough...
I like the colors :)
Funny animations!
Well done on creating a game with a story!
Too bad that the shooting mechanic is not very unconventional...
Game crashes every time you die? Intentionally?
Nice game, I like the atmosphere! Too bad that shooting (even when coming from a helmet), is not very unconventional
The character looks funny, in a good way :)
Sweet! You are very lucky to create games with your daughter :). Keep her interested, and keep on spending quality time together!
Sweet graphics, best pixel art in this Dare as far as I am aware! (Rhymes)
I finished the game, but was disappointed that the mechanic has no surprising applications... It is a bit repetitive...
It took three play troughs to beat, but it was nice!
haha, killing people with money? This is funny :)
Graphics are cool, especially the fox! The controls are a bit weird, you rotate too slowly I think...
Also, I did not manage to find out the purpose of the time rewind function besides undying...
Such a well polished entry!
I found your game when searching if other people also made bubble weapons, like our game! Nice game :), I had fun scoring 186s.
Too bad that you are pointing the camera up all the time, the landscape is very pretty but I hardly get to see it...
Same as others, mechanics are there, so where is the content?
Awesome!
Very nice game!
Nice game :)
Hilarious! :D
Very nice entry, my only suggestion is to give some feedback when the player gets hit, and show when a goblin is about to shoot.
Cool, a juggling game! We juggle in real life too, I wonder if that helps :-) Got to level 7 after a few tries. The handicaps seem a bit unbalanced (silly bird and more balls seem so much harder than e.g. cheap wine or heavy balls), but that adds the (also attractive) aspect of luck to the game I guess.
Blocking was not very practical in my experience, since there is no way to anticipate the opponent's movement. As zatika said, hit and run (or just hit) seems to work best. I liked the different appearances of the opponents, but you should really give them eyes. Here, on Firefox, the game froze eventually, both times I played it.
Nice game and nice music!
Great idea, it would have been even better to have a best-of-N, but that was hard within the time limit. Great work on the rolling animation!
Very nice, it took us a while before we got cautious enough not to die along the way :P
Kepler disapproves. I love the music.
We considered going for this kind of game :D I played it for some time, it seems the initial conditions are quite important for your success. The game is quite hard to grasp. It took me some time to figure out that by ctrl-clicking I could import/export multiple resources, it would have been better to have a checkbox interface for this, or better yet selecting a product and a direction (if one planet exports you always want the other to import). Also, it's not very easy to figure out effective trade routes, especially because of the limited view. I like the animations of the ships and cargo floating to/from the planets. I think the best improvement would be to give the player a concrete, reachable goal to finish the game.
I like the idea, but the pictures are not that telling - I feel they should fit into a common theme. I completed it on easy just by remembering the right sequence and sometimes clicking randomly. The music is very unfitting. I do like how the clouds obscure the pictures.
Very nice game!
Haha, great! I liked the music! But the sound effects of the planets that you drag along get a bit too much after a while. Also, since the background is not moving at all, it is sometimes a bit hard to see where you are going. Great take on the theme. ^^
Nice game! I like how the spiders move around. It is quite addicting once you get the hang of it. I got to 1485 so far. :)
Very nice game!
Reminds me a lot of Escape Velocity, if you've never played it I recommend it ;) I missed a winning criterion, making a certain amount of money for example. It would also have been nice if the enemies would show up depending on what you bought (the police came after me even when I had just oranges or even nothing). Surprising how brave the attackers are btw, relying only on boarding tactics against a ship that fires missiles at them...
Cool idea, took me a while to figure out how it worked. Very cool how you recorded the music yourself, though it doesn't really fit the game in my opinion.
The only thing that seems to matter is reaching the right system? (Sol, Gliese or Alpha Centauri) The ring-back-, ring- and listen-buttons didn't do anything for me. The idea could probably work somehow, but I think it's hard to not make the game overly chaotic.
For the next LD I would advise you to go for a minimal working example first (before e.g. adding a lot of names for the planets), and to join the jam instead of the compo. Submitting a finished game is so much more satisfying.
Nice, I was afraid I got stuck but it seems you just have to dig around for a few identical days. The dialogue seems very well-written to me, the colors/design could have used some work. I'd like to point out another typo, "meditations meditations" on one page.
I like the scoring system where bullets cost points, and how the UFO's on the left become harder to target as they get lower. As others said, the high scores are a really big plus. I didn't know about but gmscoreboard website! I'll probably use it in the future too :-)
Only thing is that in your game, submission doesn't seem to work on Firefox :-( I got 1900+ points but since your game appears to have mixed content (http/https) Firefox somehow prevented my score from being sent. Instead I manually submitted my score, with a little bonus for the extra effort.
When I try to register I get the following:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method System::log() in /home/abacadaba/domains/ld30.lotusgame.com/public_html/Application/Controllers/User/Auth.php on line 95
:'(
Cool idea, I'd like to create something like this sometime :D Too bad it's so buggy and there's not much gameplay, but props for trying.
Most addicting game yet in my opinion, I also like how the controls work - a nice change from the typical way. As others said, the difficulty curve needs some work, and it's very frustrating to reach an island and be killed by a demon the moment you change the lair into a house...
Innovative gameplay with these mirrors! I liked the snowman and how he melts when he is around warm things.
Awesome, a Nigerian (?) game! (Found it through "Connecting LD30 to the Real World" by Will Edwards).
Cool style, in the opening screen already with the icons. It reminds me a lot of some ~20 year old games I used to play on the Mac.
I think the gameplay could get a little more complex (maybe it does, but the game froze on level 3 or something), and random appearances don't feel very fair.
Fantastic atmosphere, the drawn style, calm gameplay and meditative music go very well together. The mechanic does seem broken to me though: since darkness has the first move, it can keep stacking in the left column, abusing the exponential increase in force. As far as I could see, there is no way for light to break this or catch up in any way.
Best regards from a fellow Dutch team! (See Connecting LD30 to the Real World by Will Edwards)
Got stuck at a portal, or maybe the loading time was just too long for my patience. As others said, impressive to try a multiplayer online game, but there's currently no fun-factor in it.
Nice job, pretty elaborate game for the compo! Funny story too. Improvements: the music doesn't fit the mood very well (and stutters a lot on the web version). I also have to agree with Moosefly on the penis-thing... The biggest problem for me was the slow walking speed.
Indeed, nice concept, but the controls were a bit funny. Sometimes I could pick up the chest, sometimes not.
Blech, that maze is just cruel! I tried to shake my head in sync but still got nauseous. Nice minigame entry, the layout of the hospital could have been a little more interesting, and I think there were some spelling errors.
Took me a while to see when a "bridge" is created, and after that it was a bit hectic - it seems to me that you have to babysit every planet all the time, and the orbits rarely if ever yield stable bridges. Perhaps the biggest improvement is on the audio front though, it helps a LOT to be notified when a new event starts, bridges are constructed or destroyed, and when the game ends. Still, nice job getting this much done without any libraries!
Indeed, a very similar story-idea. :)
Cool graphics!
Lovely take on the theme, I liked it! I played until I got stuck in the walls after flying. I often 'died' to get to Hades quickly. ;) Nice artwork as well!
Haha, funny little game. :) I got to 47, and then my eyes started to hurt from looking too long at quickly rotating socks. ;)
On Firefox, I only see yellow eyes and have to judge by size (which is hard, since the size resolution is not that high). I like the idea of the game, it kept me playing for a couple of minutes. My main suggestion is to make sure the player doesn't get stuck in an unwinnable situation, where she's too small to eat anything anymore.
Doesn't work here on Ubuntu Firefox, I can only walk four squares (except walking back and forth). Did not find any treasure.
Nice idea, sometimes frustrating to control. I liked the sound when I finished a plant, the plants themselves could have been more diverse/colorful/funny to make the experience more rewarding.
Doesn't work here on Ubuntu Firefox :-(
As far as criticism goes, I agree with Marjie62 about the feedback and seeing the head, and with klianc09 about the yellow/white color combination. I liked the game in general, especially the narration. Hitting the targets was not too hard. The attacking mechanic could have been a little more interesting than just hitting two buttons at any moment (in practice you always accumulate 9 focus before attacking)
Like Armanky, I didn't immediately get the connection between praying and the statues - some kind of "You can only pray near a statue" message would have been helpful. The arrow volley is very cool, but navigation is too hard; the arrow keys are not very responsive.
Cool game! The difficulty is spot-on, and I like the graphics and soundtrack. Some kind of storyline/upgrades/other variation would have been nice (if you have the time of course). It would also have been better to make the workers non-selectable (they are selectable like text now).
Incredibly difficult, but really good. I couldn't figure out how to go down after the first wave of the small fish, my shockwave would always just get most of them, and I'd still be caught. As others said, very unforgiving, having to spend a minute every time to get to the same point again.
I have to agree with StencylTuo about the gameplay aspect, the idea was okay but with clouds moving the way they do the game is too repetitive. The collision detection also feels a bit unforgiving when jumping near the edge. The graphics are nice though, overall the game looks well finished.
Wow, great execution and funny plot :D I wish I could make a pixel art game like that, I tried but didn't know how to make big pixels... The gameplay itself is a bit boring though, it takes a lot of time to walk around, waiting periods between rounds, and a lot of clicking. Maybe it would help to give the characters some abilities like in Chrono Trigger (my favorite RPG), require them to be in some configuration and use the terrain. Given the time limit it's of course very understandable that that wasn't possible.
Beautifully made, I still wonder how to do such lighting, have to look it up sometime... As others said the main problem are the controls. Up and down always take precedence over left and right, even when you're standing against a wall. It bummed me out that I lost my upgrades when I walked into a pit, the slow mining was too frustrating. DBGN didn't work for me.
Urgh, so hard! Could be the early morning and sleep deprivation... Anyway a losing condition would be nice, I mostly brute-forced it now. Another thing is that you can't "hold position", so that sometimes you can not scan someone who's standing next to you.
Cool game, very nice graphics!
On my first try the game froze after some time, maybe there was too much stuff walking around... The second time I made it, but the game only switched to the underground view without a win-indication.
Otherwise really nice, it's hard to prioritize escape over getting all the goodies!
I've seen games far worse than this! I'm just glad the spells were unnecessary (I was never isolated from the way down), you should have put the selection and casting on the same side, or better yet used the keyboard for that.
No need to be so negative, the quality of the games is always limited by the 48 hours anyway. Sometimes I'm annoyed when people post something unfinished and clutter the real entries, but this was fine.
You will not get many players with a game that requires source download and make, let alone installing clang (70MB) - I used Python with PyGame on my first LD, and have been using Javascript since then.
The game itself didn't work for me, I could walk around and get poisoned, but < and > didn't let me move up or down. The help function should document more stuff I guess.
Also:
Select items to drop:
a - Apron [x001]
b +ld29: mob.c:549: void unwield_item(Mob *, Item *): Assertion `*pos == item' failed.
c - Potion of Cure Poison [x001] Aborted (core dumped)]
Good hacker effort though :-)
Nice work, I didn't spot any spelling errors that break the immersion in so many other text-using LD-games ;-)
The missing music is really a shame, that would have made it so much better! It would also be much better if the hitboxes were not selectable (and the selection even draggable), but maybe this is just a Firefox issue. Selecting the eye is also hard sometimes, since the interaction with the tree-hitbox seems to be undefined.
Replay hung here too after some time, and it seemed as if it didn't reproduce my actions precisely - maybe I just forgot. Nice retro style, although gore is not really my thing.
Nice graphics, reminds me of http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/sketchfighter/. You got me inspired for a future LD ;-)
Also LOL @ the running out of time solution.
I initially flew outside btw, it would have been a bit more immersive if you had done something to prevent that (e.g. endless horizon).
Brrr, the boot gave me quite a shock xD Is there any way to know when it will hit you? Otherwise the game is a little easy: the rats don't move very intelligently, I had to purposefully draw out the game to see the water hose (nice animation btw ;) ) and getting air is no problem either.
Still nice work in 48 hours for your first-time submission - I barely managed to finish in 72 and had to do some bugfixes even after that.
Breathtaking! Especially the overworld music and the stone golem's, which reminded me of Tarantino. Having played enough Zelda, it was quite easy to figure out how to beat the bosses but still fun. Too long and uninteresting walks there though.
Congratulations on #1!
Awesome awesome awesome! Such a cool concept and great that you could implement it. My only suggestion would be to add spawning points, it gets annoying that you need to do the first part again and again, especially since you have to wait for the guard. As you said this is intentional, but I think it would be better to limit the player's lives and replenish them over time (one life every 3 mins or so, 10 lives max). I guess this would be hard to do within the LD time limit though...
Would have rated this very highly as well if I had seen it earlier ;-)
Nicely polished! I like the polygonheads. Comments: it's quite easy if you can touch type, it could have used an explosion if you lose. Also, the number of words is very limited, which made it easier as the game went on, but also gave a sense of accomplishment through learning.
Indeed, you first have to find out the controls and get used to them, but otherwise this is a very nice game! It's quite addictive. :) The graphics are nice, and you used the theme in an original way. :D
Nice puzzle game! It took me a little while to realise what I had to do. I could use the same solution for many of the first levels... The sounds are very nice. :)
Nice game. :) It's quite addictive, and the music is good too! Sometimes the friction acts a bit funny, but otherwise, good job!
The graphics look very nice, but they are loaded after a level starts. It would be nice to see which things you can click, for example by changing the cursor or highlighting the object. The game doens't look finished yet, but it has some potential. :)
Haha I liked the way the chef rotates when he moves up or down. Sometimes multiple kids get stuck in one place, which makes it impossibleish to finish it. It would be nice if they tried to avoid eachother, and to have audio.
Whoah, four scepters hard! I had to restart because I already spent my arrow when reaching the cyclops, but on the second run I found the second ending. Except for one clue and an earlier observation it would be very hard to find.
Great game from you as usual, beats me how you managed to make it in 48 hours. Magnifique!
Simple game, reminded me a bit of four scepters by Benjamin, in LD26. I like figuring out this kind of puzzle (even if in poorer games it turns out to be a waste of time). This one was quite nice, I wrote down the Latin in different rooms to solve it and could even translate some of it. No idea whether I was supposed to do anything with the cyclops though.
Is there a hidden meaning to the Latin or is it just for the atmosphere?
I was surprised I only needed one slow curse, turned out I had enough speed boosts. It would be nice if the player had some say in how fast he's going, so that it doesn't depend purely on what upgrades you have. Otherwise great game!
Doesn't work for me, with Chrome on OSX. Getting stuck after the dialogue as well, with a yellow dot in the center of the screen.
Reminds me of WarioWare, quite funny. The minigames could be more diverse though, and the spreading butter part is kind of boring. Good graphics though, and I like the retro music.
Wow, really good game! Fits the theme really well. Like many others, I got stuck in the screen schot level, and retried several times after I fell down. But eventually I gave up since it costs some much efort to move with just one limb. ;)
Nice twist on tower defense! At first the mouse seemed to be lagging, but now I see that the red dot indicates the cursor, and that when you move the cursor over the roads, that the tower won't follow. It would be better if the tower would always be placed at he closest possible position to the cursor.
By the way, thanks for playing our game, but you played a premature version of the game (2 hours before the jam deadline). Maybe you want to check out the final version. :)
Nice game and concept! It was really hard, since the game is not very forgiving. ;) I frequently got stuck inside the walls. An indication where the next blocks will be would help a lot. Good work though!
Indeed, our game is quite similar to yours! It seems you did the planning better than we though and in 48 hours :O, we also intended to have a minimap, harbors and upgrades but we spent too much time debugging javascript - still rookies at that...
Steep learning curve for an LD game, I got the healing potion but didn't pass the second level, even though having all elements at 100/100.
Really nice game, too hard and not addictive enough to finish for me though. Got to level 13 before giving up.
Complete keyboard controls would make this game even better.
Looks polished, but the gameplay gets a bit boring for me after some time. Having goals would improve this.
After a few times, the jumping action got 'stuck', so the game became unfinishable. Refreshing didn't help :-(
Using Chrome on Windows 7.
I like the idea of the game interacting with the player in a non-standard way, as if it's changing something in the room instead of only the machine.
Because of the simple nature of the game, it probably won't score very high, but don't let that discourage you!
Hard and awesome :D
I too miss some music and the sun rays look a bit weird (on Ubuntu).
Nice game! :) I like the music, but not so much the sounds. Quite addictive. :)
Nice game, although a bit short! We were thinking about a similar concept. :) The tapping foot is a nice detail, but the waiting till the time was up was a bit annoying...
The hand-drawn graphics are very nice (actually I prefered them above the 'better graphics'), and adding random features is also a nice idea. But since there is no ending or dying condition, it is not really a game yet... but good concept. :)
Nice idea, I hope you find time to polish it and make more levels. :) Dan Dynamite looks cute, but controlling him was a bit hard. I got to the end though. :)
Nice entry! I really like how there are different story lines. It's a pity there is no music, that would certainly add to the mood. :) Well done!
That is a nice puzzle game!
Nice take on the theme. ;)
Wow, great game!
Nice game! Good use of the theme. :)
As others already said, it is a bit difficult to find out what I was doing. In the end of the first few tries, I didn't see the end text because I already pressed a key (because it says so at the bottom), that was a bit confusing. Maybe you could have let the text 'any key skips' appear a bit later. ;) Anyhow, nice entry!
Very nice game!
Nice game, it was possible to kill the boss easily with the second ship by hovering just out of range and shooting for a while. After that I wasn't very motivated to hoard enough money for the last ship :-P
The mechanic reminded me a bit of Escape Velocity, one of my favorite games as a child.
Nice game! Really hard, also without the gold. I managed to survive a few levels in a row, but couldn't make it to the end. ;)
At the level with four yellow boxes and four ghosts I didn't know why I got annihilated every time, and the game had gotten a bit repetitive. I do think there's some good puzzling potential here. Excellent graphics!
Pretty hard! The graphics are very good, too bad there's no audio.
Cute minigames. :) I liked the sad game-over music. ^^
Long loading time indeed, it would be good to have a loading screen so the player knows to be patient ;-) The graphics are the best I've seen so far, love the small planet. Sometimes the game froze for a moment, but maybe that's just my slow computer. The learning curve is a bit shallow, I made it to level 19 where it started to feel impossible, but the first 10 levels or so were easy as pie. The fruit is sometimes hard to catch. Very nice entry!
Not working on Mac with Chrome 29.0.1547.57, keeps saying "not ready" after my name in the lobby.
It is indeed not yet a real game, but it's a good start. Just add a losing condition. :) It's smooth, and the particle explosions look very nice!
Nice game!
Very nice game!
Awesome, a meta-game :D
The music was perfect for this game, where did you get it?
At first I didn't notice why the levels reset, but that was of course the theme-time limit.
Nice concept! I played until the city fight, which got a bit too big for me. It would be better if shooting worked with right click, now I ended up shooting my own people sometimes. The AI was pretty bad (understandable for LD), and I couldn't always see what it was doing (which is probably a bug).
Hehe nice idea :) It gets frustrating sometimes, especially when I realize for the umpteenth time that I forgot to drop the snoozes. Beat it without time ever running out btw, always got smashed. Just checked to see what happens if it does.
Same as Frozen Fractal here, except the colours are driving me a bit bonkers, combined with my severe sleep deprivation. Without the timer this game would be better I think, but you've got to stick to the theme after all.
Very nice game. :) I like how you made the objectives clear with only words. Small reward!
Awesome! :)
Nice idea, but the controls are very slow and unclear...
Nice game! At first I really could not figure out that I had to click 'In the beginning', and started clicking at random, which got me to the difficult snake level...
Nice game! But quite hard, since the player has to be very precise with the controls. I agree with Oye Beto that the level selection should work with the keyboard, or that you just directly restart a level.
Very nice game! I like the music you have chosen, and the funky rainbow colors. ^^
By the way, the first time I failed a level, I didn't know how to restart, since 'Press SPACE to retry' was in white letters on a white background.
Nice game! It was quite addictive, although it was annoying when a cube started really close to a wall. I got to level 6.
Nice use of rhytm. Sometimes the metrognome became invisible...
It took me a long time to figure out what I had to do, but after that it was quite fun. :)
Beautiful, great job! I only got stuck once, trying to jump over the rock to the right above the water.
Nice graphics, reminds me of Mr. Game & Watch. The only thing that breaks the illusion is the obviously repeating background. Also it's very frustrating that dying resets the entire game. No audio here btw, so I didn't rate that.
Ai, that is hard! Nice idea though, I would like to play the updated version with fixed angle of rotation. :)
Getting an error on Ubuntu: attempt to call field 'setDefaultImageFilter' (a nil value). I have no experience with Lua, so this may just be a stupid mistake by me (and I see noone else with this problem).
Pity, the graphics look nice and people are very positive about it!
Wow, that was short. I like how you drew the walls. :)
Nice painting simulator! I played with it for a while. It would be nice if you could see the size of the brush that you are using.
In Chrome, the game loses focus between diving sessions, so I have to click every time I start diving again. The fading out takes frustratingly long, and at first I wanted to surface before running out of air - I expected that running out of air meant dying. Also, the attacking was buggy at times, I kept mashing the spacebar but nothing happened. As others pointed out, the items could be a little cheaper, it takes forever to earn them!
Apart from that, this entry is the most humorous one I've seen so far, the underwater atmosphere is nice, and the light rays make for a great atmosphere.
Extremely good puzzle game, very challenging, and I like the hypnotizing music.
2/2, 11/11, 16/16, 15/15, 16/18, 30/36, 31/31, 10/10, 8/9, 12/12, 30/29, 25/21, 18/17, 16/16, 10/10.
I'm freeee! It's 4:12 AM here, so about time too. For at least three levels a lower number of moves is possible (see above).
As with Myst and Riven, the logic of most puzzle elements eludes me. Impressive twin screen usage, but couldn't the effect have been achieved by two canvases side by side? Too bad you couldn't finish the game, I like the concept, mood and graphics though.
Nice one! Too bad there are so few people to play with. Having a kind of arena (possibly randomly generated) would also make it more interesting I think.
I think using the keyboard would be a better choice for the controls, at least instead of the frantic clicking. Gave up on level 2 because my arm started hurting. Beautiful graphics though! As docix said, some music would make the experience a lot more immersive.
Haha awesome game! I love piling up the blocky enemies to make a path. It's extremely hard though, the controls feel unnatural to me. z should be jumping, x firing.
Personally I also have trouble with the first-person jumping, but I like the cloud reflections and the font, the level design is also really good (especially the spike mayhem and the chasing level). One thing I noticed is that there's always some blue pixelated dot underneath the player, which I think shouldn't be there.
Whoah, this is hard! It took me a while before I tried custom, which makes practice a lot easier.
Insane props to anyone who managed to do solve this without paper to draw a map of each level. In the end I could do it without using the wizard or the assassin, I guess it's not possible with one character only.
Kind of a sad ending, and I had to take a few shots for the spelling mistakes :P Very good game though!
Good job on balancing the game, unfortunately I never played Stunts, so no nostalgia for me. The physics are too erratic for my taste, driving up a ramp is only possible at a snail's pace. The biggest problem is that you can't reset, which left me lying on my side or back several times, mournfully looking at the timer running out. Because of this I gave up on level 4.
Nice game, funny how much you can do with some black squares and rectangles. Only in the end I remembered the hint given in the beginning and used it in the last part. ;)
Nice! I really like the 'story', the later stages surprised me. The graphics are good, it's the audio that could use some improvement if you ask me ;-) It took me a while to figure out the wall-jumping.
Beautiful colors and smooth movement. I agree with pythong about the controls though. In GTA2 the 'up is walk' works, but since the turns are instant here, it would be better to have absolute controls. Unfortunately the goal is not clear to me, and the maze doesn't fit on my screen (900px high). From your screenshots it appears there are multiple levels, but I didn't get past level 1.
On Ubuntu, first thing I see:
Error: effects.lua:30: attempt to call field 'newCanvas' (a nil value) Traceback...
Colourful style! The game works well, but the levels are far too easy; rapid fire gets you through every level instantly.
Same problem as SmilingCat here.
Nice concept! Thicker lines/segments would be helpful to distinguish colors. Also it was not clear to me at first that some octagons were connected by grey segments, and that I had to match them as well. Some levels with increasing difficulty would be nice, since the first one I got was quite complicated. ;)
Wow, nice game! The gameplay is so simple, but still challenging. It fits the theme really nicely. I like the slight angle of the game, this makes the game look more playful and fun. :) Well done!
Nice game. I like the concept and the execution. The first levels were ok. With a bit of math, I could guess the center quite easily. But after about 60 levels I got bored and started clicking random points to see what would happen. How many levels are there? Are they randomly created?
At first this seemed incredibly boring, then the timers made it surprisingly promising, and the end freaked me out in a good way. I like the partially visible walls.
At first I tried to kill all the baddies, but then I found out they're just a nuisance because you can't be damaged. The moralistic part didn't appeal to me so much, but still a good effort to incorporate the theme. I like the maze at the end.
Quite minimalistic ;-) Is the name based on something? I know the game as billiard. As others said, the waiting should be improved and instant feedback (blinking balls, immediate increase of the score) would be nice.
Wow, very nice game! I like the colorful but simple graphics. The controls are interesting, but a bit frustrating at times. ;)
Beautiful game! I like how its tranquility encourages the player to sit back and think about a path before drawing it. At least that's what I experienced.
Nice game, I enjoyed it! I hope you get enough ratings. :)
I had to laugh when I saw the goat. ^^ The sound during the dialog was a bit annoying.
I liked the different guards and levels. It's a pity that you had to leave out the music, that would add some mood. At first I didn't like the slow walking speed, but I got used to it, and it made the game more challenging. :)
I used pygame too and initially also just posted the source. There are tools for creating executables (py2exe, pyinstaller, cx_freeze), but I couldn't get them to work on Linux. In the end my girlfriend got pyinstaller to work on Linux, so we finally had a working exe file :-)
Awesome puzzlegame! Before I found the 'hidden room' it seemed a bit boring, but the hidden things make it really worthwile :-) In the 2nd level I couldn't do anything, but I guess that's due to the in-progressness.
*Sigh* I read the instructions afterwards, so I barely ate one human before getting shot - spent 7 minutes after that watching my fellow zombies successfully finish the job : P
Even though patience makes this game unlosable because of this, I really enjoyed it! Holding space causes the error "Monkey Runtime Error : Sound click doesn't appear to exist" to appear at the top (and the game freezing), but the game is fun already with just the alert function.
Also, does the greenzone serve some purpose? Awesome that you generate random maps btw, did you write the code for that during the jam?
It took me a while to get used to the controls (I guess I didn't read them carefully enough), but after I figured that out, I quite liked the game!
I like the way the different monsters move (especially the grown-up, with the swinging arms), that the monsters have a different color every time, and how the panning of the OYOYOY-sound depends on where they walk. ;)
It took some time to understand the game, but after that, it was quite addictive to try to get full glory. ;) Although there didn't seem to happen much after I did. Anyway, great game!
Nice, but quite short game. Fun to play, but more levels or challenges would be nice. Also here I did not hear background music, but the game itself worked well on my old (>10 years) Windows machine with Firefox. One of our first ideas for our game was exactly this concept. ^^ Nice execution of the idea, but I think it could have something more.
I saw some potential in your game, but the execution was not that good or clear yet. I managed to grow some huge carrots a couple of times, but it was not clear what the end of the game was (it suddenly stopped).
Nice game, funny pixel art. The connection with the theme is not so strong, but it was fun to play. In the second and third level my Santa didn't get hurt by the Zombie Elves, so I managed to get to the end. ;)
Awesome, and really hard! I didn't manage to let evil win, if that's possible.
I enjoyed playing this one :-)
Is there actually no ending or is that a bug? It just says "You travel onward..." with 0 miles to go, which is a shame.
Also, it would be much nicer to have some story throughout the journey. It's a bit mind-numbing as it is now.
Most fun game so far! Too bad there's no ending (people seem to get stuck after level 4 or so). Also it took me some time to notice the shop, but that's probably just me :-P
Nice game! It took me a few retries to figure out what the goal was, but eventually I scored 245million. ;) Nice idea, and indeed some hard levels... I thought the screens between levels were too long.
Haha, I loved see Glorplax pushing the buttons. The 1 second delay was interesting and challenging, sometimes frustrating. Some parts took many retries, but I managed to get to the end. Nice grin. :)
Haha brilliant! The "web" link leads me to a download though, the alternative one gives me the online version.
Great concept! As others said, the background should be different (spacey imho, now it's not really a planet), and maybe you could use spheres instead of cubes?
The most unsatisfying part is that no skill is required, but I also can't think of a way to introduce that while keeping this simplicity.
Aargh this is hard! It took me a couple of times to beat satan already, and then there's so much more! Great job :D
Not loading on Firefox 17.0.1 :-(
Doesn't work well here on Ubuntu 12.04... I installed Lua 5.1, made the .love package executable and started it. Arrows up and down worked, but not enter or any other key, except with a huge delay (>1 min). Pressing 'z' after that crashed the game.
I like the game. The story is nice and fits the theme(s). I liked that you had to tap the S key to nibble on the stuff in the home of the little white rabbit. Because you can restart quickly, it is quite addicting for a while, trying to beat your own high score. :)
I like the concept, though if not an ending the game should at least have some progress. The sprites could be better, only the main character looks good. Nice idea for 'dying', but in a game that relies this heavily on text it would be nice if you had put some effort into finding a nicer font.
I used Python too btw, with pygame. No luck creating an executable so far, maybe on your system it works better. The main possibilities are py2exe, cx_freeze and pyinstaller.
I don't really understand the rules. It takes too long for the bot to play a card. Although 'evil' and 'goat' is mentioned, I don't think it fits the theme...
Nice concept, but I miss an intro that explains the story. It works, but I find the controls very hard and unclear. I tried several times, but I only once completed level 2. I missed a 'try again'-button, now I had to restart every time.
Nice way to fit the goat in the story.
Hehe nice, reminds me of our entry :D (Ninox the Nightbringer, I'll try to include required libraries) The goat at the end scared me, nice game! I'll read your postmortem, I'm curious how you made it.
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The Witch Chef by dumchevdev 2025-10-16T21:24:19Z ♥ 1
Unlocked all recipes! Super fun, sometimes a bit frustrating because of trial and error, but overall really nice ideas for the recipes. And amazing art of course.
Fullscreen does not seem to work on Firefox/Linux (only the uncaught exception occurs when I press fullscreen, the other message about a 1x1 texture is there before already) Screenshot from 2025-10-16 23-10-38.png
Out Of Energy by Custodi 2025-10-13T22:05:56Z ♥ 1
Looks great and the difficulty of dodging is pretty good (mostly in stage 2 - 1 is super easy and 3 is super hard but I guess there's something for everyone :P). From a game design perspective I would have avoided using energy for both winning (filling up) and losing (running out). On low energy there's (good) tension to not die, but beyond that it's kind of frustrating to creep towards the win, finding out every time that a delivery of batteries (even a full one) is not quite enough to fill up the radio station completely, so it drains again.
A Stamp-Stealer Postman by Pimeko 2025-10-13T21:45:08Z ♥ 1
I started off afraid that I would need to remember all the addresses and was quite relieved to see it wasn't *that* hard :D The animations are really nice, what techniques did you use? Anything Unity-specific/built-in? I use Godot myself but would not know how to do for example the cycling or stamp animation in such a nice way.
Hottentottententententoonstelling by Wouter52 2025-10-13T21:35:22Z ♥ 1
On Firefox this does not seem to work? I can type a nickname, but pressing enter does nothing. Too bad, I was curious after reading the other comments (but I only play games in the browser out of security considerations).
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ASTRODEFENSE by zimny11 2025-10-12T23:49:29Z ♥ 2
Looks promising, in the (post-jam) web version the problem is that shift + right click brings up a context menu and doesn't let me create routes :-( Looking at the other comments it doesn't seem to be super finished? The flying around and picking up/dropping off works well, and the factories seem to occasionally produce, but there's no indication of progress or anything. Ambitious and fun idea though!
Cursed Collector by Divarium 2025-10-11T22:38:33Z ♥ 1
Nice entry, lots of interesting and creative concepts, I also like the 2.5D choice! I'm not sure how I could open the doors, I think at one point the last enemy fell into a pit and one door unlocked?
Save the ocean by Linky439 2025-10-11T22:19:31Z ♥ 1
I love the message! Nice graphics and animations too, some lines between the blocks in the web version for though (a problem I sometimes struggle with myself). And I like the secret passages, reminds me of the old Donkey Kong games somehow :)
BloodPact by stefaink 2025-10-11T21:51:51Z ♥ 1
Really good work, I agree with everyone that the artwork is amazing! I would have like the gameplay to be a bit more challenging, but for a jam it's maybe better to give everyone an easy time finishing the game.
Seal the Deal! by sasik 2025-10-11T21:40:49Z ♥ 0
Cool, kind of similar to my game in a way - and we both went with smooth jazz xD About the music though; did you play this yourself? If not it would be nice to credit where you got it from.
Gobblin' Günther by Crygos 2025-10-09T17:45:34Z ♥ 4
Really cool concept, reminds me of Backpack Battles :D Some better indications of what combinations work might have been nice (though I see the appeal of letting the player figure it out). My main suggestion would be to not let the player lose everything that easily (either by jumping, stumbling, or having explosives combine in the bag(?)).
A Lifelong Hobby by Derek Glennon 2025-10-09T17:29:52Z ♥ 1
Took some time, but with the first salary in my grown-up bullshit job I just bought all the remaining singles. Nice societal critique.
BulkUp by naru 2025-10-08T00:12:42Z ♥ 1
Amaaazing, this game has me smiling. Really funny and well put together.
Katamari Survivors by zexurge 2025-10-07T23:48:47Z ♥ 1
Funny and very thematic - I never played Katamari Damacy and at first thought this was just a kind of sandbox, but I was pleasantly surprised when I could actually win the game (in 3:30), in particular with the announcer xD My main problem was that the mouse control was a bit finnicky and nausea-inducing for me.
Great job!
Paper Airplanes Collection by GeorgeBurg 2025-10-07T23:39:44Z ♥ 2
Wow, this is amazing, I didn't know there are this many designs! I'll try to remember to teach my son this when he gets a bit older :) I only remember three paper planes from my childhood, namely the first two from the game, but also one not in it: the Swallow (as shown on foldnfly.com for example). It does require cutting the paper though.
Stargazer by ProtoHere 2025-10-07T23:23:49Z ♥ 2
Lovely, the bubbly letters remind me of some very old games on Mac. Scoring-wise I didn't quite understand the mechanics, I did get the belt and around 4200 points, but my mouse would (randomly?) lose "focus", without capturing the constellation-in-progress.
Lemme Stash by exozetart 2025-10-07T19:55:40Z ♥ 1
Very cute and thematic, now that I see the eggs I'm wondering whether anyone made an Easter-themed game. I liked how you can still see the below ground area on the bottom edge while you're collecting, would have loved to see some more interesting rooms to better reward the burrowing. And perhaps the foods could have different values.