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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | Just why? | compo | 13 | 4.22 | 4.09 | 3.53 | 4.17 | 4.21 | 3.51 | 2.83 | 3.96 | ||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | The Scraps of Victory | jam | 114 | 4.05 | 3.99 | 4.04 | 3.76 | 4.14 | 4.54 | 4.06 | |||
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Feederz | jam | 614 | 3.75 | 3.42 | 3.48 | 4.10 | 3.95 | 2.79 | 3.87 | |||
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | TRIWAR | jam | 47 | 4.12 | 4.20 | 3.73 | 3.22 | 4.03 | 2.14 | 3.84 | |||
| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | Sven | jam | 43 | 4.12 | 3.94 | 4.12 | 3.57 | 4.16 | 3.55 | 4.30 | |||
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | grindatron.tv | compo | 143 | 3.74 | 3.79 | 3.62 | 4.21 | 3.44 | 2.85 | 3.10 | 3.23 |
Donitz leaves an average of 25.7 feedback comments each event.
Loved the way the dance mini-game. Nicely executed party simulator.
Very pretty graphics and bloom effects. The music is relaxing.
The graphical style is nice and consistent and the gameplay is smooth. Great job!
I really enjoy the graphics and your usage of lighting and shadows. I only wish the animations were faster. Cool game none the less.
I'm a sucker for dithering effects. Very cool.
Very relaxing, to be a flower.
Really polished. The sense of humour is on point.
Simple and effective. The scraping stone effect works really well.
Too short! It was a sweet game.
My Stepmania muscle memory keeps throwing me off, since the up and down arrows are switched. Otherwise it's a very relaxing game with some trippy graphics. Good job!
I like the GTA physics. Like a micro-GTA.
Very fun and the game looks amazing.
Time to invest in a bridge.
Really nice game. The artstyle are pretty damn amazing, and it's extremely addictive.
Nice well timed music!
Managed to fly off the level the first time by mistake at the end.
Great concept and layout. Love the way the entire game is a single screen.
Very nice idea. The difficulty seems perfectly balanced.
Lol, funny concept. I like the presentation too.
I'm a sucker for simplistic strategy games. With a bit more work it could be one of those dangerously addictive mobile games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdhhQhqi_AE
lol
Good difficult game. I could see myself speedrunning this.
One thing about the platform physics. It's a good idea to allow the player to jump in the air a short duration after running off a platform. It's more forgiving and the player doesn't really notice it unless it's missing.
Cool concept (even though I don't really know the value of these coins).
I wish the game had eased you into it a bit more, by having you create some of the smaller coins first.
I... don't think that's how Russian Roulette works! Death is a dick!
Lol great game.
And he died the happiest man alive.
Cool boss, but I wish you didn't have to watch the intro more than once.
I'm going all Tom Cruise on these people with the spotter ability. It may have been a bit too cheap.
I really enjoy the concept. It kinda reminds me of a more casual Paper's please.
Oh, this game has a shop. BUCKLE UP BOYS!
Addictive, frustrating gameplay with a nice theme. Noice.
This is the most literal interpretation of the theme I've seen so far. Nice game! Though I got stuck at the end and let Bowser-rat kill me.
Lol @ at that story. It's like Spacejam but baseball!
Nice graphics and sounds. Wish you could run a bit faster but the gameplay was still good. I don't know if it's just me, but it felt like the attack and jump buttons were reversed.
A stylistic and very fun game! The pattern recognition worked really well and the main mechanic is solid as heck.
The user interface is also really nicely designed, with the sloping lines in the middle. Though the viewport seem to have been cut off horizontally on my laptop screen.
Save us GDPR!
Did you seriously hire professional VAs for this game? Cheating!
Wonderful graphics that wouldn't be out of place on a $20 Steam game. The soundtrack is great too.
The platform physics feel solid too. Didn't glitch out at any corner.
Cool! Love the graphics and soundtrack. Gameplay is good and pretty fast-paced.
The sacrifice mechanic was a bit unclear at first. I thought you were gaining bonuses and that enemies sacrificing themselves to blow you up was the mechanic. Bit of a surprise when I kept getting weaker. Maybe a visual indicator of some energy flying from you into the statue would have made it clearer, but that's just a nitpick.
I must be doing something wrong in the WebGL version. I see the other side in the first gap, but there isn't enough thrust to get over, only about half-way.
Cute game, and nice voice acting too.
I think it would have been better to keep both drop and pickup on the same key.
I can get all the targets except the top of the tree.
The pagan is cute.
I think the volcano may be a metalhead. Great artwork! The indicator sticks out a little bit but it's no biggie.
Surprisingly challenging. I was ONE ship away from winning.
Good game!
Picky eater! Simple game but it looks really good.
Very innovative! Though I wish it would indicate which piece you're about to drop next.
Dude... did that guy just lift a cow with his bare hands? I think he can take the gods.
Looks really great! Very polished and the gameplay is solid.
There seems to be a significant slowdown when encountering the enemy robots with the purple lights. A wild guess is that you're using forward rendering with too many light sources.
Pretty gruesome when you consider it's not far from the truth in factory farming (though I think chickens have it worse).
Well, now I've played like a cow for the first time!
You saved 5 cats at the cost of 0 others. Was it worth it?
Yes! I love cats!
Good job! The graphics are really quite good, especially for a first game.
I randomly ran left every few seconds and didn't seem to drop anything.
Great mechanic! I love the way sacrificing different body parts changes the way the game plays, like losing your hearing by removing your ears.
The intro was hilarious and had me actually laugh out loud. Great user interface too. Reminds me of old PC games from the 90s in which the UI took up like half the screen.
A very enjoyable game indeed!
People are never happy, the game! I like the humorous twist on the trolley dilemma.
Very polished and nice game. The only thing that is missing is some kind of drag indicator the first time you play the game.
Funny game, and the offerlings are pretty cute/silly. I wish there was more levels.
Lol nice. Was a bit confused at first but after paying closer attention it became pretty clear what the mechanic was. Awesome graphics too!
it's ok, i guess
Seriously though. This game is great! The mechanics are very deep (it even has cooking!) and the apartment looks great and has so many interactive things. It also teaches you a life lesson in never answering the phone because screw that noise.
Goodbye sleep!
Very funny! Lost the first time thanks to Dave, that no good...
Cool game! The game has a unique style and none of the graphics clash. The soundtrack fits very well. The gameplay loop is fun, and being allowed to repair the boat after each level makes it feel like "your own" boat. Good job!
Yeah that fits the theme perfectly. A bit annoying that I kept flying off the screen though.
Nooo not the cats! Take the dogs instead!
Nice graphics! The physics are solid and the gameplay is quick phased. My one complaint is that I hate using the spacebar for jumping (so loud).
Nice little game. I don't know if it was intended, but on my laptop the enemies kinda look like they're claymotion and it adds a nice cheesy touch to the game.
By the way, you can disable the scrollbars on the play window on itch.io.
It's a cool concept, like an arcade Oregon Trail. The guys are a bit small and difficult to click on, and the graphics are fairly basic, but the gameplay loop is great.
LoL, the cube spawned outside the containment one time. Squish!
Nice story told in a few lines of dialogue. Kinda like Deadpool's origins but more squared.
Difficult but satisfying. Getting in a series of smooth curves and swinging right into the goal feels good. Instant restart on death is appreciated.
Great fun! Fast-paced, hectic and precise gameplay. The way you swing back and forth after stopping adds an extra element of skill.
My one complaint is that the mouse isn't constrainted within the game, so I keep pressing outside the window. Other than that, really fun game!
Hooray for Mars! Git out Earthlings!
Nice use of both the NASA photos and... whatever those sound effects were from. Hilarious!
I love the dithering effect you used. Looks good.
The gameplay is quite difficult, but I don't mind that. It would be nice if the game automatically restarted though after you die so you didn't have to keep pressing restart.
The aiming is unorthodox when played with a mouse. It's not that hard to aim, but it becomes part of the challenge. I imagine if you used a twin stick gamepad it would be much easier.
Cool concept! The 3d models look fantastic due to the small details. The gameplay is rather difficult and once things go south there is not much you can do to save it, but that's part of the charm.
The placement position is somewhat unreliable and I can't quite figure out what exactly is used to determine which tile is hovered. Some type subtle wireframe grid of the hover locations might have made it clearer.
Neat little game. The boss design was funny and they had some cool attacks.
You can defeat the bosses pretty quickly be really spamming the attack button. Instead it might have been better to maximize DPS after 2 or so clicks per second to make it easier to aim.
6599 points.
Game feels very polished for being pre-alpha. The buildings, menus and enemies all look great.
It's a bit too easy for a stretch before the enemy hordes get really large.
Whelp! Well you got me right in the stomach. It's quite impressive that you managed to make such an atmospheric horror game in just a few days. Very good job indeed!
I had some random extreme slow downs when looking in certain direcitons. Forward rendering + many light sources perhaps?
The second level took me an emberassing amount of time to complete. Wish there were more levels. The hole-traversal mechanic is great and would allow for a large number of additional puzzles.
You are tearing me apart Lasers! And I came so far!
Cool roguelite game with rocking music.
Cop seeing the scene: "... carry on"
Dirty and morbid, nice.
Sodaboi's greatest enemy is multitasking. Hilarious game! And the gameplay is quite unique.
Nice concept. The one thing this game really needed was tile highlighting under the mouse cursor to indicate actions. It was a bit hard to know whether you were going to build something or pick up toxic waste.
Lovely little short story. Even though there is just a few screens, they have some great looking art.
Love it! I'm a huge fan of minimalistic pixel-art (games like Environmental Station Alpha), and this game is simply gorgeous! On top of that the gameplay is compelling as well, forcing you to make some difficult choices whether to mine or just gather resources. And again, the attention to detail (screen-shake anyone?) brings it all home. Good job!
If you made some type of larger sim city styled game in this theme I'd play it.
Ah, the atmosphere of this game is quite relaxing... but the game itself is rather difficult.
Neat original concept! I liked the mutations:
"aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa space".
Awesome game. I really like the theme, and the robot+lab looks super cool.
The gameplay was ALMOST self-explanatory. The one aspect which confused me at first was that you had to use the mouse to activate the powerups. It might have worked better if they were numbered and activated by 1-3.
This game has some great mechanics. Each one of the special tiles seems well thought out and adds something new to the game. Nothing seems tacked on so to say. The game is pretty addictive and fun.
I love the way the levels are created. It looks great! The humour is spot on, and the graphics have a nice limbo/twisted shadow planet vibe.
PS: Not a cheater
Ooh, that's a clever idea! And the gameplay is really fast and to the point too. Nice music, nice explosion/screen-shake effect, and the graphics does what it needs to do.
Very challenging game. The graphics are nice and the theme fits well. You really have to be quick to stand a chance.
I really like the music. The artstyle is pretty good too, but the high-res background clashes a bit against the cartoony foreground. The gameplay is challenging but not impossible.
Overall a nice little game.
The red growths are devious. The game isn't too difficult if you just go slowly and take your time... or you can just boost in a straight line firing your guns hoping for the best!
The game feels pretty polished for something done in a few days. The theme is deliciously morbid, and the graphics are nice and consistent. The gameplay is a little bit slow for my tastes, but that's just a nitpick.
I didn't realize at first that you had to bury the bodies, so I just kept throwing them down the graves. Didn't really work out.
Surprisingly deep story on top of fun gameplay. Nice!
I feel ya. Living in the city makes you feel like an ant.
A cool shooter with fitting music.
I like the idea of having to use the delete file boxes to clear some breathing room.
This game seemed pretty unassuming at first, until I realised each of the Rocket girls had a special ability (didn't read the description before playing the game). That blew my mind! I still haven't been able to get through the last zone, but I'll keep trying. This is a really neat concept.
There's a message in this story. Don't be a fool, bring a tool.
I really enjoyed the style of this game. The enemies are imaginative (an ice cube?), and the entire game is surreal.
The artstyle is great and consistent and the animations look really good. The idea of the game works well. Though it feels a bit slow, like the game could just be sped up to x1.5.
Simple and somewhat hypnotic. Reminds me Atari games.
Nice game! I love how open it is, and that the tiles keep following you no matter where you go. Makes the world feel connected. Some of the puzzles are real brainteasers too. I got to the skull zone puzzle and no matter from which direction I attacked it I didn't find a solution. Still, the best puzzles makes you work for them.
Cute graphics, good puzzles!
I feel the message of this game is: "Don't help people".
Joking aside, it's a fun game! It's actually quite a challenge to safe 25 persons. The graphics are good, the camera feels smooth and the music is quite pleasing.
3740 meters.
It's a cool game. The music and colorscheme makes the experience seem kind of alien, but in a good way.
My one complaint is that it's a bit hard to tell the distance between the ship and walls.
And I thought I was clever for surrounding myself with fire like some type of Ninja. Do'h.
It's a nice concept for a game. It adds a tactical element rather than just having the player attack everything in sight.
The graphics are quite nice, especially the fires.
This game is REALLY good! It taps into the same type of addictive gameplay as One Finger Death Punch. The way you spawn people is quite clever, forcing the player to synchronize its tapping, or multitask with one side getting a constant barrage of enemy combatants and the other side gets only a few.
The graphics are simple and effective. The way the trees move, the screen flashes and the highscores pop up when you take down those evil parkgoers makes the game feel alive.
And yes, the theme. I think we can all identify with the protagonist in this game. If anything his spread is a bit below average tbh but who am I to judge?
Great job! Addictive game!
Sneaky buggers, trying to avoid paying for tickets \*shakes fist\*
There's a nice attention to detail on the people in the game. Their animations and different clothing styles. I like it!
A small game about killing demons. What more could you want except Grenade launcher! Grenade launcher! Yeah!
The artstyle is good. It's a bit odd that the player is outlined but the demons aren't, but that's just a nitpick.
I like the shrinking and growing controls in the menu, bringing it to the attention of the player. I'm stealing that!
Esc was probably not a good key to close the dialogue with, since it's used in firefox to take back control over the cursor and disable fullscreen. I had to maximize the screen, then press esc and it worked.
This game reminds me of the old classic Die by the sword in the way you swing your weapon. Less like an action game and more like a fighting simulator. That's a plus in my book.
The music is really quite good too.
The artstyle is very nice. Love the black outlines and the slimes are adorable. The background loop is nice for being only a few seconds long.
Thank you for allowing the player to use the mouse button to attack. Good foresight!
One complaint I have is that the camera is too high, so you can't always see if a pit has spikes in it or not.
I noticed that you won't die from spikes while in grace time, so ofc I got hit on purpose by a slime and ran trough the spikes and jumped off the world :D
The game has a really nice consistent graphical style. It could easily be mistaken for a game you'd find on a platform like Steam. Really great job on that!
The concept is cool but unless you checked the instructions you may miss some of the features, such as the inspection table. I just started the game immediately and was pleasently surprised to find a bomb exploding my nice box heap. Someone really has it out for this place!
I have a few suggestions for improvements: - Make the game about 50 or so percent faster. It may just be my craptop, but the game seems to run in semi-slow motion. I wish the game was just a bit faster in general. - Allow the player to walk around the center of the camera without being tracked 1 to 1. It feels a bit constraining.
Good game!
Good game. Simple and to the point. This game is a great example why adding a screen-shake effect really adds to the impact.
For future games, I would suggest allowing the player to use an alternative key to the space bar for firing. Rapid-fire spacebar is pretty loud :)
LD54 — Limited Space (38)
Mr.AdBar by eddynardo 2023-10-04T21:58:53Z ♥ 1
Very cool idea! It's up there with the favicon SHMUP in interesting stuff you can do with browsers.
SHELL FACTOR by Dmitry Kaidash 2023-10-04T21:55:22Z ♥ 0
Just like in the Nature documentaries.
Whiskers in the Dark by Diego Teran 2023-10-04T13:46:22Z ♥ 2
Charming and technically impressive! Makes me wonder what the deeper story is of the game.
Tiny Factory by AncientEntity 2023-10-04T13:27:47Z ♥ 1
Extremely stressful. Like others have pointed out, it's like a mini-factorio.
Hmm. A factorio rogue-like is not at all a bad idea.
Bucket Buffet by Don Fouts 2023-10-04T13:21:32Z ♥ 2
Ah yes, this is why I go to KFC.
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Prickle by Kultuk 2023-10-04T13:13:19Z ♥ 4
Really nice art style and good puzzles. The rotation mechanic feels a bit unfair at times as it blocks rotations you think you should be able to make, but that's just something you can get used to.
CosmoTrasher by Prologi 2023-10-04T13:08:01Z ♥ 2
Fun little mining game **"In Space".** The grappling hook mechanic works well and there is a clear progression. Wish there was some kind of punishment for flying out into space though, like you losing all your coins.
Pixel Piles by Gabriel Chan 2023-10-04T12:56:14Z ♥ 4
Way harder than regular tetris, but it's a really cool game.
Tiny Tour by Bugord 2023-10-04T12:17:16Z ♥ 2
Simple self-explanatory mechanics and pretty graphics. These mini-games are great.
Glutton-Free by andypang1010 2023-10-04T12:09:22Z ♥ 2
The bubble physics feel so real.
Seagull Island | L'île aux Goélands by Seb_degraff 2023-10-04T12:04:55Z ♥ 3
Surprisingly addictive.
Total Party Swipe by Sheepolution 2023-10-04T09:12:18Z ♥ 1
It's a very cool idea which could work well on touchscreens. I love the shuffling mechanic. One change I believe could work well is that each character only has one attack which is used automatically, as to not slow down the gameplay.
Escape The Walls by purplexy 2023-10-04T09:07:18Z ♥ 3
And so he killed two innocent pigeons.
LIGHTDANCER by xk_the_name 2023-10-03T21:52:33Z ♥ 1
The game has a solid gameplay loop. I died at the end but so did the boss, so I'll consider it a bittersweet ending.
Though I Walk by AdamCYounis 2023-10-03T21:42:29Z ♥ 0
Another great take on the genre of perspective-based games. This was quite a cool concept and I wish it had been longer. Pixelart was lovely, especially the protagonist.
Nice Park! by Barbabulle 2023-10-03T21:35:57Z ♥ 2
Like Micromachines or GTA 1. You had a lot of little detail and fluff in the environment which made the world feel alive. The car handling was also good.
Floodwater by John Gabriel 2023-10-03T21:28:47Z ♥ 2
Another great puzzle game in which you go "THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE... oh"
Packed to the Gills by npckc 2023-10-03T21:22:36Z ♥ 3
Surprisingly fun and very thematic.
Space Ltd by The XJ Project 2023-10-03T21:16:30Z ♥ 2
Fun game. I'd expect them to pack more Dogecoin though.
Dogtor Jones and the Holy Bone by Neon Glass 2023-10-03T20:55:25Z ♥ 2
Cool idea and nice graphics, although I wish the downtime between levels was a bit shorter. I got to level 25 before losing my first life.
Wrecking Jail by Guilloteam 2023-10-03T20:45:37Z ♥ 2
Super polished and great looking game! Good job!
Puss In Box by iron_head 2023-10-02T22:10:56Z ♥ 0
Had to abandon some of the silly cats. Now I'm sad.
Under Infiltrate by josep93 2023-10-02T22:02:49Z ♥ 1
Intriguing! I like the claustrophobic surreal atmosphere. The gameplay is short but sweet.
The only thing I would change is that you recharge immediately on appearing, since there is no mechanical reason you'd ever not just wait.
Vessel Pressure by AlexClay 2023-10-02T21:47:18Z ♥ 2
I'm either doing construction or war crimes, but it's fun none-the-less.
Penguin Escape by herman6006 2023-10-02T21:42:18Z ♥ 3
I miss the safe cube from portal.
Very stressful indeed.
Tiny Rocket by jacobwinters 2023-10-02T21:36:17Z ♥ 2
Very difficult game with a cute spaceship. The way the orbit updates as you fly is also really cool.
As an improvement I would suggest the ability to thrust at a much slower speed by holding some button, so you could carefully adjust the orbit.
Spaceport by freeworld 2023-10-02T21:12:06Z ♥ 1
Relaxing game. I wish the level kept getting more complex as you got further, like you had to plan these long complicated paths for a lot of ships coming from different directions.
Space racer by Sacramentix 2023-10-02T21:05:43Z ♥ 1
Love the concept! It's extra fun when you use the middle button drag mode for that smooth sailing.
Limited Headspace by OadT 2023-10-02T20:44:05Z ♥ 1
Clever game, and it's very thematic too. These kinds of logic games, like Baba is You, are a great deal of fun to figure out.
Flicker of Lumina by Nash 2023-10-02T20:29:33Z ♥ 2
I won! Lord of the flies!
A surprisingly innovative game. I could see how something like this could be expanded into a longer game with the whole darkness and passive protection mechanic.
Pactory by Ralian 2023-10-02T20:17:25Z ♥ 1
When would you ever need bouncy wheels?
Verliies by Ace17 2023-10-02T19:57:24Z ♥ 1
Good platformer with a lot of nice dynamic levels.
One suggestion I have is to add a bit of grace time for jumps so that you can jump a small amount of time after you run off a platform.
Burglary Bonanza! by kasperhangard 2023-10-02T19:51:01Z ♥ 3
Fun game! I love the attention to detail, like the noises the different things make while you're dragging them around, and the way the windows break. Very nice.
Zombies In The Hall by recursor 2023-10-02T19:14:10Z ♥ 1
Hah. Nice game but great music!
Don't Skip the Ship! by Bloham 2023-10-02T18:53:22Z ♥ 2
Cool idea! A few bugs but otherwise nice. The highlight doesn't refresh until you move, and as the other commenter pointed out the contrast of the highlight was quite low.
CERT by tjm 2023-10-02T18:40:58Z ♥ 2
Very cool concept! It reminds me a bit about the Witness in the way you learn new rules as you go along.
Clearing space by Sevansevan 2023-10-02T18:23:11Z ♥ 1
Quite a brain teaser! I do like it when the solution was something you didn't expect at first, like the mechanic where you could push flowers between pots.
Boxed In by raassh23 2023-10-02T18:16:48Z ♥ 2
A minimalistic but polished fun little game.