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YearLDThemeGameDivisionRankOvFuInThAuHuMo
202250Delay the inevitableTIMEjam12892.882.402.832.962.452.742.87

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Comments by etchell

LD50 — Delay the inevitable

Holy Furbals by commanderstitch 2022-04-09T03:19:37Z

Fun! I wish I could hold the mouse down to shoot.

Why does it take so long to load? I have an M.2 SSD and it took a good 10 seconds to load.

FlowerPower by C64Gamer 2022-04-05T03:58:32Z

Cute!

Do the sunflowers grow any taller than one unit?

Electro Rush by Giardi 2022-04-09T04:37:20Z

Very fun!

The default settings of the camera y axis being inverted was a little frustrating - nice that your update version has this option to toggle it.

Sound effects were cute, just like the robot!

Back2Work by radmccool 2022-04-09T05:06:18Z

I love the graphic style. Low rez low poly is my jam.

Love the animations too.

I think it bugged out on my second 'run' after playing through once and then hitting restart. I managed to kill all the zombies on the floor and no more spawned, so the timer just kept going up.

Soul Dilemma by muriel 2022-04-10T04:23:50Z

Good stuff!

Enjoyed being a zombie attacking the village :)

Felt juicy. Loved the attack hit effects, and the warning before day time.

Those Along The Way by egawag 2022-04-09T06:39:06Z

Incredibly polished entry! Best one I've checked out so far. Going to be hard to top!

Loved the animations and camera work. camera control like that is next on my 'to learn' list. I assume you do something like lerp from current position to desired position?

Well done to everyone on the team!

Defense of the Immortal Wizard by crab8012 2022-04-09T04:47:41Z

Are the towers not working?

I could build green cubes, but they never shot or appeared to damage the red cubes in any way.

I could collect Hide from a yellow cube thing, but wasn't sure what to do with it!

Turbo Toilet Tomfoolery! by RonanRory 2022-04-09T04:56:03Z

Really fun mate!

I think this would actually make a good mobile game. Touch left side of screen to turn anti-clockwise, right side of screen to turn clockwise.

Next steps: Add a screenshake on collision Add some more levels Record times to get through levels (Leader board??) work on a random level generator!

I think you're being really hard on yourself in your description. Making games IS REALLY HARD. and in three days, you completed a product and released it for people to play and judge. That is something to be really proud of!

Magma Melt by Boon 2022-04-10T07:56:15Z

Nice one!

Love the style. I would love for some longer levels and perhaps some 'super' abilities!

Help Pete Delay The Inevitable by zell 2022-04-10T04:18:12Z

Great idea! I immediately felt like I needed to be more powerful, though.

Pretty quickly you get stuck in the spawn area and can't really leave.

Perhaps the pipes could have been shortcuts to the other side of the level, or up higher?

The controls felt a little unintuitive. I wanted to press space to jump.

The jump could be two units high, to help with traversing. Maybe being able to throw the bombs too!

Down The Rabbit Hole by KingOfNova 2022-04-10T08:00:49Z

I wish I could see a little further ahead!

The mouse controls, I'm not so sure on. Looks like player character moves as close as possible to my mouse x/y on a circle? It was hard to keep track of where my cursor was to perform movements with any sense of finesse.

Love the graphic style!

ESCAPE VELOCITY by Quackqack 2022-04-05T04:10:08Z

Very fun!

I don't know what you'd call it, but the game had a very quick 'time to grab my attention'. Immediately I was engaged.

Light-Fingered by QuadApe 2022-04-09T04:24:55Z

Very well done!

managed to find all four levels, but only about 85 points of treasure. The main hall with all of the platforming.. I had no luck trying to get up there, especially with the stress of the smoke monsters chasing me!

Solid entry!

The Pit by Itskdog 2022-04-10T03:44:47Z

Cool idea!

I had some runs where no coins appeared at all. I guess thats where you need cards that add them.

I felt like the runs werent long enough. Like perhaps you get dealt a card every x seconds and you want a quantity of 'extend the level' cards in your deck.

I wish I spent more time falling and less time buying cards and planning the 5-15 second run?

Space Voyager by IzhVaryag 2022-04-10T08:17:43Z

Cool physics! Took me a while to get used to the ship.

Wish the game was a bit faster paced!

Red giant by Szkocka 2022-04-10T04:12:18Z

Really enjoyed the controls. Felt fun and polished.

I got a score of 7368 with a survival time of 1284.03 seconds.

The colour palette was great. Very ominous.

Balloon Bash by ExeVirus 2022-04-09T03:33:47Z

Fun!

Instantly you start to think about ways to keep them together.

It would be more interesting if the balloons could collide with each other. and if they spawned in a bit more of a random location.

Nature's Delay by xCarl 2022-04-10T08:12:28Z

Cool! Loved the SFX.

Not sure how people were getting high scores, i struggled to get past day 40 consistently. Only did it twice.

I am bad a games, though.

A Ship Out of Time by deighta 2022-04-10T08:31:52Z

Fun game!

As others have mentioned. with a small play area. it's difficult to not get blind-sided by ships on the left or right.

TIME by etchell 2022-04-05T04:35:51Z

Hi @luquio I've added a Windows build.

I have found that Firefox, on Itch.io is having issues with setting my Mouse X axis to 3.0 when there is actually no input. Is this is the issue you ran in to?

It does not do this in any other browser. Nor does it do it in Firefox when running it from Unitys local server. It's very strange.

TIME by etchell 2022-04-05T04:38:12Z

@boon & @franticcoder - Neither of those things are 'the secret'

Though fun fact. the harp sounds are recordings of my partner :)

The text overflowing was just a fun bug I left in because why not!

TIME by etchell 2022-04-05T04:53:26Z

@luquio It should go to the Itch page, which has a download link down the bottom! Itch doesn't support direct linking, I don't think!

EDIT: Think I've worked around the itch bug telling it to load in a new window...

TIME by etchell 2022-04-05T05:24:53Z

@izhvaryag Thanks for playing! The first bug I am having trouble replicating it consistently. I've definitely had it happen, but I can't replicate it on demand. I'll keep playing around. The text overflowing I knew and decided to leave for the meme. So much lorem ipsum.

@ernestogtz Thank you so much!

@mopifish Thank you so much! Cheers on the visual style. The initial apartment model dictated it and anything I added I tried to keep consistent with it.

The camera rotating was something introduced on upload to Itch. I've tweaked itches settings and it shouldn't do it any more.

TIME by etchell 2022-04-09T02:59:14Z

Thanks @c64gamer ! I can't take credit for the low poly models, they are credited on the itch page. (Why graphics rating is removed).

I did make the frame for the alarm clock in Blender though. First time using it :)

TIME by etchell 2022-04-13T05:58:06Z

Thanks everyone!

The plan is to finish off the project to its original scope.

Lots of interactables, a flashier ending, a menu with sensitivity and other configuration, plus some more atmospheric items.

I'm working on it now and will post it on Itch when it's done!

The Last Nightmare by Aniki_ta 2022-04-10T03:02:08Z

Enjoyed playing a horror game :)

Not a huge fan of jump scares but i know I'm a minority in the genre.

The audio was creepy and I liked the graphics.

I wish the fog/lighting was tweaked a bit in the transitions between connecting areas. It felt bugged/broken/that I wasn't moving in the correct direction. I think the time ticking down detracts from the narrative on the notes. Maybe pausing the game to read them would help.

Death Is Inevitable by TherealMoebius 2022-04-05T04:32:00Z

Cool! Loved the atmosphere. found the monster at about 280 seconds. Caught me at 330!

Life Finds a Way by Mopifish 2022-04-10T08:21:58Z

Very nice tutorial!

I personally am not a fan of games where i have to click on things really fast and frantically, though.

The art was nice. The balance was tough. You're really in to it straight away!

Have to pickup and put down the tools is a cool idea.

Time For Dinner by Applestreet Games 2022-04-10T03:11:26Z

Nice job!

Loved the use of FMV/photography for your assets.

It sounds like you've addressed it in the post jam version, but the number keypad was rough to use without being pulled in for a closer look.

I enjoyed spotting the creepy edits to the areas and the twist gave me a laugh :)

Well done.

Stranded by LucasBerg 2022-04-09T04:07:31Z

Good job on the entry!

It was a little unclear what to do at first. Took me a while to figure out that Spacebar was the interact button.

Also, the origin of the player character being offset is making them jump around!

Having more wood spawn and a timer would have been nice additions :)