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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | Reliable Reactors Co. | compo | 382 | 3.24 | 2.81 | 3.32 | 4.01 | 3.19 | 3.03 | 3.50 | 3.21 |
Pretty cool, you don't see many games of this style anymore. I ran into a bug. After I got to the factory I died by a turret. After that every time I made a character once I moved to select one of the starting options after creation it would open the gravestone back up and restart me.
Man I don't even know what you made but I can see that you achieved what you wanted perfectly. The mood of this game is perfect and unique.
The gameplay is a bit weak but you set a good tone. The music really fit.
This was a pretty funny game. I didn't expect it to be anymore than a runner at first so I was surprised at the fishing mini-game and what came after. Pretty cool.
Fancy hat upgrade best upgrade.
Actually pretty impressive. Gameplay felt solid, and the rolls were sick.
I will say that I found it weird that when you are walking, you're direction is based on your wasd inputs, but when you attack your direction is based on your mouse look. Feels like it should be one or the other.
But yeah, that's my only problem, graphics were pretty cool and you had some nice features.
I like this, very unique compared to all the other games. Big and open is nice. The truck controls were a bit floaty (I feel like it should turn quicker) but very fun.
I was impressed with how much you were able to do with a simple art style. Looked very clean. The dialogue between the two globs was more charming then I expected.
I will say though something about not having control over when control switches is just inherently annoying. Once I finish killing all the enemies or pushing all the blocks it just feels like I need to spend twice as long finishing the other task. I think a good way to have worked with this is to make it so that once you kill all the enemies it doesn't switch over to the shooting controls anymore. Or even put in a timer or something to how long you have until you change
Very interesting game.
Man, the polish on this is INSANE. Literally the only drawback to this is that it's lacking content, but the gameplay is top-tier, feels great. I had a lot of fun playing around in the one level. Really impressive for 48 hours to put together something so nice.
The graphics were quite stunning, despite how simple they were. I felt like I was zooming through the stars.
However the gameplay was a bit lacking. The falling things from the sky are no problem as long as you keep moving, so there really isn't any challenge. The only challenge was if I could sit still long enough to finish.
Pretty cool, seems that the best strategy is to make a big cell and launch it at the enemy. You executed your idea very well.
I have no idea what this game even was, but it's probably the most unique game I've played here so far lol.
Good stuff.
Very fun idea, though it's a bit rough. For me the mouse sensitivity seemed to be really high. Also, there were some layering issues (I think one of the buttons appeared over my character) But the game was fun and left me wanting more levels, so good work!
This was very cool. The gameplay is rough but interacting with the environment is very interesting and intrigued me. I had a bit of a laugh when I clicked one of those toggle platforms and the platform I was on disappeared and I fell into the void. I liked how forgiving the checkpoints were so I didn't have to like restart from the beginning when I messed up.
Good stuff.
Well built game. I do have to say I wish that there was a checkpoint given at the beginning of the screen transition on each page. For a game where you die a lot it was really tedious walking back to the actual challenge. Also the controls felt a bit weird, I really felt like I was fighting them rather than working with them. I think free movement would have been a better choice.
Simple idea, but solidly done.
I think this could use some polish like animations and some touching up on the movement, but overall very solid.
Very bizarre haha. The gameplay is almost none-existent but the mood is there and I got a laugh out of it.
Cool graphics, but I have no idea what to do. Got stuck on the "Press e to start the machine" prompt.
@potkirland played the new version. No bugs this time, which is good.
I will say next time it would be better if you find a way to slowly and safely explain how to play to your players. Because currently before I understand anything the machine explodes and I lose.
I appreciate the fixes though.
Enjoyable, a tad short. The puzzles were fun, even if the jumping felt a bit off. Overall very polished.
Got top high score of 1016. Game was solid, the graphics were unique, and the sound design was amazing. Really liked the sound Small complaints are that once you get to a score of ~1000 it seems to be almost impossible to surpass it because the particle ejects its mass really quickly. Also I think the screen clear would have been better if it worked when you clicked it or pressed a button, because I pretty much only ever triggered it by accident. Very solid and polished for 48 hours.
@bougiebirdie @z0rly @candlesan @nafe Yeah I see your criticisms now. Especially playing other LD games I think I overestimated how long was expected for these games and arbitrarily raised playtime which made it a bit tedious. Next time I'll focus on making my game more concise. Nice to hear it didn't break on anyone at least.
I'm just happy I at least decided against making the first level 8 minutes like the others haha.
@trexxak Yeah seems to be a pretty common consensus. Maybe once the competition is over I'll update the game and lower the times down.
@mathiouza Yeah I know about that timer bug, it's like my never ending curse when trying to make timers in unity haha. Has something to do with the order stuff happens each frame I think.
Thanks for the feedback!
Good graphics! I feel like this game should really have the controls listed on the side or something.
Fun idea, the game was enjoyable. I will say that I felt like jumping was a bit unresponsive. Also I think that you should be able to make more than one stone at once because for a while I was jumping into lava rather than turning to stone and I was confused before I found out it was because I had a stone left over from before.
Cool concept, you carried it out well. I was surprised at the complexity you were able to create from a simple concept.
I will say though that when you introduce two or more elements changing at different rates it becomes prohibitively difficult. Like instead of just playing the game I was just having to memorize when to press the jump button. I spent like 5 minutes on that level with the spike corridor on the top left and once I got to the next one with three changing elements I just gave up.
As this is kind of a rage game I think it would be cool to see a death counter or level counter or something.
Surprisingly fun game! It seems really simple at first, but it's challenging and the ground pound allows for some fun movement. The music and sounds were great too. Good stuff!