Fire in time by leggy 2020-10-27T11:37:33Z ♥ 1
Went up to level 7 and thoroughly enjoyed playing your submission, well done!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Black Ships Fill the Sky
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Overall | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥉 | 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | Yojimbrawl! (2 Player Fighting Game) | jam | 4.39 | ||
| 🥇 | 2012 | 25 | You are the Villain | Ore Chasm | jam | 4.20 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 👥 | 🥈 | 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | Everything Must Go | jam | Fun | 4.65 | |
| 🥇 | 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | Yojimbrawl! (2 Player Fighting Game) | jam | Fun | 4.52 | ||
| 🥈 | 2012 | 25 | You are the Villain | Ore Chasm | jam | Audio | 4.27 | ||
| 🥈 | 2012 | 25 | You are the Villain | Ore Chasm | jam | Fun | 4.20 | ||
| 🥇 | 2012 | 23 | Tiny World | Rambros | jam | Fun | 4.11 | ||
| 🥇 | 2011 | 22 | Alone | Super Smash Lander Suicide Party, Bro? | compo | Humor | 4.39 | ||
| 🥈 | 2011 | 22 | Alone | Super Smash Lander Suicide Party, Bro? | compo | Fun | 3.92 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Cm | Co | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | 👥 | Little Pecker | jam | 30 | 4.26 | 4.10 | 4.14 | 4.05 | 4.64 | 4.21 | 4.41 | 4.07 | |||
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | 👥 | Everything Must Go | jam | 10 | 4.44 | 4.65 | 4.27 | 3.77 | 4.40 | 4.41 | 4.50 | 4.27 | |||
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | 👥 | 🕷💩Poopy Parker💩🕷 | jam | 62 | 4.19 | 4.15 | 3.87 | 3.54 | 4.17 | 3.83 | 4.39 | 3.78 | |||
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | 👥 | Everything is Garbage | jam | 6 | 4.47 | 4.35 | 4.03 | 3.80 | 4.68 | 4.08 | 4.32 | ||||
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | 👥 | ECO WARRIORS | jam | 31 | 4.14 | 4.13 | 3.14 | 2.41 | 4.58 | 4.15 | 4.33 | 3.87 | |||
| 2017 | 39 | Running out of Power | Manshooter - So Realistic It Hurts | jam | 4.00 | 4.00 | 4.00 | 2.00 | 4.00 | 2.00 | 4.00 | 3.00 | |||||
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | Yojimbrawl! (2 Player Fighting Game) | jam | 3 | 4.39 | 4.52 | 3.19 | 1.85 | 4.68 | 4.11 | 2.82 | 4.17 | 33 | |||
| 2012 | 25 | You are the Villain | Ore Chasm | jam | 1 | 4.20 | 4.20 | 3.93 | 2.60 | 4.50 | 4.27 | 2.92 | 4.00 | 33 | |||
| 2012 | 23 | Tiny World | Rambros | jam | 7 | 4.04 | 4.11 | 3.07 | 1.60 | 4.64 | 4.05 | 3.73 | 3.67 | ||||
| 2011 | 22 | Alone | Super Smash Lander Suicide Party, Bro? | compo | 17 | 3.79 | 3.92 | 3.71 | 1.32 | 4.13 | 3.55 | 4.39 | 2.35 | 3.63 | 53 |
Black Ships Fill the Sky leaves an average of 13.7 feedback comments each event.
Went up to level 7 and thoroughly enjoyed playing your submission, well done!
Great concept! Enjoyed the implementation of a force reset button so you can continue with the game without having to wait for the timer to run out. Tried the game quite a few times.
Well done Daniel! This was a really fun game to play :)
Really enjoyed the audio and the mood was good, great effort!
Really enjoyed the music and graphics - well done !
Really enjoyed playing this game ! Good interpretation of the loop theme and the intro was quite humorous, well done!
Really enjoyed playing this, good job!
Great interpretation of the loop theme and the boss exploding when his demands weren't met was quite humorous !
It seems like the sprites aren't rendering which is a pity because it looked really promising. Good choice in background music :)
light-hearted, fun game that was a pleasure to play ! The music was a great addition as missing or hitting notes affected the rhythm of the chosen track. Good job!
A really cool variant on Tetris/Match3.
Like others have said, those row wiping blocks are really fun. At the same time they might make the game a little easy.
I do enjoy making combos in this kind of game, so I'm definitely not suggesting taking the special row-buster blocks out, though I think ideally you could find another way to introduce more difficulty. Even as it is you have a very short amount of time to make a decision about where to lay the next block, so I don't think the speed can be increased.
I wonder whether the jump could be reduced. I had a moment where I had made a cliff that I couldn't get over, and that affected my strategy, but placing a block with my jump was always a bigger concern than getting to where I needed to be, and there was never much time to make a decision in any case. I don't know if it would work, but it might be interesting to have zero time pressure and more types of blocks, meaning that it would play out as a kind of puzzle where making matches is actually difficult and requires planning (because navigation and block placement would be completely tied). I don't know if you tried this already?
Otherwise maybe introducing grey blocks (that don't combo but row busters can destroy), or blocks that require special conditions (like two matches).
Also extra points for connecting more than 3 blocks would be rad. As well as combo points for creating a combo when falling blocks connect.
I played twice and had a good time. A really nice entry.
The musical tones as the satellites pass over their origin is a really nice touch! I think the exact sound effect they use is a bit piercing, but with a little tweaking it could be a really cool generative soundtrack.
There's also a nice feeling of progress here, getting more money faster as you produce more satellites.
I think the shadows are a little dark, given how peaceful the feeling of the gameplay is it might be ideal to match that in the visuals.
Also it brilliantly incorporates the theme (along with having a real world concerns present within the game).
I think it's a very strong entry!
Nice jiggly loading screen and a clever incorporation of the theme.
It's quite tricky moving left and right and horizontally over a grid that is diagonally arranged (though a different diagonal orientation to pressing up and right). I got caught moving over a corner of a hole a couple times.
Is there any warning/logic about which tiles are going to disappear?
If you take this further, I'd like to get something for eating the coin. Like growing longer (and so perhaps having more segments to sacrifice). Or getting more jumps. Or some gameplay reward for collecting the coin.
Well done on making this in such a short time. Really well scoped for your constraints!
Really nice entry!
The increasing acid pools fit the theme well, and I appreciate that there is a way to fight them with the blue barrels.
The guns felt meaty (especially the turrets and the shotgun). I didn't realize at first that I could switch weapons (I tried using the mouse wheel, as I noticed picking up different boxes). Maybe some HUD display of the different ammo counts to make clear there are definitely different weapons.
The aliens are kind of cute and kind of terrifying. And their swarming behaviour works well with the confined space and the acid pools.
I was a little disappointed that acid pools kept eating my ammo. I think that's a nice mechanic, but I think it could happen a bit slower and with a little feedback (like they fizz for a while). The blue canisters also get eaten by the acid and don't spawn a white foam explosion when they die from acid, which I felt was a rule tweaked a little too harshly against the player.
There's a lot of really nice touches, like the aliens creating some acid particles as they travel over acid, and the white foam looks beautiful.
The kick attack seemed a bit unreliable. I imagine there's a long cooldown or something? But I didn't notice any feedback as to why it's sometimes possible to kick and othertimes not.
The rendering is really great, with the depth of field and the slight darkening as you lose health.
I felt like the alien and box health was a bit high. Personally I'd have preferred more aliens with less health, or if the aliens reacted more to being hit (shooting them a few times before getting any reaction isn't ideal in terms of satisfaction).
Smashing the boxes got a lot more satisfying after I discovered a turret in one of them :)
Sorry if this post seems a bit nitpicky. I'm only pointing out these little tweaks because the fundamentals in this game are really strong.
Really impressive visuals. The game looks gorgeous!
The opening screen is really great as well. The atmosphere for a Overcooked game is spot on.
Like others have said, filling the boxes isn't very motivating yet. It takes a long while and doesn't really reward you. It's a nice start to a box packing game though, and I expect you had a ton more planned that didn't get in.
Congratulations on making a game with such a large team with so many different levels of expertise! (I know it can be tough keeping everyone pulling in the same direction on a project like this).
Love the setting and the story!
The change of character to the enforcer was really interesting. I'd love to know where this story leads, in general I really like the idea of starting a story long after something horrific has occurred from the perspective of a detached/confused observer. The text at the beginning lead me to thinking that we are observing a universe from another universe, and as such being decoupled from time and causality.
I wish there was more of this. It left me intrigued. I played through twice to see what other dialogue options there were (I assume it ends always with the station exploding?)
I don't know if this was the intention, but this captures something of the feeling I had when reading Slaughterhouse 5, or watching Twelve Monkeys, that a everything has occurred and ended already and as much as we want to affect events the best we can do is witness them.
Nice job!
The game felt a bit like those coordination excersizes, where you pat your head and rub your tummy at the same time. Trying to remember the order while judging the jumps while trying to get to the end as fast as possible. I don't know if it was the intention, but it feels like a ridiculous challenge that an evil twisted wizard might send a knight on, like one of those fantasy movies where the hero has a series of unfortunate trials to beat (like a twelve tasks of Hercules), but where the taskmaster is more sadistic.
I guess I'm saying, I think there's some room for humour in the theming if you were to take it further.
Those later levels were very difficult (thanks for the warning in advance). Is that the standard Unity character controller? It feels like the character has a capsule collider on it and so it slips off the edge when it is just off the edge.
I actually got quite good at the jumping by the end :)
The knight character and animation looks really good of course!
I can only get 119 on 5X5 (After about 6 tries).
I tried a mass boot and flower run, but it seems not as effective on the 5X5 as building houses and chopping trees. Maybe flower runs are effective on the larger levels?
But the fact that I could see multiple strategies towards scoring makes me think this game design has great potential.
The reason I gravitated towards boots and flowers is that I really like strategies that involve feedback loops, like building machines that generate more resources over time. When I saw that the flowers returned each turn I wanted to try exploit that. I wonder whether it'd be possible to do make more of the tiles exhibit this behaviour (so as the level gets filled, a sort of machine emerges, with, for instance, ways to make the trees renewable and renewable ways to spend that wood etc). Something like a really stripped down version of Stardew Valley.
I've played a bit more now... I've tried the 15 X 7 map placing a lot of boots and flowers, I got 804 points, but played far from perfectly. I think houses still are the best earners, certainly after 18 turns from the end, but flowers and boots are very useful in other ways (and some of the flowers placed near the beginning do earn better than houses).
Like others have said, it feels like the player is a bit at the whim of the random tiles provided. I think providing some way to overcome that might be a good addition. Some way to be able to affect your deck would help. I don't think this needs to go as far as a deck builder, but perhaps some elements of that?
Like if there was a building that could be built that allows for a hand to be discarded in favour of another one.
And if that sort of thing is possible, maybe some buildings add future tiles to your deck. Like building a house adds the possibility of a marketplace tile (for instance). i.e. as you play you trigger certain conditions for more complicated cards to be available.... I guess I am suggesting a kind of deck builder :)
In any case, I think this is a strong design! Love to see this taken further.
I really enjoyed that you worked the theme into the level design. Really tight levels as well! (it took me many deaths before beating the game, but the check points and the quick respawns stop it from ever getting frustrating).
Hope this game does really well!
Fun game! I enjoyed the way you incorporated the theme and the disregard for swimmers' safety.
I also found this a little sea-sickening, particularly when I tried playing it fullscreen. I wonder if inducing sea-sickness was a goal?
I enjoyed turning round in circles and herding the swimmers until driving right over them, there was a bit of strategy to getting a higher score.
And the art style is good. It looks particularly charming at fullscreen.
Given it's Unity, it might have been cool to pitchshift the boat sound based on whether the boat is turning or not. In the HTML5 version I played the boat sound was pretty constant and some variation might have been rad.
Like others said, steering with the boat wheel felt great! I like games where the controls are more 1-to-1 rather than being abstracted to right-left-up-down.
I really love the title screen art actually. The pixel art is good, but the title screen is wonderfully derpy!
I also missed the "E" to pick up at first.
It controls well though, the shooting is satisfying and pushing enemies back feels good (before knowing about "E" I was shooting enemies towards the hole).
Though the player damaging bounding boxes are a bit unclear (particularly for the acid). Given the camera angle I feel like they should damage you when your feet are near them (rather than damaging your head when it overlaps the acid).
I would have liked a way to deal with the loss of health, or a way to improve my ability to receive ammo. I felt I was a little bit at the whim of the world, with my only ability to avoid getting hit while having to pick up every single ammo drop before it disappeared and no way to solve some of the problems I was facing (like low health or low ammo or the clogging up of acid piles). I'd like to see you take this further and play with that possibility space.
When I did get a bit further in the game (I got to Day 3) I had a nice moment where I was being ganged up on by a horde of sickly food.
Have you seen that Adventure Time episode with the zombie candy? That's what it reminded me of, with that wonderful tension of food trying to eat YOU. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9OOLl2rdCY
I'm not a fan of enemies that hurt you just by overlapping you (unless they're covered in spines or something). But for the purposes of a jam I think it's fine. If you do take it further I'd suggest trying to add in enemy attacks (like maybe just for the sickly food, who can then vomit just in front of them, making temporary vomit piles that damage you, while the other enemies just slow you).
My damage kept resetting (like someone else mentioned).
But this game has wonderful charm. I love the rippling ocean and the shadows of sea monsters are really unsettling.
Obviously the time constraints limited you, but I would have enjoyed more of the ocean floor coming to life. I accidentally sailed over a sea trench at some point, I expected to be attacked by a giant eel, and had a moment of adrenaline... but nothing actually happened.
In any case. I think there's a really rich space to explore here.
This actually made me feel very panicky. Well done!
Brilliant audio design supporting a really elegant mechanic (that of pulling the blanket around).
I actually move around in my sleep a lot like this. Though I've gotten over worrying about the tentacles. So far so good!
I didn't struggle to drill through the ice. But I'm not sure how to pass what came after that. As you said it's unfinished I'm guessing I got to the end.
I'm a fan of games that tell narratives through multiple different gameplay sequences (like landing and then swimming and then something else). So I hope you do flesh this out some more.
In any case, well done on your first Ludum Dare! Hope you compete again!
Yeah, that's just the Unity EXE. You've got to zip the whole folder that's contained in and distribute that.
Didn't have anyone to play against. My latency made the movement very choppy (I think).
Though demon princess-stealing is a cool theme for a competitive multiplayer game. I imagine it's a lot of fun.
Goat-legged villains are the best kind of villains.
Nearly killed myself with spikes at first (somehow). Some sound effects might have juiced this up nicely (obviously).
Though I had fun smashing the NES and SEGA characters :)
I didn't hate kittens until now :P
Liked the always run mechanic. Felt like this could borrow some mechanics from Runman/Donkey Kong Country and be very interesting.
I feel like this is too frustratingly hard to be as much fun as its potential.
Just a couple mechanics that favor the player instead of screwing with the player would make this a whole lot more enjoyable. Like being able to jump upwards past missiles instead of being knocking downwards off of them, or explosions from missiles always shooting you at least a little upwards (instead of quite often firing you down at the sea), or a little bit better air control (like whenever you land on a missile you get back all your flying power), or something. I think a couple too many things interfere with the player as it stands, I felt more often than not I would die to no fault of my own.
Maybe just if the start of a game was a little more straight forward and then it ramps up the difficulty/complexity (to the current difficulty) it would feel a bit more satisfying?
Though it's a very cool, very elegant design. I must have tried beating my highscore of six twenty or thirty times.
I enjoyed the subtle irony :)
Waiting for players :(
Cops hate moustaches, true story. Really fun.
Found myself playing this for quite a while. I've seen developers approach this concept before and come up short, whereas this had just the right amount of progression to keep me playing.
Damn, I really found myself loathing that nasty hero ship.
Really pretty and big, expanisve, kinda lonely.
Noone wants to hang out with turd munching guy?
Sweet game! Made me really happy! Glad it wasn't another monocromatic sadness game.
I can't pass level 2.
Is it intentional that the two characters become out of sync horizontally. It makes it seem kind of buggy that you can lose because the white guy misses your feet.
I guess the rules are a bit unclear... like why can you always stand on the ground but the white guy falls through it.
I love the style and the music. This could turn into something quite astounding.
Nice feel. Doesn't control as well as I'd like (I got stuck on level 6 or 7 and the glitchiness made it impossible).
Interesting mechanic though!
Very polished!
Very cool concept. I killed an awful lot of kittens to get where I am today...
Also, +1 for medieval rollerskates on characters' walk cycles :)
Enjoyed it!
I feel that way about people too sometimes :)
Grest atmosphere. Beautiful.
The snivelling sounds were a little weird... some footstep sounds and really soft ambiences could have been quite powerful?
Really impressive!
Clever idea!
Loved the characters visuals and music... please make more levels and things.
Does "Hikikomori" translate to "drop the egg for the little bird" perhaps?
Robots have so many advantages... including being inpervious to their own explosions.
Fun game.
I couldn't touch things... I think... I don't know, it was lighting up but nothing happened when I pressed the red buttons...
The hug monster is kind of terrifying?
Really liked it! Nice concept.
Damn! Succumbed to capitalism again :)
Nude Guy will haunt my naps for many days to come...
Nice one! Really loved it. Easily my favorite experience this Ludum dare. (Though the gameplay is pretty simple certainly)
Moody. The mines were painful.
Very cool game!
Couldn't work out what the question mark craft item was, couldn't finish it. Couldn't work out why a canopy or fire could help me...
Maybe some thought bubbles coming from the character could help? I certainly don't want things spelled out for me... but if he were to say "I'm feeling tired" when the red bar is low that might explain things and stay in character...
I had fun getting as far as I got!
Weird. The zip is broken and 2Kb for me?
Lovely!
Flocks of seagulls freak me out as well :)
Why did my beautiful green griffin beast have to die? I couldn't work out what to do with the pickaxe afterwards...
Very solid platformer. (Sweet Megaman jump)
Managed a score of 22666... which is probably pretty high? Was consentrating really hard on the corridor so I couldn't work out how it was calculated (my first fewattempts were like 0 score or 10 score or so).
The graphics and sound are really effective. I like the pitchshifting wind. Though I'd suggest you also pitch shift the woosh of the objects you pass... maybe even try doppler them, and make them louder for closer shaves maybe?)
Also... It says at the beginning that I am a messenger with an important message to deliver... only... the corridor is infinite! Making the corridor to the leader infinite is a pretty sneaky trick for the warmongers to play... I felt like I was in an outer limits episode following a test-subject in a simulation that was all one big cruel trick. The omninous music at the start reinforces the feeling of "All is not what it seems and the tables have been rigged against you".
Nice work!
Really liked the graphics and the cat animations and the mean neglectful pet-owners (who seemed to leave their cat to fend for itself? Maybe it was a nasty cat, certainly not a very nice cat to earn such hatred from its owners... Maybe they reckoned it was its time, seeing as it had only three lives left...)
I liked the interactive menu battles... also the bullet deflecting and the sweet moody architectural plan level graphics...
I really liked the Cloverfield monster touch. I have much greater respect for seagulls as a result :)
It'd be great if you could fix up the controls and maybe add some other mechanics... like wind currents that carry you or obstacles or something... and maybe fishes that you can munch on (thus triggering the angler fish revenge cycle.)
This was fun and a very singular platformer experience! (And it was awesome jamming with you and seeing it develop at the time)...
And I liked collecting kittens, made me feel like I was part of a sweet kitten posse, made me wish I could use them to defeat enemies or fetch me snacks or something :)
LD49 — Unstable (22)
Bermuda Night Fever by Drat 2021-10-21T16:15:35Z ♥ 1
Damn, that music track is banging.
I enjoyed the frantic action in this game!
Juicy Cauldron by nightlight00 2021-10-21T16:07:43Z ♥ 2
It was satisfying wracking up a score with high combos, and the bitter rain was suitably "unstable".
Though the game did require a bit of patience, waiting for the right fruit to pass by, patience isn't my forte. I'm not sure how you'd tweak this though... maybe incentivising the right fruit instead of demanding the right fruit.
Status (LD 49) by Cloud Studios 2021-10-21T15:56:58Z ♥ 1
It goes by a bit quickly, and I'm not exactly sure how I shut down the machine (I didn't feel like I was doing it right).
But I had a good time. The music really sells the high-pressure-environment.
Rock punk by Proz 2021-10-21T15:12:32Z ♥ 2
The art and presentation is really nice!
I also liked the way the level shifted as the weight increased.
The Lonely Ghost by firetaku 2021-10-21T15:09:28Z ♥ 1
This was a fun but eerie experience. The music gave it a feeling of gravitas, but the reason for that was unclear. It felt like a mystery with no answer.
I left it feeling curious.
Better Tomorrows by DzejPi 2021-10-21T15:00:26Z ♥ 1
I really enjoyed this one. I'm a fan of incremental games with narratives, like A Dark Room and Universal Paper Clips.
The fantasy of building a business in a country that is falling apart really resonated with me. Obviously it's less extreme, but I live in South Africa and governments make questionable (but thankfully still peaceful) decisions around here.
The aethetic was really cool as well. I'm disappointed I didn't get to the crashed "weather baloon" before the missiles came in.
I liked the elements of exploring the landscape. I would have enjoyed more actions in the world. Like finding people to help who then upgrade your production.
Citride by Asemic 2021-10-21T14:39:09Z ♥ 4
I felt like I got pretty good at this by the end. Having to strategize around the three cycling characters kept the puzzles interesting.
Very well presented as well. The animation for falling off the edge was very funny :)
AllRound by Rayredd 2021-10-21T14:34:59Z ♥ 1
That was the weirdest game of snooker I've ever played!
Portal Problems! by LadyMistLeaf 2021-10-21T14:28:26Z ♥ 0
Love it when jam games have voice acting.
I enjoyed solving the hints. Nice job.
Tower Crawl by AlbyK 2021-10-21T14:23:48Z ♥ 0
Wow, that second wave was awful. I finally got a turret placed, and it was right in line with all the banshee bullets.
The day/night cycle is super long. I spent most of the game waiting for something to happen. Didn't seem like there was a speed up bullet or enough to keep me busy (and when the enemies came they were overwhelming)
I was really enjoying the game until it wrecked me and undid all my hard work.
Restroom Rampage by jaoel 2021-10-21T14:00:08Z ♥ 2
I love the idea of a stealth game about not farting. Well done! This was the most entertaining game I've played from LD49!
I got a bit frustrated with the wall collisions, but the joy of holding in my farts through "clenching" more than made up for this.
I normally wouldn't do this, but you might appreciate the game I worked on, "Poopy Parker". It's also got poop and a lot of physics.
Brittle Buildings by J.Broccoli 2021-10-21T13:46:38Z ♥ 1
I had a lot of fun playing this! I encountered a few soft-locks, but I restarted the application and came back for more.
I'd love to unlock more options over time, the strategy of arranging the modules felt really interesting to me.
Like others have said, the visuals and the sound are really rad. Good job!! :)
Scootles by Surfa 2021-10-21T13:37:04Z ♥ 1
I behaved completely differently the two times I played. First time as a maniac, second time as the most polite shopper you ever met.
Very funny game. Learnt a lot about myself :)
Space Wrecker by Sipfindel 2021-10-21T13:24:13Z ♥ 0
I love the trucker character! I want some cutscenes with that guy in it (have you played Hot Throttle by Cactus?)
Felt like the strategy was to just keep firing and wait until the right bullet fired. It got a bit more strategic in the later levels, where I felt the need to watch which bullets were coming next, but I felt like the mechanic reduced my agency rather than increasing it. A lot of the time it felt like a horizontally scrolling shooter where my bullets had a 25% chance of killing.
Maybe if hitting enemies with wrong colored bullets had some positive effect? Like they might fire out the wrong coloured bullets upon death and kill nearby enemies of that color? I'm not really sure what to suggest. It feels to me like the game is one trick away from being super fun to play.
The cascades of enemy deaths were cool.
Eerie Erratic Expedition by Bloodbane 2021-10-21T13:13:01Z ♥ 0
I thought it was pretty rad that the shooting patterns kept changing. It meant that I had to keep adjusting the way I was playing. It feels like a big game built from this could be awesome.
Had you considered making the shifts in firing occur upon collecting something? Like Super Crate Box when your gun changes upon picking up a crate. Randomness is great, but it's nice when it feels triggered by the player.
The music was also really cool and the sound effects were retro in a good way.
绝地天通(Babel Blocks) by ELITTK 2021-10-21T10:27:00Z ♥ 0
I too struggled a bit with the interface at first, but I worked it out eventually. It wasn't clear to me that pressing "F" multiple times was needed (I expected that it would run like a continuous simulation).
I enjoyed placing the blocks though. I feel like there's something really cool about building the a tower out of your imagination.
I'd have liked for the game to have escalated a bit more, like unlocking abilities with more height, like gluing blocks together. But I understand you had limited time!
My best tower eventually collapsed after its foundation gave way. It was a very sad moment for me.
Noinun40 by Itzemii 2021-10-21T10:13:07Z ♥ 1
Love the mechanic for the game. And the vibrating feedback of the nearly-completed match-3s are unnerving. I felt the pressure building as I played and it really did feel increasingly unstable.
I think the art and music could be polished up to feel more welcoming. The music and symbols and typography have a strange alien vibe to them, and while this might be the intention, I think a game like this could start off as fairly conventional and pleasant feeling and become more unnerving over time (instead of starting off with jittery jazz music and strange symbols). Does that make sense?
I guess I'm saying the mechanic does a good job of delivering and increasingly unstable feeling over time, and this feels good, but the art and sound start off as feeling unstable and strange, and this undercuts the brilliance of the mechanic.
Unstable Explosives by Sploky 2021-10-21T10:03:05Z ♥ 1
I'd love to play this with more players. Could be a fun party game (as others have said).
The game becomes absolute chaos pretty quickly, which I think fits the theme really well.
I only got to about 1400 points, but it felt pretty badass by the end.
the cards we're dealt by rainedoe 2021-10-21T09:55:09Z ♥ 4
I enjoyed playing this. I don't know what it says about me, but I found myself choosing the choices that left me overwhelmed. At the end I tried to correct this, and ended up afraid, and I felt a bit like I'd betrayed myself by playing the rules instead of playing my way.
The art and audio is lovely and adds a lovely charm to the experience. The very beginning reminded me a bit of A Dark Room, and I guess that's got to be because of the understatedness (and quality) of the writing.
Plip-plop! Unstable Conditions of Care by sakura_magika 2021-10-21T09:45:51Z ♥ 1
That got so intense! The plipplops are very cute and I want to look after them, and the audio adds a lot of pleasant charm. Definitely fits the theme as the game gets more unstable as it goes along.
However, if the game wasn't cute, but instead scary, this would be a great design for a horror game. Trying to manage all the food and poop and temperature etc in order to avoid a jump-scare would be terrifying. Maybe I just feel that way because as it stands the game is balanced to be very difficult :)
You can do it, Astro Pup! by benskca 2021-10-21T09:32:46Z ♥ 1
Wow, that was tricky. It felt very true to the theme, and I felt like the different tasks gave rewards on different interesting axis (like the shields stopped the asteroids causing the shaking). Like it functions like a Metroidvania, but with novel upgrades. The game has a lovely sense of discovery about it.
It did feel a bit confusing at the start, but I'm not sure how you fix that. The visual language isn't super clear at the beginning (everything is dark, and it's not clear where things need to be put, it's a lot to take in), but after placing the fuel the rest of the game makes a lot more sense. Maybe if there was a slightly easier goal right at the start that teaches how the picking up and placing works then the very beginning would feel a bit smoother.
Also, a very cute doge.
Reflate by Cody Miner 2021-10-21T09:10:28Z ♥ 1
Nice game! It controls well and has adorable pixel art. It's got a bit of "simple-to-pick-up-but-hard-to-master" feeling in it. I could imagine this being fun to expand on, like a Super Crate Box but for jumping on heads.