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YearLDThemeGameDivisionRankOvFuInThGrAuHuMoCmCo
202660Old TechSmash to Begincompo
202659SignalListen to the Skyjam2393.833.503.314.173.644.47
201740The more you have, the worse it isComing Home from the Marketcompo3.504.002.502.503.502.502.502.50
201739Running out of PowerBattery Wormcompo3913.223.303.262.963.781.942.80
201223Tiny WorldPogo Planetcompo1933.393.094.093.163.973.121.753.1750
201122AloneROM CHECK FAIL WITHOUT A CAUSEjam1412.072.001.881.881.871.862.811.791.67
201121EscapeArenatroncompo843.403.433.003.243.033.173.193.8413
201120It's Dangerous to Go Alone! Take This!Danger! Take.compo1053.122.913.453.733.181.362.412.866
201019Discovery1958 BNLcompo303.593.563.873.362.923.442.453.8410
201018Enemies as WeaponsSurvive 60compo323.323.252.684.113.503.152.353.9442
201017IslandsBaby Leviathan: Eat All Fishiescompo803.022.823.432.932.843.022.333.944
200916ExplorationGallerycompo672.853.003.372.742.682.423.213.218
200915CavernsNinja Spelunkercompo403.353.412.983.353.492.102.773.1352

MiniLD Games

YearMiniLDThemeGameRankFuGpPr
201125Worst Game I Have Ever MadePushy Elephant
201020Greed (and Fishing)Hog the Fish3.383.253.50
201016ConstraintsOctopus Can Count to Ten
201015CloneMonkey Kong
200912WikipediaBlow Up Wikipedia
200911SandboxBrickplacer
200910Domestic ViolencePunch the Red Ones Only
20099TimeYou Have to Save Everyone but There Isn’t Much Time! Final!

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Feedback left by excitemike

excitemike leaves an average of 21.6 feedback comments each event.

LD60 — Old Tech (19)

Six-Shooters & Saké by ComicSans 2026-10-28T18:10:54Z ♥ 2

I'm getting a "TypeError: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource." message and a black rectangle :( Both Chrome and Firefox.

The Last Watch by michalbe 2026-10-27T13:57:54Z ♥ 0

Wild to write a raytracer for a text game!

BIT ROT by Ralex_x 2026-10-27T13:24:44Z ♥ 0

It seems to keep losing the WEB_GL context for me and the audio and input seem to keep working, but I get no visuals

OLD TECH IS DEAD by Quoclon 2026-10-25T21:14:04Z ♥ 0

There were a lot of questions in the description. It is impressive that a computer can go make something like this, yes. As an old tech myself this vibe coding stuff breaks my heart. Particularly for a game jam. It seems to me like folks are giving up or at least diminishing everything that makes game jams interesting and worthwhile. Developing your own skills. Exploring an idea that you had. Having something at the end that you know you made yourself. Maybe you at least had fun coaxing the machine to create it? I don't really see what the upside is supposed to be, and in the process it supports what these companies are doing to the environment, economy, and job market and their massive copyright theft. Is the game heartless/soulless? It's got exactly the heart and soul that was put into it.

Totally Accurate Studio Recording Simulator by ThomasTheGameEngine 2026-10-25T20:19:48Z ♥ 0

For some reason it spread across one and one third of my two monitors. I didn't seem to be able to do the thing it listed for me to do. It looks like it was on the way to something neat!

Windmeup!上发条! by Colescott 2026-10-24T14:16:25Z ♥ 0

I appreciate that the AI usage was disclosed. I'm here to play and rate games made by people, so won't be trying this. It breaks my heart that I can't just congratulate you on completing your first game jam and encourage you to keep making things.

o21 by Ava Skoog 2026-10-24T12:16:23Z ♥ 0

The link gave me a 404

A Cannon Game Without A Name by Pincushion 2026-10-23T02:41:03Z ♥ 0

Kinda neat how you get a feel for the settings you need over time!

SaveClimber by Saurow 2026-10-22T13:35:54Z ♥ 0

A nice puzzle platformer mechanic. Feels like I could have played it on Newgrounds in the 2000s!

Vipf by caeonosphere 2026-10-22T03:45:44Z ♥ 1

Wow that was impressive for so little time! I did get stuck and checked the spoilers only to realize I just wasn't standing in quite the right spot for the arm to come down. Great job!

Switchpunk by elemel 2026-10-22T01:50:00Z ♥ 0

whoa yeah the complexity jumps quite suddenly on 3

FloppyD by meatpudding 2026-10-22T01:42:31Z ♥ 0

Seems like once you are over 512, there's nothing you can do? And four minimalist parts put me over.

Lighthouse Operator by hammy275 2026-10-22T01:36:17Z ♥ 0

26, with 6 crashes. Neat little game idea!

Cafe by hijomo 2026-10-21T21:50:27Z ♥ 0

I see the address mentioned is a cafe in France, but there doesn't seem to be anything to connect that to.

10 Hours per Mile by CaptAndrey 2026-10-21T04:14:08Z ♥ 1

Annoying in a fun way!

Fire Already!! by INCD021 2026-10-21T03:51:27Z ♥ 1

Love the drawings!

Polasnap by rhewid 2026-10-21T03:47:15Z ♥ 1

Fun! Limited photos instead of limited time was a good choice!

Ultimate future: spaceship laser adventure, the new-age shooter by Sevansevan 2026-10-21T03:15:11Z ♥ 1

It's a good gimmick!

Cyber Cquabble by Khananaphone2 2026-10-20T03:14:05Z ♥ 0

I do enjoy arcadey stuff! And going out of your way to recreate jankiness :) And thanks for making the collision forgiving! I quite stink at it, though, which to be fair matches my performance at old games.

LD59 — Signal (7)

STATION 88 by EnAttendantUnity 2026-05-02T00:14:43Z ♥ 2

Lovely! I did get tripped me up bad for a while because the minus sign was hard to see on the radar.

..LANGIS.. by Masikano 2026-04-28T04:04:52Z ♥ 1

I was used to games making spiky = bad. Took a minute to figure out I was avoiding what I was supposed to collect and collecting what I was supposed to avoid.

Radio Silence by Nekuake 2026-04-25T16:55:52Z ♥ 0

Unfortunately, I seemed to get soft locked in the tutorial where it wants me to use the scroll wheel, but stopped responding to the scroll wheel after moving the thing a tiny amount.

SOS by dan-whiffing 2026-04-22T03:25:22Z ♥ 2

Neat! I did beat it, but for the keypad I only found clues for three of the numbers? But could brute force it from there

Funnel World by andriybyelikov 2026-04-22T00:53:24Z ♥ 1

!> I did eventually get out of the first room, but I'm not sure how the clue helps

Apollo's Gift by dikkop 2026-04-22T00:31:17Z ♥ 1

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Seems to somewhat work, though.

Signal Board by 6Knowledge 2026-04-20T19:56:17Z ♥ 1

It doesn't seem to be loading

LD39 — Running out of Power (26)

Light The Way by BobbyTables 2017-08-16T02:07:07Z ♥ 1

I like it! Especially impressive if it was your first Unity game! At first whenever a ghost got me I thought it was glitching, but eventually I realized it's just... dark. Maybe if there was a flash or something so I could see what got me that would be better feedback? But I figured it out soon enough anyway :)

3eV by Naarakah 2017-08-06T14:25:52Z ♥ 0

This was really fun! Could definitely be expanded into a cool puzzle game! Seeing a trail of the path previous shots took would be a really cool convenience feature to add.

Muscle Battery by visumecadroide 2017-08-06T14:17:11Z ♥ 0

I guess the object was to keep giving them what they want so they don't die?

Science Runner starring Nucleus Poitras by SpotOnJ2K 2017-08-06T14:12:34Z ♥ 0

I think an instant jump (w hold-to-go-higher) is probably a little more suited to a runner? Especially with the sides of blocks being lethal.

POWER! Run Out ! by angry-cyboot 2017-08-05T14:52:30Z ♥ 0

I think your Windows and source links are swapped!

Large Donuts by Yotam Salmon 2017-08-05T14:42:48Z ♥ 0

I don't see a link. I tried the IP in the image (both in a browser and with SSH) but it didn't seem to reach anything.

In The Dark by BlockBuilder57 2017-08-05T14:37:59Z ♥ 0

I guess I can't play it because I don't have VR :(

Coalie by JohnNuke 2017-08-05T14:36:31Z ♥ 0

Nice stealth game! I was very very confused at first because the menu initial menu was cut off for me, but I clicked around and I guess I hit part of the cut-off button to start the game.

PlantingPower by Schnarchschnitzel 2017-08-05T14:28:17Z ♥ 1

Really digging the graphics and sound!

Power Earth Saver by wwwhizz 2017-08-05T00:44:50Z ♥ 1

I loved it! I really liked balancing the energy to each thing. Kinda reminded me of playing TIE fighter back in the day :)

CREEP by AkirAssasin 2017-08-05T00:28:00Z ♥ 0

I found it very confusing. I think I might need more explanation if I was going to play this one.

Ready, HANDHELD! by emanvidmaker 2017-08-05T00:17:21Z ♥ 0

The jumping took some getting used to. I thought it was a bug at first. But this was really neat! I loved the screen darkening and the gameboy moving around :)

VIS by Hackingroelz 2017-08-05T00:09:13Z ♥ 1

Some of the explanatory text in the lower left got cut off, so I don't think I got the full picture of what was going on? I think some better visual feedback about what was happening would have been helpful.

Trump Clicker by Improx Games 2017-08-05T00:05:05Z ♥ 0

Not a big fan of clickers, but I have to appreciate the theme, graphics and audio in it :)

Catalango by Hikari Kyuubi 2017-08-04T23:59:55Z ♥ 0

Tried it a couple of times, but my character vanished and things seemed to become unplayable from there :(

Shy Gladiator by caranha 2017-08-04T23:53:50Z ♥ 2

Funny! I died quick on the second fight (I forgot about the dodge move, lol), and the first one took too long for me to want to retry. I kinda wanted a taunt button or something I could use to speed him up.

I enjoyed the concept and enjoyed playing it for one go :)

Electro-Brains by unit684 2017-08-04T03:34:51Z ♥ 1

I sure can relate to spending way too long on particle effects :)

Times New Robots by Alex Tantum 2017-08-04T03:30:27Z ♥ 0

Not sure I ever really figured out what I was doing. The turrets and my gun would fire but the robots seemed invincible.

Down in the Light Mine by gnerkus 2017-08-04T03:20:40Z ♥ 1

I like the direction it's going!

Azrellian Asteroid Field by KunoNoOni 2017-08-04T03:14:12Z ♥ 0

Nice! Can't really knock it for anything other than maybe being a little small and simple, more than understandable given the time limit :)

Winding Woods by tybantarnusa 2017-08-04T02:43:04Z ♥ 1

I like how even though I never really got low on power, I still felt pressured to conserve power carefully :)

Got worried partway through that something was going to jump out at me... relieved nothing did. :)

HockeyGame by Steven Adams 2017-08-04T02:26:45Z ♥ 0

I wish I had more controllers! My kids loved playing it one player!

Evelyn by Everbrave 2017-08-04T00:06:07Z ♥ 1

Fun and chill game! I enjoyed it :)

E - Volt by OatMealPal 2017-08-03T23:53:09Z ♥ 0

Nice job! I liked trying to line up shots efficiently! Maybe it needs a combo bonus :)

Last Train Out by amarcu 2017-08-02T11:24:47Z ♥ 3

Extremely nice visuals and music! I found myself wishing it highlighted which wheel made me fail. I enjoyed it though! Switching characters was a fun twist on time management games :)

Unfueled by spudboy 2017-08-01T02:04:08Z ♥ 1

I dig it! Never really got the hang of the UFO, though, so I usually hit a bird right away after getting it. I really liked the changing control schemes and trying to decide whether to skip getting a vehicle change or not :)

LD23 — Tiny World (15)

Civilized Pixel by Terrified Virus 2012-05-04T00:22:00

I had trouble figuring out how things worked :(

Tiny Room by chaosBrick 2012-05-03T23:19:00

It really didn't feel like dodging was doable with the crazy bullet density/player size and jumping didn't seem useful, but I could easily see the game working well if, at least early on, dodging bullets was way more manageable.

The background was cool! What's going on there?

The borders of Tiny World by AngelDE98 2012-05-03T22:44:00

The .jar doesn't seem to do anything, just exits immediately. (I'm on Win 7 64)

Trucking the Universe by FrozenCow 2012-05-03T22:18:00

Amazing and broken and weird and difficult in the best of ways :D After a while of failing to get to the volcanic planet I got a black screen, but I was having fun up until then!

"The best" CCG by cantorfew 2012-04-28T12:42:00

I actually kind of wish this was a pdf of cards to print out instead of a program to run :)

Asteroid Belt by Lattyware 2012-04-28T12:22:00

I found Earth!

Restless Island by Homletmoo 2012-04-27T15:47:00

A score attack platformer full of homing missiles? This is so up my alley :)

Tiny World Civiliaztions by Square Particle 2012-04-27T15:38:00

LOL'ed at "You still here?" :)

iblic - I've been looking for ice cream by Nehmulos 2012-04-27T15:34:00

It kept getting stuck and not letting me walk/jump :( (both Firefox and Chrome)

The Lair by Lilleman 2012-04-27T14:31:00

The way one room dropped me right on an enemy, which was a pretty slick way to teach that you can jump on them! There's a game feel problem in that too-slow jumping and spacebar sometimes not jumping, though.

Stage 2 Chaos by skyboy49707 2012-04-27T14:20:00

I really dig how this kind of turns the roguelike idea into a puzzle what with being able to explore mostly everything from the start and you're trying to judge what to attack when and when to use your potions... not sure that's what you were going for but I enjoy that aspect of it :)

Planet Gravity by Jens Nolte 2012-04-27T13:54:00

I really like that when you're doing well and gravity is high, getting around is more difficult and as you need the red things more badly you can also get around more easily :) Seems like you could build another layer on top of this (like, I dunno, jumping to get at floating coins) and have something super cool!

Nematode by danblack 2012-04-26T14:36:00

Wow. So hard to make them eat the food I want! I think it's a really slick idea, but it like needs clearer rules for how the worms move (seems to be random?) and/or zoomed into a smaller game world maybe?

Life in jar by Simple Ghost 2012-04-26T14:25:00

Has a real nice, kind of Pikmin-ish vibe :)

Tiny's World by Topaz 2012-04-26T14:00:00

The low framerate really made this hard to enjoy for me. One thing I did notice in my time with it though is that the jump's rise and fall go at a constant speed. Jumps usually feel a lot better if the movement is more of a parabola.

LD21 — Escape (61)

ESCAPE by alfie275 2011-09-06T23:38:00

Interesting twist on RPG fighting! Went too slowly for my taste (I don't tend to be a fan of RPGs), but that could easily be fixed by just lowering the HP. And of course animations would make it much cooler.

I like how key repeat lets you really zoom around :)

Don't ESCape by Urfoex 2011-09-01T19:35:00

Oh man, I just can't keep the mouse on the ball. That's definitely a unique idea, but I'm so bad at it I can't really even play.

Escape route by JaJ 2011-09-01T18:56:00

It is initially very frustrating, but it is a cool puzzle if you stick with it. The music was very nice! I think if you had a few more items it would make it much less frustrating. I'd _maybe_ even just have them permanently marked, because it felt like the "real" puzzle was learning how they map between each other. When you can't mark them all, it comes down to memorizing the movement patterns or just dumb luck, neither of which are all that enjoyable.

I made it to where I've used to keys and found one more but haven't found a door for it. To keep making progress I, it looks like I need to exhaustively search the rooms I've been to and find one which one I only _thought_ I'd already tried all the exits from.

This is a cool puzzle that I'd really have liked to continue if I had lots more items to mark places with.

Fred the Astro-Miner by supermaximo93 2011-09-01T17:52:00

Can't compile your shaders :(

Bubble Jump by onefineline 2011-09-01T15:32:00

Not the most original of course, but it could still be a fun game if the bubbles weren't all in the center of the screen. Congrats on getting something in anyway!

Escape from XYZ by SaiKai 2011-09-01T14:18:00

The Good: Nice level design! And nice music!
The Bad: It's soooo sloooooow. The guy's hit box seems a little too big. The grid overlay doesn't look very good and makes things hard to see, and doesn't line up with the level tiles. At first I thought I was supposed to be a ghost or something.

I made it to one past the level where you get the cloaking device. I like where you were going with this, but the slow walking speed really kills it.

(For Android) GetThatFellowOut by SharkApple 2011-09-01T13:53:00

I don't suppose there's an Android simulator somewhere we could get?

...andTaxes by Jiyko 2011-08-30T03:15:00

I had to get the source and change it from HiDef profile to Reach and substitute in a missing font, but then I could play it! I never figured out the love thing, and then eventually death gets fast kind of suddenly.

Mazix by calrk 2011-08-30T02:58:00

Very cool game! If I had to nitpick, the guys moves a little slowly and the graphics are kind of plain, but those aren't a big deal!

Don't Let 'Em... by headchant 2011-08-30T01:30:00

Nice! One of the most fun games I've played from this LD!

Aftermath! by fatality674 2011-08-29T23:11:00

Can I recommend mediafire or dropbox or something quick instead of megaupload? After the 10th game or so hosted there the wait on that site starts to get to ya.

But even after I download it, I can't play it. My computer can't handle the "HiDef" XNA game profile :(

Crystal Conduit by Daz 2011-08-29T22:59:00

Takes waaay too long to get back to where you were for it to be this hard. Speeding the player up would do a lot for this game, I think.

Black Hole by Bloodyaugust 2011-08-29T22:46:00

Oh no, another game built with XNA's "HiDef" profile. If you switch it to "Range" and provide a build like that, I will be able to try your game! (would try doing it myself from your source, but so far it's been a real pain trying to get people's games to compile)

Ninja Escape by Bezza 2011-08-29T22:36:00

The first time I played, controls felt kind of stiff, but it was quite playable until about the third checkpoint at which point the ninja started glitching all over the place. After restarting it was fine for a complete second playthrough, though. It's odd having wall-jump be a different button than regular jumping, but it was easy enough to get used to.

Where's the Bathroom? by Jamin 2011-08-29T20:32:00

Hmm, my multi-monitor setup seems to be screwing up the mouselook, making this very difficult to play.

Escape of the Psychic Trash Robot by snesgaard 2011-08-29T19:25:00

On a 32bit machine :(

Failed Turn-based Space Combat by roBurky 2011-08-29T18:50:00

Cool idea for a new way to control things in some kind of space RTS, SpaceWar, or Asteroids type thing!

This is your dream by stRana 2011-08-29T18:46:00

Tense! It looks like the hotspots are pre-set not randomized (thank goodness!), so I can quickly get back to the bit where I just start to see what I guess is some body of water, but after like six attempts with over ten seconds on that screen each and STILL not finding the hotspot, it gets too tedious to continue. Until that killed it, it was a very cool experience!

The daring escape of ES CAPE; the FABULOUSLY FRESH Luchador by moltanem2000 2011-08-29T18:29:00

I dig the art and theming!
Without any branching paths or anything that you have to react to... it's just walking around, which isn't super interesting. Maybe if it was clearer that you were being timed, that'd do it? Replaying it going as fast as I can was definitely more interesting than the first playthrough! 53.741 seconds!

Siren's Wail by panzermancer 2011-08-29T18:13:00

Nice! There's definitely a lot of mazes in this LD, but this one actually has stuff to find!

The Labyrinth by Master K 2011-08-29T16:53:00

Here's a version of the zip with the EXE included! http://bit.ly/qqZHaN Hopefully I got all the DLLs that need to be in there.

The game seems to be pretty hard because I count as being hit even though visually the characters are not touching. Between that and having to sit through the intro each time, I didn't get very far.

Arena Escape by ZiAzon 2011-08-29T16:39:00

I'm getting a 404 when I try to download it.

ESC this game by McTwist 2011-08-29T16:29:00

With the one up top, it claims that d3d9.dll is "not a valid windows image" and I'm getting Bartje321's problem in the one you linked in the comments.

Cacophony by malloc 2011-08-29T16:26:00

I'm getting "This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect." And trying to rebuild it myself I am finding all kinds of linking issues that I really don't want to try and figure out right now.

Escape... by shinD 2011-08-29T15:33:00

I had to move avbin.dll down a folder to get it to run, you might want to update the zip.

But even after that I couldn't figure out the game. My guy seemed to just fade out to invisible by the time I got near the pills, and tapping e didn't seem to help anything.

Scriptblock's Escape LD48 by scriptblocks 2011-08-29T15:25:00

Needs more than just a maze to be fun, I think, but congrats on finishing your first LD!

ESCAPE FROM troll CASTLE by Games_1 2011-08-29T15:14:00

Got stuck in a wall when a platform pushed me into it and couldn't continue.

Could really use a better indicator of the area your attack covers and how the enemies are hittable. Their hitboxes did not seem to match the graphics.

Roundman: Escape from Squareworld by lectvs 2011-08-29T00:46:00

Slick!
I really liked the audio, except for the footsteps. The screams of enemies, things getting sucked up, kicking up dust as he lands from a jump: great stuff! And a nice mix of powerups although I killed myself a few times just figuring out what they did!
A few things you could probably do to improve it even more:
* increase the character's run speed a smidge
* the game over screen could show how much of your score came from enemies/collectibles (do those things even give you points? they probably should!) and how much from distance ran. And probably as you are playing little numbers could appear when you get points from those things!
* online leaderboards and/or a tweet-my-score thing like canabalt had
* It doesn't really seem to ramp up and get harder as it goes. Maybe the void (and your guy) could speed up over time?

Playing this I feel you must be a fan of Action Turnip :)
Great stuff!

The Cloud of Very Angry Electrons by Erik McClure 2011-08-29T00:29:00

Seems like it could be a cool idea if developed further, but I'm not sure it's complete enough to be able to tell.

Drown by alejandrov 2011-08-29T00:14:00

I'm not sure if maybe I just didn't understand something, but for some reason the right-hand side guys just wouldn't move anymore. Is there maybe a bug with putting a plant on the same space your opponent is in?

Escape innerspace! by byte56 2011-08-29T00:05:00

Aw man. I'm hitting that crash right after the intro :(

Tools by Sanguine 2011-08-28T23:50:00

On the first playthrough I got caught a lot and never crafted anything, found any teammates or anything. The second time I made a number of things, made trades, got a helicopter, and it was much more interesting!

I was a teenage Hipster! by 8bitmuse 2011-08-28T23:16:00

I'm definitely a little weary of both hipster mockery and zombie games at this point, but apart from the extremely vanilla maze-navigation gameplay this is very well done!

Escape from the Dungeons of Dread by Momeka_ 2011-08-28T22:37:00

I can't run games that use the "HiDef" XNA profile :( Switch it to "reach" and I'll be able to play it.

Alien Break by Knighty 2011-08-28T22:32:00

I'm not sure that circle boss is beatable on easy. When he does the rings of bullets, sometimes the gap is often too far away to get to. I like the changing direction, but maybe separate shoot left and shoot right buttons would have been easier to get used to.

Return to Custody by feyleafgames 2011-08-28T22:26:00

Demonstrates the idea and shows that with more time, you could make an interesting game out of it!

Spaceship Crash by Wirtualnosc 2011-08-28T22:24:00

Played on easy. You move so slow and the blocks fall so fast that it feels just random whether you are going to get hit :/ Too frustrating to go back and try again after failing to escape the first time.

Escape from the elemental maze by triorph 2011-08-28T21:49:00

I strongly recommend using py2exe to package games up for a windows release!

Streetlights, People by BleuLlama 2011-08-28T21:22:00

Have you looked into TestFlight? With that, people won't have to sign up as an iOS developer to play your game.

Cerulean by localcoder 2011-08-28T20:14:00

Egads! 908 rooms!? The combat quickly degraded into just holding space in every doorway. I played until I got 4 of the circles but at that point it was getting too repetitive. Having such a huge space to explore is pretty cool though. With some more variety in room appearance, enemy behavior, and maybe weapons this could be pretty compelling!

Fall Into Space by maackle 2011-08-28T19:34:00

Same problem as mtthwcmpbll. A Windows port would be nice anyway, though.

DrPetterLD21 by DrPetter 2011-08-27T04:44:00

That mechanic you have there is a way cool!

No Escape by heck 2011-08-27T04:28:00

My first thought was "QWOPzilla!" :D But after playing a bit, maybe it's more "QWOPabalt"!

Obviously in this form it's not something anyone is going to spent a lot of time with, but it's a really fun idea!

The Villainous Villa by EricTheCoolDude 2011-08-27T04:19:00

Not very challenging, obviously, but has nice visuals and music, and is good and funny!

Antagonist by Jonathan Whiting 2011-08-27T02:38:00

Taking notes as I play:
Oh hey cool the title screen was also just he start of the game.
That skidding thing he does after you jump is pretty unpleasant.
Not sure what the heck I'm supposed to do when he teleports right where I have to go :(
Oh I see. HE CAN'T JUMP. So I can <spoiler>.
This part where I have to make him break a wall of bubbly blocks. It's annoyingly far from the last checkpoint!
MADE IT. WHEW.
The run from the last checkpoint was cool to figure out, but it felt like it was only difficult to execute because of bad controls.

The Bad: How bad it feels to have that slowdown on landing and changing direction so slowly.
The Good: That was very cool level/scenario design!

Victory by refrag 2011-08-27T02:02:00

I'm gonna try taking notes as I play rather than afterward like I usually do:
Seems to be ramping up pretty slowly, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
I love the advancing walls as a means of putting pressure on the player.
Got one of the blocks I create stuck in a wall. Not sure if that's a bug or not.
Oh the advancing walls have spikes now :)
Level 14: (I should have been noting which level I was on earlier) Starting to wonder when it's going to get difficult.
Level 14 still: Oh. RIGHT NOW :)
Level 15: hey wait a second. I'm playing as Commander Video!
19: curious if that red thingy was a trick or if I'm just missing a way to put the blocks down faster and use it as an alternate way to beat the level.
VICTORY!

Oh geez. Reading other folks' comments now I see that I missed the text at the bottom of the screen because my browser wasn't tall enough (and the levels did fit onscreen so it didn't look like anything was wrong) I'll replay it :)

Slimes! by tgijsola 2011-08-25T21:42:00

I like where you were going with it, but control and collision problems are killing it for me. It seems that the slimes will randomly stop moving on me, refuse to jump, or that the little bullets will kill guys before it actually touches them :(

Prisoner by Jacic 2011-08-25T21:20:00

He walks sooooo sloooooooooooowly.

Escape from Room 32 by djanatyn 2011-08-25T21:14:00

Really nice that you don't lose all progress when you die! I think smoother, Legend of Zelda style movement would have been a big improvement. Here it is as a Windows exe http://s3.amazonaws.com/excitemike/ld/djanatyn-ld21.zip (run game.exe)

(might want to add a link to that up top, djanatyn)

Martin vs Monty by jonbro 2011-08-25T19:15:00

Played it on an iPad! Pretty fun! I did get confused for a sec when when I was first killed and there seemed to be two of me, and I thought it could some flash or something to draw your attention to where you just respawned, but that's minor stuff.

The Man Who Sold The World by krangGAMES 2011-08-25T00:59:00

I liked the music! It could definitely have used something more going on gameplay-wise, since it is about as basic as a platformer gets, but that didn't stop it from being entertaining.

Escape Flight Z-1387 by hroon 2011-08-24T15:59:00

I love the music! And the humor!

Escape The Overgrowth by brachyonic 2011-08-24T15:27:00

I packaged it up to be easier to download and run: https://s3.amazonaws.com/excitemike/ld/brachyonic-Escape-The-Overgrowth.zip

If you are on Windows, you should be able to just extract the zip and double click the exe without installing anything.

Lightbulb Robot Escape by Jonatron 2011-08-24T15:15:00

I would love to try it, but it seems DLLs are missing from the 32-bit installer.

Escape - Forest 2012 by Chaoslab 2011-08-24T02:39:00

The music wouldn't play :(

(java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.media.Manager)

Escape to the Stars by Dookington 2011-08-24T00:18:00

Err, you don't have to sign up to download it, but you do have to scroll down to the bottom and then wait around. I'll mirror it here so nobody else has to go through that: https://s3.amazonaws.com/excitemike/misc/Escape+to+Stars+1.0-win32.zip

(you might want to change the link at the top to point to the new mirror, Dookington!)

Escape From Emag Castle by bentosmile 2011-08-23T23:14:00

Cool! I had been in the last room twice before I walked up to see the exit was in it XD

Terminal escape by ghostonline 2011-08-23T22:58:00

Cool idea! It definitely needed more time, though.

Forklift Escape by nitrocrime 2011-08-23T21:16:00

Well, no points for innovation on this one :) But Sokoban puzzles are still cool.

It Burns! by MisfitBYTE 2011-08-23T20:18:00

I found the controls very frustrating :(

INFALL by voxel 2011-08-23T20:00:00

It took me a while to figure out I was supposed to mouselook around the cabin to see those side screens. I know the instructions screen told me I could look around, but I didn't see a reason to look anywhere other than out the front window at first.

LD20 — It's Dangerous to Go Alone! Take This! (7)

4 TEMPLES by MoltenMustafa 2011-05-12T15:57:00

Excellent work! You got an awful lot done for only 48 hours!

My only complaint is that I got stuck on the first part of the flashlight temple until I came back here and saw that holding s makes you walk faster. It did get a bit hard, especially in the double-jump temple where it is frustrating to hit jump slightly too late and have your first jump be your air jump.

I especially liked the shovel temple!

Space Bombers by john 2011-05-12T15:26:00

You probably ought to use py2exe for this sort of thing in the future so people can run your game more easily.

CatTroller by Rockdtben 2011-05-12T15:14:00

I just get stuck at a black screen when I try to run this. :(

Take One of These by Kynrael 2011-05-12T15:09:00

I seem to get stuck in the popups if I go to equip anything and can't continue the game.

Mine Escape by Char 2011-05-04T16:25:00

Aw, XNA :( Isn't there a way to distribute XNA games without requiring people to install the framework(s)? You're going to get a lot fewer people trying your game if they have to take the extra steps of downloading and installing that stuff.

I mean, I will still come back and play and rate your game, but I'm pretty sure this install process is taking several times longer than your game will :(

p.i.g by zillix 2011-05-04T16:07:00

Amazing! The portals could be more forgiving, though. It gets a bit frustrating trying to line it up right, even with the auto-correct you have. Instead maybe you could have him go through the portal anyway even if he is off by a bit? Anyway, really cool game and fun puzzles!

Robot Village by quadtree 2011-05-04T15:08:00

I'm having a very difficult time with the controls. It seems I have to hold the key for a second before he starts moving, and then can't help overshooting doorways.

LD19 — Discovery (10)

Discover the elements: Quest for Air by jrrt 2011-01-05T01:10:00

Didn't work in Firefox. Painfully slow in Chrome. :(

DirectionsTranscend by Devenger 2011-01-05T01:00:00

What a shame. The game ran out of levels.

This was very very cool.

THE DISCOVERY WAS SPIDERS by Six 2011-01-05T00:27:00

Those are some cool shadows.

Grand Mystic Quest of Discovery by hulahulahest 2010-12-27T20:32:00

Very nice! I almost quit at the room where you get the ladder, though. It seemed way more difficult than the rest of the game due to the block/ladder not always getting picked up/placed when I wanted.

PRIOR by krangGAMES 2010-12-27T15:42:00

I think it would have been much more fun if the guy moved a little faster and you turned down the friction when floating.

Attack of the time travelling pygmy from outer paleolithic (aka Time Pygmy) by deepnight 2010-12-27T14:54:00

Amazing!

LoneMine by OddOneOut 2010-12-21T22:41:00

You didn't need to apologize for leaving out the boss battle :)

Pretty cool! The slipperiness and camera swinging both seemed a little extreme to me, though.

Unexpected Outcome by ippa 2010-12-21T22:25:00

Almost stopped thinking I couldn't get anywhere after teleporting outside, but then realized I could kind of jump around corners.

Where am I? by Benn 2010-12-21T21:59:00

Whoooooooooooaaaaaa

very cool

Mother Robot by increpare 2010-12-21T21:15:00

Nice atmosphere! The puzzling was not especially challenging but still kind of fun.

One minor issue I had was that the text about bringing ALL your robots to a checkpoint didn't show up until after I got both of them there, which had me stuck for a while. I also kind of felt like resetting all your robots when you take one out of range was a bit too punishing, but I'm not sure there were any better ways to handle it.

LD18 — Enemies as Weapons (28)

Isolation by MoltenMustafa 2010-08-26T19:57:00

Very nice! Had a lot to it for only a 48hr game! Main things that grabbed me as needing improvement were the jumping being perhaps overly difficult and the final boss didn't flash or anything when I hit him, so I was afraid that I had missed some important upgrade.

Kanbran by DrPetter 2010-08-26T17:59:00

A little frustratingly slow early on, but very fun once you get past that. Needs audio badly!

Ol' Conjurer by Attecus 2010-08-26T17:16:00

vc_redist is not fixing the missing "MSVCR100D.DLL " problem for me :(

Fight Chickens With Chickens by Sos 2010-08-26T16:01:00

I love the sticking to ceilings thing! It's a shame it's not completable.

Magno-Warrior by TheLastBanana 2010-08-26T15:42:00

Neat! I just wish I could get used to aiming.

HOME by zdanielz 2010-08-26T15:22:00

Oh wow it's a bit too fast to control, but does have a nice feel that way, do maybe what we need is for things to just start out slower and ramp up?

The South and the North suck yorkshire puddings! I'm from the Midlands me! by cptalbertwesker 2010-08-26T15:09:00

I think GreaseMonkey meant this wine (http://www.winehq.org/), not the drink :)

Zombie Conquest by Andrew Marsh 2010-08-26T14:25:00

It's too bad you didn't have time to make more levels. I liked where this was going!

GNORF by ippa 2010-08-26T14:12:00

Nice! I wish I could restart at the level I failed, though, instead of going all the way back to the start.

Undertone Continuum by zigs 2010-08-26T13:37:00

I had huge performance problems with this one once the cute droplet guys showed up.

Master Exploder: Attack of the Killer Bunnies by Seriema 2010-08-26T13:25:00

haha as more and more bunnies show up it gets really easy. I was getting non-stop explosions around the edges of the screen and basically didn't have to click ever again. :)

Squibble Attack by Jamin 2010-08-26T13:20:00

404 stars.

Enemy Maze by goffmog 2010-08-26T13:18:00

Nice! It was neat learning how to build and break your maze to force the monsters to group up. It seems like it would be a problem if you came to the game without first reading the instructions, though.

Sun Attack by pants 2010-08-26T13:00:00

Wow that's... really difficult :)

Space Recycler by Darkhogg 2010-08-26T11:19:00

The slow turning really hurt this one

Graphell by ZomBuster 2010-08-24T21:09:00

It's hard to tell if the concept was working out or not due to the performance problems.

Flinger by Switchbreak 2010-08-24T21:05:00

This is tough to get used to, but a pretty neat idea!

Brain In A Jar by WilTwin 2010-08-24T20:45:00

Oof. Not being able to restart is definitely a problem.

SpaceFreak Snack by DeathBySnail 2010-08-24T18:32:00

Oof, yeah that jump feels awkward, but I think this is a promising idea that mostly just needs some control over the jump arc.

Unarmed and Dangerous by bluescrn 2010-08-24T17:13:00

Awesome! Got to level 6 before I had to stop for some real-life stuff but I'm loving it so far and will return to it!

Enemies, (Such) as Weapons. by zlash 2010-08-24T15:22:00

I screwed up basically right away after the extremely lengthy dialogue that I don't think I can stand to go through again :(

Man And Robot by quoj 2010-08-24T15:11:00

I can't seem to figure out how to get past the first level... I did get all the money bags.

Tactics Lasso! by Kayamon 2010-08-24T14:48:00

The DirectX install did fix my Error Compiling Shader problem.

Keeping the mouse on the guys was a little annoying. Maybe if there was something to indicate how long you had to hold it on him for?

PIXELSPACE by davecheesefish 2010-08-24T14:26:00

I really liked the controls! Really could have used something to change over time to make it get harder. (Better following? Flocking?)

HochEmpor by Mik 2010-08-24T14:07:00

I died early on and didn't realize it, which left me very confused until I restarted.

Bug Them All! by ThibG 2010-08-24T13:59:00

Uh-oh, you probably aren't going to get a lot of people playing your game like this. I tried for a few minutes to get PySFML installed right, but it's becoming too much of a pain.

I recommend using py2exe to make an easier-to-run windows exe out of it.

Chassis Commander by zorbathut 2010-08-24T13:48:00

I really like the idea of combining the weapon modifiers! It seemed like sucking them up was usually the best way to kill them though...

Wherein Obstacles [...] IN SPACE by Sam Driver 2010-08-23T15:11:00

The terrible framerate rendered it basicaly unplayable for me :(