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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | |
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| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Link to the Flame | compo | 317 | 3.64 | 3.40 | 3.85 | 3.83 | 3.70 | 3.07 |
Man that was very abstract. I liked how it looked but I could only figure out what to do after reading the description. I guess you could've started with a simpler level to demonstrate the mechanics and then move on to something with more elements.
This is one of those jam games you actually keep playing, fun stuff. You could have the bullets become visible way before they can hit you, and perhaps in later levels have a thingy to touch that'd collect all the hearts and then you'd have to collect a few more. Anyway, cool game
Nice graphics. Is that clone guy immortal? It comes to a point where it feels like it's hopeless to keep fighting.
Everything moves at the right pace, good work. Could use some indication of where I'm supposed to go or a feeling that there's some progress happening.
@madbookstudios I swear my next jam game the FIRST thing I'll do is a start screen.
@bjakubowski sorry! What happened to cause the sound to go too loud?
@moomka some stuff I had thought of adding from level 3 onwards: villages with houses and little people to burn down, burning people running around setting fire to things you didn't want to burn, enemy units destroying your scarecrows, putting out your fires, player-buildings to defeat those enemies, block them. I had started working on flying enemy units but then my time was up.
@alex-mulkerrin thanks, right now I'm working on adding more content and I've increased the flame radius too. I'll release a small game from this I suppose, maybe some 7 levels or so. I really dug the concept.
Neat. I like it when a basic mechanic can be used in different ways and I also like it how the game's fast paced without the player actually doing any combat. I think you could've used with more feedback for the player though, and less abstract looking things. I couldn't tell early on if something was an enemy or a collectable. Adding a pair of eyes into things goes a long way.
Looks and sounds really good. I think the growth should be more visible
I liked the ship moving along with you, but the game could be more forgiving.
You know what, I liked this one. It's what it is yeah but... I don't know, something special about it
Aside from rotating too slowly, I think you could've made the bullets bigger and holding to shoot.
I couldn't fish. Nice aesthetics and mood though.
Definitely different than the rest but I couldn't figure out how to create anything different or even what I was creating.
@ben-taylor I feel ya. Once I made a jam game based on six degrees of separation, where you'd have to find kevin bacon inside an entire universe. The idea was you would get an alien, check their friends and try to jump from friend to friend until you found Kevin Bacon. So I spent a long time creating the procedural planets and procedural aliens with their procedural faces and their procedural jobs and procedural travel patterns... before I knew it I had just a bunch of procedural aliens that I didn't know what to do with.
Hah, don't think I've ever played something like this. I think if it was easier I'd have played more. Have you considered adding more eggs at once? Also perhaps make it more playful than challenging. Either way, nice.
Always cool to see games scaling things up. I think the game could've used more friction early on and more focus on the living beings. Also the fire/ice shard thing they're mirrored resources so they both put the same kind of pressure on your game and therefore become redundant. It'd be interesting if a second type of resource had some marked differences like being more scarce, more valuable or having different means of acquisition.
With more friction and different pressures on the player the game could improve.
interesting mechanic, I think it could use a more expansive environment though. That's an idea I'd like to see in a game, where you're a single giant organism creeping around somewhere