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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Hu | Mo | ||
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| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | Containment55.bin | jam | 852 | 3.33 | 3.08 | 3.55 | 3.08 | 2.03 | 3.70 | ||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | Death Or Taxes | extra | |||||||||
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | Get Down From There! | jam | 2.83 | 2.67 | 2.00 | 3.42 | 3.71 | 3.36 |
Fionnabhair leaves an average of 9.0 feedback comments each event.
Laundry that takes 7 hours? Believable. Taking the dog for a 10 hour walk? Excellent. A shower that takes 6 hours, though?! You'd be too pruny to do your taxes after that!
I loved being able to explore all the different ways to procrastinate (I see myself in this picture and I don't like it). I did find the camera angles a bit weird, and it took me a minute or two to adjust to that view. I couldn't find a way to get a good look at the dog!
I think this game needs two things. One, a playlist. Youtube, spotify, whatever, just something the protagonist would be listening to.
Second, this game needs to *not leave me hanging like that* **how dare you**.
This game is beautiful. I cannot get over how amazing the artwork is.
Hahaha, that was great. That intro is a great way to hook people in. I would have appreciated some explanation of what the icons meant, but the game wasn't so punishing that you lacked the time to figure it out. I really liked the artwork style and how that contributed to the dystopian feel. Here I am, a happy red wagon with an arm, and piles of trash so overwhelming they're not even in focus.
There was a second or so when I couldn't shoot anymore, but I hadn't reached the completion screen, and I thought, is that it? I lost? I don't know if that feeling was built in to the design, but I did have a moment where it seemed like it didn't matter how good I was, I lost. (I was only 68% good.) Full marks for theme!
I made it to round 8 with a miner-archer-wizard team. I would have loved being able to buy more than 3 units for my team. But I suppose if wouldn't be thematic if the player won, right? Great game! I enjoyed it.
Yeah, I also thought the game was about collecting eggs (and avoiding the doggos) until I got to the comments here. Maybe more explanation is needed right off the hop?
Very funny, and I love the aesthetic and design. Very 90s.
Very cute concept, and the gameplay was really straightforward. The art looked great, and I thought the music was fitting.
I am *here* for the psychedelic images. It helped make the mood of this game feel unique and surreal. Absolutely loved it.
I did run into difficulty with the game play where my encounters wouldn't end, and I'd be in a bit of a loop interacting with others. I played the web version, maybe that was the issue? Not that it stopped me from playing, though. Slug needs their crouton, after all.
I remember playing a board game as a kid where you dial numbers into a large, pink phone, and they give you clues regarding who had a crush on you. This game has a pigeon, and the point is that you *don't* have a crush on him, but the feel of contacting people for gossip brought me back.
As I was playing, though, it started to feel a bit repetitive. Getting good dirt got a bit harder, but the overall gameplay didn't seem to change. Some sort of story evolution might help? Like, who is giving the queen the names of these terrible people, for example. (Seriously, tho, that royal advisor sucks.)
So at first I thought I could just spin around shooting, and it took one planet's worth of destruction before I caught on to why that did't work. To the denizens of that planet: oops. But seeing an arc of missiles spiralling out from the planet is still satisfying, even if my gun is pointing 180° in the wrong direction.
As others have mentioned, the visuals are great. Using clouds to cover up errors strikes me as a very creative solution!
It's an all-around great game.
I played solo, and my poor mouse definitely needs a break. This was an amazing game. The concept was great, and I loved that leafblower. Just spinning it around and watching the papers blow away was lovely. The whole game was lovely, but spinning with a leafblower was just 🤌 .
So, it took me a few tries to figure out how cashing out actually worked, but it was a good game as soon as I did. Like @likirus mentioned, it would have been easier to navigate with a mouse rather than just keyboard.
I couldn't find a way to bypass the shop without buying something, which is what I usually wanted to do if I didn't like the upgrade options or I was just low on cash. I think that might be by design? It certainly made the game more difficult.
Managed to get as high as $19,000. No plans on going to Vegas anytime soon.
Top marks for graphics for sure. As a mythology nerd (RIP folklore theme), this was definitely a game I had to play. But, as others have mentioned, I struggled with the controls, especially when it came to jumping. I never made much progress because I got lava'd, since I couldn't see the platform I was aiming for.
Love it! Challenging and a lot of fun!
Very funny and creative. I'd never want to eat at this diner, though.
Very cool! Gameplay was really straightforward, easy to jump right in. Cute graphics. Fun game!
LD55 — Summoning (9)
Hell Spawn by Babaorhum 2024-05-01T18:47:12Z ♥ 2
Is there supposed to be a way to banish a summon? I can't seem to get past the first level because I'll place one demon poorly, and the only way to fix that problem is to restart the level. The concept and the graphics are wonderful, but it's just too frustrating to keep having to restart 🫤.
Thundersnow by Bluepir 2024-04-29T23:10:41Z ♥ 1
Too short! I was really enjoying myself, but then I beat it, alas. It feels really polished, and I love the visuals. It's a really creative take on the theme. I'd love more!
Summon Island: The Robot Pirate Invasion Was Today?! by JasoonMargoon 2024-04-29T22:19:53Z ♥ 1
This is fun! I liked the tower defence mechanic a lot, and the music choice was really on point. Totally sold the vacation-gone-wrong idea.
Arcane Dungeon by Astoeth 2024-04-29T17:29:59Z ♥ 1
This was, overall, an enjoyable game. As others have said, I wish there were tooltips of some kind to tell me more about what the various bonuses meant, how effective each summon was against the various monsters (and which summons were weak to them), etc. Also, I'm not sure if this is a bug or expected behaviour, but I wasn't able to "collect" different forms (the knight, the dude, etc) unless I validated at that point, and didn't keep going to get other bonuses. I wanted to summon a strong, beefy knight, dammnit!
The artwork was nice, though, and the way that I had to follow paths and work out patterns in order to summon the best creatures was creative and interesting, and trying to discover what was on each question mark really kept me engaged. I was even disappointed when I managed to beat the boss before unlocking everything!
Finally, and this is such a small thing, but: you offered the option to adjust the music and sound effects volumes. Something I've been struggling with when playing jam games is that I found the game's music to be so much quieter than the sound effects, and when I saw you let me control that, I was so excited. I know you opted out of audio ratings, but I had to mention this, because that sort of control made the game so much more enjoyable for me.
Pass It On by TeaHands 2024-04-29T15:36:28Z ♥ 0
This is a cute game, and a different take on the theme. I haven't been able to fully blue all the students- as it turns out, hiding in a room and waiting for your fellow blue minions to spread it to everyone isn't an option- I enjoyed the game! Now, where can I get my hands on some of that candy...
The Grand Summoner ... of Lifts by Arti Dev 2024-04-20T23:44:10Z ♥ 1
Ha! Nice take on the theme. Simple, enjoyable, have some stars, no notes 🤌.
Final Forest Fiasco by Hybitous 2024-04-20T20:13:10Z ♥ 2
What I liked: the graphics are great, and I had a good laugh when the hare was suddenly riding the stag. The dialogue was also great; it was funny and it made the characters more fleshed out. That said, I would click to advance the dialogue, hoping that it would display it all onscreen so I could finish reading it, but it actually skipped ahead, and I missed the rest of what what the character said.
What I would have liked to see: some kind of skill progression. There were a number of battles, but my characters always had the same actions, and those actions never got better as the game went on, nor did I get more max HP or mana. There wasn't much reward for winning the fights, which made them seem a bit repetitive.
I did find a bug where an enemy killed Vni before Hare acted, and since Hare's action was to heal Vni, I was still able to use him, and I don't think he lost any mana for taking actions, either. Or maybe Vni's just that good! You decide!
Ultimately, I think what really makes this game stand out is the artwork, the dialogue, and the story/worldbuilding. The battle system has a lot of unrealized potential, but that's jam deadlines for you!
Forest of Madness by negator2vc 2024-04-20T18:25:30Z ♥ 1
This is one of those games that I opened, played a bit (cultist swarm ahhh!), lost the tab, then played some more when I found the tab, and ended up losing maybe 30-45 minutes to? I was determined to beat it, and I did! There's a fair bit of strategy and complexity involved, especially for a jam game, which made it really enjoyable, even as Shoggoth was driving me mad. The artwork is great; I'm not an artist, so I can't really articulate what I liked, other than to say that it has style. I did have a hard time with the background music, however. I thought maybe my browser was blocking it, so I refreshed a few times, but it was just really quiet compared to the sound effects. I would have loved to be able to hear that better without cranking my volume up so high, as that meant the sound effects were a bit too loud.
Great game overall, though. Anything that I sink so much time into playing deserves top marks there!
Chimera Combat by P3ngui 2024-04-19T14:02:58Z ♥ 3
I keep coming back to this game trying to do better. It's fun, very replayable, and the way your character's apperance changes as new body parts are added/changed is so wonderfully silly. Only thing I might add is an instruction screen at the start, I don't recall seeing one and I wasn't sure what I was doing at first. RIP game 1 chimera.