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YearLDThemeGameDivisionRankOvFuInThGrAuHuMoCo
201429Beneath the SurfaceInstallation ZA-3jam483.853.783.042.503.962.583.3548
20132710 SecondsWVVWcompo3833.233.501.813.082.591.311.412.5046
201326MinimalismBlock Runnercompo7902.952.732.233.772.552.4737
201225You are the VillainDEFCON 0compo3533.002.792.923.504.001.942.6547

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Comments by Flai

LD25 — You are the Villain

Villainous! by gritfish 2012-12-17T17:48:00

I liked it, but moving felt a bit annoying because it didnt move continuously

Boss Level by Kuothe 2012-12-18T20:35:00

Pretty fun, but as I mentioned in one of your posts ( that you later deleted? ), you shouldn't update the game after submission and if you do, at least keep a link to the original version of the game

Boss Level by Kuothe 2012-12-18T22:11:00

@Kuothe No problem and congrats for your first LD :) ! But I hope that you understand that it's somewhat unfair for others if someone can continue developing their game after deadline, even if they started a bit later than others.

Revenge Bear by dek 2012-12-20T16:50:00

This was awesome :) ! Really nice graphics and gameplay

DEFCON 0 by Flai 2012-12-17T15:19:00

@Joeslayer97

Yeah sorry, like I said, I was in quite a hurry to even make any gameplay at all :(

@myachin

Yeah sorry, I forgot to mention that this is using XNA4.0 HiDef Profile, which ( I think ) requires DX10 graphics card. I can't use Reach Profile which works on lower-end GPUs because the map texture is 4096x2800 and Reach profile doesn't support textures over 2048x2048

DEFCON 0 by Flai 2012-12-17T18:52:00

@TuxedoFish

Yeah, I'm sorry that there were no winning screen, I had to cut it out :) But nice that you enjoyed it :)

DEFCON 0 by Flai 2012-12-18T20:39:00

@CMaster

Hah, yeah I used a map that was on the modern time and I didn't actually realize that USSR and Russia's borders differs ( but now that I think of it, obviously they differ. Lots of eastern european countries were part of USSR before) :)

I originally planned that other countries can attack you back and make alliances ( and even possibly attack other countries to conquer them? ), but unfortunately I didn't have time to implement it. Maybe later if I decide to continue developing this :) October challange next year, I dont know :)

@Deykoweec

If the game had been what I wanted it to be originally, it'd been more fun with all countries. But yah, as the game stands currently it's really not very fun :(

Villain by Mathias Olsson 2012-12-17T17:54:00

I absolutely loved the sound effects and music :) ! Pretty fun game overall too, but it could've had time limit or some other goal/"ending".

Missile Rider by rylgh 2012-12-18T20:19:00

I liked it, but as already mentioned before, controls were a bit difficult/uniniutive

Invade by V 2012-12-17T17:57:00

Great idea but as mentioned already, execution left kind of a lot to be desired.

Bandits by Erik Örjehag 2012-12-17T13:59:00

Pretty fun, but the instructions could've been better. I waas somewhat confused at the start. Also not having to restart the whole application to restart the level would've been nice :)

Master Abductor by Diamonde 2012-12-18T20:10:00

I liked it. For some reason though, in the first level when I lost all my health the level didnt restart and I could continue playing it. In the second level I did die though.

Kill Kong by shaneshanekavanagh 2012-12-20T16:20:00

I liked it a lot. Controls were a bit hard though

Not Space Invaders by munchor 2012-12-17T18:03:00

Kind of easy but still pretty solid

Super Evil Machine by Gareth Jenkins 2012-12-17T14:09:00

This was pretty fun and music was awesome! However, sound effects were kinda annyoing ( but at least there were some! ) and the gameplay was kind of slow. Art style was great too.

Hero Must Die by CireNeikual 2012-12-20T16:37:00

Wow, this is probably the best I have played on this LD so far! Great job!

LD26 — Minimalism

Minimal Conquest by manax 2013-04-29T14:48:00

Great game but way too hard :(

Block Runner by Flai 2013-04-30T11:07:00

Thanks to all of you for your kind words :) !

@egos

Hmm.. Are you sure you have XNA4.0 installed? Also your computer must have good enough GPU to support it, but since I used XNA's "Reach" Mode, pretty much every GPU in the past 8 years should support it :)

@metadept

Yeah, I'm kinda planning to port this to Windows Phone (and obviously add more sectors /variety etc.) and I'll definitely tweak the jumping. Maybe also make the collision a little bit forgiving, like if you just barely touch the right side of the block, it doesn't kill you.

Anyways, my previous games: The first one was a platformer. I had a sort of unique idea for it but I scrapped it before I implemented it. Collision and moving was working already though when I scrapped it.

Then I started making a roguelike game. Got dungeon generation kinda working, had enemies, had stats, had moving (didn't have attacking or items though). Here's a screenshot of it: http://i.imgur.com/RlAT2Eu.png

The third one was this puzzley game where you had to connect all the dots with the same color to each other without the lines between them intersecting with any other line. I thought that it was good idea at first but didn't come up with even a single decent level :( I had a level editor for this too :P Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/ZAce8Wx.jpg

Block Runner by Flai 2013-05-02T00:10:00

@Joror

Hmm, holding space should make you jump longer, though the effect is not very strong. Most likely you just didn't notice it :P

Less is More? by atraxgames 2013-04-30T14:11:00

Really great game :)

MONO by timtipgames 2013-04-30T20:18:00

Wow, this is my favourite one so far :) Great job, everything was awesome in it!

(Follow the) Line by Chman 2013-04-30T11:45:00

Really liked it :)

Orbicular by metalcan 2013-04-30T11:24:00

Seriously the music is awesome. Graphics are very minimalistic yet so good looking too :) The gameplay isn't *that* great, but its still pretty good! Great job!

Shape Catcher by zinfandel 2013-04-29T14:37:00

As others have mentioned, awesome graphics but didn't have a clue what was going on :P

IAO by Rafael Sales 2013-05-04T14:36:00

Pretty hard but still good :)

Gallery by Andrew Shouldice 2013-04-29T04:27:00

I really liked it! Good job!

Towers of Rage by robotality 2013-04-30T11:31:00

Great graphics and pretty good sounds too :) The gameplay itself was fun for a while but then just got repetitive, especially since you only had to smash the kick/punch button. But still, it was a great game and the mood was awesome :) Good job!

Omitentum by Killswitch 2013-04-29T04:15:00

Idea is pretty fun but I thought that execution wasn't as good as it could've been. It's okay nonetheless

Reach the Moon by Nanolotl 2013-04-29T04:18:00

Great looking but as awesome as potatoes are, it gets boring pretty fast just planting new potatoes :P

Line Game by elektron 2013-04-29T14:49:00

Awesome game and idea :) Makes me think why I don't come up with as good ideas as this :P

COLLECTRONS by ned366 2013-04-29T14:34:00

Pretty good :) I liked it

LD27 — 10 Seconds

GLITCH by TravisChen 2013-08-27T07:42:00

Great game :) ! Really like the mood and the graphics!

The Value of Time by infernet89 2013-08-27T15:35:00

Really really great idea and gameplay!

WVVW by Flai 2013-08-26T14:16:00

@agumaster

Thanks :) Yeah, I have been planning to do a VVVVVV clone for a long time because it's one of my favorite games, and the theme was.. well, somewhat good for this game so I decided to go for it :) But yeah, it's a blatant copy of VVVVVV, I'll admit that :P

WVVW by Flai 2013-08-26T14:19:00

Actually to continue that last post: I actually was planning to make a "time-rewind" mechanic (cough.. braid.. cough...) so that you could do something like make a suicide to get a key and the rewind the game back until you were safe again. But I decided to drop that, didn't have nearly enough time.. Made the whole map in the last 2 hours also :( ...

Capitall by the.vaber 2013-09-15T14:35:00

Really hard, but it's great otherwise! Love the graphics :)

The Life Countdown by Toms 2013-08-26T13:50:00

It was okay, a bit boring and easy though. The character graphics were cute though :) If you smoothed the camera's movement a bit (so that the camera would be a bit "late"), it could "feel" a bit better.

Midlands Noire by Ysty 2013-08-26T13:53:00

Great mood! I'm not sure either where the "10 seconds" is in this though :| The graphics were a bit rough too but still pretty good. Great job :)

Little Square and the Circle Clan Invasion by Idovoodoo 2013-08-26T13:58:00

It was pretty fun at first, but got a bit boring quickly. Pretty okay.

Frost by coreym1988 2013-08-26T14:01:00

Super easy and short, but graphics were really good :) Also it'd be great if it wasn't full screen but a window.

Trapped by svenardo 2013-08-26T17:35:00

:/ I think I got stuck in the 4th or 5th level. There were 3 doors and I went to the left one (which was a dead-end), and couldn't open the other ones nor reset the level.

Robot Rodeo by anjack 2013-08-26T13:44:00

It was a bit boring since you couldn't control the robot in the arena :(

Total Spaghettification by unusualcadence 2013-08-27T19:48:00

Really really great execution! One of the best games I've played so far in this LD!

Potato Lagoon by rezoner 2013-08-26T17:25:00

Great game! Awesome graphics and music :) !

PROBE TEAM by Andrew Shouldice 2013-08-28T15:29:00

The best game I've played so far. Absolutely amazing :)

Chicks And Dungeons by Kotstulle 2013-09-15T14:31:00

Really good game :)

Fireworks by Schulles 2013-08-26T17:31:00

It was pretty good game, a bit boring though. But pretty nice overall!

Polarity by Matthew Brown 2013-08-26T14:06:00

Really good graphics and music! And a good game too :) Great job :) !

Proletarian Ninja X by deepnight 2013-09-15T14:28:00

:O

This was amazing! Really really good :)

Tokyo Station by Mark Ffrench 2013-08-29T18:47:00

Great visuals and sounds :) ! Gameplay not that great though.

Dungeon Run: Gauntlet by N427 2013-08-26T17:39:00

Pretty cool game :) But pretty hard though and controls seemed a bit.. "floaty". Not necessarely bad thing though :P

LD29 — Beneath the Surface

Installation ZA-3 by Flai 2014-04-29T02:35:00

@Exeneva

Oh no, you should't be able to jump in the air :) !
About the theme: I was initially planning to make the enemies to come from the ground, but I didn't have time to implement it :(

@Jared & cirolve

Thanks!

Installation ZA-3 by Flai 2014-04-29T10:47:00

@IAmSpencer

Thanks a lot! And like I said above, the "nice touch" is a bug! But maybe it's a good bug :)