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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 👥 | 🥇 | 2017 | 39 | Running out of Power | Terminal Attraction | jam | Humor | 4.79 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | 👥 | Doomed | jam | 218 | 3.92 | 4.15 | 3.31 | 3.90 | 3.94 | 3.79 | 2.94 | 3.85 | ||
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | 👥 | Who Wants to Be a Vampire's Heir? | jam | 205 | 3.78 | 3.91 | 3.26 | 2.89 | 3.61 | 3.87 | 4.33 | 3.96 | ||
| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | 👥 | Toga Throwdown | jam | 718 | 3.18 | 3.13 | 2.68 | 3.03 | 3.74 | 3.03 | 3.08 | 3.00 | ||
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | 👥 | Joe Chef | jam | 200 | 3.86 | 3.80 | 3.14 | 3.05 | 3.88 | 3.20 | 4.16 | 3.69 | ||
| 2017 | 39 | Running out of Power | 👥 | Terminal Attraction | jam | 62 | 4.04 | 4.07 | 3.67 | 4.00 | 3.72 | 4.79 | 3.89 | |||
| 2017 | 38 | A Small World | 👥 | Ant Detective | jam | 23 | 4.17 | 3.89 | 3.35 | 3.68 | 4.11 | 3.79 | 4.40 | 3.87 | ||
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | Boxing Quest | jam | 572 | 3.26 | 2.74 | 3.15 | 4.15 | 3.14 | 2.73 | 3.17 | 55 |
flukeshot leaves an average of 14.7 feedback comments each event.
One of the best LD games I've played in any LD ever. Shipping building was fun, getting new parts - even better. Some better movement (rolls, turns etc) would add something to this. The controls during battle were all crammed into one part of the keyboard, I have two hands, why not use them, haha :)
It is so great seeing a complete package for an LD. I'm sure you had more to show, but as we all know, time restrictions of LD...
Anyways, I liked that you had to do the dash punch to finish them, it adds a cool extra aspect of management to the game. Great seeing a bit of atmosphere told in this way - it reminds me of Lylat Wars actually. I never really felt the need to use the abilities other than the dash punch, but I'm certain, had time allowed, those could have been introduced in-game in a similar way to the dash punch.
Excellent. Theme is well executed here. The game is full of delights and is well polished. The jellies are personified well, it seems a shame to leave them behind. But then again, purple does seem a bit evil, haha. For critique, the jumping puzzle where you stick a jelly to the side of spikes and go up did seems a bit tedious in certain places. Some of the longer levels could have used check-points maybe? Additionally, the normal jump could act as a jump boost when timed with when the jelly bounces you (not sure, but it doesn't seem to currently).
I read your description about being your first game with moving 3d, great job team! I enjoyed the idea of the game. To add more to game-play some extra dimension to avoid getting ganged up on would be great. The potential of getting something better did work well indeed. I guess the loot-box psychology is legit ✌️
Damn, cool stuff. The camera seems to zoom out pretty far when you are going really fast. Also, the track builder rotates uncontrollably for me (keyboard/mouse/win10). Still, totally playable and totally bad-ass.
This is fantastic guys, nice music and definitely a blast to play. The controls are a little slidey, but luckily you added that space bar reverse. Need to get out and rate some games :)
Good entry, maybe a second ability would help to spice it up.
The title says it all and it's great! Needs more guns maybe?
Visuals are well done. Especially the effect when you hit the ball (stretching the ball + screen shake + particle effect) is quality stuff. I felt it was a little difficult to aim the return shots. Excellent compo entry.
Excellent. This is what an LD game should be. Fun, with some mechanics that feel great to use. Squish them bugs.
Game looks great, a straightforward but well executed fusion of genres and all the assets are of a high quality too. The game-play for the continued jumping sections is a bit tough for me though. Also no PLAY command? Why not, right? :)
Good game, good really take this one further with more cards I think. I did manage to get the game into a broken state where I had enough AP to play cards but simply couldn't (could only end turn). Anyway, good entry!
I love seeing something completely different, the original music was a joy too. Well done sir. Once the song got a bit faster though I found I lost the beat at times.
I may not be very good at dating, but I'm very handy at killing elephants, apparently.
Game-play worked well, nicely done. I think some sound effects/music needed to be levelled to be comfortable to listen to together, search Adobe Audition ITU-R for an example of how to get comfortable volume levels for any sound.
I liked the level and all its little details. As others have mentioned I lost the game seemingly for no reason at times.
Great use of a challenging theme. It gets hectic quickly, which was great. The music was great, how'd you do it?
Art, impressive job by the team. Fusion of genres, good. Nice polish all round on assets as well: sfx, music, ui, death screens, many dialogue options, animation fx, backgrounds. Only let down was the combat, I found it too sharp a difficulty curve to get past much of the starting content, which is a shame, really - the game is very nice in other regards.
A lot to like here. Some good polish, for example, the particle fx on the ball and scoring. Rocket jumping was a nice touch. Mechanically the game played and worked well. I think it might be interesting to try the rocket trail having a push effect on it so it can nudge the ball for glancing shots. In terms of critique, I think the explosion sound could be have a filter run over it to soften it a little. Lastly, of course, great use of theme.
Not sure if it was intentional but the audio loop that didn't actually seamlessly loop certainly added to the madness of it (not necessarily in a good way, haha). The monster who slides along with arms outstretched actually did give me a bit of a fright haha - so good work on that. As others have said collision with the coins is undesirable. Also, the baked shadows are wrong in many places, this could be fixed with some settings changed in a re-bake I think. Gameplay-wise you may as well have made it auto-reload and made some visual indicator for an enemy being hit (a blood particle?). All in all though, good fusion of genres.
Well done to the team, UI in particular was impressively polished for an LD entry.
Mechanically I liked the game idea, nicely done on that. I couldn't get the bet amount to increase using the arrow keys though, message me if I am missing something and I will re-rate. As others have said, sound would be nice too (look up bosca ceoil perhaps).
Men betting on sea gulls ey? Haha. Interesting fusion of genres, quality graphics and sound work. Gameplay needs to have more well-defined objectives and perhaps a win condition.
Similarly to the others, I played around for a bit and but couldn't really get the gameplay. Though I did win after making a few units :) Art assets look like someone put in a some quality time, props on that! Message me back if you release another version and I'll give it a go and re-rate.
Your games always have a distinct look to them, I'm keen to see how this graphic style evolves along with your engine, nice work! On that note, massive props for using your own engine. The game itself I think could have had the camera locked around the yaw axis and only have the player pitch the camera up and down, maybe not, perhaps I am missing some reason for the camera controls being like they are. That aside, the best part of the game for me was sliding all over the place and drifting the car sideways up the top of the sloped walls, this felt bad-ass.
Nice work team, for your first LD this is a very impressive entry.
Looks sweet! Checking out the source now.
Sad to say I never found the hot air balloon, but I did play for a good long while and enjoyed it. The progress markers did seems a little random (well, hard to spot anyway) to me but learning the level layout was fun. I liked how fast paced the game becomes once you have run some sections a few times. The jet-pack makes platforming more forgiving which I think is why I liked this a lot more than traditional 2d platformers. The graphics were quite pretty. The music was really catchy and definitely added to the stress of managing my time. Overall, good game - I just wish for more checkpoints.
I enjoyed managing my little city and its power needs. I guess the moral of this game is you can't please everyone, tough choices have to be made :P
This captures the feel of the games you mentioned you were inspired by. The rolling is actually really fun to use as a main mechanic. I suppose, in some sense the character is a pacifist, ha-ha. For a first LD this is amazing. The graphics and sounds you produced are good. The boss battle music did its job especially well. Like others have said, the game had me wishing for a little more content. Well done to both of you.
No kidding, it definitely does get harder from level 10 on wards. Music and sound were the stand outs in this entry. Theme is also used well. Graphics - models and particles effects - are good for an LD. Main critique is probably the spike in difficult. Overall, good entry.
I really like how the character moves around in this game, it feels nice. The "face hug" is great btw.
I learned, I lived, I loved. It held my attention without being too hard - but there was still challenge here and there. The graphics were simple but functional for what this is. The sound also worked well too. Use of theme was in there too. One of the most impressive things about this entry is actually the controls. For the kind of game this is the controls actually made sense intuitively and they could have easily been rotating the space in a different way than expected. Overall a good and fun entry.
That beeping sound is perhaps too alarming - it did annoy me a little. I found the game very challenging to say the least. A more gentle difficulty curve may have helped me. I did like the look of the whole thing though.
Very impressive game. I encountered a game breaking bug during the second boss fight. Instead of dying, my character disappeared and the boss continued to lose health until he too died. After that the game would no longer progress. That aside, what an awesome entry.
This game is nicely designed. It is fun and strategic. It really makes you plan our your moves. Like others mentioned, there are some bugs, for example I could not get past the box after I used it to kill two enemies. The sound design is really effective - it is creepy and kind of gives me a "The Thing" meets "Abe's Odyssey" vibe. It is pretty tough too so I wouldn't worry about not getting enough time to do more levels. Overall, one of the best LD entries I've ever played.
This is good use of theme to disguise timed platforming. The game is charming. All the assets in the game look and feel great. The effects used are very nice and add some visual interest to catch the eye. The platforming on the second level is a little harsh, but it did teach me the core mechanics of the game, so well done on game design too. The final level I was able to run right to the end using the gap the pinks guys go through, is that intended? Haha. Overall, a great package here because it had me wishing for more.
Booting this up I was instantly blown away and immersed. The zero-g and the movement is just straight up cool. I played it for quite a while but couldn't end up beating the game. I got stuck in the room with the electricity balls. The usage of sounds was good; however, I do think the alarm is a little annoying and perhaps could be muffled or use spatial audio a little more (but really that is such a minor issue). For the visuals it reminded me of Abram's StarTrek film, which, I think you nailed. There is also an impressive amount of detail and effort put into the environments (nice work). That being said, much like Abram's StarTrek, some of the surfaces when combined with bloom were just too over the top for my tastes. In a game setting the bloominess combined with the motion blur actually made it a little difficult to navigate. The breathing effect was cool, but a little distracting after a while. In general, navigation was difficult because of getting stuck in weird places and the camera getting oriented to unnatural rotations. Though, in terms of realism that is probably about right. Overall, really impressed with what you both came up with.
There is some really nice touches here and there throughout this game. The use of sound is quite atmospheric and does its job at selling each scenario. The opening scene of the game is great. It has a nice cut in there and the use of title cards is well done throughout. The choice of colours is well thought out and I appreciated it. My major critique is the shocking mouse sensitivity (far too sensitive in my opinion). Though, if the mouse sensitivity is a commentary on the disorientating nature of politics I suppose it may actually be too effective of an analogy because it certainly made me feel spun around at times.
A lot to like here. First of all, props to the artists/animators - everything looks great. The design of the core mechanics is also good and the introduction of them to player is straight forward and works well. On the other hand, I do think that the distinct lack of sounds does detract from the overall game feel. Additionally, there is only a small amount of play time (plus, an absence of a real ending). Considering the time constraints of an LD, I'd say overall this is a nice package and an impressive entry from your team.
Good take on this genre. I like the pacman-esque power-up system.
Good puzzles. Good mechanics in general actually. The walking sound effect did annoy me a little.
Playing this against a human player and using 3 balls is pretty great. The controls were a little weird for me at first.
First run through I did not realise I had ammo until it was gone. Haha.
This is a pretty fun racing actually. The AI felt challenging but I did eventually beat it and going fast was pretty damn sweet. The race track was good too given how the characters move. The race music doesn't loop seamlessly, but oh well. Overall, I'd say it needs online play, haha :p Great entry.
Haha, I got stuck on that two cities level for a while. Good puzzle games are hard to make, so well done!
Never seen anything like this before. Even though the combat is real-time the character placement actually becomes like some kind of adhoc puzzle each time. Very satisfying seeing the enemy AIs stop just in front of you. Almost like the "don't blink" angels from Doctor Who. Overall, I thought this was pretty great.
Wow putting user generated levels in as a feature for an LD game. I am impressed. Unfortunately it seems some of the interactable objects have a trigger that is a bit sensitive.
As some people have mentioned the player controls need some fine tuning. I also managed to get stuck behind the retracting door in the third puzzle. My bad :p Overall, the novelty of the suit, the planet hopping, and the overall feel of the game combine quite well to make this a quality LD entry.
I sure did go *insane* playing this one :D The audio stand out particularly as being done well - it really sells the feel/mood of the game. I felt the core game-play perhaps could have had monster encounters as a skill based mechanic to make it a little more interesting. Anyways, it is a nice complete package. Well done on this entry.
Nice compo entry. I did find some sections a little slow after killing the beetles and waiting for my resources to grow I was flying around just waiting. That being said, killing stuff was pretty fun.
As a poop with a PhD myself.... I approve.
Wow, great compo entry. That death effect is really great. Is that just a particle system? I did feel it was little hard to parse the numbers of people I had because the game was so fast paced and there is so many zeros in 40 million. Maybe just a filling up bar to indicate how many I needed until I had collected enough would have been easier for me.
Great compo entry. I think screen wrapping the rabbit when it is on the edge tiles could be interesting/a little more forgiving.
I found this really engaging. Nice job on the game-play.
How the player character moves is really cute. The enemies are straight onto me though, I feel like a ramp up to that difficulty would be preferred instead of dropping the playing right into the midst of it.
There is a lot to like here. My main feedback is that I feel with so many enemies the want to just hack and slash is very high yet it is unfortunately interrupted by the energy mechanic.
That shader is pretty sweet. The models look and move great. Overall it is a nice little package as an LD game.
Oh wow there is a LOT of play time here for an LD entry. I'm impressed. We also made a detective game btw.
The animations are really juicy. I feel like the core game play loop could be more interesting with some introduced elements. Perhaps powerups?
My Doctor told me I couldn't play cookie clicker anymore. Sigh, I think this gave me RSI. Again.
This reminded me the game the Beginner's guide - except without narration. Well I'm not sure what the game means... but I wish I had a bed floating in a star field.
Oh man I rode some teapots. I could never get to the purple thing though. That chanting was pretty great in terms of making it mysterious. I think you could have made it a little easier to see though, I fell down those holes so many times.
Wow, after that intro I was not expecting that. I have to say I am happy with my closing statement accusing the guy of being a dark soul and then finishing with I am a fucking planet.
I'll have to give this a try at the office, haha.
Nice sound design and artwork. The controls were a bit unwieldy for me, often screaming or headbutting when I meant to simply move. Also, the wind in the tunnels seemed a bit pointless. The last puzzle was interesting but to actually solve it without just trying everything I think you needed another area in the game that establishes that the scream can scare the humans and make them move and do things for you. All in all nice work team.
Very clever use of the controls, could easily go even more than 2P.
Very impressive.
Impressive work in the time given. I found the fuel mechanic very taxing to refill though.
Haha I enjoyed this. I also went for a fighting game this LD.
This game really got me in a Christmas mood with that green and red text. Jokes aside, solid game.
In all aspects it is good :) As you replay the game the farmer takes a bit to get going.
So chill.
I like Harry, this game is kind of charming.
A cactus escaping cardboard mazes, how did you even..? It was fun :)
Pretty chill game. I really liked the art and sound. It did freeze a few times though.
I really like this. Though I may be a little biased given I also made a boxing game, haha :)
Game looks great. Took a little bit to get the hang of, but worth hanging in there for. As other comments mention the HUD is a bit inaccessible at times.
Haha, nice. I really appreciate the satire of it all, and the effort put into doing so many mini-games.
Great execution!
Too scary for me. I particularly enjoyed pepe.png sitting in the root of the game.
Yeah, links are broken atm.
Unfortunately didn't work for me on Win 10
Yeah win 10 here too, no luck.
Chill game. I think I won:
http://imgur.com/rgFS3Lw
I give it 50/5 !
One idea I had is that the platforming could have had more of an emphasis on being the right size to fit through certain bits. All in all, good work.
Cool challenging puzzles. Relaxing music. Beautiful green and red colors. Checkpoints?
Now this is something I can get into
LD44 — Your life is currency (10)
Assault on Crown Archipelago by aurel 2019-05-08T23:36:35Z ♥ 1
Excellent. The amount of level design done is amazing. The game has polish I would not expect from an LD entry. In general, I would not expect this much game from an ld entry. It actually reminded me of games I played years ago like Banjo Kazooie and Donkey Kong 64 - so great job for evoking that. I've played a lot of LD games over the years and this is easily the best 3d game I've ever rated.
Nuclear Arms 7: Railway to Heaven by Logicon211 2019-05-04T07:55:41Z ♥ 3
I see you are a group with fine tastes :) Love games with humour and even better when the gameplay is actually bad-ass. I enjoyed this one so much I went and checked out some of your other works. This character and Nuclear arms universe you have created are a tonne of fun, just keep on doing this. Is an origin story in the mix you think? Also, you guys have a great sense of humour, don't shy away from more jokes and writing.
Also, I'll just leave with the words of a wise internet scholar, "Show us what you got man. Wanna see how freakin' huge, solid, thick and tight you can get. Thanks for the motivation".
UnderBreak by MlleAB 2019-05-04T07:07:26Z ♥ 1
Winning me over straight away, intro song is of Banjo Kazooie inspiration, right? Also, the way the demons speak to you, classic BK influences surely? The syncing of animations and movement were a little slidey. The shooting sound effect and visual was a little meh also. The demon death and level visuals were great though. I played it in HTML5 and right-clicking seemed to give me all sorts of trouble (even when full-screened), which was a bit of a shame. Overall though, gameplay was solid and I had some fun with this one, great entry.
Escape from Hell by Becher 2019-05-04T06:41:42Z ♥ 1
Ey, a bitta the 'ole dark souls inspiration. Great work for compo! More audio would be great to really set that mood.
Big Tiddy Goth Girlfriend: A Tale of Romance by yojammerjammer 2019-05-04T06:28:09Z ♥ 1
I'm a man of simple tastes. I see the title says big tiddy goth gf and I click. Bit of a bait and switch though, needed bigger tiddy! Haha, anyway, you did a great job of the clingy gf character - shits too real! We like to do voice acting in our games too, so when I saw there was a voiced version I also played the version with voice acting. The actress who did the gf did a great job. Also, the guy who voiced "my dude" nailed it as well. Had some fun playing this one, particularly enjoyed the joke of "you can trust me to be sarcastic at home", needed more of those style jokes :) Also, is there a happy ending for this? Or is the developer telling me the only happy ending is being single...ah I see now.
DUALITY: Final Order by MaiMai 2019-05-04T05:45:17Z ♥ 0
Needs some checkpoints and invisible walls in places. The game plays well enough though, left-click to spam kill those lizards! When you die from a lizard though it should probably auto-restart you or give you a menu. The way it sat me there looking at my character corpse had me trying buttons thinking "maybe this is like Sekiro and my guy is gonna come back for round two". No such luck from what I could tell, haha.
Heart of the Grove by johnnydalvi 2019-05-04T05:35:31Z ♥ 0
I thought it was too simple at first, but no, it has quite a layer of management, timing, and decision making as you get further into the waves. I do feel like having some mechanic in the game like selling your sprouts for power-ups (or even upgrading trees to ones that stay) would have been interesting. Graphics were good. Background music was good. Soundfx could have been a little better. Overall, great entry.
Blood and goods by selewi 2019-05-04T05:11:56Z ♥ 2
Such a high level of polish for an LD game, superb. Too bad I am terrible at speed typing. So great you got your friends to do the violin, really made the mood/audio that next level for me.
Dear Substance of Kin by Deconstructeam 2019-05-04T04:59:32Z ♥ 1
Mood, graphics, and audio simply astounding for 72hrs. Asset reuse in the graphics was masterful. The setting and atmosphere of the game were very intriguing. The tracing on the back idea was cool but the game-play itself was a little lacking. I didn't really feel like I knew what to do or what my purpose as the coppersmith really was. Perhaps that was the intention though...
BankRoll by Kharibidus 2019-05-04T04:28:04Z ♥ 2
I found it a bit hard to really get a good roll going so ending up playing it fairly cautiously. Started with WASD but given the 1,2,3 keys roll in the game I ended up using arrow keys. Mechanically I thought the idea of the game was very nice and the execution of combining the three different mechanics throughout the levels was well done. I think controls just needed tightening up. I know it is a coin so maybe it is meant to not be able to turn so great, haha. Soundfx were used to good effect and with the chill music and aesthetic is gave me a "Human Fall Flat" vibe. Nice entry overall.
Enjoyed all the polish put in as well. The designer name in front of the levels, the coin flick, and of course, the title screen with the raining coins.