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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | 👥 | Across The Bounds | jam | 396 | 3.73 | 3.50 | 3.05 | 3.76 | 3.83 | 4.05 | 3.22 | 4.28 |
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | Stone Heart | compo | 240 | 3.38 | 3.40 | 3.31 | 3.84 | 2.90 | 3.36 | 2.82 | 3.43 | |
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | 👥 | BRYX | jam | |||||||||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | 👥 | Waking Gerald | jam | 928 | 3.34 | 2.96 | 3.11 | 3.17 | 3.88 | 3.69 | 3.12 | 3.84 |
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | 👥 | Un-Stabled | jam | 324 | 3.83 | 3.93 | 3.46 | 3.80 | 3.75 | 3.91 | 3.65 | |
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | 👥 | Unanswerable Question | jam | 1262 | 3.31 | 3.18 | 3.00 | 3.55 | 3.35 | 3.13 | 3.28 | 3.13 |
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | 👥 | Dr. Needles and the Nightclub | jam | 1317 | 3.11 | 2.55 | 2.64 | 3.05 | 3.73 | 3.34 | 3.11 | 3.37 |
I loved the storyline and the art was really well done! The only minor thing I would suggest is the shrine gate kind of looked like it was floating until I got a better look at the base, maybe consider lightening the color a bit to make it more visible? Anyways, great game!
It looks really great. I can't hear any sounds though....I think it is something with the laptop I'm on because with some games there is just no sound. Wish i could have heard the sounds.
Hi there, I tried the windows version but got this message. Would like to try it if you have fix.
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Nice job, I liked the fact that there were instructions helping along so I know what I needed to do. Nice little crafting system. Something about the movement control is confusing to me...I think I expect to use W to go forward in the direction the player is facing, rather than always moving up the screen. Might just be me though.
I think it was really cool seeing as it was 3d. The only thing I would suggest is the music should loop once it has played once, cause I took so long feeding them that it stopped and it got really quiet.
Good job. I have to admit I was pretty confused though. What I really liked was the exit to the "underworld" or whatever it was to collect food....mood change was great. I think with more time I could explore it more and understand better what I'm doing.
I forgot to say, I really want a way to actually quit the game....I think what I expect is to be able to hit the Esc key to either get to a title menu or just quit. I understand it is a Jam though so maybe no time to get details in like that.
Nice game, good art. My sound apparently doesn't ever work for unity games - not sure why - but we couldn't hear anything so won't rate the audio. I think if a game goes fullscreen, you need to provide an easy way to quit - usually the Esc key should take us to a menu or out...unless I missed it somewhere.
Nice use of the theme. I might add some visual clues in the rooms to make the pattern easier to remember.
Love the music and the idea! I think the audience bar does go down pretty quickly though.
Cool game, but the sound wasn't working for me if there was any.
I really liked your artwork and the smooth animations! As someone that has experience with pixel art lots of respect for choosing such a small size and still making it look great.
This was a very fun calm game. It was really nice how you accumulated all the different tools that helped you access new parts of the map. The only thing I would suggest is that when text appears on the screen it obscures your character and maybe you could move it up or something? Good job!
I really liked the art style and the map! I don't know if there was supposed to be sound, but I didn't hear any.
It looks really good, sounds good too. I like the commentary text, reminds me of Getting Over It. Sometimes the timing of the text is too quick to read while playing, but very cool.
I really enjoyed this game's art style, nice and simple but effective! Also the signs were a good addition to provide information. At first the ghost was really confusing but I figured it out. :) I honestly can't think of anything I would improve accept for the audio, the jump sound was kind of loud and annoying.
Well done, the lighting effects are great. There was no sound for me, but this happens sometimes for some reason with Unity games on my laptop- not sure why.
Thanks for checking it out!
Thanks very much for the feedback. I believe we agree with that assessment!
Thank you. I'm very happy the engine seems to be viable so far.
Thanks!
@radgegames @gonzalol @cz46 Thanks for the comments! We totally agree about the game play. We were happy with what we made but it needs to be more interesting/fun to play.
@tori Awesome, thank you! Indeed @melon-spirit made an enormous amount of art for us. We didn't have any level design tool so connecting up that map was quite tedious!
@Eugenik Thanks! Congrats to @melon-spirit
@aless Thanks very much for checking it out!
@snowinn Don't worry we are working on getting the mac version available.
@ghost-in-the-toast @etrealjunior @raigo-k @vivien-fargette Thanks for the comments and suggestions! I like the sprint idea. We really wanted to have more interaction, like being able to have dialog with characters to get clues, or fighting deterrents off, etc, but didn't have the time. We'll try Resurrection today sometime!
@vphyre Great, thank you for your comments!
@natpat Thanks for letting me know. If you have any patience to help troubleshoot, could you try to run the game from a cmd prompt....(open a cmd prompt, navigate to the folder where the exe is, and type the name of the exe and hit enter). I think you should see any errors generated if you do that...it might help me to fix whatever it is if I can know the error.
@nolife-m Thanks for the comment...probably a little unclear, but you have to find the guy with the antidote for the poison before your time runs out.
@spacestrawberriesstudio Thank you!
@clemonades Thank you!
@alejandrodlsp Thanks for the feedback! Agreed about the clues.
@hank-ather Thank you!
@szatku Thanks for the feedback! Yes, the collision is extremely basic and not correct...it is a limitation due to using my own engine which is just barely opertational at this point....so more work to do in my engine's collision! The artist @melon-spirit complained a lot about that too!
@sharked @fachscahfttf Thank you for the feedback!
@peace-of-cake-games Hmm, sorry about that. Thanks for letting me know. Can you let me know what you desktop screen resolution is, or if you have your display scaled or anything. Does the game come up running fullscreen? This is most likely the fault of my not-fully-formed engine.
@peace-of-cake-games On the itch.io link I just now opened up access to the original download that uses a different JRE. If you have the patience, could you try that one and let me know if the behavior is the same? Thanks.
@peace-of-cake-games Thank very much for the details. I haven't been able to test anything on a monitor smaller than 1920x1080, so most likely that is the cause...I'm really sorry, but it probably won't work for you until I can get a smaller screen to debug on to see what is happening....just setting my monitor resolution lower doesn't seem to cause a problem for me though. This is the peril of using a very newly developed homegrown engine!
@peace-of-cake-games Thank you. For now I'm going to put a note on the game to warn about that and see if I can find a computer to work out the problem on.
Thank you very much!
@tvorojok Thanks very much!
@merpui Thanks a lot! That is definitely one of the weaknesses..you might find him immediately, or struggle and never find him. Would have to improve that to make it more fun I think.
@dak001 Thank you very much!
@ninjacatz @hicko Thanks very much for the feedback. Agreed on the collision, it was a known limitation of the super basic engine I'm developing - not sure if I'll have time to fix it for this jam but certainly by next jam...also agree about the lack of clues and sort of randomness of finding the antidote.
@peace-of-cake-games Thanks very much for coming back and trying it again...I meant to send you a note that I'd updated it with a fix but forgot to! I'm hoping to get the collision updated sometime, but not sure if I'll get to it for this jam though.
@amusingfrog Thank you for the comment! I thought I replied to this earlier but my comment seems to be missing somehow.
@future-labs-unlimited Thanks for the comments and playing the game! We appreciate it and agree as well.
This game is perfection! I love the concept, the art, and the execution. Very addictive. I might suggest that you start the character off with a slower speed. Also, was there supposed to be sound because I didn't hear anything.
It was a super cool game. The only thing I would suggest is to add sound, I am not sure if there is just a problem with my computer not making sound though.
We are playing on Windows.
The game has a fun storyline and the mechanics to sling the ball were interesting! It could use some sound.
I like the star fox theme, you did a good job. I did have a little trouble with hitting the enemies.
This was so creative in artsy, I loved it! The graphics and music were really nice too.
Good job, I liked the idea of being able to throw your own platform out to land on...worked nicely. We made it to the ending, although at first I had some trouble doing that!
Great concept for the theme! Everything worked well and looked and sounded good. I do agree with @radgegames that it seems like I got pulled into the chopsticks even though it looked I was clear of them.
This game was surprisingly fun! I really like the background art style.
I tried to play but my character was only allowed to move up and down and once you die and try and play a new game it automatically kills you. :(
Dude the artwork is amazing! I think I might have broken it though, when they gave me two options I just hit the space bar and I couldn't do anything after that. Also, was there supposed to be sound because I couldn't hear anything.
I tried pressing your play button but nothing ever happened. :( Music is epic though!
I got it to work this time around and the graphics are so polished and well done for being that simple. I really enjoyed the playback of my player's ghost. Very enjoyable!
On my computer the spacebar didn't work. :( But the visuals do look very nice!
This game is super cool, and I am really good at it. The only thing I would suggest is that the more time that goes on the more bad guys come.
Nice game! Really visually very nice and music is good too...I like the changes as you go deeper.
Great polished game.....sound and art are really good and consistent and a really interesting idea for the theme. Great job!
Nice game...I like the 2d graphics and the buoyancy control was interesting. At first I was trying to be very careful not to touch anything, but then remembered you can't die so it was more fun to move around. Agree that the intro is a little long.
Nice game! I liked the fact that it had a tutorial at the beginning....would be good if there is a way to skip it maybe (unless I missed that).
Nice game. I found it a little hard to aim accurately but overall it was fun. And thanks for giving me an escape to the main menu! Seems like a lot of people leave out a way to quit if you want to.
Cute submarine! Definitely some music or sound to create a mood will help. Getter darker as you go down is really effective and it feels more and more dangerous down there.
I really enjoyed the graphics and the music when you are the bobber. Although the actual gameplay was pretty simple it still got me hooked. I do not regret playing this. Good job!
Very nice....music and sound fx really good. I felt like I wanted a little more variety on each level. I made it to the end and I'm fairly bad at games...I wonder if the red guys could be faster or more in number towards the end?
Nicely done! One of my brainstorming ideas was the two brothers idea! But couldn't think of a game to make with that. I found it pretty hard to control...should have my son try it.
@briibot Thank you for the feedback!...yes text would help the intro. I believe I just fixed the glitching into the walls collision issue and am going to post an update soon - thanks for pointing that out. My engine is pretty rough so these jams are great to help me find what needs fixing!
@silas-reinagel Thank you very much!
Thank you!
Ha! Thank you very much....basically a "deep" theme as excuse for a platformer is my take!
@testudor @pedrocoden - keep forgetting to tag replies to comments
@nyanpierre You are probably right! I was sort of testing my particle system and probably got carried away. Than k you!
@asephy Haha, thank you for playing an commenting!
@thx Ah, sorry about that....and thanks so much for letting me know. I think that is an issue with my engine and the screen resolution that I haven't worked out. Can you tell me what your screen resolution is?
@tigerj Thanks very much! Glad you liked it!
@thx OK thanks...that is very strange that the buttons weren't working at that resolution..not sure what that could be but glad you were somehow able to get it started.
@thx And the issue with getting through the geometry is another problem....pretty much I had to invent a collision system for my tile map on the fly, and it was done in a pretty weak way. Still baffled by the buttons though...will look into it.
@damagefilter Thank you for the feedback! So glad you enjoyed it.
@rashcan Thanks for the feedback! Agreed on the hard to hear audio.
@iluvatar Thank you for playing!
@breadstix Haha, sorry you missed the meaning! :)
@mrstari Thank you!
@pat-cleaver Thank you for the feedback! I agree about the intro length as well...at least you can skip it but it really was too much for what the game actually is!
Agreed, great atmosphere....I figured it would end badly for me...but actually I wasn't exactly sure what happened to me at the end!
Nice and spooky! So, I couldn't figure out what E, F and Shift do though. What did I miss?
Intriguing game! I'm terrible at this kind of thing so didn't unlock much...did get the safe open but that is about it. Very nice.
Really nice action and looks great. Agree that it is a little quick to get burned...I feel like I want to spend a little more time looking around. Good job!
Overall, I think this game is pretty cool plus the graphics were very nice. The only thing that I didn't really understand were the controls.
The graphics were super polished and professional! It totally reminded me of one of those games that Google sometimes has. I have to admit, I didn't get very far; I tried many many times but kept coming up too short for the first jump with the owl, it was pretty frustrating. I'm wondering if maybe you could make the jumping more forgiving or at least make it so you don't bounce up if you hit the edge of a rope. The music totally fit the atmosphere though. Good job!
Nice job. At first I felt like the pace was too slow but once I unlocked items, the progression did seem to work well and kept me motivated to keep going until I got the vacation! Those donuts were so unstable!
One thing I'm not sure if was a bug or intentional, but late in the game I had people ordering hot dogs but there were none available (that I could find) to serve.
nice job - it was a little too hard for me but I'm pretty terrible with this kind of game!
Enjoyed it - I like the feel of the smooth movement of the ship and visuals looked really good.
I like the take on the theme and agree the voice acting was a great addition!
I really like this! I really like the simple visual style combined with the fairly sophisticated (as far as I can tell) wave generation, weather patterns, etc. (We also have some boating in ours, but player is a horse!)
I also was confused at first....I think if the goat is not out and visible when you start controlling it, it is hard to recover. Other than that, once I got that thing out of the stable, it was a lot of fun! I love the idea and it looks and plays great!
Really cool, the visuals and mood were great!
Glad to hear it...thanks for the feedback!
Thanks very much!
@lllarso @guntrip @joonamo Thanks for all the feedback everyone! We definitely wanted better/more interaction with the farmer and pirates (pirates didn't even end up doing anything because of time!). I do know there are a few bugs with the jumping - hopefully didn't ruin the experience! I also debated about being able to jump when on the objects like crates. It probably should be changed to allow that I think.
@svntax Thanks for the feedback! I did see the tiling issue as well...I need a proper tiling shader in my engine rather than the way I had to do that - hopefully by ld50!
@denhette We wanted the game to be a little difficult, at the risk of making it too annoying to keep trying. I'm happy to know someone got all the way through!
@parttimeindie @r3l0ad1 Thanks for checking it out! We're happy to see people using the "fun" word as some of our past attempts lacked a lot in that area!
@tom-stephenson Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it!
@cppchriscpp Thanks very much for the rating and comment! I look forward to checking out your game soon.
@nardandas Ha! Thanks for the kind words. Pretty sure the voice over was not perfect :) but thank you for feedback. And remember, horse hoofs are a little slippery when wet!
@chris-mcknight Thanks so much!
@daniel-spruill Thanks for the feedback...really glad to hear it was fun! Agreed on your comments about the voiceovers. We actually threw that in during the last phase of the project on a whim, and it seems to be something people have liked.
@simex Thank you for the feedback! I hadn't thought too much about the turning around to kick thing but you are right, it is sort of an interesting feature.
@tomssuli Thanks for playing and commenting!
@u4ia Thanks for playing and the feedback!
@tom-stephenson Thanks for playing! It was a little bit of a dilemma....at first the objects could be used to hit the farmer...the problem was that you could also just leave an object in his way, and since he collided with it, he would get stuck and never harass the player. Now that I think about it, maybe the solution was to only allow him to collide with the objects if they are in motion, or something like that. In any case, I limited the farmer collision in order to allow him to always get to the player. Lots of room for improvement!
last comment directed to the wrong person! @starrynitegames see last comment re farmer collision!
@handserge Thank you!
@martta I hear you about a browser version....it is a trade off I make by using my own engine which is built on lwjgl. I looked into it but I don't see any reasonable way for me to compile to html5. I totally understand less people will end up playing our game because of this, so thanks goes to you and everyone else willing to download and unzip it! I love to hear that you finished it! And I'm so surprised people liked the voice over - we really threw it in on a whim at the last minute! May have to use that more in the future.
@kypello thanks for the kind words! Some objects I don't allow jumping from, like the round or less square objects...but wasn't ever sure what really made sense. Not sure if that is what you saw or if there is a bug somewhere, but thanks for pointing it out.
Thanks for playing! Pretty sure them flying into the sky was a bug, but glad you enjoyed it!
@valiantsugar forgot to tag in last comment
@gustavo-christino Thanks for making that video! It is really cool to be able to see someone else playing our game...that is something I hadn't seen in the 3 ludum dares we have done. Definitely saw you experience a couple of bugs and issues with the graphics were a little more exaggerated on your computer than on my laptop. In any case, really cool that you take the time to do this!
It took me awhile to figure out (skipped the instructions). But once I learned to wash the "adapters" it became fun. Cow exploding from not being milked - priceless.
Great job! Love the floppy horse.....a particularly violent unstabling!
Nice job on this....visually nice to look at. It does become a little bit tedious after awhile and I was fairly bad at keeping things running so didn't last too long! It does have the flavor of AmongUs.
Great job, especially the graphics and level design. Probably needs another element to complicate or interact with the task of running around fixing things, maybe? But for a jam game, really slick.
Really good job! I think the custom pathfinding up the structure couldn't have been an easy task for a game jam! Art looks great and music fit the game well.
Nice job...the bear face expressions were a nice touch. I felt really bad when I drowned some of them. Maybe it could ultimately use a way to finish (or maybe I didn't get there), and also, you can just put 1 bear in each boat and avoid any challenge so I found myself wanting there to be an incentive to get more in the boat (like a time limit for a score or something?) In any case, good work.
Nice game - I also wondered about the doors...felt like I need to go through them :) Visually very nice.
Hey nice job, game looked good and played well for me!
Nice job!
Nice game! Music was really nice and the dialog captions as the game progressed were a nice touch.
Nice game. I agree about the collider for the net maybe being a little bigger, sometimes seemed like I was missing them when I shouldn't.
@timur-bahadir Hey thanks for trying it, and noted about the too-transparent clouds!
@terylangosh Hi, you should be able to jump using the space-bar - and you can jump in the air multiple times (triple jump ability) so you should be able to get up high enough to continue. Please let me know if that helps or if you think something is not working.
@duckonaut Thanks for the feedback - yes, I see that the triple jump is not explained anywhere so could be frustrating if you didn't think to try jumping multiple times - I think I'll put a note in the instructions on the itch page at least.
@sagiii Thanks for the feedback - if you could tell me more what the sound bug is like I can look into to it - not exactly sure what you mean.
@helen Thanks for playing! I found the game hard to finish myself, but you do eventually get woken up when the clock runs out - inevitably!
@sagiii OK, thanks for letting me know, not sure why that is - doesn't happen for me for some reason.
@sasquatchbstudios Hey, thanks for playing and for the thoughtful feedback. I agree with you about the controls - I haven't tried implementing controllers in the engine but shouldn't be hard - on the todo list for next time!
@olimarrex Hi, thanks for the feedback! Oh no, not supposed to be able to jump over that! If you survive until the clock runs out you will "wake up", which happens just before both of them close on in on you...in any case thanks for letting me know.. understood about the camera motion, I just didn't have time to add it but it would be nice.
@realtanhen Thanks for the comments. I know what you mean about not being able to see where you are falling to..We did add some camera pullback when you are up higher, but the vignette effect was also compressing so it didn't help a lot and didn't have time to adjust that.
@meta-link Thanks!
@bastilo Hi, thanks for playing. Once the clock runs down your alarm will "wake you up". The clock runs out right around the time the two dolphin/bananas converge on you :)
Thanks!
@bomb-x @andre-sadie Thanks for playing and the feedback!
Thanks for the feedback!
Hey, I never thought there'd be another game with a giraffe and a clock in it! Check ours out if you want - very different, but we've got a giraffe and a clock! Nicely done, cute and funny dialogue. I was very confused at first not being able to click the buttons to start - finally figured out to use the arrow keys - I think being able to to click them will be much better.
Nice game! I really like all the different pig characters. Interesting concept to try to stay in the middle weight area - at first I ate as much as possible then read the directions better!
Nice job...I found it a little hard to control the ship at times but overall very nice.
That was a pretty neat idea, I liked it. It was difficult at first to figure out what to do but I did finally start getting the lava flow in the pipes to avoid the houses.
Nice job!
Haha, I too sold all my stuff after the first wave not realizing what I'd done!! Figured it out next time. I liked the ship mouse control.
Nice job. Atmosphere is nice. I did have a little trouble controlling as well.
Hi, nice job! Though fairly simple, it looks, sounds and plays quite well! I might have been missing something, but I couldn't tell if I was picking up artefacts for sure until after I died and saw the stats.
Nice job! I like the animation when the scoop collects the debris. There was no sound for me? Not sure if something was wrong or if just no sound.
Nice, the controls did take some getting used to...but, I never found any of the weapon items...not sure if something not working or if I'm just terrible at it!
Awesome game! I only wish I could "smash" using the mouse button or maybe space bar as it is a little awkward for me to switch between moving and smashing - could just be player skill issue though! Loved the art!
Nice game, seemed to work ok for me - it is an interesting combination of gameplay. I did get stuck in a block but was able to shoot back out of it.
Looks great! I like the bow mechanic for shooting farther - I couldn't last too long though.
Hi, thanks for playing! I will try to add a web build as well.
@fifut Thanks!
@monsieurduck @marcodeevil Thanks! I did debate whether I should put a limit on how small you can go, but just left it as a choice in the end...and really, ran out of time!
@hunter-van-brocklin Thanks for the comments!
@chusmimax Thanks for playing! Understood about the mineral placement - would be better if sticking off the wall into the empty space I guess. Also, my first attempt at embedding the html version didn't work last night and I didn't have enough time to deal with it - definitely will be trying to get the available, just not sure when yet.
@wook Thanks! I'm never sure how easy or hard the game will be since I pretty much know where everything is when I'm testing it. Maybe shield regen was too generous!
@aes1 Thanks! 94 is a lot...I'll admit, I'm not sure it is possible to get them all and finish! Didn't have time for that much testing :)
@silkworm-sweatshop Thanks for playing and the feedback!
@kanagg I agree, thanks for playing and commenting!
@devez Thanks for playing!
@vollfeiw Thanks for the comments!
@ellaris Thanks for playing and helpful comments!
@mozokevgen Thanks for playing!
@dan-str Thanks!
@henk Thanks for the feedback!
@pincushion Thanks for playing and the constructive feedback!
@donut-team Thanks!
@erkberg That is a great idea...thanks for the feedback. And thanks for tipping me over the 20 rating minimum!!!!
@nathan-franck Thanks for playing!
Nicely done! Definitely takes a few tries to start understanding how to get them in orbit!
Nice job!
Nice job! Nice touch to be able to choose what to level up for each level completed!
Hi, for me the game gets stuck in the loading screen using Chrome.
Nice work! Like the riddles and the light -reclaim idea is really interesting.
Nice job! Definitely ran out of space!!
Great job! The story kept me going until the end!
Nice job! I like being able to move the pixie around to see where I need go
Hi, very nice! Really inventive idea on how to cast the spells. I couldn't quite figure out how to draw the A but the other ones worked pretty well.
Great entry, really like the shrinking window idea, graphics and music.
Nice job!
Loved it, simple and fun!
You did a really great job with this! One of the more fun jam games I've tried.
Great art style and character animation!
Nicely done, liked it!
Really nice, love the art style!
Nice job!
Nice job, fun to summon rats when I need them!
@tesseus Thanks for trying it!
@poesdraughtndoos Thanks! I had a lot of fun making the music for this one.
@anifan-gelati Thank you! Agreed about the boosters.....could get frustrating sometimes, definitely need to make those better.
@merrow Thanks you!
@jk5000 Thanks for the comments! Agreed, I think the player control is a little rough.
@bimbim Thanks!
@pawciu Thank you!
@dyingwolfwood Thanks for playing! No way to heal - could have had some healing altars or something like that I suppose.
@pkenney Thanks for playing and leaving us feedback!
@jpatrick Thanks for the feedback! We did consider some kind of signposting or indication of where to go...just not enough time.
Great job, looks really good. I found something about the controls a little hard to get used to but otherwise, a lot of fun.
Very cool, very user friendly guiding the player how to use things, etc. Nice job!
Cool simple game...nice job. Would have liked some simple background music to go along maybe.
Nice job! I died by my own doing many times.
Great entry! Has quite a bit of polish! Interactions worked well once I figured out what I was doing.
Nice job!
Nice job!
Liked the opening scene!