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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | Space Squabble | compo | 129 | 3.78 | 3.53 | 3.20 | 3.16 | 4.20 | 3.46 | 4.03 | 3.69 | |
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | An Eggsellent Escape | jam | 230 | 3.96 | 3.81 | 3.43 | 3.12 | 4.12 | 3.22 | 3.97 | ||
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Dave's Birthday Party | compo | 251 | 3.72 | 3.59 | 3.25 | 2.95 | 3.88 | 3.31 | 3.22 | 3.42 | |
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | Road to Something | compo | 154 | 3.61 | 3.45 | 3.11 | 4.06 | 3.38 | 3.42 | 2.95 | 3.72 |
I really loved this game. From the first view it looks beautiful. You start off with nothing and I have never seen an idea like this before. The puzzles are fun, and I would love to play more! Sound effects are also really pleasant. I'd love to see you expand on this game, as I would definitely play more levels
Amazing idea for a puzzle game. I love the voxel graphics as well. I just got confused for a bit when I stepped on the sort of cross things, where I apparently gained items from. I kept thinking I died so I pressed retry right away. After two times, I realised they didn't kill me
I don't quite understand the purpose of the game. The aesthetics and moodiness from the game are great though. I also had a small problem where if I pressed the S key, I kept walking down indefinitely until I pressed the S key again. This problem only occured while walking down. I like that you used your own guitar to make some music though.
Insane graphics for a gamejam! Also some funny jokes in here which are always appreciated. Loved the screen transitions as well. The character moved way too fast in my opinion though. One of the best games from this gamejam I've played so far.
Beautiful game. I felt a tad bit too slow though, if you would fall down, the process of getting back to where you fell down felt tedious. Also the parallaxing in the frontground can get in the way sometimes. With parallaxing it's the best if you keep the layer where you can walk on in high quality, and the further the objects are away from the main layer, the blurrier they get. So the ones in the frontground should also be more blurry that the initial layer you walk on. I can definitely see the work that went into making all the art though, which is super nice!
Amazing clicker game with cool graphics and sound effects. I only got stuck at the beginning for a while, as I didn't know that more options would unlock, the more things I got. But for the rest, I enjoyed this game
Quite an enjoyable game. It took me a while before I fully figured out what to do. Starting off the game with a big wall of text is usually not the best way of explaining it. Also the audio got me really confused, as it sounded like someone was clicking in the background. I had a blast playing it though. Great job!
Fun game, really like the graphics, the particle effects and screenshake. Music seems a little bit creepy for the game, but overall great job!
A clicker game combined with tower defense, now that's something I personally haven't seen before. Fun game to play, but my finger gets quite tired after some time. That's why most clicker games eventually have some sort of way to generate resources over time. Nice graphics with pleasant sound effects. One thing with the UI in the menu, white on bright green isn't the best way for your text to pop out.
First impression, game looks great and sounds great. After playing for a bit I realised that jumping is sometimes a bit clunky. An example of this is when I am running towards a ledge and jump, the jump doesn't register and I fall to my death. So the jumping is sometimes a bit unresponsive.
The flinging mechanic is really cool, but it's unfortunately really hard to use properly, which can be frustrating. The mechanic reminded me a bit of the mechanic in Ori and the Blind Forest, but the way they did it, is when you want to fling, it slows down time so you have time to aim.
Overall, it's still a fun game that makes good use of the theme.
That's quite an interesting game concept you have there. Just one thing, perhaps it's better to make a tutorial level, showing what each button does. People don't like reading a wall of text at the start of a game and it's better to explain it by actually doing it. The game looks and sounds very appealing though, good job!
Fun and interesting game. Maybe add some text somewhere where it tells you how much water you gain per month
Fun little puzzle. Very calming as well. The tall objects do get in the way of the colors and the rotate button sometimes
The art and sound stands out the most in this little game.
@iozsaygi I honestly had no clue the length of the game mattered. I initially thought, the more content, the better. But after rating a few games, I know what you mean. I am glad you liked it!
@rob1221dev Haha yeah, I probably should've made it so they stayed away from the corners. Now you just have to be patient for them to leave.
@thiago-nascimento Thanks! Although, I do not suggest eating pants in real life :D
@trypants Thanks, I'll keep that in mind
Thank god I read the comment about the game going way too fast on a 144 hz monitor, or else I would've quit really fast. This game is absolutely most beautiful and when playing on a 60 hz monitor, the game feels great. Good job!
Art and theme stands out the most here. I did finish the game the first time around without using attacks though, by just jumping over the enemies. Second time around I tried to melee them, but the melee attacks didn't feel too responsive, so avoiding the enemies at all was the better choice. Keep making games and improve, because the art is definitely awesome already
I really liked the way you implemented the theme here. I found the ending to be funny, as it's usually 'magicians' to be summoning bunnies from their hat. I only had a problem with the level where there are enemies shooting at you, I felt like I was getting hit when they weren't even shooting me. Maybe some feedback for when I get hit would be appreciated, like screenshake/particle effects/sound effects. Overall, nice little game you got here
The mood in this game is quite amazing. You feel that you are alone and that you need to do something to survive. The graphics look aesthetically pleasing.
Two points of productive criticism: 1. The attacks at night seem to bug out my movement quite a bit, I nearly got stuck in a wall once. 2. The running option seems unnecessary. I am pretty sure I want to run at all times, apart from maybe in my little base. The main thing the running option did for me was hurt my pinky.
I enjoy the simple graphics and the sound effects the most from this game. The character maybe jumps a little too high and fast and you kinda slide over the terrain, which makes it feel like you don't have full control of the character. The levels got progressively harder and it was interesting enough for me to keep going until the end.
Fairly fun game, I like the sound effect from the shooting enemy. I do wish the empty textbar would disappear after the text is gone.
Cool game with nice graphics. Just a little bit slow paced in my opinion. I didn't have to move whatsoever apart from buying items. And as others have mentioned, the hit sound seems to be incorrect. Overall, great job on the game!
Really cool unique idea to the theme.
Fun little platformer. Cute art style with good music. Mechanics got introduced over time, which is always a plus. Overall great submission!
Incredibly fun and a cool use to make shields that bounce off bullets
Very fun game! Took me three tries to finally win
Fun puzzle game. I don't fully know what the blue bar did because it never got close to running out
Interesting idea and fun to play. It would have been nice if some sort of light sources were added though, as I wasn't able to see depth sometimes and didn't know I could jump on higher platforms
Interesting puzzle game, took a bit before I initially found out what to do which was totally my own fault.
Initial impression is that the game looks nice and plays nice, I understand that I have to chop trees and fuel/upgrade the fire. After 5 minutes I got all the upgrades and there's 25 minutes left of fueling the fire and defeating enemies, so the pacing feels kinda off.
Fun game with a good concept. There was only one jump which was frustrating (where you have to jump into a really small space), but for the rest I enjoyed it
@m8rix Thanks for the feedback! The recoil of the gun was indeed something I had some trouble with figuring out which was the perfect number for this.
@glaciereclipse That's a good point, thanks!
@chocolat-endive No, you basically try to fall as long as possible while obtaining as many gifts as possible
I definitely had fun playing this game, great use of the theme too. Just one tip is that the art is a bit inconsistent, for example the tree. Try to keep the pixels per unit the same for every object, so every pixel has the same scale. For the rest, great job!
Fun litte game for the overly trending topic simp. The main suggestion I have is try to one time make platformer controls feel absolutely perfect. It kinda felt like I was floating in space and the walljumps didn't really feel like walljumps.
I had fun exploring the little world you've made, and the dragon looks awesome! I just missed a sense of progression, as I didn't know how many stones were remaining that were unlit
The only aspects that I think could need some work is the camera movement, it's really jumpy right now. And a jump buffer for if you jump off platforms. Right now when I want to jump of the ledge, the character doesn't end up jumping and that feels very unsatisfying. For the rest I enjoy the way the game looks and sounds, and it's fun to play.
I got really confused about the gravity, is it supposed to be a topdown shooter or a sidescroller? Some of the enemies seemed to be moonwalking and shooting backwards. And I believe I wasn't able to lose the game. Also when the firerate gets too high, the sound completely disappears from the shooting. If you fix these issues and add some particle effects to shooting and enemies dying, and maybe some screenshake, then you would have a solid start to a fun game. Keep on practicing game development, and play around with a thing called "game feel".
Really fun game with hilarious sound effects. The sound effects do indeed get very crazy after a few upgrades
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Cute graphics and nice suiting sound effects. Simple gameplay, yet quite fun. I don't fully understand how the bug attacks work though, sometimes only two bugs attacked, and other times an entire swarm which would kill my plant instantly.
Fun short little puzzle platformer with pleasant graphics to look at and nice fitting sound effects.
Fun and quick little game with nice graphics and suiting sound effects
Very cool puzzle game, although I am not very good at it haha
Super polished game and incredibly fun but also very frustrating-like getting over it vibes haha
Everything about this is absolutely amazing! I don't think there's anything that could be done better here. The art, the gameplay, the music, the mood, everything about it is awesome
O my god never seen anything as silly as this before, I love it
Pretty cool game, took me two times to die before figuring out I could buy upgrades at the fisherman though. For the rest it's a fun game!
How dare you make such a fun and addictive game... I still want to play other jam games. I really hope you expand on this game and perhaps turn it into a mobile game?
Quite a decent game with nice art and straight forward controls. Wish it progressed a bit faster since it's a jam game and it felt like I was going back and forth a lot. Overall a nice entry
I totally agree with the comments above, I didn't fully understand what I was doing apart from just clicking everything
Super cool game, but I felt like only the melee character was good and the other two just got oneshot in a turn. Keep up the amazing work!
Fun game and simple enough to instantly know what to do. The game slows down a lot though with the drilling speed which is kinda annoying, just the fact that it got darker would be good enough!
Really fun game with nice controls and beautiful art! I love the fact that you shoot a sort of electrical wire on the enemies that stuns them. The only minor complaint I have is the camera position when moving upwards as I can't really see where I am going
The concept is super cool but the rotation should be capped just a little bit since it's incredibly hard to move around to the point it gets slightly frustrating. A little tutorial on top of the rotation capping would make this game perfect, as the rest is awesome!
Amazing game. Beautiful graphics, awesome voice acting, sound and everything! Super polished game and I can't believe this was made so quickly! Awesome stuff!
@jakob-willforss Thanks for the feedback, the reason the game is kinda long is because I had this concept in mind for a while and I was too stubborn to just make one polished level so my bad haha. I changed a tiny bit about the level to make it a bit easier
@harrison-dunn Thanks so much for the feedback, I hopefully fixed the bug that caused you to get stuck in a loop *crossing fingers*
@harrison-dunn Ahh I see, I guess I should've made that more clear. Thanks for playing!
Thanks everyone for the positive comments <3
@cekitian Thanks! Yea the jumping in the first section isn't the most optimized and I didn't have enough time to fix that in the end unfortunately
Thanks for the kind words everyone!
@becher No clue what Bleed is but I'll make sure to check it out! The playercontroller for the platforming indeed needed some more work, but it's really hard to get it perfect in a short amount of time for someone like me who doesn't really make platformers that often haha
@cacciatc Thanks for the comment and feedback! Once you get detected, you can actually hide again and they will lose interest in you
@pavelc Thanks for the kind words and the tip! I'll keep it in mind for next time when I'm working on another platformer!
Apart from the issues, I'm still very much impressed with what you've managed to accomplish within the 48 hours here. Super cool entry!!
Absolutely amazing game in every aspect. Very polished with snappy controls, outstanding graphics and amazing sound design!
I was surprised that the tiny fish hurt me, but bumping into terrain at full speed didnt. Fun game either way and a cool submission!!
The game is a ton of fun and I wanted to keep trying to beat my personal best. The one thing that surprised me, even after reading the sign, is that I splat into the ground after doing a tiny jump
I just love the look of the character so much, and the little whispering sound is very cute!
That was a lot of fun, I liked doing all the little tasks. I wasn't sure how fast to click for the heart though
Fun little game with charming graphics. Not sure if there was supposed to be any music while playing but I couldn't hear anything. Keep up the good work!
Pretty cool game, and I love how simplistic the pixel art is and it just works so well
Fun and short little game, even with only black and white, the graphics are cool
Fun little shoot 'em up bullethell-like game. Little things like screenshake and particles would be awesome for this!
Beautiful game, beautiful art, beautiful music and such a sad but amazing story. Just wow
Cool puzzle type of game with minesweeper elements. Took me a few tries to get the hang of it. Very fun game!
The movement is really smooth and so is the shooting. I am glad you did put the coordinates up here in the summary because I ended up flying around for a couple minutes not finding anything at all
Although the concept is really cool, I have the feeling that there's not really any strategy to it and I am just clicking around, unless I missed something?
Fun platformer with beautiful graphics and a cool soundtrack. It does need some coyote time though because jumping off terrain felt unfair and I just dropped down
So many little puzzles, my brain hurts! Great entry!!
Fun little snake-like game with extra mechanics! Good submission!
Pretty cool game, the controls are rather innovative and the graphics are really sweet. I actually didn't realise there was a laser until I read the comments though
Simple shoot 'em up type game with some limits of torpedos and oxygen. Very nice submission!
Cool and slightly difficult game with amazing graphics and sound!
I'm impressed that you made all of this within 3 days, even with a shop system and everything. Great game with good polish!
This is a very good entry for your first gamejam game. Discovering all the new guns is a lot of fun
Interesting exploring game with pretty cool low poly artstyle, didn't really understand what the point was of the logbook button. I thought I could actually look at my logbook and the individual items
Haven't seen anything like this before, great submission! I must say I am definitely not even close to as good as you are in that GIF hahaha
Awesome submission! I love how you've implemented the stirring minigame. Everything works really well together
Pretty decent game, it just felt like it was a bit too long imo. I do really dig the graphics. Great job on submitting a game! Congrats!!
First probably a heads up for others if you also run into this problem. If your character moves incredibly fast, it's because you're playing on a higher hertz monitor. It ran incredibly fast for me on 144hZ but normal on 60hZ.
The thing I like the most about this game is totally the sound effects, they definitely made me chuckle a couple times. Platforming felt fairly smooth, apart from maybe missing Coyote Timer when jumping of platforms. Great job on making this game!
Superb game! Really interesting mechanic and it was easy to understand. Awesome submission
Super fun game! I definitely wasn't the best but it was definitely a blast! Overall a great entry
I definitely enjoyed this little game. The sound when clicking buildings is really familiar, but I can't figure out where from haha. Great entry!
I quite enjoyed this game even if it was fairly simple. Managed to beat it with only one death!! I was kinda hoping that the different levels would have something different to it, apart from them being longer. Either way, great entry and good use of the theme!
Super great entry! I absolutely love the silly music. The gameplay is easy to understand and thankfully the bots are more stupid than me haha
Neat little game with very nice graphics!
Incredibly fun submission with cool sound effects and I totally digged the graphics. One minor feedback I would give, is being able to right click the units for example to check again what the units actually do. It's really hard to memorize all that information given at the start.
I really dig the mechanics here, it's fun to throw stuff around. I did get progessively harder though to the point where it got a bit frustrating. And I also wish I could turn the buzzing sound off from the lamps. Cool submission!
I think the game is broken for me cause it keeps freezing. Also I can walk out of the screen and nothing happens
@gibss works splendidly now, great job! Loved the puzzles!
Pretty cool submission, great job! The thing that stands out the most here is definitely the graphics for me. Two minor feedback points for me is that the boxes initially already fall out of the truck without even moving and the navigation arrow is very slow so I end up missing turns. Other than that, awesome stuff!
I really dig the art of the person driving/flying the car, love how the wheel interacts with the controls as well.
Really loved this entry, very fun multitasking game. At the start I thought I found the perfect balance and then the wind had to ruin it hahaha. Great stuff!
Super cool and interesting concept that I've never seen before combined. I gotta say, it's so difficult to move both portals and I usually end up moving both of them up and down at the same time. Very sweet stuff!
Thanks everyone for the kind words!
@theviraldragon The acceleration gets a bit faster already after collecting 2 scrap. The reason it's this slow at the start is because the ship is broken :)
@liam Thanks for playing my game! The sprite of the ship actually changes the more scrap you pick up, but that might be a little hard to see. It was merely a design choice I made that I didn't really want to show a number on the screen of how much scrap you have/still needed
@liam totally understandable! I could've probably integrated that in the dialogue now that I think of it. Thanks for the feedback!
Thanks to everyone for playing, the positive comments and the feedback!
@digitaldude555 Thank you! The theme unstable is both because the ship is unstable and the relationship between the pilot and engineer is starting to get unstable, because of the situation :)
@bauke-regnerus the text is supposed to be distracting haha, as the engineer and the pilot are also distracting each other with it
Everything about this felt so unique. The beautiful story was amazing and the unique card mechanic felt really smooth and easy to understand. Amazing submission!
This was a lot of fun and the situation definitely becomes very chaotic and unstable. I found it fairly easy to understand the mechanics. Great job!
Can't go wrong with a grappling hook! The precision of the platforming needs to be tweaked a bit because it's really hard to land on the debris. Neat interpretation of the theme. Great job!
Super cool platformer with a unique mechanic to reset your punch. Love it!
I really enjoyed this game, although it was quite difficult. I quickly figured out how to balance properly and had a blast. Great submission! I found it impossible to end up buying anything at the shop though
Simple but enjoyable game. Also that kraken is super speedy!
Superb submission! Game feel definitely stands out here, the game feels very juicy. Great sound effects, subtle screenshake and awesome sounds. Next to that the game looks very visually pleasing and the mechanic of picking up weights to balance yourself out is such a cool and unique mechanic. Very cool!
The game was simple enough to immediately get into it and get playing, which is awesome. I really dig the graphics too. Cool submission!
Everything about this is awesome. The gameplay, humor, art, sounds, all of it. Great job!
Super cool submission! Love the art, the music and the gameplay. Great stuff overall! Sometimes the objects that I picked up didn't fall in place right away which confused me a bit
Fun game with charming graphics. I especially loved that intro! A minor thing for me is that it was really hard to be precise placing my blocks and the indicator seemed off and would only check from the center of the block. Cool submission!
Very fun game. The AI seems pretty smart and beat me several times, but that's probably also partially due to the objects falling being random. Awesome entry!
Once I figured out that I could send out soldiers with the arrows around the house it was a decent amount of fun. I ended up attacking just about everyone and that seemed to work out decently. Great submission
Took me a bit to understand what to do. I didn't realise you could hammer out letters which you can then put in other viewfields. Interesting type of puzzle game, great job on releasing your first ever jam game!
Great concept! Simple game making great use of the theme. Definitely a fun little game!
The pixel art is gorgeous and I love the way you've implemented the theme. Great stuff!