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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | 2010 | 18 | Enemies as Weapons | Head Trauma | compo | Audio | 4.07 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Cm | Co | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | You are the Monster | Frametime | jam | 17 | ||||||||||||
| 2015 | 32 | An Unconventional Weapon | Exotic Butterfly Net | jam | 298 | 3.47 | 3.71 | 2.29 | 1.94 | 2.82 | 4.25 | 3.24 | 24 | ||||
| 2013 | 28 | You Only Get One | One Trick Pony | compo | 20 | ||||||||||||
| 2013 | 26 | Minimalism | Rebellion: Resistance of Complacency | compo | 1045 | 2.68 | 2.83 | 1.94 | 1.89 | 2.06 | 3.39 | 2.50 | 26 | ||||
| 2012 | 24 | Evolution | This Is Totally About Evolution | compo | 14 | ||||||||||||
| 2011 | 22 | Alone | Cave Wanderer | compo | 63 | 3.44 | 3.00 | 2.93 | 2.87 | 2.94 | 3.07 | 3.46 | 2.93 | 3.55 | 20 | ||
| 2011 | 21 | Escape | A Crap Game | compo | 84 | 3.40 | 3.70 | 3.30 | 2.90 | 1.80 | 2.78 | 2.86 | 2.20 | 1 | |||
| 2010 | 19 | Discovery | Cardiac Arrest | compo | 82 | 3.09 | 2.82 | 3.18 | 1.82 | 2.73 | 3.82 | 2.50 | 3.82 | 3 | |||
| 2010 | 18 | Enemies as Weapons | Head Trauma | compo | 109 | 2.64 | 2.64 | 2.07 | 2.39 | 2.57 | 4.07 | 2.13 | 3.14 | 8 |
GreaseMonkey leaves an average of 8.1 feedback comments each event.
For some reason the robot didn't render for me.
Anyway, I like the idea, but I really can't rate this high as there's actually nothing to do other than run around and press X.
You have GOT to streamline your game making process.
Runs on FreeBSD w/ native Love 0.9.1, although I downloaded the Windows version and applied unzip to it... and then rebound the keys because my keyboard doesn't like it when I hold space, left and up at the same time.
You may want to produce a cleaned up .love file, there's an extraneous "jam.zip" file as well as a bunch of rather large sources.
Anyway, this probably has the deepest gameplay out of any of the entries I've reviewed so far, even though I prefer to play it rather "vanilla".
For someone who apparently "isn't good at bullet hell shooters" you've actually done a pretty good job with your patterns and whatnot.
Highly recommended.
Musicians of the world, unite!
Anyway, pretty solid prototype, would be good to refine the controls a bit to make it work betterer... but DAMN this music makes a nice change from most of the other entries I've tried so far.
NOW THIS IS WHAT I CALL A GAME.
0xFFFF/10 would fart again.
WebGL version broken on Firefox / Chrome for FreeBSD. Trying Windows version in Wine.
(Sorry if there's a double-post, the site died as I was posting this)
High score 190.
WebGL export works on FreeBSD \:D/
Well, I don't have sound working, but you opted out of that, so I guess that helps.
Nice gra- oh wait, you opted out of that as well.
Remember when people actually made their own assets for Ludum Dare? PEPPERIDGE FARM REMEMBERS
(but then again Unity WebGL export didn't exist back then, so I guess there's a plus this time)
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With that rant aside, let's begin the actual stuff and things. Get your doodads and whatsits out.
The strongest point for this game that I'm left to vote for is the theme interepretation and its resulting mechanics, and this is where the game innovates.
Gameplaywise, while there's replayability, it doesn't really scale up very well in terms of player strength or enemy strength, thus it becomes a grind. I also feel that the enemies are a little bit too hard to sneak behind. The fact that you can get surrounded, however, does add gameplay value... although if you're near a fish-comatose enemy, you're basically invincible.
If you make a post-compo version of this, you could tweak those categories and end up with a pretty good game.
Crashed Chrome, so had to review in Firefox, thus no audio unless I bring up the scrapings of a latrine known as PulseAudio... which seems to be broken anyway. (I have a weird setup.)
I suspect this was a 1-hour-or-less job. If this is the case, then that's a very respectable effort.
Gameplaywise it felt very mediocre, but was well-explained.
Despite the lack of artwork it was fairly well utilised (dem angles), and I really want to give you exactly 2 and a half stars for it. I've decided to round up.
Overall, 2 stars. I hope you get more time next time, so I can watch you scream "THIS IS MY TRUE FORM" and kick everyone's arses.
I was about to use this interpretation but for 16-bit x86 + VGA. Kinda burnt out before I had the chance to implement gameplay, though, so no entry from me this time.
I love the concept already. If I haven't tried this, prod me on #ludumdare (nick: greaser - I use a shell).
@Scott Baker: From what I gather it's completely fine to upload the Windows build.
Please, fix the Windows build. Us Wine users rely on a standalone .exe that actually works, as the Web Player is the biggest pain in the arse to actually get working.
Hey, mind doing an .exe build? Not all not-Windows/Mac users are Linux users, and the .exe files run through Wine tend to be more likely to work than the Linux binaries (and in my case the Linux binaries don't work due to an outdated glibc).
Hey, a note, can you please make Windows .exe builds and not just web builds? .exe builds are fine for those of us who use Wine, but the Web Player is a royal pain in the arse to get working under Wine. Thanks.
By the way, here's the Win32 build: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32094129/ld30/PortalDAGger_win32.zip
-- @fanzyflani
If you release the source code, I can at least try to compile this for my platform.
Wine's msvcp110.dll doesn't work, and Microsoft's msvcp110.dll doesn't work either.
Not sure what to actually say about this game.
I've backported it to Love 0.8.0, but the port's a bit dodgy (your mouse doesn't properly match where you want to click), and I only did it out of necessity. However, if you really badly need it I can give you the diffs.
Yecch, this crashes my browser D: - Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0
Note for Wine users: Run like so:
wineconsole LD28-48hr-DungeonRun.exe
Remind me to come back to this.
"Works only on Windows."
I would love to prove that wrong, but unfortunately you forgot to include Prefab.h. Mind uploading that somewhere?
...I should probably give you a tutorial on how to do physics properly, because these are really clunky.
But on second thoughts, maybe I shouldn't. It might inhibit your creativity.
Audio worked fine. Graphics were pretty meh but didn't make me want to tear my eyes out so I'll give you that - plus they were fairly clear. It wasn't amazingly fun but it wasn't tedious either.
The theme didn't come through particularly heavily (perhaps you could have added, say, conveyor belts?), but it was a nice idea - just needed some expansion. And yeah, it was a bit of a push-over.
Overall, nothing spectacular, but nice work - and congratulations on making a game that doesn't crash.
fixme:advapi:DecryptFileA ("C:\\users\\ben\\Temp\\IXP000.TMP\\", 00000000): stub
I get the feeling that this just simply isn't going to work.
I enjoyed the shit out of this game.
Didn't notice any audio so N/A for that, but that might be because I built a version of Firefox which needs PulseAudio, and PulseAudio isn't properly set up, so it didn't come through. Oh well. Was there any sound? If so, prod me on the #ludumdare IRC and I'll see what I can do to get it working.
Could you please produce a Windows binary? Unity Web player is almost definitely NOT going to work on this computer - I'm using an OS you probably haven't even heard of.
Very nice work for a first game, even though it's really short.
The music is quite "meh" but it wasn't particularly grating either. Perhaps I should write an autotracker for that kind of music.
Also, using 64-bit FreeBSD here, and the Windows version runs without issues. With a little bit of tinkering, I managed to get this to build natively and run without issues.
Three things you need to note in future (no, you won't be "marked down" for these, it just makes your game easier to port):
1. Please, if you use SDL 2.0, say SDL2. "SDL" on its own refers to SDL 1.2 in most peoples' minds, which then makes people like me
2. If you need to #include something in a subdirectory, use e.g. "SDL/SDL_image.h", NOT "SDL\SDL_image.h" - the latter ONLY works on Windows, while the former works absolutely everywhere and is the ONLY standard path separator.
3. As far as I'm concerned, this isn't valid C++:
SDL_RenderFillRect(ren,&rm.getRect());
Use this instead:
SDL_Rect r = rm.getRect();
SDL_RenderFillRect(ren,&r);
Can you please get rid of the adfly links and just give us direct downloads? It's not in the spirit of Ludum Dare.
Runs fine on FreeBSD :) I should remind myself to give this a bit more of a thorough playthrough before I start voting.
This should give more insight...
[ben@sas zsebastian]$ file LD26.exe
LD26.exe: PE32 executable (console) Intel 80386, for MS Windows
[ben@sas zsebastian]$ wine LD26.exe
fixme:service:scmdatabase_autostart_services Auto-start service L"UMWdf" failed to start: 2
wine: Call from 0x7bc4cd90 to unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.InitOnceExecuteOnce, aborting
wine: Unimplemented function KERNEL32.dll.InitOnceExecuteOnce called at address 0x7bc4cd90 (thread 0009), starting debugger...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms683493%28v=vs.85%29.aspx states that this is supported on Vista and up.
I *might* see if I can patch it somehow, but it really depends on whether or not I can be bothered.
Seriously guys, don't use stuff rated above "Windows XP" level, especially when it's something hypothetically trivial like this function.
This is a compo entry. WHERE'S THE SOURCE CODE.
Thanks.
I wonder if coLinux would work? Anyway, grabbing it from git.
I dig this. I really do.
It's not exactly the most replayable game, but boy did I enjoy every minute of it. It's such a simple concept. Tnstead of falling into the art not-game category, it manages to also be a puzzle.
The music works so well here.
The only real critique here is that the graphics feel a bit amateurish. But that's OK, because they work well.
EVERYONE PLAY THIS, PLEASE it's quite touching really
I'll let you know once I've ported this to Java 6.
Best time: 36.1. YES \o/
This is my favourite entry so far.
It's a simple mechanic and yet it takes a while to nail how to actually fill that box. (I was gutted when I overflowed it the first time.)
I actually enjoyed playing this game for the 5 or so minutes I spent on it, and it's reasonably challenging. I guess it's like Snake in that sense (although it's definitely not the same game!).
I might as well just jump into the critiques.
Graphically, it's a bit of a mess. Making the squares easier to distinguish, plus choosing your colours more wisely, and MAYBE a bit of animation would help.
Soundwise, fairly solid, could do with some "yay you win" and "onoze ;_;" sounds when you win and lose respectively.
A critique that I haven't incorporated into your score: Having a "Press Space to start" message might help, I was a bit confused at first.
Overall, a solid game that I might remember to play in my spare time :)
Tested with wine 1.5.18-git, appears to run fine.
Anyhow, for starters this isn't a game, it's a story with a "hold to advance" key.
There was quite a bit of effort on the graphics and it all LOOKS nice (considering the black-and-white-ness), but it could definitely do with some more animation in places AND THE PLAYER DOESN'T GO UP STEPS WHAT THE HELL
Didn't hear any audio, so N/A for that.
First entry I've managed to give a score for humour for. It's got a fairly nice and mildly amusing tone to it.
Moodwise... it tends to lose momentum at the end. So much more could be done here.
Overall... 2 stars. Make a game next time.
The Linux build might take a bit of punching in the face on this comp to get working (I have Lua 5.1 and GLEW 1.6... at least I have Qt 4.8, otherwise I'd be pissed), so I'll wait until later to try that.
The Windows build works fine in Wine.
Now this is cool. Bookmarking this to remind me to vote.
Alright, voting.
I got bored during this. But I pushed on and... well, it has a nice story. It DEFINITELY has a story, a nice, simple story. You just need to give it a bit more... drive, I guess.
5 stars for theme... because you went with an obvious lock-and-key puzzle, so this also takes a bit off your innovation score.
The graphics are quite nice, and it DOES look pretty good considering the "minimalism" you've decided on (coloured polys are superiour to black and white boxes).
There's no audio. Perhaps you could add some nice sounding sounds? You don't even need to do music if you're not good at that, just do ambient sounds. The plus side of that is it'd make the game feel a little less empty.
The plus side of NOT doing that is you're not likely to make the mistake of having a 20MB wav in a 200KB game. To avoid this schoolboy error, either use vorbis-tools and apply oggenc to everything, or use VLC, open the .wav, right click and then click "Stream" (then stream to a file with the Audio / Ogg Vorbis profile).
Overall, a somewhat boring but nicely polished art game.
This is actually pretty cool. Remind me to come back to this so I can vote on it.
Out of all the platforms you could pick to screw your chances up of anyone actually being able to PLAY your game, this'd have to take the cake.
Someone managed to make an Atari 2600 game. As it turns out, there are quite a few emulators for that, so just about anyone can actually play it despite not having the real hardware.
Android might be a better bet. At least they have an emulator for not-Mac.
All I can do is ponder how great this game would be if it were possible for me to play it. Because quite frankly, it's not.
LOL SHAREWARE MESSAGE
Anyhow...
Seeing as virtually nobody can be bothered rating this because they're all a bunch of pussies (no pun intented) who don't know how to use DOSBox, I have to rate this.
Innovationwise... it's not a stock standard genre so this gets something.
Fun... I played it to the end.
Theme... yes, you evolve!
Graphics... I suggest learning how to make doors. Or just use Kevedit's object library for that. With that said, this was 100% yellow-border free and wasn't too grating on the eyes so you get more than 1 star.
Audio gets a 1 star for being all the default ZZT sounds. Seriously, these are horrible. (Personally if I did an LD in ZZT I'd probably get this too.)
Humourous. Not amazingly, but it was alright.
Mood was pretty flat.
Overall, not completely crap.
OK, first time I can be bothered rating something this LD. I don't know why, but there we go.
I'm going to rank this highly for graphics, primarily because you actually bothered to put lighting in. More games need that sort of lighting :/
Another place this ranks highly is mood. It's bad enough without sound D: D: D:
Which brings me to sound. I eventually turned it on... Basically, it works. It'd be nice to have a bit more variety, though.
I wouldn't exactly call this game "fun"; I'd rather call it "interesting". But seeing as there's no "interesting" category, I'm going to rank it in the "fun" category... Virtually no replay value, but definitely kept me playing to the end.
Innovation... I would say that the level design was actually quite boring. I usually suck at ranking this category, though.
Didn't spot much in the way of humour, so marking it N/A.
If there were a technical score, I would probably give it 4 stars: it seems to run in suprisingly smooth bursts on a single-core IA32 on Firefox 13, but the physics just feel wrong.
Definitely worth playing once.
There are times like these where I'm glad bAtari BASIC exists.
*** I'm posting this on your game because you're posting shit like this on others. Do take this comment personally. ***
Because of you, I think I'll do my next LD entry in Python.
60 friends, woo!
Funwise... I actually enjoyed this. A lot. It's not a complicated game but damn.
Themewise, you pertained to not one but two themes, which is excellent.
As for audio, those meows are music to my ears.
I think I'll stop my usual approach here. The graphics and humour worked quite well. Moodwise it wasn't particularly hardcore but that's where the humourous tone comes in. Overall I give this 5 stars primarily because it's excellently silly and sillilly excellent.
Communitywise... I suggest you post more often. Post screenshots, and post betas where appropriate.
My advice: keep doing this sort of stuff. You could think of extras to do, like for instance you could have more levels where you have more tools and stuff could be more points or could lose you points. But there's really not much to say, to be quite honest.
Unfortunately, because of your choice to use MSVC++ and your neglect to ensure it would compile on something that isn't MSVC++, your game is not cross-platform at the moment.
This means I will have to try this in Wine. (Just quickly tested it, it seems to work.)
In future, PLEASE get mingw32 or something, and every now and then test-compile your code with that. It should help with making your game more portable, considering that g++ is spewing errors about abs() not being "declared in this scope".
I am thankful that you used OpenGL rather than DirectX though, but I hate C++ and don't want to be dealing with errors.
Righty-ho, let's go through each category.
Starting with fun. Unfortunately, due to the general clunkiness of movement, this game was very boring. I would suggest you spend a bit more time working with whatever.style.left and whatever.style.top.
Moving onto innovation. I do like seeing multiplayer games crop up, and I even saw a dead body. Unfortunately there was a lack of innovation involving actually moving around, not even bothering with the keyboard. Aside from that the UI was fairly good.
I felt alone in this game in the context of people who aren't trying to kill me.
Graphically speeaking, it was polished cheap stuff. However, I didn't want to scream at the graphics, so that was good. (I reserve the 1 star category for stuff that makes me want to fork my eyes out)
I didn't hear any audio, so N/A for that.
I don't recall there being any humour, so N/A too.
Moodwise... this game was hard to get into at all. But if I were into that, it would be pretty much par for the course.
Overall, this was a very boring game, and, in my eyes, was a flop. However, I encourage you to explore HTML5 as there's a LOT you can do, and you don't have to worry *too* much about cross-platform issues.
Ok, this is the first game I get to rank. Goody!
There's not much here that I haven't seen before, but this reminds me that I should resort to the "multiple endings" thing some time.
I quite like how the theme wasn't played completely straight, as that could potentially result in something *quite* boring.
Speaking of boring, those corridors could be a bit shorter.
The graphics look quite good and I've gone and given you 5 stars even though there's a few sloppy things you've done (that dirt sure stands out as a bunch of individual tiles, doesn't it? something to note for next time).
Audiowise, that second piece of music was a bit short to be quite honest. But the music sounded fairly good and you definitely made sound happen when it should have.
Humourwise, I was quite amused at the dog ending :D
On the other hand, you did capture the mood fairly well in terms of endings.
Communitywise, I would suggest more screenshots + beta posts, but yeah.
Innovation... kudos for doing lock 'n' key.
Fun... I didn't get lost! Yay! I'm not here to play Super Bat Puncher though (it's a real game and it's better than it sounds)... thanks for reverting to the version which didn't spawn a crapton of bats. Having said that, the lock 'n' key aspect DID drive me to continue playing, though.
Theme... you pretty much nailed it.
Graphics... how do you do floor/ceiling mapping? This is one thing I suck at when doing this sort of engine. Having said that, apart from lacking y-shearing, you've really thrashed the hell out of the classic 2d grid caster. The actual assets look quite nice, too.
Audio... plenty of noises. Could do with more atmosphere tbqh.
Humour... well, pretty meh. Not bad, but not much.
Overall... 4 stars.
Community... doing a stream is pretty damn good. It would be nice if you were listening to suggestions on e.g. Twitter, though.
No.
Nice graphics, though.
This is the part where I go through every category.
Innovation... well, you have a somewhat clever boss fight, which automatically gets you an extra star from the base 2 stars of doing a platformer. It would be nice if you could use the treasure to kill enemies but oh well.
Fun... it helps that this game is short. The (somewhat thin but likable) plot keeps this game intact.
Theme... par for the course.
Graphics... nice job. Stuff's animated, and I'm not trying to rip my eyes out.
Audio... I must say, it definitely works, and the music's actually alright. The noise in level 2 could gradually get louder (it tends to drown stuff out), but other than that, just about everything makes noise. It could be good having the ghosts booing / bats flapping, but those sounds are a bit risky (they could sound quite annoying).
Humour... not much but there's a humourous ring in the plot. It's not bad, too.
Overall, there are a few rough edges (protip: try not to make the player start at level 1), but there's a game, it's got a nice thin plot, and it actually looks and sounds good.
Community... well, you've given us quite a few details of your progress. That's good. I suggest giving out alphas/betas if possible, they can help.
Affecting your ratings by OS / architecture isn't a good idea. If I penalised each game which wouldn't run on here, very few would get a good score.
Having said that, stuff that doesn't run properly is very very annoying. I blew 8MB on Spacebrick only to discover that Unutty stuff doesn't work with wine-1.3.9 (whereas Game Maker for some weird reason works a lot better... the tables have turned o_O).
By the way, there is a Very Good Reasonâ„¢ why the source code is posted, and that's for hopes of cross-platformness.
Oh yeah. This isn't OSX-only from what I gather. Note that one of the files are "makefile.linux". Also, "makefile.mingw" which is WINDOWS. So ramon, FIX YOUR DAMN SCORE.
I'm feeling a bit nailed at the moment so I'm not judging at least at the moment, but nice work.
You could just make it say "Java Web Start".
OH YES OH YES OH YES THIS GAME IS AWESOME
Innovation... I don't need to say anything about this... well actually I do because some people may have older versions of Wine and be unable to play it (Game Maker @_@). You start without being able to see and then you discover how to see and stuff like that.
Fun... This game has just inspired me to make more puzzle-platformers. I really, really liked this game.
Theme. You've hit this one on the nail.
Graphics are there and they work... and they work quite well. There's still room for improvement, but they're pretty good for what they are.
I liked the music, though it could possibly be a bit fuller. I have not penalised you for the fact that it doesn't loop properly under Wine, because that is a bug in Wine and not your game.
Humour is there, and it's fairly light-hearted. It made me smile.
But yeah, THIS GAME IS AWESOME GO PLAY IT (and if you can't, I'd be very keen to port this to or extend the idea on not-windows)
Community... Screenshots, beta tests, and even a timelapse. 5 stars.
OK, this really wasn't that great.
Innovation. This comes close to being a subset of just about every game ever. Doesn't seem to have a win condition. Fortunately there is a variety of items and you can die.
It's not very fun. Fortunately the world isn't very big either.
The theme is Discovery. You basically did Exploration. You find stuff, but... ugh, sorry, I just can't rate this well at all.
Graphics are a little sloppy, but the variation helps to balance it out.
Audio is there and it works. Good job for playing for so long.
Didn't notice any humour, so N/A.
Overall... this game is quite empty.
Communitywise, you have an extensive blog with a bunch of food snaps as well as screenshots. A beta or two would have been good, though.
Kinda like Simon but it plays a lot differently, so you've done well in the innovation section.
Seems to be a bit slow at some points so I've taken one off for fun, but other than that... wow.
BLATANT THEME VIOLATION and I'm not really sure if you've done it as what was SUPPOSED to be expected but here's 5 stars.
Graphics could possibly do with some effects or... no, screw that, there's no point.
I LOVE THE MUSIC
The whole game is a joke driven to its logical extreme. No point inserting jokes into it (unless they're silly disco moves).
Overall, this is a very unique game, and quite well polished. If there were a level editor for this, it'd basically iron out every kink that you could iron out.
Communitywise, not much in the blog post department but you had a beta and you kept it up to date from what I gather.
Oh yay, I get to review this one...
Metroidvania but you get to dance. I approve :)
It's creatively lock-and-key but I actually enjoyed it, just got a bit confusing at the end.
BLATANT THEME VIOLATION... I approve ;D AND you managed to somehow follow the theme, too. Good job!
Graphics are pretty neat, actually.
Audio... music doesn't quite gel with the game theme. The music itself is alright, though.
Doesn't seem to be riddled with humour, but it's there.
Overall, we have a somewhat short game.
You have ONE blog post, apparently. So not so crash hot with respect to community involvement. This does not say anything about respect, though.
Oops, I found a bug. And got stuck. And then I won the next level.
Personally I would have done the whole thing in Javascript, as it's a bit slow... but I think you've got a solution for the "cross-platform" issue once and for all.
This is a classic lock-and-key maze game, but it's done in a mix of Javascript and PHP. The nice thing about the classic lock-and-key maze is that you can push it very, very far.
I definitely enjoyed it. Unfortunately, I don't see myself playing this repeatedly. It also brings back memories of invisomazes in ZZT.
Graphics are there and they work. Nice stone, by the way.
Audio is nonexistant, so N/A.
I don't think there was an attempt at humour, so N/A.
Overall, nice game, even if it's a bit buggy.
Communitywise, you kept us updated even if we weren't watching. A beta or something like that would have given you a fair bit more in this field.
WOW CRAP 27MB WHAT THE HELL - *seriously*, compress your sound files!!!
It's as easy as: for A in *.wav; do oggenc $A; done
Alternatively, you could use a tracker which handles mod/s3m/xm/it files, just make sure you can deal with the player's quirks.
On second thoughts, please just don't add music, or just use AutoTracker-C (which produces .it files, which Löve should be able to handle) for the time being. You still need to improve on some aspects of your compositional skills, most notably "sticking instruments together".
Seriously, if you're using Musagi, watch that dissonance meter. It should NOT go above 1, and I advice that you make sure it doesn't even go above 0.
Also, instructions.png is missing.
1024x768 probably isn't a good resolution when your game is THIS pixellated. I'd
NOW ONTO ACTUAL JUDGING.
For innovation... Dig stuff, discover stuff, dodge stuff. It's all been done before. Fortunately I haven't played any games which bring them together in this way.
It's not very fun. But at least you have to dodge stuff.
The theme was played quite straight. I think.
Graphics were a bit iffy although I see you thrashed them around, which is quite fun.
Audio... once again, I released AutoTracker-C for a reason.
Humour... meh. Didn't make me laugh, didn't even make me smile, but didn't make me cringe either. Wasn't bad, just wasn't effective. Don't give up on trying to make it funny, though.
Overall... it's a bit sloppy, and not particularly fun, but I have to say you actually haven't flopped it.
Couldn't find your journal so N/A for community.
A side note: I suggest you release some beta tests closer to the "finished" product - the spelling wasn't so great and it was quite boring.
Take just about any game, strip away just about everything, and you're left with this. The lock-and-key with 50 keys and a lock that opens at the end of the game.
Which really isn't fun. I fell 4 thoughts short of completing this game before giving up.
I'm going to give you more than one star for theme because it's not just about exploration. You fulfilled the theme in the sense that you're discovering who/what you are, but that's about it.
Graphics are there and they work.
Audio is there and it works.
Couldn't find any humour, so N/A.
In short: you flopped. Better luck next time.
Community-wise, you provided a time-lapse AND a beta. It seems you speedcoded in the last hours or something. The most unfortunate thing was that the beta was more fun to play than the "finished" product.
I'm having issues playing this under Wine, will probably try again once I've finished building 1.3.something.
A bit of advice before what I've said: get someone to beta test - the spelling's a bit sloppy. That I haven't marked down for.
Innovation... it's been done before but not very often.
It's heaps of fun... until you get stuck and then try permutations without any success trying to work out how to make a damn "Army of the Dead". Once again, get people to beta test. Usually at least one person is watching IRC so you can usually get a tester (the blog isn't that well watched).
Niiiiiice job with the graphics. Even had some really nice touches with the animation and stuff.
I approve of this guitaring. And this toileting. Good job with the audio.
Monkey scientist :D
Overall a very good effort with pretty much just one really irritating bottleneck.
Apparently you've done some live update thingy which is good for community effort; however, a beta test or two would have been a very good idea - I suggest you make project dumps and release them while you're going through.
I get an EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION running this under Wine.
I might try compiling a recent version of Wine as this build is not only old but it's also an Ubuntu edition.
This could be quite a cool game to whip out.
Unfortunately, no matter how I click, I always send out all my units.
Got it. This is a brilliant puzzle.
this game makes me want to get gosu and code my next LD48 entry in sweet sweet ruby... although i think i'll have to settle for C
alright let's get into this
yes, fighting games are an invention but it's nice to pick them up and throw them at others... especially considering that they're all the same person
it gets a little repetitive but i didn't actually get bored whilist playing it, as i thought it wasn't going to get much harder i died... point for improvement would be multiple fighting moves, but seeing as you can throw barrels of explosive stuff i think i'll have to give you that 5th star
i can see where you're coming from wrt the theme, it's standard but it works
graphics are really quite gnarly and quite complete
audio... it has music, and the sounds are quite fitting, and i love the method you've used
this game is dripping with humour
overall... guess
not many screenshots but plenty of game-related updates and a food diary so i would classify this as a very good community effort
ok, i know you're in #mod_shrine and i know that you managed to beat coda so i'm going to give this one a crack
first thing i have to say is split your code into logic and graphics, that way your game can run at a good speed on pretty much any platform, you're working with python so it's not incredibly fast
ok, now playing at what i think is full rate, took a while but i eventually fixed up all but a few things
righty, let's get this show on the road
i am definitely aware that there's more that can be done with respect to innovation, such as switches & stuff, but having said that it's an interesting and unexpected concept, so here, have 5 stars
quite fun, pity it's a bit slow even at full speed BUT simply speeding it up might not be a good idea as it's still quite tricky
fairly nonstandard standard implementation of the theme and that's a good thing
graphics looks like an ms paint job BUT they're used quite well and quite frankly i really don't care too much about graphics
music sucks
...just kidding, it's brilliant, just needs a bit more sound to give it that extra oomph
humour can be felt throughout the game so have a few stars
overall, recommended for people who don't have such weak necks
journal not found so 1 star for community
the music in this is the best out of all the entries of this compo and nothing comes close
...only joking, i'm not the right sort of person to comment on it
i like the "defection" interpretation of the theme, it's kinda like the "hacking" interpretation of recursor's compo entry
it seems a shame that the enemies up the top tend to somehow destroy themselves, otherwise this game could actually be *quite* good
the concept appears to be quite flexible and with a few more enemy types (possibly including conversionproof enemies) or maybe a recharge meter, this could actually prove to be a really fun way to kill time
OK, I seem unable to die here... here we go.
This is a Flash game!
Seems to run alright on this desktop (firefox 3 under wine) although maybe a BIT sluggish... meh.
Graphics are amazing.
Music is quite fitting. Would be nice to have a sound effect here and there but y'know.
ok this worked twice and then broke (i used wine because the C++ wouldn't build - that's why you don't use microsoft vizzel C++), but what i played was quite cool so here we go
oh wait it's working now
this is pretty nifty, i think it's been done before but not with big inflated bubbleheads so it's pretty good for innovation
the smallest bobblehead size is a pain in the arse to sling a mine into - if you'd dropped that, i wouldn't have wasted so much time on level 4 (i gave up) and would have awarded you another star
theme is existant and it works
graphics are fantastic, it looks like a flash game but it's even better because it isn't
audio works really well, especially those ambientish sounds you get when you win or lose, also kickdrums are fun
not sure if there's humour so i'll say N/A
overall this is a good game if you feel like wasting time
no journal so 1 star for community
ok this REALLY doesn't play well, it takes FAR TOO LONG to initialise, what the hell are you using which is making it so slow dammit... good job for shoving it all into one file though
i'm really not feeling your innovation here, it seems so conceptually limited
because this game takes so damn long to initialise, i really can't play it for long and you die so flippin' early and stuff, ugh
this plays the theme quite straight so 3 stars for that
graphics are OK, but it's not very smooth
audio is hardly there
humour appears nonexistant so N/A
sorry, but overall this game sucks
however, having said that, you've done a decent job with your journal and you have a time lapse video so 5 stars in that department
Error compiling shader
i like how you have the flying things, that gives it quite a bit of variety
yes, this is actually quite a fun game
graphics are quite nice, with a bit more shading it'd get a 5th star
the music is awful, so 1 star for audio, lrn2drums
humour doesn't appear to be here so N/A
overall, i highly recommend that you STOP USING THESE STUPID "PIXELLATED FLASH" LIBRARIES and make your next game in something else because this is actually a pretty cool game
journal appears nonexistant
ugh, i'm really not a fan of "lots of text" games, and not only that, this really doesn't execute it well, so double whammy for innovation and fun
graphics are excellent but UGH I'M SICK OF FLIXEL/FLASHPUNK WHY OH WHY DON'T PEOPLE JUST LEARN A REAL LANGUAGE (this coming from the guy who made a first person shooter in megazeux)
there's a hint of the theme but it really doesn't seem to come through, plus from what i've played they're not actually weapons, sorry
audio is there and it works
not sure if this really has humour, maybe it's a bit dry, so N/A (1 star is for really awful humour)
overall, this game isn't dreadful, but it's not really that great either
you posted a few screenshots so i can give you that for community, at least you have posts (other than just "i'm starting" and "yay i've finished")
ok i'm horrendously stuck on the boss where you have to bash out the eyes so i'm going to stop now
this is what i believe is the second non flixel/flashpunk flash game i've encountered. this is how you make a flash game, and any use of those two libraries should be banned and those intending on using them should retrain because this is how you do flash and those are not.
apparently the music wasn't done within the time period but i'm going to vote as if it was in the hope that this gets points dropped if it wasn't
yes, there is such thing as boss rush but nobody really pulls it off, this does it quite well
far out this game is fun and for like the first flippin' time you don't have to restart from the start every time you die
the interpretation of the theme isn't exotic but it works and it works well
nothing needs to be said on the graphics
audio... the music is quite fitting and there are sound effects
didn't pick up on any humour so N/A
overall, play this game if you've got flash (if you haven't then go pay adobe lots of money because lots of users isn't enough for them to port flash, just look at solaris vs freebsd), and this is the only flash game i've come across which is this flippin' appropriate for flash
community... well, i couldn't see your journal, it would be nice if you posted at least SOMETHING but y'know
This is a perfect example of why Game Maker sucks SO HORRIBLY under Wine.
innovation... yep, there's something i haven't seen before... done quite well actually
fun-wise, it's pretty run-of-the-mill, but it works somehow
theme is a very interesting interpretation, and i'm giving you 5 stars for uniqueness
audio is there and it works
humour is there and while it's an amusing concept you totally cocked up the fact that the fish is a christian symbol as well as the cross, plus i find the reference not that amusing
overall, i recommend looking into this game for general interest
community effort... quite extensive, you've gone so far as to show what food you ate so i think you basically went all the way (other than a time lapse) so 5 stars for you
ok, keybindings are arse and what's with this flixel/flashpunk fad it's really flippin' wrong, if you're going to make a pixelly game use something else, flash is for ads which use vector art and suck the utter crap out of your bandwidth
also the keys are backwards GRR
i like how you have multiple spells, that is *quite* a nice touch
it would be much more fun if it were faster
i didn't really see the theme being played clearly in this, but apparently it exists, i'm reading your journal so i'll just have to take your word for it
graphics are fantastic
audio is nonexistant so N/A
humour is nonexistant so N/A
overall, quite promising, but as it stands it's kinda drab with respect to gameplay, next time don't spend so much damn time on the graphics
community effort is pretty lacking, which is usually quite understandable due to not having enough effort left, but a couple of screenshots and jotting down notes is something i would consider reasonable.
man, hacking a bot this way is actually quite fun
although you lose a star in the fun department due to the fact that you can't restart from the same level once you run out of lives (and you don't have many)... perhaps some continues would help
this is a very good application of the theme
graphics are pretty good, not sure how many stars i should give them
audio is pretty good, i like the voices though it's a LITTLE irritating, could do with some more ambience
humour is there and it works, yay, first game i've rated which has this
overall, i would recommend you learn a real platform with respect to this type of game, i find the concept behind flixel an abomination as it's really not flash... but this is a brilliant game if you ignore its one or two flaws
the community feedback is essentially non-existant following your journal. considering that you got this done with 30 minutes to spare, i find this understandable.
Where's the entry?
I don't think you intended to make me load org.inh.JavaError.
ok, 74500 points (100 after dying), forgot what wave i was on but nevertheless
5 stars for innovation with respect to how the ship is formed and the way that you fling everything in
if this had powerups then you'd get 5 stars for fun, seeing as it doesn't, you don't, also it's kinda tricky to play strategically but simple enough to play without thinking much
good job with the theme, you did an interesting take on it (i did the ol' faithful pick-up-and-throw)
graphics are 5 stars, they work so flippin' well
now, audio... there's too much silence and not enough variance, but what's there works... that click is irritating though, but i'm not going to mark you down for it
haven't spotted any attempts at humour so N/A for that
overall... if you're familiar with Allegro and can code in C then you should hurry up and port it because this is the exact type of game that'd be just so appropriate done with Allegro
community effort is kinda bad (i just check journals as i can't really stay in touch) though i like how you posted a sketch so this gets you more than 1 star, i wonder how much effort you put into this as if you weren't working your butt off then i don't think it's really that excusable, otherwise i'm fine
builds fine on linux, also untitled is a really weird binary name, but i'm quite happy to see another C programmer
the AI in this is quite nice, and this game seems quite AI centric, dunno about giving a 5th star but this really could do with 4
it's kinda blandish with respect to fun... if only the player moved faster, then it would have at least 3 stars
theme isn't done incredibly well but at least you can pick up and throw which is how i interpreted it
ah yes, graphics. fairly minimalistic but i love the way they bounce and i love that pop so much that i'm going to give you a fourth star, if only i could give you 4.5
no audio so N/A
doesn't look like you've attempted humour so also N/A
overall the game is interesting but slow, i'll give you 3 stars anyway
community bean-spilling is quite extensive, i'm not sure if you did a time lapse or a livestream but you have done a very good job without it, so here's 4 stars for that
vacuum cannons for the win, it's a good, simple concept, although from what i played, i think that's about as far as it goes, although what the hell crabs don't walk on the roof... yeah i think that's innovation
you interpreted the theme the same way i did: pick up and throw - good job
the fact that you can't restart from the same level takes a dip in your fun rating, as it would get incredibly tedious playing the same level over and over again
graphics are quite ms-paint-like but quite good, although that title screen gets you that fifth star
audio is there and it works, that's all that needs to be said
didn't really spot humour in this, so N/A
overall i'd recommend this to anyone provided that it were on a different platform
although there were essentially no alphas / betas you did more screenshots than me, i'd have to say this is about par - i like how you explain how the game works
Uh, where's the source?
Uh, where's the source?
TARBOMB
This was more like "Enemies throwing weapons".
Runs well. Good job :D
LD33 — You are the Monster (4)
Sunset Monster by dregamr 2015-09-01T22:39:00
Didn't quite crack the end.
Main complaint is that the first wave is a bit too long and tends to drag. Other than that, pretty solid effort.
Graphics while minimalistic work *really* well.
Music's actually pretty good even if it's not really my style. Suggestion to improve would be to make it longer before it loops.
Escape to Hell by Kep 2015-08-25T04:22:00
Unity Web Player. Cannot play this entry. Could you please provide a 32-bit Windows build so I can? Thanks.
No, I don't use Windows, I use FreeBSD.
YOU are the monster... not ME! by leddkire 2015-08-25T04:20:00
It's a nice idea. Very short though. Also, sometimes things can get stuck.
I'd love to see more levels for this.
bloody tentacles by zuurr 2015-08-25T04:06:00
Let's just get the worst bit out of the way: The music doesn't grow on you, it just gets up your nerves. It's coherent, but the samples (especially the bass) really should be changed. Rest of the sound was solid.
In a single sentence, this game is a very well-made cliche game-jam maze survival game. Ultimately the innovation is the sheer spam of tentacles everywhere which you can (but don't have to) guide with the mouse, which adds a star to the innovation score, bringing it up to 2.
The level design is good and you don't often find yourself getting stuck in all the dead ends trying to find the last enemy, but that can happen on the last level. It's actually a quite enjoyable game, if albeit not very memorable, and is actually a reasonable challenge. (The lives system makes it a lot easier to complete.)
And of course, the graphics are top-notch.
I don't care much about mood but with audio or without you are definitely a big scary monster, which also helps with the theme score.
Overall, 4 stars.