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Games

YearLDThemeGameDivisionRankOvFuInThGrAuHuMo
202659Signal👥Below the Lightjam2363.843.603.103.504.033.982.464.22
202558Collector👥Hex to the Maxjam684.053.943.933.834.213.982.983.77
202456Tiny Creatures👥Tiny Tumblejam2573.853.623.253.483.873.852.843.58

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Comments by Grummelchen

LD39 — Running out of Power

Kingin' It by JoshyOshKenoshi 2026-04-22T13:12:08Z

Really cool! The writing was especially funny! The game is a bit too easy for my taste, there usually was a clear best option to take. The tax mechanic is a bit intransparent, it's hard to gauge how much tax can be reasonably set.

LD56 — Tiny Creatures

Tiny Turf Tussle by Alchemic 2024-10-13T13:06:46Z

Nice Tower Defense game! A tutorial would be nice, also the AI has some weird target selection. I like the large variety of buildings :)

Critter Mayhem by MachWerx 2024-10-13T13:28:43Z

Like the concept and the music. I find the hit sound when you hit one of the balls is quite high, and a bit uncomfortable. I like the smooth gameplay. My only issue is that the enemy sphere is quite erratic in how hard it is to dodge

Ant Colony Tycoon Deluxe by IAmWave 2024-10-13T13:34:56Z

Nice Concept. A bit confused by this circle indicator

Tiny Little Terrors by Senso 2024-10-13T13:42:03Z

Awesome. Very polished, cool mechanic. Best I played so far.

Destroy these tiny creatures, they are nasty and swarming by HangoverGames 2024-10-13T13:15:15Z

Very simple Idea, but cool execution! Love the art! This as a cookie clicker would be awesome. I think the looping with higher speeds Idea is cool, but in the end i was just spaming random clicks, since that seemed most effective

Heart Attack by pacific14 2024-10-13T13:23:21Z

Really nice, didnt have any sound. For me a bit difficult at the start, but was playing with a trackpad. Very fun game!!!

LD58 — Collector

Beenball by Stratcat66 2025-10-08T19:51:22Z

I like a nice pinball Game. Nice theme, might have benefited from some more advanced interactions. The center of board seems a bit empty. Currently I was just shooting for the Openings at the top. The bounce and the physics was really well done

The Antiquary by Bobap 2025-10-09T08:04:11Z

Really like the concept! You need a while to get going, but once you have enough money to fulfill more complex requests it's quite fun. The scrolling was a bit off though. And some of the balancing seems of, I had a clay coin request witch was set to medium, but I did not see a single clay coin in 20 mins of playing.

Light Runner by Avi 2025-10-09T20:09:47Z

Love the sound and the J.J. Abrams level post processing :D

Raft Collectr by logicalinsanity 2025-10-09T07:27:29Z

Really like the concept. Stacking your raft is really fun. I would have liked the camera to zoom out more as the raft get's bigger. And loosing all your stuff with a big raft when you get hit once, is a bit punishing. I also like the quirky stick man art, feels nostalgic. Good Job

Do Needles Dream of Electric Haystacks? by Jaco van Hemert 2025-10-08T20:15:04Z

Impressive to code a whole OS in a Gam Jam :D I was a bit overwhelmed by the amounts of text, especially with the clock running down.

Call Hector by Pikario 2025-10-08T19:38:58Z

Great Puzzle Game, well polished and quite pretty

Have a nice Reap by JuanRod707 2025-10-17T15:20:35Z

Extremely pretty game!

DIGTIME! by Ansible 2025-10-08T20:21:35Z

I dig it!

Table Lord by noagard 2025-10-08T21:03:32Z

I liked the game. Unfortunately I had a bug so that my tiles did not upgrade. Has a lot of potential, with a bit more polish

The Hoarder’s Curse by CarloC 2025-10-17T14:57:53Z

Very fun. the enemies are tough do deal with in the later levels

F.L.O.P by Pentaworks 2025-10-08T20:42:21Z

Really like the concept and the music queue was funny. Sadly got stuck in Level 2

Glow below by robin_schmitz 2025-10-08T19:59:22Z

Great visuals and music. I like the concept. The controls felt somewhat over responsive and inverted to what I would expect from real live rowing.

Planet Extraction by Aviv Levy 2025-10-11T08:47:13Z

[Also Posted on the Itch site] I love this! A really cool Cookie Clicker like! Really well polished. A bit of work and I'd play it as an idle game regularly. So the rest of the Feedback comes from a place of admiration, I don't think I played any other Jam game this long. What I would wish for Gameplay wise is to Upgrade your Buildings and drones, so that you could truly go infinite. I think it would actually make the optimization easier, for example you could add a merge drones option, that merges 2 drones and then they have the carrying capacity of 4. Than you could still have a hard limit on the amount of objects, while making the infinite dream more achievable. The same idea could be used for the Buildings and resources. Polish wise this is near perfect, the only minor adjustments I would wish for are that there is more variation in collection sounds (The sound is great, but you hear it thousands of times), and the background is sometimes a bit buggy and doesn't tile correctly.

Arena of Battleships by Planetary 2025-10-08T19:45:59Z

Nice concept. Could use a tutorial, and the difficulty curve seems a bit weird. I like the depth :)

A Lifelong Hobby by Derek Glennon 2025-10-09T08:08:20Z

Cool Concept. Love the Cards!

Arpeggio by Emilija Marija 2025-10-09T20:02:45Z

Cool sound design. I got a bit lost on the map. But I like the vibe of the game

Collect O/R by loco 2025-10-17T15:11:31Z

This is so creative! Love it!

Bumper Master by KafuuChino 2025-10-09T07:14:50Z

This is really fun. Playing with WASD, the AI Destroyed me like it was the LeBron James of Bumber Master. So maybe an easy Mode would be nice for noobs like me. This has a lot of potential post LD. Feels like a mix of Mario Kart and Gangbeats. Great Job! I hope you Develop it further. I'll be back to play it in the two Player mode after Work. This is my favorite Entry so far :)

Bumper Master by KafuuChino 2025-10-09T20:21:39Z

@kafuuchino I somehow did worse than against the original one :D. But I like both, amazing that you did that this fast! The new one does feel a bit easier, but it also feels more aggressive, which is not a bad thing. I just got knocked out a lot more, and that's still quite costly. I think this game would be really great a a couch coop on a console with controllers!

Astro Gourmet by XGN 2025-10-08T20:47:55Z

Very violent in a good way. Nice Game!

BloodPact by stefaink 2025-10-08T20:05:20Z

Amazig Graphics!

KOLLECTOR by MakoTeam 2025-10-08T20:54:07Z

The Main Menu is Fire. As for the game I liked it, nice beat em up, really good theme fit.

LD59 — Signal

remote vroom vroom by Tymus 2026-04-22T13:32:14Z

The visuals are really cool, the signal loss effect is extremely clever. The game was quit tough for me, might have to try again later!

Incoming "Signal" by TolMera 2026-04-25T19:08:10Z

Also leaving a reminder for when the link is fixed :)

Bleak Signal by Quoclon 2026-04-22T17:48:12Z

Intresting idea I liked the hidden timing game, I think some of the static sounds are quite distracting. Cool 3d visuals

Below the Light by Beebo Studios 2026-04-24T15:48:00Z

@Keysole thank you for your feedback. It's likely not an await Issue, we just haven't had the time to fix the issue yet. I'll try to patch it on the weekend. I hope you still had fun playing the game!

Laser Signals by Le Don 2026-04-24T15:07:12Z

Quite clever side scroller! I like the color switch dynamic. I have to say i found the game quite difficult, which can be a valid design choice. However some of the difficulty came from the enemies having what felt like inconsistent triggers, this makes the projectiles hard to predict, which can be a bit frustrating. I would really like to play this again with reduced difficulty. It however is definitely possible that I am just bad at side scrollers!

Deep Conversation by Paulsams 2026-04-22T16:04:27Z

The concept is awesome, but it's quite difficult to understand how to operate the various features. The art and the sound is really cool and I like the concept of the signal tweaking

Combo Cooker by WobbleBlocks 2026-04-22T13:26:17Z

Cool concept, I was a bit overwhelmed by the follow chart in the beginning, but it was really fun mixing different things on the fly. I had some issues with the combine though, it sometimes good stuck and I couldn't combine ingredients anymore

ROV-R by Abiral 2026-04-22T17:41:23Z

Nice concept I see a lot of potential, just the navigation commands got repetitive quite quickly, but with some additional taks maybe more complex decision blocks this would be quite fun

Dot Dash Mash by chybby 2026-04-22T16:51:39Z

Perfect scores from me! Incredible! Even educational!

Fading Echo 余音轨迹 by JerryWest 2026-04-27T19:47:45Z

The web build sadly only shows like a quarter of the screen for me. I will play it again if fixed!

Tower Signal by Pierre-Marie 2026-04-25T20:06:01Z

This game is seriously awesome! I managed to reach the 10^15 score level. I loved how creative it was. I tried to build an infinity machine by routing signals in circles, but my mouse got laggy in the later stages. Also, in the super high numbers, the shop upgrades don’t really matter because you have so much money. I really hope you keep working on this game after the jam. It would be an incredible sandbox game without the bugs!

Radio Nation by pro4 2026-04-22T09:55:51Z

This reminds me a lot of islanders, the theme approach is clever. I don't really get why the map needs to gradually expand. In my opinion it, would be cooler if you could just place normally on a larger map. Also might benefit from more building types. Lots of potential for an islanders type game, really like it!

Fire Support Survivors by Zamizmi 2026-04-25T19:06:54Z

Cool idea, it was quite fun latter on to destroy huge numbers of enemies. I was a bit confused why you always had to draw each pattern twice.

F(R)OG by Egrassah 2026-04-24T15:59:35Z

The Frog is really cute! Simple but engaging gameplay!

Mixed Signals by lloydlobo 2026-04-24T15:17:02Z

When I heard the theme, this was my first idea. Unfortunately, it didn’t win the vote in the team. But I’m so glad you went with the building the signals idea and did such a great job! My only small suggestion is that the timer feels a bit too harsh at the start. But overall, I really like the execution!

FOREIGN FREQUENCY by dvan1337 2026-04-22T16:28:59Z

Incredible game I loved it!!! It was really quite horrifying to be helplessly translating the messages while the story unfolds. Also incredible executions! My only minor nit pick is that "divides letters" is a bit confusing. I needed a minute to get that. Really strong game!

Under Signals by 13pilgrims 2026-04-24T14:58:14Z

I have to say I struggled a bit with getting a grip on the hidden codes, maybe you can add more of an explanation in the description? Otherwise this is visually very polished, i especially like the Quad Panel display. One minor polish improvement would be to disable horizontal scrolling in the SOP, or even open the SOP fullscreen.

What the SIGNAL??! by Discomorphine 2026-04-27T19:18:44Z

"Look it was miscommunication no need to drop a nuke...". Really cool Idea, I definitely needed the walkthrough to get a grip. The amount of work you put into the alien language is really cool. I think the game might benefit from a stronger focus on the decoding part, it was a bit weird to mine resources in between. The added mechanical complexity also makes it harder to figure out the core gameplay.

RADAR LINE_ by saloid 2026-04-25T20:20:51Z

Incredible game, with the war in Ukraine, this had a very surreal and depressing feeling. Not to diminish the game in any way, quite the opposite. It’s impressive to convey the stress and feeling of threat in a medium like this.

NetHacking by DryDiamond 2026-04-24T15:11:48Z

Cool innovative mechanic!

Drum`n`Ice by PepeBrante 2026-04-24T15:32:18Z

NO I LOST TO A BIG MEAN WALRUS! Love the vibe of the game, sadly I have no sense of rhythm, so I am struggling a bit, but it's still really fun! I think you could play around a bit more with stronger visual clues, for those of us witch are less rhythmically gifted....

Small Among Storms by ShanzPro 2026-04-24T15:44:34Z

Extremely pretty game, reminds me a bit of animal well. The mechanics are clever and well done. I like the little squirrel and its quest for acorns, reminded me a bit of Sid in Ice Age. I have two issues, first the hit boxes are somewhat unforgiving especially for the moving platforms and some of the dangers where to frequent, I had the feeling that I constantly had to hide from the bird. Lovely game all in all!