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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 31 | Entire Game on One Screen | A Maze in Space | jam | 375 | 3.35 | 3.27 | 3.68 | 3.76 | 3.65 | 3.56 | 2.21 | 3.30 | 56 | ||
| 2013 | 27 | 10 Seconds | Get well soon | jam | 27 | 3.89 | 3.19 | 3.49 | 3.63 | 4.04 | 4.01 | 2.23 | 4.32 | 100 | ||
| 2013 | 26 | Minimalism | Outside the Box | jam | 236 | 3.24 | 2.81 | 2.50 | 3.06 | 3.44 | 26 | |||||
| 2012 | 24 | Evolution | Player 2, start! | jam |
GSM Productions leaves an average of 40.3 feedback comments each event.
Very nice game and concept. And very challenging, and very fun. The graphics are good and the universes interesting.
Getting the hang of the switch between words (even with the music) was tricky but not impossible, but more visual hints would still be great.
Still, very good work :)
(Meri from GSM Productions)
Nice idea, sort of reminding me of a game I made (with my personal account, not this team one) where I had exploration followed with a maze. Nicely done, too bad you did not manage to make it feel a bit more "complete". Kudos anyway!
Spectacular pixel art, as always. And very neat game, getting past level 3 was beyond me, but with some sound a tad more balancing, it could be a really great game!
Did not really "get it", and it was difficult to play on my small-ish laptop screen. Seems that you do have a good idea though, just needs a way to convey it better.
Neat mechanics, second chamber was really hard though. But the idea is solid! Good job!
Fun, but is it just me or is it reaaaaally short? That's too bad, because I usually enjoy good text-based games... Keep working on it!
Unfortunately, it crashes instantly on my Windows 8 :( Sorry :(
(Hey Rob, Grungi/Bastien that guy from Belgium here!) So. Much. Particles. :D Makes for a great little shooter though (not only the particles, I mean). Got quite into it, and loved the audio cue that the timer was almost out. Very well done!
Interesting take on the orbit-based game I have seen elsewhere. Feels pretty polished, even if it would have greatly benefited from some sound. Good job in any case!
Cool idea, not really much to say, it is a simple take on the theme, but really well executed. The fact that the rings give off light is a nice graphical touch. Keep it up!
Excellent mechanics for a shooter. It is indeed very hard, but the ideas inside are so great that I couldn't stop playing. Incredible! And I loved the retro style, too!
Nifty! At first I thought it was almost impossible to win, but I finally did! Kinda addictive, and very well made!
Excellent work, very impressive mood! The camera implementation was really great, and your voice acting really added a lot of weight to the game. Sure, there was not much "game" in there, but it was impossible to not go until the end. A job very well done!
Interesting concept, but I cannot really put my finger on what was holding it back... Hope to see you expand on it further down the line!
High production values for such a quickly made game. Very well done! I still cannot decide if I like audio of graphics more :D
Very well executed! The graphic style just came together really well, and the gameplay was fun and addictive. Great job!
Very cool graphic style, kinda hard to control on an AZERTY keyboard (WASD is awful on those), and did not know about Shift. The music was also quickly irritating, unfortunately. But all in all, good variety in the level design and good job!
Very polished, nice tonematrix (or similar) music, and good gameplay as soon as you figure out the thing dropped are indeed clocks you should pick up. The graphics were really nicely done. The drop rate seems a bit random though, and I did not care very much for the voice over, especially when first time I died I did not, in fact, quite understand you were supposed to grab what I thought were enemy bullets :D But solid entry nonetheless!
First off, I got "Inside a Star-Filled Sky" vibes from both the graphic style and the gameplay (even though they are not really alike mechanics wise...). So that is a very good thing. Then too bad the audio was mainly the drum loop for a long time, it got a little grating after a while. Very good concept though, with enough polish, this would make a very nifty game.
Nice idea (same timezone btw, I know how you feel!), but the execution could have had a tad more polish. I did not realised I was dead until a minute or so had passed :D But good idea though, always funny to come across such meta-games.
Very clever on various levels! While I have seen this interpretation of the theme several times, the way you used it alongside the standard "10 seconds timer" was really nice. You could have stopped at "you have ten seconds to get to the green circle", but that extra context gave a great deal of appeal to your game. I also liked the visual representation of time ticking as your "neuron" grew smaller, nice touch. The gameplay itself was really addicting, fast-paced yet you had to think and anticipate since the receptors moved through the walls. Really well made, and funny writing to boot!
You really, REALLY, should expand this one and make a full game out of it. I cannot even begin to list all the ways this premise could be explored in fun ways (actually yes, I can : multiplayer modes, more bombs/bots, different kind of arenas...). What you have here is great, with adequate production values, but this has the making of an awesome arcade game. Keep it up!
I cannot believe there was no "done" screen when I finished mowing the lawn :D I felt so empty... Too bad you could not finish it though, I'm willing to think it might have been really funny!
Outstanding presentation! The mechanic was a little confusing, and there was a lot to read if you did not want to blindly mash answers and lose all your time and the same time. It is a shame that you were not able to add everything you wanted to make it a full experience though, because the game exudes flair like few other I have played so far, and I love how even the credits/game over screens are playing with the theme of the game. Also, is Mr Grey wearing an orange Pebble or something ? :D
Nice art style, too bad about the sound and music though, I think you probably should have abstained from keeping it in your submitted version, but that's my opinion. With that out of the way, I love gameboy-style games, so yours was right up my alley. The idea feels fresh, if a bit difficult due to some wonkiness in the jumping. But very good job for your first LD!
Disclaimer : did not rate in all categories (something like "Fun" is really meant to be felt while playing, for instance), but you deserve some recognition for your great experiment! Hopefully you will continue on that path and make many really innovative experiences like that!
Well done for less than 5 hours! Went up to 330-something before I lost. The music was very nice, and kept your interest up!
Funny! Did not think I would play more than once, but I sure did! I love the name and the title picture, really well done. Simple mechanics but way too fun!
Funny twine game, if a little disconcerting :D Managed to beat it on my second run though, felt pretty good. And all in all a very nice experience, really different!
As always, very impressive, and very solid game. The level shown in your main screenshot is way too hard though :D
Weird, but the good kind of weird! A bit reminiscent of what David Firth (Salad Fingers) do. Strangely fascinating, even given the subject matter that seem rather low-brow at the beginning.
Loved the art style, and the mechanic is pretty interesting. Also, very good reuse of only 2 types of obstacles to create varied challenges. I also felt the length of the game was right for the amount of content you had. Very well made.
Very nice little point-and-click. The art was especially good. It did feel a bit "rushed" (the game, not the art), but it was still a whole lot of fun trying to get various endings :) Good job!
Nice and trippy, but more of a technical feat than a really engaging game in my opinion. The visuals were pretty neat though, and innovative rendering technique!
Great story and take on the theme! You really used the visual novel format very well, and produced an highly engaging work. Very good job!
Another horror game \o/ Unfortunately I was not able to complete the third night: the sensitivity of my mouse was WAY too high, and it made it very difficult to orient myself. That said, the aesthetics of your game are awesome. The textures are so perfectly fitting... And the audio is great too. Might come back to it to finish it if I have time. Very well done!
Designs are beautiful and I really like the music, but having an azerty it's pretty hard to play...
Very peculiar experience, with a strong punchline and the polished (even with the lack of sound) that I came to expect from Dark Acre :)
Another job well done!
Very gripping. Some will argue that this is not a real 'game', but I felt that the single bit of interactivity was really what made the story so impactful. Masterfully done.
Very well done! Still haven't completed it after 15 tries, but feel I am close... Great job and very good way to use the theme creatively!
Nice little game. Would have liked it if you got back on the screen gradually though. Still a nice effort. :)
Loved the voiceover, but did not really "get it" ? I ran around for quite a long time, but nothing happened, only more goblins :D
That was just great :D Presentation could have been better, but it was very funny. And that grey background... Yummy XD
Great stuff! Very impressive intro and polished feeling. The only thing I couldn't get to work (unfortunately kept me out of the game) was the special abilities... Maybe that's because I am not on a qwerty keyboard, so I'm using a layout switcher... But I could never get the shield raised... :( Still a solid experience, and the trailer was a nice touch!
The vertical movement was so slow it became a bit jarring. Other than that, it is a pretty neat game, if simple. But the speed issue made it too tedious to keep playing for very long.
But love how you adressed this issue on this page :D
Excellent roguelike. Loved the few colors and the theme. It was hard though, so I never finished it, but if the intro is any indication, I would have loved to see the ending!
Cheers for your first LD completion too!
A-we-so-me :D This game was great, art style was a bit McPixel-ish, as was the random humour/death/actions. And that ending... Very well done, good sir!
The concept is there but the execution is lacking, in my opinion. Some simple things you could have done are: 1) tighten the controls, to make the game feel more responsive, and faster-paced. It felt more like walking than running. 2) Limit the camera rotation, it felt pretty jarring when you could do 360 vertical rotations. 3) Give any way to better judge the length of your jumps. Or change some of the longest ones (I am thinking of level 4, after the first pickup). It was frustrating when it seemed you could make the jump, but then failed.
Finally, as you did not "slide" along walls when hitting them at an angle, and since the pickups were quite far apart, the game was fairly hard.
That aside, I loved the idea (I am a fan of that kind of running games), and loved the atmosphere you were going for with the sound and the color palette. Continue making games!
Very well made. Simple idea, but the execution gave it a great sense of accomplishment when you managed to keep the barrel going for longer and longer stretches of time. Congrats!
So hard Oo But very fun and clever use of the theme! Well done!
Great atmosphere, and some nice detailing (statue's shadow, the second ending, ...). The mood was really eerie, excellent job for your first 3D game!
Excellent variety of time related mechanics, you should really expand on it!
And as a Dr Pepper chugging game dev, I approve of your description :D
Couldn't play online either, sorry :(
A great idea. Text-based games with a time limit is something you do not see often. I really feel there is something to be explored further here, and your game is a great proof of concept!
A little buggy, and very hard, but congrats on finishing your game after hitting that roadblock. Love the context you put on something that could have stayed more abstract and bland.
Such a simple idea, yet such an addicting game. Really good arcade-style game! It runs really well, and it is the kind of quick thinking/reflex game that really get you to try again and again to improve. Really well done!
Nice "juicy" effects (glow, pulsating while firing, etc...). It lacked a bit of variety though (secondary weapon maybe), and the shooting sound got kinda irritating, but it was a solid, well executed if basic shooter. Hope you'll build from there and make amazing shooters in the future (I love them) :)
While the concept is good, I feel the execution lacked some important things (even keeping in mind it is your first attempt, which is something I congratulate you on :D). Mainly, the lighting was way, way insufficient. I would have gone for a flashlight or included lights in the environment itself, to give a better sense of position and depth to the world. As of now it was really a "I hope I stumble in the right direction" kind of things, even on repeated playthroughs, because it was near impossible to know where you were. That said, hope to see more horror (or other!) games from you in the next LDs to come!
Awesome effort! The production values are quite high, even if the music got a tad repetitive towards the end. But you could clearly expand the game and the mechanics and have post-compo version of this. Congratulations on the great game!
Excellent work! Loved the atmosphere and the visuals, which are right up my alley anyway, but really well executed!
The gameplay was a tad too challenging, especially since it was relatively difficult to see holes when you have so little time to reach the platform. It felt like a game of luck most of the time. But great work nonetheless!
Very well made! Loved the roguelike-ish lighting :) The mood was pretty good, even if the graphics were not "dark and gritty" like so many horror games (like ours XD). I loved uncovering the story by stumbling on ! marks and items. But the map is so big... Or feels like it because you do not see much at a time. I was startled several time by turning around and seeing Emily right behind me, good job on that. Audio would have been a huge plus, but for 48h, including the great intro/game over screens, you did amazing (and I have not won yet, even...)
The idea is really fresh, but I guess 10 seconds is a tad too much of a delay, and the pictures are so bad... Well, they look great, but from a gameplay perspective they make it really hard to understand how fast you move and exactly where you are going.
I think you stumbled on a really innovative idea there though, one that I would really like to see expanded upon and turned into a more approachable form. Good job in any case!
Well done, fellow Survival Horror makers! Sometimes felt that space did not work immediately though. The environment was maybe a little bland. But good job!
Very very nice game, and one which I would love to see expanded. There was a bit too many ships the first time around to really grasp quickly what was happening. But with a difficulty curve well adjusted, or a tutorial, this could be really awesome! (Oh and with sound too :) )
Nice game! It took me a few minutes to get what was the objective but once I got it, it was pretty fun to play. Pity there weren't any music for such a game though. Very nice designs!
It was a bit difficult to tell what was going on. The static background made the jumps look strange at first (since it looks like the platforms are going down rather than you going up). It also felt like I was teleported and smacked around quite a bit, again making it difficult to tell what was going on.
I also did not see any kind of animation for pressing the space bar? Was I really hitting anything?
That said though, the music was pretty awesome, and the graphics look nice. I really think the main thing your game need is a bit of "tightening" so that everything feels a bit more polished. But good job already!
Loved the movie, and the game was nice, if bit too easy. No audio for me though (Linux), there may be an issue there.
Good job nonetheless!
Nicely executed! I wish some hitboxes were a little tighter, especially when you need to move barrels and the like. But other than that, good use of the theme, and great variety of levels!
Brilliant. Nothing short of brilliant. I loved how the narration unravelled the more and more you played, and I think the idea fits the theme very, very well. I would have liked a bit of audio feedback maybe, but still, kept playing over and over to explore more of the paths. Have I said this is brilliant?
Loved how you worked the theme into the game. Feels like a very 'complete' experience, which is always great. It was really a good idea served by a very good execution. Well done!
Wow, impressive work! I had trouble differentiating yellow/orange orbs, and the game was reaaaaaally fast for my tired self :D Does feel very polished though, from the intro to the gameplay itself. Very well done, would love to see this expanded into a full(er) fledged game.
Simple but fun! Not a big fan of the music though
I got everything quickly except how to actually open the door of the room XD But the game was fun, though a bit short (but then, LD ^_-). And I really like the design!
Great job! Arrow keys did not work (had to remap my keyboard because I am on azerty so WASD is hard :D), but after that smooth sailing!
I love the arcadey feeling of the game, it is paced just right, and I love the coherence of the graphic style (maybe the sun is a bit out of place, but then again it is easier to spot that way). The music felt also really appropriate. All in all, great job, and very cool idea that fits very well with the theme and scale of the game!
Took a bit of learning, but really good feel afterwards. Nice mechanics, and the whole game feels quite polished. Great job!
I love investigations, so I quite enjoyed the game! I'm not sure I found all the possible clews though since a spot was left empty at bottom right. So I'm a bit frustrated I had to try several options out of feelings to end the game instead of having found one last good clue...
It was still pretty enjoyable! :)
I am not sure the game is running correctly (Linux). No sound at all, and I run around collecting stuff but I can never do anything except get a game over after 10 seconds. Do I do something wrong or is it something else? Great visual style though!
Great and very, very impressive work! Game is a tad complex for me right now after the lack of sleep induced by the jam, but I will come back and try to really complete it. The theme is not really there though, but you still did an amazing job!
Very well put together, feels very solid. And I love these kind of reaction based mini-games. Really well done, feels pro!
Nice use of the theme, and very cool minimalistic idea. I do agree that it is very hard though, and I have not been able to get very far from Earth yet. Maybe a video or some tips could help making the game more approachable for clumsy guys like myself? Good job in any case!
It doesn't start on Firefox, you might want to note this :)
I got it to start in Chrome and I must admit it was fun! I like the graphics as well, simple but effective, they totally give a mood to the game. Just one thing bothered me: the AI started playing before I was done reading the rules, so I missed a few levels because I wanted to get what I had to do before starting.
Still a cute little game!
Wow. The game feels very, very polished, and in addition the gameplay is fittingly minimalist. Presentation is really great, and the gallery was a great addition. Not only was it neat to catch the references you missed, the writing was very well done. Congratulations!
Great! I loved the music and sounds, and I loved how you really managed to strip down the JRPG formula to its very basic core. Really, really cool!
Very, very nice mechanic. Took me a while to figure you could drag the shapes before dropping them, but after that the game really became fun. I don't know how the difficulty progresses as time goes on, but it could have become harder a tad more quickly. As other said, you should polish this one up and release it on mobile platforms :)
Nice idea, but as you said using an Azerty layout did not make it any easier. :) After a while you got used to the keys though. The Enter key still worked after the end of the game, took me a moment to realize nothing would really be happening anymore.
Very nice idea, altough quite unforgiving at times. Really felt like an older game, loved it :)
LD31 — Entire Game on One Screen (26)
Rringo by psydack 2014-12-15T21:23:00
Great mood and looks, and neat idea, but it was not super clear how I could find the apple, so I kinda killed indiscriminately until I somehow won. That title screen is A+ though!
No Rest When it's Over by ItyBity8Bit 2014-12-15T21:19:00
Loved the mood of the game, but you could just power through research and find the answer, even with most other people not being there anymore. Would have liked to see if there was something else to do. Overall a nice experience though!
The Eternal Bee by palmar 2014-12-15T21:11:00
Really love the atmosphere of it. Even though really simple gameplay-wise, it fit the theme and the topic just too well. Nicely done!
Tiny Adventure by FrankieSmileShow 2014-12-12T12:19:00
This was absolutely amazing! I loved the concept, and altough it would probably need some refining if you wished to properly release it, it had style to spare, and the game felt very polished, even if a bit on the hard side! Super well done though!
CSplatterX by akaPhil 2014-12-12T12:11:00
Some good music choices, but overall, if the idea is interesting, the execution was lacking. Be it in terms of presentation (no sfx, very little animations, bland arena, ...) or deeper gameplay. I kept at it for a while to see what other physics effects there would be, but soon even 20 seconds seemed like too long a time to wait. But think about taking this idea further, you could do pretty interesting things with the core concept I feel.
FEMA Break by Selzier 2014-12-12T12:05:00
Well done for a compo game! The controls were a bit finnicky, and I did not try "space" for a while because I was clicking on things, but once I got that figured out it was fun to solve the puzzle.
rogodo by tomo 2014-12-12T11:58:00
The game is simple but enjoyable. Feels rather solid, and the audio is quite good. Well done!
Psychologist Simultor 2015 by Moee 2014-12-11T08:21:00
That was pretty clever and funny :D I love how the instructions only speak about the patient, but immediately when you get into the game you see what it is really about. Really good idea!
Castle of no escape by BSOD 2014-12-11T08:13:00
Really loved the idea, even though it was very, very hard. Almost impossible to clear out a floor, really. And had I not read the description, the "stats are health" would not have been super obvious (plus they make battles increasingly harder). But I think that is an idea worth exploring further. Good job!
PaintBoxWars by Mirakill 2014-12-11T07:38:00
I loved the overall mood of this, even though as a game it does not "play" very well, since the cubes just make it very difficult to navigate around the game world. And altough it is a bit too psychedelic to play for an extended period of time, I loved where you went with this!
Ghoul Rush by ChaosCult 2014-12-09T18:39:00
Very funny! I liked the "braaains" they say all the time!
Tiny BasketBall Game by Kirito 2014-12-09T18:31:00
Fun, but hard to get the ball up once it's on the ground. I had to start again to be able to play. But then I managed to get some points, so... :)
The sounds are bit aggressive to the hear, after a while, though.
Screen Savers by VikingWarriors 2014-12-09T14:42:00
The controls were quite fiddly and a bit frustrating, but I loved the concept behind the game, and I did push until I got to the end, chuckling a couple times along the way :)
Congratulations for finishing and good luck in the voting!
She's watching you... by HUMANICS 2014-12-09T14:31:00
Very eerie! Props to you for using a custom graphics engine. While it made for some rough edges, I think you managed to convey the mood of your game really well! Gives off an old-school survival horror vibe, while being a twist on the classical 'fixed point of view'. I did end up being a tad disappointed by the actual ending, bug mad props nonetheless!
P.Rick Airious by asobi tech 2014-12-09T13:50:00
Very challenging (never made it past level 30), but super fun gameplay! I loved how all the elements kinda did not "make sense" thematically, but what the hell, you do not care because all you are focused on getting that tricky jump to work. Honestly much more fun than I anticipated it to be from the screenshots, or the title screen. Good job!
Hard Winter by Taldius 2014-12-09T13:36:00
Absolutely loved how your worked the theme into your game! This was not only innovative, but I found it very elegant as well. The game is indeed on the easy side when you have more than a couple turrets, but all in all this is really working! And the music was great, altough the SFX could have used a bit more work I think. But well done, had a lot of fun playing it :)
SPIN-2 by hypnoticbytes 2014-12-09T12:38:00
Really hard for me, and the visual effects adding and adding are really too much I think. They make it all to psychedelic to be played and hard to concentrate :(
I like the idea though!
Match Cube by lemmily 2014-12-09T12:30:00
Funny, even though the bugs make it really hard to play! Would win point if some music was integrated, too ;)
Soul Sleep by Technomancer Game Studio 2014-12-09T12:24:00
Fun, but really, really hard to play when you don't havez a qwerty like us poor French-speakers. It would be great to be able to use either arrows or qsdw
Sprotzel by Waterman7 2014-12-09T12:05:00
I tried the web version and nothing happened when I press Space? :( I have a really hard time understanding the game. You talk about blobs of colors but it's impossible to know how many are left?
Pretty designs though but...
The Tower by Chaoseed 2014-12-09T11:56:00
A nice game. A shame it's easy to only read the possibilities without actually reading the poem, just to deblock the different possibilities. I like it to look like an actual map with different levels. However, even if the visual is nice I find it a bit simple.
Skyfarms by GagaPete 2014-12-09T11:50:00
I join the other comments about the scope missing and the difficulty.
Tiny Miner by Maxw3ll 2014-12-09T09:42:00
Very funny :) Altough, I got a crash (some internal error) after buying a cow an walking a few steps. The idea is simple, but well executed, and I loved the tone of the dialogs. Very good, will try again later to complete it :)
A Fine White Line by Taunia Sabanski 2014-12-09T09:25:00
This was so intense :D The art style was super cool, and apart from that "duplicate item" bug (which did not prevent me to win the game on my second try), it ran very well. Hard to imagine it is the work of someone learning Unity from scratch. Kudos for that! The sound design in this is also stellar, as the timer runs out the whole escalation of police noises made the whole thing super tense. Really a superb entry, I think you could really, really take this further!
Room Nr.6 by PriorBlue 2014-12-09T09:07:00
Very well done! When the gameplay clicks at the beginning of the game, it makes for a very good 'wow' moment. The game itself is a very good challenge for your spatial visualisation skills too :) The only thing I would have liked is, apart from some sound, a little more "tightness" and responsivity in the protagonist's controls. But other than that, excellent execution of the theme!
Chance Encounter by allurious 2014-12-09T08:51:00
(Grungi here :p) Had a lot of fun just using that lever, so so good. I love the idea behind the game, good choice for the theme. It is just too bad that when you complete the quest, you do not get another one via the objective slot machine at the top. Good job though!