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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Boomin' Zoomin' Lil' Lamb | compo | 219 | 3.77 | 4.03 | 3.31 | 3.50 | 3.95 | 3.58 | 4.18 | 3.73 | |||
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | Huke | compo | 159 | 3.70 | 3.72 | 3.92 | 2.62 | 3.07 | 2.82 | 2.93 | ||||
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | .SWARM | compo | 140 | 3.73 | 3.48 | 4.42 | 3.10 | 3.56 | 3.60 | 2.26 | 3.07 | |||
| 2017 | 38 | A Small World | CHEM TRIALS | compo | 257 | 3.35 | 3.39 | 2.85 | 3.42 | 3.81 | 2.59 | 2.83 | ||||
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | STALKer | compo | 502 | 3.21 | 2.82 | 3.39 | 4.18 | 3.55 | 3.35 | 3.56 | 63 | |||
| 2013 | 27 | 10 Seconds | 1007Quest | compo | 264 | 3.38 | 3.47 | 2.97 | 3.32 | 2.59 | 2.91 | 2.83 | 2.97 | 57 | ||
| 2013 | 26 | Minimalism | Neonisation | compo | 127 | 3.71 | 3.44 | 3.92 | 3.85 | 3.50 | 3.47 | 2.28 | 3.23 | 92 | ||
| 2012 | 23 | Tiny World | Nanobot Rescue Team | compo | 292 | 3.20 | 2.96 | 2.23 | 3.59 | 3.80 | 2.61 | 2.00 | 2.89 | 85 |
Hegemege leaves an average of 25.5 feedback comments each event.
This would be much more fun if the controls were a bit more responsive, I had to constantly tap the ability keys multiple times to switch to them. Audio effects were in place so it was clear when the inputs worked though. Music track was catchy but not too annoying. Puzzles were a bit easy, not many ways to solve them, I had to think a few of the solutions in reverse
Well executed, visuals were simple but effective. Death effect was cool!
I had a bit of a problem with my main 144hz monitor - the blue thing following was faster than me. So I had to play on my other 60hz monitor.
Very nice mechanics (I also made a sort of a grappling game, check it out :))
Perhaps there should have been some mention of the grapple in the intro text, cause it took me a while to understand the purpose of that right-hand weapon. I just ended up zooming to the end and not bothering to kill any of the enemies, which is cool that there are multiple ways to play the game.
That was fun! Perfect feedback on controls, animations were just lovely and all the dynamics of kicking the boxes into penguins to fend them off was awesome. I liked how the difficulty clearly picked up after a few minutes of playing to allow the player to get a good grasp of the controls, without having to make them replay to complete the game. UI could have used some more work but other than it's a fun jam entry :)
Peaceful game, intuitive controls. Some feedback for destroying the boxes and placing down the large ones would be nice. The points counter at the top right was a bit invisible at first.
Cool idea, unfortunately I couldn't get past stage 2 because I couldn't move left :( Lots of potential, props for making a proper menu and settings and all.
Game design wise, I don't think there is much reason to ever not choose "Walk" so perhaps that could be a core ability.
Interesting twist on a rhythm game, I liked it. Graphics were nice, the background wasn't just static so it was quite nice to see some life there. I think it would be cool if there was some sound effect on hitting a key well, currently the only feedback is visual.
I found the Hi trees :)
Gameplay was quite solid platforming, the levels never felt unfair, but some were definitely too long (or others too short?). The controls felt a bit wonky - in the last level I jumped to the right at full speed and saw a meteor coming down so I tried to avoid it by naturally holding left - yet the character didn't decelerate fast enough. What I should have done to avoid collision was to only remove the D key, which would have made the character stop almost instantly as I learned prior in the game. Felt a bit weird
I liked how the different elements were introduced to the player at a good pace. The game would feel more polished with sound effects and maybe some particle effects when the player dies or when a meteor hits something.
Level design worked, graphics were cool (space whales!), background music was alright.
Good puzzle, only gripe I had was that it was hard to tell when I'd get smashed from hitting a wall too hard. Consistent visual and audio style +1
Nice concept, perhaps a bit too slow. I think you could make it go faster if you allowed press & hold for movement. At first I tried to dodge the pieces, but after nothing happened I had a great "oooh" moment :)
Good job, I liked the simplistic visuals and calm background music.
I think the controls would work better with pick/drop on keyboard. Doing it with mouse just doesn't really add anything, and I found myself trying to click on the objects but they were too far away (there was no way to tell really)
I liked the mood, fitting music + visuals. I got a bit spooked by the alarm at first, I tried to pick it up :) (perhaps a bit too loud)
I didn't really see any progression in the game. It would be cool to have some way of managing the items like stacking multiple of the same item on top of each other or something. The ending was a bit crude too :D
Interesting idea, but the forklift just goes through walls like butter. Amusing but annoying :)
The space level was genius. I think it would be better if there was a sound/visual effect when you successfully place a box on the shelf, I placed a few and there was no feedback and the score didn't go up.
The ball seems to move faster if using a higher refresh rate monitor (144hz), so I had a lot of problems trying to control it to the goal. Managed through blue stage and then just gave up. The ball bounces a bit too randomly off tiny drawings, which are required to finish the game. Clever use of the theme, though. Death audio effect was way too loud, so I just had to mute the game unfortunately :( +1 for adding mute button too
Fun adventure, really loved the visual style, especially the sink with slugs looked cool!
I only noticed the audio player at the top after getting one ending. It would be reaaaaally cool if some of the actions triggered some audio effects.
Nice match-3! I don't fully agree with Shift for clamping, but it worked alright for the couple of minutes I managed to survive.
I played it almost like a rhythm game at times in the start. Good, tactile audio + animations!
Yeah Ctrl+backspace would be so handy. Sometimes my enter press didn't work, so I took some extra damage :(
Really nice execution, I loved the sounds and graphics. UI was very simple, although it took me a while to understand how to use the scripts, because I thought I just do "1, enter"
Also remember to keep the compo v1.0 version available (+critical bugfixes), you can have an updated version in another link, but the original must be the one people play!
Nice entry, the game took a bit too long to get really challenging, and I just stopped at 1000 points. I think it would be nicer if the area was smaller and that you could rotate the pieces. Alternatively, each round could add 2x or 3x more danger tiles to make it more challenging faster.
Maybe I didn't read the tutorial right, but I didn't understand that each day there was a goal like 1x red, 2x green. I just exported everything each day and didn't understand what the idea was on my first try.
Nice work on the planet, really dig that style! The controls feel a bit rusty but they get the job done - on my 1440p monitor the UI was very small, the cash amount is in the opposite corner from the build menu, and the bunnies block placing down buildings. In general placing them down was probably the hardest thing to do.
Progress felt really good, and just the sheer number of UFOs felt more threatening, maybe it was the red beam they had that made me feel that way.
This could be a great game if some quirks of the mechanics were sorted out and there was more depth. Good job!
Great high-quality graphics, but the in-game UI should definitely pop out more. If I understood it correctly, your health is the resources you use for building? Anyways, in a game where you have health, it should be conveyed very clearly - here it was the neon blue color that blended all too well into the other graphics.
The enemies seemed interesting, but there was something about the movement that made them odd. Perhaps the flying enemies got stuck too much and I had to go out and bait them, and the kamikaze enemies felt unfair and unavoidable due to the platform setup (not much space to jump and avoid them).
I think there was just way too much visual clutter from the start - adding a tower to a platform didn't suddenly make it a super-powerful thing visually, and they all just blended into the platform structures themselves. Enemies and projectiles were visually contrasted, that was good.
Sound effects became very monotonous quickly, and the enemies' laser attack sound was distorted and snappy, irritating even. The background music was really good though, fell right into place with the visual theme.
The builder's movement was weird, he glided along the platforms a lot, and the jetpack length felt too short. A few times I fell off the edge and tried to jetpack but couldn't.
I guess I had very high expectations of the gameplay after seeing the menu and the story screens, the mood of the game was built well together even though I skipped all the story text.
Simple and solid, good atmosphere and very nice controls and hit detection! The game didn't feel unfair at any point, and I was surprised I managed to squeeze through some of the gaps.
The treasure chest as an obstacle is a bit odd one, since usually players want to pick up all the treasures. It wasn't clear how the score was calculated either, and I for some reason got stuck at 60.
Well implemented dodging game!
Nice entry, although the gameplay is a bit shallow and quite easy. I liked the snow-clearing mechanic, but it didn't seem to have any real effect on either the player or the snowmen? Perhaps the snow could make you slower, or make them more powerful? I played until around 1000 points and figured there'd be no more stuff happening. Maybe its more fun in coop mode :P
Really liked the visuals and the running animation. The shotgun sound got a bit loud at points, and it was a bit unclear how some enemies took multiple shots to kill (ofc larger enemies take more, but same sized snowmen took 1 or 2 hits). Menu looked nice :)
Nice atmosphere! Tight, non-gliding controls for a 3D platformer, unfortunately there's something wrong with the physics on slopes and on some ledges. I had problems on chrome with the view resetting, but Firefox worked well. I couldn't get very far in the game due to somehow getting stuck mid-air on an invisible wall or something and getting frustrated :( So I can't really tell how it tied with the theme?
Simple but fun. Good thing you included the dark background! Solid controls for this type of avoiding game.
Solid controls and mechanics, but after the first few levels I kind of learned to avoid all collisions, and in the next one (4th?) the player has to go through the small gap with two cargo. The solution is to go further, and drop one off by intentionally colliding with the wall. Perhaps this type of puzzle gameplay could be improved and supported if the player was able to drop the "cargo" by the press of a button, and the game requires you to do so at the end of each level? I think this would make it easier to see that you just can't fit the chopper through the gap with 2 cargo.
Well done!
Good puzzle/level design, the learning curve was on-point. The whole UI layout was a bit weird, with the start button completely separate from the code area, although in-game UI worked well with the aesthetics. I think there should be a mention when you play the first level that the player has to type something, at first it all looked just like a static piece of instructions text, and it was very hard to spot the cursor.
Awesome, a game I thought I'd never see, a bhopping hardcore puzzle(?) platformer with chickens :)
Controls felt a tad bit too unprecise - in aiming and when you try to stop. This game would definitely need some learning curve, though! I love the idea, lovely implementation and polish.
I really liked the death/respawn level animation, straight from a quality puzzler!
Good mood and gameplay, I liked how the bots were sort of trying to create their own piles of stuff :)
Perhaps some of the upgrades should have been easier to get? It took me a bit while to get the speed boost. Also perhaps there should be more resouces, I spent a long time looking for some until I realised I could just snatch them from the bots' arms.
Very nice mood with the music.
Simple games are fun :) Very easy to control, nice fluidity.
Bravo, I had a lot of fun playing this, and managed to win on the first try! Very nice graphics, everything tied together well! The only sort of problem was how much UI space all the different bars were taking, but I was still barely able to see the incoming enemies (which was probably intended). At first I thought it was a melee attack because I was unable to see the tiny, non-contrasted projectiles from the weapon. I liked how the player grew stronger, too.
Please, consider your players next time and lower the volume, it was deafeningly loud! I had to take off my headphones and I could still hear the music loud and clear. Or a mute/volume option?
Very moody experience. I loved the mechanic or revealing the words from the letter, but wasn't able to finish the game due to control issues. The jumping was very unresponsive... The aesthetics were really nice, and it was good that there was more for the player to do while jumping, reading the words. I think the running speed got too fast too quick, and it then became just a random process whether I would finish the "level" or not.
Good job!
Cool music and graphics, but I got somehow very annoyed at the very start - the game puts the player in a situation where he is forced to take damage, and I tried jumping but it was unresponsive, which killed the mood for me :(
The game would've felt better if I felt I was in control of the character, but it was always a hit or miss situation trying to jump over the spikes. The gameplay reminded me of some old NES/SNES-era sidescrolling shooters, especially the enemies and music combined. I'm afraid I wasn't able to experience your take on the theme (reading through the comments here) as well as I would've due to the control issues.
The rotating gun also reminded me of the old Flash-based shooters :)
I liked the animation feel a lot! I wasn't sure on the first seagull what he was doing, but it came obvious quite soon :)
Saw your post during the weekend and had to bookmark the idea of a roguelike minesweeper :P The game doesn't offer much for explanation of mechanics, really, and it took me a bit too long to understand how the numbering works, since normally the number represents the absolute mine number around. But in this case I guess it was just for potential mines, including any pickups...
I loved the mood and gameplay, usability-wise the Cancel button was not in the right place when you had to dismiss it every time. I think the start should be much easier, though, and the density of mines should increase later, this felt like expert density or higher. I liked the terrain objects too, but damn that dog was getting annoying after a bit!
The visuals reminded me a lot of Neo Scavenger, which is a good thing :)
Very nice visuals, but unfortunately the crudeish sounds didn't work well with the visuals to create the pressing mood. The main dynamic of the game was interesting - perhaps the lights would slowly come back if you played more stealthily? On my first try I didn't understand the health bubbles either, I thought they were alarms! :)
Good controls and feedback!
Fun twist on the coins, but the game didn't have much feeling of progress. More variations to the repeating parts would've been nice! The invisible ship effect is just brutal :)
Good mood, fitting visuals and sounds. The coin sound was perfectly soft!
Very interesting dynamics, although to make it more fair to the player, there should've been some sort of action bar to use items, and I would've wanted some permanent upgrades too to get a better feeling of progress. Well interpreted theme!
The sounds overlapped with the bomb and got very loud at times. Visuals were fitting, although perhaps the projectiles should have been in more contrasting colors from the ground.
Cool aesthetics with the particle effects! Moving around felt a bit weird and I just ended up staying still and rotating around, the game could use a bit more depth on that part (different enemy types, boss, more variance to weapon upgrades, more collectibles, give the player a reason to move away). Nice mood!
That was fun! Some notes:
- It felt a bit weird that the enemies' shots went through the asteroids, so you couldn't hide behind them. - When a new wave started, the enemies all shot immediately, even off-screen sometimes. Perhaps it would be better if they waited just a tiny bit more so the player could prepare, especially since there were all those asteroids coming - The music was fitting, and the whole game felt quite polished - The upgrades were nice, but I'm not sure there was really any real decision for the player - fire speed + more currency to spend were my obvious choices at first, and I had to deliberately die after I got bored with the current upgrades. I died a few times (2-3?) and there didn't seem to be a final end condition - but it would be a totally different game! The progression saved over play sessions is a concept that usually creates a dynamic experience. - You should add the currency counter into the game view! I wasn't sure how many coins I had while playing, so I kept going and going until I was bored and deliberately died. - The controls were very tight, good job!
I think you should drop a lot more powerups at the start, I only managed to get 3 in total throughout my play session. As mentioned above, the movement speed is a bit slow and I feel bad for having no decision over most of the hits early in the game.
I also had problems with the music and other audio, it didn't play on my first go, and had to play again after coming back here. Good job on the visuals though! With some tweaks this could turn into a nice game. One idea I got was having a turret on the ground where the player could go into, and they would be able to shoot anywhere on that hemisphere, but not move while inside the turret.
That was quite cute, I loved the ufo sounds!
Good job on the UI and accessibility, with the hovering over the airports etc. However the mechanics of clicking a small button to grab passengers was frustrating. Also I wasn't clear about the rules - would all passengers aboard get dumped at the arrival airport? I think that's how it works, but not sure. Also good work on the overall graphics, I liked the atmosphere glow you added there.
I got to 4th airport, not sure how much longer the game lasts. Good job!
Yeah, the dominant strategy seems to just run in one direction and jump all the time. Making the background spin with the player is a bit risky, since the player can get motion sickness from that easily. At least the controls were really tight. Also the game could use a tutorial in-game, just a small text box at the start would suffice. Some sound would be nice, too.
Quite attractive game, all elements supporting the high-octane action. However, I feel the game felt a bit unpolished in some parts. - The player's death was not too spectacular. The "game over" image just stayed there, perhaps you could show the player's total points in large font + other stats? - I'd also prefer a "Play again" approach there, instead of taking to the menu, but the replay functionality is there. - Similarly, you could make the multiplier counter pop when you get a new multiplier. From my short play session, I didn't pay any attention to the top of the screen, perhaps due to font size.
I found it very difficult at first to control the ship in your game with the controller because of the acceleration of the input.
My game shares some things with this one, without the camera problems as discussed above (also the movement mechanics are different). Adding more smoothing to the camera's rotation could help, but the issue with player moving across is still there. Perhaps a better approach is to place the camera directly above the player, and making it always kinda face the same way? For example, see Super Stardust.
I think the playtime was just right, any longer and I wouldn't have kept playing. I liked the ending too where the planets and the sun were just moving around. The mechanics are very simple however, and from what I could see there was no challenge (as in a lose condition). I guess it was more of an interactive story, quite humorous ;)
Oh yeah and the music was a nice touch, gave a zen feeling
I concur with the above comment, I couldn't find a reason to upgrade damage. Perhaps you planned for more enemies with different healths but couldn't get it all done for the compo DL?
WASD/arrows didnt work and I though I could move the player around, because there is an actual player character on the surface.
I liked the progression though, at first it was just a tiny bit too slow, but it picked up after that. Quite solid small game. I saw the good old missile control idea behind this :)
That was really good! I thought at first the music would get repetitive, but oh boy when I went into the dark area and it changed :o
I didn't at first understand how the objects could be used to interact with stuff. For example, later after experimenting random keys, I found that you can dig underground. Perhaps the use action with the shovel could do that? I got the 5 shards last, and just went to the plane and fixed it.
Really loved the visual effects with the light!
Quite polished entry! I didn't read the text in green about the vending machines so I thought I was winning when my rage meter went all the way to red. Huh, I guess I got the game all wrong at first :P
I also got almost sick from the camera - the player should always stay in the center (horizontally)! My playstyle included a lot of going left and right fast, so the way you made the camera show more area towards the player's current direction was a bit counter-productive.
Loved all the puns!
I liked the world layout you had, zooming out and seeing ALL those resources!
Too bad the way the player controls the whole game is quite difficult, and it was really hard to turn a profit after I spent a ton of money on collectors, like 70 to refine and 73-something back. I like the concept, though. One could make a whole economy simulation out of this, where you need to haul cargo to home base, sell to other planets etc etc.
Overall quite amusing, at one point I really feared for the colony when all my soldiers died. Unfortunately I couldn't complete the level because the objective said 10 population and I had 5 workers and 6 soldiers :(
I found that I wasn't looking at the top right corner stats at all during the first half of gameplay. In the end no enemies spawned any more, and that's when I saw that oh, I need more storage space.
The mouse dragging was annoying (I didn't try to test keyboard controls), because the world didn't move pixel-per-pixel. I found it sometimes hard to control. Selecting units by clicking was also sometimes very difficult, and sometimes by unpressing the mouse button I opened a room menu accidentally.
Perhaps you could add a room destruction option, so players could re-allocate some rooms for better use? The music didn't really fit the game, but it's an autotracker :D Good work!
Interesting clicker game. After every day I could swear the planet was moving faster and faster but wasn't sure :D
I noticed that the baobab all spawned at first stage, maybe some difficulty progression could be added with them spawning in later stages? I played for good 5 minutes and it didn't appear to happen, but I think there were more of them. Good job including a tutorial! The icon at topleft didn't respond to the selected tool, but I managed just with the cursor icon.
Very nice game! It took me a minute to learn how it works, I'd suggest starting at a closer zoom level, at first I just spammed units without looking at what the enemy threw at me.
Nice horde game with simple controls and mechanics. The start of the game felt a bit difficult compared to the rest, since the player was spawned right next to a lot of spawners from multiple directions. Unfortunately I fell down from the bridge and somehow got killed by falling into the void. With some powerups this could turn quite fast into a more complex bullet hell shoot-em-up.
Really cool hybrid! I found myself completely in the zone trying to look at the timer and what resource I'd need. I was hoping destroying the asteroids would give some resources, you could definitely continue working on this and have some planets to stop by and trade resources and crew. On my first go I noticed that I somehow got a 4th crew member but couldn't say why... maybe a food surplus? I think it would be wise to convey these rules to the player, you had quite minimal guidance (but enough to understand how to play).
The music got a bit repetitive, but it really fit the game! There were some small bugs in moving the crew to the tiles, but I liked the concept a lot!
Really liked the mood, the music and visuals resembled some old SNES game :)
It got a bit too difficult too fast, and I found myself just waiting and waiting to orbit to the correct spot so I could place the building, the wall and the ice thing. Big plus for making it work so well with the controller! It took me a minute to remember I had my controller plugged in because the keyboard didn't work, so maybe allow both control schemes at the same time, or better, advertise that controller is supported at the start!
The start didn't have any tutorial (or did it?) but I think that was just fine, I picked up the idea quite fast. Good work!
I wasn't able to even jump on the first platform at first. I think your game physics is tied to the framerate (120hz monitor here), so I couldn't jump high enough. I managed to make it normal 60fps, but jumping on those small platforms was quite difficult. I liked how the controls were snappy and allowed the precise platforming that was required.
That was great fun, although spamming left or right could kill all the worms pretty quickly :P
Awesome soundtrack too!
Great, now my hand hurts from the mashing
Awesome intro! Cheering music! Freaky-colored retro graphics! Hooray for Phaser!
Phaser huh? We had a similar idea too!
It was a bit chaotic and couldn't really understand what the different configurations did. RIP headphones indeed
This could be easily polished to a great game, the mechanics are solid. I found the game challenging enough, took a few tries to succeed. Great mood!
Simple fun, kinda addicting too! Spamming left+right alternately seemed quite OP. Well done on music and sound, really liked them!
I could play this for ages, reached 1500 pop and couldn't get any new characters or stories for a few days. Absolutely fantastic, well polished! My top favorite for sure so far!
Enjoyable game, solid controls! A little repetitive and RNG heavy for time trial, but a solid piece. Loved the art style!
Such a well-polished game overall! I found it hard to listen to the music though, so simple volume sliders would be great :)
The controls werent too hard on the keyboard either, took me 20 seconds to figure out. Cute and simple game!
Both audio and visuals in similar retro theme, nice! Took me a few tries to understand how the game works, a sense of success after getting a nice combo :)
Awesome puzzle game! I found a little bug though :( http://puu.sh/lVmVc/e9245d13d6.png
The yellow blob at the bottom wouldnt split - I assume it only allows splitting exactly how the level is generated?
Anyways, had a ton of fun. Great sound effects and a killer background music!
After figuring out the game, the puzzles became quite trivial. This would have been 100x times more challenging if the beams could go over empty spaces - but I guess the level generator would have to be smarter as well!
Simple and cute, I liked it! The game is really RNG heavy, and you are forced to lose due to all the running and meteors :( made it to lvl 11 though.
Congrats, the game feels really good to play! Controls are crisp and the whole experience is really polished. One of my favorites so far! Difficulty curves nicely too.
Managed to beat the last level, was sort of hoping for a stats screen in the end (I probably destroyed 100's of cars lol)
Not sure what the red goals did, but I hit most of them. Good challenge
Really awesome game, enjoyed it a lot!
This game would've been much more enjoyable with some audio. I liked the visuals, but it would've been cool to actually see the powerups on the minimap or something. The game became really easy after getting a few fire rate upgrades. I tried to wait for the enemies to kill me and there were maybe a few hundred of them or something in the end, which didn't even lower the framerate at all. Good job
Really nice soundtrack! I understood the game mechanics pretty fast, but was still unable to get 2nd place in the five matches I played because I would always get boosted by up arrows and couldnt evade them :( Would've been better if the AI moved faster/picked more upwards arrows. Nice concept though
Really smooth game, first try got to 21 and finished on second try. Nice level design, simple concept and good controls.
Nice music choice, had fun playing the game :P
I think it got a little bit too fast too soon, and it's really hard to collect the nodes at that speed. Either slow it down or add more of them and I'd be even more fun to play! Great job
Simple, true to the theme, but too short :<
The puzzles themselves were not really difficult, it was just the timing. The first time I cleared the final level I thought I ran out of lifes or something and replayed the game :P
Very original idea, nice audio and mood! Now my eyes hurt after watching the thin line :D
Really solid concept, but the brute 3 deaths and restart is not always a good idea. Quite interesting mechanics though, the poor bunny never saw that cannonball coming :/
Impressive amount of work you've put into this game :O Gameplay was smooth, missing some fancy effects like people moving on streets, but in overall felt really good and fun to play. Nice day/night cycle and lightning, good use of colours as well, nice and simple.
What an awesome game, really in depth in terms of story. If only the music was originally yours, I would rate the Mood and Audio to 5 both, but I really can't (everything you use must be made during the weekend)
Well done on the mechanics though, the story is one of the best I've seen in this compo, in terms of fitting the theme. And if you ask me, the slow text fits the mood, but an option to fully display it would be cool.
Nice small game, too bad it was only one level (although it was clearly in three parts). I spent quite a while on the bottomleft area trying to figure out how the colours work by spamming them, and in the final puzzle thought each part out first before moving. The soundtrack was goofy, minimalistic as a whole indeed.
Very original and overall a great game I must say! Every day in the game feels like a small story of how the poor guardian tries to stop the invasion of people into the forest, just to find out they have built more houses on the other side of the forest. The controls and graphics felt polished, only thing missing is an ambient soundtrack.
Fun game, even though a bit slow paced. Fits the theme really well, good job :P
Great game! The gameplay mechanics are from the well known board game Labyrinth, oh the memories...
I loved the visuals and the simple soundtrack.
Interesting! As a chess player myself, I appreciate people who make similar games with new mechanics. A simple AI would've been so good for the game.
Very solid game in overall, felt retro and addicting. Good job on polishing, didn't see any bugs and liked the way the grid healed itself :P
Nice game in overall, although it could use some work. Would've been helpful to know exactly what each unit does, and what beats what. Maybe the enemy has an advantage since it starts with modified factories, while the player starts with all red?
Anyways, great concept, it was thrilling to watch them fight each other (even though I lost every time) :)
Fun! Felt a bit like geocaching :P
Great game! I made something a bit similar for GPCv17, but you had to build bridges to connect islands, and the people would destroy them after a few uses. Games with graphs are always a ton of fun to play!
The game felt really easy at the beginning but I was stunned at how well the routes would handle all the traffic, got 750 and 930. Anyways, it was a huge chaos in the end, each line was 6-7 stations long.
Very nice job!
Smooth audio and overall quite relaxing. Had some click detection issues though, but a nice little game!
Step 267: The potato monster is still strong. I wonder if this will be my end. I made some potato soup today. It was delicious.
Step 267: The potato monster is still strong. I wonder if this will be my end. I made some potato soup today. It was delicious.
Really relaxing game. I went for digging to the bottom after I hit the first blue wall. The controls were kinda iffy at times, especially if you pick up blocks by accident, but other than that a really decent game!
Neat graphics and nice job with the audio. The small red ones started really close sometimes, almost instakilled, but other than that, the gameplay and controls felt smooth.
Wicked game, very original and fun idea, got a really intensive feeling while playing. Really unique from other games, felt polished but too short!
A really nice puzzle game I must say. Took a few minutes to learn the mechanics, and met the matching bug three times during my playtime. With more polishing, this could be a great game, I'd definitely love to play it again!
Unique game, at least for the art "style" :D
Gameplay wise, hit detection was nice, but don't really like negative score for missing shots. Wave progression felt nice too.
That was spammy :D
Although it became a bit boring after a few minutes, and then it took like 5 minutes for the last 3 red runners to die. But extremely cool and original concept, well fitting the theme :)
I liked the colors a lot, increased the mood of the game! I found myself battling the first two areas and then rushing forward to see if there was some content, so I died pretty quickly there. I couldnt figure out what the abilities did, I saw the message that you got the lazor but it didnt function or I just didnt know how to use it :P
Really simple and enjoyable game, fits the theme really well!
Nice work Sophie! I loved especially the way the caught fish grows fings and flies away :D
Beautiful game indeed, I would've liked an option for windowed, since SDL always moves my windows around when going fullscreen.
Really smooth game, but lacks a soundtrack.
Really solid game, runs well on both my Windows and Ubuntu machines, much nicer to play on a 11" netbook than 21" monitor :P
Also worth noting I used the A key to charge, found it out just randomly.
I ran the game by renaming the ball-cup file to ball-cup.py in Windows and running that from cmd. On ubuntu I just chmod u+x'd the ball-cup file and ran it.
Funny game, but greatly punishing if you fail.
Nice original puzzle game! I liked the first green spreading thing-level, it kind of reminded of the dragon curve... Anyhow, the puzzles were quite fun to play and challenging at first. I didnt know I had two walls until halfway through the levels. The last level was tricky!
I liked the graphical style, the sound effects fit the game well.
Awesome puzzle game! The controls are really good, the game mechanics feel intuitive and the steady difficulty curve kept the player happy for being able to complete even the hardest of levels in a reasonable amount of time (I beat all 30 of them in 20 minutes I think) Again, really great work!
Love the concept! Could become a great game if developed further :P
Fits the theme pretty well, couldnt get past the 19th challenge
Stunning graphics, really fun and a bit challenging game! Lovely audio as well. 5/5 hands down
124 seconds, 40 cells on first try. Wicked graphics and insane concentration requirement! :DD
Really cool concept! It would've been helpful to see the nodes you have connected, but it's a minor thing (in the screenshot they are visible though, I also had some flickering if the camera was in the default position). +1 on minimalistic description
Haha, really nice humour :DD
Nice visual effects, although they started to hurt my eyes after a bit. The controls felt smooth and the game felt in overall really polished, so good job!
Got 341 greens and 5 purples, made one error only :P
Really addicting game, very good implementation of the idea both technically and graphically. Only thing lacking is a soundtrack, but a solid and enjoyable game! Well done.
The game crashed after I finished the second level, right after the level blacked out. The first level and highscore input worked okay. The third level worked as well
About the game itself, at least it fits the theme well. It could have some more gameplay to it, since it's quite a random walk at the moment. It's a solid game though, the main menu looks really cool!
Yeah, the camera is very quite sensitive. I love the arena theme of the game. The design of the level does make it really really easy if the player just camps in the corner though. The transition animation was a blast, I kind of anticipated something like that the first time I hit that button. :P
Great little game, could've maybe used some sort of soundtrack.
Really nice idea, and good job at making it so minimalistic. :D
Very minimalistic. It seems all three can be lit in one frame, so it's an insta-kill, which happened to my twice within the first 10 clicks, and then on 64th. I didn't notice the speed picking up either, which would have been cool, along with steadier lights :P
The soundtrack sure is minimalistic. Fun game to play
The fish controls were kindof sliding, it was hard to maneuver at first. I couldnt get more health since the big fish just followed me :D The second try I managed to kill him. Nice work on the intro!
Awesome game! "Heat is work and work is heat", check this youtube video about thermodynamics :P https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtEqn-5XHpU
Nice work on the physics part, the awards were pretty fun as well. The dynamics of the game are really cool!
Really good in terms of skill, you die after your own errors and due to not planning. Nice little game
Interesting concept, but the game controls felt a bit sloppy. Some of the puzzles were kinda frustrating, but there were some nice puzzles there as well. Overall, pretty good job!
Simple enough, liked watching the stream. The game is quite challenging, unless you slow play it. PTFOing got me to 37 kills.
That was a lot of fun, got 26 points
Wow, a really calming game. Also pretty challenging!
I liked the way you had to draw the lines quite fast, props to anyone who gets all A's. The soundtrack fits the game really well.
Nice use of theme, good implementation of the idea. I found myself better using the number row rather than a keypad, but I guess I could train to use it. Make another version with pi digits or something the player can memorise (although this has been done before)
I fell in love with the goblin sounds, very nice job! :P
The boss fight was pretty intense and he finally killed me, not sure if there was any indication of how much health he has?
That was so much fun! I ended up glitching on top of the table and it swang my robot all the way to the left http://prntscr.com/12o02w
Very cool concept, fits the theme perfectly!
A really solid TD game, I managed to get to wave 46 with almost a full map of arrow towers. I wonder what the theoretical max wave is.
Nice little game. Took a few tries to learn to maneuver both players on one keyboard. The enemies were kinda ruthless if they caught you into a corner :P
That was a bit weird :P
The collision detection was a bit sloppy and in the third phase the bullets moved kinda odd, but the way the sounds were created made for some pretty cool and nasty melodies.
Nice one, got 47k score. Fits the theme pretty good :P
So the global highscores is real? Damn you, I was doing good but got a phone call.
Nice job, this game requires 100% concentration from the player. I can't wait till someone makes a bot or floods the high scores :D (I would tune down the sound effect volume a lot, the soundtrack is too low when compared to the effects. +1 for autotracker)
What a great story. I couldn't find a use for quite some of the items, but it matters not. The audio was really calming and fit to the game. The graphics style is pretty cool, quite minimalistic I would say. Great job!
Really cool game I must say! The battlefield speaks for itself, really good mood. I'm not sure whether there was some reward for finding your body without dieing, but I missed it the first time because I didn't explode the final square. Nice work, especially for your first LD ;)
The game is pretty difficult! :P I like the gameplay a lot though, it's both simple and very addictive. Nice use of theme as well, the bean looks like an untextured standard cylinder, +1. I couldn't get past the first slope under the red ceiling, I tried going over and under but couldn't make it.
The game felt nice but requires some polishing :/
Nice take on the graphics :D
Awesome planet design, loved the last one especially :D
Hmm, it was rather easy though, because the player had no "health" and the time limit was a bit too much IMO, not really a challenge to beat it
Props for the use of so few colors and the polished feel of the game. Only thing that bugged me was how the game somehow grabbed all the controls on kongregate, had to click taskbar to refresh page etc.
Good work!
Mind-blowing transition effect! Visuals were pleasing and the last two puzzles were really nice :D
I like the concept a lot, now go make more levels, I'd definitely want see this with custom level editor too. Really innovative game, I had something similar in mind at first but decided not go for it: apparently this game would've beaten it many times :D
Awesome work!
I loved the soundtrack :DD I loved the player animation, very cartoonish :DD
Hmm, the enemies could've been a bit more lively, they just spammed from a few corners and it felt slightly repetitive, but the difficulty curve was nicely set for this game. Wasn't too hard at first but clearly started to had troubles a bit later and it was just massacre later D:
I had fun playing it, the soundtrack set the mood for the game! Nice interpretation of the theme as well(my game holds a similar idea, thanks for the comment on my timelapse video as well ^^)
Very polished game, I like it a lot! Although the randomized puzzles made the game really easy at times(and really hard as well, especially with some unbeatable levels o_o) I liked the mechanics, very original, and the "world" view added some story/progression to it as well :) Good work!
Liked the graphics, but for some reason found the music a bit irritating at times :/ Good work though in putting it together!
It was a wee bit too short, and slightly too slow-paced to my taste, but I liked the clear graphical style a lot! This could turn into something nice if you decide to put more work to it :)
I loved the game but I can't stress this enough: an undo button, maybe even one-use per level! I misplaced the very last block on a level and ragequited, it's just too much work for each level without checkpoints.
The difficulty makes the game awesome, though. I love the design and graphics.
Amazing work with the graphics! Ai could've been better (I've never played shogi and managed to beat him always, but I'm an experienced chess player on the other hand...)
Keep up with the good work, I'd love to see more advanced AI for this :)
This could easily translate to something cool if polished more and added some new stuff to it.
I liked the difficulty curve, and at first I thought the game was done after the first death but noticed there's the upgrade screen, so I played a few times more :D
Liked the graphics, sound effects were okay, but it was missing a background track, which kicks the mood a bit. Overall, a fun game :D
The instructions could've been slightly better, to tell how many resources are needed for each type, that I cant really think of any other negative thing about this game. The graphics and sound made the mood for the game, fascinating theme interpretation and like said already: cellular automation tower defence? Hell yeah! :D
The gameplay was somehow very addicting, managed to play it maniacly for as long as it lasted, before CTD :P
The enemies were pretty easy to kill, and maybe the movement could've been a bit faster, but I liked the exploration/void idea in it. I couldn't find where the theme fit to this properly though, except for everything represented by tiny pixels ;P
Props for mood and fun, cons for lack of background sound and the few bugs :/ I hope you can sort them out and make something sweet out of this, it was a good demonstration of a nice gameplay idea!
Pretty cool, no idea what I was doing at first :D
Also, I was able to move for quite a while after the Reply button appeared
Could've used some soundtrack
If it only had more levels :<
Solid gameplay and needed some memorization to know where the light beams change direction. Nice graphics!
At first I didnt realise that they can fill up the tunnels pretty easily, and got a few VERY close calls when the tunnel filled and a few meteorites hit the planet right next to me, leaving me with no movement space when falling to the next planet
Got 33 so far, I never got to the center :<
Very original and innovative :D
I would've liked it a lot more if there were any sounds in it :/
The level design was pretty good, it wasn't clear how to get to the red things at first and activate them, but after rereading the description for controls, it was overall pretty nice, and difficult. Good job on your first game, I really liked the graphics :P
Kpet me playing forr quite a while! A bit easy if you ask me, but nevertheless an awesome game and theme usage :DD
Well, that was an interesting experience :) Props for getting that much content in it in the timeframe! The ending could've been a bit shorter though. Awesome music made an awesome mood to the game, liked it a lot. Slightly scary, which added some serious out-of-this-world feelings to the game, a good bonus for any game :)
This kind of game could easily turn into a sophisticated strategy game :)
It was a bit unclear at first how to shoot(should've read the info on this page more properly ^^) but it turned out quite fun game, and it was interesting to see how the main battling area moved around constantly with some guerrillas here and there :P
Couldn't really find how this comes together with the theme properly though, could use some polishing but a fun 5-minuter :)
The shooting sound started to pitch my ear a bit, so I had to turn the volume down, and maybe some bug flying sound could've easily fitted the game to enhance the audio experience
Nice work with implementing the theme, the background is very cool and made playing the game very pleasant. Could've used a bit more varied gameplay and more sophisticated AI for the boss, which made me just spam space and sometimes move up/down to avoid the boss' spam.
Hmm, I found the sudden bouncing quite annoying, and in fact sometimes all the animals just bounced off at very high speeds randomly off the planets
The graphics are pretty cool though, good job!
I dont know why but the game started lagging really bad, spikes that happen maybe every 2 seconds and increase in length with the number of units. Got a nostalgic feel of the unit command voices, but they became too repetitive after a while :/
It seems every time I tried to take out their last base, they just sent everyone to that one cell, and since the lag made sending large amounts of units to the cell impossible, never beat it :(
What an interesting desgin! This concept would be so awesome to play online if the game was polished :)
I couldn't find the theme in a high role in this game, but the laid-back attitude and devastation made for it slightly. A small and fun game in it's simplest form, but I would've wanted some challenge from it aside from beating other's highscores :P
wow, this game surely is one of my favorites so far! Now I can't get the music off from my head, where have I heard it before?... In overall, a very, very nice game!
The gameplay is very buggy, the second dungeon wipes your score D:
Audio was nice, controls could've been a bit better(with diagonal movement), moving through the dungeon was a bit of pain sometimes.
Difficult enough to keep me playing for enough to explore the whole mainland, couldn't go across the sea because the boat is buggy :D
Good job on UI design and the lighting system, although there were lighting bugs in the map view in dungeon. Very nice main menu! (help screen could've been made better with anything else than Game Maker's builtin F1 :P)
The lack of sounds made this game very... empty. While the bot you control is inside a body, the background is dark-blue. Plus for the powerups, but the game is relatively easy and I found myself staying still for the most of the time just spraying the nearest baddies and then sniping the rest.
The graphics and theme are the strongest points in this game. It just otherwise feels very empty.
The soundtrack fits the game well, the movement is good and the particle effects look cool! It feels very empty on the other hand, and my clickfinger got tired quite fast. This could use some polishing and new game elements but it's surely a good game to play if you have a few minutes of spare time.
LD46 — Keep it alive (23)
Mr. Cheesy by SAVVU 2020-04-30T15:20:06Z ♥ 1
A lot of fun to play! I had a bit of trouble at the beginning to find all the important bits of information on the screen - I would move the powerup / trap icon somewhere next to the player or closer to the bottom right since that's where the player's eyes are going to always be. Really loved the background color changes, the game got faster just at the perfect rate, but subsequent plays are kinda slow at the start.
I think it's great the track pieces are preset and not absolutely random, to make the game more fair and the "skill" factor can be higher by learning the patterns. Changing the lane was sometimes a bit iffy around the holes, and I think I got the hit effect when just the tail-end (behind?) of the player was ever so slightly grazing the grater holes.
Music fits the game perfectly too, and I didn't notice anything odd in the sound effects which means they worked perfectly as well :) Nice and simple jam game!
Flock for Feast by Antti Haavikko 2020-04-25T12:03:41Z ♥ 1
Awesome, such a polished entry! The level generation made a few of them more difficult, but then it was more exciting to get a "good" level and try to get a good score on it. Very juicy audio effects and UI animations, I could definitely see this game take on multiple different formats too, like an infinite runner or more level-based puzzles or destruction etc. Great job on this!
The Rose by Luiz Otavio 2020-04-25T11:46:49Z ♥ 0
Interacting with the spells and the resources was a bit difficult and it took me a few tries to find out where exactly to stand to read the spells and cast them, but after that it was rather fun and even though I failed a few times there was enough time to check the new spell and save the flower, good job on that :) Perhaps some indicators of where to stand or just larger interactable area would have helped
The graphics look nice, congrats on your entry!
SAVE THE DINOS! by marcusnystrand 2020-04-24T17:05:01Z ♥ 2
Small and simple, the only addition I would have made is an audio effect when your clicks are hitting the asteroids, and maybe some particle effects when they are destroyed. Otherwise audio was fine, really liked the font and simplistic design :)
CRASH OR LIVE (HTML5 & Windows) by woody_builder 2020-04-22T19:18:02Z ♥ 2
Nice job with the graphics and audio! The jetpack and destructible limbs felt nice, sometimes the physics exploded though, haha! It was very hard to control and it was quite random how far I'd get. The UI looked very nice as well! Simple mechanics, maybe a bit more balancing to spawn fewer enemies at the start would be useful for players to learn how to play.
The Cave by Gonzako 2020-04-22T19:11:41Z ♥ 1
Good mood, but the gameplay felt kinda barebones. The flickering light was a nice touch to the atmosphere. I'm not sure if there was an end? I got stuck at the bottom of a pit with a small cave to the left and I couldn't really do anything. I guess if the player is supposed to avoid getting down there, there should a restart prompt at the dead end. The framework is there, now you just need to add more gameplay to the world :)
FROGISLN.ELF by WittyCognomen 2020-04-22T18:54:54Z ♥ 1
Nice little game, very playstation 1 era graphics, liked the aestethics! The flower blooming looked beautiful and really kept me defending it, even though it was such a short experience. The tank controls on the green player was a bit odd and I ended up just staying in the center, but I took this more like an art experience :) Good work
For Ducks' Sake by Rolph 2020-04-22T18:49:14Z ♥ 2
Haha that was amazing! A lot of fun and the game had a good difficulty curve. Sound effects were spot on, I wasn't sure if the sound that plays when a duckling gets snatched is the duckling chirping or a mischievous laughter of the gnomes, but I really liked that one :)
Hextayin' Alive by alareo 2020-04-22T18:42:50Z ♥ 2
Took a few rounds to understand the underlying strategy, but a fun experience nonetheless. The main menu looked really good! Perhaps a few scripted tutorial stages would help in the endless mode :) I didn't encounter any bugs, sound effects were clear and gave the game a good polished feel to it.
The Planetarian by Undead Aubergine 2020-04-22T18:02:08Z ♥ 0
Nice game, played it till the end but I didn't "get" the super secret :)
I had a bit of trouble at the start because the background is so light, my cursor was basically invisible and it was hard to find it all the time. I found stuff pretty easily but I must have spent 10 minutes looking for the antenna! At the start, too, I felt like I got lost from the start area so perhaps that could be shown in the minimap somehow?
Oh yeah and a great intro in the game!
Monolithique by Jajakeim 2020-04-22T17:24:36Z ♥ 0
Sharp retro graphics and sound, great destruction animations! The game has a bit of a positive feedback loop in that it's very hard to recover if you don't manage to clear ships because you have to use the same weapon to clear the projectiles out of the air. Perhaps a super bomb or some other pick-ups would be fun for the player?
Body Guards by Hcursino 2020-04-22T17:17:25Z ♥ 1
That was a lot of fun to play, a good rogue-lite and progression felt good. Not many gacha mechanics in Ludum Dare, it was good variety!
Feed Your Monster by bemmu 2020-04-22T15:23:29Z ♥ 1
Fun little game, movement was smooth and I got the hang of the game quite fast. Not too easy and not too difficult :)
Prophet by marcell-balog 2020-04-21T20:42:02Z ♥ 1
I would've wanted to play it again but since it moves so slow I think this could definitely use some checkpoints. Lots of content and it seemed to be quite balanced up until the point I lost, I had gotten almost all upgrades. Picking up items was really weird and didn't seem to work most of the time so I just had to spam E and try from other directions. UI font was quite small so it took me a while to figure out what to do, but then the progression felt really awesome :) Good work
pod by irwatts 2020-04-21T18:44:21Z ♥ 1
It was very hard to control at first, but I think I figured out a pattern to move forward, but veeeeeeery slowly. Then I yanked the controls to max and the physics exploded and the pod went flying to 512. Fun toy and great font and communication to the player! Really liked the phase diagrams
None left Behind by Pirhana 2020-04-21T17:58:48Z ♥ 1
Nice graphics and music (it was way too loud, though!)
At first I had trouble in the second area with the timer, because it seems to be tied to frame rate and with my 144hz monitor I couldn't finish the level, so I had to play on my other 60hz monitor. My bullets didn't seem to do any damage to the enemies, and only having one shot per picked up ammo was a bit tricky. The running animation was nice and moving around felt good.
🐱 Cat Fun Factory by gamescodedogs 2020-04-21T17:49:58Z ♥ 3
I see you guys wanted the Automation theme to win :) I had a lot of fun with this, building roads was a bit clunky at first. Also I experienced some bugs that made the cats fly across the screen and they wouldn't spawn anymore if I stopped the simulation, having to start over again.
Anyways, good work for a simulation/tycoon game in such a short time, the UI looked great
Soulbound by geekguy100 2020-04-21T17:18:29Z ♥ 0
Nice small game, simple and tight controls! I clicked outside the playarea a few times and lost control of my character which usually led to a retry, but after learning that it was fun to play. Good audio effects and music, fit the graphics nicely
Watchdog by ilijabc 2020-04-21T16:59:24Z ♥ 1
Good and clear design, and also a story in an otherwise abstract puzzle, nice! The sounds were a bit loud, but music was great and fit the concept. The transition effect between sections was cool
El Burritón by JakNak72 2020-04-21T16:45:53Z ♥ 4
I absolutely loved this, brought me a lot of joy :)
The game didn't need any explaining, great graphics and audio. Perhaps if each order had some sort of progress bar to indicate how close you are to finishing it, would help at the start. Also I didn't really understand why I had to keep the two fridges cool all the time, but all the other tasks were fun to do and they were varied. I got to 9 orders and then I just wanted to see what happens if you lose.
Awesome, thanks for making this
Keep Meat Alive by Nitero 2020-04-21T16:33:45Z ♥ 1
Nice game! Really enjoyed the small guy climbing the structure and the animations/particles etc from moving around. Unfortunately the middle click didn't really work in WebGL so I couldn't build armor blocks but it was a lot of fun building and replacing!
Good progression too, it started out small and got chaotic. The game really needs some sort of tutorial, on my first try I didn't even know I could control the small blob (I read the controls after)
Good job :)
Lights Out by Shafournee 2020-04-21T16:08:32Z ♥ 4
Great atmosphere, unfortunately the game crashed right at the end and I didn't get to see the credits :(
I really liked how some sections of the wall changed textures subtly to tell bits of the story and the increasingly absurd elements in the levels, like the droplets at the start vs the end was nice. Most of the levels had good timings so I got the feeling of just getting away from the baddies. The water section though would need some improvement, at the start I waited too long and it felt intense up to the last section where you need to run left for a longer period of time and then the surface caught me.
Lovely audio, animations and graphics. Perhaps you could have played more with the shadows the candle casts? Maybe some invisible shapes on the walls that cast some spooky stuff on the blank sections of the walls or something, like a haunted house.
Tiny Fragments by Daniel Moreno 2020-04-20T23:47:24Z ♥ 1
Pleasant game, a very unique puzzler! There was a good mix of puzzles, some that required more timing or getting the character into a safe spot to plan for next steps. Didn't encounter any bugs, I loved the small animations between tiles! Nice UI animations too!