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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Hu | Mo | |
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| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | 👥 | A Small Fable | jam | 549 | 3.62 | 3.17 | 3.30 | 3.75 | 3.90 | 3.33 | 3.70 |
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | 👥 | Infernal Jam | jam | 1390 | 3.23 | 3.15 | 2.73 | 2.72 | 3.23 | 3.97 | 3.23 |
The sound design and digging animation are great! I had a great time -- it felt like playing an old arcade game from my childhood. Maybe make the spikes more punishing or have a more-punishing type of block to force the player to strategize their path more? Great job!
I tried whistling, singing, and shouting at the bird -- I couldn't quite tell what tones made it rise and I kept devolving into giggles and dying. What a clever and unusual game mechanic -- thanks for doing something so interesting and different.
I had to stop myself from spending my entire allotted play-and-vote time fishing and figuring out how to min-max upgrades. You hit all the right buttons for this clicker-game addict. A couple of minor quibbles - the music was too loud relative to the SFX and the click distance between fish again and move the character was a little annoying. I loved the useless cosmetic upgrades and all the clean animation. Wow. Great job.
I tried on two different browsers (Safari and Vivaldi) and I couldn't get the WebGL to load. If you upload a fixed version (try this trick https://forum.unity.com/threads/solved-unity-2020-webgl-doesnt-work-uncaught-syntaxerror-invalid-or-unexpected-token.872581/ and tag me I'll come back and play it!
The music was great, the primitive art style worked and there was some nice juice. It was easy to get trapped in a corner by one of the tentacles which forced you to stay in the center of the main area. A terrain that encouraged more strategy might have been a fun improvement -- maybe have areas where you can move to that block the incoming bullets? Also a little more feedback when you got hit would have felt more impactful. It was a fun play -- great job!
The graphics and color palette are very effective and the controls are tricky and floaty but just right for deep sea exploration. My one quibble is that the terrain hit boxes seemed a little inconsistent -- sometimes the slightest bush would do damage and sometimes I could float through them. The music was great, too!
The art and animation are really great! I also really like that I could go back and stash stuff so I didn't lose my progress. Being able see where you are falling a little more would help with some of the times it felt unfair that I died as I fell. I would love to see a polished version of this game!
Neat concept -- and kudos for tackling an RTS in a jam. A couple of quibbles: I found the text was small and difficult to read. That probably contributed to how hard I found it to figure out what to do at first. Despite that slow start I had fun and was amazed by how many systems your game had!
@axlplosion Wooops. I'll see what's going wrong. We had a terrible time with the Unity WebGL build so maybe something went wrong there.
@ansh-mishra Sorry about the resolution issue. The choices were originally going to matter and impact everything down the line... but that got left on the cutting room floor. :-( Along with all the voice acting and therefor most of the jokes.
@stephen-scott-day That was fun to watch -- it's too bad that you played the first build we put up. We were so exhausted that we went to bed and didn't realize our build was broken until the next morning. Luckily it was a stupid Unity issue and we got it re-uploaded. It's so great to see someone laugh at a joke that seems funny in your head.
@aroningi The programmer loves Swedish Fish and they were on my desk for that picture... and I kept stress-eating them. I may not eat Swedish Fish for a while.
The idea was really interesting and the sound effects were effective. One thing that I might change is the length of time you are frozen by playing a lullaby vs the speed of the bad dreams. Several times I found myself locked into playing a lullaby and unable to react in time to stop a bad dream that appeared after I started the lullaby. A win condition or moving on to a second level or a "you slept one night" screen to give the player a sense of progression would have been great, too. Great job on this -- it was a fun and fresh entry!
Congrats on finishing your first jam! This was a great start. I think a little juice (music, six, particles) would have made the breaking feel more satisfying but even on my fourth(?) jam sometime that stuff gets left on the cutting room floor :-). I think a little balancing and some juice would really make this shine.
I LOVE seeing physical games in the jam. I haven't played it yet but I downloaded the cards and I'll print them and play sometimes this week. The art work and writing is great. Congrats!
Good puzzle games are hard to make and you really did a great job introducing and building on mechanics. I would love to have this on my phone!
I had a .... blast. Gratius tibi. Bene!
The cut scenes were SO great. I also loved the design of the playable character. Sometimes it was hard to see the ground when I was jumping and I would have liked to have the camera a little further back so I could see the terrain.
Oh dear... I am not a very good forest fire fighter.
Chill farming sims are my jam, so I quite enjoyed it. I wish I could have weeded the hoed beds. Very cozy.
Great job -- the graphics and gameplay were great and the sense of impending doom as the water rose worked really well. I would have loved a save system so I could play it more later.
For a first jam entry, that was amazing. I felt sad when I realized that there was no way I would walk to the next tree and back before the baby froze so I just stood rocking the crib when the fire went out. :-( Kudos!
I grew up playing and writing these kinds of text-based games so it was a real blast from the past for me. Had a great time dungeon-crawling. :-)