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Year	LD	Theme			Game	Division	Rank	Ov	Fu	In	Th	Gr	Au	Hu	Mo	Co
2014	29	Beneath the Surface			Soul Catchers	compo	1111	2.54	2.24	2.60	2.76	2.19	2.52	2.13	2.60	46

LD29 — Beneath the Surface (14)

Fall From Outer Space by gene-z 2014-05-15T12:40:00

this is awesome , great idea, nice graphics and atmosphere. I especially liked the music in the beginning which had a nice creepy 50s ski-fi music touch and how it evolved with the speed of the game to something more modern.

Hammerhead Sharks Against Humanity by davidcollado 2014-05-15T11:34:00

Lots of funf with this one, everything just clicks nicely together, art, destruction, time pressure, high score hunt.

The Ice Pond by Vytheros 2014-05-15T11:16:00

I am sorry but it was so hard to find out what commands in what combination were expected, that I gave up despite me liking text adventures quite a bit. I can see that creating a parser and creating enough responses so the game is accessible in such a hard time must be very challenging but the game as it is right now was very frustrating for me.

Here is an example of how it went for me:

description ends with: "Near your feet there is a small, neatly arranged pile of dirt"

What do you want to do? look at pile of dirt

That is not a valid command

What do you want to do?look pile of dirt

That is not a valid command

What do you want to do? search pile of dirt

That is not a valid command

What do you want to do? take pile of dirt

That is not a valid command

...

Basically: the pile of dirt was mentioned in a way that I epxected to be able to interact with it right now - but none of the verbs mentioned in the help section, nor any combination I could think of did lead to a result. There were mor secens like that, so I gave up.

That is not a valid command

What do you want to do?

That is not a valid command

Tsunami Cruiser by bvanschooten 2014-05-13T15:14:00

excellent. Really tough though, didn't get too far - but very nice art, sound and gameplay

Dark Depths by jwin 2014-05-12T15:00:00

This is my favorite LD so far. Very polished and really smooth and nice. Great job!

Bionic Hotdog by Daniel X. Moore 2014-05-12T06:56:00

this was really weird.
but also really fun... in a weird way.
Liked it :D

7 Days by louis.denizet 2014-05-09T09:33:00

Beautiful and really chilling and relaxing to play. I agree that a tutorial that explains the mechanics a bit better would have been nice. For example - does one plant block the growth of another one? So can a purple flower not grow at a place where a bush is already growing?
Despite that, this is my favorite LD entry so far. :)

KA-25 KAMOV by lief 2014-05-09T09:00:00

Very nice art and lots of depth (ha ha). Really impressive for a 48 hours job. Wow!
Really liked the theme and the gameplay - found it a bit hard, but that might be me.

Bouncer by TGL 2014-04-30T16:07:00

Lots of fun - I love how frantic it gets and the commentary was funny. Great job!

Cave Mining by Moochoomon 2014-04-30T15:59:00

I really had no clue what to do after I got the AutoIron thing - there was nothing to mine and nothing to build anymore - did I miss someting?

Somalia by Tomski 2014-04-29T11:45:00

lovely art, nice music and quite fun. Made it to voyage 8 before it crashed. Funny texts in between - the thing about the son ("...move on") made me laugh.
I always had to dive for the pirates - cannons didn't seem to help. Is that intended? If so, the angle in which your cannons fire seems random - coudln't recognize the pattern at least.
Great entry though - congrats!

BSoD by CAT_IN_THE_DARK_WOOD 2014-04-28T14:46:00

5 out of 5 - Awesome!

Spelunker Boxing by NTR 2014-04-28T14:41:00

fun game - really liked it. Also not sure how this connects to beneath the surface.

UndergroundRescue by Hackingroelz 2014-04-28T13:05:00

got stuck in the level with the companion cube - is there a way to interact with it?

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