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Games

YearLDThemeGameDivisionRankOvFuInThGrAuHuMoCo
201429Beneath the SurfaceAdventures in Down and Upcompo11242.522.902.073.102.002.652.7057
201328You Only Get Onescrionevoloooomcompo9612.242.042.631.701.681.672.0557
201326MinimalismUntitled Part IIIacompo9962.742.832.863.712.382.581.942.5267
201225You are the VillainNo Presents Sad Childrencompo7202.172.241.863.271.912.002.842.2141
201224EvolutionSpecies:Chappycompo3992.932.663.454.032.211.062.272.0857

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Comments by hnjslater

LD24 — Evolution

Invaders: Evolution by vilya 2012-09-17T08:45:00

Good fun game but not really related to the theme and, well, to be very honest, an awful lot like a game from the seventies I've played once or twice before. Good effort though, shame about the spawning bug.

End Humanity! by SFX 2012-09-06T07:34:00

Not the most evolutionary! (hah! get it?) good fun though...

Light Quest by Thinkofdeath 2012-08-26T22:49:00

I keep being stopped from moving forwards when I'm no where near the wall.

Tonality by hgcummings 2012-08-29T23:16:00

What am I missing:

user@hermes:~$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_26"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_26-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 20.1-b02, mixed mode)
henry@hermes:~$ java -jar Downloads/tonality-desktop.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Application requires MIDI
at com.xlr3.tonality.desktop.MidiPlayer.<init>(MidiPlayer.java:22)
at com.xlr3.tonality.desktop.Main.main(Main.java:38)
Caused by: javax.sound.midi.MidiUnavailableException
at javax.sound.midi.MidiSystem.getDefaultDeviceWrapper(MidiSystem.java:1078)
at javax.sound.midi.MidiSystem.getReceiver(MidiSystem.java:240)
at javax.sound.midi.MidiSystem.getSequencer(MidiSystem.java:442)
at javax.sound.midi.MidiSystem.getSequencer(MidiSystem.java:348)
at com.xlr3.tonality.desktop.MidiPlayer.<init>(MidiPlayer.java:20)
... 1 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Requested device not installed
at javax.sound.midi.MidiSystem.getDefaultDevice(MidiSystem.java:1130)
at javax.sound.midi.MidiSystem.getDefaultDeviceWrapper(MidiSystem.java:1076)
... 5 more
user@hermes:~$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_26"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_26-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 20.1-b02, mixed mode)

Vol by Thomas Bowker 2012-08-27T07:53:00

The web ling doesn't work on Linux, is that expected?

Evo Face by DiscoFish 2012-08-27T07:47:00

I don't think it works in Chromium 18 on Ubuntu. Top left, there's always a body, a mouth and an egg I can't reach. At they at the origin?

Dinosaurs must Die! by tompudding 2012-08-27T16:14:00

I loved every second of it. Saying that, the controls are a little off. And often I was being killed by dinosaurs I couldn't see!

Pirates and Gorillas by Brucef 2012-08-27T16:18:00

Pretty fun. A bit too hard and the music was certainly not to my taste. Not a lot of the theme in there either. Saying that, it did kill a couple of minutes!

UNBOUND by LPGhatguy 2012-09-06T22:10:00

Really atmospheric, good graphics and sound. But that's not enough - where was the gameplay? What's the challenge?

Also: could've done with a bit more evolution, I don't buy mental evolution :P

Praegressus Bellum (Evolution War) by thetyk1337 2012-08-27T15:26:00

Yeh I'm not going to sign up for something to play a game, put it somewhere free!

Unstealthiest Ninja by brother.byto 2012-08-28T08:24:00

Good game and well done to get it done in the time. Saying that, there's zero connection to the theme and it's not madly original. I did play it for quite a while though!

Evomatch by delerium10101 2012-08-27T07:30:00

Heh rather embarissingly I spent quite a while not realising who was me and then trying to avoid the enemies!

The Window by Andy Go 2012-08-28T19:10:00

Really nice looking but the actual gameplay wasn't madly exciting. Also the UI was kind of frustrating, it'd be much better if I could actually see what each character was doing.

Gan Fall: the totally true story of the origin of man by stett 2012-08-29T07:22:00

I got an error message, what version of love does it need?

Die, Motherfuckers! by Senekis 2012-08-27T07:51:00

Ugh connection timed out :-(

Neural Nodes by Kmad 2012-08-26T23:13:00

Wow it looks awesome! Not sure why you made it turn based?

WTF Aliens!? by Gaeel 2012-08-28T18:53:00

Hmmm I tried it with love-0.7 on ubuntu Linux and got a horrible error:

Error: [string "music.lua"]:21: attempt to call method 'tell' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
[string "music.lua"]:21: in function 'update'
[string "game.lua"]:74: in function '?'
[string "gamestate.lua"]:84: in function 'update'
[string "main.lua"]:64: in function 'update'
[string "boot.lua"]:320: in function <[string "boot.lua"]:308>
[C]: in function 'xpcall'

DNA Soup by Prealpha 2012-08-27T15:52:00

Really, really very fun. Does it have an end? Not very on theme but not miles away either. Would be cool if the levels didn't keep clearing away everything.

Slime LifeTime by ItsSacraficed 2012-08-28T18:58:00

Nice all style game. Pretty much agree with all the other commenters.

Evoship by Punga 2012-08-27T15:31:00

A bit of a tenuous link to evolution (but then most of them are). Also I kept getting a tiny window and then on the fifth attempt it worked. (Running on Linux). Saying that pretty fun to play.

Species:Chappy by hnjslater 2012-08-27T10:05:00

Thanks for the comments, the whole black on blue thing didn't occur to me or my playtester - whoops!

Yeh, I should've done a couple more levels with more evolution and actual formation of species.

Species:Chappy by hnjslater 2012-09-04T23:30:00

Nope, just poisonous. It seemed like a cooler level in my head!

Species:Chappy by hnjslater 2012-09-17T08:35:00

Yep, that's all there is.

Crab by Mayto 2012-08-27T08:02:00

Any chance of including libsfml-window.so.1.6? It gives an error on Ubuntu:

./crab: error while loading shared libraries: libsfml-window.so.1.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Planetary Overseer by Milo 2012-08-26T23:18:00

Pretty fun. And actually had evolution in it!

Strike of Rage ! by deepnight 2012-09-17T08:34:00

Good game. No theme.

The Adventure of Charles Starwin by surreal_whale 2012-08-27T16:07:00

Awesome idea and fun to play. Shame the evolution didn't come through a little more.

Plop by Yann 2012-08-28T19:30:00

Really good use of the theme. I found the mechanics interesting but so very frustrating. One mistake and start again!

Genes Chase by Mago 2012-08-28T19:03:00

What was the reason for requiring java 1.7? 1.6 is pretty standard everywhere, 1.7 not so much.

BobBots! by B3N 2012-08-27T08:17:00

Shame it's not hosted anywhere, there's loads of free webhosting around. Is it possible to win?

Dig, Jesus! Dig! by monkeymad2 2012-09-02T11:59:00

Great idea!

The Falling by Erephy 2012-08-27T07:58:00

Having to watch an advert everytime I die is very annoying! Apart from that, pretty good.

The Voynich Experiment by Wan 2012-08-27T08:38:00

Very good. First game I've played and wanted to finish so far. I would recomend chrome/chromium. I started off in firefox and it was waaay to slow to play on my laptop.

LD25 — You are the Villain

Plunder! by MarekkPie 2012-12-20T10:52:00

Yeh I couldn't make most of the enemy's throw. hmm

Ithyxsk by Galan 2013-01-07T23:43:00

me too

Cancel Christmas! by tompudding 2012-12-22T15:59:00

Brilliant game. Nice and hard.

Code Thief by Zelen3d 2012-12-24T02:01:00

Heh at least it works!

Mr. Fluffykins by themindstream 2013-01-07T23:48:00

ld@hermes:~/ld25$ python src/main.py
level-status : Expected exactly one starting level and found 0
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "src/main.py", line 57, in <module>
from level import get_current_level, set_current_level_starting
File "/home/ld/ld25/src/level.py", line 415, in <module>
load_all_levels()
File "/home/ld/ld25/src/level.py", line 397, in load_all_levels
raise Exception("Unable to link levels together")
Exception: Unable to link levels together

:-(

You are LunchLady by nimblegorilla 2012-12-22T15:56:00

Pretty good concept

Driver by jbb 2013-01-07T23:57:00

To compile on ubuntu you need to sudo apt-get install libncursesw5-dev first.

Once I got it working it was quite fun, but dude, where's the theme?

A Reason for Vengeance by Joseph Miller 2012-12-23T01:58:00

Very good game

Ninox the Nightbringer by Dining Philosopher 2012-12-22T02:13:00

Very nicely put together, on ubuntu with pygame installed it just worked!

Here be Dragn by doos 2012-12-22T15:18:00

Very nice little game.

Balloon Frenzy 4: Turbo Edition by theRestlessTaxidermists 2012-12-22T15:48:00

Really funny.

Are you the villain? by tove 2012-12-27T01:29:00

Hmmm not for me.

Burglary by TobiasW 2012-12-24T01:35:00

Fun

Atomic Creep Spawner!! by deepnight 2012-12-24T01:28:00

Very impressive. Very different

UFO Game by ACodeGerm 2013-01-07T23:37:00

Pretty good fun but the difficulty was a little off. Way too easy

Space Liberators by ceronman 2012-12-26T17:19:00

Really original and fun. Saying that, I couldn't get the hang of the healers and mages.

Park to Park by Frozen Fractal 2012-12-26T17:28:00

Good fun.

LD26 — Minimalism

tequilaJumper by mort96 2013-04-30T09:14:00

Very good little game, even though it was the theme, a graphic for the protagonist would've been worth doing.

Super 1-Bit Space Arena by Orni 2013-04-29T08:50:00

Good little game, very minimal and good fun!

F*** This Job by Casino Jack 2013-05-02T01:03:00

*REALLY* good game, amazing what you can do with just one finger!

The particle swarm by dick_claus 2013-05-20T00:43:00

wow great game!

0 by Cosmologicon 2013-05-16T09:58:00

Very good, very minimal game

Ordinal by tompudding 2013-04-29T09:11:00

Good game, reminds me of myself: sounds like an angel, looks like devil, entirely monochrome.

The Ethereal Stage by Brassawiking 2013-04-28T13:19:00

Playing on chrome, I could not work out what to do once the greeter had gone. I called the merchant but nothing happened?!

XYZ by ataxkt 2013-04-29T18:33:00

Wow! Really good, really clever game. Felt like I was being tested by Aliens

minsweeper by Attrition 2013-04-29T18:53:00

Very good, very fun to play!

Join by Perry 2013-04-29T09:35:00

Good game perry, sounded awesome, although I didn't understand how I was passing the levels at first!

Untitled Part IIIa by hnjslater 2013-04-29T09:26:00

Thanks Perry particularly for giving it a go even though it's not packaged up for window yet. My last couple of games were a bit easy so I thought I'd make it a bit trickier! (It is worth completing though)

Untitled Part IIIa by hnjslater 2013-05-02T00:11:00

Hmm, I understand the issue, somehow an unreachable square has been created, I can't work out how :-( hmmmm

Untitled Part IIIa by hnjslater 2013-05-20T00:31:00

Cheers for all the comments, I will learn how to do windows packaging in time for the next LD, I promise!

Labyrinthine Tower of Misery and Flashing Colors by BipoleMoment 2013-05-03T18:33:00

I hate to disagree with everyone else but this wasn't really my kind of thing. Was it perhaps to teach children patience? :)

Multiplied Screens by glbs 2013-04-29T19:03:00

Really good fun and pretty.

SDFJKL by Dining Philosopher 2013-04-30T20:46:00

*REALLY* good, really fun game. LOADs of thumbs up

hekeri by kunzbe 2013-04-30T21:46:00

Pretty trippy

OnlyOne by mrexcessive 2013-04-29T18:45:00

Pretty cool, looked a bit pants on my monitor, the levels were right down the bottom left hand side, barely on the screen! Very good mechanic though

Terminally ill by Sebastian 2013-04-29T09:24:00

Wow thumbs up, a beautiful harrowing game.

Piano Stairs by robmozart 2013-04-29T18:36:00

Pretty and soundy enough but I didn't understand what I was supposed to be doing :-(

Mind the Gap by shiprib 2013-04-30T09:24:00

Brilliant game, definately worth pursuing. How about support for circular lines?

Stijl by patrickward 2013-05-02T08:51:00

Really good, really run, really innovative

Sense Certainty by Behemoth 2013-04-29T09:18:00

Good looking and funny, I'd probably take it out to dinner. But it'd tell stories that were a little long and directionless. I love the genre and it's a nice execution but some walls enclosing the play area would have been good.

Ethical Spud by wrongcoder 2013-05-04T06:14:00

When I opened the page I though oh no, it's one of them there boring games. However it turned out I was wrong. True Story.

++Pet; by mushbuh 2013-04-29T18:59:00

Very cute!

This Is Water by solons 2013-04-29T17:01:00

I'll be honest it didn't rock my world, but it was pretty funny.

Milo's Bridge by Adjotur 2013-05-06T22:27:00

Good first try!

Mini Hero by sharbelfs 2013-04-30T22:08:00

Fun little game

SUPER tidy-up simulator PRO 2013 by daredevildave 2013-04-29T16:55:00

Very good game. Really clever take on the theme. Just needs to be a bit more gamey

Church of Minimalism by kibertoad 2013-05-09T19:55:00

Yeh I had no idea what was going on. How about some form of tutorial? Very pretty though

Moonshot by kurrik 2013-04-30T23:24:00

Yeah a good little game to play!

flee the inevitable by sythe 2013-04-30T20:48:00

Good game but a little too simple perhaps.

LD28 — You Only Get One

The Visitor by Jezzamon 2013-12-18T01:06:00

I got the penny, was that the end? Also if you die and go back to the gun, you get stuck as the enemies are all asleep but if you touch them you die.

Only One Robot... or may be Boss? by Smirnov48 2013-12-16T22:47:00

Really nice looking game and very playable. The robot was awfully quick and the collision detection wasn't quite right, but I enjoyed it none-the-less.

The Superior Resolution by phaze0 2013-12-17T00:54:00

Mind=Blown

Spacewalk by tompudding 2013-12-16T23:21:00

Great game, harder than a 4H pencil. I would die in space. Quickly.

1 by ComaToes 2013-12-17T01:01:00

You've redefined the genre. I'm not sure I'm ok with this. Also I WOOOOOOOON1!!!!!!11

Only One Gift by Conflei 2013-12-16T22:36:00

Whoa! Some crazy colours in the intro but not too bad looking once the game started, and a good little game it was too.

Asteroids:Omega by peacegiverman 2014-01-03T09:05:00

Wow great concept, dead on

Escape from planet YOGOAAT by neekobus 2013-12-17T00:05:00

Good fun, collision detection a little odd. Super pretty.

Sniper by pwnedu46 2013-12-17T20:32:00

Good fun! Simple but elegant UI. I want Moar!

A Trip To The Moon by Dayko 2013-12-17T21:15:00

Beautiful and fun! Great game.

scrionevoloooom by hnjslater 2013-12-17T20:33:00

pwnedu46, Ok it works in python3 now (a couple of one liners, I think it counts as porting)

scrionevoloooom by hnjslater 2013-12-18T01:08:00

I actually developed in on a Mac, so it is playable, you just need to install pygame. Frankly, I've never managed to get py2exe or pyinstaller to work on a Mac and I'm not madly inclined to have another go. If you really want to play it, install pygame. If you don't, I can live with it.

You only get one seed by AnnaGavaldaKedavra 2013-12-19T00:31:00

ROFLOL I approve

Shadow Night by ParaPup 2013-12-17T01:10:00

At least it's obvious how to score this one for mood!

Tank Blast by asimilon 2013-12-17T21:25:00

Great game but the AI needed a little work. Very impressive for 48hours!

You Only Get One Bullet by delfino 2013-12-16T23:11:00

Great noises, Pretty Pictures and harder than a 4H pencil (and them pencil's are hard). I need Mr Clooney to save me! Great concept.

You Only Get One Bullet by delfino 2013-12-16T23:20:00

Hold on, wrong window. Ugh. Great game though, it did plateau a little bit, I like a game that keeps getting harder and then I die.

UniSwarm by ChaseC 2013-12-17T02:11:00

Really interesting idea, just not quite compelling enough yet. Definitely a good postcompo....?

Captain Spacebeard in: The Centauri Run by DaleP 2013-12-16T22:59:00

Amazing name!

Medieval Fantasy Island by aayars 2013-12-17T21:44:00

Beautiful.

Chambers by person124 2013-12-16T23:52:00

Good game, I like exploring LD games.

--- by Zephyr Raine 2013-12-17T21:49:00

ROFL! Funny and musical. Also there were dragons and condoms! My two favourite things!

Protoport by Und[0]ne Devs 2013-12-18T23:26:00

Great concept, Great execution.

YOGO Mom! by Coblynau 2013-12-17T21:16:00

Since I do not have Windows installed I cannot play. Shame. :(

Diner Devil! by voidqk 2013-12-17T01:23:00

I like it but drag and drop would've made it a lot more intuitive. Also I wasn't sure how to make French toast - over in these parts it's more often called eggy bread!

She Only Has One Day by sjames_93 2013-12-16T22:49:00

404 :-(

The blue present by Ayte 2013-12-17T00:09:00

xmasy

Do not miss! by ambi 2013-12-17T01:12:00

Please make a Linux version, it's free to download (unlike windows).

Dude, You Only Get One! by Raicuparta 2013-12-18T01:13:00

Sorry you only get one star!

J/K YOU GET ALL THE STARS

boom by J 2013-12-16T23:59:00

Once I'd installed the deps I could get it to run but not anything to happen. Can it be played with a keyboard?

Pixel Lanternbearer by FelixNemis 2013-12-17T22:15:00

Good but oftentimes I'd hit a lever then not be able to work out what changed.

TabulaQuondam by monkeymad2 2013-12-17T00:41:00

Really pretty, but I didn't really know what was going on. I saw a tree once. It was a nice tree.

One Jump by Scipio Xaos 2013-12-19T08:24:00

Great little game, was surprisingly hard to move with the platforms. I like it.

No Choice by sudojess 2013-12-19T01:12:00

Wow! And you did this in only 48 hours!

Eye Fly by bigbadwofl 2014-01-03T09:11:00

Loved the retro graphics

Immortality by Kane 2013-12-18T23:44:00

ASCII FTW! Loved it.

LD29 — Beneath the Surface

Not your Average Mining Emulator by Ace 2014-05-08T22:32:00

Worked fine for me on Linux.x86 (ancient laptop) once I'd set my LD_LIBRARY_PATH correctly. What was there was really slick, I built a ladder and climbed nice and high but segfault city, population me.

Beneath the... hey, look, shiny things! by Yaru 2014-05-18T09:18:00

Well executed but needed a challenge: moving platforms, baddies, something. Pretty though.

Game of Roots by BubuIIC 2014-04-30T23:51:00

Great fun and pygame! Good times!

Asteroid(s) by jonsul 2014-04-30T23:07:00

Really pretty and with a bit more time, would've been a great game. The only thing I didn't like was the steering mechanics; I would've preferred if it was more like asteroids in that spinning the spin doesn't effect velocity

The Only Way is Down by tompudding 2014-04-29T23:46:00

Sounded great and looked great!

Tell Me About Your Childhood As A Nervous Goldfish by garygreen 2014-05-06T20:54:00

Great fun and amazing to look at but I agree with the other posters, it needed a win or a lose condition...

Under the Ice by Dohan 2014-05-08T22:04:00

Great, goodlooking but little game.

LogiFig by reheated 2014-05-10T12:08:00

Wow Awesome! Took me a while to work out what was going on but that's the fun of LUDUM DARE!

Adventures in Down and Up by hnjslater 2014-04-28T18:42:00

Good point, updated to be source link. I'll add windows today.

Anthill by gre 2014-05-11T21:40:00

Good fun, kinda meditative.

Rosa Neurosa by Wertle 2014-05-17T10:38:00

Great game and concept but I agree with other posters, the platformer just wasn't enough fun. Pretty though

Surfin' Hot by NIGIC 2014-05-06T21:26:00

fun game but I felt the assets didn't really work well together.

A day in the life of Jeremy by lucidlarva 2014-05-07T23:24:00

Great little game, beautiful and simple.

SnakeFormer - Half Snake, Half Platformer by TobiasW 2014-05-17T11:04:00

Wow! Fantastic Game.

Ben Eath: The Surf Ace by Afal 2014-04-28T22:28:00

Like totally Rad

Nuclear Waste Zone by granut100 2014-05-10T12:00:00

Hah! fantastic little game, the graphics and sounds really added to it. Recommended

Blockham's Sandpit by Eskoala 2014-05-17T10:50:00

Great idea, it just needed more of a game! Funny though

Beneath - Look Out! by lkpridgeon 2014-04-30T23:37:00

Ok but I would've done the character creation after you got everything else working! The collision detection was a bit flaky

IO - Reflection/Puzzler by oranebeast 2014-04-30T23:12:00

I get not a valid win32 application when I run it, is Vista not supported?

Germophobic by Phyllostachys 2014-05-06T21:31:00

fun little game, you'll get more ratings if you wrap it up with cx_freeze for the windows people.

The Sandbox by quade81 2014-04-28T18:41:00

Tricky but good fun, I got the third level on my third try so not too bad. I think a stop button would've made it easier.

But seriously, beautiful looking and sounding game!

Paddle Battle Pegasus by Boltz Interactive 2014-04-29T09:10:00

Great fun and beautiful

The Dead rest Beneath Us by flrn 2014-05-10T23:43:00

Ghastly (but it an amazing way!)

Drill Machine Go! by c1tr00z 2014-05-07T20:57:00

Good looking but too hard!

Underminers Inc. by quadtree 2014-05-11T17:14:00

Wow amazing game for 48hours! AI was just right, I beat it on my fourth try.