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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | ||
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| 2026 | 60 | Old Tech | The little bot who could... SAVE THE WORLD! | jam | |||||||||||
| 2026 | 59 | Signal | 👥 | LEFT ON RED | jam | 340 | 3.69 | 3.68 | 3.69 | 4.16 | 3.70 | 3.37 | 3.97 | 3.74 | |
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | Little Summin' | jam | 309 | 3.78 | 3.53 | 3.68 | 3.43 | 3.45 | 3.26 | 2.94 | 3.35 | ||
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | 👥 | Streets of Mage! | jam | 498 | 3.64 | 3.57 | 2.86 | 3.46 | 3.88 | 3.99 | 4.06 | 3.41 | |
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | 👥 | Going Up | jam | 63 | 4.19 | 3.96 | 3.68 | 4.49 | 4.17 | 4.26 | 4.40 | 4.17 | |
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | Kill Team 10 - Badasses On Patrol | jam | 678 | 3.43 | 3.13 | 3.72 | 3.83 | 3.53 | 3.50 | 2.85 | 3.41 | ||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | 👥 | The Last Days of RIPLEY 9000 | jam | 394 | 3.75 | 3.30 | 3.56 | 3.88 | 4.17 | 3.63 | 2.98 | 3.40 | |
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | Path of the Pogo | jam | 731 | 3.54 | 3.13 | 3.67 | 4.07 | 3.63 | 3.46 | 3.82 | 3.35 | ||
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | 👥 | Get Rich or Dive Trying | jam | 633 | 3.68 | 3.44 | 3.25 | 3.12 | 4.04 | 3.79 | 3.34 | 3.76 | |
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | ME! vs the unrelenting alien invasion | jam | 366 | 3.82 | 3.77 | 3.23 | 3.75 | 3.55 | 3.66 | 3.94 | 3.49 | ||
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | 👥 | Doomsday Deliveries | jam | 1764 | 3.26 | 3.05 | 3.32 | 2.98 | 3.40 | 2.94 | 2.59 | 2.82 | |
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | Eventualities | jam | 505 | 3.50 | 3.20 | 4.11 | 3.81 | 2.74 | 2.98 | 2.30 | 3.73 | ||
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | Body Counter | jam | 686 | 3.36 | 3.60 | 3.76 | 4.16 | 2.30 | 2.60 | 2.63 | 2.60 |
Human Writes Code leaves an average of 23.2 feedback comments each event.
I really liked this. I was fully invested in the story and the way that having to decode things ended up drip feeding the narrative was really cool. Also super impressed that you built a windowing system where you can drag and position stuff. Good job!
I really like this game. It looks great (the models are cute, too), it plays smoothly and the concept is unique. It does ramp up in difficulty and I feel like clicking to cycle through waveforms would have made more sense to my brain (rather than scrolling through) but that's probably just a me problem. Overall, great job. Loved it.
Very satisfying and highly addictive, just like Balatro. Great implementation. Looks beautiful, plays really well and the music is perfect. My only criticism would be that once you make it past the first two rounds, it becomes a bit too easy. I feel like the upgrade cards should have pros and cons to balance it out. Overall, though, excellent game!
Fantastic game! Great idea, well executed, looks great, sounds great. I really enjoyed this one. It's such a simple idea but the puzzles quickly become challenging. If you juiced this game a little more and fleshed out the narrative, I could see it expanding to a full release project. Well done!
Great game! Really cool art style it reminds me of the card game Munchkin. I have to admit, I took me a while before I realized that you weren't supposed to drag the units onto the field, you had to click then click. Once I got my head around that, I didn't die (as much). Really good job and a cool take on the theme.
Great work after only a few weeks in Godot! Very impressive effort. I have to admit, I never found my way home. I lost many good ants, however, and ended up going full one-ant-army on those spiders. Nice game!
I'm a big fan of He Is Coming, so this really scratched an itch! Great work, too. Looks and plays really well, though its pretty brutal early on. There's something satisfying about leveling up and beating down the bigger enemies. Beautifully presented. Great game!
Very cool! This is a great, straight-forward concept that has been executed very well. The art and the music complement each other and it feels like a fully-realised game. Well done! Unfortunately, it turns out that I have no rizz... but I'm not that surprised.
It's so hard to find good help these days. Everyone needs to be micromanaged! 😆 This is a visually impressive game and a unique concept. The music and sound complemented the artstyle well. I found controlling the followers quite difficult - they always seemed to lag too far behind so I was always waiting for them, which made dealing with enemies really hard. But, what can you do? When you're the little guy with the hat, you just have to learn how to lead! Overall, really nice work!
The character designs are very nice and well animated. The colour palette for the game was also well done. It's unfortunate that your music corrupted because it needed some sound to support it. Overall, I think you did a great job. Congratulations on your first jam!
Buying new ants and immediately getting steamrolled by one of those grey bugs... name a better duo. Ugh. Anyway, this is such a great game! The little ants look awesome and the enemies present a good level of challenge so you have to be careful. Really good concept, too. And the music is perfect. Great work!
This is a cute take on a hidden object game. I really liked the little bit of polish with the animated polaroid photo popping up when you snapped a fairy. The music was super chill and suited the game really well. Good one!
It's a hard roach life. I have to say, though, old Francois Ratatouile must be really good at getting the herbs and spices off the highest shelves... look at the arms on this guy! This was actually a lot of fun and the music suited it perfectly. The difficulty scaled nicely but I only managed to get a high score of 41 :(
Great job!
Cool game. I love the art style and the little three pixel humans wandering around the city. Adding the tanks forced a bit more strategy into the gameplay and I could see this becoming much more challenging if you were to develop it further. The music suited the gameplay but it did get a bit repetitive after a while. I ran into a bit of a memory leak issue (I think) at the end of the third level and the game froze up but I had a good time playing it! Overall, good job!
At first, I thought I was protecting the creatures on the ground from the falling things but then they rose up and killed me. After that, I actually played the game properly and it was fun! When you start, it seems so easy but the difficulty ramps up pretty quickly. The chain reaction strat is the best and feels really satisfying - the little screen shake with the explosion is a nice touch! Good job!
There is something tremendously satisfying about leading these little guys around and making them grow. Really chill little experience!
Look. I'm a man who loves his grapes. I won't apologise for that. And yes, yes I _did_ smash literally thousands of ducklings to death with a giant hammer just to protect my single bowl of grapes. I admit it. And you know what... I don't regret a single thing. Those little duckers were after my grapes! MY GRAPES!
Also... great game! Really fun and well made. Perfect balance of cute and unhinged. Great work!
Despite all my rage I'm still just a rat in a... maze. On my first attempt I thought I'd absolutely smashed my way through the maze but then I realised I'd just gotten turned around and had exited through the entrance back to where I started. Eventually I got the hang of it, but I was just hopeless at avoiding the ants. Overall, a difficult but fun game!
It's a real pity you weren't able to finish this one off because it has the makings of a great game! The art is great and the idea looks really interesting, too. The scope does seem pretty huge for a jam game but it's impressive what you managed to achieve in the time you had. Good effort!
I really love this idea, it suits the theme perfectly. The art and animations are really nice. It kind of gives me Sokpop Collective vibes (which is a good thing). I have to admit, I killed a lot of good guys before I realised my mistake... such is pot life, I guess. Good one!
Great art and music combined to produce a really cool atmosphere. It took me a lot of goes to get past the first enemy but I'm glad I did otherwise I would have missed the different environments and challenges you created. It would have been nice if there was a clearer indication of your "light" level and when your "hide" ability availability. The darkening of the screen was a bit too subtle for me. Overall, really impressive game!
I am so glad there's no timer or lives in this game because I was really not good at it 😆 It was surprisingly challenging. I think the hand-drawn aesthetic was really great and probably added to the difficulty in pattern matching. A simple game but well made. Good work!
Really cute and polished game! I love the character design. The controls are simple and intuitive but also provide some good challenge when deciding how to navigate the map. The traps are super punishing (especially the sea anemone / spike traps) but nothing felt unfair. Overall, great work!
Really beautiful looking game. I love the firefly trails effect. The mood of the game is really nice. I'm not sure if the music 100% suited the vibe but I can see what you were going for and it is probably a personal preference thing. I think you got the difficulty just right! You have, however, given me a lifelong hatred for frogs now. Overall, great job!
I like the animation and the colours. I sure squished the hell out of the poor little fellas though :(
I also had very little time this jam, so I know how that goes. Your game looks much nicer than mine, though.
This is a fantastic looking game. Great art and animation. The music suits it perfectly, too. It's also really quirky which is fun. I'm not going to lie, aside from feeding the little guy random horrible stuff until he died I'm not entirely sure what I was supposed to be doing. Which just makes me think it's a metaphor for life... most likely my life.
Overall, great job!
As some one who has played a lot of Frogger in my time, can I just say that it's nice to see the frog finally get his revenge. I think this game looks good and the idea behind it is cool. The music suits the vibe of the game well. Also, the frog clearly hits the gym. Overall, good work!
Nice work! I particularly love the little game design elements you added like the ant whistling for their friends when they finally get to the end and the way that they all come running through the maze after them. Overall, a well made little game.
Wow! This has a lot of cool stuff going on. The use of scaling is awesome and suits the theme really well. I love the tyre tracks from the car, too. I have to admit, I only managed to find the first tiny creature. I guess I'm not a great tiny creature hunting agent. I'm also an absolutely awful driver.
Good job!
This is a great looking game! The music is awesome, too. It's super hard, though, and I'm bad at games... so that's a rough combo. I feel like it would have been better if the first wave was slower and/or had fewer enemies. Overall, good work!
Well, if I ever wanted to know how I'd perform as a Five-Star General for fleas... I guess, now I do. SO MANY fleas just died on my watch.
Great work! I think it's a fun and surprisingly challenging game. The musical loop did start to grate after a little while, but that's my only complaint. Good one!
Nice one. I really like the difficulty scaling. The controls are simple to understand but difficult to master. I do feel like it would have been better if the dash went past your cursor rather than stopping at the cursor if it was too close - but I also understand that would have been hard to get right from a gamefeel perspective. Overall, great job!
Thanks for providing an English version! The dialogue was funny and the background art was great. I feel for the kid, just trying to get better but old ghosts are throwing stuff at him. It happens.
Good job!
An interesting, artistic game. I actually found it quite unsettling and... sombre? As a result the ending felt quite cynical. I'm not sure if that was the intention. The dialogue populated a bit too slowly (as others have mentioned) but that also contributed someone to the mood of the game, so maybe that's fine for a small experience like this one.
Overall, a very interesting submission.
Cool game. Once I realised that different chefs were good and bad at different recipes, it made a lot more sense I didn't get better at the game, unfortunately, but at least I understood what I __should__ be doing. Sometimes you get a bit screwed by RNG when you have 4 cakes to make and you don't get any pigs, for example.
I like the art style and the music adds some nice energy.
Overall, good work!
I did get stuck quite often (I'm dumb, what can I say) but I think it was a cool puzzle concept. Having to experiment to find the correct solution was a fun idea but did become a bit laborious - more positive feedback cues and clues would have been nice. From a technical perspective, I found the mouse sensitivity to be very high (not sure if it was just an issue for me specifically).
Overall, well done!
I really like the game play concept and it's well implemented, however, it ramps up in difficulty really quickly and I wasn't able to make it past more than a few levels. It took me a little while to realise that holding down the rune button for longer meant I could summon different defenders. Once the enemies were able to shoot at me, though, I was too busy running for my life to hold the button down that long.
Aside from the balancing issues, I actually really like this game and think you did a great job!
The art in this game is really good! It's also a pretty relaxing game when you're just combining random things and seeing what you get. I expected it to have more of a puzzle element to it.
I liked the introductory dialogue section and the descriptions of the things you summoned made me laugh.
Good job!
Look... I'm not trying to make excuses... I'm just saying that making it to level 3 is pretty good for a guy who holds the gun with his face 😆
Seriously, though, I think this is pretty fun! During the first level, I was thinking that it was way too easy. Once more than one boss was spawned at a time, I changed my mind.
Adding something like a dash that allowed you to dodge the bosses' projectiles would be good, because they are very hard to avoid once they get close. Also, some intense battle music would have been nice.
Overall, good job!
The art style and music gives the game a great mood and vibe. I have to admit, even though I was able to play cards and the number went up and down - I'm not exactly sure what the rules of the game were or if I was playing it properly. I __think__ I was trying to play a better card than my opponent but I'm not sure what made one card better than another or if I am just completely misunderstanding.
Anyway, I liked the pixelly graphics and the general feel of the game.
Good work!
This is simple but really well executed and very fun puzzle game. Despite being a simple mechanic, I think the puzzles that you put together actually presented a good level of difficulty. Honestly, I'm always really impressed when some one is able to come up with such a clever, straight-forward idea and then make it fun and challenging.
It looks fantastic and is very polished with fun music and sounds. I think it's a really cool interpretation of the theme, too!
Great game! Well done!
This is a BIG game for a jam. The mood and atmosphere in it is excellent due to a great colour palette and choice of ambient sounds.
I enjoyed the puzzles, however, I have to admit that I found you could grab the wood planks then jump repeatedly to levitate yourself into the air, then you could just run over the walls and doors etc. That was also pretty fun to do, but probably not intended.
An impressive achievement in such a short amount of time!
This game is awesome! Just a really good puzzle game that makes a great use of the theme.
I love the art style and the music suits it very well. You even included a tutorial! That was super useful.
Of all the games I have played so far, this one feels the most fully-realised and "complete".
Great work!
Great looking game. I ran into the blue panel bug on the first play through but refreshing the browser window fixed it.
I liked the idea of moving the panels of the image around to find the puzzle elements and influence the narrative. Very innovative!
Overall, a really interesting submission!
This is an aesthetically beautiful game. Realising that I could hover over elements in the game to get a tooltip was a game changer (pardon the pun). This mechanic should really be highlighted for future players as I was quite confused until I discovered it.
The music suits the art style perfectly. I feel like it could have benefitted from some further sound design, though.
Overall, a great submission!
Cute game. I like the concept of basically supplying resources for your little towners to go and douse the candles of their arch-enemies. It took me a little while to realise I could cue up more than one water resource at each well as long as I took my mouse off the well then put it back on it to click again.
The music and sound fit the style well (although the extinguishing sound was a bit loud, perhaps).
Overall, a fun and good looking game.
Great idea and fun to play but super hard! It gave me anxiety watching those evil circles floating toward my base while my card timer was just super slowly counting down and there was nothing that I could do.
Love the art style and the music and sound suits the game well. It could probably do with a little balancing but overall, I think it's great!
This is a great looking game and an interesting concept. I tend to agree with some of the other comments regarding the WAS controls but I can also see your intent in making the controls just a little cumbersome - after all, you are just a floating eye trying to push stuff around. Floating eyes are probably not the most nimble things.
The sound was great but I wish there had been a little bit of music to accompany me as I floated about breaking vials.
Overall, good work!
Ah, this one made me laugh.
Although it doesn't seem to relate to the theme of Summoning, I feel like the fact that it is a game about your experience while working on a game for the theme of Summoning makes it relevant to the theme anyway!
I love the art and the general style of the game.
And for two hours work, I'm actually pretty impressed.
Good job!
Making a deck building rogue-lite in a game jam is an ambitious undertaking, but I am impressed with what you managed to achieve. I played through and managed to defeat the boss (the convert gold to damage card is very overpowered 😃 ). The game logic for room progression and battles works well. I also really like the art style and design.
The only issue I had was that it was hard to keep track of what was happening because of the lack of animations for visual feedback. Given the scale and complexity of this kind of game, though, I can understand why it wasn't there. Music and sound would also have been nice.
Overall, good job!
It took me a while to get my head around how to play the game but once I understood, I found it to be a pretty clever idea. I like the way you used the theme and the writing was good. As another player commented, it would have been nice to have more interplay between your card choices and the narrative development, but that is a LOT to ask for a game jam game.
Overall, good work!
I'm a sucker for a survivor-like game. This one has an interesting mechanic that I haven't come across in one before with the lenses and the colour-classing of enemies. It plays smoothly and the controls feel responsive.
I think the lens mechanic was a little difficult to use effectively. Perhaps placing coloured "zones" which allowed your weapon to do more damage to that colour enemy inside the zone would have made it more impactful? Or maybe just letting the lens last longer? I found myself placing a lens but then being quickly chased away from a location where it was useful. I do really like the concept though and I think it is a mechanic that is well worth developing further.
In general, the game would have benefited from some music and general design stuff like a title screen. Overall, though, great work! Well done and congratulations on getting it completed this time around!
I like the concept of needing to acquire resources as your space becomes more and more limited but the interactions between objects made that a bit more challenging than it needed to be. You had to be in just the right place to throw the rock onto the stick which you could waste a fair few seconds getting right. Being able to lose the resources needed to progress can be super frustrating and should probably be a game over state when it happens, otherwise you just have to jump to your death.
I think the game has a lot of potential. It has some nice animations and a good camera. Overall, nice work.
Nice graphics and responsive controls. A little bit of coyote time on jumps would have been appreciated because they are super easy to miss-time. The music suits the vibe of the game and a space-restricted platformer is an interesting concept.
Good job!
I love the art style and the effort put into developing a narrative context for it. I found it very hard to do any good. Shooting down to jump just made everything far more difficult and I'm not sure it adds much since shooting the blocks to position them makes it hard enough already.
I do think it is a really well made game with excellent music and great visuals, though. Well done!
Cool idea! It is really hard, though. I don't mind that, necessarily, but it is complicated by the fact that when you drag your mouse to or beyond the edge of the game window in the browser it doesn't let you release your shot. Perhaps if didn't make the game fill the browser window and let people put it in full screen mode themselves, it might be better... maybe? I had to F11 my browser then press play on the game to fix the issue.
Anyway, I think it was a good idea but could have benefited from some audio. Good job!
I like the idea and the music/sound is cool. It would have been good if there were levels of varying degrees of difficulty (just narrower view, I guess).
Overall, an interesting and unique take on the theme. Good job!
Cool idea and nice graphics. The early game is very hard when you first start playing because you don't really have the chance to learn the controls before you die, which is frustrating. After dying early on a few times you get the hang of the controls, though. It would be nice if you didn't have to manually drop an item before you pick up another item - pressing E when standing over an item should just drop your current item and pick up the other one (just my opinion).
Overall, though well made game and a strong concept!
I read your post-mortem post and thought the idea sounded cool so I checked it out. I love space trading games and this was a fun one! You can definitely see the FTL influence but it's clearly an entirely difference game at the core.
The music was cool, though it got a bit repetitive, and the simple graphics in game did the job. The UI was functional but could have been a bit more styled to suit the style of the game.
Overall, I enjoyed it! Good work.
The 3D assets and writing for this were great. Like a few other commenters, I had a bit of trouble with the camera but it wasn't a huge deal. The music suited the game play perfectly.
Good job!
What do you mean you can't play bagpipes in a jazz song? Outrageous!
This was a fun concept and it had a good amount of challenge due to the various skills each performer had and the range of instruments to choose from as well as needing to interpret the description of each performance. I'm interested in how you constructed the composition layers to fit together (or clash) based on the selections whilst still sounding like they were _trying_ to play together.
Great game!
A fun little asteroids/nova drift style game. Getting upgrades made ALL the difference but it was brutally unforgiving if you died later and respawned with absolutely nothing. Basically a death sentence. I liked the art style but feel like it really needed some hi-octane tunes to accompany it.
I didn't have any trouble running the game on PC/Chrome. However, other people have had issues running my Godot game on their Mac, so I'm kind of in the same position as you. Doing a Mac build is such a pain in the arse.
I love a tower defense game and this one looks great considering it was made in such a short time. I didn't have any issues with performance despite having an old PC but I did run into the issue of losing the ability to mouse look after tabbing out.
In terms of gameplay, it was fun and had some good depth with the range of weapons and their different abilities. I feel like it could have scaled a little faster in the early game because it took too long to acquire new gear. Just making sandbags cheaper would have been good, so I could start dictating pathing even though I was broke.
Overall, a nice fun game!
Well done on making your first game! This is actually really impressive for a first effort. The little pixel dinos look good and the controls are responsive. As a game, it's a bit bare bones but it has all the essential elements. The difficulty curve was good.
At higher speeds, the waves of dinos become kind of mesmerising.
Nice 3D rendering and kind of a conceptual anti-game but, what really is a game anyway? The fact that this is built on your own engine makes it a technically impressive achievement but hard to rate in accordance with the LD jam rating categories.
I LOVE THIS GAME! It's so good! I love the concept and how it fits the theme. Most importantly it is super fun!
I'm not sure what the scoring system is based on, though, because I consistently scored less than 5 with life-changing philosophical arguments such as these:
This is like a hallucinogenic fever dream... in the best possible way. I imagine if H.P. Lovecraft took a lot of mushrooms and designed a video game - it would be this one. The story alone was a trip! I loved it. The controls are responsive (although you move so damn fast), the music and sounds were great and the aesthetic was garish but eye-catching and consistent.
I starved a lot, but I really enjoyed it!
Really great looking game that plays very smoothly and has a nice amount of difficulty to it. The music and sound effects fit the look of the game perfectly. I have to think that it's probably not healthy for that slime to live on a diet consisting of only fruit and vegetable juices. I also hope the long green vegetable was celery rather than leek... because I'm not sure how I feel about leek juice.
Overall, great game. Good work!
Fabulous looking game with great feel that takes the theme in a unique direction. I absolutely love the art style. I did get stuck at the start of the third level. What am I supposed to do here?
Either way, I think it's great. Good work!
Great character design and a cool concept. I have to admit that I got stuck at the first wall jump and just could not get past it. After a LOT of attempts I had to just reconcile myself with the fact that I'm bad at games. It's unfortunate because I really wanted to see what the rest of the game had to offer.
Really polished and super responsive. The overall look of the game is great. I love the overall minimalist black and white design but your choice of colours and when/where to use them was excellent. It just felt really fleshed out.
I'm going to check out your source code to see how you implemented the block placement because it's clearly better than the approach I used in our game.
Very nice game!
Firstly, you already made me laugh in your game description with:
> Have you ever been in the place of our protagonist?
> No? It’s not a game about you then.
Besides that, this is a really polished game and a pretty good representation of how the supermarket is whenever you are in a hurry. Just a million people pushing their trolley in the way and blocking your path constantly. The idea of a 1.4kb shopping list also terrifies me.
Overall, this is a really well made and funny game with great animations and a good game feel! Well done.
The "boing" sound of the jump was quite fun and I love the decision to provide the controls as a voice over. I might try that myself in the future. When the rockin' music started it kind of drowned out the voice over for me, so I'm not sure what was said there but I figured out I hit the grade sheet. And I took that sucker DOWN! A+.
Good job!
Ooo-weee, we gon' have ahselfs a good ol' fashion frawwggg hunt! Although, they should probably not recruit me because the best I could do was 15 frogs. This is an excellent concept by the way and fun to play. I'm not even sure I understand how you went about technically implementing it. Very impressive and a unique spin on the theme!
Well done.
Awesome game! I'm a real sucker for these survivor-like games. This was super polished and had a perfect amount of challenge. I did die/get hurt a couple of times because I was by the wall and something spawned off-screen beside me which was a bit annoying, but that is my only gripe. Overall, it is an excellent game. Great work!
Great game. The dialogue is excellent and the character art is very funny. The music suits the epic space fighting perfectly. I have to admit that I was pretty bad at the game and, yes, I am responsible for the destruction of Earth through my poor in-game decisions. But, I had fun in the process, so that's something!
Great job!
This is an awesome concept and a mechanic that I haven't really come across before in a game. An excellent treatment of the theme, too! I love the minimalist art style - it's really well done. The game has a good level of challenge to it. Baiting enemies into position and then thwomping them with a wall is super satisfying. Really, impressive that you put this together in just 24 hours.
If you had the time, it would have been nice to have some music, I guess, but it is a great game even without it.
Well done!
Fantastic game! I really enjoyed that. A great amount of strategy and paths to optimize. Good scaling of difficulty and great pacing so that you always feel like there's something that needs attention. I love that, at the end of a level, you just end up with a node graph. Very satisfying! Well done!
Fun game with puzzles that make you think a bit. I love the art style, too, and the animations are super cute. The sounds fit perfectly (though some music may have added to the mood). It is really nicely polished and the controls feel great. Excellent work!
I like the art style that you've gone with - minimalist and clean but it feels right. I especially like the inversion of the colours when the level changes. The puzzles are a good level of difficulty. Having to wait for 8 or so seconds at the start of a level every time you mess up is a bit frustrating but I can't think of any good solution for that aside from fast forwarding time (which would cause its own problems). Overall, good job!
Beautiful graphics and the death animation (which I saw A LOT) was really cool. It was a bit difficult to control on mouse and keyboard because left didn't align with the isometric-ish view. I didn't have a controller around but I imagine that it would have been easier with that. Took me a minute to realise that the orange switches turned green when you got closer (I'm dumb). A cool idea and a fun little game. Well done!
Cool idea! It is very hard. I feel like it would have been better if the wave enemies were quicker to kill early on so that you had more time to play the minigames before the difficulty ramped up. I enjoyed playing, though! Good work!
A challenging game! I liked the idea and the sounds and the controls were snappy and responsive. I sometimes felt a bit cheated by the hit boxes which seemed to extend around the mushrooms a bit. The change in timer sound when you get closer to 0 and the the death sound were nice additions. The instruction text was a bit hard to read but I could make it out. Overall, good compo entry. Well done!
I really like this. Simple concept but well implemented. With a bit of a graphics overall, I could see this doing well on mobile. The only issue I had with it is that the sound of balls spawning which indicates the rhythm clashes with the sound of kicking so it is hard to track the rhythm - I just focused on the red circle and ignored the sounds. Nice work, good game!
This is the best I could do on hard mode!
This is such a cool idea and great use of AI image generation for a video game. I think my magical dragon story ended up missing one thing (unless the dragon is just pretending to be some leaves)
Of course, it was the AI that was wrong... that pink scribble was CLEARYLY meant to be a dragon.
Love this. Great job!
Congrats your first game. I lived the art style in this and the controls felt snappy and responsive. It was a little bit too easy to clear the ring almost immediately after the next wave arrived. Increasing the spawn rate and randomizing the spawn location may have helped. Some kind of stamina bar or something that limited your ability to grab enemies for long periods may also have helped. Overall, it's a stable, well made game with plenty of potential!
Beautifully presented with great atmospheric sound design and satisfying switches. The constant bleeping was too much for my taste. I wasn't very good at the game but I did quite like it. Great work!
This game actually made me laugh out loud. From the dopey expression on the pink hat witch to the various deaths that Martha experienced - it really tickled my funny bone. In the end though... you don't mess with Martha. I liked the way that you used the theme by making it a narrative element rather than a game mechanic. The music and art were also very fun. Good job!
I like the quirky idea of hiding objects with a teapot in some kind of 70s dining room complete with Mondrian painting. It is essentially a memory game (which is fine by me) however I found it very easy because the newly added item always had a darker green base than the previously added items. Not sure how or why that's the case for me as no one else seems to have mentioned it, so I guess it only happens on my browser/machine. Overall, well done!
Love the minimalist art style and the game idea was really fun (and the final level was challenging). Not sure how well the theme was integrated and it could have done with some music/sounds to add to the mood. Overall, great job!
Love the pixel art and the idea of the game. My best score was 108. Not sure it's human to keep sheep in a meteor prone area with deadly electric fences but I did my farm dog best! The sound and controls were also very good. Not sure whether I was using the bark correctly but the sheep didn't seem to respond to it. Overall, great work!
I really liked this. Like @alphabetasoup said it was more of an experience but it was well done and had a very ominous feel to it. It took me a couple of goes to realize that left was yes and right was no but once I understood that I played through a few times to see where the story went based on my decisions. The art and narrative were very good. Great job!
Amazing looking game with great voice acting! Love to see these narrative driven games come out of a game jam - super impressive! My only critique was that the theme made me feel rushed when I want to engage more and dig deeper. Excellent work!
Interesting idea. The art style and music gave me Sid Meier's Pirates vibe. I'm not sure I was very good at it because I couldn't figure out how to return fire! The turn-based hex movement was fun but I feel like the oranges just added frustration more than any thing. I suppose they were necessary to limit the number of moves you could make in 10 seconds. Overall, a good game!
Great game! Really impressive that you built this in your own engine, too! I have to say, those fire rate upgrades were just the greatest thing in the world to collect. Music, art style, controls - everything fit together perfectly. My only criticism would be that sometimes you shift to a new level and instantly get hit by a red dot without having enough time to react. Other than that, this was an excellent entry. Great job!
Interesting idea! I liked the character and the music was really good. Since timing is key, I was always going to struggle 😆 Overall, great work and congratulations on your first LD game. I sympathise with @kaech - game jams are pretty punishing! But you should be proud of what you achieved in such a short period of time.
Good concept and no doubt challenging to create. I made it through quite a few levels but I don't think my brain is capable of thinking far enough ahead! The controls were snappy and responsive and the design was simple and clean. It could have done with some music. My main issue was that it was too easy to get stuck on walls (and the sides of blocks) which made it difficult to execute the perfect sequence of moves. Overall, good job!
Interesting take on the puzzle platformer. Great art and great music and sound! It was hard but doable which is a nice balance. Clever integration of the theme, too - collecting 10 seconds to progress was a good idea! I feel like the enemies maybe could have broadcast their attacks a bit more to give you more of a chance to avoid them but, overall, excellent game!
For some reason, the main character loaded as a black square for me on the web build (which made the game incredibly hard as you can imagine). So I downloaded the windows build and it was a better. I mean... it was still hard but only because I'm bad at games 😆 I liked the music and the art. The controls felt tight and responsive. The concept was good, too. Overall, good job and congrats on your first LD game!
Love the idea. The sound, art style and general mechanics were great! The only problem I had is that it is brutally hard (or I'm just awful at games, which is brutally confronting for me!) The UI could have done with some improvement but aside from that, this is a great entry. Good job!
Good concept. I loved the character art style but I feel like the heavy post-effects took a bit away from that. The effects were good (esp. the speeding up of the horizontal static when you fast forwarded) I just think they were a bit to heavily applied. I liked the puzzles but input lag on the web added an extra degree of difficulty (which is obvs not you fault). Good music and sounds, too. Good job!
Edit: Also the web build on the LD page isn't working. You might not have renamed your html file to index.html if you've uploaded any bug fixes.
What an amazing game! Turns out I made some music with a few bad notes, my art was awful, my code was barely completed, there were quite a few bugs left, I could barely play my own game and I got awful sleep... and that was before I even played your game! 😆 Honestly, this is so polished and clever. Love the art style and the general mood. Great job!
Graphically very nice and the controls felt responsive and tight. The physics felt a little odd to me and I found myself slipping off the swinging bar a bit but teleporting back on at the last second. Still, a fun and very challenging game with a great aesthetic!
25 seconds. That's how long I lasted. And I'm proud of that. PROUD!
Fun little bullet hell game with tight controls and a good variety of enemies/attack patterns. The music really adds to the sense of urgency and I liked the 3D animations.
Overall, good job!
I am utterly awful at this. However, it is a great game. The controls feel tight, the music is perfect and the graphics are really good. I did find it a bit difficult to distinguish the mines/bullets and feel like they could have been a bit more obvious (just a colour that stands out more would be enough).
Overall, great work especially considering you had such little time.
Absolutely fantastic game! It looks beautiful, the sound effects and music are perfect, the controls feel very snappy and the shoaling is very impressive (especially when poor fish friends get left behind). A really innovative take on the infinite runner idea!
Excellent!
I love that you made a game about the eternal snail that will follow you forever and instantly kill you if you touch it. It suits the theme very well!
The gameplay was fun and the levels were well designed. The movement controls felt pretty good (though perhaps a little bit floaty). The audio was a bit glitchy for me, though.
Overally, I enjoyed this game a lot! Well done.
Ah, this one made me laugh. Sure, the jokes are all pitched at the 12 year old audience but I remember being 12 and my sense of humour hasn't really changed much.
The gameplay was fun. The art style was consistent. The music matched the feel of the game. My only criticism is that the font was hard to read.
Despite the fact that I died to an actual butt, I still think you did a good job!
You have developed a great mood in this game through the use of lighting and sound. It feels bleak and cold and worrying. The animations and graphics and controls are all well done.
Interestingly, this game is conceptually similar to my game though the setting and presentation are entirely different. A game about supplying resources to something that will eventually die. I think it has a similar flaw to my game in that there is probably not enough variety of things to do.
Overall, though, you did a very good job!
The graphics look great and the knockback when you shoot enemies and asteroids gives the bullets/rockets a real feeling of force. Like some others I thought I was stuck on the initial cutscene because I don't think I've ever used J as a fire button (also, I could progress the cutscene with K but then got confused when that wasn't fire in the game).
All that aside, I think this is a really fun game which looks and sounds great. Good job!
I really, really like this! The space combat had a really good feel to it. It gave me big Battlestar Galactica vibes. And the narrative was really well integrated and paced. Clever use of graphics, from vast gaseous emptiness to massive planets, made the game world feel expansive. And the sound and background particle movement made the ships feel really fast. Subtle but very effective game juice.
You did a great job with the friendly and enemy AI, too.
Great work!
Well. You did it. You made me install Java again. I swore I'd never go back but... here I am.
Anyway, this is a great concept (although it's bleak as hell when you think about it). I had fun playing it. The sounds were cool and the art style, although basic, has its charms.
Good job and congrats on your first LD jam!
Great simple game concept that has been executed very well!
I love the art. It looks gorgeous. The doggo sound effects also brought a smile to my face.
I feel like the difficulty ramps up enormously once the second balloon appears and I never made it much past that point.
Overall, great job!
Really good concept. It took me one "death" and a re-read of the instructions before I really understood the gameplay but from that point on I was a shoe-grabbing, child-helping, granny-walking, creep-evader of the highest order.
I do wish that the difficult scaled a bit more and perhaps some colour cues on the icons flowing toward you would have helped with split-second decision making. Overall, though, great work!
Ha, I love the ending!
This is a great looking game with a clear idea behind it. The art assets look great and the tilt-shift perspective is really cool. The only issue I had was with pathfinding. The little dude just loves to run into fences and got stuck in a house at one point. Overall, though, great job!
Clever game and well made! The mechanics felt very well implemented and intuitive. I did find that the RNG seemed to hate me, but randomness do be like that. The game felt very snappy and well-optimized. The music and sounds suited the visual style, too.
Incidentally, I don't know how I'd feel about living in a town were every single house was just metres from a train line.
Great work!
This game is so hard!
I love the idea, it's very unique and it looks really great! I'm just waaaay too uncoordinated to get very far. Seriously great looking game. The mechanics are very intuitive - you can immediately understand how the game is meant to be played. The music and lute sounds fit perfectly, too. I'm just so bad at it, though!
Well done!
This game puts an interesting spin on the theme! I love the concept of it and the general gameplay loop. The idea of having to work but finding dealing with people to be anxiety-inducing is one that I'm sure many people can relate to.
There were a few issues where I walked over a bag but it didn't pick it up. Also I had to turn down my mouse sensitivity a lot (that's not too unusual for me). Aside from that, I think you did a good job!
Well done!
This game made me laugh out loud a few times.
The dialogue was just fantastic and really gave the characters some life. It was also a really original take on the theme. I thought the controls and the character movement were really good (up until I had to crawl upside down on that board in the second level... that broke my brain). Incidentally, I was playing on a controller.
Great mood. Great look. Original idea. Thumbs up from me!
Nice work! The art assets look really nice and the music and sounds really fit the style. The finite points to mount lasers and the cap on rockets means that, ultimately, you really are only delaying the inevitable. So nice work on fitting the theme.
I did encounter two bugs. If you are playing the game and the asteroids have reached a higher level of difficulty then you restart the game from the pause menu, the first asteroids that spawn have the same difficulty as the previous game - so you can't destroy them with a single laser. The other bug comes later in the game when you have a bunch of little asteroids colliding behind the main asteroid - I think they are generating thousands of collisions among themselves and the game really lags out.
Overall, though, I really enjoyed playing your game. Well done!
This is such a great game!
The art style is awesome. The game play is unique and interesting with a good amount of challenge. The music is a real bop. The only thing that I feel was missing was some UI interaction sounds. At first, the text heavy tutorial scenes had me concerned but playing the game feels pretty intuitive, I think!
Also, it just seems so polished! Great work!
This is great!
I love the student protestors chanting "No more school!", haha... that's awesome. The difficulty felt like it scaled well. You also did a good job of making some relatively complex interactions clear in terms of the effects that they were having. The only issue I really had was that selecting different troops felt a bit awkward and unintuitive. To be fair, I think a 230 second career as a dictator is about all I deserve anyway.
Good job!
Well, this was terrifying. Great job!
The core game loop was good. Rushing madly from one end of the ship to the other with just non-stop chaos all around you was fun. I liked the implementation of the directional indicator arrows! All that was missing was a little haunting background music.
Well done.
~~Unfortunately, the game doesn't load past the title image for me. I get a "Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: The element has no supported sources" and a "Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)" error in the console.~~
~~It looks to be related to sound effects, so I think maybe you're trying to play sound via a script before the user interacts with the page. But that's just a guess.~~
~~If you manage to get a fix up, just tag me in the replies on here and I'll come back to take another look.~~
Tried it again the next day and it is working. Not sure what caused the error the first time around. See my actual feedback in a lower comment.
Excellent game! I absolutely loved the art style. The world and the character designs felt really cohesive. The controls were snappy and responsive. The game itself has just the right amount of challenge. It's hard, but not completely impossible. Great work!
A fun little game with quirky controls and a good level of challenge. I loved the animations and the music. It was hard (I was bad at it) but fun!
Excellent work! Great game with a lot of polish and some real value adding details (such as prop damage). I was absolutely terrible at it. I loved the Seinfeld-esque intro music and enjoyed the game overall!
I feel like this game is a metaphor for my 2021 except I have a broken up key. Nice to see video used in a game jam and an interesting little microgame.
Absolutely fantastic game! A truly innovative take on an established genre of game with heaps of polish and an excellent progression of difficulty! I thoroughly enjoyed that! Well done!
What a wonderfully infuriating game you've made! It looks amazing and is highly polished. I would have liked a little music to accompany me as I slowly grew angrier and angrier at the very concept of reversing, though. In all seriousness, excellent work!
Good game idea. The art and music really did a great job of establishing a mood! Unfortunately, I got to the final day and simply could not put my the chair in a position to pick something off the wardrobe in one of the bottom right rooms. However, up until that point I was really enjoying it! It feels like it has a good level of challenge and is balanced. I wish I could have seen the end!
This is a great, simple idea that has been executed very well! It has a good level of challenge, the art looks great and the music is awesome! The only thing that could perhaps have been improved is the UI but even that wasn't too bad anyway! Great work!
You've built an atmospheric, dystopian world here through great art, cool music and excellent dialogue/descriptive text. The core game play loop is very good, too. It was a significant undertaking to get a game of this kind of scope done in 72 hours and I think you did a pretty amazing job with it. It would be good to get a little more feedback from interactions (selection clicks, movement animations etc) but in a game jam that kind of thing falls into "nice to have if we've got time" pile.
I think there is a lot of potential to grow this out into a bigger game!
This is a super polished, beautiful game! At first I felt sorry for the poor schmos that got burned to death the first time I took off but then I reached the end of the game and... well... maybe dead is better? The presentation, controls, music and just general idea of the game were so well done! Literally my only gripe is that the sound was probably too loud and drowned out the music when you were tearing through space. Other than that, it's just an amazing game! Great work!
I've played a few of these stacker games this LD and this is definitely one of the very best of them. The physics feels right and the way the gameplay is designed totally fits the theme. It has a consistent art style and the controls make sense. I just really like it!!
I made it to just under two minutes (yeah, I have almost zero reaction speed and negative accuracy). The difficulty really ramped up quickly. Good game, though. The movement felt good and the sound effects were super satisfying. Perhaps the music could have been more intense? Or maybe that would have been too over-the-top. Overall, a fun game!
I have never been so infuriated by a cute flightless bird in all my life. Best I could do was 187 points. What kind of mid-90s hellscape have you created here? 😆
In all honesty, it was great. Super simple idea that was executed really well with a cohesive art style and good level of challenge! Well done!
Beautiful looking game with some really fun mechanics in it and a very polished feel. I loved the animations of the little people running around on the planet surface (but felt kind of bad for harvesting them as currency). The art style was really cohesive and the UI was intuitive. It would have been good if it was a little more difficult, but balance is hard to do in a game jam. Overall, excellent game!
Man, I'm dumb. I really liked the game but after a long day at work, my brain was not up to sliding those blocks around. My poor little guy probably ended up more fragmented than before I started! 😆 Actually, it was quite fun and a bit of a challenge. I did find myself running out of time trying to find the next puzzle. Overall, great game!
That is one slapping tune! Also a fun game which fits the theme perfectly. My general approach was to just crash into obstacles and spam the space bar, which worked pretty well! It would have been good to have a bit more variety in obstacles or some different block behaviours (such as exploding blocks or sticky blocks). Overall, though, I really liked it. Good job!
If this game has taught me anything, it's that I should not under any circumstances be either a furniture removalist or a tightrope walker. I was SO bad at this. It was a great idea though and a challenging but fun little game! Those L shaped blocks can burn in hell.
Great work!
It took me a while to figure out how to build a weapon but once I got the hang of it, I had a great time. A nice little Binding-of-Isaac-esque dungeon crawler with a good sense of humour. Very impressive that you wrote this in Vanilla JS in just a couple of days! Well done!
I was hoping some one would make an unstable economy game. I really like this idea. It had all the crazy unpredictability of the real stock market and just like real life I lost a lot of money! In the end, I had success just by buying when a stock went super low as they always bounced back (unlike IRL).
Some controls for the sound and a way to restart/replay would have been good (unless there was one that I didn't see). I liked the art style and the UI was pretty intuitive.
Overall, good job!
You should be really proud of your work given that this was your first game ever! I liked the idea and the general mechanics. The movement was smooth and responsive. It was a good idea to have multiple different endings, too. Nice work, I look forward to seeing more of your games in the future!
It took me a little bit to understand the mechanics (i.e how to plan/charge your meter for the upcoming level) but once I did, it turned out to be quite fun and challenging. I feel like the game has a pretty sweet message about managing your love/expectations/relationships. The music was good but I would have liked some game sounds, too. Overall, good work!
Interesting game! I really liked the ending.
~spoilers below~
I wonder what happened to Grace's girlfriend seeing as she promised to go to the end of the world for her, yet she also signed up for a mission which, if successful, would see her return to Earth thousands (probably millions) of years into the future. It's a cool little mystery.
It would have been nice to have more little tasks to stay do while cruising through space. Perhaps the option to turn on some music (or turn it off if you just want to listen to engine noise) would have been good. Overall, though, I quite liked it!
Excellent! It's like a cube-based Mount Your Friends... but more difficult. I like how you've balanced this game, no pun intended. It's very simple but also very challenging - which is difficult to get right! I would have loved some funky tunes to accompany my block stacking but, overall, this is a really nice game!
Interesting concept and I like that you interpreted the theme as "civil instability". The game idea was quite unique but I did find that I struggled to come up with a winning strategy. Some chill background music (or maybe not-so-chill seeing as it's about riots) would have been good. Overall, great job!
Nice game! I found some parts of it quite easy but other parts of it super hard (which is probably how a platformer should be, really). It all ran smoothly and there were some cool ideas in there. I think the axes were swinging too slowly as you spend a while waiting for them to get out of the way in some parts. Also there's a slight bug where you can infinitely jump against moving platforms but it doesn't really help the player much. Overall, well done!
Great game. I love Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes so naturally I was pretty into this game. Using the 'bad signal' mechanic and text messages to reveal the puzzles was good but I think it would have been nice if new texts became available after you completed the puzzle. My fingers got saw from cooling down the bomb while waiting for the next text.
I had a couple of issues at the start because the character got stuck on the walls and I didn't think I could interact with the bomb but once I got past that, it was good!
Well done!
This is really nice! I don't think I've seen a platformer where the levels swap as you play them - great idea and really well executed! I was utterly hopeless at it, unfortunately. The art was excellent. I wish it had some music to amp up the intensity of it all. The glitch effect and the way that new levels painted themselves in was also fantastic. Really impressive!
This is FANTASTIC! It took me a few attempts to get the timing right but once I did I became.... a FORSE to be reckoned with 😆 The music is great. The animation and art style suits the game idea perfectly. I love that the little babby horses sound like puppies barking for some reason. Just a great fun game (although my top score was 229... which I probably pretty bad)
I DID IT!
I love this game. It's funny, creative and suits the theme well. At first, I didn't see how it related to "unstable" but then I started stacking power plants on top of houses like some dystopian nightmare... and then a tsunami came rolling in.
I feel like a bit of music and some sound effects would have added a lot to the game but, overall, I really enjoyed it!
It's certainly a beautiful game. The colour palette, the lack of text and the squawking of crows gives it a definitely unsettling feel. I am not 100% sure I really understood what the pictures/icons were telling me to do but I still managed to complete the puzzles. I'm kind of sad that it was so short because I was just starting to get into it when it ended. Overall, a gorgeous game that left me wanting more.
Considering that you didn't quite get the game finished, I think what you have done is really impressive and quite fun. I like a card-based battler and the minimalist art style is also very appealing. I'm not 100% sure how it fits the theme but I'm sure that would have become clearer once you fleshed it out more.
There's no real point in criticising an incomplete game and I'm sure I wouldn't tell you anything you didn't already know, so I won't bother with that. I'm glad you have a plan to finish it off and I'll be interested to see it once it's done!
What a fascinating game! I have a real soft spot for these kinds of thought provoking ambiguous narratives. The concept itself was also quite unique and fit the theme perfectly. Well done!
This is great! I just *could not* beat the boss but I tried so hard! I love the humour in the dialogue, especially in the boss battle. Visually very unique, too. Great game!
You know, I don't know what I expected when launching this game, but fish-based-bullet-hell was not it. It actually has a super satisfying game loop and is a lot of fun to play. I feel like the collisions could have been a bit tighter but overall, great job!
I like the idea. It's a nice little puzzle platformer. The only thing I don't really like is that you don't know what the level looks like, so you're forced to fail just to learn the whole level. The puzzles were good enough that I feel like you could have let the player scope out the whole level and come up with a plan before they began. I liked the animations and the art and music. Overall, great entry!
This is so addictive! What a great idea and really well executed. I don't even know how people come up with these simple, yet challenging and fun puzzle game ideas. I began playing and next thing you know it was 2 hours later. Amazing work!
Fantastic! Absurd and funny but also graphically brilliant, unique and an interesting left-field interpretation of the theme. Music and voice acting was great, too. Excellent work!
Super nice art style and gameplay. Really polished visuals, UI and mechanics. I did run into an issue where it crashed to desktop a few times but there didn't seem to be any pattern to it, so I'm not sure why. A bit of music would have been nice. Overall, though, great work.
Nice game. I like the art and the sound design and music. I found the controls a bit counter-intuitive (which is a problem everyone had with my game, too). It was quite hard to aim at the fish, in my opinion, and a little bit of magnetism to pick up the gold would have been a nice improvement. Overall, though, this was a great entry. Good work!
Haha! This is great. Made me actually chuckle to myself as I played. It took me a while to figure out the scream deeper minigame (but I got there eventually). I love the creative take on the theme, too. A bit of music (at least in the montage scenes) would have been nice. Overally, great entry!
I love this game! Really unique idea and very well made. Despite the simplicity of the mechanics, there is strategy to it and at times you feel a bit of pressure as enemies and bombs come at you from all directions. I like the way that the level's set up so you have to hunt down power ups to progress. The only criticism I would have is that I feel like the music didn't really suit the vibe. That's a pretty subjective thing, though. Overall, excellent work! Great game!
My best score was 817 metres. My reactions are just too slow 😆 Although, it does prove that the 9 lives thing for cats is wrong... my cat had about 100 lives. I did feel like occasionally I clipped platforms that I hadn't actually hit. That could just be sour grapes, though. It would have been nice if the came increased in difficult the further you fell. Sometimes you get a super easy start, other times it's super hard. The sound and music was cool. I like the art style and the general idea. Overall, a great little game!
Man, I did not even get *close* to some of the other players who have commented! I really liked the game, though. I did run into a section where it seemed like no hourglasses were appearing (but perhaps I just didn't see them). I like the style, it felt responsive and I enjoyed playing it. What more can you ask for in a jam game?! Great job.
There is something inherently relaxing about the RSI-inducing experience of a clicker game. This one was good. It was accessible and had a good number of powerups for the various components to keep things interesting. I did reach the final upgrade relatively early and I would have liked some more automatic ways to influence the engine cooling, but overall this is a very good entry for the jam. Well done!
Wow a game with historical backstory! That's pretty rare in a game jam. It was a very ambitious game to build in such a short time but the fundamentals are there. It was good fun charging into enemies and cutting them down then commanding your troops to capture points. For me the audio was a bit glitchy (could have been a web build issue, maybe). Overall, good job!
This is a really unique idea and well executed. It's a bit frustrating when you reach a point where you just don't have enough health to really progress. But that's probably just me being bad at games. I've never really seen a game like this and I think it's very well made. Good work!
The pixel art character was cool. Making massive leaps off of cliffs was super satisfying. The music was fine but I feel like some sound effects would have been nice. I didn't really get a sense of the theme and things like gravity and wall collisions when jumping could be improved. Good job in getting it done and submitted!
This is a really interesting game. I struggled so much with the challenge of it, though. I liked that you have to keep a manual open as you play. Very creative! Well done!
Really interesting game. The graphics are great and the idea is both "out there" and intriguing. The music is super chill but is counterbalanced by the gameplay which is surprisingly tense. The "omm" voice line in the title screen scared the crap out of me 😆 Super unique game. Great job!
Wow! One of the best games I've played this LD! So polished. It is fully fleshed out, the music is great, the movement is responsive, and it has so much game juice. This is amazing work! Well done!
Great idea. Very chill... at least until two sharks see you at once. The music suits it well. I really liked the schooling fish design and the general environment that you built. It had a nice atmosphere. Good work!
Great idea and beautifully presented. The music and sounds fit well. The one extra click when mining ore is deadly. I really like this one!
Simple concept but well executed. It's actually quite difficult as you have to be strategic but you also have to rush a little bit. Desperately trying to dig a path while a whole stream of bad guys are chasing you is pretty challenging. Great job!
I'm not sure if I understand the game. I think I get that you're supposed to keep falling, but I always just woke up at the same point. Is there a way to extend your sleep time and I'm just too dumb to see it? Probably. Anyway, I like the effects you've added and the old school graphical style. The music is suitably haunting. Let me know if I missed something in the gameplay and I'll have another go!
What a great looking game! Love the music, too. The controls are really tight but I might be too old to play at this speed because I only made it 5 levels or so before dying 😆 Great work!
Super impressive graphics and animations. Love the sound and voice lines, too. I did find that I just could not supply enough fuel to last very long (when I deposited the fuel, the gauge didn't seem to move). I don't know if I was doing something wrong or missing something. I probably was. Great job!
I was quite impressed with this one. The gameplay graphics are polished and cohesive. The mechanics are clean, smooth and responsive. It's pretty hard but I think that's fine for this kind of game. Great work!
Wow, there's a lot more to this game than you originally expect! At first, I was thinking "Nude guy whistling simulator? I can get down with this!" but then I started discovering the puzzles! I think you did a great job encouraging the player to explore and try new things without giving them any instructions.
Really simple idea that is very well executed. Great job!
This is a really well polished game with some cool features to it. I like the cave in mechanic because it created a good combination of strategic decision making and urgency. I definitely should have read the instructions first because it took me a while to realise that making paths near ores increased my income.
An impresive, consistent art style, too!
Well done!
I like the idea of a penguin gladiator finally getting payback on a bunch of walruses (walri?). I found it quite fun and challenging, too. I could never seem to save up enough to buy any weapon upgrades because I bought HP or died before I had enough money.
I kept wanting to move the camera so that I could get a better view of things. The fixed camera meant that some enemies were difficult to target (and it always seemed to be the ones with the automatic weapons). Still, having a locked camera meant that you had to be pretty careful just running around which added to the challenge.
Overall, good work!
Super polished game with a fun art style and really clean, user friendly UI. This is a great spin on the "Simon Says" game mechanic and I love the story to it. The music suits the game perfectly, too.
Unfortunately, it proved to me just how bad my memory is but that's the only criticism I have.
Really impressive work!
This is certainly the most unique game I've played this Ludum Dare. It took me a while to figure out how to play it but once I understood that, I was interested to see where the game would take me. It's unfortunate that you ran out of time to implement an ending.
The art style was really interesting and impressive!
I'm not sure if the game was meant to have audio, but I didn't get any sound.
Good work!
Interesting concept with a spooky feel to it. I wish it was a bit longer because I was just getting into it when it ended. The mechanics for solving the puzzle were good even if the puzzles were a little simple. I feel like you could have increased the puzzle difficulty if you expanded on the game.
Overall, a unique and interesting game!
I love it. Such a well written game. The Evangelion references are great and made me laugh. I like how the core mechanic is literally just "somthing to do" while you enjoy the story.
It's just a straight up good game (the original tune by Denki is a great jam, too!). Well done!
Really cool idea. I think it has great potential and is probably worth developing further after the jam. Give it a graphical facelift and I could see this gaining some traction in the mobile market.
I made it to level 6 before my inherent dumbness prevented me from progressing.
I did have some issues with sound (some sounds panned hard left and other sounds playing back a bit glitchy, but that could have been a WebGL issue).
Overall, Great work! Well done.
Clean and clear concept that has been well executed with simple but well made art assets. A good amount of challenge (not too easy, not too hard).
I think some jaunty background music and sound effects would have greatly enhanced the mood. Also, perhaps starting slower and increasing the speed of the wheel over time might have added a little variation.
Overall, great work! Good job.
I love this idea! And the character and planet designs are great.
The game play is very hard. I couldn't pass the first level. Getting between the two asteroids to hit the ship was impossible (for me).
It is a great concept though and had a cool vibe to it.
An absolutely beautiful looking game. The art assets are brilliant. The music adds a nice vibe to the whole thing and the story is good.
It would have been nice if you could press a key to skip through the text a bit quicker and I'm not 100% sure what the ghost mode did because I seemed to ghost through one purple barrier and then I completed the game.
Overall, great work on a really great looking game!
I like the idea. It's unique and clever. The game is actually pretty fun and nerve-racking at the same time.
I think, however, that it really needed some sounds and music to sell the experience a bit more.
Overall, well done!
Great job! You've made a lot of progress for 3 weeks of game dev learning.
The art looked cool and the game concept was clear.
There were a couple of issues with the hit box for enemies being a bit unforgiving and the audio being panned hard left (not stereo), but I think you should be proud of what you achieved.
Good work!
Such a polished and beautifully presented game! Very atmospheric sound and music with absolutely gorgeous pixel art!
The gameplay was a little simple and I kind of wish there had been a bit more "story" to it, considering how well developed the other artistic aspects were.
Overall, amazing work! Loved it!
Some apples just WANT to be eaten!
Cool idea with really nice clean art. I loved the minimalist, moody music.
It gets pretty hard when you choose not to eat the apple.
Great work!
A clean, simple but responsive game with some nice enemy behaviours to add a little challenge.
I feel like some music and visual effects would have sold the concept a bit more, but, overall good job!
Cool game. The floaty movement really adds a degree of complexity to an otherwise simple concept.
When you push that key off the ledge and miss the rock by a few millimetres, though........... 😠
Love the music and art. Good work!
Nice art and snappy movement controls. I've never clicked so much in my life. I also now have a fear of brain monsters.
I did get stuck in an actual loop while playing, though. The game clock kept resetting every 60 seconds so I couldn't progress.
Great work for your first LD Jam. I hope you had fun!
Also, since it's your first jam and you may not know how this works, you will need to play, rate and give feedback on other peoples' games if you want to get more feedback (and a score) on yours - otherwise the site basically makes your game invisible in the Play and Rate list. You need 20 or so ratings to receive a score.
Very impressive game. The visuals are amazing and the concept is great. Really atmospheric sound design, too. So much polish and cohesion from the menu to the game to the credits. Just great stuff!
I would have love a bit more variation in the puzzles, but... it's a jam game so you can't ask for too much!
Just FYI, though, I think there's a bug where the door opening sound is multiplied by the number of ghosts/iterations in the room, maybe.
Overall, fantastic work! Love it!
Absolutely fantastic game! Took me a while to get my head around what the core mechanic was but once I figured that out - wow!
Beautiful to look at. Awesome music. Really clever and challenging gameplay. The only thing I would have liked is the ability to move the camera because I tended to waste lives looking around the level to figure out what interactables there were.
Great work!
Nice work for your first jam!
I would have loved to be able to restart at the room where I died. That room with the fireballs was the bane of my existence.
Cool graphics and a good idea. Overall, well done!
Love the art style, music and sense of humour in this one.
Day 1 - Killed every single person riding the roller coaster. Customer rating? 128%. Must have been the Masochists Society Annual Fair Day.
Unfortunately, I could not for the life of me find the hitbox for the guard rail so I kept losing people.
Overall, fun game. Good work!
Cool concept with cool atmospheric music and lighting and great voice-acting in the introduction. It is really hard though because the enemies are super tough and accurate. Having made an FPS style game for LD in the past, though, I know how hard it can be to make balanced enemies (there just isn't enough time for sophisticated AI).
Overall, good work. How was the big team experience?
Absolutely fantastic game! Such a simple concept but really well executed, funny and fun! Well done!!
Beautiful game! Clever puzzles that scale with the right amount of difficulty, too! Excellent overall polish.
It would be nice if you could rotate the camera to get a different view because sometimes levers get hidden when gates open or paths towards the back of the level can be obscured by foreground objects.
Overall, amazing work! Great game!
I really like the idea and it's well presented with some funny dialog.
It is SO hard, though! It would be good if there was a way to pause the game while you queue up your next set of moves because calculating how many steps there are before the next action while entering commands as the robot simultaneously executes commands is super, super difficult.
Of course, it may very well be hard by design and I'm just bad at it! Good job!
Great game. Very well presented. Beautiful colour palette, nice models and very well done simple animation. I wish there were more levels and that I could rotate the camera vertically, too, but that's all minor details. It's just a really great game!
Cool idea with some good art assets. I found it a bit frustrating that I couldn't throw blocks to the left and I couldn't jump the tanks, so when a tank spawned behind me, I could never kill it. Great music, btw. Good work!
Made it all the way to the end before I realised I forgot to grab the alien. Once I realised that I had to push the rocks around to reach the end, it made a lot more sense! Great job for a first submission. I got stuck in a few walls and I feel like there needed to be some music or sounds, but the graphics were good and the puzzles and overall concept were good too! Well done.
Beautiful game. Really nice movement and feel. Love the idea, too. Great work!
I really like the colours and lighting effects in this one, it really adds to the overall feel of the game. Once I got used to the keys, it was perhaps a little to simple - although I did freeze to death on the third day despite standing right beside a well lit fire. The only thing that I felt was a little annoying were the collisions between the character and the environment. Overall, a very nice looking game with a solid game loop.
Interesting simulation. Balancing the various activities in life was a bit of a challenge. It's also not often that you hear an original acoustic guitar song in a LD Jam game, either - so that was interesting.
Good idea. My mouse clicking finger almost fell off. Also, I'm not good at multitasking so my plants died a lot. Just like in real life. Fun game with a good sense of humour! Well done!
Love the art style in this and the general idea is good, too. Unfortunately, my greed got the better of me and I worked so much that my dog died. I feel like there's a lesson in that for all of us.
This was fun but man it was hard! Took me a couple of goes and two readings of the tutorial before I understood how to play - although I never did figure out how to turn on and use the gun on top of the ship. A lot of really cool features here: the minimap on the bridge, the different objectives requiring different tools/tasks. There needed to be music, I think. And it wasn't always clear what the current problem you needed to fix was but, overall, great job!
Maybe I was missing something but I couldn't find a memory. I killed dozens of those little purple headed enemies. Am I just dumb? Eh, probably. This music and lighting added a great atmosphere and mood to this game. The UI design looked pretty nice, too. The movement was smooth and responsive. Overall a cool game! Well done.
Nice little game. I got a Corgi named "Butt" who remained unhappy despite being fed about 40 bones a day and spending approximately 12 hours playing with the ball. Butt was a miserable little sh*t just like my real dog. So 10/10 for accuracy. Nice pixely art and simple but effective music and sounds. Sometimes the ball was a bit unresponsive to mouse clicks but that's about it. Good work!
Not going to lie, the first time I captured a knight, the sound effect scared me half to death. That said, this was a fun game. Love the AI, love the dice physical rolling dice, love that you included a CPU vs Player mode, and a cool game concept. Great work!
Wow. Great game! Simple idea but really, really well executed. Great art, cool little puzzle/challenges with a nice balance of difficulty, excellent feel. This is a really good one. Great work!
A well presented game but I don't know if I was playing it right or, like an original tamagotchi, I just had to wait a very long time for anything to happen. Perhaps more visual feedback or queues would have been handy or some instructions early in the game to get us started? Either way, it looks good and has snappy interactions and nice pixely animations.
Four hours left in the jam and I'm looking to shoehorn in some innovation by building a procedural generation system? It's like this game knows me on some metaphysical level. Great work!
I liked the story. A nice little narrative experience. If only there was some great music to go along with it. Good job with a cool idea!
Just came from your video about the jam experience. I think you were way too critical of what you achieved in this jam, dude! You have a functioning inventory and crafting system, a resource collecting system, some nicely animated pixel art and quality of life stuff like muting, exit menus etc. I actually think you did a great job with this!
This game made me laugh when I told the warring folks on the Blue Planet to "just sort it out" and they all started apologizing to each other 😆 There is a bit of a bug when you play through a second time (events from the past game happen automatically and old text layers over new text). I really like the interpretation of the theme. A few people did the "create a universe" theme, but this has been the most fun one I've played so far.
Great atmosphere. Nice controls. I was really getting into the whole thing when I spied the police station! Sadly, when I went to enter the station it threw a stack trace and that was that. I really loved the sound design in this and the color palette that you used. When that church bell went off, I legitimately jumped in my seat. Nice job!
I like the little banana dude. It felt bad when he died...... sooo much. That's just because I'm bad at games, though. I managed to get the shoes and the duck, but that's as far as I got. I wish there had been some cool background music but aside from that I liked it!
This is really satisfying. I built a house on a lake with a tree house beside my windmill and just watched the money roll in! Graphically beautiful. Game play was really relaxed. The only things I noticed was that sometimes you would try to put, for example, a bush in front of a tree and the tree would end up in front of the bush. The music was good, but I'm not sure it was relaxed enough for this particular game. Overall, though, I really enjoyed it! Good work!
This is great. It definitely is Totally Not Settlers. Obviously there's a little bit of influence from Settlers but the defense building and multiple worker aspects make it a completely different game imho. And it's really good! The only think missing was some nice relaxing music. Great work.
This is hard! I really like the style of the game and the satisfying "crunch" when you eat the enemies. Those red asterisk guys are hard as nails though. My best score was 23. I think I'll settle for that. Good work!
Oh lord. My arm is sore now! That was a great game. I got to 75m before I realised that the monkey was actually climbing behind me! After that it was just furious mouse waggling. It was great fun. I completed it with a score of 36872. Well done! Loved it.
Very cool! A really interesting idea with really nice mechanics. I must be a complete scrub though because I really struggled to eat enough bugs to keep my energy up. Nice music and feel to the game, too.
This is a quirky game. Fighting giant chickens, moving caves, sacrificing tiny red dudes - you're right, it is an experience. I quite liked it. The music is chill. The way the little guys move around is pretty charming. Tbf, I'm not sure what to make of it because it's a pretty left-field concept. I did enjoy it, though!
I love the idea of the game but I failed to make a single potion. The art work is great and the UI is intuitive. The music and sound suits the style perfectly. I do have to echo the other comments regarding a little bit of feedback/hints about what may or may not combine. Otherwise, good job!
I love farming games so this scratched a bit of an itch, that said it was kind of hard to know what you had done and what stage the plants were at. Eventually I got a stack trace bug when I went to buy a snake. Unfortunate since I wanted to see how the snake competition worked!
Cool concept. It's part Agar.io and part Tetris with some nicely implemented physics thrown in. The addition of the orbital defense objects gives it all an element of strategy, too. All it needed was some soothing background tunes. Good job!
This is slick. The controls are so responsive and the physics feel great. If you spent a bit more time building on this, you could have a super addictive rage platformer. I absolutely LOVE the music, too. Best chippy music I've come across in LD45 so far. Great work.
This is great. Tight controls, some good little puzzles and nice art. It has a cool story that I was just getting into when I reached a point where I didn't know where to go or what to do. Not entirely sure how well it fits with the theme but still a really good game!
This is really good. I love the humour in it and the graphics, music, sounds and voice acting all work together. A cool simple concept that is well executed!
A beautiful looking game! The sound design was quite nice. I'm not sure if I was playing it right as nothing seemed to happen after I achieved the first "distraction". I really like the interpretation of the theme, though.
Wow. Pretty ambitious project! I think it's great. I cruised around. Tried to buy some stuff. Had no money. Picked a fight with some one. Won! Felt like a true space pirate. Picked a fight with some one else. Lost. Good stuff! The controls took some getting used to and the space battles are super hard (it's hard to aim, generally). But there are so many nice little features in here! Great work.
Okay. That was spooky. Great atmosphere. I felt really uneasy from the beginning. It was a touch easy in the end but it looked great and I think you nailed the mood.
That's a cool idea. I like the mouse only control and the challenge of the game. Some nice little features with the colour changing and the way that little blobs are both keys and also change the world palette. Well done!
I really liked this one. Such a simple concept but really well executed and a LOT of fun. I made the mistake of playing this on my laptop - not sure that the trackpad is ever going to fully recover. Love the humour of it, too. Great stuff. P.S The double castle and dragon build is the new meta.
This is really nice. The controls are responsive. The music is great. It has a nice level of difficulty. It would be cool if falling to the ground wasn't an insta-death, though, since you kind of need to take a leap of faith sometimes. Overall, great job!
Thanks for reminding me that I'm still just as bad at these kinds of games as I always was. 😆 Seriously though, this is nicely polished and well executed. Great job!
Definitely one of the best games I've played in LD41. It has a real challenge to it when you play it on hard difficulty and the racing concept is really clever and well implemented. Great work!
It's a pity you didn't have more time to put into this since it has some really good groundwork laid down. A lot better than I would have made in 3 hours but still pretty bare bones.
I like the idea behind this game. It's a clever combination the design is pretty intuitive, although it wasn't immediately apparent how to fight (I had to recheck the controls) the combat proved to be pretty good actually. Nice one!
Not a bad game. I really would have loved to be able to scroll the screen left and right with A and D, rather than click and drag since I was using the mouse to select and place contraptions. Still, a cool idea and well put together!
I could see myself playing a lot of this with a friend. Sadly I didn't have a friend to test it with. That said, I like the feel of the movement and the effect of the blast radius on the ball. Also, rocket jumping ftw!
Really well made, challenging and fun with smooth controls and an overall polished presentation. Very nice!
Nice game. I found the handling a bit difficult but I got the hang of it eventually. Overall, pretty polished!
Technically very well made and graphically really great, too! Congrats on a sweeeeet game!
Well... went better than most of my dates. I love the sense of humour in this one. Also liked the climbing mechanic and the sounds. Nice work!
This was really polished and played very well. Pretty addictive, too! Nice work.
As an office worker, I can confirm, myself and everyone I work with both looks and acts like these NPCs.
Really needs an epileptic warning at the start. Nicely made game tho!
Controls worked for me but I did get stuck on some collisions. Not sure if it's a related issue.
Took me a while to find the grid but once I did, it was pretty fun. I liked the dialogue between characters, too. Good one!
I really like the audio in this game. Helps with the feel a lot. Also, nice colour palette and beautiful, simple UI.
LD60 — Old Tech (26)
Now Showing a Stranger by ThanatosIsANoob 2026-10-22T09:45:48Z ♥ 1
This was very interesting. I was wondering if you would let us make Meursault into a half-way functional person... turns out, no. 😆 The art style was really interesting and suited the existential nature of the game and the general tone of The Stranger as a study of estrangement and indifference. Overall, I really liked it. Well done!
Temple by someone 2026-10-22T09:36:27Z ♥ 0
For eight hours of work, this is really good. I struggled with the rotation puzzle just because it was hard to see what the shapes were. I just re-read your page and see that you made this in your own engine! That's super cool! I also wasn't super inspired by this theme, so I understand where you're coming from... but that's game jams for you! The theme always sucks! 😆 Anyway, great work getting something together in the end.
Download_BTC.exe by Khante1883 2026-10-22T09:30:06Z ♥ 0
This is great! With all of this Bitcoin, I can now afford treatment for the repetitive strain injury from all this clicking!!! Seriously, though, this was such a good game. Really a perfect size and scope for a game jam, with great graphics and cool little minigames. Very clever. Although, there is a special place in hell for whoever decided to let ads popup in the way of the flappy bird game... that was brutal! Overall, I loved it!
Le sceau du baron by CodeAprèsMinuit 2026-10-22T09:17:23Z ♥ 1
Interesting idea! I liked the writing in this. The general concept and game loop was also fun, but it was a bit too easy. The only time I had an issue is when I miss clicked because all my stamps were stacked on top of each other. A bigger range of riddles and more things you had to do (or not do) to each letter would have been good... but, it's a game jam! There's never enough time! Overall, good work.
Proper Cannoning by hunttis 2026-10-22T09:05:36Z ♥ 1
Super unlucky with your team (and yourself) falling sick! I've had that happen in a jam before and it does make things very hard. I have to say, even though it's unfinished, you've got the makings of a really fun little game here. I still got a lot of enjoyment out of it. Allowing more fine adjustment with shift was an absolute game changer. Also... I'm sorry to all the birds. They didn't deserve that. Good effort despite the adversity!
TechTonic by Yifanf 2026-10-22T08:57:19Z ♥ 1
Cool game and cool idea. It plays really well and, I have to say, I LOVED the shatter transition when you first load in. I was absolutely awful at it (as I am with all fighters) but I am super impressed with the range of moves and the registration of hits. I would say, though, that I probably would have preferred fewer characters with more fleshed out animations - but that would detract from your general game concept, so it's fair enough. Great work! (Also, the songs absolutely bang!)
zeppizza by Vladcfg 2026-10-22T08:46:51Z ♥ 1
Cool idea! As some one who worked in a pizza shop many years ago, I have to say that I haven't lost my skills. As some one who has never flown an airship... ah... well, let's just say there were no survivors! The core game loop was fun once I got the hang of it, but it really needed some music and/or sounds to make it feel more lively. Overall, good job!
The Athanor Estate by bentglasstube 2026-10-22T08:41:16Z ♥ 2
This is great! I love the idea of making an "old tech" game for the theme of old tech. The writing was excellent and the performance of the text processing was impressive. I didn't manage to finish the game... I think going into the boiler room was a bad idea. Who would have thought after being asked three times if I really wanted to do that?! Anyway, great game!
Penny's Radio by Taximan981 2026-10-22T08:29:44Z ♥ 2
This was a fun game! I feel like you got the pacing of the gameplay just right! My only issue with it was that I found it hard to tell T1, T2 and T3 resources apart (especially the electronics), which made choosing what to loot hard sometimes. There was some great tension when you left your run home late and just still had two tiles to go with less than 10 seconds left. The sound you had was good, but I feel like it would have benefitted from a haunting music track, too. Overall, great job!
Long Wave Home by Ganktronics 2026-10-22T07:36:41Z ♥ 0
This game was really well presented. I thought the mouse design was adorable and the setting was fun an interesting. As the others have said, the controls took a lot of getting used to and, honestly, a more conventional key assignment would have made the game more fun. I did get stuck at once I killed the spider... I'm just not sure what I'm meant to do next. That said, it was a well put together game with nice art and sound, so good job!
BEEP. SORT. REPEAT by Evgeniia Filonova 2026-10-21T09:23:38Z ♥ 1
This was great! A really nice spin on the Papers, Please style of gameplay. I like the narrative that you embedded in there - I almost missed it at first. Also the little stories and world building in the notes was fun, too. It all came together really well. Great job!
FolderSearch by realicraft 2026-10-21T08:49:57Z ♥ 0
This is a very clever idea and it looks great. The interaction is super intuitive, too. It does feel a bit too slow to progress, however. I feel like the upgrades could be tweaked a bit more in the player's favour, but that's a balancing issue more than anything. The only think I feel like it was missing was music or sound, but given it was emulating a Windows 3.1 experience - that kind of makes sense! Good work!
SPACECORNER by Capreola 2026-10-21T08:36:38Z ♥ 1
This is a unique idea for the theme. The puzzle aspect of it was fun, but it is really hard to figure out the correct combinations for some of them - I guess that's the point! I think it came together really well. Good work!
Antre by bokanik 2026-10-21T08:02:59Z ♥ 3
The sound was really effective in this one. I also liked the art style. The puzzles were good. I didn't manage to complete it because I couldn't seem to type the code into the typewriter. Aside from that, the main issue that I had was that the font was extremely difficult to read. Other than that though, it was a great game. Good work!
FAKE STEEL by BangCryDie 2026-10-21T07:43:56Z ♥ 1
Cool idea and an interesting UI. I really like the rotary dial phone to select your items (though it took me a little bit to figure out what I was meant to do). The start is a bit of a grind. When they get to have the first attack, it's demoralising. My only issue really is that there is a LOT of information to take in and it can be hard to figure out what matters and what doesn't among the stats. Overall, I think it was a pretty ambitious game but you did a good job with it!
Pigeon Post by aterim 2026-10-21T07:27:36Z ♥ 1
This is a great idea. The game looks very polished - an incredible level of polish for a jam game! I like how all of the pidgeons had their own traits, it made selecting the right one a bit more challenging. Overall, the aesthetic felt right with the music and sound complementing the art style... and the pidgeon animation was super cute. Amazing!
Photoman by mikoolec 2026-10-21T07:19:13Z ♥ 2
You know, I had a similar idea early on but I couldn't figure out a way to make a game out of it. I think what you made is a really cool concept. I like the weird little critters floating around and the general odd-ness of the world. The music cut out for me after a minute or two, but I'm not sure if that was a bug or the song just ended. My only real issue was that it was kind of hard to make out what the icons in the top left actually were. Still, I had fun with it. Good work!
Danger Looms by 3LSTMsInATrenchcoat 2026-10-21T07:06:53Z ♥ 1
This is a very substantial game and an intriguing story. I really like your use of the theme and the map that you created is very visually pleasing. The world building is very good and it feels like a fully-realised place with tensions and ideologies. The only thing I feel like it really needed was some music and maybe a few atmospheric sounds at times. Overall, great job!
The Final Claw by wheelsx 2026-10-20T10:00:12Z ♥ 1
The game loop in this is soooooo satisfying. It took me about 5 rounds before I was able to collect more than 1 item but once I could get multiple things started to move along a bit better. Despite the simplicity of the concept, it actually encourages some good strategic thinking. Do I boost my economy at the cost of my speed of collection or do I do the opposite? Is it better to spend more time and battery searching for a motherlode of items or should I spend as much time digging as possible? Not going to lie, I played this for a long time and I really enjoyed it. The art was straight-forward and the music was a little repetitive, but the game itself was fun and that's the most important thing. Great job!
Old Man Playing Old Game by NTMalichi 2026-10-20T09:28:16Z ♥ 1
"Play as Mr. Oldman"... oh... I do. Every day, man. Every damn day.
Great idea, great execution. This is such a simple idea but it's also so clever and the whole design fits together perfectly. It manages to walk a fine line between a rage game and an endearing experience really well. My only gripe with it is that sometimes the clicks register incorrectly, sometimes it triggers the wrong direction. I'm not sure if that is by design, though, in an effort to simulate old man reflexes and response time. You can also get stuck on the sides of platforms, but that can sometimes end up helping you (and I needed all the help I could get). Overall, this was a great submission! Good job!
It's About Time for Murder by Mavvy 2026-10-20T09:16:37Z ♥ 1
It took me a little while to figure out how the game was meant to be played, but once it clicked I really liked it. I have to admit, I ended up writing down the clues. It would have been nice to cross out the suspects in your pin board when you ruled them out. The music was suited the game well and the pixel art was awesome. Also, a real bakelite telephone in your room in the 1920s??! Seems like someone time travels in luxury! Great work!
Iron Elephant by LucaVazz 2026-10-20T09:00:33Z ♥ 0
I'm sorry, I tried to play this but I don't really understand what I'm meant to do. I appreciate that some features are missing but I see in your screenshots that the map seems to open up or more train connections appear? I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or not. If you @ me with a reply and let me know how I'm supposed to play it, I will come back and give it a fair rating.
Ancient Tech by Alex Mulkerrin 2026-10-20T08:47:15Z ♥ 1
The idea for this game was a really good spin on the theme. I quite enjoyed playing it. I don't think I fully understood what I was doing all the time (like why I was unlocking things and what purpose each resource had), but I somehow managed to bring society into a new age of enlightenment. The feel of the game would have benefitted from some music and UI sounds, but overall, I thought it was fun!
defrag.exe by F1Krazy 2026-10-20T08:32:51Z ♥ 1
Really great looking game and the sound suits the aesthetic well. I'm not sure if there's no "lose" state or I'm just dumb (it's probably that), but I keep getting stuck with no valid moves. It's a pity because the rest of the game feel so polished and the idea is a fun one that fits the theme well. Overall, I liked it!
Boom Boy by William Corrin 2026-10-20T08:17:05Z ♥ 2
This was great! I'd love to post a YOU WIN! screen, but that requires hand-eye coordination that I just do not have. The art style was fun and it had a really consistent and fully-realised feel to it. I liked the music and sound, too. My only issue with the game is that the mouse sensitivity is really high and it would have been nice to adjust that (but I get that in a lot of games, so no big deal). Overall, great job!
da Vinci's WAR MACHINE by Fassenberg 2026-10-20T08:01:10Z ♥ 1
I'm a sucker for these survivors-like games and this was a lot of fun! Having the bombard gun do so much more damage but also require you to orient yourself at the enemy was a good idea - it made me change my strat from just doing loops around the enemies. Also, having a big boss at the end kind of made me question my all-fire-rate-and-piercing strategy. The only issue I had was that I frequently instantly selected an upgrade because I was in the middle of spam clicking when I levelled up. Perhaps you could move the mouse cursor off the card area when you level up to prevent that. Otherwise, great game!