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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | 👥 | Ant Colony Tycoon Deluxe | jam | 512 | 3.58 | 3.25 | 3.63 | 4.25 | 2.69 | |||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | 👥 | Significant Other(s) | jam | 300 | 3.84 | 3.50 | 3.97 | 4.20 | 3.86 | 4.02 | 3.79 | 3.81 |
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | 👥 | Tower Tower Defence Defence | jam | 68 | 4.22 | 4.29 | 4.44 | 4.48 | 3.73 | 3.76 | 3.45 | 3.91 |
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | 👥 | Overly Fragile Relationships | jam | 796 | 3.66 | 3.56 | 3.96 | 3.58 | 2.85 | 3.70 | 3.46 | |
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | 👥 | The Skewery | jam | 210 | 3.82 | 3.77 | 3.65 | 2.98 | 3.80 | 3.61 | 3.02 | 3.48 |
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | 👥 | Paper, Cork and Bugs | jam | 716 | 3.28 | 3.15 | 3.13 | 2.78 | 3.37 | 3.09 |
Huh, I only found out through the comments that foraging can make you lose/gain people. Reminds me a bit of Faster Than Light in its combination of strategic decisions + real-time action. Maybe having more upgrade dimensions/decisions you can take during daylight would help replayability.
I like the graphics, it's a refreshing game gameplay-wise as well. There are a lot of things packed into the game which makes it a bit hard to figure out at first.
I do think you're really stretching the jam rules: "Certain Bug Fixes are allowed. You can’t add new features, but if something broke or didn’t work correctly as you were finishing up, you can fix this after the deadline." There are several items on your list that don't fit this criterion. It's obviously a gray zone but it feels like you are giving yourself extra time this way.
I won! I was really impressed by how polished the game is. The graphics, sounds and even the time indicator are all really fancy. The difficulty level is set reasonably; I didn't get it on the first try but finished the game on the third attempt. That being said, there could be more to the gameplay.
There's a few small things I noticed: - the document counter persists between runs, so that makes level 1 really easy once you've lost once. - I wish the intro was skippable. - At first, I thought the baddies would kill me and only realized later that they steal the documents
I like the idea and the store radio's quips, though I do wish the gameplay mechanics reflected the game's idea more, since now I could just replace Karen sprites with zombies and it would still make sense gameplay-wise. But maybe that's the idea :)
I think this is the first truly 3D Ludum Dare game I've played, cool! The camera is confusing, as others have noted. If you fixed the camera and maybe added more kinds of enemies, there is definitely potential!