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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 59 | Signal | Signal Hunter | compo | 242 | 3.07 | 2.89 | 2.28 | 2.44 | 3.36 | 2.14 | 2.86 | ||
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | Summoner Under Attack | compo | 107 | 3.71 | 3.81 | 3.00 | 3.52 | 3.84 | 2.94 | 2.52 | 2.97 | |
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | The Cursed Tart | compo | 184 | 3.53 | 3.65 | 3.57 | 3.80 | 4.07 | 3.50 | 3.62 |
Interesting mechanics, kept me captivated for the whole game. The graphics are cute! The rain at the beginning and the music adds to the mood nicely. I had to play it twice. First time it took me embarrassingly long to realize how the mechanic works (I died a lot at the first candle ^^'). Second time I of course knew it but I think it was introduced quite well, I just screwed it somehow at first.. Well done!
Looks absolutely amazing! The idea is quite unique and the game play feels good.
Fun little survival game. Took me a while to realize that I was supposed to just sit still at night. The wood hacking sound was super satisfactory!
This is so much fun! Nice idea and very well executed! Good job!
Lovely graphics and smooth game play. The idea is also funny. I liked that the trash bin was also needed and it didn't happen immediately (at least not for me) so it added some change of pace.
Simple yet effective! Liked a lot.
I like the simplistic aesthetics! The game is fun and addictive.
Thanks for the comments! :)
@delpod @alaah Yes there is a bug. I hoped it only affected enemies and not items and ladders. It seems I was wrong. I have a hunch where the bug is in the code but I think it might be too big of a change to fix it and upload a patch this late after the compo has ended.
@delpod Weird that the earlier version worked for you and not the patched one. It's quite unsettling actually.
@ugly-robot That's a shame :( not sure if I can do anything to fix that.
Looks good, the idea is intriguing and game play is suprisingly fun.
I love the graphics, cute and fun style! And the music was nice and cheerful. :)
However, I couldn't figure out how to enter the door in the first level. I picked the gem, tried TAB and E, jumping around, clicked everything at sight with mouse, restarted multiple times, but nothing worked. Is this the first puzzle and I'm missing something? Bummer, based on the gifs and the comments here and on Itch.io, I'd expect the game to be quite delightful. I'll redo my ratings if I get past the first level.
BTW, restarting multiple times I realized the level has some randomization - Nice!
Thanks! I was able to proceed and have re-rated your game. What a delight! And innovative! I love the mechanics. I think it has potential for a full-fledged puzzle platformer. Good job! (The toad thing is hilarious :D)
Fun little resource management game! I wasn't sure what the orange tower was for though.
Fun idea to have the summons not be your friends. Simple and fun, although a little short. Good job!
This is a fun little game! Simple but effective and cute art! The challenge was just right with the puzzle element and all. Had to restart a couple of times before solving it :) Good job!
This is excellent! I love the story, the visual style and the cat behavior (haha :). The controls are a bit unpolished: I feel the movement was too fast and "slippery"; also, movement could be wasd and aiming+shooting could be arrow keys (maybe a setting to swap move and aiming keys). But the controls as is works well enough, so it's fine. Oh, and the background music was awesome! Too bad the game is so short. Anyway, good work! :)
What a nice and soothing little game. :) The ambient sound was so relaxing. I like the graphics, so cute!
Overall a nice little game. Took some time to understand how it was supposed to be played. Once I understood it was still challenging to beat. Quite fun, although little annoying to aim the particles; but I think that was integral part of the challenge and also the fun! The game is quite polished visually and feel-wise for a combo entry. Well done!
Found couple of bugs already.. damn! Nothing too serious though, and no time to fix now. :)
Found a more serious bug that prevented playing the game. It worked on my machine by some miracle. :) Uploaded a patched version 1.0.1. See the change log (in README and above).
@gord10ahmet Thanks! Yes, if it can be called an engine :D. The "engine" part is mostly SDL2 + some utilities like vector math, OpenGL loader + thin "wrapper" for some common graphics operations I've written on my hobby projects. Some things, like text drawing, I implemented last week (previous time I participated in LD, I didn't manage to get any text in, so I wanted that for this jam). The actual game (loop, objects, game logic, collision handling, etc.) was done during this jam. And I think it shows: the golem's collision against the castle is somewhat busted :D. Anyway, I think I managed to write some code I could clean up and lift for a more proper engine to use in future LDs.
@ace17 Nice to know that the code compiles on Linux! And thanks for the tip on the compiler argument, I'll try it! :)
About the handmade hero influence: yes, I've been following Casey for a long time and HMH was one of the things that made me regain my enthusiasm for programming (it was almost all gone because of OOP and all kinds of "good" practices I had learned). The single-compilation-unit (when appropriate); just a simple build.bat for building; zero initialized data is valid state; reduce the dependencies (SDL is something I don't think I'm getting rid of, it's just awesome; so are the stb libs!)... Those are some of the things I love!
Fun idea and great implementation of it! Well done.
This is a cool concept! It was somewhat tedious to fiddle with the "software". At first it was confusing how different actions work, but not long after it got clear. Some of the actions seem useless but I can imagine they would be useful in a more complete scripting system. The boss was tough and after that I got to a "hidden" level 7... which froze the game :D. I like how many different weapons you got in! Overall nice work!
So addictive! Nice mechanics. Played a ton. I like the art on the dice. Would love to see this developed further!
This is a nice puzzle game. I'd wish for a couple more levels to enjoy! :) Of course, for a compo game it is impressive with this many levels already. Well done!
Very fun and addictive! For some reason, the graphics glitched for me. I didn't see any roads. But still, great work!
Thanks for the feedback! I didn't remember to link some libs statically for the release build. Fixed (hopefully) in the version 1.0.2.
@bereg Oh no! Did you try with the version 1.0.2? I believed it had been fixed in 1.0.2. I now removed the older broken binaries so no one would accidentally try those.
Haha! Took couple of tries before I got it. Humorous idea :D well done!
Cool idea! I had fun for multiple minutes. It's unfortunate you couldn't finish the game, it has a lot of potential,
Inspiring work! I had fun as long as it lasted. I hope that somehow the game wouldn't need so explicit in-game instructions. If the player could slowly build their understanding of the game one puzzle at a time and then solve harder puzzles on their own. But it's fine as it is, impressive that you implemented three distinct and neat puzzles in the compo. Well done!
Great intro, innovative mechanics! Hard to master. Good job on your first LD! Very impressive!
An interesting idea. You got some mileage there with quite simple mechanics, which is great! The simplistic aesthetics were a good fit with the overall mood. Great work especially for your first LD!
Nice work for first LD! Congrats!
Love the aesthetics! Shame you couldn't make it.