Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → irwatts
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | ||
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| 🥇 | 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | loops | compo | Graphics | 4.70 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | Depths | 👥 | Planet Divers: XTREME Underground | jam | 675 | 3.20 | 2.90 | 3.11 | 3.50 | 3.96 | 3.96 | 3.51 | 3.38 | |
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | 👥 | Space Oyster Mining Company | jam | 821 | 3.26 | 3.02 | 3.07 | 2.78 | 3.61 | 3.33 | 2.83 | 2.97 | |
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | 👥 | Gateway To Hell | jam | 2.50 | 2.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 4.00 | 4.00 | 1.00 | 3.00 | ||
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | 👥 | Incident on Outpost 17 | jam | 800 | 3.31 | 2.85 | 2.92 | 4.00 | 3.64 | 2.50 | 2.97 | ||
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | 👥 | Baby Blaster | jam | 433 | 3.71 | 3.50 | 3.54 | 4.19 | 4.34 | 3.57 | 3.90 | 3.59 | |
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | 👥 | Chromosphere | jam | 1258 | 2.97 | 2.41 | 3.00 | 3.63 | 4.34 | 3.18 | 2.47 | 3.23 | |
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | Nuclide | compo | 31 | 4.07 | 3.83 | 4.09 | 4.42 | 4.45 | 3.97 | 2.38 | 3.97 | ||
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | Depths | compo | 2.75 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 3.83 | 4.33 | 3.83 | 1.00 | 3.66 | |||
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | loops | compo | 176 | 3.67 | 3.12 | 3.70 | 4.07 | 4.70 | 3.63 | 4.05 | 4.01 | ||
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | pod | compo | 190 | 3.80 | 3.76 | 4.16 | 3.46 | 4.39 | 3.73 | 3.70 | 3.59 | ||
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | Goodbye Limbs | compo | 5.00 | 3.00 | 3.50 | 4.50 | 4.50 | 5.00 | 5.00 | ||||
| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | Greedy Slime | compo | 3.25 | 2.71 | 3.16 | 3.41 | 4.00 | 2.12 | 1.87 | ||||
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | Space Growth | jam | 1.50 | 1.00 | 3.50 | 3.50 | |||||||
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | Forkbite | compo | 293 | 3.47 | 3.23 | 3.31 | 3.16 | 4.25 | 3.47 | 3.83 | 3.42 | ||
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | Ditchin | compo | 2.70 | 2.50 | 2.50 | 2.70 | 4.09 | 3.50 | 2.83 | 3.33 | |||
| 2017 | 39 | Running out of Power | Electric Company Man | compo | 4.00 | 4.00 | 4.00 | 2.00 | 4.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 4.00 | |||
| 2017 | 38 | A Small World | Beetle Ballistic | compo | |||||||||||
| 2016 | 37 | One room | Manifest My | compo | 405 | 3.11 | 2.90 | 3.25 | 3.25 | 3.35 | 3.29 | 2.76 | 3.50 | 46 | |
| 2016 | 36 | Ancient Technology | Burn | compo | |||||||||||
| 2016 | 35 | Shapeshift | Time Balls | jam | 10 | ||||||||||
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | Get Sun | compo | 183 | 3.65 | 3.22 | 3.30 | 4.13 | 4.64 | 3.57 | 4.05 | 49 | ||
| 2015 | 33 | You are the Monster | Trees That Kill | jam | 24 |
Jumping into planes is awesome! Player health could be messaged a little more visibly and movement floats around some when trying to make sharp turns, but jumping into planes and pulling down buildings is sweet!
The Game of Life feels different when you are flying around inside it and consuming everything in your path! The sound and graphics worked well. I thought the UI felt a little janky, but that is very hard to nail in such a short time frame.
I like the mood and color! I didn't realize why the game was ending until a few tries, so the sunrise effect could probably be better messaged.
Movement and animation feel awesome! I would definitely play a full featured version of this.
Cool! It feels smooth and intuitive but still challenging. Looks good too!
Nice flowing art. I really like the fire effect upon impact!
Really polished work! Controls feel great and the sense of speed is messaged well. Jumping felt just a little too weighty but that is a minor gripe. Materials and FX feel juicy. The destructible obstacles convey weight well when you hit them and I actually wanted to smash them just for fun. The berries should have an even more satisfying pop to convince me to hit them instead!
Controls felt like they were fighting me, but I really liked the art and mood. Bugs were satisfying to crunch too.
This has an cool mood to it and an interesting mechanic. I wasn't sure when I was doing things right, but I suppose that may be the point with a swarm of fish attempting to survive.
Wow. The scope of this is impressive and it's pretty fun too. Great job!
Really cool! Audio wasn't working for me, but I had a pretty zen experience anyway. This could be expanded into an awesome sandbox.
Great presentation! I was unclear of my goals until the game over screen, but still enjoyed the experience.
Seems challenging but fair!
Fantastic look and feel. Fun to play and the collapse at the end is satisfying to watch. Excellent work!
This is by far the best plantlice sim I've tried.
Great art, silly dancing enemies, blood explosions and an emBEARassing amount of puns. Well done.
Cool atmosphere! The floating white boxes were a little confusing and frustrating when the cats got all stuck in them. I really liked the art and mood in this.
Once I realized I needed to hold both A and D to rise, I had a lot of fun. The timers on the coins are a nice mechanic. Great work!
Great art! Punishing but I liked it. I also enjoyed reading the console log. ouch!
I like the concept! It definitely induced some uneasiness when I hit the wall on the edge of the map and then when it filled in. Making it quicker to reload might help streamline the frustration and keep people playing longer.
This felt like an interactive short film. Well done!
A familiar concept but well executed and I had fun. It fits both themes too!
Awesome soundtrack and clever control mechanics!
The scoring was fantastic, each scene had its own atmosphere, and everything felt quite honest. Great work!
The art and concept are really cool. I liked the hoard of soldiers chasing me down, but I definitely got lost multiple times, and there was no easy way to restart. The low resolution of the opening movie also dampened an otherwise awesome intro.
Cool premise! I wasn't able to kill the mammoth. :(
The graphics and awesome music create a really cool foreboding mood!
I love the title art! Everything feels very polished and complete. The invisible paintings were a nice touch. Good job!
I'm not sure if I'm too dumb or it's a bug, but I can't get past the first room. The xylophone can be a little difficult to highlight as well. The art looks pretty though, everything feels nice and I want to get to them coins!
The fibers in the static add a unique feel! The camera placement felt like actual cameras could be there. Overall I really like the style, but the lack of rotation when moving forward was more frustrating than tense. I didn't get very far in multiple tries due to the restrictive movement.
Cool premise and art style! Once I realized I was moving forward while attacking, I did much better. I did have some issues with the mouse look controls being too sensitive in the horizontal axis, and when I would circle strafe, the camera would judder a bit which was odd. Audio was also a little sharp to the ears.
Really pleasant mood and cool mechanics! I wish I could see further in front of me though.
Beautiful graphics! Unfortunately I could not get into the story and I promptly got myself stuck in the world geometry.
I really like how the input awkwardness compliments the mood!
So tranquil! I loved watching everything grow around me. The palette mechanics worked great, though it was a little difficult to remember which each color linked to.
I was able to play using an Oculus Rift after laying on the floor and resetting my view from there. Not quite as clean as an ini tweak but it worked! :)
I loved the entire presentation! The line-of-sight lighting is awesome, and everything read well. I also ran into the horizontal push boxes in vertical hallways issue on the third level and couldn't proceed. Money was probably a little too abundant, though I did enjoy finding all of them.
I also had the issue where I couldn't serve the vikings even when touching them and pressing Q or E. The atmosphere was great! The dancing goblins were a nice touch. I really liked the mechanic of controlling two characters at once!
Sweet post shader! The audio was good, though the sound when activating the switches was a little sharp on the ears. Overall great work!
Sweet pixel art! The mode switching transition could message a little better, but the mechanic is cool. I didn't get very far due to the webpage constantly scrolling from the arrow keys, so enabling WASD for movement as well would be nice!
Looks and feels great! I got 90 seconds on my best.
Great feeling of impact! Played all the way through. I agree with DalesDiscountTires that multiplayer would be awesome!
I'll be thinking about this one for a while I am sure. I blinked a couple times typing this.
This is super charming and I love it. If I could replace my desktop wallpaper with this, I would.
The embedded web player is causing mouse click inputs to be lost and clipping the top and bottom of the screen. Playing in fullscreen almost completely fixes the control responsiveness. The combat could use more feeling of impact. Also that music loop is really annoying, so something more neutral might work better. I like the prop destruction! Congrats on finishing your first LD!
Once I realized what was going on I had fun trying different combinations out to see how the game would react. The music added a unique atmosphere too!
This felt so complete and consistent. Graphics and music were great. The chest opening progress bar was awesome. I had a little trouble activating the ready button, and some slow down when attacking, but otherwise quite polished. Well done!
Interesting take on the theme! Graphics were clean and readable, and I liked the character animations. The ramp up in spawns was hectic but the difficulty surpassed my ability to keep up.
The key bind switching is really cool. I could see an entire puzzle game making use of these mechanics. I had fun playing around with it. Awkward but neat!
Lovely graphics! The color choices make everything very readable the lighting is pleasant on the eyes. The floppy arms added a nice whimsical feel. Controls worked pretty well, though I also hit the acceleration issue when you go below the screen. Being able to restart would be a plus. Well done!
The music is awesome! The character is a little sluggish and can't keep up with the beat though. It makes restarting from the beginning much more annoying.
@blobo Thank you! I intended for you to be able to jump in the air, but bypassing the doors is a pretty funny oversight!
@patvanmackelberg Thank you for playing! Exploiting the levels was unintended but is pretty fun to do anyway. I overscoped the size of the level on this one for sure!
@jimmothysanchez Thanks! I am pretty happy with the look of the slime. :)
@codekim Thank you for noticing the coins! I did notice some spazzy behavior myself but couldn't debug it in time. The slime is mostly rendered in a custom material node containing a raymarch shader. The custom node takes the all the bone locations as inputs and renders them as a bunch of spheres unioned together with an smin function. Then it calculates analytical normals, and uses that information to light it. Lighting, fresnel, and opacity is packed and output back into the standard UE4 material for coloring and refraction. The brute force method I used to populate the bone locations is far from ideal however. If you look in the source, the material M_SlimeRaymarched contains it all.
Super cool! Probing the game to figure stuff out was fun. It added a layer of mystery and perceived complexity. The slow ticking tile movement of the enemies brought back some memories.
Killer atmosphere! All the systems worked about as I'd expect in an adventure game. I agree with Sargonius that highlighting items on mouse over is nice. Drag and drop for items on the bar would also be a nice QOL improvement if you continue development. Overall impressive amount of work for the timeframe!
Wow this is tough! I appreciated the ability to skip to the next level after almost hitting the goal so many times. The art has an interesting feel to it that I like, adding a bizarre atmosphere. Being the bird is cool.
Cool take on boids flocking! I do feel that everything could be a little larger by default, but I liked the style.
Beautiful graphics! I hoarded 30 coconuts and swam to the edge of the world, where I found salvation in the infinite void. Pausing the game in the crafting menu would be nice, as the initial read can doom you!
Made it out intact! The changes in maneuverability as you collect parts was neat. Checkpoints were appreciated and seemed well placed. I never had far to travel after restarting. Kept me intent on getting to the next spot, and when I escaped without being fully assembled, I just had to go back and collect the rest of the parts. Glad I did!
Hey Frank! Excellent work here. That respawn feels juicy! Colors and symbols are all on point. The bullet trails are sweet. Controls feel great. Sounds add a nice tactile feel without getting annoying (The cue played when enemies move does sound a little like interference though). The one issue I had was the hit box corners for enemies clipping me when I thought I was out of range. Nice punishing difficulty that made me want to get better! currencyWarsHighScore.png
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This is awesome guys! I love the charming low poly art. The animations are great and the blood extractor states made me laugh! The minimap timeline is perfect. It got a little hectic managing the fires while building, but I pulled through and am now the King of the Blood Throne.
This is great! Fun mechanics and well designed levels. The stats on the ending screen were a nice touch. Excellent work.
I like the dithered shading style! Boosting felt good and I enjoyed bounding about.
Awesome art! The high contrast works well to convey the harsh atmosphere. Really cool mood. Those fire sounds tho
@zevsehg The sine wave is rendered in a shader by smoothstepping a distance function (smoothstep(0.01, 0.005, abs(uv.y-0.5+(sin(uv.x\*frequency)\*amplitude)))). It has variable thickness because I didn't implement distance estimation (https://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/distance/distance.htm).
Incredible mood and atmosphere with matching sound design. I kept feeding the flames not know what to do, but it was a cool ride.
Love the art and theme! Being able to push cultists out of the way would be nice, but it did add a punishing element to letting things get out of hand.
I thought the relaxed pacing was fitting. Happy to have freed my critters.
Very unique! I love the sound of the root growing. Great feeling controls and presentation.
Unique mechanics! It was difficult to predict where it would go, but I really like the concept.
Out there premise with a detective puzzle? Sweet. Got some Obra Dinn vibes at a couple points. Well done.
Love the style and colors. Good game feel, though sometimes the worm would overshoot the movement and mess up my aim. I'll admit I shot egg.
Cool lighting and mood! Elvis was responsible for some serious deforestation that night.
Cool style and fun level design! The only issue I had was Lil Jones pushing crates around when I didn't want him to.
Great job at turning Life into a puzzle! I couldn't stop playing.
Love the art and atmosphere! The character felt a bit sluggish turning though, making combat a bit difficult, and I wished I could skip the dialog after multiple attempts. Overall very cool.
Cool typing game! I definitely underestimated the time it takes me to type special characters. Messaging for incoming attacks was clear and successful inputs were satisfying. Good work.
Awesome! I didn't get to see any other players while I was in, but I built my fire very large. Cool concept and execution.
Congrats on your first game! I had fun driving around and blasting ants. Very playable. Keep it up!
Haunting music and charming bees!
This is excellent! The screen rotation can be a bit much, and I wish the beats looped a little better, but this is one of my favorites for sure. Having different music choices as power ups was really cool.
I really enjoyed playing this. The music and art went well together and created a unique feel. I did get stuck once, but pressing escape reset me and I was able to continue to the end.
Charming art and juicy timings. This felt great to play. I enjoyed the dialog from the king!
Love the dithered vista art and the happy bouncing panda! The music is catchy and sets a fun mood. I started it up again while writing this and was happily surprised to see my high score preserved! Well done.
The failure sound gave me good laugh. Fun game. Congrats!
At first I thought the assault rifle had made everything trivial, but then the spawning sped up quite a bit! Reminds me a bit of Crimsonland, which I used to play a ton of. Cool!
Cool heat sharing mechanic and humorous tone. I initially avoided the barriers because I thought they would make me colder.
Funny premise and sinister feeling art! The audio was a little harsh on the ears and camera movement a little too frenetic, but still cool.
I had fun with this as the chaos ramped up! The music was catchy, though it only played in one ear for me.
Great graphics and game feel! Police AI behaved as expected and impacts were very satisfying.
Wow! This is my favorite thing from the jam so far. Beautiful art, tranquil sound design, innovative concept. I love this.
Had fun with this, though I had some slowdown when loading the next loop. Getting closer and closer to hitting the target felt like good progression. A little fog could hide the loading of the next section when looping!
I really love the music and mood in this. I'm still listening to it while writing this. Excellent work! It took some generations, but I managed to breed some fast moving creatures and collect all the orbs.
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The zip file worked fine for me. I had some fun with this! I thought the controls were interesting, though a UI element to help timing the momentum would be nice. I ended up slowly jumping most of the way, since gaining speed usually ended up with me slamming into something. I enjoyed the range of dialog choices!
Short and sweet, but fun. The text cracked me up, and while the movement was a little clunky, everything felt solid.
Love the mechanics of this! I had some technical issues with the web player though. Tile graphics weren't loading so I couldn't see the rocks and it became a memory game, but I really like the art in the screenshots. Performance was also a little sluggish, making typing feel less than ideal, but that could be my machine. A hotkey to move to the next level without touching the mouse would be a nice addition. Nice work overall!
@albuquerque I had tried in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge with the same results. I just gave it another go in Vivaldi, and it worked fine! All the art loaded and everything was nice and smooth. Great game!
Funny premise with satisfying ship magnets. I felt like the music was out of place though, and thought the mood was better without it. The ability to speed up the game was appreciated! Wave 2 was definitely a jump in difficulty!
This was a nice and relaxing puzzle. The wireframe style fits well. I would have played more levels if available. There were was at least one spot where the two arrows were so close that it was a bit difficult to see which was active. An indicator floating above the track might help message that better. Good work overall!
Love the voxel animations and storytelling style. Background music would definitely complete the experience. I had to see all the different story branches and enjoyed it all the way through!
This is near perfect to me. Feels great to play. Love the personality of the art. The music is awesome. The scene transitions are sweet. It didn't seem like I could restart from a controller, so reaching over to hit R was a bit awkward. The levels could also use a checkpoint or two, but this is an excellent entry!
Charming art and presentation. The postfx while recording look nice. I liked the chill music and ploop sound when you fall. Movement felt a little rough, like there was too much friction, but overall well done!
Great game feel and overall quality. The opening crawl made me smile, and I really liked the animation of the stars popping. The audio volume did feel a bit loud, but that's a minor gripe for an overall well done game!
The atmosphere and cinematic feel of this is great. Love the sand piled up in the corners. The safe tiles not actually forming a path feels strange though, and it forces you to just randomly click and memorize the path.
I was drawn in by the interesting name, but kept playing for the madness inside. It wasn't very apparent when new things were spawning in due to visual noise, but everything definitely got more hectic. I thought the music was catchy and fitting.
This one made me laugh. Excellent interpretation of the theme. Game feel was on point, with a consistent quality. Using a combo of WASD and arrow keys yielded some hilarious maneuvers. Good shit!
Even without sound this has great atmosphere. Got both endings, and though none of them made me happy, I appreciate the grim message.
I really like the minimal art style. Everything read well and hazards were intuitive. Nice level design as well. I had some issues with the controls and collision at times though, and the footstep audio was a little piercing to the ears.
Those juicy platform hit reactions feel great. Love the polish on this one. The difficulty ramped up pretty high for me, but it always felt like it was my fault. Well done!
The presentation of this is incredible. Excellent graphics, audio, and mood. I laughed multiple times. Sometimes it felt like it didn't register as over the lighter section of the wheel though, like it was too strict on one side.
Cool color palette and character style! I like the premise too, though it would be neat if the enemies were negative emotions like self doubt, helplessness, and dread, rather than headaches.
I loved this. The setting reminded me of one of my favorite puzzle games, Chu Chu Rocket, but the mechanics felt fresh. Charming art and presentation. WASD movement and being able to rotate the arrow in place would be nice polish, but great work!
I found this unique and funny! The speed makes it a bit hard on the eyes to read the text, but I like the fusion of rail and memory puzzle gameplay.
Cool parallax effect with the stars! This was more difficult for me than it initially seemed. I kept building up too much momentum, which would send me flying an unrecoverable distance.
This is rather tranquil. I like little experiences like these that focus on one feeling. One thing that would be nice is an audio cue to reflect stoking the fire. Something like an ember cracking would help with input feedback.
I really love the art and little quips the character makes. Gameplay is great, and reminds me of Crimsonland. Music would definitely help the atmosphere, but this is excellent work!
@hi-im-greg Thanks Greg! I used Houdini to create the cave geo procedurally.
@elzach Thank you! I agree it's a little too short. I only had 24 hours to devote to it, and I noodled a bit too much on the eyeball.
@danvil Thanks! The camera rotation when looking straight down was something I wanted to address but couldn't get to in time unfortunately.
I was just having fun blindly blowing things up until I realized what the actual goal was! The difficulty may be a bit too forgiving since I was able to bumble my way to the end. Cool!
Excellent work for 24 hours! I really like the choice of shapes, and the nested balancing act is really cool. Simple to get and feels great to play.
Impressive work for your first 3d game! Combining cutscene and gameplay is a task by itself. I initially failed hacking and slashing recklessly, but when I took things slower and played more like a Souls game, I succeeded. The choice of deer for characters is interesting, and the experience felt quite personal.
Wow. This was truly a joy to play. So many nice details: the trees losing their leaves as you run through them, the satisfying thwomp and crack on the surface when you land, the fade to white at the end. Excellent work!
Excellent music and presentation! Love the art and had a lot of fun overall. I do feel better, thank you very much!
Love the nice touches like reactive grass and potion shader! First attempt I went in blind and didn't know what I was doing, but after reading the description instructions it became clear. Great job on the art and music!
I was hoping someone would make this pun! I liked being able to enter the shop at any time, and discovering the effects of each item was fun. Hit messaging could be a little better, as I didn't initially realize I was doing any damage. I like the hand drawn art feel too!
Wow this is so cool! The idea is great and presentation is fantastic. I would add a little more messaging about what is effecting the stability though. Sometimes I thought I was doing well but I was still failing. I would love to play a full scale version of this with MIDI instrument support!
Cool concept and funny audio! Constantly yelling and blowing into the mic got exhausting but I am happy to have experienced this.
What a trip! I was pulled in by the interesting looking eyes, but stayed for the json editing, transparent game window, and fun commentary throughout the level. Very refreshing!
Super innovative! Learning how to spot the AI better felt very compelling and satisfying. The lofi style compliments it well, and the music added a unique flavor that I enjoyed quite a bit!
This was indeed a stressful game. The premise combined with the music create an anxious mood that adds tension. I did find the game to get a little trivial when I realized you could just quickly spin each one in order. Bouncing the plates is a nice touch!
Awesome style and colors! The art is really on point. I did get stuck on the second stage though. Hitting the wrong key and divebombing is a little too punishing I think. Difficulty aside, I think this feels very complete and polished. Good job!
Love the style and game feel! Every fall I had only myself to blame. The trail effect looks a little off compared to the crunchy pixel style of the rest of the art though.
Interesting mood! I got a bit woozy by the end and it might be a bit before I come down.
Fun looking homunculi! I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do, but I enjoyed pulling out a ton of little abominations
Very smooth feeling game! The clouds were fun to launch from and the transitions to and from gameplay were really cool. Good job!
This is great! The constant flow of permanent upgrades kept me playing for longer than I expected to. The low poly style fit nicely, and I enjoyed the delivery contents sliding around in the cart as I dragged it along. Sound would of course help the mood, but overall awesome job!
Was drawn in by the gnomes and stayed for the hand drawn art. Gliding mechanics felt smooth, tough but fair. I would have liked to be able to use WASD instead of the arrows, but I got used to it. Nice work!
Throwing babies at doors and windows was simple but funny! I'd like to have gotten a little more feedback when hitting the targets. I also think this would do well as an endless runner. Our team considered doing a paperboy style baby delivery game so it's cool to see it realized! Nice first time solo work!
This is great! Played all the way through, and would keep playing. The checkpoints in level 4 felt a bit out of place, but if there were a few more levels in between that ramped them in, they would be expected. I also love the vocalized SFX, though the music did get pretty repetitive. I would definitely play more of this. Nice work!
Gorgeous graphics, good sound and straightforward gameplay. The presentation on this is fantastic! I do wish there was a bit more to receiving and dropping off the mail, because the loop ends up feeling like ping ponging back and forth between goals. Great job overall!
@jozgames Thank you!
@smoe @willianfhs Thanks! Unfortunately we ran out of time and couldn't get to audio for this one. Next jam!
@winter2277 Thank you!
@pinky-toast Nice job! Since we started with Lyra Starter Game, file size started pretty large and we didn't get a chance to reduce it.
@drlizard Thank you for the detailed feedback! We started with Epic's Lyra Starter Game template, so we inherited a pretty robust settings UI. Unfortunately we didn't have a chance to flesh out the control options to the level we wanted.
@don-fouts Thank you!
@teashna Thank you for playing! We just added a new version 1.2 that gets mouse support working better.
@g33zer I think that's the high score so far! The menu system is something we inherited from the Lyra Starter Game template from Epic. That would indeed be quite the effort to accomplish over a weekend!
@don-shinski Thank you! We just added a new latest, 1.2, that fixes the turning issue you experienced.
@chengnan17 Thanks for playing! We couldn't get mouse support implemented fully in time for the jam edition, but our post-jam version has it working!
@steamhat Thank you for the feedback! Camera distance tuning is something we'll look at for future updates to the game. We wanted visibility to be a bit limited but it might be too much.
Excellent art and audio combine for a really cool mood! Love the music and the mysterious vibes. I'd love to see this expanded into a full game, with many strange rituals and behaviors to discover. Awesome work!
This is great! I sideloaded it on my playdate and it's going to stay installed. Love the premise, art, and simple but intuitive gameplay! I'd also love to see this developed further.
I really enjoyed the music in this! Fun game too, though a bit easy. Well done!
This is a neat experiment! I enjoyed watching the amoebas move and the inclusion bits are cool
Nectarmancer is an amazing name! Charming art and pleasant-to-control gameplay. I feel the difficulty got trivial once I got enough bees, but I still played to the end. The title screen start button mechanic was particularly clever, serving as a tutorial. Excellent work!
Strange vibe with this one and I dig it! Love the 2D art on top of the 3D. Nice work on the intro cinematic too. Game feel could be improved with bullet impacts and movement speed tuning, but it was still fun.
I had some control issues and the jittery camera was a bit unreliable, but I laughed and the character art is quite cute!
This was really cool! The vibrant colors initially caught my eye, but this is a novel mechanic for an avoid-the-walls type game!
This was excellent! It felt very personal and authentic. Great presentation on the graphics and audio side, and fun writing as well. I also appreciated how you displayed the credits! Nice work
Very charming art style and presentation! That reflection and splash are very juicy. I could see the grabbing mechanic being expanded into some really interesting uses too. Nice work!
This is cool and very chaotic! Devil Daggers vibes. Audio cues would definitely help with the awareness of enemies around you, as I found myself spinning around constantly haha
Great visuals and plodding feel to this! I found it a bit tedious to traverse large distances, but I like the intentional aspect of positioning to attack. Cool stuff!
Cool ambient audio and a chill experience. I had some trouble moving sometimes, like input would just be ignored for a while, but I was able to still succeed by blasting everything in my path.
Awesome puzzle game! Now I want more levels! While the stages initially seemed like they were getting harder, it actually got easier for me. I could see future levels getting really wild, having maze-like walls and red zones within the tank. The physics felt great and the fluid blobs looked nice and juicy. Great job!
Super cool! The presentation of this is fantastic. Randomizing and tweaking the islands feels and looks great. Being able to save out GIFs is very clever and adds lasting value! I love it.
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I thought the genre concept and premise was interesting and funny! I was able to easily cheese the AI by standing behind a log and tossing bananas over it, but still had fun. The SFX were a little jarring, with the explosions being a pretty harsh sounding. The turn time felt a little short. It would be cool if instead of being tied to time, you had action points you could spend by moving or firing bananas. Overall nice work!
The presentation and concept were really well done! I found some difficulty managing to dodge around enemies, like the movement was a little sluggish, but I still had fun jumping around and trying to acquire the correct hat.
I made it out alive! The mechanics were simple but fairly straightforward after realizing I needed to hold space instead of tapping. The enemies were a little too easy to avoid though, and never really felt like a threat. A lot of nice touches caught my eye, like the damage numbers fly text, and item drop animations. This reminded me of playing a Gameboy game. Charming!
I love the color palette! Great graphics and music. The UI worked well enough for me, but a little more messaging of button states (pressed, disabled) would be nice. I thought I was doing well until a massive horde came in and demolished me! Fun game!
Wonderful presentation! The audio is fantastic and the graphics are great! The polish on this is outstanding. The fade out when you fall, atmospheric sounds, everything contributes so well to the mood. I enjoyed this very much.
I had so much fun playing this! Over multiple attempts I got further and further along, which felt like good progression. My best run was to level 4, where I got killed by a mimic! A couple of times I spawned into a room with multiple enemies which felt a bit unfair, but not impossible to deal with. I also noticed a minor issue where it seemed the same word would be prompted in a row and it would fail to recognize. Overall fantastic work! Good sound, graphics, and excellent game feel. I will probably bust this game out again to test new keyboards with.
Very cool! Love the text based art and pixel vfx. The sounds fit nicely though bordered on the harsh side at times. Everything felt great to control, and the variations in AI were fun to encounter! Great job!
@rigdonware Thank you! I'm glad others find meatball based humor as tasteful as I do!
@Pennycook Thank you for the kind feedback! It sounds like there may be a bug with my async level loading. I pass the number of meatballs to spawn as a parameter when opening the level, and the default is 2. That info is quite illuminating! The issue with the controller must be a disconnect between where UE4 expects the face buttons to be and the Steam controller bindings. I will definitely investigate that further!
@Zinkler Thank you! I feel like the compass really ties the whole game together.
@LeonLaci I'm happy you found my game interesting! Those meatballs do look to be a little on the rare side, so your apprehension is probably correct! :) Thank you for playing!
@Maz-Hem Perfect! That's the kind of raw emotion I hoped to evoke with this experience.
Awesome! I really liked the feel of activating a chain reaction. The required number of buildings to destroy was a little out of my reach, but I had a lot of fun in my attempts. Everything messaged well and played great!
I like this combo of voxel building and match-3 puzzle! I fell out of the sky too many times, but having a mechanic that offers an ability to avoid that could nullify the issue. Movement was decent, though there were times when I felt like I should have been able to jump into certain openings but I couldn't. I think this is a promising concept!
Cool music and vibe! I like the idea of the enemies being driven by music! Moving and shooting felt good, though SFX would of course help sell everything. Messaging for successful vs failed hits would also be a benefit. I had fun!
I escaped! Super cool ending to an fun game. I loved the genre mashup and tasteful use of word art. The scores required not matching the level screen was a little odd, but it just added to the mystique. I'd say it's not just match-3/text-based adventure, but also part memory game!
This is an unexpected genre combo! Sounds like you had a good time taking source images and making this! While there isn't much in the way of gameplay, I like the way you cut up the photo into strips to make it scroll by! It would be cool to have some keyboard controls so you don't have to constantly click.
This definitely made me hungry. What a unique game! I enjoyed the pleasant mood. Some of the words were very unexpected though. Do people actually put milk on their pancakes?
Love the ambient atmosphere! Using the shadows to help understand the level worked pretty well without being annoying. It would be nice to have checkpoints following some jumps to help with the difficulty. After dying multiple times on the two rocks after the elevated section I had to call it. The tide is an interesting mechanic and making the day and night cycle have a functional purpose is extra cool. Lighting fell a little flat during the night section, but overall looked really nice!
I like the premise and bizarre mood of this game! After multiple attempts to complete it and not being able to cook everything at the end, I eventually gave up, but had some fun doing so. The graphics could use some consistency, but the music didn't bother me and the controls felt alright enough!
I like the weird story being told here of a farmer and his carrot and I want to know more. The cue for action could use some more messaging though. Also when the fight ended, the game would often immediately close on me, due to the UI listening to the same buttons as the fighting. The graphics and style had a whimsy that I enjoyed!
I had the scout collecting steel, but the turret icons never enabled so I could build one. This left me unable to defend the tower and I died every time from the first wave. This looks and feels charming though!
I played against myself, but the controls feel great! The characters look hilarious and the stages have a silly vibe. I'll be holding on to this to bust out next time I've got a friend over!
Awesome combination of genres! I went in completely blind and was able to figure out almost all of the mechanics just by trying different things out. The messaging for the tower attack range was a little confusing at first, most likely due to the coloring, which I would have expected to have some red, but I figured it out. Good readable graphics, good sounds, intuitive UI, and fun to play! elementCrushScore2.png
This is a great concept, but it seems of massive scope. You've accomplished an impressive amount of functionality given the time too! Of course there is going to be some jank, as there are so many systems that require polish. I had fun navigating around and blowing stuff up even so!
I like this! The turrets massively increased the difficulty, but some extra polish like hinting at their timings would help that. The flipping upside-down aspect evoked some VVVVVV vibes for sure, but this has a feel of its own!
Really cool genre combo! Real time purchasing of upgrades worked really well with the shmup style. The difficulty ramp felt great with the importance of purchases getting greater as the stakes got higher. Of course I'd like hotkeys but that would defeat the purpose of a clicker! The scoreboard functionality really sells the completeness of it! Great work.