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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | Rabbit Simulator | jam | 889 | 3.20 | 2.38 | 4.06 | 2.88 | 2.75 | 4.09 | |||
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | 👥 | Mahou Shoujo Monster: Promised Fate | jam | 557 | 3.44 | 3.11 | 3.23 | 3.90 | 3.60 | 3.33 | 3.46 | 3.67 |
Oh , I really like the concept of having to balance health and "are you shooting or not" in a tower defender.
I feel it could have been balanced better to make the earliest waves easier? Maybe bullets that take less of your health, and only very weak enemies at first? Because i legit died just from not being able to get away from a gun at first.
I loved the guys expression when you become rich. Loved the needless clothes buying :)
For me, I could not make the story progress at all. No buttons worked.
Aww, I can't download atm (and am on a mac besides right now) , but the game looks well polished and I was looking forward to trying it out.
Got home and tried it out on my windows machine :) It was really pretty, and the music was great. The controls WERE bugged, as other people mentioned, but I figured out I could get around them via always backing up and shooting in front of me. It would make the enemies get in this straight line pursuing me so i could just shoot them down in a line.
That said, I got one power up, and I couldn't figure out what it did at all?
Overall this has the makings of a really good future game :)
"I don’t think we’re meant to think strategically about this…"
Whoops, forgot to mention that there's two endings,and figuring out how to get them is the puzzle.
~~Did you know that not all blood pacts are only for your current Magical Girl? And even the ones that are might not be all that great for the girls who come after...~~
~~Having Magical Girls die is part of the learning experience, after all!~~
~~Kids and Fun (tm)~~
"The boosts from the pacts should be visible on screen along with blood pact cost. Otherwise it’s kind of hard to know which pact to use." Oh dang, I'd hoped it was enough for the damage to have a pact multiplier. I wish we'd had more time to polish play testing! But this is great to know for our post jam polish pass :)
Thanks for the feedback!
"I see no link to the game, it this normal ?"
Uh. Huh. Where did the link go? Let me check dusterherz...
Cool, looks like Ludum ate the links. Re-added them, thanks for the catch @dusterherz :) :) :)
"Can’t play the game, link doesn’t work. Also, website is pretty broken - lots of relative links leading to current folder, need to make those relative to root :P “/news.html” vs. “news.html” ;)."
I'm not sure what you mean? The link seems to work overall? What website were you even going to that there was a news.html link? @magnanix
You got our aesthetic entirely @knightofowner :) Newgrounds was a magical time.
For your bug report, could you let us know what browser you were running in (and what version)? I know we've gotten some reports about Edge being really weird with it, but we thought we were stable in most other browsers. It'd be great to knock out a few more bugs!
I'm really glad, too, that our endings were telegraphed :) We worked hard to make a core game play loop that was accessible in the five minute suggested time limit. When we do a polish pass post game jam we'll definitely try to calibrate for a harder difficulty, though, which I think will make the game more fun overall? Your feedback seems to agree that a harder difficulty would increase the enjoyment of the game, so I'm glad we're on the same page here!
Hrrm, the graphical glitching happening across browsers is a weird one, I'll keep a look out for it for reproducing. I think you're the first so far to find the zombie girls, but knowing its cross browser will help us track it down. I appreciate you getting back to me!
And I feel you, debugging can be frustrating. I'll keep your advice in mind about making sure we don't push too hard on the difficulty front :)
I liked that it let you decide if you lived a good life or not, and it made me feel like real life is that way too. You spend your time and only have so much of it.
I really enjoyed how fun it was to get the projectiles up as fast as they went, 10/10. I can agree I wasn't sure what the shield was for, tho I liked pushing the enemies around. (Why upgrade it? It didn't seem to get MORE shieldy?)
Oh, and I was surprised there was actually a boss, even though it was mentioned. A lot of games like these are just "survive infinite hoards", so I enjoyed that.
I enjoyed the warioware reference! The controls could be a bit finicky, but I appreciated that there wasn't too much consequences for failure, so it felt more chill and exploratory.
I'm terrible at platformers, so I didn't make it too far in, but really enjoyed the lil meer cat jumping around. The random effects were interesting, and combined with the low penalty for failure really helped give it a "trial and error" vibe.
Extremely fun! I really enjoyed upgrading the gun to shoot fast enough i could use it as "echolocation" and determine which way to to run to avoid the bugs as I looked for new places to mine. I can agree that away to better see places already mined (or partially mined, since towards the end I'd spend multiple days mining the same spot while fending off bugs) would be useful.
Also can agree the lighting engine was great!
Definitely stood out compared to the other entries, loved the graphics and the music was p solid, too. I wasn't able to figure out how to beat it (the people I managed to talk to didn't really have anything important to say?), but I can see how it has potential, good luck!
I wasn't what sure the parts looked like to even recognize them if i found them so I ended up just wandering around for a few minutes lost. I liked the atmosphere of the game, it really felt ominous and foreboding.
Eventually I found the monster so I ran up to it to end the game.
@defrag plain old javascript, html and css for the 'game'
the videos came from a combination of stable diffusion ai images in 'loopback' mode and my streams of my own zampanio fan work
Eheheheheh Zampanio is my very favorite creepy pasta. TLDR probably a house of leaves rip off but for a video game. If you find it absolutely nothing at all spooky happens to you, you just get obsessed with it.
@testsubject06 "I’m not even confident I’ve seen all of the content, because it feels like the content itself is actively avoiding being seen."
You get it entirely! That's the vibe I've tried to capture that I love so much about the Zampanio creepy pasta!
"Nice! I’ve always wondered what an unfiction / arg kind of thing would look like at a game jam scale, and you nailed it."
@monika Yesss, you get it exactly.
Extremely fun, and I can see how it would get addictive! I wanted to try all the different combinations of power ups!
(Sadly, the rotating lines in the background during some parts of it made me too dizzy to play for too long)
OOo, i like the idea of repeats for new lives, would maybe help the difficulty curve
It was hard to find mushrooms in time by the end, and the enemies seemed to expand exponentially and would just mob me. The fact that the attacks were automatic was something it took me a while to realize. Overall I found it fun and enjoyed seeking out level ups.
Highly enjoyed this game (my cabbages!)! I love the idea of having 6 games in one. (did find the card part a bit difficult to figure out while in rush mode, but the graphics and sound design were good and it invoked the best parts of games like wario ware)
The graphics were great and the lighting effects were really fun!
Loved the bass heavy music, and the fact that all projectiles vanished after ten seconds made the genre oddly strategic. I enjoyed it. Lil hard for me.
At first I thought it wasn't working, but then I realized you could manually scroll down to get the full screen and everything worked great from there.
I found the game play a bit repetitive and hectic, but greatly enjoyed watching the colors spread around. Fun and innovative idea!
I am highly intrigued and want to follow this game to see where it's going...that said, i couldn't figure out how to play at ALL (neither mouse nor keyboard seemed to do anything), but I *loved* watching the lil guys run around on screen and live their lives. (I'm a sucker for zero player games)
Amazing game, fun concept, enjoyed that it did its best even when I was messing with it (a single dip of paint really did end up with a mostly white canvas)
Very fun! I didn't think the match 3 genre had room to innovate, but I hadn't seen that twist on it before! I also liked that I kept trying to get in the mind set of "oh god its happening real time, you have ten seconds between firing" when I'm so used to match 3 being at your own pace.
I enjoyed the simplicity of the gameplay! I died basically immediately the first time but with trial and error it was chill to play and fun!
Very pretty game, though I found the controls difficult to handle (I only have a trackpad for a mouse which might contribute) and it wasn't clear at first the sheep didn't take themselves home (they'd disappear over the horizon and then they'd be gone forever as far as my fight with the camera was concerned) Not on theme?