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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | 👥 | EVENT HORIZON | jam | 730 | 3.40 | 3.11 | 3.59 | 3.81 | 4.06 | 3.50 | ||
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | 👥 | That Wasn't Wheat... | jam | 300 | 3.63 | 3.63 | 3.42 | 4.05 | 3.84 | 3.63 | 3.15 | 3.36 |
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | 👥 | Motel 88' | jam | 974 | 3.10 | 2.71 | 2.89 | 2.13 | 4.11 | 3.55 | 3.85 | |
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | 👥 | Mortal Compass | jam | 718 | 3.51 | 3.18 | 3.75 | 4.05 | 4.00 | 3.50 | 2.63 | 3.78 |
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | 👥 | Soviet Office Simulator | jam | 1164 | 3.19 | 3.05 | 2.77 | 3.22 | 3.86 | 3.60 | 3.66 | |
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | Fall Damage Isn't Fun | compo | 755 | 2.97 | 2.67 | 2.94 | 3.55 | 3.27 | 2.86 |
Hi! really cool game, I love the idea and the graphics, however it did feel repetitive, although that may just be my very short attention spam :joy: Honestly great work though, you should be very proud :)
Amazing job on this game, really. The fact that it's all using your own engine too is very impressive. The control feel very good and the sound effects perfectly suit the game and emphasize it's features. One criticism I have though is that it doesn't seem to get harder, as I was kind of doing the same thing on repeat. However overall an amazing entry and you guys should be super proud! :)
Hi! Really nice looking and sounding game, really gave me a very eerie vibe. However I was very confused as to what I'm supposed to do, and i'm guessing that's because of the bug that occurred, so im sorry to hear that that happened :(
Hi! Very cool game, definitely a very unique idea. I love the simple graphics too! It's one of those simple games that somehow you'll spend ages playing. Keep up the good work :)
Very fun game to play which is one of the first that I actually played all the way through. The controls feel really good, the art is nice and humourous, the enemies are unique, and I love the premise of the game. One thing however is that the screenshake is a bit too hard and the particles when you kill enemies is very big. All around though its a very well made game! :)
Super nice game, very cool style too! I was also wondering, if the caves are auto-generated, if so, how did you do that because its super cool. Overall great submission :)
@moomka Thanks for the feedback! it was very tough to tune the character, as I was very low on time XD. Was on a huge time crunch because ive also never made pixel art, or 2d character animation!
@ryan-romero Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it <3
@loonydrope Hi! Thanks so much for the feedback! i do agree about the level design, if i had more time i would've made the player way more dependant on the boxes. It was actually my intention for the player to use the boxes, but i didn't have enough time to go through and test the level as much as i wanted. But thanks so much for the feedback :))
@monkosum Hello! Yes I agree that the jump is a bit bugged, I also noticed that after submitting :joy: However the camera I think must be broken for you because whenever I play the game it clamps to the border of the screen. I'm sorry that you got stuck at the start for a few minutes btw! I should've checked the controls more thoroughly but thank you so much for the feedback :))
@thegreenworm Very sorry about that! I never knew that! Will definitely keep that in mind for next time :)
@ryan-dotsikas @ludumdaredevil @neon @poboy @evan @zuvr Thank you guys so much for the feedback, and yes I agree with all of you that the controls and general physics were a bit crazy :joy: I will definitely set aside more time next LD on perfecting player movement and physics :) Thanks so much for playing!
Very nice game, however there are points at which I just couldn't get through because it was like a dead end. However the overall idea of the game is nice, and I know that procedural generation is tough so getting a game to work using it in the limited time is impressive. Very good submission overall :)
Goodness gracious, these are some fine gentlement
@chairshot-games @dev-dennis @sotaroni Hi Guys! Thank you for the comments! Yeah, we had an issue where in the final hour of development, the task system just stopped working out of thin air, and we couldn't fix it in time.
Nice little game, i found myself enjoying it a lot! I love those models for the ants, and I can see the effort put into making the small details such as the walking animations for the ants and player, as well as the shooting animation. One suggestion would be to make the landscape a bit more varied, and give the ants maybe some sort of blood particle effect, or a small animation for when they die :) Thanks for the entry!
Overall a really good and impressive game! I wasn't able to find the grail though :( As well, when i wanted to move and shoot there was a weird effect where it would shoot not towards my cursor but skewed sharply in a direction. Asides from that, great game and the scale was impressive!
Really cute art style, music, and idea :) However, I was very confused as by the controls, and i think it would have been a lot easier if I could click and drag items about. I wasnt able to fully play the game, as during the tutorial, I wasn't able to place the ingredient in the bowl after chopping them up :(
Very nice game! the controls felt great, and it was impressive how you managed to generate the map!
This game is brilliant! I would never have guessed this is a jam game! Amazing graphics, amazing sounds, amazing visual effects, amazing gameplay loop. I have no idea how you pulled this off in this short space of time, and I am very very impressed! 5 Stars all round!
This was so nice! The graphics were great, the game felt very polished, and it was fun to mix and match builds. I particularly loved the art work and the projectiles, it all felt very clean. Great work!
This was a really impressive game! I loved the graphics and I thought that the control system for the carts was very impressive!
Overall a very great game, however it takes some time getting used to :)
I really enjoyed the gameplay. I thought it was very fun and challenging, and I loved the idea of a "mobile-area-defense". However, I thought that the graphics would have been great without the pixelation, which seemed unnecessary. As well, the knife projectiles were difficult to see some times
Overall, really fun and super well made and polished!
Music slapped hard, very nice, however the game was unfortunately buggy for me, as I could not get past the next level if i pressed "next level", just brought me back to main menu. Also, the mouse was fiddly due to not being able to see where the mouse was unless I was holding it down.
If your iron out some creases, id love to play the full game :)
Nice little game, I love the theme, which suits really well! The jump mechanic is interesting, I liked it. However, there seems to be no real score to the game, could be good to implement something simple like a timer showing how long youve been asleep for. I love all the art though, its great!
One more thing, sometimes id collect sleep potion, but my sleepiness goes down?
Thank you for the submission :)
Really nice game, the controls feel good and it feels really satisfying when youre going fast a full speed!
Actually amazing game. I love the concept of two resources that balance each other out, and I loved how it was turned based so you could strategise about what you were going to do instead of frantically panicking. The art was super good, and the music and effect were very effective. A very polished game overall that was very enjoyable while staying challenging. One thing I wanna mention though, I was developing RSI from having to spam the spacebar to regen health using water lmao
@zappablamma ooooooooooooh I did not notice that, I am dumb XD
A really unique idea, with a short but effective game loop! I also love the hand drawn graphics, as well as the effect of things fading out from memory on the title screen between each day. Great job :)
Note to everyone: There is a bug where the mortals don't appear for some reason in the living realm on some runs, will find a fix to this problem as soon as possible. Thank you for all the reviews :))))
@eeaann9044 Yes, definitely could add more features for the full game, but we were scared that adding too many features would make the game too complex to understand for a jam game, and furthermore, take more time to make :smiley:
@debone Hi Debone, it's interesting you say that, because ghosts arent supposed to be in the overworld, that must have been a bug! The gameplay is supposed to be that your health drains fast in the overworld, and a lot slower in the underworld, so I don't know whats up with that! Thank you for the feedback, very useful :)
@debone Haha no worries! I got scared that you had discovered a game breaking bug :laughing:
@someone I believe the full version would need a tutorial XD
Loved the idea behind this game, very creative and funny :). The game was simple but fun, however the boss was hard to get past due to not having a health bar. talking of health bars though, I found it very cool how instead of a ticking down health bar, you are delaying the page filling up with shakespears writing! Nice!
Nice game, I love the overall theme of the game as well as the music and art! However I would say that the camera movement feels a bit too hectic when it follows the ant dead on, as it makes it harder to land jumps and such. Asides from that, a very fun game with a lot of character!
I like this game a lot, the atmosphere is great, the lighting works super well and is performant, the gameplay is fun, and the music fits very well. There are a few comments I gotta make though
I found that the time items that I needed to collect would often spawn inside objects, and were unreachable, completely dooming me. I also found that I would get stuck on invisible walls a bunch of times. Asides from this, really cool game and concept you got on your hands :)
I like the bullet-hell concept for this genre, very unique. I found the game being a good balance of challenge and fun, however, it was hard to tell how much health I had left, and it seemed as though I died randomly. Congrats though! Very impressive for a 1 man job!
I love that pixel art for the robots! really fun game, managed to get a highscore of 18,000! I really liked the unique mechanic of where if you got shot one of your controls gets disabled, although it made the game VERY difficult in late stages, but hey, its not meant to last forever :) I was wondering if for the design of the flying robots you were inspired by the Warhammer Tau Drones? I thought they reminded me of those! Super good entry :)
Overall the gameplay is nicely polished and feels finished to play. An issue i have however is that the graphics are kind of all over the place with no real coherant theme. I think if there was a consistent style for everything the overal quality would increase massively.
favourite game of the jam so far. I love the concept, art, and gameplay where you have to type things, and i love the typing mechanic and UI. The sleepchecker also looks dank, with the glow and all. Very clean and very polished. Amazing entry :)
I liked the game, cool sound effects and voice lines. Everything was pretty smooth, although i couldnt really tell when id be getting a new pickup
I really like the concept of the game :) I also particularly loved how nice the animations look, however I think that for robots, the jumping is a bit too floaty! Great entry :)
I was unfortunately unable to run the game :[ Dissapointed because it looks so good!
Heres the last lines of the Debug file if it helps <3
16.32.15.419: ConstantsApp: [main] Registered value: DEBUG_LIVE_TEXTURE_RELOAD : true
16.32.15.423: ResourceManager: [main] Adding EntityGroupUid to protected list: -2147483647
16.32.15.429: ScreenManager: [main] Added screen 'MenuBackgroundScreen'
16.32.15.432: ScreenManager: [main] Added screen 'MainMenu'
16.32.15.432: GameWindow: [main] Loading GL content
16.32.15.473: GLDebug: [main] GL_INVALID_OPERATION (1282)
@lintfordpickle it really does look great though, dont be discouraged :)
Unfortunately we couldn't get multiplayer to work, however from playing locally against bots I can say that the game loop is simple to understand, however maybe too straight forward to create a good challenge. It seems to be pretty dependant on RNG. However it is still an impressive entry for multiplayer and I think it wouldve been fun to play against my friend.
Another note is that the graphics to me clash too much, I think having the moon be more basic looking like the cars wouldve worked well, or the other way round, having the cars be more realistic to match the moon <3
I like this idea, the controls were difficult but unique and fun :)
Some music and SFX would have helped, maybe could have made the game a little longer too but of course i understand thats not always possible within the time limit.
Great entry <3
Overall this is my favourite game so far, I love the uniqueness of the puzzle style. I think the simple board graphics mixed with the more complex tile graphics works super well. I managed to get to level 9 before my drunk ass gave up. It felt super satisfying getting a level done, and the animation at the end of each level was super clean.
Really nice entry! The graphical style is amazing and the overall idea of the game is great. My one complaint would be that the controls can be pretty annoying, but that may be a skill issue. And yes, the shaders are great :)
A good foundation for a game exists here, it could be more challenging and fun if there were some things you can't hit with your scythe, to make it a bit more frantic like fruit ninja. Competing with the AI reaper did not make for good game pace as once you surpassed him, the game felt directionless. Overall good attempt with the graphics and style - the dialogue added some nice personality that not many other games have.
Hey i just wanna know how did you get in the jam by yourself? I thought if youre solo it puts you in compo?
PROS: -I liked the art style, I liked how the art was consistent too. -I liked the mechanic of killing enemies then planting seeds that you harvest -I liked that there was a tutorial, very helpful -The gameplay loop was good as it required you to properly manage your actions.
CONS: -I felt like the task of finding all the items was kind of pointless, as the items had no clues as to where theyd be and it felt like more of a chore. -The indicator for the health of the enemies I actually didn't even see until the second play, it could be better to have a health bar instead. -Small bug, the seeds I collected would persist from one game to the next.
Overall a great entry, very well polished :)
This was really fun to play agains my friend! Very impressive for the time it took. Id say make the map bigger and with hazards possible <3
Very nice and clean tower defense game. Here are my pros and cons! PROS: - I like the simple art style, it avoided visual noise very well. - I like the gameplay mechanic of how killing enemies and growing your farm are directly intertwined, and it kept me on my toes. - I like the animations on the turrets - I thought the UI was nice and simple to follow (however could have been customised more to look visually pleasing)
CONS: - I felt like the game got easy once I had all the turrets in place - After I bought 3 turrets, I couldnt buy the other types which I was confused by.
Overall a great game and I'd love to see it expanded upon, and would also be great with some sound and music :)
I like the simple style of this game, and I love the mechanic of collecting souls to grow your garden. The enemy movement being floaty was nicely done too. however as other have said, I feel like A for jump is counter intuitive, it could just be up arrow and have the down arrow to go through doors, for example. Otherwise, the controls felt smooth and nice.
Had fun playing overall, and was able to complete the game :]
@aendawyn @cagil-ozdemirag @mololo Thanks for the reviews!
@multipixels @sibi Thanks for playing! We wanted the rocks to be like that so you had to really watch out or think fast, as otherwise you can just B Line up and down the field! I'm very glad you enjoyed playing :)
@theherborist Thanks so much for playing! Those tips you gave are actually excellent and the best direction we should go in if we were to keep building on this game!
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This is such a simple but effective game! A very unique idea and done really well. My only negative comment really is that I was never able to jump over the DVD icon, but that may be a skill issue lol
I love the consistent artstyle and the music was great, I also liked the detail where the DVD icon would have a devilish grin when close to you!
Nice game, interesting that you made it in blender. The game feels a bit slow paced and there needs to be some more game mechanics to make it engaging, maybe something chasing you? That for me is the biggest comment, but otherwise it looks good, especially as your first game jam :)
Really cool entry! I love the concept of the reaper as a helper and good guy rather than villain, and I love the art style :)
Maybe a suggestion for improvement could be to have some particle effects, or even a feature where the souls slow inch back towards the start of the level?
Also, Im a UI enjoyer and I loved the text!
Great entry all round though :)
Overall I love the simplistic pixelart style of the game, however I think what would make this concept really good is when you can only move on wheat tiles so that you must always optimize your movement rather than aiming for a star grade. I like the music, it gives a nice chill farmer vibe. I also really like the UI btw <3 ( I am a UI conosiour (however u spell that) )
An interesting and unique idea, however I was sure I had found the spot where the thing was, but I didnt know how to finish/execute the incision. I like the auditory aspect especially and the graphics is also good.
Good entry <3
I absolutely love the graphics and UI of this game! The gameplay was a pleasant suprise as its not what I expected it to be, but I really enjoyed it and it made me think ahead and plan my actions. It was effective in not being overcomplicated by having too many resources to manage, but still enough that it was well balanced.
A great entry!
Theres a really good framework for a game, however I think its lacking a bit of uniqueness. I also found it pretty easy to cheese by standing in a corner and firing. There could be some enemy variation where they can shoot, so you must dodge.
The graphics are lovely and the sounds work really well with the game, I think if the game was expanded on it would be super as it has such a good base.
I also think the shoot on Z is kinda awkward for a keyboard, I prefer to have it available on mouse button 1.
overall great entry
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I liked this game a lot, it the controls were fun however id prefer them to be less sharp so you can get fatter drifts easier. Overall good game
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this was apretty fun game however It was very difficult from the first ramp. I spilled my red label from hitting my desk. I liked it though :)
I like the concept, its very unique but so infuriating!
A creepy modern analogue adventure with a unique take on the point and click style. Amazing job with the mood, just wish there was more! btw me and my LD partner were actually stressed because it felt like something was chasing us.
I cant lie, I had no idea what i was doing, but it looked very pretty
Felt a bit like a rogue like with how often I died, it's a bit irritating trying to work out where to go.
icl i crapped myself
I liked the mini systems such as the inventory and dropping mechanics, it all looked very nice especially with the glow outline. The flashlight however was pretty useless as you could just see in the dark, but it added to mood. As for the game, it did seem a bit monotonous and it was frustrating taking damage right after opening doors when enemies are pressed up against them. love
It was easy to cheese by placing a bunch of clowns in a row right from the entrance, the shape of the corridor and my placements didnt seem to affect much. Really cool concept though, I like the idea of designing a horror house.
simple concent but very fun, polished, and impressive that it was made in SDL2. also very good use of the theme. Also the graphics were very pog
It would've been nice if the character art and the level art were more consitent, the level could've taken a minimal style just like the squares to make it look more cohesive. Otherwise, it was a simple fun, albeit rage-inducing, speedrunning game - the level segmentation made for nice pacing.
The difficulty doesnt ramp quickly enough for the mothership to be a problem, and also the cloud hitboxes seem to be a little busted because sometimes it seemed like I would die out of nowhere. I felt like you couldve also been a bit more inventive. Otherwise, the graphics were very pretty. Very aesthetic
I liked this because it was a very unique idea, and it was fun but challenging. nice game!
I liked the teleporting mechanic, however the game does lack depth. Very good for a first game jam!