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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | ||
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| 🥉 | 2023 | 52 | Harvest | Mow Rider Deluxe | compo | Audio | 4.39 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | Depths | DeepFrame 9 | compo | 116 | 3.56 | 3.61 | 3.20 | 3.52 | 3.35 | 3.74 | 2.70 | 3.21 | |
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | Whack-a-Soul | compo | 101 | 3.84 | 3.83 | 3.82 | 4.15 | 3.79 | 3.88 | 3.39 | 3.62 | |
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | Hermes' Express | jam | 3.60 | 3.80 | 3.20 | 3.80 | 3.80 | 3.60 | 2.90 | 3.50 | ||
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | Mow Rider Deluxe | compo | 68 | 3.81 | 3.60 | 3.55 | 4.39 | 3.86 | 4.39 | 4.23 | 3.84 | |
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | Tumbletris | jam | 240 | 3.85 | 3.66 | 3.87 | 4.12 | 3.85 | 3.54 | 3.11 | 3.43 | |
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | Weed it & Reap | jam | 755 | 3.48 | 3.30 | 3.33 | 3.01 | 3.78 | 3.80 | 3.72 | 3.52 | |
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | Space and keys | compo | 324 | 3.37 | 3.12 | 2.97 | 2.95 | 3.60 | 3.45 | 3.35 | 3.63 | |
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | Super Turtle Drop | compo | 82 | 4.00 | 4.12 | 3.73 | 4.26 | 4.14 | 3.97 | 3.36 | 3.84 | |
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | Crash Thunderstud Returns | compo | 75 | 3.89 | 3.91 | 3.80 | 3.80 | 3.87 | 3.78 | 3.98 | 3.72 | |
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Long Live The King | compo | 350 | 3.60 | 3.40 | 3.46 | 4.02 | 3.85 | 3.35 | 3.39 | 3.53 | |
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | Hunkules' Gauntlet | compo | 309 | 3.23 | 3.02 | 3.08 | 3.44 | 3.30 | 2.86 | 3.80 | 3.16 | |
| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | Strain of the Gods | compo | 219 | 3.47 | 3.13 | 3.59 | 4.00 | 3.70 | 3.33 | 2.97 | 3.75 | |
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | 👥 | Pipe Dream | jam | 919 | 3.08 | 2.71 | 2.56 | 3.31 | 4.09 | 3.35 | 2.54 | 3.07 |
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | Bumper Buddies | compo | 338 | 3.39 | 3.39 | 3.45 | 4.03 | 3.02 | 2.72 | 3.15 | 3.17 |
I enjoyed the game, simple but effective. I see how the theme comes in play and I haven't seen many similar games despite the obvious mechanics. Controls are responsive, the game just feels good. Well done !
Nice game ! Actually was pretty challenging, took me a while to get into it but it is awesome. Well done !
I really like the concept of this game, well done ! The ambient sounds really create an atmosphere of anticipation, as would be the case in a forest with hunters. The controls at times are a bit heavy, but nothing game breaking. I would add a line renderer or an effect to show the player where he just came from, or give an indication where hunters are. All in all , well done !
I like this game ! Enjoyable and seemingly VR ready ;) As a person suffering from anxiety attacks I can attest that the nervosity is spot on ! I love the footsteps, really nice touch to make the game a bit lighter. Only thing I would suggest is adding some audio tracks and party lights (I know, this is a jam ... so no worries !)
Thanks for the entry !
James what the hell... No way you pulled this one off on your own, I am sure you had that "new dad" energy ;) VERY well done, absolutely love it. It just all fits together ! If this one isn't a top contender, then I don't know either ;) Thank you for the jem !
Hey ! Great simple game, perfect use of the theme. Very well done but I have 3 small remarks / suggestions.
1. I would not use flat sprites for the enemies. The shadows they generate are pretty confusing and distracting... 2. I would make sure the player can not fall down along with a platform after being hit, especially if you would want to make the platforms a health indicator. You could for example do a simple downward raycast from the player and exclude that platform from your randomisation code to make it fall ! 3. A leaderboard could be a nice add-on here !
All in all, great idea using very basic concepts (I even think this would make a great tutorial game for Unity)
Nice entry, it makes me glad seeing a retro-style game, I love those. I love the irony , running out of "SPACE". The audio fits the theme, a nice casual game to play for sure. Well done !
Despite the "pending" features, I'd say this is still a fun little quirky game ! Seems like another Honest Dan's classic. I love your style of pixel art and the music is exceptional (it's sticking in my head). Sure some animations would be nice, but that's putting the cherry on the cake! Well done buddy. I'll be sure to play this again if/when you finish this one.
@jcmonkey Thank you for the important feedback ! The enemies were designed to be stationary at first, mostly due to time constraints (we had quite some issues during the development phase and the fact that we live in completely different time zones did not help). In the end we decided a full rewrite of the enemy ai system. However, there is the boss fight! (I am not sure if anyone made it that far yet, maybe I should add as "test boss" button later on ! The procedural generation you discussed indeed broke when I tried flipping rooms to increase the variability, that seemed like a good idea at first though ;) Would you mind playing it again in the current version ?
@megamasterx Hey ! Thank you for the feedback for sure. There are no controls in the transition to the next level, the movement is automatic. I left this in in case we would have had time for more advanced generation of rooms and dungeons, which would need some time in the background. I am not sure if that is what you meant, if not could you elaborate please? On the time budgeting comment, you are absolutely right. We already cut a lot of features on day 2 and in the end I wounded up rewriting most of the game due to collision problems induced by the "new" character controller... For all of us this was a first team-jam, with members spanning from the US to Eastern Europe and I have to say, time zones make or break everything (I for one was the team member that was most central AND stupid enough to work till 4 am on 3 days just to be able to communicate with all of the team members)... In the end, it was a rich experience in the end !
Thank you for playing !!!
@thedouche Thank you for playing nonetheless, how would you suggest changing the game to fit your needs at the start, if I may ask ? In a jam there are decisions to be made, in order to deal with the limited amount of time to generate a lot of content, we decided to make the game a tad harder, stretching its replayability. It is perhaps a shame the boss can not be reached easily. I wonder if the LD rules allow for a "button" on the menu screen to "fight the boss" instantly. In a way it is not really adding content, since it is already there !
Do you mean physics wise or graphics wise ? If the latter, I noticed problems with Unity's lighting. It looks completely different in the editor unfortunately... But thank you for playing !
@HAUO The oil is actually limiting the player movement options. The intention was to incorporate this in puzzle mechanics, but eventually was unfortunatly cut short (mostly due to code design conflicts).
@HAUO & @CNB As every comment was on the controls, I took another look at the build and noticed the debug values were in the controller settings (triggering the wrong jump animation was also due to this it seems). This isn't really adding a feature or anything, so I decided to change them to the intended ones (in a new uploaded build) for all that matters. I'm sorry the first experience was ruined for you this way, but perhaps you can give it another shot !
Thanks for the feedback !
@chaitae Thank you. There actually is left control to fire as well.
@sublustris thank you for playing !
@radow @chaitae In the spirit of LD we can't add more rooms to the build to vote on (not allowed to add content post LD), despite it being really easy to add rooms. However... if this is allowed we can add rooms and upload a second build for people that casually want to play ! :)
@alexey-tarabrin could you elaborate on that? Because that should have been fixed before. What exactly happens ?
@Swini thank you ! The artwork was done by LurkinMcClerkin though, the oil is done through programming :)
Thank you for playing !
@agsilverag Thank you for the suggestions. I will try to upload a second final version with more rooms, separately from the actual LD entry though!
@sgtweirdo The limited amount of rooms is indeed an issue, mainly linked to the lack of time. I had a maze generation algorithm but it was not completed at the time of submission so... rules are rules right :) Either way, feel free to play the Zen mode !
@diesdas I have made the oil transparent in the ZEN version. Thank you for the tip ! :)
@digital-bacon @zicboy thanks for the reviews ! :)
Cool little game ! Would have been more challenging if there were randomized directions etc. But very well done, I enjoyed it ! Thank you for the entry. I love the detail with dead trees behind the roller. The only obvious thing I would change in terms of graphics is to make the bulldozer bigger, having it come closer as well, it would seem more menacing ! But well done !
Great entry, thank you for that ! I am glad I came to read the comments first and I knew about the mouse buttons though. Interesting game and very solid for a first jam !
This is a really solid entry ! Amazing. I love the typing mechanics and you managed to find something super original that fits the theme. Simple yet snappy, I was laughing so hard. Also, the south park walking style is the cherry on the pie ! :D
As a binding of Isaac fan this game brings back memories from the earliest flash versions. Yeah, for sure the game isn't as easy as the first levels of Mario, but I had little effort getting the hang of it, especially when you get the option to revive. Very well done Mate !
@vincent-blot the bullets are fine, the most annoying thing I found were the green blobs. It took a while to get their pattern in my head, but once you get the hang of dashing, the game actually became pretty easy :id:
@erasmus-crowley Thank you for trying to play the game :) Unfortunately it seems I hadn't saved the links (probably because I was editing the page to include the "manual"), that should be fixed now ! I hope you find the time to try it again later. Either way, thank you for your consideration !
@ericm @burnedkirby @jgugino @erasmus-crowley My sincere apologies !!!! Apparantly I forgot to set the project from "draft" to "public" ! This is why you should handle these things this close to a deadline. I hope the people who already voted find it in their hearts to amend their votes post gameplay :) Happy gaming by the way !
@burnedkirby
Thank you so much for playing !
The god events are random and occur by chance on a roll every minute. The difficulty of their task depends on how much resources and villagers you have aqcuired in that time.
You can track the villagers by holding left ctrl and pressing up/down. There also is a minimap (press tab to toggle it). Did you have the volume sliders up? I tested it on my side after having downloaded the same version and the audio is working on my side
Could you also provide some further details on where they get stuck "between 4 tiles" ? Because I cast their position to ints upon arrival so that should definitely not happen, but thank you for reporting it !
** EDIT **
I have updated the manual to include the key combinations. Thank you for telling me that !
Considering the audio, I discovered the problem : I had stored my settings locally in the player prefs and those were loaded into the build. In case someone would play the game for the first time, the default values would be set to -40db (completely silent). You'd need to mess with the sliders in the configuration to hear anything ! This should now be fixed however (wasn't really a bug in the end, phew :)...
@burnedkirby I acknowledge not everyone will read this page. I decided to add an F1 key in game to bring up an overlay now. This isn't influencing the actual gameplay so I figured it's ok to do that? :) Thanks for the valuable feedback !
@ditzel @elfunck Thank you for playing the game and the feedback !
@christina-antoinette-neofotistou Thank you for playing and the appreciation ! :) I had serious doubts whether it was a good idea to work on only 9 hours of sleep in total, but comments like this make it worth while :D
I am glad you have taken the time to post your valuable opinion anonymously, well done. Since I take this offensively, let me respond to this highly informative reply you've given there.
First off, posting a single line comment "anonymously" just proves you have an non constructive mindset and just want to troll about. Odds are you don't even have a "submitted - finished" game and just want to go around and see where you'll get responses. I hope I am wrong and you are not an immature bored person.
Secondly, should you actually want to go into a discussion on what can be improved, I suggest you read through this page first, it is extensively documented what is going on. On top of that, there is a tutorial in game that explains everything yet again. So "difficult to know what is going on" is a very, very poor comment. Maybe in a future edition I need to make everything AI based, including the player !
Thirdly, this game is heavily based on AI and is a hybrid between an idle game and an RTS. You can literally have the AI do all the work for you until something pops up. Most people appreciate the complex backend code that went into this and I would love to see what your game entails. However, as said earlier, I fear this is just a troll comment and there's nothing backing this pointless comment up.
And lastly, this is a compo game. If I had another day I would have included monsters, constructing buildings and much more.
Kind regards, in fear of you being a troll I disabled anonymous comments. Feel free to man up and contribute in an appropriate way to this project.
Thank you very much for the great feedback and for playing my game ! Makes it all worthwhile to see and helps putting the "anonymous" comment I had higher up into perspective :D. I hope you guys have a great weekend !
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@tylerstraub
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-main menu doesn’t work after you die *** That seems like a pretty nasty bug, I can still try to fix that in a post-jam ? ***
-torrential downpour seems to just kill all my people no matter what. maybe i did something wrong? but from what i understood all but one were in the houses *** You can stop the punishments by sacrificing a villager, I'm sorry this wasn't clear. They should indeed be safe in the houses though so this might also be a bug ***
-when pressing ctrl + arrow key to select a villager, it only worked if you held ctrl. letting go stopped the camera where it was until you held ctrl again *** I designed it to be like this, but this is just a toggle in my current setup, I will re-enable it in the post jam ! ***
some other things that i think would be helpful:
-more detailed minimap, i.e. show a box of what the player can see (minimap was much bigger) *** This also can be an easy fix, thank you for the suggestion ***
-faster scrolling *** I agree, I actually have support for mouse scrolling but I removed it due to some glitches. I will also re-enable this in post jam ***
-more responsive moving (sometimes villagers wait a few moments before moving) *** This is definitely true, but mostly is only to be solved by updating the pathfinding for longer distances on the (very) big map. I hope this did not freeze the game for you? ***
overall the game was very pretty and kinda eerie, which i liked, but the constraints of ludum dare make more complex games more difficult to create. good stuff though. *** I indeed fell for the scope trap, but I hope the end product was still somewhat enjoyable :)***
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@myfriendtames
Mmmmm, maybe you can add the ability to move the view, pressing the middle mouse button and dragging it.
*** That is a great suggestion. Like I said in reply to @tylerstraub , I will re-enable the mouse functionality in the post-jam :) ***
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@ursagames
Thank you tremendously for playing. I love your stream, I'm very sorry I missed my own game mostly due to timezone differences, but full kudos to you for going through all these beautiful games ! One of the nicest LD streamers :)
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*** UPDATE ***
I added a post jam version with re-enabled mouse camera control :) I'd need to refactor the AStar algorithm to be more efficient, but that might be out of scope for this jam. Lessons learned !
@yorsh that is definitely true. I have learned a lot from this LD :) Including scope reduction. But I am glad you took the time to try it out ! I might convert this concept into a children's game, with a lot of idle stuff going on with minimal things to do (for example, have them type the word the character should go find). I am pretty sure my son would love that :)
@toast-toaster Thank you ! :) There's a lot of room for improvement though, I might work on it and release it on the asset store or something :D
Very well done, responsive and crisp. A larger variety of obstacles would have been nice, but considering the jam-context this is an amazing entry in its own right ! :) Thank you for the game.
Great job on the submission, I hope you had fun! But next time you can just opt out the theme if you feel it is too far off :)
Great game!!!!! My kid loves it!!!! Thank you for the fun times I'm
Great game ! Relaxing , simple game. I see myself playing this on the bus ! Thank you for the game
Thank you, very kind ! Glad you enjoyed it :)
@jharler @swen @honest-dan Thank you for the kind comments ! Glad you liked it :)
@silvervalegames thank you ! The AI has a bug , it should've stayed at range but this is not gamebreaking so I decided not to fix it for LD purposes. But glad you liked it !
@andidebob good point, you can open the interface using the "F" key though
@philipprapp95 thank you ! Glad you liked it
Great take on the theme, I loved the audio and the laughs. This game is great fun, I hope you would consider making it a full game. Imagine this as a multiplayer... Instant hit :D
Hello, thank you for making this game. It is a nice and very simple clicker game. Great storytelling, really nice voice acting, but maybe the game would feel more polished if there was a larger variation in bobble heads, because as it stands, they are all identical. Nonetheless, great game, congratulations ! :) Cheers !
This game is really nicely made and snappy! Very addictive and the scoreboard surely is a nice competitive touch ! I personally got 7th at some point but I'll bookmark this one for sure. One minor issue I had was with the audio, I had to toggle "music" on and off for the soundtrack to play. Glad I figured this out because it is amazing. Well done and thank you for developing this !
Nice entry ! We had fun playing it for sure. The audio and graphics are a very nice match and the controls are snappy, as they should be for a platformer. Great job ! Thank you for making this !
This takes me back to that little old gray computer... with a huge fish-tank of a monitor on top running win 95. Trying to find something fun to do on these old school "CD's " with games and demo's. Just like back then I enjoy these strategy games ! The intricacies are worth while, but it might be just me... In other words, I can't say if this game is just my niche, but that won't matter for the ratings I'll give you ;) Thanks for making this !
I honestly expected a lot more "Olympic flame" type of games, but this is the first one I see around. Glad I was able to play it, feels a little bit clunky but I have that feeling with most pico-8 games. The camera movement is a bit janky but it didn't bother me too much personally. Well done ! Thank you for making this
Very nice little platformer. It had some typical platforming controller bugs, where you sink in the floor or it just feels "slippery" / "laggy". This could be due to the webbuild, which I completely understand. It would probably have benefited from a little bit more content, as most of the crystals were found within 2-3 screens from one another. Nonetheless, thank you for making this game !
Great game! I really liked the game but the difficulty ramps up pretty slowly. The aesthetics and ambiance more than make up for that though. This feels like a classic ^-^ Very nicely done. However... my favorite part? The audio... it is SPOT on my friend ! Well done! ... Where can I order a Primpy for Christmas?
WebGL builds in Unity are always a messy steaming pile of trouble. It's among the reasons as to why I didn't put one up for my game (it turned all lighting red for god knows what reason). Either way, I watched you work on the job system and it is very interesting indeed ! Useful to learn. I wonder how far you could push this using a compute shader for the fishes, similar to what Sebastian Lague did in his "boids" video. Well done :)
If you had made this 6 years ago I'd play this 2 hours a day on the train while commuting to work ! This... is ... GOOD ! Would you consider a mobile version? The premise seems a bit complex at first, but ones you get the intention, it's a little nugget of gold :)
Can you actually defeat the boss? Has anyone managed to kill their tank ? Just asking for a friend ! Thank you for making this :)
I liked this :) Simplistic , almost Vector-graphics era like. Interesting concept !
This game reminds me of the win95 classics ! Very well done, heaps of fun. The death sound of your fellow dungeoneers is really giving me flashbacks like the food critic in the Ratatouille movie !
This one's pretty fun ! Well done, thanks for making this. In terms of the theme, I am missing the link a little bit I think, but that could just be me...
And as you probably've read in the comments above, there are some "classic" bugs in here (such as the aiming that's to the bottom left of the cursor, the typical mistake there is not to take into consideration the width/height of the cursor). As for UI work... It is very cumbersome, which is why I try to avoid it in 2-3 day jams. They need the proper time and effort to make sense and I fully understand your design decisions ! However, a little bit more "metadata" and information on what to buy would have been nice, since that's in my opinion one of your core mechanics. Great entry and would recommend playing again!
This is a fun clicker game, thank you for making it. One slight remark though, maybe it would be a bit easier to not have to mix up keyboard and mouse. When you are clicking on screen anyway to move your boat, it might as well be using the mouse to open up menu's by clicking on the docks for example ! Well done !
Very nice game ! And impressive line mechanics, I really liked that. For me the game was just long enough to not go passed the point of "this is turning boring". Well done !
I have a few issues with the webGL build but it seems the standalone version didn't have that. A great storytelling combined with captivating audio. Well done, a complex take on a simple principle !
Per usual, the entries by @brainoid and @honest-dan 's team amazed me. This game is so much fun ! I really like it and it's a really unique take on the theme. Maybe you should investigate the option to make this a full fledged game ! Well done, graphics are amazing, audio is on point, thank you for making this !
Nice one ! I tend to dislike escort mission but this game feels very satisfying :)
I really had a retro feeling playing this earlier today. It all fits together very nicely, well done ! I hope you'll consider making this a full game. Well done ! :) Thank you for making this game
An ecosystem simulation game is quite challenging to get just right. This is a very fair attempt to do so, but it might need a little extra work (for example a tutorial, other ecosystems etc). I loved the background music, but there are some game design issues that were "annoying" . For example, there is no way to cleanly exit the game and it is forced full screen. Also some buttons have unclear reprocussions, the "rain" button has no "off" switch, which could be confusing. Overall very interesting ! AND beautiful !
@bill-wheatley Thank you ! Glad you liked it ! :D
@bookerbluejay I completely agree. But this is a compo game and a lot of features got cut :/ I'm still very very very happy with the end result though ! :) Thank you for playing
@nomadicrockman @zabaman @louiejams Thanks a lot for playing ! I'm glad you enjoyed it :D
@fables you managed to juggle the baby around? :D
@jason-woerner @webox Thank you ! :) Yes I want to use this animation style for future projects for sure ! :D But for starters, I really love this one ;)
@webox @fables @zabaman @louiejams @bill-wheatley @bookerbluejay @jason-woerner Major thanks to your votes ! I sorry if this is too intruisive but one of you didn't vote for audio, I was just wondering as to why this is (it's the first time I made all the audio myself). It'd be great if you could elaborate so I can avoid the issue or at least improve on it for next LD ! :)
@stefanie-leitch That sounds brilliant ! I did have some extra enemies but I didn't use them in the end. Since this doesn't really break the game I think I'm not allowed to "reactivate" them now :) I could put them in a post mortem build but then I'd worry people would not judge this version you know... I am not sure what the public opinion on such a change would be, since in a way its' not a new feature, just a reskin... EITHER WAY, thank you so much for playing ! :D
Hey all ! There were plans to have a sort of boss fight but I ran out during the timespan of the compo to fix a bug where you can't load the last lv past the castle. I might upload a full version as well ! (if that's allowed per rules)
Thank you so much for the kind words @collin-thompson ! :)
Thank you and glad you got something out of it !
@krassenstein thanks for playing ! :) Glad you've enjoyed it :D
@pandepic Thank you ! Yes ... I chose not to add in a health system because that would imply the baby could die and that didn't feel right. I don't know why. You certainly raise a very valid point though... The "hand-egg" effect for the baby was something I actually liked , it added a level of "annoyance" :)
@julienlussiez That's one of the biggest compliments I've gotten ! Kingdom's great :)
@snesgaard Ooooo I'm sorry to hear, I'm to blame for that... But I think you should be able to lower the settings in the options menu (press esc). Thanks for playing !
@thedashdude thanks for the kind review ! Means a lot to me :) This is exactly what I was trying to achieve. Thank you for playing !
https://youtu.be/cvpnRiwrXAY
That are very kind words! Thank you so much!
Thank you all so much for playing !
@voidsay Linux is underrated ! I'm sorry I couldn't build for mac...
@astrolabe @nsadie Oh gosh... I hope you at least had fun :D Maybe the game would benefit from having a bit lower HP enemies... There should be a HULK cheat though to fix that !
@pillitoka Thank you ! That was the prototype for "secret knocks" but I never got round to implement it. 2 days is very very very short unfortunately!
@andidebob Thank you !That is a really big compliment ! :) I'm nowhere near Kingdom levels , my pixel "art" resolution is all over the place...Lessons learned for next time !
Thank you @dodormeur ! Very valuable feedback. Offcourse this was just compo and I had to make some decisions on what to keep ^-^ seems I might have kept the wrong parts ;)
Hi @aurel300 ! Thanks a million for playing my game. As for the pixel art, that's the biggest lesson I'll take with me for the future ! :) Cheers !
@mehrdadsh Hey ! I'll be checking out your game in our next stream for sure. Thanks for the interest as well :D
Glad you enjoyed it @5imon ! Really appreciate it ! :D Yes, the "wack to keep your baby airborne" technique was initially a bug, which my 4 year old sun turned into a feature because it was way more fun XD
@maggardjosh When you defeat the king, that's the end of the compo-game ! :) It's about as much content as I could squeeze in there , but thank you for playing ! Very glad you enjoyed it ! :D
I'll see you before the next one probably Elysia ! XD
Hey ! We had a lot of fun playing this, very well done, brings back memories of patapon, CLASSIC ! The graphics are definitely among the best I've seen so far in this LD ! Thank you for making this game :)
This reminds me of Digimon World, another nostalgia-buster in my collection. Very well done, to me it feels a bit like a combat tamagotchi ! :) Kudos, thank you for making this
We really liked this game. It is very fast paced however and the movement takes some getting used to! Personally I would prefer if the thruster could be controlled by the right mouse button for example. Other than that it has a really arcade-like feel to it and the added strategic effect of having to recharger your battery decoupled from the ship is a very nice feature. Well done and thank you for making this !
Very nice concept, I liked the simple but stylish graphics, the music/audio was certainly fitting the game. However (I'm not sure if this was fixed in post jam already), but when the timer ran out there was nothing I could do and I had to force close the game. Other than that I really enjoyed it. One more thing, I would have liked it a bit better if the "wrong" option also followed the line and only had the head of the robot explode when it reached the end. Just a visual thing though !
Well done and thank you for the game.
Hey, thank you for making this game. Maybe a remark, it would be nice if there was an indication for the beat. For example some outline that grows out from the heart that shows you when the alternate the pumping button presses. Very nice ! Liked playing it.
Very interesting concept ! I love the visuals and the voice acting...Per usual one of the games that stand out most AND are integrated in a beautiful community. I hope I'll see you make mugcakes again soon ! :D Cheers !
I like this game a lot. The audio is really nice and the visuals are very appealing, they might fit a mobile game actually. The ramping of difficulty is mentioned in the comments often and I tend to agree, however I think you can easily solve this by turning the first couple of levels into tutorial material. OBVIOUSLY this is a jam game, so nobody should judge based on that. One thing that might be really cool, but not in the scope of a jam as well, make the blob into one supermesh...A giant blob to rule them... make it really grow ! Great stuff :)
This is an interesting concept. It is quite simple, but it would have been nice to have some variation on the environment. For example the kitchen area. Maybe some added audio effects and background music, they really can make a difference. Nonetheless, well done and thank you for making this game !
We were just playing your game, it's a bit unclear as to what the intention is, maybe you could have the platforms rotate seperatly so it becomes more likely to be able to get higher up. Also audio would help out ! WE LOVE THE BLOBBY GRAPHICS THOUGH !!!!
Nice game, we liked the looks of it. Maybe the dragon would be better off being purple, so it stands out more from the environment. Other than that, the WEBGL build seems to lag a bit, so you might want to consider uploading the standalone version! Also, I don't know why this happened, but our spacebar was not working to feed apples to the dragon. Still, I liked the audio and atmosphere, Great Job !
At first this looked like "just-another-egg-protecting" game. But boy... this has some speedlevel stress coming for free ! Very well done. It sometimes seems a bit punishing though and maybe an even snappier respawn would help. For example, in the second level I tried many things but I got hit anyway when spawning. Apart from that, pretty fun game, nice entry :) Thank you for making this.
Cool game ! Now I have to go find balloons because my kid saw this and wants to play it "in real life". Great job. Voice acting is brave, it's a weird mix between the concept and the scary voice, but it seems to work just fine. Well done, thanks for making this ! :) Welcome to the LD Family !
I like the concept ! Very crisp graphics. Gameplay wise it seems a bit strict at some points (for example when adjusting the sliders), but then again that creates the "panicky" feel ! Awesome ^-^ Well done, thank you
This game is hilarious :) Keep the Sean Bean meme alive ! I have to agree, it wasn't really clear to me that I could Sean-slap the fire to put it out. ONE thing I would suggest, don't just despawn the arrows, leave them in Sean's body for a bit, it'd look hilarious :) Well done !
Very nice and simple! Clean execution ^^ As said above, the details are a nice touch.
Hey, thanks for making this game. It is offcourse a very touchy and actual topic! However there were some serious resolution issues where I could not see the entire screen. In fact at first I was thinking that I could "move" into different rooms because I could not see the edges of the level. Cheers !
I still enjoyed the game ! :) No worries !
Great game, we loved playing it ! It is very amusing and the art style is pretty consistent. Well done ! Great mood. The only thing that got to me a little bit is that I do not understand the Japanese titles, so maybe a subtitle would have been nice, I feel some stuff got lost in translation. Thank you for making this lovely game.
Hey ! I don't know if I'm doing anything wrong, but I could not get this to run in the browser. Please verify this, we really want to play it , especially considering the pretty teaser-graphics !
Would love to play it, but as stated above, we can't :) Could you please tag me when you've managed to fix it? Cheers !
I like the concept and it is well executed, especially in the context of a jamp. I would love to have seen a little bit more card variation, spice it up. I enjoyed it ! Well done .
I am a sucker for old school NES games. This game brings that notion in my head, it's tiny things like the explosion effects, the immobile tank... Well done ! I do agree a tutorial might be a nice idea, maybe you can write a nice one using Markdown, the game's LD page is quite empty ^-^
Very nice entry ! I love your typical cute style. Well designed levels and really entertaining to finish ! Well done and thank you for making this ! :)
Very nice game ! This game reminds me of some of those old flash based online games we had back in the mid 2000's. Very enjoyable, nice artwork and very fitting audio. One UI related comment I have is that it's very hard on the brain to read numbers everywhere. Maybe a visual indicator (for example a healthbar) could be better? Either way, thank you for making this !
Hey ! Unfortunately I could not get the game to work ! It went full blast full screen and the dropped egg landed on the net and I couldn't do anything else. If you'd fix this, please tag me so I can try again ! Cheers and thank you for making a game ! :)
Hello there ! I like the premise of the game ! It has a good snappy feel to it, a bit complex at first without proper tutorial but as you said, you'll be working on that ! :) The controls are easy enough and the blood splatter trail? by GOD that feels satisfying. WELL DONE ! Thank you for making this game :)
Great attempt , well done. From experience I've learned that making this type of game in 48 hours is a Herculean task (I one made a mini RTS in compo), so I fully appreciate what you've made here ! :) Sure there are some bugs, but I'll let those slide easily. The one thing is balancing... a travelling ship takes ages to get somewhere and it seems when I alt tab the game comes to a halt, so I'm stuck watching it happen for 5 minutes or something. That kind of breaks the flow of the game... EITHER WAY, thank you for making this !
Thank you for making a nice game ! We enjoyed it , also I really don't like snails so this was fun to do. Great innovation by coming up with a nice mechanic to make a platformer way more challenging. Well done !
The difficulty in this game is ramping up very fast. In fact, nearly impossibly fast. Kudos for making it in 7 hours, I wish I could see what you can do in 48 ! :) Thanks for making this :) Cheers !
I love the style, however the color palettes are not the easiest on the eye (especially the green and yellow one, as shown in a screenshot I believe on the game page). I would also suggest you spice up this page a bit, it should be a billboard but the only thing I see is a mixture of credits and a dev log.
Now that aside ! The chiptune is amazing and the storytelling gave me a giggle or two! Well done :)
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream [twitch.tv/drjavasaurus)[www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus]. I had a great time playing it ! As I told you on stream the mood is definitely the strong point of your game, it really touched me. The audio and graphics fit together perfectly. It's a complete game and I was interested from the first second till I saw the unexpected (and heartbreaking) end ! One slight thing though, you might want to opt out of humor, it might bring your overall rank down and it would be a shame to expect humor for this beautiful story.
Hi there ! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream (twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). This is definitely what I see as a seed for big future project ! Great promise, I'm very curious to how it'll turn out and I'll play the post-jam game for sure. I love the look and feel of the game and the audio-visual feedback to solve puzzles is intriguing. Looking forward to seeing more. Thank you for making this :)
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream [twitch.tv/drjavasaurus)[www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus]. I had a great time playing it. This brought me back to the old crackling computer running windows95 all those years ago. Beautiful, nostalgia city. I fully appreciate what you've built here, it's challenging and at no point did it feel unfair. Great job and brownie points for making people install Java ;) (Jokes, the game is great it's worth it !)
Hi there ! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream (twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). My first reaction instantly was that this artwork is exceptional. Well picked out color palette ! Top notch. The controls are really nice and tight, the walljumping is satisfying. I will be playing more of this for sure !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream [twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). I had a great time playing it. I really loved this escape room simulator. Would work perfectly in VR ! :) I'm not a very audio-savvy person, but with a little bit of help I was able to discover the puzzles and their solutions. I probably would be able to get it but it would take me quite some time. Challenging, but fair. Well done, I enjoyed it ! And offcourse the added touch of a sandbox mode deserves praise !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream at wwww.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus. I had a great time playing it ! For some reason my earlier comment got lost, but extra kudos for making this in an actual NES setup. Very nice concept, the graphics and audio matched up very nicely. Had a blast and looking forward to learning from this ! Well done !
@wendel-scardua holy crap, this is why I'm not supposed to write and do ratings after 1 am ! I moved it here :)
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream at [wwww.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). This really is a gem and it should receive EXTRA coolness point for being a valid NES game. In terms of gameplay it's whatever you can expect from a NES loop game, really cool you managed to overcome hardware limitations and as I said, the effort you put in it shouldn't go unnoticed. Fun game, great graphics, audio to match it and everything wrapped in a NES package. Lovely, simply great :)
Hey there ! Thanks for making this game, it's nicely executed (per usual, I know what you're capable of). I really like the storyline elements, as I mentionned on stream, you made "Westworld, the game" from the host perspective... During a game jam ! Well done :D
Hi there ! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream (twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). I really enjoyed the concept, as I mentionned. It's a very nice prototype for a TBS and shows that you don't need exuberant graphics to make something fun. Maybe there could be a bit more "punch" with animations and particles, but this is a Jam ! Well done, I can see this project grow :) It has potential !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream [twitch.tv/drjavasaurus)[www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus]. I had a great time playing it. Very original take, the cursor felt really nice and ... god do I even need to write this, the hamsters are friggin cute! Everything fits together nicely and your game is really consistent. It's relaxing, hope to see more of it. Well done and thank you for the fun gameplay !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream at [wwww.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). Rodeo-bear simulator! Great take on the loop theme, nice use of visual queues to indicate where to jump to. The chaos is complete but I caught myself gasping and (totally manly, not girly) screaming to try and keep myself on the platforms. Well done, very nicely executed. Can recommend ! Congratulations on your game :)
Thanks for submitting this game at my stream [www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). I really enjoyed it! BUT NOT ENOUGH ! The controls are very decent and feel fair at all points. Even when things got a bit repetitive, they kept me on edge ! The audio wasn't lacking, it popped at the right times to really bring that vibe of "stop nagging and let me finish the game !". Screenshake? 11/10. Well done ! Honestly loved this one :)
You guys are legendary. This game is just finished in every aspect of a jam scope, I literally have no negative comments other than I expect you guys to turn this into a full blown RPG ;) The memory-card aspect is brilliant and fits the game loop perfectly ! Well done guys. I know I say this every LD, but this is a winner ;)
Hi there ! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream (twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). This is a great game ! Well done, strong slenderman vibes. It is very challenging though. I love that you went for a voxel style, it works so well ! The AI is equally impressive to me, must have been quite hard to get it right to find automatic hiding spots ! Loved it :)
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream at [wwww.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). I had a great time playing it ! I am glad that you've decided to put up a warning as this is a very serious topic. It was brave to put that into a game, but I do feel it represents what these situations can bring forth... I like how all the triggers and events clicked together nicely. Well done !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream [twitch.tv/drjavasaurus)[www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus]. I had a great time playing it and I actually took a note to pass it on to my 5 year old. He'll go bonkers for this ! Everything just falls in place with this one, great audio, great artwork, great gameplay... One of my favorites for sure! I did discover a bug where my caterpillar-butt got stuck in a rock, but a quick reset fixed it :) Great job !
@blobo Woa hold the phone, that github shouldn't be empty ! Let me check that right away ! Anyway thanks a lot for playing and glad you enjoyed it! It was designed for a generic HD phone in landscape, so it might not work for all but it's as close as I could get it in 48 hours :)
*Edit* Seems Github was complaining about the lib folder being too large. I remade the repo with only my assets, I hope thats ok ! If not let me know :id:
Apologies that I'll do this in one big giant reply ! I wasn't expecting such nice feedback from you guys ! :)
@magnusfurcifer Great score ! I'm glad you like it. I had to chose between audio and extra enemies/artwork and I decided to go for the audio to make it more engaging and humorous ! Cheers for playing !
@thebooksnail The controls DO work on mobile ! It's actually a nice suprise that they do, now I have one of my games in my pocket to show off when people ask me about my hobbies ! ^-^ I've actually started to prefer the mobile version, maybe it's more suited. I'll investigate that post jam !
@phlip45 Thanks for playing ! Yes... There were actually plans to have the power ups appear as objects to circle instead... in fact this is all ready in the backend, but in the end I went for a simple button. Poor design choice maybe but I didn't want to change it in a compo submission !
@queenkrissu Thank you for playing it ! I haven't seen too many other games out there where loops are drawn in order to damage enemies so I'm hoping that's a good "theme" score in the works for me. I'm quite proud of the idea ! Thank you for playing and the nice feedback !
@blobo Hey Blobo, thanks for playing. I did check the github and I uploaded the assets in the meantime. For some reason Github is complaining when I tried to push the entire code base because of files in the lib folder that are too big, I'm sorry. Very nice you managed to play it on mobile ! I do have the feeling that's better suited :)
@schraf Maybe I should add a bit more detail on how to properly do it. Basically the line acts like a proper loop, meaning that the inside of the line is the thing that detects enemies. So if you move right past a zombie, it'll register as a single hit for them, but if you properly circle them (tiny circles) it'll continuously fire at them. Keeping the circles small is key ! Thank you for playing !
@warrrkus MSPaint as a shooter... Now that's a compliment if I ever received one ! :D I'm very glad you liked it. Thank yyou for playing !
@julienlussiez Thank you for playing ! I'm very glad the mechanics are received as interesting, it gives me hope for innovation and theme categories :) I'd also want to add more content post jam, but I wanted to spend the little extra time I had left (I think it was 10.45pm with the deadline at midnight for me) to implement the voice lines. Design choices in game jams are annoying but it is what it is. I'm glad I managed to give you some enjoyment out of it !
@arthurds I hate you ;) (jokes, go check out arthurds at [https://www.twitch.tv/pomothedog](twitch.tv/pomothedog!)
@ninnec Thank you ! I tried to make it a little bit more light hearted and fun. Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for playing !
@forgeronstudio Crash Thunderstud NEVER disappoints ! Thanks for playing :)
@stefan-b Thank you so much and thank you for playing the game !
@jesus-gonzalez Thank you for the kind words. I am glad you liked the game ! Hoping for a good theme score :)
@citdev-chris Thank you for playing ! I didn't really want to make it just a simple idle/incremental game, allthough that was the original idea. I added the bonus system to make the game last just a little bit longer, I mean most people only play a LD entry for 4-5 minutes I'd say? So giving the player a little bit more power to last seemed a nice idea. Thank you !
@pennycook I agree with the power-ups disappearing too soon. It was designed like that though, as you said, this was a quick and dirty way to balance difficulty a bit better... Should the player get full freedom, the game would be endless with fence repair power ups. Well I suppose I could have made every purchase more expensive and I might change that in the future ! Good call ! Thank you for playing :)
@m7rk Hey there ! Thank you for playing the game ! I'm sorry the fence damage wasn't clear... I did have a system with health bars at some point during development, but I decided to remove it because it was obstructing the game too much. Just a design choice, but I appreciate the feedback
@mrsamafu Thank you so much for playing the game ! Anything above 30k is pretty dope pro level gaming right there ! :) Well done !
@spawncampgames I would never ship it empty pixels :p Thanks a billion for playing it !
@josephdevelops Thanks for playing it on stream, in spite of your clear fatigue. Don't forget to rest up, people? This man is a legend with his marathon ld streams. Go check him out at [twitch.tv/josephdevelops](https://www.twitch.tv/josephdevelops)
@pink-shard-games Thank you for the kind feedback ! I'm glad you liked it !
@dakke Thank you for playing ! I really tried to get a decent audio rating in this LD, I'm very happy you appreciate it.
Phew ! I shouldn't let comments build up that much, but I really wanted to give each and every one of you lovely people a personal reply ! :) Thank you for playing and GAME(JAM) ON !
@arron-fowler Thank you for the kind words ! Really appreciate it :) Thank you for playing
@rgilpt The theme is looping the zombies and keeping them stuck in it, you wouldn't do damage if not. But I appreciate the feedback ! thank you:)
@lurkinmcclerkin thank you for the kind words! The game actually runs on mobile! Aside from that, the power ups were a late addition, I agree they could use a rework... Not really sure what you mean by zombie feedback for death, that was what the blood particles were for. I wanted to make them explode into bodyparts but that was way out of scope... Thanks for playing !
@thejohnyfeed I'm sorry you got frustrated at first, that really wasn't my intention. I should make a more clear video on it perhaps... Either way, thanks a lot for the precious feedback!
@eldogg Yep ! With a big portion of lucky manipulations and distortions, an echo and some other random things I don't remember, I'm no audio engineer whatsoever ^-^, but this was literally a stale cookie in a box that I was shaking about... I just figured it sounds exactly like a gunshot! I actually wanted to make a bone cracking sound using that... Figures how "good" I am at making up audio thingies... Honestly? I think this was the most lucky sound an amateur ever managed to get :D It also helps it fires really fast so it doesn't really "matter" all that much I suppose... Either way, thank you for playing ! :)
@lllarso Thank you for playing the game ! I'm very happy you liked it ! The power ups are indeed a bit "vague" at best, but it is the best I could do in just an hour's time :p (it was really last moment addition and I'm happy I did !!! )
@eldogg be sure to get double chocolate chip and at least 2 weeks over their expiry date haha :p
@neragoth I'm sorry for the pain !!!! It hurts less on mobile or using a stylus... I never considered the pain :( Thanks for playing ! :)
@marcmagus Thanks for playing it sir ! I'm glad you had fun prior to the pain, I'm still sorry about that.
@duke There indeed is no real ending, that was unfortunately out of scope here. I made the last hour all about voice lines, no more room for other stuff ! :) Glad you enjoyed it !
@honest-dan Thank you for the kind words! There actually were barrels and explosives on the menu, but I pushed them to the backlog to give priority to the voice lines, as I am hoping they'll give me a better score in 2 categories (audio and humor)
@week-of-the-agents Glad you like Crash Thunderstud !
@justcamh Thank you for playing it on stream, it was very enjoyable seeing someone play my game. Most welcome and feel free to submit yours on my stream !
@hanna-knop Thank you for the kind words !
@tricky-fat-cat Thank you, excited you liked it !
@cogcomp Thank you for the feedback :D I might have to rebuild the concept into a full blown mobile game after all ... Hmmmmm !
@gamesplusjames Hey buddy ! Thanks for playing :) I've taken the general comments about the gameplay into account and while it originally was working pretty decently on mobile, I've changed the looping mechanic a bit in the post-jam version, now you don't need to keep the button down AND the loop lasts a bit longer on its own! Feel free to play again :)
@blue-pin-studio Thanks for playing ! The screen shake for the shooting is actually related to how long Crash is shooting. I suppose it's less relevant now and that's something left-over from an earlier concept during development. I'll try to tone it down in the post jam maybe :) Thanks for the feedback ! And indeed, the "reload" mechanism was intended to prevent the player from endlessly circling, it was actually an attempt to reduce stress on wrist movements. But this is all resolved in the post-jam ! Lovely !
@kaldrin Thank you for the feedback ! What exactly do you mean with "lack juice", I'm interested to implement this in the post-jam :) The zombie sounds were a really really really last minute kind of thing, I think I had about 1hour left to do the voice lines properly. Thank you so much !
@elysiagriffin Heeeey Elysia, queen of the LD rating streams ! Thank you for playing it, as always, it was fun seeing you play my game :)
@rangoiv Hey there ! Thank you for letting me know, I'll try to tackle this in the post jam.;. That is actually a nice catch ! :)
@ectucker1 Thanks for playing !!!!! Yes, I did ran out of time to add more content, I was planning to add zombie variations... The difficulty does ramp up effectively but maybe I should have made it a bit more "intense". It's always hard to balance these things in a jam right, if it is too hard people will not play it long enough to see all the content...if it isn't hard enough people will lose interest pretty fast. It's a very valuable point you bring there should I take this to a full release ! :)
@ursagames Thanks SO much for playing and the review ! :) Hope you've enjoyed it !
@kaldrin I'll keep that in mind for post jam updates :D I'll try to come up with something "juicy" to make it more satisfying :) For the jam purposes, I had to roll with a simple line renderer for time's sake :D
@danielblanco3d Thank you so much ! Very glad you enjoyed the game :)
@wendel-scardua Hey there ! Thanks for playing, I am so glad you liked the voice lines, they were an absolute necessity and I am proud that I managed to squeeze them in 1 hour before submitting ! @toccio94 I appreciate the feedback, it's very valuable and all is true. But as you said, this is a compo game and jams are THE occasion to experiment with new mechanics and features :) So in a sense I am glad to be rewarded with positive feedback that the looping mechanic is "interesting" at least! Thank you so much for playing !
Great game ! Had heaps of fun ! Reminds me of Dinosaur-Laser-Fight. Amazing, art works perfectly in synergy with audio, gameplay is fair and not slippery at all. As a fan of bullet hells, I really enjoyed this ! Thank you so much for submitting this at my stream ( [www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus) ) 280cd7713d4aaa2aa0b0a5776f32bac6.png
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream at [wwww.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). This game is beautiful and deserves praise. I see a lot of critisism above here and granted, the team is big in size, but nothing is stopping people from doing the exact same thing. Managing a team is a choice and definitely not as easy or as big of an advantage as you would think. I personally did compo and was alone, by choice. People have the right to form teams and that is what a game jam should all be about.
That being said, I enjoyed this game ! The shooting is fun, it had a jumpscare or two and it kept me on edge traversing and finding the switches. Well done, I for one really enjoyed it :)
Hi there ! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream (twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). I really enjoyed this game, in my top 10 as it stands :D The art is consistent and there is a great contrast between what you're supposed to pick up and what you're to stay away from. The controls have the exact right amount of "floatyness" to them, making the game feel fair and just. Well done ! The very subtle gravity is the cherry on top !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream at [wwww.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). I really enjoyed the game and I love the simplistic, yet extremely efficient use of art and audio. One minor issue I have is that the bats fire way too enthusiastically, I had no idea what was going on as sometimes I popped back to one edge or continued my path to the next, which was confusing. Nonetheless, great entry! Well done
Hey there ! I really like this game, for the first time in my life I got to be a pool-bully ! Simple mechanics and honest gameplay, whenever I screwed up it always felt like I could have prevented it. That's a nice feeling. The audio is giving me chill swimming pool vibes, exactly what you went for I assume ! Well done !
Hi there ! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream (twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). I really appreciated the atmosphere in this game. Sure it had some quirks and bugs, but it's a jam game ! With a substantial amount of content may I add. Well done, I really enjoyed it, thank you for making this !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream at [twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](wwww.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus) ! I had a lot of fun playing your entry. This is great work and a lot of fun ! Surely there's some physics bugs happening where not everything is happening exactly as I remember doing it, but that is a typical "not a bug, it's a feature" situation. Unpredictable behavior? I'd call it added difficulty ! Either way, the game looks really well built and it feels ready. The puzzles are fun and it's cool that multiple solutions can be found for puzzles! Well done.
Hi there ! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream (twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). I really enjoyed this one ! I might actually forward this one to the colleagues at work as some of them are big fans of nested while loops ;) Anyway, the simple artstyle still feels great and totally fits the game you're going for. I had serious Win95 vibes ! It's a great concept where you have to think quickly on your feet. Well done !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream [twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). I had a great time playing it. I am a big fan of the escape room elements and the small adjustments / randomisations help with replayability. I would love to see more levels out of this as it can become a full fledged game, surely ! Well done ! And the "surprise" at the end, beautiful :)
Hi there ! Thanks for making this game, I've played it on my stream (twitch.tv/drjavasaurus)! I really enjoyed the look and feel. It had me thinking I was playing enter the gungeon for a tiny little bit there ! It's fun to have little imps pop up trying to find me and the bosses ? Nice touch ! Well done, great entry :)
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream at [twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](wwww.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus) ! I had a lot of fun playing your entry. Simple, single screen game with a minimalistic look. It gets the job done for sure ! Nice touch to change the little elements you could every playthrough (the paddle changing color). Controls are tight and responsive and honestly, the game feels very fair. When you mess up, you don't get the feeling the game tricked you. Simple concept but very well executed, perfectly on theme !
Hi there ! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream (twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). I really liked the style of this game, very lighthearted. A rarity in these times ! Thank you. I really like the merchanting element ! It was really fun to figure out how to cheese the game and become a filthy rich sailing merchant :D
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream at [twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](wwww.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus) ! I had a lot of fun playing your entry. Great sound, great visuals, great gameplay and tight controls. What more can I say? I had a blast playing this, it is challenging every time and every weapon feels well fleshed out. I particularly love the feel of the rocket launcher ! Well done, great entry !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream twitch.tv/drjavasaurus. I had a great time playing it. Really enjoyed the mini-rogue-like aspects. I am very glad you've told me about the extra weaponry so I could still find it, really cool. Very nice, tight controls ! Well done, a joy to play.
Dang this game is very nice ! :) I 100% dig the fractal snail element :D Well done !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream at [wwww.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). This concept is simply brilliant. It fits perfectly well with not only the theme, but also with the mechanics, the audio, the graphics, ... It just feels finished. Very responsive controls, making every loss feel fair. I really enjoyed this one, short game but extremely efficiently brought ! Love it.
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream at [twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](wwww.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus) ! I had a lot of fun playing your entry. This... is... fun ! DIE TOILET ZOMBIE, by means of a good old fashioned chainsawing ! Well done, the respawn mechanic is neat, it's fun to have a game where playing risky has little consequences. It even adds an element of strategy as you need to pick where you'll respawn to keep your weapons closeby. I liked it, well done ! Thank you !
Heya! I've played your game on my channel [wwww.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). I like this platformer! Basic, but fair and true. And the classic "reversing to backtrack" is brilliant, it's a hyper efficient way to extend gameplay! Well done. There was very little involvment of the main mechanic however, I didn't have to puzzle a lot with my dead bodies to proceed, but to me that's a consequence of a game jam time constraint :) Well done ! And thank you !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream at [www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus) ! I had a lot of fun playing your entry. I remember you were discussing the idea last saturday in stream and I was intrigued back then but BOY it turned out nice ! Gosh darn this is a potential winner in at least some categories :) Well done !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream at [wwww.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). As I told you on stream, feel proud about your compo entry. You finished a game AND you followed Compo rules, which are possibly the hardest out there for a starting dev. Your second LD entry? Darn good one. I loved the mechanics and the character models are really nice. Sure there are bugs, but don't feel to bad about them. Well done, keep it up, hope to see more of you around the game dev community ! ;)
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream at [wwww.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). Great storygame with a perfect mood and atmosphere. Great use of post processing and floaty controls really match the premise of the game. Well executed, thank you for letting me play this ! :)
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream at [twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](wwww.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus) ! I had a lot of fun playing your entry. Great game, did not dissapoint, this is a roomba simulator ! Somehow it's relaxing as heck to be a duster-bot. I loved the atmosphere, well done ! :) Rebelling roomba's... I'll be watching that charging station out of the corner of my eye now <_<
Hi there ! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream (twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). Very nice entry, solid artwork and a gameplay mechanic that is reminds me of jump quests in MapleStory. Nostalgia always hits home !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream at [wwww.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus)! To recap, you should disable the compression settings when building the web build in Unity, it might resolve issues with the web build.
That being said, really quircky platformer ! Love the puzzles and the reset mechanic is implemented in a very elegant manner, reducing the feeling of "punishment" when you messed up a puzzle. The first couple of levels are quite easy to blaze through, but they also introduce the mechanics of the game in a very adequate fashion. Yet the difficulty ramps up to the point where you almost need to draw out on paper what you'll need to do to reach the target. Well executed, thumbs up !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream at [wwww.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). I had a great time playing it ! Very interesting concept with matching art. For real you got my brain in a loop with the double controls. I love that you made minigame-style rooms, great move towards replayability ! Well done !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream at [twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](wwww.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus) ! I had a lot of fun playing your entry. Great game and perfectly scoped for a jam. The theme is clearly present and the visuals may seem simple at first glance, but they feel polished and are perfectly up to the task. I really enjoyed this game, it became playable after I realized I can dash in all directions. Great work ! Keep it up !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream [twitch.tv/drjavasaurus)[www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus]. I had a great time playing it. It's one of the more "deep" entries. I loved the mood and the mystery, every simple scene was like a cool mini puzzle to figure out. The mind drifts to think what could happen next and it all followed in a logical sequence, combining into a proper story. Loved it ! Very well done !
Hi there ! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream (twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). This one has awesome art. The titlescreen alone already does more to me than a motivational poster with one of those kitties on a clothes-wire. Well done to you and your team, I enjoyed it! The difficulty ramps up quite fast, but at no time did I have the feeling the game is not fair. An entry worth playing !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream [twitch.tv/drjavasaurus)[www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus]. I had a great time playing it ! Great to see a funny entry with a great take on a loop theme. The game is way more challenging that you'd give it credit for at first ! Maybe the first couple of bears should be a bit slower since they really hit me like a bullet. Overall, great entry well done !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream at [wwww.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). Great game, short and snappy, very efficient. It's finished, especially for a compo game. I found a great start to be just pointing down until something floats your way :D Only minor thing would be the missing in game-music, but it didn't really bother me all that much in the end
Hey there ! Now I'm no authority at all to state this, but this was a bit over the top in my mind...
Great game but I do have to state something that was brought to my attention. You should have put this entry in unranked or at least opt out of several categories. You are being rated and received comments on the fact that the game looks polished (it completely does, I agree on that !), but that is not your achievement. Luckily you gave credit to the creator of the art (https://pixelfrog-store.itch.io/kings-and-pigs). But secondly, this is almost pro verbatim a copy of an existing entry in another recent jam, down to the UI and mechanics (https://vimlark.itch.io/make-the-way). Most of the level design is identical...
I am very happy to see you made a tribute and a proper game, but people should be aware what they are voting for. Someone else made this game and realistically, coming up with a proper idea and mechanics is the hardest part of a jam. The game design has nothing to do with your entry, nor does the art.
Sorry if it sounds harsh, I am usually of the principle that a game jam is about the journey of making a game, but this falls beyond that. By all means make games by copying, it's the exact best way to learn in fact... Just don't enter it in a ranking system where you're being put up against people who spent a full weekend and more doing all they can on the limit to finish a game.
Now that that's out of the way... Happy jamming everyone :)
Thank you for the mature response,it proves that you didnt intend controversy !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream [twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). I had a great time playing it. Very nice concept and original take on the theme ! The game is challenging but fair. Maybe an additional audio queue would be nice, or have an extra element to draw attention to the pickup orbs. Well done, a solid entry !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream [twitch.tv/drjavasaurus)[www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus]. I had a great time playing it. Very well made game with tight controls (once I managed to turn my AZERTY into QWERTY, thanks belgium :D). I really enjoyed it, it's a challenging game and every time I got sent back a loop I knew and felt it was my own fault. This is enter the gungeon quality, especially seeing it's all condensed development in 72 hours! Keep it up !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream [twitch.tv/drjavasaurus)[www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus]. I had a great time playing it. This... was... goresome... and I loved it ! It is very challenging, but fair at the same time. I loved the fact I could just pick up stuff and trash it about, splattering people like it was 1997 and I was playing carmeggedon on my PS1. Great entry, worth a play for sure !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream [twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). I had a great time playing it. Simply...Genius... It'd be unfair to make a comment this short and I really should do justice. This game is extremely simple but still manages to put a smile on my face. I am glad I chose the rebellious path, I would have missed the best content ever otherwise. Well done? A PERFECT score on humor for me !
Hi there ! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream (twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). Great entry, loved the gameplay. To me it is on par with Antigrav chamber and even portal ! I really enjoyed it, shame I couldn't finish it on stream but I will definitely continue this off line. Well done !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream at [twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](wwww.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus) ! I had a lot of fun playing your entry. I love this concept, surely there are some bugs to be solved but that's perfectly fine in the scope of a jam. A proper attempt to an interesting puzzle game with clear mechanics. I like it! I'm sorry I had to rush a bit through it while streaming, but I might just pick this one up again as it is a blast ! :) Game design wise, your tutorials and introductions to new mechanics are wonderful.
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream at [wwww.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus](www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). A great implementation of the loop theme, challenging puzzles that are fun to solve. Surely, if I wouldn't have been streaming, I'd have continued to play. The art and audio feel fresh and well selected, the puzzles ramp up nicely and any mistake made feels fair. Well done, recommend ! :)
Hi there ! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream (twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). Well done ! The yoyo mechanic is such fun, it could've been a game on its own ! I love the fact you hit little puzzles in the notes and the glowing effect was a clear indication of where to look for clues. You had me mind-blown !
Heya! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream [twitch.tv/drjavasaurus)[www.twitch.tv/drjavasaurus]. I had a great time playing it. Unique take on the theme! As I mentionned in stream, this would make an excellent hyper casual game with just a little bit of extra work. Well done, one of the favorites that made my list ! But yes, don't sacrifice school, however, don't ditch a great idea like this ;)
Hi there ! Thanks for submitting your game to my stream (twitch.tv/drjavasaurus). Very creative spin on the theme and actually a beautiful example of how simple graphics can still elaborate a complex puzzle problem. Not even joking, I'll have my kid play this and he'll go bananas ! Well done !
Well done, great game ! Simple yet hard to put down. I love it :) I think this is a great game / fidget game to play when suffering from anxiety, it surely helped me calm down post LD ! :D LOVE IT
Hey ! I got an occulus quest 2 recently and this actually was so cool to play. Well done ! :D I wouldn't play it after dark though, I think I'd just completely destroy my room being all panicky, because the mood is perfectly set up for that !
Really like this entry, thank you for making it, it's a very fun crisp experience and you really had me giggling ! Well done, per usual ! :D
I like this game, it is relaxing and very enjoyable. The physics feel very natural and it doesn't feel too repetitive to gather materials. Well done, thanks for making this ! The intro text was quite the read but it all made sense. Definitely going to replay this ! I love the look of the game, it has a certain terraria feel to it, especially the items that drop.
I love this type of physics games, a ZEN mode would be amazing (where you can't die). Great concept ! The only thing I would suggest is to have a bit less obstacles so you have more wiggly room to move them about/ delete them. I think it would feel more fair that way !
I like the art and the storyline is captivating. Well done. The "drilling" sound is really putting emphasis on the atmosphere, but I have to say it did become quite "annoying" after a while. Overall, well done !
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@mab-cat Mission accomplished ! hahahaaaaa Thank you for playing :)
@lokt02 Feels great that you enjoyed it ! :)
@bassilij Thank you, means a lot !
@peace-of-cake-games I tried getting the HTML5 version compatible with dreamlo, but I didn't have time to arrange for the SSL certificate stuff, so it can not connect through the browser unfortunately... Well, it's kinda comforting that the standalone version can handle it... And the webGL is a proper demo for the gameplay :D (for those that don't care about score). The I don't really know how deep you could max go, the game is designed to provide short and snappy rounds. Theoretically, the board is endless (it's generated procedurally). Trust me... the algorithm to plop tetrominoes in the right spot and pack as tight as possible is NOT as easy as I was thinking :D Anyway thanks again
@masaru Thank you for testing it ! The items are fully random, I hope you weren't just unlucky... It's always hard to balance these things in only 48 hours :p It's strange your highscore got lost... Perhaps the leaderboard was down for just a second... It should record your highscore on the next round though, as it is also stored locally. I added your score for you, it's not lost ! Sorry for the inconvenience
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@mmisspelling Thank you so much for playing ! :) If you look at the latest update, I've unlocked 2 other difficulty modes that I was using during playtesting (refer to update section at the LD page) ... I didn't think people would actually want to play like that ^-^
@drludos Thanks ! I love the feedback :) And the death sound exactly is inspired by megaman, I actually tried very hard to recreate it, I'm glad I got close enough so people can hear it !!!!!!! :D I actually wanted to give some tribute to Bubble Bobble and Megaman... I was really hoping to get those vibes.
@jarne-h Thanks buddy !
@xeke-death was an honor to see you play my game :)
@almighty-games was a pleasure seeing you play it ! Thank you @pavelc Thank you ! I haven't really noticed an issue when testing... I hope it's nothing consistent... But hey on the upside, if the drill isn't coming down, happy scores ? @gamesplusjames Means a lot that a game-dev-master such as yourself tells me that ;) Amazing !
@lakea Thank you !
@tricky-fat-cat I am very glad you've enjoyed it !
@jvdwijk Thank you for playing it at an ungodly hour, sorry again for that !
@6smith Digging straight down will not work unless if you get lucky, every 20 blocks there's a layer of metal blocks with a random gap for that reason... I'm already contemplating on how to make it more challenging and the energy meter you suggest might be just what I need to complete that puzzle ! (in a post jam). About knowing how close the spikes are ---> top left, there is an indicator that shows you ;)
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Also, remember that highscores are working on the standalone versions, the WEBGL failing is a browser issue more than anything. BUT here you go :
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@kenneth-wheadon hey name-sake (I am also a Kenneth)! To be perfectly honest I put in random colors as a quick win, but having different box textures makes so much sense as well! I would have run out of time for compo, jut perhaps post jam I can fix it. I will gladly take your suggestion with me! ALso, it already has a mobile version :)
@cheesepencil thank you! I will never forget the triumph of winning your reflex game blindly!
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@johnnysix Thank you so much for the feedback ! There are zen mode and training mode options :) Just enable them if you want a more "relaxed" version !
@ryannielson Thank you so much ! The clicking actually has a short delay and I wasn't really able to figure out why it's not always highlighting... This should indeed be fixed post jam ^-^
@pijamar Thank you for the feedback ! Maybe I should have put keyboard as the default... it is available in the options menu !
@haztro Thank you very much ^-^ Yes moving down FAST is key ! :D
Hey @jhax , thank you very much for the feedback ! And maybe unexpected... but the tetris shapes were the WORST to get working. I spent about... 30% of the dev time on it :up:
Hey @Roidz, thank you for the awesome feedback, glad you liked it !
@parasite210 Thanks ! Hopefully post jam I'll be able to use a real leaderboard instead of Dreamlo's
@v0idpointer Thank you for the nice feedback ! :)
@sheepolution Thank you !
@2bitcrook I am glad the bubble bobble vibes came through, I really wanted that to happen ! Indeed, maybe the webGL and the standalone versions should have a default keyboard setting. It does persist it when you change it so next time, should you want to play, it should have remembered it ! Thanks for playing !
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@kuviman thank you, was a joy to see you play it!
@lorwon ye... i couldnt really figure out how to combat that easily, but i made the blocks destructible for yhat reason, you just need to hit them more !
@nosfer it is random in a way, the sections are procedurally generated packing tetrominoes. One of those eyecatchers that nobody notices :) Thanks for playing !
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@honest-dan Thanks for the feedback ! Glad you enjoyed it :) I'm really hoping to get the feel just a bit more "right" on mobile. Hoping for my first release !
@bauke-regnerus Hahaha, thanks for playing and sorry if I caused any stress !
@justcamh thank you so much for playing :)
@skosnowich I agree with both your comments, I'll make sure they're amended in the release ! :)
@marcmagus Thank you for playing ! AND for the most memorable quote... "My rating is... I need to turn this off before I continue playing"
@aidanmarkham Thank you so much for playing, was a joy being in your stream !
@euler-moises It already works on mobile ! I need to make it more responsive and add some stuff to make it look nicer though... The leaderboard does work on the standalone versions though :)
@korfi Thank you so much ! The patterns of the colors are basically just the tetrominoes shapes... I was thinking to maybe make it a bit more complex and link the same shapes together for colors, but scope etc ;) Thank you very much !
In a stupid mistake I have cleared the leaderboards... Guess we'll be working with seasons then :p Terribly sorry !
@marcmagus I have to say, I went back and I had the same impression, so your assessment is definitely valuable. I hope you'll find some time post LD to test the updated version :) The drill should come down stepwise, giving a more "fair" feeling. I also noticed an error on my end, the algorithm is intended to build right to left OR left to right, but due to a bug it always went left to right, meaning the "holes" were biased to one side... Either way, thanks for playing !
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Dear Jammers, Organizers and Enthusiasts ,
LD48 is indeed running at its end and I would want to thank all of you for the glorious edition we've had this time round. Regardless of results, this final Compo has been a blast. Well done to all and thank you all for this event ! However... It is not done just yet.
As Super Turtle Drop turned out quite popular, in- and outside of the Ludum Dare community, I've decided to just go for it. I cleared the leaderboards. The idea is that the person with the highest in game score will be recorded as the Ludum Dare Super Turtle Drop Champion for all eternity on the LD page! As I plan to release the game on mobile (post jam update offcourse), that player will also be featured in the credits (should I ever get to that stage).
Please, do enjoy yourself. There's a build for Windows, Linux and Android ready !
***WARNING : WEB BUILD DOES NOT CONNECT TO LEADERBOARDS***
Till then,
JavaSaurus (Super Turtle Drop creator)
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@ausstein Hey there ! Well I reset the leaderboard because some people admitted to have used an auto-clicker... I tried to fix it and I hope I didn't break anything else, seems I did :) Either way I'll re-add your score ! No worries !
@ausstein oh this wasn't you ! :D Someone else literally admitted :)
Great game with outstanding graphics, amazing work to have completed in just 48 hours! The atmosphere is really nice. I will be replaying this with my son for sure ! Well done !
This is pretty sweet ! I can't remember the exact name of the game I used to play, but this definitely takes me back pre-minecraft days. Very brave choice to aim for only modern GPU's, would it be an option to record a short playthrough for those that can't play it? (Just a suggestion)
Very interesting concept ! Would love to see this grow into a full project. Certainly scoring high on theme !
Thanks for making this, cheers !
This is a very interesting incremental game ! I really liked playing it, I kept getting more and more curious on what an upgrade would do. Very well made. I've played this on stream, if you want you could have a look at the VOD at twitch.tv/DrJavaSaurus.
Sometimes the most basic ideas turn into something very fun to play. Definitely the case here ! Well done, everything you'd think of is needed for a game like this was present. Well done, thank you for making this!
Hey there ! I really like this game a lot, It's quite immersive, especially considering you made this in only a couple of games... It just made me want to keep on smashing goblin faces ! If you keep working on this, please do let me know, I want you to follow it up for sure ;)
Really enjoyed the atmosphere, great entry. Reminds me of "Solstice". Thank you for making this ! Maybe if you would turn this game into a full game, I would suggest adding some basic puzzle mechanics. As you mentionned, this was on the planning, but one can not have it all in a jam. Nonetheless , excellent entry, one of my favorites so far !
Me and my son loved playing this so much ! Thank you for making it, people underestimate how good a point and click adventure can be. CLASSIC ! Worth making into a fully fledged game ! <3
As a Potterhead, I really appreciate this game. This , released about 20 years ago? Would have seriously changed my life as I would not have gotten out of the house at all and would have been stuck to my PSX. Well done, love it, would probably be awesome in VR as well. Thank you for creating and sharing this !
I like the destructible terrain, feels quite satisfying to dig in it. The art is in style and nothing is really out of shape or place. The only remark I have is that the controls feel kinda sluggish, making it just a bit harder to play, but overall, WELL done ! :)
Amazing game, really love how the picking up of items works, very reminiscent of resident evil and dino crisis. Really enjoyed the "enter the gungeon vibes". I hope you take this further into a rogue like dungeon crawler, guns felt amazing and fair. Well done !
Very nicely made game, it really brought across the message and set a mood. Loved the artstyle, well done ! Thank you for making this !
This theme has produced many resource management games, but this one stands out quite a bit. The audio works very nicely, the upgrade system was well balanced, as I didn't really feel the snowballing effect you often have in these games. WHICH IS A GOOD THING, the challenge remains throughout the playthrough from start to finish. The artwork is also very fitting of the game, nothing too detailed, but the buildings aren't just generic blobs as well, I love that style! Certainly a high-scoring entry. Hope to see more of it !
Very nice game ! :) I will be studying this source code. Very enjoyable, a bit more polish and this would sell as is app stores across all mobile platforms :)
First off all... This gets my certified Java stamp of approval. It is very brave to build something like this from scratch in only two days. People will often underestimate this and I actually really enjoyed it...
This has mid 90's vibes for me, it takes me back. The artwork supports that and the gameplay feels natural, well done. As mentioned before it tends to get a little bit repetitive but in the end, this was made in 2 days guys, amazing work !
Great game, it is fun to try and explore all the way to get there. Can't wait to see this grow into a dream-steam game. I love the graphics, the mechanics fit well together. All that was missing was some gun-audio and that sort of polish, but it is definitely more than to be expected during a jam. Thank you for making this, well done ! <3
Great dig dug clone. Really like it, even the look and feel match up nicely ! Thanks for making it !
Great idea and I love what you managed to do in just 48 hours ! Maybe some extra polish to make it pop would have helped you a lot (bubbles, engine sound, fish that wiggle tails for example). Just small things can go a long way ! Great stuff, thanks for making this.
I like the overal style of your game. The intention was stated clear, the means by how to do that a little bit less. I do like the concept and the boat controlled smoothly. I was wondering what the difference is between just keep pushing onwards, full throttle... and just taking your time to enjoy the environment?
Good job, it doesn't matter how elaborate or complex your game is, the fact to the matter is you finished something in only 2 days ! Not that many people can say that ;) Thank you for making this !
Beautiful, absolutely love it ! The difficulty ramping could be a little bit more steep, but overall I really enjoyed it. Scored well on all categories !
Lovely game, had a blast playing it, fun take on the theme and it looks really polished ! Well done , thank you so much for making this. We will be playing it again later !
Hey there, great entry, really enjoyed it, seems like a very decent mobile game. The difficulty is ramping nicely, got to level 8 by accident where the trophee literally backflipped and did a full 720 frog splash landing on the perfect spot. Felt good, not gonna lie ! Thank you for making this.
Really like this entry. Maybe it could be made in a proper idle game, very interesting concept and I love that the story is actually part of the incremental development of your village. Well made, lots of fun !
Only downside is lack of audio, some basic 8 bit tunes / effects could really make this POP !
Overall, great entry, thank you for letting me play it !
Great entry, it is fun to see a take on the theme where the situation is literally so instable, when you miss a task it can all snowball into pure MAYHEM... Hey, it's more than fine, this is great ^-^
Everything comes together nicely, well done !
Thank you for making this game.
@candlesan thanks ! glad you liked it :) I think it was the stress, but the final product is growing on me :id: @adiwan I hope you enjoyed it :) @ratogodoy there actually should be an audio bar when you scroll over the score indicator (I should have put that somewhere...it was inspired by how Tetr.io handles it).
@aquachain Hey ! Thank you :) I like doing 1bit art, it is very calming in a way... It was also a design decision because knowing myself, I would have spent way too long on getting the sprites look right and in this case it was important to give priority to the words in terms of visibility ! @gamepopper Hey ! Thanks for playing... And yes you are right, I probably should have excluded spacebar hits... my bad there ! But in the spirit of the jam I'll leave it as is :) @bauke-regnerus Thank you so much ! I'm happy I at least got to raise your heartbeat for a brief moment ! @shores Yeah I'm very sorry about the space bar, it totally slipped my mind, I initially only wanted to have people type single words and it totally slipped my mind space would cause issues... @megamasterx Thank you so much ! I love this feedback ! It was a really battle getting anything submitted, this theme was a toughy ! @bootak I made the audio based off an existing tune I heard somewhere, but I tried to make it sound more "spacey"! I wanted something that was the 1bit equivalent of music... But that didn't turn out well... So in the end, I'm not an audio-expert but I think that's "sampling"? Either way, glad you like it !
@lesinvisible Hey there, Thank you for playing, very glad you've enjoyed the game ! :)
@mhorth That dynamic increase of skill level was on the planning side, but I never got around it. You're absolutely right, this would have been awesome ! You're also completely right about the the font size and the placement of the words, but ... I chose to go compo instead of spending the next day to fix it all. Still very glad with the outcome and I hope you've enjoyed it !
@elysiagriffin Hi there, thank YOU for playing it ! Shame there were no buttons to even have feedback on this time... I'll make it up to you next LD ! :id:
@pdotjpg Thank you so much, it feels great to have landed on a small scope in the end, especially considering it was the third prototype in a single jam, I don't think I've ever made this much vertical slices in one sitting. Thank you !
Very interesting game, but maybe a bit complex, it took a while to understand what was going on, but I do appreciate the innovation, haven't seen other entries like this today ! Well done.
**Note** Fullscreen mode didn't work and using the arrow keys just moves the window, so I recommend using wasdf
This is strangely addictive, I have to say, it is one of the more original takes on the theme, really enjoyed it, thanks for making this ! Maybe a background music would have spiced it up, but as I said, it was calming and actually a nice "just chatting" game ! Well done !
This is beautiful. It might very well have been a secret cuphead (sausage boy?) level. Really amazing artwork, it all comes together so nicely. The grunting of the pigs induced fear and panic, really well done, thank you for making this ! One minor comment would be that the difficulty ramps up rather slowly, it is very hard to lose the game ! Maybe it would be cool to have the timer increase instead of decrease, to make it somehow competitive. Great entry ! Top 10 for SURE !!!!!
Hi there, thank you for making this. It pulls you right in, but it really felt "unstable" at times, where the slightest tap would imply game over, where the next turn I could literally faceplant and still be alive... Overall, REALLY nice entry, well done ! Could become a great mobile game if the controls are simplified and a bit more robust.
Hey, thank you for making this game, we had a LOT of fun playing and even turned it into a co-op game, where I was controlling the keyboard and my son was using the mouse to "troll" me (and sometimes actually help me solve the level). Great aesthetic , very nicely done. The audio also seemed to bug out on edge however, just letting you know ! CHEERS !
Love this game so much, VERY well done Pomo ! Great entry, controls feel fair. Maybe an added indicator where your block is about to land, the shadows achieve the same but sometimes it gets pretty finicky to figure out what/where I'm placing a block.
But as I said, love it !
This...game...is... AWESOME !!!! Well done, very cool concept, would make for a very nice stream game if for example chat on twitch can select the randomization / weaponry / enemies. This was pure instability at its core, matching the theme in a very meta way... WELL done, thank you for making this !
I like this game, well done, I've seen games of you in the past and I notice you are growing as an indie dev ! As mentionned, the font is a game changer, it is to blurry currently to clearly distinguish. For example it was hard to tell the difficulties were buttons and not part of the background. Still, thank you so much for making this.
This looks pretty good, but it is not fully clear what the intention of the game is, it feels like a very nice demo for interactibles (I love the shakey-disappearing floor bit, I wish there was more emphasis on that aspect !). I absolutely loved the mouth-voice sound effects, well done ! Thank you for making this, hope to see you take it further!
This game is really well put together, simple yet very close to perfection. The controls are very smooth and it feels pretty satisfying when you are able to finish a level. The mechanics are consistently introduced to the player in a nice design, very well done. See this doing pretty well ! Maybe add a level select and/or a more clear "urgency" queue for when the timer runs out, I was focussing badly on the level and I had no clue I was running out of time. But ... nonetheless... I really enjoyed this one !
Thank you for submitting this, really enjoy the retro games. I'd have played this game for DAYS in my young days on an NES... Really challenging and fun. Unique and smart mechanics and the pixel art... well it's just so darn cute I want to lick it :D
Really nice work , well put together. I love the atmosphere you bring forward. Also very impressive work on the shader, it helps "blend in" the sentiment and goal of the game. I had a few hiccups trying to figure out what was going on, perhaps a delay on pickup/drop would be useful. In any case, really nice work and thank you for submitting !
Really really really am impressed by yet another NES classic, I wish I had a ROM cartridge to pop this in the olde NES toaster and go for it ! SPOILERS people, the goal is the avoid the goal ! :D
This entry really is amazing, I got goosebumps when I first saw the art ! SO cool ! It fits the theme and athmosphere, as does the audio. The concept seems to be simple but it really takes a good amount of hand-eye coordination, it makes it WAY harder than you'd think at first glance. Well done, love the entry, goes in my "finish this, it has a great ending cutscene" pile :D
This game is put together very nicely, especially in such a short timeframe. I love the idea of having a creature companion, to gain its trust to solve logical puzzles. Very well done ! Seems like quite the challenge to have coded this in a single jam. Impressive ! Thank you for submitting.
I've never seen any game with these mechanics, it's amazing ! SO cool, very well made :) Love it. The only thing I would maybe suggest is adding waves of enemies of some sort, as you have the combat mechanic ready anyway! But overall, this is a very very very fun game and I really enjoy it. Bookmarking this ^-^
I love this game so much, perfect entry. You guys keep inspiring every LD and the work you deliver is amazing. This game is pretty similar to what my oldest son loves to play. Everything was matching up so wel, the level design was pretty optimal, leaving room for different routes, which isn't always simple in these "overcooked" type of games. Well done to all of you and THANK YOU for making this !
This game is so nice, it reminds me of this toy-phone thingy my sister used to have (smartphone weren't a thing but you could call and talk to your "date"). Very nice, the art is incredibly well put together in such a short time ! Really nice. I hope you can work on it more in the future and add like character customization and perhaps a "procedural" aspect, so you don't have to hardcode anything ! VERY well made, thank you so much for submitting
@Nexade Yeah I fixed part of this RIGHT on time... There was a bug, there are two "winning" conditions to limit the duration a game can last, one being you run out of time , the other is that there are no more zombies or that you're the last reaper remaining... It's the best I could come up with to make it interesting and to keep rounds short and snappy ! Nonetheless a very valid point, thank you. Thanks for playing !
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This is ... simply amazing... The audio ... the Gallery... the creations... the anonymous collaborations... The (almost) mandatory naughty drawings... It is a complete experience... I literally have nothing bad to say, this is just IT ! This would be great to see as a completed title, with more features (a color picker would have been so nice, but on the other hand... Limitations nourish creativity ! This one , my friends... is the winner of LD50.
This is a fun game ! The intention is clear and the particle systems is very satisfying. The crunch you get when punching crystals is also well designed, great job ! And, as you suggested... It is really responsive and buttery smooth playing with controller. Love it !
Hey ! This is a very solid entry. Simple concept but then again it is executed to perfection. Love it ! Only minor "comment" I have is that I don't really see the need for the big panel on the left side, the gamescreen could have been a bit bigger then. Either way, really enjoyed it , thank you !
Really great entry, love the pixel art and it meshes great with the audio. I love the speedrun aspect and controller support felt very natural. The teleport mechanic is also very smooth and feels just right (Celeste style). Recommend for sure ! Well done :)
This is amazing ! So much fun, I want to dedicate a full stream just to play this with my viewers ! :) Well done and incredibly impressive that you were able to put together a solid multiplayer game in only this short time. Love it ! Nostalgia bomb ! :D
This game certainly does bring a classic RTS vibe, however it is a pure bred puzzle game and I really enjoy it. It's a pretty sweet master mind where you play your past and future self. Love it ! Graphics are simple yet clean, very minimalistic UI... Very interested, can't wait to see what you'll do with this. I can see this being a big hit with actual tiny people running about in your city ^-^ Thank you for submitting, top 10 possible for SURE !
Very nice spin on the theme ! Enjoyed it, it looks amazing and the camera/shader combination is on poin. Really enjoyable ! Minecraft Dungeon vibes right there. SOLID entry, thank you so much for sumbitting this ! :)
I love this entry, it's a real brain breaker ! Love the mechanics, it's very polished and I enjoy playing it. Maybe, perhaps... somewhat??? Difficult :D But I would love to have a slightly better way to have depth perception, now I was pretty much spamclicking by round tree because my old boomer head couldn't wrap itself around the 3D-ness ^-^ Maybe adding a color or a way to "closer inspect " the configrations could be usefull. EITHER way, thank you for submitting this, I really enjoyed it !
I love the look and feel of this game. Similar like other minigame based games (think among us without the killing), I really find it impressive this was all done in just a single LD. Well done ! Really enjoyed playing this. Perhaps a little bit of screenshake and arrows indicating where you must run off to would increase the sense of urgency. But still, really enjoyable !
Pomo... This is amazing ! It's addictive, the music and graphics all come together and brings back memories of my childhood with this one game I can't remember the name off... PLUS WHIPEOUT... it's really good , solid entry and I will be playing way more of it !
This is a really nice game, very well put together and challenging as HECK... I could barely last for over a minute. The only thing missing was some extra "oompf" in terms of maybe a background music? Other than that, really enjoyed it, thank you for submitting !
Thanks for making this game, it's a very interesting and nice platformer. It would be nice to see if you can take this further, but 3 levels in a game jam that are still this interesting and polished is very impressive. Well done !
Great entry, I adore the visuals and the audio loop is just ... so smooth... it doesn't get old at all ! You've mentioned difficulty scaling in chat, but this is a game jam ! Obviously it's not trivial to get it right the first time... And I still love it :) There still is a genuine feeling of urgency, so you build maniacally only THEN to realize... it's all chill. Very well made, one of my favorites so far !!! :) Congratulations !
Very cool entry ! Max score on innovation for sure. It is seemingly very simple, but it is also executed perfectly. Can see myself wasting hours on this to do better. Well done ! Thank you for submitting this gem !
Hey ! Great entry, thanks for submitting it and having us play it. I really love the particle system for the flames, it is so responsive and nice, I'd just jump around simply to stare at it :D The rat boss also gave me MAJOR duck tales (NES) vibes. WELL done !
Great game ! Love the particle systems, they give so much oompf to the gameplay. Satisfaction when you see another car explode ! Well done :)
Very nice audio ! Love the art, really challenging and nice to warm up my old cracky fingers when I want to start a massive crunch-time programming session. Love this , going to score quite high I expect !!!!
Very well put together, everything is smooth and polished !!! 10/10 want to play this again. Will bookmark this one for sure. Very well made, simple mechanics but executed near perfectly. Very high score incoming ! :D Thank you for submitting !
Thanks for making this game, really appreciate it, it is a very nice game, the levels are very very very very well designed, just a minor "annoyance" would be the blind jumps that feel a bit unfair as you don't know where to go, but that's actually surpassable with pure and unbridled platformer experience ! Really love the mechanics, the controls are buttery smooth and the ledge "biting" is insanely cute ! WELL DONE !!!!
Very nice game, ready to be released on mobile ! Great concept, great execution, controls are smooth, bullet time is bug-free, impressive entry ! Thank you for submitting this !
This is a great solid entry, definitely top 10 worthy. We play it for hours on end, my son was chuckling all the way through. The audio, aestethics, controls... there is so much polish I'd expect to find this on the google play store ! WELL done !!!!
We made it till day 7 , well done, excellent game loop and fits the theme nicely. Tower defenses are hard to balance but this one felt very fair. Well don't and thank you for making this game !
This is perfect mobile game material, well done. This is definitely something I'd whip out at the bus stop for a quick play. It all comes together nicely, the feedback you get is very satisfying, the obstacles falling down is honestly such fun, they always get you. Simple, but most effective, a beautiful LD entry !
@01edward01 @neowhoru Thank you for playing ! :) I hope you've enjoyed it !
Thank you all for playing ! It warms my heart to see people like it. I took some time to fix some of the obvious bugs that broke existing features (for example, when the room flipped upside down, the zombies would hit you without any defense on your side). I hope you will find some time to try playing it again ! The leaderboard that was cut off by Dreamlo now works as well (in the offline version). All I needed was an updated key :)
@congusbongus Thanks for the feedback ! Very valuable. The difficulty rampup indeed wasn't playtested, I really ran out of time... But I did my very best to get the game into a playable state nonetheless :) As far as the "double use" key goes... I had first designed the game with the buttons, so it could be played on mobile. But you are complete right in that it does "cross-react" on PC or WEB. I'll think about that in the future, this is because I'm using the "Horizontal" axis to determine keypresses... And that indeed means A will also cause a press. I hope this minor bug doesn't ruin the experience ! Thank you for playing !
This game is amazing, we had a blast playing it ! We love doing escape rooms and it really was challenging and interesting, trying out all options and finding the solution. The sound effects are magical and even though they're just words, they help you imagine an entire room ! Well done, one of my favorite entries !
This is a really nice casual game! It goes on forever but it honestly never got really boring. The focus is clearly on the atmosphere and the graphics do reflect this. Very nice entry, was a pleasure to play ! Well done !
Well done, great game, thank you for making this. The only thing I was missing a little bit is the background audio. Don't get me wrong, I love your voice lines, they crack me up ! TACTICAL NUKE ! ... However, that extra spice would have made this even better. Well done !
Very well done, I'm a sub-par button presser as expected ! I really like the esthetics, they bring me back to my childhood computer. Love it ! Perhaps the fire rate could be higher to make it EXTRA click-spammy, but I really enjoyed it, well done, beautiful entry ! :)
This is the coolest game I've played so far, it takes some time to get the concept but I'm really in favor. The only "advice" I'd have is to add a direction indicator, or use a "crosshair" mousecursor, it blends in with the level too much and that makes it pretty hard to spot. But overall, you've outdone yourself, this is a gem !
Very nice entry ! Very original, it has a polished look and it certainly was not giving me any reason to grab a bottle of beer right now. Sometimes it did not feel fair, maybe some checkpoints would have been nice. I do appreciate the effort of showing an audience the dangers and difficulties surrounding alcoholism. If you would expand a bit more on the challenges, beyond just platforming, I see this being really good ! Excellent job, thank you for having me play it at twitch.tv/drjavasaurus
I love this entry, well done. It has real speedrunner vibes ! It did feel weird at first having mid-air control etc, but You quickly appreciate it. The camera needs some work (it clips walls and it is not clear where to go), but that can also be part of the puzzle mechanic I believe. Either way, great job and nice entry !
This is just lovely, it brings me back to my childhood WIN95 machine with free demo discs (god... I miss those). Well done ! Clever mechanics and love me some nice pixel art. The audio loop is perhaps a bit short BUT... in all fairness, this is LD. Well done and congratulations with a lovely game !
This is a very original take on the game ! I like it a lot. The difficulty does not ramp up and it seems pretty "right in your face". It would be nice to have a little "warming up" phase where players get to really know the mechanics, adding more and more each time, unlocking bigger boxes along the way for example. Also, once or twice my order didn't go through. I also am not sure if the packing peanuts are really needed or not, but then again I'm a bubble wrap person :D Thank you for making this !
This is so cool ! Brings back my first experiences in FPS (DOOM, Wolfenstein 3D, ...). Amazing ! I hope you continue this project and add some more dynamics to it (see comments above), but for a 72 hour game? Sheesh !
Very nice game ! Reminds of one of the unity tutorials ^-^ I love the pacing, high energy and I'm a sucker for pixel art. Overall a great entry, well done.
This was really nice ! I felt like actually watching a puppet show. Well done, thank you for submitting this !
Completed the harvest ! I am amazed how you turned the concept into a real time strategy tower defense. Really enjoyed it, very atmospheric. Let's just hope these aliens don't find their way into REAL Belgium ;)
Nice and clean :) Does what it needs to do ! Having the directional buttons for different attacks didn't bother me as much, but I'm also used to playing Binding of Isaac :) Well done, thanks for making this !
I'm keeping this one, pretty sure my kids will love this as well ! Nice execution of a simple concept. Thank you for making it :)
@v0odo0 yes... but multiplayer in compo is nearly impossible ;) It did cross my mind ! Thank you for playing! I might have a look and make a post jam
@augmotic You describe the exact vibe I wanted to go for ! As one does in Ludum Dare, I overscoped horribly and I ran into some unexpected timeloss, but the idea was indeed to have multiple tractors have a go at it. Everybody hates tank-controls and I really wanted to turn them into a mechanic ! (The first person cheat helped me debug stuff for that matter).
@clyde The art was actually pretty straightforward, aside from a couple of buildings. The crops are generated through code and I make the tip of the crops move to a perlin noise based flowfield ^-^ The tractor itself is just built up from basic unity shapes, made it way easier to make the tractor explode. The fences and the smoke particles were pretty easy as well, thank you blender! :D
@Both You both gave indications that the game is capable of turning a GPU into an airfryer, so I decided to have a look for obvious mistakes. I've optimized the mesh and made it slightly more sparse. I also fixed some "oof" code that accidently duplicated meshes, which overlapped near the center. That should be resolved now (or at least greatly improved). Thank you for letting me know !
@KyMakesGames Thank you SO much for playing ! I'll let my son know his voice acting is appreciated :D
@acdimalev Thank you ! There originally was a small label that said "dropoff zone" but it didn't fit the esthetics...I removed it and forgot to replace it :) But you're right ! I experimented with an arrow pointing towards the dropoff but that also didn't fully work. Thank you for playing !
As a person that fixes gameboy colors as a hobby... I can only say... thank you
Very nice concept ! Simple but effective ! I love the art style and the atmosphere, the audio matches really nicely. Great job on the mechanics, it really keeps you on your toes. Well done, thank you for making it !
Pomo... Your games are always breaking me. For as long as I've followed your LD adventures. You keep on doing it... And I love you for it. Music is up there, Scope is up there, theme... Graphics... You once more had the entire package. Well done !
Very nice take on the theme, really enjoyed it. I like the graphics, they work well with the atmosphere. And yes, it took some time to figure it out, perhaps you could create a youtube video showing some gameplay? :)
Absolutely love it :) You've scoped the game very well, didn't need much extra. Actually I can summarize my experience as follows : "Pakaawk"
I like the game :) Could it be your zip isn't made correctly? It needs to have the index.html in the root. So don't zip the folder, instead select everything in it and zip that ! :)
I love the low poly vibes! I could easily play this for a couple of hours :D Very nicely made, great job, thank you for making this :)
Very decent entry :) Well done and thank you. I love the particular style of visuals you've used !
Very fast game. It literally goes from zero to 100 in no time flat. It might be nice to have the difficulty ramp up a bit , so players can easily learn what the goal is. But apart from gameplay, and this is coming from someone who grew up on DOOM, this first person billboarded game is really cool ! :D
Many years ago... I remembered my grandmother had an attic with some retro toys and games from the early eighties. These sounds, this feeling, it brings me back there. For people that know the movie "Ratatouille", I had the same moment the criticaster had at the end. Well done, great entry. I have trouble putting it down :)
This game is an absolute blast! It takes a unique spin on the theme and executes it brilliantly. The attention to detail and humor throughout the game is fantastic.
The concept of seating guests at a wedding is both fun and challenging. While it might seem like a simple task, the game adds depth with the different personalities and preferences of the guests. You'll find yourself carefully planning who to invite and where to seat them, all while trying to avoid wedding disasters.
I can honestly say, getting married IRL was easier :D
I absolutely love the flying and painting game! It's such a unique and enjoyable experience. The concept of soaring through a vast map while trying to paint it with your colors is not only fun but also oddly satisfying.
What makes this game even better is its team-building aspect. Playing with friends and working together to conquer the map adds a fantastic social element to the game. It's a great way to bond with friends or even build stronger connections with colleagues. Innovation category winner.
I really appreciate the novel way of interacting / inputting control for movement. At first I was under the assumption that it was a drag-to-release. Very good, all game together nicely, consistent style and audio, I think this made for a very fun and quirky game. The voice acting made me chuckle very bad, well done !
I absolutely loved this game! The voice acting was exceptional, truly bringing the characters to life. The graphics were stunning, and I was impressed by the innovative gameplay !
I successfully identified the right suspect, which made me feel accomplished. Even though I got a bit lost in the plot due to some similar-looking characters and unique names, it didn't dampen my enjoyment.
The game's interpretation of the theme, with everything unfolding in a small, limited space like a play, was a breath of fresh air. It may not have had a significant impact on gameplay, but it added a unique and creative aspect to the game.
Major kudos to the developers of this game, in my humble opinion it deserves a very high rating !
Great take. It needs some polish but this is a Jam game :)
Every time I think you guys reached the peak of creativity in an LD entry, you flip the table (pun intended) and come up with something as crazy as a food-fight frog banquet. Love the graphics, love the feel, it all clicks together by itself. Everything feels very natural and challenging. So far, my favorite entry !
Oh dear lord, this brings so many ideas at the same time to my tiny head... I'm having clear fall guys vibes... combined with some drifting Mario Kart style... Then I realized this is how real life works. But ok back to your game, the graphics are simple yet effective, the audio fits the same bill. It all fits together, well done !
@tomate-salat Oh dear lord... euhm... would this be considered game breaking? XD CodeExample.PNG
**UPDATE**
I decided to fix both errors as they were in fact game breaking (the stacking now is tied to what I intended to). The renderer also needed fixing as it caused crashes in some cases (I don't know why, I simply realigned the camera)
@kairuma @arvis @shmi @madr Thank you guys! Glad you enjoyed it :)
@henk that is a great suggestion ! I'll be honest, I've spent a couple of hours trying to figure out how to make the end-game more challenging... I tried to fix it with the "lava" rising faster, but it might have missed the point in the end. I guess people (looking at you @spacey3d !!!!) who show the most dedication can get the highest scores this way :D
Ok finally getting to replies :D
@spacey3d You are forever the queen of the leaderboard. I reset it to hide the exploit but I acknowledge your endless powers !
@ljg @alec Thank you so much !
@sudocoffee Yes, you are completely right. I was using the yellow and red colors to notify players the tiles were in a danger zone, but it didn't really work out as I wanted to.
@mahalis Thank you so much ! The arrow mounds are bulging up and when they explode they destroy the tiles surrounding them. They have tiny spooks that escape :D
@enderswype Thank you so much for playing :)
@minjutin That means a lot to me ! There's indeed some cleverness involved, but it all boils down to a simple flood fill / BFS algorithm ^-^ the trick with hexagons is that getting the neighbours depends on your row, it's different between even and uneven. I had a blast developing this !
@Heremeus I'm sorry to hear, it seems the server hosting the leaderboard is down every now and then...
@apg Without specifying how I did it (so people cant hack into it), try searching itch for "leaderboard" ;)
@bauke-regnerus You're a hero :D Thank you for playing.
@fatemperor @siberpunk01 @kylazaur @miller @bradjste @akulove Thank you so much ! :)
@honest-dan You're absolutely right, I should have made it more clear. The yellow tiles are "in danger" but not urgent, the red ones will disappear soon. To be very honest, this wasn't a design decision, it was my debug way of testing and I just left it in :) I didn't have time to make a better "lava" shader. As always, thank you so much for the feedback, means a lot to me !
@3mpty Thank you, had lots of fun seeing you play it ^-^
@hagamosvideojuegos Strange is exactly what I was going for, thank you for playing and YAY candy !!!!
@ausstein No problem whatsoever, it was awesome to see you play it ! I was there so I don't need the VOD :D
Oh Geez, this is so much feedback. I'm sorry it took a while for me to answer, but :
@Hakro Thanks for playing and the kind words ! @davision Those are very valuable suggestions, I might implement that in the post-jam ! @marcel-1 Thank you very much :) @queenofsquiggles Thank you very much for playing ! @christian-witt-martin High energy is what I was aiming for, I'm glad it came across ! @designernap I love doing Compo, but it does put a lot of strain on your mental wellbeing, I'm very proud that I've gotten all of this functionality in :) @robert-li Thank you ! @fabula-rasa You got first because you owned the game :p @psv-games-studio Thank you so much for playing ! @togis A new king was born ! @coleslaughter no, thank YOU for playing, was a joy catching the stream :) @kankje Thank you :) Glad you've enjoyed it ! @senso This made me smile so hard, thank you ! @rickylee Heck yeah ! Thanks for playing :D @dragonayzer I really wanted to go for the crunchy feels, it means a lot to read this ! @pen-island-games Thank you for playing ! The mounds indeed stop spawning when there's not enough room left, but I'm not sure why I made that decision, I think in my fatigue I accidently swapped mounds and chests in my head ^-^ Got to love duct-tape code :D @digital-bacon thank you so much ! @burchyn let's goooo buuuuuuu @ausstein oh jeez thanks ! Will give it a watch ^-^ @lincolnsalles Thanks for playing :) There's really not much to it, don't overthink it ^-^ I'm already very glad you tried <3
@natano thank you so much :D but it was made in 2 days (it's compo) :D
No worries :D I only say so people would be kind for the bugs :up:
@jvdwijk It was like that during development but at that time the game seemed too easy so I removed it. Great suggestion though ! @bredera Thanks for the review ! Means the world :D I love that it did feel crunchy and impactful. @najjaman thank you so much ! @wisstopher Thanks so much :) @gentoogames Thank you ! The jumping sound was made with jfxr and the pitch shifts every jump :) Small details but big impact ! @itsboats was a pleasure to see you play it :) Next LD I might try my hands at Jam instead of compo, so I can spend a bit more time on UI... Or practice it so I can do it properly fast enough :p
@EVERYONE Thank you so much for your review. I really enjoyed this LD and I needed it more than any of you realizes. Keep crafting, keep deving, every single one of you is talented beyond and above. Follow those dreams, make your games , and I'll see you at LD 55 !
Oof, by reading the comments I realize that I'm not alone in this. It's not the easiest of games to understand, maybe you could provide a more elaborate tutorial on the game's page? Other than that, nice management game, great entry :)
Really nice concept, frustrating but fair ! There were some minor glitches but I only noticed them because I was clicking over 1000 times :p So it was bound to happen now and then. Everything comes together nicely, and it was a real joy to play. Usually I don't have the patience to play games like this all the way through, but I actually enjoyed this. Well done and thank you for submitting !
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Great entry! At first it was pretty rough to figure out where the blocks were going, but once my tiny bird-brain wrapped around it, I really enjoyed it. Everything comes together nicely :) Thank you for making this !
Another Kuvi Classic, can play this for an entire stream. It all comes together, love it Speaking of, did you know this man streams the development during LD? Thank you so much for making this and for being the background noise I needed!
While the game could benefit from some additional polishing in terms of graphics and overall presentation, I found the gameplay experience to be quite enjoyable and engaging. With some further refinement, this game has the potential to become a real gem in the gaming world !
This is an amazing entry, reminds me of a game I had when I was a kid like 25 years ago, really good take on the theme, made me feel very powerful chasing down enemy mechs while dodging mortar fire. Audio and visuals are very coherent, all made sense, would definitely play a finalized version of this, well done and thank you for making and submitting this !
Love the artwork, very consistent. The only thing I'm missing a bit is a more upbeat soundtrack, it is a sumo game after all :p It did work out in the end, I can see this being a fun multiplayer partygame, kinda like fall guys ? Well done and thank you for submitting this gem to my stream.
Thank you for submitting this game, it has so much going on, really impressive. I like the aspect of a turned based combat game mixed in with proper strategy and stacking. Everything was coming together very coherently, I really liked playing it. Well done, +1 for robots ! :D
I really enjoyed this game, short, snappy and simple ! Controls were a bit floaty but it is an ice-world after all so that's just perfect. I really like the puzzle aspect of getting skill in the right order, but it might have been nice to have more options than just 2 skills. Then again ,it is a jam and this definitely is one of the better puzzle games I've seen, thank you for making this !
Great job :) Every little bit is entertaining, but the cherry on top for me is the music. Loved it.
Simple yet effective, I like this type of educational games. If only I would have had this when I was learning algebra 20 years ago... Great and solid entry !
Amazing entry, addictive as heck! The audio is perfection :) I'll bookmark this one to get that highscore later on ;) Well done.
This was very fun and definitely worth grabbing my controllers from under the dust ! Insanely good music. This is one of those games that can be the seed to something bigger :)
Impressive concept with engaging gameplay! I thoroughly enjoyed my playthrough to the very end. One standout feature was the remarkably well-executed movement animations of the snake – achieving smooth snake movement on a grid is no small feat, and you've nailed it here.
Some serious binding of isaac vibes :) I liked it. I honestly have to admit I felt disoriented sometimes, but that might as well have been the post LD fatigue :) Nonetheless, I like this !
Very nice game. It was a bit struggling to figure out what to do, but that was completely on me. Well done ! Great entry, simple graphics BUT perfected graphics, audio and effects were very juicy and it didn't get boring, not even slightly after 75+ levels. Love this one, great game !
I truly appreciate the exceptional artwork and the wonderful voice acting in the game; they genuinely enhance the overall experience. It's undeniably cute and enjoyable. However, there are some aspects of the gameplay that I believe could benefit from improvement.
I find myself frequently relying on a specific set of actions, such as spamming attacks and utilizing specific abilities like stunning and shielding against particular enemy attacks. It would be wonderful if the gameplay encouraged more diverse strategies and tactics to keep it engaging throughout.
Additionally, I've noticed that sometimes the game's victory conditions feel a bit abrupt. It would be more satisfying if there were opportunities for a more gradual depletion of my health before the final confrontation. This would add an extra layer of challenge and excitement to the gameplay.
Overall, I genuinely adore the game, and I believe that these minor adjustments could make it even more enjoyable for players like me who appreciate a bit more variety and depth in their gaming experiences.
I love this entry. Sure it needs more polish, obviously... it's a game jam game, all participants would say the same :) But what really sold this one is the magic by which you introduce game mechanics to the player. Well done, solid entry !
This is a lot of complexity for such a short jam ! Highly impressed, great job.
Very simple yet satisfying concept. I really enjoyed the bullethell ! It's amazingly clever to make the playfield shrink when you miss the enemy. All came together nicely, very crisp and clean. Well done ! Thank you for submitting this game to the stream :D
Having a full assortment of mini games is incredibly difficult especially during a jam, everything looks and feels very crisp and polished, all felt fair. Really a great entry, thank your making this, great concept and I hope to see more of it in the future !
I'm honestly not sure what to make of this :) I am going to be positive and praise you for the work, for sure. But you're clearly using assets that you don't have the rights to, which are the main part of your presentation. You probably should have opted out of graphics for that reason.
This is a great zen game, very smooth atmosphere. Love the Bob-Ross-Esque background. Some more contrast would have been fun but nonetheless great entry, well done ! :)
Ok... I love the artwork and the aesthetics , it all comes nicely together. I'm a big fan of high atmosphere games and you've really pulled it off !
This is just simply a perfect jam game ! I really can see this becoming a smash hit on the nintendo switch for example. Art is amazing, audio is on point, everything is coherent and the theme was smashed. Well done, I think I've found the winner of LD54 !
I was thoroughly impressed by the stunning graphics and the incredible detail put into the water in this game. It's a visual feast, and I can't wait to see how this promising title evolves and potentially becomes an even more expansive and immersive experience.
I like this game :) Very relaxed, the type of feeling I had first playing "Spore". Low poly for the win !
Simple, original and entertaining. As far as the WebGL goes, I too have issues with the LD page. When looking at the error log in the dev console, it gives me errors on permissions and cross-origin errors. As an alternative, you can try to upload it on itch.io and see if it plays over there?
Gameplay wise, this could be a fun little arcade game once it is a bit more fleshed out. But in the scope of 48 hours this felt great to play.
En fin de compte, je veux juste dire, excellent travail et merci d'avoir fait cette entrée de game jam ;)
I love the atmosphere! Great play with light and darkness. It really feels like the player is going deeper. I'd try to balance it a bit more though, sometimes the enemies really seem to come out of nowhere, but it is a jam and that quick challenge factor is definitely there ! Well done !
How people make this quality of assets for a jam, it keeps surprising me. Well done ! The game just has hit that goldilock's zone of horror and curiosity !
That's quite the original mechanic you got going there, sucking up fish! I like the concept and the feeling of mystery. The graphics could be a bit more fleshed out, but this is part of a jam so there's definitely the option to go for "programmer art". Well done overall !
Lovely entry, the grappling at first feels a bit stiff (as mentioned by @sypiac , having more air control would make it even more dynamic and less punishing?). Unfortunately, I also got stuck in the terrain a couple of times, which unfortunately breaks the flow. But overal, I am impressed and glad I got to play your game !
Cute game! I wonder, are the levels made procedurally? Because I believe I have accidently got my silly brain stuck because I couldn't dig up. Maybe I had missed alternate solutions. Either way, I like this entry! Thank you
@kroltan I agree :) But at the same time... I don't think anyone would say you fixing that is adding new game-features or something ;)
This is really cool. I've done years and years of LD jams, but never have I ever seen one made in Roblox Studio. I really encourage people to make games without restrictions on the tools one can use and this proves exactly that. My kids love Roblox, so I knew how to do get this running and we've all enjoyed it tremendously. Definitely worth a mention !
Nice entry. I can clearly see what you were going for. I'm a sucker for match-3 games so these types of adventure really tickle my fancy. However, I think it might need more work to make it clear what you can or can't do. I'm not sure if it was a glitch or not, but sometimes the piece wouldn't swap positions and I'd lose a move as well, making it a bit hard to follow what was going on. Also, in spite of the music's upswing beat, the loop feels just a bit too short and repetitive, fine for a jam though. Thanks for making this!
Waw this is awesome, your daughter can be proud! I've seen a couple of games that used "focal depth" as their core mechanic, but each and every one of them (including yours) just stands out. This belongs in a museum, as an interactive exposition. Lovely !
This one is very engaging, love it! I dig the replayability, just wanted to keep going. In between the comedy and the artstyle, I really can see this one going on to become something quite viral!... Plus what the heck dude, trying to outshine us all with the fancy Dreamcast port?
This game looks and feels amazing. Love it! Everything matches up so nicely and the (I assume shader) to create the underwater effect is so nice. Thank you so much for making this. Note, the link to your twitch channel redirects to your moderator view, you should edit that ;)
Oh ! I am en route right now, but i can try again when i get home! Dont worry, leaderboards are in my eyes not gamefeatures, so you should can fix it in post for sure!
@colisan I just ran it again, is it possible it was because I was playing without unzipping the files? It should give a score of 39 now :) I remembered another little point I wanted to raise earlier, it's nothing big but usually when I make a game with a leaderboard I try to use seeded random, so everyone gets the same playfield! This game is on top of my list for sure :)
Very interesting take! I started seeding randoms since I made a small game for my channel where people could win a prize and complaints started rolling in that some people had an easier level :p But I like your approach a lot more when you consider replayability, especially in a situation like this where 1-3 minutes gameplay is usually what people give to judge a game.
You might want to double check, I've tried opening it but my Windows Defender has flagged your game as a possible threat. Would be a shame if people avoid the game because of this. I'll try to open it on my sandbox machine ^-^
This is a great entry, well done. Everything audiovisualy clicks together and the mechanic is simple but effective. A bit more in game feedback could go a long way though. Well done and congratulations on your entry! (Note, I had to turn on hardware acceleration in google chrome, so for people playing this and the game is lagging incredibly, either change browser or turn on hardware acceleration ;) )
Thank you so much ! :) I'm very hyped for it :D
@funbanan Thank you :) I actually had it like that at first but the game seemed a bit too easy then, so I decided to make it a "tail" instead. Could change it up for a post jam for sure ^-^
@nyxkn This is exactly what I had in mind ! In hindsight, the floors could use a little less HP, but having them bounce back up increased the chance of the player losing "weight" :) Design choices are always hard during a Jam ! Thank you so much for the feedback
@sayeg @argensis @leparlon @dzjejpi @frib @munmungames Thank you so much for playing ! I kinda want to experiment with reverting the controls back to the other direction or provide an option to do so, but probably this should not be in the jam version ^-^
@reecemungus thank you very much ! Yeah the wallhugging is actually a sign of skill, when I tried doing that I bounced off the walls too far :D I love the idea of adding a larger variety of obstacles.
Thank you ! The explosions will only happen when your ball is charged up (white). Maybe that is not clear enough, thank you for the feedback !
@flying-butter-studio there is an actual APK build up for Android ! My kid couldn't stop playing it ^-^
@thisyc @dywanix Thank you so much! First time I spent the majority of time on an audio track and I am very glad you like it ^-^
@oxnh Thanks for the feedback ^-^ The charging noise might be a bit too annoying indeed. As far as visuals go, this was Compo so I had to cut down on some things to keep the scope under control. It might have looked better if the ball was 3D , maybe. Thank you for playing !
Oh snap ! The source link isn't there? I'm at work right now but I'll try to put it up asap !
**EDIT** made a repo with the latest state, link is on the page now :)
@vokietislt thank you so much ! :)
@ln404 @izzqz @xwilq Thank you so much ! :)
@nazgulx you actually can ! There's a downloadable APK on the itch page :)
The blue orbs make your ball heavier, it breaks blocks easier then and does more damage. The pink ones remove the blue ones ! (it's described in the text carousel at the title screen :D ) It's a bit unclear yes, I agree...
@flinge @outstar Thank you so much for streaming my game ! :) @kebstrr @piero-pbes-studio Thank you so much for the kind words !
@captaindreamcast , @soul-grinder @iovorobiev thank yo so much for the kind words ! :) I can't believe the nice feedback I'm getting !
@rodorodo those are the blue little balls ! I should make it visually more clear :)
@oeueGHa that is correct. This was an early design choice to make the scores more consistent, but it is not really needed anymore :) Good catch !
@simon-rahnasto no waaaaaay, someone figured out what inspired that track ! :D I'm so glad you like it, thank you so much for playing it :) c594f7665cfac145d7aba690e3506faecaba83bd45712b437851dc0b3ad6a740.jpg
@daniel-alhadeff Oh I'd love to make an iOS build, but I don't have a mac :( Maybe this version runs fullscreen though? https://javasaurus.dev/DeepFrame9/index.html
I like what I read in the description, very original concept. I'd love to play it but as @scott-r-howell mentioned, the game does not start :)
This game is such fun! Grand in simplicity. I love the graphics, they mesh together perfectly. Also, as a big lover of game-AI and pathfinding, I love these implementations that just work. Very well done !
I like this entry a lot. It has a very simplistic style that makes me think of GameBoy screens and palettes. The controls are very floaty though, sometimes the ball starts bouncing off spikes and I'm not sure what I can do, except for waiting the imminent death :) Maybe adding a couple of hitpoints before death could help this a bit. Overall, great concept, solid entry, well done and congratulations !
Waaaaaaw-eeeee... This is a lot of complexity for such a short dev-cycle. Crazy cool! I had to go over it a couple of times before actually feeling like I got a good grasp of what was going on, but still, nice, simple and clean. Thank you for making this !
Smooth like butter :) Very simple, but nice entry, the way they're supposed to be. Maybe a slightly longer audioloop would help, but in the end it is a jam so very understanding! I like this, kudos to you and your wife :)
Very cool entry, I'd play this on my phone for sure. Idle games are awesome and I have a feeling this could be a nice entry to combine with for example breathing exercises and cup-breathing ! Well done !
This game is so crunchy, I love it! There is the instant urgency of fighting and keeping the demons away from you, but maybe this could be reflected a bit more in the UI (just thinking, an overlay that turns more red at the sides for example). Also, just some extra oomph (screenshake, particles, etc) and a variety of attacks. But in the end this is suuuuuuper enjoyable already. One of my favorites !
Clean execution:) Had to switch my language, but I'm used to that ^-^ I'd have personally put more emphasis on feedback (more effects like screenshake / colors / particles) that drives urgency. Make it even more dramatic! But I really enjoy this game, I'll keep it bookmarked for sure ^-^
I like your audio, in spite of being a short loop, it doesn't bother one bit and it kinda fits really well. I'm not going to hammer what's already been said above, the camera should get some love, maybe add a rotate button or something to rotate around the edges of the room. You have such nice billboarded art, don't hide it behind walls ^-^ Well done !
Hey this was fun ! Thank you for making this. I love the artstyle, it is very lighthearted and puts people in a good mood. It feels like playing a classic, well done !
How dare you... The absolute nerve you must have... To create something THIS awesome in 48 hours using no engine? I tip my hat to you. I'm really amazed and want to take some time to thank you for doing this, bringing the absolute proof to the table that even in a game jam, such as LD, there is room for experimentation and that (unless specified offcourse), the tools do not really matter. As far as the game goes, my kids absolutely loved it, especially the feature they could share URL's with their pizza to one another. Got a great giggle out of it. Unfortunately, they now want to make fresh pizza instead of takeaway :p
Had a good giggle here :) The game itself could use a little more "oompf" but I just adore the models and artstyle!
Simple, but so cute. Love the artstyle. Doing a Jam never is easy, especially when you restrict yourself even further (48 hours really is short). So scope is really a thing that one needs to learn how to control, and I'd say you are very well under way to do that. All in all, well done, you can be proud !
Holy moly, there's a lot to unpack here :p
I don't know if I'm just an old nostalgic fart, but this could be straight out of early 2000s Newgrounds, but with some seriously polished art and sound. The music adds so much to the vibe. Pizza from hell was not on my bingo card for today, but I’m very glad it happened.
I do think some small tweaks like a proper loss condition or maybe short invincibility frames could help smooth out the gameplay a bit more. You could experiment with different perspectives and parallaxing, but honestly, the weirdness is part of the charm. Would totally play an expanded version of this. Amazing job!
This is awesome. It's like playing inverted Frogger, where I still control the frog, but also the cars ! Very cool game. The audioloop might be a bit short, it got a bit repetitive. But... CRAB CHAOS makes up for it !
This is a very good and simple entry, a "smartgame" that can keep one occupied for a good while. As I say often, when something shines in simplicity, it is easier to make enjoyable, and you've done just that. Thank you for making this game !
Great job, loved this game ! The art, the audio, the gameplay, it all fits so well together. One of my favorites so far! And don't worry about fixing things post-deadline, these clearly were essential to make your game work better / as intended !
Nice entry ! I loved the intro cutscene, the screaming was hilarious. Gameplaywise, the game seems simple at first but there's just so many things that went into it, giant fireballs, moving bat-monsters. I love it, definitely on my "play this again" list ! Well done !
This is so beautiful... Everything meshes so well, atmospheric. I love the transitions as well. The only downside that I'm noticing is a little lag, but that might be on my side and it doesn't really take a way from the experience. This is literally playing a poem. Lovely ! Thank you
Very cool entry. Top ratings for mood for sure, it actually brings just that little spiciness of claustrophobia you'd get in a submarine. I like the shade work, I'm just wondering what the game would look like in a more traditional way. Gameplay wise I had fun for sure, good job keeping the player occupied. My only remark, but this might be what you were going for, LOUD NOISES! I played this before my second morning coffee and the foghorn followed by atomic bomb level crashing sounds woke me up for sure :) Great game overall, thank you for making this.
Lovely tech demo! Even though it's pretty short it already feels adventurous. One thing I would definitely work on is the implementation of "coyote time". Be a bit forgiving towards your players :)
Lovely game ! Me and my kids would love to play a full version of this. It has very good puzzle elements with multiple solutions, which is very forgiving. I love that ! Audio and art also were working very well together. Thank you and congratulations on such a nice entry !
Simple but effective, I love what you did to keep the room mysterious and playing with the lights! Sometimes hard, sometimes unforgiving, but it feels fair. I have to agree with what @atsh said, I'm not sure the rotated platforms are really needed. Nonetheless, thanks for making this !
Interesting. It wasn't really superclear what I had to do, but I appreciate the work that went in this entry! The pixel art is really nice. The game feels pretty incomplete, but I do love the concept of listening to a canary in a mine ! Very cool take. Things I would work on? Polish... Make it more crunchy, make it more clear what the intention is. Work on the platform placement (I couldn't reach any of them). But all in all, well done and congratulations !
Wilhelm scream = +1 humor! But seriously, I love this entry so much, it is actually my favorite. So simple, so effective and so hard to put down. I love the retro vibe and the replayability is so high. Not a single thing to comment here, well done !
Very interesting take on the theme. It took me a good while to understand what I am supposed to do though. Very nice to see a text-based adventure style game.
Sucker for matching games and rogue-lites. The thing that make viral games such as balatro and binding of isaac so popular is the aspect of creating overpowered builds. Well done ! A few points of critique though, the resolution isn't consistent (as mentioned above by @toppervideogames ), which causes some parts of the UI to be not visible. The difficulty also plateau's when the enemies are gone, which can be by design, but I'm not sure it is fit for this type of game ^-^ Well done !
You might want to create an itch.io page and upload your web-build there (disable compression in the publication settings though). This page isn't working for me, so I'll put it on the "revisit" list for sure !
Very nice prototype. I really enjoyed it, but I had some trouble finding the "5 seconds of fun" here. It's definitely interesting and the art is amazing, but it didn't give me the instant "oh... this is why I'm doing this" revelation :) Would be great as a full fleshed out game !
@peppersalt07 And that is completely fine and ok ! That's why I love Jams, they're experimental playgrounds !
I like the concept, but there are a few honest concerns I have. To me personally it wasn't really clear what I was supposed to do, so I wound up just spamming the right option (the only one that was doing something). Just in general, if the major part of your game would be focused on text, it might be better to put it straight up the player's field of vision, nice and big, with as much feedback as possible (for example, hover-over the text to make it bigger/pop, or just use buttons there as well). Also, I would increase the font on the main menu buttons as well. The audioloop also seems a bit repetitive, but this is a jam so scope issues are forgivable :) I hope this feedback is valuable to you and in the end, I want to congratulate you personally for making this !
@immortalfox Believe it or not, you're over halfway there ;) You developed a game, hence forth, you are a game developer :D
I'm invested now, this game is being pushed upward by people commenting the game isn't there yet :p Seems to me the "karma-system" needs an overhaul? :D Either way, I'll be waiting !
@yohadams While that is true to the letter of to the rules, I prefer to believe in submitting to the spirit of the Jam. Now, the middle way to handle it would be to opt out of graphics, which the creator clearly has done...
So yeah, not a true Compo submission, but THAT being said, this is beautiful and I really have enjoyed it, by far the most original take on the theme so far :)
Really nice combination, feels natural playing it. Very well done !
Completed ! Incredibly comprehensive for a 48 hour game ! Well done :)
Really nice game, the combination of a silent hill - esque athmosphere with the sudden children's puzzle is hilarious. I kept expecting a jump scare till the end ! Well done. The movement could be made a bit faster as trying to find the next solution was a bit tedious. Also, the camera was able to clip through some walls (which is offcourse fine for a jam game !). Well done, well made ! :)
Amazing style and interesting game ! I can easily see this becoming a networked game (the same vein as TypeRacer), good stuff ! :)
Really nice concept, I love the book pixel art.
Nice game, incredible content for a 48 hour game. Maybe add a nice tutorial to your game page?
As per usual you amaze me sir ... This is awesome XD Bit heavy at times but overall I loved it !
Really nice game, well done. I like how responsive it is ! Perhaps a more difficult game mode would be one where pressing enter erases the command box ;). Great stuff !
Great game ! Really enjoye it, I love the "time management" needed to hit enemies. Hope it gets updated further !
Oh my... James' gone done it again ! Great Jobs all around, you really should do an epic rif as your Twitch follow alert from now on. Aside from that, the game is really fun and enjoyable, one of the better jam games I have come across today :) Thank you ! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/bumper-buddies
I would just summarize all of this in "GREAT JOB !". I hope to hear more from guitar-hero James in future streams ;) But really enjoyable level design, hard but not impossible, the way we all like it ! :)
I like this game, it feels like the genres should be mixed together as it makes perfect sense. I love the controls, they are not too sluggish and are spot on for this type of game. I know this is just a jam game but after fixing up the bugs (see @frostdragonliz ' comment) you could easily fit an entire RP story around this battle system !
Nice concept, I see this being able to be combined with a typeracer style game. Well done ! :)
Really cool game ! Well done, brownie points for sticking with LibGDX and java ! :) Background music could further improve the hype.
I liked this game :) Funny, simple and fitting for the theme and honestly the first (and probably only) dating sim entry I found enjoyable, well done !
Great stuff :) Simple but efficient and totally makes the two chosen genres work together !
Really nice puzzle concept, entertaining and challenging. Thank you for the game :)
Nice game, really enjoyed it :) The worm is oficially my worst enemy now >-<
Really fun game, interesting concept and amazing art ! Really enjoying the visuals :) Keeping this one on my list, thank you
This...is...brilliant... AND catchy :D Maybe some extra feedback on the dancing part could make it more obvious, but this is after all a jam game ! Thank you :)
This is a really fun entry, thank you for the submission. I had a blast trying to get the tomato sauce in place while doing an unprecedented 720 backflip sidescrew fly trick :D Also, one of the best fitting songs you could possibly have used ;)
Really hard game, perhaps a bit too unforgiven after the first stage. It honestly felt impossible pretty fast ! NONETHELESS awesome concept. The audio really is settinh the athmosphere and I love your atari graphics.
Great job on the graphics and the audio, nostalgia city right there ! I really like the first few rooms as you nicely "force" the player to use and learn the mechanics (for example looking up to see the passcode). Had a lot of fun, keeping this on my list!
Awesome game, incredible graphics for a jam game. Highly entertained, thank you for the submission ! :)
Very nice game. Thank you for giving people a glampse of how a depression can crawl up and control your every move, making it nearly impossible to function. But rest assured, it is something that can be beaten, speaking from experience.
Nice game ! I love the style and it is very Zen ! :)
Really nice game entry. It arguably is a bit short, but people shouldn't forget this is a jam entry ! I say you did very well and I hope to see more of your work in the future ! Well done ! :)
Really nice audio work, there is a slight "hiccup" after each note, but really enjoyable. Nice job and definitely a novel way to manage combat in an RPG ! :)
Interesting concept, allthough there is a lot of reading going on (multiple times) before understanding what the goal of the game is, good job though ! :)
Thank you for the feedback ! :)
Thank you for the comments @Potondo @Vasco Freitas @jharler , minor fixes I can change when LD41 ends ! :)
@morphine Hey ! I indeed love my documentation ;) Thank you for the feedback. Audio really is something weird, I medled with it trying to make a webGL build but failed and ever since I introduced bugs etc... But yeah... The camera was a design choice but I see the problems it can cause :)
@mintarcade @Yanek thanks a lot for the kind feedback! :) The graphics were scheduled for an overhaul, but I ran out of time and wanted to deliver a game that was as enjoyable as I could provide !
Thank you @Angelbait @megamasterx @EkkoEkko for playing !
@gamesplusjames I would probably have made more tables , balance difficulwty and special events and better graphics! After a jam this list should be massive, it means you are on a nice idea and made the minimal playable prototype! I might go back and finish this, but until then I am enjoying th hundreds of jam entries to play! Thank you all for playing!
Thank you for playing @bentglasstube , @dob and @Zukureneno :) Thank you for the kind words
Fun concept ! :) The wolf panic really gets to you ! I've seen this on stream and just had to try it for myself as well ;) Great stuff !
First off, congratulations with your entry. I didn't have the pleasure to spot your game on the featured list during my voting sessions (probably due to the "vote-reward" mechanics), so I had not played it till last night. It's unbelievable you managed to do this in the little time we had available ! I myself dared to go for a compo submission, and I have to say I was rather unprepared. After reading the rules and worrying about them, I figured it would be incredibly hard, but definitely possible should I give up my health and my wellbeing... So I did it. In the end I got put on the place I expected to land for a first timer.
However I cannot deny the voting system has left a serious bitter taste. In the end, I am seriously doubting if it was worth sacrificing the entire weekend... I hope I'm not breaking an illusion here, the game jam is not about winning or losing, but fairness and respect is definitely not reflected as it should be. As I was to deduct from the results, this voting quotum is not representative to anything at all. It would only work in the case where the law of big numbers applies where "friendly" scores (by lack of better terms as "pitty scores" sounds a bit harsh) are balanced to the average or median, which here clearly is not the case, making all the rankings utterly meaningless. I can only make the suggestion to upgrade the voting system from its current state to include a peer reviewed rating with a predefined panel of non-participating "experts". Their votes could be weighted in with the "public/popular" votes. Referees could for example be found on Twitch, as several developers have already picked up playing ludum dare entries live on stream. Giving out an official state of LD Referee would not only reward their initiatives, it would avoid particular situations where conflict arises due to a non-discriminating form of voting. Furthermore, there already is a mention for streamers on the LD page, so I assume it is not a big overhead to implement this. Offcourse this would imply more work, but I am confident that it is possible and will only benefit the quality of our developer lives.
So in the end and hopefully contributing with some value to the discussion... Congratulations to you AND to everyone else that has submitted an entry! We have all finished a game and we all sacrificied something, be it in different proportions. But keep in the back of your minds, the rankings are statistically meaningless and even worse, they are plain wrong.
Until next edition (should the rating system be updated) !
Dear Anonymous, this referee system is most voting topics where there is a large difference in the amount of votes cast for a certain option. It is actually a common solution to allow multiple "layers" of voting, where the end result is averaged out or weighted at the least. That is the entire point really, people are still allowed to vote, but someone with 20 votes that originate from a close group of "friends" will be correctly assessed. That is way more fair... And if it is not meant to be serious and regulated, then why would you participate... Fun? Remove the ratings all together if you want just "fun".
I find it unbelievable and I'm not posting this anonymous for a reason. Please don't take this personal or even think it is linked to being part of a group. Nobody blamed anyone but the voting system, which I extensively gave my opinion on. The above post shows your dedication to a community, which in its own right is admirable, but please, keep the advertising to yourself ;) I in all honesty couldn't care less what group anyone might belong to.
However, as I posted earlier, this system renders any form of ranking meaningless. If this game would have had over 100 votes, the story would be completely different. This fact is completely disjunct from who made the game or even who voted for it, the fact to the matter is that an average score taken over 20 votes versus an average score taken over 200 votes is meaningless. My previous posts were clear, I congratulate everyone submitting, but I will not congratulate people on "winning".
With all respect to the developer as I agree, it is a very nice entry... But it is not a winner for 4 categories and being second in "innovation" and where the core game concept has existed since the earliest era of games for example, the audio should be disqualified when rules are strictly applied.
In summary and I hope this closes any quarrel or irritation and I once more would like to politely congratulate the developer and all other participants of LD41, the voting system is corrupt and has inadvertently been abused, no matter what defensive arguments are posted here.
So I suggest we either change the rating system (see my previous post) or remove it all together.
Have a nice evening and DEV ON !
Again with the Anonymous, why are people hiding, is it my roaring avatar? ;)
As I specified earlier in my suggestion, this system of public voting needs a referee layer on top, potentially with a layer of experts surpassing even that. That way the voting system can stay the same and be appended over multiple rounds. If this game really is that good there would be nothing to worry about as the selected jurymembers would clearly give high scores as well.
I keep wondering why everyone keeps being so defensive... Was there any trace of anything offensive in my comments? Maybe the following sentence is a bit harsh, but as a scientist it needs to be said. If you want to have any form of comparison to other games, which clearly is the entire intention of voting and ranking them, you need to do it serious. And yes, that might take longer, but at least that is an objective process. Would anyone have minded to wait untill the next LD before knowing his actual score? Playing 10 minutes a game for a selection of " voted" winners is not that bad. Heck most games don't even offer that much "varying" content, if they do it already is a very good entry !
However, should people be bothered they have to wait longer to get ranked, even if it would take 3 months, your argument that it isn't about competition becomes completely invalid...
Dear @David Boeger , we should have a discord chat on this. I keep getting the impression you are seeing my comments as a direct accusation of the developer. It is not, not by a long shot. I do have some issues at the moment after reading the arguments that are being thrown my way... So for the sake of clarity, here we go again...
As for mister/misses Anonymous (I can't figure out if this is one person or multiple, but I try to respect the opinion of people that are hiding out of fear to touch sensitive nerves), I tried to put out another summary of what I am trying to provide a suggestion on. Maybe it is just a seed to the future of LD, as I will not be entering it again until winners are selected fully randomly, but did receive a score OR there is a proper ranking system. And this again will lead to people claiming it is just about fun and this and that... But for the sake of this comment, I really do not care about "moral noblesse" taking over.
FACT : The system is unfit, biased towards lower number of voters (in the extreme case votes are sampled from a developers environment and not from the entire community, such as clearly is the case here, deny it or not). TO AVOID THIS, the system could use an ADDITIONAL layer of voting. To everyone that keeps argumenting that it is not LD if there is no public voting, there would still be public voting, it just would not be final. On top of that, I see everyone posting time and time again that this is not the spirit of LD... Then why be opposed against a new voting sytem? Contrary to someone voting audio when it is not applicable, that IS being hypocrit.
Ok now we got that out of the way and I hope other developers here will understand it.
Furthermore, something a bit more personal that hit home. I received some connotations that I would be a salty, jealous developer... I am, but I do my very best to allow for constructive discussion and for those that are bright enough to follow the entire thread and read through all the comments (I am sorry, I like writing), I only blame a system, not individuals. I know very well I can't change the rating and yes, this is the internet and I already anticipate the same comments over and over, which is why I do not post anonymous.
I was glad with my personal first LD ranking until I discovered it means nothing at all. People saying doing an LD is not for the prestige and just for fun... It is, don't try to make yourself look better, we all chose LD because it is the biggest. There were plenty other jams going on at the time. Even people like @David Boeger , who has to stand ground deflecting the pitchforks and torches of the so called "witch hunt" for a friend who hasn't jumped back into the spotlights... To me that just proves that LD is more than for fun. You do it for a reason.
I just want to state here and now @Archimagus deserved a badge of respect and bravery from my end. Thank you for stepping out of the shadows !
@Archimagus I completely second you there, maybe it indeed makes a clear point that some games might be underrated as well due to the same skewness. Just imagine (god forbid it) that some starting dev got 20 votes in total, but was being trolled by a group (I know what is going to happen so NO I am NOT implying GDU here) and got 1/5's across the board for no reason.