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YearLDThemeGameDivisionRankOvFuInThGrAuMoCo
201431Entire Game on One ScreenDiametriccompo8172.942.663.653.523.153.913.7057

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Comments by JFern

LD31 — Entire Game on One Screen

Critters by salmonmoose 2014-12-09T05:36:00

Pretty fun lemmings clone with some nice animations, I like the idea of moving the terrain instead of the characters themselves

The Paper Dance by TravisChen 2014-12-17T07:44:00

Wow, this was beautiful! I loved the graphics and atmosphere. Got stuck a few times on stage and it was hard to tell where I was sometimes, but definitely an interesting experience!

A Terrible Place to Raise Children by otaviogood 2014-12-09T03:55:00

I like concept a lot though sometimes the asteroids would go a little off course and I'd have to sit and wait. The resource management wasn't the most intuitive for me so it took a bit to figure out, but I played a bunch of waves before finally killing off the population (so it was fun for sure!)

Outpost: New World by BMacIntosh 2014-12-09T06:18:00

Awesome! Really liked it (though it got pretty hard really quickly!) Music was nice as well

Thermonuclear War by panda 2014-12-09T07:11:00

Very cool, definitely spent way too much time playing this through haha. Would be nice to build some ambience with the timer counting down

Theyfend by ghostinthesoft 2014-12-09T06:57:00

Quirky little game that reminded me of some ones I played as a kid!

SnowCard by mrexcessive 2014-12-17T06:41:00

Nice holiday touch! Hard to understand what the orders were with the hints but eventually got it. Pretty awesome! (I really like the piano when I got things right and what happens in the end!)

The Swarm is All by Jyrkface 2014-12-10T05:19:00

The sound and music were awesome in this coupled with the sweet graphics! Fun game and interesting mechanics!

Modern Dwarfare by PoQA Games 2014-12-09T07:52:00

Fun tower defense game, like the expanding-ness of it. Nice music and graphics

Tiny Square, Big Tower by EvilObjective 2014-12-08T06:26:00

Pretty fun platformer and the controls felt nice. I think the theme was a bit off but I did like the misleading beginning (plus the hard way which was worth it haha). SFX were sort of grating when playing through (like the lasers). Reminds me a lot of N+ :)

Escape the darkness - by dearenot by dearenot 2014-12-09T07:47:00

Light mechanic is very cool! Harder in the beginning then near the end

0000 : Press Z by alvarop 2014-12-09T05:49:00

Solid platform and fun! Overall aesthetic is nice and super old school feel to it.

Oscillation by MaddeMichael 2014-12-09T08:34:00

Great platformer with sweet graphics and a clever take on the theme! Dug the overall feel (plus robots are awesome)

ARENA++ by undefinist 2014-12-10T05:11:00

Really interesting concept! Would be cool if the transitions were shorter or if they froze everyone. Animations when the arena changed were cool too!

Contact Cowboy by jrap 2014-12-17T06:47:00

This is really awesome! Graphics are great, mechanics are solid, sort of a mesh between the Game & Wario minigame and Spyparty. Great job!

No Rest When it's Over by ItyBity8Bit 2014-12-10T01:58:00

It was very similar to the demo for Gods Will Be Watching which I enjoyed but I wish some of the mechanics here strayed more from that game. Very nice mood and atmosphere!

Footage by Muush 2014-12-09T05:54:00

Looks cool but Mac package wouldn't run for me :(

Footage by Muush 2014-12-09T06:27:00

REALLY like the idea and it was fun to mess around in the scene! Spot on for the theme as well! (Got the web player working on my computer finally, my browser = dumb)

Dancing Shadows by marsermd 2014-12-09T04:22:00

Concept is cool and I really like the look/art. I don't think there are enough cues for the rhythm and it's difficult to know when to start hitting the arrow keys so I kept failing.

Random Name Attack by bnmkt 2014-12-17T06:51:00

Great for a first game! (This was mine too haha) Controls were a bit slow (animations too) but the concept is good! Fun little game!

Bug in your room by Harley77 2014-12-09T05:32:00

Ha this was pretty funny. Cat sound was kind of loud but it was entertaining overall! Hard to hit the bug, I think mine ended up just jumping into the fan..

Diametric by JFern 2014-12-09T04:50:00

Thanks for the feedback guys! oscarabraham: Unfortunately not for this game but maybe I will look into it for the future. Since I had to spend more time programming other things than doing the audio stuff I ran out of time to!

Diametric by JFern 2014-12-09T05:21:00

Sorry about the Mac Build Kopeph (and anyone else who tried it)! Should be working now!

Diametric by JFern 2014-12-09T07:22:00

@AndresGames Thanks for the feedback! I'll definitely look into it (Achievements definitely sound interesting) There were a lot of things I wanted to add to make the gameplay more focused but ran out of time (48 hours is tough!)

Diametric by JFern 2014-12-09T08:17:00

@panda: Thanks!

@Arovoid: Glad you like it! Mood was my main goal :D

Diametric by JFern 2014-12-10T05:06:00

@madhoe: Thanks for taking a look! Mostly the circle diameter affects the low-pass filter on all of the sounds. (thanks pointing out some issues heh scoring system is on the list!) Also, I couldn't figure out why Unity was adding the skip in the loop in time :/

@ChuiGum: Thanks!

@Lynx: Glad you enjoyed it! I'm definitely looking into expanding it (and getting better at programming haha) Thanks for posting the music post! Gotta represent the music games!

@Jyrkface I love your description! Glad you enjoyed it!

@Kitch I was going for a meditation thing so glad it was Zen for you!

Diametric by JFern 2014-12-18T00:23:00

@kirbytails7: Thanks! I ran out of time to add some other things that would make the timer/points more useful :/

@Simon: Thanks! It was a ton of fun to do!

@Backterria: Glad you liked it!

@AlSweigart: Thanks, ran out of time to do some other stuff with it since 48 hours is short (with work too!) but hopefully the other stuff I add will make it less boring for future ppl!

7 Days of War by error031 2014-12-17T06:55:00

Great little game with nice mood and environment!

Petite Juliet by kts_kettek 2014-12-09T04:38:00

The terrain/background is pretty awesome though it's a bit hard to tell what's happening in the game with the character/enemies.

0x2603 by Efuvex 2014-12-09T07:15:00

Pretty fun game and liked the story for it leading in

Beat+Trak by Lynx 2014-12-10T02:09:00

Pretty awesome music game and simple to pick up. Screen shake got to be a bit much near the end, but overall fun!

Kaiser by oscarabraham 2014-12-09T04:11:00

Interesting setting. Controls were a bit awkward on PC. BG song during game was sick but it and sfx were not the greatest fit for me.

Lull by WatercressStudios 2014-12-09T06:09:00

Nice graphics and music! Interesting story and take on the theme

brawling game by barry.p.evans 2014-12-09T05:43:00

Even though it's WIP I can see some really fun potential. I really like the big hits when doing the combos and the exaggerated physics with it!

RIZUMUDEKATTO by EquipeJAM 2014-12-17T06:30:00

Good graphics and audio, really matched well! Super easy to pick up and play and pretty fun (though I did end up just spamming the keys after a bit haha)!

super touch by Indieindio 2014-12-09T04:43:00

Tried to play but got same error as another user "There was a problem parsing the package" - Nexus 5, v5.0 (Awesome to see an android game though!)

Squint Maze by AlSweigart 2014-12-18T00:19:00

Ha, good joke. Definitely better on higher res monitors.

Glitch by Arovoid 2014-12-09T07:19:00

LOVED the graphics for this! Super hard game and some FR loss when moving around, but very interesting concept

Andres Soto by AndresGames 2014-12-09T07:27:00

42 coins later, a pretty interesting game. Seems easier with certain random layouts and I wish that jumping was a little less "floaty" coming down, but I had a lot of fun trying to grab the coins before time ran out!

Seven Lightyears of Bad Luck by kirbytails7 2014-12-10T07:50:00

I love these kinds of games and this one was quite a bit of fun! The ricocheting bullets definitely brought a challenge. I noticed your post-mortem on the music portion which was interesting to read through so 3 things relating to that:

1. Keep at the song writing, it's good, but improvements can always be head (and kudos for including music, adds SO much more to the game!)

2. Your song fits the mood well for the most part and you had a good feel for contour, but some chord/note choices seemed out of place and brought me out of it

3. The bullet sfx for some reason kept dragging my mind away from the song itself (since they fired in a different beat than the song was) This could probably just be me being weird.

Really enjoyable! Great job!

Beat Bop Delicious by Kitch 2014-12-10T05:23:00

Really liked the slight audio feedback for when a toggle has to be switched! Cool music and sounds and a really interesting idea!

A Place in Space by lokijki 2014-12-08T06:19:00

Love the take on the theme! The differently generated rooms each time I played and the graphics were nice except for the camera shake needs some tweaking. Overall fun!

Orion by feiss 2014-12-09T23:59:00

This is fantastic! The initial take-off was AWESOME. Great job and with only 48 hours!

The Rose Processor by Simon 2014-12-10T21:37:00

Cool concept and really fun game! Took me a second to understand the controls and it got really hard but it's great!

LD32 — An Unconventional Weapon

Boreocracy by Sean Noonan 2015-04-21T03:58:00

Like the animations a lot and the attention to reverb detail for the footsteps ;) Can't wait to see it when it's done