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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | Delay The Inevitable - Card Game | compo | 4.50 | 3.00 | 5.00 | 3.50 | 4.00 | |||||
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | Space Station 8 | jam | 609 | 3.62 | 3.60 | 3.71 | 2.71 | 2.97 | ||||
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Terminal | jam | 3.64 | 3.64 | 3.78 | 3.78 | 2.85 | 2.92 | 3.71 | |||
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | Reaper Boy LD42 (Remix) Edition | jam | 406 | 3.56 | 3.72 | 3.02 | 3.08 | 4.61 | 3.84 | 3.10 | 3.68 | |
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | Jump N' Shoot Man Ludum Dare 41 | jam | 1057 | 2.90 | 2.40 | 2.54 | 2.66 | 4.03 | 3.03 | 2.27 | 3.10 | |
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | Reaper Boy LD40 Edition | jam | 206 | 3.81 | 3.79 | 3.57 | 2.66 | 4.14 | 3.26 | 2.90 | 3.48 |
Great concept. It wasn't until I was going to leave a comment that I saw you could recharge by standing on the battery tile. You should add a beep or something to indicate that since it wasn't obvious. Like mentioned above I found the gravity a little "floaty" too. Overal really impressive and I think if you tweak the difficulty a bit and clean up a few of the other issues it could be a really solid game to show off what LIKO-12 could do.
Really liked the mood of the game and the sense of humor was good too. I struggled a bit with the throwing and catching mechanic. Felt like it should just return and make it easier on the player. Hopefully, you spend some time polishing it up. Could be a fun little game!
Funny, really liked the concept. Wish there was more to it. I like how the other cars just blindly crash into each other around you!
Really great looking game! Love the concept and the mechanic of slowing down the more you get. Makes crossing the spites even more stressful. Looking forward to seeing if you add more to it.
Thanks for the comments so far. @dunin, I know about the score bug. I may try to patch it but I just ran out of time. I didn't get around to adding persistent memory to Pixel Vision 8 so I'll move that to the top of the list.
Also, there was space in the "cart" for at least 30 more levels but I just didn't have the time. I focused on polish in the end so hopefully, that pays off. I'll be cleaning this up after the jam for sure!
Glad to see everyone likes the game. I should have mentioned that there is a pool of levels. So there are 3 levels types per 4 rounds before getting to the boss.
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While it doesn't add a whole lot of variety to the playthrough the intent was to make it feel more dynamic and ensure the scoring was different each run. Clearly, I had plans for a lot more levels but just ran out of time. I plan on re-working them and building a much bigger pool of levels in the next build of the game. I also had two additional bad guys a small jumper and a larger (2 hit) walker. Even with 72 hours, it's just not enough time to get all my ideas out.
On the flip side, seeing that people want more levels is a good problem to have :)
Love the art style. Had no idea what I was doing but it was just fun to run around and see things get glitchy. Great job!
Really great take on the theme and Arkanoid. As always, I love the art style. Hopefully, you spend a little more time with it. It would make for a great mobile game!
Perfect use of the theme. Really interesting concept but I had a lot of trouble with the controls. Also, I ended up getting stuck in places, most notably the start screen. I missed the beginner slope and got stuck on the rock until it eventually pushed me over enough to go to the intermediate level.The ending is great. Could be a lot of fun with a bit more time to polish the controls and graphics. Overall, great job!
Interesting take on the theme. I was running into some performance issues in the web player on mac but could see the potential. I think it should be clearer what you are doing and that there is some kind of negative effect happening... I was clueless until I burned up all of North and South Americas :P
Nice, game and like the puzzles!
Nice little game. I really liked the polish. Only issues I had were staying oriented. I think having some kind of radar or arrows pointing where hostiles are coming from would help and the mouse was a bit sensitive. Outside of that, it was a lot of fun, great job!
Really funny. It was too stressful to play but I got a good laugh out of it!
Really interesting game. Loved the graphics! Could be a lot of fun with some more polish and different challenges. I'll watch the project page to see what you keep adding to it!
I keep getting the error and it crashes so couldn't play :(
Wow, really great game. Love the graphics and the sound. The gameplay mechanics were really nice. I like the little details like the collectible objects coming back if you are too slow and the wrapping of the level with the use of gravity to get around. Great job!
@djlink, you can press escape to exit the game at any time. Probably should have put that in the description ;)
Thanks @djlink and @superpokeunicorn for the early feedback. Had a lot of fun making this one. Hope a lot of people play it!
@titos2k and @my-sweet-whomp, can you try installing .net? I'm still a bit new to bundling a MonoGame project and I have a feeling that the dlls are missing since the Windows build is so much smaller than the other ones. I'll do some testing on my end and see if I can fix it. Here is a link - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30653. I'll try to make an installer that automatically downloads it too.
@titos2k ok, thanks for the heads up. I'm flying home today so I'll take a look tomorrow and see what I can do to get it working for those having the black screen problem. Sorry about that :(
Really cool game and great take on the theme. Would love to see this expanded out into something bigger after the jam!
I didn't really get what I was supposed to do but I really liked the art and the feel of the game. Great voice work I just wish it had given me more direction as to what I should have done with the boxes. At least stacking and breaking them felt rewarding. Hope you add more to it, great job!
Wow, really great graphics and cool concept. My only complaint was that the controls were a little frustrating. Since you need to use the mouse to select then the keyboard to move it made things a bit less fun. Other than that I think it's a great concept with an impressive amount of polish. I'd try to find an easier control mechanic.
I really like the concept and the gameplay is really good. Great job!
Great game! Love the graphics and the mechanics. Only thing I couldn't really figure out was which box went where. I think with a little bit of polish and maybe even local multi-player it could be a fun take on Overcooked!
Great concept, I really like how killing the bad guy's blocks you from moving around on the screen. My only bit of feedback is on the controls. I found them a bit difficult to use so I ended up losing my sword a lot or not being able to kill the bad guys easily. I think it could use a bit of extra polish on the controls and you'd have a really fun game!
I wasn't able to get the game to start :(
Really great work, love the graphics and the retro look/feel of the game. A bit hard but fair. I like the mechanic of using the wand and the hammer.
I was lost at first. It could use a little more description in the game as to what the player should do. Good job!
Fun game, liked the art and the controls were very responsive. Would like to see what else you add to it, feels like you are onto something here.
Interesting game. Didn't realy get what I was supposed to do but I liked the art and tried to see how high of a score I could get before the level was filled up. great job!
Funny game. Wish it was a bit easier to control the people. Had a few times where some one got stuck outside of the bus and I couldn't get them in. Great job!
Great idea, and I really liked the graphics. It wasn't always clear what I had to do but I think this could be a really fun VR game with a little bit of extra polish after the Jam. Great job!
Interesting little game. Took me back to my HyperCard days. I just had some trouble with the collision detection getting into houses and then not accidentally exiting them. Really liked the use of the theme. Great job!
Fun little game, really liked the shader and the graphics style. Great job!
I really like the art style and the music was good. As a New Yorker, I felt stressed playing this game ;) That being said I think you need to work on the gameplay a bit. I felt like I was just pushing randomly and there wasn't much strategy to the game. It's a good concept, just needs a little more work.
Really funny game idea!
Liked the art style and the gameplay mechanic. I think it would be more in line with the theme if you had text boxes with speach vs the sound samples but other than that it was a fun little game. Congrats!
Nice game. Cute graphics and interesting idea. I like the shop idea and trying to earn enough money to buy what you need between turns. Great job!
Cute little game, geat job!
I agree with the others, the characters are well designed and the game makes great use of the theme. Love the idea!
I like the game. Great use of the theme and really like the art style.
Great graphics and very polished! Liked it a lot.
Thanks! Really appreciate the comment. PV8 is finally coming along enough to use for it's intended purpose, making LDJam games ;)
@notke oh, that was a typo. I kept thinking it was LD 48. Thanks, just fixed that.
@fupi thanks for sharing the level! I loved the duck, I was hoping people would modify the graphics. As for the waiting I didn't want people to accidentally start a game or quit while they were editing a map and lose everything. If I had more time I would have added some kind of UI to make that easier. I also ran out of time to make levels. Originally I wanted to have a bunch I could put here. Going to make a few tomorrow to share.
Also beat the level after a few tries. Noticed how off my collision logic is so glad I have something new to test with :)
@pixelydian thanks, I plan on uploading it in the next day or so. it was just easier to have all my builds on GitHub since I automated everything when I check my code in.
@zapturk glad you like the colors. They're from the stock 16 color palette that @castpixel designed for Pixel Vision 8 - [https://lospec.com/palette-list/castpixel-16](https://lospec.com/palette-list/castpixel-16)
Thanks @viba. I was trying to get to sounds but I always run out of time. Hoping to make some levels too for people that want to play it over the weekend. Mine submitting your level to the GitHub project [here](https://github.com/PixelVision8/SpaceStation8/issues/new?assignees=jessefreeman&labels=map&template=new_map.md&title=)?
@blessonhulk8 What issues did you have with the controls?
@cakestorm glad you liked the game and the reskin looks great! I plan on doing more with this so you'll have a few more things to add to the game. I'd like to do a Mega Man one next and expand on the idea of reskinning the game with the map. DO you mind submitting your map to the github repo https://github.com/PixelVision8/SpaceStation8/issues/new?assignees=jessefreeman&labels=map&template=new_map.md&title=
Thanks @cakestorm!
@yopox I love this level and great work on the reskinning! To totally got what I was going for and made it your own little game. Also, thanks for the heads up on the collision while on ladders. I don't think I really tested that out but now that I'm getting other people's maps I can fix all these little issues later.
Nice job! Found a few bugs while playing like falling through the floor and no way to restart. Think with some extra polish and more time you'd have a fun game here.
I like this idea. I bet with some extra time and more gameplay mechanics it could be really fun. Thinking of this as a kind of endless runner where you continue to randomly generate a map as the player keeps moving.
This was really good and I found myself playing longer than some of the other games. Great job!
This game looks really great but like everyone else, wish I could play it. Left you a rating for what I could see in the video and looking forward to giving it a try when I finally get my Playdate!
Great idea and like the art. Would love to see how this grows if you continue to work on it after the jam. Looks like the foundation of something really interesting.
Funny concept. Good take on the theme!
Love the graphics and really nice concept. I like running around and controlling different aspects of the boat!
Wasn't able to play on Mac because it says the package was damaged.
This is really great! I've seen a few "unstable" potion games but this is by far the most polished and well thought out one.
Liked the mash up between the two game ideas. Took me a minute to adjust to the brick breaking being horizontal instead of vertical but eventually it started making sense.
Love the characters and concept. Really polished and funny. Nicely done!
Nice art style! The camera was throwing me off but it was a solid game mechanic that could be fun with more time/polish.
Interesting idea. Was a bit hard to navigate but got a good scare when the monster or whatever that was attacked me.
Nice game. Really good challenge and loved the graphics!
Nice try and like others mentioned, work on the gravity and tigthen up the controls a bit. Hope you keep working at it.
Like the twist on sokoban paired with the theme!
I've always wanted to make a print and play game for LDJam. Really enjoyed this!
I liked this, kind of reminded me of a deconstructed Civilization.
Really great art style. Would love to see more tasks if you keep adding to it.
Interesting idea, makes me feel like I'm playing inside of a pinball machine. Hopefully you get some more time to continue working on it.
Liked the game and wasn't expecting the story in what originally looked like a simple platformer!
Nice game, especially given the time it took you to build it. I found it a bit hard to control, the ball acceleration is a bit too sensitive but could be polished up if you decide to continue with it.
Nice game and good job on the atmosphere and story!
This is great. The graphics are amazing and it's well thought out and polished game. Nicely done!
Like the card mechanic. Nice take on the theme!
Really great game. Super polished and amazing art and music. Super impressed!
Interesting mechanic. I think it could be really fun if you tighten up the controls and make it a bit clearer how to build things. I dropped a lot of gum and sticks by accident on each other with no way to pull them apart.
At least you tried. Take the time if you can and try to get it working so you can upload a post-jam build for people to try out.
Interesting idea and one I'd be interesting in seeing what some more time developing can do. Not sure if you played Celeste but it did a really great job of tackling this topic but disguising it as a platformer. Worth a look for some inspiration.
I loved the title screen and wish you were a little close to the character to see the details. Like your take on the theme and fun little game.
I liked the general idea but would like to see a clearer indication of what I'm supposed to do and the priority to create a bit of urgency. Might want to consider having the actions be a check list you can pull up and get a sense of all the work needed. Hope you keep working on it!
Nice job!
Really great graphics, and very polished. Looks like you have the foundation of a really fun game here if you keep improving it.
Interesting take on the theme. Impressive 3d graphics for a jam game!
Nice use to the theme and I really liked the camera mechanic.
@davide-rossetto I'd love to see a digital deck. I was thinking about just turning it into a quick game but ran out of time. I still have some instructions to update to make it clearer so feel free to DM me on Twitter if you have any questions.
@1studio thanks, as for the title, was trying to be funny since in past events people have called out my games for not being "close enough" to the theme ;)
Wow, this was great. Really loved it! My only feedback was that the controls were a bit hard when it came to driving around corners. I sort of got a pac man vibe from it. I think if you are going to auto drive, it should be more on rails so you can just focus on turning at the right time. I hope you make this into a full game, it would be great on mobile!
Nice mashup and liked the art style but it was a bit slow. A lot of typing for the first round and the thing I think was missing was showing where space was pressed. Sometimes I would get lost when typing quickly and didn't know if I was in a word or needed to hit space to move forward. Good job!
That was fun. I ate everyone so I lost. Liked the music and art, great job!
Windows gave me a warning that this contained a virus. Wasn't able to play it :(
Thanks everyone for the feedback! I've been trying to track down some of the bugs, the worst being an issue where if you play the game long enough the player gets out of sync and just randomly dies. The respawning into empty pits is an issue too but that is a flaw in how I designed the game during the jam. I think in th next version I'll just restart the game from the beginning or come up with a better way to detect when to respawn the player after a pit or enemy is out of the way. Sort of torn on how to address these issues.
There was a lot I wasn't able to get to. The original idea was to make this turn based but I ran out of time and just left it as an endless runner. I'm going to keep plugging away at trying to fix some of these bugs that make the game "unwinnable" but in the spirit of the jam I don't think I'll make the update. I'll be releasing the cleaned up source code in the next release of Pixel Vision 8's Game Creator Pro (assuming I can sort these issues out). I'm glad everyone likes the art and the look and feel. Even after years of LD I still have a lot of work to do for level design and finding the time to polish before the deadline.
Really interesting take on chess and city building. Felt like it was a bit hard when a single unit can kill another unit without any protection. Once I got a hang of the movement and what was going on it was fun. Hope you turn this into a full game!
Loved the graphics. Really interesting take on a farming sim. Would love to see you turn this into something bigger with more levels, different crops and a scoring system to keep you playing longer. Great job!
Great concept. I really liked the art and the idea of turning farming into a FPS. My one suggestion would be to make collecting items you get from chopping down plants happen automatically. It was a bit tedious to pick them up one at a time. Great game!
At first, I was really confused why the fire button kept changing then I started getting used to it. Love the graphics, simple and clean. One issue I had with the pixel font for the key to fire was missing up the V with a U. Great game!
I was having some trouble understanding what I was supposed to do. I like how you combined the two different play styles, just wish the gameplay was a bit more clear as to what I was supposed to do before I died. Great job!