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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | Depths | π₯ | Brittle Heart | jam | 573 | 3.36 | 2.78 | 3.07 | 3.61 | 4.27 | 3.76 | 3.95 | ||
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | π₯ | Roots, for LD 54 | jam | 478 | 3.65 | 3.05 | 3.60 | 4.08 | 4.20 | 3.96 | 3.63 | ||
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | π₯ | Lavender Crush | jam | 589 | 3.50 | 3.05 | 3.52 | 3.77 | 4.32 | 3.45 | 3.25 | ||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | π₯ | Sir Blocksalot | jam | 725 | 3.50 | 3.57 | 3.85 | 3.97 | 4.19 | 3.76 | 2.95 | 3.56 | |
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | π₯ | Dusk Strider | jam | 311 | 3.68 | 3.65 | 4.28 | 2.86 | 3.81 | 3.27 | 2.25 | 3.45 | |
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | π₯ | Dragoon Drop | jam | 11 | 4.36 | 4.23 | 4.33 | 4.40 | 4.61 | 4.41 | 4.13 | ||
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | π₯ | Cleanup on Crime Dragon Planet! | jam | 96 | 3.97 | 3.97 | 3.00 | 3.51 | 4.65 | 4.34 | 3.27 | 3.69 | |
| 2017 | 39 | Running out of Power | π₯ | e Negative | jam | 13 | 4.37 | 4.18 | 3.44 | 4.18 | 4.48 | 4.07 | 4.22 | ||
| 2017 | 38 | A Small World | π₯ | Dungeon In a Bottle | jam | 37 | 4.11 | 4.04 | 3.90 | 3.83 | 4.48 | 3.80 | 3.16 | 3.78 | |
| 2015 | 32 | An Unconventional Weapon | Travelers | compo | 912 | 2.75 | 2.40 | 3.35 | 2.78 | 3.00 | 1.87 | 2.63 | 33 | ||
| 2014 | 31 | Entire Game on One Screen | Static | compo | 366 | 3.38 | 2.79 | 3.88 | 3.88 | 3.33 | 3.57 | 3.87 | 40 |
The puzzles were great! I was super engrossed until the enemies were introduced, then the challenge just flew away. Also I accidentally went into the final portal before I got the star and it took me back to the title screen without an obvious way to get back!
This is one of the funniest games I have ever played.
Really cool! Tons of twists and turns. I only wish the pony jumping gameplay was a bit more appealing.
I agree with BtheDestroyer. Checkpoints would have been great! Otherwise the game was pretty engrossing! I felt like the character could collide too easily with the spikes, too. Every now and then I would lose myself because I didn't realize I had died!
Nice game man! I love how essentially built three difficulties into the game from the get go, then each time the pluses spawned it was like going to a new level. I only wish it has been longer!
I really like the visuals, but for some reason the platforms were hard for me to track. The little sprite animation was great! I think his air drag is a little high, though
Haha nice.
Super great! Very fun and cute! I wish the combat had been just a bit more actiony!
I fell through the yellow...
This is really nice! I thought it was a little hard, though! The different instruments having different rhythms is really cool.
Pretty nice. Good mood. The music was pretty dope! I wish there wasn't a limit on how many people you can recruit. And some procedural dialogue would have been nice, too.
It was a really interesting concept! I think it would have felt more complete if you got a small wrap up ending based on who you saved. Myself popping up as an option was nice and surprising. What if, depending on the choices you make, the last person alive besides you were to make the call of who lives? That way it would feel like your choices had more long term consequence.
It's a buggy messed but I really liked it! You surprised me with those dropping platforms.
Very peacful! I really enjoying the ending, and the music was spectacular. I thought green friend was a little out of place. Maybe it was just his eyes.
Really nice job, though!
Really excellent! I managed to beat the whole thing! The art and sound are both really nice and go together well, the game play was fun and challenging! I think the earlier levels could have been a bit more challenging. And any confusion about pieces would be done away with if you included hover-over text for the lower left piece selection UI.
Maybe it could be fun to have an endless mode? Perhaps you could include tiles in some levels that are just negatives to overcome?
Good job! I really enjoyed your game!
Really nice concept! I deffo played endless mode for a while! I think with a little gameplay variation you could have yourself a pretty solid puzzle game!
I really wanted to be able to smash things up by crashing buildings into the sides of towers. Also I think you should zoom out the view a bit sooner than you do.
Super nice! Concept was stop on and well executed! And it fit the theme in a creative way, which was refreshing. I love the little enemies with the swords strapped to their heads.
The cover art is really spectacular. I wish that style had been expressed in the visuals of the game.
I liked it! I agree with @moonleaf. Wanted more challenging levels and more upgrade. Probably some more variants in enemy ships would have been nice. The audio was really pleasant and did wonders for the mood. Good entry!
I would have liked the thrusts to have more pop! Even if you just made the max power thrust like twice a powerful.
My characters were jittering all over the place!
I have to admit, I thought that the animals were going to "disappear" in traditional food chain order when my hunger hit 100.
The planet was nice, and the concept was interesting. I didn't feel the need to intervene for a long time, until the slime population got out of control. In fact, I think the game is best played by mostly leaving it alone, which is kind of odd. Maybe try starting the player out with a population crisis to get things moving faster.
Yeah munch mode was awesome! The music is really nice. I especially liked how the two tracks sounded enough alike that the switch between them was pretty smooth. The planet was a nice color, and the rabbit was cute, but the camera angle didn't really let you appreciate the model.
I wanted to live on the moon!
Yeah the scaling idea is really cool, but the game just doesn't feel great to play. With a little work I think it could be really neat, though!
The art is really nice! I got responses for the wrong card a lot, it seemed. It was a really cool idea, but I think the player's choices should be felt more.
It was pretty fun. I liked the little space messages a lot. The art was simple but nice! Good job! It was just a bit too tough to do anything. I think you probably should have given the ship a bit more resistance to damage. I really, REALLY wanted to land on another planet.
Yeah we deffo should have added arrow keys. Our bad!
And thanks! I'm really proud of the way the visuals turned out!
@dgspitzer Thank you for your kind words and your critique! Yeah, the spikes definitely feel a little magnetic! We're going to fix that in the next version for sure!
@aaranos I hadn't even thought about Shantae, but those games we're awesome!
@awpteamoose Ah we'll have to check that out! Sorry I think both of us used Chrome and sometimes multi-browser testing falls to the wayside when you're time crunched!
@samlo @nusan @sachos345 @alex-lutay We updated it to include arrow keys as controls! Sorry that took us so long!
@for-science Yeah... we added spikes offscreen in some levels, but it was kind of a last-minute realization, so not all of them got the treatment. You can press R to restart the level, though!
Really nice and cute! It reminded me of a lot of games I really like! I think VVVVVV was mentioned? The music was great and the game, while short, was just oozing with personality!
Super great job!
That was really excellent! Thanks for the great experience! I got to the end, which wasn't easy!
I understand that the early levels were meant to illustrate the mechanics, which you did beautifully, but I feel like they could have been ever so slightly more challenging. The difficulty at the end was marvelous, though!
I hope you pursue this game further! I would love to play it on my phone!
I really enjoyed this! Very atmospheric! I would have liked some puzzlier applications of the mechanic, though!
The soundtrack was nice! Like something out of twin peaks!
Thanks for the nice experience!
Perhaps displaying the players to avoid while the game is going on would make it a bit easier! You'd still have the challenge of looking at them while dealing with the super fast gameplay!
I really liked you music, and the concept was really interesting! Good job!
Really nice work! Very atmospheric! The sound puzzle aspect was really cool, but I think you could have emphasized the horror aspect a bit more. Before I realized there was no danger, the game was REALLY tense for me.
Really nice cyoa. Good, funny writing. I played through it A BUNCH (until I got a good ending). I thing "struggling to manage power" is an appropriate interpretation of the theme.
Nice! I would have been able to finish it if I wasn't so bad at typing. Super funny and charming!
An interesting alternate idea might be to make the game about deleting specific words and letters to turn the tweets into sensible, positive things.
Pretty fun! I liked the power management aspect, and I think the visual design was nice. Would have benefitted from a little gameplay variance, like perhaps another enemy type. Or maybe like, a power sucking tower you could place that would zap nearby baddies, allowing you to ignore that direction for a bit.
Those tunes were so jazzy, but they stopped looping!
@brandon-diaz Thanks very much! Yeah with a little more polish we probably could get "weight" without "frustration."
@teddydd We might!
@angela-he Thank you very much! I could say the same about your entry ;D
Nice job! Congratulations on your first LD game!
I would add a lot if you could fight off the ghosts in some way. Like maybe a function where you sacrifice a battery or a point to make the lamp in the middle flash, which banishes ghosts in a small area?
This was really fun! Good job! I thought the puzzles had just enough parts and they were just challenging enough! I couldn't hear any sound, and that would have been nice, but perhaps that was an issue on my end.
Fun, Good Looking, and Inventive! Nice work!
I thought this was really fun! The art was nice and consistent and the mechanics were compelling.
Some notes: I may have been more interesting to make the player have to release the tesla charge. Like, the generator charges up, indicates that it's done, then the player clicks on it to release it. That way you could save your charge for a big wave and you would have to actively pay attention in a way that wasn't just building things.
Also there is a bug (I think) where you can accidentally pick up buildings. I'm not entirely sure how to reproduce it, but I think it happened when I hit left click to often. It seemed like the buildings I picked up in this way stopped working.
Also, those demolishing ships were a little cruel.
This is really well put together! My only complaint is that you should give the player some invincibility frames after being hit!
This is crazy good!
Super fun! I really loved it. The art was lovely, the concept was great, and the theme execution was maybe my favorite so far! My only complaint is that I would like to have a bigger moveset. Maybe a dodge or a charge attack. Really awesome submission!
Really well done! I'm sure its been said before, but I think the biggest problem is the fact that the attack goes in the direction of the characters momentum, rather than based on which direction the player pressed. The art is beautiful, the audio was awesome, and the game has tons of polish!
This game was by far the best LD game I've played this time around! The mechanics are really smart, and I think you have plenty of room to expand if you want to! The only gripe I have is that some of the art was kind of hard to see. The yellow placement tiles' indent color is WAY too close to the other yellow, and the just grey blank placement tiles are much too similar to the empty tiles.
Graphics were really nice, and the atmosphere was great! I think starting the player off with a tiny bag was kind of unnecessarily harsh. I get that it kind of forced a progression, but it caused me to navigate the inventory system a lot, which isn't really where I wanted to spend my time in the game.
Really nice! I think a little more time could've been spent on the physics. I got to the end, but imo the game would've felt a lot better if there had been a max fall speed and if gravity had been a bit slower.
Nice slurs
Haha pretty troll-y! The art is really nice. I wish the camera caught more of the screen at once, though. I know the platforming wasn't really that important, but the tight camera angle made it pretty hard to enjoy jumping around.
@pwnzer Ah I thought I fixed that bug! Oh well. Yeah it's a little harder than it needs to be! It was a tough game to balance cause originally it was supposed to be multiplayer.
@cryptomnesic The hammer actually has a pretty big hitbox when you drop it, so you can break blocks and fireballs. Also you can repair the castle by picking it up and dropping it over and over again. I realize that its kind of odd to represent swinging a hammer by dropping it, but it felt like a cool design choice, haha.
Super spooky, super atmospheric! I think it would have benefited from giving the player some motivation to move around. Like... if your range of vision was an ever shrinking sphere that you had to recharge by finding batteries around the ducts. I think the threat level could have been raised, even if it was like... just by adding more than one monster.
The duct/axis thing was really neat! I think this could be explored and made into something really awesome.
The graphics are SO heckin cute. And this is an amazing amount of work for 2 days
Nice game! I love the aesthetic. Music, art, and pressure all sync up really nicely. I think you needed to throw your players a bone a little, though. Hp drops, or shorter loops woulda done the trick. Overall really impressive! I had a great time playing it!
Really cute and relatable! I loved it. The music was nice and chill, and the art was super cute <3 Good job!
There's something here for sure. My main gripes are that it feels like I should be able to repeat the same action without having to reselect it, and making the characters such big physics objects made them bump into things in a really obnoxious way. Otherwise I think this idea is brilliant.
@woahitsjeff ah yeah sorry we're still working on it. I guess I shouldn't have published the page yet!
Really beautiful game! It was a great touch that the background gears turn backwards when your time machine goes off.
Really cool mechanics! A neat kind of resource management that I could see starring in a really weird rts or something. My only gripe is that I wish there had been more danger! It took a bit to get the mechanics down, but once I did I wanted the invaders to really challenge me.
Really fun and creative! Those ten seconds really go quickly when you're not on top of it. Love the track, too.
Really nice game! Perfect scope for LD. The pacing at which you introduced mechanics was perfect. This might be a problem with me or how I was thinking about it, but my only note is that sometimes I would try and fail a level a bunch, then take a break and come back to it and just do it in one shot without having any idea HOW I managed to do it that time. I think level 12 was the biggest culprit for me. The one with 2 keys, a 7 and an 8.
Anyway, I loved it!
That's really silly. The crayons are ridiculous and I love it.
This might be my favorite entry I've played so far! It made me audibly gasp at least twice! Super cool! I think you should keep going with it!
super pretty visuals.
@python-b5 Did you figure out how to catch ledges? Press space when you're near a ledge. You can do it in the air, too. You can't really navigate the game much without it. Also, jumping while you have some momentum gives you a lot more height and distance. Thank you for playing!
@dhdorr Yeah! the camera being sluggish is a little bug that happens as a result of ledgegrabbing sometimes! We were trying to go for kind of an old-school prince of Persia feel, which is why it feels a little sluggish. We'll dial everything in as we update it! Thanks for the comment!
@nbumgardner Thank you so much! Mysterious was exactly what we were going for.
Nice game! I love the mousetraps. The cat sound rules.
This is really cute!
Good job! It's a whole bunch of fun and I'm a big fan of blending card games with action games! Thats what my team did too!
This game got intense fast, and I like it!
dude this is great! Your deckbuilding mechanic is rad, made me really want to grab those point cards. And the laser is super cool! Super great entry! The procedural generation seems really nice a varied!
I did find myself wanting to use cards mid jump a lot, but I'm not really sure how you would do that and still have the active gravity!
I'm sorry I didn't play this sooner! This game is fantastically awesome.
I love that the length of a cards name is its cost, and how much that absolutely works. There definitely wasn't quite enough time to read everything about the board state. And while I understand that like, typing time is a primary factor in determining player skill, it seems like maybe coupling that with reading the board state might be a bit too much. Perhaps separating the game into phases, where one is reading the board and another is typing. But I guess that might ruin some of the momentum.
My favorite mechanic is probably that if card names share letters in order, then you can type part of more than one card at once. I could see decks being build around cards names. Really, really cool.
@PeachTreeOath Ooooh curse cards! Thats a great idea! I think you could do a lot of cool stuff with this game.
Absolutely incredible! You took familiar mechanics and turned them into a difficult puzzle game! I was determined to get past an entire wave, and somehow managed too? I almost got to level 9 >-<
I think if you eased up on initial difficulty, added some other kinds of enemy units, and designed some specific puzzles in the form of alien wave compositions, you could have a really nice, full puzzle game.
Your attention to detail, like the little sounds that happen when you hover over a button, and the little stopwatch animation when it's not your turn, are really incredible and inspiring. The amount of polish here is excellent! And shooting through bullets? Super satisfying.
My only gripe is that it seems like the game is a little forgiving with the aliens changing direction. It is my personal opinion that the aliens should have to start their turn with a unit against the wall in order to move down. I believe that thet currently will move down if they ended their last turn with a unit against the wall.
Great job! Definitely one of my favorite entries!
@Zapturk Yeah its my favorite, too! Haha! I'm glad another Dragoon lover approves!
@Potondo Thank you so much! I'd be super interested in seeing any other TCG/Action mashups. If you find any other good ones send em my way! Now that I think about it, for this LD it'd be really cool to be able to search by 1 or more genres...
@bombjack Thanks a bunch! I'm really glad it isn't proving to be too weird for people!
@Nick-Rafalski Thanks very much! I really liked yours too! Its funny how different they are just based on how we each handled gravity! If you see any more action card games throw em my way! The one @potondo recommended is really good, too!
Thanks everyone!
@sprvrn We're thinking about working on it... it's just hard to justify taking time away from our main project right now, haha.
@ElusiveMilestone One of the things we've talked about is balancing how many cards a player has at any given time. Personally I think its cool to compare running out of cards as sort of needing a resting period, but I think we could balance a little more to speed things up.
@HacksawUnit Thanks a whole bunch! I'm a big fan of your game from this LD, too, and I was straight up OBSESSED with CardHoard last time around!
I would be really interested in any specific ideas for mechanics or tweaks if you think of any! I really admire your work!
Thanks a bunch everyone! I appreciate all the feedback!
@Sean-s-leblanc Thanks a bunch! I've been seeking out all the card games I can, too. I really like it as a blended genre, it turns out, haha! If you have any to recommend, I'd love to play some more! And yeah, we didn't catch that bug until after the jam, unfortunately.
@Bauxite Yeah we're kicking around ideas for speeding things up a little. You can press enter to skip your turn though, but it still feels a little sluggish.
Thanks a ton everyone! I'm really stoked about all the attention we're getting!
@davidsheadgames Yeah we definitely ran out of time thinking about how to make that more obvious. And admittedly, I occasionally play a card in the wrong direction, usually if I play it too close to the Dragoon. A dedicated play area isn't a bad idea!
As for the wording, we has an initial struggle with how to represent an adequate amount of text on the cards. Haha when I wrote attack all on climhazzard I don't really know why I didn't realize it would be incredibly misleading. We are working on our wording conventions.
@huminaboz We actually had some block cards in there in one of the first builds, but we realized that making the player dodge out of the way was more fun! At least in my opinion.
@AugusteTheClown Yeah for sure. The game gets pretty simple after you get the hang of it. We're working on adding more of a difficulty curve.
@MufinMcFlufin Thanks a whole bunch! We've definitely been talking about reliable/reusable actions and how best to do that. Trinkets/Items, possibly? We're still kicking it around.
@PeachTreeOath During the brainstorming hours I definitely thought it would be fun, but by the end of day 2 I was convinced it was going to be a disaster! We actually had to take a couple of steps back from what we had at that point to get it to a more fun place. And yeah! Unique cards are definitely going to be a priority moving forward. Stuff more like Climhazzard, which is pretty much the raddest card in the game at the moment.
Yo this is really good! You and I made kind of similar games! I like a lot of the choices you made, like distilling the combat into attacks with different ranges and movement and pushing abilities. It turned out really nicely! This is definitely one of my favorite entries I've seen!
Nice job! I'd love to see this with some more plants that do different stuff! I kind of felt like there could have been a little more pressure from the get go. Like maybe patrolling guards that walk in a predictable pattern to make you choose your movements.
The music and the art were both nice and they gave it a nice mood!
Very smart idea! The combination of puzzle and story is really cool, and using cthulu mythos is a good way to like, make people really consider whether they SHOULD look at or manipulate things, since any of it could drive an investigator mad.
If you expand upon this idea, maybe some procedural storytelling would be an interesting addition. The blocks of text added nice flavor, but breaking them up into small story segments based on each action might make the flow nicer. Good entry!
βThis game is really smart! Putting some instruction about life and connecting pieces to gain it back would be helpful, though! A cool expansion could be to make matching different pieces do unique things, or giving a bonus for matching more than 3 at once!
Good job!
mouse and keyboard controls worked fine for me! Definitely a good, fun concept. I think maybe the AI wan't quite robust enough to get past any of the traps. Could the AI place traps? After the first race it seemed like a bunch of traps spawned that I didn't place, but no one placed any after that first one.
Nice concept! Great sounds! I think maybe all of the ships and the bullets could have been a little bigger. Also a save feature or level select would have been pretty dope, cause I wanted to beat the whole thing, but I didn't want to go through levels 1-7 again.
Really nice! I think you could have given a way to gain new cats, since the difficulty in herding them kind of balances itself. I think it could have started out easier, then ramped up, which would give people a little more time to get used to stuff.
Really fun and stressful, though! Good job!
I love all the weird action card games this time around! This game is not too dissimilar to mine! I think making the movement cells larger so that there were less options spatially would ease up the difficulty a little bit. It also took me a while to realize I had to place the ticket ON the raccoon.