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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 59 | Signal | Logic Emitter | compo | 58 | 3.82 | 3.65 | 4.04 | 4.17 | 3.71 | 3.68 | 2.25 | 3.26 | |
| 2025 | 58 | Collector | Clockwork Collector | compo | 20 | 3.97 | 3.84 | 3.88 | 3.40 | 4.11 | 4.00 | 3.97 | ||
| 2025 | 57 | Depths | Drilling in the Deep | compo | 48 | 3.90 | 3.94 | 3.30 | 4.36 | 4.51 | 3.98 | 4.38 | ||
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | Space Invaders | compo | 73 | 3.82 | 3.89 | 4.04 | 3.78 | 4.13 | 3.63 | 1.50 | 3.69 | |
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | Help of the Cthulhu | compo | 9 | 4.33 | 4.14 | 3.98 | 4.07 | 4.28 | 4.14 | 4.35 | ||
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | New Apartment | compo | 129 | 3.71 | 3.38 | 3.32 | 4.38 | 4.06 | 3.61 | 3.05 | 3.38 | |
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | Galaxy Express | compo | 56 | 3.98 | 3.76 | 3.72 | 4.30 | 3.86 | 3.58 | 2.98 | 3.50 | |
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | Brains | compo | 22 | 4.11 | 4.06 | 4.05 | 3.55 | 4.17 | 4.12 | 3.79 | 3.91 | |
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | Defense Engineers | compo | 67 | 3.91 | 3.67 | 3.76 | 3.58 | 3.89 | 3.47 | 3.57 | ||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | Red Riding Hood | compo | 138 | 3.74 | 3.54 | 2.89 | 3.06 | 4.22 | 3.42 | 3.26 | 4.01 | |
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | Robobull Hunter | compo | 252 | 3.50 | 3.62 | 3.47 | 3.50 | 3.52 | 3.45 | 3.18 | 3.36 | |
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | Deep Blue | compo | 90 | 3.98 | 3.45 | 2.98 | 3.99 | 4.16 | 3.86 | 4.37 | ||
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | Gorilla Power | compo | 129 | 3.77 | 4.04 | 3.37 | 3.33 | 3.54 | 3.52 | 3.75 | 3.52 | |
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Silly Fluffy Bunny | compo | 88 | 3.96 | 3.85 | 3.31 | 4.07 | 3.93 | 3.59 | 3.58 | 3.58 | |
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | Nightbirds | compo | 310 | 3.26 | 3.19 | 3.39 | 3.21 | 3.78 | 3.02 | 3.60 | ||
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | The Gold Digger | compo | 110 | 3.64 | 3.61 | 3.52 | 2.72 | 3.29 | 3.34 | 3.51 | 2.98 | |
| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | Soul Traveller | compo | 13 | 4.17 | 3.91 | 3.89 | 4.05 | 4.22 | 3.99 | 2.55 | 4.29 | |
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | Cartoon Tactics | compo | 225 | 3.58 | 3.37 | 3.02 | 3.40 | 3.40 | 3.11 | 2.73 | 2.91 | |
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | Puzzle Golf | compo | 67 | 3.91 | 3.81 | 3.62 | 3.79 | 3.81 | 3.27 | 2.26 | 3.35 | |
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | I'm not here | compo | 148 | 3.71 | 3.91 | 3.40 | 3.93 | 3.42 | 3.48 | 3.37 | 3.36 |
Hilarious Christmas rage simulator! Nice graphics, atmosphere and it feels really polished for a compo entry. One thing which confuses me a little - when I'm driving backwards, controls are inverted - I would expect to turn left when I'm pressing right during movement back. But all in all great job!
Nice, I like stealth games :)
Nice! I had similar idea at first but I dropped it because my prototype was more frustrating than funny. You've ballanced it way better and the game is funny. Excellent use of the theme!
Wow! Visuals, audio and the mood are amazing! Movement is fast and smooth.. I could use some checkpoints before monster screens - getting throught waking up, getting up clothes and skipping dialogs every time i get killed is a little bit frustrating. It's connected with controls (if controls were more ergonomic I will not die so often). But it's probably because I'm playing on my macbook with touchpad.. All in all it's a one of the best entries I've seen here!
Wow, great graphics, atmosphere a innovative design. I really enjoy to play it! Great job.
Poor pigs, they are so adorable ;D Funny and also challenging game, I like it!
Super cool concept! It must be the best idea I'v seen on this jam. Great one!
Really nice game. I would suggest adding some music for even better disease-spreading mood :) Great entry anyway!
Lol, one small hit turns the whole crossing (and probably the whole city;) into total carmagedon :D Awesome, I like it!
Nice graphics. The farmer should walk faster because those worms just won't give it up! :)
Nice one! So minimalistic and still challenging and entertaining. Its impressive what kind of game you can do only with with "S" and dots :)
Wow, impressive visuals and atmosphere! Although I keep dying I love this game! Really good job!
Interesting game mechanics! I would do faster jumping, feels a little bit slow. Nice entry though!
Nice, simple and clean visuals, entertaining gameplay. Well done!
Nice puzzle game! It's simple, easy to understand and still challenging. It could also work well as a mobile game.
@rincewind-cz: Oh thats unfortunate, I've done the music about two hours before deadline, tired and looking forward to sleep. Maybe the music reflects my state at that time ;) Anyway thanks for your feedback!
@selftitled: Sure http://jirihysek.cz/ld40/i_am_not_here.zip
@fiakaiera: Thank you for useful feedback! Guards can hear you behind the wall, they are aware of source of the noise and walk straight to it even when it means walking over the whole level. I'm aware of that behaviour, I don't know if it's correct or not, but I found it quite interesting :) Guards feels less static to me, more autonomous (even if the are not).
And yes, they can see you when you cross straight line in direction where they look. It means you can sneak behind them but not in front of them. There is no proper field of view implementation though, just one raycast in direction of view. I didn't intend to implement it at first but it felt weird when they stare right at you and do not care at all.
@kira937: Thank you for your feedback. They can see you when you cross straight line in direction where they look. It means you can sneak behind, above or below them but not in front of them. There is no proper field of view implementation though, just one raycast in direction of view. This feature was not planned but felt weird when they stare right at you and do nothing so I done it at least this way.
@kabalatrance: good point! I'm not sure if it can be finished without been spotted though. It would require to have more time on level design, which I unfortunately hadn't during the jam. But I will bear it in mind it when I'll make extended version some day.
@philstrahl: thanks again, your let's plays are very entertaining :) @ronanrorry: Cool! I'll try to be the first next time.. :)
@noble-robot: Cool! Thanks for playing my game and including it in your video :)
Very nice game! Graphics is gorgeous, movement is smooth and enjoyable, good use of theme. Great job!
Graphics looks very nice! I don't know if it's a bug or you just didn't have time to implement it but I didn't persuaded any cannon to hit me. Even if I stay put in front of it or when I intentionaly jump into the bullet.
I had a similar idea but i dropped it.. I had enough playing this kind of game at home ;) Nice entry though!
Music nicely fits into the game, it feels like in some dysoptian future.. except it's not a future anymore (unless you are using adblock:)
Oh, it's so cute! Graphics style is amazing..
Wow, visuals are just amazing! Very polished game. I can see that selected theme is not your favourite one from the final 16 :) But overall it's impressive entry!
This looks absolutely amazing! It feels like mature well polished game. Great job!
Hey, it's really impressive what you've made in 3 days! Of course there are some bugs but whithin given time it's not bad at all! I wont write about software bugs, I believe you already know about them. What bothers me a little was that customers hate when they actually see a free seet (even when its right after opening time). And they leave :) But overall it's a great achievement for 3 days.
@rongo-matane: I tried it again and it seems the customers behave correctly. It happened when I had a lot of free seats. For example in the morning of the second day. But now they are coming in.
About sw bugs - it's freezing once in a while.. now it freezed at the day during fadeout, before it freezed in a middle of a day. Music is playing but game is not moving and the last error message in console is "Uncaught Error: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.IllegalStateException". And I need to reload the page.
Anyway those are details, it's a great work for jam game!
This is really enjoyable puzzle game! I'm in 11st level now and planning to finish it! It took some time to understand how they move but after that it was fun! :) Visuals are charming, the mood of the game is thanks to music also great and puzzles are challenging. I like it a lot!
Wow, this is awesome! Great use of the theme, minimalist art style looks very nice, it plays well... great entry!
A space goat eating space vikings and pooping them as a horned cupcake?:D LOL, if this isn't the craziest game in this LD, I don't know what is :) Anyway it has nice graphics, great audio and top class poopcake humour! :)
Gravity games are always fun and this one is really nice :) The feeling when you accidentaly do an epic jump around whole system and land on neighbour planet is just.. epic!:)
Physics works well and graphics looks nice. I like little details like when bugs freak out when you shoot near them or how you can gain thrust by shooting. Sounds and music are missing but I can understand that, I didn't have time to make music as well... Overall it's a good entry!
@dangogamedev: Thanks, I'm glad you like it. Sounds are made in despair about 2 hours before deadline :)
@talios: It was, next time in the sake of my sanity I'll made something simple, this was too much. Yeah, leveling/equiping units would be nice but I don't want to see it for a while :D
@tuism: you're right - to be honest I wanted to make this kind of game before theme was announced and after that I was trying to mount the theme onto this game :) But I think it's nice mechanics which adds more tactical options, the shrinking is too slow though.. It should shrink faster so you almost always run out of space. It would be more interesting I guess..
@talios, @tuism: Anyway it's nice you've noticed amount of work I putted into it :) If I have more time, I would ballance parameters better and polish it a lot better.. but game jam is always about tradeofs..
@redbc: You're right, unfortunately I hadn't time to actually play the game for a while and tweak parameters. Now I've tried to change it and when it shrinks every turn, it's more interesting. You have to use terrain and manipulate opponent to danger zone.. I'll publish it as post-compo version maybe. Thanks for playing!
@rk3omega: Thanks, I'm glad you like it :) I spent some time working on the grass tile but others are basically about copy&paste&change colors.
The scout can be used for manipulating opponents to place where you want them (somewhere near border) and it has enough action points to run away if necesary. And my original idea was that scout is a flying unit so it can fly over empty tiles. It would be way more useful if the map shriks every turn not every second turn.. maybe in post-compo version.
@starvingindie: Thank you very much! I agree it needs ballacing all the parameters.. size of the map, unit placing, action points, cost of actions, frequency of shrinking map and more. I just run out of time, maybe I'll try it in post-compo version.
@hi-irie: actually godot helped me a lot. Without it's TileMap and AStar class I wouldn't make it.
@rongo-matane: Thanks, I'm glad you like it. Distance is limited by available action points. Which doesn't make sense for the archer, I agree. I didn't think about it this way before. Attack costs 3 action points but range should be always the same. Good point.
Oh my mouse will not thank you! :D Shooting feels really nice, camera shake adds a lot to it. Graphics is simple but it works surpisingly well for this type of game. Cool entry!
Awesome puzzle/memory game, I enjoyed it a lot! Aesthetics of the game is just perfect fit. Great job, I'm looking forwad to your next game :)
Nice! I like how you are learning player what to do. Minimalist artstyle is very enjoyable and concept of tapes is original. Great little game!
Nice little game, with cut graphics and good mood. I didn't know how to build a rocket from the beginning but I figured it out soon. It would be fun if the turret shot rockets affected by gravity. So you can hit asteroid from large part of planet but you have to count with gravity during aiming. Cool entry anyway!
Wow, such a hilarious puzzle game! I love the artstyle and the whole Irish atmosphere of the game. And those rogues are so cute :D Amazing!
That was pretty fun platforme, dashing is always fun, I should have add dashing to my game :) Anyway, the game wasn't that hard :)
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I like overal atmosphere of the game. Music, ending chapter, ending game.. pretty well done!
Wow, this is an awesome game! Puzzles are incredibly clever, creative and have really solid mechanics. I always strugle to create at least one good level in 48 hour game jams and you have so many of them. It was quite challenging but it was so fun that I have to play it till I made it to the last 16th level.
Only thing I can suggest to make it even better is a little bigger window - at some levels (that one with two rows of a bombs) you cannot see where the exit is so I don't see what I'm supposed to do. The window is too small so I have to explore map by trial and error to see what's there.
Anyway, really impressing entry.
After a vast number of deaths on the road I've finally made it to the end! I wasn't able to predict how much gasoline will a road take, so I played it safe and it paid off. I'm still thinking about what that creepy unicorn made with all that coffee I have gave him :) It's a shame you weren't able to make some music, but hey, a books don't have music as well and still can have great atmosphere :) Good job for given time!
As always, this is really well crafted game. I always can't wait what you'll came with :)
Aesthetics and graphics with postprocessing effects are fantastic.. I do not nothing much to say, I'm impressed how such a simple can be appealing. Could work well on mobile too. Great job.
Edit: oh, I didn't know about slowing down, that's useful for casuals like me!
Haha, I like your black humor ;) The game looks really nice and plays well. Good job!
Simple but pretty fun! Graphics and animations are really nice, audio is great as well. Love the humor :) Solid entry!
Ok, i finished it upside down :) I like the graphics and animations, really well done. And soundtrack is great. Good job guys!
Amazing game Tim! It's definitely the game I spent the most time with in this LD. And I beated it! Really well ballanced difficulty - challenging but not unbeatable and it's getting more interesting when progressing.. It's pretty hard task to ballance difficulty that well in 3 days. When I saw requirements for building rocket, I thought it's not even possible - there are just no room for so many buildings. But yeah, I was wrong.. great game.
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@ace17 Oh, really? Thats unfortunate. It behaves so well on my laptop, that I was quite satisfied with the controls. What version are you using? Windows? Anyway, thank you for the feedback and I'm glad you like audio and visuals. It's a shame that controls doesn't work well on your computer :-/
@rombus Thanks for your feedback, I'm happy you like the atmosphere. If you are stucked in a puzzle, check out the walkthrough video I've added to the description.
@nkrim glad you figured it out :) I wasn't sure whether some puzzles aren't too hard, I was thinking about putting some hints.. but it wouldn't be so satisfying, was it? :)
@frank-gevaerts happy to hear that, it's hard to ballance difficulty in compo game (there's just no time for it) so I'm always affraid of making it too hard and get people frustrated...
@boundtotheearth Thank you, I'm glad you like it! This particular part is intentional. A yellow guy may should look taller (so intention would be more obvious) and there should be better designed puzzle where you have to possess smaller guy to walk through.. but I was running out of time, so the last level is a bit sloppy :) I just hoped a player kills smaller guy in a shooting frenzy and after that he realizes that he needs him alive to pass :)
@zsolt @tosunami @jk5000 @angelnm @vilix64 @derek-volker @kasperejros: thanks for the kind words! I'll play your games as well :)
@drtizzle @jared-york @smeax Okay, okay! :) I've fixed the collision box of the player(s) and jumping to platforms is also a bit more forgiving now. I'll publish a post-compo version with those changes when I came back from a work. Thank you for your feedback and I'm happy you like it despite those small glitches :)
@drskort Thanks for your feedback, I'm glad you like it! Bird's movement is more like flappy bird (which was kind of intentional) than real bird's fly. I only decreased falling speed (comparing to flappy bird) because I'd like it feel more like flying then constantly falling like a brick. About a yellow guys - Limbo wasn't only inspiration, I was also inspired by the Sin City movie (music and yellow guy kind of reference on it) :) There are more color element - a blood, exit emits blue light, yellow guy with yellow bullets.. i like it that way but it's subjective, anyway thank you for your opinion.
@zombie-virals awesome, try it! I cannot judge it's 3D stuff but for 2D games is Godot really great!
@mtanton @vimlark @themarioga @zuzupd @erick-santana-rodrigues @arvejeitor @renan-moura Wow, thanks guys for a lot of positive feedback!
@rk3omega Thank you for your feedback! Collision box is not capsule, it has custom shape, which is almost the same as the shape of the body. Which causes problems because he just have such a big head :)
About ground detection and coyote time - I kind of like when it is a bit forgiving. You are probably right about duration of possessing... I originally intended to make some puzzle situations where you have to think about correct timing of possession, but I didn't have time to handle properly a situation when possessed body leaves area before possessing ends, so at this point it 2s duration of possessing does not make sense.
Anyway, I'm happy you like the game and thanks again for the feedback :)
@morricore what do you mean? arrow down doesn't work? Or your beak is just stuck in the wall? :D
@morricore yeah, you are not alone.. originally i was using space for changing body but when i added flapping and shooting, i thought that space would fit better for this and moved changing body to unused down arrow.. maybe there could be better key, but don't know which one since i wanted game to be easily controllable either by arrows and wasd (a lot of people prefer wasd, i like arrows more)
@shito Thanks! If you got stuck, look at walkthrough video I've added to the description. It should help you :)
@theonethatneverwas My one man team thank you :)
@lazertrax I'm glad you like it, maybe I'll expand it to the full product, we'll see...
@randomphantom Thanks a lot for your feedback! I'm making post-jam version and I already fixed continuously jumping and fiddling with colliders.
@maissara Thank you for your feedback.. I didn't noticed slow jumping but I'll investigate it. Anyway, I'm glad you like the game :)
@jeremy-ryan @tanis @gaming-night @thomas-lagana @hav24 @velvetlobster Thank you a lot for kind words, I'm really happy for the positivity I'm reading here..
@samh Congratulations! As far as I know, you are the first who explored areas which were intended to remain unexplored :) It was a shame there wasn't a time to give bigger role to the bird so I thought a lot of you guys would at least fly around the level. But there is only one who found the message(s) so far.. :)
@mknooihuisen Thanks a lot for playing! It's a shame I couldn't be live on stream (in this part of the world was deep night). But I watched it now. It was fun and it was quite interesting for me - it looked like a bit slow on your computer. I can imagine the platforming must be much harder when it not works fluently, I really admire your patience! And some strange bugs I didn't see before appeared (like possessed one disappears during possessing him.. this is not intended). So your video provided me loot of valuable feedback. Thanks a lot again!
This even doesn't look like a jam game, it looks fantastic! Great job on graphics, animations, polishing and audio :D Only thing that I missed in a game with this level of polish is fluent movement of tiles, that would be really nice touch. Puzzles are not very challenging but I guess it's targeted for casual players so this is not realy complain, it is how I should be. Amazing work.
Pretty damn good reinvention of the Snake! Graphics are super nice and snake mechanics used in puzzle-dungeon game is unexpectedly original :) Great entry!
Amazing entry, pretty good graphics and animations. I like different abilites of characters and mechanics where you have to sacrifice someone which you loose for ongoing levels.
Awesome, I love games (movies, books, ..) which forces player to think (not about the game itself). Really interesting.. must the sacrifice been made, like the theme says? That's the question...
Awesome, I enjoyed atmosphere of the old arcade games. Reminds me great times with Golden Axe :D Thanks, really cool entry!
Lol that sounds are just hilarious! I love the style how you made it.. hand drawn with voice recording, that's really charming. Nice entry :)
Graphics is cute with really wavy trees:) Also like Archibalds comments when I throw out one of his item. Nice entry.
Nice little puzzle game. Not too hard but it's OK. I took mi a few levels to figure out how it works but after that it was easy :) It feels pretty nice - fluent movement, audio, nice simple artstyle.. I like it!
I like your hand-drawn artstyle, tt's really cute :) Congratulations on your first Ludum Dare, I hope you had a lot of fun! Anyway, solid entry :)
Interesting puzzle mechanics, challenging but quite fun actually. To give you some feedback - controls could be simplified, for example I'd use keyboard only - switching between characters with a key.
Really cool puzzle game! Mechanics and puzzles are just great, graphic is so cute and I love the humor :)
As for the feedback, I had the same point as @numeralien: There are more buttons than needed, switching would be easier with one button and when someone selected dies, it can automaticaly switch to another one.
I didn't finished it yet, but I will after some sleep! Great job!
Ha! That was fun :) I like the humor on this game. And graphics looks pretty good too..
Very funny mechanics, well polished. I've finished it and it was very enjoyable experience :) Took me some time to figure out how those pressure plate works.
Graphics are just awesome! Nice touch is randomly generated positions of platforms.
Controls could be more reactive - there is a delay between pressing a button and turning around. It could be intentional (character slides on the snow) but it would be better if character turns immediately (and still can slide turned to wanted direction). I believe it would feel better with this little change.
Anyway, great job!
Amazing graphics and with music and chilled gameplay the game has really nice overal mood.. my children will love it, we have to play it tomorrow :)
Pretty good platformer actually! Controls and movement is good, I love artsyle, buying skills with lives literally fits the theme.. except "W = left" there's nothing to complain about. Maybe since you submitted into "jam", you could add a fitting music to make atmosphere even better. But overall really great game!
Nice little game :) I like the visual style. Walking could be faster but it's not too important here. Great job!
Cool game, feels and looks really great. I love the idea of procedurally generated arena. Are they procedurally generated? I'm still not sure. Or there are a few handcrafted levels?
A few tips for improvement (for my point of view):
- it could be only my personal preference but Id' like to kill enemies on one shot, I think it feels better. At least with one weapon
- there are 3 weapons but they feel more or less the same, it would be better if they were more different (lower shoot speed and more damage vs. fast shooting with lower damage, accuracy on long distance vs. short distance with wide scatter..)
- I was little confused by weapon switching mechanism.. but I could use to it I guess
Anyway, that's just nitpicking, for a jam game it's really impressive work!
Cool one! Feels really solid, nice graphics, it has lot of levels for a jam game. I like combination of classic move-box puzzles with use-your-dead-body puzzles :) Levels wasn't too challenging (which is fine in a jam game) but it was fun! Great work!
Good job on graphics and music! The game is hard, maybe it would be better to have cheaper upgrades at the beginning and increase it's cost on higher levels. Ballancing parameters it's not easy task in 48h game jam, I know something about it.. :) Good job though!
Wow, I really dig the music. The game feel right, with music and all the juice you had managed to squeeze in it's very enjoyable experience. Game has great mood..
As for some tips for improvements - until I saw the video I thought killing enemies doesn't worth spent time - you need 3 shots (5s each) and get only one life capsules (max +10s - at least those I've picked from a ground). Only when I saw the video I realized that the life capsule from enemy gives you more time than that I've picked before. If this observation is correct, it may be confusing. I'd use for example different colors for different life capsules.
Anyway, I really enjoyed your game!
Awesome game especially for the compo! It's fun to play, graphics is cute and I love the sound effects :D Great job man!
Charming art, great music and the overal mood! Another game built on a story.. it's becoming a nice tradition :) Overal it was very pleasant experience!
Cool entry! I like the visuals it looks great.
Apparently the theme is pretty much the same as last Ludum Dare :) You could easily submit this game on the last LD where the theme was Sacrifices must be made.
Too bad you haven't made any audio (or it's just something broken on my side?). But the time is limited... anyway, if the game has no audio, maybe you'd like to opt-out from the audio category.
Great job though!
Money.. money.. money.. :) I'll hear that in my dreams for sure :D Nice funny platformer, controls feel good, visuals are really nice. And those children... :D Nice one!
Cute graphics, music is fitting but the game is too hard for me event with powerups :) I would need zombies to die after one hit, then I could maybe beat it ;) I like the mechanics which also fits the theme. Overall pretty good work for one day!
Lol, funny game about life where everything is trying to kill you :D Pretty much like in real life except in real life everything goes much slower than in the game so you usualy don't notice that you are getting slowly killed ;-) Sweet music, reminds me this tv series https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284735/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1. Nice game tho!
Awesome and very juicy visuals as always! After severals deaths I've made it to the two weeks but didn't earn enough money.
Is there a system how to plant to maximize revenue (something like rules in classic "game of life") or the plans die/fruit randomly? It could be fun to know there is such a system and trying to figure it out. Maybe there is, I'll have to try it again :)
Anyway, great work man!
@antti-haavikko I thought so! Now I have to play it again to check it out and experiment with it a little :)
The mood was amazing! Especially the intro.
I have finished the game but I had a really hard time hitting someone. I was swinging a sword right on enemies but mostly it did nothing. Sometimes it hit the enemy, mostly didnt :( The final boss also had a lot of dificulties hitting me so we were standing next to each other and chopping each other like a crazy :D But it mostly didn't hit anything. On the opposite - when I stepped on the dead body (on his sword) I was hitted quite reliably :)
But I believe it's something what could be debugged so other than that it was amazing game! Whole atmosphere was just great.
Hey, that's really neat concept for a puzzle platformer! It would need a little bit better control, namely jumping is a little clumsy. Other than that it's great, I like also the visual style, the music is fitting. Great entry man!
Cool little perception game! Face generation works great - there is resonable amount of variety and differences can be easily spotted even on those small walking people. That was critical for this kind of game and you've done it well! Powerups is nice touch. Only weird thing is that everyone is naked :D
@kuro yeah, it is a bit cynical, like the theme is. But hey, don't take it too seriously :) The game is trying not to be serious as well. I wasn't sure about the name actually - I didn't know whether it's correct term for those kind of women also in english.. so I looked it up in google, switched result to images and it looks like that this name is pretty accurate even in english :)
Anyway, I'm glad you liked at least the game itself :)
@deathstorm Hey, thanks for playing my game on stream, I'm glad you like it
@ursagames Thank you for playing the game, watching someone playing it is always helpful. You have encountered a small glitch with the elevator I wasn't aware of (at the first level). Thanks and I'm glad you like it.
@abbie lol, really?:D It didn't occur to me. I'm not an artist but for me it's just a cute cartoon character. Maybe because of the purple and red colors? :) Anyway I'm glad you like the puzzles, if you're into less colorful artstyle, check my previous Ludum Dare game - Soul Traveller - it's kind of similar like this one but a bit darker :)
@datagreed Thanks, I'm glad you like it. It was made in Godot engine and it has a component for 2D lighting, it's really easy to use. If you are interested I wrote about this a quick post after the last LD: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/soul-traveller/how-to-create-nice-lighting-effect-in-godot-engine
@marc-grabow Thanks for nice words! I'm glad you like it! Yeah, background was one of the last things I had made, just to have something looking like silhouette of a city instead of black color :) If you like it, check also my last compo game Soul Traveller :)
Lol what a funny game! I love the sound effects and the artstyle is amazing! Cool entry!
Lol! Special point for the humour and voiceovers altough I'm not sure whether it will be appreciated worldwide :) Anyway, cool entry :)
Nice little game about life :) I tried to find all endings (two?) but it was so hard to tell that little guy I won't read him a book, so I almost didn't find the worse ending. It's nice when game about life ends positively :) I like overal mood of the game, nice fitting music and visuals. Good work, it's great you have finished it!
Great game! I love stealth mechanics on the grid :) Artstyle is very cute and audio, especially the musics fits well to the vampire setting. Usage of the theme is quite funny, I like it as well :D Impressive work for the compo!
Shooting those guys is sooo satisfying! And everything is enjoyable fast and juicy, I like it.. it feels great to play. Audio and graphics are also great. Cool entry!
What a charming game! Artstyle, atmosphere and the whole game is very cute. Great work!
I'm impressed by graphics, aesthetics and animations... This is not a game, this is a piece of art! It's such a shame there's no music or audio (especially when you have submitted to Jam so you could use existing free music).. So I'm playing it with second half of Ramin Djawadi's track "The Night King" (from the GoT S8) and it goes together pretty well ;)
Great work guys! Funny gameplay, I like the houmour, minigames, music.. oh and I almost forgot the graphics which was great as well! I don't really know what I would suggest to make the game better. Amazing entry!
Sweet little game guys! A bit easy but I let my 8 year daughter to play it and she liked it a lot! I personaly love the aesthetics and music fit really well. Very pleasant experience, thanks!
Pretty solid entry for the first Ludum Dare submission and it's even in Compo! The cave is sometimes a little claustrophobic but it adds to the mood. Good job and I wish you luck on your next LD games!
Nice game, literally fits the theme!
If you'd like a little feedback, I've got a few tips for improvement (at least from my point of view):
- buy and place enough boxes is a viable solution for every level. It would be nice to have also levels that cannot be solved by buying and placing a box :)
- Probably because previous point I had no need to buy keys and open chests.. tbh I finished the game without caring about chests at all
- a tricky thing (in a positive way) is that your lives don't restart by finishing level. But when you retry the level, they're number are reseted, you have 25 lives again so you can always finish the level by buying enough boxes. If you'd have constant number of lives for the whole game, I'm sure I would care more about what's in that chests and trying to complete level with as few live losses as possible
- and the last one - it takes too much time from touching a portal to actually let player know the level is finished. I understand it's probably intentional - you need to have a stable position to finish the level, but when the portal lays at the floor it feels like I missed something and the portal wont let me in.
The movement feels fine, I'd add also posibility of control by WASD - I personally prefer arrow keys but a lot of people are used to WASD. I'm always using both when it's possible. Other bunch of people, are used to use space for jumping, you cannot please everyone :)
I like the number of levels, making a reasonable amount of interesting levels drains me the most during game jams :)
I hope at least something from my feedback will help you with creating another cool puzzle platformers!
Cool mechanics, visuals are awesome, mood is great! It's also challenging... love it! Player movement feels a little slow, maybe it would be better to speed him up a little. Anyway, really cool entry!
Interesting mechanics, which literally fit's the theme. You have picked nice graphics! Movement and controls feels great and I love movement of that crazy jumping cat :D I've encountered only one issue - that jumping cat sometimes hits me immediately when I spawn at the beginning of the level. Not often but sometimes it happens. Anyway, great game!
Oh wow, that was weird! I feel something disturbing in this game but greatly creative at the same time! This would be one of the most memorable games from this Ludum Dare for sure. I don't really know what to tell about this game, maybe it's not a game at all, it's an experience.. a weird one but anyway, I love this thing :)
Oh! This one was the first game of LD45 I played but now I see I haven't rated it yet! I even expected this game before the LD started because I read your posts about switching Unity for Godot this time. As I'm also Godot user I was looking forward your game and you haven't dissapointed me :) Quite opposite, the game is awesome, I like a gameboy style and how it (controls/movement) feels... audio is also very fitting... another great entry from you!
Great idea for a puzzle game. I really dig the voxel graphics, everything works well, take on the theme is spot on, levels are challenging... overall it's amazing entry!
Nice little game! Or interactive story? Enjoyable experience anyway :)
I love when someone makes smart and challenging puzzle with such simple mechanics :) I also had to watch video to overcome the first puzzle but I don't feel it's unfair or something, I just hadn't enough patience.
Overall great entry again, I like introduction of mechanics (also those bubbles look so sleek ;) and I don't have to mention pretty graphics, animations and audio.. it's kind of standard in your games :)
@frank-gevaerts yeah I found attacking by X hard as well so I left it as an option for experienced birdkillers and added attacking by claws - you need only to fall on the bird from the top, which is way easier (but make less damage). With that it's all about how you are good at flappy bird ;D
@shigor @justinooncx @Nisovin thanks for the feedback! I must admit I also run into this problem when I played it yesterday... well there are always some bugs left after the compo :) Anyway I glad you enjoyed it :)
@mapedorr Thanks for your feedback, but having one nest feels a little goal-less to me. It would be at least a different type of game than I wanted to make. But I agree that there are too many mechanics for 2 day compo game so yeah.. there are some bugs for sure :)
Nice clicker game, especially art is charming :) I couldn't unlock the last locked tile.. I'm on the biggest island and it's filled with lakes.. maybe I should build also some houses or something :)
Great game! It's almost finished mobile game! Graphics is nice, concept is cool, I love it!
Well made little puzzle game! I wish I could be able to set the scope for the jam game as well as you :)
I like this kind of games and your's is great :) I like the artstyle, fitting music and to be honest I didn't see a lot of games like this in this jam.. well this is the first one so far :)
Haha this was the funniest stealth game I ever played :D I love your take on the theme, graphics are very nice and it's just fun :) A ran into a few bugs, like when someone see me, the game still allows me to finish the level and continue with the next one.. but hey, it's a game jam so a few bugs always happen :) Cool entry!
Wow! This is awesome! Great graphics, mechanics, look and feel, music... it's just perfect.
The game feels pretty solid! Charming art, awesome music and audio.. very polished entry with nice creepy mood :)
This was great! Controls feels really solid and shooting is so satisfying :) I like that everyone die after one hit. It gives a bit tactics mechanics to the game because I cannot just run and shoot. Also audio was great and visuals are pretty nice as well. It was very pleasant experience it kept me playing until I finished it! Very well done!
Lol that was crazy! Feeding cute alien by microwaves, presidents and jet planes was just hilarious :D And the number of enemies... that was fun, great game :)
That's awesome! Great mashup of games with reeealy cute graphics :) And a toddler fearlessly exploring world without sense of self-preservation - that's spot-on!
Oh, Rémy the ram is adorable :) Graphics and audio is really nice again! I also like the concept that you need to protect something that wants to kill you. The only question is - did the theme suck? :D
I like the simplicity of aesthetic and gameplay and the fact that it's such a fun at the same time! Very juicy game! :)
Cool little game! Nice visuals and sound effects, everything run and feels smooth and solid. I also like you included beer as one of main resources ;) Well done guys.
Hey, that was fun! The idea is just hilarious :D PixelPhill is pretty well done, also the unicorn :) I like also those little details like camera shake when you put down object, etc... cool game!
Hi, I'm always impressed by amount of polish you are able to put into your jam games. But this one looks even cooler than the older ones :) Game mechanics is simple but it's so well made. I like also leaderboards with country flags. It gives a lot to replayability.. In short - another great game!
Haha, that's cute! One gotta love the visuals alongs with sounds. Cool implementation of digtal game, I like it.
Cool idea, programming game for a jam where the most of players are programmers is quite clever! ;) I enjoyed coding robot movements altough it would be a bit better if I wouldn't lose connection when I'm moving blocks (you know.. for refactoring purposes ;)
If I would consider to make this kind of game for a game jam (and I kind of did since one of final themes was automation), I would probably refuse to make it because I feel it's too big scope for a few days - but you have made it! That needs appreciation, great job guys!
@seagull Yeah, the line starts to disappear when you draw another one. It's part of mechanics. And it's also necessity because otherwise you could block yourself very easily.
@tiptoe thanks! that's my way of procrastinating - when I don't feel productive, I just play with effects :D
@yngvarr Thank you! I'm glad you like it. You're right about disappearance of the lines. Each line fragment disappears in constant time (about 0.2s) but number of fragments could differ - it depends on how you move the mouse while drawing. When you draw slowly, it creates lot of small fragments so disappearing will take longer time. It just records mouse movement and creates a line from recorded points.
Hey thats cool! I love your Doom-inspired music, graphics is stylish, voiceovers are cool and Tankman Phill? That's funny :D As for a feedback I would appreciate more weapons for example something like lasers that kills everything in it's way, etc.. but it was cool anyway :)
Wow you actually made me to play a text game :) And the atmosphere was awesome! Also looks great... cool game!
Impressive artstyle! Jumping and moving feels a little floaty (because of momentum?) but it looks so unique and gorgeous that I don't even care :) I love that nice touch that you can turn off music by using a gramophone. Not that I'd like to turn off the music! Choice of music is excelent for this game. Awesome...
Cool game! I like how you introduce new enemies by voiceover. Mechanics is fun but I'm glad they doesn't transport organs in opened boxes :) I wasted too many hearts :)
It looks very nice, feels very solid, cool animations.. I found it a bit hard to control, I always end up with frantic pressing all buttons :) It need some practice but it looks and feels really solid. Great job!
I love minimalist artstyle, it look nice.. Rotating of the ship is a bit slow and when there are more enemies it could be a bit frustrating - maybe it would be more fun if I could aim by mouse. Anyway, well done, it looks and feels solid. Cool entry!
Congrats on your first published game! I love minimalist game aesthetics, it looks nice and shooting is quite satisfying :)
Pixelart is amazing! Also animations, visuals are just great. At first I didn't know whether the big blob eats what I gave him, maybe some sound as confirmation would be nice. But I figured it few seconds later so it's fine :) Great entry!
Really cool to have compo game with something like simulation of water spill! Great work man, I needed to finish it till the end. I also like visuals, nice game!
The best moody games, what should I say? Limbo style just works :) Also spider is just awesome, animation is so cool... it's scary as hell. Ambient sound is just what it needs... however that clank sound on the floor is not very fitting, maybe it's just too much of it.. but it's just nit-picking. Really nice entry, the atmosphere is just awesome.
Absolutely amazing visuals, I love spitting fire and eating those poor little guys is quite satisfiing ;) Although controls are a bit frustrating to me, sometimes it's hard to jump on a platform and don't fall. But the vibe of this game is really great. Impressive job guys!
@dubdisk I would reduce the momentum - when a player releases a button the creature should stop moving (in x axis) immediately. I believe with this small change it would be much easier to control.
Giraffe visuals and animations are just hilarious! This is very commanderstitch game indeed :) The game was great fun!
Great audio! I also love that clean minimalistic graphics and I like how you done UI - there no special screen or tutorial, everything is directly in game, everything is crystal clear. Only think I miss is some progress bar to see how long the loop will last. Overall great job!
Nice take on the theme! Interesting concept, cool, minimalistic visuals. It's a pity you didn't make the audio but cool entry anyway!
Hey Phil, awesome game! I love the hand-drawn graphics, the mood is super cool (as always) and I also dig you putted an easter egg with names of your patrons into the game :)
Absolutely amazing entry for 1 hour of work! Simple but fun concept, very well executed and it even fits the theme!
Cool game! Apart form programming mechanics (which every programmer likes;) I like minimalistic art style and calm music that doesn't distract my brain :) Great job.
@kromeboy oh! I tested in on mac :( thanks for feedback, this has to ruin the whole flow of the game. It´s kind of game-breaking issue so I fixed that (you can use also “C” now). You can try it again if you wish :)
@commanderstitch Yeah, this mechanics wasn't probably the best choice :) That's why I made also "Action mode" without manually generating power, it's available here https://jhysek.itch.io/gorilla-power-action-mode. It's post-compo, though.. I'm glad it was fun anyway!
@fabula-rasa C has an alternative actually. Or to be more precise C is an alternative :) Originally I designed it for Shift (you have left and right one so there is some variability). But when you are pressing Shift too often, Windows 10 pops some help window or so.. :) So I made C as primary key for it.
Yeah.. guards are tough guys, gorilla sitting on their head is nothing worth even noticing :)
Anyway I'm glad you like it!
Cool little game! I like the feel of moving around.. a little detail that gives a lot. Minimalistic and enjoyable. Cool entry!
Awesome concept! I'm gonna play it more after some sleep but I love it already! Great interpretation of the theme! Great job, man!
That was fun! I has to keep playing this because I want to know what's next.. :)
Congrats on finishing game for your first game jam! It's a solid entry! I like the idea that finish is actually an obstacle that in fact "kills" you :)
I give you one tip how to improve feel of the game - I've learned it by reading comments of my game jams entries. Be more lenient with jumping - let player jump even a moment after player's collider leaves platform (coyote time). It feels much better.
Anyway, good job, I hope you had a lot of fun and you're gonna participate also next time! :)
@zacharieg there are lot of streamers playing LD games, watch the feed on homepage or videos on the right side of the website. You can submit your game there too. I also like watching them playing my game - also it's the best feedback just to see how others play it.
What a fun! It's so simple but I love the concept. I spent a lot of time in this game :)
Hell yeah! I really dig the art style of this. It has great atmosphere but it's funny at the same time :) Great game, it's pleasure to play this!
Simple gameplay, I dig the hand drawn submarine. And thanks to upgrades I spent with this game more time I would admit :) Funny little game!
Beautiful pixel art, doesn't look like a jam graphics, it could be easily used in a commercial indie game! I feel (and like) an inspiration with The Final Station :) Or is it just a coincidence? Anyway, great game, too bad it's that short, but that's understandable for a game jam.
Hey! This is really interesting variant of tetris! It could be easily a whole rogue-like game with collecting/purchasing power-ups.. :) I dig the polish namely how you change music and color when you increase the speed and difficulty. I'd switch controls - place by mouse and rotating by the space but it's highly subjective :) Anyway.. congrats on another great jam game, two thumbs up!
I love the Golden Axe vibe :D Lot of memories.. great game :)
@goodgamesjames Thanks a lot! I'm glad you like the look of the game and also that you made it to the endQ You the first player apart of me who gived me a feedback. So I didn't know if it isn't too hard but I putted about 7 checkpoints there so I should be fine :)
Yeah, you're right with the shark - they have 3 rays and I putted them im wider angles to let the shark charge into the player that is a bit more above or below. But if you fit between the rays, it cannot notice you. Anyway, since they are the first enemies you encouter in the game, it's not that bad that they are more forgiving..
@boltkey really? What browser and OS? I played webgl version several times... those web browsers :-/
@msipp27 sorry to hear that - the difficulty is always hard to balance in the jam games. What's too easy for someone, it's too hard for someone else.
Anyway, the easiest way to pass the first group of sharks if to move to the very top of the cave, they cannot see you there :)
@ismael-rodriguez Thanks for your feedback, I also think that oxygen deserves more balancing (no time unfortunately, I was messing with post processing instead :D) Player also could have more oxygen to be able to dash more often. Well.. at least checkpoints worked pretty well :)
@yngvarr great playthrough, thank you! Very smart overcome of the first shark ;) I can see from the playthrough and other feedback that players would like to use dash more often. I agree it would be more fun. If I had time for some playtesting, I'd probably give players more oxygen.
The fish didn't spotted you by the tail - it just turned around and instantly spotted you. Turning around is instant and there is unfortunately also no timeout between detecting a player and attacking. So the fish turned around and instantly attacked you. I could balance this better as well.. but one can never simply do everything in the compo :)
Lightning effects are achieved just by standard Light2D and a little fiddling with WorldEnvironment :)
Awesome! I dig the artstyle, used palette, fitting audio. Reminds me old handheld games. Only one thing - I would continue from last reached level when I die. Now I need to start all over again. But it's a great entry!
Wow, that's insane to make this in compo. Awesome graphics, music, audio... lot of upgrades.. amazing. Congrats on another great game!
That was FUN! Controls feel great, shooting is satisfying and the whole setting is just hilarious. It could be easily called Binding of Redneck! ;)
Wow! I spent a lot of time playing this game :) The tower inception concept as a way to upgrade it is great. Awesome idea!
@aeternall yeah, with towers above level 50 (damage 6290) I'm unstoppable :) I'm surprised how engaging the concept is, you have reinvented the tower defence genre :)
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Awesome, good old point&click adventure! The visuals are very nice, background loop helps the mood and the length of the game is just right for the game jam. Cool little game!
This was a bit disturbing and maybe a little surrealistic :) I'm not sure whether I miss audio or not :D Anyway I like the graphics and the concept is interesting. Cool entry!
I love the art style of the old handheld game consoles :) It remains me o lot of memories.
That was fun! Such a simple idea but it's quite catchy! Great entry.
I love the simplicity of the game. It's excatly the game I'd like to make this ludum dare but I have failed to come with such simple and fun concept :) Congratz, great entry!
@kromeboy yes, it's procedurally generated. You need some luck sometime but you have as many tries as you need.
@iluvatar Thanks! Yeah, sometimes it can be unfair or you won't even have a chance to finish it. But you have as many shots as you like. I didn't have much time this weekend so I didn't want to do any level design, it's too time consuming ;) So levels are not too clever but they are unique, no one else played the same game as you did!
@jin9310 lol I didn't expect any one will play it twice :) You know, it was a compo so I didn't have time for champaigne implementation - so no champaigne, sorry about that :( Maybe next time :) Anyway, I'm glad you like it!
@barrier Yeah, it was an initial idea but I didn't have a lot of time that weekend so I just made it randomly generated and put only different objectives. Puzzle game would need some clever level design that was too much for my time constraints. Glad you enjoyed it anyway!
@circle thank you for fixing 19 ratings! :) Actually the art uses something I learned in game jams - to do more effect for less work. Tiles are very simple and each tile is made by copy&pasting the previous one and adding some slight modifications :) Just plain colors with basic Inkscape textures on the top. Also I can activate an isometrically shaped grid in Inkscape, so drawing perfectly shaped tiles was really easy :)
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But I must say I spent some time with the bull :) Anyway I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
@dcrdro yeah it is :) Sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's unfair... that's life and that's game jams as well :) Anyway I'm happy you got some fun.
@tiptoe Thanks! Happy you hear him coming I think the sound should be louder - I'm developing with headphones but when I played it later just on the laptop the sound was quite low on volume.. maybe it would be even better when you turn the volume a bit up :)
As for objectives - you mean even more visible than this? objectives.png
Pretty fun game! I like the dynamite, when you hold a piece of furniture on it it makes cool fireshow :D
Awesome! There is never enough Limbo games! Love it! Also really nicely done, animations are stunning.. and of course the mood and visuals. Just great!
Nice one! It was too hard to find who's a human in time so I didn't make it to the top but it didn't stop me trying :) I like the westworld mood and graphics. I'll try it again for sure.
Awesome game, it's fun, you can play it again and again and water simulation is cool... it's just perfect!
Lol guys! This is exactly like my standard workday only in The Simpsons colors :) That was hilarious! Also, someone apparently had a lot of fun writing that code ;) It's obvious you wanted to make a game that make us smile:) That's very kind of you! Thank you!
@jcmonkey Hey, I had that feature in my to-do list but since it's possible to do it anyway, it stays at the bottom of the list and I didn't make it till the end of the compo.
@yngvarr Thanks a lot for a playthrough! I'm so happy to see that movement and controls are OK - I was kind of proud of how it felt when I was developing it. It's not my first platformer so I used all my experience to do just great controls. I was a bit disappointed when people told me it's not good - and I also saw it on the stream of Elysia Griffin. But I think it was "just" performance issues and controls are good. That's a relief.
I can see you encountered a couple of funny bugs, nothing critical, fortunately :)
Thank you again!
@aflatthrasher Hi, that's very kind of you! :) Yeah the bug is quite funny it happens when you start moving too early after death. Nothing critical fortunately this kind of stuff happens in the game jams (at least in my games:)
Too bad I got the idea with a lightsaber so late, it could be cool also in the main gameplay. But at least the Red Hood reminded me Arya Stark from Game of Thrones a little. Sneaky badass killing everything with her little knife ;)
Anyway, I'm happy you liked even the music, I suck at creating music but this time I really tried.
@william-corrin Thanks for your feedback! I'm happy you like the art, I spent an unreasonable time on it so I have less time than necessary on the gameplay...
Anyway, I'm not happy to hear that physics and jumping didn't work for you very well. I felt the controls and jumping especially is really well done. But I noticed on a stream there were performance issues, especially in the HTML build (I have already removed it because of this). Check out the walkthrough by @yngvarr it looks it behaves as I wanted. It's maybe a bit faster but I personally don't like when movement and jumping feel slow and floaty.
So I hope it didn't spoil the experience that much.
As for the music - it's my biggest weakness. And believe me, this time it's the best music I ever made :D Sometimes I just do ambient sounds in the background to avoid music at all but this time I tried to face it :) I fully agree it's not perfect but I made a progress, that's important for me :)
Thank you again!
@william-corrin No problem at all! Don't get me too serious :) I was exhausted when I wrote it and even then I didn't mean it that serious :) But sometimes when you just want to hear "good job", you just need to ask for it :D
@frank-gevaerts Yeah! I also thought about a sequel - I thought it would be cool if she has the lightsaber from the beginning. But it a lightsaber idea occurred to me too late so it's only in the finale. I don't have time for it, though. So let's hope that the next LD theme allows for creating a sequel :D
Anyway, thank you, I'm glad you liked it!
Great game I love the mechanics! Also, the vampire setting is nice, the music fits well.. overall great job! I'd love to have this idea myself :)
Awesome game! I love sounds, art style and overal atmosphere. Also controls of the rover are.. not expected but it fits great :) And the trails and increasing volume of music are really nice touches. Congrats on cool game :)
Wow, such a bad-ass mood! Extremely well made for a jam game!
Lol, that was surreal experience (as expected from Commander Stitch) :D I figured out that the thing in the middle lures monsters so I ran away as far as I could. Then I was wondering how could I win it. So I red the description and found out that I need to die first.. so I started looking for the base but I couldn't find it anymore, I was lost :) So I started running into monsters. Man, it took a lot of monsters to hit until my hamster died :D And then I won! Not sure if I'm playing it right, but at least I kept the hamster alive for a pretty long time!
@incd021 thanks! yeah, I planned tutorial levels where I introduce buildings and mechanics step by step. to be sure people will understand it. And also to do more testing but it just wasn't time for that. Sorry for that :)
I knew it's way over the scope but I really wanted to explore that concept :)
@neexor Yeah, I wanted to do that but it and I think it's a pity that it remained on my to-do list when a deadline passed... but I plan to place some mini-tutorial or videos to the description.
Btw. lasers fires only when receives a power impulse. Every building has input and output, mostly in a form of power impulse. They work only when they have power and power is distributed in pulses (except battery/buffer that has it's own storage).
@nidjo123 yeah I also noticed that batteries don't work entirely as expected :D It stores less energy than it receives to should run out of power eventually but apparently they have constant output even they have less energy stored. It causes this inifinte loops :) I just had no time for playtesting and balancing... you know, game jams :)
@thoastbot thank you for being so tolerant :) It's quite out of scope so I didn't have time for proper playtesting (I created a nice menu screen instead :D)... so bugs are expected although I don't like to see them.
@commanderstitch yeeeaah! I'd try it too but I'm afraid my laptop will burn :D
@chemicalcrux thanks for feedback! Actually, buildings icons are white if building is out of range and magenta if it's in range. Also ranges are are visualised by circle. But it definitely deserves more balancing, polishing and feedback stuff as you mentioned. But it's almost always the case in compo.. :)
Cool visuals, nice fast rage platformer, I like it :) What I don't like that much (but it's probably my subjective point of view?) is the momentum. It's hard for me to control the player when it has such a big momentum. I prefer when it stops immediately I release a button :) But it's part of a challenge I guess:) Great entry, though!
Suberb mood, burton-like visuals and music goes great together. I have escaped even it took me quite a lot of tries :D But I just wanted to see it all, great entry!
Super nice visuals! I love the art style, minimalistic but smooth and it feels very polished. Tutorial levels could probably better introduce mechanics, level 5 is somehow unbeatable, I don't understand how to finish it :-/ But it's a jam game, it's understandable (I didn't have time for tutorial levels in my game this time.. like at all.. so I'm the last one who should complain about this :D
Anyway, the game is super-polished, great entry!
@holyperson Oh, now I get it! Not removing roads - that was clear. What wasn't clear for me was what what to do next. Because I was trying to connect all houses. Which couldn't be done even after removing the road. But I can connect two and two separately. Now I get it :) On the other hand, level 6 is pretty clear to me. Cool, I'm gonna try next levels and have some fun :) Thanks!
Hi! Nice game, I dig the hand-painted graphics. And thanks a lot for the hints :) I was stuck in the locker - sorted it from 2 to 9 but I didn't realize that the first place must be empty. And I like the funny twist at the end. Good job guys!
Classic commanderstitch! I think it's time to recognize it as a new genre! No other game can be called commanderstitch-like unless it uses at least a million sprites, custom font, and crazy gameplay where you don't know what you are doing at least for 10 minutes! :)
Btw. I love those kittens :D
Hi! This was very well made game! Graphics is awesome like usual. The whole mood created by art, music and everything else feels so fitting and well polished. Super cool vertical slice. I had no issues with finishing the game but it wasn't too obvious so I'd say even difficulty balancing for game jam game was good. Great entry!
Only one thing - I thought the game is for windows only so I almost didn't play it :) I'm just not used to LD page embedding yet, I guess.. You could add HTML5 link below the windows link, though! :) I can see now that it's written in description but... ehm.. yeah, it's my fault :) Anyway, I'm glad I have noticed it, I had good time playing the game!
Wow, that was fun! I love missiles, they are so cool :) Also, the animation of humans being harvested is hilarious. It would be awesome to have more time for polishing, especially adding sounds. I'd love to see that! I have spent more time in this game than I'd like to admit :) It was fun.
Relaxing gameplay that is harder than it seems if you want to be at the top :) I managed to get something over 15000 in the challenge.
@chlu Thanks for the feedback! The theme leads to food harvesting games so I thought there will be a lot of similar games. So I wanted to make something different. I must admit I usually like more free interpretation of the theme :)
@iluvatar Hi! Thanks for the nice words! Actually, there is only one hint because I felt that people may stuck in that one level (well, it was obvious from playtesting on my children:). And I wanted players to see more than those few levels :) I cant wait to see your adventure, once I get to a Windows machine.
@SoonTheSpoon Thanks! Different floor tiles do nothing, it's there just to look nicer/more interesting :)
@forgin-bits Yeah.. level 3 :) I had some time to playtest it on my children and wife during the jam. That's why I decided to show a hint in level 3 after 42 seconds because I didn't want players to leave frustrated at an early level. And I recorded also a playthrough to be super sure that everyone can see the whole game if interested :)
@xaviarrob123 Thanks! I was thinking about it too! I have a couple of features I'd like to implement... It's my 13th Ludum Dare so I finally know how to use Godot, and Inkscape and even getting hang of Bandlab! :) So it went pretty well. Also this time LD started at a time that suits my timezone so I felt quite rested and even had time for some playtesting and polishing... I really enjoyed it this time!
@totitch Thanks! Yeah, level 3 is harder, it tries to introduce a principle that is useful in later levels too. I did some play testing during the jam and saw this one could be hard - that's why added a hint after 45s. But it could be maybe even more specific (placed on correct tiles for example). Anyway, in case you are stuck, I also recorded a play through of all levels:
https://youtu.be/OVzoItqnFko
@yngvarr Awesome! Thank you very much for your play-through and feedback! And for nice words! This is the third time I see someone playing it (except my kids) - that kind of feedback is very useful.
Also from this play-through is obvious that level 3 is the most difficult one :) I wanted to introduce that trick on how to force humans to go where I want before I add more zombies but it was probably too early (and not very well explained - but at least there was a challenge:). I'm already working a post-jam version (not published anywhere) where it should be better.
My goal for this Ludum Dare was to make a simple game and have more time for polishing, play testing and debugging to provide a better player experience. Even though the game is not as simple as I wanted, polishing turned out pretty well (also an earlier start of LD worked pretty well for my timezone). But of course, there is only one or two mechanics so it could be repetitive after a while. That's because I have chosen polish over mechanics :) Game jam trade-offs...
As for difficulty - it's always tricky in game jams. When I make a puzzle game, there are always people who say it's too hard and at the same time people who say it's too easy :) I must say you went through the whole game the fastest of all play-throughs I saw so far! Congrats!
@commanderstitch Yeah, I wanted to introduce a new "trick" in a super simple level but it turned out to be the hardest level of the game :D
@lereveur thank you! Check out the play-through video to see how to finish level 3 - other levels should be easier :)
Chopin! Nice :) Outside rainy mood with Chopin and lightning bolts and bags with bodies is so cool... And the inside mood is super creepy. Cool entry!
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I just harvested almost the whole field of pumpkins, I'm rich now! Where can I convert in-game money to real one? Because it was a LOT of work :D It would use some watering automation :)
Anyway, really nicely done game! I love the graphics and those subtle animations!
Wow, super fun game! So polished, shooting is very satisfying and there is a lot where to progress so it keeps me playing quite a long time! I would only need to buy lives, though :) Awesome game!
Very polished experience! Especially shooting feels really satisfying :) Graphics is awesome, player character is such a cutie :D Great entry.
Very nice game for one afternoon! It's hard but I have reached 18 levels :) It already feels like a final game, could work as a casual mobile game.
Interesting concept! I love procedural animation of the octopus, it feels so cool to drift with it :)
What a relaxing experience! I didn't read a description so it took a while to figure out what I'm doing :) But it was like pleasant exploring of an unknown world. I like how you mix music to react to what happens in the game. Also graphics was very nice... very cool one!
Btw. 418s :)
Nice puzzle game! I like minimalistic graphics and level design is great. I love this kind of puzzle games :)
Very cool idea! Would be nice to give it more time after the game jam and polish it to real game!
Oh wow! Super cool, super polished, and very addictive game! I don't know what to say - I love everything... so juicy! My last result is wave 14 but I'm not done yet! :)
This would be a great rogue-like game.
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I find the main mechanics quite interesting and fun! With some polish and maybe some rogue-like elements, it could be a very nice casual mobile game!
Very cool! It's fantastic how a black&white game made with outlines feels so polished.
Physics balancing games often feels clunky but this is not the case at all! When the fridge fell down it felt like my fault not physics or controls fault. So I managed to make it to the end without being frustrated :) And on top of that - it was fun! Thanks, great entry!
Wow, that was something! Classic commanderstitch! I love artwork and animations, they are just hilarious! With those great and mighty voiceovers, man.. that was cool. Oh, and the gnome looks great :) I love the humor of your games along with the surrealist mood.
Is the score good? Do I save more on my car insurance now? :D
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I hate to run into a runabout in the night when I don't expect it! :D Anyway, it's a cool night driving simulator, I went offroad (awooo) more often than I'd do in real life but it was interesting to wander around and figure out you have a nice checkpoing system in place (thanks for that!). The audio is particularly good, engine sound is quite soothing :)
Aww, voiceovers are so cute! Miss Shabadoo is my favorite :D
It was overall a nice game, my slime family is happy, and I have a nice green car. I hope that the police is not desperate because of me driving too fast ;) At least Pitomio has his coffee :thumbsup:
No need to talk again about graphics, it's great as always :) Overall it felt very polished and finished experience. Great entry!
The moral story of the game:
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Awoooo!
Nice game, skeletons look pretty badass! I like I can maneuver enemies into positions where they cannot hit me but I can hit them. If they won't spawn on random positions but go from a couple of predictable places, it could have even more strategic gameplay. I like the main mechanics, where you need to wait till you can put another road block. Cool entry!
Damn, that's hard. But it looks absolutely amazing! Thanks for the walkthrough so I can see all the content, the level design is really clever. Great hardcore puzzle game!
@notnasiul Congratulations! Indeed they are! You can get your voucher at our Betelgeuse office, it happens to be the nearest one.
@tudvari It is level before the last one. It would be a pity if you won't see the last one, I'll record a play-through. Actually, there are several solutions - the one I intended is to bomb your way from the right side (one Vogon won't make it but it's life).
And when I saw my kids playing it today, they came up with a solution that made me smile. They were able to make a hole from the bottom. They released a mine, then quickly caught it, and flew with unarmed mine as close to the box as possible. When it exploded, a box fell down on the top of the drone. They slide to the side, the box fell and they caught it in the air. Very creative :)
@iluvatar Thank you for the nice words! I thought it would be relaxed flying and bombing game it somehow turned into another puzzle platformer :shrug:
Can't wait to play your game, I already watched (or listened mostly) the stream where you were making it so I had some fun with it already :)
@tudvari That was not the intended solution:D I'd never want players to do that :) Anyway, you can get your voucher at our Betelgeuse office, I guess it's the nearest one ;)
@yngvarr Thank you for your playthrough and your nice words! I can see clearly what do you mean by less fragile receivers :) Btw. you have developed interesting self-destructive technique :) Anyway, watching someone to play my game is always very illuminating! It said a lot about how could I improve controls and other stuff.. thanks again!
@matt-green You definitely did! I'm happy you have identified them :) (I assume you didn't read a description on this page where you could find some hints ;)
Also, I'm always happy when someone finds my easter eggs! There are a few more subtle things like that for example when you try to fly out of the area. There is also a sort of internal easter egg that a few people around understand. I had a dream about a week before this LD and in the dream, LD already started and the theme was "gnomes". So I hid a gnome into the game :) And a couple of people who knew did the same! So if you by some accident run into a game with a gnome reference in it, it could be related :)
@gonzo13 That old lady happens to be a Vogon! If it is safe to assume you are not familiar with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams I'd recommend reading it or at least watching the movie :)
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@elysiagriffin Oh, thanks for playing! I didn't have enough luck in raffles so I'm surprised you played my game anyway! It was hilarious!
"Maybe that's a lesson like you shouldn't kill people, you should just do your job" :D
https://clips.twitch.tv/MoralEasySparrowHassanChop-mlr5bmQIDztO1Zmu
And btw. that last level you get into - intended solution is to bomb your way from the right side but destroying blocks from the bottom is viable too (and quite creative, didn't think about it during designing the level:) So you almost had it. And there was only one more level left.
Very relaxing experience! The mood is great, even after I stopped playing I let the music play on the background for a while :) The visuals are cute and the puzzles are not too simple, not too hard... great entry overall.
Well.. I said "for a while" but the music is still playing :)
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That would be the first text adventure I ever finished :D But it was fun, full of easter eggs that only Pixel Prophecy community know. I ended up with drawing a map in google spreadsheets to keep track of where I am, but it's part of fun, I guess :)
It wasn't fair but I really wanted to see the gnome. And I did! It was worth it!
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Very nice puzzle game, I like the minimalistic art style and cute graphics! It wasn't very hard but it was fun! Audio fits pretty well, good job!
Lol, awesome! That's super cool! I love the humor and mood or what was that :D That had to be a blast creating it! Golden Axe + Mortal combat parody vibes. Love it!
Cool creepy alien-breeding mood! Music and dark visuals add a lot. It would be cool to add some more mechanics for example something like tower defence (not very original could work well with what you already have) where your hatchlings defend mother against those enemies you mentioned. Better conditions they have while breeding, the stronger unit..? Or something like that :) Nice entry anyway, and I love the font! :)
Good job, comrades! :D Graphics is nice, controls feel great! I'd appreciate if the level would start after some keypress so I can review it first and plan my route. But that's a nitpick, restart take only a second so no problem.
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Congrats on your first Ludum Dare entry! You even submitted into the Compo - Ludum Dare hard mode! It's a nice Asteroids clone with a twist.
Btw. the embedded html build is cropped out so that's probably why some people go out of screen and some think you don't have a score system implemented.
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That was nice! I like adding new mechanics you need to figure out level by level. It somehow reminds me color games by Bart Bonte. Anyway.. I'm stuck and I'm wondering whether it's me not able to think outside of the box or whether it actually has no solution:
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I'm probably missing something but I think I already tried all tiles :thinking:
EDIT: Oh, now I can see the message on the bottom left corner. It's the end of the game!
Gnome over! It was fun! Also bonus points for all the gnomes! :) You know, I had a dream about a week before this LD and the theme in that dream was "Gnomes". Thanks for making it real :)
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Very interesting mechanics, I cannot say I saw much puzzles like that :) It looked nice, the level design was clever, the gameplay engaging and the difficulty was quite well-balanced (which is not always easy in game jams). It was enough hard to avoid frustration and keep me eager to beat the level :) Great job!
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Hardcore puzzle! I like how simple it is, easy to understand but hard to figure out a solution. Another cool puzzle game, anyway!
I came here for this and I got it. The game is exactly as expected! And I killed the beast with remaining like 1 red pixel of health. There is no better way how to finish the game :) Lucky me I noticed controls settings and found out jumping, blocking and crouching! Only thing that makes me sad are those poor doggos.. o LOT of them died for nothing :(
My doggo is very tired, so many kilometer in his legs! Funny audio, nice graphics, relaxing (and sometimes frustrating) gameplay :)
Lol! I didn't know about barking on the first run.. so now I can revenge to those naughty sheep with my mighty barking :D
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You rock :metal: I saw the "Soul Eater" on the stream making this awesome graphics so I knew whats coming but the rest is stunning too. I love the whole metal setting, music and a little story about it. It's also funny. And complete voiceover with several "actors"?! In a game jam... wow! You have surely used some metal magic here!
A golden gnome! That was the last thing I missed in my garden, thank you! :D Although it's basically just user interface so it could be almost counted as a text game, but you managed to reach dark dungeon mood! And visuals somehow reminds me Minecraft (at least it's user interface ;) I was never sure when I leave dungeon, I tried to be as close to the weight limit, but I think I don't need to have exact 500 kg, there is some range, right? Cool entry!
Awesome little puzzle game! At first I thought you cannot do something challenging with such simple mechanics but I was wrong! Some of levels was quite interesting! Especially when there were multiple trains. Graphics is sweet and audio is fitting so overall very nice game!
@rorried Thanks for your feedback, I agree! I usualy do a couple of tutorial levels to be sure the player knows everything he/she needs. But this time it took me very long to figure out what kind of game I should make and even longer to fiddling with a prototype, trying to make it work. So unfortunatelly, I didn't have time for tutorials or better signalization where you can but it :( But I finished it in time so I'm happy anyway :)
@corporation yeah, I can see the empty spot.
The z-index issue is caused by the three-box item. One of that boxes should have different z-index than the other but it's all in one image so it's not possible to do (I'd need to have multiple images and set z-index separately for each one - which I didn't have time for :( Great job anyway, almost did it! One big level was kind of necessity because I was running ouf of time. I wanted to make a few easy level for better explaining movement and mechanics.
@alec Thanks for the feedback, it would definitely deserve at least some easy tutorial level to explain concept. And I think I had redrawing that direction indicators in my todo list but.. yeah, you know how compo goes :)
@gastricsparrow is it? I thought it's quite easy and relaxing game (apart from controls you need to get use to). But I didn't have much time for balancing and quality of life improvements so it could be hard I guess?
@tasakasama Thanks for your feedback! Do you have any ideas how to make controls better? I thought about controls quite a lot, tried several ways how to control it but this one felt the best (may be subjective), althought I had to get use to it for a while.
There is also a second way of control in the code (just use arrow to go to direction you want), it can be enabled just by changing one variable. I didn't use it in the final game because it didn't work too well. Because it's not very intuitive in isometric view to say what's up, left, down and right. I even tried classic top-down view instead of isometric, controls felt better in top-down but the game didn't look good. So I decided for this kind of control - like in an Asteroids - you can go forward and backward and turn left or right. It felt more natural when you want to pull items backwards (not only push in front of you).
Or maybe somehow with a mouse? I don't know.. maybe I can add a simple switch so users can use control that feels more natural for them.
@tudvari Hi! Thanks for nice words! As you may know from PixelProphecy's discord, this LD didn't go too well for me, so I'm super happy how it turned out at the end :) Btw. that bridge - you don't need to move it at once, you can also drop it, walk around the item push it a bit, drop it again, walk to different spot, pull it, etc... :)
@tudvari you should! :D So it looks like I don't have do be sad that more complex shapes didn't make it into the game (I wanted to add more tetris-shaped objects;).
@mickey-sanchez good point, actually! At start I was thinking it would be too easy (since I didn't think I'd have time for smart level design or any other mechanics than just moving stuff around). So it came to my mind that isometric view could add a little more difficulty because you need more spatial imagination.
But it turned out that it doesn't add a difficulty in a good way, it rather frustrate people. The question is whether that spatial thinking is just hard or whether it's because I didn't have time to add more indicators where you can or cannot rotate. I could add for example some green tiles on the floor to see where it would land if you rotate. I only squeezed in a red indicator of obstacle that prevent you from rotating.
@mooobster good job!
@bangkerpow Thanks for the playthrough. You get all the tricks pretty fast! You did it before, didn’t you? :) Great job :thumbsup:
@hakro Thanks! Yeah, I saw your game, but unfortunatelly, web build didn't work well for me and there is no mac os build so I couldn't play it (I'll try to open it in godot, though). When I was making the game I was thinking that it would be so easier to make it in 3D :) Z-index issue - gone, rotating troubles - gone (I had to make a different picture for each angle and switch them on rotation:). But I've never done 3D modelling and texturing.. Anyway, I'll check your game to see how it could work :)
@hakro yeah, don't worry, I know how things work in game jams :) I tried Chrome and Firefox, no luck.. but it worked fine in my Godot 4.1!
Not only the mechanic is brilliant, also level design is very smart! As for controls - expanding fold sometimes didn't work I guess I need to start draging from the right place. I'd appreciate a keyboard shortcut to cancel current fold. But it's just nitpicking. If you are thinking about expanding it, it would be cool to have more directions of folding. Top-down or maybe even diagonal or arbitrary angle, thaw would be mindblowing :) Also I sometimes fail to understand what part can be folded and what not.
Anyway, awesome game!
I finally made some time to play another nice little text adventure :) And it looks like I made a pig tired and happy. I don't think I had ever did that in any game before. In fact not even in the real life! And that something! The only thing that bothers me a little is why I carried like 10 apples for nothing!
Anyway, another nice text adventure! The first half was made by you, the rest in my head. That's the beauty of text adventures.
Awesome concept (I mean it's old concept but I've never saw it in a video game) :) It also look so nice it's interesting just go see the path and all movable obstacles and stuff. But it's also super hard, I'd appreciate some easy mode with like 10 checkpoints at least :)
Web build didn't worked for me and I'm on Mac. Thankfully, you built it in Godot so I could download the sources and run it in the editor and it worked :)
You have some nice and smart puzzles there! It was a bit similar as my game but mechanics was different and enjoyable! And you also had time for several levels with increasing difficulty, very cool!
Cool concept, the bubble feels great :) Also visuals looks clean and nice. I have rage quit on spikes, though. I'd appreciate some checkpoints (or more often if there are any). But it's a great entry anyway!
Omg I spent so much time in it :D I love how it looks, simple but clean and nice, animations and audio are great too. Btw. your screenshots looks better than in my chrome (fonts), maybe a chrome issue.. idCool game anyway!
The visuals are impressive! Also the mechanic is very interesting. Not sure how it's related to the theme, though. But I had hard times figuring out the game with this theme too.. Awesome game anyway! Btw. source code link doesn't work, maybe the repo is private?
Those cars.. they explode so easily :) But the game is cool! Controls feels good, visuals are really nice. It's quite unforgiving but I guess precision is the point of the game so it's ok :)
It could be also fun if your car last a bit longer but other cars could explode and make mess around the place. Or some speed run game mode where your car cannot be destroyed :)
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Unbeatable space dildo! But I guess the wave counter is somehow stuck, I'm still on 2nd wave but there already were a lot of alien waves. Anyway, it's fun concept. I like building my own ship. After some time I cannot be beated so I'm just flying around and killing stuff. But if was fun! :)
Those absurd rules and security all over the place was hilarious :smiley: Also dialogues were great fit, it was a funny little game. Btw. does it have end? I reached the top level (at least I think so) and didn't know what to do next... anyway, today I'm paying boss to work here :)
Hi! Interesting concept, nice mood! Music and graphics fits really well. I also like randomisation of the map so you can play it multiple times. Always when I see target score I think there is no way to reach it but after a while, hapyness grows extremely fast but it's fun! Congrats, great entry!
That was awesome! I finally managed to finish the game and it felt like a full game experience - great idea and execution and it's also very well ballanced which is not easy for a game jam!
I like minimalistic visuals, looks cool. Audio is fitting, it helps to the overall mood. Once I figured out I cannot rush it, it went quite well but it was still challenging (in a good way). I have finished it so the difficulty was just fine ;)
Scratch! That's awesome :) I've never seen a game in a game jam made in scratch. Once I say it to my daughter, she would like to participate in LD too :) I like it!
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I saw you making the game on the stream and I knew it would be fun! It's a great idea, I played it with my kids and we had a great time, thank you! And we didn't cheat, we were quacking properly! The idea of quacking to a microphone is awesome!
Although it's sad we couldn't save all the ducklings... please hold a minute of silence for the poor guys smashed by the car and also for those who were crushed by that large burning boulder that fell from the sky.
Hilarious as always! The audio is really funny, and the texts... oh the texts! In-game and in-console it's a poem by itself! :D I believe that should have its name and international recongition as a regular artistic movement. And finally, I know I know what the wizard is :D
Anyway, I feel bad about those poor lambs, I cannot shoot fast enough! Let me try it again.
Haha, that was cool! Although it was quite hard at the beginning, I'd appreciate some warmup part or even a level :) But after a couple of tries, I got better. But I was able to summon always only a cake. Is there more? I have to try again. I'm not that old, I can do better! :D
I love that cute dancing cat and that mad wizard :D
Edit: No, I wasn't able to do better than cake :( But judging by the progress bar, it wasn't that bad! So I'll take it as a cake is pretty good result ;)
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It looks awesome! Also a very moody game, and the audio fits the game so well... Maybe because I'm tired after finishing my game, but I'd appreciate it if active things could have a hover effect. I feel like I was clicking randomly on stuff to move on. But as I said, maybe I'm just tired and the walkthrough you provided helped a lot, thanks for that!
I did it! I was confused at first but then I read I needed to search for clues. And suddenly it started making sense and it was fun! I needed a couple of tries placing coffees in the correct order but the clue was clear (I just ignored it at first :) And the ending was hilarious :)
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What a cool idea! I love it. Also, the visuals are impressive. I have to play it again to see where different answers lead me :)
Quite an ambitious idea for a game jam. But you've made it and it works great! I must say I was afraid that the game would end after I paid the debt. But it didn't, yay! :) It has a very cozy mood. I am only confused about how exactly the employee stats matter. I figured out some are faster than others, I think it's influenced by the energy stat. But I have no idea what others do. Anyway, I enjoyed the game!
I have no words. This is something one cannot expect in a game jam... wow.
Finally! I got lucky and ran into another person on Twitch so I could play it against a human too :) It's fun, I like you can strategically react to what the opponent summons during the summoning time. The graphics, audio, and level of polish are stunning!
Hi Tudvari! What a cool game! It appeared quite difficult at the beginning but once I got a grasp of it, it was very enjoyable to play :) Great job on balancing the difficulty, it's not easy during the jam.
Graphics is cute but is there a way how to open it on fullscreen? Otherwise, it's quite small (nothing I cannot handle but it would be better on fullscreen).
I like more types of trees that are useful in different ways. And the tradeoff of turning them into soldiers. Also, did I notice it right that there are different types of attacks? Do Aether treants shoot? This is also a very nice touch. A lot of thought was put in, I like it!
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@oznarox there are often a couple of solutions, in what level you got stuck? I can make a play through. Anyway, there is R button for restarting the level (too bad you didn't noticed it on the game description :) And I can also spoil the hidden shortcut for testing purposes - if you press Shift+N, you'll go to the next level :)
@incd021 Thank you, I'm glad you liked it! Btw. if you sold jump for killing all, you should receive a bunch of hearts for that killing. If it's in the place I think it is, you should be able to buy your jump back ;) Also, if you'd like to try some later levels once more, I left a debugging shortcut Shift+N that moves you to the next level ;)
@lone-wolf Thank you for your feedback! Beeing able to choose a trade by keyboard is definitely a good idea. I should have think about it or design the last level in a way it wouldn’t matter. I was thinking to call flying an infinite jumping or at least flapping (it works like a flappy bird) but yeah, flying sounds better :) But I didn’t think the first choice of attack could be understood as attacking cthulhu. Good point!
I love the visuals of this game! The color palette, animations, and the music sets a great mood. Awesome entry!
That was nice! Although it gets frantic very soon :D I love the art style with those large pixels. It looks super cute :) It works great all together with the audio and gameplay. Great job!
Oh, this is creepy! Also, it gets quite frantic really soon :) Audio and visuals are cool and the mechanics of casting spells are quite interesting. I'd appreciate something like "redial" last spell or something that casts the same spell multiple times so I don't need to draw it before each shot. Maybe if the spells deal more damage but I guess a more complex one does. I just didn't get to it, the forest always gets me!
Awesome game! I love that it's a platformer on moving ant and a puzzle at the same time! You have to be strategic with your double-jump, searching for the clues, and trying to avoid being killed at the same time. Thanks for the checkpoints! The controls feel great, the audio and music are superb, and it's also quite funny! I was afraid I'd be defeated by the giant amoeba with a hat. Thank you for sparing me this humiliation :D Impressive work for a compo!
Stunning graphics, great music and audio, and simple but very enjoyable gameplay! Great entry!
Nice, calm, and relaxing game. It was refreshing to have no enemies, no rush and I could just walk around the island and do my job :) I also like your nice, minimalistic art.
Of course, I've summoned an unicorn! What else can it be? :)
Frank, Congrats on making a step out of your comfort zone of Inform 7! I bet you had a lot of fun making it, although it is technically a text game. But with a lot of added mood. Music, audio, and of course visuals made it a completely different experience. You all did a great job, guys. Don't mind people who don't appreciate your hard work, there are not many of those. I believe you put a lot of effort into it and had a lot of fun making it and that's what matters, don't let anyone spoil it for you. You should be proud of what you have done.
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Wow, it looks paw-some indeed! The graphics are super cute, there are even various biomes! Audio is spot on, and I don't even know how much content there is because it's a lot! It doesn't even feel like a jam game, you could publish it on mobile platforms right away :) Great work!
Lol, funny game! Even if it's short and there is not very much to play, generated summon is a great idea! It forces me to try over and over :D This one is my favourite but I'll keep trying ;) It's a shame there is no audio, though :(
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Nice! I like the mechanics, it was simple but interesting. I don't think I saw anything similar. It looks like a platformer but it's not, it's a grid-based puzzle game but from the side view. It's interesting!
Super cute art style! :) The audio and music are spot on, really solid entry.
Cute little game! I love the art style, although I'd appreciate more visual feedback (when someone is hit) and some sound effects. Also, I ended up stuck at the end of the screen surrounded by my animals. I couldn't move but I felt safe :) I believe I could get a great score if I let it run for a couple of days :D Anyway, it was a very enjoyable experience!
Super polished game, I love all those animations and cute graphics, explosions, and audio... it doesn't feel like a game jam. Extremely well done!
Hi! I wanted to play this but I have Mac OS only. So I downloaded the source to open in Godot but it seems the source is not complete :( There is only scenes directory. Could you please upload complete source?
@oddballdave I cannot tell if that's all but at least project.godot is missing.
Hi! For such a small amount of time, it's an impressive game! But it would be a great game even for 48 hours :) I love the simplicity and visual cleanness, and all those little guys are so cute and squishy!
The game mechanic is interesting, it works well. Although it was a bit frustrating to reach the end only to learn that I left one little guy somewhere behind: Fortunately, the level design is often forgiving so that I could go back for him.
It's a pity you didn't have time for some sound effects, but the rest of the game looks like you had all weekend. Great job!
Yes! YEAAAH! YES! WHOHOOO! YEEEES! Yeahe he he heeeeee... :D I'm gonna go to a pet shop to buy a spider. Seriously, don't go to the light, but even if you go it wont kill you. Lets scoop some fairies up and make an ice cream sandwhich. YEEES :D
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Hi Davide! The robot friends were sooo cute (until I learned their true intentions) :D But it was a funny twist. The art was superb as always, what should I even say about it, I'm saying that every time! :D I was playing it with my daughter, and she had a great time too. All and all, another cool little adventure game! :ok_hand:
If I knew someone was watching and counting how many times I pet the beans, I'd be nicer to them! My poor beans were petted only 6 times. But I'll make it up for them in the second round :) I wish the game rewarded me with a picture of those cute little beans. But maybe it's better for them to live only in my fantasy :) I love the music, it adds so much to the mood and helps to immerse into the game (even for such a visual person like me:)
The artwork is charming! The game is nice and relaxing, maybe there could be a penalty when I'm caught by the monster (they could for example steal half of my blobies or something). Also, different colors of blobies may matter. For example when I pick a green one and then a red one, they eliminate itself - so I have to carry only one color, when I pick the other color, amount of my caring creatures decreases; but it may be too complicated, it was just an idea :D
Anyway, the game felt pretty polished! Great entry!
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Not bad considering I play on a touchpad :)
I like destructive terrain/mining for collecting resources for upgrades! The good thing is that enemies' bullets destroy terrain too but it's a shame that grenades don't :(
Also, the music is cool and really fits the game. All and all, it was fun!
@tudvari I wasn't sure if a grenade did anything to the terrain or not. So I was assuming it does nothing to it. Maybe it does but I expected a big hole (at least to the most basic terrain when my damage is boosted enough). So I guess it was not a bug, I just overlooked it did anything to the wall with that mess all around... :) I just wanted more damage from it because more damage equals more fun :D
@refrax295 Thanks! I thought spamming wouldn't be an option with bouncy bullets and instakills :) I guess you are really skillful in dodging bullets :D
@iluvatar Thanks a lot! I'm happy with how it turned out. There are probably still a few minor bugs, I ran off the time with music but after all that stress on Sunday afternoon, it ended up quite well :)
@andrewkennedy @crocidb Thanks guys! I almost thought I managed to fix all the bugs :D It's probably an issue with Godot's native is_on_floor() function - maybe with a combination of gravity, walking causes a little bumping so sometimes it thinks the creature is in the air and won't jump. I should have used my own ray cast to check whether the creature is grounded... lesson learned :) Anyway, I'm glad you enjoyed the game anyway!
@tudvari I see, good point! Some people have a feeling that something is not right there I can feel it too but it's hard to say what exactly. This may be one of the things. Also jumping is sometimes ignored, and also when you jump forward (not directly up), the gravity vector is (of course) changing during your jump, so gravity grabs you forward more than you'd expect. It's probably correct but it feels weird too :)
Anyway, thanks for your feedback and I'm glad you still find it fun :)
@bangkerpow yeah, also @tudvari said that. I guess it was not the best gameplay decision but it’s intentional - there is a centrifugal force that pulls you from the center to the edges. But you are a spider so you can walk on “ceilings”. The Center works as a ceiling. But when you leave the ceiling, the gravity pulls you down. There is no reason why a spider should double jump to get from a ceiling to the floor.
I agree, though. It would feel more consistent if you had to double jump to get to the other side no matter what other side it is.
And I was thinking about hotseat multiplayer, it could be cool!
Thanks for your feedback!
Movement mechanics is quite interesting! The visuals and audio were spot on, it was very nice game overall!
Nice! It was fun, I like the art style, and critters are so cute!
Lol, what a hilarious and weird idea! :D I also liked the graphics and audio, it felt quite polished. It reminds me of Ghostbusters for some reason, maybe because of the cat scanner :) I like it!
This was absolutely amazing! It's hard to balance tactics game in a game jam. But this one was so fun it kept me playing till the end. It was challenging sometimes but not unfair or impossible, I always thought next time I'd beat the level. It was easy to understand. Also, the visuals were pretty, the audio spot on, and the music as well! This is the game I spent the most time playing within this LD! Awesome work!
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Funny and kind of nice raccoon romance story. I like it! And it's so deep - you don't need to chase all those shiny things, smelling like an old cabbage is more than enough! I'd say that to my 18-year-old me if I knew that!
Beautiful game! The graphic is so cute :) Also, it's fun enough not only to play to the end, but I'm also playing it again to be better. Oh, and it's a compo, very cool!
That was fun! Sometimes a bit challenging, and sometimes it felt like it depended on luck. but I made it to the very end so it was fine! I love gravity games. The visuals, and audio were great, overall the gameplay was quite relaxing. Even when I could not manage to get the people there, I wasn't frustrated, I was trying over and over until I made it. A slingshot sometimes glitched (I was drawing more and more line2d segments) but it's fine, it's a game jam after all. Great game!
I guess I'm done here :) Cool game guys! As you can see I spent a lot of time playing it :) It was fun!
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It's a nice & relaxing survival game :) Although I managed to survive for some time, I must admit the paper cat hasn't been fed very well :( Perhaps I was too greedy and sold it all or maybe I didn't get what food it eats. I suppose the one in a barn si I tried to leave always something there but maybe not every time... ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
Anyway, it was a nice paper world experience :) I'd use some automatization drones for seeding or watering because I'm too lazy to do it all by myself. But that's what proper farmers do, I guess :)
Awesome, it's moody and hilarious at the same time :) I love especially noir parts, graphics, voiceovers, and music... Great entry guys!
Very nice & relaxing game, I love how the horn fish were progressing when I started increasing number of things they can carry. That was super fast from that point :) Audio and visuals are super nice and fits very well into the game. It was fun!
Was it deep enough? The drone was overpowered but at least it let me to dig deep enough. Yeeah!
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Very cool game! When I got a grip of it, it was fun! Unfortunatelly I dug myself into a hole I couldn't leave. I'd recommend making "R" working also during the game. I couldn't do anything, so I had to reload my page and lost my progress. But it was my fault :)
Graphics and audio are very nice; I like the minimalistic style.
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Wow, the visuals and music, the overall mood—it's stunning! Very well done! The ending felt so good.
The only thing that disapointed me were the miners. They were pretty useless even after upgrading :( They are nice fellows but they are so weak that only thing that worth upgrading was power clicks and do everything myself. I tought I'll keep upgrading and adding miners and then just look the game to play itself at the end. But no, I had to do it manually anyway, and I don't like do things manually :D But I get it was kind of a purpose, it fits to the genre. So don't take it as a critique, it was awesome game!
@iluvatar Thanks! Going back and forth should be needed only at the beginning; then you are supposed to buy drones to automate it so you'll have time for exploring! :)
@ntmalichi Thanks! Not sure if it's your case, but I run into HiDPI issue with swimming speed - I have older monitor here and when I display the game in that old/bad monitor, it's super slow. But when I open it in my macbook, the speed is as intended (it runs on the same machine, so it's not hardware related, just resolution related issue). Maybe try it on display with HiDPI if that helps. Swimming speed is not upgradable because you are supposed to automate things by drones. But if you have it as slow as in my old monitor, it's totally understandable that is not fast enough. This kind of issues are hard to debug during the compo, though :(
@ntmalichi If it's the resolution issue, make sure you are playing on fullscreen, and if it does not help, I added a compensation button for that cases (press 'k' to enable/disable speed compensation).
@andrewkennedy Oh no! That was exactly the case I added the "continue" option for :) I should’ve made a shortcut for quitting instead of a button!
What’s interesting is that more people are experiencing that slow issue. It almost makes me question whether it's a technical problem or just a design flaw :D I need to record a video of me playing it so others can compare. Funny thing is, adding swimming speed upgrades would take me like 5 minutes of work. I should’ve thought of that earlier!
Anyway, I'm glad you liked it!
@bangkerpow Thanks for the play-through! It says more than 1000 words :) It is painful to watch how useless I made those defensive drones from start. If you don't massively upgrade them, they are so pathetic :D On maxed shooting speed they are pretty useful but other than that :face_palm: I can see also so many details I could do better. Or some little bugs. I didn't even notice that the music does not loop, it plays from the start but when it ends it does not start again. It's one checkbox in Godot.
Glad to see you have no issue with swimming speed as some others, this is intended speed.
Very cool concept of a game! Love it. I made it to 78cm... not much but length doesn't matter they say :D
That was cool! What looked to be an ordinary digging game turned out to be a strategic path finding challenge! It was a great twist, I love it! Also, those bugs are super cute, too bad a lot of them must die until I learned how to play it :) Audio is great, visuals also... it's a great game! And I like "Keep playing" option! Now I'm digging from the top so my buggies are safe!
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Finished! Nice litle game; once I figured out the patterns of enemies, it was fast :) Although I found the most useful the first emotion and used it all over. Btw, I can appreciate little details like animated background and limite color palette! :)
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I can tell you that was the most expensive dig speed upgrade I've bought in my entire life!!! I'm afraid I paid way more US dollars than exists in the entire universe :D I hope I'll get the finest dig speed available for that money!
Also, this game is the first among all other games I ever played in one thing. In this game I had the most money I ever had in any game! I feel so enchriched now :)
Hey, I saved the reality for you! It took a couple of tries until I started to be careful where am I shooting :) This was nice twist, you usually shoot as much as you can in this kind of game. The game has pleasant difficulty and length for the jam, thank you! I'm always happy, when I'm able to finish the game :) I also like the boss fight. Great job guys!
@balimaarthebassfish Yeah, the dungeon generator is nice! My attention was overwhelmed by low ammo so I thought I just didn't remember the layout :)
Latest score 189. Not much, but it was an honest work :) I like the visuals and overall mood, walking could be a little faster/fluent, though. But it was nice, relaxing... at least at the beginning. Then everything went bad... :D
Nice little game! Congrats on your first jam, don't worry it's not finished. Hand-drawn fish is charming, and audio is awesome! You can definitely build on that in your next Ludum Dare!
Congrats on your first Ludum Dare! Hilarious entry! Very cool and great take on the theme. I probably run into some error - when I upgraded the speed, it became super slow. But it was fun anyway :)
I love the overall mood! Visuals are so cool, music fits really great into it. It's a pitty that progress is so slow. I made 100 workers but I cannot go deeper because of the iron bug :( You could upload a fix at least to itch.io.
@voidsrc Thanks! Once I automated ore mining, I could get it running during the work on second monitor, and upgrade when needed. Now I maxed everything, all building, all upgrades. Now I have nothing to do :)
One level is digged in about 2 seconds (including ore). Cool game :)
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Hey Jan, Vlado & Josh! Awesome little game, I admire the cleanness of visuals as all Jan's games and simple but engaging and entertaining gameplay! It's also exceptionally well made, everything works great together. I'd like to especially mention balancing which is not always easy during game jams. At first I though I have no chance to get more than 10 orbs but somehow I keep collecting more and more until if was so easy that it felt almost like a treat for all the hard work I done before :)
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I endend up in positive score, so I was doing well, right? :) Funny voiceovers as always, hilarious printouts, and also great music! Starwars tune + that menu music were done super well! Why I was hearing "I'm hobbit" all the time? It has to be something different :D Hobbits like to eat bread, though. I suppose... at least Lembas bread, hm, was it Lembas bread? Lot of questions here... I slapped them by my wig anyway. Just for the case.
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Hi Davide! That was awesome. I've red you didn't have much time this time but I definitely wouldn't tell! It was funny little story with great mood. Really engaging and pleasure to play, I love the subtle dark humor :D And the graphics, of course, the graphics was stellar as always :)
Haha, that was funny. The take of the theme is hilarious :) And I love how the cat look :) I have also problem with level 5. Other than that nice little game!
I did it, I clicked so many times, I am collector! :) Nice final screen! I hate it when I open a clicker, because I always need to finish it. Some clickers are endless or takes sooo much time to finish it. But not this one! It has an end and it was long just enough right to not feeling bad for spending so much time with it. Thanks! :) Btw. I love those particles, it's just a pleasure to do all those clicks :)
Sounds interesting! I'll definitely try it on the weekend with kids :)
@6knowledge Thanks for your feedback! The first level should work as a tutorial that explains you the main mechanics. Of course it's a game jam so it's not perfect but it should do the trick anyway (at least I thought so). And of course didn't in your case, so I'm curious where was the main problem. Can I ask you, if the issue in level 2 were those rectangular things that blocked the beams? I suppose it wasn't clear enough that they can be moved too? I have a feedback (I agree with) that sometimes, handles for moving things are not clear enough.
Or did you have different issues? Second level should show you that you need to collect the same number of beams as those purple parts (I call them chevrons because it looks like chevrons in Star Gate :) But I explicitly wrote this as a text, so I suppose it wasn't it.
Thanks for your help!
Cau! Great looking game as always, platforming and controls feels good, responsive and precise, really well done. The game is hard, yes, but balancing in a game jam is always tricky. I'd like to be able to keep at least a few upgrades to the next run :)
Simple idea but so well executed! Riding the truck feels oddly satisfying, how it sounds, how it tilts... also other audio and music is awesome! Even throwing bags to air so that lands inside the truck is fun. A lot of small details are very well made. Also clean pixelart graphics is great fit. Great job guys!
Hey! That was very well done! Great mood, graphics, I also like how you are adding modules - it's not just upgrades, you can see modules that can be also destroyed and you lose the ability (I suppose). I can also appreciate little details like when camera zooms out a little when you pick bonus for higher speed so you can see better where you go. It's a pity you didn't make it in time for jam, but thanks for publishing at least in extra!
The world is saved! I only need one tower (other two were out of range) and couple of fences on the right place :) After 10 round I realized, the game plays itself and I don't need to shoot them at all :) Graphics is very nice, it reminds me of Circle Empire. A small indie game I liked to play :)
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The mood is great! Graphics and audio works extremely well with it. I can imagine there could be many secrets to discover, and many dangers hidden in the dark if you'd had more time for it! Very cool entry.
Surely a new record! But I missed a few cupcakes so there is still a chance to beat me :) @commanderstitch claims he got 115 cupcakes but without a screenshot it's no more than empty claim! :D
It was sweet game, although sometimes a bit sticky! I like flappy birding around a level, also triple-jump felt like an error at the first time but when I learned it's on purpos, it was fun!
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Nice game! I made it to the Mars but I must admit it took a couple of tries :) Graphics are very nice! And I also like simple gameplay and it's quite fun! I'd like to have the game paused during the upgrade menu is opened so I have more time to browse the options. But it's a detail. Good job!
Nice concept, I was wondering when it ends. I was hoping Petri could grow so much that he will eat whole planets and stars. Which could look very similar to the first stage where Petri started and it would enclose the circle. :) Cool entry! The music fits really well and sets the right mood.
Thank you for making it! Very nice & polished game! Visuals are super cool, audio too. Mechanics works well. Perfectly done jam game!
Very solid precision platformer! Controls are super snappy, it has double jump, coyote-time, frustration, everything! Retro vibe is awesome, visuals and audio really fits to it. I don't have enough patience to finish it but I surely tried! Screenshot 2025-10-12 at 19.26.27.png
Nice concept, I really like visual simplicity of the game. Adding actual dungeon or some random obstacles at least could add more strategic possibilities.
I would never say I can enjoy a walking simulator or a text based game. But this was actually quite funny :) Maybe because I live in Brno too. Well used 3 hours! Good job :)
This is really nice puzzle game! I'm aware of SnakeBird bud never played it. So this game is my first meeting with this mechanics and I really like it.
Nice, i like that CRT-like shader.. and self shooting ball is just hilarious :)
Nice puzzle concept and a lot of content for jam game! I like it.
It would be better if Bob waits at the beginning of level and it's released by player (or implement a countdown at least) - sometimes I don't have time to select brush or look at the level and Bob ends up trapped.
@goutye I meant a game-jam game in general, terminology confuses me a little :)
This is amazing! I love the idea and execution as well... This one is one of my favourite games here.
Funny game, I made it to a champion! ;)
Wow! I'm impressed, it's overall the best game I've played in LD41 so far - I love the concept and your take on "incompatible genres", I wish I had this idea :D
The game feels very polished - movement, controls, all feel just right. Great game.
This is an amazing game! 5/5 mood! Audio and visuals are stunning. Genres look incompatible but you combined them so naturally... this is definitely one of my favourite games in this LD.
Wow, interesting mechanics, stunning visuals and great music and audio! Amazing entry.
Nice game with awesome graphics. What's little annoying for me is the fact I'm losing lives without seeing enemies - they can spawn anywhere I guess so I need to run all over the place and check where they are. It would be nice if they spawn only on screen where player currently is. But all in all great entry!
Art style of this game is charming! The death sound is tearing my ears though :) I am pleasantly surpprised I've found a procedurally generated game in 48h jam, great job!
Interesting concept, nice graphics and a lot of content for compo game! Great job!
Hi Phil! Is it possible to make a Mac build?
@philstrahl Ok then, I've noticed your earlier games are also windows only so I just wanted to check if there is some kind of limitation or you just didn't exported it.
Btw. even this wont work https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/$73264/promo-free-gamemaker-studio-2-for-ld41?
Anyway, I can't wait for documentary! If you get some time to record playing some LD41, I'll be if glad you will include mine game again :) https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/puzzle-golf
Stunning visuals, looks really nice.
Awesome game! Great gameplay, stunning visuals and really polished experience.
15 waves! :) I could use some time between waves to check my card, do upgrades etc. Graphic and art style is really sweet! Good game.
This wasn't fair at all! I want to score at least one times :) Nice game though :)
Looks interesting, is it possible to make a Mac or web build?
@jarnik thanks it works and i made it to the baguette :) Walk animations looks hilarious, so does audio and whole story :) Simple pixel graphics works well for the game! Nice entry.
Art and animations looks so sweet! What a pitty you didn't finish an audio.
Wow it looks awesome! And a gameplay is pretty fun, great game!
Amazing and innovative concept! It takes some time to master but it's really catchy.. there are such possibilities to expand this concept, really great work! I like the feeling when I "summon" a platform where I need only by whistling before computer! It takes some practice but when you can do it, you feel like the Neo :)
Just played it in "multiplayer" mode with my daughter. She loves it and its much more fun when you play with someone. I even needed to increase rating in a few categories (not innovation of course, it was 5/5 before:)
I agree this can be great party game after some polishing! Maybe you can add levels designed for two players - each one in opposite side of screen and who reaches some point first wins! That would be hilarious :)
Now I'm going to beat this game. **I am ready!**
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@jackson-frankland: thank you, it was recorded on a phone using a real golf ball :)
@caeonosphere: thank you for feedback - try a desktop version, html version has fixed size. Moving it to fulscreen is good only for better controls (when you drag out of the game screen, you can still shot the ball on fullscreen)
@caeonosphere @vilix64 @fashionbatman: Thanks, i'm glad you like it!
@krystof-klestil: I'm glad you like it! The game was actually tested on two real people (not counting me;). At first it had steeper difficulty curve so I redesigned levels after getting feedback during a development.
@frostdragonliz hmm, that's weird, the game shouldn't depend on balls movement. You should be able to hit the ball even when it's moving, at least it works for me. Anyway I'm glad you like it despite of that :)
@tayl1r Practice makes the master :) I'm glad you like it though :)
@team-luminous: Thanks, I'm glad you like it! Actually there is zoomout by z/y/RMB. It cannot always show whole level though.. it depends on your resolution (if you are playing a desktop build - web build has static size)
To all I haven't managed to reply: thank you all for your comments and feedback. I really appreciate it! I'll play and rate all your games (if there is a mac or web build).
@togis Cool, thank you again for playing, sharing and your feedback! Too bad the stream was a bit laggy, but since others know it's not game's fault it's fine :)
@togis No problem :)
@yanni: Well played! :) Thank your for feedback, I guess you're right with that falling ball.. this small touch is really missing.
@jf1989: it's quite an interesting idea... this can be good "aha!" moment in later levels. I'm actually thinking about make a mobile game from this some day.. It depends how will people like this LD version.
@saintheiser I'm sorry to hear that. Can you please tell me, which version did you play - if you played web build which browser did you used? If desktop build, which platform? I have quite old macbook and it works fluently. No one else reported problems with lagging.
Ballance difficulty is always hard - some people say it's too easy, for some it's too hard. It cannot fit to everyone, i guess it's normal.
There are only two types of buttons, I tried to introduce them one at the time. The first one in the first level, it's a pressure plate - when the ball is above this button, doors are opened. When ball leaves, doors are closed after a little delay. The second one - toggle switch - is introduced in second level. When balls enter this switch, it switch the state of doors. And the third level shows that there can be different colors of triggers and doors.
Unfortunately in two days there is nearly no time to do more testing and balancing or polishing it even better.
Anyway, thank you for your feedback!
@saintheiser ah, you meant physics. Yeah, you are right, there are some glitches. Colliders on tiles are unfortunately not perfect, the ball can hit place where it bounces in unexpected way. I was tweaking it a little but time was too precious so I get it to "good enough" state and moved to another aspects of the game. So it is what it is, compo games are not always perfect :)
@nutriz Thanks for feedback, I'd love to play your game but I don't have Windows. Can you please publish a Mac build? Should be piece of cake in Godot.
@tim-ruswick Thanks for streaming my game, too bad I couldn't watch it live (you know.. european timezone)
@toulou @ashtrail Thanks for feedback, I'm glad you like it!
@indie-gaming Nice! Thanks a lot for playing and sharing, I'm glad you liked it. Watching you playing gave me valuable feedback. I identified a few new things I could do better :) During Ludum Dare we have other programmers' feedback mostly. So I really appreciate you are making these playthroughs (uhm.. you are not a programmer, are you? ;-)
@hisfantor thanks for feedback, unfortunately the html export in godot is not entirely bugfree. I guess there is nothing I can do with it. You can download a linux build which should work fine though. If you for any reason cannot download app, try using firefox. It should work better.
@jacklehamster: Thanks for playing and sharing! I noticed you had some issues with mouse clicking.. It's the most probably because of web build. Desktop version should be fine.
It's known that godot's web export is not still entirely bugfree (it should be OK in firefox though) but I didn't notice any issues when I was testing it before deadline so I published web build as well.
@philstrahl Awesome! Thanks for playing and sharing video. I'm glad you like it and also you didn't give it up after the issues with recording for the first time. You're the best! :)
@csanyk Thanks for your feedback! My previous jam games was hard so I tried to do an easy game for once :) I learnt it's nearly impossible to please everyone (at least within two days of Compo). According feedback the game is too easy for some people, too hard for others or nicely balanced for another ones :)
But yeah, more tutorial levels would be useful for sure.
This was very interesting experience.. I really like mood of the game. Graphics style and music does great job here. I don't know if it's a purpose but I think some words can be placed a bit better to avoid collision - when I'm trying to jump to the next word, I'm constantly hitting by head to word above me. I noticed it only in one case though. Great job anyway!
Funny gameplay with really nice graphics :) I think it would be better if the ducks were not "floating", if they just stop when I release arrow button. But it's part of fun in multiplayer mode I guess... Anyways, geat job!
Wow, this is cool. Concept, visuals, audio.. Oh and replayability, really great entry, one of my favourite.
One does not simply survive that last wave..
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Stunning graphics and I really like the concept. I'm following you on itch.io and hoping more levels will come :) Too bad you didn't make an audio and some battle music tracks..
Unfortunately the mac build is missing..
@krystof-klestil: thanks! btw. linux version just misses .pck file.. i ran into this very same problem when I upgraded to Godot3
@krystof-klestil I didn't test that but it would be really nice if .pck files were the same for all platforms.. I guess it should work
@krystof-klestil: Happy to hear that! About the game and about .pck file as well :)
Oh that's awesome! I would never say I enjoy a typing game.I like those little details like rotation of letters when you are out of rhythm or how it waits on the first word and lets me figure out what should I do without punishing me.
Very nice visuals and great music. Clear mechanics, challenging at later stages. What I missed were checkpoints - beginning is a little bit slow and long (which is good for the first run, player has time to figure it out).. but when I die i have to go through this slow stage again.. It's a little tip how to improve players experience, overall it's a great game.
That was experience I came here for! Starting with epic space fight, I felt some hope until I realized that the green line, that was so long that didn't even fit to the screen, was enemy's health bar. It's hardly a fair fight.
I did my best but unfortunately, I managed to end the entire world :-/ I must admit there really were rsigns. I cannot say I haven't been warned.
As always, I appreciate custom fonts, super-weird vibe and frantic chaotic action :) I feel there were less chaos and screaming this time. Or maybe I'm just used to it and I slowly starting to need higher doses. But at the end of the day, I reached super high score, so I did well. And so did you with the game!
Ahoj Davide! Amazing art as usual, nice color palette btw. Along with audio and voiceovers (wow!) it made the mood really cool. All an all, I get what I came here for! Great game as always. And you made me to play it twice again to see both ends :)
I like replayability of the game. It's fun, easy to grasp and there is still room for improvement so you try it play again and again. Level of polish is stellar as always. I'm not sure about the theme but making fun game is more important to me :)
@commanderstitch exactly! And you made it almost to the end, only one level before end. Thanks for playing! You wouldn't like the last level anyway. It's more logic gates - heavy.
Nice idea for a casual puzzle game. It fits the theme well. I only wante to be able to move already placed repeater, starting over and over is a bit frustrating. Maybe it's a design decision to make the game a bit harder - to add a memory element to the puzzle?
Awesome visuals, and cool mechanics. What I miss the most is some kind of visual indicator how much time do I have until the king kills me. Time pressure will be the same but it would be way less frustrating. Or if not indicator, there could be a *signal* that lets me know I need to act now or I'll be smashed :) But other than that, it was very well done!
Clicking on placed antenna didn't work for me for some reason :( So I get it to level 5 with only one antenna, 5th level cannot be done without that feature. But as you can see from my determination, I liked the game a lot! I find movement and maneuvering of the rocket satisfying when it's done right, but also very frustrating when not :) But it seems fair and restarts are instant. Also graphics and the whole mood is cool. Very well done!
EDIT: now, on the second run, I can place more antennas (I couldn't do that before so I thought I have only one), it's much easier now :D Actually, it's very nice way how to handle difficulty. I can use more antennas - it will be easier, almost casual game,! but my score will be worse. If I want a challenge, I can use as few antennas as possible, then it's hard as hell :)
Btw. I like I can place antennas and play also "Thanks for playing" screen :) Nice touch.
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Congrats on your first compo! The mood is awesome! Audio fits the mood so well, the same with graphics. Looks like a beginning of a great game.
I'm not sure about AI generated art, though. It may fall into Jam category or at least there should be disabled Graphics rating. Graphics was great but now I don't know what part of it should I rate and what part is generated :( Player placeholder is OK, the rest was drawn or generated? For now, I'll keep graphics category unrated. Anyway, kudos you mentioned it, that's fair.
@nikiroz ok, thanks, sure it's for fun after all and your game has great mood and looks awesome. To be honest, I'm not sure what's the best approach for AI generated content for Compo. Rules doesn't mention it. So I understand it that you made a derivative art from generated content, which is OK by the rules. So I will rate accordingly :) Because you did great job in making it look cohesive and well fitting to the overal mood. Good job and thanks for clarification!
Super fun game! I love rocket mechanics, it works really well. It's hard but not unfair, I got better every try :) I'm in 10th level now and it's really challenging. But it's the last level what would I expect :) Difficulty graduates really well. But I'm gonna beat it.
Hilarious! Great idea and execution (ehm) :D
What a wonderful game! I just love the art style and how player moves. Great idea I bet you must have great time making it.
Puzzles was nice too, I just still don't know how I was supposed to get the code to the chest. I knew what letters I'm supposed to use but I thought I must have get their order from something. At the end I wrote all combinations down and tried each one 22nd out of 24 was correct :D Anyway, I just love how this game is different.
Can't wait to play it again with my kids, maybe I'd even like to use similar technique for some different game jam I plan to attend together with my daughter :) That would be fun!
EDIT: Oh, I can see the walkthrough! Now I know how should I use the letters. I should think of this... but bruteforce worked for me too :)
Finished! I love the cyberpunk vibe of the game. Graphics and lightning do a lot, but other parts like music or story fit well too.
If I had to give one piece of feedback, I’d make the main character smaller (and zoom out a bit) so I can better see where I’m jumping. Sometimes I have to cross my fingers and take a leap of faith. Lights at the ends of platforms helped a bit, though. Also, if the character were smaller, I wouldn’t bump into ceilings as much :) I think this would also help with orientation in the level, so there might be no need for a minimap, as someone suggested.
But that’s just nitpicking (or rather an attempt at constructive feedback). The controls felt good, so it was fun. And kudos for finally adding this *ancient technology* to an LD game ;) Even if it’s a slightly different model.
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Super cute graphics, great mood of scary forest. I played it with my daughter and we had a lot of fun! :)