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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Hu | Mo | |
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| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | 👥 | Greedy Merchants | jam | 426 | 3.58 | 3.45 | 3.37 | 3.73 | 2.96 | 3.33 |
Interesting mechanic, though it's missing something. Maybe it's space, monsters were to big even for normal monsters so the levels maybe fill a bit odd. Specially the boss in the level is too huge.
I am not sure. But congrats anyhow it is not a small feat!
Those snakes need to check for the closing doors or they will get their head cut of. Haha! I like the mechanic for ending up each level, first few levels were hard to understand why my body was left on the other side though.
Interesting game! I like that you went for a story in the map environment. However the truck is very unruly, I guess this was the expected feel but men it was hard.
Are the gaps in the road unintentional? Because I totally trusted you that I wouldn't need the backspace. Up until I fell below the road.. haha!
Great effort!
Pretty hard game you have here! I like it but I would make a few changes.
First the overheat gauge is huge and it is place where the player expects to be able to maneuver. Ships are firing way later than disappearing the screen, personally I didn't liked that a lot. I would expect I could simply forget about them after passing them by, specially in this game where you need to be careful about shooting.
Anyhow I liked the general idea and vibe of the game. Keep it up!
That third level starts with a bang! Nice, but I definitely didn't go stealthy there
Nice concept! I can't stop spending though, I feel uncomplete!
Unless I missed how to do it, I think it would be awesome if you could turn the spear your self.
I like the low poly rats model but they are very shiny maybe changing the material a bit will help give them a better feel.
Nicely Done, I love the gameboy feeling! Only critique that I have is that I would make the world a bit smaller it was a bit tiring to walk thos long distances and things where hard to find.
I loved the maze! I thought I was going to end up like Skel there for years!
Greatly done!
The music is very catchy, I loved that! The art style was also very nice and I liked the MOBA style controls with a twist.
It took me a while to understand what was going on, maybe I should read instructions before starting play. The only complain I have is that the ultimate was way to strong and as both the player and the AI have it pretty much cancels itself out. However I was able to win by using it and quickly adding a combo of hits to the mas of fans.
But in general I liked it and I think that for a JAM this is a great accomplishment!
The falling animation of presents needs some work, I gues it's to slow and maybe add some easing so it doesn't look so linear. But yeah as thy duck said a bit more variety could help make this funnier.
I like the low poly world in the menu, that's pretty neat!
Awesome! I scored 446, is that good? Fun game, I like that the counter intuitive action pays off. Nice art and music as well!
That was brutal! haha.. Nice prototype, I wonder what you have in mind to make this more replayable. The core mechanic seems fun but I don't think it could retain player by itself. Congrats!
I think I didn't get to see the picture in the middle due to a crash. Or was that a TV?
@neowedge I was using Chrome, but I am not sure I got crash actually. I did get one once I tried to start a second time.
First of all, wow! those graphics! I enjoyed this game very much, although I am not convince at boxes physics in the boat. Sometimes they would fly away without any change of the ship direction. Other than that hats off to the devs!
This was a fun experience! Great art and music, good humorous atmosphere!
The ship seems a bit hard to control, it accelerates to fast. I would opt for giving it a constant speed and allow the player to set sails levels in order to manage it.
Nice background music!
This was really great! My only complain is that I would prefer not to have to click the center at all. Let it be automatic and allow me to focus on the strategy.
As an addition I would maybe like a building that generates polution but fixes your buildings. That might be interesting.
Solid use of the theme here, congrats!
I like the graphics and the mechanics idea. But I wasn't sure about the difficulty, didn't look to challenging even with the black dots.
But in general I liked it.
Wow, that was a lovely experience! Best game I have found in art/mood/sounds!
Congrats on this nice concept!
Nice art setting the general mood. The game feels very polished. Continue learning to code, hoping to see more from this!
I like the way you used the saying for this entry. Game is simple but nice to play for a while. I would reduce the collision of the pan to a smaller section. There were times where I was dropping the food and it wasn't clear what part had hit.
Awesome that you were able to add multiplayer to this. Congrats for this fun game!
Neat art and fun game as expected from the such a versatile team ;) Congrats!
21 days On the first try, so I think I did good!
This is an interesting concept, I played the web version and most of the tooltips on the right weren't fitting the screen size so I lost a lot of information.
It wasn't quite easy to understand some of the measurements on the top and how one could affect them, with a bit more explaining I think you can have a lot more engagement.
Congrats on this entry!
OK, I really suck at this! But your game is solid, great concept for the theme. Congrats, very well done!
Excellent idea for the theme of the jam! The game was strange though, I was not sure when to slap the people. So I ended up slapping them all the time. My company went broke after the third game. So in hindsight I should have been more loving.
I'm not a fun of clickers, but I liked this one. I lost to fast to the big white spiders, I had just spent my fireball.
The art and characters design is very nice. I think the robot needs to help out more in order to be effective with mushroom spawn rate.
Congrats!
This was a fun chaotic game! I liked it a lot!
Ok, I played version 1.0.0 so you are probably aware and maybe fixed the bugs in that. But my game was ended when I felt into a hole and I was allowed to see the entire level by simply moving to the sides. I am a cheater I know!
The game was very hard for me, I think that the matter that the character was too tall and the jump takes you to the roof make it very hard to avoid some of the traps. I think I would play around a bit with the jumping variables.
Nice accomplishment for the jam! Congrats!
My head hurts! I made it to 8 keys that felt good.
I love the art specially the audio. Why did you go for the requirement of using the mouse to interact?
Very cool that you used your own engine!
Very hard game it doesn't give you enough time already on the second level! You need to make the learning process a bit easier I think.
Congrats on the 48hs entry!
Sadly I couldn't read the letter at the end because I think I clicked it away to quickly by accident.
The character is really odd at first, just a floating head I first thought it was a bug but then I imagined the truth, it gets more clear after visiting the garden.
I would lock the character movement when you open one of the log entries or letters, it was very weird to move over or behind them.
The End scene seamed a bit off, maybe living the letter in sight would have helped.
To finish, I really liked the art and general mood of the game.
This game has some great art style! I liked it in general, but the game became to easy once I realized I could simply and freely change shield types. I didn't even needed to kill those dragons.
Poor chickens they go hide behind the loot boxes and I can't hug them there.
Excellent art and audio! Game goes crazy very fast.. those lazy bastards ask for vacation on the second day of work!
Fun idea!
Fun game, I love the Meet the Chooks screen! Only thing I would recommend is taking control of the mouse cursor so fast movements are kept inside the game.
Interesting backfires mechanic, I like it that you can destroy your enemies with it. I found a small bug were the double jump treasure chest would show closed multiple times when revisiting the room, but it's nothing critical.
Although I am not a platformer fan, I like what you did here! Congrats!
Pretty nice entry! Those spiders in the attic are impossible to get, they would lay in ambush every time I got near that stair.
I found a few glitches when jumping just out of a stair, the guy would get stuck at something and float for a while.
All in all a fun gameplay!
Ahh.. the floor burns! it burns!
Ok, I couldn't make it through the lava, but this was very impressive! It starts very weird and I didn't completely understand what was going on until the fourth promotion. But lava made it pretty clear :P
Congrats!
I like the game idea, I couldn't quite understand how the joules in the defibrillator worked. But nice in general,congrats!
That surely is a fancy miner!
Controls weren't very good, I would have expected to be able to move diagonally. Also for the action that the player does the character should have had a pick instead of a shovel.
Finally I got stuck at the bottom of the map at what seemed to be a door but somehow I couldn't get through it.
Continue honing those skills and congrats for finishing this in jam time!
I like the building system, it was hard to understand the way you could expand at first. But once you got the jist of it it is fun to make your space web station.
I cant steal other ships cannons! That was hilarious!
I found the controls very cool and innovative, but they need some work! Of course I like stealing other ships stuff, but I think that might be a little too much. Also I was not sure how to pick some things of the water, they would never reach the ship level.
With some extra work this could be a very fun game.
The only thing I felt out of place was the music.
Great art and sound! I think it is hard to do a humor/serious game so I applaud the effort. However I was almost ready to quit at some point because I wasn't to attracted to the story the only thing that kept me going was the HP Lovecraft reference and the difficult part at the end.
Maybe tying the narrative a bit more to the challenges in the game would help make it the story click with more players.
Congrats on finishing this on 48hs only!
So I have mixed feelings about this game! I loved the minimalistic art and the mood in general. The floatiness of the player and the way the dark spots consumed you was very well executed.
However I felt some objective was missing, for me simply surviving was just sitting in a corner and eventually grab one light when I was getting below 0.6. So this killed the fun of it!
So congrats on the great work artwise and with the mechanics, but you need to give the design a spin to make it more of a game.
A reference to the icons would help at first. But the game is easy to understand after a few turns. I like the mechanics and the variety of cards.
Good idea for the theme! I like the art, sounds and general mood of the game. The party gets out of hands rather quickly that's good, but maybe giving the player someway to do some damage control would be nice in the future.
Stop being so demanding! I need more time to read these instructions..
I couldn't understand how picking up the bubbles was making things more difficult for me.
I agree with what people are saying the jumping wasn't feeling quite alright
Last but not least, I really like the character. Poor little redeye having to do all work by herself.
I have never in my life wanted so much to ditch my friends.. well that may be a lie
A few remarks about this, it would be good if you added a sound when you hit enemies different then when you swing and miss. Half the time I wasn't sure if I were hitting or not. Also you should add some graphics in the level limits to indicate this, like a wall or something, walking into a invisible wall wasn't what I expected. Last, I am not sure the music fits the mood you were going for, Grim Reaper isn't so grim with that upbeat music.
Congrats on finishing your game for the jam! I liked that you were able to add a purchase system, did the points you spent there also counted for the final points?
This is one of the most polished games I played in this LD. Excellent implementation of arts and mechanics! There are a lot of things that could be added in the future to improve the experience, like transit for starters.
But a great entry!
Just one comment regarding the audio I would tweak the volumes of the different sounds sources so they are all in ballance. Right now the crickets are very loud.
Very fun gameplay. I liked it a lot! I am ashamed it took me some time to understand when the guns changed colors but after I figured that out I was amazed!
What a crazy game! I hate those ricochet either I'm too sleepy to see them coming or this is a difficult mechanic to master.
I love the way the bullets bounce with each other, the whole mechanic is very innovative
The UI would need to change a bit those red/green gradients where a bit disturbing.
There was a bug moving my camera randomly which made it really difficult to see where the enemies where coming.
You gotta hate those sperms trying to make your wizard pregnant! haha, nice game! I am not very good at it.
Very cool and innovative game! Those kids are surely well coordinated
I usually don't like clicker games, but there is something there are some interesting mechanics here. Well done and nice pixel art!
I had a hard time understanding why the controls were so difficult at some point and then it hit me. It was all the drinks I was having.. haha! Nice game!
@eraleis Thanks for playing our game. Only the ship that has the most coins suffers the penalty. Were you able to win by just grabbing coins?
Thanks @kkneville! We are glad you are finding all these pirates frustrating!
Thanks for stoping by @fefo! Give your brain some rest and come back with a bottle of beer or better yet a cup of grog! Arrgh!
Thanks for playing @colossal-gnome! Yeah, I understand what you mean. We went for the ship selection at the start hoping that would help identify your ship. But I have had people say the same thing so it seems we failed to do so.
Arts and sounds are from free sources, check out the credits to find them. :)
Thanks @wujood but they are not ours! Find them at http://kenney.nl/assets/pirate-pack
@Fenerax Thanks for playing! Yes that seems to be a bit of a problem in general. I guess some visual queue is missing.
@Talia Take it if you want it, but I don't recommend it.. haha! Thanks for playing!
@bradur Thanks for playing! Those pirate sure love to blow stuff up!
@jeremy-wolf Haha, yeah it's counter intuitive at start. Thanks for playing! SFX are from several sources check the credits if you are interested.
@colossal-gnome Yeah, shouldn't be too hard, but yes the arrows kind of blend with the islands behind it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts
@rob-white Thanks! Yes indeed, the idea came from a pac man deathmatch. Didn't get time to make it multiplayer but it might come in the future.
Turning is hard until you get use to it. We did some improvements to it but it is still sometimes difficult.
@neowedge Thanks!
@madbeagle Thanks! We are three programmers so we needed to get those hands busy :P
@schu thanks for your kind words! We are happy with it.
@exezin you are a very capable pirate then.. arrr! Thanks for playing!
@koemeterion we are glad you like it. Thanks!
Thanks for playing @smogen! We are thinking of adding multiplayer maybe
Thanks @bradleysmith!
See you soon @versatile-box and thanks for stoping by and playing!
Thanks for playing @orcdraco!
Thanks for playing @facu!
Thanks for your feedback @rolle! We enjoyed making this game so you are welcome! :)
There is a way to win although it might be counter intuitive. The levels or missions idea is something we might do, but we might think of it as a multiplayer game. We will see.. Thanks again!
Thanks you @hbocao! We thought about the deposit mechanic but didn't have enough time to develop it. We will keep it in mind for future changes!
Thanks for playing @owc! The AI can be improved a lot yet, but we are happy with what we got in the allotted time.
Thanks for playing and the feedback @mr-matt! Yeah we were going for something like that but with the ability to allow you to stop on your tracks by simply turning against a wall. But we wanted to make the turning smart which we failed to do, with some practice it gets easier though.
@mr-matt Totally true
Thanks @sidewalksleeper! We are glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks for playing @cawrtz!
Thanks for your kind words @lunardust!
Thanks for playing @likirus! There is a way of winning the game so keep at it and think of the theme. Also thanks for your feedback on the controls and the visibility!
Thanks for the kind words@x-budsterized-x! And yes @atlasarg should put the game on his profile thanks for reminding him.. ;)
We are glad that you like it @georgebgreen! We are starting to think about how to move this game forward. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Thanks for playing @akusan! This was actually made for the jam but we did it in 48 hours!
Thank you for your feedback @mambojambo! Yes, totally true we need to review the game design variables and maybe add a few mechanics to help the merchants out. But as you said we did have little time to do it, in fact it was just the last thing we did and with only a few hours to test it. We might go back and make a better playtest and analyze it soon.
Thanks @feedlipe! Please share with us any thoughts you might have about it. We did put some work into finding the right atmosphere with the graphics and audio, but the sources are external so we decided to opt-out of those categories. Still the comments are appreciated since we did work on finding the right ones and added a little editing on the sounds.
We will certainly test your game!
Thanks for playing @mik3! The graphics are disabled because the art is not ours. You can check out the authors assets in http://kenney.nl
"The more you have, the worse it is" @lamossus, but yeah if this were to turn into a full game we would need to add some balance and maybe some mechanics to help those merchants out. Thanks for playing and leaving feedback!
@qszhu yeah, turning has some difficulties. I wouldn't call it a bug but it is certainly what has brought the most complains. Thanks for sharing your feedback!
Thanks for playing and sharing your ideas @dunin! We might play around with that relative speed idea.
@sorlok we are thinking off continuing development and add some sort of multiplayer. Stay tuned! Thanks for playing!
Thanks @angelonians! Art is from Kenney. Check it out at http://kenney.nl
Thanks @gamedevmumin! Multiplaye would probably be a blast, we will think about it as we decide how to improve this!
@moonlightbomber Yes, but not quite. Thanks for playing!
Thanks for sharing your feedback @blubberquark! Did you read the instructions prior to playing? If you did were they unclear?
Also thanks for sharin @Kenney 's profile i wasn't aware he had participated on previous ludum's. That's awesome! Personal thanks to him!
Thanks @niklas988 for playing this on your twitch session! We are glad you liked it!
Thanks for your feedback @umsingelopugmanco! After all the requests for multiplayer I think we owe to you all, we will be start defining this and more soon. And we agree on the controls!controls
Thanks @cliff-lee-cl! Faster pacing? I think we agree with you, once you get use to the current speed it might be a bit to slow.
Thanks for your kind words @mosky! Your feedback is appreciated. Sorry for the bad implementation of the controls, we had a design different to pacman in mind for them but we couldn't execute it very well in the given time. We will certainly fix them in later versions, as we also add the very much acclaimed multiplayer. Is your twitter link correct? it takes me to an empty search.
Thanks for playing @ibrahimshersha!
@jaimuepe thanks for playing and reporting the bug! That's an odd one, do you know if it appeared there after death or if it navigated into the island?
Thanks for playing @magmafortress! We will surely revise the controls soon.
Your feedback is appreciated @cubeeo! The points are achieved via a combinations of coins at the end of the game and ships sunk.
Thanks for playing @totsboy! Kenney's assets are great!
Thanks @svr-audio! We are glad you liked it!
Your feedback is appreciated @sgadrat! Thanks! Menu and controls are things to improve agreed.. Multiplayer will come for sure.
Thanks @lucas-ferrantelli! We are glad people are enjoying it!
Thanks @chipmonkey! Yeah, that is the only strategy that will work for this version. We wanted to make the theme feel very strong like that. But in the future we want to balance it a bit more for multiplayer, feel free to drop any ideas that you might have.
Thanks for your feedback @arron-fowler! Although we didn't create the sounds (reason why we opt out of that category) we did put some effort into selecting the right audios to give the correct feeling, that people are enjoying it makes us very happy! Stay tuned maybe the multiplayer version will pick your interest a bit more. I will certainly play your game before the ludum is over.
Thanks @savinvadim! Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for playing @flubz! Multiplayer will come!
Your feedback is appreciated @shyguy567! The scoring works like this: you get many points for sinking ships and a few for each coin you have. The thing is that when you sink a ship you steal coins from them so they lose some more points and you earn some more points (in addition to the sinking scoring). Sinking ships is by far the most effective in this version. Also thanks for reporting that bug!
Thanks @illabom! We are glad you liked it. I will add your game to my list, I am trying to play the games of everyone that left feedback here.
Thanks for the feedback and for streaming your gameplay @creamybacon2!
Gracias por el feedback @nax-89! Los controles fueron claramente lo menos pulido, tenÃamos una idea que no pudimos llevar a cabo del todo bien. Estamos muy contentos con el resultado alcanzado, y es muy probable que continuemos hacia un party game.
Gracias @sirjupitron! Somos tres programadores en el equipo asà que tuvimos suficiente tiempo para dedicarle a la AI, que a pesar de sus errores y simplezas logramos algo que funciona bien.
@starlin Thanks for playing and for the feedback! Not many people complained about the font, but we agree. We weren't happy with it either, but we didn't had a lot of time to change it when we realized it was hard to read.
It was fun and the music gives it the right pace. I would expect it to be a bit harder though.
Nice art! Gameplay needs a bit work I was able to finish the game by simply place spike traps all the way to the diamonds and upgrading them to the highest level. After that it was just watching them die (can ghost die again?)
Also I would expect all ghost to be able to avoid this physical traps, maybe go with goblins, ratmen or whatever.
Nice! I like it! I would make it so the fish has a bit more attraction aura, right now it's really hard to attract your followers with your fish!
Nice art and funny audios!
Nice graphics and awesome animation for uncovering the map!
Pretty neat idea! I agree with what @mshopf has said a little warning before the heroes will need their stuff before becoming useless would be nice. Or maybe they should check their inventory before entering combat (or at least just for a while, so you don't have enough time to provide for all of them)
I like it in general, so congrats for this game!
Huge maze! I like it but I couldn't find my exit and at some point I got really lost surrounded by those creatures, another soul lost to the maze.
An enjoyable game!
Nice change to flappy bird! Congrats
I like the art of this a lot! Loved the way you handle the start button to be use to start each game, fantastic!
I am not a fun of clickers, but I think you did a really great job. However I wasn't sure if the strategy was just simply going on a clicking frenzy or whether I should be careful and not click on the popups content (since that's what I would try to avoid in real life).
Cool game guys!
Good work on this entry! I have a few remarks I would add a different sound when the hero is hit something more like a yell and then I would use the current sound to indicate when enemies get hit (even when using the arrows). It was hard to know whether I was hitting more than I was getting hit, specially in melee. So sounds would greatly help here.
Is there an ending to the game or do you keep fighting until you die? I wasn't very good surviving so that's why I ask.
Oh man! Why do they all have to buy goldfishes the same week. I can't remember all of them. :P