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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Old Friends | compo | 71 | 4.00 | 2.73 | 3.95 | 3.95 | 3.87 | 4.32 | 2.06 | 4.48 | |
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | doof | compo | 228 | 3.58 | 3.46 | 3.86 | 4.22 | 4.18 | 4.13 | 2.93 | 3.62 |
for a jam I found this a surprisingly mature and multi faceted take on suicide and youth. Loved the art style as well. The only thing is I feel this really would have had the same effect if it had just been a comic, the fact that it was a game didn't play a factor in the experience. would love to see an interactive branching story game from you with this same superb style though!
voice acting was fun as others have commented art style is nice - digging the white outlines on characters I wanted some expansion on the main mechanic - I think it would have been more succesful if the focus was on the content of the game and not drawing the environment which you have clearly put a lot of effort into - maybe in the future start by greyboxing until you have a solid set of mechanics and then skin everything after
awesome game, great graphics and an intersting idea for gameplay - wish the stage start/end was clearer
nice little game - charming and funny, gameplay mechanics are solid and a good bit of fun, love the cutscenes as well, great job!
cool intuitive mechanic and a fun play on theme - would love to see this with art stylized to fit the pineapple guy
awesome! could use a longer time on the puzzle though!
graphics obviously incredible, audio could use a little TLC but you're clearly primarily an artist so that's totally fine. would have liked to see a tiny bit more depth/clicker style mechanics but overall theme and mood are very strong
love the art style - objective could be clearer
like the shotgun model - door opening could definitely use polish
@oriondark7 thanks for the feedback just added a controls list to the itch page - shoot (spit) is right shift
@jeremy-ryan thanks for your feedback!, glad you enjoyed it. some of the hitboxes are super thick because the player would go through platforms sometimes (Im going to try and figure out a better way to deal with that but didn't have time during this jam) good to know that people have run into that in game though. also haha that's ironic, I am primarily a musician and sound designer.
@virtual-turtle-studio thanks for playing and feedbacking! yeah actually that was one of the more annoyi.ng issues - unity's collision was being annoying with going through walls but the only way I could seem to fix it was by making walls super thick, which in turn would lead to messy colliders like someone mentioned earlier. out of curiosity do you know which level you got stuck on? always looking to see where puzzle mechanics can be imporoved
@monkeydom hm just tried it, got a bug once then relaunched and it worked? try doing highest resolution on ultra (shouldnt be very system intensive) I think it might be a resolution thing. Thanks for playing! also thanks for catching that looks like my source didn't upload correctly - it's on itch now
@wiredoverload thanks! if you're using the web version try downloading, that fixes some other issues
@ctrble @batmanasb yeah unfortunately hitboxes were weird - either had to make them super thick so you couldn't fly through em or thinner so you wouldn't run in to invisible walls - thought I struck a decent balance while testing but I think the built version fared worse. I think there's a solution to be found within the unity physics settings/scripting but I spent a while searching during the jam and then had to move on to other stuff. Thanks for playing!
@cr0w Thanks! I actually got stuck on a train for the first hour or so of the jam so I just looked up the theme and wrote/sketched in my notebook. Most of the main stuff came from that brainstorming. In a way it was super useful to have some forced time away from a computer before starting, might even make myself do this before future jams
like the explosion animation and the homemade sfx, why does the sword make enemies explode?
wow! this is like a case study in elegant game design - one button controls but the more you play the more you see how all the small systems interact with each other to create an engaging game. Good amount of polish on that bad boy too. Excellent job overall, would definitely pay a buck to have this on my phone
very fun and cool mechanics - love the idea that missed bullets turn into more trash theme wise definitely give that feeling of claustraphobia
amazing art! puzzles were a little confusing at times - had to watch a walkthrough above (but I'm also terrible at puzzle games) - really cool overall
super super cute - love the dog animations, would love some cost listing for the materials - also really enjoyed the flavor text
great graphics, first level is too hard though! also wish there was some music. Also really enjoyed the overall text/style
really like the vibe here - the art is great and the concept is hilarious and cute - the only thing is it really needs a bit of tweaking in terms of movement speed and jump - the second level is really really hard and I had to start over a bunch of times in general - for this type of game might be better to make it easy so that you can see the whole game on your first or second try. but for 10 hours I'm very impressed
overall the dialogue was funny and the art style was great - one big issue here though is that your game mechanics and the 'meta' outside goals of the player are conflicting. In the game you're trying to click as fast as possible through the dialogue (at least I think that's what you're meant to do) so if the player plays the game well then they won't actually get to read any of it which is probably what they want to do - the game punishes the player for reading dialogue. Just a little thing to keep in mind, otherwise a charming little idea
graphics are awesome - would have loved to have some sound and maybe some more in depth mechanics
love the way the controls are highlighted in text fun, pretty polished overall a solid take on the theme
really like the keys to talk mechanic very funny and cute art style overall great game note - I think theres a bug (at least in the mac build) where you can't talk to people after failing the game once
like the art style but just really really hard!
definitely one of my favorites so far. The one thing I would say is you should stop a bit quicker/have better handline
interesting narrative stuff, also like the art style. Would love some sounds! The title music is great but would have preffered a silent title and in game music
@jabdownsmash post jam version!
great mechanics, could definitely use some explanation here or on the page on exactly how the numbers work, different troops etc.
the tower game reminded me of CS class. Overall seems like a very complete game for compo. Biggest thing was that I couldn't figure out how to install modules! But with some added simple sound could be a great post jam web game
drawings are fantastic. Would love some gameplay that's not clicker based, kind of dampered the rest of the experience/story. Overall though a good idea and technically polished
awesome awesome awesome main mechanic. would absolutely love a fleshed out post jam version. Really reminds me of old school browser games that feel like they're made with love. The one big issue I had was that enemies started coming way too fast in the later section (200 energy). Wave break would be great and just a slower buildup overall because at some point I just got stressed out and couldn't balance anything/direct my focus because I was being hit by so many enemies at once
@mikesalyh Thanks! I wanted to hide easter eggs and probably should of but got tired yesterday, also ended up having to deal with some technical stuff. Overall I was super duper relaxed this jam and not going into the night at all so maybe I'll do a post jam version with some added content. Wanted to add a C, D etc. with just one or two panels for other people
@sirsnowy7 glad you liked it, A and B are real people! guess we're all kinda doing the same stuff
the music oddly made it funnier. Just played a very serious entry and after that this one made me laugh out loud. The way the dog turns hid head towards everything in anticipation to eat it is really funny
polished, awesome, what more can we all say.
the art is great, that crashed plane in the begginning, wow!!! Would love the addition of some sound (you should remove sound and humor as rateable categories)
fun game! squares move too fast and erratically, I felt like I always killed them by chance. Shooting mechanic was interesting
a bit hard but fun!
sunset colors were great, also loved the minimal walk cycle style. Cool to see experimentalish games in here.
@decappoolla my favorite part! Would love to see that style of super low frame line animation in a full project
one of my favorites so far!
definitely a cool idea executed well. First level is too hard! Its a little tricky to figure out and it should be later (the next 3 levels are tutorial levels the first one should be too)
I know this is a weird criticism but turtles could maybe move a bit faster? I had a bunch of fun clearing stuff, very very simple mechanics but something about their implementation is really appealling
really love the fact that you get to make your own meme, best part. Art was also quite nice. Overall pretty polished as well
pretty fun! could use some balancing but I llike the fast pacedness of it all
very complex and interesting stuff for a compo entry. You should definitely include a pic of the tutorial on the jam page to refer back to. Also would be better to have a pre made tutorial room to start in rather than have stuff be place differently every time. Still struggling to understand the mechanics. Would be worth making a post jam version though because it seems very thought out and has potential to be a full game I think
really intersting game, made me think about wolf survival. I'm alawys thinking of wolves strictly as predators or evil but without anything to eat they die out too, great perspective
writing is quite good. I had some sort of resolution issue where everything was super small on the screen. I won but I'm not sure how? seems like you have an interesting core mechanic but could use some more feedback on exactly what's hapenning each time I feed
one of the funnier entries for sure, mechanic was also surprisingly fun
realy like the switching gears mechanic, could build a whole game around it for sure. I have a 5 for humor purely for the art of the party guy
I died so many times! didn't actually finish. Definitely spent a bunch of time on it though so that's a good sign. Awesome art. Fire should die slower
super cool and simple, wish I had another person to play with at the moment but I can tell it's quite well made and has a good core mechanic
also didn't quite understand it but had fun playing with the pleasant branching mechanic