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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 👥 | 🥉 | 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | Nill | jam | Mood | 4.50 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | 👥 | Algie's Adventure | jam | 577 | 3.52 | 2.97 | 2.88 | 3.52 | 4.39 | 3.58 | 2.47 | 3.90 |
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | 👥 | The Fifth Ritual This Week | jam | 409 | 3.72 | 3.40 | 2.98 | 3.98 | 4.16 | 3.92 | 3.48 | 4.03 |
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | Gnomon | jam | 633 | 3.56 | 2.94 | 2.78 | 3.39 | 4.63 | 4.07 | 4.00 | ||
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | 👥 | Nill | jam | 139 | 3.93 | 3.08 | 3.43 | 3.41 | 4.34 | 4.02 | 2.20 | 4.50 |
I must say, this game is wonderful. The graphics are beautiful, the music is perfectly layered, and the controls are spot on! Keep up the great work! (Also, I'd also love to have a wallpaper or two from this game: it's incredible)
I love the combination of platformer and puzzle game! I've never played a game quite like this and it is amazing. Definitely has a lot of replay value as there are so many combinations to try! Keep at it!
Thanks for the feedback everyone! This was a lot of fun to work on. @trevor-shoe, As soon as I have a bit of spare time, I'll see about adding the option to skip cutscenes.
I must say, this is one of my favorite games so far! The music was beautiful and fitting, and the use of pixilation gives it a wonderfully uneasy feel that ties everything together. The rituals took a moment to figure out, but I love it when a game makes you think. If I could offer any criticism, it would be that the ending should perhaps build more (sound getting louder or increasingly distressed visuals) before ending so abruptly. That said, I'm impressed and I would love to see more!
@swanijam I know that last-hour-rush-to-finish all too well :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: I'm really impressed with what you accomplished!
I had a little bit of trouble with the camera shaking uncontrollably at first, but it went away right after the first room. That said, I love this game! The atmosphere, the music, the mystery--fantastic! I hope you consider expanding this further, because I want to play more! Great work!
@terylangosh, Thank you so much for trying out the game! I did do the graphics myself. Somebody else messaged me that they had to click to move the camera; it was supposed to just move without clicking. That bug has been fixed now, so hopefully it should be a little easier to play. :) You can beat the boss, but it does involve a bit of running. (and distance.) Thanks again!
@onezerox, Thanks for the feedback!
@leolferraz, Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment and play my game. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
@nyanpierre, Thanks! Graphics are really fun for me, and I've been learning a lot lately. Honestly I spent most of my time trying to make it look nice :smile:
@thekimeo, Thank you! I know not everyone may see that ending, but I threw it in as something fun. I'm glad you liked it! For those who are wondering, if you fail to get all the obelisks in time, you'll get an alternate (bad) ending.
@myazuid, Thanks for checking it out! Someday I hope to be able to port future games properly for MacOS and Linux.
@bananaguybob, thanks for taking the time to check it out anyway! :smile:
@julienmc, You're too kind! I wish I could have made it bigger, but had to a decent part of my original idea to keep the scope small enough to finish. Thanks for playing!
@hawkin, I'm so glad you liked it! Thanks for trying it out!
@narffy, Thank you!
@orionhart, I totally understand, I ended up rushing to get sounds in at the end, and I definitely think it would have made the game a lot better. Thank you for bringing getting stuck; I'm looking into that further to see what I can do. I'll also take the text speed into account. I'm glad you liked the game, and I'm grateful for your feedback!
@ferociter, Thank you! If you have any suggestions as to how I could have made it better, please let me know!
@black-flag, Thank you so much for taking the time to play! I would have loved to expand the game a lot more, but I'm glad you enjoyed it anyway!
@apostle, thanks for the feedback!
@shadowcast, I really appreciate the in-depth review, as well as your honesty. I made a lot of mistakes in how I went about things; I could blame it on time, but that's entirely on me. Your feedback is incredibly valuable though, as I really would like to improve. Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts! :smile:
@ldp, Thanks for giving it a shot! And thank you for the suggestions, I truly appreciate it! :slight_smile:
@rogsound, thanks!
@skleembof, Thanks for the feedback! :smile:
@sleepystudios, Thank you for your comment! :smile:
I love the art in this game! It made me sad to cut it down in the end, but I really enjoyed everything! Great job!
The art style is fantastic! I love the initial difficulty in figuring the game out; while I had to read some of the comments to figure out how the crafting works, it really encouraged me to keep going once I got the hang of it. The mood is great as well.
Definitely innovative! I love the general humor as well. :smile:
I love the way this game progresses as you get closer to the end. I thought it was very well balanced, and the perfect difficulty. I wish there were audio, but I understand how time constraints can be. :smile: Great work, all of you! I especially love the style and artwork.
I love that you get rewarded with something for completing a day. This game was a lot of fun, and I love the snail! The water got me every time though. :laughing:
The music, gameplay, and art are all great! Good job to everyone who worked on this! I had fun! :smile:
This game is fantastic! I love the graphics especially. It was very easy to pick up, and I got invested quickly. Keep up the great work; I'd love to see this expanded even further!
I'm not great at it, but I sure had fun! I wish the controls were a little more sensitive, but I got the hang odf it eventually! Great job!
I absolutely love the artstyle, and had a great time playing it through several times. Great work!
This was a lot of fun! I really enjoyed the look of this game and the ability to upgrade the different weapons. I played a couple of times, and would love to see more!
Definitely a unique concept, 5 stars for innovation and theme for sure :laughing:
It took a little bit of play to get the unit countering order under my belt, but I enjoyed the game. Great job!
Wow-! I didn't expect to feel so much in so short a time. The mood--the graphics--everything is fantastic! Great work!
I love the mood and atmosphere! Great job! I kept pushing my time without going back for more torches, so then I had to rush to get back. It made my heart pump! I also thought the voices in the darkness were great.
I like the mood and the enemy in the dark! It fits the theme well.
I had a lot of fun playing this, especially as the difficulty increased! I wish there was some way to know when an offscreen portal appears, but I enjoyed it nonetheless! Great work!
Props to making me laugh! Great job with the theme, this is definitely one of the most unique takes I've seen :laughing:
Great game! I love the gameplay and sheer amount of gameplay and polish given the amount of time you had. Keep it up!
I wish I had the setup to play this, but I watched through the playthrough--great job with everything! You attempted a lot in such a short span, and what you accomplished is impressive! Please let me know if you make a PC version!
I had a little trouble at first understanding what certain cards did, but this game totally blew me away: amazing job with the graphics, the story, the gameplay--everything was incredibly well done. I would love to play more of this if you ever decide to expand it, great job!
Thank you to all of you who left comments! I'm still learning and am grateful for all of the feedback!
@m0zrat Thanks!
@kot9 Thank you!
@james-greenleaf Thanks for commenting, I'm glad you liked it!
@fenix131113 Thanks! I had (ambitious) plans for some clues, puzzles, and decor around the room that would guide you towards the secret room but ran out of time towards the end.
@melissa-stodolnik Thank you for the comment! I had some issues with the item system towards the end of the jam and wasn't able to get it working, but you shouldn't need to put anything down to open up the bookshelf. I'm glad you enjoyed it anyway, I had fun making it!
@alezjl Thank you for the kind words!
@rowdy3 Thanks! I'm really glad you enjoyed it!
@ilbini I really wish I could have had more time to add more clues to the game and polish up the item pickup system so it would be a more fluid experience, but the never-ending battle against scope creep is a tough one. :smiley: Thank you for playing, I'm glad you had fun!
@someone Thanks for the comment!
@shadowbrain Thank you for the feedback, it's greatly appreciated! I agree, it definitely is more of a fetch quest than I would have liked. I did most of this on my own (with some much-appreciated help from my wife) and had hoped to do a lot more with it, but really wanted to focus on improving my modeling/animation skills, so admittedly the majority of my time went towards that. :slight_smile: I'm always looking to improve, so I'm grateful for your thoughts!
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Again, thanks to all of you for taking the time to leave a comment, it really means a lot!
@anaastaska Thank you!
@amunonra Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!
This is great: the stakes are high, the gameplay is fast-paced, and it's just downright fun. Great job!
I love this game! It was a lot of fun and made me think about how to get as many items ready as possible between orders. Keep it up!
This entry blew me away! Great graphics and audio, addictive gameplay, and the mood is fantastic. I had only one issue while playing on my second attempt where the UI disappeared and I couldn't read the descriptions, but it came back after a round or two. Nice job on this one!
I really enjoyed this game--great game loop, great graphics, fun music, and a lot of gameplay for the time you had to work on it. For later rounds past 10 or so I'd love to see this fleshed out more in a post-LD version to keep things interesting, but I have no complaints. Keep it up! Bonus points for the humor; that wok sure is spicy!
I had a little bit of trouble understanding what was going on in regard to the battles like some of the other commentors, but you did a great job nonetheless. Perhaps a tutorial of some form inside the game would be helpful? The pixel art is fantastic!
Now I can finally live the mob life I've always wanted!
This game looks beautiful, but I didn't get very far before some of the images turned into white squares and I couldn't click anything. (I think the 3rd screenshot is where it happened?) I'd love to come back and play this again later!
I love the art and the mood of this game! I also really liked the ramping difficulty, great job!
@inonesgraveded I'm sorry to hear you weren't able to play it! The LD rules have allowed bugfixes/optimization post-jam (without adding new content) in the past, so we're working to try to clean it up. We've made few changes today which hopefully will have an impact on the performance, but there's still more to do. Thanks for trying it out!
@velvetlobster Hi! Unfortunately, Unreal Engine 5 doesn't currently support packaging to web players and the project exceeds the website's file size for in-browser games, so just the Windows executable is available at the moment. We've been researching 3rd party options but haven't had much luck.
@ricoshade Thanks for checking it out! I didn't make optimization a priority during the jam, so that's entirely on me--hopefully it's a little better now though. I'm glad you liked the character! @hilary-fischer came up with the idea for him, and I'm really happy with how it turned out. I haven't played Little Nightmares, so I'll have to try it out, but I'll take it as a compliment. :smile:
@gmary I've tried to make some optimizations, but we're still working on that side of things to make the game more accessible. Please feel free to try the latest version or check back later to see if it's any improvement. Thanks for trying it out anyway!
@neoawesomeon Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment! We're trying to improve our skills all the time, so your feedback is invaluable. :smile:
@dreo Thanks, we had fun making it! We'd love to add more to it in the future once we've had some time to fix all the issues. :smiley: Any suggestions on how to improve the character movement to avoid dizziness?
@hardytryer Thanks for trying it!
@barryrichter Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!
@velvetlobster Thanks for trying it out! This is really my first time going through optimization, so it's certainly been an experience! I haven't played Tiny Echo either, so I'll try it out sometime as well! Thanks for the recommendation, and thanks for taking the time to play it; I'm glad you enjoyed it despite the performance.
@desibragg I'm sorry about that! Hopefully it's at least a little better now, however admittedly I'm starting to run out of ideas on other things to optimize.
@kseniya Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!
@frontiersend Thank you!
@pimping Glad you enjoyed it!
@zenorke Thanks!
@lachlan-james Thank you for your feedback! We really tried to push our skills to the limit with this one, and there was a lot we simply ran out of time to finish and had to cut from the game. The enemies will damage you, although it takes a good number of hits to take out your entire health bar; we tried to keep it fairly easy so that it wouldn't become too frustrating for a jam game, but they definitely could use some balancing/updates. As far as the credits, sure thing! Animations were something we did not have time to do completely from scratch, but they were necessary for the concept, so base animations are from Mixamo. Please feel free to vote accordingly! Otherwise, everything is in-house during the jam: @hilary-fischer and I came up with the concept/story idea together. I focused on art and sound, so the 3D modeling, sculpting, texture painting/unwrapping, shaders, music, sound, in-editor level creation, and some coding, particularly for the menus, camera, level design, and water elevators & waterfalls/valves. @hilary-fischer focused on coding and primarily worked on the characters, (Algie, Mosslings, and Mudlurks) so the movement, navigation, enemy AI, animation systems, combat system, HUD, and the interaction system, plus some various things, so something like 95% of the game's total coding in the end. Matt Fischer acted as a sounding board and helped us design the level layout on paper.
@daria-toni Sorry to hear you were unable to play it! I'm glad you liked the character and music/sounds though! Thanks!
@pimeko I'm glad you liked it! For the characters in particular, I sculpted and painted them inside Blender, then overlaid some additional grunge/dirt to the top to make them look less plastic-y. I'm really happy with how they came out given the timeframe. We'd love to do some more improvements, so maybe we'll look into developing the game further down the line.
If anyone has experience with Unreal Engine 5 optimization and could recommend any resources, I would love to hear from you!
@ginxel Thanks! That's the second time someone has mentioned Little Nightmares; I really have to play it sometime!
@sasha20 Thanks so much, I'm glad you liked it!
@mrtroy I'm glad you liked it! Hopefully we can improve on those areas, but if you have any other suggestions, please feel free to let us know!
I don't know that we have much in the way of screen recording, but if people are interested, maybe we could make a post-mortem or devlog explaining how everything was made.
@hermeses Thanks so much!
@infernaton Thank you! Some of the freezing might be due to level streaming: when leaving you are about to enter a new area it loads in the new assets, then unloads the old assets as the previous area goes out of view. There's usually at least a small hit to performance in the transition where the new assets are being loaded but the old ones haven't been unloaded yet, so that would be my guess. Thanks for letting me know!
@f1krazy I'm sorry to hear that--thanks for checking it out anyway!
This was so much fun, I loved the mystery of having to figure out what to do/the language in addition to the gameplay. The art is fantastic and the music was entertaining (especially at the end). Great job everyone!
This is such a great idea! The use of cardboard with drawings--I love it!