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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | 👥 | Unstable Deck (Unfinished) | unfinished | |||||||||
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | 👥 | Into the Abyss (Deeper and Deeper) | jam | 903 | 3.52 | 3.10 | 3.30 | 4.10 | 4.00 | 3.63 | 3.07 | 3.58 |
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | 👥 | Don't Stress that Beat! | jam | 1086 | 3.31 | 3.03 | 3.45 | 4.04 | 3.15 | 3.05 | 2.94 | 3.21 |
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Keep Ye Alive | compo | 1028 | 2.69 | 2.00 | 2.57 | 3.22 | 3.55 | 2.86 | 2.51 | 2.71 |
Very cool. Great twist on the theme. Side note it seems to be suffering from some scaling or alignment issues - when I popped it open the baby was out in the lower right corner of the screen. Probably something to do with Macs and Retina Display like they do.
This is really great. Love the angle on the theme... and the Tetris gone flaming idea is just :fire: (pun intended). I really gotta check out this Pico8 thing. So sweet and retro.
Neat. It worked ok on the web for me. I like the check-point / charge mechanic. Good stuff.
Ahh... that :poop: animation!! So good. Nice work.
I got 340! I love clicking on the fish to make them breed. Best surprise was when I finally got one of the fast bois to do it and it spawned a whole mess of them. Great stuff... keep on coding!
Oh and the music loop is sweet. Would be amazing to get some water animation on the top layer there.
Love this. Cute and well rounded concept and execution.
Doooohhh.... this is great! I've been seeing posts of the graphics (Twitter maybe?) and it is great to see it playable. Some minor issues with bounding other peeps have mentioned and I ran out of ducks but didn't get the game over screen once... but whatever... this is amazing work for 72 hours. In love with the gnome art and run loop. The slow mo grab on the last duck is just :two_hearts:
Super cute. Love the tamagochi++ as a take on the theme. Amazing work for 48hrs.
This is great. I'm going to end up spending some time playing this. I love the pixel-rope dynamics and the whole concept. A little hard to sort out how best to network -- but that's what makes me want to play it some more. Great work!
@noxbuds ~128~ 142 has been my best still one of my favorite :blue_heart: entries and I've looked at a bunch. (I feel like the server overloads even if I keep all of the servers at green levels - not sure if that's expected.)
Ah... that typing sound is genius. Cool game -- pretty tough. I like the twist on shooting to repair. I also dig the warping you have over the screen. Great stuff.
Hahah... what they said. I also dig the Paperboy shout out. :)
Good stuff. Brings me back to the day of Llamatron
I dig the concept. I couldn't figure out how to play the mini games tho. Maybe it needs like a simple text instruction for each a-la WarioWare.
I like it. Good stuff. Love the way the theme was addressed and the humor in a serious situation.
Finally got a chacce to pop in -- this is great. I love the deformation of the dragon neck... the fire effects and of course the voice acting. Good show!
Great twist on a classic mechanic. Impressed that you got a few levels in and everything. Good stuff. Gonna peep that tones.wolfram too how cool is that.
Great twist on the theme. I love the inclusion of a minimap.
I like it. Great concept. Pretty hard to play and yeah I think unity crashed after I played thru once. Good work for the Compo!
Holy wars! I dig it. Nice work.
Nice work. Love the concept and how much you were able to get done in 48!
Great concept. Good stuff for a quick jam.
Good concept... edgy lol. But I really love the twist on the puzzle. Feels like the jump from the first to the second is a lot. Still great stuff. Poor babies.
This is great. Brings me back to the old Atari game Warlords for some reason. I really love the simplicity and how friggin hard it is. Kinda wish I had a round paddle controller to play it. :)
Very impressed by the polish you got in 48hrs. Plays great, smooth effects, and just neat panic gameplay. The artwork is mmm so good.
Nice angle to use this sort of lighting demo scenario as a game concept. Pretty incredible for a weekend. I would love to see some sort of trail being left by your guy or maybe it would grow brighter as you collect the small bois making you safe from dimmer shadows? I dunno. Good stuff tho!
What a great twist. Love the old LCD Game In Watch theming. Awesome.
Love the way you approached the concept. Really like that it's not just a fill meter but that the character changes depending on their food. Broccoli killed me!! Not sure about the pro-junkfood message - lol. Great work for a first game!
This is great. Really gave me the old school WarioWare feels. Curious if the different paths are generated or designed.
Yeah - it needs a text prompt in the shop panel. There's a lot more I could do. Basically... the game plays itself -- and you just **click the potion in the store panel to heal the Hero**.
Totally. Thanks @cjgammon.
@sergei That's right! Glad you got the twist. I like that idea of switching up roles as a mechanic too.
**Thanks everyone for the early votes and for your comments, feedback and ideas.** I've made games all my life but this is my first time participating in this jam. Feels good. :two_hearts: I'm going to clean up the code and get a little more polish on it and put the source and assets up on the github (currently empty) link above. It'll probably take a couple of weeks with my schedule but feel free to star the repo or just check back later.
@sergei, @nicolasmaclean, @jamesor, @pronomicalartist, @myles-mccoy, @bereg, @tero-pulkkinen, @ioan-pop, @pulkit-garg, @kinshuk-thebest, @rsim, @thegamegoyal, @rjerez192, @mailman, @fussenkuh, @jetthesimon You all rock. :metal:
@matt2728 Thanks for playing. It is probably possible to live forever if you spam health potions. In the future I would have a wave system and the enemies would get tougher. Potions would have a re-spawn timer; possibly causing you to have to purchase a more expensive potion because the cheap one hasn't re-spawned. I want to add other items too, weapons, armor, etc... but 24hrs just wasn't enough. ;) I'm going to keep working on this until October and I'll keep the repository public for anyone who wants to help or just grab it and re-skiin it.
Thanks @d1str4kt0r ! I appreciate you saying so. I'm going to keep working at it for a while when I have the time.
I don't want to update the compo page, that wouldn't be fair... but I'm posting updates here as I go: https://www.jrvisuals.com/games/ld46-latest/ and also pushing the source code to a public repository here: https://github.com/jrod-disco/ld46-keepalive
Thanks @erkoply ! I had a lot of fun -- so hard to get a good run loop in 4 frames. :runner: I've got a URL above your comment where I'm continuing the work.
Thank you @fizzget I appreciate the feedback. I'm definitely going to do the October LD -- trying to get a team of 3 together for that one.
Thank you @cheesepencil much appreciated - and thanks for stopping by the stream! I think I'm going to keep working on this and streaming progress until the next LD in October.
Ah.... such a good idea. It was super hard for me to grab the flies -- like I finally caught one but then the plant wouldn't eat it. :bug: ?
Ruh roh... I think the link is broken. Will come back. Screenshots look great.
Love it. Well done team! The frog voices are great... and the way Green walks cracks me up. :frog:
Love the take on the theme - and yes like @sanojian I wish there were a way to break the cycle but we know better. Nice work.
Haha -- so good. A world within a world.
Very cool. Tests my patience. Great work team!
But is it art? Yes; yes it is. Thanks for something very different.
Nice twist on the loop. Loved the intro - very cool.
Well done Dummy Dojo. Simple, tight, and oh so right.
@rhoff95 Thank you! Yeah we went back and forth about having that in there permanently... or even starting off with "tips" for each of the icons for the first few times they come up. Given more time we would do something like that.
@dogman Oh man. Thanks for pointing that out. Yeah we used the slider component as a shortcut. LOL Thank you for the feedback.
Some last minute updates. No more cheating by moving the slider and permanent instructions on which icon goes with each arrow key!
@raphiell good catch - haha always something that slips by - thanks for playing
@lychee & @printablealice totally agree - that's what we were going for but we ran out of time before we could sort out how to get the music and animation timing just right - might be something we go back and tweak because it really was about 50% of the concept. Thank you for playing and for the feedback!
@echo-gameworks thanks for playing glad you got a laugh! I'd love to do a second pass at the music and sound per the previous comment
@etrealjunior Just played your game and left a comment. Good stuff.
This is fantastic. I love how the beat builds and the way you addressed the theme. I would love for this to somehow be a twin stick shooter -- or at least to be able to use a controller. Maybe have some limited shield resource or power ups to shake things up. Solid entry and quite an accomplishment for a compo.
Great art and music. Loved the theme... and really liked that it was really 3 games in one. It would be nice if you could control the speed of the hummingbird's flight but that's a small thing. Well done!
Great stuff. Love the pixel art and the way the game addresses the theme.
Super picky, and I know there is never enough time - but another nice touch would be to have the shadow stay on the ground when the player jumps -- or even just fade out when they're in the air.
Looking forward to seeing what you all put together. (Current link isn't working but I see you're working on an update.)
Nice work team! Very interesting approach to storytelling. Looking forward to see what you make in the future.
Adorable. Amazing that you had time to get all of these features in.
Love it... yeah... the pixel art... the tunes... the concept. Good stuff. My favorite thing is the way the bucket on the music slider turns as you drag it... just a nice subtle touch.
Neat game. Good job. I've used Phaser a bunch... pretty great. If you haven't tried it check out PIXI also... less of a game engine and more of a renderer but if you're a JS person you might like it. I set up a decent boilerplate for it.
Love the pixel art. Good stuff. Obviously with more time having 2-3 frames of walk animation for the enemies would go a long way.
Good job on your first LD! The game was enjoyable even though it was pretty short. Took me a few tries to get wise to the sharks. ;)
Loved the hand drawn art and the point of view perspective. Good stuff.
Love it. Great twist on a classic. The pixel art is adorable.
I like it. Played it until I got into orbit and maybe I killed it when I drilled down after. Love the architectural styled graphics. Well done.
@drilling-fox yeah... that's a thing... we're trying to get it better... sorry to be rude lol
@embedder72 totally... the split idea would be great and give it more variety... also force the player to move around a bit more. Thank you so much for playing.
@stefgrizzly Thank you for playing! We talked about adding treasure... or fish to collect. Things to add variety and also get more points. Also wanted to add a Kraken tentacle to dodge... but time ran out and we shifted to polish and debugging.
@mtwhateverest Thanks for checking it out. Yeah we wanted a bit of claustrophobia to kick in... but at the same time a larger space would yield more variety. I have a feeling we'll be tweaking this after Ludum Dare and share a "post launch" link if we get some of the feedback and things from our wishlist in.
Thanks @shaolin-dave - you're totally right. We have no real balancing on the pickups so you're at the mercy of the RNG. It's subtle but the pickups will go to 50% opacity when you can no longer pick them up and they're "above" you.
Thanks @andrew-hoyer yes... debris or mines would be a great addition. I also had the idea of a Kraken tentacle that would come in from the side and try to swat you.
@grewoss awesome - thanks... would love to hear back from you if you were able to win... we've been getting conflicting reports about it being impossible due to resource shortages.
Hey... @zimny11 @kotz @kszaku ..thank you so much for the feedback. One thing we're looking at doing post LD is to add gamepad support and maybe some sort of tutorial hints about the controls. They were meant to be floaty... but can definitely feel a little funky if you're expecting to turn the ship rather than just point it in the direction you want to go.
:cherry_blossom: Well done. Probably my favorite compo entry so far.
Good stuff... loved the art from the title screen to the end. (minus the start button :P) But seriously this was entertaining and a really great use of the theme. Well done!
Great stuff... I love that we did a similar concept and similar mechanics but in different perspectives. Cheers.
Great job. I love it... I will have to play some more now that I know there's an end!
Haha... good stuff... so annoying. :) Seriously though great first go. Congrats!