Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Jan Peter (jpdev)
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 37 | One room | sweet dreams... | compo | 294 | 3.32 | 3.09 | 3.15 | 3.97 | 3.48 | 2.84 | 2.79 | 3.23 | 64 | ||
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | Grow the herd | compo | 585 | 3.12 | 3.04 | 3.12 | 3.04 | 3.63 | 2.72 | 2.95 | 2.80 | 46 | ||
| 2015 | 32 | An Unconventional Weapon | Unconventional George | compo | 770 | 2.93 | 3.04 | 2.46 | 3.18 | 3.29 | 2.56 | 3.19 | 2.52 | 45 | ||
| 2014 | 31 | Entire Game on One Screen | Stop Christmas - the snowmen are coming! | compo | 560 | 3.19 | 2.96 | 1.92 | 3.35 | 2.69 | 2.67 | 2.58 | 36 | |||
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | deep down | compo | 388 | 3.34 | 3.21 | 2.58 | 3.40 | 3.25 | 3.03 | 2.94 | 3.00 | 68 |
Jan Peter (jpdev) leaves an average of 24.2 feedback comments each event.
Cool concept - and quite fun with two people.
But I have to say, the very short music loop went on my nerves pretty quickly :) [I really shouldn't complain, I can't do it any better.. that's why my sheep don't have background music.]
Also the webversion seems to be oversized by just a few pixels in chrome (you get scrollbars around the game).
First I though ugh.. too easy, I don't even die if I run into walls. But then I noticed it's an escort mission :)
Also a nice idea to include the kids in making games!
Cool take on the classic!
It get very hard very fast :)
But very cool music!
Really nice graphics..
And the concept really reminds me of the duel in the dresden chronicels :) (well ok, no lasers were used there, but an object was pushed between the guys ^^)
I got really dizzy - it looks super nice, but I somehow think it would have been better just to change the direction you are growing and not rotate the screen.
Really cool graphics and animations.
Another really fun take on the two button theme - so much different functions on two buttons :)
Full theme points!
very weird intro :)
But cool sunglasses!
So first of all cool idea with the multitasking the gathering suns, killing insects and abilities / resources to manage.
My problems: The green arrow on the lower left, what does it do? - How do i progress, why couldn't i use the third ability.. i guess i didn't manage to upgrade, but i am not sure why, I thought I tried the green arrow on the lower left. But I might not have had enough resources.
Will play again :)
I was missing a way to restart the game (I played the download version, because of chrome - so no page reload).
Also I really didn't get the controls the first time around (i had already planted all seeds, before I noticed you could move the "guy".. didn't get that it was a guy I have to admit :) )
First of all, I wish I would have never gotten background music ;)
It's a cool idea to apply the grow theme to growing the game itself in content and features.
Cool game.
Sometimes it felt a little weird how I was pulled into the gravity field of asteroids, but other then that really nice :)
It's bit weird choice of colors, and I really didn't like the flashing when losing points.
If you would add a shadow to the ball, it would be way easier to see where (in the 3d space) it actually is.
You captured the gameboy feeling very good, also with the music.
What I didn't get was how you could tell land had been developed. (I only got, that you could develop the same tile multiple times after playing once and then reading the instructions later ;) )
One game random was really mean to me, in the first 3 rounds (I think) everyone died of random events.
Overall a freh idea, good job :)
no kidding, it's not easy.
I think from a technical viewpoint not capturing the mouse in the web version would have made it a bit better experience. But it totally was playable.
I like, that you used the grow theme not on the playable character but on the obstacles :)
Cool sound effects, and as of yet absolutly the best hats.
Plane on a snake. NICE :)
What I didn't like is that you don't die even if you are only the head and bump into things. That made it too easy I think.
Otherwhise great game!
Nice little growing game.
What I liked most is exactly what my own game is missing - you made levels. It starts easy and not with all mechanics at once.
In hindsight that's what I should have done with my sheep.
I really like it.
Also great post mortem - timelapse and gameplay and comments. Three thumbs up.
Also, you used poo as a weapon too. Another thumb up :)
(Running quickly out of thumnbs here)
Very nice puzzler - took me a while to figure out what the plan was. I thought the second level was easier than the first.
got stuck on the one screen one with 3 sticks
Your windows link seems to be dead.
It's weird as hell :)
thumbs up!
hey there,
I don't know how you ran into the loading between lifes / menu and game things with phaser. you could just load every asset once before the game starts.. and then never load anything again. (assets are carried over the different states!)
also (at least on chrome) there is a glitch with the sound after you die for the first time.
other then that really nice pixel graphic and cool music!
5576 points - it's really hard because the target moves pretty slow (if you have to follow a guy, he nearly outruns you).
I like the lightning effect and the sound :)
chrome deletes the download as harmful (not even with the option to keep the file)
the idea with the "fake" 3d is nicely done!
Score and somewhat more feedback when something is hit and this could be a fun little game.
controls are really a bit weird.. I think walk towards mouse should always be the left mouse button (we know this from things like diablo and so on) - asdw should either be absolute movement (up down left right) or "a" and "d" rotate, and w moves into the direction you are currently looking.
The mix you made isn't very intuitive.
Then again, killing sheep with sheep.. really unconventional :)
really nice, I think it's one of the best I have played this ludum dare. Rated accordingly :)
Wow, really liked that one.
Nice climbing and overall feel to the monkey controls.
Also absolutely the best interpretation of the theme ;) (why? Because that's what I did too - right down to eating bananas to gain more poo :) )
And: Wow, humans and also poo are way more deadly than I thought :)
I like the idea of stealing the powers of the enemies.
Also very cool background music!
I would have voted for "space" as an alternative to the mouse button. (I have to admit, it took me a second to even regocnice what "LB to shoot" was meaning.)
I liked it, but damn.. I missed one guy somewhere.
a nice and quick game.
not terribly innovative, but fun one the less :)
this was a fun game, I like how the bananas could stop the bullets and how they flew curved through the air.
Would have liked it a little more if aiming the bananas was more straight forward.
Had problems locating myself on the first try or understanding what was going on - but reading the game description did help and explain things.
But when the smooth talker had talked all green soldiers in the level into liking him, I could not figure out what todo next.
Also I guess bombs are not really unconventional.. (but I am one to talk on that.. my monkey it throwing feces, not very unconventional either, for monkeys at least.)
The interaction with the zombies was kind of weird for me, the first one fell into my shelter and we touched multiple times without me losing hp. But the later zombie touches did indeed hurt ;)
Cool mood.
The boss fight was intese (the "eye" that lasers you). I beat it.. and then was disapointed, that nothing happend and I was stuck in its room. - or did I miss something?)
Also, up until this point there was absolutly nothing relating to the theme.
I like this, from the source code:
this.TOTAL_GAME_TIME = 1000 * 60 * 3; // 5 minutes
Just thought it was funny :)
btw: the source isn't linked directly, but you can view it here: https://github.com/jrgrafton/ludum-jam-31/ (figured it out from the game link ;) )
web one worked for me.
it's really hard. the purple square just would not die.
65395 .. is this a good score? :)
It's really not enough room to escape the enemy lasers.
I must admit I didn't completly get what was going on and the room was becoming small really fast :)
yeah, the collision is really unforgiving (collision boxes too big? - I too think you simply can't get the snowflake to the right and down from the starting point :( )
33581 .. became really stressfull at the end there :)
I like it, for a replay I would like to be able to turn the music off.
really nailed the theme.
(but the gameplay not so much, from what I can tell)
374.000 .. is this good? :)
Best action of all games I have played so far. Nice :)
it was fun to play, but I don't see the theme in it.
After playing a while I also had a hangup in my browser. (using chrome, became unresponsive for a while, not sure what happened)
nice sounds .. booom ;)
and thanks for the music mute, so after a while you can turn it off.
also really sure where it connects to the theme.
but i do like the heli controls!
wow.. thought I was stupid when I could not beat level 3 ... then I found out about drilling ;)
btw: the big one is actually the last one. (source: I won :) )
I agree: grid movement would have made this easier to play. but nice anyway!
Wow.. took me long to grasp, that i did not have to make it over to the other side without reaching the bottom of the screen :)
can't be scored. weird.
Really cool use of the theme!
Hey SuperOkeunicon,
This might be the solution for your music:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6045384/playing-mp3-and-wav-in-java
(Or maybe just for the next java game you want to put music into.)
Greetings,
JP
in the html5 version I had the problem that on my second death restarting with R did not work. the hint disappeared but I still lay there in the dark. (it was after a pretty deep fall)
the narration is brilliant, the game itself needs some enemies or goodies or something I think :)
played through it. have you changed stuff around? (Because it was easy to beat for me, the comments suggest it's kind of hart. I made it to the end screen with the planet thingy. - tough I was getting frustrated at the end.. had to go 5 fields right.. took forever since I always drew GO LEFT cards ^^ )
reached level 9 :) - it is quite fun, but as Kragnir said, it's too much luck based for my taste.
Sorry, but I don't get it.
I can move left and right. Up uses a dynamite and destroys a block. You can do that 15 times.. but except for draining some what nothing happens.
If you had left some kind of how-to-play that would have been really usefull :)
I like that it's multiplayer.
Switches things up a little.
But if one player doesn't play nice (for example just keeps on shooting, there no way to get to them, so it lacks some balance.)
wow, really enjoyed it. but at lvl 3 it gets really hard to play on a touchpad :) - I need to revisit with a mouse!
I normally don't have a green thumb when it comes to plant life..
.. same problem here, I got it going good.. but was too greedy, I grew so many leafes, that in the end the water respawn was just not enough to sustain my tree.
you made the mono-color-look look good :)
I like it, but I sometimes wish I could do more for my success. Meaning I would like to slow down, when it's absolutely impossible to otherwise make it through the next obstacle.
I like that it's totally different theme-wise from what I have seen so far, and still fits.
Also woah.. hard to play with touchpad, still made it to lvl3 .. is that one beatable?:)
could be a cool game, if I may present a wishlist:
- more ammo
- ability to shoot again while the first projectile is still there (it takes a little too long for it to settle)
I had a problem that sometimes when I was out of ammo the game would not reset. (A simple reload did fix that.)
i enjoyed it, cool game.
but somehow I did not manage to kill boats (I just thumbed on the deck from above) but hey, I ate many birds!
I hope eating some birds makes up for all the sharks I blew up while making my game ;)
hi monaarc,
I will test your game later! (@work, no downloads right now)
But a quick reply to a comment you left on my game: the first enemy submarine appears after you shoot your tenth shark :)
Greetings,
JP
html version was playing fine for me (chrome).
Beat the game. Nice, that there was a boss.
Only thing that saved me from frustration was the nice save-system on S and itempickup :)
I don't get it.
I can move the cam around fine, but mouse left click does nothing, I did not find a way to interact.
Read instructions twice..
crashed for me when i looked at thomas ("look thomas")
it would have been great also if you could abriviate the actions. typing fight/flame/attack/heal for the 100th time is a little annoying - f f a h would be more user friendly. :)
sadly must confirm, web version does not start (titl0.png error)
Awesome review MunkeeBacon!
nice
only control flaw: if you want to dig a stone that is beeing crushed, you don't dig (because it's getting crushed) but move there and then get crushed yourself.
I would prefere if moving against a stone that is beeing crushed would not move you in it's position. (you die 100% of the time, so it's never an action you want to take, but i did it by accident a few times.)
thanks for the undo button, otherwhise it would be too demotivating. :)
I really hope you record everything that is typed into that box and send it to your server. Pretty sure that log file will be hilarious :)
LD37 — One room (39)
The Shifting Room by Max Amaden 2016-12-19T07:00:00
Really well done
Outlast The Flood by MattWoelk 2016-12-19T06:56:00
Tried to plug them all :) - only two minutes though.
Danger: Mondays by Gamepopper 2016-12-19T06:52:00
Very mean placement of a porter potty.
(Do you know there is a short story by stephen king about beeing trapped in one? - felt reminded of that.)
Dibs: Top Bunk by kidando 2016-12-19T06:51:00
really nice, finally something "arcade" with nice action.
Null Void by SuperPokeunicorn 2016-12-19T06:49:00
Funny game, but I feel you cheated the theme a bit :)
Perfidious Albion by Ysty 2016-12-19T06:43:00
The letters rock :)
Finding Home by abezuska 2016-12-16T22:07:00
Nice job on drawing all these in the 48 hours.
Feels like a childs book :)
Room 753 by local minimum 2016-12-16T22:05:00
Uhm.. I did so many rooms. Did I miss something?
Squiddy by Tribbs 2016-12-16T22:02:00
Cool graphics and I enjoy the health system via leg-losing. Not sure how the theme applies :)
There Is No Room by RttStudio 2016-12-16T22:01:00
It gets really hard.
I also notices that some of the shots bug out and kind of float around instead of going straight forward.
One Room Dungeon by Trasevol_Dog 2016-12-16T22:00:00
funny concept, nice pixel graphics.
The Wiggle Room by panurge 2016-12-16T21:58:00
Who doesn't like a fun chainsaw massacre - nice :)
In One Fell Swoop by Patomkin 2016-12-16T21:56:00
Cool idea with the bouncing off walls - I just didn't get when you bounce of and when you don't because the line always indicates you will.
You're tearing me apart by Noah Ratcliff 2016-12-16T21:54:00
Good game to get rid of some rage :)
Breach Lockdown by DesignerNap 2016-12-16T21:52:00
The method of input overly complicates.. I think I would have liked it better if I just could use the keyboard instead of the virtual ingame one.
The Evidence Room by TrampolineTales 2016-12-16T21:50:00
Feels a lot like work...
Ludum Dare 37 by maxpostnikov 2016-12-15T18:39:00
1249 :)
Just not sure how the room theme applies.
Welcome Back by yeknomerif 2016-12-14T19:52:00
Dear god, why would you do that? gaaah. no more.
Also what do you know about my behind.. and my soul?
Really cool (for a text adventure :) )
The Murder Room by Sawtan 2016-12-14T19:48:00
I really liked the shotgun, too bad it had so little ammo.
Cool game, I actually had something similar in mind before coming up with my spider idea.
The Mail(Bore)Room by Multitudes22 2016-12-14T19:45:00
Oh wow, you could start with one of those "vr job simulators" .. I would get fired in no time :)
Web Version worked fine for me in Chrome, nothing was clipped.
Falling Tower by xbcw 2016-12-14T19:42:00
32 west moon room :)
Interesting idea - even if it feels like many rooms instead of one. But I guess in the end they are all one, when collapsed onto one another.
One Game by rainssong 2016-12-14T19:35:00
Really different than many other games.
I must admit I don't get how it fits into the theme though.
Lit Room by justking14 2016-12-14T19:33:00
Cool idea, but the introductory levels are over before you even know which of the dots you are and what is happening :) - still figured it out.
I have to admit, after 3 fully light rooms I got bored :)
House Invade by reivinoktavianus 2016-12-14T19:26:00
Your download is missing the data directory, the exe alone is not enough:
There should be 'House Invade v1.1_Data'
folder next to the executable
Goocer by stuffed 2016-12-14T19:23:00
Your link is a 404 (embedded doesn't load, and web link goes to empty page on itch)
Game Jam Fail 01 by phil 2016-12-14T19:21:00
Hm.. yes, I see what you did there.
But there is no room and no ratings.. so why did I click so much?! :)
Extreme Bug Fixer by sroelandt 2016-12-14T19:18:00
Me against the bugs.
It played smoothly and after the first "accident" I got that the white circles mean there is something bad going to spawn.
I found it irritating that the stuff on the ground had no influence (it looks like walls) but you and the bugs just run through.
The handling of the player was nice :)
Also .. uhm.. room theme? :)
El Laberinto De Pereira by Pantelis Petsopoulos 2016-12-14T19:13:00
I'm sorry but the music really got onto my nerves.
When I was about to give up because there was nothing except the labyrinth I saw the portal and the text and kept going.. until I was forces about 4 screens away from the only interesting stuff so far.. which is when I gave up.
Christmas Time by Jon Reid 2016-12-14T19:09:00
Really cool idea and execution - I wouldn't even know how to communicate between tabs! Nice one!
Also: I ruined christmas - and I am wondering why the code didn't work that was on the inside in the present time.
Box: A Short Story by kik0729 2016-12-14T19:05:00
Are you okay?
Kind of depressing.. but it creates a mood in any case!
Coloroom by rootools 2016-12-14T18:56:00
Really cool concept, but I wish I could just walk around and not just "swoosh" to the cursor.
A Bear, a Beard, and a lot of Chainsaws by elkiwydev 2016-12-14T18:52:00
Bear, cool. Chainsaws, better!
Getting shot by rangers way off screen.. meh..
Have to leave the theme-room also meh ;)
But cool concept :)
EscapeJam by Kalm004 2016-12-14T18:47:00
Your web link is just an itch.io link without a playable webgame.. that's not how "web" should be used. It's for browser playable games.
Rune Forge by Languard 2016-12-14T18:44:00
The interaction between menu items and 3d view with the mouse feels clunky.
Also I really could not figure out what to do.
I created some material, but never had enough to create any items. (It always said I need 5 of something..)
myham fastival by yoel1234 2016-12-14T18:39:00
Too bad you didn't finish it.
I really like phaser too btw :)
nO mooRe by frittatenbank 2016-12-14T18:37:00
Uhm... are you ok??
What did I just play there..
I really like the music.
Toy Wars by concalf 2016-12-14T18:28:00
Really cool game, the room theme seemed a bit tagged on though (I feel it's just the ground texture).
Lily's Adventure by resty 2016-12-12T18:28:00
Uhm, what action key?
I can jump around in the bed room and the room outside and that's it.. nothing to drag or I don't get it.
Will check back if somebody can explain how do do "it".
OneRoom by Danman9914 2016-12-12T18:21:00
this was totally weird..
I hope the ingame-games aren't representative of what ludum dare will have to offer ;)
I am also not 100% sure the error that was encountered at the end was intentional? Too meta for me maybe.
(It started glitching, a private chat was going on and then it encountered a fatal error)