The Three Goblin Problem by pfs 2021-10-11T02:33:37Z ♥ 3
That was great! When I finally made it to the bar though, my score was 0. Not sure if that's a joke, a bug or I'm just bad at the game. The lore that we got and all of the little animations made me really care about the main characters and made me push through to the end. The game just looks and sounds super good and the fact that the noir style exists is great. Just an amazing game overall.
Great job!
LD50 — Delay the inevitable (17)
SHUTTLECOCK: ARMAGEDDON by Nick Saulnier 2022-04-19T14:26:30Z ♥ 1
Fun little game. I really like the idea of having to play in such a way that the opponent doesn't lose either that was given my the premise but that didn't really seem too relevant to actually playing this game (and I'm not really sure how exactly that would work in an interesting way in the first place). The story premise is cool in and of itself too and the gameplay is generally well done. Good job!
Dino Fate by Zettelkasten 2022-04-19T14:05:27Z ♥ 3
Wow this game is really polished, especially for a game jam. Just so many great things: the graphics, the flesh-out upgrade system, the voices in the opening cut scene, ... The list goes on. The game is just super fun.
Here are a few nitpicks nevertheless: having to wait for the right moment to build/upgrade shield for them to be in the right position was a bit frustrating, I wish they would automatically take their position in the formation or something. The opening scene is great but it goes on for a bit too long imo. Once I got to a fully upgraded build with 5 lasers, 1 regen and 6 shields, at ~3000 points it felt like I was essentially invincible just standing still; not sure what the solution to that is though, maybe just a win condition? It could get a bit hard to read what exactly was going on at some points, maybe live, dangerous asteroids should look more different to debris?
But all of these things really didn't detract from my experience all that much. This is definitely the best game I've played this LD so far. Great job!
Misfortune in the Galaxy by TarikAF 2022-04-19T13:26:48Z ♥ 2
The opening scene is just so well done... it's amazing!
The tasks that you do are also quite fun though a bit monotonous after a while. I really liked having to manage my very limited inventory and dropping all the items I pick up on the floor around me.
Sadly, on my second try the lid in the utility room just couldn't be removed anymore at some point: all of the screws were out but I had no way to take the lid itself off...
I didn't mind not being able to do much in the last few seconds before death like some of the others seem to. It would have been great for one's first try if that was telegraphed in some way but especially when you know that it's gonna happen, it's a pretty cool moment adding to the atmosphere of the game. Good job!
The Maze of Swineston by LucaVazz 2022-04-19T12:59:03Z ♥ 2
Wow there seem to be a lot of things and mechanics in this game with pigs being able to see traps being placed, monsters you can place, trap disarming, some traps being multi-use and some single-use with clean-up etc. But as a player it was a bit hard to find out how everything works and it seems like it's possible to be good at this game while ignoring most of mechanics too. Also pigs appear pretty slowly, making the pace of the game similarly too slow for my taste. And there should be a way out of being soft locked because a pig saw a trap: At least monsters should still be able to attack them or something. But, again, the amount of content is really impressive and I think there is a really great game in here by just tuning some variables and slight changes. The art and music are also really neat. Good job!
Banana-Man-Joe Sr. by Jerem Watts 2022-04-19T12:41:04Z ♥ 1
I had a lot of fun with this game. Fast-first-person-shooter-with-shotgun is just a great video game genre and bouncing bullets are also always great. But I wish the bananas moved a bit slower to actually make intentionally shooting them while they move feasible. And there was no losing condition right? Shooting the bananas was still a lot of fun though and the fact that there is a boss fight is cool. The voice acting is also really well done and the music is great too. Good job!
Ousted by Reispfannenfresser 2022-04-19T12:25:10Z ♥ 1
At first the game didn't accept my input for some reason but after pausing and unpausing a few times it somehow started working. Once it worked, the game was pretty cool though. Nothing groundbreaking but solidly implemented mechanics and nice graphics and audio. The upgrades are cool. Good job!
Don't burn my Nugget by Gabriel Bissonnette 2022-04-19T02:39:42Z ♥ 2
This game looks amazing! Nuggets is really cute and the aesthetic of the world is great. I agree with some of the others that efficiently controlling the character seems quite difficult. But doing flips to gain momentum (or not doing them to not get too fast) is a really cool mechanic and it seems like the level you have made is also really long. I also quite liked the music. Good job!
Jacob Cassidy in: Case Crimson Midnight by parkuhrmd 2022-04-19T02:21:55Z ♥ 3
I really liked this game! The art and animations are great! I especially liked the zombie dying animation and the little touch of the reload animation in the UI. As a small nitpick, sometimes the z-ordering of the sprites was incorrect and a dying zombie or piece of flesh would be displayed in front of the player even when it should have been behind.
The game play is also really fun, especially with the all of the spells that you can find. But I think that the game is a bit too easy: You can always just run away from zombies and take them out with your gun without really taking any risks and even if you take risks, the zombies don't really hit that hard.
The size of the world is really impressive and the story establishes just enough to have a reason for everything without ever getting in the way. Great job!
Kuddelmuddel by Tianmaru 2022-04-19T01:59:15Z ♥ 2
Nice game. I enjoyed the variety of tasks, especially the document sorting game. I wish the difficulty would have ramped up fast/more: After day 25 I was still consistently managing to get my room to fully cleaned and then just let everything pile up to see what would happen. The amount of art assets for your slowly degrading room was cool to see. The graphics in-general and also the sound were really well done too. Good job!
Civil Servant by Daniel Klautsch 2022-04-19T01:43:25Z ♥ 2
Cults are just a really good theme, aren't they? Cults + Papers Please is definitely a cool premise. As others have said, some direct feedback on whether what you did was at all right or wrong would have been nice. But the "hidden" notes by your boss are quite cool and giving some feedback that way is a great idea, just wish that was in addition to something else, not the only channel for feedback. The overall progression towards the end with increasingly more sinister notes and more non-human cultists was really well done, just some really good build-up. Also stamping and especially stapling things is just a fun thing to do. Accidently stapling my instructions to a document and giving them away was such a cool moment. Good job!
Defend 'till the end by kjscott 2022-04-19T01:13:42Z ♥ 0
How come that there are so many great looking Pico-8 games? The art here is really great! And though the player's rotation speed could seem painfully slow at times, I had a lot of fun shooting asteroids. I'm not sure why but I was quite surprised to see the asteroids actually being effected by gravity in a realistic-ish manner, which was a cool touch. Good job!
FWOG by Corrupt Spaghetti 2022-04-19T00:57:38Z ♥ 1
I think literally every game would be better with more frogs but QWOP seems like an especially good fit for frogs.
I suck at this even more than at QWOP. I think being able to control your upper and lower legs separately would have made me feel a bit less at the mercy of events beyond my control. But I understand that this would have probably made the key bindings quite confusing. Also, being a cyborg frog definitely makes up for all that. The art is great. Goob job!
Ayakashi: The Mystery of the Sea by igorfelga 2022-04-19T00:47:42Z ♥ 0
Neat game. I managed to get to 32 seconds after a few tries. As others have pointed out, a health indicator or something similar would have been helpful. But the art style is really cool and definitely evokes what you were going for quite well. Good job!
Demon Sigil by Justin Herrick 2022-04-19T00:39:26Z ♥ 2
Really cool game. Just running around and shooting skeletons is pretty fun. I also managed to kill the demon on my first try. In retrospect, I'm not sure what the point of trying to keep the skeletons away from the center really was: They accelerate the demon spawning but if the demon is who I ultimately want to kill, why not just let him spawn right away? Except for that, the mechanics seem really solid. Having multiple different lines of defense against the skeleton is neat. Good job!
We Have to Talk by Oleg Bone 2022-04-19T00:28:45Z ♥ 3
Really cool game. The timer seems quite punishing in the beginning and maybe the initial gifts should recover a bit more love/time. But I guess the fact the I didn't let that stop me is a good sign: I managed to get to what I assume is the true end after a two failed attempts. Narratively and thematically, I think you not being able to rescue the relationship makes a lot of sense but from a game-perspective I would have wished that the end, while not necessarily leading to keeping the relationship going, would at least have differed more from the failed ending - maybe end the relationship in an emotional outburst or something. But I really enjoyed my time with the game. Seeing the increasing lengths that you go to for gifts was great. Good job!
One minute Fly by Zara 2022-04-15T00:49:50Z ♥ 0
Neat game. I managed to fulfill all my goals after 4 generations. The animations were really well done but the tiles in the world sometimes don't line up completely, showing some "cracks" between them. It would have been cool if spawning in other locations would have actually been necessary for some goals; as is I was able to finish the game by always starting from the first flower. But the mechanics are still really fun. Good job!
Shades of Deception by AMastryukov 2022-04-15T00:29:25Z ♥ 5
Really cool game. The graphics are great (I especially liked the scene where you look behind the painting). Having full voice-acting and this much content is really impressive.
One nitpick: Rotating evidence doesn't feel right, I think the rotation axes should be parallel to the screen instead. Also, the connection to the theme feels a bit tenuous. But that didn't really detract from the game. Great job!