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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥉 | 2012 | 23 | Tiny World | Evolve | compo | Graphics | 4.57 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | Good Morning | jam | 14 | ||||||||||
| 2015 | 32 | An Unconventional Weapon | Battle of Mikes | jam | 17 | ||||||||||
| 2014 | 30 | Connected Worlds | The Last Elemental | jam | 453 | 3.12 | 3.00 | 2.50 | 3.04 | 3.88 | 2.91 | 2.94 | 3.33 | 42 | |
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | Klondike Nuggets | jam | 413 | 3.14 | 2.76 | 2.71 | 3.38 | 3.65 | 2.41 | 2.95 | 32 | ||
| 2013 | 28 | You Only Get One | Charon | compo | 420 | 3.10 | 2.45 | 3.09 | 2.28 | 4.34 | 2.40 | 1.82 | 3.52 | 39 | |
| 2013 | 27 | 10 Seconds | Fugit | compo | 188 | 3.48 | 3.35 | 3.83 | 3.73 | 3.75 | 2.78 | 3.18 | 26 | ||
| 2013 | 26 | Minimalism | Reich 18 | jam | 164 | 3.40 | 3.02 | 3.48 | 3.91 | 4.66 | 3.41 | 3.21 | 3.44 | 69 | |
| 2012 | 25 | You are the Villain | Nosferatu | jam | 59 | 3.52 | 3.23 | 3.22 | 4.00 | 4.41 | 3.38 | 2.69 | 3.92 | 40 | |
| 2012 | 24 | Evolution | Ab Ovo | jam | 91 | 3.27 | 3.14 | 2.60 | 3.21 | 4.13 | 3.43 | 2.85 | 2.67 | 28 | |
| 2012 | 23 | Tiny World | Evolve | compo | 193 | 3.39 | 2.86 | 2.53 | 3.45 | 4.57 | 3.07 | 3.79 | 3.23 | 65 |
The monsters are frightening, thanks to the great animations ... and dusty is like a Gish sister, which is a good point! And it's a tiny adventure that's why it's probably too short and not very challenging ;)
A nice classic platformer! I wish you put more enemies, sometimes the levels look empty; by the way, did you make the chiptunes ('cause they are all great)?
Not a really big fan of tower defence but this game is quite fun ! But I don't understand how the boss appears (after a while? when you beat some score?...). By the way, neat pixel-art ;)
I like the "non-weapons" feature.
Brilliant TD game! The graphics are great.
Too bad the machine gun and canon don't shoot ammo: please, update this gale with flying rockets and more explosions ;)
One of my favorite of this LD! I love the concept, it fits perfectly with the theme. Yeah, please upadte the game with rotating-piece feature.
And my best score was 3130 :P
I liked the symbolism of the ending ;) And the music/SFX add a great atmosphere to the story.
No need to better graphics for this kind of simple but clever game: well done ;)
It's awfully slow on Chrome (but run perfectly normal on Firefox I don't know why) :( The graphics (especially the green tiles) are really rad!
I didn't think it was possible to have such big sprite on a gameboy! And please finish this demo, Grodzilla looks fun ^^
Really impressive graphics (a mix between Guxt and Desaturation?) - the palette is well chosen. The teleportation feature is a bit tricky but innovative!
This ending makes sense.
Zorlax is so creepy... well done SethR!
Quest^3 is quite rad, honestly! ... but gosh, I died so often: maybe it needs more balanced fights... Add some musics, and your game could be a more awesome ;)
Very classic but very solid entry. The graphics are flawless!
Fun platformer, but the jumping/flying ability is 50% fun, 50% annoying :/ ... and I can't find the secret (happy?) ending which is really frustrating :D
Well done & I love the cute face of these gombas!
I'm OK with Orni suggestions. You could add more aliens, or use a tinier planet. The SFX are well chosen by the way.
Really impressive for a 48h entry: everything looks perfect! I'm going to play to this little game for a while.... :)
Nice platformer with challenging levels! Fun story, but, somehow I wish that the 2 endings were more different.
Great entry with immediate fun!
Simple but very fun game!
@Chezzo Thank you for the info! But I think it's a "false positive" but I can't guarantee that: everytime I download an EXE file with Chrome, this browser warned me of a potential danger because the file is rarely downloaded...
I tested the zip with another website https://www.virustotal.com/file/c069000a8fb7c22cf2aba8d8238ec83e31b5c295e31b4d9a676e34df903cc126/analysis/1346286043/ this time it's clean with ClamAV so...).
And I understand your concerns; so don't download/play this game and wait this weekend: I'll uplaod a gameplay video ;)
Great concept besides pretty graphics: I hope you'll improve this game.
The controls are awkward (I hate the intertia in shmups XD ) but the ships designs is nice. The titlescreen is very appealing too!
Funny story!
Interesting but confusing gameplay. Great potential.
Simple but fun; not very original but the gameplay is still addictive!
Short but perfectly welldone!
One big flaw: there's only ONE level!
Please make a post-gamejam version: the graphics are awesome and the gameplay is solidtoo. Once you'll add music and a boss battle, the fun will be x1000 higher :D
Thank you all for the kind comments^^
I don't think I'll continued this version: fisrt I really need to solve this collisions problems. That's why I 'll re-do almost the sprites/collision masks and program a new game from scratch. Then I'll add more contents too.
It's really hard to control the directions of the human ball, but it's kinda challenging enough to be fun.
I love the pixel style too. Nice touch about the green leaf on the human^^
Don't know how you could expand the game (maybe with different buttons mapping...).
Anyway, it's fun. Short for sure, but fun!
Great atmosphere, thanks to the sound effects and the Cavanagh model. I'm not really into the Slender thing so I think I missed some things.
I though the player (ME) is a kind of villain who's leading the character to the hell... but I'm probably wrong^^
Nice graphics; the gameplay is simple but solid.
It's really too bad you didn't have more time to add sounds/musics and all the other ideas you had :/
The jumping is quite annoying but I think is part of the challenge (like this game is not hard enough...): nice entry. I had the same bug as seen in the Tobias screenshot .
Clever interpretation of the villain theme!
It's really a pleasure to see a new game made by Pierrec: this one is fun, with original characters/situations/writing... like the previous ones!
Each time I begin one of your game, each time I'm certain to have a good time playing this new gem^^
Good idea well executed; the graphics are okay (teh birds are very cute^^), but the controls are not easy to learn.
And the upbeat music is pretty catchy!
Original concept for sure with awesome graphics but ,I don't know, I didn't find it's so fun overall ... probably I failed everytime with a very low score :/
Nice horrific atmosphere! You HAVE TO add monsters, horrifying sound FX, etc. ;)
Simple, short too but afterall it's fun and really welldone; the sound FX (and some situations too) is hilarious!
The switching idea is awesome; I can't wait to play with someone else!
Nice looking abstract puzzle game! ... but the slow moves break the gameplay :/
Great storytelling! Watching the crew falling apart is intense! I love the graphics too.
For 4 hours of work it's pretty fun (I won with T:69)! I'd love to see more screens (Kraken battle, exotic ports, contest the most beautiful parrot, etc.).
But the music doesn't fit well with the pirate theme
Fun challenge but the music is annoying :/
Awesome visual art!! but like other people say, the controls are quite bugged.
And some SFX similar to a Contra/Turrican OST should be a great add to this game ;)
Frustrating but addictive!! ... but frustrating (stuck at 9530)...
I like this kind of visuals: it's like riding a bike with Kaneda & Tetsuo in Neo-Tokyo! Really too bad it's unfinished :(
Yeah, Celticraft49 & Uhfgood you're quite right; everytime I make the same mistake in those gamejams: I begin to draw the artworks THEN I try to find a gameplay fitting the look I want. That's why the goals are not really well designed and difficult to understand :/
Short but fun!
I love the retro-look (but the font is too thin to fit the rest of the pixel-art)! And imho the text doesn't scroll faster enough.
If you fix the battle system (make our team non-invincible) the game will be really better! Right now, my favorite elements are the old medieval dialogs, the design of the skeleton and the gauge bar.
The characters are really well-done! And the music fits perfectly with the mood of this duelling game.
Too bad I don't have a 2nd player.
Well done! But the difficulty is low: the fun begins after 15!
Pretty experiment! The sounds are relaxing too.
It's just great (i am !! Snake with a twist! (64kb?! O_o)
At the fisrt sight, it looks like a (pretty) samurai version of "rock,paper,scissors" but the ultimate attack when you're wounded is a clever touch!
Btw, perfect Bushido atmosphere thanks to the audio.
Very fun even I'm stuck at 22m!
A new set of clever/funny dialogs by Pierrec! Hurrah!
The graphics are great too ; and imho, these wash drawings are a better choice than pixel-art to express the message & the atmosphere of this carelessness "quest" (they match well with the harmonica SFX too).
Very cute mini-games!
It's really too short; any chances do you will add more contents?
You make me smile :D
Really awesome graphics!!
The gameplay is classic but still fun.
Nice "physic"!
Not real ending: I didn't notice if the difficulty increase with the second loop...
So fun that's I forgive the damned wacky controls :D
Really beautiful graphics!
Maybe a later version with a scoring system and your meter bar (and some samurai/wuxia music)?
Nice story!
Puzzle game with a clever color twist! Great potential!!
Short but very funny (yeah dancing letters!) with the hilarious audio part!!
Great concept!
The sound FX fits well with the concept: switching the colours is like playing minimalist/ambiant piano piece! ... honestly, I didn't understand quite well the gameplay but I had a lot of fun playing with the sound & the colors :D
(works fine on my Windows8/64bit system)
The 3D is neat!
30 levels is not enough: I want MOAR ;) Overall a nice/little/pretty/solid entry!
Original mix of gameplay, it's fun to only jump all over the green pipes but right now I think it lacks of other goals.
Original little concept but it's not really challenging: like ddionisio said "it was too chaotic".
I like the way you have "hidden" some hallways at the edges of the screens: it's simple but it works. The loop (which is pretty sweet) is too short.
Original concept with great visuals, andhe ominous music is a nice touch!
But sometimes, the white rectangle is barely visible (white light too bright, stripes, etc.)
One of my favorite entry! Nice relaxing atmosphere!
I wish that you add more locations, I found these quick naive sketches funny.
I totally skipped the easy end and went to the whole adventure :D Nice boos BTW.
The retro art style (C64-like ?) is pretty; the jumping mechanism isn't obvious at the beginning, but after multiple deaths it's very fun!
... but you should fix the camera in the 11th level: it's very too slow imho.
Simple and short but addictive; The "press any key" is a clever idea!
Amazing artworks O_o
The gameplay is ok, the character design is very great! I'd love to see more rooms!
Great art (like always with your entries)!
Pretty funny!
I like that the game continue even if you failed!
Great bouncy audio track!
Awesome! Great mood and stunning graphics!
Totally addictive!
@rogueNoodle: great advices!
Great low-poly 3D art! The charac-design is excellent too!
Perfect! (5 stars everywhere)
Very fun! Highscore: 7...
I enjoyed the few times I played the game BEFORE reading the "explanation"; I make my own background story, give my own meanings to the changes of shapes and colors, etc. so I was a bit disappointing reading the real goal of this game XD Anyway, it was a funny experience!
Pretty good! An original gameplay; probably too easy with the (very useful)simulator, but still fun!
It's just absolutely awesome.
Neat graphics!
Well, the gameplay seems too confusing, sorry guys :/
Let me explain this:
Each room have 2 exits: to your left or to your right. Each exit can be a dead end (so you can go back to the previous room), or the right path, in which case you CAN'T go back to the previous room. But there are 2 exits at the end of the labyrinth where you can go at 2 previous room (basically , there are loops).
And in two places you will have to find 2 objects to "open" more rooms.
thank you for the constructive comments!
@katamori: "It gives me a kind of surreal feeling since the game has no sound effects and almost everything is black." exactly^^
@blackmagic: "it lacks some feedback to give the player satisfaction to progress in the maze." right! I should have added some SFX!
@Diptoman: "Showing an entrance of some sort in the center/ more directions could've been helpful." great idea!
@Jilt: "I took notes" yeah, I think it's the bet way to resolve the maze^^
@ Dining Philosopher: "Is there a hidden meaning to the Latin or is it just for the atmosphere?" just the atmosphere really! I found the Latin phrase used at the end, and just decided to keep this gloomy mood all allong.
@nka: "Not quite sure in what way theme was utilized here" well, this is a labyrinth, with only one final exit. ... yeah, the theme is slightly used here
@rnlf "you're using latin texts on a greek themed game" Right XD but I thought (false-) Latin will be more understood than Ancient Greek
@Christina thank you!!
@Moosefly: "At the moment it felt like a warped interactive picture book more than anything." yeah, I wasn't very inspired by the theme :/
@Sestren "the idea has potential to become something much, much bigger if there were more to the game mechanically." Yes! It could become an adventure game if I add a real plot (something like the Orpheus & Eurydice story)...
@mcc "The post-compo version did not work for me. If I have the graphics filter on everything is just blocks."
I played the game on Chrome/Firefox/Opera and I didn't have problems :/ But I know WebGL FX (used by Construct2) could cause problems for some browsers, so that's why you can deactivate all the new FX ;)
"I could not figure out what if anything the harp did." !SPOILER! The harp opens a new exit into the Sphynx room !SPOILER!
"Also the transition animation is MUCH TOO SLOW for a game which rewards lots of trial and error." Right! I will put the little musics into the rooms, it will reduce the time spent to look at the transition door animation (.... and yes, it's a hint to Resident Evil^^)
"And I actually sort of liked the dead silence and voidy emptiness of the original." I might consider adding an option to deactivate the musics too!
Thank you again for all your kind and interesting comments!
@local minimum: "but shouldn't the text have been in Greek?" well, Charon is a common character to the greek and latin mythology. And there is more chance that people are able to "decipher" Latin words than greek alphabet ;)
"...maybe UI-map to assist" I don't think it' useful: after all, if you see the map I just posted into the description, you see this is a very basic labyrinth.
I didn't found the 3rd ending but it 's still fun to play: riding the roaring bike is cool or wandering in the graveyard... typical boring sunday into a countryside village^^
A windowed screen option could have be cool, by the way.
The controls are a bit awkward, but it's a very original game!
It's nice to see you put your son's drawings into the game: I like this moustachioed blocky characters^^
Really enjoyed this game, even I'm not sure how I won!
I love games where you have to be confused, where you are not sure of what to do, what to say: nice experience^^ And I love contrast between the seriousness of the plot and the cuteness of the art!
Well done and simple (a bit repetitive), but still fun.
Pretty fun, even if I played alone^^
Very nice graphics who create a intense dreamlike, surrealistic atmosphere!
Pretty graphics! Too bad there are no sounds^^
Great entry! Awesome graphics with a nice choice of colors, smooth animations and a simple gameplay!
But I think the game could be better with more aggressive monsters.
Great entry! Amazing music, and the graphics are good too. I'm not a big fan of this kind of RPG (many random battles, light storyline) so I don't have spent hours on this one but this is cool anyway thanks to the original "gift" system!
I wish I could make so much content in 48h^^
Nice atmosphere thanks to the weird music and crazy visual fx!
Very great mood thanks to an original contrast between an ominous sound landscape & rich vibrant colors (and a creepy guy too)!
Very funny ("underground night-club called Beneath the Surface" lol) music game/toy with gorgeous graphics: well done!
5 stars everywhere! I really liked this game, very arcade-ish, and I will play it in the future!
Very original game: I'm pretty sure you can add more loot, and overall do a bigger version!
v2 here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12598037/Klondike/index.html
Inventory + better code + some improvements. Still a shitty game^^ But I'd love to see someone create a real roguelike with this theme ;)
Great puzzle-game with sweet graphics! I would like to see this kind of puzzles into a bigger game like Legend Of Grimrock.
Really great simulation game (but is it really game afterall?).
The audio track - Erik Satie <3 - is a nice touch
I struggle to maintain the island floating more than 5 seconds, but I still enjoy your game: the sound effects are fun!
Ahah crazy visuals! A bit too hard but it's nice anyway.
Very original idea, but the gameplay is, at the end, a bit boring :|
Great graphics, but the "weed killer bug" is awful :(
Cool graphics and a nice set of laser effects! Nice to see your original graphic style in action^^
It's a frantic small arena shooter; and like every shooter, the background story is a bit superfluous... that's why I didn't read the intro :P (and the start-screen instructions are hardly readable by the way).
Really enjoyed this kind of retro-RPG! The background story adds a lot of atmosphere. The controls are not so obvious, but I guess it's a flaw common for this type of games.
Not very innovative, but overall it's a well-done game! The audio part is a bit weak. Stuck at level 8 XD
Nice idea served by quick little interactions! Short but really well-made!
Too bad you didn't add music and better sound fx: the graphics are pretty (fun monster) and the gameplay is ok!
Touching entry! The weaker point is the sound fx.
Really amazing graphics: the background art, the creatures (and Cthulhu-like monsters)... but the game is too short & the gameplay is not so great (lack of feedback especially).
Not very difficult one time you understand how it works, but it's a very fun interpretation of the theme! And the graphics are great too!
You can add challenge if you forbid to move the plates (all of them, or only few ones maybe).
Thanks ,juakob! You should had played at my game before I really "finished" the level-design. Now, it has a real ending.
@GFM & Pierrec: yeah the LD is way too hard :/ The post-LD version which is easier.
It was possible but I increased the jump height of the player (and added a second level): it should be (a bit) easier now.
Thank you for the feedback.
"And version 2 has one point in the green level where you will always die from jumping into the spikes on the ceiling..." It's fixed now!
Thanks Jedi: harsh review, but I appreciate that you describe all the flaws of my game.
For the next time, I really have to beta-test my submission XD
About the sound: yeah, you're right, I should have used a better Beeper engine from Beepola (it emulates the sound of the ZX Spectrum), one with a smoother sound.
Really well-done as usual; it's nice to see your old characters aging.
Can I rate 10 stars on the Graphics rating? :D
The audio part is crazy too (don't mention the funny backstory), but I think the gameplay lacks of something: it gets too repetitive/tedious unfortunately (maybe I'm missing something....).
Can you re-upload it again? The screenshots are cute.
Simple & fun with cool graphics and a original challenge: perfect little game :D
Awesome project :))))))
Pretty nice little game! Some sound fx could be an improvement.
Clever puzzle-game! I liked this simple aesthetic, almost abstract.
Interesting and fun gameplay, but it lacks challenge if you shot every the asteroids: maybe you could speed up some asteroids, or made them all faster (now it's pretty slow).
Very polished game: simple idea but well executed!!
The gameplay is not really obvious and the items sprites are a too small imho (it's a bit hard to see what they represent), but overall it's original.
(I should try to do a gamejam "live" with people: it seems fun^^)
Some great ideas, but there are few bad ones that spoil the gameplay :/ Too bad you didn't have to time to balance everything.
No future V2, version post-gamejam?
So many probes lost in space... I wish there is something to show the time spent by the farmers/quarrymen/etc. to conquer the complete planetary system: centuries?... some years? (a calendar with random names could be cool).
Anyway, I enjoyed this game: great minimalist atmosphere (nice audio), but it becomes a bit repetitive (perhaps adding random accidents could solve this: asteroids? moons crushing the probes?...)
Cool, it reminds me Might Final Fight :D
The healthbag is a nice touch, but too bad there are no sounds fx.
I can't playtest your game, but it's definitely a great idea to create a boardgame: I wish more people were like you!
Is is too similar to Carcassonne? I don't know, but I think this game - as an alternative version of Carcassonne - can follows the theme afterall! Kinda.
:3 I hope you'll develop a more advanced game based on this concept. And as always, the art is adorable!
Nice! The look & the sounds are very trippy after a while :P
The weapons are pretty funny!
Nice palette by the way...
Thank you for doing the (painful) effort to playing my game!
@Pierrec: "When will you make one for ZX Spectrum?"
ahaha... when the WorldOfSpectrum forums will get back maybe...
Challenging game!
BTW I have an Azerty keyboard... it's always a bit annoying to switch to a Qwerty configuration in the middle of the game.
Also, I didn't see any fruit to grab in the tutorial :/
Very powerful game, even if it's short!
.... I feel dumb for asking that, but how do you control the character?
Sweet graphics & an interesting gameplay: I can imagine a bigger dungeon with its dozens of different monsters and their own movements!
Rrrreally well-made! It could be a hit on mobile store IMHO.
As simple as an old Game & Watch (but prettier) and still challenging!
Very solid game!! Great pixel-art!
With an enhanced gameplay (ie. Tuism ideas), it could become a longer, more interesting RPG