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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | ||
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| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Don't Lose Familiar | compo | 444 | 3.51 | 3.37 | 3.87 | 4.10 | 3.73 | 3.43 | 2.88 | 3.52 | ||
| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | You Get Two | compo | 176 | 3.58 | 3.11 | 3.85 | 4.21 | 3.52 | 3.55 | 3.77 | |||
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | Grow Germinate upGrade entanGle | jam | 856 | 3.17 | 2.94 | 2.96 | 2.98 | 2.98 | 3.41 | 2.18 |
justalocalhero leaves an average of 35.7 feedback comments each event.
This game is absolutely gorgeous and has a great atmospheric feel. Struggling to survive is a lot of fun and the events that I encountered all seemed interesting and meaningful. I do wish the screen transition was a little bit quicker, especially since you need to trigger it every time you want to take an action. Really great work overall, I had a lot of fun with this one.
I absolutely love this. The minimalist look is great. The hijack mechanic and the ship variety provides a lot of freedom and strategic decisions. The particles and screen shake feel nice and juicy. I finally got to live my dream and play as an asteroid for a change (nice touch allowing that).
The difficulty is maybe a little on the low side--hijacking seems objectively quite powerful and feels more like a sweet thing to do than a sacrifice--but as a showcase for the mechanics, this is fun and polished.
Such a fun and original idea! Simple and effective, fits the theme well, looks good. There's a fair amount of strategy involved in deciding whether to advance your furthest soldier or preserve the maximum number of soldiers. Really impressive effort.
Can you say ambitious? This is a lot of fun already and it has worlds of potential. Actually walking and laddering around a ship careening through space and taking on different roles is such a more personal take on a space shooter.
I could see really playing up the character development of the crew who are all trapped together, reacting to deaths or various events in different ways.
Really nice to see this. Can't believe you took on so much in a jam.
I like the management/supply chain aspects, but it gets a bit unwieldy the longer you play. The timers seem to speed up until it becomes impossible to even gather the resources, much less add and remove farmers as they are dying off and being born.
It also seems possible to place buildings on top of each other and render them unusable.
The mechanic of sacrificing resources in order to delay negative events is interesting.
It would be good if the different resources had multiple uses so that there were more trade offs and decision points.
This concept could be developed into a fun game with some work.
Really cool, simple execution of the theme. I love distilling gameplay down to pure decision making. You did a great job of making the game feel different through multiple deaths. So much fun from two little buttons!
Usually this style of puzzler isn't for me, but the management aspect, and using the puzzle as a means rather than an end, adds a lot more depth and strategy. The slimes are adorable (am I a bad person for spiking them all?). The resource management is simple and effective.
I think it could also work with a more long term gameplay mode. Setting up whole production lines of potions and building up high stat slimes. Deciding whether to focus on selling the slimes or the potions. Whether to make lots of generic potions or a few specific pure ones. There's just a lot of gameplay to be had out of the mechanics you chose. I really like what you've done.
Had a ton of fun playing this. The movement and shooting feels polished and satisfying. The enemies are nicely varied. Having to choose between dodging and firepower adds a lot of interest. The sound effects, art, and music work perfectly for the retro arcade style.
Really nicely done.
Really nice job. All the decisions feel tricky and impactful. The character portraits look great, and the background sounds are immersive. It does feel like medkits are always the limiting resource and there are always excess beds. The UI when you click on a patient feels a little bit slow to respond. I spent most of my time clicking on character so that got just a little bit frustrating.
Really nice and polished game overall.
Really neat game. Love the minimalist look. Energy conservation is a nice mechanic that leads to interesting playstyle decisions. The controls and relative difficulty of the movement add a lot to the gameplay. Is it worth it to try to cruise through a section at max speed and dodge bullets, or should you spend some precious energy killing enemies. The level design highlights the game features well. The only thing that I didn't really enjoy was the laser sound effect.
Really nice job overall.
Fun game. Like the way you handled the fog of war. Sometimes I got locked out of a room if there were several enemies at the door and had no chance to progress. I would have liked to be able to hold down click to shoot. I like that you can search rooms for some easy targets to build up your strength while you try to avoid tougher enemies.
Really nice entry.
Congratulations on completing the jam, and keep at it, it's a daunting task.
I'm struggling to evaluate your game because it is fundamentally about moving around, but I find it very difficult to actually do so. I tried five or six without apparently having even two stars spawn within a radius that I could collect them before running out of mana. It seems as if you have to collect stars quickly, but also need to plan your trajectory far in advance, with the slow acceleration time. Either option could work, I just don't think that they work in combination.
The background art is pretty sweet. The sound fits well and gives an ominous feeling. Sacrificing stats between waves is a nice way to implement the theme although I never really got a good sense of the value of the stats as they changed.
Dodging around feels nice, but I struggled to identify the hitbox on the attack. It seems much smaller than the animation (especially vertically) and a bit inconsistent. Sometimes I could spam attacks, or possibly only the animation, and other times not. It seems like you can dash and attack at the same time, but I could never connect this way. Probably more emphasis could have been placed on making attacking feel great since it is the core of the game.
With all that said, it's a solid concept and I had fun dancing around and chopping up some baddies.
Really love the music and the graphic novel style intro. Minigames as combat is a really interesting mechanic. The art look great.
My only real complaint is that the combat is probably the most enjoyable part of the game, but you only access combat if you have ostensibly made a mistake. It feels a bit like you are punished with character loss for having fun.
Really nice work.
Wow what a great little puzzle. This is superbly polished and fun to play. The music sounds fantastic and really sets the mood. There are so many nice graphical details. I love that you get to learn by exploring with minimal hints.
I really can't say enough nice things about this one. Congratulations.
I like the idea of incorporating spellcasting into platforming. The fact that you can choose whether or not to access spells is pretty interesting, it could lead to options for challenges, achievements, speedrunning, etc.
The color scheme and the floating eyeballs add some nice atmosphere.
The controls are responsive, but the relative vertical and horizontal speeds feel a bit off.
There are lots of ways to improve the plain old parabolic jump to make the character feel more weight(variable gravity, variable jump height or fall speed if you're holding the button, and so forth).
Good concept, plenty to improve on.
Fantastic. The movement feels crisp. The art looks really good. The overlay adds a lot. The music is ok; the sound effects are a bit of a weak point. It might have been interesting to spread the planets out a little more to really drive home the need to sacrifice, but i'm just quibbling.
Really enjoyable and polished entry!
Really creative concept. Very clean, polished look, especially the UI. Nice sound effects. Nothing to complain about.
Looks amazing. Music and sound effects are great. Gameplay seems fun. Very polished.
The character swapping is a great mechanic. It's a really interesting the way you shift importance onto an npc and make the player expendable. This game subverted a lot of expectations: moving towards bullets, jumping on grenades, and so forth. I could see something along these lines making a really great full game. Well done.
Really great look. Love that you can watch your station orbiting earth. I'm sure I wasn't playing optimally, but it seemed a little on the tedious side, just waiting for the numbers to slowly tick up so that I could afford the next launch.
I died on my first playthrough because I got to the door, then turned around to go pick up a penny. Good job dev, you beat me.
This is a nice little game. I enjoyed the mounting sense of panic as the fire spread and took away my path. I was a bit confused at one point when I had to step on a tile that wasn't fully on screen in order to proceed.
I like the idea, it fits the theme well.
I wish the actions didn't take so much real time with little feedback. Eliminating some of the waiting, or at least adding a progress bar or something else of interest, and getting back to making decisions might improve the experience.
All of the choices that I saw seemed to be of a similar format. Maybe I got unlucky or didn't play long enough, but a bit more variety might be good.
Making difficult risk-reward choices is a good core mechanic, accentuate that as much as possible.
Fun little puzzle. Looks great. Well polished.
I'm not sure that it evokes sacrifice exactly; giving up keys to get through a door is pretty common practice in this style of game. Perhaps if the stones had more emotional weight(e.g. melting the companion cube in portal) it would fit the theme better without changing any actual mechanics.
The camera is a little bit disorienting, it seems to pan pretty far away from the character in a way that I don't intuitively understand.
The old-school blips and beeps fit well with the visual style. Moving around feels nice.
Great work overall!
I like the idea of making difficult choices to gear up your character and then going off to fight. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work properly for me.
I'm not sure if i'm damaging enemies or if there's just no feedback. Clicking a button seems to take away my ability to control the character and he runs off screen. It asks me repeatedly what kind of sword I want, Am I getting sword upgrades after the first time or just replacing them?
Solid concept that could use a bit of bug fixing and polishing.
I adore this idea. Engaging core mechanic. Sets the mood well. There's a ton of design space left to expand into. Really well done.
I love this. Great main mechanic. Great victory condition. Great use of screen wrap. The time dilation when you get close to a bullet is a nice touch.
It doesn't epitomize the theme so much as graze it gently, but you made a great game and that's way more important.
Bravo!
I like the way that the two resources interact with each other. The graphical effects were really great. It seems like there were a lot of spells to try that all felt varied and interesting.
Unfortunately the controls made it difficult to experience all that it seems the game has to offer. I was often getting stuck on enemies which pile up quickly, stack on top of each other, and attack really quickly. It's difficult to focus on fighting and also see what resources you have available.
I think it would have been a better experience if I could have acted a bit more quickly(There's already a cost for using abilities so it would seem to self balance).
A lot to like, if a few issues could be ironed out. Really nice entry overall.
Dashing around feels really good. The intro sets the tone well. The graphics and animation are simple but they don't get in the way. It could use some more user feedback and variety, but it's a really fun arcade experience. Well done!
I wish the UI were organized a bit better. Not everything fit on screen, it wasn't so efficient to navigate.
The ascii-art looked nice. It was well done to inject so much mood and paranoia with relatively simple effects.
The gameplay seemed appealing but was set back by the ease of use.
The first time i tried it, it seemed like any time I hit any button I died. I'm guessing I got softlocked before figuring out what to do.
Space and the arrow keys scroll the page, which is sort of frustrating.
I really like the look and feel--ascii-chique.
Obscuring the language adds to the feel of adventuring and disorientation, it's a really nice idea.
It took a while (and a reset) to figure out how to proceed, but once I did, I liked it a lot. Nice work.
This mechanic is so great! With a bit of love to the platformer physics I could really see an effective full game out of this. Nicely done!
This has a great look. Shooting feels great. I like the aiming mechanic though it's certainly on the difficult side. Good use of the theme. Really nice job.
This is a masterpiece. Art style, music, mood. Everything works together perfectly. My only complaint is that I'd like to be able to hold space or forward or something to move instead of just clicking the text.
This is a ton of features for a jam. The gameplay seems pretty deep. The bugs look nice.
I wish I could tell how many resources I have, and that I could select what I want to build by hotkey. Otherwise this seems like quite a polished little strategy game.
Very well done!
Really great core mechanic.
The gameplay was a bit random. Sometimes I could shoot a huge asteroid out of my way and sometimes a tiny one wouldn't budge. Sometimes I could kill an enemy in one hit and sometimes it took a hundred.
I could imagine there being a lot more things linked to the population size (bullet spread, bullet size, hull repair, etc).
Now excuse me while I throw myself out an airlock again.
I absolutely love the look. The controls are a bit iffy; It's difficult to tell if i'm grabbing the farmer I want. The music sounds nice but is a little bit repetitive. A really nice showing overall.
The animations are awesome. The gameplay is a lot of fun. The sound doesn't seem to be working for me. The screen drag is a little intense. Really great work overall, feels great to play.
edit: I also sort of wish the screen drag was invered, but i guess that's personal preference
I'm getting 404'd on the web version.
This is a really neat concept. It works as an arcade/puzzle style game where you optimize a strategy for how many to keep and how quick to cut ties with them if they don't grow fast, with just enough randomness to keep it interesting on multiple plays. It would be nice if there were different bug types or characteristics to allow more decision making. A bit more work on the aesthetics might have gone a long way since the player is often just watching for long periods of time.
Awesome. Feels great. Looks amazing. I love the critters bopping around on their own. It can be a bit tough to slide around objects, but that's my only real complaint. Really nicely done.
I like the concept. It gets a bit repetitive, making one circuit around the huts over and over until you need to sleep. The control indicators are a nice bit of polish. The music, while simple, fits well and contributes to the overall theme. Physically carrying the baby up to the volcano adds a lot more impact--although, with the crying sounds, I'm not sure that I felt bad about tossing them in exactly.
Neat little puzzle. It would be great to have a little more feedback when the orbs are consumed or combined. Great way to implement the theme.
Looks gorgeous. Fun to play. The font could be a bit tough to read and the cutscenes were a bit slow.
The very first thing I did on my first attempt was to accidentally send myself out an airlock. The camera was a bit rough (or else i've been awake and staring at a computer screen for way too long). I really like the concept and the cute little enemy faces.
I sent three people through the open door but still didn't seem to progress in level. Not sure if there is something else to do. I like that there was a bit of exploration and that you added more interesting mechanics to the clicker archetype.
I love the look. I love the gameplay. I love the sound. I hate the slow, unskippable cutscene.
It took me a bit to figure out what I was trying to do (after I burned all my cards for several turns in a row), but once I did I really enjoyed the gameplay. I love the play vs burn mechanic. The music is great. Really nice aesthetics.
The theme is a bit on the nose (Not that that's necessarily a bad thing). I like that you made sure there was feedback on all of your relevant actions. The layout is simple and effective. Still, clicking as a mechanic isn't very satisfying, so it needs something special to make it feel worthwhile.
Love the idea of the synced controls. Really great take on the theme. Camera can be a little dizzying.
Really cool concept. I liked running around and grabbing people and putting them where they were needed, very field general feel. The font was a bit tough to read and I didn't have any audio (before or after clicking the button that mentioned no audio). Quite a nice game, good work!
Oh my god you can turn around. The whole time I was playing I was taking mental notes, "Nice visuals. Feels nice when you hit an enemy. Health drops on kills make a nice risk/reward when you are getting low. Don't like mashing to shoot. Wish enemies couldn't shoot me through walls.," and so forth. Then I reached the first dead end and had a really terrific moment of awe. Love the idea of adding exploration and item collection to this style of game. Nice work.
I had a lot of fun playing this. I also learned that if I ever accidentally drive my car into a crowded parade it's ok because I won't manage to hit anything. Your vehicle getting bumped and jostled and eventually bogged down felt nice.
Had a lot of fun with this one. Loved the art style. I like the trade-off between resource buildings and defense buildings.
The music, the visuals, and the theme all worked to capture the feeling longing and isolation. This works great as a little visual story. I'd love to see what a version with a little more gameplay and decision making looks like, learning about the background of the narrator as you go along. It's hard to call this fun, but I was intrigued and emotionally invested throughout.
Really interesting. I love the idea of using deck building and card game mechanics to influence minigames or arcade games. I could see this growing into a really great game.
This is really cool. I love the draft and the use of time as a resource. The controls were a little finicky, and I would have to learn more about the cards to really appreciate all of the decision points, but there seems like a ton of gameplay depth. Nice job on this one.
So much fun to move around. I love all the decision points based on the direction of your character. Reminds me of lining up shots in pool or snooker. Really enjoyed this one.
Are you kidding me? this is unreal, good. The wooden stake as a health bar is brilliant. The music, lighting, and art style perfectly set the atmosphere and the mood. There is tension and discovery and fear and frustration. I never knew that I wanted to play a horror roguelike until now.
edit: I had to come back and say more once I finished the game. The enemy design is great. Something as simple as the enemy moving two squares instead of one made me feel like I was running for my life and losing the race. The way the level design showcased the differences in the enemies (nooks to duck into to see the guy hiding in the walls, long corridors to run from the fast moving enemies, etc). And the feeling of power getting to the end and flipping the script. I really feel like I can't overstate how much you guys accomplished in this little game
I like the multiple victory conditions, although I was confused at first when I won despite my opponent being at half health. This theme is really interesting and the sound and the art style fit together well. I'd love to see a more fleshed out version with more interactions between the cards.
Surely you didn't manage to design all these cards in one weekend. Nifty game, loved all the little jokes. I'm not sure that I fully grasped all of the rules and mechanics at play (without studying the tutorial too closely), but I was still able to get through it. Really nice job overall.
The mood is great. I think it could benefit from a bit of background parallax. The grappling hook is so much fun; using it to control your momentum feels nice. I had a real moment of awe when I jumped for the first time and went flying off into space and had to hook back to one of the platforms.
You chose a great them and executed it so well. The movement circle is beautiful design. I would love to see development continue on this one.
Fun concept. Love the graphical style. Music sounds nice. I'm curious if you tried different timings for the input. I'd like to see how a level might play with a more frantic pace.
Looks nice and well polished. It might be nice to start out with less cannons and work your way up. Or perhaps have the goalie extend his hand towards the direction he's moving to add a little bit more impact to the movement. Fun little arcade game, could see it eating some time.
I love the way the mechanics oppose each other. Building more buildings (even taking time to select and place them) gives you more ground to defend. I also love the art style; that campfire looks amazing.
Looks good, sounds good. So much fun to play. There was a constant feeling of tension, right up until death. I'm eager to go and give it another play!
Am I SlayerS_boxer now? Beautiful game. Great concept. I love the idea of playing from this supporting perspective. The controls were difficult but it still felt good zipping around.
It's great the way resources have dual purposes. You get a lot of decision making and planning from just one mechanic.
Really great concept. Satisfying popping the baddies. Trying to "Cooperate" with the other car led to some interesting gameplay.
"congratulations you died" why thank you! ^_^ Great game. So clean.
Clever and gorgeous too
LD46 — Keep it alive (31)
Vegetablist by Flightless 2020-05-11T07:08:24Z ♥ 1
Fun little juggling act. Took me a minute to realize what the fertilizer and its icon were. I really liked the combination of placing the plants on the correct tiles as well as bringing fertilizer to the plants.
It felt a little clunky at times to grab and place things in the slots that I wanted, particularly under time pressure when I was trying to cut corners.
With a little more variety of challenge and some more long term goals, this could make a nice mobile puzzle game. I played the web version but I imagine it controls great by swipe.
Life of the Party by agentparsec 2020-05-11T06:59:49Z ♥ 0
What a realistic simulation of a party. I pissed everyone off, ran out of things to talk about, and they all left unhappy.
Really interesting use of the core mechanic. I love that the music changed with the game state, great piece of feedback.
The disorienting perspective and the tone of the chatter added a lot to the sense of tension when things weren't going well.
Ultimate Planet Habitat Support Tester 2020!! by mikouaji 2020-04-23T19:00:43Z ♥ 1
Love the idea and the simulation aspects, but it could really use some ways to make incremental progress.
Most game states seem doomed from the start (maybe not the case on a larger planet size with enough knowledge, I couldn't say). I tried dozens of restarts without any configurations that seemed close to stable. If I did find a winning state, it would just feel like luck more than anything I did.
A good first step might be to invalidate spawns that are impossible, like a planet with only plants or only carnivores.
Maybe if there was an option to tweak stats for an energy cost instead of only randomly re-rolling and hoping things work, or to add species in addition to replacing the ones you have.
It could be a lot of fun to work your way up from plant life to herbivores to carnivores if there was a little more player input in the process.
I love that you went for a whole ecosystem simulator for a jam.
Soul Cube by nikor 2020-04-23T18:10:42Z ♥ 1
What a cool concept. Multiplayer in a jam is so ambitious.
The core mechanic creates a lot of strategic trade-offs. I wish there was some incentive tied to surviving or killing.
Conservation Inc. by Sharks 2020-04-23T18:01:13Z ♥ 1
The idea of combining a macroscopic strategy game with minigames to provide action is a lot of fun.
I think the gradient shading in the dinosaurs and the ms paint spray can(?) of the ground don't look as good as just the solid colors like the clouds. It could be an interesting art style if it were a little more consistent.
The dodging section is quite long and doesn't pause your income. Dodging for a long time gives you a ton of money and trivializes a lot of the strategy about what to buy.
Given the size of the hitbox and the keyboard controls, it seems easy to have an unwinnable spawn, with no way to buy a second attempt. Losing without having any say feels bad.
A little odd that the popup for surviving a hazard has two different close buttons.
I'm pretty sure I got softlocked while trying the tutorial when I clicked the button to start the hazard while a message box was up.
With snappier minigames that matched the hazards and some more strategic depth, this could be a lot of fun. Very ambitious for a jam game, cool theme, fun idea. I enjoyed it, despite all my complaining.
Space Ship E.V.E by silkworm_sweatshop 2020-04-23T17:05:12Z ♥ 2
What an awesome immersive experience.
The narrative and the music established the tone well.
The art style is really creative.
Lots of little pieces of polish like the asteroid tracking lines.
My only complaint is that edge pan for camera control doesn't work great in browser, it's too easy to go out of the canvas. You could lock the mouse or choose a different camera control scheme.
edit: on second look, I have one more small complaint. The stars in the background don't quite reach all of the visible space, and the base image is a little small so you can see the tiling at a glance. Picking nits. Something that could be improved without too much pain.
Really enjoyed the game. Bravo.
Snake 99 by TheConfusedCyborg 2020-04-20T17:13:30Z ♥ 0
Doesn't seem to be working for me. All I see is a button that says to view instructions but doesn't do anything on click.
I'll hold off on rating.
Spiders and Sports and Plane Crashes by Seothen 2020-04-20T17:09:58Z ♥ 2
Hilarious.
Love the mechanic of retrieving your soccer ball.
Wish the hitboxes were a bit more accurate, weaving in and out of oncoming spiders would have been fun.
The sound effects made me laugh every time.
floweressence by yamgent 2020-04-20T16:45:10Z ♥ 1
Really fun twist on tower defense. There's good depth, deciding when to speed up and slow down your targets and how to balance colors. The fact that you're keeping your targets alive really turns the whole genre on its head.
Love the art style as well.
I was having some issues with the audio spiking and getting quiet, although I did enjoy the music when it was working.
Wandering Star by twigames 2020-04-20T15:46:37Z ♥ 1
Really cool use of this mechanic. Unique art style. The controls and the gravity feel great. Swallowing another star has some nice chunk to it.
Do the different em field lines have different effects? I wasn't able to tell. Cool atmospheric effect regardless.
The spawning seems to go haywire occasionally and just fill the screen with massive stars. I played five or six times and it happened in three of them.
Adventures in the taiga by senior_sigan 2020-04-20T15:37:10Z ♥ 0
Everything works great. I like that your options pop up as they become available, it promotes discovery and avoids ui clutter.
There isn't enough in the way of goals to be a really complete game yet, but it's a nice launching point.
Although I did walk off the map and get lost, so that qualifies as danger I suppose ^_^
To the Moon and Back... by ETdoFresh 2020-04-20T15:26:02Z ♥ 1
Cool interactive story. You bit off quite a lot, with the sheer number of scenes, trying to tell a story.
It'd be interesting if each scene had some little challenge that you had to fulfill in order to make it to the end safely.
Making all the characters interactive doesn't do too much if it's all just filler dialogue.
I got a kick out of the fact that you could slide the rolling chairs in the control room. I think there's a hidden game there: the player stepping into all these momentous times and just trivially messing with things in the background.
NWO Simulator - World peace is an inside job by herzig 2020-04-20T14:36:36Z ♥ 0
Fun mechanic.
Whenever a dialog window pops up it shifts the screen (I assume because of using space and arrow keys as controls?)
It could be a bit smoother if the focus radius on the cities was a little larger and if you didn't need to hit space in the same city twice in a row: to end a dispute there and then again to focus on it.
ECHO by MartianSteve 2020-04-20T14:27:10Z ♥ 2
Beautiful. Immersive. Sounds great. Parallaxing stars are gorgeous.
It took me so long to figure out how to accomplish anything. Holding up makes you stop and making noise prevents your sound eating friend from finding you. Controlling your speed in general is tough to get used to.
I still don't really know how to advance. I assume collecting some set number of shapes does it?
It's like everything I'm trying to do is wrong but the atmosphere of being adrift and out of control is so enjoyable somehow.
Virtual Fish Tank by Jay Berlin 2020-04-20T13:13:30Z ♥ 2
"Total poop" is a tracker I wasn't expecting to see today.
It's a neat little simulator. I love games where there are a lot of little visual interactions happening in the background.
Is there a way to recoup resources, or is it just trying to optimize how long you can survive with the resources?
Could be neat as a tycoon type game, keep fish alive long enough till you can sell them and use the resources to buy more food and fish.
There isn't a ton of decision making or strategy as is. Still neat to watch the fish swim around and interact with the environment.
Last Fortress Left by ConnorThompson 2020-04-20T13:06:58Z ♥ 1
Fun concept. Looks clean and sharp.
Could have used more challenging puzzles.
I kept waiting for the different colored tiles to come into play somehow.
Maybe something as simple as having enemies that hop two tiles at once or do two hearts of damage would have been a starting place. You need some kind of interaction besides tracing the lines and counting to two. I'm struggling to think of any new challenges with only the towers and enemies as they are.
Forests of Xahil by unpronounceable 2020-04-20T12:51:36Z ♥ 0
Love a good roguelike. Seems like there is a ton of depth with different behaviors as parts get damaged. I like needing to decide what to prioritize in repairs. Really polished overall.
KingdomKeeper by BGameDev 2020-04-20T12:38:00Z ♥ 1
One of the better implementations of the swap/match mechanic that I've seen lately.
There's some good strategic depth with managing the quests, even just having two options for how to pay adds a lot.
It would have been nice if there was something to do with the different resource types.
Maybe there should be a reward for finishing quests early, otherwise it seems optimal to just let them stack up and pay in the last week to make a more informed decision.
Cell Defence by bongo227 2020-04-20T12:25:22Z ♥ 1
Fun idea. I like the mix of action and base building. Controls felt really nice. You could move fast without losing control.
I'd love to see an expanded version, securing more territory, building up a strong outpost, moving your attention somewhere else, different cells/cell parts to generate resources, defense, and upgrades.
Star Buffs by MAJK_FL 2020-04-20T12:14:23Z ♥ 1
Looks really good. Feels smooth. Pretty fun after the initial learning curve.
It felt like almost all of the danger was in the first moments after an enemy came on screen. Maybe a farther camera angle would help. I guess I could have stopped to check the map constantly to dodge things off screen but that feels against the spirit of the game.
Maybe the heal should be disabled while you're at full health. I used it up quite a few times at first because I wasn't sure what it was for.
Spamming click to shoot isn't the most fun mechanic.
It'd be nice to know a summary of your buffs. Mostly the ships I took over felt similar to the one I started with, but maybe I never got far enough to notice.
Mom, I Started a Cult! by oller125 2020-04-20T11:59:32Z ♥ 2
The core idle gameplay works, but I would have liked at least one novel feature to grab some attention. Maybe your cult members convince others to join, or attract law enforcement attention if they get too big, forcing you to expand somewhere else. Some benefit from having more members other than just direct contributions every day.
Not sure that it fits the theme since your cult seems guaranteed to grow.
The currency could be formatted so that the box doesn't flicker every time the number changes.
If the UI for a town opens when you scroll over it, it should probably close when you scroll out of the box.
I do like the idea of spreading out over a map, especially if it were fleshed out to allow strategic decision making and benefits for being embedded in different areas(transport hubs, factories, radio towers, etc).
The Last Ship by Harryu 2020-04-20T11:33:21Z ♥ 2
The theme is a lot of fun. I like the idea of scrambling to patch up a your ship, having pressure from multiple angles, having to decide whether to let your machines take a little damage while you repair, or let the oxygen vent while you fight.
You could improve the immersion quite a lot by fitting the collider bounds to the sprites so that you don't get stuck on invisible corners.
Switching from wrench to weapon feels a little odd since they're on different inputs already. Either click to use selected tool or click to shoot, r to repair would make more sense to me. If you really want switching tools to be part of the challenge, you could have players pick them up the way you do with the metals.
Space Station Alpha by kjscott 2020-04-20T10:46:03Z ♥ 1
Just oozing with flavor, even the instructions. It takes some work to decipher but somehow that adds to the horror/survival feel.
Really great work;
Save the station by Alexander Termer 2020-04-20T10:37:19Z ♥ 2
Looks beautiful. A small set of core mechanics that work perfectly.
Could use a way to build multiple buildings faster. I'd love a version designed around building bigger or with more interaction between different building types.
RestoPlane by GlacierEclipse 2020-04-20T10:30:44Z ♥ 1
The art style is gorgeous.
The best iteration of the lunar lander control scheme that I've encountered.
Rise of the Purple Slime by NateTheGreat 2020-04-20T10:19:45Z ♥ 2
So cool. So ambitious.
Love just flying around the planet.
My major complaint is the delay between figuring out a winning strategy and actually winning.
Crop Time by nicksmaddog 2020-04-20T09:59:53Z ♥ 2
Cute little game. Like the music, simple as it is. Could have used a way to tell when the plants were in danger of withering.
Mostly I want to figure out the mystery of the tree. It haunts my dreams.
Late Medieval Network Engineer by MisterKeefe 2020-04-20T09:45:13Z ♥ 2
So much to love about this one.
The theme is clever and funny.
There's a ton of strategic depth from such simple mechanics. Should you go to a weak network and repair it or a strong network and heal yourself. Should you take damage now to move to the center and open up more options.
There's a nice balance of information. You know which cards are bad and which networks are failing based on the art, but you have to internalize exactly how bad.
Really great job.
Harvest Season by singleshoe 2020-04-20T09:17:18Z ♥ 3
Such a fun game. A ton of potential to be expanded: adjacency bonuses, different shape and size crops, maybe deckbuilding elements.
Took some time to nail down the mechanics, but it was fun figuring it out.
Wish I could have seen the max size of the crops after they were planted.
Some crops didn't seem to work in some tiles and I wasn't able to figure out why.
The art style is charming.
Really impressed.
Outpowered by LCStark 2020-04-20T08:59:51Z ♥ 2
Needing to return to base for power is a cool way to add a little tension, especially in spots where you don't know whether the path you are on will loop back around or dead end.
The minimap tracking your progress is a really nice touch.
I liked the music. Was there a second theme for when enemies were inbound or did it just seem to line up that way?
Bullet Blocker by Doenerti 2020-04-20T08:39:48Z ♥ 2
Using the same projectiles to heal and hurt you is a cool strategic element.
Could have been improved a lot by checking each input button and then calculating which direction to move so that some directions don't overwrite others.
The endless level takes quite some time to ramp up and it seems like most of the projectiles don't have a chance to hit the target. Maybe all or most could have been launched with a trajectory that is at or near the target? You were suggesting that sometimes you'll have to decide whether to block a bullet or not, but there isn't much of a sense of danger.
If there's no audio you should opt out of being judged in that category to save everyone some time.
Big congratulations on your first submission, hope you're back for more!