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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 39 | Running out of Power | Powerpoint Panic | compo | 3.00 | 2.00 | 4.50 | 4.00 | 4.50 | 5.00 | 4.00 | ||
| 2016 | 37 | One room | This Room Ain't Big Enough For The Two Of Us | compo | |||||||||
| 2016 | 36 | Ancient Technology | No Man Has Gone Before | compo | |||||||||
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | Bop 'em Pop 'em Androids | compo |
Well done. Riddles are good, but not a fan of sliding puzzles.(Personal taste, I'll acknowledge.) Like others have said, tenuous on the theme connection and that goddamn clicking. Otherwise, it's all pretty tight.
Not bad, though I found it VERY difficult to tell when I had taken too long to make a sale and it seemed having to smack the katanas on the anvil was practically an auto-strike later on. Core gameplay concept is solid though, and music was a nice extra touch.
Holy hell how did I ever do this shit quickly. Like people said, it works, and there's some fun in it. But... its hit the point of simplicity that I have to judge against it a little bit. I would think that a little more time could be spent on polish or user flow with a game this simple.
Wow, that was really fun! Beat the pre-designed level on my second try, then went ahead and took on several randomized ones. The algorithms for the random levels could be adjusted, the difficulty varied pretty wildly. For a Jam though, that's really nitpicking.
Hey, damn good for a first time. My first Ludum Dare I didn't even make anything playable! The risk/reward on the spear throws was a really good addition that got me trouble more than once.
Gameplay too simplistic, imo, not really any decisions to be made. Controls felt "sticky". Lots of wasted screenspace on the pyramid. Nice chunky pixel art, though.
Interesting, quirky little thing. Wish I could have finished it, but I had to give up after spending much to long fighting against the snake controls.
Punched a velociraptor with a sword to death. GotY 2016.
Real talk: Not going to win any awards for innovation, but a surprisingly solid set of mechanics. Fighting dinos worked great, platforming was too floaty. Signs with arrows maybe not the next big thing in level design, but fuck it. 48 hours.
Great style, fun little idea, and some clever level design. I noticed that the second dropping platform could be used as a pseudo-checkpoint. My only complaint, which made me stop, was that the controls made the character fly around pretty crazily. The lack of control over speed on the ground or in the air made precision jumps nearly impossible. Odd things also happened when bumping into something while airborne. Keep in mind this is all on a keyboard. Maybe controller would've worked better. Tighten up the controls, and you have a damn solid game here.
Well, I will say this is relatively bug-free and seems reasonably well coded, but it has some bad design missteps. Hazardous hitboxes are muuuuch too large, causing instant death if you happen to invade the personal space of the poor spikes. Also, there is no need to limit ammo. The tall robot didn't seem to get hurt, so each time I tried to attack it, I had to suicide so that I could attack again. Camera is also very claustrophobic, and jump physics are very floaty.
I don't know, this one barely seems to work. Mammoth didn't move, spears could be rapid fired and had unlimited ammo. Just seemed incomplete. Better luck getting things done next time.
I have a serious issue with the spinning. And yes, I know you can slow it down. But the game punishes you for stopping the spinning, making you get dizzy from staring at blurry spinny things in the hopes of getting a few more points.
All in all, it works, but I just couldn't keep going for more than a single round.
Huh, got to the point where the cloud turned dark, then nothing when I clicked on anything. More guidance and feedback would be helpful.
Yeah, agree with the tedium. Things work fine, but I was struggling with the attention span to do one, nonetheless 3 tablets. This could be helped a lot by providing feedback more often (ex. every line) or additional challenge.
15 hours? Show off :P. Great art, good music. Really just needs a high score system. Oh, and while you're at can you make me suck less at it? It would be a big help, thanks.
Its bare bones, but functional. Basically the most you ask for out of a first time game jam. For further things to look into, you could add more feedback to player actions (simple sounds and animations), as well as making enemies with more complex behavior than moving in a straight line.
Decent concept, but clarity on how to play was poor and the difficulty curve was all over the place. The concept was good enough that with some polish it could be a decent little puzzler, though.
Also, please take the debug UI out before uploading next time :/
Hey, its completely playable. Better than a lot of first-time LDs. My suggestion for simple ways to improve this:
1) I found the mouse sensitivity to be crazy high, bring it lower or even better, add an option.
2) Needs feedback on player health and ammo count. Death and running out of ammo just kind of... happen.
3) Make the gun you have disappear from its stand until you pick up a different one. The need to run around to find new guns is really cool, but mitigated if you just camp one stand.
I think I lucked out, got it done quick despite sucking at those slidey tile games. I will say that the moving tiles into the empty spot is not very clear, making the controls feel inverted. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't see it as anything but moving the black square around.
I really struggled to visually understand the map, and I'm not 100% convinced the first level is even possible. Enemies just seemed to walk towards me and I didn't really have a way to deal with them. Just take the hit and run.
Good polish on the art and sound. Core mechanics are fun, but could use some more polish and tuning. The snowball effect in your favor makes things pretty trivial pretty fast. Disappointed I couldn't sacrifice the old man :(
I really really wanted to like this, but it was easier to solve the first puzzle than it was to understand what it meant. Maybe I'm just dumb, but I got almost immediately lost :/ Maybe someone smarter than me will get through more of it and be able to critique the rest.
Ok, I figured out part of the trick, and I was actually REALLY enjoying it. Puzzle three bugged out on me and the tiles starting moving in weird ways, but I was enjoying myself until then. Maybe a less abstract way of easing people into the number system would reduce the barrier of the first puzzle.
@quintinus60
SPOILERS: The symbols shown above the first puzzle are the numbers 0 - 11. The box is addition, the H is subtraction. Hopefully that's enough to get you going.
Loved the polish and style. Humor was also excellent. Mechanics could use adjustment. Game was trivial to beat by spamming clicks at the top of the screen as fast as possible.
Not bad, would've liked the puzzle mechanics to kick in quicker though. Performance tip: You should only cast light rays out to corners of things, looks like you're casting out like, a million rays in all directions. The visuals will be smoother and less performance intensive,
Nice music and decent atmosphere, though I would recommend avoiding writing heavy games in English until your English is more solid. Mechanics work well, but could use some graphical work to make it clearer.
Really liked the concept, wish I had a second to try it out properly
Oh no! 404 on the embed! Good polish on the game, but I think it might need a little more something to allow the difficulty to extend past what's here.
Fantastic mechanics, great game feel, great level design. I can not come up with a single bad thing to say. Good work.
A nice, atmospheric, low-res environment, but the extremely low mouse sensitivity and clunky interactions witht the ship's computer forced me to stop
Works nice, looks nice. Main complaint is that the controls are kind of awkward and put a big divide between this game and the theme, both its own and the game jams. Can't say I can think of any Gameboy games that used drag-and-drop as the primary control scheme.
Cute, nice, and polished. Great work on the UI as well. There are definitely some clarity problem with the traps, however. My engine kept blowing up until I took 1 car off the train, an unintuitive way of getting past the trap.
Nice music, and its really impressive to get a solid genetic algorithm for a jam. Definitely needs some interaction though, it's just not really a game atm.
Fantastic style, you did a great job keeping the game readable in greyscale. Impressive for the time you had. I'm going to have to repeat the issue with the camera, as well as a lack of clarity on when your weapon would or would not hit, as well as when your character would get hit. The clarity on where your weapon was, and when to pick it up, however, was fantastic.
Y'all are a bunch slackers! 720 points!
Ok yeah that was a ton of fun. The little rhythm going while you were operating was hypnotic, and the pace started getting crazy hectic. Only complaint is that there were a lot of spelling/grammar errors. Didn't check if you're a native English speaker though.
Aw, shit. Who doesn't love burning down some buildings! Very solid and well made, though the fire behavior was a little hard to predict. Definitely saw it not spread to some adjacent flammable stuff in there. I also saw some toroidal behavior once? Maybe I was crazy.
There's no .jar in there? You're going to need to at least compile if you want people to play it.
Nice graphics and music, I actually liked the dim lighting. I would like the slow down with encumbrance removed though, I think not being able to pick up things and having to run back to the cart is enough penalty.
You did an absolutely amazing job of replicating those old pieces of junk. On the other hand, this game shows exactly why those games were terrible. No feedback, hard to understand interface, etc., etc.
Like, you achieved *exactly* what you wanted, and I have to give a lot of respect that. Unfortunately, it's being faithful to games that just aren't, well, very fun.
Enjoyable, and I love the old rogue-like feel. Clever writing and lots of content for a jam game as well. However, I wish you hadn't emulated the sluggishness of the old terminals as well. Waiting for the screen to load new portions of the map killed it for me.
Ah geeze you got me. Blurring the line between joke and game here, but I laughed like a moron. So there, are you happy?
Nice polish on the sound and graphics. Good thought making no hazards appear until the first item is collected. The green bar on the upper left seems to not mean anything?
A nice little puzzle, with good level design. I have to echo the desire to speed up the water flow, didn't like waiting around for the water to fill up.
I would've really liked this, first few levels were pretty neat with some clever ways to cheese them available. Unfortunately bugs left it unplayable for me a few levels in :(
Huh. Gameplay has major issues. It's simplistic and repetitive. Unclear and confusing. But you know what? Who cares when you have this much *style*. It may have been only a couple minutes, but it was a good couple minutes.
Like, I can see the idea here, and can appreciate the tile physics, but even after looking at the instructions multiple times, it took me a while to figure out how to control the game or what to do. Work more on the player feedback, and you might have an enjoyable little arcade game. As it stands, the game is pretty impenetrable.
Yeah, I'm not really sure what the idea is? Mostly just hunting and pecking so far. The paper being in the way of the keys initially also threw me off for longer than I would care to admit.