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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | 👥 | Rifthoppers | jam | 208 | 3.93 | 4.09 | 2.89 | 3.57 | 3.92 | 3.64 | 2.85 | 3.65 |
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | 👥 | Mt. Deep Space | jam | 55 | 4.20 | 4.10 | 3.87 | 3.83 | 4.26 | 4.41 | 3.89 | 3.95 |
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | 👥 | The Dwarves of Mt. Deep | jam | 65 | 4.22 | 4.18 | 4.09 | 4.38 | 4.09 | 4.40 | 3.41 | 3.95 |
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | 👥 | DiscoSquare | jam | 3.60 | 3.70 | 4.50 | 4.40 | 3.90 | 3.20 | 2.80 | 3.30 | |
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | 👥 | Maximus the Gladiator | jam | 3.00 | 4.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 4.50 | 3.00 | 3.00 |
Great looking game, although it could've really gone next-level with some post-processing. The game itself is pretty difficult, but it was fun nevertheless! I feel like less levels and more polished levels would've also really helped; the game's very long for a ludum dare entry
Very interesting idea! It felt a bit too difficult, because I felt like I couldn't control the neck's swing very well, but there were a lot of cute details in there which I liked, such as the giraffe's face changing. I didn't end up using the mechanic to elongate or shrink the neck, because the controls felt a little awkward for it. Perhaps using WASD for movement and the arrow keys to control the neck could've helped me feel more in control.
Wow, definitely the moodiest game I've played all ludum dare. Loved the graphics and strange creepy ambiance. The typing was a little too easy, but it was a great experience regardless
Incredible visuals and I loved how the music picked up in intensity as the game did. Little tricky to click and drag the kids, but fun nevertheless!
Controls felt a little awkward. Graphically a really nice game, but I couldn't ever get them fed more than just a sliver D:
Never thought 3d worms could be this fun. My only struggle was getting the jetpack to behave properly, which seemed really sensitive and wouldn't go in the direction I'm pressing
Not much new to say other than what's already been said. 100 crystals or a reset to the start felt really punishing. I also would've really liked the ability to press jump a second time to fall slowly. Either way, fun little entry, glad you got the web version working :)
Been hearing a lot of mixed opinions about the game being either really difficult or easy. @simpathey, for example, hitting 20k points pretty comfortably, while others struggle to breach 5k. Turns out there's a great bug where my asteroid spawner is detecting gems as something it can't spawn an asteroid on top of. Greed kills, I suppose; it's a feature now! :smile:
Anyway, this project was a blast to work on, but I'm off to greener pastures. There's a lot of quickly cooked spaghetti code which I can't be bothered to unravel. That's just the nature of a gamejam, I suppose; lot of work to be done real quick.
@tyler-hahn That's a great idea, actually. Kind of annoyed at myself that I didn't come up with that.
Loved the effect with the camera. Short but sweet :)
Fun entry. Controls were a little difficult to get used to. Would've also liked something with a little more contrast to really highlight when I need to switch rails.
Cute little game. The tutorial felt really long to sit through, which was a little frustrating. Was pretty scary when the cave started rumbling!
I'm glad to finally have a good example of how to time a game with the beat :D Incredibly well polished game, great music too!
Incredible artwork. Played for a while, but eventually got a little bored so I gave up to see what the fail animation was like, and I wasn't disappointed :D
It's a nice little game, but it felt a little unfair at times. The things I needed to shoot would spawn right next to me and killed me instantly. As a tip, I'd recommend making them all spawn at the edge of a circle around the character, spawn e.g. 1 more each round and make them progressively move inwards faster. It would've also been nice for the hitboxes on the enemies to be a little bigger. Either way, I liked the game's aesthetic.
Pretty fun! The art looks awesome. Controls felt a bit awkward at the start, but it wasn't unfair or anything. Wasn't really sure if I was getting further or not with each attempt
Lovely relaxing experience this was. Found two bugs, which is that you can plant on the water, and that spamming interact made you unable to move afterwards. Either way, the game was super cute and very enjoyable
Graphics are actually crazy. Little overwhelming to get started with, but very fun. Amazing for a Ludum Dare entry
Really struggled with the lack of a tutorial on this one; A lot of controls and a lot of steps, sadly not as intuitive as I hoped. Even so, it was a fun experience. The theme, sound and art got a good chuckle out of me.
Fun little game. Shame you didn't have fun with this jam, although I do hope to see more someday! Might be fun to try to learn another engine perhaps? :thinking:
Tip for next time, whenever you do something like this again. Downloading a game from Google Drive is a little sketchy. Consider setting up an Itch account :sweat_smile:
The game looks nice, but I don't really understand how to play. My guy was barely shooting and all I could do was just die repeatedly. I like the upgrading idea, but it would've been nice if the game started a little more.. action-packed.
I really liked how well the game explained itself. You start with no resources and see a train coming, desperate to build a path, but can't. Then realize that's exactly what was meant to happen for you to get resources in the first place. Super innovative! Sadly I couldn't really figure out how to properly use the sideways beams, but managed to beat a couple levels anyway!
Great mood! Was kind of just trying to survive, taking everything back to my fire, but then realizing nothing comes back, so that run ended pretty sadly. Major kudos for the procedural generation!
I so badly want to give critical feedback for this game, but I'm having trouble finding anything to stick my claws into and tear apart. With that much finished in this little time, it's clear you know what you're doing. Soo.. instead I'm just going to spitball ideas as if there had been more time. :wink:
The movement system felt pretty good, although jumping on single wide platforms was a bit tricky.
I'm curious if the timing on the sunlight death mechanic would still be intuitive without the UI above the character.
A more vampire-style tileset, maybe a white sun and some leaded glass? :eyes:
The weird dithering effect on the gif compression actually looks kinda cool. Honestly no clue how that could be reproduced, but I want to see more of that in games.
Oh yeah, what does the M key do?
I seemed to be having some slight performance hiccups halfway through the game. I can't exactly tell if you did this, but if not, I'd totally recommend you look into object pooling.
Would've loved to see the villain actually run away a little, or pose more of a challenge somehow. Otherwise, great bit of fun!
Online multiplayer in a ludum dare game? Wow this is probably one of the most fun games I've played yet
Yooo lot of fun to see the game genre we worked on be done in all sorts of ways. Managed to get to 2:17 before dying. Game gets pretty brutal at that point. Kinda wished I could've kept my shotgun all the way through, because it felt much stronger, haha
Great little short game. Accidentally skipped the victory screen, so I thought I might as well play a second time. Would've liked to see some more feedback when getting hit, but I suppose that might've just been one of those things that didn't quite make the cut due to time constraints.
A random note on how you could experiment with this. You could easily tweak some numbers to increase the speed of the game, add more sheep (but make them deal less damage). As long as the sound effects don't overlap too much, the added speed and chaos should be add a great deal of fun.
@yumahey @vgel Yeah, I really wanted to add more, but we totally ran out of time, haha!
@$162477 Have you tried holding down the left mouse button?
@j0ye @nikolavuk @cobgoblin We're giving it some serious thought to develop this out into a full release. Annoyingly, we can't use as much of this game's assets as it may seem. Heavy development pressure leads to some bad compromises when writing code, and I'm sure as hell not going to unravel all that spaghetti, haha.
The main thing holding us back right now is that the Leveling system is super fun, but it interrupts gameplay pretty badly. We also aren't sure how to keep this game fresh for more and more play-throughs, other than just unlocking new upgrades/characters. Definitely want to juice this game to the max, adding little collision animations and sounds, more little knockback effects, all that good stuff.
If there's actually serious interest in a full release, I'd really appreciate having a little group to get more feedback and ideas from. Might have to convert our little dev server to a public one :slight_smile:
https://discord.gg/azHCpkCm5q
@lvl99chicken Yeah totally wanted to add more juice, but it was either working overtime or getting normal sleep. I chose sleep, obviously, haha
@tentaclemax Thanks for that reference! If we're to further develop this game, having that as something to compare it to will be super helpful
@tosmaster I actually kinda like the gun being detached and spinning around, although that does indeed cause some trouble with little enemies. If we were to ever develop this further, I think I'd have to find some alternative to those cards. They were a little too intrusive I think
@marin0104 Yeah, you're right. The order for the projectile behavior was as follows. Pierce as much as possible, then fork once, then chain.
Also, yeah. Vampire Survivors, but also just the Twin-stick shooter genre in general.
I really wish I could've added more cards and monster variations and all that to keep higher levels interesting. Level 11 seems to be at the breaking point where monsters get faster than the player and it becomes overwhelming. In hindsight, it would've been smart to make the player character's speed also scale like the monsters. We'll probably find a different solution altogether if we are to do a full release.
@honest-dan Yeah you're totally right on the enemies hugging you. We'll be making the feet colliders around both player and monsters a lot bigger, and also speeding up the character progressively. We're also thinking about just doing away with the HP altogether and making enemies damage the energy-bar directly.
The upgrade cards were just an idea to add a lot of chaos to the game, which tends to be pretty fun. We've considered either making the options more interesting through increased variety and a deck-builder system. Although since they are also pretty disruptive to gameplay, we might have to theorize a different way altogether. If you happen to have an idea for that, let us know!
@shawn-moore Wow, that's the biggest comment I've ever gotten on a gamejam entry! Honestly thanks for all of it. I totally agree on the lack of communication regarding what the game wants from you, and the lack of sfx/vfx feedback for hitting enemies. I keep saying it's a problem of lack of time, but perhaps we should have just put it as a higher priority. Definitely taking it to heart, though, for the final game. The video as well.
Multiple layouts/characters; From the start we already wanted a sort of hub world with a character select and this big rift portal in the middle; The professor's laboratory. Sort of in a Gungeon style, where the character can already run around once chosen. Then a story of sorts with progression and unlocks based on challenges.
Boss fights? Totally awesome, definitely thinking about that. So far my only inspiration is some sort of big worm, inspired by Terraria, which travels from one end of the map's edge to another. Definitely going to need to make the map scale in size for that, though.
Multiplayer. Oh boy do I have something fun for you. Totally already got plans for that :stuck_out_tongue:
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Oh, and about the music. Our composer was actually in the process of moving, so he didn't have all of his gear available to him. When it arrives, we'll totally be getting a remaster and much more. At that point, I'll happily provide a soundcloud link, or even just a direct download if you join our server :wink:
Jokes aside. All of what I've mentioned here is pretty cool, although also massive scope creep. We're hoping to do a weekly web build and share it around for people to give direct feedback to. Hopefully that'll keep us in-line, haha
@anaxie-studio Out of those, leaderboards and achievements weren't in the list yet, but now totally are! Thank you!
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(A copy of our Trello)
@binaryprinciple Thank you so much! More feedback and different enemies are definitely coming in the full version. Going to have a fun chat with our wonderful pixel artist about possibly designing some little robot/drone minions. Sounds like it'd make for a cool upgrade
Really fun, couldn't help but keep playing and listening to the banger in the background. The intersecting platforms being able to knock you to the opposite side is pretty brutal, and sometimes I felt like I could slip past an obstacle, but then I couldn't. Ah well, probably played this game longer than any other entry so far!
Really nice ambience! Would've liked a little more speed and maybe an auto-reload when the gun's empty. The arrow pointing at the objective felt a little strange; should've maybe been a toggle. Hiding the trees when you're behind them was a really nice touch. Had fun :slight_smile:
Amazing visuals! Definitely not without some bugs, but that's to be expected with such a tight deadline. Kinda wish the music loop was a little longer as well.
It might have been nice to only let a player open up a single drag/drop UI, and to simply let clicking the tokens also add the monsters to those spots. Drag and drop always feels a little clunky to me.
Probably the funniest game I've played so far, though. Love the parody idea.
Had a lot of fun with this one. The cute art and story was really good, which definitely helped make getting to each next level more fun.
As for suggestions on how I'd improve this game.. An easy one is more post-processing. Another is to just speed up the game by a lot, more monsters that are easier to kill, etc. Give a bit of time at the start and between waves to let the player put down their towers.
I ended up beating the entire game with just the second character and a lot of fire, because I thought they were cute. That's kind of a problem as well, in a way. There's so many options for different characters to put down, but I didn't really have a reason to use any. Maybe there's already a thing in the game for that, but sadly I didn't notice it.
The path itself felt pretty short, or in other words, the camera felt really zoomed in. That has me worried a little, because zooming out further would probably hurt the character sprites.
Either way, take all of this with a grain of salt. For a gamejam with such a tight schedule, this was a lovely game that felt pretty finished. :heart:
Simply blown away by the presentation of this. Everything looks and sounds amazing!
I would've liked some slightly more meaningful options, though. Looks like each option was just completely random, and the one picked refreshed immediately, so it was never a question of whether to use one or not.
Oh man the Mood of this game was amazing. The art and music really came together well.
Did notice the console pop up with a null reference, and pressing a button for the drawing sometimes didn't work.
I'd also really recommend to tighten up the movement, because it feels a little floaty; On the Rigidbody2d, tweak the drag and speed a bit, and set the interpolation, if it wasn't already. Depending on the Input system, GetAxisRaw generally helps too.
Would love to see this game developed further!
@sofignedova Of course! If there's any other problems I can help with, feel free to reach out. This game was lovely, and I'd love to see it grow :)