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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥉 | 2021 | 49 | Unstable | Wibbly-wobbly Tower | compo | Theme | 4.54 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | Drone Diner Dash | compo | 168 | 3.64 | 3.70 | 3.46 | 4.16 | 3.44 | 3.14 | 2.72 | 2.86 | |
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | Shoo! | compo | 146 | 3.52 | 3.37 | 3.20 | 3.80 | 3.67 | 3.55 | 3.79 | 3.29 | |
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | MMO Minesweeper | compo | 165 | 3.58 | 3.50 | 3.85 | 4.21 | 2.90 | ||||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | I'll buy us some time | compo | 33 | 4.04 | 4.00 | 4.42 | 4.32 | 3.56 | 3.47 | 3.67 | 3.56 | |
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | Wibbly-wobbly Tower | compo | 63 | 3.96 | 4.11 | 3.26 | 4.54 | 3.90 | 3.77 | |||
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | What's in the Bottom? | compo | 212 | 3.75 | 3.68 | 3.52 | 3.93 | 3.43 | 3.15 | 3.38 | ||
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | Loop Back to the Future | compo | 191 | 3.64 | 3.52 | 3.42 | 4.00 | 3.54 | 2.87 | |||
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Shrodinger's Cat | compo | 495 | 3.46 | 3.06 | 3.44 | 4.05 | 4.00 | 3.48 | 3.27 | 3.34 | |
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | Console >_ | compo | 368 | 3.14 | 3.02 | 3.40 | 3.85 | 3.33 | ||||
| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | Sacrifices in the Cat Yard | compo | 36 | 4.01 | 4.00 | 3.72 | 4.03 | 4.00 | 3.98 | 4.12 | 3.91 | |
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | 👥 | Panic at the Haunted Hotel | jam | 465 | 3.50 | 3.60 | 2.90 | 3.22 | 4.02 | 3.22 | 3.40 | |
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | Dungeon Solitaire | compo | 32 | 4.04 | 4.10 | 4.43 | 4.48 | 3.21 | 2.76 | 2.67 | 3.07 | |
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | High Protein Diet Dungeon | compo | 214 | 3.61 | 3.54 | 3.47 | 4.03 | 3.76 | 3.35 | 3.07 | 3.02 |
I think you managed to use the theme very well. Really, the more upgrades you got the worse it was. And you made it fun so that even if you hate the new upgrade you play through just to see what's next. Congratulations on your submission!
The first cat that got through the door pulled a gun and shot me. It was so unsuspected it was love at first sight. Great game, just awesome!
Great visuals, sound and idea. But I can't help to say it felt a little buggy. Sometimes I threw my hat and it just didn't go the way I expected. Sometimes I lost too many hats at once. But hey! Ficou da hora!
I was really frightened when I heard and saw the first werewolf running at me. Just that was already worth it! Great game, just need some improvements with the pathfinding, sometimes NPCs and Werewolves got stuck.
I confess that by looking at your screenshots I didn't expect much, but once I started playing I just couldn't stop until I had a descent score! Well, if you practice your artwork and keep up with the awesome game design I think you'll have a great game for the next LDs.
Voice acting? Really!? I got to try that on my next Jam! It was amazing!
If anything you could improve controls and gameplay. Everything is great but you still have a lot of room to work those out.
You have something really solid here! You could probably release it with a few design and balance improvements. Also, Brasil precisa lançar mais jogos! Haha!
Congratulations on your submission, I enjoyed it a lot guys. (Loved the bongos)
My friend had the exact same idea but didn't go for it. Happy to see someone did and that it was very well done. Congratulations!
I think you should get rid of the bottom screen or else the game completely loses it's purpose. Also, I wasn't able to get the last carrot since it moved so much faster than I did.
But it was a great idea indeed! I enjoyed it, congratulations!
Very well done! You were able to achieve a great mood with simple mechanics and art. I loved it!
Took me a while to realize you can't step on the red. At first I think it was buggy. There's something weird with the character controller too, maybe it's its inertia or acceleration, I can't say for sure. But that's okay once you get the thing going. I liked the incremental difficulty between the easy, medium and hard. Nonetheless, nice entry. Congratulations!
I'm really sad it's so short ;<
Bet scroller so far!
Would be fun to have an ultimate objective, like a target score. That would be a satisfying reward for the player and a reason to try and play it again.
I loved the moving lights with the mirrors.
Not just audio you're missing some cues for when you git enemies that don't die with one shot. There's no audio nor visual effect. The game also doesn't offer an increasing challenge, at least during my play-through at some point the same wave of enemies kept spawning with the same pink enemies and nothing more. Maybe it's just a bug? Anyway, I kept fighting those waves for minutes before I realized nothing was happening (was too stunned by the amazing aesthetics). Congratulations
Best plot so far! I love short games with an actual story and unlike mine everything fits well in your game (graphics, audio, characters, scenery, etc). Congratulations!
Yea, I think the music was kinda of repetitive and the gameplay a bit slow and dull. But hey! Your graphics are great, you have a boss and a new game plus! I haven't seem a single game with new game plus yet!
I loved this! This one is definitely in my top 10.
I got really hyped seeing the screenshots and reading the description and concept, but when I got into the game it wasn't so great. Maybe programming isn't your strong suit and that's fine, at least you completed and submitted a full game. I still think you should rethink commands like space+shift+w and s. Why did you choose these? Don't reinvent the wheel, try to go with something people are already familiar with.
One of the best themes so far. Definitely, the more you have the worse it is. And very well executed, congratulations!
Favorite entry up till now! You guys nailed it! The dialogs are just great.
This was awesome bro! I don't know your reasons why you didn't implement some audio too, but if you just think you're not good enough with audio stuff I think that's the first step in recognizing your weakness. Dare yourself into adding audio next time and I'm sure you'll get it. This game just shows how competent you are and I'm sure you can do it.
Did you paint that Mona Lisa yourself? A masterpiece.
Next time try to get some sound working. It really helps bringing your games to the next level!
I loved the Lovecraftian mood and theme, no idea why mood isn't available for rating. Next time try getting sound effects, it really brings the game to a whole new level.
I guess I'll die a virgin, because I got that ending every single time, haha
The bug when you try to attack the bee/bird and get hit instead kinda of annoyed me. But hey! You had a boss fight! That's awesome!
You got a very nice package there. I'm impressed how you guys were able to have a so polished game in such a short time. It fits the theme well, graphics and sound work together and it's super duper fun!
PS: There's an "ending".
Thanks for all those feedback guys! The game isn't completely balanced I know, some people say it's easy if you keep your health full but I honestly don't think you can beat it this way. I personally like to keep my health low and have long dashes around. It's a tradeoff between speed and vulnerability, if you make any mistakes dashing you're dead.
The gun sure seems useless, it's supposed to be used to slow down monsters but in the end I too just use it to get slimmer and faster again. Also, it was supposed to have a boss at the end that you would beat only by making him fatter and fatter with the gun until it explodes... but I din't had time for that.
A lot of people seemed confused about the mechanics and I guess that having a little tutorial would really help things there.
The theme isn't that great either, I just draw some random stuff and then tried to make things fit together. I'm no artist. Thinking back into the theme I'd go with a magnetic armor and robotic enemies that drop scraps that get dragged by your own armor, thus, making you heavier. Your scrap gun would make them slower and you lighter, but with lower defense. Damn, why didn't I have this idea before? (I'm not even sure I'd be able to make descent artwork for that)
Anyway, up till now I don't know of anyone who could beat the game. I even offered a beer for my coworkers to whoever beat it first... I guess the hard fun I tried to achieve was just too hard for a not so attractive game ;P
Good game, nice art, sound and mechanics. But it falls flat on game design, it becomes boring pretty fast. Next time try to focus a little more on your game design. You would be impressive how much content you can add by just tweaking some values.
Superb.
Happy to know you were able to make your submission in time this time! That's the spirit. Your game might not be great this time but sure is a improvement from your last try, don't you agree? Keep doing this, one step at a time and you're going to get really good at this.
I good idea would be to have you start seeing things other than mushrooms after a while. Another thing would be to add an ending for when you eat, lets say, 50 shrooms. A dreamlike ending.
I don't know if it was intentional, but I liked the way your steps sounded like a music, having a rhythm and all. The con is that the game is endless with no real challenge, after 8 minutes or so I realized that nothing special was going to happen and just stopped playing. Maybe a final challenge or a real ending would be a great addition to your game. A satisfying reward.
I just kept trying to repeat what people said, but I couldn't find some of the symbols x_x
Very well polished, you should consider porting to mobile! But I'd make a better (non-text) tutorial for that.
Yea, I guess the think I would improve is the camera control. Maybe a zoom out? Anyway, cutest game so far. Congratulations!
Damn you, you made me cry.
@sebastian-m Thanks for paying and for the bug report! Your suggestion on the fix works perfectly. I'll fix that and post an updated version.
@roy-berardo Yea, sorry about that. I like hard games and tend to make things really hard. Slime was there to try to make you "run out of space" even more when trying to avoid the ghosts.
@prinfrexita Thanks for playing and for the feedback. We added a postjam version with difficulty selection and bugfixes just to address those problems.
About the ambient music, yea... neither of us are great with music so we designed some background sfx just to create the mood and that's all.
@rend You can bet those are the Shining references, thanks for noticing! Haha
Try uploading the WebGL version to itch.io, that sure helps to get ratings!
Really basic concept, yet a lot of fun!
I know those 2 ftj, but I'm not sure they understood the rating system, going to talk to them https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/spacial-dog https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/inappropriate-truck
Awesome! That depicts cats perfectly.
Great Artwork, Sound Effects and Music. Gameplay is simple and catchy and it's short enough so you won't go bored. But most of all, I loved the ending. Great job!
@teapoly Thanks for playing! And yes there's a little trick, that's supposed to be the "hardest challenge" for this game. Just fall or jump from high above to get enough velocity when falling and you'll get it.
@jcroisant @legulysse Omg, thanks for noticing that little detail. I put it there because my cat sometimes do that when jumping from up high. I realized maybe other cat owners would get that reference, but honestly I didn't really think anyone would notice.
You know everyone is trying to clear the map, right? We're only humans.
Just a few ideas to show you that you don't have to rely on just one mechanic to increase difficulty (in your case, speed): * You could make block the vision of the next table sometimes (something gets in the way of your view, or the light goes out), revealing it just when it's on the middle. * After some levels you could also cover the sacrifices with a sheet so you have to learn to identify just by silhouette.
I think it's quite innovative for this genre to not have to just press fire all the time. Good job!
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No sound or music playing on Firefox for me.
Very though game, I like it! Couldn't reach the special enemy yet, but I promise I'll come back to it tomorrow!
I'm impressed on how many levels you were able to build. Congratulations!
Whoa, that a really neat game loop you got there. Congratulations!
Congratulations! Next time try adding sound effects.
@zuf I guess I've chosen a darn small font. Are you on mobile?
@zuf fixed, thanks
Nice particle effects!
Beautiful music!
I just think the character could move faster. Also, doing math this way is sometimes confusing with the -
Took me a while but I had a lot of fun beating this game. I'm really impressed about the level design. Masterpiece.
@zuf Yea, I got the 100% complete message! I think I took me about one hour, maybe more.
Best clicker I've ever played.
After I found my matches I finally was able to finish it!
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Great submission!
It's a simple but heartwarming game. Congratulations guys!
Great game, nice learning curve. Congrats!
Got to say that I'm the ultimate gardener.
Nice game, great mood!
Nice game @regisclaus! Congratulations on your submission, you did it even though you had little time. Very proud of you :D
Oh, I did indeed used Pokemon as an inspiration for my sprites. I'm no artist so I wasted a lot of time trying to make everything look good. Game is pretty short, but it was fun working on it!
Thanks for the feedback!
@derek-volker The idea for this kind of mechanic is to usually make so that players have a limited number of tries. That can greatly increase the difficulty in some cases but I thought it could be a little frustrating for some people and for a game so short and simple.
I cheated, sorry.
I liked how you set the mood by changing the music. That plot twist got me!
The game is completely broken on a ultrawide resolution, you should try to make it more responsive.
Nice game @motoki! Thanks for the reference!
Is this endless? Because I had the feeling it wasn't get any harder after some levels.
Felt like playing asteroid inside a body. Haha
It's broken for ultrawides, had to change my resolution to be able to read dialogues.
Unexpectedly fun!! After some laps it really starts to get you going, haha.
Loved the pixel art and mechanics! Congrats!
I just realized that the first gif is an almost perfect loop... and that was totally unintentional!
Thanks for the feedback guys! I see that some people are having trouble trying to figure out how to play it. I'm really sorry about that, I really wanted to add a tutorial but wasn't able to.
@rhoka There is a 3rd person camera! Just press C to toggle the camera :)
Nice visuals! The mechanic also fits the theme pretty well.
Now you made me realize how badly bus drivers are stuck in a loop.
For games like this where you need to focus on muscle memory you shouldn't rely on physics. It's just too inconsistent.
I had to play it through and finish it anyway! Good entry! Congrats.
Difficulty increases a bit too slow I think.
They aim like stormtroopers!
Solid entry! Congrats!
Good entry! But when you remove the spotlight and add a green glowing thing in the middle it's kinda obvious that players are going to suicide there. heh
Hi Tim, I'm a big fan! Just wondering why you made steering so hard for this game.
Btw, my best was 00:41.721
Having a leaderboard really makes me want to replay and try to beat someone, haha. Congrats!
I loved the algorithm explanation, it reminds me of the algorithm used on Tiny Keep I think.
Too bad it's crashing for me, I want to see the ending so bad!!! I'll keep checking for newer versions and replay until I can beat it.
Thanks for everyone who played, rated and even took some of their time to leave a nice feedback! I really appreciate that! So much that in return I did the same for all your games. Very good and interesting games guys, congratulations.
@northerndonut @refrax295 @jedemac @tombuston @bw-devel @gnaro @soarendev @javicoder @misteurleu @acuriosity @ddesigndude
In the next Jam try giving audio some love, it usually adds a great depth to the game. Anyway, congratulations on your Jam entry!
I like the exploratory aspect of the game, even though I couldn't reach depth greater than 4. I think the zoom thing made a weird glitch on the the sprites.
It had to be done.
I think you could add at least another simple mechanic to make the game a little more challenging, but it was great nonetheless. Congratulations!
Hey, for a game started 16h late this is a very solid entry. Reminds me of "AaAaAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity" on Steam which is a very fun game. Congratulations on your entry!
The game is really short, but I enjoy games that have a clear ending in contrast to some endless games. You did a very good job on the level design there, the puzzle was fun and the art is very consistent.
Congratulations on your compo entry!
Loved the music and the puzzle aspect of the game. Congratulations!
I loved the concept, too bad you didn't have enough time to finish it. Modeling takes quite a lot of time if you're not well experienced in that, but keep trying and learning. You're gonna do better next time! Congratulations!
I like the fact that you had two endings, I just love that. I'd recommend that you improve your skills in designing a better character controller next time, and maybe, if you have the time, add some music and sound to your game.
Congratulations on your entry, Compos are hard!
Congratulations on your first Compo game! Making a whole game in just 48 hours, all by yourself, isn't exactly very easy.
Finished with 1027 coins, but I think I could have done better if I had some kind of timer to show how much time left I had until the lava comes.
Well done!
The music and aesthetics makes this game nail a perfect mood. Usually I would get scared diving so deep into the darkness, but the music helped keep me calm and relaxed. Congratulations on this great compo entry!
Haha, the character looks very cute when he's diving! Congratulations on your compo entry, well done!
Congratulations on your compo entry! Not everyone can do finish a game in 48 hours. I wish the game had a final goal or something. At least I couldn't find any.
Hey, don't worry about the physics not working as you expected, the game is fun and I think it was really innovative. Game Jams are all about experimentation and learning, go easy on yourself. Congratulations!
I liked the aesthetics, but the gameplay could be better. One thing I would specially improve is the aiming, maybe making it kinda of autoaim the closest enemy in front of you showing a visual cue that it's being targeted.
Anyway, I know Compos are hard and you usually don't have time to polish everything you want. Congratulations on your entry!
Congratulations on your compo entry! I really had some fun there. Got a score of 5473.
Next time try to focus a little on audio, that really brings a lot of value to the game.
Dude, I'm impressed! Never thought about making a console game for a Ludum Dare. In fact I don't even know how to do that!
Anyway, I came here because you played my game and said it was similar to yours and it really is! I like your music better though :)
Omg, this game is so simple and yet very fun! You could probably sell this on mobile phones. Very solid compo entry! Congratulations!
Man, that was deep. And informative!
Thanks for this entry, I really enjoyed it!
Nice little game! Next time try going a little easier on the colliders and making them bigger. Audio and music help to achieve a better mood too.
Congratulations on your entry!
You had some weird controls there... Anyway, the graphics are great! Have you had some music and sound effects you could have an even better mood. Congratulations!
Dude, that was insanely fast!
That game is a purrfect 10/10.
That would be a great multiplayer game, haha.
What did just happen? 🤣
Great entry! Hahaha!
Very solid entry, it was fun!
A little advice, for this highly muscle memory games where you replay several times it's better to have an easier way to restart the level without having to reach for the mouse as you're already concentrated and focused on the keyboard.
It took me a while to realize what I had to do. I think a "Game Over" screen would have helped with that.
Oh man, we had piratically the same idea but I think you got the execution better! Congratulations!
PS: Was there any audio? Because rating for that is enabled but I didn't hear anything while playing.
There were some unexpected twists! I loved it.
Note to self: Never design a car with oval wheels. They're quite unstable.
Ignore this. LD bugged my post.
I destroyed everything so much faster on my NG+!
Very well polished game. I love the the cannon and woody sounds of the pieces being hit.
I was able to play it fine today.
Loved your made without description! :rofl:
I guess you could call it Tritries? heh
Loved the art style. I wish I could use the arrow keys to move and crank instead of wasd only.
I agree, the game mechanics have potential but the music kinda puts me off.
I thought about doing this game but I didn't know how to. You got the execution right!
Omg that was insanely sweet and juice! Congratulations for this very solid entry!
Nice point and click game!
Loved the music, it added a great mood and I didn't feel that it was too repetitive.
I laughed hard to this game. Nice job!
PS: how did you get a copy of my game?
I'm fine.
Oh boy, that was fun! I swear I've seen you post it with text in Portuguese before. 🇧🇷
Yea, sometimes the blocks didn't break but I think that's exactly what unstable means, right? 🤣
Loved the aesthetic, mood and effects. Gameplay depends a little too much on randomness for my taste.
The game is hella fun, but I think the ability to retry from the last checkpoint would be a huge accessibility improvement!
Well done, I loved some of the little details like the cars wheels and the wiggly tail.
That was really fun! The secondary shot was very satisfying to use!
You got me.
It's a shame you didn't have audio, the game is great.
Good game, but I think you could be a little bit more forgiving with the speed the mana fills.
The only thing I would change maybe would be the player's weapon. Since you started with a grape I would try to keep the upgrade something purpleish. It's a mess when You're fighting the boss and everything is fire, you can't tell what to dodge, haha.
Well done guys! You got so much that good in such a short time. There were some bugs but I was able to finish the game anyway (but saving only 5 researchers with me).
I giggled when I forgot the semicolon.
@gustavo @onnofal @cover-club-media @betbet @matt-rice @gdesecrate @mrbrainfed @exevirus @zack-hd @jogy34 @junklab @piscythe @lisyarus
Thanks for everyone who played and rated the game so far. I went ahead and added a description to the page to explain some bugs and logic for monster attacks. Unfortunately I didn't have the time to make it more clear through the UI, but feedback and ideas are always welcome for a possible post-compo version.
PS: I also played and rated all of your games, and they rock! Congratulations to you all!
I must confess I learned a few recipes here. Your game made me a better person!
PS: Also, I love how you can shake the glass even without any liquids in it for the recipes. Might try that at home the next time.
Why is that that every game made in Pico engine are great?
You know what? It's simple but it made me giggle! And has a nice aesthetics too, everything fits together. Congratulations!
Very well polished game, easy to understand and play. Also, hexagons are the bestagons!
I can't explain, but it's kinda easy and hard at the same time. I didn't figure out I could attack using the mouse button until after level 6 :rofl:
Whoa, that brings me back memories. My first game was a TD from meteors just like this one!
After some playthroughs I wasn't able to beat the game at all, nor have any different kind of outcome. Only after I read the comments here I realized I was never supposed to "beat the game" at all, is that it?
Found 4 endings so far. Also, the game crashes if you click the cat right at the start o.o
Whoa, I know the engine provides this, but multiplayer for a game jam is really bold! Nice one! Gotta try it with some friends later.
Well done, I enjoy being able to play with the controller. Thanks!
Great entry. I would suggest making an alternative control for holding it in since some people have difficulty with button smashing mechanics, it's always nice to implement some kind of accessibility.
Don't get this as a bad commentary, but I think this is a good interpretation of what hell would be like.
That's totally inspired by Howl’s Floating Castle! Loved it!
This is a very strong compo entry! Congratulations!
Btw, found a cheesy strategy and can go on with the score pretty high if I want to.
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The last difficulty is really hard for me, I guess I'm not a hardened gangster after all...
Nice bullet hell! I couldn't beat it though, going to try some more times later.
Yea, that was a silly entry indeed! It made me giggle so it's all that matters, congratulations!
I got hyped while playing this, a good music is always great for the mood! Congrats!
10 seconds seems like an eternity in this game! Hahaha, well done!
Awesome entry guys, I really enjoyed the look and feel and the puzzles were great. I only wish you could control the character with arrows too so I could easily walk right AND interact with 'e' more easily. I don't know, maybe I played too many emulators back in the day and that's why I'm used to using arrows.
@mmason But the double mouse button is implemented! It just doesn't have the visuals but if you click the numbers with both mouse buttons at the same time it is going to work as in the original, opening the tiles around it as long as you have placed the right number of flags.
@mmason Well, there was one specific tile for which it wasn't working. I mean it's a 1% chance, but it could have been it. Anyway, it's fixed now and it's working on all tiles.
@unitedfailures thanks for the insights! I think that for a bigger release it would need a lot more balancing, maybe even multiple "rooms" with different board sizes and timers.
I really like your point system idea, that would fit the game nicely and give people a way to get at least some score even if they're not being able to finish a board for a long time.
Quite simple and very fun! Solid entry, congrats!
Didn't know they were making triple-I games at LD Jam. Because that's what this game fees like, it's AWESOME!
This is one of the fewer games I played at LD that I actually cared about the story. I wanted to know what was going to happen and it made me curious to know more about the world and characters. Level design, music and art were all great. Very solid entry! Congratulations!
Are there different endings? Because the one I got seems to be rather tragic, heh.
That winning tune hypes me up!
Took me a while to realize that you can still control the game while it's "minimized" but once I got it it was a nice ride! Congrats for these submissions! It was 2 games really, haha.
Very cute, but also very hard! I guess there was a lot of micromanagement to do in just 10 seconds, at least for me. The art and music fit together and were well implemented, thanks for this game!
Very good graphics and mood, unfortunately I encountered some bugs and level design issues which prevented me to completing the game (like a crate getting stuck in the corner when dropped). But it's a great game and with a very great music and visuals, congrats!
Controls and visuals are awesome, had you implemented sound it would have an even greater mood. I wish life depleted slower so we had a higher "grace period" to hide before dying. Great game anyway, congratulations!
At first I thought the audio was kind of overwhelming but it is actually great for adding to the mood. After some tries I was able to beat it, hiding in the shadows without touching the red squares was intentional? Because I noticed it works and the walls won't disappear in this case.
That's a pretty solid game you got there, maybe you could even release it with some more content. Congratulations!
Only thing I would change would be the controls for getting out of bed being based on user input instead of a fixed timer. The game is engaging so that I had to play it till the end. Congratulations!
It took me an awful amount of time until I realized what to do. But when I did, it flowed!
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I think you should swap Sound to first in order of importance! You're missing a lot of potential to make your game greater when you leave out the audio. It's a whole human sense you're not exploring!
Game was good but I confess I didn't quite understand how swapping cards really worked, I felt I was missing some "cards" sometimes.
Good thing you had an autosave because I was so busy laughing about the "I had a family" that I actually missed the timer :rofl:
Excellent mood! Level design was great too, I loved it. Congrats!
We love you.
Well done! A good idea would be to change the music to something more laid back at the ending, so we know the mood had actually changed. I kept thinking something bad would happen anytime, haha.
My high score wasn't displayed in the Highscore leaderboard, but it doesn't really matter. What matter is that I had some fun :)
@tanis Tried on both Web and Windows builds.
I caught the golden tuna with the first boat and just then I realized I could upgrade the boat, haha. The fun continued though, very good. Really loved this game!
That's exactly why I followed you after I found your game in the last LD. Your games justs amazes me, thanks for this beautiful submission S2
No, seriously, I love you guys S2
That was a good idea for a risk vs reward mechanic. I liked how coherent all the aesthetics of the game were, graphics audio, texts and stuff. Congrats!
You know what would be fun? The U.F.O. lights blinking in sync with the song, haha.
Great game!
I'm not really good with interpretative stories, but I wanted to see the ending anyway. Thanks for keeping me engaged until the end :)
No, YOU are awesome!
No waves left! I did it!
I think the game should start zoomed out or have some indicative that you can do that. I played at least 2 games without moving the camera at all then I realized something strange, some turrets were shooting targets off screen, haha.
I loved this platformer, it somehow give me the same vibes as games like Nights into Dreams from Sega Saturn. Good job and thanks for the fun game.
You need checkpoints! It's not that easy to learn the mechanics to go through the level and once you die you have to go through the tutorial all over again. Other than that it's a very nice game, cute and and fun. I wasn't able to finish it but I'll probably come back later and try some more, I love stories and that fella is a good talker. Haha.
Isn't there an ending? I played like, a lot of rounds waiting for something to happen then I realized there might not be one :P
Still the game was fun, it's well polished and executed. Congratulations!
First impression was: that's a weird choice of controls for an attack. But then I got the hangs of it and everything started making sense. In the end the gameplay was very fluid and fun! Thanks for this awesome submission!
I'm guessing you guys didn't have enough time to finish connecting the mechanics, but even as it is now it has some good qualities. The first levels have some nice progression teaching new mechanics and steadily increasing the challenge, good game design there.
It's not working for me, says the icons were updated but nothing happens after that.
@thomas-olsson Now yea! Thanks a lot for the update, I was able to finish the game and I loved the puzzles. Does something change if you don't collect the diamonds?
@thomas-olsson I was. Totally!
Congratulations! You escaped! ... to a room with no doors and no escape :laughing:
That was a fun challenge, thanks for this awesome submission.
That was very polished! Is there an ending to this? Is is possible to defeat the thing in the middle?
Anyways, congratulations! Very solid compo entry!
Nice little game. I wish sheep were more responsive even if it were just for the bark but I guess that could make it too easy maybe?
Congratulations on your submission!
Whoa, very nice mood! Not just the post processing, effects and music, but it also plays smoothly with good character and camera movement. Got all 3 endings!
That totally exceeded my expectations! Both in terms of how polished it looks, sounds and plays, and also how simple and fun it was to play. Gameplay and goals are easily conveyed in the very first try. Good submission, congratulations!
I totally clicked with your sense of humor, and those voice over really got me laughing, haha. Thanks for this submission!
I'm getting these 2 errors when trying to run the game.
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@honest-dan I'm still getting the same errors but it seems like others can play it. Maybe it's something specific for my setup here? Should those DLL be found anywhere inside the package? Because I couldn't find them here.
@honest-dan Oh, my bad I guess... Should have Googled it first. This is a new machine and I hadn't installed older DX stuff here yet. Working perfectly now!
I had to take some time to figure out the mechanics, but once I got it it became pretty a enjoyable experience, kinda of relaxing even.
I'm really glad you didn't put a time limit on each turn so I can take as much time as I need to think about the consequences. I also loved that you put the option to re-roll the hand at the cost of 1 power, that's pretty neat.
Congratulations on yet another awesome submission, thanks for the game.
I loved it so much! The instructions, art style, aesthetics, music, everything! This is a masterpiece, really. Thanks for this awesome experience playing this game.
@drunkardwolf @slantyoj @paulstraw @augmotic @fabian-denter
Thanks for the feedback guys, this is exactly the kind of thing that helps a lot when building games. I thought about re-balancing the objectives for level 3 but instead I just increased the Shoo's AoE range. It wasn't a huge change but it should feel more responsive and make things easier now.
I didn't change the level balance because Level 3 is really supposed to be a little harder, you have to lookout for crows on your carrots, since you have only 5, and 3 getting eaten means defeat. Crows eat crops faster than mice.
The compo version without this little balance change is still available for download on itch.io page.
For everyone who played the game and found it too difficult, I'm really sorry. I appreciate your feedback and totally agree with most if not all of the suggestions. I ended up balancing all 5 level just in the last hours of the jam I wasn't able to really fine tune things like walking speed, animations, etc. Also, I'm a hard fun player so I tend to make things a bit too hard sometimes.
For those who reached the end, thank you for your efforts. I guess you are kind of like me, a player who enjoys hard fun.
It's really hard to find the middle ground. x_x
@wuppos you guessed right, it's just a render texture with a lower resolution (426x240), there are probably better ways to do that but for 42 hours that was the most effortless solution with good enough results.
@jormarysky thanks for acknowledging that! I was initially going for a combat system with contact and stuff, but then I realized it wasn't necessary. I could make it fun without the use of violence, and in the end the "Shoo"attack turned out to be the fans' favorite. Everyone seems to be enjoying it.
The game was funny already, but you really got me hard when I hovered over the "Spawn one (1) piece of bread". Seriously, I had to pause to take a breath. Thanks for this game <3
That was unexpected, thanks for keeping the game description and screenshots spoiler free. That was really important to the general experience of the game.
You're right, we had basically the same idea! Even the progress bar at the top and the goal of keeping a certain amount of crops! I was able to get a score of $2530 after reaching level 11.
Now... I really want to congratulate you on this game. I mean, making a game in 48 is already hard enough and you not only did it but you did it good. The game is consistent on all fronts and the gameplay is well balanced, responsive and it just feels right.
Thanks for this awesome submission :hearts:
This game is the kind of challenge that reminds me of Surgeon Simulator or QWOP, usually funny games. I was able to get my score up to 50 but that was my limit. Thanks for this game.
Ohhh, even though the instructions were clear it took me a while to realize how the corn actually works. I assumed it could push the farmers, then I tested my theory and it didn't work so I thought it was broken. But I got it in the end, great game, very nice graphics!
Pretty solid entry for a compo submission, it's very relaxing and fun but I think the progression may be too slow.
Well done, I got goosebumps at the end with the music and the images. Very well directed, congrats!
I think you should have added at least 7 more monster so it would be able to grow all plants. Even though I had finished it there's still this lingering feeling that I have not fully completed my mission :(
Nice execution on the mechanics though, it was very enjoyable jumping and shooting around. Congratulations!
That was relaxing and fun. I specially loved the art style and bouncy animations, everything was very cohesive and fit well together. I wouldn't change a thing except maybe for adding a relaxing song to come along with the experience.
Thanks for this awesome submission <3
Thanks for your submission, I had quite a fun time harvesting some heretics!
You got me totally hooked on this. I don't know if there was a way to do it but I missed seeing the progress of the quests/missions during the game. Pause menu would be a good place to put that.
Congratulations on your first Ludum Dare! One advice I'll give you for your future games is something that I usually struggle with myself:
Try to dumb down the difficulty of your games.
Yea I know... I also like hard fun, but as the developers it's just natural and easier for us to grasp the mechanics and controls, usually people have a harder time trying to figure them out.
Fun concept, I think I would make it different so that the energon cubes were colored so only the sphere with the same color can catch it, and make collecting them obligatory to finish the level. Oh, and probably work on improving the camera too.
I got over 1M points. I guess I know how to throw a party!
That scared the **** out of me! I'm not sure what happened next, I think I died but I don't know why. In fact sometimes I just re-spawned out of the blue and it was kind of frustrating. I bet the enemies sneaked from behind and got me, but I can't be sure.
Awesome! I like how you were able to add a new dimension to a concept that would otherwise be too simple by adding key and lock mechanics in a variety of ways. I loved the puzzle and was able to finish the game.
Thanks for this game.
I wasn't expecting a typing game, good job! I just think the difficulty ramp up pretty fast from the 2nd to the 3rd level.
I loved the concept of being the dog chasing the delivery guy, just sad it was such a short game. Congratulations nonetheless, thanks for the game.
Having dialogs with voice over is just awesome! I think it helps a lot players to bear the dialogs and pay attention to your instructions.
The UI breaks a little on my ultrawide monitor but it's not a big deal. Also, is there a way to restart the game after you're fired without having to alt+f4 and re-open the game?
Omg, that was a really fun puzzle game. I loved the sprites, sfx and music. It's a very solid entry, congratulations. Yum!
So that's what being a traffic light feels like.
As always, that's a darn good entry! It's gorgeous in every aspect, art, audio, design, gameplay and even the fact that the main character is an endangered species.
If there's one thing to work on it would be to improve the controls and add little leeway on the level design or colliders.
@kylethecoder Thanks for the feedback. While developing and testing, I considered adding some "bump walls" to prevent dishes from slipping out of the tray too easily. In the end, I decided to keep it as is since it's a physics-based game and part of the fun is dealing with the challenge. However, I do tend to make my games a little too difficult, so I apologize for that. ;P
@dinoraz Thank you for your input. I agree that an option to invert the controls would be helpful, and I also wanted to include support for key binding. Unfortunately, developing for COMPO can be challenging, and I often have limited time to implement all the features I want.
@scribbl-games I tried to make it as easy as possible to consider both items on the table and on the drone. Do you have any suggestions on how I could provide more leeway for the deliveries? As for the art, everything was done drawing with the mouse, and I'm not a real artist (as we can clearly see).
@adam-gould Thanks for the feedback. Several people have already complained about the controls, so I added an option for it on the pause menu. Since it's a quality-of-life change, I think it's okay to add this. I'll make sure to include it in a post-compo changelog.
@zungryware I noticed that since people don't know their current progress in the game, they tend to quit mid-game without reaching the end. I added a progress UI, so maybe now people feel a little more motivated to finish the game and submit their high score. However, you're totally right that it would be fun to add more restaurant-related tasks to the gameplay. PS: Did you use the wall to save and even align the plates? Haha.
@defrag the only incremental difficulty lies in the level traversal and the layout and composition of the combos and dishes you have to deliver. They get incrementally harder, but it's all designed around the same mechanics. I didn't plan other kinds of tasks mainly due to time constraints as you guessed. Regarding the art, it's in a gray area where some people like it, and some don't. I'm glad you're on the bright side of the spectrum. :P
@thaprofesional You actually lose points if you lose dishes in the way back to the kitchen counter. I guess that's a mechanic that's not very explicit and the feedback for that is poor as it is now. About the drone being stuck in some places, well... that happens with real drones too. Haha.
@corporation Haha, thanks for playing! I think if you got to the rankings it means you're already better than many.
@sezdev Yea, I think I may have made it too long for a LD game. It's always hard to balance those things without proper platytest. About the landing not registering, I'm aware of this issue and even tried some fixes based on rigidbody velocity and angular velocity but there might still be some other corner case I couldn't find yet.
@kuggenhoffen Thanks for the idea, it would be really nice to accept deliveries dropped on the table without having to land on it. If I ever work on this game afterwards I'll consider adding it.
@tempestcognitor Thanks for making it to the leaderboard! That was the first LD game I made that actually feature a persistent online leaderboard and it was very easy to implement using the Leaderboard Creator tool. I'm all hyped about that leaderboard even though we don't even have 10 entries yet. Haha.
@munkkeli Yea, I might have overextended the play session a bit for a jam game. Thanks for playing, glad you enjoyed the intricate maneuvers of the game.
@kierogi Bouncing them is fun isn't it? Hihihi :smirk:
@grid96 Yes, I recorded everything during the jam using my mic (Blue Snowball) and Audacity. The sound of the drone comes from an electric air duster I have that I use to clean my setup. And the dishes well... I just threw some cutlery into a mug and recorded it. No extra filters or magical sound effects aside from ambient noise removal. Oh, except for the drone which actually adjusts the pitch based on your inputs, but that was done in game through code.
Awesome game! Again you nailed it with a solid foundation: a good game design and polished mechanics. And I'm not even considering the aesthetics yet, game graphics, UI and audio design are all consistent and pretty. I wish I could be this good with art, haha.
Congratulations, you're awesome!
Whoa! I also got my research done just as my base was being destroyed, which led me to be a bit confused if I actually won or not. But I think the game is well balanced and the graphics and audio are pretty consistent. I loved the aesthetics.
Thanks for this game!
Good mood with the graphics audio and music, but personally for me the gameplay was too difficult right after the tutorial. Too many eggs to manage at once made me really confused, haha. Congratulations on this delivery! Good game.
Very nice theme and aesthetics. Arrangement or not the music makes a lot of difference for the mood. I wonder if you really needed the WASD mechanic at all, everything would work the same with just clicks on the screen.
Anyway, good entry!
Took me some time to figure out the mechanics of how to sneak past the guards, does "not sneaking" have any impact or effect at all? Because I saw no reason to ever let go the 's' key.
Maybe if you make the character move a little slower while sneaking it would already make a huge impact in gameplay and increase the depth of the choice of when to sneak or not.
Also, when you die on the last screen the game freezes for me, I had to reload the page and start again every time.
You should make that pirate with the pistol be the final boss and shoot at you so you have to deflect the bullets in between hits.
Nice fun little game, congratulations!
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I love puzzles so I had to go until the end! All levels up to 12 beaten. I saw some of your posts during the jam and was really curious about what you were creating. Making puzzles is really hard!
I always wondered how to make puzzles like this efficiently. Did you make the puzzles by trial and error or do you have a kind of script/algorithm/math for that?
Anyway, thanks for this entry! I really enjoyed it!
@zungryware Thanks for the sharing this knowledge! That's part of what makes Ludum Dare so fun. Actually, I highly recommend that you share this text as a post for everyone as it seems you're not only good at creating puzzles but also at explaining things too.
What a gem! The puzzles were very well constructed and the overall aesthetics is just amazing, everything fits. Congratulations on this awesome entry!
I struggled a bit with the controller, but I think that's part of the challenge. After a few tries I was able to land properly and missed the target by just 2m :)
Congratulations, good game!
Nice game, I wish I could hire more waitresses as it eventually becomes the bottleneck. But in general that was a good experience and the choice for the music was great since it kept me happy, haha.
Really well polished mechanics and gameplay, but I think the difficulty could ramp up a little faster and be more "frenetic" near the end.
Also, you probably already know that and didn't have the time or resources, but adding sound effects and music really brings the game feel to a next level.
Congratulations on your submission!
Loved the aesthetics and gameplay! Couldn't find the blue one-eyed monster from screenshot in game though ;O
Not working of Firefox for me, but I was able to beat the game on Chrome. Nice one!
Great game! I just think it was too repetitive, next time try aiming for more variety of enemies/challenges or a smaller map. Maybe adding a boss or trap rooms would be nice. But a pretty solid submission nevertheless.
Once I submitted my game and noticed the URL ended with '/dungeon-solitaire-1' I knew I had to come check this out. Nice submission, congratulations!
Very similar to my idea! Platformer + Card Game! I guess great minds think alike, haha.
@Scrumplesplunge You can actually place nerf/buff cards on empty rooms. They'll get activated once a layout is placed.
@amras0000 Thanks for the very constructive comment! I added a confirmation before you reset and quit the game, a lot of my friends also complained "I thought it was the redraw button". So yea... I guess my whole UI is a bit messy.
About the name I guess I was just tired and without any good ideas.
@Mykola Stop it, you're making me blush here...
@bryyrt Actually it took me 42 hours, haha. And yea, I've been thinking that if it gets a good grading I might turn it into a full game with different decks and stuff.
@Linkwin Omg, it was supposed to be a joke with a friend of mine who wasn't able to beat the game, I guess I zipped the wrong build and sent to itch.io while doing the last hotfix. Hahahaha.
Sorry about that, should be fixed by now, thanks for reporting.
Loved the concept and implementation but maybe you should have cut some levels and try to use that time to add sound.
This game is a very solid entry, the mood was fantastic. You're an amazing game dev, keep up the good work and never let depression defeat you. You are awesome!
"It's so fluffy!"
Excellent entry! Fits the theme, awesome aesthetics and fun gameplay. Congratulations!
Nice one! Specially knowing it has been made in just 6 hours! My highscore was 510.