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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 59 | Signal | Midnight Transmission | compo | 230 | 3.14 | 2.81 | 2.95 | 3.73 | 3.11 | 3.33 | 3.71 | ||
| 2025 | 58 | Collector | Ghouls & Grimoires | jam | 338 | 3.59 | 3.61 | 3.04 | 4.00 | 3.11 | 3.02 | |||
| 2025 | 57 | Depths | Europan Expedition | jam | 211 | 3.83 | 3.42 | 3.47 | 4.40 | 4.26 | 4.07 | 2.55 | 3.95 | |
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | Summoning Grid | compo | 3.27 | 3.50 | 3.31 | 3.27 | 3.40 | 1.56 | 1.95 | 2.95 | ||
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | Void Garden | compo | 266 | 3.36 | 2.97 | 3.60 | 4.02 | 3.10 | 2.78 | |||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | Poseidon's Revenge | jam | 3.43 | 3.06 | 3.25 | 3.62 | 3.37 | 3.25 | ||||
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | The Vortex | compo | 412 | 3.15 | 3.07 | 2.34 | 2.44 | 3.05 | 3.44 | 3.13 | 3.18 | |
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | Deep Cover | compo | 583 | 3.25 | 3.01 | 3.55 | 3.16 | 3.01 | 1.60 | 2.80 | 2.65 | |
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Feed me! | compo | 701 | 3.25 | 2.88 | 2.66 | 3.92 | 3.27 | 2.98 | 2.40 | 3.11 |
Enjoyed this but the motion blur was way too much! On Mac (10.14.6), the game over screen isn't displaying any text for some reason. Nice concept with fueling the fire and fighting at the same time.
Took me a couple of tries to get into it, but a fun stategy game! It was hard to tell what was going on from the angle and the UI sometimes. A cool game!
Great fun! Well done! Really liked the variety of guys to eat and the ramp of difficulty. Could be a casual game that deserves further work and a release with more levels etc. One of the best I've played so far.
Really well done game. Glad to have played this one.
**My likes:** :smile: - Fun challenging gameplay - Nice sprites and animations - Background track/audio is great (I played on the web version btw) - Menu/Intro/Game Over screen are all well done - Loved the classic pacman style mushroom power up
**My dislikes** :cry: - Not killing the enemy that hurts you means a snake will often just straight up kill you. Was this a deliberate decision? - Water/compost spawning felt a bit too harsh at the start especially given the random nature of the maze gen. I was swamped by enemies and not enough to keep the flower alive some runs. However that is also the nature of the beast I guess! - Enemies movement/AI felt less polished than the rest of this but again a minor criticism!
A really quality compo entry! Kept me coming back to play!
Enjoyed playing this a lot but sadly it crashed for me right at the end when I was trying to get to the top!
Hiya! I'm one of the other "feed me" entrants! :laughing: Built mine using Phaser, cool to see a Pixi entry. I was inspired by Little Shop of Horrors to make mine, would love to hear what you think as we went down similar but very different routes! Loved the graphics and humour in yours, just wish it had been longer! I don't think it would have hurt to have some of the demands get repeated (so multiple pies by neighbours and a few cats/rats required). Cool game!
You bloody legend! RIP Keith Flint! Audio and graphics were top notch, tough but I liked that. I liked the controls on Keith too, made the game fun. Gameplay a bit too simple for my taste though, a little more variety would improve the game tenfold. Thanks for making such a great tribute to one of the best!
Really enjoyed playing this game. I thought the text/beats part looked good, and the music you were 'rapping' to worked well. I liked the way there was a narratove of the hip hop dream too and found the difficulty ramped appropriately. Not sure having about the freestyle ending over a 'Well done' or similar message. Well done on making such a cool game.
I think that the graphics of the audience/stage really let you down as I'm sure you know, I think some simple 2D graphics like PaRappa The Rapper in the 3D world, basic low poly or just a simple 2D sprite look would have made this good game great!
Thanks for the kind comments everyone. Definitely will make the bucket/tank graphics clearer if I do a post jam version (which I will I think, just to teach myself a bit more). @lamasaurus it was definitely a design decision, lots of adjusting the timings / growth / fruit spawn / game length towards the end to make it as short and sweet as poss but a little challenging with a victory that you could try to improve on.
Thanks for all the reviews and feedback everyone, it's much appreciated!
@bentglasstube That is some really good feedback, I'm very grateful :smile:
It was a deliberate decision to have the timer get that quick to give a sense of peril and increased difficulty. I adjusted the game a lot to try and figure a sweet spot between difficult. Glad you liked it.
Definitely agree with the sound levels. I should have just adjusted those the moment I put them in.
I kept the mechanics simple in the end but had some ideas about mechanics during brainstorming which I dropped due to the time constraints, let me know what you think: - Different levels of water, sludge and bones for Vzibig, so you can decide which one needs topping up based on how low it is getting. - Vizbig's demands are based on these but failing to meet the timer for one potentially doesn't damage him, he might just lash out at the player (so you would have health too) or he spawns a trap/thrower plant. - Carrying toxic sludge slowly reduces your health - Scoring fruit would heal you. - Fruit%LS
The ol LD site is really struggling with my last comment. Here's the end of it:
- Scoring fruit would heal you. - Fruit would decay and disappear after a while, maybe spawn a bit more to compensate. - At the start he demands the easier water and bones more, as he gets bigger he demands more sludge. - As Vizbig gets bigger, his roots grow and he spawns spike traps and sludge throwers who fire projectiles at the survivor. - Dash mechanic for the survivor
More cosmetic gameplay changes: - I really wanted to have dialogue above Vizbig talking at the player. I’m glad I decided to work on the sound instead as I feel it improved things loads having audio but it would have added a lot of character - Animations for throwing things into Vizbig and then he throws the bucket/tank back out randomly - Animations, especially for the player’s survivor and Vizbig, would have improved everything! :laughing:
@scott-steffes Thank you. Adding ASDW / a settings to adjust keys screen was on my todo list at the end :cry: but we all know how it goes sometimes. Definitely will practice getting that stuff into my game jams more.
@blobo Thanks! Would have liked to add a few plant tendrils and toxix bits to the graphic. Maybe in v2!
@remco Thank you :smile: Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the music either, this game jam has inspired me to finally learn how to use my computer to lay down some decent tracks for games!
@borys Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! Really had a lot of fun this compo and the community here has been a bit part of that too!
Enjoyed it a lot! Thanks for making!
Yeah, awesome! Took a few tries to figure things out but loads of fun when I did. Had probs grabbing fish every time I played so not sure if I'm missing a trick there or it's a game issue. Really nice job for this! Well done!
Really great and loads of fun, decent amount of challenge without seeming impossible! Although I haven't won yet!
Love the look and the controls/UI. Very nice. Concept was cool and bang on theme. I think if the indicators were a bit clearer then speeding up the game might make it a bit more fun but perhaps others like the relaxed pace and that's personal preference!
Loved it! Great gameplay,sprites and audio! Why no lovely particle effects on the big old flame though?! :laughing:
I liked the audio and the game's graphics! Well done for making a working TD game, I liked the variety of enemies too. I feel like the UI for placing towers could have been clearer and whilst it does fit the theme, adding a bit of intro narritive or fun info could easily have improved the game's Theme rating!
Love the atmosphere, fun to play, good concept! Such a great job with the audio! :smile:
Really enjoyed this game, bit tough but an original concept :smile:
I felt like I had to hard reset the page between games though or something which ramped the difficulty was getting kept and I ran into problems quickly (Firefox 75.0, OSX)
My main critisicm is the lack of audio,it would add so much to the experience and help a player with another layer of information.
Great stuff!
Very nice touch with the difficulties and the audio was spot on, it made the game feel tense and threatening. Having a crouch button to make you dodge the high up monsters would fit perfectly and add a little extra to the game imo and like others have suggested, a bit of variety in extra monsters too. Super hard would be a moving one! :laughing: Seriously well done on your game!
Really well done, a stunning level of polish for a Combo game. Especially enjoyed the audio. Whilst I did like the current gameplay with game over occurring when you lose one fruit, I wonder if perhaps losing a afew more to trigger game over would be better especially if you could somehow get more fruit back onto the table :smile:
Very interesting concept and I enjoyed playing! Shame about the sound, some different music tracks for the overworld and the card battles would have really helped set the tone imo. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked the card picking mechanism, kudos there and I hope you maybe expand on that in a future game. Fun strategy too with the network weakening and having to make movement decisions. My only serious complaint is the lack of 418 card :wink:
Cool stuff, nicely polished! Graphics and style were very well done. I too felt the gameplay differences between the player blocker attack and the click attack were a little confusing. I mainly popped myself towards the edges to 'cover that zone' and then clicked away. Well done, a great entry!
Brilliant. Nice and relaxing game, very enjoyable, fits the theme well! Audio was spot on. I had a problem placing crobs on Fertile Soil a couple of times so I don't know if they game thought they were Dirt or ?? Wonderful.
@singleshoe Ah, I expect that was it! Sounds like it went through a bunch of well thought out iterations, really love this one and will play it a bunch more!
Gutted I can't play this as I did a little shop inspired game too :laughing: Any chance you'll port to HTML5?
Nice idea! Had fun with this one! As others had said, the quirky music and graphics go well together, could definitely be developed further and agree that a checkpoint system would be good, it would probably have kept me playing for longer! If you do end up working on it some more, I'll come back for another go for sure :smile:
Wonderfully atmospheric, lots of fun, just wish there was more. The Phaser lighting looked great, nice concept!
Interesting game where the level gets easier as you play imo! I enjoyed my time playing :smile: , I feel like some smaller levels to start with would work well to introduce players initially.
One of my absolute faves from this jam! Bloody loved it! Theme and style were ace, puzzles were challenging and satisying, liked the difference with the final challenge (maybe a bit too easy, or maybe I was lucky on my first try!). Thanks for letting us restart from the last level too, nice touch in a game jam.
Nice concept! Was a relaxing and thought provoking little time :smile:
Sure, it needs more polish, a few little animations would go a long way! However: The audio and theme worked well! I had fun! Definitely agree with some of the others that a ramp in difficulty would also improve things.
Loved the whale and general atmosphere, I kind of like the slow controls, felt like how an underwater craft might behave but definitely some room for tweaking.
@peace-of-cake-games thanks for the kind words! It was maybe a little bit too complicated an idea to pull off. Glad you had fun!
@anthonyharmitage Haha, was a difficult decision on Sunday about how to spend my time: writing jokes etc or smoothing mechanics/difficulty out. One of the ideas I would have loved to work in was the idea that the two factions were led by deep ones, Cthulu-esque gods and cults mixed into the politics maybe to be a bit more on point for the theme. Time always the problem! Thanks for playing!
@bigbadbison Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! Definitely would have liked to smooth out the learning difficulty and mechanics/UI so it was a bit clearer. I've learnt a lot about making card games this jam!
@stmatn Thanks for playing! I know what you mean, I was balancing difficulty up until the last minute to get the right balance as you progress through the game. Originally identities were capped at 10, I should probably have reduced them from 20 (maybe 14/15 is the sweet spot) when I added 2 Loyal Friends instead of 1. It's also a bug being able to get below 0 suspicion, should stop at zero!
@loig You're 100% right there, wish I'd had more time to work out some better instructions/tutorial/tooltips. I think one of the critical things the game is missing is a way to look at the deck and discard piles, that would help you understand what cards are added. Thanks for playing!
@stmatn Very good points, I had been logging out the odds myself at some points and considered actually having it in the UI. I think if I build a card game again, I'll try to crunch the numbers when I'm building early concepts. It might be a way to make me rein in any complexity in game jams, I'd realise early if something might be a headache to balance!
@lsk oh for sure, it's v simple in a lot of ways, I think you can definitely make less than optimal decisions whilst you're figuring it out (which can be fun, probably one of the only ways it is now!). I think in an expanded version, it could also be a bit more of a deck builder so you can add in new cards/tactics after each opponent (maybe that make use of the loyalty mechanic more). I had always intended for another card that could sacrifice the "Loyal Friend" :speak_no_evil: Thanks for playing and the feedback!
@clemonades Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
@m11 Thanks! I wasn't sure of it was too much of a stretch but glad you thought so :smile:
@minibobbo That would help so much, I was concerned that there was too much text to take in, but animations showing the interactions would improve the game a lot, thanks for playing and great feedback!
I was having a few problems with the hand draw animation, you may have seen a bug where when a"Under Suspicion" is removed, the animation plays again. My less than optimal solution for cards you'd played to change colour slightly instead, maybe a 30 degree rotate as well as more contrast. A very good point again!
@cogcomp Thanks! One of the painful things about this jam was that I recorded some dialogue for the cards and spent hours making some tracks for encounters and everything else... then really struggled with the audio implementation. I just hadn't practiced with Howler and React beforehand which was my undoing. One of the terrible tracks is hidden in the source still!
@tanis Serious thanks for giving it a go then! I knew it might not be everyone's cup of tea and I think you're totally right, a tutorial/animated intro to explain a turn would help new players so much.
@techsec Thanks! I think some variety in the hands would help when the encounters are longer, that's probably what I will work on for v2.0 but I agree that the early battles should be quick!
@likirus Glad you found it interesting! Thanks for pointing out that flaw, I would have liked to have spent some time sorting out the layout for screen sizes down to mobile but just didn't have the time. I'm going to fix the reset bug now but I will make sure the text gets a scroll bar if it overflows too.
@fadrikalexander Thank you for the kind comment! Several hours in I was thinking: "oh no, this is gonna be too complex!" but comments like yours make me glad I stuck with it!
@soarendev I'd got it into my head in the run up to LD48 that if I could come up with a card game for the theme then I was gonna go for it, I'm a big fan of card games and board games so just wanted to give it a shot! Thanks for playing and such a positive comment :smile: If you manage to have a good run, and after a few tries get the hang of the system then it's possible to really break the game and you'll win! Definitely some balance issues there! Thanks again!
@fadrikalexander 100%, I get what you mean :smile: I feel like some little animations to make it clear how the unfamiliar terms are in fact stuff a player might know already would have helped a lot (as suggested by a previous commenter)
@perfectsquare Really glad you enjoyed it, I think most of the fun people have had is when they are figuring out the game's slightly obscure system, then you get your strat and it's then possible to win :smiley: Thanks for playing!
@pijamar Because of comments like yours, I am definitely going to work on building a more polished version, building a card game has been fun and I'd like to get better at it. Definitely agree that once you've figured out the game, the optimal play is often only the same set of decisions and it would be much much better if you had more impact on the strategy. Thanks for playing!
@boxedmeatrevolution Really nice to hear you had fun! I have learnt my lesson about big blocks of instructions, a tutorial and in game tips will be the way I go in future! :laughing: Thanks for playing!
@emmyoop I'm guessing you were rating a bunch of diff games at the same time :smile: So thanks for playing but I think adjustable text speed was a diff game!
@jacic Thanks! I was pretty unsure about it during the compo but I'm happy with what got built now
Absolutely loved it! Always had fun doing magic eyes. Really original and cool. I did read your comments that adding text was hard but I wonder if the depth you were at could be large enough to form part of the background you are falling through. It would be ace to keep your eyes unfocused and know your depth!
Great concept, love the perspective of falling and the atmospheric audio. My biggest criticism is the mismatch of the falling character graphic and the walls, I think having a little 3D character would work a lot better. Loads of fun when you get sped up.
Loved it, one of my faves from the compo, it was tough but I got better and better! Sadly the ending was spoiled by a bug for me, where a bad run still made it to the bottom!
Loved the game mechanic and the hints from enemies approaching, music and audio was also good, suited the game really well! A fun game for sure. I did manage to get stuck outside the walls a couple of times too (on Mac in case that is relevant). Really enjoyed my multiple plays!
Foolishly I went straight to the Legend fish the first time I played and then learnt you need strength, I was just having fun puttering about in the boat y'know :laughing:
Enjoyed this one, just left with the feeling that there could be a lot more but hard to complain when what you have is well made and has nice graphics/audio. Some enemies or pick ups to add variety to the journey deeper and deeper would be ace as well as the forest graphics getting scarier. It would be nice to have some kind of defined goal (why is Rory so keen to get deeper and deeper into the woods? :smile: )
Great fun, I too built a card game this LD and it was tough so you should be v proud. Loved the animations and look!
Man that final fight was tough for me!
Love the abstract conversation audio, great way to do it. I enjoyed the way the puzzles were set up too. A little bit more layout, a few levels and this would have been top, happy to have spent a short time with your game!
Confusing to start (understandable when you put so much effort into polish, not a tutorial) but fun! Wish there was a bit more variety in the gameplay, I can see how it could be extended!
Loads of fun, liked the drill descending downwards as the background. Feel like if you're next to the generator/machine it should auto fix/fuel without spacebar but don't get me wrong, I loved playing this.
Lovely audio, great dialogue, nice puzzles. Just enough stuff to try and use and potential options to keep it interesting without being a point & click nightmare!
Enjoyed my time playing this game, simple gameplay but fun! Nice little loop for the bg music too. A bit of variety in the look of the level would improve the game loads.
I did also enjoy the words of wisdom :laughing:
Fun game! Liked the variety of mosiac and dino bones. Felt less fun at the end, I had 48/48 minor and 9/11 major but couldn't get the final two, so just gave up after a lot of clicking and cleaning up of the majors (a bug?). Really nice work with the theme.
Loved the music you made for it, nice and chill. The gameplay gave me some Ecco the Dolphin vibes.
Enjoyed this game and had fun, I'm pretty much in agreement with the posters before me. Will just add that I loved the lightning sound and effect for your character, you obviously here it constantly and I felt it was satisfying.
Was not 100% on what I was supposed to be doing at the start, but enjoyed figuring it out. A lovely experience.
Very difficult! I did have fun slingshotting around and trying to get further. Quite relaxing when you zoom out and let a burn take you towards your target.
Nice concept, had fun exploring. I feel like the tiles that could be explored would have benefited from an eye icon or similar to click rather than moving up the explore button top right. Nice work with the theme!
Loved seeing my previous crashes in a cave and having the option to generate a new one. Parallax graphics were simple but so effective, really sold the experience. Musix/SFX is also a pain for myself so full sympathy there. Thanks for a fun game!
Fun little game! Loved the music and audio, wish the game mechanic had been tied to the hammer so that my visual focus was kept on the hammer (like the bar/target was moving around the hammer). Could definitely be expanded into a bigger game, nice job!
What a brilliant:mad:little:game! Absolutely loved it: great bgmusic, cool mechanic, played it through (was a bit short ofc: totally understandable). Felt like the last 2 levels were a bit luck based: just whack everything, and it will get punted across by the blue blocks. Really well done!
Very much enjoyed your game, I completed it and at no point felt too frustrated or had a bad time. I did like the music, if you'd had more time maybe some variation would have been good(a glitchy track in the corrupted sections?). No real criticisms that others haven't mentioned already. Thanks for a fun game!
Lots of fun. Could not get past Uh Oh 2 though! I tried a lot but oof, something always seemed to go wrong with the last enemy. The ramp in difficulty through the game was well done. Great Compo entry.
First of all I would just like to say a massive thank you to everyone who played my janky little platformer, really was a struggle this Compo and once again the community around LD makes submitting the game worthwhile even if I was v unhappy with it at the end!
@pvp Maybe too challenging for sure. I redid the tileset in the final hours and had issues rebuilding all my tilemaps, remade them too quickly and made jumps too tricky.
@joerenglish Glad you like the ghost design but... yup I see when debugging I knackered up the hitbox when adjusting things. It's flipping huge and offset. Good to learn what a Coyote Timer is, this is the first platformer I've made so I read a few tutorials and "how to create good feeling platormer" articles beforehand. I tried to implement some of that kind of thing pretty naively but thanks for the pointer to learn more.
@goldenevolution Aha, this uses the Matter JS physics library and I've found this open issue: [https://github.com/liabru/matter-js/issues/971](https://github.com/liabru/matter-js/issues/971) about 144hZ so thanks for the heads up and I'll make sure to consider in the future. Glad you enjoyed the SFX, probably my fave bit of the game and the part I spent least time on when compared to everything else!
@amkingtrp One of my aims whenever I do these game jams is to have re-mappable keys, I never get round to doing it. I think I just need to make a little lib pre-jam, it would make things so much better for everyone. Yeah, I really should have paid more attention to the hit boxes, 100% agree.
@magnusfurcifer Glad you liked the acting, wish I had time to do more ghost speech for the final level, would have been fun and the voice SFX was my fave part.
@jsloth Apologies, I struggled with getting a sense of how hard it was and I re-did the level in a rush, definitely needed finessing/playtesting! 5/5 is high praise and gratefully received :laughing:
Thank you all for giving this game a go and leaving great comments. It's not the best so I appreciate any criticism but the positives are gratefully received.
@caudatecoder Glad you enjoyed my daft voice :laughing: If I'd had a bit more time I would have added more levels to smooth it out but I was determined to have my "final" level in there to make the game feel a bit more complete
@kazatan I'm going to spend some time learning about Coyote timing and practicing platformer controls, I enjoyed making this one and would like to make more in the future. Definitely need to pay more attention to the hit boxes.
@appoxgames It's a feature not a bug :wink:
@remco thanks for a well thought out comment, glad you like the palette, really wanted to add a lot more to the graphics but had to triage hard at the end ofc. I totally agree that it hasn't added much in terms of originality, my main goal this jam was to build a platformer tbh, I did want to do more with the ghosts and vortexes (lean into them being unstable, explosions with debris and destroying ghosts etc). With hindsight I would liked to have had a few more levels like the final one, with a difficulty curve ofc, that formed the bulk of the game and those early levels were just to introduce the controls. Thanks again.
@rogual haha, I should have made more!
@jammygunns Yup, the difficulty jump there is just too much. I knew it and wish I could have added a couple of more levels to smooth it out, thanks for playing!
@tetrapteryx thank you, the wall jump isn't perfect but I was happy that it gave the game some fun. Yup, definitely should have focused on the vortex earlier :100:
Thanks for playing everyone, really appreciated and I'll have a go at yours now.
@wang-tianliang :laughing: Glad you liked them!
@arken Thank you, very kind.
@ubershmekel The hit boxes are really my biggest failure with this one, for the amount of time it would have taken to correct them and how much better it would have made the game. Lesson learned! Loved 'N' back in the day, so thanks for the praise.
@lesinvisible I will make sure I remember to have multiple keys for jumping or re-mapping in the future :smile:
@barrier glad the sounds kept you amused, that difficulty jump was way too harsh I agree, needed some more playtesting on the final level and some levels inbetween.
Fun game, got stuck on Level 6 for far too long :face_palm: Really felt the simple bg music helped me keep my calm, so well done there. Graphics worked well and appreciated the time speed up option to see how stable a system was. Definitely just did some levels through luck! Great puzzle game that suited the theme well.
Loved it, super great take on the theme. Really enjoyed the levels, wish you could select them all from the start though or progress was saved. I got stuck on one, came back later and didn't want to have to play through them all again, also would be nice to get past that level to see the rest of your level design! Bunny character was really well drawn and animated. Impressive and brill game!
Loads of fun, really enjoyed this, played several times. I think some more interesting movement around the spells targeting instability would be nice but that's just a random thought. Great compo entry.
Charming and wonderful work, loved the look and sound, had an enjoyable time in this little world. Agree that some sort of sense of how far I am through the game would be nice and I did enjoy figuring the rules out so take this with a pinch of salt but: a little bit more explanation about the game system might be good for some ppl. Thanks for making such a sweet game!
An interesting and immersive game, thanks for making this. The art and audio works very well together, I was drawn into this little world. Perhaps the adjustments the actions make could have been a little clearer (value changes for the last action displayed next the score (+10, -5 etc) to help a new player understand their choices impacts. I'm impressed by what you have made, thank you!
Fun and great entry, thought the graphics and sfx were fantastic. Dialog was a v nice touch. I completed the game and enjoyed it all, my main critique is some kind of progress indicator to show how I was doing would have been nice.
@goldenevolution oh no, ship sprite change was great, I totally got that but I meant about the scrap you still needed. I think just an awareness of whether I'm playing a game for a few mins or 15 is nice sometimes but respect the design choice :smile:
@goldenevolution that would have been absolutely perfect. Thanks again for such a cool game. Might just have a little replay to appreciate that dialogue.
Bloody love it. The simple graphics work really well, it's a fantastic concept and suits the theme so well. I think my only minor issue was with the "tank" controls, I think I'm not too bad with that style but it was challenging to steer in the heat of the moment (but hey, that's fun!). Maybe clicking to move or steering towards the mouse might make it feel better. Fantastic variation on the mines and just loved the way the difficulty ramped. Audio was super nice.
Lots of fun! Nice controls, liked the graphics and audio. Minor gripe with the single long tone in the bgmusic, not for me! Thanks for making such a fun game!
Absolutely brilliant. One of my faves so far. A game I can see myself coming back to play again and again to try and get better scores. The look and sound was lovely, maybe a few audio cues for military jets etc would have been a nice touch. Thanks for a fun game!
I enjoyed this but I did get a bit frustrated with the loud bgmusic messing with my ability to hear the electrified floor. Fun concept with the unstable components and good level design. Will come back to have another crack at finishing. Nice work!
Brilliant music, perfect for the game. Challenging but lots of fun, I see what you mean about coyote timing in your jumping, definitely makes a platformer better so thanks again for the tip.
Fun little game, thanks for making it! Ran into a few problems where I couldn't click bears but they eventually resolves themsolves. Nice atmosphere from the bgmusic and great concept!
@indigowolf @kazuren thanks for playing! Definitely a bug, dammit. I'll have an investigate about the freezing bug, if anyone encounters it I'd love to know if anything useful was in the console. Very much agree with all your points @kazuren
@kazuren It does thanks, I did mainly use FF whilst building this but the level data is stored as an image and maybe the value for the temple pixel is getting borked
@slecornu Thanks for playing!
@aevek Thanks for playing and I really appreciate the time you've taken for some detailed feedback. If I'd had more time then the warriors would have been able to shore up flooded tiles and return them to land (for a short while anyway), making the flood attack more manageable and adding more strategy. So the first level would have been useful to learn that but I think maybe two warriors then would have been better. Agree with pretty much everything you say! Thanks!
@jelch Thanks for playing and I'm glad you think so :smile:
Really loved it! (Maybe biased, I built a much worse version of this game a few LD's back called Feed Me!) Very much enjoyed the progression of the gold and buffs to abilities. Movement was ace and I felt it was v clear what objects/tools you had / what your goals were.
Nice artwork, struggled with the controls a little but I suspect that's just personal preference. Thanks for a great little game!
Great fun! Pretty tough pretty quickly but part of the charm really. Agree with some of the other suggestions on how to ramp the difficulty. Thanks for making me grin! :smile:
Nice concept and tunes! A tiny bit more narrative and/or gameplay would really make this something special but I enjoyed my time so thank you!
Absolutely loved it. Maybe it could have a slightly friendlier ramp in difficulty but that's nitpicking as going back in for another go is part of the fun!
Nice mechanic, enjoyed working my way through this one. Felt you could kind of brute force your way through in the end. Charming graphics and audio.
Apologies to anyone who tried to access this and couldn't, I was pretty tired last night and forgot to take the game out of Draft on Itch.io :sweat:
@anxiousgamedev Huge thanks for the feedback. Glad you found it interesting! I had intended to add the requirements/production to each units graphic so I 100% agree with you there.
The challenge was definitely intended to be the allocation but when I was paper prototyping I considered a "Lock" unit that produced a resource to link two units together (would have required the same resources as the final unit), I was tight for time tho ofc :laughing:
Another way I considered making the game a little chill was allowing required resources to stack (so you can pump an extractor full of energy and then forget about it for a while)
@osh-studio Thanks for playing! Really pleased you though the mechanic was good, I think testing the game loop a little in paper first helped this one. Just wish I'd had more polish!
I'd just like to say a huge thanks to everyone who has played this and extra thanks to those who have commented, it's been a busy rough couple of weeks for me since the jam so I've not been able to play as much as I'd like or take the time to comment (which I will now remedy!)
@thedashdude So when I was paper prototyping I considered a type of plant that could lock in allocation, so you could build more complex allocation and not run out of time so much. I decided to try and keep things as simple as possible so I appreciate that did make it pretty hectic! Agree that having the option to display what would be produced and what was required would have made things a lot better
@maxkyckling Sounds like you definitely played the game how I was trying to set it up, thanks for the kind words and appreciation of the rough art!
@diego-escalante I was pretty happy with how the tutorial turned out, maybe I could have kept the key points accessible for access (when paused maybe) and that would have helped. Glad you had fun!
@caveman54 So during development... the super programmer art was colour coded and I realise now I should have carried some of that over. Didn't need to be much, some accents on the different vorgs would have been enough! You're very right. Every jam I always think I need to spend so much time on audio but seeing how much people do with just little touches, it's something I have to commit to doing. Adds so much, you're 100% right
@flying-dog-fish Thanks for playing and yup, hope you agree with some of my suggestions about how I could make that easier. I'm going to build a version 2 of this game, it was a fun experiment and I'd like to figure how to optimise it a bit more too
Loved it, fun mechanics and pretty well balanced. Maybe easy enough to break the opponent's AI but such a small thing. I'd be super proud of this.
Annoying... yes, but also a fun challenge. Hidden gaps tho, ooof. Not sure how I feel about the Mute button :laughing: Nice entry!
Absolutely love your audio direction, worked perfectly and I can offer no higher praise than saying I'd not change a thing about that! Felt I was a bit stumped about the stats and adjusting my win/failure chances.
Loved it, great level design and charming SFX + lovely little bg loop, nice touch with the health regen. I was amused by the rain splashs starting on the ground before the rain hits but I think that's no biggie! Really really impressed and think this was lots of fun.
Honestly I prefer a simple game like this to some crazy complicated chaos. Good entry. Some simple sounds using bfxr or simple notes would have made this extra charming!
@rob6566 Thanks for playing! Yup the disconnect is a valid criticism, I think with more mana gain and purchase options it might have felt more connected. The phaser game does snap to 3 diff sizes depending on your screen so that bug looks like an issue with the fonts at a certain scale, I'll try to figure out, ta.
My earliest idea was to have a little animation when you summon to show where mistakes were but always pushed it down the TODO list. With hindsight, I could have made a quick overlay... :grimacing:
@ahsoo Appreciate the feedback and thanks for taking time to play. Yup, definitely a problem. One I've fixed in the post jam version. I'll post a link after voting ends.
Very cool, nicely done!
Fun game, enjoyed my short time with it, nicely done! Final boss is a beast :laughing:
Bloody love it! The instructions for the witnesses was cut off by scrollbars on Firefox so I figured that one out by trial and error :laughing: I liked how the judges in the middle of the screen were tough to get too. Great game.
Very interesting concept, think it needed some more balancing and the vocab UI wasn't that clear or helpful to me. Definitely seemed to have some issues with the restart upgrades as well, they didn't seem to get considered on a couple of runs. Overall though: really glad I played, nice graphics for the concept and kept me engaged. Thanks for making!
@jadw1 @bakuzen Thanks so much for you kind words. Really glad you gave it another shot as well @bakuzen Ive updated the description a little to help explain the controls would have liked to built a tutorial in-game but we know how it goes. Thanks again!
@jackshadow Try to get as far into the depths as you can, there is an end. Deploy waystations to allow you to recharge energy further down. Materials mean you can build another waystation. See what mysteries you can uncover!
@jackshadow @slow-chaz @neth-iafin @darsor @bestdtang Thanks for playing! I think the waystation mechanic really needed a tutorial or maybe just an overall improvement.
Those who appreciated the music, that means a lot, it's always been the area I am rubbish at in jams but I've been practicing and it's just using a few basic tricks but glad it has worked.
Shame there are no dangers lurking deeper :wink:
@i-pots @providence @whateverdat Really appreciate you taking the time to play.
I was definitely going for a passive(ish) meditative exploration style. Glad the experience was both hypnotic and atmospheric!
@natalia2208 Thanks for playing!
@vladcfg @eugenik @kirlosev Thank you for taking the time to play, really appreciate it and your feedback.
@hinamarina Thanks for playing! Ah that's a shame about the fullscreen, I thought I'd set it up correctly but my mistake.
@outish Glad you enjoyed! I think the movement is a little slow, it does feed into the vibe but I think it could be a bit faster or maybe have sink/float as an input and then a direction which you can thrust in. Hmmm. Maybe just thrusting towards the mouse would have been better. I will experiment.
@missfire Thanks for playing, very glad you made it to the end :grin:
Very cool concept, had loads of fun exploring. I think the graphical style really suited this game as well. Fantastic compo entry. I don't know how intentional being able to accidentally trip older checkpoints was as a design decision, I had mixed feelings about that!
Spectacular! Really impressed, that was a load of fun. Def had me scratching my head at one point but figured out that shift in mechanic and loved playing all the levels through. The clapping and the roses was such a nice touch for the style of the theatre. Standing ovation!
Loved it!
Very cool, nice concept and had fun playing. Love the party girl bopping animation (the art and animation overall was great)
Loved the main character's look and animation, the heartbeat audio was a nice touch. Really liked the shroudcast game mechanic and had fun using it. Wasn't 100% sure about what the incursions meant for me losing the game? I never really found out but I played through to one of the endings :point_right: Appreciated all the effort for the narrative and dialogue, overall a fun and atmospheric experience, thanks for making!
I absolutely loved this, so fun to have a little creative tool to make some animations with. Just hats off to you, I really liked the interpretation of the theme. Audio was lovely.
Love the theme and the gameplay was a nice version of a strategy game. Really was not a fan of the cursor, made things tricky in a way I don't think was intentional but it was cute :laughing: It was cool though, I played for ages (messed up my first play through)
Loved it, such a great atmosphere and fantastic bite-sized game. The repeated dialogue for no longer relevant actions was a pain but not a huge issue. I think short alt-dialogue could have worked well. I did enjoy the simplicity of the movement, (maybe safe chunks could have been more auto-move). The difficulty ramped in a nice curve and the story was very cute. Great dialogue, very nice graphics and loved the music. Really impressed.
Great fun! Played for way longer than I expected to, really nice mechanics (some balance issues / bugs). Thanks for making!
Loved it, super cute graphics and fun gameplay loop. I thought the high score bug was from running using pygame on Mac maybe but see it's a general issue. Really a nice job overall, hope to play many more games from you in the future!
Very cool idea, nice audio work. Definitely think spacing out the gameplay text or re-working that part of the UI would immediately improve how easy it is to parse what's going on. I enjoyed playing and would happily play more of this game if it existed!
Fun game! I liked the graphics, audio and game loop. I think I got close to the end, I'd purchased most upgrades but then the controls bugged out and I got sucked into a black hole.
I had one bug that nearly ended the run as well where I got stuck inside a shop area after exiting. It was near a black hole. Luckily the only upgrades I deliberately didn't buy were the dampeners, so I had a little bit of extra thrust for handling black holes, managed to spam fire my way out.
Great compo entry, thanks for making!
@koolruz You should be able to move up to the top of the screen with W, I had problems with the arrow keys working (and gave up running in Firefox, switched to Chrome)
Thanks for making, was fun to play, think a gentler difficulty ramp would be nice but an accomplishment for sure! Some real quick SFX would add a lot!
Short but sweet! Good work :smile: My feedback would be to try and keep to one artistic style to make a game seem more polished, so just use pixel art or just use a line art style. I had fun playing, thanks for making.
Really liked the animation and the style of this puzzle game, the physics interactions for the controls are fun but agree that more juice would make them awesome. I did struggle with the puzzle itself at the start, so agree a little bit more of a tutorial or hint system might have helped.
Shame about the little bug where you get locked to a control if you're picking up the coal or ball, that slowed me down at the start. Good luck with audio, it's always been the last thing I do but it adds so much to a game. Thanks for making!
Cool mechanic, good sprites and concept. Found it pretty tough to get going on the 1st level, appreciate there was the training intro though and I thought the plunge into the depths at the start so I had an idea of how far I had to climb was great. Wish there has been some audio effects.
Had a lot of fun making it all the way to the end even if I did resort to a bit of spam clicking at points and building a safety layer in the 2nd to last screen so I wouldn't plunge too far!
Really fun game, well done!
Congrats on making this game! What didn't you like about the engine? I really liked the sprites and animations you've made here, they look ace. The background and the rocks moving at different speeds make them feel like they were floating on the water (which I think was a cool effect for the tentacles...).
I had fun playing a few times, movement felt nice and the game looks good.
Really lovely work, felt I could jiggle the puzzle a little to complete them so not too challenging, I think that mechanic could be worked on to make it really perfect but I'm just chatting, really a top tier experience! Thanks for making, loved playing it.
Intriguing concept, nice match with the theme, enjoyed my time building a legendary deck. Could see the balance and system evolving into a more challenging game or a more relaxing incremental style build. Nice work.
Huge thank you to everyone taking the time to play and rate, extra thanks to the comments! I will make sure to play all your games if they have a web version :grin:
@diralf @graebor 100% agree, the UI for the upgrades would have next on my todo list. Thanks for playing!
@freeworld I was definitely going for a little incremental style game inspired by tower defence / picking up coins in Vampire Survivors so glad you think so, ta!
Loved it, cool thematic mechanic, nice graphics, not too difficult, was fun to complete (a nice length for a jam game but could see how it could be expanded)
Loved it, very much the kind of game I love, managed to beat it on my first try! Found the cards mechanics good, fit the theme well. The healing fights were an interesting touch.
Let's be absolutely honest: the duck sounds on every click are fantastic and I love them. I did get busted back to the start a couple of times but managed to get all the ducks in the end. Charming game, I wish there was a grid or clearer UI for the trenchcoat though.
Way more entertaining that a first glance suggested, decent amount of levels and enemy variety, tip of the hat!
Just gave me a real nostalgia hit thinking about a game called "happyweed" back on old macs in the 90s
Brutally difficult, you nailed the reality of adult life. Would have loved a restart option from the failure screen!
Really great, lovely (errr gross but lovely) game. Respect.
Fun game, nice theme choice, enjoyed the level design, sadly I got stuck in a pillar on the 2nd level with only my skull to find!
Fun game but tough!
Very cool looking awesome sounding game! I did give up after building one part, was getting a bit fed up after not being able to reach asteroids and find ones that were currently in range, lots of them just being a little too far away. Fantastic effort!
Very interesting take on the theme, nice work! I was hoping for a bit more interaction on finding a decent signal/score. Maybe a couple of trial runs before the lock would have been cool! Really wish I'd gone up a peak today :grin:
@pkenney Love a Phaser game, very polished. Also very frustrating at points :laughing: The banana going flying rather than a full reset was such a nice touch. The connection to the theme is one of the weaker elements, if the signal had changed the robots speed a little at points or via the environment I think it would have tied together v nicely.
Very slick, enjoyed my short but sweet time with this one. Really like the atmospheric lighting and the ominous feeling the game creates. I know there are plenty of gameplay/content changes you could make with more time but I think a quick win would have been a little bit more narrative to help tie to the theme / invest us a bit more. Really well done, thanks for making!
Short and weird, real shame there's not more or much interaction, I can see the potential! Thanks for unleashing this onto the world!
@manabreak Thanks for playing! I've bolded that part in the instructions to help others, I knew I should have added something to the feedback like "Scan line locked! 2 more to go!"
Appreciate the comments @xwilarg and @oadt, thanks for playing!
Thanks @julienlussiez, mood praise coming from someone who is very good at creating feelings in their game is nice to hear.
Cheers @helslo , I did think the scans could probably be knocked down to 2 since it's a fairly small map but wanted to keep the triangulation vibe going :laughing: I experimented with having two tracks, one with the weirder droning sounds and then the chiller pads, idea was that when you're scanning the drone track intensifies but just didn't have time to get it working.
Thanks @drtizzle , perhaps I should have made it so the reset just repositioned the transmitter rather than the whole reset (or allowed the reset level to be a difficulty setting). Something to keep in mind for future games. Thanks for playing!
@pimeko This was something I worried about at least once, if I'd had time I would have added a timer that checked if the player was just using the slower speed and sent a tutorial message :face_palm: wish I had now but appreciate the time you spent playing! Cheers!
@yorsh Thank you :grin: Yes, maybe it would have been better if the transmitter was always there and the scan was just a tool to point you in the right direction, then the bg music volume could help pinpoint and use the transmitter visual at the collection. Benefit of hindsight! I need to get playtesters other than myself into my dev timeline :laughing:
@domenixius Cheers! and appreciate you playing :grin: Investigating a little, I should be changing the hitbox when the sprite changes size a bit more, I didn't run into that when playing but I can see how it can happen.
Thanks @harmadillo, not so long ago music was my absolute worst aspect in these jams so glad you think it works.
@wouter52 Ta! Always a tough balance, I didn't want to make things too tough because people only have a small amount of time to give to play but felt it needed to ramp up. I hope it's the right degree for the majority for 1 or 2 plays. I really wanted to give the Men In Black a bit of movement as well but had to put that one on the chopping block.
I think the building idea would work and I will explore it a little bit post-jam, I know the game isn't the best but I've got lots of ideas for improvements to try out for fun so will make a post-jam version :smile: Cheers!
@frowsyfrog Yes, I think that's a potential problem for players. I think in a more developed version it would be good to have landmarks and such to help align the map with the world, in the compo it would have been good to just get the shapes of the buildings on there + the roads. Thanks for playing!
@matt-giuca Yes, 100% agree on those points. I'll be totally honest, I didn't really think to much about the real world triangulation. I sketched out the idea and knew you need three checks for real world triangulation, I did have what must be a more realistic algorithm running initially but when playtesting I realised that it was such a small play area that I needed to put some constraints about where the player could scan to mimic how it would work if this was a real challenge. Of course it really breaks down, has flaws and I think it can done better! Appreciate the ideas and comment!
(and I do really wish I'd gone with 2 scan lines or 1 + audio clues but hindsight is 20/20 :laughing: )
@pkenney Thanks! Walkie talkie sound your finest Audacity noise generation + tweaking :grin: Definitely think the feedback from the other members of the gang could have added a few extra bits in place of a more involved initial tutorial so agree it was a bit janky with the map.
@gideongriebenow :tada: Cheers! :tada: Gotta add a bit of the ol' particle effects if it makes sense :grin: Thanks for playing!
@quackqack Thanks for playing, super half the theme resonated!
@LCStark good stuff! Yup, early on I wanted to have more acceleration/deceleration and it would have added a little magic for sure. Ta!
Really polished, had loads of fun puzzling it out. Nice SFX :laughing:
Wow, absolutely love this (do I like train management games?! Maybe not crazy, I love base builders etc). Really polished system, didn't experience any problems, just had a lot of fun building solutions and then managing them. I thought the dialogue worked well and the audio was lovely. Did mute the bg music but only because I was playing for so long!
Wow, honestly what an impressive entry. The look and audio is so well done but the theme concept is fantastic, I had a lot of fun on a few plays. It's a cool mechanic, absolute chaos of course but fun chaos. I did struggle with controlling the mid ranges (I think that's what the problem was) but perhaps a skill issue :laughing: Best of luck with the ratings, I think one of my faves so far.
Nicely done. I found all the members, had fun exploring the world, seeing the little creatures and tanking jumping from great heights! A superb look and audio design I thought. I think the camera worked well so good choice. If the rescued people had provided some narrative like you suggested that would 100% have broken things up a little. I felt like I found a cave behind a mountain at one point so was always checking if someone was there :laughing:.
Little secrets to discover when you're tracking back and forth to add to the gameplay would also be the cherry on top but overall I'm very glad I played and got to immerse myself in this little world for a bit.
Got my first PS emulator running for this (DuckStation, thanks for the tip) and had a blast. I think I've got pretty close to the end, I think I have the message decoded (just did R06) but struggling to find the actual location. Will have to come back to. Really impressive stuff that you've not just made a PS1 game but one that looks good, with quality music and a cool narrative.
What's your setup like for developing this? I'm really curious. I've been tinkering with a C64 recently and that's a load of fun.
@perrin Super cool
Interesting take on the theme, nicely done, appreciated that you had two game modes in there! I think I had some audio glitches in mine (music disappeared etc) but could be Firefox. Enjoyed figuring out how to compensate for the delay or try to complete a mission with as few sets of instructions.
Manual mode could be cool if the signal delay fluctuated and both modes: that since there is a delay, if there was something realtime that you had to deal with it would make it a lot more challenging. Thought it was cool that you started off in a sort of testing lab and then went off planet! Thanks for making!
@harmadillo I think I preferred the commands mode, I think that had the most potential for some quirky game mechanics and I enjoyed it more setting myself challenges.
Loved it! Mycelium network is a very cool take on the theme and I really liked the effect of time passing / music playing only when moving. Maybe the size of the bar and the drain could've been tweaked to give less of a stop start experience (maybe some varieties of stamina boost size to offset) but it was part of the experience and skilled playing already handles it. Really nice stuff!
Very cool, I completed the game, loved the story and the journey we went on. Really nice job with the audio as well. Overall, such a good fit for the theme. The relaxed mechanics with the hint system made the game as easy as it needed to be to just keep going and enjoy it all.
At the start when the compass is used briefly could have been expanded on, or adding a little challenge by having to find larger landmarks to narrow the search to an area rather than relying on the hints would have been cool (Ofc you probably considered that, time constraints and all, very cool to get this done in Compo). Nicely done, thanks for making!
Haha a real gem, great concept and some right bangers. Would have loved a little more variety / difficulty in the controls, maybe a little difficulty ramp as the night went on but really I'm just trying to provide some constructive feedback. The little dancing to the beat was charming.
Well, I really like it but I'm stumped after 3 objects in and no more happy sounds from my friend :confounded: Really like the game idea, the graphics and audio are great, def had fun!
@domenixius I have achieved egg-cellence, what a fun and cute game! Good work with the audio and game loop, all tied together really nicely. One critique I could offer up is the movement and the firing being connected made aiming a little awkward (mouse for firing direction would have been better imo) but I suppose colliding with the bugs wasn't a danger, maybe the bee should have fired stingers out the bum! :wink: Thanks for making, top stuff.
@domenixius Hindsight is 20/20 but I agree, collision with the bugs to splat them would have worked (and thematically, stinging them is what you would be doing)
Hiya @helslo , nice work for your first LD, love the intro animation. I'm struggling to figure out how to progress, I see the signal bounce can become solid (also v cool mechanic) but not sure what to do? Any suggestions for myself and others?
Thanks @helslo, I made it to the 2nd room, it's tough but I'll try to master the wall jumps.