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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | ||
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| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | Pollen Angel | compo | 29 | 4.03 | 3.86 | 3.98 | 4.19 | 4.14 | 3.78 | 3.47 | 4.08 | ||
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | Mike Quarter - Order Sorter | compo | 3.00 | 2.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.50 | 3.00 | 3.00 | |||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | Mike Quarter (The Kitchen Porter) | compo | 419 | 3.25 | 3.35 | 3.05 | 3.43 | 3.38 | 3.83 | 3.85 | 3.58 | ||
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | Balancing Act | compo | 3.56 | 3.39 | 3.39 | 4.00 | 3.25 | 3.61 | 3.28 | ||||
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | Infinite Space (C64) | jam | 784 | 3.50 | 3.29 | 2.18 | 2.37 | 3.58 | 1.64 | 3.22 | |||
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | B.S.O.D | compo | 3.25 | 2.50 | 2.75 | 4.00 | 3.25 | 3.75 | 2.25 | ||||
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | Angry Words | compo | 188 | 3.55 | 3.18 | 3.50 | 3.71 | 3.47 | 3.40 | 3.47 | 3.17 | ||
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | Jack The Reaper | jam | 866 | 3.10 | 3.20 | 2.48 | 2.30 | 2.98 | 3.29 | 2.80 | 2.71 | ||
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | Going Up! | compo | 437 | 3.25 | 2.83 | 3.49 | 3.11 | 3.47 | 3.25 | 2.99 | 3.19 | ||
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | Overdosed! | compo | 278 | 3.48 | 3.36 | 3.64 | 3.85 | 3.35 | 3.40 | 3.08 | 3.38 | ||
| 2017 | 39 | Running out of Power | Powerhouse | compo | 80 | 3.83 | 3.96 | 3.17 | 3.63 | 3.63 | 3.67 |
Madbeagle leaves an average of 8.1 feedback comments each event.
We used to play a game in the pub like this, we called it Pub Chess. After several rounds of drinks and some food there'd be a lot of stuff to pile up, we took turns to find something from the table and add it to the structure, whoever knocked it over bought a round of shots. It was not popular with pub landlords.
Very close to being brilliant. Just didn't feel the speed ramped up quickly enough so never felt in danger of losing, and got a little bored making enough 3-letter words to keep things under control. Maybe there could be some pigs that keep getting bigger until they explode, a bit like when you need to quickly get rid of burning tiles in Bookworm.
Only thing I would change is to make the world take up more of the screen, and make the traffic lights bigger. I had to play full-screen on a huge monitor to be able to see what I was doing, as in the browser each traffic light is just a few pixels. Very good idea to make the playing area a sphere as opposed to a flat map, brings (literally) another dimension.
As others have said the only major improvement I can see is to be able to rotate the ship like Asteroids. Also the level objective graphic looks very similar to the multi-fire powerup, it's only really the 'get this' text that makes it obvious it's not just another power-up. Really good fun though, I got 590,400 before accidentally running out of time to get back to base because I was having fun blasting asteroids.
Looks great - I can play any VR game and not feel sick at all but unfortunately ten seconds of this I was more than enough! Good job the ability to switch the camera mode is there, but I wasn't even 100% comfortable with that.
Really nice game, as others have said there's not much link to the theme here, but who am I to talk :D
Highest ratings I've given to an LD game, 5 across the board except sound as some music would have been nice. Superb. Would translate well to a mobile game.
Ah, I got as far as the 'while do, end' premise and couldn't think how to make that into a game, nice one! I recognise you from the Corona forums (nick sherman), I haven't really been over to the Solar forums much, mostly been doing C64 games for the last year! :D
Fantastic, if there were more levels it would have been a top contender. Wonder if there would be a way to procedurally generate levels.
Good take on the theme, nicely done
A simple idea (those are often the best) well executed, bang on the theme.
Nice idea, there's the seed of something potentially big here. Had to play in Chrome, wouldn't work in Safari for me.
Very nice idea. Maybe without the input cooldown the numbers could take the number of hits they start at to kill, i.e. a 4 takes 4 hits, the number reducing with each hit. Would have to slow the speed down a little, though.
Liked the fighting mechanic, although I'm not usually a PC gamer so WASD is always a nightmare!
I really like this, a nice idea, although not necessarily hugely relevant to the (terrible) theme. It would be nice if the game could recognise when you're trapped and trigger game over.
Well done on just getting an entry done. Most people would never be able to do that, never mind at 12. If you want to do this for a living one day you're off to a great start.
Interesting game, but I too got the bug where after a few deaths I couldn't put a heart in the family section to get started there.
I really struggled with the theme and as soon as I saw this I thought 'OF COURSE!', while cursing myself. Your life definitely is currency when you're a piggy bank.
Experienced quite a few glitches, timer keeps going to -1.59 so the game never ends, and when the game went back to the menu it flashed on and off for about five seconds. When the game restarts the controls don't respond (maybe a bool not reset?)
Wasn't immediately obvious I had to find the entrance to the supermarket. How do you know where to find the items? Is it just random?
Stunning graphics. I think you've inspired me to try pixel art next time, it looks so cool when done well.
Can you set the quality lower on the WebGL version, really lagging for me?
Seemed like an insane amount of work in two days, but I see you used Playmaker which would leave a lot more time for the great graphics and level design.
By the way, you included Playmaker (a paid library) in your source code download, I'm not sure they'll be happy about that...
Well.I.Never! That was dope. Y'know?
Great idea, my first 5/5 for innovation in LD42.
The game looks beautiful but that comes at a cost, runs at about 5-6 fps on my MacBook Pro and I just get a black screen on the HTML5 version.
I will give it another go when I get my GTX1060 laptop from the office.
Very inventive take on the 'running out of disk space' idea, also very tricky! But if the five levels were easy it wouldn't be much of a game!
Great work, one of the best-looking compo games I've seen. I wish Blender was in my skill-set, it's Unity primitives or 3Dpaint for me!
If all you had was 8 hours, this is about a good a game as you could make. I'd definitely convert it to mobile, it could be one of those viral hits with more secret sauce.
It's a shame you haven't rated other games, because this could have done well if you found enough players with an interest in ATC. Certainly I haven't got time to learn the ropes but it looks very impressive nonetheless.
Nice twist on Tetris, I like the variation in pieces away from the normal shapes as you go along. Would have liked more polish given the basic mechanic isn't too tricky to implement, but overall a quality entry.
Nice, simple idea and well executed, good for a quick blast. A mobile version with levels increasing in difficulty would be cool.
Nice retro-style arcade game. Would have been nice to have procedurally generated levels to give a lot more variety without having to design them.
One of the best Compo games I've played, a simple idea well executed.
Superb idea, could be a great little game if developed further. Good fun as it is though and top marks for innovation.
Nice little game, I went off the edge of the screen and was expected it to wrap round but I just kept going!
Cool idea, made me think of the ridiculous sequences they have in Bones or Criminal Minds where they hack into a network with 70,000 key presses a second, windows flying all over the place.
I think it could be better from a different perspective, you can't really judge the depth.
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Good game, rather like trying to cross the road in Hanoi. Preferred first person mode, couldn't get on with the controls in third person - would rather the player just went in the direction you press as it's not always clear which was he's facing.
That is a great concept, with more work it could be a great game. Trying to keep your tank tower balanced, while configuring it to deal with attacks from all sides is a great challenge, as others have said above there needs to be more jeopardy/reward other than the tower falling or killing the odd enemy. I can see it becoming quite tactical where certain items placed next to each other could combine to create greater weapons.
I like the look of the game, and I think it could be a work of genius - but I don't have the time tonight to learn how to play it! Will definitely revisit when I have time.
43 deaths! A nice idea and fun to play, although I learned quite quickly most levels involved basically jumping before the hexagon was even on screen. Would like to see more levels, maybe they could be procedurally generated with some simple machine learning code that checks whether levels are possible to complete. ;)
Not often you get AI in a compo game, nice work.
Fun, but very hectic right from the start. I also kept clicking on the blocks rather than the house on them, so might have been good for that to be part of the button, or maybe I'm just an idiot...
My first 5-star overall vote - an incredible amount of work in 48 hours. A new benchmark to aim for in terms of depth and polish.
Wow that's tricky! Nice concept though, perhaps could do with the frequency of batteries being more spread out right at the start, so you can get the first one charged, packaged and generally figure out what the hell you're doing! I'm sure people who are more used to controlling games on a keyboard will do better though...
Really like the shooting mechanic, quite satisfying when you judge the distance from the centre to get the right angle for a direct hit. It wasn't super clear what the collectibles dropping at the edge of the screen were for - maybe I missed an instruction somewhere?
Nice use of the theme, would never have thought to do a platformer. Smooth animation, but maybe I'd have had the camera zoomed in a tiny bit more.
Agree, really nice mood to the graphics, impressive building models in the time available.
LD52 — Harvest (4)
Hyper Harvest by orion-black 2023-01-29T09:19:08Z ♥ 1
Nice game - like Columns it takes a while to get going but then ramps right up. Congrats on the top-15 finish.
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Every now and again I port a jam game to C64 for the ZZAP! 64 magazine coverdisk, this seems like a good candidate!
Jack the Reaper by FabDynamic 2023-01-26T11:34:46Z ♥ 0
What a coincidence that we both have LD games with the same pretty unusual name, although mine was from a few years ago: https://arlagames.itch.io/jack-the-reaper
Iris's Scrappy Rumble by ScolonDev 2023-01-26T11:22:43Z ♥ 1
The best compo game I've played so far, polished in all aspects. Only minor complaint is as a non-PC gamer the keyboard & mouse controls were tying me up in knots, a version with dual thumb-stick gamepad controls would be even more fun.
Exploding Carrots by aucguy 2023-01-25T09:29:49Z ♥ 0
At last, a proper old-school arcade game - I was getting tired of all the turn-based farming games where we have to know the back-story and motivation of the farmer and his estranged daughter.