Deeper and Deeper P. I. Agency by v1ru6 2021-04-27T10:43:20Z
I did not understand how to interact with anything and the lack of any sound and explanation made me give up after a few minutes
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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | 👥 | Trick or Defeat | jam | 507 | 3.59 | 3.55 | 2.40 | 3.17 | 3.63 | 3.97 | 2.96 | 3.80 |
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | 👥 | Space Escape | jam | 957 | 3.32 | 3.29 | 2.66 | 3.52 | 3.41 | 3.40 | 2.38 | 2.94 |
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | 👥 | Elbatsnu's Brewery | jam | 864 | 3.44 | 3.37 | 3.44 | 3.94 | 3.77 | 3.03 | 3.59 | |
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | 👥 | Deeper Well | jam | 332 | 3.88 | 3.45 | 3.29 | 3.29 | 3.64 | 3.76 | 2.89 | 3.46 |
I did not understand how to interact with anything and the lack of any sound and explanation made me give up after a few minutes
Very fun! Thanks :)
It is easy to understand and the highscores give a nice incentive to keep replaying. Unfortunately there's only a top 3 though.
Would be cool to see an update with even more levels! :D
Good job! I liked a lot of the sprites and the submarine controls were really nice:) I didn't enjoy having to backtrack in order to buy something from the shop. The main theme which can be heard most does not leave a great mood. The melody doesn't wanna go anywhere really + the mix wasn't satisfying. The game was easy to understand and control though :)
Very nice game! Reminded me of Celeste. Too bad it's a struggle to replay it and try to get all the flies because you cannot skip the dialogue :/
Best game I've played so far :) thanks!
Victory! I cannot press "Retry" though. I liked the concept, although I thought it could be a little faster overall. I would have liked to have some sort of skybox but other than that it looked nice. Music was fine too although noticably not made FOR the game. I never managed to die so that makes it very forgiving but also pretty easy. Thanks for your work :)
Great concept! I wish there was more incentive for keeping at it.
I would not have understood the controls if I didn't press random button and I really didn't know what to do after the second level
This is the funniest game so far hahaha!! The intro was epic xD The Ska-Punk music fit perfectly. It was rather cumbersome to control everything with the mouse. It would have been nice to move the gamepad with keys as well. For example getting the table back on its feet was annoying cuz it took 2-3 attempts each time. Thanks for the entry!
This is my favorit so far! Wow I love the mechanic of moving from lamp to lamp. Took me a bit to figure out you have to shine hot or cold light at the ghosts but it was fun figuring it out. The game looks fantastic and the sound, I find especially well made. I love that each time you move, a note from each given scale plays :)
Wow! The whole game looks very professional! After a while, it becomes quite stale though. Is there any way to check highscores?
As ironic as it sounds, I actually think the mood here was pretty good due to the nice painting. I wonder if you are able to get another ending? Music sounds a little basic for such a deep topic. I liked managing the stats though! :)
Aww I was actually disappointed that it didn't continue. I wanted to find out more!
Yeah.. we need the actual download link as well.
I delayed my end by 2:15 Minutes. I wonder why you made this 4:3 aspect ratio.. The sound design is very good here! What a treat! The visuals do the job, but this game just screams for a bit of context. Just enough to keep it, and make it even scarier than it is. Good job! :)
Gamejam Gameboy.png I played it until I understood how everything interacts with each other and then tried to get as far as possible. It didn't motivate me to keep it at longer than 5 minutes though! I love the music and concept! Wouldn't have minded if there was more color to it though. Would love to see someone's insane highscore!
PS: I am aware this is going for a Gameboy artstyle and it does look like it amazingly!
The RNG is too random here. One fight took me almost 10 minutes while I beat the last one in my first round. I love RPGS but some kind of connection as to why we as a player are using cards for attacks would have been nice, considering the game already is strongly story based.
I liked the music, although I forgot how it went already
Hey! Thanks for playing our game!
I like the concept of yours. I have to say, that a total absence of SFX is a dealbreaker for me. I found the music volume slider because you mentioned it in the comments, but I do not enjoy listening to the music you picked out for the game. I love how the ship controls and the additional movement upgrades really flow well into the upgrade system.
I do not enjoy the Hard -> Easy --> Hard type of level progression though (of which I cannot even see a progression bar of)
Thanks for your entry! My Highscore is 229
I get the idea and with more writing, this could turn out to be a great story. For the gameplay, I quickly realized that all I had to do was wait for the last phase and then click on the little guy as fast as possible as to keep him alive the longest. That's it.
I think it's a unique idea with fitting music (did you do that yourself) and good but little writing. Wish you could have had more time to delve deeper into your concept!
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Hey, Thanks for playing our game! I love how everything is structured. Title Screen, Tutorial, Main Game, Sandbox. It all looks and feels very pleasant. Too bad you didn't have someone to specifically write music for this game.. but what you picked out does fit!
I was getting annoyed at first having to find out which Postbox has the next package but once I learned all 3 positions, it was fine. I wish there was some kind of advantage you can get per package instead of just having more enemies on screen the farther you go.
Loved the enemy animation btw lol!!
Great voice acting! I thought it was dragging a little but then I got to the puppies and couldn't stop laughing. Great work!
Wow.. I would have to write A LOT if I wanted to let you know how good this game is. Hope to see a full game from you guys sometime!
I liked the tutorial in the beginning! No music at all is a dealbreaker for me though. You could have used some free to use music as well. Finding one that matches the game's mood is the work you gotta put in. The gameplay is either way too easy are way too finicky which makes it not fun to play. Including the sandbox in there is a great option I've seen in a bunch of Gamejam Games so far. That's probably where you tested the game right? :)
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I think you finetuned this simple concept so much, it really feels like its own thing already. Great work! I wish the cursor would have its own symbol like a crossfade or something other than my normal cursor.
I liked the different weapons and the increase in money per level. I also think the music fits a lot, but I wish it had more variation.
@doomshmuck Thanks for playing and the feedback! There is an alarm for when your fuel is running low both visually and audible. What else would have made it clearer for you?
I got so sucked into it, I played twice for about 20 Minutes each. Unfortunately it crashed.. I would love to have a windows build to actually build everything and then give proper feedback again. I loved it! Please fix the crash! Nothing particularly happened, I just know it happened after ~20 Minutes
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Thank you! I had extreme slowdowns with the fast gear when hitting 3+ objects at once. But it didn't crash yaay! I think the music is really fitting and great for this game! First I was wondering why it didn't loop perfectly, but when playing for like 30 minutes, it's okay to have a bit of silence after a while.
You need iron bars and blue bars so often, I wish you could create multiple at a time. The green and red gems were almost never used although they almost take as much effort to get as the blue ones. Are the totems and books/pages useful for anything else but sacrifices?
I wish you would get some kind of punishment for sacrificing sheep, hence the name. Because in the late game I was going back and forth between sacrificing sheep during the process of creating a blue gem bar.
Now that I think about it.. could I have built more than one of each gadget/workbench?
God if done right, these kinda games really suck me in haha.
Thanks!
It's a really scary game but I do not enjoy the controls. Just pointing at things in panic, hoping it registered and a window will open. Love that you included a leaderboard. I am currently #13 but I do not want to tryhard myself to #1 with this gameplay.
Made it to Day 10. The artstyle and music fits great and creates a sweet mood. The gameplay isn't engaging at all though. I understood it after 2 days and nothing changed since then. I'm hoping for more variety in your next gamejam. Feel free to send it to me via @ or DM :)
It was a very fun mechanic you guys also introduced very well! The scenes with the Wolf really surprised me and added a lot to the mood. In the 4th level, I didn't figure out how to keep my momentum to get up the round "Sonic hill" and keeping the momentum from the very beginning wasn't something I had patience for. The Wolf also didn't chase me there, so I would have had to walk back slowly everytime. I think the absence of music fits in the game, but not when it takes several tries like in level 3 for me.
Delayed by 894 days! Wish there was a scoreboard :D I'm the sound engineer for our games and this is something I'd love to do but dread having to explain certain things that would take up too much of our time. The way it looks, sounds, the game's Quest-like structure with the option to choose night and day.. just WOW! I am really impressed with this entry.
It did bother me a little that each song only lasted for around 2 phrases and it didn't even always end of a satisfying end! I would have loved more of a challenge and maybe the option to re-bind my keys. Thank you for your work, guys!
Thank you for playing our game! Now it's my turn!
I LOVE the artstyle. I am pretty sure this is inspired by the Paper Mario artstyle and the ghosts are from Luigi's Mansion 3? You managed to create your own spin on the look though. I do not dislike the music, but I don't think it fits the game at all. I wish there would have been more to it after a while, but nothing new happened after 2-3 minutes so I just died due to not paying enough attention to the controls anymore.
This has a really uncomfortable atmosphere. Everything, the visuals, the animation, the music, the controls is just uncomfortable. I would love to see a horror game from you guys.
That was epic!! I did NOT expect this. Thanks for this! :) As others have said before, I also wish the text was faster. The game being 80% reading amplifies that problem. I realize it's a Gamejam game, but when the story is more meta than actual story about the characters.. it gets old sooner than this game is long. If there was longer and more fledged out gameplay, it would have made for a better contrast to all the reading.
I think the visuals are very charming and I do love the writing. I think the Soundtrack is hilarious and sounds very unique for being relatively simple.
I liked the Intro that give a bit of context. Unfortunately it didn't help me stick with the gameplay. The bar neither increases your shot's strength nor is there a limit anyway, so why not just leave it out anyway? It's Pong with an extra buttom prompt. A leadboard would have kept me going. I think I had ~40.
WR holder here. Way too easy. Only took me around 2 hours to get perfect RNG. xD
@me if you beat me and I'll try again.
I try telling my team everytime... EVERY Gamejam Game needs an online leaderboard. Without one, I wouldn't have tried this for 2 hours.
Gamejam bad FF7 w unfitting music.png The artstyle is great! It looks like a FF7 on the PS1. I think this is the first Game this Gamejam I played that wasn't made with unity lol.
I think the music is okay, but neither did you make it yourself (which you don't have to) nor does it fit into the game, imo.
One round was enough for me, because there is literally nothing else to do regarding strategy than making as many perfect shots as possible.
The movement and camera controls fleshed out this one mechanic a bit though, that is cool!
I managed to stay alive 1:55 the visuals and music are fitting but they didn't stand out to me. Relatively soon, one side was blocked so I could only get to some asteroids on the other side of the black hole. Due to the perspective it was hard to know where they are and there's no progression of advantages / disadvantages. That is not engaging gameplay. I do appreciate the effort with the SFX and music.
Thanks for playing our game! It is funny to play another one's game which the same basic idea :id: I prefer the way our game looks but I prefer the more progress based, fast paced gameplay of ours. Having to retry the same route again and again wasn't motivating to me, although the sound and again, visuals are really striking!
I like the stairs you built leading up to the end. I beat it and it was cool to have the platform turn into rainbow colors. Wish they would have different pitches for the sound effect as well.
Overall I think this is somewhat on the simpler side. I guess this could be done in something like Garry's Mod in a day if you you've never tried it before.
You created a nice atmosphere here though! :)
That has got to be the cutest idea made reality by a child. This SCREAMS "idea of a child" but not even I could do this and I am 25 years old. This was a pretty cool alternative to other games!