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God's Thirst by Vlad Ilisan 2018-12-06T22:19:15Z

This is a great start on an arena fighter. Movement is pretty fluid.

Two suggestions:

If the opponents telegraphed their movements through visuals and/or audio there would be a bit more game of anticipating/reacting.

Maybe some way to heal a little bit between fights?

Entity Manipulation by JCMonkey 2019-04-29T23:40:33Z

Nice puzzle game. Would be interesting to know how much variety there is in solutions for each puzzle. I don't know if some of my scores were good or not.

In addition to the other QoL suggestions people have made, an unlimited undo key would be really nice, especially as this is a puzzle you kind of work in reverse and undo would be good for exploration of playing with putting things down to see how they interact.

Hand of Death by josefnpat 2019-04-30T20:45:40Z

Linux build crashes with "There is no data folder"

Seaway by Constantin 2019-04-30T20:37:47Z

"No executables found" in Linux build (through itch installer), seems to be only a Windows exe in the package.

Use your heart by dick-claus 2019-04-29T21:23:47Z

Found pathing slightly unintuitive (preference for northeast before northwest; I got there eventually, but a dotted line overlay would be a very big QoL improvement for this UI approach). Would love to have a couple more levels to explore the concept.

Gore by Tudvari 2019-04-29T22:37:08Z

Nice work, very atmospheric; graphical style and soundtrack combine well.

I won the first time and didn't realize I had won (I misread the text), I think?

Sometimes instead of swinging my sword I swing myself, which is kind of confusing.

WORK! by Matterox 2019-04-29T20:54:19Z

Linux build works for me, although there seems to be a bug where mouse clicks don't always apply to where the target dot is located. Entering the menu with Esc and resuming the game gets it back on track, but has to be done again each day.

I agree with others, the coworkers dying in your peripheral vision really helps sell the setting.

TheMechanizedHero by RustyCrow 2019-04-29T21:40:11Z

Feels good, but didn't have any life counter. Playing on Linux. Game locked up after I lost and I had to hard quit it, not sure if I was supposed to return to a menu. Overall a solid entry.

TheMechanizedHero by RustyCrow 2019-04-30T17:01:43Z

@rustycrow Hey, no problem. I appreciate that you put out the release so we could try it at all.

Grow by Caspercaper17 2019-04-29T21:15:20Z

Plays fine on Arch Linux. Mouse isn't constrained to the game window, so it's easy to run it off the edge when turning (and thus not be able to rotate a full 360° without jumping it back in). Soundtrack is a nice start, suits the mood. Graphics are lovely.

The Devil and Some Aliens Went down to Georgia by David Markham 2019-04-29T22:03:34Z

Nice. The press-your-luck on powerups was an interesting touch. Lack of any sense of current health was frustrating (since it's not classic bullet hell one-hit)

This Game Blows by fibonacci1321 2019-04-29T20:35:28Z

Fun to play with. Arrows + Mouse is painful for me; supporting WASD + Mouse would be a significant quality of life improvement.

Heart Sacrificer by Ruztan 2019-05-01T20:43:05Z

Thanks for trying to make a Linux release. Installing through the itch launcher, I get "No executables were found" when I try to Launch the game.

Disco Alive by Kappa.B 2020-05-10T22:27:48Z

Thanks for bringing this by my stream for us to check out. I had a lot of fun with it. The (part muted) highlight can be found at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617290859 if you'd like to watch again.

Ball Keeper by JCMonkey 2020-04-26T18:47:09Z

Thanks for bringing your game for me to play on stream! If you'd like to watch, the highlight can be found at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/603459355

I particularly enjoyed the idea of a sort of reverse-breakout. I hope this one gets continued development.

Ninja and Mouse by TrampolineTales 2020-04-30T17:21:59Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to check out, I really enjoyed it! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606399379

This game was incredibly charming. Good work.

failsys.sh by jabdownsmash 2020-04-26T19:12:49Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to play! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is now at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/603497059

TITAN, OPSND by Dario Zubovic 2020-05-11T04:15:25Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! I had a great time with this one.

If you'd like to rewatch, the highglight is available at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617517578

Pro Fishing: The Fishing Mini-Game Game by gentoogames 2020-05-10T19:46:05Z

Thanks for bringing this by my stream to check out! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617113704

This was nice and soothing; I look forward to seeing more, maybe Linux-native?

Keep the Keep by firellon 2020-05-10T22:31:34Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617290863

This was an interesting puzzle game, thanks for sharing.

Aqua Vitae by zimennik 2020-05-10T21:43:27Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out. If you'd like to watch again, you can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617255766

Substitute DJ by jayprog 2020-05-10T19:27:52Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! You can watch again at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617113691

This was a really solid offering, some of the most enthusiasm I saw from chat all week.

From Dusk Till Dawn by Nikolay Zapolnov 2020-04-30T17:33:08Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! If you'd like to watch the highlight, it's at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606399387

Who knew juggling organs would be so interesting?

The Ludum Dare Flame 🔥 by tobiasw 2020-05-11T04:03:17Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out. I'm sorry I wasn't able to get to it while you were there, but I was able to catch up on some of my queue later that week. If you'd like to watch, the highlight can be found at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617517569

IT tycoon by shide 2020-05-10T19:05:38Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out. It was interesting to get a glimpse of. If you'd like to watch again, you can view the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617113708

He Protec by ildfuglen 2020-05-10T22:38:30Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out. If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617290860

The Glimmering Woods by Kyrio 2020-04-30T17:31:49Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for me to check out! If you'd like to rewatch, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606399386

Stunning game, I look forward to further development.

HEX ATTACK by Robber 2020-04-21T05:19:33Z

The fact that I got briefly angry at your game means you definitely did something right. Good work.

A slightly smaller map might have been good: some games I felt like I was doing a lot of slow chasing of the enemy.

I could see playing this for a good few hours if more enemy types were introduced.

ETA: Thanks for bringing your game for me to play on stream! You can watch again at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/603497058

Tell a Fairy Tale by Zesix 2020-04-26T19:20:26Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to play. If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/603497061

Tell a Fairy Tale by Zesix 2020-04-29T19:23:06Z

@zesix I guess? There was a kind of weird comment from the person who brought it by in chat now that I think about it. What a strange thing to fake. I hope you got some value out of watching, and sorry some of my commentary toward the end may have been both a little weird and a little more negative than I'd prefer because of that.

🐱 Cat Fun Factory by gamescodedogs 2020-05-11T04:04:29Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out. I'm sorry I wasn't able to get to it while you were present, but I was able to catch up on some of my queue, and if you'd like to watch you can view the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617517570

Whalestrom by aevek 2020-05-10T19:42:21Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617113701

MACHINA by Harry Alissavakis 2020-05-10T22:41:23Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out. If you'd like to rewatch, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617290857

OVERHOSPITALIZED by Stacka 2020-05-10T19:18:56Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! If you'd like to watch again, you can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617113686

The Blind Hummingbird by Webox 2020-04-26T18:43:30Z

Thanks for bringing your game for me to play on stream! If you'd like to watch it again, you can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/603459358

Samurai Slow Down by CreamyBacon2 2020-05-10T19:49:58Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! If you'd like to rewatch, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617113707

Simple is dangerous, but this game really nailed its concept. Good work.

DieDry by AAA 2020-04-30T15:44:28Z

Thanks for sharing your game with me to play last week on stream! If you'd like to rewatch the playthrough the highlight is now available at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606399371

Dream Hoppers by giu.zcc 2020-04-26T18:41:05Z

Thanks for bringing your game for me to play on stream! If you'd like to watch again, you can find it at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/603459360

Fly Zone by Kodiqi 2020-04-24T03:31:13Z

I liked this more than I expected to. Between the tough shortcuts, the shinies, and a couple of difficult stretches there was some good thought in the level design.

ETA: Thanks for bringing this by my stream for us to check out! You can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617113703

VURM by AndrewJAdams 2020-04-21T05:32:08Z

Twitch integration is fantastic for interesting ways to distract the player!

Only downside is score seemed to be pure time, which creates a perverse incentive (how advantageous is chasing food, really?)

ETA: If you'd like to watch me play again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/603459354

Manage the ongoing situation by Freedom Is Slavery 2020-04-30T17:38:19Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to check out! You can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606399391

DungeonScape by Lawrence 2020-04-26T17:58:37Z

As you requested, I played your game on stream. If you'd like to watch again, you can find it at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/603413602

This game did a very nice job of introducing new puzzle elements. Great entry.

Cloudy With A Chance Of Pain by ProdigalSon 2020-05-10T19:36:18Z

Thanks for bringing your adorable burning sheep game by my stream for us to check out! If you'd like to watch me struggle again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617113696

BOILING PLANET by Tudvari 2020-05-10T19:32:22Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to check out! A very interesting and enjoyable puzzle.

You can find the first highlight (with the bug) at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617113693 and the replay where I was able to progress at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617290855

Soul Seed by unept 2020-05-11T04:06:49Z

Thanks for bringing your game to my stream for us to check out. Sorry I couldn't get to it while you were still there to watch, but I did catch up on some of my queue and you can watch the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617517571

Spider Dash by Quacky22200 2020-04-26T19:24:11Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to play! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight can be found at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/603497057

I particularly enjoyed the six-legged spider protagonist, very cute.

Evergreen by RAFFE 2020-05-10T19:48:23Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to check out! If you'd like to rewatch, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617113706

Conservation Inc. by Sharks 2020-05-11T04:09:12Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out. I'm sorry I wasn't able to get to it while you were there to watch, but I was able to catch up on some of my queue. You can watch the highlight of your game at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617517572

Conservation Inc. by Sharks 2020-05-11T15:31:05Z

@sharks I'm glad you found watching valuable. Fortunately, I was able to get past the tutorial bug and figure things out. As for the Linux-native version, I've seen this a couple of times: it seems the Linux-native version wasn't tagged in the itch.io system as being for Linux, so the itch launcher doesn't recognize it for install. You can see on your itch.io page that the Windows downloads have a little Windows logo next to them, but the MacOS and Linux versions don't respectively have an apple and a penguin. I only know itch from the user end, so I dont' know how to fix that, but that's what you'd be looking for.

Ballad of the Bard by Filip Bergkvist 2020-05-10T21:50:39Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out. If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617255763

I appreciated that the music was actually musical, expanding on that could turn into something interesting with a bit of educational content.

Keep it burning by CrishNate 2020-04-26T19:17:56Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to play! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/603497062

Seeds of Hope: The Last Stand by Corbak 2020-05-10T21:45:57Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! I had a blast with it. You can rewatch the video at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617255760

Pandamonium by KP_CFTSZ 2020-04-30T17:34:43Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to check out. You can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606399388

Egg Hero by Firebelley 2020-04-30T17:20:38Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to try! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606399378

Long Live The King by JavaSaurus 2020-04-26T18:52:00Z

Thanks for bringing your game for me to play on stream! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/603459352

Bodyguard by kodran 2020-04-30T16:04:22Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to check out! You can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606399377

There were some very nice touches in the game. Given all the discussion, it would be fun to have a definitely-not-IP-infringing character with a striped scarf...

Bonsai by Literal Games 2020-05-10T21:42:37Z

Thanks for bringing Bonsai by my stream for us to check out. It was very soothing and innovative.

If you'd like to watch again, you can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617255767

3 Minutes To Freeze by blotosaur 2020-05-10T19:29:37Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out. If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617113692

I particularly enjoyed the effectiveness of the boots crunching on snow to set tone.

Dashing Guard by Ratrat44 2020-04-26T19:21:34Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to play! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/603497060

Zoo keeper by Team-on 2020-05-10T22:35:41Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617290862

*snap snap*

FIREKATANA by DPS2004 2020-04-30T17:28:44Z

Thanks for bringing your game by for me to check out on stream! If you'd like to watch again, you can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606399384

The Great Return by Attala 2020-04-30T17:30:42Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to try out! You can watch the highlight again at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606399385

I found escort-Frogger surprisingly fun, nice entry.

Defend Pangolin Eggs by MightyCode 2020-05-10T19:34:05Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to check out! I ended up playing it out of the queue when you weren't around. If you'd like to watch, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617113694

Friendly Fire by very dark lord 2020-05-10T21:52:20Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out. If you'd like to watch again, you can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617255762

Coronary Flypass by squirmonkey 2020-04-30T15:49:13Z

Thanks for sharing your game with me to play on stream! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606399372

I remember the controls were weird and awkward in a good challenge/interesting way. Well done.

Ice Ice Baby by Fabrizio Spadaro 2020-05-10T21:56:46Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to check out. I'm sorry I wasn't able to play while you were watching, but I did get a chance to play. If you'd like to watch, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617255758

Panda Smash by rumor 2020-04-26T18:45:24Z

I tried out your game on stream. If you'd like to watch someone playing, you can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/603459356

Idle Idol by Abdul Zakkar 2020-05-10T19:43:46Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617113702

Savior by Ekin 2020-05-10T21:41:28Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to check out! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617255761

This is Fine by D5R 2020-04-24T03:17:44Z

Good puzzle game, that does the most important thing a puzzle game can: something interesting with its own mechanics. Well done.

ETA: Thanks for bringing your game by my stream. You can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617113705 if you'd like to rewatch

Space Exodus by Kaish 2020-04-25T16:40:44Z

Very interesting concept. Generally nice execution. I think I would have preferred the Stereo effect be relative to the ship orientation rather than the camera so I could "turn my head [ship]" to try to locate things as I approached rather than having to use North/South navigation.

ETA: Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to check out. The highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617290854

Boids of Prey by Shawn Moore 2020-05-10T19:25:37Z

Thanks again for bringing your game by my stream to check out! If you'd like to watch again the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617113690

I really got a kick out of seeing how the boids algorithm felt for moving things in an action game.

Faire L'Amour aux Plantes by Jenny Bourke 2020-05-10T19:15:13Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! If you'd like to watch again, you can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617113685

And thanks again for not breaking my bot!

Feed Your Starter!!! by Papabirb 2020-05-10T19:41:15Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617113699

Hope your sourdough is doing well!

Solar by thevinter 2020-04-30T15:55:33Z

Thanks for bringing your game for me to check out on stream! If you'd like to watch again, there's a highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606399374

Dance Dance Unicorn of Magic! by Kagerowo 2020-05-10T19:38:21Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! It was a fun way to close out the night.

If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617113697

Botanico by Martynas 2020-04-21T05:26:48Z

The tension of the laser build-up before a burst is fantastic, and plays well into the contrast of "gardening game" with "post-apocalyptic blaster". Interesting game, thanks!

ETA: Thanks for bringing your game for me to stream! If you'd like to watch again, it's at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/603459353

Ice Light by ThornDuck 2020-05-11T04:13:57Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617517577

Moodville: Peak 2020 by Vanea 2020-04-26T19:15:40Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to play! If you'd like to watch again, the video is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/603497065

DR U's Magic Medicine by Adam Clayden 2020-04-30T17:26:33Z

Thanks for bringing your game for me to check out on stream! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606399382

Cats In Flats by Black Flag 2020-05-10T21:37:22Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! I'm sorry you couldn't be there to watch, but I was able to play on stream. You can view the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617255768

Ark Survive by Pusheeneiro 2020-05-10T21:47:09Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out. If you'd like to rewatch the video, you can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617255765

Hungy Hungy Dwagons by cheesepencil 2020-05-10T19:40:07Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617113698

The game was super-cute.

Fuel Hungry by WubbaDuck 2020-05-11T04:12:37Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! I'm sorry I didn't get to it while you were there to watch, but I was able to catch up. If you'd like to watch, the highlight for your game is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617517575

Tutu Tussle by GabrielH 2020-04-30T17:25:05Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to try! If you'd like to watch again, you can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606399381

Interesting entry. It was a shame I couldn't get the music working, I can imagine that would have enhanced the experience.

Sleepyhead by VaizAragorn 2020-05-11T04:10:45Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out. I'm sorry I wasn't able to get to it while you were there to watch, but I did catch up later. If you'd like to watch, the highlight for Sleepyhead can be found at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617517574

Keep the station alive by ArturNista 2020-05-10T21:53:37Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! If you'd like to watch again you can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617255771

Alien Convoy by Willian Oliva 2020-05-11T04:20:48Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is available at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617517582

Fruit vs Hand by Joe Allen Dev 2020-04-26T18:39:45Z

As you asked, I played your game on stream. If you'd like to watch again, it can be found at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/603459357 -- thanks for sharing your game with us!

A.R.S - Alien Rescue Simulator by azagaya 2020-04-30T17:27:26Z

Thanks for bringing your game over for me to check out on stream! If you want to rewatch, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606399383

Chess Mess by Pavel Ivanov 2020-05-10T19:11:57Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! You can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617113700 if you'd like to watch again.

This was an interesting puzzle that did some neat things, and the graphics are very polished.

Silence, Please!!! by fiwon123 2020-04-25T16:31:37Z

Sadly, could not play. Linux native build gave me a blank black window after your splash screen and got stuck there. In-browser I ran into a bug where dialog displayed a template message and the game froze. If there's a bugfix update, please tag me and/or come by a future LD stream and let me know.

Flower Defense by yokuday 2020-04-30T17:39:02Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to check out! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606399392

READ THE LABEL by winterbeak 2020-04-26T18:01:21Z

As you requested, I played this game on stream. If you'd like to watch again, you can find it at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/603413600 -- thanks for sharing your game!

This game came out really well; great tension of attention-to-detail vs time.

King's Table by PetTurtle 2020-04-26T17:59:45Z

As you requested, I played this game on stream for a while. If you'd like to go back and watch again, you can find it at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/603413601 -- thanks for sharing your game!

Precious Animals by despdair 2020-05-10T22:37:05Z

Thanks for bringing your game for us to check out on stream. If you'd like to watch the video again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617290861

Goldsmith by Nocity 2020-05-10T19:23:29Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to check out! If you'd like to rewatch you can catch the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617113689

I really enjoyed this one. Put me in mind of what I loved about Grow.

Electro Service 2: Electric Boogaloo by Fedora 2020-04-30T15:51:34Z

Thanks for bringing your game to my stream to try! I was able to make time for it during some queue-catchup. If you'd like to watch, you can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606399373

Overjammed by Nachodlv 2020-05-11T04:00:32Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! I'm sorry I wasn't able to get to it while you were there to watch, but I was able to catch up on some of my queue, and if you'd like, you can watch the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617517579

She Rocks by paynob 2020-04-24T03:25:49Z

I think it would help to sacrifice realism a bit and let the bird live a bit longer. You have to have quite quick reactions and accurate jumping to get out of a gas zone without losing your canary (and thus the game).

ETA: Thanks for bringing your game for me to check out on stream! You can now rewatch the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617113687

Grasp by SamDemaine 2020-04-26T17:39:18Z

I kind of wish stamina had regen when standing rather than at a station, to make it more distinct from the hope timer. Overall a nice entry.

ETA: Thanks for bringing this by my stream for us to check out. I'm sorry I didn't get to it while you were there to watch, but I did get a chance to play. You can watch the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617517580

Little Red Riding Hood And The Good Spirit Of The Woods by Nogam 2020-04-30T15:57:48Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to check out! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606399375

Very polished, too bad WINE couldn't render the bushes properly (and I wasn't very good).

Gallop to the Carrot by ChevalBancal 2020-05-10T21:48:19Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! If you'd like to watch again, you can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617255764

Lights Out by Aspect11 2020-04-30T17:23:24Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to check out. It was very interesting to try. If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606399380

Flippy Fish by Doot 2020-05-11T03:59:15Z

At the excellent suggestion of a friend I tried out your game on stream the other week. If you'd like to watch, you can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617517573

Very well done. A whole game, challenging, compelling, and very polished.

The Halting Problem by Ramble House Games 2020-04-26T17:38:16Z

There are some really interesting things in this game. Accurately placing tiles was challenging with the camera jumping away from you, something to compensate for that would have helped a lot. The springboards were fun but pretty much pointless; perhaps requiring that each piece be placed before the next becomes available would improve the gameplay.

ETA: Thanks for bringing this by my stream for us to check out! Sorry I didn't get to try it while you were present, but I caught up on some of my queue and you can watch the video at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617517581

Tower of BOOM by BadPiggy 2020-05-10T22:40:06Z

Thanks for bringing your game to my stream for us to check out. If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617290858

Protect The Light! by runrajrun 2020-05-12T17:46:55Z

Very cool arcade-style game. Moving the obstacles gets compelling after a little bit of play getting used to how it works.

My only complaint is having to click to chase the mouse pointer, which got painful for my wrist either spam clicking or holding down the mouse button for the whole game. Optional keyboard controls would be great, but even just having it chase the mouse pointer without clicks required would improve the experience a lot.

The Responsible Gardener by Graph 2020-04-26T18:42:24Z

Thanks for bringing your game for me to play on stream! If you'd like to watch again, you can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/603459359

Scrambl'd by StarErik 2020-04-24T03:58:34Z

If someone told me they'd found an obscure lost GameBoy cart with this game on it I might have believed them. Very well done.

The real proof is that when people ask me what game they should try and I skim the list of all the game I've played, this one jumps to the top.

ETA: Thanks for bringing this for me to play on stream! I really enjoyed it. You can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606399389

Egg's Eggsoddus by Nothingness 2020-05-10T21:55:34Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617255757

Milk for A Dead Man (Web and Downloads Available) by Billnotic 2020-04-30T17:37:01Z

Interesting puzzle game! Thanks for bringing it by stream for me to check out! You can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606399390

Keep The Night Short by AlexandrosKap 2020-05-10T21:57:58Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for us to check out! I'm sorry I wasn't able to play while you were watching, but I did end up playing it from the queue. If you'd like to watch, you can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/617255759

IN THE ANCIENT RUINS WITH AN IDIOT by LeonardoMarques 2020-05-12T17:56:30Z

Very nice concept. I wish everything were just a little nicer to the player: it's a bit tough to move accurate distances, timing for rolling across a gap is pretty tight, and, most of all, the "idiot" starts moving *very* quickly at level start, often with a pit very close, so you have to be pretty on top of getting moving. Either a little extra time at start (especially on respawn), or just pausing each respawn until you touch a key, would help a lot.

It's Just Human by MomoLala23 2020-04-26T19:14:14Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to play! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/603497064

I had a good time with this one. Nice hectic attention-management.

Hungry Flames by ViniFlores 2020-04-30T15:59:53Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to check out! If you'd like to watch again, the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/606399376

Dracenzoid by Paroxysmal 2020-04-26T19:16:45Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to play. The highlight can be found at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/603497063

Looper Hell by Dubgron 2020-10-10T16:30:23Z

Solid arcade-style game. Controls are straightforward but interesting to play around with, leading to a compelling "one more try" experience.

two tapes by Aurel300 2020-10-10T21:41:08Z

Really interesting concept for a puzzle game, glad you brought it to my stream. As we discussed, I think it really needed a visual indication that extra notes would prevent a door from unlocking, like making them glow red or something. That would have saved me quite a few minutes of being stuck down a rabbithole.

Nice use of musical concepts and a refreshing if literal take on "loop".

LOOPING ROBOT FLAG FOLLOWER 9000 by Kevin Prehn 2020-10-09T15:39:04Z

I love this little robot and need to protect them from harm.

Twist Turn Shoot Burn by gamepopper 2020-10-10T21:54:52Z

Great quick arcade-style game. Quick and a ton of fun to play with, really hits that "one more" feeling. Fantastic music. I think all it needs is SFX when you shoot the baddies to complete the sense of satisfaction.

The CRT simulation looks really cool but probably needs an accessibility option to be able to turn that off as it got to be a little overwhelming after a few minutes of play. Audio settings start really loud and aren't preserved (even reverting to loud on backing out of the game to the menu) which is frustrating.

(It's a specific ncurses compatibility dependency, too; the Arch package is ncurses5-compat-libs, ncurses and lib32-ncurses are insufficient)

Toucan's Revenge by AfroAnt 2020-10-08T17:29:44Z

Thanks for providing a Linux executable, but the 7z archive seems to be missing the pck file and possibly other required items? I tried to grab those from the Windows package and it launches but doens't seem to be complete.

Speedy Spider VS Fishy Fish by gaspard 2020-10-09T15:07:55Z

Certain amount of satisfaction seeing a game with Linux only for a change.

The artwork is lovely. The way spider only shoots *backward* makes for an interesting twist, and managing that plus navigating the environment with the strange circular movement and lily pads which are sometimes helpful and sometimes *not* was a good challenge.

Took me a while to realize the fish had more than one distinct move, after which I was able to complete it, but fish health might be a little high. That sucking-in move is tough.

Also, a note that I get ` git@gitlab.com: Permission denied (publickey).` when attempting to git clone, I had to download the zip. Extra friction might turn people off trying to install.

FROGS Training to be Heros (In a large 'wheel-thing') by HacksawUnit 2020-10-07T14:28:55Z

It was very cool developing a sense of confidence in where my jumps would land me in the ring. The physics, both of the wheel accelerating based on the frog's mass and how jumping inside a turning wheel made anticipating where you would land tricky worked out to make for interesting gameplay. And smashing everything while going really fast with Nate was super satisfying.

W.M.L.F by Webox 2020-10-07T14:45:28Z

Cow heads looked more like horses or donkeys to me, but whatever they were, rounding them up was satisfying. Fun to play, nice entry.

Loop Factory by Nitero 2020-10-09T15:04:24Z

Great puzzle game concept!

Might consider offering an optional step mode to make it easier to work through some of the later puzzles, although having to deal with it constantly moving does add to the mood.

Stasis Break by 3mpty 2020-10-07T14:39:59Z

[For other Linux people, it also runs fine out of the itch launcher with no need to adjust permissions]

Solid arcade game. To my limited experience of the genre the special power was interesting and innovative. There were a couple of places where visual indicators could be tuned to make things a little clearer for the player without reducing the visual noise.

Specifically, I'd make sure enemy attacks always stand out from other element, and the glow indicating that you're about to regain control of your ship during a stasis break could be a touch clearer.

A Night Around the Fire by arron-fowler 2020-10-10T16:34:43Z

Gorgeous voxel graphics, great soundtrack, extremely moody. Seemed to take a long time between when I pressed my One Button and when my character actually hid, not sure if it's because I was experiencing a bit of lag or if it's a little unresponsive there. Fun to play for a bit, or just sit on the menu screen and chill by the fire with the nice music.

Phil Alone by Gabriel Dias Oliveira de Almeida 2020-10-09T15:57:18Z

Thank you for including a trigger warning on your game, and thank you for bringing it to my stream.

The puzzle of how to get out worked pretty well, you left a nice trail of breadcrumbs throughout the game toward the solution.

As we discussed on my stream, the underlying story didn't quite work for me to have the intended effect, but I think it was a really interesting thing to attempt.

I've seen a couple of people play it now and I'm intrigued by how differently people react emotionally to the opportunity to manage the health of the house plant.

Chamber by Pedro Medeiros 2020-10-07T14:33:06Z

Solid basic gameplay loop. It felt like the health on the plants was *really* high, and the bombing enemy attacks were particularly difficult to evade, making rooms with either of those particularly punishing. Definitely fun to play around with, and the draft/buying rooms to add onto the end of the loop mechanic worked nicely.

The ingame text on the Evolution Room was a little confusing, in that all rooms get more difficult the more times you visit them and that description made it feel like that would be a more unique effect to that room (I guess it's more dramatic there?)

Beyond Death by Trypants 2020-10-10T21:34:30Z

Stunning graphics. Nice use of the interaction between bodies and environment for puzzles.

I wish the sky bridges had a visual effect to indicate you can't fall off the sides. I didn't have to pick my way carefully up every time.

I agree with Fupi just above that the transition in the cave felt a little odd. In fact, I almost missed that it was possible to enter the cave when I was playing, because it looked like just a closed space to mark where one idol was.

The way the environment evolves over the course of the game was a lovely bit of polish that really let you show off your artwork.

Dungeon Break by radow 2020-10-06T13:36:36Z

Innovative puzzle design, lovely graphics. My only complaint is sometimes the perspective and dark colors made it kind of hard to tell which left-right gates were open.

Grave Juice by Firebelley 2020-10-06T13:44:45Z

The physics were really fun to play around with. Getting to be invulnerable but still affected by objects was very satisfying, and the audio effects supported that. I was particularly impressed that the axes slow down at the top of their swing rather than having continuous motion, and the arrows fall on impact. Little touches that make the game world feel more real.

Nice level design allowed for creativity in finding skips. Good entry.

Crash Thunderstud Returns by JavaSaurus 2020-10-09T15:36:26Z

**Crash Thunderstud** is amazing design. This game knows exactly what it is and it leans hard into it from every design element. Core gameplay loop was fun, although I could only play a couple of times before drawing tiny loops on my trackball made my wrist start to hurt. I might come back and try it on my tablet with a stylus sometime for less pain.

Ring Rush by blotosaur 2020-10-07T14:12:11Z

Highly innovative mechanic. Took a lot of work to start getting the hang of really controlling it, and it still ends up being inherently extremely unforgiving. The quick respawns and fairly short levels help with that.

That earlyish level with the very long kill corridor is I think harder than the designer, already having good control, thought it was.

Hyperloop by very dark lord 2020-10-07T14:23:29Z

Looks fantastic. Unfortunately ran into the physics bug. I hope I get to try it again with the bugfix.

Tower Lord: Sword Loop Saga by hexkritor 2020-10-09T15:33:37Z

This big character with the heavy armor and the *huge* sword that can mow their way through enemies is a satisfying mood. I wish there'd been a bit more depth to the gameplay, but also I just wish you'd leaned even harder into the power fantasy that you're *way* more powerful than anything you encounter. Foes should fall in a single swing of your mighty sword, maybe even more than one in a single turn.

Re-Peter by Abdul Zakkar 2020-10-10T16:28:07Z

Nice puzzle game. I liked that there were a couple of levels which had multiple possible solutions.

LoopChan by Kaish 2020-10-09T15:48:59Z

Nice game. Rhythm/puzzle isn't a combination I expected. I found the timing of the rhythm aspect was a bit sensitive; it might just be that my computer was busy and interfering with input timing but the effect was pretty frustrating in that I couldn't always control things like I wanted to. I don't know if making the input timing less sensitive on the game end would work to compensate.

I think the earlier levels were timed such that it was exactly one input per beat which actually misled me into thinking that was always going to be the case and made me struggle with later levels where I had to skip some beats. It might be possible to design some of the earlier levels in a way that helps the player develop the correct expectations right away.

Loopin' Gluey by marcmagus 2020-10-05T17:24:37Z

@tolmera Thanks! A video of a game in progress is a really excellent suggestion that I probably won't have time to do for a while. I'll definitely keep the idea in mind in case I do something like this again.

Loopin' Gluey by marcmagus 2020-10-08T15:30:25Z

@phlip45 I'd love to see your video! You are correct, I really should have included diagrams. I had hoped to but I ran into a time management issue. Thanks for the feedback.

@fancyreckless Thanks! That could be an interesting idea for a variant/expansion on the idea. I wanted to keep the core rules pretty minimal so they'd be easy to learn, but it could be fun to play around with adding in more interactions. Your'e right that diagrams would have been really good to include, I ran out of time.

@voidsay let me know if you do! I definitely didn't have time to code up a digital version for people with even a naive AI but given infinite time I would have done that right after making diagrams.

Loopin' Gluey by marcmagus 2020-10-10T17:28:52Z

@phlip45 Thanks for the video! The embed didn't appear on my browser so it took me a bit to hunt it down.

You nailed the basic rules. Sorry the information I gave to try to streamline managing keeping the cards in order for physical cards was not so easy in TTS.

It was great to see someone who doesn't know me trying it out. Thanks for the feedback as well.

Loopin' Gluey by marcmagus 2020-10-11T16:54:09Z

@staircase27a Thanks for trying the game and thanks for the feedback! It was my hope that in high score situations like that the players would feel able to try to push extra points to the player in the lead to force them around an extra loop, but it might not really work out in practice.

Thanks for pointing out the wording issues. I'll try to do a post-jam editing pass to tighten up the language. Thanks for the suggestions of enhancements as well; balancing luck and strategy in a game like this is tricky.

Loopin' Gluey by marcmagus 2020-10-23T14:41:28Z

@voidsay That's great. If you aren't charging for it you're welcome to do so. Please include a link to my game's page on itch as well as to here for context. If there's going to be money involved, please email me at marcmagus at gmail and we can discuss details.

I'm excited to see a digital implementation!

Loopin' Gluey by marcmagus 2020-10-27T18:39:38Z

@voidsay looks great! I just got a chance to test it out a little. One thing I noticed, and I definitely could have written that part of the rules more clearly, but it was my intent that you can't win mid-round, so in a round with a large number of tricks you have to be careful of taking too many tricks containing face-cards as that might cause you to overshoot the goal.

Photon Loop by Alexascher 2020-10-09T14:55:21Z

Beautiful and atmospheric game, nice use of the theme.

Little Pirate Adventure by Bauke Regnerus 2020-10-07T13:54:24Z

Love the art. Fun to play.

Didn't mind the "it's easy once you find the good trades" factor for a jam game, but it feels like it would need a major rethink and not just extension to make a post-jam version without that issue.

HONK II by Tricky_Fat_Cat 2020-10-10T21:43:04Z

Solid and fun gameplay. I somehow completely missed that the environmental hazards were causing me damage, even though I was flashing red and losing health; I don't know if that's just on me for being unobservant or if there's something you could have done to more clearly communicate that.

Loopy Island by honzapat 2020-10-09T15:21:56Z

Managing the camera was the most frustrating part of the game. I also found a couple of objects where if I could see it I could interact with it even if I didn't have a clear path to navigate to it. This meant by standing in the right spots to manipulate the camera I was able to entirely bypass the maze. Nice little point-and-click adventure.

Splines 'n Shapes by SharkWithLasers 2020-10-07T03:50:30Z

Fantastic game. Chill, innovative, interesting puzzle, audio and graphics support the mood well. I look forward to buying this to play on my tablet before bed soon.

Inside Divine Comedy by Yulia_li 2020-10-10T16:24:13Z

Simple game, each circle developed some lag toward the end of the timer. The audio and visual aspects are *fantastic*. The enemies inspired by Bosch are great, and the backgrounds are very evocative. Well done.

Hulagain by squimmy 2020-10-09T15:52:24Z

Love the use of the theme, hula-hooping rhythm/platformer was sure an interesting experience.

I ended up managing my hoop by a combination of instinct and the audio cues: after the intro level I couldn't use hoop visuals effectively to know when I was supposed to be pressing which direction. tbf that's about how I hula hoop IRL too: badly, using some vague attempt at instinct and not really knowing which way I should be going. But it might have been nice if that part were either more clear or more forgiving.

For { } by SoupStoreGames 2020-10-07T14:20:42Z

Very interesting puzzle game. I look forward to trying it with the orange block indicators sometime I have a bit more time to puzzle things out.

Tank Fall by PetTurtle 2020-10-07T14:35:26Z

I had a good time with tank-spleef. I appreciated the interesting way to make a non-violent tank game and also the effect it had that the game difficulty ramps up inherently just because the terrain vanishes.

Hangin' Around by Nocity 2020-10-07T14:00:25Z

Fun set of mini games. The hand holding a hand cracked me up.

I liked the way the BGM accelerates in challenge mode as the timer shortens, lends a good sense of urgency (although I'm not sure why but I kept expecting to have less time than I did, I think due to something in the music)

Progress by Anant Ahuja 2020-10-07T13:57:29Z

I laughed out loud, so I guess I liked it.

Lupe by Nachodlv 2020-10-09T15:16:30Z

Interesting idea, fun to play, although I did frequently find myself in situations where neither corner was facing in a really useful direction and I had to just make movements hoping I'd tumble into a more useful orientation. That's either funny or made it hard to feel in control depending on your perspective.

Particle Accelerator by Koolruz 2020-10-09T15:30:22Z

The physics on this one are *interesting* and, I found, really hard to get a good intuition for even after I had intellectualized what was going on. Very fun to play around with.

A tale of Loopism by Pomo 2020-10-06T13:49:49Z

Absolutely love that little robot.

The Ice Man Loopeth by Ramble House Games 2020-10-09T15:43:07Z

Beautiful graphics. Running around on tiny planetoids is very satisfying, great base on which to build up a game.

We talked about this on my stream, but the way the camera left/right works on absolute coordinates is kind of confusing when the camera is in a position where Planetary North is screen down so left moves the camera in the opposite direction expected.

Also, it would be nice if something in the game told you with a visual cue that the jumps account for orbital movement so you don't have to lead your target planetoid, just target it directly no matter how far away it is. Perhaps also being just a tiny bit forgiving on targetting, so if you're just barely off target you can still land rather than flying off into nowhere.

The Titan's grave by BadPiggy 2020-10-06T13:41:54Z

Solid entry. As mentioned in my chat, the perspective on the graphics was really effective in making the Titan very titanic.

I ran into a bug where my game locked up in a loop in phase 3 with the Titan fist smashing me but not causing damage and my controls not working. I wasn't able to reproduce, but you can see it in the VOD.

I didn't love the long boss invulnerable segment in phase 3, but it's a common feature of boss fights and probably a matter of taste.

Re:Live by Ciber_Turtle 2020-10-10T21:44:49Z

A nice take on the multiple lives through the level puzzle theme. I *absolutely love* the player sprites, and especially how they are customized and retain their customization as cute little ghosts. Made the game for me.

Re-Slash by Croxel Studios 2020-10-10T16:45:38Z

This was a really cool concept that I'm glad you tried and executed well and didn't quite land for me. As a puzzle the levels were interesting if kind of easy, but as an arcadish game I felt like the precision demanded of my inputs was higher than I could reasonably achieve and the end result was that I knew what I wanted to do but I couldn't make it work, and in a frustrating "I'm fighting the game" rather than "I'm not quite good enough and I want to keep trying" way.

It occurs to me than twin analog stick controls with a little smoothing might have worked better for me than keyboard+mouse.

Also if the interactions with the enemies (especially the arrow turrets) were a bit more forgiving so the focus were shifted a bit more toward the puzzle element vs the combat element it might have been more to my taste.

Loop's Way by Linetaru 2020-10-07T14:05:45Z

Interesting puzzle game with loads of visual polish. The ability to steal *some* cubes via reset was neat to play around with, and had some interesting consequences.

X REALITIES AWAY FROM HOME by Francois_B 2020-10-10T16:16:05Z

Game looks really good. Had to tune up ship efficiency to achieve victory. Main gameplay loop is pretty fun.

Separate from the difficulty tuning, the ship movement is a bit slow. Even for a chill floating in space experience I kept wanting a higher top speed.

SpaceMan by sefan 2020-10-09T14:57:46Z

Nice exploration game. There were I think a couple of bugs in my experience: the first world rotation trigger (the one in the kind of V-canyon) was invisible until I got really close; if I hadn't decided to go into "I'm curious what happens if I get trapped" mode I'm not sure I would have ever found it. Also I *think* I found all the gems, but I couldn't find a way to get back into my ship if there's a win state.

I agree with the commenter above me: an indication of how many gems are left would be really helpful.

Base Defender by Skeffles 2020-10-10T16:17:46Z

Interesting entry. Trying to aim through to the opposite side of the loop was challenging. Breaking your streak is pretty punishing.

Loop Deleter by Zachary Barbanell 2020-10-06T13:46:30Z

Really interesting puzzle game. Hits that "I know what I'm trying to do but I'm not sure how I'm going to accomplish it" feeling that's good in a puzzler.

Donut Island by odedro987 2020-10-07T14:26:05Z

Fun little arcade-style game. Pickups went away pretty quickly, which was either good difficulty balance or harsh depending on how you look at it. I enjoyed running around in this goofy little world.

Felt like the shotgun RoF was a bit too low.

Who Knows by Whom 2020-10-10T21:38:03Z

Interesting basic mechanic, fun to play with. Timer was a bit long; a much shorter timer (like 60-90s) and slightly faster movement would have made me much more interested in playing again and competing for high scores.

The meaning of Spacebar was the inverse of my expectations. This was either an interesting challenge, or a control dissonance, you decide which.

Pacxit by randomLockNess 2020-10-09T15:14:50Z

Really interesting idea, although some of the ghost transforms were kind of obnoxious to listen to. Very innovative. I feel like I'd have to play a *lot* to get to the point where the ghost sounds would help me locate the exit; I found I was entirely navigating by volume.

A not so boring game by clemetayer 2020-10-07T20:16:00Z

Linux players will need to download both the executable and the pck file.

I liked the game and particularly the way the twist played out. One complaint: arrow keys + mouse is a really uncomfortable combination for many common setups, as they both tend to be associated with the right hand. Supporting WASD as an alternative to the arrow keys would have improved the user experience.

Nice entry.

A not so boring game by clemetayer 2020-10-09T15:01:13Z

@clemetayer fair enough on the controls. I noticed another game I played this year used both wasd and zqsd, presumably for azerty support. Something to think about for next jam?

Temporal Loop by nohac 2020-10-07T14:08:01Z

Oh, that was a fun mechanic to play around with. Would love to see an expanded version; you could set up some interesting puzzles with it, and there's lots of capacity for the player to discover faster routes than the "intended" (or for you to force them / put shinies in interesting places)

Returning Home by hansj 2020-10-07T14:15:55Z

Fun core gameplay loop, although I didn't see anything in the game that told me I could click on my ship to upgrade. I played an entire time (losing) thinking I just had to collect "enough" crystals to, ummm, power the landing thrusters?

I also managed to achieve escape velocity and leave the map entirely. I'll post a link to the video later, it was pretty funny. Probably suggests the control scheme around the landing thrusters could be made clearer to the player.

Returning Home by hansj 2020-10-07T17:45:14Z

@hansj Yeah, on my second play after I was kindly informed about clicking to upgrade I saw what your intent had been. I think I perceived that glowing circle as being some sort of energy shield or something. It's amazing what we can miss when playing games.

Fishery by recursor 2021-05-02T17:37:18Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for playtesting! If you’d like to revisit the play and commentary you can view the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1008723979

SlappyBird by JCMonkey 2021-04-30T17:10:09Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for playtesting! If you’d like to revisit the play and commentary you can view the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1006134376

The Hookmarine by Elendow 2021-05-01T18:12:24Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for playtesting! If you’d like to revisit the play and commentary you can view the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1007522807

Who knew "submarines with grappling hooks" would be a mini-theme this year?

INSIDE the BOX by IcyLava 2021-05-02T17:44:28Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for playtesting! If you’d like to revisit the play and commentary you can view the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1008703438

Bunker Björn by phantom-lab 2021-04-29T17:22:56Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream Monday night. It was very atmospheric! If you'd like to watch again, you can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1005053852

The Meaning of Life Is by AfroAnt 2021-05-01T18:05:08Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for playtesting! If you’d like to revisit the play and commentary you can view the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1007523292

Punch my Dig! by nervous-composers 2021-05-02T17:41:56Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for playtesting! If you’d like to revisit the play and commentary you can view the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1008703892

The Reverse of the Summit by squigglez 2021-04-29T17:19:26Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to check out Monday night. If you'd like to watch again, the highlight can be found at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1005053858

Ore Hoarder by Justin_C 2021-04-29T17:12:24Z

Thanks for bringing your game for me to play Monday night. If you'd like to watch my playthrough again the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1005053857

For Whom The Diving Bell Tolls by Jakob Willforss 2021-05-02T17:43:36Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for playtesting! Sorry I wasn't able to get to it when you were around. If you'd like to watch the play and commentary you can view the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1008703889

GRAPPLE the Abyss! by lectvs 2021-04-29T17:14:59Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to try out Monday night. I really enjoyed it. Who knew "grappling hook movement" would turn out to be a mini-theme this Jam.

If you'd like to watch again the highlight is at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1005053862

Rooted by Webox 2021-05-02T17:35:11Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for playtesting! Sorry I wasn't able to get to it when you were around. If you'd like to watch the play and commentary you can view the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1008724059

Deeper Trance by dhim 2021-04-29T17:16:36Z

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream to try out Monday Night. If you'd like to see my reaction/our discussion again you can find the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1005053844

I was disappointed I couldn't see the stereogram, but I really enjoyed the high-concept of what you were trying to do both with that and with the audio.

Graverobber by Daniel Alhadeff 2021-04-30T17:08:32Z

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Descendants by AndideBob 2021-05-01T18:04:41Z

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I loved the artistic decision to make the characters extremely tiny. Makes play a little unfortunately challenging sometimes, but I appreciate that you committed to a unique vision.

Mine Zhero by Colisan 2021-04-29T17:14:04Z

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Deep Mine by NateTheGreat 2021-04-30T17:08:06Z

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The use of the falling sand engine had a really interesting and positive effect on a basic digging game. Good thinking.

Poorguy Elevator by Trypants 2021-05-02T17:36:37Z

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blank by Dreadusa 2021-04-30T17:06:56Z

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The unusual controls were fun to play around with!

Ski Trip by Rhoka 2021-04-29T14:27:11Z

Thanks for sharing your game! I've managed to locate the log file; it's too big to post in here, if you have an email address you'd like me to send it to?

One thing that jumps out is a repeated: > NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object > at CheckpointManager.Update () [0x0009f] in <88014c02b6f04333a615dd9dfcd87996>:0

But probably just a coincidence.

Ski Trip by Rhoka 2021-05-01T18:10:28Z

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Magic Frontier by Firebelley 2021-04-30T17:04:38Z

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Burilka Pump by abvadabra 2021-05-02T17:45:54Z

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Super Turtle Drop by JavaSaurus 2021-05-01T18:02:26Z

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Very addictive "just one more game" quality. Good work!

Super Turtle Drop by JavaSaurus 2021-05-02T23:19:26Z

@honest-dan I'm really intrigued by the difference in our experiences here: I found the falling blocks interesting as a "have to pay attention when I dig under things for a power-up/to get to a gap to see if I'm going to drop something on my head I need to dodge", but I found the drill chasing slightly unsatisfying because it always felt like it came out of nowhere and just *boom, game over* rather than building tension and encouraging me to dig faster/hunt clocks powerups.

Deep Sea Phishing by Literal Games 2021-05-01T18:06:03Z

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Addict. by SachaY 2021-04-29T17:18:21Z

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I didn't anticipate the drugs mini-theme this Jam, but perhaps I should have.

loading... by PopDaddyGames 2021-04-29T14:11:00Z

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I was thinking about my commentary further, and I've reconsidered something: I was trying to play the game on its own terms and engage with the "figure out which controls do what puzzle" I was presented with, but that doesn't make any sense in the context of the story of an astronaut who presumably is trained in the use of their thrusters. I now believe pretty strongly that the lack of documentation of which key applies thrust in which direction is a design flaw. Ideally, probably, a little model of a space-suit with labelled vectors for the visual learners, but identifying the axes would help.

loading... by PopDaddyGames 2021-05-01T18:12:03Z

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Dyb by Ratrat44 2021-04-29T17:23:25Z

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How to Swim! by backurio 2021-05-02T17:39:03Z

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Deep Dungeon Tactics by Aditya Kumar 2021-05-02T17:38:06Z

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Excavatris Inc. by Neon Glass 2021-04-30T17:12:06Z

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Bubbly by Kaish 2021-05-02T17:31:17Z

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Chuck Yeager's Jet Janitor by Shawn Moore 2021-04-29T17:20:03Z

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20,000 Leagues by marcmagus 2021-04-29T22:22:43Z

@dhim Thanks for the feedback! Good comment about card layout; making the numbers bigger would help quite a bit. Also they should be in the top-left, that was a foolish choice on my part. I'll look at it with and without a gutter next time I do a P&P.

You read the rules correctly that set values are for your collected cards only, yes.

I notice an implication from your question that you got a different question wrong, in the same way that @bongard22's group did, which makes it clear to me I could have written the rules more clearly to call out a difference from expectations: you only count up score at the end of the game, accruing cards over all three rounds. This differs from Sushi Go and thus expectations. (The table goes up to 9 because there are 9 in the deck and you could theoretically get them all)

20,000 Leagues by marcmagus 2021-04-30T23:27:33Z

@fabula-rasa thanks for the feedback, and glad you enjoyed the game! I didn't put 2 players on the label because I wasn't confident I could make the 2 player experience have the effect I intended and didn't have time for the extra playtesting it would require knowing that games often behave very differently with 2 players than multi-player. I suspect it would be good to shrink the deck a little, maybe something like "Remove all Fusiliers and 1 each of Jelly, Shark, Tuna, SCUBA, Ray, Crab, Snail" along with a 7 card hand size.

Sounds like you got the basic interactions I was hoping for, which is great to hear.

Great feedback on layout, thank you. Definitely wish I'd made those numbers bigger.

(On SCUBA Divers, the table row goes up to 6 because that's how many there are in the game, so the set scores "how many SCUBA Divers you have (up to 6) times how many unique attractions you have, as long as you have at least 2 SCUBA Divers". That row of the table isn't my best work.)

20,000 Leagues by marcmagus 2021-05-01T03:09:36Z

@alyd-asmar A typography nerd friend of mine pointed me at [The League of Movable Type](https://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/) some years back and they're my first stop when looking for fonts for anything.

@incobalt That's a really good point. I made a late decision to put all the triangular numbers directly on the card and it was a good choice; I should have done it for Eels and Jellies as well. I also shouldn't have both Eels and Jellies, it's bad design, but I kept pushing off resolving that and never did. (If you check out the PDF you'll see I include a table of values for 2^x and others, but, yes, directly on the card would be perfect)

Ideally I also would have included card counts for each card directly on the cards, but...didn't get there.

20,000 Leagues by marcmagus 2021-05-03T13:58:02Z

@ditam It's a silly reference to https://genius.com/Arrogant-worms-sponges-lyrics

Yeah, 3 players is tough right now. If you look upthread someone did try it 2p and it sounds like it worked pretty well, and I had some thoughts on deck trimming to potentially tighten up the experience, but I definitely didn't have time to playtest for 2 at all, so, knowing 2 often feels very different from multi- I didn't want to put 2 on the label. I'd considered a solo mode as well but when I was playtesting with myself I felt like too much of the interesting part of the game involved reasoning about what choices the other players would make, which would be lost.

20,000 Leagues by marcmagus 2021-05-03T16:56:53Z

@$162477 I'm really intrigued by how you played in a Minecraft server. That's pretty cool!

Thanks for the feedback. It sounds like you ran into all of the potential points of confusion that I had noted when working on the rules and tried to address, and it's quite clear from all the feedback that I didn't get quite as much clarity in there as I needed to. Rules writing is really difficult.

SCUBA are indeed very powerful, and my biggest note for continued development is to keep an eye on whether they're good in a way that makes drafting interesting or too good in a way that either reduces interesting choices or makes the game feel too much like luck of the draw of initial hands. I definitely appreciate the feedback that it felt a bit too much on the luck of the draw side for your group. How many players did you have?

Your other question is a little hard to answer for you, as it's much more about the social contract of playing a competitive game than it is about my game in particular. My strong opinion on the answer to that question is "you should do what will make the game feel best for your group". My personal opinion is that in a game like this it is implied that table talk/open negotiation of kingmaking is frowned upon, and that intentional kingmaking (taking actions with the intent of causing a particular player to win over another) violates the implicit social contract, and you should play for the best end-game position you can achieve (whether that's maximize your score, maximize your relative score, maximize your odds of pulling off a come-from-behind victory) But many miles of electronic ink have been spilled on this topic on Boardgame Geek and blogs by writers more thoughtful than I, and all I can really say is I'm sympathetic that you found yourself in a position where you had a whole round to play where you felt like you had already lost, and I hope that you found rounds to be as quick as I anticipated so you weren't in that painful situation for very long.

Viper Mission One by Majadroid 2021-05-02T17:37:41Z

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DO NOT INSERT INSIDE THE EAR CANAL!!! by cheesepencil 2021-04-29T17:17:12Z

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Dig World by kuviman 2021-04-29T17:18:55Z

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Ocelot Safari by pancelor 2021-05-02T17:34:08Z

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Legend of the Goblin Hoard by Bauke Regnerus 2021-04-30T17:09:06Z

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Deep Waste by shadow30 2021-05-02T17:43:06Z

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Lucky Lefty Loves Leftovers by TheBookSnail 2021-05-01T18:07:08Z

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Dangerous Treasure by MtWhateverest 2021-05-01T18:01:35Z

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Decay by KeithSwanger 2021-04-29T17:15:34Z

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Catlantis by fabula_rasa 2021-04-30T17:14:15Z

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Deeply Organic by DoctorTM 2021-05-02T17:31:54Z

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Gone Fishing by matthewi 2021-05-01T18:08:45Z

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ONI by Daniel Whittaker 2021-05-02T17:35:39Z

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Deep Sea Trip by Pomo 2021-04-29T17:20:42Z

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Deep into the Volcano by JoelChrono12 2021-05-02T17:34:38Z

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Hellevator by baconn00 2021-05-01T18:09:08Z

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Into the Deep Web by Jon Topielski 2021-04-29T17:13:09Z

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Blackout by Frasse 2021-04-30T17:15:02Z

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Buried Deep by Paroxysmal 2021-04-27T01:06:47Z

For anybody else having a problem with Linux dependencies, you'll need libsndio 6.1. On Arch I needed to install 'libsndio-61-compat' from the AUR, on other distros there's probably an equivalent package.

Buried Deep by Paroxysmal 2021-04-29T17:21:27Z

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Paperload - Deep Bass Edition by frokes 2021-05-01T18:10:52Z

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Drill Deeper by remram44 2021-04-29T17:21:57Z

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Afraid to Turn by rhoff95 2021-04-30T17:04:10Z

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Trapdoor in the Garden by InitialPosition 2021-05-02T17:32:42Z

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Khazads by vsi- 2021-05-02T17:33:26Z

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This is not my Home by Evileptic 2021-04-30T17:09:46Z

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Deeper Well by Feraligatr 2021-05-02T17:36:03Z

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Crust by exopunk 2021-04-30T17:13:22Z

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It was interesting that "movement via grappling hook" became a bit of a mini-theme this jam.

Spaception by HardScore 2021-05-01T18:08:20Z

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Shotgun Viking (LD48) by Roikku 2021-04-29T17:23:54Z

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Elemantic by nohac 2021-05-01T18:05:32Z

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Rooting Deeper and Deeper LD48 by fuzzypurplepixel 2021-04-30T17:06:04Z

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Asterisk by Crychair 2021-04-30T17:01:17Z

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One More Lap! by Harrison Dunn 2021-05-01T18:09:50Z

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Am I only dreaming? by DerGamer 2021-04-30T17:11:01Z

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2021: A Space Odyssey by ChrisCo 2021-05-02T17:44:01Z

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Deem by AdamPhoebe 2021-05-01T18:09:28Z

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HELL deep is your love? by Villanelle 2021-04-30T17:05:20Z

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SUBERDEEP by sendnoose 2021-05-02T17:42:28Z

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Labyrinth of the Undead by D34TH0FTIT4N5 2021-04-30T17:14:35Z

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Infinite Descent by BluishGreenPro 2021-04-30T17:02:48Z

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Excavation Site Alpha by petra_the_kat 2021-04-30T17:10:35Z

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H.M.S. Rustbucket by PlaskiJakDeska 2021-04-30T17:13:44Z

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Dahla's Journey by PiJaMar 2021-04-30T17:12:38Z

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Frog Boy by TeamDungeon 2021-04-29T17:24:23Z

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Towering Dice by marcmagus 2021-10-06T14:13:18Z

@rein Thanks for the feedback!

There is no requirement to remain in a plane, nor is it even required to make pyramids. If you look at the photo on the itch page (which I mistakenly failed to include in the page here) you can see I had a non-pyramidal structure with a bit of a curve to it. You can absolutely make whatever shapes work well with the pips you have.

I'll think about the three 1s problem, thanks for pointing it out.

Towering Dice by marcmagus 2021-10-07T03:27:18Z

@DaleP I'm really impressed by what looks like a 4-3-2-1 tower on the top of that. I'm not even sure I can get a 1 on a 2 on my reference dice. Very cool!

Towering Dice by marcmagus 2021-10-07T03:41:24Z

@dk5000p for reference, I did most of my playtesting with a set of 12mm Chessex dice with rounded corners; you might be surprised.

Coffee Crisis by Outfrost 2021-10-06T14:57:01Z

I wish the machines were labeled, but the core loop is satisfying, and customers willing to take whatever you give them and only complain after drinking is interesting and sometimes hilarious.

I Wanted A new Tower Defense Game by Lerc 2022-04-08T16:43:51Z

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I really dig the art style you went with for this. I'm not much of a tower defense player but this was approachable and I felt like I was able to get some mastery rapidly.

Biggest thing that stands out to me is that I've been noticing that there's a really big difference in engagement between total silence and even minimal sfx if they're not terrible. I think some little pew-pews would have enhanced the experience a lot.

Balloon Rush 2 by CocaPasteque 2022-04-07T16:21:58Z

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Lovely calm little game with an interesting base mechanic. Beautiful art and music.

I did find lots of tiny puffs gave me better control than bigger puffs, so I ended up not really using the interesting part of the mechanic in the end, though, though that might be my poor play.

Frame Buster by JCMonkey 2022-04-06T14:00:02Z

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Pay2Win but also the act of streaming puts you at a disadvantage!

Very interesting take on the theme, and super-innovative termination condition. This is exactly the kind of weird, innovative, experimental, unexpected thing that makes me love Ludum Dare.

Adelie - Chasing Pavements by Meep 2022-04-08T16:52:58Z

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Great to see Adelie return, with a fun and challenging game.

In tweaks, maybe if the down-throw for combine had a slightly more forgiving target range, tweaking the difficulty down slightly without fundamentally changing it might be beneficial. There's already a lot of difficulty just in managing the slidy movement.

Time, Commander? by Jesús González 2022-04-08T15:42:04Z

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Really interesting mechanic. Mouse-command-based tank-style controls sure are different. Accurate controlling was very challenging.

Elephant In The Room by binroot 2022-04-06T14:46:15Z

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Super-innovative approach. It's probably unlosable if you don't get bored, but it's really fun to play around with for a little while and see what happens.

STONEHOLD by teamscripta 2022-04-08T16:33:15Z

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Base combat mechanic feels pretty solid. I'm not sure how different you anticipated trips being without a lot more content, since it seems like a pretty linear scaling as-is, but I'd be intrigued to see it and love that you were attempting a procgen + ghosts thing.

Stallar by Wendel Scardua 2022-04-07T15:32:31Z

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Nice work, was fun to play on emulator. Very classic NES audio.

Feast or Famine by ColinBellino 2022-04-07T16:28:45Z

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For some reason the audio didn't work when running the game through the itch launcher, but works fine when run directly.

I wish the bodies didn't have collision, or faded after being drained. It was frustrating to be in a situation where you knew you'd have to spend dash energy twice: once to drain and then again to get back out of the corner you'd dashed into.

Enemies camping the doorways was really frustrating.

The use blood to power everything mechanic worked out interestingly, fun overall.

Blockage by Dis0rder 2022-04-07T15:56:15Z

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Very effective use of A/V elements to set mood.

Sorting Algorithm by lectvs 2022-04-08T15:27:05Z

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Very moody. Satisfying basic gameplay. I'm not clear how much failing tasks mattered (or if it matters if it didn't) -- I felt constant pressure as I was playing to play quick so the game worked anyway. The couple of special levels made me feel smart for paying attention.

Game About Trying to Gain More Time In A Time Cave by HacksawUnit 2022-04-06T14:16:10Z

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I enjoyed this take on a puzzle platformer. Interestingly slightly different movement, the hidden-but-obvious shinies were fun to hunt.

Hunt-the-gems for warp was an interesting approach that is either brilliant or doesn't work out quite right and I'm not sure which. It might make it "the warps are harder to get to for exactly the people who need them most", or it might make it "decide if you want to focus on platforming or puzzling" and I'm still not sure which it is. I think you mixed puzzle gems and harder-platforming gems so the answer is unfortunately a bit of a muddle that pushes it more to the hard for the people who need it end. I definitely enjoyed playing (and hunting gems).

Too Close by Webox 2022-04-07T15:38:42Z

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Interesting take on a puzzle game. A lot to like about it.

A couple of points for improvement: zap both making her immediately turn 180 *and* swap rotation direction was maybe a little too much to readily internalize what would happen under time pressure. Aiming zap was tricky (the stage kept advancing just as I was about to click) - maybe if it targeted a 3x3? Flood seemed unworth using as it costs energy *and* takes away energy income.

Eleventh Hour by Jeremy Ryan 2022-04-07T16:33:16Z

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Beautiful game, nice smooth gameplay. Some neat stuff with the kunai being active even when falling after a miss or exploding off enemies.

Cave companion by Josh Bothun 2022-04-06T14:04:50Z

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The atmosphere was lovely and I enjoyed the "work with your friend" approach.

As we talked about, I loved the attempt at having the golem perform complex actions, I only wished they were better communicated to the player especially when happening off-screen. It occurs to me that a solution I've seen in other games (like Sims) is to have something like a thought-bubble with a symbol that would indicate what the golem is up to, and it might be ok to have something like that on screen-edge to imply that even when they're out of view you can tell what they're doing.

Lava is Deadly by OadT 2022-04-08T15:23:48Z

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Unique puzzle mechanic, leads to some interesting interactions. If you could find somewhere to display any currently delayed effects along with countdown timers for how many more turns of delay they have it would go a long way to improving transparency as to what's going on and let the player focus more on figuring out the puzzles.

Devil's Revenge by Zachary Shah 2022-04-08T16:36:20Z

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I liked this take on splitting focus between delivering to a boss and keeping down the mooks.

Too bad a couple of things didn't render properly in WINE. If you ever get a linux-native version out please tag me so I can play around with the game a bit more as-intended.

Maybe it was just me, but maybe if there were a little more warning before terrain comes in to make it more available to try to take advantage of like the protective tower thing.

Protect The Light by Untitled Studios 2022-04-06T14:31:03Z

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I enjoyed the concept quite a bit. The controls (particularly click to aim, never my favorite) were a little fiddly at times, especially when trying to position the light and fight in the other direction at the same time. Which is also interesting challenge, but also sometimes frustrating "hard to get the game to do what I think I'm going to tell it to do".

My main suggestion for improvement would be better telegraphing of the "shoot through the light" power. Enemy health was also maybe a little high throughout, especially the boss.

Overall an enjoyable experience.

Will There Bee Another? by Gabriel Dias Oliveira de Almeida 2022-04-07T16:39:07Z

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Lovely little story. I was less engaged by trying to find the "correct" set of options for the best ending (which, maybe there should be more than one path there?), but just casually playing through a lovely conversation between two people who like each other but are having a little trouble communicating it was pleasant. I like that, because they clearly do both like each other, there aren't *bad* endings so much as just less good ones.

Taoreta Mura by farzher 2022-04-06T14:40:21Z

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You said your goal was to learn to make a good-looking game and boy did you nail that!

It also plays solidly and sounds good, overall excellent work. I enjoyed the dancing in the intro as well.

My big "I wish this had gotten in" is that archers currently spawn looking like swordsmen rather than archers, which is jarring and makes it harder to plan your moves.

I'm a little surprised you've opted out of rating for graphics?

Farm Dog by Trypants 2022-04-07T15:10:57Z

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Silly fun, and exactly what real chicken farming is like! Great voxel art, smooth gameplay.

Game mechanics could have been a bit more transparent (helping weigh choices in the upgrade menu). While I liked both audio tracks, the more frenetic one was uncomfortably than the first one.

Les Aventures de De Lay L'Inévitable! by natpat 2022-04-07T15:47:17Z

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Entertaining silly little arcade game. *Excellent* sprite work.

I recall making a comment suggesting that some sort of joystick-based control might be nice? It's been two days, I don't remember the details, and can't find it quickly, sorry.

Dig Dig Joy by Nyunesu 2022-04-09T16:56:34Z

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I can't say that I've ever played an auto-digger before, and I dig it. Interesting idea, plays nicely.

I'm not sure I loved competitive play being for speed, which ends up feeling kind of luck-based on early upgrades, vs. score-based, although score-based would have its own issues with incentives.

Recycle This! by Raphiell 2022-04-07T16:36:12Z

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Good frenetic fun. A little rough on my RSI but so it goes. The guitar was absolutely worth the cost.

Ludare OS by foxwater 2022-04-07T17:34:16Z

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Neat game, had a great time playing it on emulator. For some reason I thought I had to press START after stepping onto the pad to send data to the register (and previously missed that I had to press START to confirm a target). I really appreciated that I could put things into registered and get immediate feedback on how the number changed, so I could combine estimated mental arithmetic with a test-and-update loop to get to the result quickly rather than having to do it all in my head. Supports a variety of thinking styles.

Secret Mission: Datastorm by Sentmoraap 2022-04-07T16:15:18Z

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I found simultaneously having free 2D movement and steering/accelerate/brake disorienting - I was able to eventually internalize how to control it but I still don't have a mental model for what it represents.

Fantastic graphics and smooth gameplay, was interesting to play around with.

Nighty Night, Nosferatu by Shawn Moore 2022-04-05T17:46:07Z

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It's Cold, I Am Dead by Papabirb 2022-04-08T16:50:07Z

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Fun silly little game. The shape of the fish around the axis of rotation made for some interesting effects where which direction you were swinging actually mattered. Great clinky sfx. Fun to pull out and play around with for a few minutes.

Lethal Dice 50 by marcmagus 2022-04-07T03:59:56Z

@zc74560 yeah, I'll try to get the rules sheet into the TTS mod sometime soon post-Jam. It's not something I've done yet and it fell to the time/priority thing along with a how-to-play video. Good suggestion.

@frib the intent is that you're only required to roll enough that you can cover the boxes using everything in reserve (that's a lot of what makes reserve worth taking risks to build up). I'll add an FAQ and take a look into whether I can word it better for 1.2, thanks.

@niterich Thanks for the suggestion. I'll take a look and consider a revision to clarify that point. The axis labels are intuitively obvious. ;) (Fair point, I really should have taken the time to get that in)

Lethal Dice 50 by marcmagus 2022-04-08T14:46:30Z

@bunner interesting! That would get you past the slow ramp-up and into the critical section faster; my only concern is that the jump from 6 to 10 skips over the most interesting segment (around 7-9). Thanks for sharing.

@yusovv it was intentional. The theme I designed around is a little too dark especially in the current cultural moment for me to be comfortable leaning into it explicitly, so I didn't want to do card titles/artwork. In a jam timeline I knew I couldn't figure out a way to be appropriately sensitive to it. I had been considering putting special rules text into that area but I decided to scale it back to the most basic version of the game.

@bucketh3ad @ratstail91 Agreed: there are some places where the structure and wording of the rules could be a lot clearer. Maybe I'll get another update out. The presence of a diagram showing the layout on the table also doesn't seem to help as much as I'd expected it to.

Lethal Dice 50 by marcmagus 2022-04-08T16:54:51Z

@dirkinz I'll have to find a chance to check your game out too.

Lethal Dice 50 by marcmagus 2022-04-09T14:21:01Z

@jimbly you missed the rule I forgot to write into 1.0 of the rules release (sorry): that once you've scored/failed to score cards for a round all the remaining cards are discarded before a new set of cards is drawn. Normally you will have 1 card in round 1, 2 cards in round 2, etc (unless penalties accelerate that). This could still be worded more clearly. Sorry for the error. (Fortunately you still get a sense of the game experience when played as you did, just highly accelerated)

@voidsay Thanks. Two pages and more explanation probably would have been a better choice for this one than the rules I ended up with, but, well, jam time happened.

@jitspoe @elysiagriffin Thank you both for taking the time to play my game on your streams. I know it's more of a time commitment than your usual content and I appreciated the opportunity to watch people interact with it. It was very valuable feedback.

Astral Abyss by Alexascher 2022-04-09T16:53:05Z

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Beautiful and soothing while still being rather intense. It was interesting to explore the space of different elements. Nice touch requiring a dip into corruption to reach the most powerful shards. Would be a good before bed (and then end up staying up late with "one more time") kind of game.

My Story by Ausstein 2022-04-05T17:45:35Z

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The End? by michaelaranda 2022-04-09T16:49:23Z

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Fun stuff. The controls, particularly the need to pump with the keyboard, were fitting but a little rough for my already-RSI-having hands. I wonder if a controller-based control scheme would work while being more comfortable.

Dungeon Dummies by Jozef 2022-04-08T16:40:45Z

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Great puzzle game, this kind of thing is my jam!I had a really good time with this one.

At least 95% of the interactions were either apparent or readily discoverable, and watching things unfold to misfortune was a joy. There were just a couple of places (I guess mostly around line-of-sight, which can always be tricky on a grid) where it was a bit opaque -- maybe if e.g. the thief's thought bubble were supplemented with a dashed-line to the thing he noticed it would call better attention to that interaction.

Extremely Exteme Sports by kuviman 2022-04-06T14:11:22Z

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Fantastic fun! Solid multiplayer SkiFree implementation, you got character customization in, it was clearly a lot of fun as a stream/play with chat game. It's got a nice tight loop so it's usually not too long a wait when you're out before the next round.

Good implementation of skiing basics. Couple of hitboxes were maybe not quite forgiving enough but overall felt good.

One player noted that ping time to the server caused an issue for them, so it would be good to look into that.

I would love an option to swap left/right, as my brain really wanted the classic controls relative to the skier's facing rather than relative to the camera.

Populus Romanus by Bauke Regnerus 2022-04-07T15:54:43Z

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Love me a city builder. Took me a little while to internalize that buildings only trigger when they're built. It was kind of neat that different buildings had different shapes. I almost want an option in the menu that shows all the buildings that exist and the probability of each coming up if they're not equal, to think about planning.

Unless there's a random element, it might be nice to just show a shadow on the power meters of "what will happen if I place this building here" to help expose the mechanics.

I could see the shape of future development with the different terrains. Not sure you needed those special buildings, but it would be interesting to see what the game is like with more variety.

The Denevetable by Tricky_Fat_Cat 2022-04-09T15:29:41Z

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Chasing the annoying ring of light turned out to be pretty interesting base gameplay, and you got some clever level design that interacted with it in interesting ways. Nice work.

Re: Placement by Outfrost 2022-04-06T14:52:34Z

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I enjoyed the concept. I found I struggled a lot to find the matching shapes between the bottoms of the parts and the circuit boards. Half the times when I thought I had the right part I didn't at all, and I ultimately found "I know which way is up, grab a random part and spin it through the upright orientations until I can mash something in like a dumb monkey" to be the most effective approach.

It's not *bad*, it's just not obvious *enough*. Or at least for me the difficulty of shape-matching scaled way too quickly, getting to what I would want for an "I'm an expert give me everything" difficulty around Round 3. Next time I'll just put everything in the Square Hole.

Lucky Lefty Loves Late-night Literature by TheBookSnail 2022-04-09T17:20:03Z

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Always happy to see another Lucky Lefty entry. Managing the bouncy physics to get things back to base was an interesting challenge; things just did *not* want to stay put in my basket.

Nelson's Nightmare: Remastered by clemonades 2022-04-08T15:32:14Z

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Love those weird zoomy coins. Didn't love shop not pausing the timer but that's a design choice. I did manage to make it so Nelson will never wake up.

Battery Low by Milestone Games 2022-04-06T14:20:23Z

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Lovely lonely exploration/puzzle. I liked, but was occasionally frustrated by, the rover's varying choices of turn radius.

It played well knowing I could retry until I solved the puzzle, but I actually feel like the game would lend itself really well to a procgen map, even if it's just look at the radar map and try to plan out a course and then see how well you do.

Some really nice bits of subtle polish that really help sell the experience.

Cat in the Bag by JoshH 2022-04-08T15:56:48Z

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Super charming. I appreciated (per discussion) that there are multiple solutions to each moment, so the player is more likely to feel smart/rewarded and less likely to get into the "ok I'm just reloading until I figure out what the designers wanted" cycle. Also means you can still play after watching someone else play and have a satisfying experience if you know there's more than one solution.

Carpe Diem by Pomo 2022-04-07T16:25:29Z

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Good stuff once I realized my controller was out of deadzone and switched to using it. Fun challenge, interesting perspective, floaty felt good but hard. Found it a bit challenging to judge where I would be landing, and sometimes I felt like my double-jump vanished. I'm sure that's all user error.

Hex'd by Paroxysmal 2022-04-06T14:34:42Z

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Nice take on a platformer. "slimes can't tell time" was an interesting mechanic, although I'm not sure I ultimately liked its effect on the game. I'd really have to try again without the timer bug to be sure, though, I suspect that dominated my reaction.

As discussed, there was an issue where the timer didn't reset when you fell into a pit, which made those effectively cost you two hearts a lot of the time, in a frustrating way.

The Fight Scene by ytrewq 2022-04-08T15:50:09Z

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The bursts of red particles are more gory than I remembered the source material being but sure lend impact. Not sure why my ability to move around sometimes glitched out.

Time DashKing by Tryston 2022-04-09T17:05:33Z

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I kind of feel like controller twin-stick or even just aim and aim dash in direction of movement controls to remove the mouse from the equation would result in a control scheme that feels more comfortable and natural for me. Game felt good but a little too hard, I wish I could have seen more of the upgrade content.

Erefos by exopunk 2022-04-08T15:53:09Z

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Nice atmospheric platformer. Horizontal movement in the air felt like it was slightly less than my intuition which kept throwing off my jumps.

Shrinking light as a timer was effective and fitting.

Captain Starforce by extar 2022-04-07T16:00:42Z

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Fun game. As discussed, shield regen is maybe a little too fast, but better too easy than too hard, and it would be great if there were a direction to space station indicator. Visuals read very cleanly; I could immediately tell what the direction to crew indicator meant.

You Are A Bomb by Benjamin Halko 2022-04-06T14:37:21Z

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Great little twist on classic arcade game style. I had a great time with this one.

Interesting take on the theme. I liked the effect that as your platform shrank things in some ways became easier, but you did also approach your inevitable end.

ShadowScape by nohac 2022-04-08T15:13:28Z

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Very atmospheric. I wished a couple of the mechanics were exposed better (more clarity that the red torches damage enemies, and maybe health bars for the torches would help, also maybe a more clear digging animation for crystals would make it more clear that rocks *don't* have resources by contrast).

Un-Rooted by Denhette 2022-04-06T13:56:13Z

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Solid game, I particularly enjoyed that you got *an entire character creator in*. Not sure if the amusing "ragdoll bodies under floaty heads" movement was an intentional design aesthetic or a happy accident of jam timelines but it was entertaining.

The Assessment by Okamit 2022-04-07T16:19:38Z

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Silly fun, excellent polish. I particularly love the intersection of the musical sting and TV popup animation with really excellent timing introducing each minigame. Just exactly right.

"That's not how safes work" - a couple of the minigames I had a little trouble figuring out what I was being asked to do.

"Put it in the square hole" - everything should go in the square hole as an easter egg

I enjoyed the nod to Scrambl'd.

The Hero (...Always Wins) by Link270 2022-04-07T15:42:01Z

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I enjoyed the humor of the game quite a bit, and your models were lovely. I would have appreciated some more transparency of the game mechanics. An ability to read tower abilities while paused, right there in the UI, would really help the on-ramping, letting the player associate it with the UI slots.

Granting Immortality by BluishGreenPro 2022-04-05T17:44:53Z

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Granting Immortality by BluishGreenPro 2022-04-06T14:25:58Z

Follow-up thoughts: attempting to get a moral dilemma into any game is tricky business, and especially within the time constraints of a jam. "Who deserves to live?" is a particularly tricky one to get right in a game context, too. I'm not sure you quite nailed it for me, but the fact that I said "maybe I should have taken a 'save everybody' approach instead of moralizing about them' and then immediately followed that up with 'but forget this guy'" means you definitely got somewhere with it. Nice work.

Immortal Snail by Mika314 2022-04-07T16:30:55Z

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Fun stuff. The (mostly) useless pop gun was in many ways the highlight of the game for me. Reminded me (in a good way) of Untitled Goose Game and Yoku's Island Express.

Great use of light to guide the player and also misdirect.

Protocol Delta by itsBoats 2022-04-09T16:45:19Z

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Solid arcade action with a good soundtrack and a surprising amount of depth from a few different enemy types and their interactions.

Giraffe o'Clock by Kepsert 2022-04-09T15:21:20Z

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What a lovely game! I love the use of 2-bit color graphics, and I'd be curious to see what it looks like on an LCD display/emulation of the LCD effects.

Some very nice level design guiding you to learn and then work with the new powers. And Ledge Bite is just fantastic.

Death's Gambit by osh.studio 2022-04-07T16:34:44Z

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Interesting take on a puzzle game. Some good choices. Only major request is for a pointer to the Reaper when offscreen, especially right at the beginning of the game it feels bad to take a turn only to realize you've gone unknowingly closer to death.

The Third Age by szym 2022-04-07T15:49:37Z

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Interesting take on a management sim. I only wish I could click on furniture the same way I can click on residents to see what needs each bit of furniture will satisfy. A couple of them weren't very obvious, and you could just repeat the icon so I didn't have to guess.

The Ultimate Martian Roulette by HaaYaargh 2022-04-08T15:39:27Z

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Game might want a content note for imagery of self-harm.

Fantastic graphics, very effective setting. You got a surprisingly deep gameplay into a small amount of mechanics, nice work.

I particularly appreciated the summary odds at the end of the game, because people are *terrible* at mentally estimating cumulative odds like that.

Some great details in the backgrounds.

Hot point by Debone 2022-04-08T15:35:30Z

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An interesting mechanic. I liked the heat-map effect (even if I didn't notice I could change the settings on it, a nice feature though). I entirely missed that walls were portable, so that's something that could have more clarity: either through making the objects more obviously portable or a classic by starting the character trapped in a temperate room where they have to pick up a wall to start playing.

Project Memory: Delay Extinction by RaXaH 2022-04-08T16:24:27Z

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A lovely edu-game, and something I could see playing for hours in a similar fashion to the way I used to play Civilization before bed.

As I mentioned on stream, I would have appreciated, especially for a turn-based game like this, if some of the mechanics were a bit more transparent. Especially the mechanics around elephant/poacher movement and poacher capture. An optional mode that separates the elephant, poacher, and ranger movement stages and pauses between each would probably help beginning players and then you could have a checkbox to go to "fast movement" which would be more like the current behavior. Animations seem to happen in a different order than the canonical order (I see elephants moving late?) which is also confusing.

Gladiator Graveyard by tahamimarlar 2022-04-07T15:58:19Z

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Nice intense gameplay.

I like the music slowdown effect on death but I wish it would stop after a few seconds. If you sit on the menu it's really painful.

plant. by badcop 2022-04-08T16:46:12Z

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I was almost as bad at this game as I am at real-life gardening!

Nice simple game, pleasant and soothing (until it dies at least).

Less on-theme, but I wonder if people would appreciate an alternate mode that's a little bit slower and doesn't have the inevitable death aspect so you can just chill to trimming a plant for a while.

Kinderkaos by Gravityflip 2022-04-09T16:47:24Z

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Silly fun, *fantastic* BGM. Solid frenetic management, who built this kindergarten without doors?

SkyTimer by TheSerOT 2022-04-09T16:42:36Z

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Pilotwings! Nice arcade action, controls felt smooth and consistent.

Kessler by jcg 2022-04-08T15:46:07Z

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We didn't need that sun anyway.

Interesting and thematic gameplay. The way the click-hold-release control worked was an interesting challenge, although I felt like in the end it pushed me to a kind of degenerate "always detonate in quick low-altitude bursts" strategy which was less fun. I wonder if click to commit a target and your bomb flies to that spot and detonates when it gets there would work out better?

King of Carcasone by EdgarLord 2020-04-20T19:55:11Z

If you can submit a document of the game rules some of us would be pretty interested in looking over what you came up with. Just include a list of components that can be borrowed from existing games, or something we can print off and cut out if you have custom cards or anything like that. Print & Play has become a pretty popular way of trying out games, some of us would be happy to give yours a try.