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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Overall | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥉 | 2025 | 57 | Depths | AToB | jam | 4.54 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | 2025 | 57 | Depths | AToB | jam | Innovation | 4.90 | |
| 🥈 | 2024 | 55 | Summoning | PolyMancer | jam | Fun | 4.60 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | Depths | AToB | jam | 3 | 4.54 | 4.27 | 4.90 | 3.97 | 4.56 | |||
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | Mooovement Game | jam | 38 | 4.24 | 4.35 | 4.12 | 3.14 | 4.48 | |||
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | PolyMancer | jam | 7 | 4.46 | 4.60 | 4.52 | 3.18 | 4.17 | 2.75 | 4.14 | |
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | CORNERED | jam | 51 | 4.22 | 4.31 | 4.10 | 4.62 | 4.34 | 3.65 | 3.94 | |
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | SatisfAction - The Ultimate Marble Machine | jam | 110 | 4.11 | 4.20 | 4.01 | 3.88 | 4.36 | 3.06 | 3.84 |
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Having to hold the buttons instead of clicking made it surprisingly difficult! I wish receiving the message didn't take such a long time. Also I wish the suspicion would rise faster in the late game because right now there's not much reason to use max speed other than just less waiting time. Otherwise pretty epic game! :D
@ruddiculous thank you for the feedback! btw you can also rotate using the scroll wheel which leaves the WASD in place ;)
Really satisfying when you are able to go fast!!, but the bees really slow thing down. (Maybe make them faster, or at least make them faster once you are attached to them) :)
Great submission. I found the combination of camera angle, controls, and combat rather odd. It has the camera angle of a third person game, but the mouse controls of a typical top-down point & click rpg/rts game. I have seen 3rd person WASD controls, top-down WASD controls, top-down mouse controls, but never a 3rd person mouse-controls. I think the main problem is that with a 3rd person camera & mouse controls there is no way to rotate the camera and see things behind you.
The combat system is currently that where you have to repeatedly click on the enemy to attack. I think it would be helpful to lean either to the "click on enemy and it will automatically attack that enemy until they die or you click elsewhere" combat style (like runescape), or alternatively a system where you do have to click each time, but each click is a challenge (for example skillshots), so that it would not feel like repetitive clicking. :smile:
I AM FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! sub 55 seconds :sweat_smile:
https://youtu.be/tjSOWlVC7ck
Amazing game, insanely high skill ceiling. Insane depth to the hook/gravity mechanic, I kept finding new strategies & routes when I though there were none left. Still have so many strategies out of my pay grade that could achieve sub 50s or even 45s (according to the sum of best segments)
Took ~10 hours, I'll come back to it if someone beats it :smile:
@jim-jagers you god damn right! :smile:
@ausstein 🫣 gl champ
@ausstein congrats!
Very interesting idea & cool game! I found it difficult to judge where the package will land, a shadow (straight below) the balloon/package would be nice :)
Really nice entry! One thing that confused me was that the obstacles and the collectibles have exactly the same color, it took me a couple tries until I stopped bumping into random objects trying to collect them.
Also the green deposit place confused me for a bit. Now that I've played for a bit I think it only works if you have enough gems collected, but at first I though I was just missing it or it was bugged. Maybe it should have some indication. :)
Interesting story & concept. Aside from confusing UI/controls that others have mentioned I see 1 problem with the game:
The way you play the game at the moment is you send the signal from one tower to the next one by one. This means that it doesn't really matter that the bouys control multiple towers since you only care about the tower you currently are going to shoot from.
Maybe you could make it so that when you send the signal it immediately goes through all of them. Then it would turn it into a classic "Lights Out" game!
Also I see you there, Mr. "Button" :smile: crab_button.png
@unkilledshadow135-alex Haha, it's in the very first tutorial screen with the text explanations :)
Really interesting concept! I love the feeling of moving on the rig through the desert.
There's not much to do however while its traveling. Maybe you could take inspiration from "Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime" and be able to walk up to a turret and take control of it!
Nice color palette & graphics, but maybe the king's cart blends in with the background too much - took me a while until I noticed it was there :smile:.
It was strange that the attack key was on z - I would either have to keep my right hand under my left hand using WASD, or be forced to play with the arrow keys.
The flying level was definitely the most interesting for me as the cart moved and I was forced to move with it, maybe the cart could also move on the other levels (like drive horizontally).
Also with most enemies coming from above you it would be nice if you would have a vertical attack (like in Hollow Knight).
Nice game & great art. But really unintuitive controls, almost game up at the menu after 2 mins of pressing all keys on the keyboard :smile: Also strange that you have to press up to activate a lever.
Fun game! You should attach screenshots so more people would play it :smile:
I think moving drone around the cave is too easy, maybe it would be more fun if it was physics based where it would drift a little after you release your input.
Also I pressed space in the middle of delivering and lost the package, maybe you should remove the ability to accidently drop things, or turn it into a mechanic where you can grab stuff and throw it at enemies :smile:
Great game, I wish I could see the level first otherwise I don't really know what to build at first.
Wow really creative game mechanic & fun levels. The only small feedback that I could give is that its a little bit annoying having to hover the mouse over a car to know what packages it's holding. Would be nice to see them all at once all the time so its easier to strategize.
Maybe you could have the packages in the trunks of the car and the packages could be color coded. Something like this :smile:
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Really awesome art style! I was confused for like 2 minutes until I tried clicking the right mouse button (ye I know you put it in the description, I'm guilty!). One problem for me is that that the constant left clicking is starting to hurt my wrist :smile: :skull:
Nice game! Here some feedback:
- Currently the optimal strategy is when picking up an item immediately start building another one (E + Space) which doesn't require any thinking or strategy. I would be cool if there were more opportunities to think strategically. Perhaps the items could expire (like food overcooks in Overcooked) if you leave them too long - There door to the outside is not very obvious, took me like 2 minutes poking at random stuff until I found I can go outside :smile:
- The description says don't deliver a bomb, but the game asks to deliver a bomb.. I'm confused :D
- Also I'm no game design expert (and definitely not a pixel artist :smile: ), but heres some feedback from my play session. All the things that had me confused for ~1 minute each. And comparing it to overcooked confusion.png
All in all I think it would be great if it was more obvious what I can and can't do. If a box is for decoration - place it behind a wall so I definitely know I can't do anything with it
If there is a door - make some light shine though it, add some arrow, have npcs walk through it :D
Chaining multiple balloon dashes feels really good!! But its really hard to get to them, and doesn't feel like the optimal strategy if you want to deliver as many disks (cuz it takes so long to get to them). I wish it was because its the most fun part of the game :smile:
Interesting control mechanic that I've never seen before! Maybe instead of having to pause & unpause for each action, you could remove the button all together and automatically pause the game while the mouse is down and you're choosing your trajectory.
Nice idea! The rocks and cactuses we're a little unintuitive, I though the train would hit them when transitioning.
Maybe instead of the whole train transitioning at once you could create a rail between 2 tracks and each wagon would switch at that location. This way your whole train wouldn't teleport through rocks and cactuses :smile:
Incredible game! Need more levels :smile:!! Only small issue is the part where the camera starts scrolling between screens, it goes quite fast and its hard to aim with the mouse and do anything during it. I'd prefer if the camera would just always follow the player scrolling slowly.
GG can't wave dash. No but seriously an incredible game :smile:, one small thing: idk if I'm just bad or if crouch throw (to put a box in place) does not always work.
Nice entry, but at the moment the flapping mechanic is not very engaging. There's no obstacles so you can just always spam jump without thinking.
@skelleroznik good catch on the UI blocking the most important area of the screen! :smile: I'll have to think about moving it somewhere else.
@spacespytv @rincs @blank-3d Thank you for the great suggestions, I'll definitely have a go with them for a post jam release! :D
@resacagames Haha, yeah I should definitely ease out the difficult so people could learn the mechanics in peace and just admire the marbles :smile:
Holy moly! So much great feedback, never expected this from my first Ludum Dare game :smile: I've improved on some of the most frequent issues and **release a new IMPROVED version!** While also keeping the original jam version available.
@b4ux1t3 Thanks glad you enjoyed it!
@nozomu57 I got a lot of great feedback about the camera angle and the shadow not being visible. I was able to make the regular view higher and also more down turned so you can see the shadow in the middle of the screen. I think this is a great improvement!
Also I reduced the initial difficulty by a lot so more people could enjoy the wonders of marbles :smile: While having the difficulty exponentially increase later on in the game for sweaty gamers like me :)
@klausklapper Haha thank you so much. Lots of great suggestions! I'm really considering making a full version of the game after the jam, I've really enjoyed the development and it seems others like it too :D
@archaeognathus Glad you liked it. I agree the claw can be hard to hit sometimes. I've increased the hitboxes so it's easier too aim. It's satisfaction we're looking for not frustrating claw gameplay Haha :D
@welsharess @norah Thanks for playing!! :)
Also after watching a couple of people play it (Huge thanks to @rincs and @spacespytv), I noticed other common issues, so I added better feedback when you do something wrong, I added range indicators for towers, and made the Satisfaction meter less ambiguous.
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Thanks for all the feedback! Great score @djtequila !!
@rekkorize Let's just say I might have something cooking in the summer :smile:
@rickylee holy shit WTF?????????????????? :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile:
@f1krazy Thanks for playing, the key is to unlock the paint cannons by throwing the black marbles in the black container up top!
Then you can grab them with the claw and position them anywhere around the map to help you out :smile:
Really fun collecting the crops and drifting on the fields! It would be cool if more stuff was destructible, I found myself getting stuck on tiny things many times :D
Just played the jam & post jam versions. Great improvements, I really like the added telegraphing to the shoot mechanic and faster respawning. One thing is that the fist that land should definitely be targetable, it feels really weird that they are not.
Probably the first horror game that I got past the menu screen - all for the sake of LD53 :smile: Thankfully the demon was chill about it, maybe you could add a more engaging mechanic to defeat it (maybe it could move and you would need to track it with the mouse). All in all really awesome!
mr. developer, my wrist hurts :)
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28 definitely doable, I lost a couple seconds due to pathing. Will try again after hand recovers.
Awesome overall feel! One thing from the side of gameplay is that I found myself just always holding the brake down - it slows the game down and running out of fuel is never a problem. It would be nice if you could find a way to fix it :smile:
Fun game mechanic & nice game! The robots turn the corners really quickly so its sometimes a little frustrating when you feel like you know the solution but cant precisely position behind the box before they turn on you in like 1 millisecond :smile:
10/10 game!
Here's my 0 death run :smile:
https://youtu.be/RkpaFqbcLZQ
Also PLEASE add a restart button, you always have to alt+f4 & go to fullscreen everytime you want to reset.
I was made aware that I got the WR during the Score Chasers Tournament. So here it is :smile:
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I saw you also made a game about a claw like me and had to click :smile: Great work for it being your first 3D Godot game! Completing the packages is fun, but sometimes the parts I need never come.
Fun game & great esthetic. I think it could benefit from more simple arcade style controls - more snappy, faster turning, no roll control (could be adjusted automatically), easier recovery when you hit things / get stuck. Right now it feels like I'm controlling a NASA mission :smile:
Really awesome concept & game, brought me in for quite a while :smile:. But it seems like in a lot of instances the maps are unbeatable no matter what you do.
Very hard and then very easy once you learn it. Very fun apart from the QoL stuff :)
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Fun idea with opposing objectives :D Screenshot 2023-10-03 202214.png
Screenshot 2023-10-10 231532.png Don't know if related to my username, but my leaderboard position is reset every run lol (even with worse score).
@jadener I'm really glad you liked it! We're considering turning this into a full game (mobile probably)! The song is called "You Tried" by "Eggy Toast", it's really hard to find, but you can see it here (7th one): https://freemusicarchive.org/music/eggy-toast/redaction :smile:
Hey @aerial don't know where's the best place to write you, but I was interested if you could share your flying strategy for the "Squeeze & Wiggle" game (as your streamable video is down). I'm able to reproduce the bug some of the time, but not consistently enough for <1 min run. Thanks :D
Leaderboard would be nice, hard to tell what is a good score :) Ussssntitled.png
Spin to Win!
intended behavior, nothing to see here aaaUntitled.png
I like the art style! I had the same problem as @owca - staring at the symbols most of the time.
Very fun, but took me awhile to figure out what I'm supposed to do. Maybe include the controls/objective in the description :D
very epic, very nice Screenshot 2024-04-20 235418.png
@hyan just fixed :)
@nestral gigachad
@storeyware thanks for playing! I usually do crosses like this:
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Also you can kill the lasers with a line!
@0x0961h Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah I'd definitely consider a full release if people like it :D
@0x0961h Yeah better background is definitely a good idea!
@joeshanahan I didn't even think about a drawing tablet when developing! But now I've heard about it from multiple people :D
@parkuhrmd Thanks! Really enjoyed seeing you figuring it out :D
@sariiger Yeah stars are definitely tough, I added some hints for the shapes :)
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@enreh glad you enjoyed it! Did you do drawing tablet or mouse? :D
@rickylee average shape enjoyer shape_enjoyer.png
@typicalkin windowkill was definitely one of the biggest inspirations :D that game is goated
@yakkocmn that's an insane score for not looking at the hints :O
@jorbits nice attempt, I'll be updating the post jam version later today so you can try it out :)
@yogurtthehorse @13x666 I appreciate it haha! I was amazed by your pixel art especially the spell animations :D
@icxon Great attempt! I see you struggled with the cross. The hint image might be helpful :)
@rickylee @jorbits @typicalkin @yakkocmn @javid-ladhani @broccolly @typicalkin calling all top players! New post-jam boss rush with **5 boss fights** in increasing difficulty! And a new boss leaderboard!
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@dalloner Haha that game came out before I was born, the casting mechanic does look really nice tho! :D
@yogurtthehorse wtf thats crazy :D
@nestral @trux @0x0961h @joeshanahan @parkuhrmd @dreamscale @digitaliliad @amarokczukay @mantsje @enreh @rickylee @typicalkin @yakkocmn @broccolly @konstantinreed @jorbits @yogurtthehorse @13x666 @snowdrama @braktheman @euler-moises @koolruz @amberfall92 @jerem-watts @ategon @thebooksnail @jvdwijk @itsboats @thunderchief @dalloner
Thank you everyone so much for playing and giving amazing feedback. I have decided to continue the development for a full release - more drawing tools, upgrades, bosses and... pain-t. Now with a new name!
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Again thank you so much and keep **pain**-ting!!!
Hey @avi !
I used a custom solution for recognition, which is based of a video/code by Sebastian Lague - "How to Create a Neural Network".  I do the following: 1. The user draws a shape which is made out of points connected with lines. 2. Then after the drawing is done, I normalize the point positions: scale all the points to fit in a 1x1 square. 3. I rasterize the points and lines into a 28x28 black and white image. *This is done by running a pixel to line distance algorithm for each pixel & line of the drawing and mapping that to a color. This is best done using Compute Shaders but had to use CPU for WebGL version :/* 4. I then use the image as inputs to a Convolutional Neural Network (from the above example).  *There was a special case with lines as if you draw a line along the horizontal/vertical axis, when normalized the horizontal/vertical imperfections will be very exaggerated and can look like another shape. If small width/height of the drawing is detected it assumes it's a line an no further classification is done.* I got a FAQ with more technical questions on the discord if you're interested :)
Awesome game and interesting puzzles! At first I was confused about the summoning mode, I think it could always be active since you never want to have it disabled. :)
Osu for non weebs :D
very epic, big fun :sunglasses:
@daivyishere spawn camping when I haven't even uploaded my game yet LUL
@desibragg it's for the aerodynamics :nerd:
@tetracold haha, thank you so much! You know figuring out movie maker took me way too long :joy:
@drinlan WOW, thats by far the fastest time I've seen for the first attempt (I'd say it usually takes at least 30 mins the first time to get used to the mooovement)! That last cow is quite hidden so I've made it much easier to find in the ... *(prepare for the amazing segue)*
Post Jam Build Out Now! Has **full game & individual level leaderboards** in 3 categories **(100%, any%, genocide%)** for the taking! (Also a bunch of QOL additions including level select)
Including other mooovers that might be interested :) @tubadude99 @tetracold @parzivalvulpine @osh-studio @benjamin
@empyreans thats awesome! Legend :sunglasses:
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grapling.png yippy grappling hooks! tho I wish RMB pull didn't slow you down.
Yes I do wanna play more animal well please! Pretty fun, tho I was hopping to find some sequence breaking skips like in animal well, but it felt pretty linear, idk maybe I'm just too stoopid to find them. :)
really fun when it works, but it was really difficult to know why stuff works or doesn't work. still have no idea what's the proper way to connect stuff, was mainly copying the screenshots and changing a couple of things :D