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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | Depths | 👥 | The Retreat | jam | 195 | 3.85 | 3.79 | 2.93 | 2.70 | 3.70 | 3.62 | 4.16 | |
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | Summoner's Chess | compo | 105 | 3.72 | 3.74 | 4.03 | 3.47 | 2.97 | 2.66 | 2.98 | 3.13 | |
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | A Little Bit Of Everything | jam | 581 | 3.52 | 3.78 | 3.16 | 3.99 | 2.68 | 3.38 | 3.29 |
The controls are super confusing, I think we probably shouldn't be able to rotate the player? It's kind of hard to tell what the objective is before the first couple of platforms as I inevitably end up stuck on my side or flying to my death.
Super spooky, but super easy to get stuck outside the track!
There's a really interesting core mechanic here and the experiments form a really nice tutorial. I was temporarily stuck when attempting to open the warp core (I kept running to read the EULA etc. but ran out of time a couple times, this made me think that it was an easter egg/joke so I walked around to try other things).
The final puzzle was also far more simple than I expected, which slowed me down a little as I suspected I was missing something more complex. The nature of the game also makes you rush read everything, which can make you overlook details in the story. It would also be great if there as an audio cue when a terminal locked/unlocked something, as this isn't always clear.
I also expected the mirrors to play a larger role, but it seems they're only vital in the tutorial sections.
In all, great work!
Interesting game this, though I eventually got stuck as I was unable to open the red and green doors at the bottom.
Great use of the theme and a nice atmosphere. Some of the hit boxes could probably be more forgiving, as it was perhaps too hard to pick up the smaller items and I lost a couple times because I dropped food on the monster's head rather than their mouth.
Interesting idea, would be great to have other things to do with employees rather than just fixing cracks. An increased difficulty would be nice too. Great job!
Really nice looking game, especially a fan of the explosions. Would be nice to have some progression between the waves, as I only seemed to encounter one type of enemy.
Also, I think there's a bug when changing the audio levels, as the explosions always seemed to be super loud.
Nice work!
Really nice portal-like game with a really cool use of the theme. I experienced some graphical issues with the teleporting and some of the light effects (big white artifacts), but these might be system dependent (I was running the embedded version on simmer.io, in Brave, on Pop!_OS, with an RTX 3080).
Really awesome prototype, it would be really great to see a more refined version. It would also be great if we could delete counters, set priority, add walls etc. This idea has a lot of potential. Nice job!
Really cool concept, with the elements for a really nice story. Controls are a bit tricky, both in picking up the stories you want and ensuring that they stay in place once played. Perhaps the 3D objects should become 2D objects when placed on the page?
I hope you continue to develop this!
Awesome idea nicely executed, well done!
I wasn't initially sure what I was doing tbh, but eventually I think I worked it out. There's definitely an interesting idea here, and it looks great.
Really nice idea, level difficulty seems a bit too random, but I had fun!
Solid game and a really neat idea, more please!
Such an awesome idea, great job!
Oh dang that's a lotta cats
Really nice little puzzle game, nice job!
This is a really awesome prototype, I'd love to see it developed further.
Neat little space trader game with a nice use of the jam theme. Great job!
Neat little game! Definitely a bit too dark, but the core gameplay is pretty fun. Nice work!
Brilliant idea this, and great use of the theme. The polka was also a nice touch. Having the number of engineers change over time was perfect.
Super cool idea, wish I had a Fitbit to run it on!
Solid combination discovery game, with a really nice look and feel.
I also encountered the same bug as @kromeboy when trying playing a restarted game.
Very visually appealing and strong gameplay loop. Mini-bosses and an end goal would be nice additions, as I eventually powered up enough to be effectively unkillable.
Nice work!
The art style in this is really nice, real children's story book painting feels.
Really interesting idea and art style here, but I wasn't able to progress very far into it. Perhaps a hint system is needed?
Interesting survival/story game, the interaction mechanics are really nice. Great job!
I really like the idea here, but there were a few bugs such as health not refreshing on some restarts and I wasn't sure if speed running against a wall was supposed to let you climb it.
It would be great if we could preview the level before picking the powers, otherwise the first run is a guess.
Escape is also not the best choice of menu button, as it'll first exit full screen mode.
In all, some minor issues but a great jam game.
Looks and plays great, a little slow-paced with progression but really good experience in all. Nice job!
Like @spacecadet it took me a couple tries to get started. Perhaps the initial panel should be removed or some form of hint given to start the ball rolling?
Once I got into the flow, the game became a really nice balance between keeping the cultist alive and solving the puzzles.
Really awesome idea!
Really solid entry!
Enemy projectiles are a little hard to see, and the initial voice over isn't muted if you press 'Audio Off'.
Otherwise, great stuff!
Really nice feel to this game, controls nicely too. A rotation direction indicator may be nice, I kept forgetting which way the world rotated..!
Really nice little game, great job!
Nice little Papers Please style game, perhaps more difficult errors (such as differences in the watermarks) could be included too?
Neat idea, looks really nice. Aiming seems a little tricky, is it impacted by player movement?
Great work!
Awesome mood and a neat idea, nice job!
Really unique idea, nice work!
This is a really really great idea, it definitely needs more content but you've done really well with the time available.
It would also be great to visually see when a room is about to be destroyed (even if it just flashes red or something).
I hope you keep working on this, as I'd love to play a fleshed out version!
Neat little game, I love that the directional hints are temporary - it stopped me getting totally lost and from just staring at the arrow. Nice work!
Interesting use of numbers for controlling the direction and a solid little puzzle. The woods section feels a bit too big, and the game is way too short. Great work in all!
Everything is great here, especially the voice acting.
Really great work, looks and play awesomely!
The gameplay isn't super clear, I got pretty far just by spamming the left-most option - but the game looks great.
I really love the art style for this, my music less so!
Neat concept, the old man game is a hilarious idea. Some instructions weren't visible long enough for me to read them, but each played nicely. Great job!
Funky little game, nice job!
This is pretty good, the shooting feels nice and the push-back is a great touch. Occasionally enemies seemed to spawn outside of the map, but that's a nit-pick for a jam game. Great work!
Really cool game, intro art is awesome and the gameplay and idea are really nice. Great job!
You've created a really pleasant idle game here, I'm particularly a fan of the use of emoji.
Having "speed" and "velocity" stats is a little odd, as velocity is just speed with a direction (I think?). Perhaps they should be "movement speed" and "attack speed"?
Great job!
Interesting take on the Reigns concept, I also saw the NaN issue.
I also can't seem to place my units after they're purchased. This was with the web version in both Brave and Firefox.
I really like the overarching escape/chase theme and the twist for the final few levels. Occasionally I would fly off and die on things without any clear explanation, but retries were speedy so those deaths didn't get too annoying.
Great job, the audio adds a really nice touch.
Really interesting idea, nice job!
Super spooky, I love it!
Really interesting idea, nice job!
Nice take on the theme, the music changing speed is a great touch.
Really interesting idea, and well executed. But I eventually completed the levels I enjoyed (water and jungle) and was left with the more frustrating ones (snow and robots). I also got stuck with 5/6 in the robots level, perhaps an enemy was killed as the levels were being switched? The switches can also be a real pain, I often found myself ruining a snow level jump because I'd pressed jump on the previous level.
Love the art style!
Really nice look and feel, not clear what the end goal is and I couldn't figure out why my gun type kept switching. Really nice overall.
This changed my life, I will never be the same again.
Really novel idea, I love the way you introduce WASD as the controls.
You've created a really nice office microcosm here, nice job!
Couple small bugs to highlight. The game failed to load in Brave, but was fine in Firefox. It also seems that diagonal movement is faster than going purely up/down/left/right, are directional velocities being combined?
Great game in all!
Really awesome auto chess game, I wanted to keep playing after five rounds!
Really cool concept this, I'd love to see more. My only issue was that it's super easy to select a city or reject a trade because the scene changes between me starting and ending a button press. Having different controls for each scene, or not allowing inputs as a scene is changing would probably fix that.
Really cool vibe to this game, everything works together really well.
Really solid gameplay loop here, and everything looks great. Nice work!
This is nuts, I love it
Strong core game here, nice job!
Really awesome nostalgic feel to this, nice job!
Nice stuff, I really liked having to switch between hover and double-jump between day and night to solve the final puzzles.
Nice little platformer, great art style, and great use of the theme. Well done!
Character feels a bit slow and floaty, but the level design and idea are really great - nice job!
Looks great, but a bit confusing to play. Sometimes I can break stones to get blue things back and sometimes I can break the purple ones to do more damage? It's not clear why I can't do this sometimes though.
Fun little game, nice job!
Great idea this, with a nice look and feel to it. Would be great if you could switch world on demand, but I guess the theme prevented that!
Awesome work!
Loving the voice acting and visuals. The mouse sensitivity was insanely high for me and I got stuck on the ORB OF FREEDOM. Would love to see more!
Nice idea, I struggled a little with the drag and drop. Great work!
Really awesome stuff, everything ties together nicely. Eventually the difficulty plateau'd, so perhaps there should be a hard goal to win? Nice job!
Your itch.io link doesn't work, is that page not published?
@maxthedoom No worries! You've made a nice game here, I like the use of the theme to switch up the offensive and defensive abilities. Nice job!
Nice little platformer, great job!
Nice idea, suitably spooky - well done!
I love that time only ticks down when moving, the controls also feel super smooth.
One small bug: sound effect volume seems to reset to max when the restart button is pressed.
Nice work!
This game looks great, but I encountered the same movement bug that @shimmerscale mentioned. In both Brave and Firefox (on Pop!_OS), the player only moves a little bit then gets stuck in corridors. There's also a pink box around the player which isn't present in the images in your description.
Brave:
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Firefox:
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Neat little wave shooter, gameplay feels really solid.
This is an interesting take on a first person runner/platform. The visuals are really nice, though made me a little cross-eyed after a while. The tutorial was also a nice addition, though it was possibly a little too verbose. It would also be nice to see the full sequence of collapsing colours in the level, rather than just the next colour.
In all great job, I hope you'll continue to expand this in the future!
Really nice little platform puzzler, great job!
This game looks and sounds really awesome, but I fairly quickly hit a repetitive loop. It would be great if there was an FTL style goal, perhaps with branching paths, to provide some progression across jumps.
Really great jam game!
This game has a really funky feel to it and lots of nice little touches. I wonder if adding side dashes and power ups might be interesting for the two player mode?
Neat little game! More puzzle variety would be a great addition. Nice work!
Looks great, I really like the vibe - nice job!
Great use of the theme, this is a nice escape room experience.
Great puzzle design, I really like the mechanic of keeping items between resets. More checkpoints might be nice, it depends how difficult you're aiming for the game to be. Really nice art style too.
Interesting game, nice job!
Really interesting platformer this, though eventually the times between checkpoints become a bit too unforgiving for my tastes.
Great job!
Really strong entry, looks great, sounds great. Nice job.
I just wish I wasn't so bad at it!
Great idea, but I wasn't very good at getting the sword swinging consistently.
Strong funky disco mood to this, which works perfectly. It can be difficult to work out which colours are good/bad at each section, perhaps an indicator is needed? Nice job!
Nice little idea, controls are a little tricky (perhaps mouse scroll could change your spell?). Perfect music. Great job!
This game looks great, but I'm not sure how it fits the theme.
Straight-forward wave shooter, great job!
Really smooth transitions between the three worlds, I love that the enemy models change along with the music and level. Nice job!
Interesting idea, with a strong art style. Nice job!
Great little game, I love the changing stats.
Really fun game with a great idea behind it, looks and sounds awesome - five stars!
There's a strong design choice here and some solid gameplay.
I think there's a bug in the bullet audio, as it only seems to be in the left channel.
Nice job!
Really interesting experience, solidly built. Confused af, but that's probably the intention?
Really cool aesthetics, nice work!
Interesting platformer, nice job!
Cool concept, but the feedback is a little unclear. I was never sure if the areas I chose to shoot were correct or not, eventually the monsters got in but I've no idea how I could've prevented it.
@ofthebrand No worries, I think it's primarily because the lightning reveal is showing a mixture of monster position and whether you hit them - but that puts a lot of information on the screen and its not clear what constitutes a hit or a miss. Perhaps hits and misses need a specific audio or colour? Or they should be revealed a second before the monster positions are?
I get the "Failed to read the 'serviceWorker' property" error in the Ludum Dare embeddings, but the itch one works perfectly.
This is an interesting prototype, I'd like to see where future development takes it. Nice work!
Cute take on the theme, and really nice movement confusion puzzle game.
I agree with @rob6566 that I'd like to have seen the movement keys all the time.
Cool idea this, and nicely put together.
Neat little FPS wave shooter, nice job!
Really game combination of ideas. Difficulty might need some scaling, as I eventually started to one-shot everything before it got onto the screen. The narration is also a really nice touch.
Best use of the 10 second reset idea I've seen so far. Gameplay and movement also feels super smooth. Nice job!
Nice concept, well put together. It can be fairly difficult to work out which wrestler you are, especially after you've been picked up. Perhaps the player should be a totally different colour vs. the other wrestlers. Great job!
There's a good basis for a game here, but I couldn't work out if the audio was intentionally spatial. At first I was heading towards the music but I never found anything. It reminds me of when I accidentally use a AudioStreamPlayer2D node rather than a AudioStreamPlayer node in Godot.
I look forward to future development!
Great little platformer, with the perfect sound effects. Nice work!
Really quirky take on the theme, great stuff!
Great idea and the music works perfectly, I never realised the platforms switched when you jumped as @relick mentioned - I thought they were on an odd timer..!
Really solid game with a great retro feel to it. Nice job!
I really love your take on the mini game concept, awesome work!
Real quirky idea this, I like what you're going for. Nice job!
There's an interesting idea here, I'd like to see it taken further.
The direction and speed you travel when leaving an item seems a bit too random, and the timer should probably reset to 10 if you exit early.
Great stuff, suitably spooky!
I'm really loving the look and feel of this game, nice job!
Great little game, but right click doesn't seem to fire the 6th upgrade.
Really interesting idea, though the time bug made this impossible (too little time) on the LD embedded version (I played on the itch version instead, where there was *just* enough time. Really nice art style too, great job!
Interesting idea, but seems a bit too tricky. Selecting ingredients also seemed a bit laggy. Great job for a jam game though!
Really cool take on a maze game, with nice progression between the levels. Each maze was a bit long for my liking, but that's probably personal preference. The audio also perfectly set the mood.
The sound effects are brilliant and the game is solid, great job!
Nice little game this, I really like the fireball effects. Perhaps different enemies should use a colour-shifted version of those? Or perhaps different planes should have different fireballs? Would love to see more from this!
Novel idea, nicely put together!
@shadowcast Nice spot with the flag-off-screen bug, I've just fixed that issue and will push an update to itch after this jam has ended. Thanks!
A definitive post-jam version is now in itch.io with more levels, more polish, and fewer bugs: https://mattravenhall.itch.io/a-little-bit-of-everything/devlog/443992/postjam-update
Big fan of this, a really creative take on the theme and executed brilliantly. Nice job!
Nice idea well executed, well done!
Looks great, sounds great, great job!
Great little jam game, the scrap for floor mechanism wasn't super clear at first but once I got my head around that it all came together. Nice job!
Really solid spooky wave shooter. Clicking upgrades is sometimes a little non-responsive, and enemies an spawn in undodgeable locations. But these are just fine-tuning points. Great work!
Great little game. It should be nice to know what changed for each colour. Also changing mid air can get a little frustrating!
Great job!
Interesting idea, nice job!
Really great game, and it feels super smooth to play.
One small bug, I fell through the rising platform on the last level whilst blind.
The banana gun sound effects were amazing, make that side effect more common please!
Managed to get 196 before the patterns started to clip over the edge of the screen.
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Really nice little game this, more pattern variation would be nice and fairly easy to add. Great job!
You've built a really nice atmosphere here, particularly I love that the audio is impacted by the black holes. I'm also a fan of the black holes being hard to see, they are black holes after all!
The checkpoint marker should probably stay up for longer, and there seem to be gaps between them which were impossible to bridge without getting wiped out by a pulse.
Great game!
Really solid bullet hell game, great job!
Interesting use of the theme, well executed. My only suggestion would be making it clearer what each age's ability does.
Neat game this, the combat mechanics feel really good but cat movement could be a little smoother. It would also be good if there were a simple audio or visual indicator that popped up to indicate the newest event. Great job!
Really great idea, nicely put together. I have a new found appreciation for sheepdogs. Great work!
Intriguing idea, and it looks really great.
Cute game with a really cool idea behind it. Really great job!
Little confused by this game, but I did manage to beat it. At first I thought that the actions of one frog would impact the other (e.g. unlocking a door would keep it open for the others) but each change is actually a refresh?
Nice puzzle with a neat solution once I'd got my head around it!
Super hard, but very nicely put together.
Really solid game this, love it - well done! Only refinement might be making the bomb a little easier to move.
Neat little set of mini games. A scoring system would be a nice addition. Great work!
Fun little platformer, nice job!
I love this approach to storytelling, and the visuals are really good.
Neat little escape/puzzle game, I encountered a couple softlocks but I think there's potential here.
Great start here, visuals are nice and the core mechanic works. I was able to rack up a bunch of points by just standing at the side, so perhaps the meteors should head towards the player? Great work!
Really chill game this, nicely done.
It would be nice to have more indicators of direction, pen location, and number of sheep remaining. Perhaps more landmarks too? The lake was my main navigation aid.
Winning was a little disappointing, as I was met with the black rectangle.
All in all, a really chill experience.
This game doesn't seem to have been created for this game jam?
The rune placing mechanic is interesting, but not super intuitive - you have to hold space, then a letter and then let that letter go before the bar completes. I'm assuming that different runes have different abilities and different amounts of holding change their strength (i.e. hold longer, get stronger, but hold too long, get nothing).
A couple tutorials levels, or just a 'how to play' slide would be great for explaining how the summoning works.
All in all, a nice compo entry - well done!
Neat looking game with a really nice movement effect on the main unit. Nice work!
There's an interesting idea here, but I'm not sure how much of the full game I experienced as some stuff was fairly unclear.
This game feels like a push-your-luck idle game, but the risk isn't clear and the timer suggests I need to be actively keeping an eye on when the 'Next' button is clickable.
Re. risks: It feels like the choice or how and whether to train is a risk I need to decide on, but I've no idea how much of a risk I'm taking because it's not clear what impact training has. It's also not clear why I would take longer and less likely training option - as it only adds 0.02 more onto the multiplier but fails fairly frequently?
Re. idle game or not. The combat itself feels like an idle game, but there's a timer so I can't idle. There's also no indication, so far as I can tell, of enemy health. That means combat mostly just involves waiting for the 'Next' button to no longer be greyed out.
On the combat specifically, the feedback during fights wasn't totally clear to me, am I receiving damage or not? I don't seem to be receiving damage, but am able to recruit a healer mid-journey. The damage pop-ups also overlap, making them super hard to read.
Adding recruits is a nice idea, it would be great to be able to rename them. It also wasn't immediately obvious that I needed to equip them.
The failure state is also unclear, as when the "Reach the capital" timer hit zero, nothing happened. Had I not lost at that point?
All in all, a really nice idea with an ambitious goal. Nice work!
Such a funny concept, really nice twist on the minigame style. Nice work!
Really cool concept and visually awesome. More levels would've been great, especially a couple simple ones as mini-tutorials. Extending the concept into other foods would also be pretty cool. Nice job!
Really cool to see another chess-inspired game. I love your art style and the use of cards to summon the new pieces.
@frozenfire92 Sign me up for any updates you make to the game!
Does ticking the "SharedArrayBuffer support" box on the itch backend allow the embedding to work? This is the fix I used for my entry. (nb. this doesn't fix the LD embedding).
Nice little wave shooter with an odd twist on enemy vulnerability. As I understood it, enemies could only be damaged when vulnerable (flashing green) and maybe when aggressive (flashing red). This occasionally meant some dead air when waiting for the last enemy to become vulnerable. Perhaps there's a way to make them vulnerable, if so I didn't work out what it was.
Good start to a nice game, well done!
Really solid concept and nicely put together - great work!
Really fun use of the summon idea, great job!
Is falling down holes supposed to kill the player? As I was still able to move around off screen.
Really cool idea to have the game be Twitch-based, and the art style and animations fit perfectly.
The game also works pretty well as a solo experience, I wonder if it would be a bit of a mess with multiple people making multiple summons?
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It's nice to see a wave shooter that has a goal (in this case taking the bones to the portal). Having an arrow point to the portal location would be a nice little addition.
Great job!
Really nice platformer, nice job!
It would be nice to occasionally move both characters are once to reduce the amount of repetition - or perhaps there could be slightly different paths for the human and cat character?
You also did a great job at gradually introducing the mechanics.
You've got a really interesting idea here, took me a while to work out the mechanics but once I got there it was really good. I'd love to see more abilities with more combos.
Great work!
Nicely put together and looks great. The fireballs are a bit unsatisfying as enemies often jump out of an attack that's pretty hard to time effectively. Faster fireballs might be the solution. I also like that the fireball directions are upgrades, but perhaps the player should be able to pick their starting direction?
Great work!
Really neat idea and nicely presented! Using cards to summon minions is a nice twist on the format. It's a shame about the shared enemy health bug, but it wouldn't be a jam if we didn't have a few bugs. :)
Really really cool idea, but I felt like the storyline was far more on railroads than I was expecting. I'd assumed that good/bad decisions would lead to good/bad endings, but eventually realised that not taking the 'kill everything' route just looped me back to the start.
If the intention is to force people into bad decisions, there's probably a more subtle way to do that. For example, there could be a health meter that only refills when you destroy or sacrifice things. Alternatively, it would be nice to have paths that rewarded the non-destructive decisions to avoid the game feeling like a story where the narrator tells is telling me off for not picking their choice.
Great job in all, nice job!
Quirky idea, nice job!
You're built a really cool experience here, especially the introduction and the gradual unravel of the mechanics. Awesome stuff!
Cool idea, nice use of the theme - nice work!
Very atmosphere and super compelling, I only wish there was more of it! Great job!
Really cool art style, it grabbed my attention immediately. Mechanics work really well, though it would be nice to know whether an effect will be impacted by the "+2 to the next die" effects, as it doesn't seem to increase the number of skipped turns for example. Perhaps a warning should be added when a dice will have no effect?
I also encountered a bug where the combat froze. I killed an enemy whilst the remaining enemy had a skipped turn.
Really love this, it's a nice solid choose-your-battle game. Left me wanting more enemies, items, etc.
This would also make a really great side event or debug mode for a larger game.
Nice job!
Neat take on the combo summoning idea, nice work! Maybe I'm missing something but I could only seem to summon things in Endless mode, the same combinations did nothing in Story mode.
You've create a really nice atmosphere with your entry, but I agree that the speed starts too slow and also went for the speed increases every time.
Great work!
You've built a really cute little world here, and the movement feels really good. I'm not sure whether there's a bonus for catching all four types of creatures or not, as the leaderboard seems to just record the time you take to get back to the food?
Also managed to top the leaderboard, so obviously that increases my fun rating! haha
Really cool idea and nicely put together. I felt my brain expanding as I learnt the proper combinations. Great job!
Gah almost did it, but got stuck on a tricky pattern! Perhaps three failures should cause a new pattern to be required?
Really nice use of 2.5D and really well put together - nice work!
@bonemane Thanks! The LD website still struggles with Godot 4 HTML5 embeddings unfortunately, had no luck debugging it last night.
Glad to hear that the itch version works for you!
@mrventures Thanks! I'd intended to go back and refine the checkers models (they are simple MeshInstance3Ds created right at the start, the chess pieces are proper glfs) but was limited by time! Hopefully they're easy to tell apart when selected (as kinged checker pieces can move backwards).
Balancing the difficulty is something that's always super hard with game jams. In the end I put three super easy levels at the start to allow players to earn points they can use in the much harder levels (e.g. level 7 is vs. four queens). You can also jump right in at level 3, as that's after the tutorial levels.
You can also try jumping straight to those later levels, but you'll start with no points!
@pres2300 Thanks! I had the same thought post-submission about whether people would find the summon shop. It would definitely be the first thing I improve in any future updates.
@locksmitharmy @bassilij @dams333 @stellarnightmare @magnat Thanks for the kind words!
@vasco-freitas I agree that the summon button needs to be a lot clearer, without it you're missing half the game. Thanks for flagging up the early resign bug, I've spotted it before but wasn't able to pin down the cause in time.
@arkadia-5 Definitely agree on the potential for a roguelike spin, I'd initially intended for players to keep and upgrade one team throughout the levels, but ran out of time to fully implement it.
@andrewkennedy Day one of the jam was me discovering more and more edge rules for checkers, but I've not heard of jumping your own pieces before. Definitely something I'd look into for any future development. The AI probably feels random because it mostly currently is, there's some prioritisation for attacks rather than moves but no weighting based on piece type or context. Great job getting to level 5! If you want to beat level 9, I suggest starting at level 8 (which is a basic checkers layout) and using that to farm points for summons in level 9.
@stmate03 I like the idea of each level starting with a certain number of points. Currently you get points for completing levels instead to encourage people to pay all the levels as a campaign, but I wanted to make sure that people could jump into and check out random levels for the jam. Thanks for the feedback!
@argensis Totally agree on the need for a separate summon button. It's also a shame that I didn't get enough time to allow the teams to carry over, ideally I wanted to have a proper between-rounds team customisation screen and team placement at the start of each round. I also share your pain re. the checkers vs. bishops match-up!
@olddog @harmadillo @coderaurus Thanks for the kind words!
@pincushion Thanks for the kind words!
@wouter52 Honestly, balancing the levels and pieces involved some luck and hoping for the best..! And I'm glad you enjoyed the audio, I rushed that together with limited ability - so I'm just glad it's not too awful!
Thanks for everyone for their awesome feedback, I'm super pleased to break the top 100 for both fun and innovation!
The post-jam version (featuring custom matches, a smarter AI, and enhanced visuals) can now be played on [itch](https://mattravenhall.itch.io/summoners-chess)
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Sick piano dude
Really nice take on a peggle-like game!
Neat concept with a nice feeling - great job!
Really nice work - it looks and plays really well. My only issue was not realising the each gem can connect to others. I also made the mistake of spamming out basic rats for ages and not knowing why they weren't stronger.
I think your URL should be "https://gd.games/pythondev/virus-destroyer" not "https://gd.games/pythondev/virus-destroyer!"
You've got an interesting idea here, but the overlap of movement and summoning is a bit too tricky for me.
Looks great, sounds great, great idea, great job!
Really interesting puzzle platformer, great job!
Great game, looks and plays really well. My only issue was that I found myself staring mostly just at the summon panel and repeating the most complicated pattern. It wasn't clear to me what the benefits were to each symbol (I assumed harder = better).
Really neat game with a nice art style. Great job!
I thought I wasn't doing too great, but got 1475!
Reminds me of those typing games from school, you've implemented the input mechanic really nicely.
One thing to try out, perhaps colour-code each input (e.g. W highlighted blue, S red etc.).
An interesting idea really nicely presented, but a little too difficult for me!
This game looks great, but I wish there was more to it!
Nice idea with a cool art style. I wasn't able to find a winning strategy, not sure if it's because the game is super hard or I'm missing something. Nice job!
The look and feel are really great, but I'm confused as to what I'm supposed to do. I can move the blue guys and they seem to take damage from the red guys? Also a lich/wizard appeared at one point?
Cool idea, I love the variety of pieces. I get the feeling that you were hoping for the "mutation" theme!
Solid little pattern game, nice work!
Only issue was that I eventually hit a bug in which my arrow inputs were ignored.
Great little exploration game. The symbols on the bits of map you've visited (but can't immediately see) was a really nice touch.
Your link doesn't seem to work :(
This was a really pleasant experience!
My favourite game of the jam so far, the gameplay feels fresh and the mold growth looks so good! I would love to see a full game using this concept!
I really love the concept, but unfortunately wasn't able to play with Wine on Linux. Would love to play a Linux build if possible!
+1 request for a Linux build, I attempted to play with Wine but the resolution was far too low to be playable. :(
Really interesting game, I particularly liked the button input mechanic.
Really cool atmosphere and nice intuitive controls. Great job!
@twest @harvmori @robobarbie Thanks for the feedback!
@nikita-ivanov I'll share a walkthrough including all the ghostie locations after the jam, so give us a follow if you want to be notified!
@iphen @whysguy52 @pikario @bangkerpow Thanks for the feedback!
@broco Thanks! Yeah we went for a "in the depths of the woods" interpretation of the theme.
@larsievl Thanks for flagging this! There's a trigger that'll cause the ambient noise to fall silent, but prior to that it should loop and wasn't. I'll include that fix in the post-jam version on itch.
I really love the look and feel of this game, but I cannot work out what I'm supposed to be doing.
Love the vibe!
Really cool art style!
No links! :(