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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥉 | 2012 | 24 | Evolution | Microbe Madness! | compo | Fun | 4.15 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Cm | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | Sliceomatic | extra | ||||||||||||
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | LEXICONSTRUCTOR | jam | 69 | 4.02 | 3.97 | 4.15 | 3.31 | 3.54 | 2.78 | |||||
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | Climb | compo | 102 | 3.75 | 3.94 | 3.61 | 3.63 | 2.83 | ||||||
| 2012 | 24 | Evolution | Microbe Madness! | compo | 12 | 4.08 | 4.15 | 3.54 | 4.08 | 4.24 | 3.22 | 3.03 | 3.59 | 57 | ||
| 2011 | 22 | Alone | The Word Alone | compo | 12 | 3.87 | 3.47 | 4.15 | 3.42 | 3.62 | 3.52 | 1.56 | 2.41 | 3.53 | 59 |
If it hadn't been for the comments here I would have hated it.
The first two times I ran the game I couldn't quit aside from killing the process, hah. It wouldn't recognize me pressing the ESC key until I did "run as administrator". So that was kinda painful. Once I read the comments here and figured out what was supposed to happen, I got it to work and then it was cool.
Great game, really fun, and it looks great too. Once you play it for a while you really start to get the flow and it actually has a lot of depth. There's nothing more satisfying than flying into the air, turning into a tank, shooting down an enemy plane, and then turning back into a plane... except for when you do it while doing a backflip, hah :)
My highest score is 5900, but I bet I could pass 6000 or 7000 if I played a little bit more.
Nice game, ran great for me. I think the lettuce adds a lot to the gameplay of the game, rather than just splitting them up, you actually have to try to keep them away from the lettuce as well. The flocking mechanics are interesting, and actually seem quite believable, they really do seem like a bunch of silly flat bunnies hopping around.
Was fun for a bit. The fish swim animation looks nice. I liked it at first, but it got a little too frustrating for my liking later on. The hitboxes on the enemy objects are way too big, I'd often hit something even though I was still a few pixels away from it.
So... it was really pretty fun. The music is the best part imho, really sets the mood. The graphics are crazy, especially in havoc mode. My only issues are that it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the theme... and the actually "get the gem" mechanic is just frustrating rather than fun. Why not have the gem appear in the same spot every time? The way it is right now you have to be completely lucky just to see it and get to it in time. I did finally manage to get it though.
Great game Noel! Love the art, love the feel of the game and the mechanics. Once I got the feel of the grappling hooks, it felt really good. Smart puzzles too, lots of potential here.
Pretty fun. I kinda wish there were enemies or something else to do, I ended up just holding the arrow keys and tapping f a lot. Cool idea though, really like the minimap and the physicsy feel to the whole thing. The fireworks are also a nice touch :)
Great game. I think the writing is actually quite good, especially for a non-native speaker. Using pulsate to make the music was brilliant, it fits the game perfectly.
Nice work, a surprisingly fun game. Having to go all the way back down at the end was actually pretty tricky.
Really nice art, and the story is kinda fun. Not a whole ton of actual "game" here, per se, but it was still entertaining.
Great atmosphere, and it looks really cool. I didn't really know what to do after a few minutes of exploring.
Great little game. I love the style and the fact that it runs at 60fps, it feels very smooth and fluid. The "stay out of the rain" mechanic seems pretty cool, although I never really got hurt at all so I didn't even need to use it.
The end was a little anti-climactic, but it was enjoyable anyway... and I found the secret place, woulda been fun if there was something to do there, hah :)
Fantastic game overall. Super impressive that this was made in only 48 hours. I found the actual gameplay a bit slow/frustrating at some points, but overall a really cool game.
Fantastic game. Great intro, great atmosphere, great everything.
The game did seem really hard at first, but after I realized that the shadow was me, it actually wasn't that hard at all. I just had to remember to pause in certain spots to give myself time to jump over later, etc.
Great game! Probably the best use of the theme I've seen so far. A nice simple mechanic executed well. The Psychotics level took forever for me to clear, hah! :)
Really awesome. There is a *ton* of mood in this game, it reminded me a lot of playing Alan Wake (in a good way). Played it to the end, loved the generator "surprise" (at least, I thought it was surprising).
Strangely enjoyable. I think I was running around town with about 20 people chasing after me. The fighting is kind of horrible (just click a lot), but the rest is fun.
Great puzzle mechanic, and the "put the dogs down" part is hilarious. Really solid game, and it ties the theme in perfectly. Sound was minimal, but even that single sound at the start of the levels really fit in.
Hah, bizarre game. Kinda fun for a little bit, although it never really got difficulty, just kinda kept tapping space.
Great game. I didn't finish it (assuming that's possible), but I played for a little while. The room-moving concept is pretty cool, and I was surprised at how quickly I figured it out.
Great audio and visuals too, really solid.
BlueShaman: thanks for pointing that out, small hit areas bug me too. I swear I made sure they were correct at one point, but I guess I screwed them up somehow later, heh.
Nice game. A little frustrating at times, but I did manage to finish it. I really liked how the platforms themselves had physics and started spinning as I jumped off them.
Great little game. Got both endings pretty quickly.
I think this is a great use of the theme, most games I've seen seem to be just showing someone that's alone or lonely, but yours starts with multiple characters that *end up* alone, rather than starting alone.
Great little game. I thought the mechanic was really smart. I know kibertoad said it's been done before, but seriously there are hundreds of games every LD, it's not like we can expect everyone to play all of them.
The graphics are solid, the lighting is a bit weird but it's not a big deal. Really liked the textures on the blocks and the screen shake when they dropped, gave them a lot of weight. I think there's a lot more polish here than most people are seeing.
Baaaaaallllllinnng
Absolutely gorgeous looking game, I especially love the trees, but the whole thing has tons of style. Shame there isn't more of an actual game here yet, but there's a lot of potential.
Pretty cool. I had a lot of fun just wandering around, but I couldn't really tell what the point was. Nice looking game, the overall style is solid.
Entertaining, although I agree with the others that this breaks some of the jam rules (especially about bringing pre-made assets and all that). Fun, and nice way to twist it so that you're "alone".
I like it.
Pretty cool idea, was a little weird to play, but has a lot of potential. Definitely love the whole shape configurator thing.
Great looking game, and pretty fun too!
This is a neat idea, I think if the upgrades were more often then it'd definitely be pretty fun to play. My game is actually really similar except that you control the units as well as the upgrades.
Nice game, upgrades were well balanced and fun!
Great game! I actually made something really similar (in concept) for the Global Game Jam a few months ago: http://struct.ca/games/cycle/
KInda fun to play for a bit, got a little laggy after a while though.
Pretty sweet, I wish there was a bit more predictability but it's interesting anyway!
Nice game, fun to try out different combinations!
Kinda fun but seems a little too osmos-y. Also I think you might have a memory leak because every time I restart the game runs slower and slower.
Pretty fun to play with, not much of a game though, and the connection to the theme is a bit weak.
This is one of the best uses of the theme I've seen yet. It was a little frustrating, but overall very cool. I managed to get bronze on all the levels, and gold on at least 5 or 6 before I stopped playing.
Great looking game, love how you did the titles.
I managed to complete the game, I didn't understand exactly how my choices would change the future choices, but the shattering destruction of the unpicked choice was a neat effect.
This is fantastic! Since it's a jam entry, there's no source... so any way you could share how you did the ambient occlusion on the cubes? They look really pretty.
Pretty fun to play around with!
Fun game! The gameplay seems super similar to Doodle God, but it does fit the theme really well.
Fantastic game guys! Great art, great gameplay, fit the theme really well too. The really tricky stretch leading up to the ending was balanced just right; it took a few tries but it wasn't impossibly difficult.
This game has absolutely nothing to do with the theme, but it's surprisingly fun to play. I probably spent over 20 minutes playing it, and can now survive for over a minute at a time.
Kinda fun :)
@xhunterko yeah the little guys do change, the problem is that I ran out of time so I didn't get a chance to balance the game properly, so most people either win or lose before the first "evolutionary leap" happens.
If you play the post-compo version, the pacing of the game is a lot better because I actually had time to play it! :) http://struct.ca/games/madness
Pretty fun! It's impressive how you go the flat gameplay and the isometric playthrough both working, that was a really cool approach.
My only complain is that the mouse feels like it's stuck in molasses, which made the whole game a bit more annoying to play. Why use a custom mouse cursor at all?
This is really cool. Uphill is tricky!
Wow this is really good! Love the art, especially the way the bright objects glow in the dark. The way you evolve your senses is neat too. It's *really* hard to find someone edible when you're at the first level, but once I did it was sweet.
@4urentertainment "Having it so that I can see the enemies before they see me would make a great difference."
"I think adding some visual indicator of who is smaller than me and who is bigger is crucial"
If you evolve your senses past the first level you can basically do that! :)
Decent game, pretty fun to play, although I think it might be better without having to flip the pieces at all.
Neat game. Love the rimlit look of the pieces. I think the physics feel a bit too floaty, and it would be good if the players just had a tad more control.
Fun game, a little confusing but seems like it has potential.
This is great! Really smart mechanic and level design. Not sure the music fits the game quite right, but it's still really well made, especially considering the 48 hour timeframe. Solid.
Really like the subtle use of audio between the days. I don't think the game should let you go to sleep when you still have more than $10 worth of stocks though. It was kind of annoying to lose the game just because I didn't have $10 in the bank when I pressed the sleep button (even though I had much more money worth of stocks I could have sold). The log on the left side is a great touch.
I'm not sure why your "score" at the end is your greatest amount of money owned, rather than your total net worth. A player could always sell then re-buy all their stocks every turn if they wanted their true "greatest money owned" to be the highest.
Overall it was enjoyable, gives me that "gotta keep the number going up" feeling like playing a clicker, but more interesting.
So good! I tried to come up with a word game myself starting with the letters "NOTHING" on the board, but didn't even consider randomly generating the words as you draw lines, genius!
The game was incredibly hard until I discovered the reroll rule, which made it stil hard but at least bearable.
At first I thought the game would only give me "everything" if there were no other viable words that fit, but that turned out to not be the case.
I came up with a way to solve it using reroll that was still tricky, but at least got it done pretty quick after that.
Proof: https://i.imgur.com/noIBFO5.png Here was my way to approach the solution (spoilers): I would spell a long word, and then with any E/V/R I would reroll 3 letter words around them until I got EVE or EVER, then turn that into EVERY and extend that to a 10 letter word and hope to get "EVERYTHING". I got "EVERYPLACE" and "EVERYWHERE" a bunch of times first. The same thing would be possible working backwards from "THING" but it's harder (you also end up with words like UNCLOTHING).
Oh and here's what my board looked like right before I beat it (again, spoilers): https://i.imgur.com/PeizHMv.png
One bit of feedback is that it would be nice if the reroll went through all the possible letters in order instead of truly random like it is now. Sometimes you have to click a lot to get to a letter you know is valid.
Anyway, that's about it. Just wanted to say I thought this game was great and it's a really unique experience.
This is VERY good. The only thing that would make it better is if the game told you what each color dot on the card was when you rolled over them (same with the cards in your hand). Ideally each color dot should also have its own symbol to make them feel more unique and so that colorblind folks can tell them apart too.
@namnam "i felt sometime force to give th wrong answer (for the biggest rock)"
Not sure how you can say it's the "wrong answer", the whole point is that the biggest rock wouldn't be able to fit on a piece of paper.
Anyway, I really enjoyed this game. It has a different feeling than most jam games, and makes some simple yet profound observations. Great work!
Very cool, but having to right-click to deselect your current item before clicking a new item is super unintuitive. For a while, I couldn't figure out why the items were still locked even though I was clicking on them with enough money to unlock them.
Also the "island size limit" is a key part of the game that isn't visible anywhere on screen, it really should be a progress bar somewhere.
This is really good. I love how the trading system wasn't super strict, so there were lots of possibilites and (as far as I could tell) no way to get stuck, since you could almost always reverse a trade. On top of that there were little twists to the mechanics (like finding the dagger in the dead hand). The art and audio were fantastic too. Great work!
This is *great*. Really well done. I have no idea how you managed to make the game this polished in 48 hours (there's even a tutorial?!) .
The gameplay was a bit finicky, and the dialogue was a weird mix of serious and silly, but man the visuals and the audio are SO GOOD.
Pretty cool, but it's a pain that there isn't any kind of health indicator (or do you just die after being hit once?). I would get far but then get stuck on geometry for a split second and suddenly get killed by an enemy with a sword.
Love the narration, gives it that Stanley Parable or Getting Over It vibe.
Silly but fun
Despite the lag, this is a lot of fun to play. Took me a few tries to beat it, then once I did I decided to spend a few more tries going as small as I could... This was about as far as I got. tinyba.png
Nice game. I tried to come up with a word game where you start with "nothing" too, but didn't even consider something like this! One little thing that would improve it is if the decimals *always* moved the numbers to a different row. Sometimes they got moved to the same row so it wasn't clear that decimals were the things that made stuff move rows.
This is really good. I love the music too, so chill and catchy. I once caused a bug by pressing restart too quickly or something and it spawned two player characters at once, which was pretty fun!
Very very good. It's absurd that you finished this in 48 hours. I laughed a lot at the ending.
This is really good! It is definitely not the typical chill farming game, but it's called Crop Chaos so I can't fault it for that! :D
@joror Great job! And yeah good idea, it would have been cool to have a word that used a previous word somehow.
@unentokku agreed! I considered doing belts but I had a feeling I would end up spending too much time debugging them (I ended up having to fix a whole bunch of weird bugs with the movers anyway heh).
@maartene nice work! And yeah I wish I had been able to get around to making music and sound effects, it definitely would have helped set the right vibe.
This is really fun and figuring out you could use the suns as protection from meteors was satisfying :)
Really liked the idea of a physical tower defense game / obstacle course, fun concept!
Super cool. There are definitely some quirks regarding UI and balancing, but it feels really neat to go from nothing to having this whole world come alive.
Why is this so good? It's so weird and chill and I love it.
It's a neat idea for an incremental game to integrate graphs on screen as an immediate visual reference.
This was surprisingly compelling once I got the hang of it, though I started to encounter a bug around day 7 where I couldn't plant in some of my fields anymore. It would just make the beep sound as if my storage was full (even though it wasn't). I could still plant in the other fields fine.
Very clever game idea and well executed too!
If you want a bit of constructive feedback, I think there are too many options given to the player, it becomes a bit overwhelming, especially for 36 turns. Perhaps you could allow players fewer choices but give the ability to rotate the pieces instead?
The other thing is that the water doesn't really feel useful enough, especially when carrots die if you don't get back to them fast enough. Perhaps the water could make a field produce 2 carrots instead?
Cool game, it really felt like playing a mini RTS.
Quite compelling! I played the 5-minute game twice and managed to end with 810 coins on my second playthrough.
This is great and has a lot of mood for how minimal it is. The one control that's really important that isn't listed is right click, for cancelling an action and deciding to just move instead. Also between rounds when it says "press any key" I had to switch to another app and back every time. But yeah those are minor issues and expected in a jam game.
This is great! The whole thing is so charming. Lovely writing and art, and the choice of Pico-8 for the tech fits perfectly.
I think this is a clever programming system, the way you can kind of create loops out of anything, very cool.
This is quite the game to have completed in a weekend! The art is great and the game is surprisingly compelling. On my first playthrough I fell off the map and before I realized I could have climbed up I fell so far I couldn't even see the land anymore haha. On my second playthrough I encountered a bug (I think?) where my second quest was to get 100 wood for a 110 coin reward, which made it so I couldn't really progress for 5 minutes. Just some minor stuff really, but otherwise the game is super solid.