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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | š„ | Skipping Cats | jam | 209 | 3.75 | 3.86 | 3.68 | 3.78 | 3.32 | 3.31 | 3.36 | 3.45 |
The shooting animation felt quite good. Graphics were fine and the audio worked with the gameplay. I had some issue with the text, it wasn't rendered properly for my resolution, you should consider scaling it according to selected resolution.
I don't know if I just messed up, but I couldn't get the players to shoot. Maybe make the instruction sheet a little bigger, I could hardly read it.
One more tip: dont use Y or Z for controls since there's QWERTZ and QWERTY keyboards so one of them is gonna suffer.
Also, ain't no body got friends at home to play this with :stuck_out_tongue:.
Simple, fun and adictive, kept me playing for quite a while.
The gun arc was limited, and sometimes I couldn't shoot stuff above me, was that intended?
Flying around was quite fun and satisfying, however I didn't get the impression I was making any progress.
What a funky artstyle! Fun gameplay too, definetly one of the more humorous games out there. The theme was more theoretical, not really in the gameplay, but I guess it's kinda in there.
One of the funnier games out there. Gameplay is nice but complicated to understand at first.
Well that was both funny and dark. However, you should put a warning up since there's a lot of kids playing theese, and a lot of people who would be disturbed by this.
Nice game all around, really polished up. One tip though, you shouldn't use mouse and arrow keys. It forces the player in a really weird arm position. Also, if you add space as a control too, it gets really bad, you can't reach space with your left hand while it's on the arrow keys, so you have to move it each time you want to press space. Having WASD instead of arrow keys would easily fix all this.
@skreed You still don't want to make the player have to put his arms close together, it's not a natural position, it actually makes your back hurt in the long run. Thats why I reccomend WASD.
Cool concept. Don't see much of the theme, but who cares, it's fun.
@valter Aha, wasn't obvious to me, probably because it's 5 AM...
@sauski True, it isnt very intuitive, but it would be pretty wonky to try to explain. You don't want to write a lot of text because people lose interest very quickly. I'd say it's better and easier if the player learns it himself.
@sauski Yeah, that would work, didn't seem necessary though, so we didn't pursue it.
@gexalmighty You can undo an indefinite number of times, holding undo quickly brings you to the start of the lvl. We thought this was much better than a restart since one wrong move means you have to start over because of the falling mechanic.
@gexalmighty Haha, you must have had a very bad time then.
@headless We did make some decorations, but they ended up seeming like obstacles, so they were removed.
@rebelloeric Sorry about that, it was most likely a GPU driver bug. Could you please write down your GPU model and driver version?
@proke No, just OpenGL.
Really fun game, I loved squishing the little guys by placing blocks on them. Cute graphics, nice audio, good mood overall. The theme was followed, but I feel like it more in the background of the game, I didn't really pay much attention to the crumbling blocks, nor could I interact with the crumbling mechanic.
@wheffle My opinion is that you should develop the mechanic, make a way to restore them, and make the whole crumbly thing more interactive
Had a similar kind of idea, glad to see it was implemented. The game overall is pretty decent in all areas.
Nice art, quite fun gameplay. The intro was funny but it still put me to sleep later on :stuck_out_tongue: .
However, please consider that a lot of people use the QWERTZ keyboard layout, so putting shoot and jump on Y and Z is quite painfull for them.
Story of my life.
@xwilarg "I feel like the character is very slow" As a master of awkwardnes I must say that moving fast is very awkward, you need to seem like you're not running away from people. You gotta make it look like natural movement.
You have to register on gamejolt to get the game, it'd be better if you posted it somewhere else.
Hey, the link doesn't seem to be working.
I like the acceleration. The art was ok, the gameplay was somewhat fun. I had a little trouble with the window though. It wouldn't go into the background when alt tabbing or clicking away, had to manually minimize it.
Funniest game I've found so far.
Nice idea, simple yet polished graphics, smooth gameplay. However I'd make the toxic waste a little more hurtfull so the theme shines through more.
Entertaning game, but I did run into some issues. When I died I was restored to 2 hearts but couldn't move. Didn't really understand what was going on. Also, you should make the character stand out more.
Good game. I've got a bit of advice: when placing a tower don't put the tower texture over the mouse pointer, put it above and to the side, maybe extend an arrow from it to the pointer. Makes it seem more polished.
Loved the atmosphere, the art, the music, you can really see a lot of work was put into this.
Fun little game, surprisngly polished 3D graphics.
@zlabya Well, this is a peculiar situation since the timer has been extended by 24 hours because of all the lag on the site. You could do it, but it is supposed to be only for submiting.
Lots of stuff looks bought, so you should opt out of those categories. Gotta give it to you though, you put it together nicely.
Good idea! Needs a bit more work to make the gameplay fun though.
Nice game, but pls no XZ controls, it's very bad when you have the QWERTZ layout.
@sat9 Im not talking about the arrow keys, the problem is that Z and X are far apart on the QWERTZ layout. You gotta really stretch your hand if you want to get them both and also place it in the middle of the keyboard, which is akward.
@sat9 Don't worry much about it, it's a common thing to oversee. By the way, the layout is used in Central Europe(Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, BiH, Montenegro, Albania...).
The art is cute but I got stuck on the second lvl, wasn't sure what was going on.
Hard game, barely got past the first lvl and then I got stuck. A restart button would be nice when the walls have closed too much and the lvl can't be passed anymore.
Funny and very deep gameplay! You did the voice acting yourself?
Really had fun, especially with the fast fire rate guns. Love that feeling of shooting tons of bullets into something, reminds me of the old CoD submachine guns. Had a few problems though, the movement kept getting glitched, not too often tho. The graphics were ok, but I think it'd be better if there wasn't overlapping text. All in all, felt good to play it.
Definetly needs some music to up the mood. Otherwise, cool idea, I love the one-hit mechanic. The theme was followed, but the gameplay needs a bit more development to be really fun. Don't get me wrong, it was fun, but not for long since it's simple.
That was quite the unique take on this theme. I'd make some kind of progression for the attack though, it gets impossible later on because the attack stays weak.
Feels kinda like that Sporeā¢ stage, when you're a microorganism. Really takes me back. It's a bit laggy though, you might wanna do something about that.
Can't reach the link.
Favourite game yet! Really nice graphics, reminds me of this one pengiun sliding game I used to play back on the CRT monitor PCs. The gameplay is great, and the reproduction is funny. My favourite part is how the ice breaks off. Could use some music, but hey, can't have it all.
Had a lot of fun and it looks nice but I don't see much correlation with the theme.
I'd suggest you make the turning a bit easier, but generate a new map each playthrough so that it doesn't become just about memorization.
@sosaddude I think it would be good enough if you just did it the simplest possible way: RNG. You generate a random tunnel lenght, and then you generate whether you turn left or right, just check wheter it is valid(that you don't crash into an earlier passage), if it's not valid, generate again until it is.
Loved the tetris mode. The physics need a bit of polishing though, they're kinda floaty.
Wow, this is actually a very good idea. At first I was confused but after I got the mechanics it was very fun. I do reccomend that you include a tutorial, I kept trying to directly move a slime to a tank, didn't get that I had to go to the next turn.
Cool idea, cute graphics, but I there just isn't much depth to it. My tip is to figure out the gameplay first, and then focus on the graphics.
Fun game over all, reminds me of the browser game "Motherload". My advice is to make the jumping animation NOT interupt movement, it doesn't feel smooth. Also maybe introduce some danger in the mine to make it more spicy.
Though the game isn't finished, it looks pretty nice. You obviously bit off more than you could chew, but I bet it would have been great if you finished it, really like the idea.
I think it'd look even better if you used foliage rendering for the leaves of the palm.
Also that font, no offense, but please give up on it :stuck_out_tongue:
Heh, running out of SPACE, hehe. Had the same kinda of idea at first.
Back to the game: Really funky controls with all that gravity business. Makes it fun, but hard, and sometimes I feel like my pilot skills can't do anything about the situation. Art is good, needs some spacy music to get a good mood though.
586M, that took a while, was that file size really necessary?
The ice cubes are getting stuck and not letting the win trigger for me. Otherwise, cool idea.
Pretty cool idea, but I'm really missing smoother movement here. Another tip is that the walls push you, not crush you when they spawn so that you don't randomly die when walking next to a wall. You could make so they only crush you if there's no where to push you.
The jumping was satisfying, not floaty at all. Art is very nice, sound is good.
I did have one problem though. On deliver 3, I don't know for what reason, but sometimes it is really fast. It gets so fast I can't move left or right on the screen, I'm glued to the back of the window. That makes it hard and not very fun to play.
@team-gaivot Man... How am I supposed to watch anime in peace when I have $500/day rent.