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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 👥 | 🥇 | 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Desktop Garden | jam | Innovation | 4.77 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | 👥 | Desktop Garden | jam | 106 | 4.13 | 3.81 | 4.77 | 3.56 | 4.22 | 3.66 | 3.84 | |
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | 👥 | Seaway | jam | 36 | 4.15 | 3.84 | 3.59 | 3.42 | 4.76 | 4.33 | 2.60 | 4.30 |
| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | 👥 | Abortion Boy | jam | 564 | 3.37 | 3.14 | 2.91 | 3.10 | 3.83 | 3.55 | 3.41 | 3.77 |
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | 👥 | Rhythm Overdrive | jam | 57 | 4.11 | 4.08 | 3.28 | 3.50 | 4.63 | 4.17 | ||
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | 👥 | Clean this mess ! | jam | 93 | 3.97 | 3.73 | 3.64 | 4.20 | 4.28 | 3.89 | 3.80 |
Nice game ! Really liked it. It's quite hard at the start but when you practice a little, it becomes really enjoyable ! However, I got stuck on the top right corner (with the 3 diamonds) because I was too heavy to jump ! :p Great experience tho.
Nice work ! Loved the "game over" with all the cars :p
Awesome ! :p
Nice game ! I was rich in my run :p Loved the art style.
Incroyable !
Woah, nice work ! Great game ^^
Nice game ! Loved the art style and post process :p Maybe you should add some elements of gameplay like disasters (with more tools to stop them) etc.
Hey that's a good concept ! However I get stuck between asteroids. That was a nice experience ! :p
Really nice game ! :p
Love the art style ! ^^
Nice game ! ^^
Quel concept incroyable
That was a fun experience :p
Cool concept ^^
Theme is funny :p Maybe you should try to make a version of your game where the arrows are coming from the top to the bottom of the screen ? Arrows moving upward are quite strange, but I get used to.
Really nice concept.
Pretty game, quite hard tho ^^ I had some sound bugs though, but nothing really bad. Nice work.
Hey, nice concept :p A bit harder at the beginning, but we get used to. I like the camera transitions, good job !
Nice game ! Finished both endings :p Really liked the pixel art, and the concept. I think the fade in/out when you enter a building (or change the scene) is a bit too long. Would like to see your game with more content !
Thanks you all for your feedback !
@Blinkenlights I'm sorry we didn't take the time to make a linux build. We are not used to it; but someone managed to play the game with Wine on Linux, you should try if you use it ^^
@saintheiser We'd love to add new ennemies, and a lot of more weapons ! It was just really hard to implement more content while optimize it and balance it in 72h :c
@HPMNK Unfortunately, we have no sound designer in our promo :c
@Blinkenlights Yeah, we used Unity, and I know there are some options to build for Linux, but I never used it. For the next Jam, we'll try to build for Linux and Mac ^^
@saintheiser Hehe, we plan to upgrade this game during this summer, so maybe one day a bigger and better version will come out ! ;p
@BlueMirror Thanks ! Glad you enjoyed the game ! That's true, our base concept is quite incomplete, and we need to implement features & new gameplay elements, like an utility to stop shooting etc..
For the musics, we just chose songs that we like, and we tried to use not so well-known musics :p
~sorry for those english mistakes~
Thank you all for the awesome feedback !
@Densin Yeah, the weapon is aiming left & right because if it was firing straight it would be really underpowered. We tried that :p (and we plan to make a vertical slice of a more complete version of the game !)
@TheLucky Good point here. We need to implement more visual / audio feedback for the player, and make some ennemies react to the shooting impacts. With all of that, it will be even more satisfying for the player ^^
@funisfun8 Thanks ! I'm extremely glad that you enjoyed the game ! I agree with you for the instrumental songs. Lyrics are not my favorite, and we'll try to use less lyrics-based songs for the more advanced version. We also have a lot of ideas about new mechanics, ennemies, weapons, bosses, etc.. :p
Unfortunately, here is our biggest problem : We tried to find a way to let the players use their custom musics, but our game is too BPM dependent (the walls, the ennemies, and the background are always bumping at the perfect timing of the song's BPM); however, games like Audiosurf & Beat Hazard are more approximative about that. They are using some kind of script that detects kicks & snares, and create pickups & obstacles based on the song notes but not at every beat (Audiosurf), or ennemies and approximative glow amplifyer, exactly like the visuals of music videos on youtube, you know (Beat Hazard), but these games are not BPM perfect. In our case, we already tried to use a script like that, but the walls & background were desynchronized, or were bumping at every peak in the audio source (horrible), and it was not precise. It's a really big problem, and after some researches, we realized that creating an algorithm to calculate BPM of custom songs is really complex, and depends of the sampling of the audio source, etc.. ( [look at this](http://mziccard.me/2015/05/28/beats-detection-algorithms-1/) )
For now, we plan to make a version of the game with a lot of tracks (like a Guitar Hero game), and eventually make some kind of big update with custom tracks later ^^ Trust me, it was a really hard decision to make. The other solution was to change the entire game, and we don't want that.
About your 2nd request, we plan to make some "drop multiplier" whenever the song is becoming intense, so the ennemies could be faster, and spawn more :p (also, some new game influencers mechanics are gonna be implemented).
And finally, we already tried to make the bullets of the player follow the beat; it would work if our game has only 1 weapon, but there will be more, so it will be hard to diversify weapons while constrain them to fire on the beat (or a multiplier of the beat), but nothing is definitive right now :p
Thank you again everybody, and sorry for those english mistakes~
@funisfun8 That's a nice idea. Yesterday we were thinking about the fact that manually input the BPM could be quite annoying, especially if you have to search it on some weird websites (we even searched a way to import soundcloud/spotify data, but the APIs are limited). The tempo tapper could fit in that case; however, with custom imported songs, it will be difficult to implement some online leaderboards. I think we'll keep the leaderboards for the included official tracks.
I'll discuss with the devs if it's possible to make a fully working level editor, with some crazy features :p Some kind of "track visualizer", that can allow players ( and us ) to customize and map songs, with editable values etc..
And of course, no music sharing, we don't want any legal problems ^^
@mowztouch I think those databases are licensed, or really hard to export to a game. Your idea about an analyzer script is interesting, but it will need to analyze the audio file, and with differents audio file formats, samples (44100, 48000,..) it will become really hard to code relatively fast.. I really think that's possible, but for now, we'll try to find some simpler solutions :p
Thanks for the feedback !
Nice game ! Really liked the graphics ^^ Maybe the character needs to be in front when she walks through a monster, but that's a really small detail.
Great idea and theme, however, it was difficult to distinguish the different ennemies type. Nice game tho :p
Really cool game, with nice flow ! Music is top, art too ^^ Maybe your left and right buttons are quite small, but after some games I was used to ^^