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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | You are the Monster | Monster1 | compo | 220 | 3.47 | 3.28 | 3.61 | 2.93 | 2.80 | 2.58 | 3.43 | 65 | ||
| 2014 | 30 | Connected Worlds | In Phase | compo | 130 | 3.71 | 3.64 | 3.94 | 3.94 | 3.26 | 3.09 | 2.97 | 3.49 | 75 |
Even if I don't agree with the sides chosen 100% I really like your application of the theme.
The world is more connected now than ever, and I think you represent this political fact very powerfully.
Great art, tense music, very meaningful, well done! =)
Does the Prize mean I win?
I loved the opening poem, that's a great idea.
The faces on the cube made me care about him =(
A fantastic idea, I think I'll leave it running and see who turns up.
I do think the third level is a little too difficult. Even with the hint you had to go the right way and be looking in the right direction.
Aside from that, everything was excellent. Great puzzles, the ambient sound made for a brilliant mood in the different lcoations, great graphics. Most of all, I really liked the application of the theme, the phone connecting worlds was unique and intriguing.
Great Job!
Love the music, and interesting challenges.
A little bit difficult, and being reintroduced to each level every time is a little odd.
But excellent everything. Graphics, Audio (the cymbal crash on death is brilliant), great use of the theme, funny.
Best game I've played yet.
I only played it alone and I really liked the style. The movement of the glowing pedestals, the motion of the door. The colour scheme was also interesting, although the warehouse as a whole felt pretty desolate.
I imagine that makes it better during coop.
I also really like the application of the theme. Where you and your friends inhabit the Connected Worlds and have to cooperate via voice alone.
Great Job!
That was horrifying, brilliant stuff.
I love the art style.
Cool Concept, and well designed rooms.
I'd buy a longer more polished version.
Hilarious to watch. I wish that somehow the interation did more, like some sort of multiple choice mundane comment system?
Great use of social integration too, but I'm not quite ready to post "Fuck the police (Spiderman) #socialsim via @Ludipe" to my twitter.
Good fun =)
Maximum points for Mood and Humour. It also looked really great.
Could use more game though =P It got impossible before long.
Ahh good old lunar lander. Every comment and planet description was hilarious. Great job, lots of fun =D
Nice stealth action, lots of things to interact with as your other self, quite difficult though I found.
Looked great! Fun gameplay. The laser sound is a little annoying though =)
This was an odd one =)
I liked the hand drawn style, and the RPG type conversations.
The gameplay was a little glitchy though. But so was mine after only 48 hours.
Cool game, and nice soundtrack!
A bit difficult to navigate, slightly leaning more towards frustrating than challenging for me. Perhaps just because its difficult to get your bearings even when the camera is upright. Excellent style.
But its got some really cool mechanics, looks great and I liked the soundtrack!
I loved the style, and the level design was really good. Sort of forcing the player to remember the layouts or die.
Some mechanics, like jumping before transitioning were a little tough to figure out though. Great game!
Fun physics sand box, I didn't seem to be able to turn properly anymore in the fourth level.
It's very satisfying to swing a rock into planets.
I really liked the classical music. Scaring them with the piano was quite fun.
You get seen quite slowly, so I found I could just stand in the light and toggle them to death.
But the gameplay concept was great, I liked sneaking around and trying to startle them. Good atmosphere
I loved the distinct look of the worlds.
Interesting gameplay mechanic as well.
Took a bit to get the hang of it. But its pretty fun once it gets going. Trying to fight back to the point of them not landing on the floor anymore.
Nice job =)
5 stars for fun obviously.
Agree the theme connection is a little tenuous but this game is great and look very polished.
Great work!
Wow. That was spectacular. Great concept, well executed. The most polished game I've played yet.
As others have said, separating the framerate from the move speed would make the experience more consistant.
The environments were pretty amazing, they were very well themed and looked fantastic. The mood was great as a result and the level design seemed quite detailed and well thought out.
I have no idea how you made all this in 48 hours. Great work!.
Excellent Music
Fantastic Graphics
Superb gameplay/controls
Brilliant stuff
Lots of fun, I was compelled to get onto the scoreboards =D
The animations were really cool, and the music fit really well too.
Was one of the levels repeated? I kept having to do (2 or 3) twice.
Anyway, great job. Nice puzzler!
Good puzzles, nice use of the concept =)
I think I agree with gwa, it would be nice to skip the tab key.
Quite difficult I think, but I made it in the end!
Mouse control, might be a little easier.
Nice soundtrack and fun game. good work =)
The buzzing in the video came in at just the right time for me. It all felt so eerie.
The story also really drew me in, my girlfriend has worked in aged care and I felt a strong connection to what she described.
Really nice artwork and designs. There is quite a bit of content here, and a its a nice idea to respect the inhabitant enemies of other worlds.
Really enjoyable social network clicker/sim type thing =)
I'm glad noone is dissatisfied by all the servers being full all the time, that might make it even harder.
Great Work!
It does have a fair bit of backtracking. But I enjoyed it a lot.
The galaxy portals and backdrop looked amazing.
The music was great. Did you write it yourself?
Excellent Game
Looks amazing, ran fine on my Windows 8 machine.
I'd play the full version =)
Nice style and an interesting use of the theme. But that means limited interaction.
It's a little difficult to follow the interface at first. But not for long. A great hex strategy game, I can really imagine getting into this with more units, options, maps and all sorts. Even with the bare bones its addictive.
Great Job!
Sim City meets Upside Down.
This was really fun even playing against myself.
I should mention. The installer might turn some people away, is it possible to make it standalone?
Really liked the music.
It was most enjoyable and hectic when there were lots of enemies to shoot =)
The music was really fitting for the islandy adventure.
Nice use of the theme. The puzzles were interesting and tough.
That button glitch is a bit dodgy, I think that counts as a win condition bug if you still want to add the button.
This was one of the best application of the themes I've seen. I can see what you meant by our games being similar, but I had more Coop in mind with mine. You on the other hand made explored the mechanic in much more depth for a single player. The synchronized jumping part was fantastic.
I really felt the story embodies the theme better than any other game I've played.
Excellent Job!
I really enjoyed this one, even though I suck at it.
Big fan of the background tile pattern too.
Up and Down arrows seemed to be inverted for me, that might be less disorienting if the sprite rotated to face the current heading. =)
Thanks for the comments everyone =)
Your games rock too!
callmemonamiral: I'll look at adding some temporary invisible walls, that should sort it out.
tillrobby: The code that keeps the players on the platforms is some of the dodgiest code I've ever written. Maybe one day I'll do it with a guiding spline insdead =P
Cute style, good use of the theme and best of all, excellent puzzles. Nicely done!
Very fun once you get used to the controls.
Nice and difficult too, or maybe I was just too aggressive. Either way, nice job!
I think the controls were perfectly tuned for the gameplay. Good job on your first LD!
Simple and Fun, I liked it. The control scheme worked really well, although I would have liked to be able to aim at more angles. Keep up the good work and congratulations on on your first entry!
That was a lot of fun and it looked great.
Congratulations on your first solo game!
Unfortunately mine says "A Java Exception has Occurred"
My JRE release: 1.7.0
x64 and x86 jre installed.
That was beautiful. Thanks for the different take on the theme.
The smoke plumes are really cool, but I feel a bit guilty destroying so many universes with such a happy face lol.
The more 'connected worlds' part of it was a bit far fetched and loopy. I can see what you mean when you said you got off track. It felt like a very unusual exploration of odd thoughts.
What if you did that thing that popped into your head randomly? Few people would explore that aspect of multiple choice type games because it often ends suddenly exactly how you'd expect.
All in all this set of stories was really interesting, I did get the social commentary feeling from it as well as many other odd and interesting themes which I thoroughly enjoyed exploring.
Great work!
I really enjoyed firing so many bullets and ploughing through enemies. As others have said, the levels seem a bit too big given that the gameplay remains relatively constant.
Maybe a hint of where to go, or a gameplay twist (power ups or bosses maybe) would keep it fresh.
Fun game, congratulations on your first entry!
That was really cute. Great style and lots of content too.
I loved the ending screen. Good use of an interesting mechanic. Congratulations on your first entry!
Great gameplay, It seemed a bit glitchy if I came close to connecting 2 planets at once.
Lots of fun, challenging but fair, looks great and funny.
Really good job =)
One of the best LD games I've played. Very tactical, tense, looks great.
The game ran pretty slowly on my Surface Pro unfortunately.
The music is my favourite of any LD game so far. It really contributes to a great mood.
All the art is fantastic too.
I had some troubles with the bounding boxes too, bumping into them when trying to jump over the enemies, sometimes they would go missing seemingly.
Anyway, amazing work for 48 hours!
I managed to speed it up quite a bit by using Chrome, and making the window smaller. I think it was just rendering too large =)
Excellent mood, great writing!
As others have said, it's a bit short, but that's expected.
It might have been nice to have something of a conclusion, and encourage multiple play throughs rather than the looping.
It fit the theme well, even without noticing the monstrosity score, I felt like a monster =D
The game play could be a bit faster paced I think.
Otherwise, it had a great progression. Lots of features letting you build up your monster filled woods.
Sort of borrowing from Tower Defence and Moba in a way, Its a neat combination. Great work!
Captured the mood pretty well, the sound and graphics and gameplay all feel right together.
It was pretty fun, although I struggled to find enough hair gel, which doesn't seem like a realistic problem in highschool.
The humor was great, "This makes your hair do what other people want it to do", which also made your interpretation of the theme a little deeper I think.
Great job!
I really liked the music.
Are we supposed to be able to get on the big red platform? I didn't seem to be able to jump that high.
I like your use of the theme. Pit the weak monster against the invincible player is really interesting.
I'm not sure what the end goal was, but exploring that theme more, maybe with you being one of many easily disposed monsters, suffering more humiliation at the hands of the player, the player easily respawning while you get a game over screen. Something like that might have added to it a bit more.
Good job!
I had a crash after a little while when trying to place a web, I might have clicked off the screen?
But before that, this was excellent! I've never seen a game like this before. Great idea! Very satisfying to play.
Great job!
Nice and atmospheric music, fit the aesthetic well.
The gameplay was interesting, although I was a bit confused by swapping screens so often. I didn't really understand whether I had a choice in which character to progress with, and whether it mattered.
Maybe I should have read into it more, but perhaps a simpler starting room, could make it easier to grasp the importance of the multiple switches, multiple choice and story text.
Also I feel the puzzles could have been a little bit harder.
Great Job!
That was great. How long is the level? It seemed very impressively long. Excellent use of the blue to highlight shortcuts, it was intuitive and fun.
The sound really contributed to the mood, many games have you as a literal monster, but few make you feel it. Great job!
Ahh that felt just right. Funny, well themed, good puzzles. Thanks for not letting me fail the game making silly mistakes. Great work with all the art and music. Really nailed the Point and Click feel that I remember.
Well done!
Nice job with the voice acting, It was a cool intro to the story.
The music, sound effects and art gave a really cute atmosphere. That was a nice twist on the theme, literal monster, but heart of gold.
Great job!
Oh wonderful.
Everything was really entertaining to read.
There was a lot more content than I was expecting.
The theme was worked in nicely, even if perhaps the player didn't feel it.
I had a blast.
I'll be working on those other endings.
Great job making an rts in 48 hours!
I seemed to lose two of my villagers some how, one of them walked into the barracks and never came back. I still managed to win though.
The units would have been easier to control if they converged on my click location, rather than all moved in the same direction.
I liked the music, fit the dungeon feel well.
The gravity mechanic is cool, but quite hard to use.
An extra check point might have been nice after the first big climb =)
The contrast made it hard to distinguish walkable space from walls. Intentional I guess?
It was also odd, that I had to jump back and forth over hazards to read the written text. It's a bit jarring.
Fun stuff though! Nice art!
Funny and Fun!
I got 1:16, "fast clicking person". It would be nice to know how many faster ranks there are, to know what I can aspire to.
You can host it on the web, buy putting everything in your "Public" folder on dropbox (if you have this folder, some accounts don't apparently), right clicking MonstrousClicker.html and selecting "get public link".
Going to that link should allow embedding here.
Did you do the voices yourself? They were pretty awesome.
Consider having a small button to start the next level, since its a clicker game, I always missed the screen between levels.
It feels odd that "score" increases with time, since high score sounds good, but is bad here.
Anyway, good job!
When I click the web link, unity player says:
"Failed to download data file"
Is it in the same folder as the html file? =)
Veeeery creepy. Very well drawn.
I think the ambiguous responses make enough sense. I attributed the wrong doing to myself, so I think it works.
I know the feeling of not getting all the content you want in. Better luck next time, but the mood was well worth it!
Great use of the theme, a purely monstrous act.
It was very fun. And while it felt slow to run at first, when I got to jumping, you could kind of bunny hop.
Pretty impressive for 4 hours!
Really great artwork. It felt very professional.
The music was a little jarring, but kind of cool.
I enjoyed the amusing flavour text.
As others have mentioned, the aiming is pretty hard. Often my targets would cross too fast for me to realistically hit them, and misses were frequent. I'm impressed you got to 50!
Nice work!
The audio was a bit too quiet for me to really hear.
The graphics were beautiful. And it seems like the start of a great story too.
Well done!
That was pretty hard. Great music though. And the lighting really completed the mood.
Excellent stealth game in just 3 days!
Twixtor: Yeah, Unity wasn't the right choice. I had plans to use graphics at some point. Didn't get around to it in the end.
Chromebookbob: Thanks! I'm glad the feel came across =)
Gaga: Thanks for playing, and feedback! I think typing "help" or "network" again might have helped, but I definitely had trouble getting the right hints across in places.
Thanks everyone!
I'm glad the console came across well. I haven't played hack run, but I guess I assumed it would be like this. I should check it out.
Sorry for the parts where the story, goals or puzzles are unclear. They were all kind of rushed. But I'll make a note to set the stage a little bit better.
Nizl, that sounds like a bug >.<
I'll take a look.
Thanks for the feedback guys! Yeah, the rich text thing only happened briefly on mine, so I figured it was livable, but I guess it's happening worse than I thought >.<
I will definitely engineer a bit better next time. Writing character by character with rich text was always going to be hacky.
Cool sound, The game looked really great!
Especially the animations.
Its a pretty dark use of the theme.
I managed to climb on top of people once or twice, then I couldn't fall down or shoot anyone anymore.
Very fun though!
Really brings out my inner 12 year old.
Funny stuff, it felt awesome when shooting in the center, and the beams crossed right at the camera. Fun moments.
I also liked the mish mash of 2D and 3D.
I didn't really understand what was going on with the dropping bombs?
Why did things get acidy? Where was the explosion? Why did they only sometimes disappear?
Music would definitely sell the tripping part, and maybe some more direction for the player, so I feel like I earned my trip =P
You've chosen good categories to score in.
The theming is excellent, very well delivered.
I didn't know why the first person was rude to me, but it quickly sunk in.
It felt like the initial goal was a little far away, making the world feel a bit sparse. But it makes sense now why you would live far away.
Ahh, The much fabled prequel.
The idea is just as monsterous, but without the music it felt less arcade-like.
One improvement might be to slow down less when you hit castles. It feels a bit like the player is too light, where as you want to feel tough, and mean =D
Great idea, and fun game!
I think I was at the last level? I didn't see any more pigs, but the game didn't end.
Fun stuff, the controls were a bit hard, it wasn't intuitive which way was which. Also falling off in the first level doesn't respawn.
I loved the art style, and pig cannon particles are always great!
I liked the design of Bob, reminds me of Dragon Ball aliens a bit. The music only seemed to play once, but lent an authentic sadness feel to the whole thing. I would have liked to see more feedback when you punch things/people. But otherwise. Nice job!
Nice type system you build up. I suggest making it more obvious to the player (maybe to borrow from pokemon, super effective, not very effective) Just more hints for when the type system is at work.
I had a little trouble choosing replacement abilities if I was tapping too fast.
Great song, captured the mood 100% of the battle game. Great work!
This was an interesting concept. But I didn't really feel motivated to be a monster. I didn't feel the character was justified.
It looked great though, and it was presented with such style, the dream sequence at the beginning, the flashing text. All well done I thought.
Good work!
The hitbox wasn't always perfect. But felt pretty right at the start.
This is the best of this kind of game I've played this Ludum Dare, the targets were just the right level of challenge. The artwork was great! There were goat sounds. Excellent Job!
A cool concept, but I wasn't interesting for a long time watching the village grow, and I didn't have enough self control to let them.
I enjoyed that you could choose to be peaceful. But you had to be a monster to progress.
The combat was good, and you did a great job on the graphics. Particles and all!
Really good job making this whole village growing system. It was very well done, and great fun to knock down!
I like the mechanic of unlocking abilities by building the monster.
Some of the first platforms are pretty hard to navigate since there isn't much control in the air.
I only managed to get 2 legs and an arm. But I'm not sure If I was supposed to get the second leg right after the first, or come back later. It was kind of hard to make that jump.
Also the sound doesn't seem to be working for me, the on/off switch doesn't help.
Good Job!
The music was loud, and the voices were quiet, it was hard to find a good balance.
The game is hard, but it seems mostly because the bug moves fast, and is hard to steer. As a result, it feels more like the game's fault when I lose than my own fault. I think if the steering was easier, but the courses narrower, it would feel more like my fault, while being just as difficult.
Also as Wolar said, its hard to keep track of which way the bait is facing.
Otherwise, this was fun, and had a really creepy mood. Good work!
Simple gameplay, but so fun.
I laughed a lot. Maximum humor points.
I got 49.
The monster theme felt a bit tacked on, which was funnier anyway.
Honk!
Wow, so fun, looks great.
I think you should wait a second or two to show the level success or failure screen. So we can see the final impact.
Definitely worth playing for the final two levels. They rock.
You should add sound, maybe tighten up the controls a little and publish this one =)
Great execution of a stealth action game in such little time!
It could be a little faster. Controls are a little (just a little) bit clunky.
It might be a bit too easy once you can sense people, and recover so easily.
I got to 61, it was pretty laggy at that point, because I'd mostly been avoiding instead of destroying.
This was a fun idea. and the shield timing felt just right.
Good work!
That felt pretty cool. It really sold the feeling of the old school boss battle from the other perspective.
Controls felt good, but if you finish it up, it might be nice to have a more spammable move, something weak, but something to keep using in the down time.
Great job!
It was a great use of the theme. It felt a little in your face in parts, but the ending text tied it all together well.
Something about the deadly text obstacles seemed off to me. They didn't feel solid or deadly enough at first. And the rhythm needed to stay on the ceiling felt clunky.
Great experience overall!
Very fun, satisfying little screams. I got 5110. I don't know if that's any good. Great job on your first Ludum Dare! You should have entered in for Humor and Graphics as well I think. Graphics were nice, and Yesterday you said tomoRaawr has got to be worth some stars.
Looks beautiful, and the music was very relaxing.
I personally would have preferred, faster enemies, with less dragons, but I guess that's because I'm not coordinated enough.
It was also odd how the further bird dies and not the nearer. To the player, it can feel like the controls are less responsive, since we haven't seen the other bird yet =)
The best I got was 42, lots of fun!
Looked very polished!
Nice sound effects, good artwork.
I found it difficult to stay alive, but judging by the scoreboard I just suck.