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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 👥 | 🥉 | 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | Critter™ Sitter | jam | Theme | 4.51 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | Depths | 👥 | Mush Rush | jam | 363 | 3.64 | 3.66 | 3.57 | 3.48 | 3.38 | 3.05 | 3.44 | ||
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | 👥 | dragabee | jam | 282 | 3.81 | 3.75 | 3.85 | 4.06 | 3.73 | 3.22 | 3.60 | ||
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | 👥 | It's The Leash I Can Do | unfinished | ||||||||||
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | 👥 | S.A.S.S. | jam | 271 | 3.71 | 3.46 | 3.28 | 3.36 | 4.09 | 3.68 | 2.48 | 3.62 | |
| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | 👥 | Lava Luva | jam | 481 | 3.46 | 3.23 | 3.32 | 3.62 | 3.23 | 2.45 | 2.82 | ||
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | 👥 | Captain Starbeard and the Curse of the Wonky Equipment | jam | 537 | 3.43 | 2.95 | 3.88 | 4.06 | 3.47 | 3.16 | 2.97 | ||
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | 👥 | MULLIGUN | jam | 13 | 4.35 | 4.31 | 4.21 | 4.38 | 4.34 | 4.01 | 3.42 | 3.80 | |
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | 👥 | Critter™ Sitter | jam | 95 | 3.97 | 3.83 | 3.82 | 4.51 | 4.26 | 3.90 | 3.83 | 3.94 | |
| 2013 | 26 | Minimalism | Existential Journey Into The Abyss Of Self Actualization And Peace | jam | 256 | 3.17 | 2.83 | 3.17 | 3.80 | 2.60 | 3.00 | 2.78 | 2.86 | 46 |
Your web link just prompts me to install the Unity Webplayer, even though I've got it. I tried updating, but still just get the "Download Webplayer" prompt. Not sure what's up with that. The downloadable worked fine for me though.
After a lot of playing, the phasing blocks were a lot easier, and the only thing keeping us from going forever, so they were sort of a necessity. I do agree though, I wish we could have come up with something to handle them more elegantly.
Enjoyed it! Reminiscent of Mini Metro. Wasn't sure if certain passengers had certain destinations or what; wasn't clear why some ports were apparently suffering more congestion.
Really polished for the time frame! Wish there was a little more explanation - wasn't clear what the different attack types did until reading the comments after I'd given up. That explains why some guys exploded fast and others not so much! Also wish I knew what the stats did, but then again I'm a math geek.
I suspect the adorable spider has caught me in a web of cuteness.
Worked pretty well. There's something about clickers that's just so compelling... There was a point towards the end where buildings #3 and 4 couldn't decide if they wanted to go up or down, which felt odd (why would they both automatically construct _and_ deconstruct the same thing?), but overall enjoyed it. Felt like the early game could be slowed down a bit - I'm a fast reader, and even so by the time I finished reading a headline I'd have a pile of stuff ready to spend way past the next milestone.
Great art style! I liked seeing the variety of trees such simple decisions produced.
Quite enjoyed it - nice concept! I'd like a little more UI (what keys you have, what weight you're at), and possibly a way to pick up the cubes - I kicked a few off accidentally and had to restart levels over it, but I didn't experience any issues or anything playing through. Kicking a cube off by accident felt a little bit like getting cheated out of some time, though.
@jjjjason that's prettymuch how you play rock paper scissors - it's sort of designed to take longer or shorter just based on random chance, to mix up the routine a little bit.
Really great style! Felt like I lost a lot of my life to enemies spawning in super close; maybe a minimum distance would help?
Nice work! I'd have liked a reason to conserve stamina as well to provide an interesting tradeoff, and the ending was a little abrupt/vague, but overall pretty good!
A comment I really appreciated getting on my first jam: careful with the noise level, and it can be nice to provide buttons to turn off and on sound/music if you've got time for it. The first swing was quite loud!
Barclay "Two-Saints" sent me! Nice, simple game; very straightforward and makes sense. Would have liked some quick text instructions at least - it was a while before I realized the "purple border" effect from being near a wall also gave x2 points - without that, I tended to stay in the middle + the game felt a lot slower.
Wasn't sure what was supposed to happen after killing someone/dumping the body - it mentioned one sacrifice a day, but I couldn't even tell if time was passing (it still seemed to be day 1 by the time I got bored).
Wow; that's some nice polish! Simple, but nice!
@scarfdev there's no audio in the game - did you see the menu? I don't know of any red bar until the game starts proper - which sounds like the game itself loads but maybe not the level once you hit "play"? Any chance of a screenshot, or chrome console logs if you know how to provide those?
I liked the momentum of the bird, but was unable to gain height even with a few tries to ever go up, so I couldn't get through the gap to the right.
Oh wow; not sure how I missed that! That makes a lot more sense; much nicer.
The dialog was really slow for me - though admittedly I'm a really fast reader. Would have liked a way to manually advance it faster.
Other than that, enjoyed it! The art's really nice, and the concept's interesting.
Audio was a little on the loud side.
Pretty interesting. I felt like I'd end up not getting one resource at all an entire run, and thus didn't have any "interesting decisions" to make after the first few rounds - just anything that didn't reduce that stat to 0 (for example, one run I never got any +blue stat)
I really liked the game! I could easily see it being polished a bit and made into a mobile title. Surprising amount of content for a jam game, too!
It doesn't feel terribly on theme, though, since the "sacrificing" doesn't seme to have much negative effect.
With so many buildings, it's easy to forget what everything does - a quick reference card might have been nice, or some text labels or something. Was pretty nice though - we almost made our game with a similar worker assignment flow, until we decided to drop people on things instead.
This looks so nice, and I love the beat! It's too bad I'm absolute trash at rhythm games :( Still, it was fun regardless.
*WENK*
Felt really bad hitting ramps and losing *all* my speed, but it was fun! Had 4 penguins left when I hit that ramp, though, and just couldn't get going again.
I was a little annoyed by the loss of mobility while attacking, but otherwise enjoyed it. It did feel like I was mostly stuck near the castle, though, and didn't have much reason to leave, other than visibility.
nice game! Wasn't sure if the weight to break my own platform was consistent, since it seemed to vary between plays.
Adorable! I'm not sure why we don't use turtle-coins already; they look amazing. Would like to see some more variation in the rounds, and the intro was a little long, but overall a really solid entry!
pretty interesting! unique idea - would have liked to see a little more to encourage me to keep playing longer and break it up a bit (it got repetitive)
Is there a way to make multiple fleets? One of my fleets got destroyed off the bat, and I was left only able to do one thing.
Also, enemy turn processing seemed to take a while, which unfortunately broke up the flow a lot, but even so the enemy didn't really seem to do anything?
I swung by to give this a try, but sadly don't have java setup. As for updates: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/rules - official rules, here's the relvant snippet:
Additional Notes for both the Jam and Compo
Both events have a Submission Hour that takes place at the end of each event (48, 72 hours later). This is an extra 1 hour for you to package-up and submit your game. In the case of the Compo: After that 1 hour, submissions for Compo will close, and you will have to submit your entry to the Jam.
Porting (especially to Web or Windows) can happen after the initial 48 hours. The longer you wait though, the less time participants will have to play your game.
Certain Bug Fixes are allowed. You can’t add new features, but if something broke or didn’t work correctly as you were finishing up, you can fix this after the deadline. You are asked to highlight the changes you make in your submission (a short change log). You probably wont get a 2nd chance with some players, but at least it wont be a problem for future players.
Pretty cool idea! I managed to break it - I think I hit the end goal right as I ran out of blood, and ended up immediately reappearing at full size, but also not leaving behind any blood or able to trigger the level complete.
The poor kitty ;-;
Interesting story; my math-brain would've liked the available power to matter a little more, but I recognize not everyone's as much of a math nerd.
Really cute! Did wish there was a little bit more going on, got 'boring' after a few repetitive days, but the art was amazing enough to stick around a little longer.
Got stuck in one of the levels because several times in a row, the green frog wasn't matching the pattern I gave him like, at all. Not sure what # it was, but it was the level with three 'permanent' buttons (the second of which, you have to reset to get out of the room with it). I couldn't get the brown frog out of the first room because whenever I wasn't controlling green, green would fail to make the jump out of the room.
I was also slightly confused by the banner at first; I thought it was an extension of the gameplay window because they're so close. Maybe some slight space or a border would help separate them?
Really liked the theme/idea though, and it's very visually appealing.
@erlioniel a restart button as in, to just reset the timer/game and start over? hadn't occurred to us, but definitely something i'll keep in mind for future jams
@kuro timer should have been in the top HUD bar; interesting that you didn't see it. Any idea what aspect ratio you played at? Did you play at the default size or scale it up?
@erlioniel love the art added in that edit!
Felt like the three actions quickly became too limiting for what the game wanted me to do. If I restock both milk and snacks, then perform a cashier action, half the time the people who are trying to buy chips don't get a chance to pay me. If I don't restock milk, I end up with a bunch of angry customers wanting milk, though I make better profit at the beginning of the day. If stock was big enough that it could persist between days it'd solve the problem, but I'm earning a total of like ~45$ over 4 days, which just feels frustrating given I needed to spend 10 on unlocking snacks and another 10 on unlocking cleaning - which, speaking of, I have no idea how I'm supposed to fit in the schedule.
Honestly if using the cash register actually let me get money from the 4+ dudes standing by it waiting, it'd have relieved a lot of the frustration, or if the starting stock values were high enough I could concieveably go a day without stocking them and creating a large customer backup.
The IDE was a little confusing; as a programmer I understand what it's supposed to represent but clicking it didn't feel like it was doing anything - the buttons flash, but otherwise don't indicate they've been 'completed'. Would have expected, both from an IDE and a game standpoint, them to become disabled once pressed. Beyond that, played through 3 days with no apparent changes; ended up quitting because the transition times are sort of painful to sit through.
Recoil was pretty interesting. First room where I found out the door was locked I had like 4 monsters almost on top of me when I found out, so that was kind of an annoying surprise - letting me know in earlier rooms would have helped - eg, have a loud 'unlock' sound when the last monster dies in each room, or have the last monster drop a key, with a key-in-lock sound for when I open the door. Parallax was also pretty noisy - I feel like if it had scrolled a lot less it'd have been way less distracting.
I liked the idea, but really was frustrated by the uncontrollable hiccup timer - felt like a lot of time just standing around waiting for the timer to sync up with what I wanted to do. Some (minor) control might have been more interesting - for example, holding a button to delay the start of the timer (with a maximum delay window so the mechanic's not totally ignorable), or perhaps pressing a button to start it right away
Was super frustrating trying to operate on a moving timeline - would have really liked the game to pause or something between rounds, or let me manually pause.
Took like 5 tries to get it set up to dodge the first laser gate... and then it didn't successfully dodge it on later attempts, so I'm even more confused now.
That dude's excitement every time I serve soup - really helps me feel like a job well done.
Really clean entry!
Really strange difficulty curve; most of the levels felt like 'just sit on all the buttons and press spacebar', then suddenly over a period of ~3 levels it jumped to me needing precise timing across multiple lives in order to manage it. Quit on 'uhhh....' after accidentally sitting on the button that would block my path at the wrong point in time several attempts in a row, requiring me to restart the level. Wish I could 'erase' a ghost, or at least not save a ghost for a particular life.
Liked the idea though, and generally pretty well put together.
I seem to be zoomed in really close to the character. I can walk off the right side but nothing seems to happen. Not sure what I should be doing here?
The embed broke for me, but worked after refreshing - seems finicky. The twist was great.
@otterfaelure but dragging the bee to the button _is_ the tutorial! how sneaky! By requiring you to drag the bee, we guarantee you've understood that dragging bees is kind of the main interaction mechanism, even before you've had to think about stats or what the game is or how it plays.
Pretty fun little game. Wasn't clear to me at first that tiles could only be used by one village, or that villages worked diagonally, until like level... 3? The one with the 8 space u-shaped forest.
Would really like hotkeys - even something as simple as just 1, 2, 3 to select village, watch tower, archer tower
The embed doesn't fit the whole game window :/, but I played it via the itch link.
Interesting take, but not sure I understand the objective? Is there one, other than just survive? Jumped through a few systems but once I started losing fighters I just got into a death spiral where I couldn't produce enough fighters to actually survive a fight with incoming fighters, and so I would just have stuff picked off every jump.
Really nice art, gives me a homeworld vibe.
I seemed to have an issue with it not always letting me add arrows - I'd sit there for a few seconds trying to get an arrow on a tile only to have the snail eventually just hit the wall instead :(
Other than that great! Loved the voice of my tutorial buddy.
Controls felt a bit annoying to me, which is exacerbated when the game gives you a tight time limit, since it feels like you're struggling to get the game to do what you want. I lost my first run because I didn't realize I could climb walls. Dug myself into a hole and then realized too late I was stuck and couldn't escape. Even knowing that, my second run I'd often try to jump up 1 block and end up digging out the block I was trying to land on , which was fairly annoying and cost time Up top, while building towers, after building one tower you lose the ability to build more even if you have the cash. I'd have to press right click, which would send me down into the mine, then climb back up, in order to build more towers.
That said, it was pretty good aside from those rough bits. The art's pretty good and after getting over the "what's going on phase" it's not too difficult.
My main complaint with the game is a failed platforming attempt usually means I have to sit around and wait for 30 seconds to try again. Might have been nice to come up with a way for multiple paths to each objective, per season - or maybe let the season fragments temporarily override the season (with some sort of cooldown)?
Otherwise liked the art and the idea.
That slime's adorable! Solid entry, felt polished. Only real complaint was there was a section in the middle of 3-4 spawners that felt like it didn't require me to do anything except run right and occasionally jump, that I made with like... ~6 seconds left on the timer each time? Felt out of place with the rest of the puzzles around them.
I was confused at first because the health and the enemy seem to share the same art? (a red box). I was thinking i was supposed to collect them and not sure why they seemed to be hurting me. Fun once I figured it out though!
Enjoyed it until the end; the boss ants destroying my pegs felt sort of unfair, given there wasn't a lot I could do to stop them, given they were primarily going against the weak early defenses designed to aoe enemies instead of single target the things that get through.
Minor nitpick; with this style of idling/incremental game, it'd be nice if the game didn't pause when the window loses focus. Would also have liked if some of the upgrades didn't start so weak - there's a lot of growth as things level, but several of the perks are pretty weak at level 1 with really small values.
Other than that, it's pretty well made.
Gives me vibes of the old star wars flight sim games; they had a 'training' mode where you flew down debris cluttered tunnels like this.
Enjoyed it a lot!
The visual style is great!
Pretty good! I think the slowness of movement is the main thing I'd change personally. I also noticed the scaled spritework a few other people are mentioning. Would also have liked to see salvage tracked in the UI somehow. I picked up 2 or 3, realized they didn't seem to be doing anything for me, and then started ignoring them. If it was being tracked as a visible score or the like, I'd have focused on them more.
Of all the themes my team pitched, I can't believe we missed lemmings! It's an interesting theme combo.
Attractive art! Wanted to see more.
Really pretty; great feel to it. I got somewhat frustrated by the first timed gate, but persevered and got through. I couldn't figure out where to go after the curve ball though; it didn't seem to help with the down slope, and I still couldn't make it up the up slope. I figured I was supposed to curve around the void area by the up slope, but that side area didn't seem to lead anywhere.