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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 38 | A Small World | Super Small-io World! | compo | 423 | 2.94 | 3.15 | 2.85 | 3.73 | 1.97 | 2.83 | 2.20 | 2.48 | |||
| 2015 | 32 | An Unconventional Weapon | AntiCon | compo | 647 | 3.07 | 3.47 | 3.18 | 3.42 | 2.07 | 3.33 | 2.62 | 2.57 | 82 | ||
| 2014 | 30 | Connected Worlds | Friendly Baubles | compo | 596 | 3.17 | 2.65 | 3.58 | 3.72 | 2.53 | 3.61 | 2.83 | 3.07 | 88 |
micahcowan leaves an average of 32.0 feedback comments each event.
FYI, Linux build doesn't work out of the box... I unpacked it, plus the window one, and then ran the Linux binary (TheMaitreD.x86_64) from within the Windows directory.
The message I get when running within the Linux directory is "There is no data folder". Obviously that's incorrect, but maybe some items are missing from within there?
Awesome. Left me wanting more. Those guys with the mirrors could be so infuriating. How dare you have weaponry equal to my own! Heh. :)
Fantastic graphics and ambience, and really polished. And the game feels like a puzzle game (love puzzle games!), even if it's probably more action than puzzle.
Couldn't finish the game. Probably right towards the end, with three enemies, all up on platforms, with the tree between them. Just could not do it fast enough to get all three!
I love the unconventional weapon. What a great idea, and the voicing really adds a lot to it. Some of the mechanics don't completely make sense, like "sending" yourself or the puppet underground, when in fact you're no longer standing on the platform (so there's no way to reach it through the ground). But it comes in handy, even if it doesn't make physical sense. ;)
I didn't have trouble with the camera, but I thought the "send projection" thing was too finnicky. Kept missing my target and having to send it over again. Would be nice if you could left/right the projection or something.
Lovely game! Great work!
Fun game! Those guided-missile peas are a thorn in my side. ;)
Since you're not actually throwing food yourself, just shooting bullets of some sort, the weapon doesn't seem all that terribly thematic, really.
The graphics are fantastic! Can't believe you did 'em all in 48 hours. And the music. Guess the gameplay's not complex enough to have needed much programming, though, so guess that'd leave you the time you need.
Neat game, neat idea. :)
Simple and short, but well done, fairly polished, and fun. Nice work!
Terrific graphics, and the gameplay feels very clean. I'd love to see more of it! Very impressive for 48 hours.
Well, that was quite fun.
Um, yours is pretty damn hard too. :)
Nicely done. Creative (and frustrating) idea.
On the second cutscene, I shot myself with my own bullets while the dialog was still playing out. I'm all, "wow, glitch!" But no, that's the gameplay mechanism. :)
Seems to work okay if I fire a stream of shots, and then get the hell outta the way. But I still usually die eventually of failing to dodge myself. Much like all the weapon's testers. ;)
Yeah, I agree, forcing a FB login seems pretty sketchy.
Nice!
I guess spawning only happens if you move/the screen scrolls, which is handy because I can sort of chill for a bit if necessary if something else needs my attention. :)
This game is freaking fantastic. Really well-done!
My only complaint is that it's hard to click on the green balls while moving - maybe if there were an in-game cursor whose game-field position stayed in place while the character moved off (until it hits the edge of the screen anyway), it would be easier to grab? But then I suppose mouse-grabbing's a problem for the most part in web games... And it helps that the actual gamespeed is slow enough to usually give me time to grab stuff (unless that's just my computer, heh)
It doesn't seem like it fits the theme very well, though... I mean, repulsor/rocket/attractor is a common enough theme in 2d platform games I think. But still loads of fun!
Well, that was fun. Definitely left me wanting more.
Definitely a novel take on the theme, and I feel like it worked pretty well as a game.
One minor issue I had was that jumping and moving sideways so you hit a platform shortens the jump, which makes for mild awkwardness in the controls. But in general it felt really smooth.
Oh yeah. And the added music for the "Bass Blast" were decidedly "trebly" ;)
Link to the CoffeeScript source for your compo entry?
Fantastic game! Fun and versatile theme, and great, nostalgic sound.
I have to confess I never could figure out how to get past what's probably the first non-tutorial level, with the big gap. I could never quite manage to get myself up high enough to that platform. I'll have to come back to it and try again later.
Really great job!
Did pretty well, but there's no way I'm getting through that boss, no sir. Especially when I've already used up all the handiest words by then ;)
Really great execution of an interesting concept. Seems many people thought of using words as weapons, but yours is probably the most directly "weapon" I've seen so far. :D
So, personally, I really couldn't get anywhere in the game with those valid keys... so I hacked the source to give me "JKL;"... I'm assuming you had that originally since it was "JKLH" instead of "HJKL". Then I got 10, 11, and then 37 spectators dead, so that worked better for me personally. :)
I get why you changed it though. Still, maybe a choice would be nice. I just couldn't be fast/consistent enough with HJKL (even though I'm completely a vim user... don't ask me!).
Anyway, fun game, and a nice interpretation of the theme.
I think that music would probably kill me too if I had to listen to too much of it. ;)
The graphics and music are great!
...The collision detection seems unrealistic though. Kind of ET-for-Atari style - if someone punches where your feet are on the screen (you seem to be up in back of them by a few feet?) you still get hit, etc. IOW, looks like a layered perspective, but plays by an exact collision detection, which isn't intuitive.
The game itself is basically button-mashing, so not really too much fun after a minute or so.
The intro's awesome!
Very relaxing, pretty art. I hope you guys continue working on it!
Pretty awesome, love the crazy little songs. Obviously since the game's really more about the votes than the actual songs, you could've omitted them if you had to, but I'm glad you spent the time making them, adds a lot to the experience. :)
Hilariously awesome! :)
Really stellar game. Addictive, fun, catchy tunes. Near perfect!
Man, I can NOT get more than half way there. Incredibly addictive game, though.
I can't get "feather" either. I can get "faether"...
Nice job using ClojureScript - functional programming ftw!
Bonus point for writing it in Elm. If I feel adventurous I may try to use it in a future LD. :)
Okay, well there's not much to it right now so I can't rate it very highly - but I _love_ that you wrote this in Elm! And you were unexperienced with the language, which makes it so much harder. That deserves an extra point just because you're crazy brave. :)
I've played with the idea of doing my next LD in a language like Elm or possibly PureScript, _maybe_ ClojureScript. I'm worried about performance degradation in using those languages, but I feel like they probably win out for developer productivity (_provided_ I'm already good and familiar with the languages before I start), given the fact that (especially for Elm and PureScript) certain whole classes of runtime bugs go away.
I might use this LD's game as a template to try rewriting it in one or two of those languages, to see how comfortable I can get, and if I feel like it saves me troubles.
Managed to beat two, but still had no real idea what I was doing.
Great, ambient music and graphics!
Pretty fun.
Really difficult to build up enough steam to kill them. If I kill one and then die, after the restart the firing is out of sync, making it harder to dodge both bullets.
Fun play, good interpretation of the theme. Over too quick :)
The idea reminds me of the idea behind my game for LD 30, "Friendly Baubles". Had to connect friends from your different "worlds" by matching up their dialog and shooting them at each other. (Dumb game, but the idea was fun to work on, anyway.)
Great idea, great execution, clever game/level titles. :)
Frustrating wall deaths, but hexagore's probably right that it makes it a much better challenge. Still probably found them more frustrating than fun, though.
I'm the worst stone fighter in the world.
Great music, awesome game idea, well executed.
An HP bar could be useful.
Would be nice if there was some sort of feedback when you push the DVDs into the pit, so you can be sure you're heading in the right direction. That, and a display of how many DVDs remain to be shoved in.
I played the HTML5 version, as I'm on a Mac at the moment. I see the decals fine (Firefox) - at least I assume you're talking about things like the signs on the bus stop, and the game DVD covers?
If you're having trouble with the decals, it might be because some browsers refuse to let JavaScript load up arbitrary files for resources, as there are security problems with that. If you can put it up on a server and use it from there, you may find that it works better? Worth a shot (if you can get access to a hosting server).
Fun game! I think it'd help if the controls were a bit more effectful (used keyboard+mouse); it felt a bit sluggish (not framerate, just gameplay due to time it takes to turn).
It's really difficult to get the throwing power just right, though practice helps. Also, waiting until they're close up. :D
Nice game! Simple, but good fun.
Might want to check out "Love Hurts", another web game with a similar theme:
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-32/?action=preview&uid=12006
As usual, you've made a fantastic game in 48 hours, complete with addictive music.
Took me a while to realize that there is zero incentive in actually _using_ the weapons on the badguys, except when it's necessary to clear some space or eliminate a threat - that the goal is actually to obtain these weapons. Which is cool, because it forces you to gain a familiarity with the different weapons so that you can easily switch gears to the different weapons based on which one you just picked up (there's little time for studying them, naturally).
I like it. I can't get past cave 2, those little red thingies are a pain in my rear.
The Web/HTML5 thing crashes for me (Firefox/MacOS). I've been seeing a lot of complaints about Unity HTML5 builds not working on MacOS, but that Firefox fixes it (but it never does for me). Just FYI.
Crafting4U: I think you scare them away by sneaking behind rather than getting them from the front or (sometimes) side.
Fun to play. Might be nice if you don't get sent away even when you sneak up behind them. The path-finding for your adversaries seems to be inefficient in wide-open spaces.
Solid game. Mechanics seem to work well, and it's undeniably an unconventional weapon. ;)
Yay! I got victory with no terrors on my very first playthrough!
Then I played it again to see the lovely little pleas for help from the townspeople. ;)
I have a feeling this game would be extremely challenging for a lot of people I know, who can't touch-type. Hunt-and-peck won't exactly work here! I'll bet you could program macros to type the words in for you, though - then you could just hit one key to type them in. ;)
Would make a nice diversion as part of a larger typing tutor / typing practice app.
Seems pretty solid, and it's a fun/cute game. Good use of the theme, too. Nice job!
I can't seem to open the door. I tried jumping in front of it, onto it, from it... :(
Doesn't seem to fit the theme particularly?
Can't launch the Mac app. No errors, nothing happens.
Love me an isomorphic game.
That room like two before the lights go out is insane, though. So hard to tell where things are in spatial relationship to one another.
Didn't get past the four guys waiting for you at the bottom of the stairs, couldn't find the way to proceed there.
Great game!
This game has no gorram right to be as fun as it is.
Would be nice to have a scoring system, or something to make it feel like progress (and compare how much longer you've lasted than your friends).
Text is too small/blurry for me to read (didn't rate). :(
Nice! Makes me think of Worms, somehow. :)
Looks like fun! Very respectable first JavaScript game.
I can't escape the G man long enough to destroy all the records. Be nice if there was a way to slow the G man down, maybe if the vomit made him slower for a bit or something.
Holding the key down moves, pauses, then moves in a sustained fashion; this is an artifact of how the keydown event works in JavaScript, but you could work around that by setting a flag when keydown is fired, and removing the flag when keyup is fired, and checking that flag in the main loop/timeout callback instead of calling a function directly from the keydown handler.
Nice job!
Ran fine for me on Firefox, at least on a MacBook Pro.
Game's terrifically fun, and a fantastic idea. Great graphics, good sound, great take on the theme...
It was a bit easy, though - I never really struggled at any point.
Wow. I can't believe you did this in 72 hours. A fantastic job!
It's an awesome depiction of what it's like to live with bipolar. Particularly, of constant, often severe "mood swings". It's obviously too simplistic, but I don't see how anyone could do much better with a 10-minutes-of-play game.
Love the graphics, love the mood, love the gameplay, love the stark openness. Thanks for making this!
Very cool! The original is just way too damn hard without some introduction. The revised version obviously fixes that, but it seems like maybe the full-on level in it runs a little faster? At any rate it doesn't seem to read my keypresses as consistently on that level as either the earlier (slower) levels, or the full-on level from the original.
Music's nice, glad you gave it a little more to do during the intro sequence in the revised version. Fun game!
What a fantastic entry! Loved the challenge of the last few levels.
Very cool idea, and everything seems to be working right. Got hard really fast.
I really enjoyed this game. Very simple in every way, but devilishly challenging.
It did take me a bit to figure out that by Left Control you meant the left control key; I thought it meant the control that takes you left (i.e., the left arrow key). D'oh!
Really cool idea! Nice interpretation of the theme.
Hey, you finished your game! And it works!
Fun to play, but obviously way too short. :)
Yay, I won! :D ...Game was pretty hard, especially that jump in level 2.
Really solid job. No external libraries or anything, only 48 hours... impressive!
Hey, look at that, I won! :D
Congratulations on a successful first LD. Solid offering, and a funny idea. :)
Works in Chrome (or at least, gets to the game). In Firefox, debug console says "Reference Error: earth not defined" when I click on the Start button (nothing happens).
The camera makes the controls hard. Maybe the controls should be independent of the camera?
I couldn't figure out how to play world 3, guess I suck. :(
I can't tell you how much I enjoyed the music. Yes, I know you just churned it out hastily by dubbing your own voice over itself a coupla times, but it's catchy, and the acapella nature of it just makes it that much cooler.
Thanks for making it!
Very nicely done. Simple and minimalist, but fun, complete, and polished.
Very nice. Sometimes it's hard to get an angle that both provides a good view, and still makes sense with the controls.
Chrome works fine, but Firefox had the following errors:
screen.init is not a function
screen.update is not a function
If these are optional functions of a canvas, perhaps protecting them with a try block would get things further?
Excellent entry. Challenging and fun!
I don't think I figured out quite how to play it: I'd connect the worlds and hit "Generate Path", but it didn't seem like anything would happen after that point, and my energy would keep dropping (running Firefox).
Music is very nice. Took me a while to discover I could also click and drag to rotate the view.
Love it! So simple/basic, but fun, novel, addictive. :)
It's amazing what a diff good bg music makes, too.
I appreciate that you made it that the robots couldn't shoot bullets you couldn't dodge, considering how much vertical real estate the player character takes up. :)
The graphics are fantastic! And the segue from "real" music to "imaginary" music, with the same melody but different timbres, is really awesome.
Absolutely amazing!
Very nice! Fiendishly difficult.
Gets my blood pumping. It's friggin' hard! Really, really solid entry.
I love absolutely everything about this. Great graphics and animation, the little guy reminds me of tachikoma from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone. The puzzles are good and challenging without being frustrating.
And the final status makes you want to immediately replay it. :)
It's confusing that the same person apparently wants to make calls to multiple people... at the same time!
I love the cowboy getup, I love the switch-crystals, I love the wraith-deaths, I love the goal-statues.
I think this tied with Bacon Installer for my favorite game so far. :)
The music's fantastic! :)
The art is good, and I love the kinky deal-sealing.
Fun and challenging! And I love your interpretation of the theme, very original.
At some point it would let me pick up pegs, but not connect them anymore. Not sure what happened. I lost obviously.
Very awesome for 72-hours! Fun, and it has a basic AI!
I like the way the camera sort of swoops onto the action (delayed pan), as opposed to just shrinking directly to it.
Hah, nice. I love the look of panic on the planets' faces. :D
At least once (level 2 I think?), the two remaining planets were no longer connected together (this made them easier to save, definitely.
Very nice!
Very nice! No way I'm playing to level 60 though.
I don't actually understand how the levels work. I got a score of > 140 in the typing game (finally just let them fall), but my level wasn't nearly that high (was plenty high enough to satisfy the security cat though). In the walking game, seemed like my level increased even on games where I really sucked.
Nice little piano ditty. Mine has piano music I played, too. :)
Mmmm. Bacon.
Nice job!
It's a bit too hard, to me. Hard to tell which planet is being aimed at if there are more than one in the path of the missle. Also, as someone else noted, it's a bit hard to keep up with the planets on a trackpad, maybe they could slow just a bit.
It might be easier to tell where the missiles were headed if they moved in a straight line - that is, if they targeted where the planet is going to be after a certain distance, rather than where it is now (in real life it'd be done this way, as it saves on fuel ;) )... but I suppose that requires a bit of math.
Really great. Simple, fun gameplay, soothing music, appropriate sound effects, challenging math puzzle. Awesome!
Very nice game! Got to the boss, but didn't beat it.
A three, or even two-bar health system would make it a little less frustrating. ;)
Addictive. I read the instructions, but somehow the "can't do same colors" thing threw me for a while anyway.
The timer's too fast. Aaaaaaugh! :D
Job well done! All the more impressive for not using any libraries, all one file.
Good idea, great music, fun. But over way too quickly, and there's basically zero challenge to it as it currently stands. You can't really gain much gold (I got as high as 70), as you have to keep moving if you want to avoid hitting a "zero" town, so you can really only stay somewhere a few times total if you want to make maximum profit.
Very nice for a first LD (this was my first too).
Fun enough, but I couldn't do very much. Never figured out how to mine rocks, is there no tool for that? There were things that looked like pickaxes, but these were tracked as regular axes for chopping trees. Anyway, it's a nice go!
Post your source, it's required! This is 48-hour compo. Minified isn't readable, I'm guessing it doesn't count.
Game is fun enough. Is there an end, or you just keep trying to expand?
I stuck with it. Good game, sound effects were awesome (what is that, ukelele?). Accidentally walking offscreen and erasing the yellow line is really, really frustrating though!
Somehow felt like maybe I hadn't beat the game when I think I had (went back to original user, who asked for privacy ha). Could use a closing screen or something.
Great game! Loved it.
Clearly inspired by one of my all-time favorite games, Abe's Oddysee. :)
Saved 8 souls. Wasn't clear that's the end of the game, just sort of stopped there. Would be nice if it said "8 out of N", too, so I can know if I missed any.
Note: sometimes the tree's still there after I've chopped it down, so I can chop it a second time.
Felt like I was playing NetHack (except I'm not constantly dying)
Nice, simple game, having the video on adds ambience. It would work better if there wasn't the load beeping that starts partway through, though...
Played better than many "Choose Your Own Adventure Games" of my youth did. The font adds a lot to the feel of it, though the opening quotes seem to display low, like it was written for a language other than English (I'm using Firefox on Mac OS, if that matters).
A few misspelled words, like "led" was "let", and "younger than" was "younger then". Also, one moment I'm watching TV, the next I'm apparently in an insane asylum. Seems like more of a segue would've been nice. :)
Enjoyed it. Thanks!
Challenging, unique, and fun. Nice job!
Gridlines might help (slightly). And more worlds of course. ;)
Very nicely done. The glyph names being similar to Hebrew or some other Semitic language makes it seem like you're looking at the "Spoken Word underlying creation", and the graphics evokes the idea that we're just running in the Matrix.
Surprisingly addictive for what it is. And no losing condition (that I know of?) so, relaxing.
Fun! Challenging. Gonna take me some time to get good at it. :)
Gorgeous and fun. Like the intro. Nice way to make me exercise two different parts of my brain at the same time.
Like missile command, without having to wait for the missiles (and only one city to save).
Fun, and definitely thematic. Died of expended line a lot. Don't seem to have quite got the trick of launching to the next planet, either, seems like I don't quite overcome line momentum a lot of the time.
Some sort of timer to indicate that you're in the process of reloading would be nice.
God mode is fun. :)
Can't seem to point myself at 'em before they've blown me to smithereens in short order. Though that's probably me.
Fun game, good use of the theme.
Good fun! Sure got tired of clicking, though. ;)
I love tether mechanics, too. Worked well here.
I think it'd be nice to be able to see the tether points, though I suppose with a game this simple it's the only way to keep a challenge.
The collision detect on the heart is poor, had to move around a lot until it registered I was there.
I had some difficulty running it on Mac OS X: it got an error while trying to load the level files. I don't think it was finding it via the relative path: you might make it easier by finding the path containing ColouredWorlds.love and setting it as the current working directory.
I worked around it by dropping the "love" app directly in the same directory, and then running in the terminal:
$ love.app/Contents/MacOS/love ColouredWorlds.love
Such a simple concept, but it makes it much more challenging and fun. Loved it!
Fun! Had a hard time, probably because at first I thought you had to avoid blue AND red. D'oh!
Love the randomized sound effects.
Pretty cool! Kind of tough to stick with playing a game that unfolds in real time, though, especially if there's not all that much to do in the first place.
Maybe you could add a link to a "Plus" version that lets you skip ahead in time if you want to play with the morning/evening transitions and stuff?
Contrast wasn't the theme, of course; it was the most downvoted theme. But then, I suppose it also manages to kind of meet the Beneath the Surface theme, too (if the dividing line is "the surface"?), so I guess you managed to meet both the winning AND losing themes?
LD38 — A Small World (33)
Home Escaper by h2n0 2017-05-04T20:34:10Z ♥ 1
Looks cool, but man I had little idea what I was doing. Placed a couple buildings and stared at it a while. :)
Factions by frenchie 2017-05-04T09:04:14Z ♥ 2
This game is fun, and the sound effects/victory music make me very happy! ^_^
One-Pass by LukeZaz 2017-05-04T08:38:43Z ♥ 1
The Mac build is running fine for me. Had you fixed it? I'm running El Capitan.
Possibly I have something installed as a "dev" that a stock system might not?
Infectoids by sanojian 2017-05-04T03:01:15Z ♥ 0
Yay, a fellow JavaScripter! ^_^
I love the artwork in this. The difficulty gets too much for me fairly quickly, but it's fun!
Beware The Idiots by Gris 2017-05-04T02:38:26Z ♥ 1
Lol, can't get too far in this game on my laptop trackpad ^_^
Fun and funny. Nice job in 48 hours, and the sound is particularly entertaining!
Strangeness by philomory 2017-05-04T02:09:39Z ♥ 1
Hi! Mac build (both pre- and post-jam) is still failing. An excerpt of the error message (if I cd into `Strangeness.app` and run `MacOS/Strangeness` directly from there:
``` /Users/mcowan/Downloads/Strangeness.app/Contents/Resources/lib/yaml.rb:5:in `': It seems your ruby installation is missing psych (for YAML output). To eliminate this warning, please install libyaml and reinstall your ruby. /Users/mcowan/Downloads/Strangeness.app/Contents/Resources/lib/psych.rb:7:in `require': dlopen(/Users/mcowan/Downloads/Strangeness.app/Contents/Resources/lib/psych.bundle, 9): Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/libyaml/lib/libyaml-0.2.dylib (LoadError) ```
I tried doing a local `gem install psych`, but that didn't fix it for me. I have fink installed, so I also did an `apt-get install libyaml`. That didn't work. Neither did copying `libyaml-0.2.dylib` into `Strangeness.app/Frameworks` - apparently it actually has to be the `/usr/local/opt` directory. What _did_ work, was creating that directory path (as root, via sudo) and copying the dylib file there. So I got it working for _me_... but most people will have more of a challenge in getting `libyaml-0.2.dylib` in the first place (unless, like me, they're a "fink" user), and copying to that absolute path is definitely a hassle. Maybe there's some other path within the `Strangeness.app` that would work, but I didn't find it.
FUEL by KCreanor 2017-05-03T20:45:04Z ♥ 1
That was a lot of fun! Level 9 defeated me, heh.
Wire loop game in space! ...Also reminds me of the UFO boss level of Super Mario Galaxy. :)
Thanks for playing my own game earlier!
Destruction Zone by Chronosv2 2017-05-03T08:18:08Z ♥ 1
Solid offering. Congratulations on finishing it in only 48 hours, especially if you're newish to Unity!
I like that it's a tower defense that has the shot powerups from my favorite classic sh'mups. Defending those towers sure is a lot easier once you've got fast spreader shots, but then the enemies ramp things up too.
Really fun!
Den by La mecanique du plastique 2017-05-03T08:04:47Z ♥ 2
Wow, I'm totally in awe. This game is great. Way, way too short - I hope you make it into a fuller game. Also with gamepad controls or something, because the mouse controls get a bit tiresome.
The look and feel, the art, the mood, the idea, the panicky little humans, and the very atmospheric music, everything's just fantastic. Great job!
And thanks for having played/rated/commented on my game as well. Appreciate it!
World Battles by Thinkofname 2017-05-03T07:55:21Z ♥ 1
Surprisingly fun for such a simple concept. The "hop out of your seat and place your guns" bit has a mild "Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime" feel (but fortunate that you don't have to go and individually man the guns!
I like thta I have to anticipate their future location and adjust accordingly with the gun aim, and that I can often hang out in their blind side (where they have no guns), and wail at them from there! ^_^
Congratulations on making such a fun game by yourself in only 48 hours! And thank you for having played my game as well. :)
NO STEP ON HYOOMINS by makenai 2017-05-03T07:38:39Z ♥ 2
How the _hell_ did I make it through my first playthrough without squashing any hyoomins?!
Made up for it by squashing as many as I could the next round. Only got like 23 though.
Great game! Fun, challenging, simple. :) Congratulations on getting it done in a weekend!
The Button Room by Laylow 2017-05-03T07:32:17Z ♥ 1
Congratulations on finishing a game in 14 hours! Guess even a full weekend still has time for a Ludum Dare entry!
Fun, zany concept. A bit light on substance of course, but hey, you finished it, and it's reasonably fun. :)
Ionnect by AkirAssasin 2017-05-03T07:25:06Z ♥ 2
Cool, a chemistry game in JavaScript! Congrats on finishing this all on your own in 48 hours
Like @shillingburg I basically just fumbled around, but it seemed to fall into straightforward patterns. Pretty easy to interpose the "extra" atoms in with all the rest just by making it a link in a chain.
Ended up being a bit easy (even for a chem n00b like me!), maybe something else is needed to make it more challenging. But it's always great to see good educational STEM game ideas!
Even just a sound effect or two for the start/end of making a connection, and maybe finishing a compound, could make a difference in the "feel" of the game. But I know everything's a scramble in these jams to fit what you can in the available time.
Anyway, great job! And thanks for checking my game out too. ^_^
Bamboo Life by candlesan 2017-05-02T09:58:55Z ♥ 1
This is a straight up amazing game for 48 hour, solo compo! It's a complete and enjoyable level. I really got into automating as much as possible to speed up the bamboo growing process and win me that trophy. Has a "factorio but for gardening" feel!
I'd love to see this developed into a full game. If you ever do, please let me know! micah@addictivecode.org
World of Echoes by multiplexor 2017-05-02T09:11:45Z ♥ 1
Ah, no! Nonononono no! There needed to be so much more to that! D:
Heheh. So fun. Wanted to keep playing. Excellent job to have made this yourself in only 24 hours! Whoa!
Get Off My Planet by Zccc 2017-05-02T08:51:20Z ♥ 1
I love the artwork, and the look of the characters!
I feel like it'd be nice if gravity slowly pulled the bullet into the planet or something, because after a shot is fired, it seems like it's basically just about dodging that one bullet.
Insect Attack by SimplePotential 2017-05-02T08:43:07Z ♥ 2
Yeah, a bit extra-rough for mac users, especially on a MacBook. Two-fingered clicking does right click, but apparently not reliably enough to get far in the game (not to mention how overwhelming the black ants can be).
But I know how it can be when you have to scrap your project and start something new from scratch, and this game's pretty impressive for six hours' work! Congratulations on finish a game for Ludum Dare!
Space Aliens Are Coming by RealityCheck 2017-05-02T08:35:36Z ♥ 1
I thought the game wasn't going so well, down to one little friend, when lo and behold the lovemaking begins! (They even make love to themselves to produce, what versatile guys!) They sure mature fast, too. No wonder the invading army wants them so bad! :D
Game was a lot of fun. Sure is hard to protect them when there's a bunch of them, but protecting a couple is a piece of cake.
Took me a bit to get used to the single-bullet respawn happening. I'd sit there leaning on the clicker, wondering why my bullets aren't reaching the invaders. ;)
Congratulations on completing such an entertaining game by yourself in only 48 hours!
Shapeshifter: The King of A Small World by Rixud 2017-05-02T08:13:46Z ♥ 1
Neat idea! The first bee level was a challenge. I beat it, but didn't take time to play much further. Congratulations on finishing a game in 72 hours!
uP-8: Microprocessor by Spaceman 2017-05-02T07:56:47Z ♥ 1
I love TIS-100, so it was fun to see this game! Could really use a debugger or something, though, because when something goes wrong, it's very difficult to tell what it was. Particularly with the SCA command, I thought.
Mind The Gap (First Ludum Dare) by Izunah 2017-05-02T01:09:27Z ♥ 1
Man, I suck at this game! Congratulations for finishing this in 48 hours. :)
Space Cowboy's Last Stand by jasperarmstrong 2017-05-02T01:05:50Z ♥ 1
Congratulations! You made a game! ^_^
I agree that the store makes it hard when aliens start shooting - and the store HUD gets in the way when there's aliens that spawn by the store, too.
Very simple, yet challenging!
PogoPogo by obvious-san 2017-05-02T00:49:50Z ♥ 1
Love the art, and the variety of characters. Your guy jumping around with enthusiasm is great, I can see why it's so infectious!
Tiny Planet by Tiny Planet Studios 2017-05-02T00:39:51Z ♥ 1
Gameplay wise, the only things that hung me up were the colored plugs part (it took me a while to realize those green/red boxes meant I chose the right cord to go to that box - I was expecting to actually plug the cord in! - but I realize time was tight), and the fact that a mouse click is needed to advance the text (expected Enter or Space to work, since I'm mostly using the keyboard to naviage)
Very respectable game! You finished a game, which is quite an achievement in 48 hours. Great job!
Smalltrek by impbox 2017-05-01T23:31:08Z ♥ 3
I had a little difficulty figuring out what to do at first. I think a little more feedback that you really can't move inanimate objects (perhaps a refusal to enable "pick up" on them at all, with a buzzer sound?) might help with that.
The variety of aliens and their workings (the Chrysornax and their ability to chain / hatred of cuddles especially) offer great variety. The puzzles are short but challenging, and there are a bunch of them!
It's amazingly good for 48 hour compo! Really impressive!
It could maybe use a "par" or something to improve the challenge. And earned stars based on how close to par? I suppose you'd have to add a game element that needs those stars...
The Deep by GertJohnny 2017-05-01T06:12:30Z ♥ 3
I am so in awe of this game. It's an excellent example of how sometimes more restrictive controls (such as being forced to turn the wheels for a simple 2d location) can enhance the fun. The sounds are awesome and immersive. The crappy, money-grubbing company adds to the fun :) Congratulations!
Planet CLTV-8 by graebor 2017-05-01T05:26:13Z ♥ 0
Very zen!
Space Hummus by voxel 2017-05-01T05:07:42Z ♥ 1
Haha! Poor Potto, can't do anything right.
Great game! I had a lot of fun. The challenge level was just right.
Maybe a "challenge" mode where you may only jump a limited number of times? (Inspired by your GIF racing through the diagonal-spikes enclosure level)
Sabara by estherbouma 2017-05-01T04:43:20Z ♥ 0
Don't forget to include a link to the sources (if the .zip doesn't include them). Might be good to identify what platform the game is for as well? I'm assuming Windows, I'll have to check it out when I'm at my Windows machine.
Gaia by PowerSpark 2017-05-01T04:38:56Z ♥ 2
I'm in awe. That's a fantastic game for 48 hours!
I like the visuals that identify the barriers to movement. It's like the ones in VR games, and gives a clear indication of where you're meant to be.
The music's so chill, and the Gaia/earth creature looks great. :)
The first level with coins was fairly challenging, but I did manage to make the end. :D
Soleil by JoyFired 2017-05-01T04:19:27Z ♥ 2
Looks like we both did something Super Mario Galaxy-ish (though mine was 2D).
As with others, I found the parkour a little on the too-challenging side, but it all seems to work fairly well, and the sparse lighting and the audio go a long way to making it an experience.
A little bit of a ramp-up/acceleration on the movement, rather than just suddenly moving, might go some way to easing the controls a bit.
Excellent job!
A Social Network by law5guy 2017-04-24T09:06:10Z ♥ 1
Nice to see a fellow JavaScript game-coder in the Portland area! ^_^
My [first LD game](http://micah.cowan.name/friendly-baubles/) a few years ago was about making connections between people, too (I think the theme was "Connected Worlds").
Itsa Pixel! by damnscout 2017-04-24T08:29:11Z ♥ 1
Excellent first-ever game! Was fun, and very challenging once you reach the level where "which pixel to get" keeps shifting. :)