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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 57 | Depths | Hole Punch | compo | 121 | 3.55 | 3.61 | 3.53 | 3.81 | 3.20 | 3.42 | 3.84 | 3.18 | |
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | Collateral Damage | compo | 121 | 3.77 | 3.65 | 3.55 | 4.08 | 3.86 | 3.39 | 3.35 |
I really liked taking the idea of "stuck in a loop" and applying it to your game thematically. The music was really beautiful and I love how it reinforced the idea of finding pleasure in all the unexpected little details of your life. Awesome job!
This is cool! It's almost like a reverse tower defense game where you control the things on the track instead of the towers. I could definitely see this being expanded to give each car a couple more upgrade options.
nice job!
I loved the atmosphere! The slowing down/speeding up mechanic was cool too. Nice job!
Good game! I would agree with the comment above that it may be nice to have some sort of gauge of how much time is left before it loops again, but overall I like the aesthetic and the game play was fun. Good job!
Pretty fun game! Laid back and I liked the visuals. Adding the stop mechanic was fun and unexpected too, I could definitely see building more puzzles off this idea. Good job!
Great game @miziziziz! The rope physics were super fun to play around with and it was super satisfying to try to coax the bad guys into walking into my little electric whip.
Big fan of your channel, actually watching your videos for the past few months convinced me to try to participate in this LD (this is my first actual game jam)
Keep up the good work and great submission!
This game was fun! I actually submitted something kinda similar but different. I liked the art and the upgrade system. A potential fun upgrade could be something like being able to get a small boost and increase the speed of the ships rotation.
Good job!
Love this game! Simple yet fun concept and incredibly polished with great visuals. Good job!
I love the aesthetic of this game, it was hard but pretty satisfying once you're able to get a good score! I got to around 11.
I loved the aesthetic of this game! Reminded me of the old Pokemon games on my gameboy. Also the story was fun and charming, awesome job!
Wow, this game blew me away. It's seriously crazy to think that you accomplished this in 48 hours, it's so polished and the idea is fleshed out in seriously fun and creative ways. With a couple more levels I could see this being a full release and I wouldn't have even known that it was made in just 2 days.
Great job, this is easily my favorite so far!
I like the idea, it's actually pretty similar to the game I submitted. I liked the record/vinyl idea though. Maybe adding a line for the path that you're following could be helpful, or the ability to move in/out. Nice job!
Wow this game was super fun. It's almost like DOS version of Papers Please and this is the highest my heartrate has been in a while. Awesome job!
I liked the circular level design a lot and I actually think the idea of having to learn your way through a level over and over in a short amount of time is super fun. It's like turning speed running into a mechanic.
I did encounter a bug when I reached the room with the message on the wall where it wouldn't go away, but I just restarted it and it was fine.
Good game!
This is probably my favorite game I've played yet! Simple, easy to learn but hard to master. The title screen did a great job of explaining the concept too without needing a tutorial. Awesome job!
Nice job with the idea that you're stuck inside a music loop instead of a physical one. I like that the motivation to not get hit is because you want to hear the music get more and more layered. Good job!
I loved the atmosphere this game created. Dark and depressing, just what 2020 ordered! Nice job, I actually liked the silence apart from the footsteps, it gave it an cool eerie and somber mood. And of course as the others have said, the art was great. Nice job!
I love the art, super fun game and could definitely see it expanded out into a full release. Nice job!
This is a great game. Deceptively difficult, perhaps start slower on the early levels and let it ramp up as you progress. But the physics, visuals, level design are all great. Nice job.
This is super awesome, and I cant believe that you were able to do it on Pico-8. Props, the game is super fun!
Really fun game! A little tricky to pick up at first but once the arrows are introduced the puzzles become fun and engaging. Nice job (and great sprites too!)
Fun puzzle game! Really nice level progression slowly introducing the different mechanics and how they interact with each other. Nice job!
Thanks to everyone for the feedback so far!
@luc-creationallabs
psssh you think thats good?? check this score out!
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I'm sorry I haven't had the time to respond to all of you individually but WOW I am blown away from the responses so far. This is my first game jam and I've definitely gotten a ton of great feedback that will help me expand out this idea and give me things to keep in mind as I create more games in the future.
Thanks so much to everyone who's played so far!!
Nice job! I liked the atmosphere and it was definitely satisfying to kill the aliens. I would maybe expand on this by adding a health system, so its not a one-hit kill. The one-hit kill does make it more challenging but because the first couple days are a little slow it makes getting back into the game take a little while.
Overall nice job though!
Wow - this blew me away, especially given that it was made in only 48 hours. The aesthetic and sound design were great, and it was really satisfying to machine-gun those balls all over the map. It was also really clever to utilize different colored walls to help keep the player from getting disoriented when exploring the map. I also really liked that the exit is looming over you the whole time. Great job!
Cute game! The 3D models were really impressive especially given the time constraints. Nice job!
This was really charming! I really liked the twist of a platformer where the goal is to fall down the holes. The 8 bit aesthetic was really well done, and the level design was great. It really made me think hard about if/when I wanted to use my stockpile of supplies.
Also, as a fellow Microfreak owner, I'm always happy to see it get some love :D Nice job!
Wow - so my original idea for this game jam was something really similar to this, but I couldn't get the math to work in order to consistently determine if something was in focus or not. That being said, even if I had, it wouldn't have come out half this good or charming! This is really awesome, it controls amazingly, and looks fantastic too. Great entry!
This is really awesome! The fact that you're able to achieve this kind of visual depth with a limited color palette and resolution is really incredible. Admittedly because the circles were green I thought the goal was to get as many as possible at first, but I quickly realized what I was doing wrong. Great entry!
This was a fun entry! The minecraft and overcooked hybrid mechanics actually really complimented each other, it was a clever twist on that formula. I also liked the voxel look of the dwarves and the little lava snail was cute. One bit of feedback is I wish I could have pet it lol. Nice job!
I really liked this! The level design was great - I loved how each set of checkpoints acted as its own little level, but everything was woven together in a way where it really felt like you were going on an epic journey. The death sound and animation were really satisfying too. Nice job!
This was actually a really cool twist on Minesweeper! It definitely added a new challenge - keeping track of the different layers was actually more challenging than I expected. I did find the camera and background a little disorienting, but the gameplay was really fun and solid. Nice job!
@gargantuan-janitor I actually originally did have that implemented - but I ended up changing it to make it less punishing/less confusing why you lost. I'll have to see if I can find some better feedback for that case and add it back in. Thanks for playing!
Wow, I think my high score was 52m so it looks like I'm no longer the world hole punch record holder. Congrats @xwilq!
And thanks to everyone else who's been playing/posting their scores!
@yopin dear god, he’s done it. He’s reached the edge of the earth. The Prophecy has come true!
Nice job! I was able to get 191 gold, not too shabby if I do say so myself. I really liked the sprite-work. One suggestion is to maybe increase the game speed over time, so as you get deeper you have to react a little faster. Good entry!
Cute game! The music was really nice, and it was fun to control the cow in free fall. I think one small bit that would improve the game feel would be to add a little more feedback when you pop the balloons, like a sound effect or screens shake or something. Nice job!
This was really awesome! The blending of the top down and platforming sections was really well done, I was really trying to speedrun to make sure I wasn't stuck in the gauntlet too long. The game feel was super crunchy and satisfying too. Art, sfx, mechanics, this was great across the board. Nice job!
This game controls really well! That coupled with the great flying squirrel model makes this a super fun one to play. Great entry!
This was a really clever twist on tetris, utilizing game mechanics we're all familiar with and applying them to a whole different genre. Nice job!
I'm really impressed that you were able to pull together a card game in such a short amount of time - that's not easy. The aesthetic was really great too - the art and sound design were really well executed. I loved the muffled, reverby voice of the old woman, it really added to the eeriness of it all. Nice job!
This was a ton of fun! Bouncing around the slime was really satisfying, especially once you get that 16m weight. Really impressive level design for only 48 hours. Nice job!