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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Atlantoid Plantoid | compo | 736 | 3.22 | 2.89 | 3.20 | 3.61 | 2.84 | 3.52 | 2.63 | 2.98 | |||
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | Star Battle | compo | 390 | 3.10 | 2.90 | 3.93 | 3.55 | 2.78 | 3.94 | 1.81 | 2.92 | |||
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | Furtual Rabbit: a defurred income game | compo | 455 | 2.79 | 2.52 | 2.98 | 2.86 | 2.77 | 2.87 | 3.02 | 2.86 | |||
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | Marco Polo | compo | 440 | 3.22 | 3.18 | 2.64 | 3.12 | 3.05 | 3.20 | 2.85 | 2.97 | |||
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | MANIFOLD | compo | 1026 | 2.68 | 2.55 | 2.28 | 2.62 | 2.55 | 2.79 | 2.15 | 2.58 | 67 |
microwerx leaves an average of 23.6 feedback comments each event.
Not bad for a weekend. I really enjoyed this game. The cat reminded me a bit of Pusheen. I liked the puzzles, tough, but fun. The music really tied everything together, although sometimes the volume was going in and out, perhaps tied to a game mechanic or something.
Great job, very polished hack n slash that reminded me of Flow, but with fighting. Graphics style is kind similar to mine. I also crashed when I got to the third boss on the HTML version.
I enjoyed the game, i didn't care as much for the control system, but I understand it. I was hoping for audio as it would really enhance the game. The animations and graphics were great! I really liked the game, great job!
Great design. I really like the mood of this game. Excellent. I liked the interplay of different abilities.
Fun concept. I like the idea of typing to shoot the weapon. I felt it would have been nice to type a word in with letters in the gun in order to get the gun to fire, rather than try to collect them in the right order.
Game is hard and great work for the amount of time you spent. Sound would really have made this game more fun. I thought it was good that you had to get your weapon charged before you could shoot.
I like the direction of this game. It was fun. It was annoying to have to type in the whole code again and I would really have loved if there was a subroutine mode. This game kinda reminded me of Robot turtles. cool!
I won! Ok, I think this game is a good start. The collision issues have already been mentioned. Those are tough to get right at the last minute. I really like where the game was headed.
Fun concept. I rolled Seasonal Holiday + Portrait Orientation. I did the art in Pyxel Edit using a custom palette. christmas-scene.png
It gets scary after dark when the creatures come after you. I think this is impressive how much you were able to do in the 48 hours. I think it would be neat to continue this idea and polish up some of the mechanics. Sometimes the gameplay felt sluggish and there were crashes. Overall, I had fun.
I beat it! That was a fun play of physics in space! Great job! My family loved this game as well!
I struggled with this game. It was interesting to play, but I always felt that there was lag with my mouse...but I only have a trackpad & a bluetooth mouse at the moment. I may have to give this a go a little later with a wired mouse.
Got sucked into playing this game. I was struggling at first before I realized that sea stars help you. The game was fun and the proof was the amount of time I kept playing. The only downside is that after a while the music gets a little tiring. But great job.
The game was interesting to play. The music had this mellotron-ish feel to it which I enjoyed. I enjoyed the art style but sometimes it was difficult to tell which planet was which. I did not like that I had to install the program (version 7) to run it, perhaps that is something that can be fixed in a future release.
This was very cool. I liked how out of control everything could get. And the movement from piece to piece was fun. Sometimes, it felt that I was in control of too much at one time, but that adds to the chaos. Nicely done!
This game reinvents the snake game for me. It reminded me a little of Flow. I love the ASCII graphics and the sound really made the game fun and humorous. Great job!
Fun entry. I was drawn to it because of 2.5D. I enjoyed the graphics. Good job!
Nice game--very polished. I was hoping maybe the music would be in. Game is very tough, but I kept wanting to get better. Good job!
I enjoyed this entry. This was a nice social commentary on Facebook. I liked the graphics and it went fine with the music. One of the most polished LD games I've seen this go around. Great job!
This was fun. I like pirates. The way the glowing coins disappeared after collecting them reminded me of the game Descent where blowing out the lights made the whole level dark. I enjoyed the monkey enemies though they got a little repetitious after a while. Altogether, this feels like a AAA game compared to many LD games--no wonder you all were tired.
Nice job. I enjoyed the art and music especially. I liked the simple mechanic used in the game which made it easy to learn. I think there was a nice balance of wanting to keep trying versus being too hard.
Wow...that was a cliffhanger. I like the social commentary of Auto-saves. In the end, I skipped the log files and tried to ... ERR--ARR-BLEEP ... and after that I GORF-C64-VIC-20-DFSDFSDFASDF ... and then I was able to start the game and play! I think my life was currency playing!!!
I enjoyed the story--it totally had me hooked. The story almost had a echo of the thneeds in Dr Seuss' The Lorax. I'm glad I did the right thing in the end. I noticed that you could theoretically buy as many stilts as you want without any negative effect.
Nice game. You already mentioned the issues. Does not work very well with a trackpad, but a mouse was just fine. I enjoyed the challenge, I think as the game gets harder, resetting everything to zero can be too much of a punishment. But, great concept overall!
I always wanted to play a Quaker--he's the LIFE of the party! Fun game. I enjoyed the increasing complexity of the maps. Sometimes the collision detection doesn't work and as a result the game is too easy to beat. But it's nice and easy for those not wanting to get pummeled to death in the first minute. Nice job!
This was fun. I liked the mood with the mob controlling your store (darn racketeers!). I made it to the end, but sometimes it felt like the game didn't register a key press. Folks already mentioned the repetition in the words. This is okay sometimes, but not all the time. Have you thought about scrambling an array rather than picking random words? Great execution though.
The jumping mechanic was mysterious at first, but then I figured out it was based on distance (almost like a slingshot). I had fun working my way to the top. Sometimes the game would end unexpectedly. The music and sound effects fit the game and added mood. Nice job!
A game about money that dodges money to live. This is a fun idea. I think the collision detection does not work, but I was working on a strategy that involves moving my dollar bill around in circles, sometimes clockwise and sometimes counterclockwise. I really like how the big coins and small coins make it asymmetric and you have to really think about what you are doing. I had fun.
I went for over 6 minutes, circling the mounds of exploding pigs, collecting all their money, it was a very effective strategy. At the end i decided to join and go out in a blaze of glory. Fun concept.
That was really cool, and really hard. I think I got 7th place at one time, but that was really lucky. In the future, it'd be nice to randomly place the words, but not so your only choice is to jump into a saw or the lake of fire. Great feeling otherwise. Good job!
I starved to death! I found some bandages, then I gave a priest some food, he gave me advice on a shortcut, then I tried to ford a river which soaked my medical supplies, and then I starved. Then 4 miles to go and I bled to death, because I had bandaged a soldier along the way. This game was cool. I really enjoyed it. Great job!
Nice experience! I enjoyed the art and sound especially. I like the soft lighting effects as well.
Nice job! I've been wanting to play a game like this for a while! Awesome. I enjoyed the maze and there were plenty of dangerous things in there. Those traps are really sensitive. I liked the balance of choosing whether to use the fireball or smacking enemies with the wand. Plus, I like how you incorporated opportunities to navigate around enemies!
Fun game. It was hard to click and get those emails out! I guess email does suck the life out of you though! Great job with the theme and it captured the experience of modern life. LOL!
Groovy dance moves! I like the Pilotwings-ish landing at the beginning and the fun dance moves at the end.
It has lots of potential for the future. I liked the gameplay. I probably should have played with a mouse, as i was clicking a lot on my trackpad. But, I had fun and I liked the variety in how the enemy units would decide to mine for gold, attack, and so on. They don't really do anything to defend their base, so it was pretty easy to just build units for that purpose.
This was fun herding cats around with a laser pointer to solve maze puzzles. I think it is easy to learn, sometimes hard to control as the cats have free reign, so sometimes they slip away from their intended spots. Great effort in 48 hours.
Challenging game. The story was nice. I wish the buttons were in the same screen position on the HTML game so I could click through and get started after watching the story the first time. I like the pixel art, nice colors. The music was enjoyable too, and fit the mood of the game.
That was hilarious! I loved this game. Great job. The art was fantastic.
I had to slow down initially. For some reason on my laptop, the game would go very slow and then increase in speed. Anyways, this is the first LD game that used SDF and JKL. I actually liked that I could use both hands and that it wasn't tied to the arrow keys.
That was interesting. I liked how there was four mechanics and you had to switch between them. I liked how Shiojiri could jump on the buildings and trees and stuff. Fun!
Fun playing and avoiding the cats. It was neat how you combined the two genres. Sometimes the car movement felt unsmooth, but perhaps you fixed that in the postjam version. Great effort in 48 hours. I really like the boxy aesthetic.
Great game. I really enjoyed the story and being able to choose a path that didn't require (as much) bloodshed.
The concept was pretty nice. Sometimes, the controls played with your mind and it was easy to get stuck. But, I thought the game overall was fun to play.
That was a very well done game. It was quite shocking when McBeef communicated with the rabbits! Was there a way for him to not blast away all the rabbits? Anyway, the story was very engaging and most importantly as a player you connect with them. Bravo!
There was another game using the sliding puzzle, but yours looks great and really integrates nicely with the dungeon crawler genre. Great job!
This was quite a bit of fun. I loved the sound effects (were those popping balloons?) I normally don't play clicker games, but this example was compelling. Great job. It reminded me a little bit like xbill.
This was lots of fun. I really enjoyed the music. Discovering the brighter color blocks represented height, I really liked that. Great job! Sometimes the enemies get stuck making them easy pickings. But that was in the jam version.
Wow, that was a very well done game. I enjoyed the gray/black color scheme. The bass guitar was fantastic...there's not too many LD41 games with great bass. Great job...I really enjoyed the turn based mechanic.
Wow, that was ridiculous. Very fun! This game felt very big and you could get lost playing it for a while. Good job!
I had fun playing this poker game. I liked how you could pick your own combinations. And it was nice that you had to prioritize which hands you would have to play.
Great job on the art and sound. This was very smooth. I didn't have any issues playing it. Great job!
This was pretty cool. I had some trouble with some of the jumps. But lots of fun.
I really like the blend of paint and fighter. Although the movement/shooting didn't 100% feel perfect, the idea of this game is really fun! Great job!
I had fun playing this game. I liked the different categories of questions. Sometimes the car driving mechanic felt a little weird, but I was able to pick up diamonds. I like the sound effects.
I enjoyed this text adventure / sim city game. It has a lot of depth and I could see someone spending a lot of time. I know that time is short for development, but perhaps having auto-complete so that making typing errors doesn't affect the flow of the game. But, I really enjoyed this. This is one of the best text games this LD41. Great job!
Very cool merge of rock-paper-scissors, memory, and fighting games. I had fun playing your game. Great job!
Oh my!!! That was fantastic. When I squashed someone with the house, I gasped! Bravo, well done sir.
These games are tough for me, especially with a laptop keyboard where the arrow keys are so cramped. Maybe offer some keyboard keys as well? I enjoyed the metal music...goes with the racecar idea!
That was fantastic. I would have loved some sounds and music. But the way you combined the two games felt very natural. Great job!
The audio soundtrack was amusing and memorable. I would have preferred a calendar to the poster. The time waiting for the car to refuel was too long. It was easier to reload the game. Anyways, those aside I thought it was a very pleasant game to play and you should definitely keep at it. Good job!
Wow, that was crazy...a good example of what can happen with distracted driving! Fun.
Very nice game. I enjoyed the graphics, sound, and music...very well balanced. In the future, arrow keys would be nice.
The game looks amazing. It just needs sound and audio. There were a few things that could make it better. Checkpoints so that you don't have to rerun the entire level. The keyboard controls felt a little laggy so that you couldn't really execute timed jumps very well. And there's a weird bug that sometimes your character falls through the ground at the start position (it might be tied to having the right arrow key held when you die and then respawn).
Fun game--very innovative and had a great feeling to play. It would be nice if you could repeat your actions. For example, if you do the wall jump level and you mess it up, it seemed like you had to throw yourself over the cliff to reset the level instead of being able to type in the commands and try again.
That was fun. It's too bad the shooter part isn't really affected by the rhythm part. It was really hard to focus on the red and blue parts simultaneously. But the game is nice and polished. Music was really cool!
Neat idea. I thought the graphics were outstanding. I thought that art, maybe painting or something, would have something to do with the mechanic. The slash needs a little bug fixing...as a player, it should be tied to time and how long you click/hold/release the mouse. The game looks good enough to keep working on. Good job with your first LD. I hope you continue to do LD in the future.
Wow, that was fantastic. I really enjoyed that you implemented all those different games inside your game. I thought the graphics looked nice, but could use a little improvement in a few areas. For example, the black clicker was almost impossible to find. It would be nice to have some kind of glowing aura to the characters you have not yet moved. And it would be nice if you didn't have to click wait if that's the only choice you have to make. Great entry!
That was pretty cool. I thought it was innovative to use your webcam for training a neural net.
I want to praise your effort for your first entry. I hope you had a blast. Even though it was short, the levels were nicely done and most importantly the game was fun. I enjoyed the graphics.
Wow, this was fantastic. I loved the text aesthetic. The short beep sounds were great. This will probably end up being on my top ten games of LD41.
Interesting concept. It would be helpful to explain that the last direction you head is the direction you fire. It's easy to be overwhelmed by enemies and have no way to win/lose rather than just dying. I was really hoping the dancing was going to be a bigger part of the mechanic.
Interesting concept. The game doesn't seem to follow the described mechanics. You keep shooting them and they stop. If you walk over them, sometimes they disappear, sometimes they don't. I really enjoyed the music. It had an M. Ward feel.
This is a great idea, but it's too difficult. Sometimes your golf-bomb goes underneath the ground and doesn't blow up the enemy. And the wind affects the ball too much when you first start the game.
Interesting twist on Tetris and an RPG. I had fun trying to get to the top, and I enjoyed the humorous messages. They made me laugh. There's a few rough spots--it feels just a little bit slow. It would be nice to just click anywhere to dismiss the message. Overall, very enjoyable.
I liked the game. I think it'd be great if the fish had a little bit of momentum to it. I think it would add to the feel of the game if the fish didn't stop on a dime. I think that if there was a power up to temporarily increase the range of the light, that would be nice too. It's great how everything goes red when you cross the red fish...
As far as music, I think slow, layered, arpeggiated themes with ascending and descending musical motifs go great for underwater music...just an idea if you were trying to figure out some good music choices. Reference "Aquarium" in Camille Saint-Saens work "The Carnival of the Animals"
Super duper! It sucked me in...
Beware of the....oh no!...they got me...auuuurghhh...
That was really neat. I never in a million years considered doing a game with a PDF file!
I had fun. It was a very nice upbeat game.
This game was so simple to learn and so hard to master....I enjoyed it immensely.
I like the idea...very neat...treasure hunting while limited by how much air you have. It definitely adds to the dynamic when your greediness overcomes your will to live. I think you should definitely add the coral maze.
LD46 — Keep it alive (22)
Cytokine Storm by Gurbx 2020-04-26T03:41:29Z ♥ 1
Very nice puzzle game. I appreciate that there's music and sound effects. Very fun. I saw the comment above about thumbnails--very important.
Cellular: Automata by Baturinsky 2020-04-22T07:07:10Z ♥ 1
I really like the interface. The tribute to John Conway is very nice. Good job!
My Beloved Monster by ayushka 2020-04-22T07:00:12Z ♥ 1
Very interesting genre of game. I've never played a game like that before. I think it was pretty well done. I had fun.
TweeTree by Rhiz 2020-04-22T06:42:49Z ♥ 1
Nice tiny game. I think it's fun that you managed to fit this into < 280 characters. Nice!
Feeding Time! by Drachmor 2020-04-22T06:31:31Z ♥ 1
I won! That was a tough game. I almost gave up in the middle, but I persevered. My trick is to press SPACE before moving. Well done. This is one of my faves of LD46.
Keep This Rust Bucket Flying by Cameron Borthwick 2020-04-22T05:57:00Z ♥ 0
Three (er, 4?) games in one weekend. Some of the puzzles were simple. My favorite was the aiming game. The letter game was mentally challenging. I thought the little teddy bear was awesome!
Feed Me, see more by triggthediscovery 2020-04-22T05:51:34Z ♥ 1
Nice job capturing the Little Shop of Horrors Vibe. My favorite is the 1960 Roger Corman film. I liked the animations which is well done for being done in 48hrs. Fun times!
The King's Efforts by cirno 2020-04-22T05:44:00Z ♥ 1
I thought this game was very interesting. I really enjoyed the text game experience. You really pulled that one off. Great job!
Zilogever by ObscenelyTrue 2020-04-22T05:13:46Z ♥ 2
That was so much fun! This is the first emulator game I've downloaded. I made it through two at a time, but three at a time was ridiculous! Great job!
Bargaining with Supreme Beings So They Don't Destroy Us All by garygreen 2020-04-22T04:05:49Z ♥ 1
Wow! Fun and super cool. This is one of my faves this LD. I really liked the puzzle element and the cool wavy text effects. I hope to make games this cool some day.
Droplet Dodge by Alaska 2020-04-22T03:47:23Z ♥ 2
Nicely done game. Character is difficult to control, but I suspect it's part of this particular genre. I was getting good figuring out safe places to jump from. Music really helped set the mood.
Keep The Planet Alive by Tbrax 2020-04-22T03:41:05Z ♥ 0
Nice game! The space invaders twist (literally) was really cool. I second the comment above about it being difficult to focus on all three colors at once. Perhaps you could ramp it up so that you only have two colors on one screen at a time and maybe have later levels with more colors simultaneously.
Vote Jack! by kfischer-okarin 2020-04-22T03:37:50Z ♥ 2
This was a super cool game. One of my faves for this event for sure. I really liked how the suspense was driven by the music and suspenseful use of pauses. Excellent!
GOOFBALL by pvg 2020-04-22T03:27:17Z ♥ 1
This is a great variation on Breakout. I think Steve Wozniak would be proud. I really liked how wonky the graphics got as you got more chains. I also like that you were doing the game jam with your students as well--me too!
Gate Crash by Ranjan 2020-04-22T03:21:33Z ♥ 1
Fun overall. Collisions didn't work all the time. I felt that I was guessing most of the time about the gates, but I really appreciate that this could be fun in learning them. I really enjoyed that there was a tutorial. The music and sound effects really helped this game feel fun.
don't dead it by drprettypatty 2020-04-22T03:15:22Z ♥ 0
This game was pretty awesome. Definitely one of my favorites this year. Great job. I really liked the music and the aesthetics. I thought it was funny when I overfed it.
Fuel Hungry by WubbaDuck 2020-04-22T03:05:35Z ♥ 1
Great job! I really enjoyed this. The action felt snappy. On occasion, I was able to fall out of the world when I hit the first water drop. I like that the flame has some weight to it--lots of platformers made in Unity feel floaty. I also really liked the tutorial as part of your game mechanic at the beginning.
Tree Defence by Hoyr 2020-04-22T02:36:12Z ♥ 1
I second the autofire comments above. This was fun to play and I liked the swarms of enemies. Although a few get stuck, they felt smart -- I'm guessing some kind of A*. I think a soundtrack and few more sound effects could help the mood a bit. I might also stage the enemies so that the game has a ramp up in difficulty.
Angry Aphid by scifi6546 2020-04-22T02:34:07Z ♥ 1
Great game! I really enjoyed the simple graphics and I liked the cellular automata-ishness of this title. The game play is nice and simple and reminds me of little classic games like Tamagotchi.
_So_Below by kimkillaqueen 2020-04-22T02:20:26Z ♥ 1
This reminded me of Playstation games like FFVII with the perspective. The lighting and image effects were very well done. The mood was amazing. I would probably add some sound effects so you know whether you were successful in picking up coal.
Touch it! Do it! by JosephByam 2020-04-22T02:18:15Z ♥ 1
I think it's always hard to make a 3D game in a two day period, so I applaud the effort getting this to work. I really enjoyed playing as a cube and the colors were nice. I think if I were to improve this game, I would make the sword swing faster, and add some sound effects when you hit objects. Sometimes there is a bug where you get stuck on top of one of the "bad" cubes.
Cube Breakout by TailMaker 2020-04-22T02:13:01Z ♥ 1
This has a really awesome mood and great bluesy music. I think a sound effect would help when you get hit. I had fun playing this game.