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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 31 | Entire Game on One Screen | You Can't Stop Christmas | jam | 759 | 2.90 | 2.90 | 2.03 | 3.47 | 2.83 | 2.52 | 2.91 | 2.46 | 48 | ||
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | Beneath the Surface | compo | 328 | 3.42 | 3.39 | 2.18 | 2.02 | 3.69 | 2.45 | 2.04 | 2.87 | 100 | ||
| 2013 | 26 | Minimalism | Shaving Quest: The Razor's Edge | jam | 495 | 2.49 | 2.72 | 3.30 | 2.70 | 2.93 | 1.20 | 3.85 | 2.44 | 100 |
Milktoast leaves an average of 17.3 feedback comments each event.
Really captures the feel of the old Atari games. Now because of you, I'm so nostalgic for my 2600, that I'm going to have to dig it out of my closet tonight and play E.T., Raiders of the Lost Ark, and a little Barnstorming! Great job!
WTF!?
Hypnotic. Pure awesomeness.
Was that a tapeworm?
Snorrrrrt!
Reminds me of my job. =(
Crapped my pants laughing!! Can't see though tears of exaltation! My sides hurt.
Cannonball!!!
Very suspenseful! Never know if you can reach the next treasure. Well done.
Very nice vole animation! Hurry up and make more levels!!
OMG! My fingers are not up to the challenge!
Defense Grid Jr. I love this!!
Addicting!
Please, please make more!
The difficulty ramps up perfectly. Found myself grinning wider with delight with each successive round. Great job!
Although it didn't register a win, I'll always know that I conquered the universe! Started out slow, but I eventually steamrolled my enemies. Fun!
Awesome job. This is one of my favorites!!
Very satisfying. Well done!
Hey this is a pretty cool game. It's simple, but you've managed to pack a lot of fun in there. Good job.
Difficult, but fun!
I made it to the second level! =) Nice idea.
I accidentally clicked on the JPG and stared at it for a wile before noticing I wasn't playing the game. =) The game is much better!
"No graffiti permitted after 5pm." =)
My click finger hurts. =)
Takes me back to my Apple][+ days.
I could play this game for hours. Very relaxing.
OH GOD! This game is crazy good!
Simply beautiful.
This is incredible! Great game.
The best strategy is definitely to capture the bases in the middle of the map to spawn your blue legion. This brilliantly captures the minimalist theme and manages to pack in a lot of gameplay. Good job.
Hehe. I need that. =)
A good bit of strategy here for such a minimalistic game.
Love the artwork. Very challenging. Would like to see a very simple first level to get the hang of the mechanics.
Unique gameplay. Awesome mood. Kept urging the man to move faster!
Awesome! This is about as minimalist as you can get with a platformer. Nice level of difficulty.
Nice minimal Mario. Good mechanics.
Perfect amount of description to engage your brain. It fit the theme very well.
LD31 — Entire Game on One Screen (8)
Shadow of the Shotgun by Peni6 2014-12-14T03:05:00
VICTORY! I made it to the chopper! Nice mechanic of switching between drone and soldier.
Just Dance Dance Discotron Central: Cobra War by RobotLovesKitty 2014-12-12T00:22:00
I always suspected I was a robot.
To Continue by raincole 2014-12-11T01:27:00
Really difficult, but you can get into a flow. Simple and addictive. Well done.
Santa's Stock Up by Mossy Frog 2014-12-11T01:14:00
LMAO!! Difficulty kind of ramps up quickly there at the end. =) The game lulls you into a nice contemplative, zen-like mood... then destroys your world in an instant! That Santa is going to have one heck of a headache after catching all of those gifts with his forehead. Well done. I'd like to see a reindeer fall from the rafters every once in a while. =)
Neighboring by psychonull 2014-12-11T01:07:00
Darn that cursed crying baby to heck!! This is a good start. Are you planning to do a post-compo version?
Slime Ball by naali 2014-12-11T00:57:00
I love the simplicity and the difficulty... easy to learn, difficult to master. Well done!
Sweep Stacks by excaliburjs 2014-12-11T00:35:00
This would be a perfect mobile game! I seemed to always get the middle taken care of, but left the sides to tower skyward with no hope of tearing them down. The guitar strumming sound was inspired. Addicting gameplay. Well done!
Game Evolution by Turkey 2014-12-11T00:25:00
I couldn't get past Pong!! Most games, I'd start off 0-2 (and went downhill from there) simply because my paddle wasn't fast enough to get to the ball. Didn't seem fair!! =) It seems to me the only way to score points on the AI was to get the ball going fast enough that he couldn't catch up with it, either. But most of my attempts to do so ended up in me missing the ball. I think it'd be more fun if the paddles moved a bit faster and if the AI made mistakes now and then.
Here's some good insight on the original Pong from "Racing the Beam" (and elsewhere): "Effective game AI needs to simulate good, 'intelligent' human behavior. But convincing AI also needs to simulate certain types of *unintelligent* human behavior, in the form of mistakes that make play more fun. The AI in the Robot Pong games does this by simulating both the correct placement of the paddle and the occasional imperfection inherent to a real human opponent."
You may have built this into your AI, but I didn't see it in the 5 minutes I played. The AI seemed to track the ball exactly and only "made a mistake" if the ball was moving too fast for it to keep up. Maybe that was your intention... to force the player to master the angled shot. I think, though, it would be more fun if you sped the paddles up a bit and allowed the AI to sometimes make a mistake.