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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 39 | Running out of Power | 👥 | Rats will kiss the gunner's daughter | jam | 63 | 4.03 | 3.63 | 3.86 | 3.77 | 4.31 | 3.84 | 3.53 | 4.02 |
Allright. I'll start with the good things: the 3d art is amazing. It's hard to see 3D projects in jams, so you have that. I like the ideea, it's a good resources managing game. Otherwise, I feel the character kinda slow and messy (I know, 3d in 3 days), but this make me play a little bit stressed. I don't want to be mean, I know this is a lot of work, and it is a good overall experience! Great job and I hope I've been helpful. Good luck!
I find the overall idea solid and fun. However it is a little bit easy after a while. If you make this game challenging it could be a great entry. Nice job, good luck!
556 Gwatts! Great and simple idea, a dynamic real time resource manager really well put together. I had a little problem at the beguinning with: - Didn't know that it was not possible to use 2 goos at the same time, so I thought they had limited time open. - I was waiting for the coffe to fill at the coffe machine (maybe it is just my problem).
I loved the goos screen and having to look at it, it makes the game more realistic. The camera under the parameters was so good to manage timings. As I said, a really well made game, congratulations! Good luck.
I had the same sensation playing with this game as I had with Mini Metro or Alto's Adventure. This is an amazing thing, for sure. Simple but solid idea, with nice art and audio work, really well put together. I did a 162 score, which seems a little bit low, but I enjoyed a lot the experience. Good luck, great job!
Great experience! I'll give you a 5 star audio rating just for the efford of recording all that stuff, real fun. Since it is a 3 days game there isn't much to say. I'd love to see in the future another mechanic implemented such as more interaction with the other players. Great job, good luck!
I love how you manage to apply the theme. Nice game design work. If I can help with the polishing I'll say two things: don't remove the player feedback (glasses) when climbing a ladder, it was a little bit confusing; the animation that the co-worker (he is not the nicest) does it hasn't to be repeated every time. It stops the dynamism in the next levels. Overall it is a nic expirience and a whole functional game. Nice work, and good luck!
Nice idea and overoll experience. There are a few things that can be more polished as you may know so there is no need to list it. Great job, good luck!
Good resource management game. Few variables but functional and challeging. I liked the art and the ducks. In my opinion the music wasn't all that inmersive, but every person is a world. A good overall experience, nice work!
Wow, nice idea and good thing twisting the theme. This was a peaceful experience (dammit the notifications always screwing vacation time, hehe). I love the art and the details, was fun to find the little locations in this game.
I don't understand the likes in my pictures... but since I'm unable to do it in my own Instagram, it is almost a real experience!
Great game, goosd luck!
I love the style! Amazing art and the filter detail is amazing. Fast and energic, the kind of dynamic game it is cool to play. I did bugged the game jumping over a track, but that is a minor report. Nice work, good luck!
Amazing idea behind the theme! I love it how you managed to put this together and the expresions of the child. I believe that at least one of you is a parent, cause there are so many details that ara hard to know if you havn't been with a child. Her reactions were so natural.
I've played two times, the first telling a story about space (amazing), and then failing so hard trying to speak about a farm and a superhero. The game get stucked at "Let me tell you about..." at some point without any stories left to tell, so in my imagination she fell sleep, hehe.
Amazing art and so brave to do an idea like this, congratulations. Good luck!
I almost killed the beast! I like the idea and getting from children's souls? Amazing. I would change 2 things: make the camera higher, to let the player make an strategy and put more efford in path making. At the end of the 3rd level it was a little bit repetitive. The boss was so cool. Nice game, good luck!
As it is been said in the comments, great idea. I don't use to like this kind of games, but I enjoyed this one for a while. Even if there is some things to polish (as expected in a jam) it is really well put together, solid and pretty dynamic. Great work, good luck!
First emocional narrative game I play in this jam. I admire your bravery. I loved the story even if at the beguinning I found the mechanics repettitive (then I understood that there wasn't the main element). I love the way you treat power as a theme, the details and oc, the animations! Astonishing! Well, done, good luck!
I enjoyed my play. It's like this game is starting to be something cool. I don't mean it in a bad way, just give it some awesome level design and polish the details like sound effects (they're a little bit repetitive) and you'll have something to work with. Nice work, good luck!
So much energy in this gameplay! Dynamism, explosions, camera shake, everything! Are you a fan of Vlambeer work? This part was amazing! I didn't feel like I understood everything that happened there, but I had fun for sure. The music is so great. Good luck!
It seems hard to finish a FPS in a compo. Congratulations. There is a lot of things to polish, but this is something you can expect, as I said. I would appreciate some feedback of the enemies life and if they're hitted. Good game overall! Good luck!
The idea is good and the art... what an amazing display! I wasn't always able to read the rimes below, but I loved experiencing with things. Great job guys, good luck!
Yeeee! At last another team that uses the power interpretation as a social power :D I was expecting for this, we are not alone!
I loved the Orwell's kinda scenario. Well explained even if there was **a lot** of information. It reminded me to some table game but I can't say witch one. I enjoyed a lot even if i've lost all the plays. But that is because I'm not good enough.
Nice game and good luck!
Nice story you've got there.
At first I was impressed with the introduction. It is interessting and easy to understand.
The later events were a little bit slow, with no option to skip the sentences. The gameplay is okay, and seems to work well. The enemies mechanic are nice.
The overall idea is that you have a nice game here, maybe less dynamic that it sould be, but well put together and functional.
Great work!
Once I got the controls it was fun! Challenging indeed. Nice humor there. Great entry, good luck! :D
I didn't expect this kind of game in this jam! Not easy to do an aviation game, so congratulations. The enemies movement wasn't as neat as i expected, so it was hard to aim them, but nice game you did. Good luck!
Wow, this looks really cool. As good as it is, I've got some tips for you. Hope it is helpful:
Differenciate the lethal elements from floor and not lethal elements. Some games uses colors or more exagerated forms.
At first try I didn't understand what was going on. Maybe a little animation or decreasing light will help.
It's more likely to die than running out of battery, so this is a thing to balance, in my opinion.
Overall, great envoirement and style, the dragon is stunning! Good luck!
Molt interessant, m'agrada! Molta sort!
First of all, thank you for your comment on our game (Rats will Kiss the Gunner's Daughter). I've answered and replied to you there. Here I'll just say... that you are a man of culture as well! The song is a version of Johann Sebastian Bach's *Litle Fugue*. So if you like Asimov too, we have two likes in common!
I've played the 49h Jam version: I've really enjoyed the experience. Because this is how I felt it: It's a sci-fi interactive and audiovisual experience with a great concept behind.
I'm not used to the inspector, but I think that it is a great mechanic. It makes every movement and action something the player has decided and worked for.
Even if it's not a commercial kinda game (which is a good thing, nowadays), in my opinion would be a fantastic full game with all the final features. I highly encourage you to keep working on the idea.
Great work, good luck and thank you for your review!
The mood of this game is so cool and profesional. Great art, nice idea and music too. the is this balance issues, witch you probably know. I waste too much time (and one game) to understand what everything did and represented. Maybe a little explanation at the Ludum Dare description would help.
But as I said this has the appearence of a full game, so congratulations! PD: What is going on with the girls in the cover? Seems like a clikbait haha.
Great job, good luck!
Wow, stressing but fun! I don't recomend putting your studio logo in those pop ups, people are gona hate it! Just kidding. Nice work, and a really well theme adaptation. In my opinion you got the idea and exploted in a really nice way. Great work!
Amazing, one of the best entries I've played. Imaginative, dynamic, challenging but yet possible to win. I had a really fun time beating this game and descovering what every part did. Well done not explaining the mechanics, it is in fact so good to discover what every piece of the box did. In my opinion it is a full 5 game, perfect for a jam. Great work indeed.
I was unable to play the game. Something with the avast antivirus. I write the comment to let you know. I'll leave you a graphics score, because I love the art. Sorry guys and good luck!
This is interesting. I've played alone (just testing physics) and with a member of my team. Making a multiplayer game for a jam it is quite risky. The experience was good, but the game wasn't always working well. Being a platformer everything leans on the interaction of the player with the trees. This mechanic is sometimes not working.
What I'm trying to say is that you have an excellent art and mood: filters, this burton-like design, a simple pvp game (which normally are the most fun games). But polishing is everything and a jam is not the best place for polishing. Summing everything up: make this game a pvp multiplayer with every detail really polished, keeping the art and the "game feel" and it will be a great game for sure.
Great work and good luck!
Okey I'll try to give you some tips for your third ludum dare ;). First, find an artist. Not an expert one, just someone with time to polish the art. Second one: Faster games, makes exciting gameplays. Try to level up all those values to see how it works. Third one: if you are doing a shooter in a plataformer, watch the J.W conference (one of the Vlambeer's component) about game feel. Amazing and so useful. Overall opinion: Not a polished game but a nice try, and only a few steps away from a finished game. Good work!
In my opinion I recommend you to work a little bit more in the controls and how tha player moves. However this is a great job and a pretty solid platform game. Congratulations!
Well, suposing this is one of your first games I have to say that I love the aesthetics and the overall idea. Maybe it could be better to move the chacarter to get the resources but it looks well. Nice work, good luck!
Houdini the Third did an awfull job! Fun and inmersing, I like how you join fun elements and these stories. Seriously, the sound effects are terrific. As a Reigns fan, i aprove this game! Great job, good luck!
Once I understood how to play it, it was cool! Add some information in the Ludum Dare description and you got it! Good luck!
Stop thinking this bad about yourself. This shit works! Nice resource managing game, with humor and dynamic gameplay. It's a prototype, we know it. Just add a goal and some usability and you have it. Nice work, good luck!
Great game for a compo. The time is limited but you've created something functional and inmersive. I enjoyed playing, so that must be a good thing. Nice work, and good luck!
Nice excuse (as a story) to make a 3rd person shooter. The chrome app is wasting so much battery! hehe. Nice overall experience. I would recommend you making the character a little bit faster, to give some dynamism to the game. JW (Vlambeer's cocretor) speech about game feel is so useful to this kind of games. Well done, good luck!
Neat game. Nice style and art design. There is no much thing I can say to help you. The three times I've lost it was because of enemies in my back. The second play I started using only the left hand rocket because it lets me kill the enemies at long distance. Hope this little review helps you to polish this game. I enjoyed for sure. Good luck!
Really well put togheter. Solid, challenging, entretaining.. Well done! If I have something to say is the "hitbox" of the spikes. Another thing it is worth commenting is that I didn't use the run mechanic one single time (becaus didn't affect the character when jumping). Amazing art an music, the mood was excelent. Nice entry, good luck!
I've spent a lot of time playing this game, so that is a great thing. Maybe it was a little bit long for a single mechanic, but it was fun for sure. Not hard, but interestic to discover whats beneth the surface. Great game!
It is an interesting way to work with a resource managging game. Well done. Of course there is some things to polish, it is normal in a game jam. As a fan of real time strategy games I enjoyed playing and I did a pretty decent work, I'll say. Nice game and good luck!
Interesting idea and fun concept to control a clean machine. I would recommend you to make the movement faster and please be careful with the sound, it was hard to concentrate! Nice job, good luck!
Wow, nice pvp game :D Strategic yet simple! It reminded me to Arms, but well a jam entry. I'm waiting for a friend to test the online version. Great work, good luck!
Nice way to twist a racing game. Cool aesthetics and environment, I enjoyed playing this game! it is challenging, but since I'm quite bad at racing games that may be not a problem hehehe. great game, good luck!
I've survived 11 turns! I like the idea of recharging the turrets battery. But please change this sound from hell hehehe. I think that the upgrades are not balanced: too expensive and just afect one turret. It was worth half a turret. Good game!
Nice low poly art. Not as much as challenge as I expected but it works well. Nicely done.
Nice idea, simple but effective. I don't have that much to say, maybe the jump wasn't polished enough, but since it is a game jam... good job!
I enjoyed playing this game. Even if I understand the first comments you had, with the new notes it is really easy to get how to play. I ended the easy level (i don't dare to play mediom, cause I'm really top bad at games). Nice overall experience, good luck!
I love your energy and passion. Enjoy the time of your life! About the game: great first attempt making videogames. You've got the idea, now it's time to polish. First of all, find people to work with. It is not easy but man it helps a lot. Before you redo everything, think about it one or two days. Is everything in the right position? Does the game feel hard or easy? It is a need to jump like Mario Bros in a resource management game? All this sort of things. I really wish you luck and oc, great game!
This is an amazing entry and the art is astonishing for sure. I spent a lot of time playing and enjoying the discovery. I share the main idea of all the comments before, amazing game,
but
// *SPOILER ALERT:* //
I'm not sure about it because I haven't been able to find all finals and I'm not an expert but I think you have mistaken the concept of the mental illness, bipolarity. The bipolar disorder is altering periods of depression (hypomania) and elevated mood (mania). During the mania, the person can be either euphoric or irritable.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in this game I've understand the illness as something more likely a personality disorder such as schizophrenia (what I don't know about).
If I've understood correctly the girl has this bipolar disorder and that's why she attacked her boyfriend with a knife. And that would be so wrong. I'm telling this because this misinformation could feed the popular idea that bipolarity could be dangerous for social behaviour and this is not true.
Please correct me if i misunderstood the information and I'll erase this comment.
Great game anyways, impressive for a compo! Great job!
@angela-he Alright! A friend of mine has this disorder as well, and we discovered that people use to mistaken the consequences of it. It can be dangerous for the person but not likely for the people around.
Thank you for answering!
Great game! In my opinion it would work even without the energy mechanic. Simple but neat. I enjoyed playing so that means something. Great work and good luck!
Amazing entry. The best thing? Slowering the character and turning the music volume down (Am I wrong?) when energy is low. It was well put together, amazing art and music, great game. Good luck!
Thank's for the reviews! Could anyone beat the game (without aleatory guessing)? Don't forget to write down the information you aquire from the sailors!
*There is an extra point question... where is this ship from?
@amras0000 thank you for your loooong explanation. It is really an honor to have your attention and dedication. Thanks for all the comments, we (the team) are reading it and discussing it.
There are some things to comment. The Català version (our natal language) is not ready and shouldn't be enabled. It appears in a windowed mode(we are building the game again to fix this bug. *Shame* on us because we didn't test the windowed mode). Sorry for the inconvinence.
It is hard to balance a game like this, so there is the possibility of knowing who the mutineer is the first round. We recommend you to start a new game. The names and aspect (face, head and body) of the sailors change every time you play. You won't know who the mutinner is the second time. Accept our apologies.
The music is a version of Johann Sebastian Bach's *The Little Fuge*. I'm a huge fan of his work so we decided to use it for the game.
Thank you **ALL** for your comments and support. It is overwhelming for us to have all this amazing comments and opinions. Even if we knew that ~~almost~~ everyone in Ludum Dare is constructive and peaceful, this is amazing.
We are analyzing all this aspects you are referring to, such as difficulty (which is more random than we want to). Maybe asking directly who the mutineer is, wasn't a good decision even if it is at the start of the game (when the player doesn't know who is lying). As @nerdyherbivore said in the comment below, choosing the question to make would be great, even if it would be so hard to balance.
We didn't expect that amount of people playing until the end. It is quite hard to retain a player more than 5-10 minutes, so **thank you** again!
@gonutz Now there is available a 32 bit version.
Woow, the mood is really well put together. Quite inmersive. In my browser version the screen was really small + the camera was to close(it was hard to know if there was enemies where i wanted to jump). That are things really easy to solve so, great work and good luck!
Nice overall experience. I love the low poly style and the mood (music and sounds). However, I din't feel like i was really doing anything. I lasted too long since realising what to do and then... just giving cofees to spleeping devs haha. Maybe it's me, idk. Great work anyway, good luck!
Nice mood and overall experience! I'll recommend you adjusting the sensibility of the WASD movement and adding a faster recharging. Nice double jump. Good game!
(I got the error from the browser version as you said. No problem, win version) I made 600$! (More than in real life, aw yeah!) I loved the overall experience. The resource management, the flux minigame, and the idea. I would given some more obvious feedback about what is every building doing (some +3 polution flying from a factory, for example). I've lost so quick! I'm not good at games, so I won't count that as a problem! haha Great game, and good luck!
@almostcthulhu Allright! Nice work :)
I enjoyed playing this game! I like the idea, simple and dynamic, reminded me to a bullet-hell game-like. I don't know if I'm the only one, but at third time playing I stopped using the habilities. It was hard for me to remember the use and just focusing in the movement I was able to pick the energy without using them. However it was fun, and I want to try the mobile version. Nice job, good luck and see you next jam ;)
Nice done! I have so many (useful in my opinion) tips! That soesn't mean that this game is bad, but it can be even better! So there it goes: faster bullets, more bullets, bigger bullets! Vlambear knows it right. Make this game a bullet hell. Second one is put some efford in the levels. Spaces were big and empty. The last one is make enemies more lethal. They're easy to kill at distance (since they don't see you). Finally, make some health feedback for the enemies. That's all. I love it, great mood. Good luck!
I enjoyed the idea even if in too many points there was no challenge. I hardly understand the theme in this game but the first levels (the no proceduraly generated ones?) it was cool. Polish the "game feel" (or join someone). Nice work.
As always in your games the aesthetics are impressive. I loved the story and all the details. Great work, good luck!
Amazing environment and space style! The overall idea was great.
However, even if I've enjoyed the game and had fun, it was to many moments with nothing to do (there was nothing in the screen, i was just wasting power). However the combat was exciting, so great work and good luck!
Nice overall idea, twisting the theme, great movement there. Making a 3D project for a jam is so brave, for timing and polishing so I'll won't comment the obvious things about polishing. I pretty liked the way you managed to put together this idea.
I had fun playing the game, as such as tense or stressful moments scaping from the cats. One ofmy best plays ended because a ghost cat (i swear i didn't saw a cat) in the play room near the bathroom. Maybe it was my fault, there was no light!
That is the best part, how the game gets difficult because of the objectives. Great game, good luck!
I achieved my main goal! As a good thing I'll say that I love the story and the main character, as well as the music and environment. On the other hand, I'll say that it was not all that challenging as I expected, but that is something easy to fix. Nice work and good luck!
It is really a functional idea. It could be a full game. I my opinion is the best thing that can be told in a game jam. So congratulations! I have nothing I would change. Good luck!
I loved this one! Amazing art and game feel. The mechanics were so close to the theme. Great work, good luck!
At first look I thought this was the tipical game. I was wrong, this is so cool. I love the music treatement, nice detail. Kinda hard for me as I'm so bad, but I really enjoyed my plays. Good luck!
Fun game with a great art component. Even if it is not that challeging, it is fun to control this bodies over the purgatory. I think that the music could be more inmersive (maybe less futuristic) but that is just an opinion. Overall experience was good, so nice work. Good luck.
I didn't know that aliens need to treat with such delicacy the cows they abducted hehe. I found really found the main mechanic here. Maybe it was a little bit slow, but it was challeging and fun. Nice work!
That was really well put together. I love the envoirenment of this game, and how it plays with sounds and light effects. I get stucked at some point because of a door, but I'm not really good at this kind of games.
Nice work, good luck!
I think there are some good ideas there, but there is a need for a game design work. I enjoyed my plays, but if all the information was ordered and well executed (as a game design feature) this would be much better. Just ask yourselfs what are the mechanics that ths game NEEDS better than add a lot of options that hide the real good ones. Nice graphics and details. Good work!
Interesting puzzle game with some strategy going there! I expected something less elaborated but it was a great surprise. The upper levels are challenging, so grat experience!
For the people who fail a lot like me, don't make us start again every time we fail hehehe.
Nice work, good luck!
I played alone just for testing. I would apreciate some more information at the beguinning or description, but i did understand the game at the end. I find it clear and well put together. I havn't tested with a second player but seems like it is functional and pretty balanced. Well done!
There are not enough space games in this world! I love the idea and the feel about it. Even if the game is just a prototype I enjoyed controlling someone in the space. The only thing I can say is... add a hook! That would be amazing. Seriously, great entry and pretty well made. Good luck!
As it has been said, aesthetics are awesome! Even if it is a racing game (I'm not very used to it) i had a lot of fun! Great work, and long live the 80's!
Nice game here! I love the asian aesthetics. I didn't use the defend mechanic, just for information. Good work :)
Wooow! Nice style, music and overall experience! Well done guys, I love it. If I had to give you some recommendations, give feedback after loosing a combat (I realized too late that my forces were dying). But great old styled game, simple and dynamic. Grat work and good luck.