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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 37 | One room | Dustinator X9001 | jam | 206 | 3.69 | 3.53 | 3.48 | 3.59 | 3.28 | 3.62 | 3.87 | 3.50 | 62 | |
| 2016 | 35 | Shapeshift | Paper Nova 2 - Shapeshift | jam | 1082 | 2.58 | 2.30 | 2.33 | 2.92 | 2.15 | 2.68 | 2.56 | 55 | ||
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | Beanstalk and the Jack | jam | 931 | 2.80 | 2.71 | 3.08 | 3.73 | 3.12 | 2.96 | 2.96 | 52 | ||
| 2014 | 31 | Entire Game on One Screen | It's always there | jam | 802 | 2.83 | 2.32 | 3.00 | 2.96 | 2.39 | 2.61 | 3.38 | 48 |
Quite interesting game. The mechanincs are interesting. However I am a bit torn about the interpretation of the theme. On the one hand it's a great idea with the magnifying glass, on the other hand it means that there is a part of the game that is not on the screen.
But all in all a nice game.
Cool idea. The concept is really awesome. It felt a bit repetitive/trial and error to just go through everything and try every option, since there was no real death penalty. ALthough I can't think of a good one I must admit.
One of the best games I have played so far this LD.
Really cool game. I love the take on the theme. And great choice of music.
Cool game. Definetly needs a tutorial. Also to me it seemed like if a building was damaged/destroyed seemed more like a it is either at full health the next morning or it is gone. It was a bit unclear to how the defense actually helps or not. But I liked the graphics style. Simple but very good fit to the mood.
Solid gameplay, good graphics, interesting... idea. Nothing more to say ;)
Nice little game. Not too innovative, but for yoour first finished game quite good. Keep up the good work.
Cool concept. However the controls were really strange. I often seemed unable to attack. A bit more feedback about what the controls do would be great. But the mood is quite great.
Cool game. Gameplay, as dialogs and battle mechanics, are a bit shallow, but the core idea is great. With some more time you could really make this into an amazing game. I am not so sure about how well it fits the theme however. Every part of the game is only on one screen, but to me it seems like there are several screens (dialogs, map, battle) in total.
But apart from that you really should continue your work on this. It might get interesting.
Nice little game. An interesting way to see christmas. For some reason I neither could play nor download the game in firefox. In chrome it worked just fine.
Cool game. Nice interpretation of the theme. I couldn't beat the asian kid. Guess I am just not good enough at watching and controlling multiple characters :)
The general idea of the game is quite interesting. However I don't really see the connection to the theme. And what is actually a problem is the difficulty of the game. For an emotional/mood game you need a difficulty that keeps the player from just running through the game while at the same time doesn't slow down the progress of the story. I was stuck in the last room for over 20 minutes. In the end I couldn't remeber much of the mood that was there before because I was frustrated by the unfogivingness of the controls and the level. But of course designing the difficulty for a mood game is one of the hardest things in game design in my opinion, so hats off for what you did. On the performance of your game you should work however. My PC is capable of playing some current AAA games, yet it just shut down after 20 minutes in the last room.
Nice game. Very fitting music and artstyle.
Good game. Nice learning curve, great atmosphere with the music and graphics fitting nicely. My only negaitve point is that I think that the use of one level per screen is not as good a use of the theme. But that's probaby just me. Very good entry.
Quite nice game. A bit too hard for me ;) I got trapped by the evil snowmen way to easy. Cool idea.
Nice little game. However the difficulty is a bit strange. If you just stay shooting all the time moving from left to right and back again, you have no problem winiing. If however you miss an enemy you get into a real hazard that is bound to kill you.
I liked the reward ;)
Cool game. Nice take on the theme. But too hard for me, since I am not too god at managing several things at once ;)
Can't run the game due to missing MSVCP100D.dll. Maybe you need to compile it in adifferent way?
Interesting game. Some sound effects would be nice. Concerning the installer: using Unity, just create a build an put the .exe and the Data-folder in a zip.
Way to go for a first LD game. Keep it up.
Quite nice. You definetly feel that the game is incomplete, for example the difficulty of the waves grows too rapidly in my opninion. But considering that it's a game jam I think it is quite good. I must say I really liked the visual style of the game.
Solid game. Quite a unique way to play. Gameplay could have a bit more variety. All in all well done.
Nice idea. I was a bit confused however that clicking also seemed to damage my farm, if visible. Or the peaseant had quite a large range.Very hard game. But that's not a bad thing ;)
Thanks for all the Feedback.
@panda: The text probably might be better readable if it came faster. That's true.
@Taldius: Yeah, I guess that's a problem. Maybe it would have been beter if the gameplay had stopped at every room until the player could read the text. Although the best method would prabably be to have all the texts as audio ;)
@regisRquoi: The transition effect is a good idea. I had originally intended to do something like that, but I barely had the time to get the game into this state. Concerning the music, I know it's not great, it was the first time I tried to make music. I'm glad that you still liked how I used it.
Very good game. Now that's an interpretation I haven't seen here so far. Cool mechanincs. Though sometimes the screen in front of me made it hard to see where I was going. But great mood and artstyle.
Great way to set the mood.
Controls feel a bit slow. This feels a bit contradictory to the feeling of 'I have to rush to the next socket'.
Also the Flashes of lightning are cool for the mood and a nice help, until you figure out that you can just keep standing near the light, wait for the flash and see where the sockets and important objects are. This is a great danger to the mood once a player figures it out.
But all in all a cool entry.
The concept sounds interesting.
Sadly not much to play though.
I hope you will finish next time. Or maybe try to create a more finished version of this game to learn a bit for the next LD.
Very cute protagonist.
Also music and sound effects were nicely fitting.
However I found the controls in combination with the collision detection a bit unfair. This would need some finetuning.
But it is a great entry with a nice use of the themes.
Great game.
Very fitting artstyle and music.
Not much more to say. ;)
Really great game.
Smooth controls, fitting graphics and sound.
Not much more to say I guess.
Well done.
Great concept.
And very smooth Gameplay. Well done.
Cool game.
The sound effects are just awesome. Some background music would be nice.
Well done.
Sadly the game doesn't support my screen resolution. This seems to mess up the text in the tutorial level. I could only read the first half of the sentences. The rest was blocked by the minimap.
So I couldn't really understand how to pay the game.
You might want to add an explanation in your game description.
The graphics are really cool though.
Pretty solid game. Well done.
With some background music and some more sound effects for hitting different obstacles you could improve the mood of the game.
Interesting idea.
However I didn't understand, when I can affect a branch.
Sometimes a branch would react to me pressing a button and sometimes not.
That was abit confusing.
But it is very relaxing nonetheless ;)
Cute little game.
Very cute protagonist ;)
Some sound effects and music would really help to create a good mood for the game.
But once you reach 250 kg the kitty can eat the cakes without any problem and just get fatter and fatter :)
I hope you can finish it later.
I tried to write my name with the beanstalk, but I failed ^^
Awesome atmosphere. The music and graphics are a perfect match.
The game really gpt me immersed although I didn't really understand what I was doing or why.
But it is a great entry. Probably the game with best mood I have played this LD.
Congratulations on your first compo entry.
It's pretty solid gameplay and great use of the themes.
There is one thing that annoyed me a bit: I can't really look at the beanstalk and the cards at the same time, so I can't appreciate the beauty of it as it grows without fearing to loose a life. It would be really cool if after you failed you could see the growing of your beanstalk like a replay or something. Because it really looks awesome.
Another thing, which is not negative in my opinion but maybe something for you to think about for further games is the ratio of how many times I have to choose right and how many times I have to choose left. Because for like 75% (felt, I didn't create an actual statistic about it ;) ) of the time I could just press left, because it just is so much more likely thet two different cards will come up. Changing this ratio might affect the gameplay heavily, so depending on what you want to achieve you might consider things like this.
All in all a very well done entry.
I hope to see more from you the next LD.
Pretty cool game.
The jump animation looks a bit weird, but that is only a minor thing.
You can get a score of over 200 by just keeping right pressed and repeatedly pressing up. You don't even have to look at the screen.
But it is still very impressive what you created. Well done.
Very cool game.
Some music and some more sound effects would be an improvement.
But this is definitely the funniest game I played so far.
There is one minor flaw. The ball got stuck between Asia and Africa two times. That is quite frustrating, when you almost beat the game and then you have to reset everything.
Pretty cool game.
Nice graphics and idea.
However I had two problems while playing the game. First off all nothing happend after I got to 60% growth. I collected all the water that was around and then nothing happend. Maybe I just didn't understand what to do, but watering the plant wasn't effective either.
Secondly I found out that it is possible to fall of the map on the top right corner if you jump there.
But all in all a cool entry.
It took me while to figure out what packages I should suck up and which not. You might want to add one lline of description for that. I didn't notice that the screens change what you see, so it wasn't obvious to me.
Also I think the sound effects became a bit annoying after some time. That might also be a point for improvement.
Controls and graphics are great and theme is well met.
All in all a well done entry.
Great take on the theme.
Very cool puzzles.
The only thing I found a bit annoying was that sometimes I would fail at a puzzle because my character would slide into another item.
But all in all a great entry.
Cool soundeffects.
But the sometimes-autojumping is a bit annoying.
Also the background doesn't change anymore after it gets black.
But all in all a nice little game.
Cool game.
First one so far with some meaning for real life so far :)
Cool idea.
It's a pity you couldn't translate it all.
One thing though, the WebGL version seems to be broken. It can't find some files I think.
The windows version works just fine.
Very innovative concept.
I like the IllegalStateException ;)
Neat idea.
I was missing a bit of a challenge beacause I could just keep beating up the bad guys without ever getting hit.
But all in all a cool entry.
Wow, very cool use of shaders. I really like the game. Very simple but still fun. Would have been cool if there had been some different puzzles, because at the 6th or 7th level, the interest starts to drop of a little bit.
All in all very cool entry in the short amount of time.
Didn't know that you can also create games with python. ^^ The ground tiles really feel nostalgic, I really like them.
However walking was sometimes a little bit difficult when walking through narrow spaces with the collision detection.
Cool idea.
However controls are pretty difficult.
Cute game.
I might have some info about the bug where one character starts flying uncontrollably. I think it happens when a character stands on the other character as they transform back to normal form. I guess gravity doen't get reset or whatever mechanic you use for detecting when a player is on the ground. Maybe it helps.
The idea is pretty interesting.
However I couldn't really see much happening. I could just let my guys stand at some spot and nothing would happen except for the cop counter going up.
Maybe you could add some more indicators for showing what is going on.
Interesting concept. I think it has some potential. Too bad there was only one real level to play with the mechanics, since the other had more of a tutorial character.
But all in all well done.
Really like it that someone did a rhythm game. Great soundtrack. :)
Yeah, I don't really have an idea what to do either. I'm just stuck at the first screen.
Maybe you could add the controls for the game to the description.
Quite a pity. I really like your idea.
Wow quite challenging puzzle game. At first I thought hmm pretty easy, but with increasing level count it suddenly became harder. :) I just had sometimes some trouble with rotating the camera.
All in all well done and well polished.
Cool entry.
As already mentioned by others a better set up of controls and some sound would further improve the game.
Also the switch between levls is a bit sudden, but this is something for a post-compo version ;)
@CyberAmbient: glad you are having fun. But yeah, there is no sound in the game. Somehow we completely forgot about that ;)
Thanks for all the feedback.
@Nexus64: Yeah, we designed the game with gamepad in mind as input device. Keyboard was only added very late in the process, so we didn't spend much time on figuring out a good input scheme. and the enemies being able to attack you while talking, that is indeed something that should not happen. Points taken. Thank you very much for the input.
Cool idea and well executed.
Regarding the melee-form I was sometimes a bit confused with the attack direction, since my avatar would always look my direction. Sime additional sprites showing him from behind would help with that.
Cool game.
The ghost really felt superior to the skeleton. Maybe you could add some dangers to the ghost as well to make it more interesting. Maybe wind that blows it away or light or something like that. Maybe that's something for a post-LD version ;)
Wow well done. I really like how the game mechanic was introduced step by step without having any "real" explanation. Also really good atmosphere with all the notes sticking around, giving some inside what could have happened, the sound of each transformation, which supported the anxiety. Good job also on choosing the art style which really fits into the whole setting. I really liked this game.
Simple idea, but I like the realization.
Cool game.
Indeed a unique mechanic.
I wasn't really sure of where to go though. Some indicator like an arrow might be a good idea. Or did I just miss it?
Congrats to the good entry.
Interesting switch to 3D, however it comes very sudden and I had the feeling that controlling in 3D is quite hard, due to camera reasons. But besides the 3D mode the 2D mode had good polish.
Cool idea and nice artstyle.
Good job.
One thing though. Showing how much action points will be consumed by an action would be helpful.
Well, there is not much to do, but the idea is pretty great.
And the morphing looks pretty funny :)
Nice idea.
Some kind of rising speed would be interesting. It doesn't seem to get any harder, which makes it less interesting after you trained a bit and are able to dodge everything.
Also please change the "Web" link under the Downloads and Links section. It is for Web-Builds, not for downloadable files.
Cool idea.
The transformations looked pretty neat.
I think something that would help you estimate where you are in relation to other objects might improve the game. Maybe something like shadows or something like that.
So cuuuuute!
But as a lot of other people mentioned the difficulty curve could be better. But it's a game jam, so it's ok in my opinion :)
Showing the symbols/colors in the same order as the keys during gameplay might help a lot.
And just to make it clear: sooooo cuuute! ;)
Wow!
Your difficulty curve is pretty well done. This is something not to common at a LD.
Good job.
Damn, I died more often than in Dark Souls ;)
But it is really beautiful and a nice tale on the theme.
The jumping actually feels a bit unresponsive, that makes timing the jumps pretty hard.
Cool game.
Very fitting art and music.
Well done.
Fun idea. However there seems to be some bug with the line of sight, which leads to frustrating moments. E.g you kill someone in a room, who should be alone and suddenly a person of a other room starts to scream. But still I like the realization of the idea. The music and the sound effects really contribute a lot towards the atmosphere. All in all well done.
I looks really cool, but I couldn't really judge if my actions had any effect. Maybe you could make the effects of your actions a bit more obvious to the player.
Cool game.
And such happy music^^
Very cool entry.
It is really beautiful.
But I must say I didn't quite understand what I was supposed to do.
Also the window is a bit broken (it behaves like a fullscreen window but only takes up part of the screen) and using the rumble feature of a gamepad while having only keyboard controls is a bit confusing.
But yeah, it runs on my computer ;)
Would be cool, if there was more content.
But you got ir playable, whith is already something.
Keep it up and hopefully you can get some more done next jam.
Cool idea.
Using the bed or the door is a bit hard, but overall a nice entry.
Looks very good and has a very disturbing atmosphere.
Well done.
Pretty cool.
I really liked the idea of moving towarss the nearest light.
And it looks gorgeous.
Keep it up!
The climbing is a bit awkward and the window(?) confused me quite a bit, since I thought it was something to stand on, but it wasn't.
But the idea behind the mechanics wre pretty cool. I really liked the swinging on the fan.
Overall a solid entry.
And here is a cat for you:
^---^______|
Wow, pretty neat.
I really like the side switching. It is quite a refreshing change from other shoot 'em ups.
Well done.
The game looks pretty good, but it left me somewhat confused.
I couldn't really tell if I made progress or not.
Is there an end to the waves of enemies or is it an endless game?
Some kind of indication of progress would improve the game in my opinion.
I didn't expect that ending.
You really got me there.
Well done. Well done.
Solid gameplay.
The sound effects were a bit annoying over time.
Also the weapon upgrades should be installed as soon as you purchase them. It took me several minutes to figure out that they weren't equipped automatically and I had to manually do this with the mouse.
And the difficulty curve could be a bit mor epolished. As soon as you have all upgrades you pretty much can't loose.
Also the enemies' bullets should be better distinguishable from the player's bulets. Maybe make the player's bullets green or blue or something like that.
But it is stil a good entry. Just some polish that could be done to further improve it.
Very creepy.
Well done atmosphere.
Interactions are very obscure. It kills the mood a bit, when you are trying to jut do random things to see if something happens at all.
And somehow my guy got stuck walking downwards, which made me unable to do anything.
But overall a very solid entry.
Cool idea and great storytelling.
Overall a very solid entry.
For a first entry, this looks pretty appealing (ora ppalling I guess ;) ).
Well done on the graphics and theme.
I am pretty sure you will manage to put something with real gameplay together next jam.
Pretty good.
Nice fast paced gameplay and the basic mechanics are very interesting.
Mood is pretty good.
Killing the enemies felt a bit awkward though.
Overall a solid entry.
The control scheme is a bit unusual for this kind of game.
Also, you can walk right through the southern wall.
Atmoshpere quite good.
As many others mentioned already, light is pretty great too.
It supports the atmosphere well.
Very cool entry.
Two minor suggestions for improvement: first, the music doesn't loop. Second, as some other people mentioned already, it is a bit hard sometimes to click the right tile.
Maybe some additional handle for clicking in the middle of a tile or something like that would work.
But these are really only minor complaints. I rellay like those games and you nailed the concept.
Keep it up!
I really liked the hat mechanics.
I was however disappointed that I could not walk through the fog door on the left and face a boss ;)
Cool idea.
I actually really like the look of the game.
It has something very unique about it.
And the voice over was pretty good too.
With a bit more "gameplay" (however you want to define that) this could be really amazing.
Keep up the good work!
Wow.
Gorgeous graphics, great music.
Difficulty of the original version is indeed to high.
But even though I am pretty bad at this type of games I enjoyed playing it a lot.
Well done!
Cool idea.
Sadly, the levels turned out to be too hard for me pretty quickly.
Still, I like the puzzle mechanics you used.
I tried playing it and it looks really awesome,
but after combining glasses and picture, I end up with no idea what to do.
I can't open the inventory, running around doesn't seem to do anything and neither does pressing space.
Any hints so I can finish and rate the game?
It closes for me as well. Right after the second textbox.
Windows 10, 64bit.
Intel graphics chip.
Hope it helps, I really would like to play it.
Yay, I am finally able to play it.
Very nice game.
198 points. I guess my cat lady senses are pretty well developed ;)
Purrrrrrfect humor ^---^________|
Pretty solid entry.
Camera was abit awkward, but overall it seamed quite polished.
I really like the music and sound effects.
Yeah, pretty hard.
But you get an extra point for knowing Chuck Norris Jokes ;)
A very interesting idea.
I had a bit of problem undestanding according to what rules the people would choose the square to move to.
Some clarification on this might help.
But apart from that I enjoyed playing the game and trying to figure out in what order to click the rooms.
Well, the boob physics are not entirely convincing I must say.
I would recommend to invest some more time into actual gameplay next time.
@team_disposable: thank you for comment. It is nice to hear that you enjoyed our game.
@Louspirit: actually, arrow keys and gamepad work just as well. I just forgot to write it into the description ;)
And the transparent kitties in the library are supposed to be ghosts. We just didn't have the time to show it better. We had plkanned for some sounds for the kitties, but well, time was up.
@everyone: thank you all very much for your comments. They are much appreciated.
@ZirconCode: Well, you know, those robots don't know physics. They don't know that objects shouldn't clip ;)
@gilead: Yeah, we messed up the restrictions of the tbale's movement. But there should be a restart button when you run out of battery.
Interesting take on the Roomba.
It was quite funny to try and bounce the mice around :)
Keep it up.
And here is something to help with the mice:
^---^_____|
The intro is awesome.
The mood is also very creepy.
But the game runs so slow, it is almost unplayable.
Very cool game.
Great atmoshpere. Smooth controls.
Three minor suggestions for improvement:
- make the player aware of the number of uses allowed for each other. Took me several levels to realize thet there were numbers on the abilities.
- in what I guess was the last level, a transition to a victory screen would be cool. For me, it just seemed like the door was not working. I had unlocked it but it wouldn't react to my character. (I played the WebGL Version, maybe its a bug, I don't know.)
- add a button to get back to the menu. (Maybe I just didn't find it, in that case make it more obvious)
But this is simply one of the best games I have played this LD. Great work.
Pretty cool.
Cool puzzle design.
And I love the sound effect for the boss.
Concerning gameplay, friction could be a bit better and loss of velocity from jumping a bit less.
Cool idea.
The sound effects were a bit too loud compared to the background music in my opinion.
And yeah, you should give the player an earlier heads up concerning the stalactites.
But with some polish, this could be really neat game.
Cool entry.
Its impressive what you managed to build in the limited time available.
A bit laggy on my not so high end pc, but that's perfectly fine on a game jam in my opnion.
Keep up the good work.
Cool game.
I really like the eyes appearing under the bed when you don't kill some of the toys.
Music is a bit repetitive and the differences between towers not that great I think.
But overall a pretty good entry.
Well done.
Overall a pretty solid entry.
Well done.
Cool idea to make an NES game.
The hit boxes feel a bit strange, but apart from that you have earned my respect by creating a game for such an old and great system.