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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | 2008 | 13 | Roads | Only Forwards | compo | Fun | 4.05 | |
| 🥇 | 2008 | 13 | Roads | Only Forwards | compo | Journal | 4.75 | |
| 🥈 | 2008 | 13 | Roads | Only Forwards | compo | Food | 4.33 | |
| 🥈 | 2008 | 13 | Roads | Only Forwards | compo | Polish | 4.59 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Po | Cm | Te | Jo | Fo | Tw | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 37 | One room | Nest | compo | 37 | 4.00 | 3.11 | 4.68 | 4.50 | 3.82 | 3.60 | 2.94 | 3.70 | 39 | |||||||
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | Zunus | compo | 18 | 4.18 | 4.00 | 3.89 | 4.36 | 4.37 | 3.42 | 3.44 | 3.96 | 46 | |||||||
| 2015 | 33 | You are the Monster | Bloodworm | compo | 5 | 4.33 | 4.43 | 4.23 | 4.15 | 4.13 | 4.13 | 3.86 | 3.94 | 49 | |||||||
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | Wyrmery | compo | 47 | 3.95 | 4.14 | 3.57 | 4.24 | 4.05 | 3.29 | 3.32 | 3.32 | 37 | |||||||
| 2013 | 26 | Minimalism | hunter hungry | compo | 23 | 4.06 | 3.63 | 3.41 | 3.67 | 4.10 | 3.43 | 2.37 | 4.22 | 46 | |||||||
| 2012 | 25 | You are the Villain | No rest for the wicked. | compo | 133 | 3.44 | 3.20 | 3.47 | 3.29 | 3.91 | 3.16 | 2.73 | 3.25 | 44 | |||||||
| 2012 | 23 | Tiny World | Niña Nueve | compo | 23 | 4.02 | 3.84 | 3.85 | 3.39 | 3.89 | 3.47 | 2.48 | 3.31 | 52 | |||||||
| 2011 | 22 | Alone | Craequ | compo | 9 | 3.98 | 3.51 | 4.00 | 3.14 | 3.35 | 3.33 | 1.65 | 3.44 | 3.27 | 45 | ||||||
| 2011 | 21 | Escape | Antagonist | compo | 39 | 3.67 | 3.60 | 3.03 | 4.00 | 3.53 | 3.43 | 2.13 | 3.68 | 2 | |||||||
| 2010 | 19 | Discovery | Husk | compo | 45 | 3.41 | 3.33 | 3.31 | 3.42 | 3.31 | 2.97 | 2.09 | 3.44 | 3 | |||||||
| 2010 | 18 | Enemies as Weapons | Collateral | compo | 8 | 3.80 | 3.67 | 4.00 | 3.48 | 3.48 | 3.13 | 3.20 | 4.22 | 9 | |||||||
| 2010 | 17 | Islands | Isles of Color | compo | 4 | 3.98 | 3.84 | 3.74 | 3.53 | 3.79 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 4.30 | 27 | |||||||
| 2008 | 13 | Roads | Only Forwards | compo | 4 | 4.18 | 4.05 | 3.43 | 4.00 | 4.09 | 3.39 | 2.88 | 4.59 | 3.35 | 4.75 | 4.33 | 3.25 |
Great cohesive feel and nice mechanics. Somewhat let down by the unpredictability of the enemies combining with the sluggishness of the ground stomp attack, it felt more like luck than judgement. Also, essentially replaying each previous stage after the new one got tedious. I'm nit picking on a very solid entry though, good job!
Really loving the graphics. It felt like the mechanic would have worked better in a less rigid puzzle-esque enviroment. Controls are a nightmare on a trackpad, but I can't really hold that against you.
I absolutely adored your take on the theme, and, whilst I'd expect replayability to be veeeeery low I did have a blast. The blast was well done too :)
The only real negative for me was that it felt like my impact on the world was less than it ought to be, and, specifically like you were pulling sides to make one side (in my case the blue) faaaar more effective than in other. As such my agency felt unjustly limited.
I loved this. Genuinely hilarious and completely hatstand.
The exploding head mechanic worked out surprisingly well, though it wasn't clear why you might want to use a head as a weapon when the enemies *aren't* packed together.
Still, good effort!
Rather challenging, interesting mechanics, and pretty amusing. I liked it. Given the themeing it really desperately needed some music though.
Congrats on your first entry! It was a bit confusing to start out, and a bit frustrating further in. I liked the dark 'patchwork' world a lot though, rather evocative.
Potential, but not really realized. Was a lot of time taken up by tech?
Very interesting concept, but I found the interface very unwieldly indeed. I can't help feeling that the concept might have worked better if it wasn't a platformer.
4710.
An good variant on a missile command style game. The early game was a bit slow, but once the helicopters really started rolling in it got pretty great. The spring sfx was great.
Did feel like a bit of sideways velocity on the bellyfloppers would have added a lot of gameplay depth. Even more so if it was aimable.
Whilst there was an impressive amount of features for the timeframe I'm left feeling that a smaller but more polished set of mechanics would have felt significantly better.
I may simply be biased slightly for having ended my (previously only mildly frustrating) playthrough early by getting irrevocably and unfairly stuck in a wall.
I liked the concept, but the gameplay felt very loose (I couldn't see any great correlation with what I was doing to how well I was doing).
I didn't manage to finish it (got stuck on the ring-of-tendrils style level). Seemed a solid exploration of a simple but well realized mechanic (always a good thing). The music was great and fit, strangely, it felt like it oughtn't.
I don't understand what the title and theme text have to do with anything.
Haha, I kept on accidentally setting the houses (and myself) on fire. This game reminds me of a story my mum used to tell about how she 100% genuinely believed that firemen went round setting alight to peoples houses when she was young.
I love the full title, and the solid fire simulation. Oh, and props for recovering from catastrophic source faliure (next time, version control! ;)
The controls are a little less lovable.
Interesting use of theme.. I liked the art a lot. Couldn't get past level two, and the level up/down pop ups are quite irritating.
A simple mechanic rendered compelling through strong aesthetics, great work! I played a normal length game, and with the lack of substantial variation I was ready for it to end before it did.
Having problems running this (on Windows 7), it appears on the task bar, but then sits there doing nothing.
Really solid experience, with a surprising amount to it. Does perhaps suffer a bit from its ambition, and it's a shame there's not a great deal to differentiate it.
This seems to have a load of potential, but it's perhaps a bit too confusing to figure out in its present state. Would love some instructions!
Most certainly a discovery game, the sound effects amused me a great deal, and the title screen is great. The spike hit-detection seemed very aggressive, I kept on dying unpleasantly easily against them.
Yeah, sorry, I think I was full on head-down busy at work whilst you were there or I'd have said hi properly. I've got my ticked booked for tigjam, so yes, will be in Cambridge again then. Cheers!
Wow. Enjoyed!
Surprisingly compelling despite the simplicity. The chasers add the required tension to break what would otherwise be a rather tedious task. I enjoyed myself, though I'm not sure I'll be back for another game.
Liked the blueprint themeing. Had issues with the stealth mechanics, it was never really clear why sometimes I failed to kill a guard and sometimes succeeded. Voice acting was amusing/impressive.
The mechanics were pretty interesting, but oh gah, arrrrg, the controls, OW!
Really lovely. So much done with so little in the way of code heavy mechanics is really inspiring. Really quite amusing too. Good work.
Agreed on the hitboxes, deeply unforgiving. Also the insta-death combined with lack of precognition makes this brutally hard to players that aren't also the designer.
However, despite all that I found a lot about this charming. Especially the enemies :)
This was really good. The water effects and environment are pretty excellent.
The hiding mechanics were a bit inscrutable, and it would have been better if they were more obvious, but in ways the lack of clarity did add to the tension.
The scattered but obviously meaningless pickups annoyed me, though the end game payoff did lessen my annoyance at that considerably.
Good job!
Big props for finishing something, even if it isn't the most dramatic thing ever shipping it is all important!
Jerm: Oh, wow, that's quite a time. Have a couple of ideas for your prize, but need a little time to prep it. Hope you don't mind the wait.
heck: Of course I made the music myself! Spent a few hours on Saturday evening pulling something together in FL Studio. I'm ever so glad you liked it, music is traditionally my weak spot. That panicked but cunning chase seen feel is definitely something I was trying for.
Generally: Thanks everyone for the kind words. So happy you're enjoying it. Also, yeah, it's not an empowering kind of jump, but for better or worse it was an intentional design decision; I wanted any progress to feel like it came from cunning, not intrinsic power.
Cheers! :)
Maybe I just suck, but I found this waaaay too hard, couldn't really achieve anything. Decent scope for a weekend, but I think you'd have benefited from less mechanics and more polish.
Generally very strong entry. Good mechanic, nice art, pretty polished. Controls are quite a way from intuitive (first time I played I didn't realise I could shoot grapple upwards).
After the initial ah-ha of the core mechanic there wasn't much else compelling going on for the rest of the game. It was just more of the same.
Loved the intro transition, and the billboard chars in 3d are surprisingly endearing. The RPG combat as puzzle idea was nice, but it was kind of awkward to actually figure things out. Also wasn't clear why by abilities kept on appearing and disappearing.
I got through a few screens, but got stuck on "a stranger in strange land". I'm not adverse to this sort of puzzle, but the combination of hard to understand interface and seeming lack of puzzle direction isn't working out for me.
You squeezed a lot out of a little. The combat mechanic was surprisingly pass-able, and the lack of health etc. was a wise decision. I can't say that the minimalist graphics hurt much either. Obviously not the most stunning entry, but it's still worthwhile.
Yep, it is completable. There's even a small ending of sorts. Glad you liked it :)
Flawed, no doubt, but a valiant effort nonetheless. I really liked the particle squidge on the jumps.
An interesting concept, and a fairly well realised one. The fuzzy photographs and bleary noise soundtrack do more for atmosphere than rushed together game art could.
I'll admit I got bored of the game pretty quickly and just let myself go. This didn't feel inappropriate.
Pretty great for a first game. Art was nice. Unfortunately tThe controls do rather let it down though.
Cheers to Zuieni for the windows build.
The height of the jump and the speed of horizontal movement really don't mesh. Art wasn't *that* bad really, clear, consistent, reasonable colour choices.
A lesson for next time is if you only have 48/72 hours, half-life the rpg is probably not the best choice!
Reading messages with space and closing with enter was rather frustrating. Still, every hung together pretty well tech wise.
This game is way hard, even on easy. I find it near impossible to find more ammo, which combined with the audio gave things a neat survival horror vibe, but also made me stop playing in frustration before too long.
Nice concept, well executed. Actually playing was a bit too much trial and error to be truly enjoyable though.
Nice theme. Despite my best efforts I couldn't make it further than the initial platform!
I've played countless games like this; the 3d is extremely well done though. Wasn't able to finish.
Neat idea/simulation. Gameplay was rather one-tone. Liked the sfx!
Nice look, reasonable feel; good work, but it's very frustrating to play. Exploration game with darkness, hidden spikes, and no checkpoints? Ouch! I couldn't stick it out to the end.
A simple idea, but lovingly produced. Exactly the sort of thing I love to see, awesome music too.
Simple, but charming. I love the wind riding mechanic. Was hoping for a cute ending.
Haha, I absolutely love the early 90's cheap shareware vibe this gives me. Wish my bombs were a bit more powerful/less buggy.
Even easy is pretty darn hard! Did complete/enjoy it though. Level design was really tight. Liked the pixel animation, but theme did feel a bit loose generally.
I was aware that the leading puzzles would be a little irritating, but I liked them too much to drop, and ran out of time to find a nice way to 'fix' them.
I guess I pick palettes mostly by instinct. If anything the important bit is I pick my palette outright before I start pixelling, and force myself to stick to it.
Lovely concept, very nicely executed! Really misses some music..
Fun. Nice mechanic. Aches for a multi-step undo button/key.
Absolutely charming concept. Lovely art/feel. Sinking mechanic felt a bit opaque. Sound should be on by default! (and ideally a bit punchier)
It took me some time to get the hang of what was going on (didn't read the strategy guide, like to figure this stuff out for myself). Had a lot of fun figuring out the system and how to do well, beat all the levels in the end. My top strategy was: MML-UUTRMCMCMCMC (the MCMCMC turtling is perhaps a bit too powerful, maybe games should stop a little sooner).
Really awesome work. Very well envisioned/put together.
I'm not very good at enjoying things like this, but the graphics and mechanics are charming as hell.
Web link doesn't seem to work for me. Windows 7 + Firefox.
This is really great.
Well, it's an okay missile defence clone. Wish there was more to it than that though.
It's entirely possible I was missing something important, but this was super-hard for me, even on easy.
Nice idea though, and fairly slick.
Title screen made me laugh out loud :D
Game was okay, but kind of tedious if I'm honest.
A surprisingly large amount of stuff in this, but the difficulty is crazy, I got past the first level, and then the second completely stopped me.
Web version isn't working for me (on Ubuntu), just get a screen filled with warning tape lines. Shame, looks interesting!
Reaaaally love the way you subverted the platformer mechanics to tell a very different story.
I'm a little muddled as to what was happening in the first altercation, just before the police take you away. Didn't wreck it for me though, the ending was quite poignant.
A fine first effort!
$104 damage!
So I the game feels rather abstract for it's theme; felt a bit isolated from the idea by lack of sounds/visuals of things getting wrecked etc.
It's a nice idea though, and the first time I sent a kid into sugar crash gave me a big grin.
Really like the graphics, something genuinely different which is great. Obviously I'd have welcomed something to do.
Couldn't find the way to actually become the villain.
The rules seem a bit light to really sit down and play (also I lack people), but I do like the idea. It's a bit hard to see that it will play a great deal different to a game of Cheat.
That was really nice. The writing was good, and the sound effects helped a lot with the mood. The css theme seemed a bit chirpy for the content!
I found this frustratingly difficult so I didn't manage to finish. A beautifully realized game though. Really good for the theme.
Really interesting idea, but the player movement made it rather frustrating to actually play. The art is nice.
Love the idea of mining diamonds to eat potato. Could have done with more signalling that you are low on fuel/hull.
Wow, I really can't figure out the mechanics on this at all. Pretty interesting though for that exact same reason.
Couldn't figure out how to make a fire.
Audio really sold the feel of a place.
This is great. If only it had audio :(
Was *really* excited when I got to the driving section, but as per the others, died almost immediately, which is a real shame. Lovely art style.
Haha, pretty amusing. Some of the games are a bit obtuse the first few times. Fun though.
The looseness of the collisions became very frustrating before long, but there was definitely some nice stuff in here. Particularly enjoyed the rolling boulder art.
Sadly crashes when I try to run it. No particularly useful information, just "do you want to send an error report to microsoft".
Lovely pixelly machinery, but the game got tiresome. Was annoyed I didn't have a chance to play the turntable before I failed.
Well that was rather nice. I've seen similar ideas before, and the difficulty was fairly high, but I really loved the playful level design; particularly the amount of interest you rung out of a simple spring mechanic.
Super nice atmosphere, but got pretty bored once it became "just trawl through all the screens till you find someone and see if something happens", it could be that I'm being dumb about the glyphs in some way.
Oh, and somehow it took me ages to realize how to interact with people.
I love love love the aesthetics of this, super cool!
I'm not a fan of unity platforming at the best of times, and this was not that, so yeah, gameplay wise pretty frustrating.
This is great Craig :D
I love the mechanics, and the puzzles I've played so far are brutal but really clever. Shame about the lack of audio, would have really sold it :(
This is really nice but some sfx would have made a world of difference.
Does something simple, but does it very well. I could stand a lot more LD entries to be like this! :)
The mix of melodrama and comedy did not sit that great with me; and I felt like the captain was coming up with plans whilst I sat back, rather than me *playing* the captain.
Did enjoy the weird mix of art though, and the idea is pretty nice.
Couldn't extract the Win-32 build zip. Only 20kb? Seems dubious.
Cute idea. Pretty incomprehensible without careful poring through description. Collision detection feels over enthusiastic.
Very beautiful, but not especially enjoyable. Failure seemed to come from bad luck, rather than player mistake.
Nice concept+look+sound. Feels balanced towards players who already know exactly what they are doing, lost 5-6 times without really knowing why before I started to get the hang of it. Especially harsh if you run out of enough blue to do more digging.
The delightful animation and music really sold this.
Getting "Error: Erreur de fichier!" when I try and run. Windows 8, 64 bit.
The musical coins are interesting, and the art is pretty nice, but I found the low visibility of the rocks highly frustrating.
Enjoyed!
Nice art, and an interesting thing. Near enough incomprehensible though.
hissssssssss: If you run it from a command line and get me the full text of/a screenshot of the command line it would be a huge help!
This s really interesting, but I really need some easy intro terrain to get a feel for the controls, it's just toooo weird.
Really great, but reaaaally hard.
Enjoyed the variety of visitors. Game lasted a little longer than I wanted it too.
The eyes! The camera! The respawning! Oh my! I had fun.
Such a cool monster!
This was really nice! Very good level design. The movement was a bit glitchy in places, but impressive overall. The vertical room near the end was a pain in the bum, but I finished just before I started to feel frustrated.
An interesting thing. All the placeholder text (I assume it was placeholder text) gave it all a kind of strange poetry vibe that felt appropriate.
This is suuuuper hard. Love the monster animation.
This was cute :)
This was a nice little thing :)
That was a cute concept, I would have liked to see even more dramatically different movement behaviours for each of the friends.
Uploaded a new Windows build that should increase the number of machines that can run it, now only requires OpenGL 3.1 (previously 3.2). No functional changes. I might try and improve on this further.
The best title screen! I kept on getting my guesses wrong, and never really worked out why.
Enjoyed the day/night cycle, but boy was it dark in the night!
I genuinely had a really great time with this.
I have never been so scared of fruit in a video game.
I really loved this. Such a charming way to make so much from so little. Saw the twist coming from a mile off though.
This was really wonderful.
Dead goblins are good goblins.
I feel sticky.
This is super good, thanks!
Nice stuff. It felt a little like I was more at the whim of the RNG than my skill, not sure. Some variety in scream sound would be *very* appreciated.
(I think FreeSound samples might be technically outside of compo remit, but *shrug*)
I love the punch of the controls. Though I didn't feel *in* control exactly, just trying to return the ball. This is a nice game though.
Very nice prototype of a thing for 2 hours. Would love to see/play an 8hr polished to make it really good version.
Incredibly beautiful, though a little light/frustrating to play.
I tried the web version, but it was a bit too glitchy to really play with.
A very pleasing little experience, thanks :)
Pretty interesting thing you have here. I found the puzzle mechanics a bit opaque throughout, not sure why exactly.
Hey, this is really nice.
I dig this. I don't have a large stack of friends to play this with right now, but I do have a bunch of d6, so I had a play solo. A circular tower is a satisfying shape to build out of cubes.
I almost wonder if I'd be having even more fun if I'd just been tower building, and not having to do base 6 math too.
Nice usage of the grow theme, found the controls, and high difficulty rather frustrating!
Nice little thing, the timeouts felt a little harsh.
Cute two button controls, but arrgh. The level design is sooooo harsh. Some warm-up please!
This is a silly game, and I found it hilarious :)
Got stuck on level 8 though.
This is pretty neat. I feel you could have more to use/signal the moss surrounding mechanics, maybe less enemies and more puzzle pieces?
_stice: It's not, but it does maybe require a not tooo old 3d graphics card. If you can run it from a command line and give me the output I can see if I can figure out what's happening.
MisterAddy: It's certainly possible, but no promises.
It feels like C + V are the wrong way around?
I dig the island art.
I really dig the graphics, and the play on the two button theme. Found it rather difficult to handle, a bit more warp-up/explanation would have made a world of difference.
Very, hard, and the complete reset on death is super harsh.
Some cute ideas though, and the music is nice.
Cant run this (naked java) so not rating.
Simple but pleasing sound work, and I dig the mechanic mash. Fun stuff.
I like the idea of putting the 'asteroids' back together, but in practice a bit difficult frustrating. Really wanted to fly the ship around a bit too!
This is really lovely. I particularly enjoyed the tutorial.
This is real cute. Very nice. Only wish it was a bit more challenging to pick stuff up.
This is a neat concept :)
This is super lovely. Me and Bubba had a blast, but I'm exhausted now.
The concept is great, but it's the slickness of the platforming that goes with it that really impressed me.
Interesting stuff, I found it way too challenging to play around the robot. Just couldn't get on top of it at all. Felt very clumsy.