Gravy Train by pkenney 2019-05-19T21:49:56Z ♥ 0
Nice game! Took me a minute to understand what I have to do, but then was super obvious :D Cool concept and a good idea. Lacking a bit on the theme front, though.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → mrtnldm
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | Dwarven Mines: Hunt for the Evergreen | compo | 838 | 2.72 | 1.58 | 2.00 | 3.42 | 3.69 | 3.45 | 1.50 | 3.61 | ||
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | 9 Lives | compo | 415 | 2.94 | 2.57 | 2.76 | 3.29 | 3.47 | 3.06 | 3.12 | 2.84 | ||
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | 👥 | Embrace Space | jam | 708 | 3.31 | 3.00 | 3.31 | 3.53 | 3.61 | 2.61 | 2.94 |
mrtnldm leaves an average of 17.0 feedback comments each event.
Nice game! Took me a minute to understand what I have to do, but then was super obvious :D Cool concept and a good idea. Lacking a bit on the theme front, though.
Cool and unique gameplay mechanics. For me the game was a bit too fast paced. At least starting slow and getting faster would have made it a bit more enjoyable as opposed to dive in and not understand what is going on at the beginning. Some sound effects or music would have made it even better. In general a pretty great game! :)
I could shoot enemies from behind obstacles, they couldnt hit me, otherwise just an amazing game, loved every mechanic about it. An amazing entry for the jam!
Music is amazing, gameplay and sfx as well. Really well done. Only thing I would recommend is to make the player just a little bit bigger in relation to the level. Usually I don't really like top down shooters but this was actually fun! Well done!
Cool little space shooter, music was nice and I am always a fan of vocal SFX. Nice game!
I really liked playing this game! Liked the dark mood but sometimes it was a bit hard to see, music was great, sound effects as well. Sadly couldn't figure out how to do plated coins and alloys. Managed a Koala and that was it so a tutorial on the forge would have been good. Also a little bug - coming down from the initial pathway right next to the wall I was able to walk on the wall above the lamps. Otherwise great game!
I like the random beeps and bops. Music fits the theme and mood well. For me on the graphics side the player resolution was a bit too low compared to rest of the scene. Game is filled with content and lots of places and nooks to find and explore. Loved the camera slicing the building when indoors. Great game!
A key does not work when moving left in the windows build. Got bit of edgy feel with the dabbing. Music is nice and fitting! Graphics could do with a bit of consistency - the yellow rounded dabber didn't really fit the the black, white, rectangular level design. On the other hand mechanics were great, I liked the magnet feature.
Well this is just professional work. How that was done within 72h I have no clue. Amazing! Naval battles were a lot of fun! I did encouter two bugs. Sometimes my ship would just do donuts (manual, not autopilot mode) and sometimes the harbors don't display the prices for objects. Should've opted out of audio if you got music from purple planet. Otherwise just amazing.
Wow. Really great! How do you even get the idea to make a DOS game? :) Good job, lots of fun to play. Only thing that bothered me a little was when I moved too much left or right and was automatically in the next level, resetting my current one. Otherwise fun to play!
Really nice! Best top down shooter I have seen this jam, very much liked the simplistic graphics. The enemies and the weapons were well balanced, the gameplay was dynamic but not too fast paced. I also liked to search around the arena for enemies. Well done, cool game!
An amazing, artistic, abstract experience that gets the theme best that I have seen so far! This is what all jam games should be! Spent a bit more than 20 minutes and worth it every second! TRULY AMAZING WORK! 10/5!
Huge team :O Must have been hard to divide tasks. Animations, audio and art are great. For some reason the name and the cover were misleading - didn't expect a hack-and-slash wave defender (if that's how they are called) - don't get me wrong, it was fun! Well done!
Great art, overall very nice and felt polished and smooth. Liked the controls
Props to Ethan and Remi right off the bat, the music is amazing and creates the atmosphere instantly! The art was nice and I really loved the death animation! The game was a bit too hard for my liking but all in all a great job, all of you!
Like that you integrated the controls in such an intuitive manner introducing the game straight away. Awesome animations and art style. Great eerie music. All in all a very nice game, although the enemies are a bit too agressive/there is too many of them for my taste. I actually made a game with the exact same principle - a cat platformer where you must spend lives to gain abilities that help you advance. Even the cost of the abilities - 2 lives - is the same! :D Check it out under my games! Your execution is on a whole other level obviously. :)
Quite difficult to play, I feel like a little knockback effect would have made the game a lot more fun with the same settings. Right now I felt super rushed and had to always time my hit and run strategy and died pretty often. Otherwise nice! :)
I played as Zeilzriess, Eater Of All, courtesy of https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/dragon_names.php xD and I really liked it! The controls were too impossible for me to flap the wings more than a few times before I crashed in the swamp but the overall game is very well made and very attractive. Bonus points for music and the narrated instructions. You actually have the voice of a dragon trainer - you'd fit well in the Eragon universe. :D Did you play the guitar yourself or is it synth? Props for a nice game! :)
An awesome game! As I was hooked on cookie clicker for a long time this game and as I love strategy and builder gamest this was right down my alley! I especially liked how it was at first casual clicker with planning out the layout of temples and clearing land, turned into a bit of a strategy on building placement and which to choose and was a how-fast-can-you-build at the end. So many elements I like! At first the goal of 1000 seemed really far but was actually very well balanced and made for a nice lenght gameplay! Artstyle very consistent and the colorscheme is pleasant to look at! Music and effects were maybe a tad bit intense! Truly great and in every aspect the perfect LD submission!
PS! I might have had a bug - after winning and clicking replay I started with one of the blue buildings left behind and the cultist count was -290/10 :)
Great voice acting! I think it makes LD games super nice and unique!
The squaking startled me a little. An interesting concept, actually made me think a little and a quite alternative take on the theme - fitting I find! Great change from the usual spend HP to buy weapons (not that I am any better :D ).
Great game! I really like strategy (especially turn based) so this was really down my alley. Like the art and the music, makes for a great theme. The actions and descriptions at locations were well written. Kept my interest! Well done!
Nice concept and has potential to be an enjoyable text adventure. I like the simplistic low resolution graphics, makes for a good mood! Feels like 60 days to summer is waaay too long (overscoped?) though. That's either going to be too repetitive or too much content to keep interesting. Would have been really great with some intro and more gameplay.
Really cool graphics - love the old kinescopic tv effect and the pixel art is just amazing! Only issue I had is with balancing - wasn't able to even advance from the first opponent, he draws so fast. Otherwise a super cool game! Cheers!
Great story(telling), game felt balanced and was very enjoyable to play. Mood is unbeatable, music makes everything come together and is just perfect! A great game, fitting the theme! Watching your postmortems really inspired me to participate in this Ludum Dare and create my first solo game ever so thanks for that! Grüße aus München! Mach's gut!
Good art and a good solid style! Unfortunately doesn't offer much for gameplay.
Really nice! Love the experience - amazingly joyful and humorous. Graphics, voice acting, music everything is just on-point! A truly excellent submission!
"Use left mousebutton to stabbidy stab stab" - haha, funny. :) Good style of humour :) Music and sound effects would have made the game much more live. Lacks a bit on the affordance scale, and could do with a few more enemies. Props for making a game and participating, I also submitted my first game this compo! Hope you had as much fun developing it as I did :)
Visual style consistent, pleasing and good to look at, however how-to text way too cramped and a bit hard to read. Music matches the game very well. Really like the trophies system, takes the game to a whole new level feature wise and adds more of a goal. If you slowed the game down a notch it would get more strategical and allow for a moment to think - right now I just found myself clicking on whatever was red :)
Overall I liked the game, matches the theme fairly well in my opinion. Good job!
I liked the effects - both audio and visual, especially the facial animations for the piggy. They are funny. Background sound was a nice beat! The art was nice but the background colors were a bit too clashing for my eyes. Movement was intuitive and easy to control, levels seemed a bit too complicated for me since you don't really see in which directions you have to go to advance. Overall well done!
A great game and a lot of fun! The gameplay was solid and the theme was captured well! Amazing voice acting!
Great music! The theme is captured so well as the player only realizes it in the end. A bit difficult but i guess practice makes perfect. Also the dark theme mixing with disco is cool.
Pretty art and good overall design. I love the simplicity and capturing the theme. It's fun to play!
Couldn't figure out how to advance and didn't get how it relates to the theme. The menu button didn't work when I died.
Very fun game! Captures the theme nicely! I like the movement mechanics and that the player actually has multiple possible strategies to advance.
LD48 — Deeper and deeper (14)
Nuclear blaze by deepnight 2021-04-30T18:43:08Z ♥ 1
AMAZING!
Deeper-Geddon by heidelbert 2021-04-29T11:58:31Z ♥ 3
Absolutely loved this game! Really nice music as well and the meteorite art was on point. The Earth was a slightly different style and didnt quite match, but that is not important. GREAT game!
Prospector Paranoia by Kovi 2021-04-28T20:20:32Z ♥ 1
Such a solid game! Everything felt so complete and polished. Very well executed graphics, I liked the shadows floating around - they are seriously creepy. Overall really nice mood with the perfect soundtrack. Loved it! Only piece I would change is make the shadows dissolve pixel-by-pixel instead of a smooth way as they do now. But seriously good game!
To The Planet Core by Corporation 2021-04-27T23:00:18Z ♥ 1
Cool concept with placing the mining blocks. I love the color palette and art in general. Some audio would have been cool, but a very solid entry. And built in your own engine?! Cool!
Drill Sergeant by GoldOne 2021-04-27T22:42:12Z ♥ 1
I love the character art and animation. He is just so cool The game got a little too hard a little too fast for my taste. Otherwise I loved the concept even though I hate spiders. Even in the game they creeped me out by being so fast. +1 mood point for that :) Well done!
Lord Of The Flies by PixelPortalz 2021-04-27T22:30:44Z ♥ 1
Love the simplicty of the graphics. Great music and really cool voice. Just a little counterintuitive for me that going deeper was up on the screen. Otherwise a really well made game - I had fun playing it!
Jupiter Drop by plexium.nerd 2021-04-27T22:11:44Z ♥ 1
I like the unique take on the standard go-deep-to-gather-resource type of game. Don't get me wrong - I like those games and I was excited for this. Unfortunately it feels very passive sitting around waiting for H2 to accumulate. More interaction would be nice and some simple audio like even a clip of recorded wind would give it a lot more feel. I would like to try it again after some polish.
To The Core by Pe7e 2021-04-27T10:35:18Z ♥ 1
Very nice concept simple enough to quickly understand it. As others I would have preferred to have the moves saved between tries. Or perhaps better yet, checkpoints to continue from when you find the opening where to go down. Cool jingle, nice graphics.
Jupiter Diving by juju 2021-04-26T20:37:36Z ♥ 1
Cool particle effects and I like the take on the theme. Never got past 91m as the little cube always got me. Art style (e.g start menu font) could be unified a bit. The main logo looks very nice!
I'm So Deep by liammasters 2021-04-26T20:21:59Z ♥ 1
Interesting concept and I like the rolling animation. I didn't really get the hang of pleasing the lady. Copying her poems worked. :)
The MindDiver by Pierre.F 2021-04-26T20:08:21Z ♥ 2
Pretty art, i really like the style. I am getting almost Disco Elysium vibes from this games, which is a good thing. I like the small touches like custom cursors for keys and magnifiyng glass. The camera could use a bit less damping as it was overshooting. And I was able to walk out of the room and started falling indefinitely. Overall a very nice experience!
Bunny Bunny Dig Dig by ZakAmana 2021-04-26T19:22:20Z ♥ 1
Just wow. Absolutely amazing! This is not a jam game. This is a done and polished masterpiece. Motherload was a game I absolutely grinded together with my brother when we were kids so this is right down my alley. The theme song is in stuck in my head, it has nice balance to my taste and is fun to both dig and combat the bats. Efficient Torch II didnt go green for me on purchase. Also, diamond spanws could be increased a bit - I went all the way to the bottom multiple times and didnt find a single one. Only saw one diamond on my very first run and didnt get it since I was short on the torch. This made me a bit stuck to progress along the tech tree. But nevertheless this game gave me a solid 45 minutes of gameplay which i really enjoyed! So good. Looking forward to playing it some more.
EDIT:
After playing some more I finally found a diamond! Also discovered a couple of bugs. Triggering a bomb and going into combat immediately after doesnt take damage from the bomb. Standing next to a block, facing left/right and spamming A-S/A-D lets you mine 2 blocks at once - direct down and then left/right. Perhaps this is intentional.
Soul Catcher by DragonsBeardGames 2021-04-26T17:32:39Z ♥ 1
Very nice! I like the little bling sounds they make when falling down. I mostly ignored battle going on above just to watch the dudes ragdoll down. Fun concept and well made. Some GUI text at the top could be a tiny bit bigger for better readability.
Nostril Navigator by Xenon27 2021-04-26T09:14:09Z ♥ 0
Cool game! Like the art a lot - especially the menu screen. Colors and font and animation tie together really well. Idea is funny and executed well. I like the simplicity. Well done!