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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 | Star Grabber | compo | 578 | 3.18 | 3.36 | 2.81 | 2.94 | 2.48 | 3.06 | 2.50 | 2.96 | 48 | |
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | De Profundis | compo | 564 | 3.18 | 2.74 | 2.88 | 3.35 | 3.19 | 3.32 | 2.00 | 3.53 | 59 | |
| 2013 | 28 | You Only Get One | Me And My Arrow | compo | 179 | 3.45 | 3.13 | 3.29 | 3.53 | 3.08 | 2.68 | 1.81 | 2.69 | 66 |
The execution is pretty good (graphics, sound, music, controls), but I'm not a big fan of the gameplay -- it seems like there aren't any interesting decisions for the player to make, and whether you win or lose seems to be pretty much luck.
Unplayable -- there are no instructions for how to fire your gun. After trial and error I figured out that X fires the gun, but also kills you. Once you die you can still move around but there's no way to play the level alive again.
Hey thanks for posting fixes! I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, but I really like how the sound effects line up to make a beat like a minimalist techno song.
This was an interesting beginning of a story. Makes me curious to try out Twine. Could have used an ending or something, but it was nice that a couple of options opened up as the story progressed.
The Play Store link doesn't work for me.
Awesome I'll check back later!
Fun! Nice difficulty curve, kind of tricky but not hard enough to rage quit. Nice take on the theme. I like the dog (wagging tail and game mechanic). Could have used more feedback on line of sight of the parents and the dog.
I like the mechanics, I just wish there was more of an objective. Cool idea, maybe there's some way to expand upon the idea of socializing to make it more game-y.
Nice graphics and music, responsive controls and mechanics.
Nice! Fun puzzling, clean presentation. Minor nitpicks: it would be nice if the music didn't start over with every level, and if the disks moved maybe half as fast.
I really enjoyed the sequence of pressing buttons to assemble the gun, that was super cool. Not sure what my objective is after assembling it, though. I get one shot, and then what? Seems like I'm bound to die at that point.
Pretty straightforward. Nice changing background color. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on with the exclamation points though -- it seems like those should disappear once you've collected them. It would be nice if there was some way to play the game well enough that you keep going and going -- as it is I feel like I'm going to lose pretty quickly no matter what.
Beautiful background, character animations, and music. It wasn't clear to me when I could use the special attack.
That's different to see a card game, nice work! The rules of the game are simple enough to start playing quickly but have enough subtlety to make the decisions interesting.
Plugin crashed after my first attempt, when I hit "Retry".
Game crashes if I click and drag on a cookie. Not 100% repro but pretty consistently the second time I do it.
Oh gotcha! I should have read the description on this page before into the game. I like how you can move stuff around on the desk, this feels almost like I'm back at work.
Really nice wall textures and audio. Not a lot to do after exploring the house.
Got this error after being damaged a bit:
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Awesome! Beautiful graphics and music. Takes the theme and extends it beyond the game into the real world. Minor nitpicks: it doesn't use the theme *within* the game (the theme is a subject of the narrative instead of an element of the gameplay), and it's pretty short.
@iquinn There's only one balloon in the game that requires you to give up your arrow, and it's not one of the ones you're talking about -- it should be possible to get your arrow back from every other balloon. But (without going into too much detail) it's possible to get the level into a state where you can no longer easily retrieve your arrow from a balloon, so don't necessarily keep banging you head against it.
Solid. Nice sprites, music, controls, and gameplay. I got frustrated when I died on level three and had to start over on level one again.
Really nice animations. Not sure how it relates to the theme.
Really enjoyed the graphical style with the sprites in the 3D world, reminded me of Pokemon or Paper Mario. I wanted to play more, I was disappointed when it was over!
I think by the end I understood what was going on. There are some nice RTS elements in there, managing upgrading / improving efficiency vs. harvesting wood, carrying gifts, but it wasn't clear how to do it at first. The punching bag was funny!
This is the most dedicated take on the theme that I've seen. Good work! It would be nice if I could restart the game without refreshing.
It worked for me! Cool to see a very different approach to user input. The fist detection seemed to work well enough. Could use some more features maybe, like using the position of your fist in the game somehow.
Reminds me of the old point-and-clicks like Monkey Island. Some of the solutions are as unexpected as they are in those games.
I really liked the map, especially the way the grass tiles blended into each other. I survived for four days then died of hunger. I didn't understand tiredness -- it seemed like I hit a limit and then I walked slower and that was it? I wanted to be able to sleep to replenish tiredness.
I felt like I was getting the hang of this game. Really into the voice over and sound effects. Impressed by the scripted events like rescuing a survivor. I was feeling pretty tough, I had every item and was starting to dig into the rock when I heard "Watch out! These monsters might hurt you!" No problem, I thought, I have every weapon and even an extra heart, so the first enemies in the game should be no problem for me. I tried to use my sword on the spider but I guess I bumped into the spider because it was immediately game over! So I rage quit.
Super fun would play again if my character wasn't as fragile as an origami crane.
In the web player, attacking doesn't work unless I also hold down shift. I keep dying from the first enemy.
I like how many people are in the crowd. It feels hectic, you want to go ahead and knock out those infected before it gets out of hand. I didn't end up using the store.
Nice presentation. Fun mechanic although I think it's a little too tricky, I kept dying over and over.
Funny take on the theme! Nice music and artwork.
Nice take on the theme, nice environments, the rooms felt like real places which was cool. Sound would have been great as well as more things to do.
Probably the best LD28 game I've seen so far. A creative take on the theme -- instead of assuming "you" is the player, "you" is each NPC, resulting in a creative new gameplay mechanic. Instead of the constraint acting upon the player, the player is charged with enacting the constraint.
I kept dying! One time I managed to get to the second level, but every other time was just impossible.
Nice! Totally playable. Sound effects were fun. Could have used more levels or some other mechanic to add more play time. There was a nice, unusual strategy of first avoiding the wolf, letting it eat the civilians, and then hunting it once you get the bow.
I love the source material. When the grenade went off, the fade to white was epic.
It's different, not a "fun" game exactly but more of an experience. The couple of things that happen to you while meditating are pretty cool and surprising. Not sure how it relates to the theme though. Nice textures on the bed and floor.
I like the enemy behaviors, how tables fly back when you shoot them and how when you hit some things they leave stains on the environment. It got frustrating when an enemy would shoot and kill me as soon as I saw them, like maybe a couple of frames after I saw them. Nice soundtrack too.
Solid arcade-style game. Nice key binding setup.
Nice work, I like how this is kind of outside the box. I shouldn't really be rating it because I can't play it -- unless what I'm rating is the experience of watching you play the game on YouTube, which I can do, in which case, therefore, I'm rating it.
Also I like hunting dinosaurs, but it would be nice if the gun reloaded when you fire your last bullet instead of when you try to fire the next one.
Nice idea, sort of iterated rock paper scissors. There could be more feedback about what move the opponent is doing, what the right counter is, and who won when the round is over.
Nice take on the theme. Hitting a lot of monsters in one shot is really satisfying. I would have liked to know how much health I had left but that didn't matter too much because restarting levels was so quick.
Very interesting take on the theme. This is an example of how to move games in the direction of art. Very thought provoking, good work! That said, the gameplay mechanics were weak and unrelated to the narrative theme (as far as I could tell). I think there were maybe delta-time issues where sometimes thing moved at a reasonable rate but most of the time it felt like everything was moving about twice as fast as it should, which kind of killed the platforming for me.
Really nice presentation. The animations are great. The music is appropriate, it sets the mood really well. I definitely felt motivated to get the word out about my product and get customers to buy my stuff, it reminded me of when I worked retail during the summers in college.
None of the sellers made it past the second day, it made me wonder if that was possible or not?
I like the graphical style. Interacting with the machinery works really well, it makes the world feel more alive, like you're really in a big piece of drilling equipment drilling down into the earth.
It was tricky to get the drill to stop at exactly the right time to get out.
I won!
Really nice presentation, clean graphics and the rotation of the camera plays well with the disorientation of keeping track of both squares at once. Clever puzzle game!
Agree with the other comments that a direction indicator would be useful. And more levels because I want to keep playing!
The graphics look really nice, especially considering how minimal the characters are. I really like the vibe. Some of the decorations in the spaces make the world come alive, like the boxes just sitting around make the world seem lived in.
On the other hand the motion blur makes the game run super slowly on my machine, I'm probably getting 5 or 6 FPS. That makes it hard to aim and hard to tell what's going on when I shoot things. When I die the game locks up.
Nice gameplay, retro art, music is super fun, gameplay is interesting and a little different. Really cool!
Two small points: When I died I couldn't figure out how to reset without quitting and restarting the game, and the six directions of movement is kind of confusing. Not sure how you would do any better with the movement thing on a keyboard thought, I feel like it might work better with an Xbox controller, might be an interesting experiment.
I like the music! There's a nice balance of different threats to balance and keep track of without being too hard.
The game got a lot easier for me when I figured out to keep the mouse button pressed down.
I like the animation on the shape of the worm, especially how when you boost you stretch out. Could use another mechanic to keep the game interesting.
Nice spaceship control. The mining reminds me of Terraria.
I had a hard time mining sideways, it seemed like it wouldn't always work and when it did it was pretty slow.
I really like the textures inside the person! The music is really fun too, fits with the anti-depression mood.
I wasn't sure what decisions I was supposed to be making, in that way it feels like of like cookie clicker or something, just keep pressing the buttons.
Nice block physics, with the sand and dirt and water. The water physics especially look like a tricky thing to implement, good work on that! The puzzle solving is fun. Nice sprite and animations -- especially when a block falls on your head!
There are some crashing issues, like if you hold down z and fire a bunch of cannonballs, which ended up stopping me from getting too far in the game.
Nice dynamic terrain generation and destruction! I like the animation on the worm, how the tail changes direction based on how you move. Nice model for the worm too.
I had the game crash a couple of times, I think once was because I used the high graphics setting and the other time was because I dug too deep.
The opening animation is awesome. Great music too.
I didn't understand what I was supposed to do at first but then I went back and read the instructions. That's a pretty original mechanic, and nicely implemented!
Could have used lighting to make the depth of the space stand out a little more.
I really like the textures, that's such a cool effect! Nice music too, it fit the graphical style well.
I wasn't totally sure how the rules worked but I shot some things, got some upgrades, my bullets got bigger, it was a good time!
I like the animations, they remind me kind of of Lemmings.
The take on RTS controls is different and interesting. Nice pathfinding. I like the particles in the water and the tentacle, it hints at a giant monster and leaves a lot to the imagination.
I wasn't sure what the end game was going to be... seems like if I moved all my guys to where the enemies boarded I was going to stay in good shape.
It's a gamble to make a text adventure like this, good work at taking that risk! I figured out a few commands, pretty much look and go. I saw the swimsuit in the box but couldn't figure out if I could do anything with the swimsuit. Part of playing these games is figuring out what the commands are but it can also be frustrating to just be guessing without enough hints.
The game froze up on me about the third time I went into the ship.
I really like the graphical aesthetic. The changing colors in the background are especially nice, and the way the camera rotates too. I like that you did procedural levels too.
Without a clear objective it feels more like a toy than a game. But it seems like that's what you were going for!
Nice animations, especially the axe swinging. I like the ledge grab mechanic too, that was pretty slick!
I really liked the part of the world that I explored and I would like to explore more of it but the game is pretty tricky and I kept dying.
I get "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK to close the application."
Pretty freakin cool.
I got to a point where I wasn't sure what to do, I think I had explored the whole map and there weren't any enemies left, there was just a red item that I couldn't do anything with.
Nice work for such a short time working on it!
Can't play the game -- the Web version starts downloading the .unity3d file and the Windows version errors out with "Failed to load Mono."
You really nailed the loot gathering compulsion loop! I could see myself easily getting lost in this for a long time trying to get all the upgrades.
I got the documents! The digging was a cool mechanic. I kept popping up on top of a wall and dying though, it might be nice to have an overlay of the surface level when you're underground so you know where you're coming out. Or maybe that's part of the challenge! It was tricky but with some trial and error I was able to figure out how to get where I was going.
I kept getting the "mundane" card. I wasn't sure what to do or what my goal was. The game play sure did get me in the feels though, playing "mundane" over and over, then getting "overworked" and "unemployed", along with an attribute card that I get less reward from social interactions! The game has some really cool potential for some interesting commentary on life, I really like the way you use cards, but the gameplay was a little unclear.
I like the 2.5D graphics you have going on here.
It was kind of jarring for me when I switch directions and the camera jumps left and right.
It took me a while to figure out that getting damaged meant losing points -- I thought that I just wasn't getting damaged. Pretty hectic!
Starting at about level five the levels get seriously impossible. Nice wall jumping, that's a cool mechanic for a platforming game!
That music was so epic, really appropriate for the boss battles. Nice art too, I enjoyed the dithering!
It's a little confusing when your bullets aim toward your mouse but you can't see your mouse.
I killed some dudes!
I like the flocking of the little fishes that gather around you. The controls work really well around the surface when you're jumping out of the water but deeper down they're a little tricky especially when everything is a one hit kill.
Really funny concept, solid execution!
That's tricky! The procedural generation is pretty good but maybe with a designed level you'd be able to try over and over and eventually be able to beat it. Or you could use the same random seed over and over.
Really cool idea, good execution of the mechanic, and nice running animation, just a little on the hard side.
Wow, good work.
The graphics are great, I really like the pixelated effect.
I really appreciate that you tackled some pretty personal, meaningful issues. Talk about beneath the surface.
I would have liked to see some more animations, like maybe a walking animation on the main character. Some sound would be nice too.
I'm going to get carpal tunnel from clicking so much!
This is an unusual genre of game to make, I'm glad to see someone doing something different like that.
With Cookie Clicker it pretty quickly became unimportant to click anything anymore because your factories were doing all the work for you -- it would be nice to get more of that feedback loop going on. Maybe there's more of that in the post-LD48 version?
Oh man you nailed that compulsion loop. I could see myself spending hours and hours watching that little robot grind away at the earth!
I was confused at first because I didn't buy the flight upgrade before digging downward and then I got stuck and had to restart.
@sam101 Thanks for the feedback! There are some glitches in the movement under certain circumstances but hopefully not game breaking stuff, if I had more time I would love to have smoothed that out. I didn't check how the movable blocks work in Zelda, in this game they should slide on ice, and get pushed by you when you're sliding on ice. In Zelda maybe you would be able to slide up to one and it would stop you?
@stephenhaney Thanks for playing! I think you might have started going backward through the game instead of forward. The stars are gone because you already collected them. internetspaulicy had an excellent suggestion to make the entrances and exits different colors. Next time I guess!
Nice animation on the window when it opens. I liked the piano. I couldn't always see the balls because the pieces of paper were covering them up.
Pretty cool to do a multiplayer game for LD! Nice music. The combat was pretty simple, it would be nice if there was a way to deal damage without taking damage too.
The drifting feels really good. Too bad there aren't more tracks!
Very different control scheme! Nice 3D models. I liked the sound / music. I wasn't always sure why some bubbles didn't get popped by the organ.
Nice music! First time I died pretty fast. Second time I tried to avoid hitting enemies and got to the fifth area -- I like how it wraps around! Nice lighting.
Nice graphics! I had fun! It would be nice if there was some way to make money back, I hired the best workers and only made game boys and still had plenty of money left, I think the economy could use some balancing.
Fun shooter. Nice sense of humor. I got frustrated that my bullets exploded when they hit explosions.
Nice atmosphere. I like the sound in the background and the different kinds of distortion on the graphics. I wasn't totally sure that the game was over. Gameplay was super simple but it did its job.
Nice concept. The color matching game was really interesting. I couldn't quite figure it out, are you supposed to find two blocks that are the closest in color? Really cool. But I couldn't collect all the blocks.
I escaped to freedom! Reminds me of Thomas was Alone. Nice take on the theme. There was some really tricky platforming in there but I stuck with it and figured it out, a little on the hard side but a pretty good balance overall.
Nice graphics! I tried three times. The second and third time I hit all the eyeballs but died trying to platform up to the brain.
Nice idea. The execution is pretty good but I think there could be more enemies, or your guys maybe should less tough or something. Some of the icons are very abstract (cool!), they remind me of that optical illusion that looks like a duck and a rabbit.
That is mind bending to try to read the maze when it's moving and wrapping around. Especially level 2. Pretty cool! Nice music.
Fun! I upgraded the gun twice and then it got really hard, one miss and it was over. Sound effects would be nice.
Very smooth graphics. Nice music. I like how getting smaller when you get hit makes the game easier instead of harder.
I get a malware warning on Chrome when I try to download the game. Assuming your game isn't malware you might want to try a different host for your files.
Nice use of the theme! Got through all the levels. Level 10 almost stumped me.
I beat it! It was tricky for a while until I figured out how to jump off the ends of ledges! Nice music.
Nice music! It would be nice to be able to get health back somehow.
I like the slow motion effect when you change levels! The physics are nice. It would be nice to just go to the beginning of the level when you die instead of the whole game.
Fun game, very funny!
Did you make all these assets in 48 hours? Pretty impressive if so, but I get the feeling they might be from the asset store or somewhere else (I think I heard the X-Files theme in there)? I hate to be a jerk but you're not supposed to do that for Compo entries -- it's okay for Jam entries. The rules are here: http://ludumdare.com/compo/rules/
Nice thinking outside the box! I played the game for a while without figuring out the window trick, then went back to this page and read the description and figured it out! I guess the prompt at the beginning was too quick for me.
Nice music!