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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | You are the Monster | Coin Block Clicker | jam | 201 | 3.63 | 3.46 | 3.77 | 3.74 | 3.05 | 2.62 | 3.84 | 3.50 | 72 | ||
| 2015 | 32 | An Unconventional Weapon | Elimination Communication | jam | 337 | 3.42 | 3.63 | 3.06 | 4.03 | 2.86 | 2.91 | 3.85 | 2.94 | 66 |
Mykaelos leaves an average of 20.0 feedback comments each event.
I really had fun with this game. I haven't actually finished it yet (got to about day 17), but I plan to the second I get a chance. I'm not really into text adventures, but the story and atmosphere gripped me. Excellent build up while keeping things a mystery. Well done!
That gets intense at the end. The rat animations are fantastic! Fun game!
So how do you get past the blue orb? I turn on the flashlight and focus it, but then I run out of power. The voice says that "I don't think you charged it for long enough".
We had very similar games, mechanics-wise! I loved the drawn art, and the background was excellent. Bear arms is a funny weapon too =)
One tip, to get your bullets to spawn at the bear's mouth instead of your avatar's center, you can attach an empty game object to your avatar prefab (I called it Muzzle), and place the Muzzle at the mouth of the bear. Then, in the script that fires the gun, find the Muzzle object (and save it off) and use its transform as the spawn location of your bullet. It's nice because then you can make adjustments without having to rewrite your script.
Well done!
The movement feels really good, and the charging time before you fire is really tense, especially since the AI is brutally good.
Those machinegun bears were just OP.
I had severe difficulty figuring out where to go, the clicking didn't seem to be consistent. I died several time, and gave up. I definitely like the premise and atmosphere. Just a little more guidance would have been helpful.
I like the mechanic alot. The patience required to watch and wait to be able to transfer to your next target, it feels good. I also really enjoyed seeing what was on my host's mind. Pretty funny stuff. Good job!
I like the simplicity of the art style. I was looking forward to more puzzles at the end.
The tile swapping mechanic is definitely cool, but I didn't get to play with it much as the skellies were on my case constantly. They just move too fast to out maneuver them. Otherwise nice game, and well done.
The colorful stickers idea is pretty cool, but it took me a while to figure out how to make them change, and even then, I'm not sure I was doing it right. They just happened to change after a while of standing on the pools.
It's a really fun game, and the mechanics build tension really well! It's a simple, but very complete game. Well done!
Cool idea for a weapon. Took me quite a bit to figure out how to play. It's kind of unwieldy on the keyboard.
LD33 — You are the Monster (24)
Oko Furia by Tselmek 2015-09-03T07:54:00
Highscore: 11,150
The environment artwork is really good, I love the parallax effect. Smashing the buildings felt really good, and the constant struggle to keep the eye afloat added the right amount of stress to keep the gameplay interesting. Well done!
GUILLOTINE by Ibai Aizpurua 2015-09-03T07:38:00
The atmosphere is amazing. The excellent artwork of the environment, the old film effect, and the music just brought this world together.
For me, some of the rooms were painfully difficult and only had tiny bits of room for error. I definitely died a lot. But having the instant restart was a brilliant move and prevented me from rage quitting.
I really like the head mechanic. It definitely has a lot of potential, but even with only two action-based heads, you managed to come up with a ton of interesting and varied rooms. I look forward to seeing what other heads you come up with!
Side note, it looks like the first window of the locked building at the end is being drawn on top of the player if you jump in front of it with the chicken head.
I had trouble figuring out that first chicken head platform too. I think it's because it looks like some kind of info box instead of a platform. (Plus, I already came from the left and there wasn't anything there in the air, why would I go back?)
I just want to say, if I ever do a horror game, I'll be looking at Guillotine on how to make the atmosphere perfect.
Massacre Monday by wg_phancock 2015-09-03T06:08:00
Excellent game! It was super satisfying to smash everything. I kind of wish I could have killed the tanks, and I ran into a bug twice where the avatar would stop moving and I would have to restart the game.
I loved the ending! and I felt genuinely bad after realizing what I was reading. I thought it was going to be another game that took the theme in its literal sense, but then the ending nailed the better interpretation of the theme on the head!
Space Invadees by lanestp 2015-09-02T10:51:00
This is a really excellent game! The voxel art and animations are awesome and feel great, and are an excellent nod to the original game. The stage where you have four bomb invaders was a little too hard for me (there seems to be very little room for error with three shooters). Otherwise, just wow. I'm impressed with how much you got done in such a short amount of time! And the cut scenes really made me chuckle.
Flying Spaghetti Monster Idle Clicker by UltraRat 2015-09-02T01:17:00
A fun, solid clicker game! I enjoyed the trophies and the upgrade names.
Oh! You Monster! by rodobodolfo 2015-09-02T01:01:00
Oh Carl, you're such a gentleman. Very funny and well polished game! I wish I could help Carl out more.
Vamp Tramp by ghostlyguru 2015-09-02T00:53:00
I really like the art! Took me a while to figure out the correct choices. I enjoyed the banter between the two characters.
Hotel Shmotel by Matthew Rayfield 2015-09-02T00:50:00
Ridiculous but fun! I liked the whole style of the game and it was an interesting take on the theme. I got lost a bit trying to find the key. Well done!
Quarantine by BoskoSokolov 2015-09-01T22:51:00
Nice, fun to play. Finally getting all the humans is pretty hard (I would have liked to upgrade the time or speed much more). Well done!
Office Hours by valid4life 2015-09-01T21:03:00
Fun game! I was a little confused when my rage would runout, but I guess it was because I was spraying bullets everywhere. The zoom effect on the beat was excellent and definitely made it more intense, but it was kind of giving me motion sickness towards the end there. Well done!
Adventures of Tic Tac (the cat) by namrog84 2015-09-01T20:51:00
Haha, being a cat person, this definitely has a grain of truth. Well done making everything with just the default prefabs! Everything looked like excellent abstractions of the real object. It's impressive what you made with just those handful of shapes!
Also, Icarus (my cat) came in the room while I was playing (must have heard the meowing) and just stared at the screen with a completely perplexed look!
I definitely went and knocked down every last thing =) Well done!
Elegy of the Night by Reisen 2015-09-01T20:37:00
I enjoyed the writing and the characters. Definitely a twist that I wasn't expecting, regardless of the theme. The text animations and the fade-outs are a bit too slow, but the atmosphere was excellent. Being a potty humor connoisseur myself, I enjoyed the poop joke =) Well done and fantastic ending!
Architect Of Terror by Volatile Dove 2015-09-01T19:44:00
Wow. This game is an example of how to tell a story with gameplay. The colored cubes were perfect for explaining what was going on without needing to make complex models. The flocking AI was also fantastic.
This is the kind of deep game that I wanted to see out of this theme. Well done!
Fired by Evergreen Games 2015-09-01T19:12:00
I really loved the mechanic! I don't think I've ever seen "be the bullet". Truly innovative and appropriate for the theme! The controls were really hard for me, and because I died a lot, the slow fade-out fade-in when you die was starting to drive me nuts. Plus, the "slow down on hit" caused more than a few of my deaths. However, the fading, slowdown, and bullet tail were all fantastic effects and really added gravity to the game.
Brood by SecondDimension 2015-09-01T18:59:00
Absolutely fantastic game! Excellent polish in all areas, and the game was super engaging (and pretty hard for me too)!
Escape From The City by miwuc 2015-09-01T18:43:00
Wow, I just loved the hand-drawn graphics, and with the music and sounds, it made it like baby godzilla was just trying to get home. Fantastic animation, and fun game!
SAW by Vereos 2015-09-01T18:35:00
I loved how the gameplay tied in with the story, and how it unlocked the story as you solved each puzzle. I liked the story as well!
The combinations were a little hard to figure out (I may or may not have looked at the code so that I could see the rest of the story >.>)
Inspector Clumber by GraciCebola 2015-08-31T02:07:00
I'm actually a bit frustrated because I want to see where this game goes! But There doesn't seem to be anything else that is clickable except the Pale Ale and the bartender inside the pub. I found the three clickable things outside. None of the other NPCs in the pub are clickable.
Also, how do I use the letter in my inventory?
Otherwise, this game looks good and the theme looks really fun.
If there's a bug or something, let me know and I'll come back and play it again. Or maybe a hint on what to click? I clicked everywhere in both areas for a good ten minutes.
Also, Enter key is really awkward to press for text dismissal when the player has their hands on WASD and the mouse, thankfully it looks like space also dismisses text. I recommend putting that in the description.
The Weird Monster Thing's Adventure! by ThePugProgrammer 2015-08-31T01:14:00
Definitely appropriately named =) The odd controls and slidy-ness made it far more interesting.
I had an issue logging in. It kept saying that I had an incorrect username or token, when I definitely did not. But then it saved my score anyways. So maybe there's a bug with being auto-signed in, blocking manual signin?
For 8 hours of work, good job =)
Salvie by Teesquared 2015-08-28T02:40:00
Excellent minimalistic style. It really set the mood of the story (along with the music). I really really really would have liked to see more endings (or maybe I missed them? I played through a few times). And this one also hit me in the feels: I have a 15 month-old daughter, so I definitely related to the "father being proud and supportive" perspective. And I'm not gonna lie, I'm a little jealous, I hope I can make games with my daughter when she gets older too! Excellent game!
The Haunting by sunflakestudios 2015-08-28T02:26:00
I love the art style! Awesome concept. Just one note, if you get a chance to update it, disable the right click menu for the web version, as that makes it harder to play =)
Buddies for Baldwin by weirdway 2015-08-26T02:54:00
I love the concept, the art and music are excellent, and I honestly felt bad when I saw the meter was running out, worried that Baldwin would turn to stone. I would have liked to actually see an animation (or just a color change) of him turning to stone, instead of just a text popup. Otherwise, well done!
Vampire Hugs by ProfessorParky 2015-08-26T02:44:00
I definitely liked the idea, and it was fun to see my vampire minions give hugs to other civilians.
MONSTREEUM by leparlon 2015-08-26T02:31:00
After figuring out how to fly, I initially thought that you had to run into the birds to kill them, which was just ridiculously fun. Then I accidently hit space while on the ground and realized I could rotate like a turret and take them down that way (much easier).
I do want to say, K is a really awkward key to restart the level. Hunting for a key in the middle of my keyboard keeps me from getting back into the action.
Definitely a lot of fun, good particle effects and animations.