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Dream Diver by mactinite 2025-04-24T20:19:45Z ♥ 1

I dig the look of the game, how snappy the controls are, and the concept for the action-oriented JRPG combat is very neat. I would've liked an easy mode, that maybe allows missing a few to do damage (or maybe do damage to both me and the opponent?), because I could not get more than one hit in during the first fight during 4 attempts 😅 The targets just did not stay on screen long enough for my reflexes.

Still, from what I could gather, nice entry, good work ✌️

Excapade by Ch48 2025-04-24T13:48:04Z ♥ 2

Nice feeling digging mechanic, cool looking UIs, and a simple but engaging combat system. Well done for including so many systems in a jam game! Again, great job on the shop/combat UIs and graphics, they really stood out to me.

Toby's Room - Sinus' Version by DefinetlyNotSinus 2025-04-24T13:41:17Z ♥ 0

I was pleasantly surprised by how personal it was, which is definitely nice to see! The quote at the beginning is a good one to be reminded of.

The art, sound effects, background track and simple gameplay provide a good stage for the little stories. Good work!

West Coast '96: CIBUS DAEMONUM by rbbhn 2025-04-24T12:50:03Z ♥ 1

Impeccable vibes. The TTS voiceover works really well with the art style, and honestly, the style is so good that the linearity of the game itself didn't really bother me. Big points for the art and vision. I can respect taking a sentence with the theme word in it, and manifseting the sentence into a game. Great stuff.

Sewer Shift by Saryah 2025-04-24T12:33:35Z ♥ 2

Fun little sewer crawl, I dig (pun not intended) the general feeling of space and being down in some smelly sewers. The rats were even more spooky than the cultists, dunno what they were about, at least the cultists were clearly simply summoning something (perhaps me?). The occasional calls in the lit up spots were a nice touch.

A Squire Acquires by HexyVexy 2025-04-24T12:14:47Z ♥ 1

I love this! It's really the core essence of a dungeon crawler, distilled into the perfect scope for a Ludum Dare game. Figuring out the thresholds/required items was fun trial and error, and the variety in what challenges you could have a go at between different knights really made the different stats meaningful, and thus the knights seem like their own characters. Fun to imagine a knight with a shiny hat and 3 rapiers finishing off the final quests of their adventure by swinging through some ancient ruins with a rope. Poor knights with low initial stats were doomed from the start by my impatience. Given how simple the game was mechanically, but I still really got into it, the writing was evidently pretty great.

The graphics and music fit the vibe really well, and maybe as a good example of why GBC games work so well, I thought there were more involved sound effects than there really were (now that I went back and checked). Limits make the player fill in the blanks, if the stuff that *is* there is good.

Played with the gbcc emulator, it worked great. Really big props for making a GBC game for the jam! Not only can I imagine it creating some fun limits for development, but playing it, having to boot up an emulator and feed it the file added some nice analogue charm to the game testing process.

Adventures MZ-015 by MaxDrago 2025-04-23T16:25:03Z ♥ 1

What a fun, and complete entry! I was really surprised at how long the game was, given that it was like, all level design! Speaking of, the map was nice and varied, though maybe a bit generous with the fuel, at least if you go through both routes. Well done making such a complete (and 3D!) game in such a small amount of time.

Canyon Cult by hank_the_tank 2025-04-23T16:09:24Z ♥ 0

The mouselook seemed to get stuck somewhere on Firefox, but I got it working on Chrome. Great work on managing to get a first-person game running in the LD timespan! The idea of having a ton of enemies made of paper is always fun, makes for some frantic gameplay. In this case, it was a little bit extra hard, as you both need to be always shooting at enemies to not get overwhelmed, but also looking around to avoid getting killed by an enemy behind you, as they don't really make any indicative noises. Still, FPS entries are always a nice surprise.

Sea Dicegarden by zimny11 2025-04-23T15:58:40Z ♥ 1

Nice mystery! I took some notes about which combinations did what, but did not manage to become a successful sea-dice-biologist, but I had fun doing it. The art looks great and there seemed to be a nice variety of stuff to grow — unfortunate that I wasn't great at getting much to grow at all, haha. Still, always appreciate a good mysterious entry.

Cyber Descent : 999 Depths by dongfangliu 2025-04-23T15:33:54Z ♥ 0

Nice, solid gameplay loop for a jam game! The randomized challenges were fun, though I noticed that the bow seemed to fit almost all challenges a bit too well. That said, I do think being on the easier side is good for a jam game, it's much more annoying to repeatedly fail 😅 But yeah, nice concept, attack variety, and a good set of varying challenges for mixing it up.

Into Enemy Depths by Asieke 2025-04-23T15:15:26Z ♥ 1

This is great, big props for making such a full game in the compo! Well designed balance too, wasn't too easy for me to get to the end on the first try, but once I followed a bit of strategy, I got to the end pretty easily. The tank/dps/healer trinity is tried and true fun :) I think this level of difficulty is a good balance to strike for an LD game. Nice bit of narrative and a bit of variety in the stages too — again, well done with balancing all the different aspects of a game that make the experience feel like a full thing.

Airman57 by Prvaak 2025-04-23T15:02:01Z ♥ 1

A great lesson on Newton's first law 😁 I got a pretty good strategy going, but didn't manage to finish since the distance was so great given the speed I was going at. Still, very snappy controls and difficult-but-fair gameplay. The ship graphics are simple, but fit very nicely, and communicate the gameplay effects very well.

Ctrl + Dive by thomz12 2025-04-23T14:44:28Z ♥ 1

Really well done on the visuals, the radar effect, the wiggling, the curvature and chromatic aberration, it really makes for a distinct and good looking game. The gameplay is simple but works, though I wasn't great at the lower levels once the ship starts ~~moving by itself~~ being really affected by latency — I barely avoided the walls when it was just me and my WASD 😅 Nevertheless, good vibes.

Umbrage by jnur 2025-04-08T02:43:02Z ♥ 1

Excellent entry! Love the animation and the look of the player character, the umbrella such a cool item to build the game around. The level art and music tracks are good as well, there's a pretty consistent style and I didn't really get bored of either by the time I finished. There's clearly also a very high skill ceiling, because there was a whole lot of those collectible things I didn't even get near, and I was already plenty challenged. Speaking of challenge, the randomization of the level is a nice touch, it made learning the different kinds of hazards more fun, as you weren't just running against one specific wall again and again, it was a much more smooth difficulty curve. The idea of *diving* into the *depths* is a fun take on the theme too. Well done!

Trench Diver by Hatherton 2025-04-08T02:24:25Z ♥ 2

The eels are real slippery! Couldn't quite figure out a strategy for dealing with them, but that did add a neat tense atmosphere when descending, as I was trying to spot and shoot the fish before they got behind me :D Didn't manage to get more than 160m deep, but it was fun while for a few rounds. Some atmospheric noise or music could've helped with immersion a bit.

Fall Damage Isn't Fun by JakubBala 2021-05-16T22:25:01Z ♥ 1

Interesting choice to make the game's core challenge be fall damage, when the title says fall damage isn't fun 😁

There's solid platforming to be done, though with the current speed my reflexes are struggling with it. The physical boxes add a little spice to the environment, and that's a good addition to make the platforming more interesting. I'd spend a little more time getting the movement working smoothly next time: a more fitting player speed/acceleration, and good jumping feel would be a great improvement. Finally, the graphics are on point. Keep it up!

Deep Sea Tycoon by Udo2 2021-05-16T22:12:10Z ♥ 1

Fantastic graphics! Really enjoyed the interface. As for the mechanics, clearly the crew costs way too much to be worth it: at least I noticed much greater earnings with apparently self-operating oil rigs 😄 Even after trying to build up some income, hiring people to each rig was too expensive, and I went into debt. A fun little investment game, though drilling for oil seems a little crude in 2021 😉

Welcome to the Factory by epb9000 2021-05-16T22:00:55Z ♥ 1

Really digging the graphics style, the crayon-y hand-drawn vibe. The sound effects getting louder as you get near them is a good mechanic, makes the dangers more apparent. The mechanic is inherently a little fiddly (slow acceleration), but overall the game is well built. Love to see a Godot entry! Works great on Linux, as expected.

Black Magic, White Cat by littleball 2021-05-16T21:52:45Z ♥ 0

Seems like a really fun game, but trying to play the game both in Firefox and the itch.io app only shows an error:

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I'm on Linux, which I figure is the root cause of this issue. I reviewed the Graphics category though, based on the screenshots :)

Daré Fortress by luthwyhn 2021-05-16T21:46:54Z ♥ 1

This is the only LD game I've run from source, which was a nice addition to the experience. Works great on Linux. I'm not sure if there was any need for the warriors, but I dug down and made sure the dwarves didn't starve, and then the game ended. Anyways, always neat to see a proper text game, good stuff 👍

The Cave by incobalt 2021-05-16T21:41:40Z ♥ 1

What a wholesome experience! I named my torches after important concepts like "Peace" and "Happiness" at first, ending with "Vertical Mouselook" and "W" as I couldn't be bothered to come up with more. That said, my only complaint really is the very sensitive mouselook (slider for camera turning speed would be great) and lack of an vertical invert option for the mouselook. Otherwise, I really like the adventure you've built here: the light placement was especially neat, the way they light up corridors behind a few turns in unexpected ways. Credits are fun to read and give space to reflect, so they were a nice touch.

Space Trench Miner by notime4games 2021-05-16T21:11:54Z ♥ 1

Excellent theming on the UI elements, and overall on the graphics, feels like a well executed vision :) The mining feels a little too slow, even with a speed upgrade. That said, even with the current speed, more graphical feedback for the mining would've improved the feeling a lot (i.e. faster flashes or even a cracking graphic). Well done on the caves and proc gen too!

Deep Dark Discoveries by shp 2021-05-16T20:36:40Z ♥ 0

Managed to descend 2 km, eventually becoming too greedy by trying to hasten the descent by not using the booster. This led to imminent demise at the hands of gravity and hard rock. Solid models and a nice minimalist soundtrack, setting a some kind of a vibe to the whole thing.

Space Grappler by Duvey 2021-04-27T17:54:54Z ♥ 1

What an interesting idea! At first I was a little confused as to how to find the goal, thinking that the rocks would be lit from one side 😁 I hit an asteroid without much possibility of evasion quite often, but the core idea here is really good, well done.

One Shot in the Dark, Now I'm Dead. by kiririn51 2021-04-27T17:48:26Z ♥ 1

An interesting ride, well written and presented. Nice post-apocalypse vibes.

Search and Resque by Hilvon 2021-04-26T14:55:45Z ♥ 3

The digging didn't quite happen at the center of the screen, which made it a little hard in some places. In the end, I got stuck in a deep hole I dug myself, and couldn't get up. The marching cubes -system is very cool, if maybe a little slow to experiment with, considering the digging speed.

Bob by Jin9310 2021-04-26T14:43:35Z ♥ 1

Couldn't manage to get the second cog, didn't see what I should've done to stop the endless torrent of zombies. The pixel art is very good, and the music & sound effects fit together well. The jumping felt a little floaty at first, but it did make the game more focuused on the running and shooting, as to not inspire Mario-like jumping shenanigans. Solid entry!

Gophers by randomhuman 2020-05-02T22:23:30Z ♥ 1

Excellent aesthetic, the ambient sounds and the crisp visuals really do it for me. The theme of the game was.. inspiring? Compelling? I dunno, gopher sounds like a neat protocol, and the idea of connecting up an ad-hoc network is really neat. Maybe I should host a gopher site.

Sachka, Heal-sitter by Darklim Henwitch 2020-04-25T23:58:53Z ♥ 6

A bit long for an LD game, but I do really like the idea! The mechanics were simple but had a nice mmorpg feel, and the chat was fun to read.

The Dragonsitter by JoeShanahan 2020-04-25T22:39:57Z ♥ 2

That was fun! Spent the last day just jamming next to the dragon, after having gathered a backlog of materials. Very good, would've been perfect if the melody of the instrument matched the background music somehow.

JarHeads by Aurel300 2020-04-25T16:26:45Z ♥ 1

Tight controls! Love it. The pixel art is cool, and the animations lend themselves to the mechanics very well. I had a bit of trouble remembering which color hit which character, so there might be something to improve in the coloring of the characters. But aside from that, what an excellent game. Feels very complete. Good job!

Field Hospital by n.feofentov 2020-04-24T18:59:57Z ♥ 2

Really good UI work, made the whole game feel very immersive. Good writing as well! Just an excellent entry in all aspects, honestly.

The joys of parenthood by IronyGames 2020-04-24T17:18:33Z ♥ 2

What a spooky ending :o Really like the pixel art. A good set of minigames, though I was pretty bad at them.

Lost Signal by DorianSnowball 2020-04-24T16:58:51Z ♥ 1

Whew! Quite a long one for an LD game, might be that I just invested my points poorly and progressed slowly though 😅 Took me 23 minutes, but it was fun! There's just something about FPS tower defenses that does it for me. Especially the building mechanics on this one, very nice. Could've used a way to rotate the buildings, but otherwise, really cool.

DJ Hamster by blinry 2020-04-21T20:58:48Z ♥ 1

The core mechanic is pretty neat, but I'm quite bad at it! Most of my challenge came from trying to keep my eye on the speed meter at the same time as dodging the enemies and trying to get the people. Maybe I should've just tried to listen for the pitch changing.

Keep Moving by Robin49 2020-04-21T16:15:23Z ♥ 1

Nice entry! I didn't finish the game, the level with the plus-shaped walls was too hard for me. The sticky enemies are quite hard to evade. I would suggest having the enemies be limited in the same fashion as the player: not being able to pass through walls. Good work!

Cyber 33 : Before The Dawn by tenshi42 2020-04-21T16:04:13Z ♥ 1

Intense music! The shooting sounds got a little bit repetitive, but overall you've really captured the neon vibe very well ;) More towers would've made the game a bit more diverse, but considering the time limit, this is pretty nice.

Bubba's Beach Balls by HuddyBuddyGreatness 2020-04-21T02:38:49Z ♥ 1

I really like how the player controls, it's very physicsy, but also very fun to control. Not frustrating, like many physics-based movement systems.

Nice graphics, and just very good overall execution. This is a fun entry, and all the more credit for being your first one!

Occult Defence Agency Budgeting Simulator by Zarkonnen 2018-12-30T21:59:16Z ♥ 0

Excellent writing. Loved reading every bit. Everyone got cuts, except for the scrying department. The crystal balls will save us from the apocalypse, and I'll sell each and every book and property we own before them!

Just delete them by Dock Frankenstein 2018-12-30T21:43:27Z ♥ 0

The file system interaction is pretty cool, I'd definitely like to see an expansion of the idea. This time I couldn't see connections that did much else than remove things from the world, but I'm sure the concept could be taken further. Could also be that I missed something 😄

Tetrifice by Johnny Turbo 2018-12-30T20:58:15Z ♥ 1

I'm not very good at Tetris, but this certainly was an interesting spin on the game! Some sfx and music would've gone a long way, as well as Linux and macOS builds (though admittedly the web version is pretty good). Very neat!

Letters from Rahima by Vottivott 2018-12-30T20:42:42Z ♥ 0

I really enjoyed the vector-field surfing 😄 Great work on the environment as well, that's a lot of world to explore, as well as people to talk to, very cool!

Zealot by walnoot 2018-12-30T20:20:26Z ♥ 1

The Windows link seems to contain an OSX build 🤔 So I played the WebGL build.

I'm not sure if the player is supposed to jump higher than ~the players height, but I didn't see any way to get past the second jump. That said, the art and the sfx are pretty good, and combined with the really tight controls, made this seem very promising!

The Affliction by Jono953 2018-12-30T06:41:57Z ♥ 2

Really nice art! I like the potion mixing system as well, quite a lot of different potions you can make. I ran into an issue where I couldn't really get into a room because an enemy would instantly throw me back, but I did enjoy the room-based system and how the camera animated between the rooms. Nice game!

God given gifts, taken by hunttis 2018-12-30T06:32:24Z ♥ 1

Truly, a heroic adventure. The excellent sfx and an inspiring soundtrack really motivated me to get to the end. The art is nice as well, and the combat is enjoyanle and simple. The jumping could be a bit tighter. Very good stuff nonetheless.

Destructor 32 GMS by Erik Brunnstrom 2018-12-30T06:13:40Z ♥ 1

Really excellent work. I'm bad at hearing morse code I suppose, but I did find the whole experience really neat. The interface with the effects, the animated rotating signal receiver thing, everything just fits together really well and looks good. The sounds fit in very well also.

Escape The Sacrifice by Pete 2018-12-30T05:55:16Z ♥ 1

SPOILER BIT Couldn't figure the last bit out, ~~I think there's a battery in the vending machine, but no clue how to get it out~~.

That said, pretty nice puzzles you've got here, and the few sfx there are are pretty good. Some ambient sounds / music would've been nice, as well as additional sfx (like footsteps), but overall, nice stuff. Extra kudos for going the first-person-item-picker-upper route, I did as well 😜

Never Coming Back by HDugmag 2018-12-30T05:31:22Z ♥ 1

I love the visual aesthetic and the music, they're very on point 👌 The dual-wielding with individual gun control is very neat, and the sacrifice mechanic is pretty cool. Could've done with some sfx. Overall, very nice!

WAYT by wsKilljoy 2018-12-30T05:22:43Z ♥ 1

It's pretty nice as an overall package, the difficulty is just very hard. Even considering it's supposed to be a challenging game, I'd recommend making the difficulty curve more a curve, rather than a cliff, I couldn't get past the first level because of the second jump 😅 Plus points for using Godot!

DEMON HELL by Valden 2018-12-30T05:17:05Z ♥ 1

Great music and vfx, and the shooting is pretty nice. Can't say I enjoyed the exploding enemies, I just couldn't get away from them. Props for making a leaderboard!

Dog Dog Dungeon by bubblewandgames 2018-12-27T19:15:11Z ♥ 0

Really excellent visuals and sounds (loved the borks in the soundtrack), tight controls, and overall a really pleasant experience. My one complaint would be that the levels started out hard, and kept getting even harder, so I couldn't finish.

bamb by fasterthanlime 2018-12-27T18:50:18Z ♥ 0

It really does feel like a whole game, instead of a prototype like many LD games. Very polished, and the graphics, music and sfx just fit really well together. The card game itself is pretty interesting, can't say I got very good, my best being a tie against the AI 😄

Scapegoat by aurel 2018-12-27T18:19:47Z ♥ 0

Wow! There's a lot of game to play, and all of it has very nice graphics, music and sounds, very nice! I think I skipped one puzzle (near the end, in a cave with some crystals you could get in with an elevator) since I didn't manage to bring the goat with me to the last area, but thankfully the goat respawned behind me near the altar. Otherwise I had no problems. Really good entry!

Hostile Takeover by Heather Flowers 2018-12-24T01:36:44Z ♥ 1

After that harrowing 15 minute experience, I'll write this and then try to actually reach the exit. I managed to even clock out before running into an eldritch eye-thing in my excitement at finding the exit again.

I gotta say, the atmosphere sure is spooky, and the labyrinth sure makes me really hate the person who decided that's a good way to make offices. I think I saw a note about that, but forgot. I realized that the notes could be really useful as navigational tools a bit late, and then decided to just arrogantly not use them, so this game really gave me a good amount of appreciation for the human mind, as towards the end I was almost able to navigate the maze. The low-bit graphics and small amount of light sure makes it *really* hard to know where you're going, so great job in making the environment feel really strange and hard to get a grasp of, enhancing the spookiness of the whole thing.

I don't play many horror games, so this might just be a horror game thing, but I'm kinda amazed at how the game felt so hostile and disturbing (in a good(?) way?) (???), yet still didn't make me want to quit out and call it a day.

Edit: That took a lot less time (7 minutes!) with the aid of the notes. And Sharon, I think was her name, amazingly ended up on my path to Accounting and saved me a whole backtracking trip, which was great.

Santa on Skis by Zathnic 2018-12-22T21:59:10Z ♥ 1

Very christmassy! The pixel art is charming and the music is nice. Good, simple idea, well executed! 🎁

Slow Food Burger by Brandon Hare 2018-12-22T20:57:08Z ♥ 1

Horribly slow traffic lights in this game!

Card Runner by sh1rogane 2018-05-10T13:28:49Z ♥ 1

Pretty fun, I like the minimalism. I was a bit confused at first about the use of the shield, but I got the hang of it pretty quickly. Good game.

We Will Rebuild by mralex 2018-05-10T13:20:17Z ♥ 1

At first I thought the waves were too long, then I thought they were too fast, and then I gave into the morbid reality that everyone is soon dead. Last living things on the map were autonomous turrets, now that's a statement 😜 The audio was a bit mushed, maybe limit the amount of sounds playing at the same time? Other than that, good game with no real problems I noticed, but lots of explody fun.

Super Mario Machine Gun by dollarone 2018-05-01T17:23:14Z ♥ 1

I'd advise trying to make you own graphics / at least give the copied graphics your own spin, as mentioned in the [Ludum Dare rules](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/rules). The gameplay is fun enough, couldn't find a way to restart it without restarting the cart though. Good entry, but do try your hand at more original graphics next time 🙂

Sheet Music Editor Shoot'Em Up by hypp 2018-05-01T17:15:35Z ♥ 0

The graphics and the idea are beautiful, but playing is a bit annoying as I couldn't really grasp the up/down mechanic and the game feels a bit fast for me. Maybe I'm just too slow for these jams, but good game anyways 😄

Guerrilla Gardening by randomhuman 2018-05-01T17:04:55Z ♥ 1

Really good pixels, tight controls. I'd have preferred if the reticle followed the mouse accurately instead of just pointing the same way, but that's a minor problem.

Remote Bot by Manuel Magalhães 2018-05-01T16:25:52Z ♥ 1

Very cool! Absolutely infuriating, but also kind of satisfying. Lovely graphics.

Urban Puzzle by Pawn 2018-05-01T16:12:58Z ♥ 1

Very nice game for Ludum Dare! The mechanic is fittingly minimalistic, and the graphics are pretty. The text's drop shadows are a bit far from the text and make it a bit less legible, but that's a minor problem. The way the buildings appear on the screen is very nice, especially the park. Some sound effects and animations for the placed buildings would've enhanced the mood even more, and there were a few typos (eg. enviro~~n~~nment, re~~s~~sources) but all in all, a very good entry.

PS. I notice that you don't have many reviews: I'd suggest reviewing others' games, so that your game gets higher in the suggested list. You need 20 reviews to see how you did!

Undercover Crop by Flunph 2018-04-30T21:34:31Z ♥ 0

Animation for the player character would've probably made this game look really good. Otherwise, it's a nice game.

Delve by riordan 2018-04-25T13:25:43Z ♥ 1

I like the feel of the game a lot. Pressing buttons repeatedly to emulate effort, and tight movement contorls make the character feel very good. Balancing all the stats was very hard, and coffee started to really feel like a requirement after few tries. Overall, a very good game. Good controls, good graphics, good feel. 👌

Wordelicious by ludipe 2018-04-25T12:39:29Z ♥ 1

Simple and fun game. Very hard though, as a non-native english speaker. I know the language relatively well, but random foods certainly don't pop up in my head 😄

Universe Savior Ultra X by impiaaa 2018-04-25T12:29:48Z ♥ 1

It's like if Pokemon was Super Mario but also a shmup. So pretty much the ultimate manifestation of this theme, I love it. I got into a position where I instantly got battle'd 3 times, not sure if that was a bug or I just didn't notice all the people around. Even if incomplete, I think this is a pretty good entry 😄

Bullet Heck by equa 2018-04-25T12:23:53Z ♥ 2

Excellent graphics 👌 The idea itself is very good, exactly what I'd want from this theme.

Fish Master by Pheonise 2018-04-25T12:14:44Z ♥ 1

Amazing art, sfx and music! It all fits very well. The animations could've been a bit faster, but overall this is a very good turn-based fisher. Turns out yanking isn't very good, I couldn't catch a single fish with it.

Gone Fishin by fenwick 2018-04-25T12:06:25Z ♥ 1

The boat is very fast! Some precision-mode would've made the game's controls a lot easier to manage. I got to level 4, but since that required more precision than the previous levels, I didn't manage to beat it. The sound effects were fine, just got a bit repetitive over time. The music was good though! Overall, a pretty decent shmup.

Stealth Casual Farming Simulator by RadioactiveRambo 2018-04-23T12:41:41Z ♥ 2

Those damn wolves are too violent and in too great numbers. What is this, wolf country?

The game is nice though, felt real tension sitting the bush, waiting for the big bad wolves to go away. Didn't manage to farm many crops though, those wolves are too hungry. Very good for your first game! Props for using Godot too.

Putt-Kill by JezPez 2018-04-23T12:32:35Z ♥ 1

Pretty fun! I liked the quotes in between levels, nice touch. Very appropriate game for the theme 😄

Mettle Gear: Peace Driver by tayl1r 2018-04-23T12:13:36Z ♥ 0

Very nice visuals! I liked the bit at the start, set the mood nicely. The controls are a bit weird, at least I can't seem to get used to the way the card accelerates + the turning mechanism. I don't know if constant speed would've helped, or easier directional control, but that's the main problem for me. The levels are well designed, and the guards feel like guards. Genre combination is on point. Very good game with meh controls.

BreakOut Typing by Schuster 2018-04-23T12:01:16Z ♥ 0

It's a bit hard. Certainly two incompatible genres, so that's very on-point for the theme. Maybe a word in the middle would ease the gameplay a bit? Certainly would make the game require less foresight, as now you have to be quite good at estimating the ball's and the paddle's speeds. All in all, nice game, just very difficult.

Power Struggle by Kriss 2017-08-17T20:33:55Z ♥ 0

I like how the game looks and sounds, and the local multiplayer is pretty cool. Took a while to get what I was supposed to do, but other than that, cool game.

ErixStein 3D by ThatSnillet 2017-08-17T02:01:32Z ♥ 1

Really cool game! It's very refreshing to see a technically interesting entry while testing Ludum Dare games. A file browser would've been great, but other than that, I really enjoyed playing this one. Being able to pick my own image really added a personal level to the game, which really makes this excellent.

Hoverboard Electrician by Odd1In 2017-08-17T01:45:08Z ♥ 1

Pretty simple gameplay-wise, but the graphics look nice and the soundtrack is pretty cool. Good entry.

The Factory by Jack D. Taylor 2017-08-17T01:42:10Z ♥ 0

I really enjoy how the game looks. The gameplay itself seems like a cool idea, but lacks *something*. Maybe some parkour element to make the movement more exciting? That'd be very out of Ludum Dare scope though. Some sfx would've definitely added to the game as well.

That said, the graphics were enough to make me just sneak around the city for a while. Couldn't find more than two switch boxes though.

Forty2Eleven by rEaX 2017-08-03T05:51:41Z ♥ 3

Music and graphics are great. The gameplay is pretty good, feels very spacey.

3% | Power Saver by iseeicy 2017-08-03T05:22:01Z ♥ 1

The game plays very well, and the conversation system is nice and simple. The look & feel of the game is very consistent and good. Twitch integration was a joy to watch on stream.

Roboy Awakening by Arden 2017-08-03T04:03:45Z ♥ 2

Really cool atmosphere, the graphics and sound effects come together in a really good way. Feels like Megaman's existential brother. Great job 👍

Battery Low by Freedom Is Slavery 2017-08-03T03:44:54Z ♥ 2

Pretty simple, but the game does what it sets out to do pretty well. Nice management game. Got 8000 score 😁

SpaceLyft by atomicdad 2017-08-03T03:40:21Z ♥ 1

Really good music and graphics. The gameplay was a bit hard at first, but once I got the controls down it's pretty fun. Really good stuff!

The Day The Robots Attacked by jasperarmstrong 2017-08-03T02:49:04Z ♥ 1

​Fun game, but a bit too hard. Even though the graphics are pretty simple, I like the way they're animated. The music is pretty good, and the game plays very smoothly. Took a while to 'get' the game, but after that the game is pretty fun. Only real negative is how big the map is when compared to the camera, makes it very hard to know where the enemies are.

Punchey! (VR ONLY) by shadowbrain 2017-08-03T02:02:12Z ♥ 1

​Now this is a proper VR game. I was ready to call it a good game by the end of the tutorial stage, but no, there was another level! Sadly I got stuck in the second level since there were no recharging stations on the first floor and I spent all my energy trying to jump (badly). That's about the only negative thing, the power-jumps are very hard to control/aim.

Another, not really a negative thing, just a curiosity, was that I couldn't figure out how to get to the suitcase in the tutorial level. The entrance was very high, and I could only come up with two solutions: 1) be really tall or climb on a chair IRL, or 2) be very accurate with your power-jumps. I climbed a chair.

Overall, a really cool VR experience.

this must be the place by lycaon 2017-08-03T01:23:57Z ♥ 1

​Very intense. I love the visuals, how they flicker and blur. Music fits very well, and this game really gets the feeling of "running out of power" across. There seems to be some kind of a puzzle that you have to figure out, but I just walked off towards the horizon and didn't really get it.​ But overall, the game just looks, sounds and feels excellent.

Edit: Ah, should've probably read the description again before commenting, but yeah, what I thought were a very weird puzzle are probably the messages people are leaving. Well, someone might find my message somewhere in the vast unknown.

Grand Theft Battery by hnzlmnn 2017-08-03T01:06:51Z ♥ 1

I like the aesthetic with the laptop, sounds and battery management. Didn't really get what I was supposed to do in the game though. One amusing thing I noticed was that the browser console was *very* actively logging stuff, which would probably make an actual laptop whine quite a bit. Pretty meta.

Doki Doki Magica by Sir Daniev 2017-07-31T23:47:31Z ♥ 3

The graphics are pretty nice and the game plays pretty well. The boss is quite hard, but I'm also bad at shmups 😁

Pineshore Planet by thomz12 2017-05-19T22:29:59Z ♥ 1

I really like the look of the game, and how the music changes depending on which side of the planet you're looking at. There was a typo in one item's (the empty jar) name, and the ending was a bit abrupt, but otherwise the game is very polished. Really good stuff!

Merienda: A VR Feeding Experience by Carlos Gonzalez Diaz 2017-05-17T17:47:04Z ♥ 0

I like the graphics and the music. The game itself was a bit confusing, I cruised around on the boat a bit, got a banana and ate it, found something else in the water, but didn't know what to do with it. But the aesthetic (and sitting on the floor!) was very cool, the experience was fun even though I didn't get the objective.

A small world VR by Lloydo 2017-05-17T17:34:08Z ♥ 0

The game looks cool, but it doesn't run since api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll is missing. Really unfortunate 🙁

CHaZeS VR by shadowdruid 2017-05-17T17:21:42Z ♥ 1

Well that was a fun shooter. Just ran down the streets, never stopping moving or spraying and praying. The explosion effects add a nice over-the-top absurd feel to it, which I like. The tilt-head movement was less nauseating than I would've guessed, but it was also kind of limiting, since you couldn't really strafe. But it's a good trick, and definitely worked for the playstyle I ended up playing the game with. Good game!

Chunk World by thedaian 2017-05-17T00:34:32Z ♥ 1

Since the game is made in Unity, I'd appreciate a Linux version. The editor supports it out of the box, just in case yo u didn't know. Doesn't run very well on Wine, the fonts don't seem to load (and highest graphics settings cause a blackscreen, I'm guessing that's related to DirectX 11 somehow). Looks pretty cool though!

STEEL GEAR CHAOS by FireSlash 2017-05-17T00:26:13Z ♥ 1

Excellent graphics and music, intriguing gameplay. Very hard, couldn't get very far, but the idea is interesting enough.

Natantes Paradisum by strong99 2017-05-16T16:55:36Z ♥ 1

I like the graphics and the general idea of the game. Some progression and maybe more transparency on what different buildings do would be nice. But I do like it, survived through many spooky killer clouds until I just closed the tab. Good entry!

It Shakes the World Apart by lectvs 2017-05-16T16:39:45Z ♥ 1

What a heartwarming story. Unfortunate that the imaginary friend went away though, I liked her. The art is nice, music feels maybe a bit too cheery compared to the rest of the game, but overall, an enjoyable experience.

Can you create a space rocket in less than fifty years? by Moee 2017-05-16T16:20:38Z ♥ 1

What a nice game. The art is delightful, sound effects added a nice mood that changed over time (as industrialization took over the world, I imagine), and the gameplay is fun minmaxy goodness. Overall, a very enjoyable game. Creating spaceships with wind power and coffee!

iwantout by zsoltbartok 2017-05-16T16:08:32Z ♥ 1

"The answer was right in front of my eyes." The best kind of a puzzle. This is a really good entry, it does a single small thing, and it does it really well. "Pixel hunting" is easy since the game consists of very big pixels, combined with the artstyle, and it all fits very well together. Good job!

Space Ship: Andromeda by julianeder33 2017-05-16T01:42:36Z ♥ 1

I played the game through Wine on Linux, so this might be the cause, but I had one problem: the mouselook didn't seem to be working right, the view shifted weirdly at times and looking around was a bit clunky overall. Since it's a Unity game, I'd like to note that Unity can build for Mac and Linux out-of-the box, even on Personal edition. Just pick the platform from the list in the build menu, and it should be able to pop out a working binary. All that said..

I really liked the game! I explored the spaceship(/station?) a bit before finding the spooky monster or the guns, so it felt especially creepy to find the monster, like it was some alien that had inflitrated the ship or something. I was a bit confused when the monster ate me once right after I respawned, but if anything, that just added to the atmosphere. The narration by a synth voice was also a good choice. Overall, a very impressive entry, considering the amount of assets and the scale of the game. Very well done!

Legend of the Mountain by Zathnic 2017-05-16T01:21:55Z ♥ 0

Can't play, the game starts pretty weird (fullscreen on both my monitors, showing just the spacey background texture) and throws an exception repeatedly. Specifically, this exception: https://pastebin.com/FhJ04TYU I'm on Arch Linux and have 64-bit OpenJDK version 1.8.0_121.

I can say the graphics look pretty nice though, from the screenshots.

5-Minute Civilization by Stevie Bushman 2017-05-16T01:07:55Z ♥ 1

That was very fun! The graphics are neat, the music creates a very fun and fast paced feel to the game, and the mechanics are pretty solid. Selecting/moving units feels a bit confusing at times, but since the game is so fast paced, it isn't really a problem as long as the units generally go in the general direction of the enemy. And the nukes are very fun. Overall, a really good game, I like it 👌

One last thing: might want to rewrite the