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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
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| 2025 | 57 | Depths | Diving for Oxygen | jam | 817 | 2.81 | 2.26 | 2.84 | 3.31 | 3.00 | 2.94 | 2.30 | 3.34 | ||
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | Sailing Venus | compo | 2.75 | 2.75 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 2.25 | 3.00 | ||||
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | Metal Miner | compo | 757 | 2.97 | 2.84 | 2.81 | 3.65 | 3.13 | 3.07 | ||||
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | 👥 | Nightwatch | jam | 1397 | 3.42 | 3.14 | 2.76 | 3.85 | 3.93 | 3.45 | 2.58 | 4.03 | |
| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | Cult Under Construction | compo | 251 | 3.41 | 3.08 | 2.79 | 3.05 | 3.92 | 2.90 | 3.69 | 3.14 | ||
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | Heart of the Cards | compo | 384 | 3.32 | 3.15 | 3.13 | 3.34 | 3.45 | 2.70 | ||||
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | Capitality | compo | |||||||||||
| 2017 | 39 | Running out of Power | AI-Bot Problem | compo | 121 | 3.70 | 3.75 | 4.20 | 3.50 | 3.40 | 2.65 | 2.42 | 3.35 | ||
| 2017 | 38 | A Small World | Cryofailure | compo | 154 | 3.61 | 3.25 | 3.50 | 3.22 | 3.47 | 2.94 | 3.27 | 3.55 | ||
| 2016 | 37 | One room | Solitude (VR) | compo | 122 | 3.67 | 3.33 | 4.29 | 3.71 | 3.90 | 3.00 | 2.28 | 4.05 | 41 |
​The ships and their effects look nice, and the look overall is pretty good. The game did lag a bit for me though, but I suppose that's understandable since I'm on the very low end of VR-capable graphics hardware. (GTX 960)
The gameplay itself was a bit confusing, mostly because of the lack of feedback when I was doing damage or damage was being dealt to me.
I'm glad I didn't need to punch anyon- oh. Well then.
Great visuals and atmosphere. Really liked it.
​What a fun game! The graphics are really nice, the music is fitting (and good!) and the crowd's reactions are great. Every play takes a bit of preparing in your mind, and after that,it's just chaos and hoping that the crowd likes it.
Pretty realistic, I suppose.
Very spooky indeed. The game plays very nice and the controls are good. The art is on point, and the music is pretty good, if maybe a bit repetitive since the loop is so short. Cool stuff!
​Didn't get past two ladders. But it was very fun throwing myself in the air frantically trying to grab something ?​ The grip buttons would've been a tad more intuitive for grabbing, at least as an secondary option. Still, a good game.
Fun times were had, decorating a room. With a dresser that goes haywire when you try to put the wrong things on it. The music is really fun and good light background music for decorating a room. I did get to the "you win" screen, but the opponent didn't put up much of a fight ^^
@Alex If you uploaded the game with a game breaking bug (which it seems like, according to your comment) you can fix it post-compo, according to the rules. At least there was such a rule before, can't seem to find it now. I'd say just fix the bug, if the game has been made but players can't access it because of a bug, it's better for everyone if you fix it. After all, you still did the work during the compo. <3
​The atmosphere is chillingly creepy and the visual look is very good, especially the hands. Sadly I couldn't play it very well because of my limited space (2m x 1.5m).
Now that was a constant mind bender. The recursion mechanic is awesome, the effect is cool, and the puzzles that come with it are some mind bendy stuff. It wasn't really hard, but it was very.. brain-straining? It felt like a puzzle game alright, even if the puzzles didn't take very long to solve.
The game feels very polished, from the menu to the options to the tutorial parts. Just overall a very good puzzle game.
The graphics and writing are good, and the game is nice overall. Only problem I had was the slightly wonky hitboxes in the prehistoric level, where the enemies' hitboxes seemed to be a bit too large, and sometimes didn't register "falling on." Still, a fun experience!
​Now that was a brain twister. The graphics are really nice and the game controls in a very good way. The effects are fitting, and both the idea and the execution are just great. The only bad part about this game is reminding me that I'm bad a rubik's cubes, hah.
​What a fun stealth game. The graphics are obviously a tad... minimalistic, but I found them to be quite intuitive and understood the situation at a glance even with such simplicity. The movement and controls overall are very solid, didn't happen across a single unintended action. The theme connection is not very obvious, and some music would've set the mood, but otherwise, a very good game!
I find the idea of this to be really cool, but I can't try it since it doesn't seem to open up in VR on the Vive.
That was a fun 10 minutes spent throwing things around and listening.
The positional audio was a cool effect. Picking things up felt very good and the interactibles were fun indeed. Could've used some sound effects (like the zippo-kind-of-cube would've been more authentic with a "click" sfx), but the commentary track in the background was definitely a fun listen.
A new experience for me in VR was that I collided with things! Made moving around the cluttered room really feel like moving around in a cluttered room ? The moving speed could've been a bit faster, and it was a bit disconcerting at the start since I'm used to Unreal's editor controls which are 1:1, ie. when you drag yourself in the world, your "space grabbing hand" stays in the same position in the world.
Overall, a very nice experience, and the commentary especially was a good addition!
​The locomotion is very cool, with the 1:1 kind of dragging. Only negative about that is when you fall, the acceleration causes a bit of discomfort. The plugging-in-mechanics are very cool, and the implied story is interesting. I chose, of course, the path of the benevolent robot overlord.
The hand models are really good, and the overall atmosphere of the game is great. A good game, even if a bit short.
Blowing things up is always fun. Sad thing is, when you get blown up yourself, especially when it's in VR and uncontrolled movement is not very comfortable. ?
So yeah, I definitely liked the blowing things up part, but I felt quite a bit of discomfort when the physics engine started throwing me around. Still, a good entry.
Great stuff. The sound effects are fitting, the graphics are on point and the game feels really good. ?
The level design is very nice. It feels like a library, and the lack of lighting aside from the flashlight does wonders for the mood. Also, the headbobbing and footsteps add a good amount of immersion. That, and the music create a very nice tone for the game. Good stuff!
The concept of adding stuff to the level to teach new things is really good, kind of reminds me of the way Portal teaches new mechanics. The graphics are pretty nice, and the sounds are pretty nice, especially the narration. The jumping felt a bit off, I would guess it's a combination of bad maneuverability in air + low gravity. Still, overall a very nice game.
Excellent graphics and music, intriguing gameplay. Very hard, couldn't get very far, but the idea is interesting enough.
This is the ideal Ludum Dare game, simple and to the point. Really good tutorial levels, lovely minimalist graphics and a nice soundtrack. Overall a very good game. The only criticism I have would be the movement being a bit unintuitive sometimes, which admittedly is pretty hard to do well in the kind of isometric/tile based system this game is based on. Also, good job on managing to make so many levels during a Ludum Dare, very impressive!
@ryte2byte Yeah, VR is still a bit bleeding edge, I suppose :grin:
@binaryferret Thanks for the feedback! Glad the little touches (the pills & engine screen) were worth the time.
@filogc @rjhelms Ask, and you shall receive.
[Walkthrough](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFKQTojpJhU)
@bomb-x I would agree with replacing the hand, but it's just a time-budget thing combined with my lack of modeling skill. Would've definitely made a hand model if I had more time though. Thanks for the feedback!
@xxdoombox Thank you! The movement is choppy because I mostly moved using the teleportation feature (a necessity, since I only really have ~2x2 meters of space), which is the only type of movement in the game (well, in addition to like, actually moving IRL). It's one of the easy two types of locomotion in VR, the other one being "sliding around" which is what you see in 2D fps games, but that tends to cause a lot of nausea. In the interest of not making people sick, I went with the teleportation, but I do agree that it does kind of take away from the experience. It's still early days for VR though, one day someone will come up with something way better. And thanks again for the long comment, I really appreciate it.
@randomhuman @juju-adams @occultone @tddawson Thanks a lot for the feedback and ratings! Almost didn't get enough to get the final score, whew.
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!
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.
What a cool game! I really like the idea of simulating civilizations through the ages, and being a long time EU4 player, I liked the way the map is presented (like, on a canvas). Won on the second try, but needed to exalt everyone to win, so I guess all of the civilizations are now in decline? At least they're not in chaos. One bug I found: when you win, it displays a text "{years} AC: The First Age Survived", I think you missed a replace there :wink:
A pretty cool idea, and excellent execution. Graphics are cute, sounds are cute, everything about this game is just cute. Except the theme, I suppose.
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!
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!
The idea is intriguing, but the game's very difficult. I imagine there is some strategy to win, but I'm not really getting past ~70 seconds (I'm guessing the counter at the end shows the game time in milliseconds?). Still, I like how the game looks, and the basic idea.
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!
This looks really, really cool (I wish I was this good at the space ship aesthetic :grin: ), but alas, I'm not on Windows. Friendly request for a Linux build if possible! <3
Pretty entertaining, but could use a bit of tweaking if it weren't for Ludum Dare. Feedback on whether you hit an enemy when you shoot them, and a tutorial that's a bit more interactive (I missed like half of the text because I was distracted). But overall, an enjoyable experience.
The game looks cool, but it doesn't run since api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll is missing. Really unfortunate :slight_frown:
Minimalist, relaxing and an interesting concept. Love it.
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.
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!
Good game! The movement is a bit slidy and unresponsive, and I think aiming would be better if it followed the mouse rather than movement. Otherwise, it's a fun game! The size change was surprising and kind of funny in a surrealistic way. Graphics look pretty nice, and the sounds serve their purpose.
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.
Survived for almost 4 minutes. Excellent work on your first game! The music could've used some percussion and looped a bit better, and the world could've had some more stuff to make the surviving a bit more exciting. But overall, a nice game, if maybe a bit too easy. The difficulty should ramp up a bit quicker, I think. One nice touch I really liked was how I started orbiting at one point and did a few loops around the planet, that was fun :grin:
Would've preferred WASD or the arrow keys to move, but otherwise the game was pretty nice. The idea is cool, but the controls (especially on a browser, when moving the mouse outside of the screen can be problematic) hindered my progression a bit. Oh, and the music is very nice!
I was excited to see a Godot game for once, but sadly it doesn't run because `./garden-sim: error while loading shared libraries: libXinerama.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory`. Installed the libxinerama package and still doesn't work. Running Arch Linux. The game looks fun, but alas, I cannot play it :slight_frown:
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!
A very cool and weird game. The gameplay feels a bit janky at times, like when you're trying to hit a jumping enemy with a slow firing rate, but that's about my only problem with the actual game. The music and the aesthetic overall are really cool and weird and interesting. Had a bit of a problem launching the game from the itch client, since it doesn't seem to have an executable, but I got it working by running it manually with löve from the terminal.
"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!
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 :ok_hand:
One last thing: might want to rewrite the