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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | 👥 | FERTILIZATION FRENZY | jam | 218 | 3.77 | 3.83 | 3.34 | 4.17 | 3.94 | 3.67 | 2.48 | 3.73 | |
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | 👥 | SHUTTLECOCK: ARMAGEDDON | jam | 1059 | 3.23 | 3.18 | 2.94 | 3.62 | 3.32 | 3.34 | 3.49 | 3.22 |
Nick Saulnier leaves an average of 26.5 feedback comments each event.
Love the assets in this game, looks really good. The gameplay was simple and fun! Audio feels like an afterthought and I would have preferred just no music/background noises OR something more complete as a song. Good work!
Super fun! Aesthetically strong as well, good job.
Once I got a hang of the game loop, really fun to manage multiple simple resources at once. Highly polished, great OST and art.
Impressive for the time allotted. Really enjoy the concept of TD with pollution as a metric. GJ!
Incredible project. I don't think the attachment to the theme is very strong, but this is extremely cool and finished. Great stuff!
Extremely polished and complete! Had a good time playing, the art is amazing. GJ.
Aesthetically strong GJ!
Super interesting entry! The "wiggle mouse" movement was actually my favourite part, I think there is an entire deep-dive on that alone that could be really cool in another project or an update.
Overall, really cohesive and well-presented and fun to work around the quirks of the terminal emulation.
Gameplay is fun! The UI is somewhat janky as mentioned in other comments, but it's not a hard barrier to enjoyment. Well made hex-based tactics game!
Fun and polished shmup! I think the scope is appropriate as a jam entry, but with more time bosses/something to shake up the game loop or difficulty curve would have pushed this to a "next level". Overall really well-done gameplay. Haven't seen many shmups with a charged shot as the core mechanic, so that was really welcome. Great work!
Actually a really well thought-out game loop here! Super simple, but it's fun to try and track the other pig's weight values while you manage your own. Good job!
Great work! A lot of echoing others, but the degree of polish is super high. I think audio design is what I'd single out as the strongest aspect, just really well done on the voice acting, FX, etc..
Awesome for the time allotted!!!
Awesome entry, great visuals. Gameplay loop was interesting and unique, but it took me a couple failed attempts to really understand what I was doing. After adjustment, was fun!
Love a lot of the ideas here. Traversal was interesting due to aesthetic polish, and the game loop is fun. Great showcase of this "2D/3D cube" technology, really impressive given the engine. Overall, one of the games I spent a good amount of time playing, great job!
Art is really well done. Took a while for me to understand the controls and the game-loop, but pretty fun/therapeutic clicking gameplay. Enjoyed this!
The difficulty seems far too extreme. Otherwise, I like the game loop itself and its a really cool take on a TD/RTS style game. GJ!
Had a lot of fun playing this. Love the aspect of discovery when you hit the next "phase" of the game, took a while for me to understand what was happening but I was happy when I did.
The "angry" mechanic wasn't too direct for me, but once I understood everything the game loop became really fun! If you were to expand on this, just more variety to the game loop (more enemies, bosses, more map variety, whatever) would go a long way. Overall really cohesive and well-presented, GJ.
I think the controls are a bit hard to overcome ATM, but I kind of like the obtuseness of it considering you're doing such a weird thing in-game? I _did_ get used to the control scheme, but the latency between my input and the army moving was what seemed like the highest skill cap in the end! Really cool idea, and aesthetically really cohesive and strong, GJ!
Super fun, refreshing to see a cool take on platforming.
Just awesome! Challenging, but not so much so that you lose enjoyment. Felt cool to discover the locket on the first boss, for example. Great work.
Agreed with the camera being somewhat too zoomed in! Seems like this would be fun to master and run through as quickly as possible, which is always nice to feel about a game in the first few minutes. Personally I found the physics on the jumping somewhat awkward to get a hold of, but after an adjustment it was OK. Fun platforming!
There are some stability issues when I run this, so that is my biggest barrier to leaving more feedback! What did run smoothly was enjoyable, I really like the artstyle and the platforming was nice. I'd maybe reduce the delay between MB1 and the shlice. Good job, pretty huge for the short time!
Nice! The car control felt slippery and odd for a while, but I did adjust to it. After getting used to it, definitely fun to control. I enjoy this take on the theme as well. Strong aesthetically, GJ!
Black hole is an awesome use of the theme! I found the difficulty too punishing, across the difficulty ranges. Overall, controls well, is easy to understand, and aesthetically strong!
Appreciated genre mix-up!
Awesome!
ATM, I'm not sure if there is a build error for HTML5, but I couldn't get anything to appear in the task list!
Cool experience! You correctly identified that the RNG is a bit extreme, but I love the asset design. GJ!
I too am floored by the difficulty! I like the aesthetic decision of having voice-over while playing, reminds me of turning off a game's music and just listening to a podcast haha. Fun game, very funny!
Great art and OST!
Awesome idea! Had me just trying to find my own shapes and actually cast "The Hand" on my own. Spent a surprising amount of time just chilling in the world, good job.
Love a good platformer! There is a slight learning curve to the jump arc/momentum, probably due to everyone being used to controlling a certain plumber haha. But once you get the hang of it, the game controls well and has quite a bit of content.
I think the difficulty hits a good median point between brutal and too easy, but I think you _could_ afford to make it more punishing.
Good job!
LD52 — Harvest (18)
Elonkorjuu - Live Harvest by Tutti Ankka 2023-01-11T18:33:00Z ♥ 2
Awesome work! Super fun, cool take on the theme, and the art is really beautiful.
HER-V by Kilirane 2023-01-11T18:16:44Z ♥ 3
Visually super impressive! Love the asset work and the recreation of a cel-shaded style. Also shout out to the not-so-subtle Victory Gundam reference in the title, mech design and color scheme 😛.
I think some iteration on this concept could be something worthwhile! Was expecting more of a punishment for failing an arrow input in the harvest mini-game, for example.
Great work!
Soul Harvester by Accatosh 2023-01-11T18:09:52Z ♥ 1
Aesthetically (other than audio) I think this is strong. Could definitely use some sugar in terms of visual effects/feedback though!
I actually really like how fast and direct the gameplay control feels. Generally this style of game is bit slower and more forgiving, but I actually think it's pretty interesting for it to feel closer to Quake or something in terms of fast movement and the characters near-hit-scan projectile.
Good work!
Collector of _ by Jujus 2023-01-11T18:02:44Z ♥ 2
Love the platforming, the art, and the overall vibe.
I get the connection to the theme with scythe-ing down enemies to harvest their souls for progression. However, I found it a lot less enjoyable to have to worry about combat as it took away from my time interfacing with the cool platforming/puzzle element of the game.
That's the only critique I can come up with, otherwise extremely solid and fun!
Jack the Reaper by FabDynamic 2023-01-11T03:42:01Z ♥ 1
Everything that is here is super complete, I like the artwork visual style a lot. I won the game on the first map generation, which might not be very usual? But in my case it wasn't very challenging :P. It may just be a case of procedural rules tho.
Good work!
Harvester Inc. by OffDutyExtractors 2023-01-11T03:36:00Z ♥ 1
Great use of the theme! Reminds me of Welcome to the Game (and its sequel). Really successful at giving you the uneasy feeling of doing something that isn't quite "right".
Scarecrow Attack by digitaldude555 2023-01-10T23:28:11Z ♥ 2
I was not expecting much from looking at it first-glance and the text here, but this was deceivingly fun LOL. I like the control scheme a lot. Somewhere in between awkward and intuitive. GJ, especially knowing it was a pivot as mentioned above!
Soul Trapper by Yahel Dooley 2023-01-10T23:24:36Z ♥ 1
Love the art and music here! Gameplay was fun once I got the hang of it, I feel this could turn into something larger with added depth and polished. Great work!
Starvesters by z0rg 2023-01-10T23:17:02Z ♥ 2
Beautiful minimalist worldbuilding here! I had some issue with mouse controls, but it could have been a browser-specific thing. Otherwise, super immersive. GJ!
The Domino Surgery by Adam Konig 2023-01-10T23:10:18Z ♥ 1
Love the illustration and art-style! Concept is interesting, and the puzzle itself was fun to solve.
I think some of the UI/interaction choices could have made the experience more enjoyable. I definitely was kind of lost just dragging aliens around until I realized I *had* to connect the pictures to each other to form a connection.
Audio and humour was super strong as well. I clicked around and asking for a hint before interacting with the game results in funny dialogue, etc.
GJ!
Scream of the Crop by indegame 2023-01-10T23:00:11Z ♥ 3
Beautiful looking game, floored by the quality of the asset work. Others have gone over my main critiques about the gameplay! A bit slow/simple, and sometimes unclear. But with the amount of aesthetic completeness that's here, I think it's still extremely impressive overall.
You Will Be Fertiliser. by PuttPuttTheTruck 2023-01-10T20:46:55Z ♥ 1
Blood for the blood god.
Good take on the theme, plays well, fun. GJ!
Bow Knight Drifter by Kostas Nik 2023-01-10T20:37:30Z ♥ 2
Art here is AWESOME. Love the sprite-work. Audio is good and fitting as well, and the gameplay seems well-considered!
My main critique is difficulty. When exploring I stumbled into the boss room without making any purchases; the fight was really easy in my opinion. SO, the disparity between overworld and boss difficulty is pretty large, I found the Snakes and Mantis swarms more challenging than the Dragon.
H. R. Vest by mvasko2 2023-01-10T18:51:28Z ♥ 3
Love the art and audio! Game is spooky and atmospheric. Could maybe be more immersive with some flow-breaking (sound effects, camera zoom, etc.) effects, but well put together!
Slime Crime by No whOne 2023-01-10T18:39:25Z ♥ 2
Certainly one of the most fun entries I've played! I like how the roguelike "formula" combined with the theme. Smart to have the corpses time-out, so that harvesting them for XP is rolled into your risk evaluation when playing. Great stuff!
Thrown Harvest (for LD52) by matimat 2023-01-10T18:15:55Z ♥ 1
Fun gameplay once I got it! I think the theme is somewhat bolted on (the Harvest zone at the bottom seems kind of superfluous, it's not difficult to go and collect stuff, etc.) but I can understand just adding a feature to see if you can make it happen (timers, item collection). Love stuff that's mechanics focused like this, good job!
Bewitched Potatoes by aey 2023-01-10T18:10:53Z ♥ 2
Scythes are cool! Aesthetically strong, and the game loop is fun. Good job!
Harvest Time by jminor 2023-01-10T18:05:39Z ♥ 1
Looks great and controls well! Love the ambition to make something for 4-players, really cool.