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Keep Gannet alive by Monish Vyas 2020-04-30T12:50:20Z ♥ 1

Neat little idea!

I did struggle to react fast enough often - several times I died not because I failed to click well enough to a fair degree but seemingly because the now-poisoned food was basically already touching me before I had chance to read what it was. A hint of what food is going to be poisoned next (like in Tetris!) and maybe a visible timer bar showing how long you've got left until it changes would make the game feel much more fair imo.

Hamloon by NoelOskar 2020-04-24T17:52:19Z ♥ 1

Made it 1159! Pretty cool little game with lovely art - mechanically, we kinda made similar games. I do really like games that require mouse dexterity, so this was my kind of thing.

I did find a lot of the difficulty came from the nails being hard to see against the background. I'm not sure if that was deliberate (or just my eyesight heh) but a slight little glow around them maybe would have helped me a lot.

The armour pickups felt a little unnecessary, when I got them? I wonder if it'd be a cool feature if they popped up right when you're about to get hit by a bunch of nails at once as a twitch-reaction way to escape death.

Open Fire! by Amazura 2020-04-24T17:39:00Z ♥ 2

Lovely art, and the polishedness of having cutscenes etc was really impressive with the time limit!

Were there more mechanics than just hitting the buttons? I couldn't tell if each level made me mash faster or if it was the sam every time. It would've been cool to have more of a skill-requiring element, like if it needed specific timing or something. Still, really polished little game!

Friendly Fire by Revetoon 2020-04-24T17:29:22Z ♥ 3

Neat. I especially liked the little touch of the compass that appears only when you need it, solid game design idea.

It might've been good to have an angle for the gameplay to be a bit more of a challenge, or alternatively if there wasn't the threat of a timer. It'd be nice to know what order things get burned in too, as someone above said maybe an inventory of some kind. Once I felt like I'd explored most stuff, I did eventually let it run down to see what happened and it took ages :P

The sound design and music was great, and honestly really loved the little character's walk animation, was totally charming. The mushrooms were a fun addition too.

My Friend Phil by Conroy 2020-04-23T22:52:17Z ♥ 1

I must've played this for 25 minutes and not finished level 02 oh my god

The high physics sensitivity is super fun and led to a bunch of honestly hilarious deaths, and I loved the crazy bounce you get off enemies. It often turns a victorious moment into "oh crap" in a really silly and enjoyable way. Also love how the water reacts when you drop in it, also neat!

My only real beef is the stickiness of walls even when you've barely started your jump, which doesn't really act as a challenge so much as a frustration that makes certain sections unexpectedly hard. Kept trying to jump too close to a wall and not leaving the ground. I wonder if maybe you could just turn off wall jump for like, 0.2 seconds after pressing the jump button?

I played on controller, which felt really good. As a little note for future jams, maybe, it felt kinda annoying to have to switch to the mouse to restart. Maybe it could just auto-restart after a couple seconds?

Anyway, it was a super fun time with a silly, absurdly difficult little game.

Brainstorm by Shakedimus 2020-04-23T22:35:12Z ♥ 1

The words just stop after being connected for me, and I don't lose any lives or gain any points. Which is a shame because I think the idea seems really cool!

It doesn't seem super fair to rate it for most of the categories, but you have points from me for innovation because it's a clever concept and I'm sure I'd enjoy it a lot. :)

Shmup with grappling hooks by chuchuw 2020-04-23T19:24:56Z ♥ 1

Concept was super cool, and I like the feel of dodging enemies whilst staying locked on to them. I'm not sure if there is a max distance on the cables but it felt like it and playing like that made it much more interesting in how I dodged them. The slow pace I enjoyed as well. Gave it a sense of slow, steady impending doom which was a nice change of pace for this type of game!

That said, I found it very frustrating actually hooking onto the generators. I can only assume the left/right offset is relative to movement, because what it *felt* like was that they were cleverly heat-seaking the exact opposite of what I wanted, haha :p I found myself pretty constantly healing enemies by mistake so I eventually started just herding every enemy to one side of the screen to get them out of the way, which seems to work ok.

It would've been cool if there'd been a mechanic to force me to change strategies every now and then - but hey, it's a jam and there's not much time!

Presentation is all really good, especially the sound design! The use of the scrolling level to provide instructions was a really slick little detail that I appreciated a lot.

QT's Cells by Mental Inaction 2020-04-23T09:27:24Z ♥ 1

Oh my gosh, the little bounce when you start moving pulled at my heartstrings. +1 for being able to speed up text scroll, always love that feature (especially for replaying!)

I like the core loop, it was super smart finding different ways to make use of the same environment, both for making a jam game, and also it's pretty fun as a player to navigate it in different ways each time and remember where things are.

Space Shield by Infinite 2020-04-22T23:00:48Z ♥ 1

Oh man, @infinite ! I really am blown away by how such a similar concept can be super different in execution but still totally awesome. Love how polished this is, slick presentation, frontend with difficulty select, really nice UI features like the warnings of where the boulders will come from. Great sound design, too.

If I'd nitpick one thing, it's that I found it often a little confusing where my shield would go relative to my cursor position. I felt like I had to move my mouse further to the sides than was intuitive.

Still, though, super impressed.

Say Aloe To My Little Friend by boyTurnedRobot 2020-04-22T22:48:29Z ♥ 1

OK so first things first, the name pun is basically perfect.

It took me a while to figure out how to use the shears (I intuitively tried to spam left click which did not go well for me or my little friend) but once I did the extreme splatter violence was a hilarious surprise.

The Dark Cave by Tom Stephenson 2020-04-22T22:05:11Z ♥ 1

Super spooky! The core mechanic is a super interesting twist on the Limbo spider scene - I really, really like the idea of a stealth game about controlling sound to get around giant monsters. That said, I did feel like I ended up just cheesing the spider, as I escaped it by abusing the respawn mechanic to spawn on the opposite side of it.

If there's a specific puzzle you had in mind with that, perhaps it'd come across better by resetting the spider too when you respawn?

Good job on the spider procedural movement, btw. I have tried that problem myself in the past and I'm really impressed you took that on in a game jam.

Blooming with You by Junebug 2020-04-22T21:49:27Z ♥ 1

Such a nice little story, told in a super lovely way! The simple addition of putting the phone down and picking it back up does so much to ground the conversation and make it feel real, what an awesome idea.

Like the dual meaning of the theme in this one, too.

runrunrunrun by ZabaMan 2020-04-22T21:40:57Z ♥ 1

I don't feel like I can judge this 100% fairly playing it solo but honestly even on my own it's pretty fun. The nervous wobbling energy of the little dot people, how they get snagged on corners in the maze level etc, really adds to the frantic feeling and ridiculousness - awesome stuff. The visuals are super charming too!

Polar by MrSchlag2 2020-04-22T21:32:13Z ♥ 0

Lovely atmosphere - music and graphics complement each other super well! I really enjoyed the core mechanic of pull + release to push the icebergs around, too.

Not sure my heart can take my not being able to save the poor bear tbqh.

FROGISLN.ELF by WittyCognomen 2020-04-22T21:27:34Z ♥ 1

Really love the graphics, especially the blooming flower! It's so pretty!

I was quite confused by the movement controls, and maybe the player's ability to *mlem* is a bit overpowered - being able to sit in the middle and omni-directionally *mlem* like a boss did make finishing the game pretty trivial. Maybe it could've been stronger if there was a limit on where you could aim?

Nice entry, all the same!

Panicked Planet by mhsco 2020-04-22T21:19:51Z ♥ 1

Ya, definitely something cool lurking in this game. Personally, I was a little overwhelmed by the speed at which the stats of each environment change compared to how slow it is to use the satellite to check on them. There seems to be quite a lot of game mechanics affecting each biome, but it was hard to learn them because the information is so hidden away.

I feel like there's a few different directions you could take this, if you wanna develop it further. It could work well as a slower-paced tactical game, or keeping it at this speed but giving players info a little more readily.

PIZZA was plentiful and nothing hurt by niklasriewald 2020-04-22T20:43:29Z ♥ 1

A brilliant idea executed perfectly. I swear cruel vengeance upon you for the suffering I have endured at your hands.

Everybody's Gone To The Raptor by Dziek 2020-04-22T19:12:59Z ♥ 4

Came for the excellent title. Stayed for SICK TUNES, amazing art style (their little faces!) and on-point humour. Best game-over screen of 2020.

I basically couldn't see any of the notes against the background half the time and I don't even care because it's wonderful.

NICE. SMASHED IT.

Isochronism by FireSlash 2020-04-22T19:04:34Z ♥ 1

really impressed by how much y'all got done - it's pretty polished and there's loads to it! The music and sound design especially struck me as cool.

I died a whole bunch of time by relying on my real world knowledge with one of the early puzzles instead of what the game told me, if that's not too spoilerific. I wonder if other folks had the same problem.

Unsplashed by yxmx_rsx 2020-04-22T18:44:06Z ♥ 1

Really love the aesthetic & feel! Great work and fun idea.

The addition of a timer was brilliant! Felt super frantic and exciting, which took me by surprise and I enjoyed it a lot.

My only complaints is the puzzle difficulty felt a little unfair - usually it felt like I only lost 'cos I got a sudden crazy hard level after a string of easier ones. I saw the star spawn inside a wall once, too, which I think made it impossible?

Cryoloop by Freya C 2020-04-22T18:19:34Z ♥ 1

Whoa, never seen these bits of tech put together in this way before. Very cool! Cool look, too.

My brain got really focused-in on the 3d screen and I could've maybe been helped with an unsubtle visual (or audio) cue to let me know me when the line of dialogue changes - I felt like I missed a fair chunk of it, even after playing through twice.

Like other folks above I also was confused by the doors, especially as there seems to be an unopenable door that doesn't look different to the others. I really liked the effect of the door opening once I worked it out, though! Proper spooky space vibes.

Sunlit by palsina 2020-04-22T18:05:31Z ♥ 2

Mesmerizing! I loved the little touch of the squirrel. Stumbling on that made me excited to grow the tree further to see if there was anything else hidden further up! (I haven't found anything else yet, but I'll probably have another play later)

Say Something by Houcine Chelbi 2017-05-07T13:45:09Z ♥ 2

It's pretty impressive to see such an ambitious idea attempted for a solo jam game! The enemies I felt moved too fast, and some kind of lock on mechanic would definitely have helped make the game more playable. It would've been nice for the game to start off easier and have the difficulty ramp up over time, too. Still, the free camera and movement felt pretty solid for the time allowed!

It's a Small World by GFM 2017-05-07T13:25:58Z ♥ 2

Some solid sprite work + I like the concept you were going for. It's a little detail, but I really enjoyed the way you handled going into buildings as well! I'd probably echo the concerns other people have about the text speed, though I'd also say it's a bit eye-straining to have it on that blue background, a darker text box would've been nice.

Escape From A Moon by ValerioSevilla 2017-05-07T13:15:32Z ♥ 1

I really love the art style, and there's a lot of potential for a cool platformer here! I found it very frustrating to have to start over every time, especially as the jumping is (appropriately!) floaty and there's a few jumps where you can't see the spikes underneath before you try them. I'd suggest only resetting the player back to the last safe spot, and probably aim the camera in front of the player (there's seldom any need to see behind!).

Nice job overall!

The Treachery of Game Dev by ratking 2017-05-07T12:21:17Z ♥ 0

Really liked the concept and the humour! A little bit sad that the code interface is so hard to use - I'd love to see a cleaned up version after the jam! Plus hey, you totally lampshaded that in the final dialogue so whatever.

Run Cola Run by valiap 2017-05-07T11:54:00Z ♥ 0

Fun concept, and a cool set of physicsy puzzles. The water section I had a little trouble with - I ended up just spamming lots of cans, not sure if that was the intended solution? Had a great little 'OH!' moment with the roller door puzzle :D