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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Overall | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 👥 | 🥉 | 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Lay Down Your Roots | jam | 4.56 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | Collector | Solatro: A Solitaire Roguelike | jam | 367 | 3.55 | 3.75 | 3.25 | 2.68 | 2.95 | 2.50 | 3.58 | ||||
| 2025 | 57 | Depths | Explorem Ipsum: Catacombs of Time | jam | 8 | 4.48 | 4.28 | 4.17 | 3.46 | 4.22 | 3.34 | 2.81 | 3.89 | |||
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | fishbone | jam | 42 | 4.22 | 4.06 | 4.00 | 3.83 | 3.83 | 3.72 | 2.00 | 4.12 | |||
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | 👥 | Summoners Incorporeal | jam | 303 | 3.83 | 3.91 | 3.74 | 4.30 | 3.71 | 3.65 | 3.96 | |||
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | Harvest Golem | jam | 56 | 4.17 | 4.35 | 4.08 | 3.07 | 3.77 | 3.96 | 3.02 | 3.77 | |||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | Support Simulator | jam | 233 | 3.91 | 3.83 | 3.83 | 3.58 | 3.90 | 3.23 | 4.38 | 4.03 | |||
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | Expression Compression | jam | 3.83 | 3.75 | 4.83 | 3.17 | 4.08 | 3.50 | ||||||
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | Oculus Leviathan | jam | 138 | 4.09 | 3.66 | 3.98 | 4.32 | 4.05 | 3.93 | 2.55 | 4.11 | |||
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | 👥 | Lay Down Your Roots | jam | 3 | 4.56 | 4.31 | 4.33 | 4.23 | 4.15 | 4.36 | 2.00 | 4.52 | ||
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | 👥 | In the Rain | jam | 64 | 4.13 | 4.02 | 3.79 | 3.52 | 3.71 | 3.88 | 2.63 | 3.89 | ||
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | 👥 | Speed Date Shuffle | jam | 138 | 3.90 | 3.59 | 4.05 | 2.91 | 4.55 | 3.90 | 3.66 | 3.92 | ||
| 2016 | 37 | One room | Puppertrator | jam | 93 | 3.92 | 3.40 | 3.10 | 4.25 | 4.65 | 4.00 | 3.92 | 3.88 | 73 | ||
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | Krill or be krilled | jam |
Chinchilla leaves an average of 9.9 feedback comments each event.
This is super cool. The soundscape is incredible! I also tripped over the tutorial due to the invisible walls (I ran out of air but I couldn't come to the surface because the tutorial wouldn't let me). I also agree that by the mid game I was ignoring pearls all together. They were just obstacles that were in my way for collecting the real treasures.
Also nice to see a fellow custom engine dev! You love to see it!
Very cool! I don't think I've played anything quite like this!
I also crashed when buying the Small Tanker about 5 minutes in. I remember I had a full inventory and I had sent out 1 probe before that.
ROCK AND STONE!!
The intro cutscene was INCREDIBLE! The tone and vibes are just incredible. Great work!
Very cool and calming vibe! I am very bad at minesweeper so I appreciated that I had a health bar (and the ability to restore it). Dividing the board into three segments is a really interesting twist!
The control scheme was very unique!
That was fun! I love how each character was basically a ã…Š and the walking animation was just a 15 degree rotation. Loved the pitter-patter sound too!
Overall great submission. I wish the objectives (eg necronomicon) didn't appear once you learned about them. I kind of wish all the pieces were there ahead of time and the NPCs would hint the solution to you rather than being explicit milestones you need to complete.
The sound design was quite good! Especially inside the church!
I've been doing LD for so many years but I don't think I've ever played a Solitaire-like submission until now. I liked it!
There's a lot of cool ideas here! The controls and interface make it difficult to really engage with the mechanics though. I wish I could pan the camera with the keyboard (and turn off edge-scrolling, which didn't work properly on my 2-monitor setup) and I could see the costs of things without having to have a worker dragged in hand.
All that is very fixable in a post-jam build though! Overall a very good submission!
I got it in 32 speeches! Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet! Great game! Although I think 5 minutes might be a little bit too long? I feel like by minute 3 I was like "OK I get it" and I had a strategy that prevented any faction from going past 13ish.
Very cool submission! I wish that the swapping mechanic got introduced earlier. I got to the rabbit and died before I figured out how it worked.
Very good submission! I have a few gripes but these are small complaints on the best game I played this jam.
It felt fatiguing to have to hold down the mouse button all the time. Especially when it's ambiguous if I have enough of a given resource. I found myself asking the question "do I need one more stone or is my last wood-holding critter somewhere across the map slowly making his way here?"
What if: - You click once to issue an order (eg: harvest this tree) - You only get ONE "task" you can issue at a time - BUT you can unlock more "task capacity" as a resource. like maybe for every campfire you have you can issue one more order eg: I have 3 campfires so I can request 3 tasks simultaneously.
That would make me as a player feel more powerful over time, like I'm issuing high level commands like "harvest this whole forest" rather than still holding down the button on each and every tree.
Very cute and creative!
I like the narrative flow, the setting felt very unique and distinct. The art was also super pretty, loved the portraits, the font, and the whole vibe! I think I'm not super well-versed in the genre conventions so I got confused why I could attack sometimes but not other times.
Very cool game! Can't wait to see it at the next GDQ! 😎
This was so cool! Probably the most fun game I've played this jam. My only suggestion is when I unlocked the cutting board/mixer, I wish I could keep them in future rounds.
It was pretty fun once I got past the first level! The art is nice and the little signs are funny!
The one thing I'd change is to shorten the iteration time between failing at an obstacle and being able to try that obstacle again.
Incredible presentation for a very fun idea!
I wish I had a bit more clarity if my shots were going to hit or not-- sometimes I would line up a shot that felt like a miss but was actually a hit, and vise versa.
Also _tiny_ UX nit: You have N for next level, R to restart, and Space to start the level, why not just bind all of those to Left Mouse Button? The whole rest of the game is played with the mouse so I found myself having to take my hand off the mouse to hit R and Space every time I messed up.
I got through the first 3 dates thinking "this is cool but it's a little easy" and then I failed every single date after that. Really creative and tightly designed!
I had a slight issue where it felt like my keyboard inputs weren't registering (usually at the start of a new word). Not that it mattered because most of the time I just sat there motionless because I couldn't think of a single word!
My first run I got 6/7 relics and I never got that far again. The presentation is top notch!
Looks and sounds AMAZING! The game loop is really tight and fun and gets chaotic fast! Tiny UI nitpick: I thought the lives counter was something I could collect, ironically I lost a life trying to collect the lives counter. 🤦
Very cool interpretation of the theme! My one complaint is that it was a little hard to tell which ~~amogi~~ crewmate I had selected.
Loved the framing and style. Chef lookin sus tbh.
This is really cool but I don't think I... get it?
I really like the look and the music but I don't really understand what's going on. Sometimes I can shoot sometimes I can't. Sometimes enemies run at me, sometimes they don't. It's unclear to me what the status at the top means when it says something like "Butterfingers."
Could you spell out how things work in the description a little more to help out dumb-dumbs like me?
Holding off on rating for now because I think there's a really cool game in here once I figure out how to play it!
I died and the game told me how much the sea level would rise if all the polar ice caps melted. That made me think about how we're all going to die someday, but that day is probably not today. Today I can be a crab. 10/10
A reFRESHing submission!
Very interesting control scheme!
I think the tutorial could have been clearer if the tutorial page were present on the first level. I missed that I had to press A/D from the tutorial so I fumbled for a bit on the first level. The screenshot of the tutorial on the itch page helped me break out of that though.
10/10 would get eaten by a shadow/spider again
I loved all the name puns, you might say it was a "Fanny Game."
Seriously though, probably the best narrative I've played in an LD game ever. I loved how the mystery developed and the (spoiler!!!) twist at the end.
The audio mixing could use some work though, in almost every dialogue scene one person was too loud and the other was too quiet.
The runes is a really cool mechanic. By the late game I didn't need to reference the symbols anymore as I just knew them by heart.
Extremely cool!
Neat game! I played it solo but it seems like it'd be fun to play with a friend.
Really cool game! It reminded me of Kingdom, which is a game I like a lot!
Wow. This is really great! I love Spaceteam so I love this. You chose the perfect set of actions too, I particularly like the gear shift, that's clever! I love the repair mechanic too! It's a tangible reward for performing well.
The art looks awesome too. Sound and music would have really tipped it over the edge, but really solid jam submission as-is!
The concept was interesting, but I wish it went further. At first I thought I had to discover what potions did what with trial and error but when I discovered the cheat sheet I felt like the game became too easy. A way to take this a step further is if you had to mix the potions yourself and you gradually discover what ingredients cure/cause certain ailments.
Graphically it looks great! The character's cute, the parallaxing background and the warping of the black hole all look super cool. That being said I found the gameplay a bit lacking. I didn't really feel like I had much agency or strategy beyond clicking in the direction away from the black hole but towards the nearest debris.
I love the core mechanic but I'm a bit confused about how it works. It seems like my past self only moves when I do (Super Hot style)? That seems to be the case except the past self moves for about a second after I go through the portal? I throws off my sense of timing and adds a degree of challenge that I don't think really adds anything to the experience. I really want to like this game but I'm just having a hard time wrapping my head around the timing.
I think something that would be nice is a "soft" reset button for when you've already gone through the portal. It would reset you to the point where you went through the portal, so your past self is locked in and you're just executing on the second half. The idea is that this is a separate button from the regular reset which you'd still need if you want to adjust your first run.
I'm a big fan of mouse-driven UI games. I played this for almost an hour and I lost (even though I still had plenty of turns left?) but I enjoyed it none the less. The random generation rogue-like-y nature of it is a really cool twist. I liked how the tiredness mechanic worked, pushing forward on the task at hand despite being too tired to continue and failing due to fatigue feels very relatable (especially in a game jam). It felt very strategic when I was trying to most efficiently use my time to investigate all my leads and reach out to my contacts. The music is nice and I noticed the music changed partway through which was interesting but I don't know what triggered it.
Although I do have some nits here and there if you're looking for feedback for a post-jam build: - It's nice that everything was mouse-driven, but having hotkeys for the 4 basic commands would have been really nice. - Typo: "but from hom?" when I think you meant "but from whom?" - Unclear on the difference between a "turn" and a "day"? Are they different, why is there a difference? - I wish the icons on the sticky notes aligned with the icons on the left, Decipher is a sheet of paper on the left but a pentagon on the sticky note, for example. - When I didn't have any leads (AKA: all I can do is "Research") it was unclear to me what the best use of my time was, I kept researching the same two notes that had red lines connecting them trying to turn them green and I kept coming up with nothing. - Although the music is good, the sound effects are really lacking
Some cool ideas but the jumping felt really inconsistent because half the time I was technically "in the air" and therefore couldn't jump and would hit obstacles. I think instead of a health system I would have rather died in one hit and just had more forgiving checkpoints throughout the level.
It felt good to dash up a shallow slope, especially when it wasn't the clear intended way to get through the level!
Super impressive submission! I love the concept, it kind of reminds me of Noita or Spelunky. I felt like I kept getting randomly generated levels that were impossible. I got spawned on a tiny ledge where my only options were to fall to my death or blow myself up. I think fall damage is a good feature in general but I think there should also be some way to mitigate it. I tried using a rope to bungie jump down but that didn't work (imagine if it did though!!)
I liked the doodle style of it all, particularly the tutorial. I wish the arm were a bit more flexible (like maybe if it rotated towards the mouse?). I loved how each time a shark chased you it had some cute remark trying to lure me in (almost worked!! very persuasive). I was able to farm a bunch of points when I discovered the edge of the level where a bunch of fish were crowded up.
The MS-Paint art is cute! I think overall the game is a bit too easy. The character moves so slow but most of the threats are either stationary or way too far away to be concerned about.
Also, since the turning is pivoted on the front of the character (the "drill" part) turning moves your hitbox. This means if you move towards an obstacle and then turn around, you might hit the obstacle simply by turning around which feels a bit unfair.
Really neat concept but I had a hard time wrapping my head around the rules and the controls.
I played this for 30 seconds and I already love it. Very clever interpretation of the theme. I wish there was a bit more too it though, music (or any sound at all for that matter) would be great. The screenshake polish you have is great but I think I would have liked a bit more rewarding effects for succeeding, particles, fanfare, etc.
Really neat concept, I did enjoy playing it and it was well written. If you'll indulge me I have some UI gripes that I'd like to soapbox on for a minute (maybe feedback for a post-jam build): - The intro sequence should not have the text box, I kept on starting to type a command and then more text showed up. I think the text pages over every time you hit a key (maybe?) but I didn't realize that at first so I started typing. - The "help" shouldn't show up until _after_ the intro. You have us memorize a bunch of commands, then do an exposition dump, and then we start the game using the commands we learned earlier. It's nice that "help" shows us the commands, but I think if the help page was shown later I wouldn't have needed to fall back on it. - The location names were very specific. `go toms bedroom` doesn't count, it has to be `go tom's bedroom`, I think if I was specific enough the game should have allowed it. - (screen resolution dependent) It looks like from your screenshot that `Jessica's Bedroom` is on one line, on my screen (4K, 16:9) It was on two lines, making it seem like `Jessica's` and `Bedroom` were two separate places.
All that being said, I really love the look and feel of this game. It's sleek and simple while still being a vehicle for a very deep story.
I think the "How To Play" was unnecessary, not to say that I figured out how to play right away (I didn't, I needed the tutorial), but you could have just made the tutorial the first level and just had one "Play" button. I also shared the same struggle as everyone else in that I couldn't figure out how to actually play. I was stuck on the first level, then I quit to do the tutorial, which I got through somehow but I don't really understand what I did. Then I was stuck on the first level again. I put both the wires in the console and then the door still didn't open?
I don't entirely understand what's happening but it seems pretty neat!
Cool concept but I feel like it needs a bit more to it? Minesweeper had the number system to hint if there was a mine nearby, maybe that could have added another twist that makes mining a mine more consequential.
There are so many little polish things you get right, absolutely incredible work! I love how you turned the level transitions into a mechanic, the art style is great, the squash-and-stretch on the jumping.... it's all so good!! The fact that it was a compo game makes it even more impressive!
The first "video game" game I've played so far. Really cool mechanic and nice gauntlet of puzzles to explore it. The checkpoints were nicely placed so I never felt like I had to redo a ton of content. Definitely cheesed the boss though 😛
I love to see more narrative driven LD entries! Great work!
Really neat game! I have some tiny nitpicks about UI (clicking on a lock doesn't unlock the door, clicking on the door does) and some texture on the walls would have been nice to get a sense of when stuff is moving around. Overall though it's a really solid entry!
Hey, I made Lay Down Your Roots and I came to check out your game and wow!! You're right, our ideas were similar! But what's crazy is how they were almost _even more similar_. I had considered doing the UI similar to how you did, 2 clicks where the player chooses the exact angle, I ultimately chose against it but I'm not totally happy with what I chose (LDYR screws you over sometimes, maybe that's part of the game? :p). I had also considered the idea of having nutrients as a third resource, but I wasn't really sure how to differentiate it from water.
I love your color choice! And I love that you can play this in a browser, that's perfect for this style of game. Maybe I'm dumb but I'm having trouble getting started. I can't seem to figure out how to start gaining energy. I have 15 leaves but I'm gaining zero energy and then I just die..? I'm a bit confused about that. But from the screenshots it looks like it gets pretty wild in the late game
Also I can very very very faintly hear music when I play. But it's soooo quiet and my volume is cranked all the way up. Is there something wrong on my end or is the music really quiet? It's fine to have quiet BGM but I think it's _too_ quiet. If I had my volume any lower I wouldn't even notice it.
Really cool submission!
There is a LOT of content here! Especially for a Ludum Dare game. Every inch of it looks great and sounds pretty good too! However it took me multiple attempts and reading the itch page description to figure out how to craft, which is a pretty essential part of the game. Perhaps binding the crafting menu to the right mouse button would have made it more discoverable?
I didn't complete a single quest in the game. I would get a quest, not understand how to complete it, and then move onto the next area. I figured out what Onion Minions were and how to create them about 2 areas in and didn't feel like backtracking to complete the first quest. Maybe Granny could have mentioned something about "Pressing shift to open your crafting menu." Fourth wall breaking but entirely necessary for gameplay. Likewise, all of the enemies could be summarized as "click on them until they die," regardless of what type of ammo I was using. It seemed some enemies weren't even worth killing since they'd either just stand there or were easy to evade.
The world design is well done. It feels like an open world and yet I was constantly able to progress and continue onto the next area. I never felt lost. I made it all the way to the boat, where I was promptly stuck because I didn't know where to find planks. There appeared to be some planks in the basement of the castle area right before the boat but I think those planks were decorative planks and not quest item planks.
All this being said, this is an incredibly ambitious Ludum Dare game and I'm extremely impressed with how much game you managed to get out of the weekend.
You bastard, how could you make me do this.
I love it.
Our submissions are shockingly similar​! The overall concept is great, your incentivized ​to grow out and around and find patches of water, but you also don't want to spread yourself too thin because otherwise you'll starve. I also like at the end you're told how many days it took you to complete and your encouraged to do better. I dig it!
The turn-based/grid-based aspects of it are interesting. They make the whole thing feel organized and methodical, especially once you unlock pruning and the ability to reveal other areas. It really felt like you could min/max your way to victory if you planned ahead.
However there are a few little gripes I have that get in the way of my enjoyment. First off, I wish there were hotkeys for pruning/exploring/skipping. Clicking "Prune" and then clicking over at the one root I wanted to remove, and the repeating that process over and over was really tedious.
I also think that the "grow through stone" upgrade and the "reveal area" upgrade should be swapped. By the time I had the reveal upgrade, I had already hit "rock bottom" in the sense that I had nowhere left to explore that wasn't blocked off. So the reveal upgrade didn't do anything for me except for taunt me with areas I couldn't go to yet.
That being said, this is a really solid submission overall, especially for the compo! It looks like this is your first game on itch.io, which I assume means you're pretty early in your gamedev career. If that's the case then you're off to an amazing start!
I like the concept. Although I couldn't really tell what the difference between the 3 types of towers were. So I wasn't sure what trade-off I was making when I built a bunch of the same tower rather than a few of each.
The music loop has this gross "click" at (presumably) the point where it loops. Fortunately it's entire fixable, I've helped enough LDer's fix this problem I made a quick video about how to fix it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJUJezqdtqA
spicy. surprisingly unique gameplay for a political shitpost
I love the use of dark patterns! I did find the iteration time a little frustrating, I gave up after my third attempt because I was tired of waiting for the Decripter to unlock each time. Always a fan of fake OS games!
I love how much personality you put into subatomic particles. I never thought of neutrinos as "introverts" but now I can't un-think it! I liked how the music changed over time too. I found the gameplay a little lacking assuming I was playing it right. It seemed like my objective was to dodge everything so I just spent most of the game at the very top of the screen not moving. Perhaps if there were powerups to grab or some incentive to not sit still you could solve this problem? Overall though it was a nice submission!
Absolutely delightful concept, I like how everyone probably experienced this game differently based on their desktop habits. The sound and graphics were really nice and pleasant too! You also managed to crash my explorer.exe which is a first so congrats on that also 😛
I love the art style! Also I love any game that features a Giant Enemy Crab.
Very well written. The visuals were great but I wish the textbox were a little more opaque for my feeble eyes. I loved all the goofy looking characters and the made up music genres. LONG LIVE COSMIC FELK!
Simple and elegant game loop. Normally I don't like these "endless hoard" games but this one is different. The rhythm mechanic made it feel like every shot counts. Every beat I have to think about my position and line up my shot and fire on beat. It's incredibly satisfying to land multiple shots in a row, and genuinely panic inducing when you miss a shot you thought you had because now you're falling behind. A part of me kind of wishes that you'd fire automatically on beat but maybe that would be too easy?
The difficulty ramps up a bit quick with the curtain fire enemies, but the iteration time is so short that it doesn't really matter.
There's lots of cool potential here! I'm imagining this as a rogue-like with boss fights and different weapons that each have different tempos/effects.
Incredibly clever use of the theme, it works on several layers! Although I didn't really use the main mechanic until I got to the level with a ton of enemies. All of the other levels I could pretty easily platform around them. Perhaps there could be a level early on with narrow chokepoints that enemies block so you could teach the mechanic early on and gradually demonstrate wider use cases.
Very impressive for a compo game!
Interesting ideas and concept! I like the environmental storytelling of a robot taking care of a baby in an ice-cold environment while getting shot at by... aliens?
There were just a few niggling things that kinda salted it for me. For instance, why is the button to pick up the child different from dropping the child? I also can't see the kid's health bar if he's off screen unless I zoom out, which often leads to me losing without warning.
I noticed you made this in LOVE2D which is cool! Always nice to see other LOVE developers out in the wild :)
Refined gameplay loop, polished feedback, interesting and varied upgrades. Wow. What a good-ass submission!
The art is extremely stylish and cohesive​. The color choice makes it feel like a real point-and-click adventure from the DOS era, but like... through nostalgia goggles of "what I remember it looking like" and not what it actually looked like.
It took me a bit to figure out that right clicking was different then left clicking. Once I did I got to appreciate the characters and writing a lot more.
I had a lot of the same problems I usually have with the Point and Click genre. I spent a lot of time hunting for the right thing to click on. To repair the torn message/photo, I saw posters that are TAPED to the wall and I'm thinking "Oh! I'll take the tape and use it on the posters" but instead I was supposed to click the box next to the posters. Which makes more realistic sense but I didn't realize the box was clickable right away so I got stuck.
I liked the picture/message re-assembly part as a way to vary up the gameplay. Although I found it kind of frustrating that if two pieces overlapped I'd almost definitely select the wrong one. It seems they lock in place if you put them in the "correct" spot. I wish it were more forgiving and gave some sort of feedback when you got it in the right spot. The message was especially hard to assemble. I got stuck at the message because I don't know how the game is expecting me to arrange it, I have some pieces in the right places so I try to align everything with those pieces and the game doesn't take it. It seems like there's an expected gap between two pieces I'm supposed to fulfill, but that feels impossible to predict. If you're able to patch this I highly recommend it.
This is the best writing I've seen in a Ludum Dare game, it's a shame I'm roadblocked by the gameplay. If it does get patched feel free to @ me in a comment and I promise to replay and re-rate it! I wanna see the ending!
Also: I somehow managed to get into a bugged state where text would appear and immediately vanish when I clicked on things. It might have to do with alt-tabbing out of the game? Alt-tabbing back and forth seemed to fix it.
Also-also: I think there's a typo "You wanna to skate gain?"
Elegant gameplay loop and extremely efficient tutorial. 30 seconds in I knew exactly what I was in for! "Generic Rock Song" simultaneously made me laugh and feel called out for my music tastes. Very well done!
A flawless execution of an incredible idea. I want more!
Short and sweet like an LD game should be. The art looks beautiful, and I loved petting all the cats. Great work!
I liked the intro sequence and the overall concept! I found the precise platforming a little tedious after a while, especially with how slippery the character is. However the sound design was on point! I especially the sound it makes when you hit a checkpoint.
Heya! Those links don't work, I think you need to make the game Public on both itch pages.
I like how you gain mechanics over time, that's super cool! The animation work is really solid too. I got stuck in walls twice which didn't feel great but half of gamedev is wrangling third party physics engines so I don't blame you for that. Great submission!
I love the concept! However I think the punishment for failure is a little to big. Maybe if there were several short levels instead of one?
There were at least 2 moments where I thought "oh I get it, I understand what this game was about" only to be proven wrong a few minutes later. Nicely done!
Not sure if this is on your end or the website, but when I first attempted to play everything was so pixelated that I couldn't make out words. Perhaps a bug? Anyways, great game! I wish the keys were mapped differently but I love the look and feel of the game, congrats!
I loved this, it got super hard when I had to pick five instruments. I guess my ear is not well trained!
I'd love to play because this sounds like a very interesting game, but the download links appear to be "invalid". Please update!
Fantastic aesthetic and I love the monochromatic green! I think it would be a lot better to have a visual map instead of a list of directions in order to get to places. Collisions are a little wonky and I finally got into the maze after a couple of tries. Perhaps adding a visualization of the game getting harder as you get coins would help because I'm unsure how much it correlated. Otherwise, fantastic job! I'd love to see this as a fully fleshed out mini game!
Well done! The interface of "branching" took some time to get used to, it did not occur to me that the order in which I looked at things mattered. But this was a really cool take on the theme!
I just pressed all of the buttons whenever they were off cooldown and pressed "yes" to every question. My gold kept climbing and the face stayed happy. Being a king is easy!
Really nice graphics, the "isometric" text was hard to read but also kind of cool so I'm not sure how to feel about it.
I liked the explanation of why the king stays in the room, clever take on the theme! Overall, pretty solid for a compo entry!
Neat idea and well executed.
Also break* not brake. ;)
"Played for a few rounds, it's ok"
Seriously though, solid idea and well executed. The beeping stressed me out but I guess that was the point. Also I like how hygiene slowly creeps up but is never addressed. ;)
Consider itch.io for downloads instead of dropbox. ;)
Thanks for reviewing my game, to return the favor I'll review yours!
I figured out the mechanics and what I supposed to do pretty quick without the game needing to explain it to me, so good job on that front.
It took me a while to figure out what the rotate buttons were for. Once I did I wished there were hotkeys for them.
Pretty good for a first timer on your own. ;)
Incredibly cool concept, I love your take on the theme.
Hiya, you reviewed my game (Puppertrator) so I'll review yours!
I loved it. Short, snappy, and hilarious. You have one joke and you tell it really well.
My only gripe is the warp effect made me dizzy.
I like the art style, everything visually fits really nicely together. I also like your concept of "lots of detail in one room and let the player walk around and explore it"
I came across a few typos: "I don't know how (you) can sit there with that thing starting (staring?) at you"
I'm happy to say this is the first LD Game (so far) that I have played through to completion! To help future players, the clue indicates an object that you have to click on to proceed.
You should really separate the 32 / 64 bit into two separate download links, that way your user only has to download the one they need.
Like many other people here I got stuck on the second puzzle. I tried to throw the first ball at the second to knock it down but there's an invisible wall there. Whelp. I'm out of ideas.
The ball impact noises feel really nice.
When I hold down the mouse button my view freezes but the mouse doesn't move, it seemed to jitter a little bit the first time but after that, nothing.
Regarding sounds not exporting. I know with Superpowers (another game engine) many .wav sounds don't play in specifically Firefox, but everything runs fine in Chrome. So I would check to see if it's a browser specific problem.
LD58 — Collector (8)
Taxbear of Haybrunn by spacecadet 2025-10-11T05:05:24Z ♥ 1
I hate when the Tax Bear comes to my house and steals all my corn!
Shape Collector by rhewid 2025-10-11T05:01:32Z ♥ 1
You've distilled the "Pick 1 of 3 Upgrades" game into the most distilled form.
Loot Goblin by Ydindamin 2025-10-11T04:56:49Z ♥ 2
I loved stealing gold while a slime and adventurer were locked in combat in the next room. I kinda wish I didn't have to click directly on an object to pick it up, I kept stumbling on that.
My Friends the Monster Trainers by celia14 2025-10-07T03:16:52Z ♥ 1
Well that was delightful! Such a fun interpretation of the theme.
Unwordy by ArmchairArmada 2025-10-07T02:14:19Z ♥ 1
This is so cool! I love the prisoner's dilemma-esque problem of coming up with words that most other people wouldn't think of. I think I got in pretty early though considering most of my words were brand new.
I tried to play a second round and all my submissions on phase 2 were stuck on "checking..." so I think I lost connection?
Frogs' Boon by Hugimugi7 2025-10-07T02:06:53Z ♥ 0
This reminded me a lot of Paquerette Down the Bunburrows. I love sokoban!
Trash Game by ursagames 2025-10-07T01:59:18Z ♥ 2
(brock voice) i can turn my trusty trash can.... into a cash can!
Idle Badger by lectvs 2025-10-06T19:19:50Z ♥ 1
Love the Trash Can, instant pick for me!