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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | 👥 | Floody Hell | jam | 177 | 3.96 | 3.90 | 3.30 | 3.76 | 4.16 | 3.94 | 4.22 | 3.90 |
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | 👥 | Oh no, I opened the door and there was a fish! | jam | 212 | 3.99 | 3.54 | 3.57 | 4.17 | 4.40 | 3.70 | 3.30 | 3.97 |
Amazing Atmosphere! Thank you :) Light and Sound super nice. The length was good given this Competition and so many games, but I would have liked to play more. Issues: Sound can stack and distort, on the gamepad I can press all four buttons at the same time, giving me more light.. It feels a bit like cheating. Only one should be allowed to be active at a time! :)
Nice little short experience, I thought I could walk down the level first by pressing and holding S. Not really sure it fits "deeper" when you have to go up. But it's a cool entry. BTW. if you like comments press the little heart button, it will give KARMA to the people. Thank you :) p.s. it's always good to name your ZIP file after your game, otherwise people won't find it on their harddrives.
Good sound and feedback all in all. Missing some thrust-effects. Tried to click on the start button with my mouse 6 Times at first =D
Thanks guys - nice moody experience! Enjoyed it! I'm not a native speaker though and sometimes I had trouble to follow. I think subtitles would ruin it? And it would be nice to walk a bit fast or change the timing a bit between the tapes.
I love it! Nice one! Interesting idea. I played a few times but wasn't sure if it will ever end. Nice presentation as well :)
Other improvements: * Tiles need to be highlighted as you hover over them, otherwise it is hard to understand that you can click them * Confirmation should be to click the same tile/location twice. The button creates too much cumbersome mouse movement. * There is no sound :( * No sense of progression - will it ever end? * Fire and Smoke are very expensive, it does not run very well on my PC (R380X, 1440p) but fortunately performance is not needed to play. * Try to reduce package size as there are not many assets and 140 Megs are quite a bit for that. Did you bundle the editor-assets?
Thanks, had a similar idea. Well executed controls! :)
Improvements:
* Sound is distorting and too loud. * Even though the controls and speed are nice, the level does not change (quickly enough?) did not give me much motivation to continue. * Give lives to the player, the immediate death is too punishing. * The transition to the start screen after death is very harsh (music starts playing immediately, no fading etc. )
I downloaded the fix version. Windows did not let me run it, instead it got banned and removed by windows defender.
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It says it contains viruses.
This is NICE!! Wow... well done. I love the music as well. Super special art style but I personally like it. Plays a million times better with gamepad!
IMO improvements: * Controls are a little bit too sensitive / too much air control, etc * It is VERY punishing that you always start from the beginning with nothing. Slightly too hard for me. * even though I love the "sucess" music tends to be a bit annoying. absolutely LOVE it's fail pendant when you fall down the level.
I liked this! Yeah really missed an ending and... sound! :( But I had fun, I like these kind of games. Controls could be more direkt sometimes I had the feeling I wasn't able to do a particular action despite it should have been possible in my mind.
Thank you! I had big issues in the beginning to orientate my ship, I think it was due to the usage of W and S for up and down.. maybe try different keys? I used echolocation in the beginning often and then failed for some reason that was not clear to me. The second try was better since I learned the controls but then echolocation did not seem to work anymore and the experience overall was mostly dark and then I failed again. The third try I had no issues with the controls but I think the starting camera angle/position and direction are not helping to learn the controls. I got pulled away in my third run all of a sudden, the missio failed (saw mission failed screen) and I did not understand why.
Thank you! :) Instead of shooting I just avoided any enemies in the third run or so. The blue flames I thought I needed to collect at first. The music was a big downer for me I find it very annoying but at least you have sound and music! :) The Movement is not too bad and I appreciate you created your own models! Cheers!
hahah... great entry! Sounds (+VO) , graphics are really nice! Cheers! Had some issues with the controls in the beginning. I'm so used to use WASD for movement.
OMG, loved columns on my GameGear! Mindblowing twist/theme execution!!!
Improvements: * Speed of falling down (DOWN ARROW) could be higher * Animation when moving left right I don't think is needed * press and hold left or right should move the blocks to left and right IMO. * rotation/fall down can be on other keys as well (space, etc)
I opened a door and all of a sudden there really was a gigantic fish - very nice!
@justcamh thank you so much for playing. Most of it you got!! :) You just should have put the resolution to something at 30% for a decent framerate. Next time we will put simpler options! I will playtest your game later :-)
Thank you @whysguy52 . I'm sure @mrtapa can help as he did the scan effect (I'm about to learn this as well as I am curious as you) :-)
@wuppos aww.. thank you so much for your feedback and taking the time. Really glad you enjoyed it!! This makes me very happy :)
@joedev Thank you for this playthrough and you are the first one submitting a result. Very happy I am right now! :D
Thanks for playing @maaxoom ! If you ever want to play it again there are options on the O key, just put the resolution to half and play on medium quality should fix it :)
@shumarie Thank you for playing and the positive feedback :D Yeah there was not enough time unfortunately to introduce the mechanics to the player properly. Maybe there are even too many of them. We figured this out a little bit too late which is a good learning for me (us).
@viperux oh wow.... you collected all the stars? A lot of fame you have now! That makes me really happy :)
Think I made it to the end with 1 health? I defeated a character that looked like me :D Cool that you put music and sounds, that is very important!
Improvements: * Try to put a direct zip download link, I had to fiddle around with Drive to download the zip file only. It started to compress it again etc. Maybe create an Itch.io account. * Lighting is very dark. * The shooting(?) color is very bright green and does not really fit, maube use an asset or premade effect. * could not tell how much life the final enemy had? * put an ending / restart screen :)
Thanks, I enjoyed it :)
Congratulations on your technical achievement!! Поздравляю! I am really impressed. I figured out how to move by double click relatively quickly but I feel that this may not be not obvious for many player.
Improvements: * I did not play a lot of Heroes of Might and Magic III, I think it would be good to teach the player the basics. * Playing against yourself is not really fun. * Nice 3D Models, however the game is quite a lot to download and it is missing the player core gameplay loop (no AI) * Good that you have sound!! The battle music however is quite harsh (especially the horns/trumpets)
Thanks :) It was SUPER clear what you need to do without any explanation. That's a very good thing!!
Improvements: * Air control felt a little too much for me * I had the feeling the chracter was moving further than I wanted, maybe something input related? * I died once but I still could move (that's only more polish) * put some soundeffects and music / BG sounds. They help a lot for mood and user feedback. * There is no sense of progression.. when will you reach the end?
:)
Thank you. Nice little experience. I really liked the atmosphere and the lighting! So cool you had to put on the suit first. Some things that can be improved: * Footstep sound has a reverb if you walk under water * Even though you signposted the way I got lost during my first 2 attemps, did not find/notice the submarine at first * No background music in the beginning. * I nuked the tunnel but then it was game over. Did I finish it or did I fail? * Water is very shallow in the beginning it does not appear like you could go there with the submarine!
Congratulations! :)
Love the atmosphere and music, it's a very relaxing experience. Toggling of camera mode with Q I find cumbersome, what value does it give to the player? I would just put it on LMB. Great Job guys! :)
Thank you! I like diablo style games. Nice Graphics! Found the controls quite unresponsive though cause you are locked in the animations and I wasn't really sure wheter or not my attack would land. Dungeon layout is very simple and did not motivate me to go further. I understand there is no way to heal you but I did not get the feeling I want to play longer after 4 tries, and 2 levels because it felt like work a bit.
Very nice technical achievement. Congratulations! I love the atmosphere! Good little gem.
Improvements: * Pacing of the game is painfully slow for me. * I was not able to cancel an attack. So you need to perform it and only then you can move to the tile. * Flask refill did not work. * Could not figure out where to purchase upgrades. * Some of the music is clipping and it plays a bit too random for my taste.
btw. not sure you can/should call your game like that :D
Nice Nice Nice! Great Sound, Atmosphere and Execution. Not too long!! And 1000 kudos for the highscore system, but -999 Kudos for not protecting it. It's already hacked :D Collision could be more forgiving sometimes but I made it after all! Played through it a second time with the controller!
Thank you! :) We had the idea of fractals first as well. I tried DSF a couple of times, but the game locks itself quite often if you press E. I was not able to get into the FLOW of this type of games because I wasn't able to get enough resources and the controls are a little too unresponsive for me. And there seems to be no sound as well.
Nice!! this is actually what I had in mind kinda. thank you for execution. joking. cool little game!! :) definitely mistook the ghosts as enemies to be honest. ah and it would be nice to have a 2x / 4x resolution version so that pixels are not blurry.. forget that .. you scale the tiles :)
1 million kudos for the multiplayer approach!!! :D
Improvements: * I did not meet other players. * The game felt really laggy und unrespsonive (maybe because of missing client side simulation). * Level felt empty.. I was exploring for minutes without seeing anything. * No hit animation / feedback * I was able to open all the chests without a key. * I noticed I had 500+ coins but then after a while it went down to 254 for an unknown reason? Maybe the server sent back the real amount because I was not able to open the chests actually? * I was not able to extract the executable using 7-zip on windows :( EDIT: updated 7-zip and then it worked.
Nice One! Thank you. Missing some sound or general hit feedback but I absolutely **love** the change of perspective. Sword does not look right to be attached correctly Capture.PNG
Haha! The Drums! Nice little gem. Actually had a similar idea with the falling from this perspective :)
Thanks for the game. I had a similar idea initially so thanks for execution :D ..... ESTER EGG :D .....
Improvements: * Teach the player that he can only steer with the MOUSE once he dived. I did not understand this at first. WASD won't work anymore, maybe make the mouse optional? * A hot restart is absolutely essential for these kind of games. When I press restart the game closes. * I first tried to jump on the rocks, you may need some visual hint.. like an arrow.
I love this!! Excellent Mechanics. Reminds me a little of "Into The Breach". The only thing I can criticize is that he music does not go well together with the retro music, it felt like it came from a different browser tab or so. Apart from this very well done. Some ending and permanent progression would be nice! :)
Nice! Really cool. Thanks guys, I was able to do it in less than 10 minutes as you promised. Congrats on this little entry. I enjoyed it. **CL4P-TP** !! I loved that I had to figure it out myself.
Improvements: * Camera is a bit too close/near to the character for my taste. * Controls are very sensitive but you get used to. Ideally make it an option. * I received "!" warnings but I had no idea why and what they mean. At one point I died, but I did not understand why.
Hallo Maxi :)
I habe es gerade versucht und es ist auch nicht unspielbar allerdings habe ich ein paar Anmerkungen: * sollte der Spieler sterben ist es immer gut kommunizieren warum er gerade gestorben ist. Nach ein paar Mal habe ich herausgefunden, dass man wohl nur eine Etage springen kann? * Die Maus-Empfindlichkeit ist bei mir extrem niedrig und ich musste die Maus sehr viel bewegen um etwas sehen zu koennen. * Spielerstart/Kamera-Perspektive koennte angepasst werden um den Weg aufzuzeigen. * FieldOfView vielleicht erhoehen? * Gut, dass du Musik drin hast, ich denke aber sie passt vielleicht nicht ganz so gut zu deinem Spiel oder dem Thema.
Danke fuer dein kleines Spiel, gib' nicht auf :)
Viele Gruesse Stefan
awww.. I love it! Loved the mix of Sprites and 3D. Damn it I only got 2 items left when I stopped it.
Improvements: * The Dash does not feel very meaningful to me. I would probably either increase movementspeed, or have a constant "sprint". It adds up to the bit of frustration I felt in the end because I was not able to find the missing objects. * Music is nice but a bit too repetetive. * Some sprites are "flickering" but this is minor. * Maybe add a little 3D arrow that would hint in the direction or have a map of unexplored areas??
Overall a super polished nice little experience. Congrats!
Thank you :) Nice little straight forward experience, I enjoyed the shooting!
Could be improved:
* change zipname to your game-name, otherwise you are not able to find it on your harddrive * many collision volume issues, I thought I was able to reach some areas while the collision volumes did not let me, like the area where you collect upgrades * Missing out of ammo sound, click ...click * Framerate problems on my PC (Radeon 380X, 1440p), please add options * Collection/Pickup feedback sound missing * BLOCKER in Rd. 2, could not find ammunition to defeat the last remaining enemy. * Thumbs up for BGM, but the music get's annoying quite quickly.
Cheers! That is a very special experience :D I liked how I need to figure out what to do. I collected a few keys and ddos'ed some enemies.
This is very unique and "deep". Dankeschön! Found one Trauma. This is a nice educational experience :)
Danke! Thanks!! This game is way better than it appears to be from the page. Advertise it better. WindowsBuild is not a good folder/zip name. Sound and pace are excellent! Gruesse aus London nach Deutschland :))
Absolutely LOVE the pacing!! I stopped at floor 4 or so where you have to make the jump over the wooden platforms. will probably get back to it.
hilarious sound effects :D music not too loud, nice one!
improvements: * Sword sound has too much bass for my taste. * Picking up items/hearts first and then eating them separately is a nice idea but it is quite hard. Items like this usually are picked up and grant health automatically as you walk over them.
Thank you so much!! nice one. A few too many dark obstacles, but apart from that VERY nice!
Imrovements: * Sound loops, you can hear the restarting * UI elements sometimes obstruct the sight
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Nice Atmosphere and especially music!! I was not able to get passed the first door as my browser messes around with the cursor, not sure it is possible to catch the mouse completely? took me a while to locate the very first key as, walked up the stairs next to the dungeon and was getting messages in a foreign language. Thanks for the game :)
Thank You. Nice intuitive controls, even though the orientation of the character leads to some confusion in the beginning for me. We had the same problem :D After I opened the nail and died because I took the wrong route I could not open the nail again (blocker). Objective Progress was not kept. Oxygen refill needs to be faster IMO.
Thanks, that is quite cool sound and idea! I love rythm games like guitar hero, dance dance, etc. So here is one thing that I found a bit frustating honestly. I needed to read all the instructions to match the symbols to concepts Rock/Hand/Scissors and eventually to colors. It would be super nice if the symbols on the left side of the screen would be color coded as well. I know that this is maybe a bit too simple but essentially this (matching colours to directions) is what you will probably be end up doing in your head anyways. This stopped me from playing a bit longer.
Thanks! The first run I had to do 4 and then died from the last enemy and I was not really sure why. Then I restarted but had to kill 10 now, was killed again and did not understand why. Movement is too slow for me even with shift. Too much space without enemies. Nice music and atmosphere! :)
Thank you guys! The mood and graphics are really good in my opinion, so well done on that one really!! :) I wish I did something like this at the age of 17!
Improvements: * Swordsound plays to late and is too click-y. Could rather be a hit feedback sound. * Died two times for unknown reasons (is the thing in the middle my health? Was I hit?) * Missing variation as you go deeper, more layouts, enemies etc.
Thank you, nice graphics! The game is quite hard though :D When I restarted the sound was gone and when I quit using Alt F4 the game crashed. After that I haven't been able to restart the game. Maybe there is a zombie somewhere. Don't know if that is any helpful. Cheers Guys! :)
Thank you for your entry! I made it in roughly 1 minute - I love short experiences, it could have been a bit longer though :D
Other improvements: * Jumping Sounds missing * Music loops and gets a bit annoying * Character is too far on the right of the screen and the speed is relatively high, so for me it was not enough "Time, to plan ahead"
Thanks again :)
haha... I'm glad I made it to the end :) Nice entry with educational bits! Had some framerate issues on my PC (R380X, I5 6500), glad you put the options menu in the beginning but even on lowest settings it wasn't a fluent experience!
Improvements: * Music volume is very low * Missing footstep sounds * Forest could become evern darker in the end IMO * Combine bamboo trees to reduce drawcalls(?) * Reduce bamboo amount by putting a texture after a certain depth to increase performance.
Thanks!
Thank you! The HTML version had issues so I needed to download, later figured out that you can not play with keyboard. WindowsDownload link let's you download linux version first. Why not one link and then you have to choose? You get multiple warnings for the exe version when downloading on windows. Stopped at level 4 or so, I was not able to align everything, trief multiple times. I like sokoban games :)
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Nice! Reminds me of Icy Tower. The double jump mentioned by @whynot is a game changer. Please add it to the description! Thank you for the game :) The white blocks in my picture stop moving after a while, looks like a bug.
Wow! You guys put some effort! :) Thank you. Nice Souls-Like experience. Great Visuals!! Nice Block mechanic. Animations :)
Could be improved:
* Walking sounds missing * Debug Text visible.. Lighting Needs to be reuilt - PACKAGE IN SHIPPING CONFIGURATION :D * Fell through the world in lover leves, no way to reset my character. Maybe Put on "K" for kill. * Enemy hit feedback missing for Skeleton. * Fog colour changes for the whole game when you reach lower leves * Sound cuts as you decent .. breaking immersion. * Lighting could be improved.. a bit too dark/brown for my taste. * Framerate issues on my PC (Radeon 380X, 1440p), please add options. * .... try to reduce package size :D
Oh.. congrats on your achievement. It suprised me, I expected less! :D I was not able to complete it, the last(?) room was too hard for me. Not sure hurting the dog should be a necessary thing to do xD (poor dog).
Cheers guys!
(sorry I was not able to do a video review - I overdid it here, needed to take a break)
Well this looks familiar!! :D :-) Kudos for the mini map, I would have liked it for our game as well.
Improvements:
* reduce package size, 800 Megs is a lot.. look at tutorials how to reduce size or look at the cook list. * Got stuck in collision quite often, maybe the model was too big for the tunnels? Tunnels too small? * Not sure you need an actual character model in the game but I appreciate it!
Thanks :) And all by yourself - nice!
Good Audio, however there was a lack of feedback when you are hit by an enemy and take damage. You have to run it in fullscreen btw, otherwise some elements will be cut from the viewport.
Thank you for your entry :)
Nice!! Had a lot of fun. Reminded me of H.E.R.O. please add a TIMER for speedrun -.-" :D
some music would be nice, but good sounds all in all!
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@wuppos oh... why do you think it is against the rules? Maybe we made a mistake as well?
@wuppos gotcha! afterwards.. yes that is true, I thought a timer for speed run was against the rules. need more sleep apparently:D
Easy to understand, nice and fun! :)
Nice Short Experience. WASD + F felt a bit strange at first but worked. Nice Tutorial bits. Good Lighting. Thanks :-)
could be improved:
* No BGM Music * Sound Effects are a bit harsh/sharp * No Health State? * Sword-State get's reset as you move to the next room * Buttonstate/Switch was not working all the time when I moved the box.
Nice! I like classic style shmups! This is the first one where I had to manage shooting energy as a resource... :D Liked that. Made it like 2675km into the level. Was missing some (S) Powerups later on. Is it pure random or do you control how many/when (S) and (W) Powerups are spawning? S for Ship? Quite nice little entry, liked that you put sound in and That you can play completely with the mouse. The ghost ship/preview is really nice!!
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Nice! Was not really able to get any upgrades because of the time pressure, but the game itself is nicely executed. You can get stuck in the objects though sometimes. . happened to me when I wanted to buy an upgrade.
Nice! I love a good pinball game! Did you play psycho pinball? What I liked: * Sound effects! * Nice sprite graphics! * Table Layout!
What could be improved: * Not all things have soundeffects (cargo on / off) * It feels kina punishing that switches reset if you hit the wrong switch * could use some backgound music!
Thank you for this :)
Really nice entry! I think I played for around half an hour! Love the parallel projection! It would be super good though to be able to rotate the tower to see the modules. Also it was not really clear to me when the lasers are active and when not. Also it would be good to have some more variety, after a while I was waiting for something to happen. But I reached a nice flow state and really liked the visuals and the sound!
@angiemon haha ... thanks for this enthusiastic review!! I love it! You can actually charge the bow by holding the mouse button so it will shoot further. haha that video, LOL! The voices are from a text to speech site and unfortunately not our own voices. Thanks also for the suggestions regarding a post JAM release :)
Haha... I was able to delay my death for 3 days :) Love a good pinball game! Very nice moody graphics and music. Could use some sound effects from the ball and the machine. Also player interaction is quite limited but I think that is part of the pachinko idea. I felt a bit overwhelmed by the story Q&A parts, I found it was too much text unfortunately.
Overall I enjoyed your little game!
Thanks for the entry.
Did not hear any sound effects, downloaded the V2 game.
"Quality better than reality" :D nice work on the intro. I played / tried a couple of times and I generally enjoyed the athmosphere.
What I liked: * Nice environment * Voice over :) * Overall quality of the assets * music
What could be improved: * When I exit a room my character orientation get's reset so I don't know which room is the next room resulted for me in often going back and forth.. being lost! * The colour coding was not really clear to me. Sometimes GREEN things draw power. * I think an energy bar is missing? * Goal of the game is not really clear, would be nice to have a little introsequence or voice over what your objective is.
All in all a nice little entry. Thank you :)
I tried a couple of times. Really engaging!! I feel like I want to give it another go, sometimes it was not 100% clear to me when I can build a harbour etc, as the amount of people would make the system go crazy. Nice one! Thank you :)
I did 97 Zombros. haha... nice one, I like the "Story" :-)
That is a nice surprise experience and it fits the theme so well. Well done! Great sound, mood and visuals!
Nice! Really liked the artstyle and the music :) Could use some more hit-feedback when the fight begins, often I was not sure when / how I can damage the opponent. In the first part I was able to just navigate between two knifes, the pattern could be more varying. Overall I enjoyed that rhythmic game. It could use a quit button in the end also, I was not sure what to do here or if there is anything coming still. Also very minor in the start screen when you hover over the "buttons" they should be highlighted but instead they get darker, just invert the effect I would say :) Also please give the zip file a better name so that it's easy to know what it is on the harddrive once downloaded.
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Ah! I really like a pinball game. Nice Idea! Moody sound effects :)
The ballphysics felt a bit odd sometimes, like the ball would slow down for no reason and sometimes the cogs make the ball go crazy. Also the right side of the table feels a bit empty.
Overall I really enjoyed your little game. Thank you :)
Thanks for the entry! I tried a couple of times, maybe 10x, sometimes other levels were displayed, maybe a bug? I liked the music and the soundeffects and the overall look. I often got stuck at walls as my character would not jump anymore. Also I had no feel of progression really or how much health I had left. But nice particle effects on damage! I hope you do something with the base/engine you created. btw. the game could start immediately after pressing the button. The fade to black feels too long for me.
Nice! At first I had a smiliar idea with downhill cycling or driving.
What I liked about "Brakeless": * Nice city environment! * Motivating search for the keys * Nice city parallax background * HTML5 Version
What could be improved: * HTML5 version did not run performant, needed to download the game * Lots of collision issues, even the smallest obstacle would stop the cart. * Invisible collision * After I finally had the 3 keys I only say a black sphere at the end and failed. No win condition? * Restart does not work as the world does not reset properly (Keys would not unlock the gate)
Thank you for your entry! :)
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Sweet, nice, simple and short experience. Good to have sound effects, music and all items / objects with their own unique art!
Also congrats on managing to finish the Jam while you started so late!
Thank you for your entry :)