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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | 👥 | Tall Tales | jam | 291 | 3.92 | 3.75 | 3.38 | 3.18 | 3.62 | 4.01 | 4.27 | 3.86 |
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | 👥 | The Branch | jam | 123 | 3.91 | 3.68 | 3.51 | 3.66 | 3.94 | 4.05 | 4.32 | 3.86 |
This is fantastic. It really is crushingly difficult, but I love the art style. It was brilliant fun just exploring and knocking over the cash machines, and the seamless building entering was really slick and satisfying. One of my absolute favourites so far! :smile:
Good job, seemed very simple at first but as the speed picks up and especially once the second bar appears gets quite tricky. When one of them starts to fall outside the range recovering it without losing the other one is surprisngly hard. Like the addition of the stories too, and the music suits nicely. Great work! :smile:
Nice work! Some interesting ideas in here, I liked the use of the alley for stealth mechanics. I did find it tricky once I got to the daytime section, there were so many villagers about and it was difficult to consume one without alerting all the others. I enjoyed my time with this one, great job! :grin:
@refraction @cocapasteque yeah, you're quite right, it wasn't entirely clear who you were at any given moment. I think in retrospect there should have been some kind of onscreen name badge and objective to make that more obvious. Thanks for your kind words though, glad you enjoyed it! :grinning:
@afroant Thanks, that means a lot! I wrote the eye shader/controller and @rodobodolfo took care of all the lipsyncing for the mouth. I wish we'd had a bit more time for actual gameplay, or even to finish the throwing minigame properly, but that deadline is a harsh mistress! Thanks for your review! :smile:
Nice game! In my opinion the sword swing could do with being a little quicker and the reach a little longer, and the movement controls a little less immediate - trying to get into the right spot to hit the enemies is a little fiddly right now.
Just FYI, the web version has a couple of minor issues - Left Alt doesn't work (in Firefox at least), as it focuses on the menu bar.
Good job overall though! :grin:
As @sunnray says, you should zip up all the files from the build and upload that. Currently this can't be played.
Yep, that's all working. :smile: Good job, it's an interesting concept. I found it sometimes tricky to work out what kind of offer they would acccept, I would suggest maybe having more of a back and forth with each person - make an offer, it's rejected with a reason, then you get to make another offer. Still, I did enjoy reading the information about the person and trying to think of a reasonable offer for them - great job! :grinning:
Good job! I liked the use of years as the currency. As you say, it is a little confusing until you understand the rules, but that's true of all card games. If you carry it on some on screen prompts would be helpful for getting started. Certainly unique though and I enjoyed my time playing it! :smile:
Great job, I had fun with this one!
Great job, funny and premise, and love that you found time to add secrets! :grin:
This is great! Intersting twist, love the overall ambience, chesty is cute and the music fits pefectly.
I'm not sure the turn based nature of it fits that well, especially with having to re-press the key each time and the time limit, and there seemed to be a few bugs with the knights, but overall I really enjoyed this one!
Fun and interesting, great job! I'd love to see an expanded version of this with a few more job types and stats to balance.
This really does get challenging! Fun to play, and the visuals, while basic, are effective for gameplay. Great job!
This is really good fun! Easy to get into, controls are responsive, and the music is great, I replayed it a ton of times without even thinking about it, just because it felt right and sounded good.
If I had to criticise anything, I'd just say the random generation could perhaps do with slightly more consistency, as odd as that sounds - truth be told my best time was very much made possible by the benevolence of the gods of RNG! The graphics are fairly basic but actually really clear - both the tic tac and the obstancles stand out really clearly from the level, and each other - I'd much rather this than really fancy materials that blend together.
The leaderboard for a game like this was a really great addition as well, as I could immediately see just how awful I was at it 😂 jokes aside, I played on for a bit to try and get into the top half at least, which I think without it, I wouldn't have.
Overall though, this a really great compo entry, I had a lot of fun! :smile:
Web version wasn't working for me on FF - the dev console contains this:
> Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: SharedArrayBuffer is not defined
> Godot https://v6p9d9t4.ssl.hwcdn.net/html/3712623/index.js:9
> doInit https://v6p9d9t4.ssl.hwcdn.net/html/3712623/index.js:604
(Full list with warnings and so on)
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I had a bug I couldn't reproduce locally on mine, so I know how frustrating it is - hopefully that helps track it down!
Played the download version instead - wasn't what I was expecting! Very unique, I found it quite hard to get the hang of, but it felt really satisfying once I did. The lighting looks really good as well, and the music fits really well - great entry, really enjoyed this :smile:
This is fantastic, love the classic adventure game feel - great job!
Played this through until there was nothing more to buy then played it for another 20 minutes after that, really satisfying and fun. Definitely my favourite arcade style game by far - fantastic job! :smile:
Really enjoyed this, love the cute voxel style, it was nice and refreshing to play something like this. Great job with all the branching dialogue and events as well!
Ahh, weather loaches are awesome! This was really fun, I didn't figure out the controls immediately, I was trying to flop around using nothing but the boost at first, which wasn't really working as the AI tadpoles do such a good job of scurrying away. Once I got it was great fun zipping about though - nice graphics and sound, great job! :smile:
This is excellent, really fantastic atmosphere to it. Just to make you aware, super minor but the cursor is unlocked rather than constrained, which makes it a bit awkward getting at stuff at the edge of the screen on multi monitor setups. But loved this entry, great job! :smile:
Hey @dikopr0s, that's odd - you are locked in place for the 3 lines of dialogue that play, but it should free you up after that! I'll test the build and let you know.
EDIT: Seems to work for me - are you using keyboard/mouse or controller?
@endssgamesstudio @devparty I've donwloaded the itch version and controls work for me, seems like there is a problem affecting some people only :( could I ask if you're using mouse/keyboard or controller?
@devparty thank you - is there any chance you could send me your log file please? I can't reproduce locally.. The log file is located at *C:\Users(your username)\AppData\LocalLow\Baffled Crab\Tall Tales*
@divford Thank you! :) Yeah, that doesn't sound right, there shouldn't be any situations where you have to relaunch the game, you sohuld always be able to get to the end - I'll try a play through with bad responses on the current build now, thanks
Edit: The dialogue hanging up was indeed a bug! Fixed and patched on itch.
@dikopr0s @endssgamesstudio @devparty Hey guys, thanks for reporting those control issues earlier - still haven't quite got to the bottom of them, seems like it's having trouble loading xinput dlls for some reason, but just wanted to let you know, we've added a workaround now:
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If you enable this option in the menu it should let you try the game - just wanted to let you know!
@dikopr0s Ah no, I'm sorry about that, thanks for checking again. I've removed XInput entirely now, which *really* should solve this, as the controls are now just using the standard Unity system.
Hey @andrewkennedy - thanks for the play through and the review! Funny you mention that actually, I was saying on the Sunday how much time a skip dialogue button would have saved during testing, turns out everyone would have preferred that 😂 - will definitely add next time!
@dikopr0s Ahhh no, I really thought we'd got it this time 😣 thanks for your kind words, and multiple patient attempts at trying this, much appreciated - really frustrating we couldn't get it running for you - Deep Sleep looks really interesting, we'll all definitely be giving it a go at the weekend! 😀
@aquasheep3000 Ahh, we must have hidden him too well!! I've added a note to page now with a hint, basically go to the green, look for buildings which (possibly) look like barns, and you have to go down a dirt track to find him. Thanks for the play and review though, we'll be checking out Perchance to Dream after work tonight! :grin:
@manan ah, thanks, really pleased to hear you enjoyed that bit - getting that well scene working properly was a labour of love haha
@thatmanrobin Thanks for your play and review, much appreciated!
@karlipoppins Thank you very much! To be honest late on the 2nd day I think we were all wondering if we'd bit off more than we could chew, but it's amazing what an immovable deadline will do!
I'm a big fan of spamming glowsticks in Terraria, so looking forward to trying Glowstick Run tonight!
Hey @leekanarchism, thanks for the review! I actually wanted to add some random dialogue lines to the cricketers, commenting on the endless runs, but just ran out of time.
A location for the farmer was actually added in after the original village was made, and I think in retrospect taking the time to redesign the village would have saved some trouble. The map is a great point, and I just genuinely didn't think about it - I think because I knew my way around it just didn't spring to mind.
The music I think is true as well - that one I *did* notice, but assumed it was because I'd heard it over and over. I seperated the music slider into seperate "main theme" and "character theme" sliders, and turned it off - but then with it off, I forgot about it again! I think in future I'll try and do any open sections with environmental noise.
Anyway, thanks again for your review, glad to hear you enjoyed your time! :smile:
Hey @curtis-pelissier, really sorry to hear you've had trouble. :frowning2: When we first launched we had a fairly common issue with the controls not working, we thought we'd narrowed it down. I removed usage of XInput entirely, and it seemed to help, but sadly it does still seem to be causing problems in rare cases. Unfortunately I've not managed to find a PC where I can recreate the issue, and I'm somewhat at a loss. If I do have a breakthrough and update it / release a 1.1, I'll send you a message though! Thanks for the (attempted!) play!
@curtis-pelissier @dane-tesla I believe we have now fixed this!! It appears all of this was caused by the dictonary of dialogue lines, which was using current culture for the ID lookups - this was causing an exception when it went to retrieve the first line of dialogue, and although this was being handled, the catch was causing it to skip past the section which re-enabled the controls...
@mvasko2 :open_mouth:
Thank you *-so-* much for posting this log, this is actually the first time I've seen any debug information for this!! I'd already narrowed this down by user to a culture/locale issue, I can't believe I'd overlooked float.Parse in the lipsyncing... I've just checked in a new version which uses invariant culture to parse these values, I don't suppose I could trouble you for a quick retest at all?
(I'm definitely going to add an old PC set up on different culture settings for testing next time!!)
Thanks also for your review, really glad you enjoyed it, and all great points on the critique. The size of the town definitely got away from me in the end, there was a moment on the Saturday when I really realised it and I wish now I'd found the time to redesign things a little - duly noted for next time! :smile:
@mvasko2 Ahh, that's amazing, thank you :grinning: I'd nearly given up hope on tracking this down!!
I might actually be able to concentrate on a v1.1 now!
Thanks @kpded, really pleased to hear you enjoyed it - and glad you like the wheels! haha
After the model of the truck came out as such an artistic masterpiece I felt it only appropriate to make it truly photorealistic 😂
Hey @gildar76, thank you for the play and review! :smile:
I wasn't sure what to expect, and it still wasn't this! Really nice little game, lovely style, good job! :smile:
Love the art style on this, especially the little intro scene, got a really unique look to it. Music is really nice as well, fits perfectly. Controls could use tightening up, but honestly the 'chill arcade' style was a refreshing change of pace after playing so many Ludum games recently. Good job! :smile:
Wow, didn't expect to see a proper graphic adventure on here! The twist was really good, I thought it was the ending! Fantastic graphics and sound, and a really decent length as well. I'd give you some constructive criticism, but I honestly can't think of anything!
The ending was great, was just settling in to bamboo facts, really caught me unaware. Performance did cause a few problems for me as well, I would assume static batching or gpu instancing might do a good quick job of improving that. Loved the atmosphere though, great job!
I tried to play both sides at the same time and it felt like I was about to have a stroke 7/5
Great twist on the take, and really fun to play, controls very smooth and surprisingly challenging to keep going for a long time. The humour in the writing is nice as well, and the graphics and music suit really well - really solid entry, well done!