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YearLDThemeGameDivisionRankOvFuInThGrAuHuMoCo
20132710 SecondsConquer the Worldcompo6882.942.683.153.151.971.941.482.2966
201326MinimalismTOWER DEFENSE REWINDcompo9482.802.463.453.632.122.182.252.1973

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Comments by optimality

LD26 — Minimalism

Haunted Dojo by ramoncb 2013-05-11T03:27:00

Game did not work for me - crashed when I hit "enter" on Windows.

Minimalist TD by Gama11 2013-04-29T15:57:00

Quite enjoyable. I especially like the graphics and the audio.

Seems a bit easy though; not really any interesting decisions.

Dragon Drop by Tom 7 2013-04-29T17:23:00

Very nice :).

Nega-girl by enzo 2013-04-30T15:58:00

I got pushed through the door by a collision with the boss: http://imgur.com/VEIdNjB

Could really use some audio, and I couldn't figure out what the weak point indicator was indicating.

Nega-girl by enzo 2013-04-30T15:58:00

Great animations and flavor, though - I did really enjoy it, despite the bug!

TOWER DEFENSE REWIND by optimality 2013-04-29T18:01:00

Thanks for the feedback guys :). I was trying to keep the UI small to fit better with the theme and relying on the player to experiment to understand the gameplay. That's also why I didn't add more tower types - minimalism.

TOWER DEFENSE REWIND by optimality 2013-04-30T02:17:00

@r3d5 can you give me a few more details? You beat a level (like "Straight Shot"), selected another level (like "Zigzag"), and no towers appeared? Or are you saying you beat a wave and no new towers appeared before the next wave? If you mean the latter, that's the point of the game. Try destroying fewer towers in the early waves - you'll need them later.

TOWER DEFENSE REWIND by optimality 2013-05-01T02:04:00

@Jubjub You might be the only person on the planet that likes the music :). One of the most frequent pieces of feedback I've received is a request for a mute button.

@pansapiens Yeah, the scoring is a bit unusual - there's a risk reward tradeoff where removing lots of stuff early and taking a lot of damage early makes it easier to get good ratings but harder to survive later waves (even though later waves are smaller).

Thanks for playing!

PEW PEW Orbit Defender by OniiRam 2013-04-29T14:56:00

Not bad. Some suggestions:
1) It wasn't immediately obvious that the enemies were taking damage when shot.
2) No progress indicator telling me how much farther I had to go to finish it.
3) No actual difference between yellow and green enemies.
4) Took too long for new enemy types to show up.
5) Having to spam spacebar was annoying - an autofire option would have been nice.

I liked the audio work quite a bit, and you did a good job of sticking to the theme.

Too Much Loot! by CheesyRamen 2013-04-29T15:18:00

Very nice entry. Great job keeping with the theme. You put in a lot of interesting choices.

GHOSTS - Minimalistic horror game. by bummzack 2013-04-29T16:00:00

Fantastic audio work.

O.R.M. Ontological Ressource Management by Logun 2013-04-29T15:05:00

I really enjoyed this game. Some awkwardness with the controls - clicking too much tended to highlight.

O.R.M. Ontological Ressource Management by Logun 2013-04-29T16:17:00

This is the only game so far I've come back to to play again for fun.

LD27 — 10 Seconds

The First Odyssey by davisan 2013-08-26T21:27:00

Nice music, but do the enemies do anything?

Seconds of Light by kristof 2013-08-26T16:17:00

Nice game, I like the lighting effects. Having to start over from the beginning is a bit punishing.

Disarm-A-Bomb Simulator 2013 by chuck_mcnugget 2013-08-26T16:36:00

I can't seem to figure out what to do.

BombUniverse by Lidfrid 2013-08-26T16:57:00

Too frustrating with no feedback on what I did right or wrong.

Macgoober by Richard Rice 2013-08-26T16:39:00

I can't figure out what to do. On the first level I win if I fill up the green bar, but on the second one filling up the green bar loses?

Hall of Flame by ModestArcade 2013-08-26T16:05:00

I wish there were more levels :).

Boxer's Seconds by madk 2013-08-26T16:12:00

Nice logic puzzle implementation, would be nice if I didn't have to keep side notes to solve it.

Clocked In by rylgh 2013-08-27T20:17:00

Good use of the theme, some of the levels felt unfairly punishing.

Pull the Wire by JokerDen 2013-08-26T16:44:00

Very nicely polished. I love the TV cameras and audio.

Demon Soldier: menace from the outer space by comrad_gremlin 2013-08-26T17:20:00

Love the voice acting.

One Direction by KingRageXIII 2013-08-26T21:30:00

You might consider hosting on a website that doesn't require me to accept a EULA.

Conquer the World by optimality 2013-08-26T14:52:00

Thanks! A bigger map would be a good feature to add.

Conquer the World by optimality 2013-08-26T16:25:00

@nilo, do you have the prerequisites (.net 4.0 and xna) installed?

Conquer the World by optimality 2013-08-26T18:35:00

@comrad_gremlin: Thanks for the tip!

Conquer the World by optimality 2013-08-30T20:54:00

Thanks for all the great feedback guys :).

10 Seconds of Joy by CosmicAdventureSquad 2013-08-30T20:52:00

Very solid game.

Cyborg Rush by Markus Brand 2013-08-26T16:21:00

I had a really hard time getting the chests, because they would spawn under the huge mass of zombies and despawn before I could circle around them.

Navigator by osthekake 2013-08-26T16:25:00

I like the line that shows when you'll hit each point. It would be nice if it could predict hitting a speed boost and calculate appropriately :).

Canvas10 by Naked_Samurai 2013-08-26T17:13:00

I love this game.

One Way by flavio 2013-08-27T21:40:00

Love the raytracing and the audio work. Nice puzzle aspect to getting the lights (not sure why they're called fireflies though, if you're underwater?)

Chrono Defense by Cardanis 2013-08-26T16:02:00

Nice! Very challenging. Love the soundtrack.

Labyten by rejome 2013-08-27T20:29:00

Nice music. Having to jump back and forth across square boundaries to rack up cash is a little tedious; would be nice to tone down that aspect of the game.

Twitchy Thrones by rpmoura 2013-08-26T21:48:00

Fun, and love the "Lefteros" pun :).

Reactor Maintenance Simulator. by Tetha 2013-08-26T17:16:00

This was a lot of fun! I wish there were more levels, and a few sound effects.

Defused! by bugninja 2013-08-26T16:53:00

I liked it, but the algorithm for solving the puzzle is too easy and the fact that you can just randomly lose through no fault of your own is frustrating.