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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | Summoners Summoning Summons | compo | 2.38 | 2.50 | 2.38 | 3.75 | 2.50 | 1.00 | 1.33 | 2.33 | |||
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | Conversational Pitfalls | compo | 848 | 2.67 | 2.24 | 2.62 | 3.41 | 2.33 | 3.19 | 3.45 | 2.58 | ||
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | Winter Survival | compo | 471 | 2.73 | 2.54 | 2.40 | 3.54 | 2.00 | 2.73 | 2.00 | 2.80 | ||
| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | Z-Trail | compo | 143 | 3.65 | 3.61 | 3.19 | 3.11 | 2.88 | 3.21 | 3.04 | 3.29 | ||
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | Pancakes! | compo | 528 | 3.00 | 2.96 | 2.99 | 3.66 | 3.10 | 2.61 | 3.35 | 2.69 | ||
| 2017 | 39 | Running out of Power | Alien Swarm | compo | 473 | 3.06 | 3.08 | 2.69 | 3.29 | 2.49 | 2.63 | 3.09 | 2.55 | ||
| 2017 | 38 | A Small World | RC kitchen Throwdown | compo | 468 | 2.78 | 2.57 | 2.96 | 3.28 | 2.47 | 2.72 | 3.07 | 2.80 |
oxrock leaves an average of 32.0 feedback comments each event.
Really well done for a jam game. Everything looked and sounded good, I didn't run into bugs or feel like anything was clunky at all. And the descriptions did a lot to inject humor into the experience, I really liked it.
This. Game. Looks. Amazing.
This game took me a minute to figure out, but once I did I started really enjoying it! I've never been a puzzle person but this is strangely engaging.
This game is really cool, I like the idea of upgrading the game itself! Although to be fair, even a completely bare bones game is still something! :) Great job on this one!
I have always enjoyed simple physics games like this. Nice entry :)
Theme seemed a bit backwards, being you start with a full score. ;p Played (and lost horribly) after seeing your game on elysia's stream. Good job.
The biggest deal is that you submitted a working game for your first game jam, so congratulations! Your first game as well is pretty impressive. It's simplistic but it's functional which is all that can be expected for a new dev in compo submission. I thought it was pretty cool overall.
oh, i won apparently, hooray! I really loved your enemy models, they were so unique! I had a really hard time hitting those rolling bird things though. Congrats on getting a game done in time, good job :)
I recorded some gameplay footage for a video I'll be posting on youtube tomorrow, I'll update this comment with a link when it goes live.
Video is live! https://youtu.be/FkF6iaETRWE
I thought this game was pretty amazing honestly, especially for a compo game, holy cow! Great job. I recorded some gameplay footage for a video I'll be publishing on youtube soon. I'll update this comment with a link when it goes live.
Video is live! https://youtu.be/FkF6iaETRWE world collector footage starts 2:25
I thought this was a very cool game. It took me a moment to figure out what I was doing, but then it was pretty easy. My biggest complaint would have to be the camera, it was very disorienting somehow. I very much loved having my very own treasure fetching pooches though! Congratulations on getting the game done in time and good job. :)
I recorded the gameplay for a video which I'll be publishing in the morning. I'll update this comment with a link when it goes live.
Edit: Video is live! https://youtu.be/x8bA_1_fLEk
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I SOOOOOO loved that you could name your plushies! Sound would be nice of course but I adored the art style. Ended up playing much longer than I thought I would, good job! :)
Believe me when I tell you this, you won't like the volcano gods when they're angry! Holy cow, they really start spewing! Oh, it looks like this the first LD for all of you. Congratulations on mashing together something that works on your first outting! :)
I click run game but it never seems to load in my browser :(
Edit: left window open, watch some videos, came back and it was finally loaded. No idea why it took so long. Anyhow...You hit the theme on the head.It can be more fun when people get more inventive with it but I shan't complain. Being that this is your first LD, I think going with a simple game like a clicker is actually a really good idea. I noticed that for some reason, the prices of upgrades were pretty slow to upgrade, I'm assuming that's a bug. Just wanted to say, great job getting a game completed on your first LD, that's a great experience to have under your belt! Hopefully you'll join us again in this zany tradition.
My game was mega awesome, just like IRL, good simulation! :)
I think the art looks great, I was getting pretty antsy at times waiting to be able to interact at times though. I don't normally play these type of titles so I don't know how normal it is in that regard. I think music/sound will add a lot and I wish you the best in future development.
I got stuck in the same place that Doug pointed out. I like the art style. Little confused about the gameplay. I finished a couple levels and then it just abruptly ended without my dying or anything.
Anyone else's character keep acting like your button was stuck down? I'd randomly be stuck jumping or going to the side for some reason despite my keys not getting stuck. Anyhow, I liked this game a lot actually. It was good how the bosses were so unique.
My biggest issue was the fact that people wouldn't be draggable for some reason. Apparently that's a bug in full screen mode though, so at least I'm not alone there. For a super fast clicking game, it helps to have that mechanic as smooth as possible.
I like the premise and game overall though, it's a nice jam game.
I've never actually played a legit old school rogue-like, so it was interesting to play your omage to one. I felt like enemies reproduced endlessly. After a while there seemed to just be a ridiculous amount of them. Tiny bug I found, if the player and an enemy move to the same square at the same time, you apparently take no damage.
I also like the idea of introducing your own unique experiences form your childhood into your game. Not everyone will feel the same nostalgia about being unable to understand the text in games as you might, but I can certainly appreciate it.
I'll parrot what others said, I liked the metal door transitions and especially that sound effect. I'm gonna bang cooking pots for my next Ludum Dare, this I swear! :)
Man, those lions are ROUGH. I like smiting animals with tornadoes, more games need this feature! :)
My only complaint is that the sky has a ceiling. It robbed me of all my precious momentum.
Game looks great, would be murdered in cold blood again.
"My pants are on fire" the game! Luckily the character is not really wearing much in terms of pants, so he's not losing much. I think it's cute, it's functional, and it fits the theme, no complaints.
My understanding is that you're allowed to bug fix after the time limit has passed. You're just not supposed to implement new things.
Does the look feature ever reveal anything? I tried it time and time again but always seemed to get the same 3 responses. It reminds me a lot of dungeon exploration games I played as a child, and I'm probably just as bad at them now as I was then. Man, it took me FOREVER to find the first ladder! Anyhow, congrats on yet another game done to keep your streak alive.
First LD with new language has got to be rough. I'll bet you learned a ton though! The important thing is that you actually made a playable game in 48 hours. A lot of people never do that. Congratulations on crossing the finish line!
It's so easy to think too big, especially on your first entry. With your tutorial, things were easy enough to understand at least. Congrats on completing your first entry! I think what you did is interesting and I love the splatty sacrifice sound :)
I like the aesthetic of this game, I think it's a very solid first entry. My biggest complaint is just how dark things are. I felt like I couldn't see what I was doing most of the time but I assume that was the point.
I like the concept, auto picking up the scrap would have been nice though.
Simple to understand gameplay is a plus for me. I knew what I was supposed to do and knew what I did wrong when I died. Unfortunately that's not always the case with jam games.
I love the idea of sacrificing abilities as you progress. It's a more fun take on the theme than most of what I've experienced so far. I love how it totally changed how things felt and played afterwards. Good job. I'd suggest creating builds more easily accessible to the mainstream audience for jams at least, but I imagine you knew that might be a barrier. Any luck converting it to an exe with py2exe or something?
Works fine for me on chrome, if you see the black box you need to enable hardware acceleration.
As for the game itself, I thought it was great. I totally and utterly suck at it, but don't blame the game for my lack of skill with these things. I thought it was a great take on the theme, it's fun and it looks great.
Took me a play though to figure out what I was doing, but did better on second attempt at least. Condensing the information to a single screen would be nice.
Very much enjoyed this, went from wondering where the heck the enemies are to trying fruitlessly to gain enough space to not be completely surrounded. Much fun, would sacrifice again.
I have nobody to play the game with. /forever alone
I like the artwork, it's a good submission for a first entry. My only complaint really is the camera transitions. Lerping the positions would easily solve that problem.
I liked it, sometimes simple ideas are the most fun :)
I like the visuals of the whole games sans the playable character. I also loved the sounds, they reminded me of some of my earlier games. I think it's a great entry considering the restrictions for a compo entry. Good job.
I think I would have liked if simply spamming the fireball button was punished somehow. For example, if your attacks could kill the people you were saving at the end of the level.
The game looks and sounds nice considering it's a compo entry. I like the idea and it hits the theme well, but the floaty jumping makes movement feel dissatisfying to me. With platformers, move feel is paramount.
I'm not trying to dismiss your effort though, I think it's a good entry overall and and I'm sure others will as well. Just trying to help you elevate it. ✌️
Very easy to understand game play and the sound effects add a lot to the experience.
I told the king "No" right of the bat when he asked me if I'd save him. I did this mostly because I assumed I'd lose horribly. Unfortunately that seemed to freeze the game. I played the WebGL version.
Then I continued and the only option I had was to send people to their deaths over and over again. Those poor poor peons.
This game is adorable
First time I loaded the game, the screen went all white and nothing ever happened(windows 10 OS btw). Second and third times it was all black but I could hear sounds. The third time I hit alt+Enter and I could see the game window but it was so small that I couldn't actually interact with things very well. Everything was really hard to see/read. I've never actually played dating sim type games before so I wasn't entirely sure what I should be doing in general. I clicked the phone and chatted with one girl but then it seems like I couldn't do anything else there. I feel like if the game played in fullscreen correctly and I had any experience in this type of game that it'd be a better gameplay experience. I will say that I liked the music choice, it seemed to mesh well with the environment I was seeing. The art (from what I could see) looked nice as well.
My biggest complaint is that there was no indication that you were shooting your gun. Some audio would have helped as well. I like the idea for the game and I liked that the asteroids actually were incorporated into the meteor the character is standing on.
Switching to fullscreen just causes the game to be stuck in a black screen for me (on windows 10). It's a simple cute game with nice audio that fits the theme pretty well. Pretty good for the amount of time allotted.
Nice game. The music felt like it fit the genre really well and I always have to give kudos to people who implement something more complex like random map generation into jam games.
Took a minute or two to understand what was going on, once I did things got more fun though. The lack of time really shows with the absence of audio though, I suggest just throwing a few bfxr sound effects into your future jam games. They're super quick to make and are so much better than nothing at all. Anyhow, nice entry overall, good job.
More boxes more problems! Simple to understand but very hard once things get faster. Nice game!.
I swear dolphins and turtles just want to be netted!
The movement feels funky and it's really hard. I like the idea though and it looks nice. It's a nice job overall. Just wish I would see more of it.
Hard game is hard. Fits the theme well I think and it's an interesting interpretation of it.
Surprisingly a lot of fun and quite wild and whacky gameplay. My only complaint is the repetitive background music.
The camera movements really helped add to the heroic feel of things. It has Saitama and it looks nice, so kudos.
@brookzerker thanks for that hint, had no idea what I was doing wrong until I read that. If anyone's played my game, you could guess that I enjoy physics games. So of course I approve!
The only thing I don't like about this game is how bad i am at it! Good job
I think the art looks nice, and it fits the theme with upgrades making the enemies spawn faster. TBH, I don't think it was enough of a detriment to make it actually feel worse though. My main gripe is that I felt it wasn't challenging enough, but it's minor considering the circumstances. Good job overall.
Simple to understand gameplay that's still fun (especially the crashes). The more cars, the harder it becomes, seems to fit the theme well. Overall good job!
The exe file isn't supposed to be in the data file. Anyone who downloads this will need to take it out and put it in the same directory as the data file. As for the items, are they beneficial in any way? I didn't see any incentive not to just avoid them as long as possible.
Made $5.7m, am I a legit action star now? Nice little game, reminded me a bit of playing double dragon years ago.
I like that vision becomes seriously obscured the higher the pollution levels go. I found myself seriously wishing there were handy keybinds for the factory and greenery buildings, simply because I couldn't click fast enough with the mouse alone it seemed. Nice entry overall, good job.
Your game fit the theme well and I thought the puzzles were pretty good. The ghost needed an animated scarf though, 10 demerits!
Prompts tell me to talk to the driver to start but I don't see him anywhere. I see a car by the gate but I can't get to it.
If you can't delete all that spam, at least edit it to be empty.
As for your game, I thought the art looked nice. You still have some time before the jam ends, I suggest working on the jump mechanics a bit.
I think this game is great honestly. The more greedy you are with harvester the harder it becomes but the quicker things get done. I also like the art a fair bit. More enemy types would be nice but obviously time is limited during a jam so cutbacks can't be avoided. As far as sound goes, I think you didn't set the turret shot sound to be 3d because I'm able to hear them from anywhere it seems.
Holy clicking batman! I damn near wore out my clicker.
There's a lot of complexity here for a jam game which I think is impressive. Sadly in a jam atmosphere it's unlikely people are going to invest enough time to learn it properly. Good job overall though.
Just gonna echo the comments so far. Some nice polish on here and it's easy to just enjoy and play. I'm bad at it but I won't blame the creator for my faults ;p
scarf wasn't animated, much disappoint! In all seriousness it was nice, no complaints.
Wow, pretty cool concept here. It took me a minute to figure out how to use the multiple windows but once I did it was pretty cool. Good job.
I suggest reloading the level after you get the game over screen. As it is players have to reload he page which is a bit strange. I like the pixel art though and it was a nice idea overall.
also getting a 404 on download link
I like the cute character and the music seems to really fit the game well. Only two complaints. First, the character moves so slow it's a bit painful. I found myself hunting for a sprint button but never found one. Second, There's no game over screen or anything showing how you won the day and saved the coin princess or something. Kudos points for having a title screen and a "how to play" screen setup.
That was certainly a funny interpretation of the theme. There certainly is such a thing as being too over powered. Sadly this detracts from the enjoyment of the game as I'm sure you're aware.
Our games have some very strong similarities! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/pancakes
The look and feel of your game really brings me back. I spent a lot of time playing my tiger handheld games back in the day. Feels good man, thanks for the experience.
I like the art and audio in this game. The gameplay is pretty simplistic but I think it would work well on mobile platforms. Even though you're running to get batteries, I don't feel that it fit the theme very well. You explode from collecting the wrong batteries as opposed to ever actually running low on power.
I don't know why bats are exploding with particle effects from being killed with arrows and I don't care. Explosions + particle effects = fun. I also really like the aesthetic of your game as well as the audio. No complaints, would jump off bridge again.
Game is pretty fun as is, good job.
Nice game overall. My biggest complaint is that the difficulty scaled too slowly.
Funny game with a cool idea. Unfortunately, I don't think I could win no matter how many times I tried.
I like the aesthetics of the game and everything I encountered was functioning as it should. My 2 complaints are that the robot moves pretty slow and that the game-play is setup for you to fail over and over again until you get things figured out. Especially with lock picking for example, there was no way to complete that first try. You'd have to be ridiculously lucky. Overall I think it's a very solid game though for sure.
Saw your post, I don't want you to feel bad like after LD 38 so I came to rate! :)
This was the first game I've seen specifically made to be played in a browser so it stands out. I kept being prompted to research flawed science and I honestly don't understand why. I assumed it was a pseudo-science type thing and wanted to avoid it as much as possible. People create enough of their own weird ideas without official research i think. Even the CIA was asking for it, so eventually I relented assuming I must not understand the meaning properly. Sadly, with no artwork or sound there's a lot missing from a traditional game recipe. Hopefully others enjoy it like I did.
Nice entry! I actually remember playing your last submission as well. We're now both 2/2 for compo finishes! :) I can't really add much to what's been said already in terms of criticism unfortunately. It's a nice looking game that's simple enough to understand.
I love the art, gameplay is adequate. I ended up shooting a baby into space via wonky physics, so that's a bonus :)
I was actually going to complain that I couldn't actually pickup the mysterious blue glowing orbs but then I realized how the fuel scoop worked. I think I prefer it this way. I hate wasting drops because I'm already at full energy. Other than that, I'll just echo what others have said. Sound can really add a lot to a game, a few minutes in bfxr would of made a big difference. Competing in compo makes it especially hard to find the time for everything though, so things getting axed last minute happens. A possible bug I ran into: sometimes my ship would continuously shoot despite my not touching the shoot button. It was a bug a didn't much mind having happen during fights though, saved me some button spamming. Overall it's a nice game that fit the theme quite well and I enjoyed it.
I absolutely love the graphics. That said, I'm not sure you can actually lose, can you? I just scrolled right until I was near the boss and sat there doing nothing as the auto turret went to work destroying everything.
Brings back memories of my youth, good times.
Snitch cats get stitches! ;p
oh noes, I'm sleeping with the fishes!
Well, I failed valiantly several times. The monsters felt too hard to deal with. I usually had no clue where a tower was and no way to defend myself once the attack started. You could also literally be running into a monster and not see him. I can say that things actually work though, so that's a big plus for your first unity/LD combo! Congrats on finishing.
Not generally into games like this honestly. Luckily I was able to put people in gulags and get assassinated, so that helps.
Ran around for a while offending people because I told them I was experienced in the ways of fire. How dare I mock thee with my fire knowledge!?!?! My character seemed to like jumping a whole lot, after teleporting from the first level they just jumped up and down constantly. Luckily my 2 new companions did not seem to mind.
I spent a few minutes pressing every button I could trying to find SOMETHING responsive, but in the end all I could do was move around with wasd and arrows. Am I missing something?
error: The program can't start because UnityPlayer.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling program to fix this problem.
I tried redownloading the windows link in case of weirdness but always get the same error.
I like the idea of this game but some wonkiness made the game feel a bit frustrating. Firstly, I had expected the hoverbots to fly like drones as they feel as if that's their inspiration. Unfortunately their operation felt off. It took me longer than it should honestly to realize that the controls were translated into your perspective as opposed to staying simpler. IE, hitting left simply makes your drone go left instead of spinning in circles like IRL. After i got used to that navigation made more sense at least. After finding the charging port I tried to store my drone because I thought that was the idea. I hit enter and it asked for confirmation to go to the next area despite the fact that I hadn't gotten many items. I hit escape to try to go back out and fly looking for stuff but that prompted me to quit the game. Then I got stuck being unable to do anything other than go forward to next level or to quit the game. The confirmations didn't seem to give any actual ability to back out of them and return to gameplay.
I apologize if this comment is a downer, I imagine a lot of my dismay is simply user error. Anyhow, congrats on finishing the jam!
Very simplistic graphics and game play I think we can all agree, but at least it's functional. It's also one of those games that are easy to understand but still harder than you'd expect, I like that.
The first time I played, it bugged out and said I won not long after placing my first building. Subsequent times my "incompetence killed us all!". Some tool tips or something explaining the buildings and whatnot would be nice. Not a bad entry overall, would kill everyone again :)
Do you hack slower while in sneak mode? I was holding the hack key for like 2 minutes for the first door and nothing. I turned off sneak and it worked fine, and my typing was super charged apparently.
An endless running that ends... EXTRAORDINARY! I think it's great the way it is, phooey on the naysayers. I could beat it, therefor it's good and perfect in every way! ;p
Only criticism I have is that I assumed that the orange obstacles would kill you if you touched them. I accidentally ran into a couple and nothing of note happened, intended?
Not enough enemies to kill!??!!? I'm constantly swarmed by a million every time I start. Even if I manage to not let them touch me, I die from simply killing them despite not missing any shots. My chief complaints are * dying despite constantly fighting and not missing shots * enemies completely ignoring the terrain * ridiculous swarming as a result of them ignoring the terrain and magically knowing where you are at all times
That all said, a random dungeon generator, inventory and stats system is a lot to cram into 48 hours. So it's understandable that there's less polish elsewhere. I would suggest focusing harder on game play in future jams over cramming in features. I never even got to experience the inventory system simply because I'd get swarmed and die over and over again or kill myself by defending myself.
Lastly, mostly because I forgot. The application froze during startup several times.
I really liked the atmosphere of the game. I also liked the "thump thump", it just automatically adds to the feels of the game. For some constructive criticism, the first several minutes of the game was me running back and forth simply looking for something to kill. The zombies were on vacation for a bit. I ended up eventually dying because i ran out of ammo after a long while. I bought several upgrades but nothing seemed to increase my ammunition.
The artifact was a lie! Haha, searched all over several times and never found it. I guess I just got unlucky(or I suck with mazes). Fun little game, no complaints.
I only got to the end of the second level because i never figured out how to progress :( I got passed all the fire lines but then there was nowhere to go as I slowly ran out of energy standing on a safe box.
Very addictive game, I enjoyed playing it a lot. I agree with others that this game seems perfectly suited for mobile. With a little polish you could have something quite fun.
Nice puzzle logic game, simple to pickup and fit the theme via story and game play.
Nice simple game, not bad for a first LD entry. I'm honestly unsure how it fits the theme though.
Hooray, a game I can actually beat! I found that enough poop fell into the ship naturally that I didn't even have to jump to gather many. For most of my play through it simply seemed more efficient to just move side to side scooping the fallen poop into the engine bay.
Not a fan of typing games in general but I think it looks nice for what it is and pretty easy to understand.
I found out that scrolling the mouse wheels rapidly skips through events, I was trying to recenter the screen when I ended up skipping about a million panels.
I think it worked out pretty good. Running out of power was constantly an issue, so you hit the theme nicely with that. It didn't take that long to figure out the basics which is a bonus. Having a meaningful detriment to all the upgrades really made me think about if they were worth it or not. Good job overall.
Some sort of noob walk through would be great, but I think that's a pretty common thing to say. I being a mere noob was rather confused for quite some time as to how it was working and largely clicking at random.
I'm not really sure of the gameplay here. I couldn't tell that clicking was doing anything, dogs just kept floating towards the lighthouse and being saved regardless of what I did.
Apparently I'm drawn to plastic like a magnet! I could swear a few times I died to plastic without touching it, but oh well. The game kind of clubs you over the head with it's message. It's a message worth hearing though at least. I'm not sure how it fits the theme though, being I always die to plastic or being eaten.
That was a strange experience. The "a" key turned left as well as meowed, so I heard the meowing incessantly. It honestly took me a long while to find the box to birth a litter in. I want to say that the cat was cool looking and i like that it was animated. You even made sure to include the butt hole, so kudos for that.
Died at the first alien i ran into, haha. Fun game that worked well with the theme, no complaints. The AI companion's comments worked well to boost the humor factor a bit.
collect blue balls for points! Every lady knows that! ;p
That was good for your first unity game, i'd be proud of it. I think i'd of preferred the scoring be based on how long you could survive or some similar mechanic. Having to choose between getting more fuel and getting points constantly made me feel like the scoring system needed some work. Definitely adds in some risk/reward factor though for score being based on blue balls.
I like the aesthetic of the game a lot, and the music goes with it perfectly. I couldn't figure out how to reverse unfortunately and I sadly needed it a lot. Hitting back to in attempts to reverse out of bad situations simply drained my battery :( Overall it's a good pickup and play little game.
Sadly, the game got stuck on a loading screen with bouncing animals for a long time and simply wouldn't start.
Wow, those beacons were so hard to see at range! I should have just used the arrows and gone forward a bit to better find them I guess. Eventually I died from radiation poisoning just after finding the mini map. I wasn't sure what I was supposed to be aiming for and just picked a random dot.... an died, haha.
I suggest more neatly packaging your game for jams. A lot of people won't even bother unless it's playable in a browser. A lot more won't try to go through the hassle of trying to figure out how to install a game with hard to find pieces. I see the EXE listed in the downloads but when I click it says there's a missing data folder. I'm probably missing it, but I don't see the required data folder anywhere on the linked site. Just a bunch of source files to sift through.
First off, it's nice to see a game made in pygame. Python/pygame were my introduction to game making. Sadly, I couldn't get very far. It was honestly rare for me to get passed the first set of stairs. I just couldn't jump fast enough to out maneuver the obstacles at that speed.
I wish I had known at the start that right click and left click turn them different directions, haha. So many wasted moves as a result. Nice little puzzle game.
This game was really cute, I liked it. My only complaint is that the power switch seemed pretty finicky about being activated. I found myself jumping into it several times before it'd activate and complete the level.
I don't know the reason, but your game made my win10 computer completely unresponsive as soon as I tried to install. Just giving you a heads up.
Well, silly physics games tend to be innately fun, so it has that going for it. I don't see the way it ties into the theme but blowing chunks in planets is fun, I won't complain. Wait, this is an old entry, why is it showing up in our feed?
I actually like it a lot. I have a fondness for games where you have to control mindless drones. Obviously lacking in the sound department but you already know that. I like the scent/pheromone mechanic as a means of controlling things, that seems intuitive. A nice strategy game overall I thought. Now of only you could make this mindless drone good at strategy games 🤣
The music REALLY sets the mood in this game. It helps tell the story for you and I love that. The visuals are quite nice as well, it's just bursting with color which I can tell is what you were going for. I was sad when the colorfly was overtaken, what will happen to color in the universe!?!?!
My only complaint really is looking back it feels like growing the trees with color didn't actually accomplish anything. I know some triggered portals, but could I have simply skipped most of them still completed the game the same? I know the game is minimalist as far as UI goes, so adding a points system or something probably wouldn't be ideal, but some way of tracking your impact on the game world and making it feel like you're making a real difference would help I think.
I topped out at 38900, so I didn't make the leaderboard. I think the game is pretty awesome though. 2 things I think that could bring this up another notch would be, more enemy types (it's a game jam, i know it's hard to fit a lot of stuff in there), and another attack type, like maybe throwing a grenade. At the end I would get swarmed pretty hard and I wished there was something more than just autofire. Even if the grenade didn't do a lot of damage, it could just slow them down for a bit and let me regain some composure. Just some ideas to chew on. Great game overall though, loved it.
I love most everything about this game, I just thought it was awesome. My biggest problem was that if you wanted the camera angle to remain like that, you really shouldn't have that bottom lane. You can't really see monsters coming from the bottom until you about walk into them. On the other hand, you probably could keep everything as is and simply move the camera to a much closer over the shoulder third person view.
Overall for a compo game especially, I just thought it was great and a lot of fun.
I like it! Just a classic eat small things till you get big game but done well. A few things I'd like to comment on, I really wish the camera followed your planet fluidly instead of once it reached a certain limit. I also think it would of been nice if camera distance scaled with the size of your planet, the bigger you got, the less of the screen you could really see. Also, having all the planets actively seeking out meals while avoiding being eaten would liven up the game a lot. Obviously it would eat up a lot more cpu, but it's something to consider.
Its' kind of a strange game and I find myself just shooting randomly to be quite honest. I love the back story though and you gotta love anything spaceballs related.
I like the look of the game, sadly I simply have no idea what I'm doing. I think I've only managed to zap 1 eco invader after losing 7 times. With a game like this, a simple video demo might go a long way towards showcasing how the game works. On another note, some background music or something would be nice, just something to fill the silence.
First time through I didn't realize I had more to use than straight shot and missiles, whoops, haha. I think the biggest problem people have already brought up, enemies spawning inside of you is simply not fair. Hard to hammer out all the bugs for a jam though, it happens. My only other comment is that there's a lot of unused space on the screen perhaps you could use that space by doing something simple, like putting reminders of what the button assignments are or something? All in all, fun little game, good job.
Cute game, I like that the panda poops out more flooring 😂
A bit repetitive for me personally but I can see the appeal for some certainly. Nice compo game.
Silly physics are always fun, immediately get that surgeon simulator vibe. I of course died first day because I die at all games requiring any actual skill. Physics was obviously janky but with a game like this that's part of the charm, I wouldn't worry about it overly much.
There's ether too many whales or too few, why can't whales make up their minds!?!?! I had a very hard time progressing, there was a real feast or famine situation happening. In either situation progressing was simply impossible for me.
I like it, obviously not as polished as it could be but pretty darn good for a jam game! My biggest gripe for the longest time was that I wished I could move the menu out of the way! Then i figured out i could move the space station and all was well 😀
Wow, i kind of agree with everything @swiftillusion is saying here, he's offering some good insight. I just kind of felt that the game was unrewarding and I felt a bit underpowered I guess. I think it'd be nice maybe if the troops didn't die attacking the enemy castle if they weren't actually attacked back, that way the investment in attacking troops didn't feel like such a waste.
I'd like to say that the graphics were cute for a compo though, any kind of background music would have been welcome.
By day 22 I was screwed. Sadly there was just no was I could look away from the planet to try and read the text at the bottom to get an update of what was going on. Some kind of visual status update on things would of been priceless.
It's cute, sadly it's just so short! That and hitting down kept scrolling my window down.
There are several different release versions listed on your google drive link, which is the official one for the competition?
I sucked SOOOOOOOOOO bad at this. I think it's a game that just really desperately needs a controller to properly appreciate it. My attempts with a keyboard were quite sad. I liked what I saw and I hope to see more of you work in the future.
After a while I i had no freaking clue how I was going to solve a puzzle at the start just by looking at it. I just started merging and hoping and remembering. Somehow I got by. I thought it was a fun little game. It's not hard to understand what's going on really, but that doesn't mean it's always work the way you want! 🤣
One minor thing, I would of appreciated if there was a reset button. A few times I had to sit there waiting out the timer with nothing else to do.
One of the few games I've seen that has a tutorial system built right into it, kudos for doing that. I was afraid I was going to have no clue what I was doing but it wasn't a problem at all. You hit the theme dead on, gameplay seemed fine, everything functioned as expected. Graphics weren't a homerun but it's a compo entry so I'm not going to complain there. A solid entry in my opinion.
I had so much fun destroying those annoying little planets, thank you! What, you mean that wasn't the point? Well crap, check this off as another game I'm bad at! All joking aside though, I found this to be quite a fun little game. The concept is pretty straight forward to understand, but that doesn't make it easy to do! Good job.
A game that requires actual skill!?!?!?! Of course I died immediately.... several times. I had fun though and hey, that's the job of a game. So you dun did good. Randomly generated maps is a big bonus in my opinion, it adds a lot of replayability. My only complaint is that you didn't give me a god code, I demand my own personal konami code, that is all.
I sucked at this game, and that's OK! For such an innocent looking game it was hard. I had fun though and I think it looks and sounds pretty good. I don't have much to add really, my only complaint is that I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do with the white clouds. I'm assuming they're pretty innocuous looking back but I was frantically trying to click them away.
I topped out @ 18352, the cookie monsters just overwhelmed me! It's a simple and fun game, no complaints here really. Things work as expected, it's easy to understand and the difficulty scales the longer you survive. These are hallmarks of a solid game and your's has it. It also has cookies and I like cookies, so there's that.
Music stopped playing @ 14 points which lead to the game being awkwardly quiet by 17 points. It's funny how music can make all the difference. The instant 90 degree shift was a bit jarring at first but I quickly got accustomed to it. I think my 2 chief complaints really are the camera angle and the amount of food items to acquire. Obviously there are other issues such as being able to wander off the grid whenever you like. I think it'd be better if you'd instantly die if you left the playing field, it'd add more difficulty to the game which I think it'd lacking in at the moment. Fun attempt overall though I think.
I want to like it but I'm confused! Hitting up does something different every time it resets, there doesn't seem to be any indicator beforehand what a button press will do unless I'm simply mistaken. For me this has become "send poor astronauts helplessly into orbit simulator!", haha. Part of me is OK with that though, yep nothing wrong with that, lol. I like the idea of having a single input control more than one astronaut and you have to deal with it, beyond that I'm rather lost i'm afraid.
It was a fun little game, about all I can say about it. Everything seemed to work as it should, things were recognizable at least. I'm programmer myself, so the last thing I'm gonna do is bash a compo entry for having programmer art, you do what you can do with the time allotted. You created a fun little game that functions as intended for your first LD, I think that's a win for sure. I look forward to your future submissions.
I want to start by saying that this is simply not my type of game... but that doesn't matter, totally awesome. I have to admit I was confused as to how things worked at first, but I think that kind of thing is OK for a puzzle game. You're supposed to feel your way through things and figure things out. That this is a compo submission is pretty impressive to me. The art and music/sounds all fit in well with the retro era style you were going for. Just a solid entry, good job.
My only gripe is minor and silly. The sound that plays when the text is being typed doesn't line up AT all and I just found it super annoying. The text also seemed to go a little slow, a way to speed it up, or skip it if it's not your first time through might be nice.
First of all great game. you definitely nailed car physics 100x better than my game. For verification, here are my times:
first: 02:12:64
second: 02:21:66
third: 02:39:55
I'll probably take a look through your source files after and see how you configured your wheel colliders to get them to behave correctly. I had a heck of a time getting them to even resemble a working car so what you have here is amazing in my eyes. As for theme, I think you nailed it. Just a toy car on a track minding his own, such a fun game. Some tunes and sound effects would bring it up another notch but it is what it is, you can only do so much in the allotted time. Good job overall.
Possible bug: I noticed several times (after my several crashes) that trying to turn right while reversing simply wasn't happening often times.
Edit: Checking out your source files now. Your "wheelHit" script is missing from the repository but referenced in your anti-roll bar script.
I like that the workers are automated but that creates a bit of a challenge in itself. How do you work around the resources that they're bringing you, right? Gotta process fast. So right off the bat this game hits a lot of good buttons for me personally with resource management, strategy coupled with silly AI workers. I'd love to see the game developed more allowing for further processing of materials and expansion of abilities. Of course ideally I think I'd prefer the workers be smartened up a bit and perhaps mined materials be separated into storage facilities or something. Maybe you could have a hierarchy for priority of things to be mined that you could change on the fly. It'd be a nice way to control workers without having to micro manage.
Overall I like it, keep up the good work!
I like it, it's bare bones as you said but it's a jam game, it's to be expected. You have the beginnings of a fun little game going on here. Obviously not something you sit and play for hours or anything, maybe a mobile or browser game you check every few hours or something, but those definitely have a market. I personally like game to have some kind of failure condition and I'm not seeing that at the moment. So that's a drawback. Maybe you could be competing against other builders for spaces, or selling resources against an evolving market, something where you could perhaps not be gaining no matter what.
As others have said, some planet sprites are cut off while others are missing entirely. The text color choices weren't always the greatest for clarity either unfortunately. Sadly I can't comment on the story, the second I realized it was a visual novel/experience/not actually a game, I kind of just started randomly clicking buttons while looking at the pictures.
Feel free to check out my entry and leave your impressions: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/rc-kitchen-throwdown
I have to parrot the other comments here, there's simply NO directions or hints as to what you're supposed to be doing at all. The only thing I was able to do was switch between weapons. Adding the controls listing here and/or on the game page would be a great help. Hold on, it also says that game was created 1/15/2015.....That's odd.
To be honest, I found myself rather frustrated by how slow you shoot, enemies seem to shoot 10x faster. Due to that limitation, I felt the difficulty was high enough at least, yet still the game felt a bit lacking to me personally. I didn't time it, but it felt like the reload time was 5 seconds or something ridiculous, in the meanwhile all you can do is hide which I find kind of boring.
Also, the text box on the bottom took up a lot of the screen making fighting enemies in that direction troublesome. Maybe having it appear for new messages and then fade after a few seconds would be better for gameplay.
That all said, I'm sorry if it seems that I'm bashing your game. It's just my opinion and maybe the majority of people will feel differently. The important thing is that you guys got a game completed and more experience under your belt. That's a victory for sure.
Feel free to check out my game and offer your honest opinion. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/rc-kitchen-throwdown
I like the art and the simplicity, it didn't take long to feel a bit repetitive to me though. I think the game felt too forgiving maybe. I think I'd have to afk a good while to actually lose. I mostly wanted more to do.
LD48 — Deeper and deeper (17)
Rocket digger by Kaito 2021-04-27T08:39:48Z ♥ 1
rocket movement was a bit strange at times. It would just get stuck out of nowhere. I also wish there was at least some sort of audio. On the plus side, piloting and exploding rockets is inherently fun.
Deep Space Hope by namrog84 2021-04-27T01:39:02Z ♥ 2
There's just something about casually bumping into a tiny planet that's hilarious.
Deeper and Deeper by John llyod Apolo 2021-04-27T00:16:46Z ♥ 1
Movement lacks weight. I also ended up dying repeatedly at the start simply because you spawn below screen and I couldn't see myself falling off the edge. Once that was sorted though, it didn't take long to get a feel for things and starting laying down some hurt on that big bad. Good job!
Squareroot mining by omnes ludos 2021-04-27T00:12:10Z ♥ 5
The windows build isn't working for me. I see assets and game.program when unzipped but no exe to run.
Deep Dungeon by deeemo 2021-04-27T00:07:11Z ♥ 1
Hitting E near the door worked fine for me, maybe there was an update.
Anyhow, it's a cute game. I just really wish it had audio. But I could kill things, interact with things and move, so therefor it was a raging success!
Drill Digger by luiza.torello 2021-04-27T00:03:52Z ♥ 1
After all these years I still don't know to avoid explosives, lol. The constant wobble of everything felt a bit weird, but it's a very straight forward easy to understand game which is a big bonus imo. Too often in jams games I have no idea what I'm supposed to do but this one was rather intuitive.
Florida Simulator by Grogian 2021-04-26T23:59:34Z ♥ 1
I'm a big fan of survival games and this one meshed really well with the theme. Nice game.
Daring Descent by Eastvillage 2021-04-26T06:58:07Z ♥ 0
The graphics are INSANE! Have you ever seen letters so crisp? I think not!
Brawl Of the Deep by Kofuku 2021-04-26T06:15:05Z ♥ 1
I think it's a neat idea and I like boxing fans in general. Sadly the controls didn't really feel very intuitive to me.
Paragon by LakshyaIsAGod 2021-04-26T06:08:28Z ♥ 1
Failed to load, hopefully gets fixed soon.
You Are The Helmet! by Heiach 2021-04-26T06:03:15Z ♥ 1
I don't know what I was expecting. I'll be honest, I think I identified more as the skull wearing the helmet. Regardless, I really like the artwork. Gameplay is quite simple and it felt largely impossible to really direct the helmet before you smashed into something. Although the point of the game was largely about crashing into things so maybe that doesn't matter?
Oil Driller: Deeper and Deeper by Kittenhunter 2021-04-26T05:45:55Z ♥ 1
I feel like the pause and play buttons on filling the barrels are backwards. Aside from that, I like the aesthetic. Nice job.
Werm - an existential adventure by m11 2021-04-26T05:39:12Z ♥ 2
I thought going off the screen would kill me, but NOPE! Just wandering the blackness of eternity forever I guess. Somehow fits the game really well.
Deep Blue by Imphenzia 2021-04-26T05:35:47Z ♥ 2
I like the models in this game, I know you said you had only a little time to work on it but they look nice. BGM is nice as well. Lack if time shows in the gameplay though. Overall, I'd be proud if I made this in 15 hours, so good job!
The Colorsmith by Jordan Ottesen 2021-04-26T05:29:46Z ♥ 1
My favorite aspect of this game is the audio. The levels felt a bit linear though. It just seemed like a lot of "see the square, go get the square". It's a great entry for compo though, nice job!
Deep Descent by Predominant 2021-04-26T05:21:30Z ♥ 2
Lander games like these are classics. They're quite fun despite their simplicity.
Dig Deep by GiantWaffle 2021-04-26T05:12:53Z ♥ 0
Took me longer than I'd like to admit to finally understand how to start progressing through the game. You made a game and it works, huzzah!