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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | Cowquest | jam | 431 | 3.57 | 3.23 | 3.38 | 3.29 | 3.46 | 3.18 | 3.91 | 3.53 | |||
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | 👥 | Akashic | jam | |||||||||||
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | Om | jam | 3.89 | 3.28 | 3.94 | 3.39 | 4.28 | 4.38 | 4.06 | |||||
| 2017 | 39 | Running out of Power | 👥 | Trials of the Vapor Lattice | jam | 66 | 4.00 | 3.29 | 3.14 | 2.67 | 4.67 | 4.38 | 4.48 | |||
| 2016 | 35 | Shapeshift | Xenosphere | jam | 148 | 3.72 | 3.56 | 3.70 | 2.84 | 3.75 | 3.61 | 3.74 | 64 | |||
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | Space Baddie | compo | 658 | 3.03 | 2.84 | 3.19 | 3.22 | 3.66 | 3.21 | 2.72 | 3.25 | 51 | ||
| 2015 | 33 | You are the Monster | Crepuscule | compo | 410 | 3.19 | 3.11 | 3.24 | 3.86 | 3.35 | 2.89 | 2.86 | 3.06 | 55 | ||
| 2014 | 31 | Entire Game on One Screen | Alfred Bonzo | jam | 844 | 2.78 | 2.88 | 2.74 | 3.24 | 2.93 | 2.92 | 2.47 | 2.60 | 42 | ||
| 2014 | 30 | Connected Worlds | Dreaming of Revenge | jam | 604 | 2.88 | 2.32 | 2.80 | 2.88 | 4.44 | 2.08 | 2.40 | 2.91 | 48 | ||
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | Down the snail hole | compo | 812 | 2.92 | 2.62 | 3.27 | 3.77 | 3.30 | 2.96 | 1.94 | 2.91 | 46 | ||
| 2013 | 28 | You Only Get One | Sweat Marathon | compo | 584 | 2.91 | 2.95 | 3.17 | 3.10 | 3.42 | 3.08 | 3.41 | 2.90 | 46 | ||
| 2013 | 27 | 10 Seconds | Prelude of the Vorpal Blade | compo | 1097 | 2.36 | 2.06 | 2.22 | 2.58 | 3.51 | 2.97 | 2.30 | 2.59 | 69 |
Overboy leaves an average of 15.5 feedback comments each event.
Funny game, HIGHLY innovative, but unfortunately not executed very well. The controls were awkward and the mouse cursor was very difficult to see. Actually, at first I didn't know I had to aim with the mouse so I was trying to figure out how to hit the bad guy. I thought I had to time my punches or something.
Horrible control scheme that made it impossible to play for colemak users. This is going to sound harsh, but please study for your future games the following lesson on key mapping that I'm going to lay down here. At the end, I will tell you how you should have arranged your keys instead.
Your action inputs mapped to WE make no goddamn sense, let me explain why. If you have movement on arrows along with auxiliary action inputs, start at Z for the action inputs, because there is a reference key right next to it, which is SHIFT. **It is a reference key because it's sized differently from all other keys surrounding it.** You brain can feel that size difference at any point during gameplay, without you even noticing it, it's instinctual and it happens very quickly. (This is why it's **IMPOSSIBLE** to hit Home/End/Pg.Up/Pg.Down and Delete consistently on a modern laptop: they have no reference key, the entire top row is all sized the same, i.e. no key is different from the rest. The old series of Thinkpad was the only laptop afaik that kept the same format from standard keyboards, and people who used it report never mistyping one of these keys. With modern laptop keyboards, I hit any of the aforementioned keys at random at least 5-6 times a day and it is infuriating as FUCK. Modern laptop manufacturers need to get a grip and realize why this is bullshit.) From Z, you go forward until you've mapped all your action inputs.
As an aside, this doesn't apply to you OP, but I need to say it because there are A LOT of hipsters on this site who seem to think XCV is acceptable. Let me say it right now, if you start at X instead of Z, you are a *dumbass*. I've heard the argument that oh, it's done to accommodate the German qwerty variant since they flip Z and Y. Fair enough, then why not lay it down on ZXC and also map Y to the same action as Z? At that point, you've successfully kept it consistent on the 3 keys next to shift for both German qwerty and other qwerty variants. Wow, wasn't so hard was it? That's why I don't buy this bullshit German qwerty argument for a second. If you genuinely didn't think of that and you only picked XCV because you got infatuated by someone arguments for XCV then fair enough, but I expect your next game to have Z/Y mapped to the same input, because now you know why ZXC is far superior to XCV.
Now back to the lessons. You may offer WASD as an alternative to ARROWS, (WASD is shit for anything that doesn't require the mouse, at least imo) but if you do that, you must distribute the load by also assigning Z/X/C alternatives to the right hand.
If you have more than 3-4 auxiliary inputs, you may switch row after ZXC or ZXCV, but be very wise with where you're going to pick the next keys as there needs to be a flow. Analyze the motion and placement of your hands during gameplay to evaluate if the placement is good.
If you only have ARROWS/WASD for movement along with a single action key, then PUT IT ON SPACE ALONG WITH Z.
Now back to your game Yellow Beans, W and E were picked out of nowhere for seemingly no good reason. They are surrounded by non-reference keys. I suggest the follow scheme which is far better:
Left/Right/A/D: Move left and right UP/W: Jump DOWN/S: Protect NOTE: would usually be an action key, but your character conveys the down-arrow protect quite well since he seems to duck. Therefore, it is intuitive.
And now our action key: Z/SPACE: Attack.
What happened to the text advancing key? **You don't need it.** You want to optimize your scheme in a way that is intuitive. This won't work for all games, but in your case, put it on Z along with attack. Therefore, there is no switching around. There is only a single action key along with arrows. We offer an alternative with space since, again, there is only one main action key.
I hope this was helpful to you, and happy holidays!
I don't have much to say other than the jump animation is EPIC. You could have made a rad vaporwave game with these plastic men models!
Genius take on the theme that left me thinking, it's too bad there wasn't much to do.
Decent game, the art was obviously programmer art but it actually worked quite well, reminds me Thomas Was Alone. Sounds were a bit generic. The gameplay was an interesting take on the puzzle/platformer genre.
dangerously close to "Yuri Panties"!!
Enjoyable shmup, not much content unfortunately. Acceleration on the player's ship makes it hard to navigate, shmup controls need to be extremely tight. Music was rad, although it was a bit in the background. Funny remark, I actually entered a LD game a year or two ago with the exact same name "Space Baddies". Thus, fate has led me to your game!
Not a very fun game to play, but the meaning it has is important and accurate.
Unfinished art as far as the eye can see! Totally forgivable for the amount of content however. Extremely cute and heartwarming, but I wish we could do stuff faster, the pacing is pretty slow in general. Having to move back and forth across the map multiple time to move people around, feed em, etc. got old really quickly. Would be better if you could
1. Make multiple people follow you (ability to interact with multiple actors at once, starts with 1 max and goes up progressively as you play?) 2. Get running shoes early on or something that lets you move faster... Roller blades or a bicycle would be cooler. 3. More ways to get food, or more ingredients at least to create soups. 4. Smarter AIs, although it's fair considering it was made during a game jam.
Music was very serene and a big part in setting the gentle mood of gathering cute insects to interact together and be happy.
quite addictive, simple yet effective design. Very lazy with the sound effects I must say however, no identity whatsoever. There was bad contrast a lot of the time too, making it hard to see where I was and what I was doing.
Holy shit the voice acting at the start had me in tears, I wasn't ready for that. Gameplay could have been stronger but I doubt that's the point of a game like this. By far the funniest game I've seen in the 4 years I've participated in Ludum Dares.
I can always get down with a tower defense game. The first 2-3 waves are probably the hardest although I didn't know you could upgrade towers at first. Hitboxes are a bit too aggressive, I found myself frustrated trying to place some towers. Graphics are REALLY nice, I love this style of graphics which looks almost like old prerendered 3D games.
If you are planning on playing this game, it will be a productive use of your time to learn how to use Cheat Engine to freeze your power meter to max. Sorry but there was no way in hell I was going to spend 40 minutes of stop and go gameplay to reach some toilet. Even with a frozen meter, it still took a damn long time. I was hoping for a big payoff at the end but I can only imagine that the developers expected that anyone would be crazy enough to play for long enough reach the damn toilet considering it doesn't even have collisions enabled.
Big shame because the art, mood, and music is all incredible. I was hoping for a very cool psychological and mind bending game at the start based on those elements, but instead all I got was a walking simulator and disappointment.
I guess the game is a metaphor to how I feel every morning waking up and having to reach the bathroom before leaving for school...
Very clean little game. Doesn't try to be too ambitious and succeeds at what it sets out to be. Unfortunately, I feel like too many mechanics were quickly introduced and never used in conjunction. For example, combat is barely used throughout, the moving platforms are only ever used in one area, blocks you can break are only seen in one area as well. The air vents were ok, sprinkled throughout forcing you to backtrack a bit once you've enabled them. The power/electricity mechanic was cool at first but became old rather quickly when I had to keep going back to step on the pressure pad. Graphics were very nice and the color palette sets the mood really well.
Physics felt really weird for this type of game, the character and its hitbox were far too big as well. Music was very repetitive, I think it would have been more worth your time to make and polish really nice sound effects. Levels were too drawn out with no new gameplay elemens to spice it up. also the whole thing appears to be pixel art but the player character doesn't look like it so there's a clash between the two styles there.
A resource management shmup, very clever and fun. Graphics are top notch as always. Music didn't fit too much compared to your other games, and more sound effects would have been nice.
2 things kept me from playing it unfortunately..
- Crashes not long after I start shooting - Mouse movement is very very slow
Shame because I'm a BIG Devil Daggers fan with a 700+ seconds pb! Also I instantly recognized you since you showed your grappling hook thing on /r/devildaggers :P
edit: I'm on windows
The pixel art textures and the meshes are quite nice, I've always loved 3D with pixel art textures. The mood is quite nice and it has a really bleak desolate feel to it. Not much direction unfortunately to point you in the right direction, and it's difficult to orient yourself because everything looks pretty much the same.
Not much to play here but the graphics are insane and very intricate. I enjoyed microwaving some burritos. Some sound effects would have made it quite a bit more interesting I think.
The soldiers are really funny to me (not in a bad way) due to the way they are modeled and coupled with the wacky physics. Stiff control that aren't very satisfying, could have been a nice little game with just more polish in general in all areas. Cool use of the theme. Needs more juicing as presented in this talk
[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg)
Good potential but some glaring balance issues, e.g. weapons deplete too quickly for how uncommon they are. Picking up ship parts makes you slightly too heavy I feel like. I can see what you were going for but I think it shouldn't change gravity as much and instead change the player's mass so that your thruster have less of an effect.
Good points for innovation, but not very intuitive unfortunately. I didn't have much of a clue what the "beat" was and couldn't get a good rhythm going, and I beat Thumper so rhythm games aren't new to me. In games like this, you need strong visual cues to create anticipation, e.g. have certain visual elements react to the beat or in sync to increase the density of information communicated to the player, since audio cues are often hard to recognize if they are not distinct, like a drum you can easily pick out of the song. The art is nice but you could done something more interesting with the palette imo, looks a bit washed out and bland!
fucking cool, reminded me of RotMG a bit which I loved
Great game, played it for 27 minutes actually, but you NEED alternate controls other than WASD. If you can't remap the controls in your game, you need to offer arrow keys or something else because you basically deny all colemak/dvorak users from having a smooth game experience. I'm a colemak user and I had to play with what would be WADG on a qwerty keyboard, and where R is in place of the S, meaning that I accidentally restarted more than once
excellent entry. it had the perfect difficulty, excellent art and sound design, etc. just a great entry all around
relies too much on rng. imo, for all that rng, you should have been able to do more precise aiming rather than just all 4 orthogonal directions. music was very good too
the player spaceship moves a bit slow but a fun shmup nonetheless, music was great also
Does the artist work at nickelodeon or something? I swear those characters feel like they could be in an animated cartoon serie for children, they're really good
fucking brillant use of raymarching shaders. they are still a mystery to me and this feels like black magic but damn I loved this. to make this even more perfect, have different shapes rather than just a box that we're looking for.
this is a work of art, that's all I'll say
Solid entry but unless I missed something, it seems like all you could do is just build stuff in a row to the left or right which is kind of boring, you should remedy to that if you ever work on this again! Sometime I couldn't pick pieces for some reasons also
I couldn't figure out how to beat the level where Mirage says "Getting dark isn't it?" at the start so I feel like I kinda missed out not being able to see the third character and all but good mood you achieved either way. The little loop song thing is pretty relaxing and puts some nice tension
We actually had this exact same idea at the start of the dare but settled on something else! I think you did it better than we would have however, well done
just excellent, all I can say
Simple game that packs a lot of fun. It's important for these types of game to separate really well enemy shots from your, the different layers and everything, so that's the only thing I think could have been done a bit better
Excellent is all I can say about this entry.
Really good game with a unique mechanic but I think it would have worked better with a smaller set of levels that were more polished.
LMFAO
Kind of repetitive but the graphics are pretty cute!
This game would benefit a lot from dropping the slow recharge for flying, it should recharge as soon as you land. Better controls would help a huge deal as well, and I don't see why you did XCV when it could just have been ZXC.
an example of better controls would be hitting the jump button while in midair should just transform you to the bat directly. That would make it a lot more fluid already.
Cool idea but would be a lot better if it
1. particles didn't make it so hard to see everything
and
2. having more accurate hitboxes. I wasn't even sure where I was supposed to be exactly to stay alive, there were multiple times that I went over enemy shots that I thought would kill me but ended up doing nothing instead, making the whole thing feel less tight as a result
I love incremental games so naturally I liked this game. Well done!
Should have made it so that there was an alternate, much more intricate way of beating the game and keeping one fertilizer for the trophy on the title screen rather than give it to the player at the end.
Might not have been hard to pull off in 48 hours of course.
cool game, nothing very innovative but it was still entertaining for a bit. If only I didn't have to restart all over again after I died in the lava/fire level.
404 error :/
very good pixel art as always, would be a cool game if it were to be finished
very slow and boring, but damn the graphics are a treat to the eye. Also, I was about to stop playing but then I got notified that I had leveled up, so an indication that something else is going to happen later would be a good idea
cute pixel art. I will have to play some more to try and reach the other levels. It's a bit hard but I think if you work on this a couple more days and refine it a bit, you could have a pretty cool little game that could entertain anyone for 1-2 dollars on an app store etc.
very nice graphics but it's hard to follow what's happening on the screen. Shooting with both buttons isn't too too good either
Not as good as your usual entries but still very nice graphics, sounds etc. It was kinda annoying switching between the 2 robots all the time.
10/10
very cool, could be expanded further
Way too hard, I couldn't even beat the first boss. I believe that this is because
1. the movement is sluggish
2. it's hard to tell whether my deflect/absorb will work. A lot of the time deflected but it didn't work for some reasons
other than that, the art direction is amazing
very cool entry, the spaceship with the effects looked great which is a shame because you don't really have the time to look at it when playing
The graphics are that of exquisite unprecedented craftsmanship, and the story of course was a roller coaster of inspiring emotions. I love how the story unraveled and revealed different information about the world depending on the choices you made. I only wish that you got to make more choices though
very funny outcome, I saw it coming a bit with the theme in mind and all but it was still pretty funny. A solid entry
5/5, most fun I've had with a ludum dare game in this one. Please make this into a full game with more mobs and stuff
Insane graphics, but the gameplay was missing a bit :/
gg
Cool game, I made it to 175
just excellent, nothing else to say hahaha. not very innovative seeing as there are dozens of flash games in this online (many of which are classics) but it was a good take on the idea
Not sure what was the significance of this game but i feel like there is a deep meaning that I totally missed
Very difficult, controls aren't tight enough imo. Also the camera was pointing too much down all the time, a bit annoying
very funny audio and dialogue, also the way they move when they talk... just great
insanely hard but this game is nothing short of perfection
Very well made game, once again
jesus christ this game has a creepy atmosphere. the music certainly isn't helping
I found the gameplay to be boring a bit but the graphics are absolutely amazing
Excellent game, it was a bit confusing however
Very nice take on the idea, this stood out from the rest
Very polished, I could see this being a success on a mobile platform. (confirmed working on linux mint, 64 bit)
This is so fucking brillant
That was way too funny
A bit boring. The text annoyed me to death and the ending was overly dramatic. Cool interpretation of the theme though.
Awesome graphics; It gets hard very quickly though
I like how the game takes place in a small secluded area most of the time
That was harder than I thought, good entry
This game wins, no question about it.
That was a very awesome game. The humor was almost a satirization of Portal, made me laugh a bit when I was "escaping". Sucks it was so short, but I can't blame you for having only 48 hours to do this
Very cool game, it's a shame there isn't more gameplay to it. The graphics are awesome and the ambiance is just as good.
Definitely a weird entry. The idea was pretty cool but it could have been executed a bit better I think. The mechanics were also a bit hard to figure out
Bad physics but the idea was pretty cool. Would of made a great game if the execution was a bit better. Music was cool too
One of the most mind boggling entry so far. It's a shame you didn't finish it. The mood and the graphics are completely gorgeous
Great game, although pretty challenging. I could see this become popular if you were to continue it, it's a solid idea.
this felt so stupid and so wrong to play, I love it. the fact you can lick and the animation is especially creepy makes it all the better
Interesting game, I could definitely see it having some success outside of ludum dare
Very nice game colgan, a very nice improvement since your last entries to ludum dare. The music on the main menu is especially cool, I assume you played it with your ukulele. It's hard though
it's crap
Very nicely done, got very hard though
Astounding game, loved the minimalist graphics
Alright game, could be a little more intuitive
Very nice game, got 190!
Great idea, but I cannot beat level 3 after 20 minutes, what a waste of my time.
Whoever the artist was, tell him he may have just gotten you a excellent final rank for graphics in 3 weeks. He seriously is overpowered, I can't believe he did all of this sick pixel art in 48 hours
No pictures?
Fantastic interpretation of the theme, graphics were kind of lacking but the game was very fun and satisfying. But like ReactorScram said, it feels like the tower is lagging because it stops following when you hover over roads
Very nice graphics, audio, humor and theme interpretation, but the game isn't very playable. I couldn't even get past the first level
hardest game of this ludum dare by far
Repetitive but very innovative gameplay
Very nice game, also impressive considering you made this in ~24 hours
Awesome graphics, very hard game
humor 5/5
holding jump key makes you fly up and to the sky!
Interesting game, very frustrating though
Collisions are really weird on the top down level but I did like the pixel art on that level
Frustrating as hell but very well thought
Astounding graphics, great gameplay
Awesome game man, definitely make a post-compo version
Very interesting entry, I like it.
Very fun and simple game. I got a score of like 400
Hard as hell but I like it :)
That was fucking brilliant. Definitely make a post-compo version with more levels. This could turn into something big with cooler graphics (Keep the same style though)
I really liked solving all of these levels but I wish it had harder levels toward the end. But then again I like games like I wanna be the guy.
Loving the idea and the decision you have to take at the end
Sluggish movements but I love the graphics and the concept
This seems like a really interesting work but the game is too complicated, I can't seem to understand it :( Graphics are astonishing though
So simple yet so fun to mess around with
Astounding shader work you got there dude. I absolutely could not do with the first one though :(
Damn that game's hard. Could of been more fun if it was faster paced and had a bigger field
Game's way too hard! It would of been a mile better if all 4 keys were lined up in one row and you made the key block a different sprite when it would be valid. (It's those little things)
The graphics were pretty nice though
Same problem as the Skye and Vile Smile
Could of been a great game if it had more responsive controls and Super Meat Boy physics.
What can I say, this is nearly perfect. The graphics are very aesthetically pleasing. The game managed to keep me playing despite its boring and slow nature. The only thing I could say is that the camera was a little annoying when walking back with S since it turns automatically.
Game crashes as soon as "Go!" disappears. I would give 5 to humor though because I laughed uncontrollably when I saw the intro at the beginning
Very fun game. I like difficult and fast paced gameplay like that. The backstory is very nice too.
Such as simple game yet so fun to play :3
Game crashed after the first level. Tutorial level was pretty sick though
Very slender game indeed. At first I wasn't too sure what the hell the scraith was (I had not read the description) and I just moved toward it not understanding what was happening. I love the surreal atmosphere. I wish you could move faster though, didn't really kept me playing for long.
Boring game but the idea was alright
Could be pretty cool if it wasn't so boring; Idea's alright though
That was so awesome. The fun factor is high: levels were complex and hard at the end but still kept me playing. The music made it all the more glorious
Very fun game. I like the idea of not resetting the level unless the player dies. I had no idea what to do at the boss though.
Controls are very sluggish
I like the graphics but the controls are very hard to get used to and the game is a little boring overall
Haha I like the story. Controls and collisions are a little weird though
Interesting game, A little too difficult after the 3 first planets though :(
I freaking love the idea behind this game. It would of kept me playing longer if the difficulty curve wasn't so massive. You should try making an A* agent that solves the levels and upload a video of it completing all of the levels. Props for the awesome concept. Arrows should be shown on the cubes and point toward the direction it'll be shot at and there should be something indicating a moving wall because it made it a little hard to solve some levels without that. The lighting engine is also pretty nice.
Very nice, I like the idea
Very interesting game. I found that the best strategy is to just old on the jump key and as soon as you notice you're about to take a dip in the lava, rewind and delay your next jump slightly so you can make the jump. It would of been interesting to have a rewind timer go down when you use it and make it go back up as you progress. Have it go back up slower so you can just rewind forever.
Very nice ambiance, not that fun though
Pretty fun even though it's so simple and games with similar mechanics were made many many times before. The movement is annoying to work with
LD45 — Start with nothing (5)
VoidTech by loganthemanster 2019-10-24T15:36:29Z ♥ 2
That was really nice! I was expecting more lore like, finding out where I am and who put me there. the ambiance was top notch, I was pretty immersed. I could see this being a polished little game if you refined it! Great work.
EVOL by hiroboto 2019-10-24T15:29:32Z ♥ 0
I like some good platforming but the version I played was a bit lack luster. The jumping felt pretty awkward and no air control made it pretty frustrating. The other thing is that getting good at jumping becomes pretty useless because I can stand still and teleport myself around using the stand ability, but it's not as fun as jumping but certainly is the better option. The music wasn't bad, I just don't think it was super fitting for the game.
Not a bad first jam entry though!
KOLENdor by MaxKlimenok 2019-10-24T15:25:17Z ♥ 2
This kind of game isn't really my cup of tea but I can appreciate all the lore you put in, I was surprised with the amount of lines written for the game. Visually it looks pretty polished too! The addition of a starting class was nice too, made my first and second run different.
Witches Beware by Mads 2019-10-24T15:22:50Z ♥ 2
I enjoyed my first couple of minutes, I liked the puzzle side of the game but I eventually grew tired of walking back and forth between places, couldn't get myself to complete the game unfortunately. I liked the way the game looked. the music was repetitive but did get the ambiance across.
and wow is the game dark
good work!
What Is Halloween? by Lexyvil 2019-10-22T14:45:42Z ♥ 1
most fun I've had with a ludum gare yet