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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
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| 2026 | 59 | Signal | 👥 | MARSAT | jam | 139 | 3.98 | 3.67 | 3.90 | 4.32 | 4.43 | 4.09 | 3.98 | |
| 2025 | 58 | Collector | 👥 | Excavation Sierra | jam | 28 | 4.22 | 4.09 | 4.34 | 4.50 | 4.42 | 3.80 | 3.87 | |
| 2025 | 57 | Depths | 👥 | Focal Depth | jam | 95 | 4.05 | 3.75 | 3.87 | 4.44 | 3.89 | 4.05 | 4.16 | |
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | 👥 | Saturna's Hand | jam | 95 | 4.11 | 3.88 | 3.94 | 4.41 | 4.35 | 4.10 | 4.22 | |
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | 👥 | Newton Logistics | jam | 42 | 4.26 | 4.10 | 3.92 | 4.45 | 4.17 | 3.93 | 4.04 | |
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | 👥 | DatenKraken | jam | 32 | 4.20 | 4.18 | 4.32 | 4.28 | 4.00 | 3.58 | 4.40 | 3.86 |
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | 👥 | Kairos Station Evac | jam | 65 | 4.14 | 4.06 | 4.25 | 4.56 | 3.52 | 3.84 | 3.29 | 4.07 |
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | 👥 | Jacob Cassidy in: Case Crimson Midnight | jam | 517 | 3.65 | 3.36 | 2.76 | 2.90 | 4.00 | 3.59 | 4.01 | |
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | 👥 | Tumble Transport Inc. | jam | 30 | 4.31 | 4.13 | 4.14 | 4.37 | 4.25 | 3.78 | 3.61 | 3.88 |
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | 👥 | Expedition into the Aronnax Trench | jam | 68 | 4.22 | 3.92 | 4.40 | 4.61 | 4.29 | 3.83 | 4.51 | |
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | 👥 | Super ∞ | jam | 159 | 4.03 | 3.98 | 4.36 | 4.17 | 3.71 | 3.72 | 3.94 |
The limited controls and the low visibility make the game definitely spooky, but the monster could have been teased a bit more. After being caught two times in the same location, the monster kind of lost it's scaryness?
The atmosphere and sounds were great! (the coin collect sound for opening doors seemed a bit misplaced though)
Love the idea! Going from the defense to attack phase was really satisfying, it felt like getting payback on the monsters. I think if the monsters would keep coming at you in the attack phase, this would be even more satisfying, allowing the player to clear out a huge cluster of enemies with a bomb. Also I think you could cheese the defense phase by simply circle strafing. Sometimes I didn't use any defensive abilities in a phase.
The art and story are very inspired by Tarkovksy's Stalker, which is a great idea! The gameplay works and represents the movie, where one character goes ahead to find a safe path for the others. Unfortunately, on lvl 3 I ran out of bolts before the half way point, after which the game became just trial and error.
Maybe you could have incorporated the different characters a bit more? A central part of the source material is how the different characters act in the zone. For example, the stalker has more bolts, the scientist could leave his backpack as a reference point/respawn point, etc.
Overall, a good homage!
Nice game! I got 7 endings until I didn't have any more clues. The ways you teach the player your mechanics is very subtle, but definitely works. Congrats!
The oppressive environment was really atmospheric, and the world becoming more weird every time you went against the rules had me keep playing. It all had a Stanley Parable feel to it. I just wish the objective of the game was a bit more complex than "not doing the thing". But overall, good job!
I fought Space Cthulhu and got away with it :sunglasses:
Great atmosphere through art and sound, and the puzzles were engaging. A bit lower time to kill would have been nice though :)
Very spooky game, the atmosphere and art are great! Although the game seems to have a difficulty spike when your knife gets taken away again? I couldn't manage to get past the room with the two vases and the rug, without the knife it's almost impossible.
For a first try, this game is actually a pretty good attempt!
The controls felt kind of buggy, which made a lot of the jumps a bit of trial and error. It would also have been nice to see where the gravity gets flipped in the level, so the player can make the decision how the level is traversed. The way it is now had you kind of stumbeling forward to the next available platform, which made the interaction with your core mechanic more unreliable.
The graphics were very nice, I liked the medieval steam punk aesthetics and music. The lighting in the levels made the game very moody. Good job :)
The dream state with it's weird audio, messed up textures, and deliberate rendering artifacts really was a vibe. Also loved the voice acting! Great job!
The art direction is just superb. Combined with the audio, the medieval vibe really comes through.
A bit of a critique of the gameplay: Since attacking stops the character, an attack makes you more vulnerable to enemies. The enemies are all slower than the player, and since there are no "roadblocks" to stop a player, the winning strategy is to just run past everything, and only use the attack for the final boss. Maybe a more fluid attack or a blocking move could help?
Nice art and mood! I got 53320 with lots of button mashing.
"Is the cucumber made of water?
Or is the water made of cucumber?", the werm asked.
He screamed (silently), for he does not know.
Took me a while to beat the game, but it was a good time! Returning to the fisher/submarine Engineer made you learn the layout until you felt ready to go deeper. Every level felt a little different and kept you exploring. My favorite part was doing flips at the surface :D
Art, sound and music all give the game a coherent mood, good job! Really felt like a zombie apocalypse.
After a while i wasn't sure if I was supposed too just get to the next level, or if I was supposed to clear all the zombies. Since ammo is scarce, I just avoided all the zombies until the next boss. But the levels just kept on repeating? Mondays I guess :)
Drilling was pretty fun at the start of the game, but after some speed upgrades, the drill got almost impossible to control. Even with turning speed upgraded to the maximum, you couldn't evade the dynamite anymore and just had to hope that the path below was clear. Maybe a warning at the bottom of the screen could help?
Cool graphics, but I think your colliders are broken. I could walk through walls and the ranged enemies could shoot through them.
The art direction is really good! Love the pixel look and the colors!
I think the enemies could have used some attack wind up. Taking damage by running into enemies resulted in me just standing at a distance while mashing space bar so I wouldn't get hurt. I think the game would feel a lot faster if charging into an enemy was more encouraged, or if there was some way of regaining health :)
The art is so cool! Spearing a fish and riding it is lots of fun, if you manage to hit it.
A cool little Metroidvania!
I love how bouncy the animation is! Movement with the jetpack was really fun. Also the fog and lighting really delivers on the atmosphere. Good job!
Damn, you start out thinking this is some sort of post-apocalyptic visual novel, and then the end hits you like a brick. This is what games as a medium are able to do! Good job!
This is a great game of prcedural humour. I was laughing at every phrase that I mangled. The artwork was on point as well. Would love to see more of this! Great job!
I have to agree though that the words were way too small to hit them cosistently. Maybe putting some boxes around the words would make it easier to hit them? Could also have been a resolution issue with Unity.
Edit: The phrase "I loathe SPYING" has now been accepted in our friend group's joke canon.
@anton4ik-dev @maluskhan Thanks for the feedback! There was indeed a problem with some of the truckers dialogue hiding the dispatch button. I've fixed it now!
@Satanos This is awesome! Merci beaucoup d'Allemagne!
@wiredoverload Thanks for the feedback! Yes, the interaction system was a bit slapped together. Maybe we should have just done away with click & drag altogether :D
Thanks to everyone for your kind comments and feedback! It really means a lot to us!
Great game! The second level was pretty difficult, I think some more shorter levels could have helped teach the car physics. Took me a while to figure out that you can use Space to jump :D
Fun game! Good looking, and easy to control. The boss fight was challanging but fair. The mechanic of balancing your power level was fun.
I had some trouble telling when I picked up a crystal. Some audio cues for picking up crystals could help, and increasing the range at which crystals are picked up.
Overall very enjoyable!
Nice game! The interactibility with the environment is great and helps a lot with the setting. I agree that the minigames are a bit too hard for the mood you are trying to convey, and having to memorize the values to put in (the computer doesn't seem to save them?) makes a chill vibe more frustrating. The graphics are great tho! The day/night-cycle and weather is really nice and helps with the immersion.
This was fun! It's pretty hectic to keep all meters at a good level, you need to get into a rhythm of checking every gauge. In the end I always forgot to pull the control rods out again (I should not be a nuclear engineer). I love the decision to put the city you are powering outside of your window. Gives you some context what's on the line if the reactor melts down.
This was fun! The puzzles were interesting, especially combining timing and classic puzzle elements.
I couldn't figure out how to open the red door in a later level, though. The red lever seemed to be out of bounds?
This was a really fun puzzle game! The mechanics always had some twist that were introduced well in the levels, the "Aha!"-moments were frequent, and it always felt like you just escaped the flood by the skin on your teeth. Great entry, congratz!
Played until level 10, the theme was executed well! A rising tide can even make a farming game exciting lol.
Some feedback: It was difficult to see if the layer you are standing on is about to be engulfed by water, which made some deaths unfun. It was also hard to see which trees are harvestable? I assumed when theres fruit on the tree its ready to harvest, but there seems to be another stage? Also, for an action game like this, the controls made my hand hurt after a while :D Nevertheless, I enjoyed my time with the game :)
Now I know why my game is always loading this slow...
Really fun to play! Art, music and sound mesh together really well, and fit the theme. Got a high score of 20k. Great job guys!
The small hallways and oppressive lighting create a really claustrophobic mood, good job!
I think the walking speed was fine, it's just that the animation is too fast.
Also, on the second map, I assumed that there would be something chasing me after picking up the key. I guess you ran out of time for a monster AI? It was still scary though, and the story had a great twist :)
Fun and very polished! Got around 1300 points as my high score. Like others have said, the first time you are playing it is really difficult to find everything. Maybe a tutorial could help where you do every task one after another without a time limit?
Also I managed to fill up my inventory with coffee cups and couldn't do any other tasks that required an item until I got rid of the coffee lol.
Thank you everyone for your comments! All of us are really happy reading your replies :)
@gibss @kyobi we noticed that happening a lot more often in the web build than in the editor, I suspect that the game loop works ever so slightly different in WebGL. Since we are collecting inputs and replaying them in FixedUpdate(), small changes can mess up the path of a crew member. Maybe a hybrid approach of recording input and position could help. Thank you for the input!
It was a lot of fun and while a bit chaotic this exactly made it nice. Great match for the theme and innovative and fun. The farmers scared reaction was amazing!! :D
This was a lot to take in. But I can see the love and effort you have put into all the graphics, ui, mechanics and elements. It sure is impressive! The graphics and atmosphere was overwhelmingly fitting! The writing gets an A+! This could have used a tutorial tho.
This is how I imagine David Lynch would grow his potatoes. Seriously, this had some amazing visuals! The sequence where the sun roamed across the long walkway? Amazing!
It took a moment to understand the gameplay, but was really nice afterwards. I would love to play some more while working towards some goal. Its a really cute little game.
Wow, this is great! This is going back to that era of shooters where your loadout was wacky and creative, great job embracing that! The amount of content you have is impressive, kudos to you!
Very nice that you could show the tutorial during the game. Interesting approach to use a card game for the harvest theme. Sadly I did not understand why I lost and why the pest control card didnt work like the irrigation card. Nice game though!
It's amazing that you did all this in a game jam, this already feels like a full game :D Driving around with the harvester felt good, and being able to harvest the monsters was a fun surprise!
It was a lot of fun once i had the bugs following me inside and then having madness and chaos everywhere :D
I really liked the art, especially of the main character. The music was well matched and made for a happy farming game. Some really fun puns i had to share with others :D A bit too much text though for my taste. Great game overall, keep up the good work!
A fine little game. The graphics and aestetics were fitting and the flowers were a moment of respite before I plunged myself back into the action! The difficulty was fitting and a natural escalation. Tho the enemys were not as much a stuggle as the controls. I wish I had more control over my shooting direction. Mean of those enemies, that they get to shoot diagonaly while I could not :(
This was geniunely unsetteling. The dream effect was really spooky! Good job on the mood!
This was such a fun little game, the way the chickens kept jumping at you, throwing eggs around, pure chaos! I especially liked that losing some eggs was not a big deal since you could collect more than enough on your way. Really added to the mayhem of the whole thing! Of the games I played so far, this is the first one I was smiling all the way through. Good job!
@bartekde I'm glad you enjoyed it! We had some difficulty with Unity physics, which causes this "jump" from time to time. We also had to limit the amount of cargo due to this. Thank you for the feedback!
Why are the packages talking to me? What DID I become??
Loved it all the way through! Thanks for not including a time limit, makes it a lot more chill than Papers Please and allows you to read all the little jokes you put into this. Well done!
Challenging but fun! Especially the explosives are unforgiving, but since the physics work well, making ever so slight adjustments made the robot's movement very satisfying. Reminded me of building PF maps in Trackmania ;D
The visuals and sound are also on point for this. Well done!
The fact that this is running on an NES still blows my mind. Thank you for the stream submission!
Thank you for the stream submission! I was getting a bit tired at the end, so I just wanted to say that I loved the way the game looked and was presented. The graphics were on point and your VA was just stellar. Great job :)
Just played this on stream, definitely my favorite puzzler here! Excellent puzzle design on so many levels :)
Very fun and original game! Sorry I sucked so hard when playing it on stream :)
A wonderful game with many cool and intersecting mechanics! A lot of risk & reward with polished graphics and a cool music track. I managed to beat the boss after three attempts!
Thanks for the stream submission! I really like the idea of the game, and figuring out the way to position your cultist squad through the ice courses was really nice :)
Thanks for joining the stream! This was really fun, and the boss encounter was a great addition! Good job, guys :)
@sobad Thanks for the feedback! Yes, the tutorial could use some improvement, maybe we can expand on it a bit :)
This was a mind bender to play on stream! Sorry I broke the game a few times :)
This man trained a CNN just to make the best game in this jam. Finally a useful application for AI ;)
Thanks for the stream submission!
Thanks for joining the stream! For your first jam game, this is great, keep at it!
Great stuff, this was so fun to play on stream! Thank you for the submission :)
The linux build seems broken. :( It loads a map, but the camera seems stuck in the ground and no inputs are accepted.
Thank you for the stream submission! This game was pretty cute, and your art is lovely! Keep at it :)
Great atmosphere! Loved playing it on stream, thank you for the submission!
Thanks for the stream submission! The concept works great, and the boss encounter was a good challenge!
This was the most I've ever laughed in a jam game. Playing it on stream was so good, thank you for submitting!
Signed, A.J. Munnings
Thanks for joining the stream! You have a good starting point for experimenting the game (much like the game itself!)
@leophyte Thanks for the in-depth (ha) suggestions! I'm sorry for the soft lock, we will test it again and push a fix. The other suggestions are all good points. I will have to check the camera focus code again if anything is wrong. The popups should be an easy fix :)
@bakuzen Thank you for the kind words! Maybe there was a problem with a game controller that was plugged in? I don't think we tested for that. I'll look into it.
At level 3, the controls clicked for me, at which point the game was actually very fun to play! I figured out how to roll around, move backwards and shoot at the pursuing enemies, which felt like a very efficient tactic. The boss fight was a little inconsistent, as most times, hits did not register as damage, which dragged the whole fight by a lot.
It was hiding under the damn LAMP!
Good job overall! Kudos to the environmental storytelling, that was my favorite part :)
@pro4 The final score is your remaining money times 100. So the best score while buying all upgrades and damaging no bones is $78,300 (Nice job, @kazuren!), but in theory you could just buy the trowel and start digging blind, which would get you up to $204,100. I hope nobody does that.
@nicekot Thanks! The brush works a lot faster if you wiggle it with the mouse, but I admit that the mechanic is not telegraphed well.
@bea Thanks, I still remember your chicken game! Yes, the bones hit boxes are a bit wonky at times, but the brush usually clears it up :)
I had to set this one aside for when I had the time to properly immerse myself in the case. When you take the time though, it is an exemplary deduction game! The clues never felt "on the nose", and had enough "Aha!"-moments. The timer added an element of pressure, where you had to focus on one or two clues to follow up on in the short time. The writing was also just really good!
I couldn't figure out the second clue for the financing (I only got that one email), which made the last few days a little frustrating. I was sure the second clue must have been that one interview with the CFO, but it didn't confirm. Is there a solution posted somewhere?
I played this game way too long. Loved it!
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This is what I imagine Java is doing when I run modded Minecraft. Good work!
What the hell did i just play? Why could I not run away? Why keep feeding the crow?? So scary!! 5 out of 5 for the mood. It was a very scary experience, well made
This was the first game in this jam where I felt confident giving full marks for theme, it just hits the nail on the head on collection hobbies so much, and so efficiently at that. Good job!
Great game! My favorite part was pulling large asteroids and the suspiciously asteriod-shaped underwear (took me way too long to find). The sound design and visual effects were amazing! Also big thanks for the controller support and the Linux build :) My only complaint would be that turning seemed too sensitive with a controller, which made aiming at a distance pretty difficult. Otherwise, excellent entry!
This was really good! The first boss was a bit hard with no training, but in the end, the second boss fight was even more rewarding because of it! The escape at the end was also very exciting :)
Loved the game and actually stuck to it to try to solve it. I was stuck on the last puzzle ...
!> ... figuring out how to tell the kraken I was coming in peace: I only got the connection that aggression = denial after reading the comments here. I think "aggression" might be misleading. Things i tried in the end: "I destroy pain", "I move joy", "I give joy", inverting "destroy" using the wave functions, asking "you destroy question" back (it replied with aggression, but I misinterpreted that as, well, aggression).
Still, I can only critique the implementation, the idea is still very solid and with a bit of play testing, this could be an amazing language puzzle game!
Great game! I had a little trouble understanding which building affect which other buildings positively or negatively. maybe some form of visual indicator that shows that a building is being negatively affected by its neighbour would be helpful. Also, a graph showing if a resource is depleting or increasing over time might help figure out what to build next. Otherwise, this was engaging and kept you interested the whole way through! Also the sounds were very satisfying!
This was a really fun game and very engaging! The concepts are easy to grasp and create really interesting situations that always keep you on your toes. I wish I could block signals to the relay boats! I had to tap out on Mission 4 due to the difficulty, but I got around 2.5k points on Mission 3, which I was very proud of. Nice entry!
Very cool game! Audio and graphics were on point. Those ventilation failures are getting REALLY frequent in the late game, though!
This was a lot of fun, and you can tell that a lot of effort went into this! Great entry! The artwork was beautiful and the atmosphere was on point. The camera could have been zoomed out a bit, so that you can better tell where you are landing after a jump.
As a heads up: I got killed while in dialogue when collecting scrap and it soft locked my game. And I only found out afterwards that you can shoot with the mouse...
An interesting take on the theme, I enjoyed hunting the rogues, but as other commenters said, it was hard to figure out what happened after you win or lose. Maybe a replay system where you can see what the invisible rogues were doing might help understand the mechanics better. My winning strategy was using the beacon to lure rogues to my position and then stomping when the signal got loud. That got me through the campaign, but was difficult for the endless mode without retries lol.
Still, a very good entry! Thanks for the Linux version as well!