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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | Bad Apples | compo | 75 | 3.78 | 3.82 | 3.32 | 4.36 | 4.00 | 3.42 | 3.13 | 3.41 | |
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | π₯ | The Brothers Deep | jam | 3.50 | 3.50 | 3.83 | 3.83 | 3.83 | 2.91 | 2.83 | 4.00 | |
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | The Decline | compo | 272 | 3.51 | 3.30 | 2.43 | 2.74 | 3.72 | 2.40 | 2.83 | ||
| 2017 | 38 | A Small World | Booster's Day Out | compo | 141 | 3.65 | 3.66 | 2.88 | 3.64 | 3.94 | 2.69 | 2.63 | 3.11 |
This is awesome. Love the music and overall feel. The controls do feel a bit finicky, especially using `Z` to activate when you're using `WASD` to move. It would be nice if there were a secondary activate key, maybe `T` or `G`?
Would like to give this a go, but it crashes on launch under macOS 10.12.4 Beta with Java 1.8.0_121. A `~/.polyorbis` directory has been created, but no logs folder under there:
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The sound effects when people and animals get blown off-planet are hilarious. Really enjoyed this.
Hey, this is great! Fun aesthetic, easy to grok but still clever gameplay, and well-executed. Might be interesting to try a version where you run automatically and can't stop, sort of like what Super Mario Run does.
EDIT: Tweaking the kill hitboxes might also be nice, as some of them currently feel a bit large.
Fun stuff! I'm a sucker for hand-drawn graphics like this, and really liked how the pad was actually visible in the "real world". One thing that might be an improvement is to zoom the view out a bit. Right now, it can be tough to tell when the sawblades are coming from offscreen, which can make it feel like you're guessing whether a move is safe or not.
This is seriously a blast. I'm amazed how much polish you were able to add in 72 hours. Gameplay made sense after one round. One thing I did run into is an AI "stalemate" that lasted around two minutes, so something to prevent that might be nice. Fantastic job.
I really like the "you flap your arms at the tree" sound, ha. I enjoyed this, and played through for both endings. Good fetch-questy gameplay, and I liked your take on the small world.
@cpv Totally agreed that the walls need work. They were added very last-minute, my last commit was 92 seconds before the deadline. π
@for-science Thanks so much! The walls are there for a bit of both reasons. I've got a more elegant solution in mind to replace/augment them, but the current walls were added within the last 30 minutes or so before the compo deadline.
@powerspark, totally. Controls are one of those things I spent several hours tweaking during the jam, and I'm sure I'll keep on tweaking as I work on the post-jam version of the game. I've also got plans for checkpoints. π
Thanks all for the wonderful reviews! I really appreciate it, and will be trying to get to as many of your games as I can before the deadline. π
@nekusoul: That is a fantastic catch, thank you very much. I thought I was using `Time.deltaTime` everywhere I needed to be, but apparently not! I'll definitely make sure that's taken care of in future builds.
Awesome work. Tight controls, great graphics, great sounds and music. One of my favorites of the games I've played so far. I'd love to see what a mobile version of this concept feels like.
I enjoyed this, nice work! I found the levels with multiple spinning planets a bit overly difficult; a lot of the time it felt like I was just guessing what might work, without being able to know for sure whether it would. As others have mentioned, it would be nice if there were some more UI helpers. For example, indicating when you can grapple to a planet, gravity fields, etc.
Great, great, great stuff all around. The checkpoints were a perfect distance apart to be a challenge without getting _too_ frustrating. Very nice work.
I enjoyed this a lot, and it was a take on the theme I hadn't seen. I _really_ like the main character sprite. Something you might want to consider is reversing the "left" and "right" controls when you're going backwards, like how most games do for driving a car in reverse. Right now, you can pretty easily and effectively just go "backwards" the entire time, which feels like probably not how you intended for people to play.
Also, thanks for that awesome LP footage and feedback on Booster's Day Out, I really appreciate it!
Cool idea. I found myself flying mostly using the minimap, because it offered a much farther view distance and more target/enemy clarity than the main camera did.
This is a fun concept. I definitely think it needs a timer to force quick decisions. I really dig the music, it made the whole thing feel urgent, and gave me a total Earthbound vibe.
Great work! I couldn't always quite tell what was killing me when I ran into a wall, but this is a good idea and execution. π
Thanks @james-shipp! I definitely spent an inordinate amount of time on graphical "juice", unfortunately to the detriment of audio. Everything is a tradeoff in LD! π
This crashes for me after selecting "Continue" on the display settings screen on macOS 10.13.6 + Java 1.8.0_161
A favorite of mine so far. Really well done!
This is awesome. Clever use of the theme, and I love the music/overall ambience.
Definitely a standout among the games I've tried so far. I really dig the graphics and overall idea, and would love to see a version of this after some more dev time!
This genuinely made me feel pretty anxious. Very simple but effective sound effects!
I agree with the other comments that it's a bit difficult to actually clear the field, but this is a neat concept, and pretty fun/funny to play!
I think this is a great concept, and could be especially fun on touch devices! I really like the gelatinous blobs, but their current implementation has lots of issues with getting stuck on geometry.
This looks pretty cool, but I'm having the same issue as @tuism with the macOS download link.
@stillnotsure Yep, that build works for me! Thanks, this is a blast!
Great work, and very impressively-polished given the available time!
That was a good take on typing games. I got 628/wave 7. I loved the typing error sound, and the fact that your bullets were the letters you were typing. Near the end, I was starting to have a bit of trouble actually reading the words, as they were moving pretty quickly.
Great job. I had a bit of a hard time timing my jumps out, but being able to turn midair definitely helped.
Took a minute to figure out what was going on, but I really enjoyed this! Clever. I jumped the gap in 10 minutes :)
Really fantastic entry. Solid gameplay, cute graphics, great theme direction. Controls felt a _little_ too finicky at times, but this is some impressive work! πππ
Hey @notaveerus, FYI the Itch link goes to a 404 for me
Great job! This feels super polished and cohesive. I love the in-game "scoreboard" of the tiny carrots piling up. Music and SFX are solid. Very cool.
@caranha good callout about losing focus, appreciate that. I updated the Itch settings to make it launch in fullscreen mode. That way, clicks anywhere in the browser are still registered and don't cause the game to lose focus. This also gives the player more control over the game resolution.
Thanks all for the great reviews and feedback so far! @profundity that's a great score.
@fallcresthero hah, I was wondering if anyone would hit that! I only got it once during dev. Thanks for playing and reporting!
@jason-wilson I really like the idea of some kind of combo system!
This is a cool concept. I agree that it's a bit difficult to figure out what's going on at first. More explanation could help, but IMO what would be most helpful is a persistent display of the current block somewhere on screen to the side of the board. Might be cool to show the block that will come after that too, like Tetris.
FYI the Itch version doesn't work in Safari, though Chrome is fine. It's throwing a max call stack exceeded. I think I hit the same thing when deploying my game, and disabling gzip in the build resolved it. You know, in case you're concerned about the other 4 people using Safari :D
I think some labels/tooltips on the items would be really helpful. For example, I had to look up what echinacea looks like π
I also couldn't figure out how to actually light the cauldron to heat the tea. Cute game and art though!
I had a lot of fun playing this, though I'm not entirely sure what I was doing!
Really excellent submission. The art is adorable, and it's an interesting take on the theme. Also great music!
Great job all around. Fun gameplay, and I really enjoyed the sounds.
Fun game! I made it to level 14 with 739 brains. I enjoyed the layering of the music, and the SFX generally, the a cappella worked out well. Something like this could work well on mobile, with the simple control scheme.
This has a great feel, good job! Very satisfying to rush forward through a big group of trees.
I had a blast playing this, great work!
* The music was simple, but effective. * I liked the grid-based movement. * The loop just generally felt good.
I did feel pretty overpowered, but that was also part of the fun. Maybe some kind of limit on your stones. Possibly range, or maybe something where you have a limited amount and have to pick up refills from around the field?
Just wanted to say how much I loved the background art. Great atmosphere in general!
Good job doing something different with the theme! I especially liked the main character art, and throwing little versions of myself around.
I didn't feel like moving really helped with the gameplay.
This is a great idea, and a lot of fun. The biggest issue is I had a difficult time actually shaking the apples into the basket. Fun sounds/music, and good graphics.
This is a neat concept, I like "fling the character" games! I found the lack of any air control or double jumping really punishing (as another reviewer mentioned, _Getting Over It_ vibes). I also found the screen flashing to be a bit intense/distracting.
This was a cute, fun little game. I liked that there was a boss fight, the giant enemy made me chuckle. I found myself skipping a good number of the enemies since there wasn't really any reason for me to stop and try to hit them.
Seems like you should get a few more seeds at the start, the loop is quite slow to begin with. I also got stuck in my own crops a couple times while planting, once I had to restart.
Good work though, the music is impressive!
Very fun, and great graphics. I had a hard time, died at wave 2! Some feedback:
1. It would be nice if you didn't have to run all the way back to the barn after each wave. 2. I got stuck strafing several times, maybe worth looking into.