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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Mo | ||
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| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | OVERCOME | compo | 388 | 3.30 | 2.80 | 2.93 | 3.40 | 3.05 | 3.35 | 3.70 | ||
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | ....To the Ends of the World and Back | compo | 460 | 3.04 | 2.45 | 3.08 | 3.36 | 2.87 | 2.71 | 3.57 | ||
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | Aftermath | compo | 826 | 2.77 | 2.34 | 2.54 | 2.75 | 2.65 | 3.02 | 3.61 | ||
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | Outside The Loop | jam | 1551 | 2.77 | 2.72 | 2.79 | 3.41 | 2.06 | 1.95 |
Peace Of Cake Games leaves an average of 60.6 feedback comments each event.
Nice and innovative! Changing the mass of the weights (within certain limits) to keep the platform balanced is a neat mechanic, I've never seen that in a game before. The menu credits text was hard to read, but I think it helped the theme of an arcade game be delivered quite nicely. The graphics really give it the arcade game feel!
Aww, what an adorable and fun game! The beautiful graphics remind me of claymation and children's books at the same time. The ever-evolving gameplay never got boring one bit, and had a perfect difficulty curve (meaning I never lost on the physics-based puzzles but I had to think increasingly large amounts to figure them out). The controls weren't too bad on a laptop touchpad, probably the most touchpad-friendly game aimed at mouses I've seen.
Wow.... atmosphere and feels and heartstring pulling and *so much sympathy for the main character* all in one game. This is exactly what I've been looking for this Ludum Dare: a serious game about mental health where the character's unstable mental state isn't used jokingly. Poor mental health is no joke, this game really captures the seriousness of it. I was barely breathing during the dialogue parts, you had me so captivated and in awe.
Also, *multiple engines for one game?!?* I'm amazed at how just a few people managed to make such a game, it really is awe-inspiring. And now I know why I kept having to jump all across Itch. ๐ค
I do feel like the Sokoban-style parts had quite the extreme difficulty curve, I barely managed to get to The World even with the walkthrough and I just ragequitted then. (Sokoban is one of the few games that frustrates me enough to ragequit)
Overall, I'd rate this game as Perfection/10. This is an absolute masterpiece, one of the greatest games of LD49. Thank you for making such a beautiful story about dealing with depression and anxiety, and not making unstable mental health be a thing that is mocked for bonus theme points!
Controller support is always appreciated. ๐
This is one of those incredibly rare Ludum Dare games where it already feels like a fully-released game! The innovative gameplay, beautiful framerates, amazing art (though really, what else could I expect?), and overall polish and detail in the game all feel like more than just a Ludum Dare game! Blurring the vision when you dash is a perfect and professional touch, I love it. Holding A to revive someone to prevent accidentally doing it and mashing A to regain sanity really bring some nice variety to the gameplay, too bad I'm using a backup PC controller and not one of my "ideal for button mashing" ones. Having the characters and enemies be billboards so you could have perfectly-drawn 2D characters in a 3D environment was a good idea, it really brings attention to the 2D graphics. Also, you seriously had the time to implement changing light and weather? Consider me impressed, all I can do with Unity is crash the editor, though I expect every Unity developer has dealt with an engine crash at one point or another. In my experience Unity is a pretty **unstable** game engine. ๐
Sadly, there is a bug report.... in Wave 2, close to Wave 3 I presume by the lack of enemies, I was guarding the last living villager and she committed suicide or something. I had been recently released from insanity and no enemies were on-screen, so no one was attacking any villagers, and the game just.... ended. Version 1.0.0 was used, though judging by the changelog I suspect the same thing would have happened in v1.0.1.
Mwahaha! You fools didn't see it coming, and now you are all sacrifices to the great deity Dagon! ๐
But seriously, this game is great. The art is beautifully drawn, it really creates the ideal mood! Playing Among Us seems to have sharpened my skills a bit too much though, on my first playthrough of the game I won and it was actually really hard for me to lose to see the other endings. I love these sort of infiltration games, really tests your decision-making skills and intuition.
This feels exactly like every online game ever. (And I mean that in a good way) Very well-made, I love how you can just make the AIs do everything for you! (Thanks @memoryfloater ๐)
I died with
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but some of the AIs spawned after the reactor became unstable and kept throwing stuff everywhere, so I managed to boost my score by doing nothing.
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Heck, I'll gladly take an extra 2000 points!
It's not often I find one of these games where you're like "wait this is a jam game"! The graphics are amazing, I can't believe full opening and closing cutscenes, plus such detailed game animations, were made in only 3 days! I have only two complaints:
1. A list of controls, at least on the Ludum Dare page, would be nice since it took me forever to figure out the controls. WASD, Space, F, and X seems like a weird control scheme, unless that's just my QWERTY keyboard. 2. Why is this not one of the top games on Itch right now?
I will be back for you, leaderboard.... mark my words, somehow one day PeaceOfCake will take 10th spot....
I think this game demonstrates why I don't ride horses: no one would ever let me grab medals with my butt while hanging on to the horse's thigh with one hand. ๐ This is pure entertainment right here.
Thank goodness for friction.... ๐
What a nice and polished game! The feeling of the buildings popping into place is very satisfying, and all of the little graphical touches you added really bring it all together. I like how the characters flying in not only improved the feel of the game, but also due to them being 2D compared to the game elements' 3D, they weren't distracting and annoying, and added to the environment whilst building the buildings.
Never before has feeling like this been so entertaining.... ๐คข I *love* the low-poly art on the gems and some of the dรฉcor, and the smooth sculpted graphics on everything else! The art blends really well together, the environment is beautiful. My only request would be to make it so that if you run into the galaxy at the end you cause an explosion that blows up the universe. ๐
Well, my intuition was correct, choosing "Cake" instead of "Peace Of Cake Games" for my name was a good idea. ๐
What a beautifully atmospheric game! Definitely going to have to go for more endings, I got the
!> Everything Is Resolved
or whatever it's called ending. The clock is definitely creepy, makes me glad we don't have smart appliances quite this smart yet.
!> The introduction of another human character was definitely a relief, here I was thinking I would be stuck arguing with my toothbrush about how it can seriously know what roadkill smells like for forever!
Whew, this isn't easy with a laptop touchpad.... but I made it first try with over $500! It's definitely rough how the only way to figure out to read the newspaper is when the policeman fines you for the only things that *aren't* banned. It's interesting how the newspaper doesn't pause the game like when other popups appear, the policeman almost came while I was struggling to press the X button to close the newspaper.
These are some amazing graphics! Really good job on 'em, this looks really polished. My only criticism would be that it took me *forever* to figure out how to toggle the flag, it doesn't pop up like the farms do when you hover over it. I thought you have to click the flagpole or something, eventually I got it though.
Well that was.... unexpected. One of the best games I've played this Ludum Dare!
!> You really got me the first time the starry blob monster came for me! Here I was thinking the "not suitable for kids and easily disturbed people" warning was just a weird way of doing the photosensitivity warning, and then....
It certainly has potential! I love the idea of the game getting harder the longer you stall, and the shading on the graphics is beautiful.
However, there are some issues that made the game extremely difficult in Level 1, and impossible in levels 2 and Boss. The falling rocks feel rushed and not fully thought out, I had to try and speedrun through a level before the 4:40 mark because there was no indication of where the falling rocks would be, and they would kill me the instant I respawned (sometimes before I had even finished respawning). In the first area where you see the robot with the laser blaster in Level 2, the game respawns you directly above the spikes so unless you hold right you get killed immediately. I also couldn't finish Level 2 after that point or do the Boss Level at all because the camera kept moving on its own and I couldn't see where I was going, and was apparently also unable to die to reset the camera.
The player's movement also felt weird, not only was it *extremely* floaty for a precision platformer and seemed to constantly randomize the speed, the jump strength also randomly cut out, the player would randomly get caught on walls and ceilings when jumping (it felt like the level was made out of Velcro), and sometimes when trying to jump against a wall it would either refuse to jump and make the player stuck in its jumping animation, or do a half-strength jump with no jump animation. The hitboxes also need work, the bats and spikes apparently had telekinetic abilities and would kill the player a full tilemap block away from them. I also noticed that upon beating Level 1, the game didn't say I beat Level 1 and immediately forced me to do Level 2 with the almost-expired timer of Level 1. It would be nice to have a "Level Complete!" screen and then transition to the next level and reset the timer, because I didn't realize I had beaten the level and starting a level with only a minute-long timer is a bit unfair. The cave also seemed to have collapsed after that with 10 seconds left on the timer still?
Overall, with improvements and bug fixes I can see this becoming quite the polished post-Jam game! The beautiful shading really brings depth and mood to the 1-bit art, a full version of this would be visually breathtaking!
Very cool! The box stacking controls a lot like the Magnesis power in Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild, it's quite fun to mess around with.
> I think about making also a NSTW version xD like โhentaiโ, what you guys think?
I honestly think that that would be a fitting addition to the game, seems like that would be the perfect post-Jam version.
Once word: INNOVATIVE. This really is the future of society! The way each level is different in multiple ways keeps each level nice and fresh.
I did have some cases where I would go for an X but there was a รท hidden behind it.... (โฏยฐโกยฐ๏ผโฏ๏ธต โปโโป The beauty of combat with numbers, always unpredictable.
I always thought I was more of a cat person, and then I saw a dog that looks exactly like Kirby.... ๐ค
This is *so polished*! Go stick this on Steam, you'll get the money for Steam's game registration fees back in no time. Microsoft would like to let you know that they're interested in having this on Game Pass, you're going to get rich off of something this innovative.
You seriously made a game this polished and *juicy* in one Compo when you've never used Unity? Consider me impressed! All I've ever managed to accomplish in Unity is crash the editor (though that's such an extremely typical thing to happen to the point where I played a game about Unity's instability). My only complaint about the game is that it's too short, this game has too much potential to not have a post-Compo update!
You say "controller is untested", I say "COME HERE CONTROLLER!" Controller support confirmed as working, I used my trusty ol' Xbox 360 controller and it worked great! Left Stick is move, Y is jump, B is shoot. Probably going to play this again a little later and see how my Nintendo Switch Pro Controller feels with it, using a Nintendo controller would really complete the mood.
You made a fully destroyable world. In 48 hours. And had time to polish it. How did you do this, this is no average Compo entry! The fact that you added recoil to the gun is amazing, you really thought of everything.
Mmmmm, buns....
Very good levels of polish! The graphics are extremely cute, I love 'em!
Constant crashes, bad collisions, and annoying popups.... yeah, this feels like Unity all right.
Certainly an innovative game! I love seeing all of the tutorial ripoffs, it feels just like when I started making games and spent ~10 months making ripoffs of engine tutorials and existing games.
Whew, that's not easy.... this is a spectacular game! Bonus points for the leaderboard, I always appreciate a good leaderboard. ๐
Pretty polished! Remappable controls would be greatly appreciated though, having one hand on six buttons gets a bit harder than separate balancing/moving controls. I'd recommend something along the lines of the classic Arrows/Z/X setup.
Yeti must die.... yeti must die.... yeti must die.... I thought I was doing *so good*, and then that STUPID FLOATING YETI got me with the most beautifully unexpected jumpscare ever.
The annoyingness of this game is beyond what anyone could ever have expected. This is absolute perfection as far as abominations go, and remember to ***always pet the kitty***.
Seriously, did you think I wouldn't make a beeline for the BSoD button? The instant it loaded up I went for the start menu and saw a BSoD program, if someone tells me there's a BSoD program in a game I *have* to hit it. ๐
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O.................K............................. I have absolutely no idea what the heck just happened. This is the most confusing thing I have ever played, pretty unsurprising Brainloaf made it. I'm just going to give you 5 stars and run before I get caught in this.... thing.
(Fantastic job! Everything was top-notch quality, go get some gold trophies for making this game)
@k-baskakova
> Has anyone found at least one ending? :)
Found 2 endings! Naturally I got the "YOU ARE A FAILURE" ending twice, as I like to call it, and third time's the charm and I finally got an ending that doesn't tell me I'm a failure. Can't say I didn't see 104 coming.... I saw that ending coming from a mile away, the game page's artwork specifically. Any way to get an ending that pleases the boss so I actually become "useful"?
This game has a fantastic level of polish! The dialogues are well-written and definitely give me some idea as to what's behind each door (I suspect there's a serial killer or something in 105). I definitely feel sorry for room 103, sounds hectic in there.
All right, enough depressing crap about this game supposedly being crap, this is one of the best games I've played this Ludum Dare. The "boing" and "Boing?" and "BOING" sound effects are going to go down in history as the greatest sound effects ever created, that's an easy 5 stars in Humor right there. I think this has a future as the next big troll platformer (but actually super enjoyable unlike Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels from the NES).
Also, you made a game! For doing that and not giving up under all of that pressure (and trust me, I get it, expect me to ramble on about it in a few sentences) that already makes you a winner, as cheesy and kids-cartoony as it sounds. The Compo is pure stress, making it through 48 hours of struggling to make a game is no easy feat. I completely get what you said about the stress of worrying about whether or not you'd make it, on Day 1 (or 2, Central Time makes Ludum Dare weird) I was already panicking about finishing. I had to scratch the majority of the features I had planned for my game to make way for actually finishing, I was stressing out and giving myself a headache, that was a pain because I didn't have the sense to go do something smart like take an ibuprofen pill. I literally had to write the story in 15 minutes, I was shaking with both adrenaline and anxiety about not finishing the most important part of the game in time. The most annoying part about scratching features in my game is I didn't have time to implement a basic radio that would play a chiptune cover of a rickroll.
So, moral of the story: the Compo is hard, you did amazing, your "Boing" sound effects define audio perfection, and next Ludum Dare everyone's going to be killing each other trying to get you to be their artist.
Seeing that Itch has been instructed to call this "flaming cheeto" is one of the most hilarious things I have ever seen, I haven't laughed that hard in months! ๐คฃ Now I want some Cheetos and cake.
First things first: my initial reaction was along the lines of "OH FRICKING HECK IT'S ANOTHER SCARY ONE" and I waited until midnight to download and play it. Was that a good idea? Yes. **Anyone reading the comments before playing for some reason, wait until midnight to play this!** My heart was barely beating and I was barely breathing at the
!> hiding under the bed scene.
Some of those scary moments and jumpscares got me *GOOD*, that's what I get for playing at *12 FRICKING A.M.* to maximize the horror vibes.
I think the plot can be summed up on one word: yes. Very few people can tell a story this good in 3 days (glances at @emily-pitcher 's [submission](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/dear-ghost)'s nothing-but-5-stars rating), this is perfection. I can only wish to one day be as good at drawing as you are, I absolutely *suck* at digital art and drawing people in general. Proportions are too hard, I'd rather draw a blob.... :P
As far as characters go, these are some *really* well-developed characters! I can't help but notice Pav's Zelda liking, I recently began playing Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild and I've played and watched games all the way back to the original NES game so I recognize the Triforce and Sheikah Eye and all that. ๐ The characters are just AlL sO lIkEaBlE, characters are one of the most important parts of a story and you broke a hammer nailing them so hard! Also always indescribably happy to see a whole ton of LGBT characters as usual, as a fellow LGBT person that always makes me happy. [Insert non-binary flag while also playing the classic slap sound effect]
The audio is spot-on too, the horror music of the serial killer is going to give me nightmares tonight. I also need to note that I'm happy to have played a serial killer game, during Theme Voting I half-joked that if the community dared to do "One tool, many uses" the temptation to make a serial killer game would probably be too strong for me to resist. I can't draw crap, making a serial killer/yandere game would be the hardest thing I've ever done....
Overall, this game really speaks to me. Death, cake, LGBT characters, and a reason to almost cry over just a couple of small jumpscares, it's perfect. ๐ Especially the cake and death and LGBT-ness, all of that is in my profile pic/logo after all.
Once again, another flawless and breathtaking entry! It really is awe-inspiring. It hits you with pure atmosphere like a brick wall, and the controls are extremely intuitive even for a touchpad user like me. (Two-finger-tap to right-click on Windows is a lifesaver) The horror element is perfect for an October jam, just like last year's entry (do I sense Celeste vibes from WHAT I SAW?). Here are your 5 stars of flawlessness, go get yourself even more trophies. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to make sure to get some Flaming Cheetos sometime soon! ๐
I desperately want @pov to play this. This game has it all: humor, cool graphics, options you can't click but I clicked it anyway, and Mike Kasprsak. Very well done!
So.... I regret to inform my fellow pianists that Beethoven died of spontaneous combustion.... and then somehow he was resurrected and trampled by bulls, which ruined someone's weekend so much *they* spontaneously combusted.
This game is genius.
My "Innovation" detection is going crazy with this entry! The minimalist 1-bit graphics make a perfect contrast to the game's extreme complexity, and I love the slight horror vibes the static makes. As @quite-good noted it's always exciting trying to race the static to a safe zone and making it with a split second to spare! ๐ This is one of my favorites this Ludum Dare, it's extremely polished.
As of right now I've only gotten the
!> DEATH
ending,
!> Level 2 is a bit tricky for my dumb brain!
I'll be sure to play it more in my spare time and try to beat it, I'm a bit behind on ratings right now.... (~40 ratings received, ~25 ratings given, I don't even know where I'm getting all of these plays from because last I checked I didn't have a fan club following me or anything, not like I need/deserve one)
Well, let's see how long I stay 2nd in Level 1 and 4th in Level 2.
This is one great game! I always appreciate an online leaderboard, I can never resist the chance to slap my name in there no matter how many tries it takes. My only complaint would be that sometimes the game had trouble registering the truck parking, when trying to shave off a few milliseconds in Level 1 there were several times the game refused to accept the truck as parked even though it was there.
Note to self: come back to this when I have my mouse. Touchpads are for portability, not gaming.
This is breathtaking so far! Definitely interested to know how you made such beautiful water physics, I remember playing around with water physics a few years back (was not very experienced then....) and it took hours just to make a few objects poorly float. Not only are your water physics perfect, it's visually stunning too.
Whew, it's not often I get to slap 5 stars for Innovation on a game without a single moment of hesitation! This is so incredibly creative, and you even made the shape of the puzzle pieces change depending on the mood, which is a genius touch. My heartstrings were pulled, my eyes were impressed, and my brain kept going "wow!" so this is one darn good game.
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Now why would I *not* enjoy a Ludum Dare game with some well-animated violence and gore? ๐
I swear, that baby is a real demon. No? Don't think it's a demon? Think again, as a LITERAL DEMON teleports away from me with 3% happiness left when I'm LITERALLY a SECOND away from saving the game. Moments that drive me insane like this is why I absolutely love this crazy game.
....My heartstrings.... ouch, that hurt. You just yanked out all of my heartstrings and I'm completely fine with it. I'm feeling ~~a little~~ extremely emotionally touched right now....
I've been playing games about wizards, and sentient tables (by the Keyboard Cowboys of course), and Hatsune Miku with jetpacks for hair, and then I play this. This is a piece of pure emotional perfection: a beautiful story as always, spectacular music setting the mood (once of the best game atmospheres I've experienced), and fittingly adorable graphics. This thing is a total heartstring puller, I'm absolutely speechless after playing it (which is why I'm glad this is over the Internet, because when leaving comments no one can see how dumb you look when your heartstrings have been removed and you're left speechless). This thing has such an atmosphere to it, Mood shouldn't be capped out at 5 stars for this.
These games are always such a big highlight of Ludum Dare for me, it's one of the things that makes me so excited for every Ludum Dare (also the whole "Ludum Dare will bring back my motivation for gamedev" part). Every Ludum Dare I've been a part of you've always left me speechless, and this game went above and beyond. Thank you for once again giving me the chance to get extremely emotional over a several-minute game!
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Sincerely, the random non-binary person who has expressed immense love for these games,
Peace Of Cake Games
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Also, I did the anti-bug game plot advice on the Itch page by the way, it worked flawlessly like that. ๐
Well I'm terrible at this. ๐
This doesn't really seem like something made in a mere 72 hours! The animation is so smooth and the gameplay is so well-thought out, I think this could be a Steam hit if you make a post-Jam version. My only suggestion would be to make it so that cargo is guaranteed for each train, I had a train with nothing but three green cars and none of the respective cargo.
Definitely not the easiest game, the physics are very realistic. ๐ That last level is brutal, it's almost impossible to restock on stability and fuel.
The graphics for this are spot-on! I don't know if I've ever seen anything quite like this, it's quite original, Hatsune Miku with jetpacks for hair.
The Keyboard Cowboys are riding once again and I'm enjoying EVERY MINUTE of it! ๐ค ๐
You guys are absolutely hilarious, making such a serious game about rolling a table around. Definitely not recommended to play it with a touchpad, but once I pulled out my mouse things got epic (and about 6 times easier). I also feel like a total idiot for not realizing I could grab the edges of the device and tilt it to, like, move.... ๐
*Kiiiiiittiiiiieeeeesssss!!!* ๐ป
Way to take the theme to an extreme, Cocoa Moss! This is so hard singleplayer, took me forever to figure out how the heck the cat tree could even stay balanced. Guess it's time to try the good ol' "two controller technique" later and play Two Player Mode with me and my foot. Guess it is useful that I own six PC-compatible controllers.
I definitely hear the Kirby's Dream Land 3 in the music and SFX, and there's no way I'd ever complain about hearing some nostalgic Kirby-style music. ๐
Whew, that was tough! I feel that this would be a great game to speedrun, since there are *so many* different paths you can take.
Once again, another beautifully crafted entry! I love the addition of spellcasting and mana collecting, that really boosts the magical mood. I'm glad to see that it's not one of those games where there's one overused power and a bunch of useless powers that do basically nothing, you really struck the perfect balance between all of the powers. It just wouldn't be Ludum Dare without getting to play one of these games, it's always a highlight of the Play + Rate for me!
Whew, that got violent. ๐ Fighter jets will always annihilate mere soldiers.
I'm not a fan of Civilization, but I loved this! The gameplay feel of it just feels so nice. My only request would be to make it so I can choose who to pick on (unless I'm missing something and you can already do that), it got kind of hard to slaughter innocent lives when those innocent lives also turned guilty of murder and assembled fighter jets to match my maximum-size fleet. Kind of felt like conflicts were going nowhere when each country had the exact same things.
Gosh, this is chaotic.... those Plip-Plops really enjoy making me spam buttons!
This game is adorable! The art fits the mood quite nicely, and the difficulty curve is perfect.
Perfectly balanced.... Managed to get 10 of everything, it was practically raining money!
This is probably the most enjoyable clicker game I've ever played. It's straightforward, it teaches you things through trial and error instead of a lengthy tutorial, and the news actually helps (sometimes)!
By the way, winter is coming. Wait, never mind, it's not coming. Just kidding, it is. Winter ends and immediately it's winter again. Just kidding none of the winters ever happened. ๐คฃ Best season cycle ever.
I don't know if I have ever seen a Ludum Dare game this deserving of a post-jam version. I'm talking local multiplayer, online multiplayer, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Xbox One/Series X|S, Sony PS4/PS5, Android (iOS is too much of a weakling for this)! This is the future of sports, imagine if sports were actually this interesting. This is the first all-5-stars rating I've done this jam! You did not disappoint, @ausstein .
Whew, that was tough.... took my dumb brain forever to realize that the best attack was reflecting the stars back.
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Spent most of that battle at a 1/2 heart, I completely cheesed it by going to the *veeeeery* right of the screen during the money attack. Might want to fix that. ๐
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Yeah, I'm not great at this....
This is one *really* polished jam game, and a Compo entry no less! The graphics are spectacular. My only suggestions for a post-jam version would be to make the player less touchy (for a precise speedrunning game, the player is incredibly touchy) and to make ropes easier to swing between. Chains of 3 or more ropes get nearly impossible for me, the ropes get in the way of the player when you try to swing.
I got the unbridgeable gap bug too, there was a screen-wide gap that was both too far and too high to jump across.
Same bug as @mateu , died at 81m and no restart button appeared.
The pixel art is really cute! It was extremely hard to get off of the starting platform though, I had to jump at the last possible second before death by lava and there was only about a 50/50 chance of making it to the beginning of the generated platforms. Also, at my 81m death, I think the game got bugged out? The only available platforms were offscreen so I couldn't jump on them, and an enemy went off-screen and didn't come back.
Might have to keep doing this a little later, I can never resist the chance for a high score. ๐
Hm, not bad.... or at least I don't think it's that bad, I don't know how well anyone else did.
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I decided to try the right arrow since I had already figured out what the left arrow did, that was my undoing!
It's a cute and enjoyable little game! I love the sun, I feel like the sun has the most accurate reaction to the scene down below it.
Me: "Ha, this won't be so bad! I've unlocked every level of Celeste, one of *the* most brutal games ever created, and I can beat some of the hardest levels without dying!"
Also me: proceeds to take about 9 minutes getting the first two collectibles, and then immediately makes a beeline for the first thing in the level that can kill you, and learns that collectibles are not saved when you die.
Oh, and can't forget how for several tries I kept attempting to use the arrow keys even though I had read the controls on the Itch page and Ludum Dare site. After playing so many games where it says "Use WASD" and it secretly has arrow keys support, I tend to try arrow keys in games. Yes, I'm that dumb.
Alright, now that that's out of the way, go stick the music on Spotify, I want it on my playlist. ๐
YES, YES, KILL THE HUMANS, MY ANIMAL COMPANIONS!
The audio is *so good*! The physics are definitely hard to get used to at first, but eventually I figured out it was useful for hitting multiple buildings (or fences) at once.
Construct for the win! It's all thanks to Construct 2 that I know how to do anything, it's always good to see people still using it.
This is one *really* polished little game! The character is funny, the death screen is highly entertaining, and the graphics are really good. Definitely going to have to take a look at the CAPX sometime, I'm interested to know how certain things were made in Construct 2 (I can't imagine making my Ludum Dare project without Construct 3's Tween feature and the currently beta-only 3D and mouse locking).
I don't think I'm even going to try challenging your high score, it's too good. ๐
Chill beats, fitting SFX, and a valid reason to fail five seconds into a game? Yes please! Bonus points for the leaderboard, I can't resist a game with a leaderboard.
I see now why it says not to let blocks with the same color touch.... I did it because my stack was going nowhere (that was before I decided to go for height) and I learned why you shouldn't do it the hard way. The fact that the blocks change color is a genius touch, it really destabilizes things when a block slips!
I think the MMO has developed beyond just playing Jenga.... ๐ People were building houses, building arches, accidentally wrecking things, and then I built a house. Didn't get to finish a roof because the game refused to let me make/destroy blocks once everyone else left.
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I actually managed to balance a roof!
I love how LMB creates and RMB destroys, since the controls seem to be suggesting creation is better than destruction. It's the opposite of Minecraft, where the game seems to be encouraging you to destroy blocks and kill creatures.
As usual, a fantastic entry! Didn't manage to get past the butcher yet, but I'll have to come back and play it later when I can actually rate this so I'll beat the butcher then.
Once again your creation has amazing graphics in a signature recognizable style, and the humor has me smiling the whole time! Took me quite a while to figure out that there was only a bomb risk flare-up when the dog started walking, so I could walk around for a while as long as I avoided walls and such.
And.... a bug report.... At the first spot with cars I got Old Roger killed off-screen by the first car pushing him out of the area, and the game completely froze up when it restarted the area. Thankfully it only takes about half a minute to get back there, so it wasn't ragequit frustrating or anything.
Hmm, you're right, that 2-trap level is a little odd, especially because I forced the bunny down the hole using only 1 trap. ๐ค And I could have sworn it went straight into the rock, not randomly went left down the hole....
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I'm interested to know, did I get all of 'em? ๐ฐ๐
Just checked out the source code, thanks for the C3P file! I was interested to know how you made the painting mechanic, I see that you used a DrawingCanvas. Good idea making it paste splatter effects onto the DrawingCanvas, I played through the whole thing and it works flawlessly.
What a fan little game! Poor main character, without any way to not buy upgrades and agree to do stuff they're doomed to sink deeper and deeper.... Got to admit, I did love clicking the upgrade buttons even though I was completely ruining the main character's life, clicking random upgrade buttons is very satisfying.
All right, it would appear I'm terrible at oil mining. ๐ At the start of the game everything was being measured in hundredth decimals, so I thought I could exploit the system and buy sports cars for 0.01 and sell them for 0.03. Then my stupid brain took a second look at the prices when my supply of money went down a little bit and I realized why I shouldn't play mining simulators when I've only been awake for around 30 minutes. ๐คฃ
This is a pretty solid mining simulator! The fact that you managed to make this *and* another game is really impressive. Great job!
Mwahahaha, you shall never defeat me, wind! I have reached all the way up into space!
The fact that you gave the root mechanism such smart growing it's practically AI is incredible! Too bad I ran out of space for the roots, I had probably filled up every possible spot for roots and all that was left was expansion into space.
I had the same scenario near the end as @honey-pony , when the wind got really strong (especially when it went over 1000) I would have to sit around waiting for the wind to change direction since the wind was so strong the tree's expansion points blew off-screen.
Oh man, this is awesome.... I love the Nintendo GameBoy, and this feels exactly like if you were to put 10 or so Game Paks in the GameBoy at the same time. (Technically impossible but whatever.) This feels like something that would play really great on a GameBoy Advance. (I can imagine how good it would feel to play it on a GBA, fighting the last boss with the D-Pad and A and B....)
As far as gameplay goes this game is genius, and the art and music are perfect for giving me that GameBoy-era feel. Your game last jam got a whole 4 trophies, I can see this game getting you more trophies to add to your LD game trophies collection!
###### (I love Kirby's Dream Land on the GameBoy. No way my LD profile pic could be a fanart of Kirby or anything. ๐)
That 48th memory shard.... I'm definitely not a fan of the placement, I had 47 memory shards on my first play of the game and my YOLO jump failed. Played through to the end twice more, both times I got hurled down the last pit when I tried to grab #47. ๐
Heading back to the page for playthrough #4, I'll be back to do some real feedback in a couple of minutes.
###### Aaaaahhhhhh the physics pushed me off of the block and once again I ended with 46.... apparently I suck at platformers now.
Oh boy, you'd think I would avoid going straight down since it's one of the many rules of Minecraft, but I jumped down a bottomless hole someone made regardless.... at least I became the new leaderboard champion before being forced to close the tab. Might want to make an unbreakable Bedrock-style material at the bottom instead of a void of nothingness, someone dug right into the void and the trap got me too.
Anyways, this was really fun! I didn't really make anything fun like the person who wrote "HI" and "42", but I did made a staircase to get you back up from right above the bottomless pit, I closed up the bottomless pit, and I started making a ladder system so you don't have to take the staircase that took me about 5 minutes to make, the world got so deep. Might head on back there and make more ladder systems, whoever dug straight down the the bottom of the world didn't make any way to get back up (resulting in me spending 5 minutes making a staircase back up to the giant ladder someone built).
Oh yeah and I made a terrible-looking arrow too. There's a ladder pretty far away from spawn point so I indicated how to get back.
Mrow meeeow mroowww mrowww mrooow mrooeoeooow mrow mrow mrow.
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Saw this game in need of more ratings in the Danger category, and with handdrawn-looking graphics and a cat on the cover, there is **no way** I could have resisted clicking on this.
Oh my goodness, I love this! ๐ป It's such an inspiring and moving story, and the fact that it features a cat "fur"ther increases its "purr"fection. You need to get to 20 ratings ASAP, I'll assist.
Also, you ***need*** to make that "Follow the cat" option! I had completely "fur"gotten I was even playing a game, it felt like I was reading a bestselling book. I need to see what happens when I pick that path....
I feel your pain/joy at having cat hair all over everything because your cat is a big sweetie, Feronin. Whether it's my laptop, my pants, or whatever random stuff I have sitting around, nothing is safe from cat hair when your cat is a sweetie.
###### Sorry about all of the bad cat dad jokes. I can't help it, I have issues with making too many dad jokes, even when I'm doing game rating.
Now this is pretty darn awesome. As a big fan of both anime and the early Nintendos, this art style was basically made for me. The gameplay is fun, though I do have some guilt about only dating some people so I could hunt down the people the cards say I'm destined to be with.... ๐ข I honestly feel bad about that, but at least I got to be with my predicted soulmates.
Oh boy, you're right, I should *not* play in fullscreen. Collisions went all over the place after I tried hitting the fullscreen button.
This is really neat! I'm honestly afraid to see what my schedule looks like now, I answered positively for everything except for one question where the negative green answer dove in front of the one I was clicking, and one time my touchpad was being weird. ๐ Touchpad not advised for playing this, a real mouse is better.
!> Managed to get the "taking care of yourself is the most important" ending, how good would that one be considered?
This is a solid entry! Took me a bit to figure out that both digging and jumping take energy, which was a bummer at first since I love it when games have infinite jump. But then I realized that jumping was actually just energy-wasting bait once you get to a descending part. ๐
438.42 meters seems pretty decent, I broke 315 blocks and probably had over 1000 money. Eventually I suffocated even though a huge chain of oxygen was one dig away.... ๐ Oh well, that's what I get for stalling just to get a huge chain of money.
You're right, it is easy to get softlocked....
I love the graphics, they're kind of simple but that's what gives them their charm! The gameplay was nice, it isn't too hard to get used to the player's movement. The digging did seem to have some buggy directions when I tried digging and running for my life at the same time, but turns out mashing Dig and your direction effectively fixes it.
Now this is pretty darn genius. Let's see what random poorly-rated trash Peace Of Cake Games can come up with other than "A politician may find us a couple of kings, but we can't depend on them." Honestly I don't think that one is *too* bad, but there are certainly better ones....
Oh my- this is both brilliant and disgusting. Certainly one of the most.... unique uses of the theme that I've seen.
Anyways, it's a really well made Snake-like game. The addition of making an undo button was a very smart idea, Space is a lifesaver now. I honestly have no idea how both the finger and the nose are perfectly fine.
The player is a little bit floaty, but personally I love that since it makes the game harder. The fact that you made the blood effect have physics is a really nice touch, too.
Oh man, the graphics.... the fact that you handdrew your graphics and then used your phone to import them to your project.... I don't know how I could ever rate you poorly in Graphics, I'm a *huge* fan of handdrawn graphics. Nothing quite puts as much character into a game as handdrawn or handdrawn-looking graphics. โญโญโญโญโญ Your phone has a good camera by the way, if I hadn't have read that you used your phone to import handdrawn graphics I wouldn't be able to tell that they're pictures. (No way my phone could do that ๐คฃ)
Mwahahaha those little fishies cannot escape the wrath of the ***Shork***!! Really good graphics and fun gameplay, I loved submarine-ing around chasing the little fishies. I did notice that the project wasn't doing a mouse lock so once the mouse hit the edge of the screen I couldn't turn the camera any more that way. Not much of a problem with the helpful scroll zoom around to help.
3019 on my 2-leg run, 1300-ish for 3- and 4-leg runs, and then on the 5-leg run I lost all but one of my legs before 1300 and made it to 3229 with only one leg.... ๐ค
This is great, nice job making this during the Compo time! The leg feature is a very unique addition, making it so each time you play you get an extra leg (essentially an extra life) definitely gives this some good replay value. I love the little legs flying all over the place!
๐ฆ Gives me the chills....
!> ....thankfully once I realized I was dealing with a kitty I was slightly less creeped out. I love cats! :D Just two lines of text makes me want to go down into that dusty basement just to hug the kitty.
Very atmospheric game, I love simple but interesting puzzle games like this!
!> Not going to lie, becoming a spider totally creeped me out. Those little creepy-crawlies have always creeped me out, they seem so otherworldly.... in a kind of scary way.
Hmm, 173.... not sure how good that is since posting scores seems to be a rare thing.
Now this is a really original game! I had to mentally keep track of where I was during the white areas, it sure wasn't easy. Managed to get the hang of it after two deaths, thankfully. I love how even when you get to the point of random generation, the shadows are still making the game even better by continuously talking. (The player is on top of the text so I can use the dialogue to my advantage and figure out where I am, hehehe....)
๐คฃ Very few games have had me cracking up the entire time I've been playing! This game is fantastic, I'd better go make a Funny Games Recommendations Post Part 2 ASAP. Voice acting is genius, dialogue is hilarious, the whole game is just ridiculous in the best way possible.
Really pulled some heartstrings.... it's beautiful and sad, and the music is so fitting. ๐ข The simplicity of the art is perfect, too. Nice job!
Never before has winning made me so confused. (I'm so confused I don't think "confused" is even the right adjective for how I feel.) I honestly don't know what to say other than:
- Good news for you, my face displayed the emotions you were hoping for. - @ddrkirbyisq's comment basically sums up my post-playing thoughts.
I *toooootally* obeyed the safety warnings on the back of the cotton swab package. There's *no way* I could have hit someone's head with cotton swabs over and over again, and then inserted the cotton swab entirely into their head via their ear canal.
5/5 Humor.
What a deep experience.... very mysterious and sad....
The fact that the touchstones are not only your only way of going back, but they're also how you get scored at the end of the game, is pretty neat.
Really solid! Probably the most fun I've had playing a submarine game. The gameplay was nice and balanced (and as long as you watch your O2 bar unlike this idiot you'll be fine), the graphics were perfect, and the sounds were very fitting. I'll probably give this another go and try beating the game without ever upgrading the gun, since the rocket launcher's rate of fire is pretty low and apparently I'm really bad at aiming the machine gun barrels.
I noticed that I don't think I technically mined the yellow crystal, I only activated the dialogue, but whatever. If the game wants to make me a millionaire I'll accept!
Oh, and one thing to mention: a tribute to Genesis 1 by making an option to turn the sand into the image of Will Smith would be a pretty funny reference to your past Ludum Dare game. I tried it last night and was doubling over laughing *just reading the comments*. I'm sure you can imagine how much laughter came from me when I was actually playing it.
Certainly an.... interesting entry. Personally I don't mind the chiming of the letters too much, some people might complain about them but as long as you don't keep the volume too high they won't strain your speakers and it'll sound pretty nice.
Watching the constant stream of score reports in the browser log is pretty fun.
I thought I was so cool getting a whole 15 points and then I looked at the leaderboard and @ausstein was sitting at the top with 93 points. ๐ฑ I know @ausstein has a reputation for dominating the leaderboards of every Ludum Dare game that has a leaderboard, but when I got my new high score of โจ**41**โจ (honestly I'm pretty darn proud of it) I was freaking out, the game was going so fast. I guess PCEOFCKE is destined to never beat the Champion Of Every Leaderboard Ever, AUSSTEIN. I think I would have a heart attack at 93 depth.
@ausstein\.... how....
Anyways, now the actual review:
The fact that I'm in the rankings against this Compo game scares me. It's got beautifully simple graphics, better gameplay than Dr. Mario, and sicker beats than Dr. Mario, too. (*Sick*er beats than Dr. Mario.... ๐ my reputation for making dad jokes lives on.) Honestly I don't know how this could *not* win an award for Audio or Fun or Overall. This feels like the next big Nintendo Switch hit if you were to add multiplayer, not a game made in only 48 hours by just one developer.
What a good relaxing game! (Until you discover you're bringing 2 or 3 bad thoughts towards you when you grabbed that snowflake, then it's a good unrelaxing game) Admittedly I can't get higher than 220 since I'm obsessed with getting as many snowflakes as I can.... ๐
I am root, I am root, I am root, I am root.
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Really cool! I love how the tree starts asking me for water when it's running low. The roots did have some issues with swerving randomly upon being created, but I'm not going to complain seeing as it made it so that if a root spawned inside of a rock the root would be totally invincible as long as it was inside that rock.
Very mind-boggling, in a great way! Those boss fights were hard, having to line up the arrows while dodging attacks (and having to trade who has the crate later on) was tricky. The fact the player is never told how to use things like the crates is a good touch, it allows the player to feel like they're accomplishing great feats within the game. Really nice humor and soundtrack, too.
Wow, that last level really challenged my puzzle-solving skills.... took me a while to figure out that the aliens target buttons.
Really nice job! No bugs to report, great graphics, and some epic beats to set the mood.
A short and beautiful experience! The mouse controls were a bit weird to me, but that's what I get for using my laptop's touchpad instead of grabbing my mouse, which was only a few feet away from me. ๐
When I inherit the Longest Sword and cheese right through two of the areas: "okay, the last area shouldn't be too bad!"
When I find the last area and discover that just the *first* sword jump is basically impossible for someone with poor sword-swinging coordination like me, plus the area is so big it has at least two checkpoints: "AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Spent around half an hour on just the first jump of the last area and didn't manage to make it past there.
I'm amazed at how much polish this game has for a 72-hour game! Everything is so amazing this feels like a post-jam game already, not a jam game. Admittedly I can't beat the game thanks to the last area, maybe I'll be able to beat this one day and kill that humorous dragon.
Oh, and congrats on getting the title of second-most rated game on all of ldjam.com. If you get more than 1053 ratings this'll officially be the most rated Ludum Dare game on the entire site.
Oof, the Board of Directors doesn't even think I deserve a good lose screen....?
That was a pretty fun management simulator! The tutorial could have explained stuff better (and maybe not started the game until I had read everything, since I lost a lot of good stats to that tutorial), but once you do the tutorial once it's not like you need to read it again.
What a fun little mining game! Using the pylons to show the dwarves where to go is a neat mechanic.
Thankfully no bugs to report, even when I was playing the original Jam version.
Really enjoyable Clue-style game! I managed to figure out the best way to play on the third round of the game; I had made the mistake of killing someone who highly suspected me and only got someone kicked out because we didn't have better evidence. Thankfully on the third round I made sure to frame Terry by using silver spoons and then telling Perry. ๐ The whole game anytime someone asked me about myself I *always* said Butler, so no one ever thought I was lying, especially when I said I liked candlesticks.
I honestly have no idea how I managed to use trained elephants in the dining hall, and how I managed to kill someone on the moon.
Amazing level of polish! The graphics and music are fantastic, really got me into the rhythm game mood. I love how when an enemy is killed, their eyes turn into huge red X's. I actually ended up playing the game twice since in the first go the audio wouldn't work.
It did seem like the second wave of enemies got a bit too hard at two or three points, there's no way I could beat the second wave without spamming all of the arrow keys on my keyboard and turning the rhythm game into a bloodbath.
Wow, that was fun! It's a really nice twist on the falling games, the physics are spot-on. Graphics are really good too, and that music...... wow. If you don't do good in the Audio category I will hunt down everyone that voted low in the Audio category and ask them why they don't appreciate well-made music.
I didn't actually ever have to buy any upgrades, so I'm not sure if the upgrade system is entirely necessary?
This game is pure genius. Not only do you get to play as the greatest pizza villain ever and ruin everyone's lives, you also get to make art without ever having to run back out to the store for more ingredients. ๐
Beautiful polish on the art and gameplay, and what few sounds are in the game are perfect.
Here are a few demonstrations of the wrath of the ultimate pizza villains: the person playing your game.
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**What's wrong, Mario? I thought you liked mushrooms.**
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**A beautiful demonstration of pizza topping architecture.**
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**Everyone knows normal pizza has tomato sauce on it, kid. There's no BBQ Chicken option for the pizza so eat your tomatoes like a good boy.**
@itx-demi That is an amazing demonstration of the power of the Ultimate Pizza Villains, the players. ๐๐
Nice auto-runner! The stalagmites were a bit unforgiving, though; whenever I had to jump to a higher platform to dodge a stalagmite or get light I would always land on top of a stalagmite since I couldn't see them.
Really fun little game! Sadly I wasn't able to beat it since I'm tired and can't do puzzle games well when I'm getting sleepy, I'll have to get back to this later.
Well this was...... interesting. The fact you can do your business on people's heads in order to buy yourself some more time is both logical and disgusting. I like how you literally used a picture of 7/11 for the store where you buy the toilet paper.
Interesting decision from the player to not just do their business at the store restrooms.
Wow.
The art, the audio, the hardcore gameplay.... best platformer I've played in quite a while. I love all of the little details you added, such as muting the music when you're underground. Also, 13 different game looks, each with their own graphics?!? I'm going to have to check them all out! I beat the game on the GameBoy-looking one, since I had been playing Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2 earlier.
118 deaths over 51 minutes.... guess I'm worse at hardcore platformers than I thought. ๐
Oh my, so that's why you shouldn't dig....
I love this little troll game! It did unfocus the mouse lock and refocus it anytime I dug, so I couldn't move the camera when digging otherwise I would be a sitting duck. Other than that it's a bug-free game.
These screensnips @aaranos and I have would make some pretty great desktop backgrounds.
This was really fun! The bobbing of the player as it walks is genius, I love it! The puzzles were really nice, I had fun on the last door. No issues to report with the Windows desktop build, it worked flawlessly.
Very nice and peaceful! My only complaint is that it's such a nice game and I want to play more of it!
Nice job using Construct 3, I'm always happy to see good C3 games!
I noticed when I took a break from playing Kirby's Dream Land on the GameBoy (I'm not lying) to see what new submissions there were that you hadn't gotten the game exported yet, and I was excited to see you got it up and running now!
Far Side of the Mirror has cats (๐ธ) and mindblowing art and audio and an otherworldly atmosphere and cool chill birds. I'm eternally grateful to Leopold for giving me a weird rock. Overall I sum this up as perfection!
Another amazing entry, Cocoa Moss!
When the little mushroom guy screams in agony as it is ripped apart I'm mentally screaming too. Amazingly made horror game!
I kind of root for the horrifying monster to be honest.... being ripped apart is what the little mushroom guy deserves for ***being a cannibal!!*** The cannibalism really completed the horror bit.
Amazing job! I loved getting to read about each character, and the mini-games were nice and fun. I like how the Archery one requires both releasing the shot at the right time and starting the shot at the right time.
Amazing! The nice simplicity of the gameplay made it so I was able to figure out how to play after only a few games.
Here's when I got super lucky and hit a huge resource mine when I had maximum upgrades:
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That *is* just one vein of consecutive resources ๐ฎ, I actually didn't go all over the map to rig this screensnip.
Very fun, and nice and hard to beat! I like the variety of different tasks to do, if my boss would stop making me make several coffees in a row I would probably get to do most every task in 3 minutes.
Haha, this was a fun little game! I'm always glad to see fellow Construct 3 users doing Ludum Dare.
Wow, this is really good! Catchy music, fun gameplay, and great pixel art.
Turns out getting buried isn't so bad, because I just kept spamming J and eventually the physics make blocks explode over the whole area.
Insane amount of polish on this game, and it's basically a don't laugh challenge! I would love to have a full version of this, this would be a great mobile game.
Remember everyone, this game is free and doesn't have ads! Make sure to leave an honest review in the app.
!> @wasd , best ad ever. Nice job making it so you're required to watch the whole clip before you can skip. It's still stuck in my head.
*Really* big improvement since the in-progress version! The graphics are spot-on, and the audio is perfect for the underwater environment.
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That "little fishy" pulled a dirty move and snuck up behind me while I was shooting someone else.... smart "little fishy".
One thing that would be interesting to see in a post-jam version is when you hit certain intervals (every 100 meters?) the sharks stop spawning temporarily and you have to do a boss fight against a kraken or something.
Now that was fun! No bugs or complaints to report. Once again the quality of the art is amazing.
#1 game over screen in the history of game over screens. I laughed out loud when I saw you actually drew that! ๐
Amazing job as usual, Whales And Games! I played this for around 75 minutes before I was like "oh wait I still have around 50 games to rate".
Taking into account the amazing graphics and soundtrack, the ability to add custom questions, and the insane level of polish, this could be your best Ludum Dare entry yet! (And I played Colossorama for quite a few hours in a row) I can't wait to get to work adding some more questions.
As usual I enjoyed seeing all of the Easter Eggs you put in the game! That's one familiar "correct answer" sound, and the Video Games category tile is looking rather "sus". It's floating in space so I doubt it's much of a threat, though.
Also, sorry @jorgegamedev , the trivia host stole all of my cash right before I was about to unlock the ability to play as you. ๐ I did manage to get @moski during one of the few periods where I wasn't constantly getting my money taken away. Turns out duplicate questions are *very very* rare, so I kept failing on ones I didn't know the answers to. ๐
Well this is interesting.
I love it! It's quite an interesting story. The graphics are great and I can tell you put a lot of time into making the audio so good.
This is *REALLY* polished and professional-looking! Once I figured out that the whole point of each level was to slaughter all of the monsters I had fun turning this pleasant little game into a bloodbath.
Your son sure has talent! Good job to him coming up with this idea.
Oh, and my final score for my best game was somewhere around 58200. Probably could have gotten more, but I learned the hard way that enemies have an invisible square collision field and being anywhere near them is game over.
Very nice 3D platformer! I'm glad Jack is okay, even after I chucked him down at least a hundred different pits he still gets to be human again.
Really fun clicker game! Turns out boosting the Motivation to ~350% is a bad idea, it made my PC lag a whole lot. I ended up having to wreck my Party Taverns and make Large Houses instead.
My hands now have a purpose...... ๐คฉ
Once again the Keyboard Cowboys had me laughing the instant the menu came up! I feel like this game is the reason I have a mouse. (*Maybe my mouse is my hands..... that would explain my mouse now having purpose*)
I honestly don't know if anything can even come close to this in the Humor category! (No competition from me, I opted out)
Oh my- you really surprised me with this, I was ***not*** expecting an epic 3D shooter RPG! Poor frog, getting constantly shot by enemies....
*Really* great graphics and music!
Arrrgh, on my third attempt I died at roughly 685 meters..... so close and yet so far.....
I love how it's *super* hard to find the right balance between having enough speed and being slow enough to dodge! Very fun game!
Fun little game! I love how hard it is to control the player, it makes getting a little 3 points feel insane. ๐
Post-Jam version, eh? I would love to see that since the boss says they'll be harder in it. I cheesed the last fight a bit too easily.
I love how timing all of the grappling hooks makes it so you must do very precise moves! Making the lava break the grappling hook is a nice touch.
###### Beautiful...... ๐ญ
I.... honestly don't know what to say after that........
This game made me feel a whole range of different emotions.......
> Our game is Cooking Mama meets side scroller meets a wholesome story about hope.
Oh yeah. The whole time not only was I listening very carefully to every beautiful written and spoken word, this was also full of nostalgia. Reminds me of days long ago when I would play Cooking Mama with my family.
I remember seeing that the old Ludum Dare site had a cool feature where you could give people trophies. I think it needs to be remade for ldjam.com.....
Now I'm hungry.
###### Mei wasn't the only one with tears in her eyes at the end of the game......
You want me to wait over a minute for the web version to load up, WiFi?!? Okay, I'll wait. I'll wait as long as it takes to play a game by this team.
Congrats on getting the game working in time! It was really fun to play, and @bcav 's music *really* set the mood. I was kind of creeped out and scared, that was some great music. The bonus of winning music was a nice addition! @genie 's art also really set the mood, it really looked like journeying into a creepy forest.
Making the same basic movement code as SHH was a good idea, @gamebuilder , because I really like walking by integers and running by holding a movement button.
Overall, a solid entry that I'm glad I played! Good luck in the rankings!
Nice little game! An everlasting version of this would be fun to play, but I also like how you made it so there's a clear goal to give the player the satisfaction of winning.
I did notice that in my second time (I decided I wanted a perfect score) some obstacles spawned right at the center of the Earth. It counted as me finishing though so I didn't take damage. (Perfect score achieved! ๐)
Now I'm itching for more....
*Please* make a post-jam update to this! I really want to continue solving the mystery (and admittedly I spent a long time playing moefall.exe)
I love it! Those sick beats go perfectly with the game. I do kind of feel like the game hates me, though, but maybe that's what I get for using the D-Pad on an Xbox controller. (Xboxes aren't exactly known for having good controller D-Pads....)
That was fun! I love how spamming the mouse button essentially turns the rifle into a machine gun.
Darn those alligators, they're good.
Really nice controls! I love it when game controls are snappy and responsive, this driller didn't disappoint.
It would appear that trying to upgrade my driller didn't do anything, I'll have to see if it fixes itself on my 1080p monitor instead of my slightly-bigger-than-720p PC screen.
That was really original! This game has reminded me why I don't play Bananagrams.... it's a miracle I actually got past the second group of words with how dumb I am.
Also,
> I made all by myself (not the font of course, WHO MAKES A FONT FOR LUDUM !!)
[raises hand awkwardly] Yeah, I have the bad idea to make a custom font every Ludum Dare as a sort of tradition, and also to have better graphics.... it's way too time-consuming and I honestly don't know why I bother.... ๐
Lol you got me. I never download Windows versions when there's a HTML5 version but the only way to access the leaderboard is via Windows app. I can't resist a leaderboard for a game that doesn't have many plays yet....
PeaceOfCake is beating you by quite a bit, @javasaurus . I'm interested to know if there's technically a maximum score that can be achieved before the saws grind me to bits, because 5700 was the result of spamming my mouse button *a lot*.
Anyways.... really nice design! The music is still stuck in my head it's so nice and catchy, and the graphics are really good looking.
Really fun! I love the blood particles when you hit something, and that game over screen is perfect.
That last boss plays dirty! It wouldn't stop pushing me into the walls and causing damage. As a result it felt pretty good killing that last boss.
##### Go Construct 3!
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That's how I feel after playing this.
This is amazing! To think that this hardcore cyberpunk racing game was made in only 48 hours is mindblowing. I would love more tracks and controller support, please make a post-jam version of this!
Oh and apparently the Shift drifting mode only registers for Left Shift. Not sure if that's intentional or not.
Now this is pretty darn cool! Kind of like card games meet politics meets Among Us. Very very original, I had a blast becoming the most "sus"!
This is *really good!* A beautiful emotional story about life, with amazing use of the layer parallax in Construct 2....
I'm speechless.
You made this in 48 hours....? This is incredible! I doubt I could ever do something as complicated as this in a mere 48 hours.... (my Compo game is nothing in comparison to this and I barely made the game in 48 hours of pure stress)
So yeah, this is
- Original - Amazingly complicated for a Compo game - Has nice minimalist graphics - Very easy but not boring gameplay
Also, I like making the longest roads in the game. ๐ Here's my first interstate-level road:
This is really polished for a Compo entry! Drilling those diamonds is *so satisfying....* The controls seemed a bit floaty at first but I got used to it after a few games. I'm not quite sure why I kept winning at random points, but I kept winning so I guess I can't complain.
I also noticed that if you don't fullscreen the game it'll cut off parts of the screen. Not sure if that's an itch.io issue or a Unity window problem?
Really cool! The theme is really well-implemented. I do wish that in the room with the Kung Fu kid (rest in peace) the thief box was a little higher in the room, because the dialogue bar covers up the contents, making it difficult to get the baseball bat.
How to tell that this is a good game: that old grandma totally stumped me. I'll have to give it another shot once I've recovered more brain cells. (I'm a bit worn out from working on my game all day and fixing stuff until there was literally one second left)
Never before has a game made me realize how truly stupid I am..... I'm amazed I lasted 5 weeks when basically every time I matched coal I ended up making a five-in-a-row of shovels or pickaxes.
Overall a good game! I love how you're doomed to lose and there's no way to win.
(Also, you might want to opt out of Audio since your game has none)
Very nice! Making it so that one Deeper goes straight when the other Deeper is being controlled is a good way to force the use of torches, and making the torch checkpoints be unlimited (with a cooldown) is a good feature.
I do feel like Right Deeper's path was way harder than Left Deeper's path, I found the end for Left Deeper almost immediately but I spent an extra ~20 minutes trying to find the path for Right Deeper.
Overall, a good, well thought out game! You definitely nailed the theme, and I really liked the fitting music.
Amazing job! Listening to awesome soundtrack music while playing as a beaver who can't keep his submarine from spinning in circles and going basically nowhere is exactly how to kick off the Rating Period of LD48! I honestly can't think of anything I didn't like in the game, some people might dislike the submarine going crazy but I think it's one of the best features ever in a video game.
I'm interested to know how good a score of 1360 is considered.
Goin' through some games to try to make the wait until April more bearable...
> ...and please for everyone whos going to comment here don't tell me about copying vimlark idea thank you.
You made a game inspired by Make The Way with some levels paying tribute to it. Yes, it does mean that Innovation took a hard hit, and people said you should have left Graphics since the graphics are from a free asset pack. You did leave credit, though.
But this does not justify people posting anonymously just so they can make fun of you without being discovered.
> ...This is a scam you made. - Anonymous
> ...you knew this... - Anonymous
> ...ripped off... - Anonymous
The above quotes: that's just overly harsh hypocrisy. I mean, most game developers started out making some sort of remix of an existing game to learn how games work, and then they mock those who do/did the same. You're new to this, I get that! I mean, my first decent games were remixes of things such as Pong, Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros, etc. Saying that this is a guiltless ripoff of Make The Way is inaccurate, that's like saying that every platformer ever is a ripoff of Super Mario Bros if it has a world, enemies, and a goal. And I like how you paid tribute to Make The Way by recreating some levels.
My advice: ignore that garbage from people who are trying to mock you and make you unhappy. **You made a game all by yourself.** I sincerely hope you continue to do game development! (Just maybe try changing things up a little if you pay tribute to a game. It's not like it's a crime to do it though.)
Okay, I saw your post and now I've played through the whole post-jam version, and here are my thoughts.
Wow. This is incredible. Unique mechanics, hilarious Super Paper Mario-style jokes and running gags, fantastic graphics, well-thought-out story, and a nice combination of bullet hells, RPGs, and shooting games. The bosses were very fun to fight, and you can tell the bosses are perfect when I ragequit but come back to Ace Of Rope just a few minutes later. (Honestly, I think Death was the hardest. That was the first point where I turned off self-damage.) The caribou were both flawlessly frustrating and very original, they made all sorts of fun puzzles. Also, I don't know if hiding off to the side in the Time Mansion fight to avoid every single vertical projectile was intentionally added as a cheat or not.
I love all of the little details in the world, from seemingly useless jokes that turn up later, to the fact that the base of the save points actually turns into a software save button when you save. (And I didn't know that in her spare time Death plays Mario Kart and does DJ-ing. This game is educational.)
My only complaint: I need a longer version! This is too good for me to stop playing! (So I'll probably go through the whole game again.) I beat this in probably no more than two and a half hours, and getting a cutscene of what happens after the game would be nice. I also suggest a Super Paper Mario-style approach, when you beat the game there are optional places you can go to for fighting and exploring, and some side quests just to help people out. (Because, honestly, I liked having to run around and fetch stuff. Strategic fighting is fun, too, too bad I can't do any more of it after clearing the game.)
If I had found this game during the rating period, you would have scored some easy fives!
Is there actually a Lap 124 reward? (Fantastic game by the way, the 1st in Theme is well-deserved!)
@moski tells the truth: that box really is pretty sus. I bet it killed Red and stuffed the corpse in the vent where no one can find it.
I wish this was longer... ๐ข everything was perfect, it makes me sad I can complete it in a mere 2 to 3 minutes. PLEASE make a longer version!!
A big thanks to @trexxak for recommending this!
1st in Fun sure isn't easy to get! I hope you like this sketch I made as a congratulatory gift!
1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 9th?!? Congrats!
Here's a gift for you! I'm no @doctorhummer , but I hope you still like this!
Hey everyone! I had a great time playing this game and ignoring the narrator's "press esc" trick. Here's an abstract-ish artwork I whipped up to celebrate 46th in Humor!
(I have now learned I can draw with a controller in Paint 3D. I can actually draw a straight line! ๐ ๐)
I'm just going to note something. You've received countless comments making fun of your copy-and-paste game links, claiming you did nothing. Plus several people anonymously posted rude duplicates of your link comments just to make fun of you. It seems to people you're just being a rude spammer, but if they'd just scroll up, they'd see a little something that proves them all wrong...
128.5 Ratings Given!!
I'd just like to say, I'm proud of how you really did go and play those games where you posted comments! It really ticks me off seeing those accusative comments that just insult you, and each one has like 20+ hearts. You were telling the truth and you really did use your comments as bookmarks.
And you made a good game! I used Construct 2 Free Edition for a few years to hone my gamedev skills, I'm actually still a Construct user. (C3 upgrade) You did a really good job, and your art was superb!
Great job in the rankings! The gameplay, concept, etc, was fantastic! However, I feel that the controls are horrid: WASD does nothing for the rope when you can use the mouse, wall jump was useless, and spreading your hand across the keyboard for Space jump was just awful compared to the possibility of W jump. Otherwise, great job
Fantastic! Too bad I didn't find this until after the jam. Very creative! The controller controls are perfect! The right stick camera adjustment felt like it could be slower at lower tilt angles though. Mt. Olympus was a bit too hard, you really challenged my FPS skills!
Wow, this is unbelievable! The story is fantastic, the characters seem real, and you got some real good jumps out of me with the mirror jumpscares! At first I thought this would be yet another platformer. (Seriously, they're so easy to make. I made one, I played several dozen others...) And then, I got the horror vibes with those little floating guys. (AARRGGHH!! GO AWAY!!) And then you scared the life out of me when I learned that the slightly relaxed horror platformer ***happened TO HAVE A BOSS FIGHT!!*** ๐ฑ Seriously, one of the best games I've ever played. You need to make a way longer version and get rich off of it.
Too bad I didn't know this existed until after the jam! I noticed you have four gold trophies already, just go ahead and get another for creating this. 5/5! Expect to find a "you were mentioned..." notification in a day or so.
(Still shaken from the boss fight. This is probably the second-scariest thing I've ever played/watched. I spent 10-20 minutes on the boss fight, and that much time later I'm still on edge.)
Spectacular! Could use a leaderboard, I got 162.
Fantastic! It really made me think. The game was short though, I want more!
Fantastic! I really felt like I was playing a game from an old PC or perhaps something similar to a Famicom or Super Famicom! Too bad I never got to play this during the jam, I'll just say that it was 5/5 for everything. Please make sure to post a post about this if you make something like this next jam! I love these sort of retro games.
Also, two questions. What's up with the missing .gif? And why can I start the game and advance through dialogue with a controller's A button, but I cannot use a controller for gameplay?
Holy cow. The happy and encouraging music, the rainbows and fish, the fantastic art, and yet... the objective is to kill yourself. Oh, the irony! That's some dark ironic humor. (Well done!)
I love this!
Take that, chicken! Effortless Easy win, eventually on Hard it got dark and didn't become bright again, five-ish minutes later still nothing has happened. I did like three minutes (total) on Hard without blinking before I realized it broke.
(Well done! I don't know why the heck you only got 2.75 in Innovation.)
Speedrun 5:30-ish. Can't upload the clip directly to ldjam.com
Fantastic! I love the cat and the fish, makes me think of Happy the Cat. Aye! The wall jumping in the very last room was almost impossible because of the cat's rectangular collision, but I managed to clear it eventually. I love how getting hurt has almost no penalty! And I need to know what's up with the jumpscare monster in the pitch-black hallway!!! That really got me, I didn't expect a sudden jumpscare! I need to know more of the story.........
Too bad I'd never heard of your game until after the ratings period! I'll just rate now, 5/5 for everything.
@oaksguard that is so true! This game was basically made for that emoji.
Nicely done! There were some previously mentioned issues with spikes making a wall of guaranteed death, but the game was still fun!
Spectacularly made! I managed to kill off two people in the first two turns, oops! After 9 turns I had to stop to give my PC a charging break. This is really well-made, and I love the hand-drawn looking graphics! (I've made it known that I have a soft spot for games with a hand-drawn look)
"Lives You Can Save" - how about "this game, we can save!" You just need one more rating! (Whenever mine go through...)
Darn, I want to play an even longer version so much! Your story, dialogue, gameplay, everything was spot-on!
Fantastic job! The graphics were very lifelike, the ending message was inspirational, and I've never seen a game where you have to strategically buy movement!
I managed to make it to space! Great job making this!
Ha ha, I tried every possible combo! This is almost an exact recreation of how my scheduling was this jam! I managed to not have time for art or dialogue too. Exceptions: I didn't try a team and I didn't have a hangover.
Great job! I've seen a lot of games built like this (this is the 100th game I've played this jam), but nobody has done anything quite like this! Even though there was no scoring or anything, I'm still addicted to the gameplay! Relaxing, simple, and creative. ๐
Fascinating! The gameplay never fails to bore me, but the red cubes definitely need a warning, because every time I died it was because a red cube appeared at my current coordinates.
Well done! For your first time using C3, you did really good!
(I'm not afraid to admit it, the first game I ever made with C3's ancestor, Construct 2, was really basic and not as good as this game!)
Nice job! Those yellow cars really got me! The AI coding was perfect. I hope you get to 20 ratings, you're almost there!
Nice work!
Very fascinating! Great job!
Wow, this is very professional! Port this to a console and I bet it'll be a hit!
Nice job! It would definitely be better if you could see more, though. The flashlight covered almost nothing when aiming it vertically.
What with the simple controls, the graphics, and the music, if you had made this a few dozen years ago this would have been a hit on the Super Nintendo!
@mateusboga , I think this'll be ranked #1 in Humor when the results are in! I kept laughing out loud a lot! I love how when you kick the bucket, you really "kick the bucket" and you get to argue against the results. And I don't think I've ever seen a game where you get to die at the menu!
Fantastic job! It was really a fun challenge getting every ending, and I love how every object has a purpose! (I managed to figure out all of the items, and almost every possible dialogue combination. I got all six endings!)
OH YEAH, RECKLESS DRIVING!! This is the perfect game for anyone who has ever wanted to go way above the speed limit! Just add a few more features to this game and port it to Xbox One, and this'll be an instant hit!
(Yes! I made it on four or so of the leaderboards! Kirito2031 does not give up!)
The gameplay: nailed! The story: nailed! The graphics: nailed! The audio: nailed! You nailed it, No Grapes Games! This game is very professional-level!
Great job! It's so polished it seems like a full game that got worked on for months, not something a group put together in a few days!
It's short, it's simple, it's immense fun! Great job!
Very cool!
I've lost count of how many platformers with looping clones I've seen and played this jam. Just an estimate: dozens. Results time.
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Congratulations! Your game is by far the most unique among the "loop clone platformers"! The strategy of mining ores, the need to harvest power, this game is amazingly creative and original! I love the voice acting for the robots!
Ha ha, this game is so fun! I love how when you kill an enemy they just topple over. I managed to get 31000 the first time I ever played, and I'm wondering: do the collectible objects do anything?
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Wow, who knew dinosaurs flew spaceships to protect the Earth from asteroids?!? This game is incredibly educational!
Wow, this is extremely good! Another game on the yet-to-be-rereleased "Favorites Of LD47" list. I love the variety of different musics, and I know some people will disagree with me, but the graphics are fantastic! There's character and style in the simplicity of the art.
This game is great! I love the "annoying" chiptune music, it really set the mood. I also like 10 Pongs/Normal Speed/Double Rings. Took me 154 nudges to get two out!
Nicely done! The dialogue could be a bit more out of the way though, and the dialogue popped up at weird points. (Like, I was right at the end and the player was like "poor zombie..." even though there were exactly 0.)
Wow, this is a fantastic take on incremental games! The Right Arrow and leveling up encourages the player to stay and play, and the music really makes you feel the intensity of the running. I love how the "play" and "support" itch.io buttons refer to the game as "The Awesomeness"! Thanks for recommending this game to me!
Wow, the graphics are incredible! The monster almost never left the area around its initial spot though, I had to go right up to it and then run away at the same speed as it to make it go anywhere.
This was fun! Good job!
Wow, that was... an intense end.
Ha ha, I'm glad I read the comments first, with my volume at 2% and my headset master volume at 30% or so, all of the sounds were still so loud!
Very good job! After spending quite a while analyzing laser angles I'm now smarter when it comes to Laserangleology.
Wow, well done! The first time I played Day 4 glitched and I got to do unlimited days, once I hit Day 10 I figured out what should have happened and replayed. The message at the end is very nice, and I like the nice simple graphics. You really need to add a warning about the extreme language on Day 4 though, people of all ages play and develop on ldjam.com.
Nicely done! The text was a little blurry, and the collision of the player was extremely unreliable, but I really enjoyed it! The first eight levels were easy for me, but the last level... good puzzle. That really got me until I figured out the perfect sequencing and the clue in the name.
I downloaded this game like "Oh, another horror game. Whoopee. Time for some slightly edgy music and a weird-looking monster or whatever."
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After my first monster attack I was like "I want to climb the walls! I don't want to die!" Darn, that was the scariest thing I have ever played. It would be nice to be able to save the clues you've already found, because I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK IN!! and yet I want to beat the game!
Hey @reddarkwh , can you fix the screen issues? For those with 1366 x 768 screens, like me and @eduardo-yukio , we can't see the score, motivation bar, combo count, and all of the other edges of the screen. It's kind of hard to play when you can see almost nothing.
Very fun! Personally, I think the graphics are well done and don't need changing. (Then again, a couple other developers have noted how they hate how I respect simplicity in graphics.) I haven't gotten to the real ending yet because a gate snapped shut on top of me and I became permanently stuck, but this is definitely one of the games that needs to get more ratings!
Wow, this is fantastic! It took me a while to figure out how to not stink at combat, but the multiple games were worth it!
Fantastic! This is the power of Construct 3! Fighting game, puzzle game, both! As a long-time Construct 2/3 user, I'm happy to see something so good made with the world's best engine! (I seriously typed a whole ton of C3's advantages over other engines earlier. https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/evo-loop-tion-ludum-dare-47/what-should-i-choose-unity-godot-corona-cocos it's somewhere in there. Just look for the biggest comment ever.)
Two things: It would be nice to have HP bars, and you should probably change the link to HTML5 and not Windows. I expected yet another itch.io download link but was instead surprised to see the same arcade where I uploaded my game.
Well, at the time I'm typing this, I just hit 1.380E + 8. I've got the peanut butter, loops and banks everywhere, and just one ride gets me millions of dollars. And there are countless cars at the same time.
Well done! I've been going for 45+ minutes now, and I haven't stopped. That's saying something!
This is definitely worthy of a computer or mobile game! You'll need to add savegame support though.
Fun game! I beat every level monster and probably set a speed record. The trick: stand under an eye, hold Up Arrow, and GO CRAZY WITH THE X BUTTON!!!!!! You'll kill the boss before it kills you.
Good job! The audio, story, and world design were all nice. I disagree with the above comment and think that you did the best possible controls. Aside from my game, all other platformers I've seen use Space to jump, and I think it's a bad key because you have to have two hands controlling what could be done with three keys all right beside each other. There were a few problems with the game though: the spikes weren't quite aligned with the ground, and the camera wasn't positioned good at all. I couldn't even see the bottoms of the character's legs most of the time, so I could never see where to jump next. Also, the ground is very uneven and it makes it impossible to jump unless you stand still. Other than those issues, fantastic job on your game!
Nice work! There have been multiple platformers with the same basic design as this, but nothing has had these challenges and obstacles! Plus no one ever thought to use frogs.
Very fun game! I was unsurprised that the art was so good when I saw who the artist is for this game.
Really good game! I hope there's a post-Ludum Dare version, because I wish this was longer!
Wow, this is really good! Now my "Favorite 11 Games Of LD47" list gets to be changed to "Favorite Dozen Games Of LD47". I love the adventurous/tragic music, I love the sad story, and I love the graphics! (I have made it well-known on several posts and my own game that I have a soft spot for hand-drawn style graphics.)
I agree that the losing comments are sometimes a bit rude, and the graphics seem too static, but good job with everything else!
Very well done! Reminds me of "There Is No Game" on the Scirra Arcade (it won a game jam a while back). However, the circle minigame is WAY too fast for someone who uses a touchpad and not a mouse. (Because I don't own a mouse)
Nice! There are problems with jumping though:
a. The jumping is incredibly unreliable
b. I can move the player with a controller's left stick, but there's no way to jump!
Nicely done! However, the bullets definitely need to be faster. They are so slow I can't ever shoot anything without it already hitting my energy field!
Could you export this as WebGL/HTML5 or .exe? Some people, including me, can't get this to work.
Nice game! Every time I find the bear the camera zooms in and then no scrolling, cutscenes, unzooming, or anything happens. Then I immediately get killed when I can't even see myself. Is this a bug, or just something I'm supposed to avoid?
Hmm, how do you get past the alarm clock? I just snooze it and when it should be 6:00 it jumps to past 9 and I'm fired.
Ha ha! Well done! I love the game story!
Nicely done! However, it's frustrating how there are no instructions, no HP UI, the different potions are not explained, you can fly offscreen, and the enemies can shoot at you from offscreen. The game needs a little work, but I'll go ahead and blame Unity since the export didn't work right. It sure seems to have happened to a lot of people, Unity not exporting right!
Nice work! I wish the player's shooting ability was better, the shooting worked about 5% of the time.
Well done! For me, trying to figure out how to do it was like: "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Congratulations! You made a puzzle game that could really stump me!
Great job! I'd love to see the drifting experiment added to this!
Nicely made! There is a problem though: after I hit the "send to message center" button on my low battery alert (poor computer), all of the game UI went away! Unsurprisingly I died quickly since I couldn't see my HP or ammo.
Nicely done! I like the contrast between the simplicity of the graphics and the difficulty of the game. Unless you know the trick to the game (which I won't reveal), it's a very challenging game! It's still mind-bending and fun anyway. If you make a full version of this, I say that everything is already great and nothing needs to be changed!
Ha ha! Nice job! (Also, go Construct 3!)
@trexxak Ha ha! Yeah, more or less!
Extremely well-done! The world is very nice-looking, the animations are smooth and flawless, and not many 3D games can boast that the infamous "wall bug" doesn't exist! ("Wall bug" example: like in the game NHL 20, the hockey player's sticks often go through the walls or other players) I'd love to see a much longer version of this!
My only complaint is the lack of using Right Stick (or some keyboard keys) to rotate the camera. You got the camera at the perfect angle so this wasn't much of an issue though.
Very nice! It took me a while to get the hang of the controls, but once I figured them out I fully enjoyed this game!
Well done!
Nice job!
I'd love to see a whole fantasy game like this! The music and art were great! And Peter B. Paladin makes me laugh! I get the obvious reference.
Ha ha! This is probably the craziest game I have ever played! Good job!
Well, that was crazily fun! I like the option of six endings, everything from blowing the office up, to living in an anime afterlife, to getting food poisoning. Well done! This is one of my favorite games this jam!
I'm also going to note, you should put a note on the Ludum Dare or itch.io page warning younger players about the language.
NOTE: Xbox controllers are frequently used with PCs, so I'll provide a control translation.
Left Stick: same
X: B button on Xbox controllers
R2: Right Trigger (RT)
Options: Press Right Stick
Ha ha ha! I love how cheerful and innocent the music is when you die in your sleep! It never fails to amuse me!
Nice game! The player definitely needs some better deceleration though.
Nice job for your first game!
Nice game, but I do agree with a lot of other players that the wrench swinging could be better.
Fun! However, I think the controls aren't responsive enough for the final stage to be cleared without an hour or so of gaming.
Ha ha ha! Congratulations, this got on my favorite games list!
Nicely made! The walls do have a bit too much friction, and it would be nice if the death screen said your score, but overall it's fantastic!
Wow. Just, wow. The music. The story. The art. The voice acting. The code. Forget being my new predicted winner of LD47, this is one of the greatest games I have ever played. I don't think there is a way I can express how proud I am of everyone who made this game. I'd love to see more games tying into Anything For You, or an extended version. I have never been this moved by a game before. Too bad there's no feature to ultra-boost your ratings for one specific game!
This is great! And to think you did it with C2 amazes me. How did you make the ghosts of yourself work? (As a fellow Construct developer, I'm curious!)
I agree with @grizzliusmaximus , we could have a winner right here! Way to represent Construct!
Ha ha ha! The graphics, the story, the itch.io mouse cursor, everything is great and hilarious!
Wow, this is great! I hope you hit 20 ratings! This is really impressive, I never could have done something like this when I was 12!
Nice and fun! I got 8th place before Chrome rejected the game. (I'm Kirito2031) Great game!
Nice game! I like the added touch of making different boards.
Wow! This is great! It does run a bit slow on my PC, but that's my CPU's fault. Maybe if it was on something with high-power CPU and GPU, say, an Xbox One, it would run faster. (hint hint)(I'd love to have an extended version of this on my Xbox One!)
In my opinion, this is one of the best games this jam!
What are the menu controls? Using the newest version I can't get past the menu.
Nicely made! The steering is a bit laggy though.
Wow, that really challenged my mind to think outside the box! Well done!
Very disorienting (but immensely fun)!
Nicely done! I wish there were more levels!
Fantastic! Who knew beating up bodybuilding cats, birds, and squirrels was so fun!
Fun game, but there are some growth problems with the sprinklers and suction issues with the vacuuming.
Fun, but it has a bit of bugs.
Considering making a friendly version for more age-diverse audiences? That would be a great way to get additional popularity and votes.
Really good for only three days of development!
I'd love to play a full, even longer version! This game is heartwarming!
Fantastic!
Ha ha, I love the narration! This is a great game, using the same doors over and over again really stumped me!
Very calming!
Lunar Loop is one of the best games this Ludum Dare!
Fun, but the enemies quickly get too overwhelming.
Fantastic!
That was immensely fun!
HAHAHA, explosions everywhere!
Hmm, the Windows file doesn't seem to work.
Do not play. The only way to close it is Windows Task Manager. (thanks, @king-cacti !!)
Well-made! The controls are nice and simple.
Fantastic! The gameplay is simple enough to learn it quick, but the art is mind-boggling. Great job!
Genius!
Astroboi is great! A little difficult until you get the hang of the controls, but I couldn't stop playing!
I love it! Determined To Die is immensely fun!
4.875 in Graphics and no placement? Oh no!
LD50 — Delay the inevitable (16)
STUDY LADY (cookie mix) by PeachTreeOath 2022-04-21T20:26:35Z ♥ 1
Played this for over 20 minutes and then realized I should probably write a comment, haha. Ah, there's nothing like the feeling of power you get in a game where it gives you thousands of in-game currency for doing nothing!
Well, I think you pretty much defined Innovation! I've never seen anything like this and I could keep playing it forever. Everything about this is polished and solid, sometime I'll have to give it another go and try to make it to the end.
Turbo Toilet Tomfoolery! by RonanRory 2022-04-21T20:01:18Z ♥ 1
Personally I think the difficult controls match the frantic rush for the toilet perfectly, although there didn't seem to be a point in shoving the coworkers out of the way when you can just run around them.
As far as I know I've only given all-5-stars ratings to three games this Ludum Dare, and this is one of them! You nailed the Humor and Theme categories in my opinion, and the game is *very* polished for a game where you didn't even start on it for an entire day.
Good job making such a fun and polished game in such little time, even if it was a bit short!
Terra Defensio by MrchickenBoy 2022-04-21T19:53:36Z ♥ 0
*Very* solid for a Compo game! The visual effects are spectacular and really match the futuristic music, which is also spectacular.
My only complaint would be that the powerup doesn't have any way to actually see how much time is left on it, I had to react fast when it suddenly ended.
It's Cold, I Am Dead by Papabirb 2022-04-21T19:47:47Z ♥ 1
Well, can't say I'm anywhere near the top scores, but I still enjoyed this anyway! The music is really catchy and I love the cute graphics. I'll definitely have to play this again soon and try to get a scoreboard-worthy score!
The Itsy Bitsy Jumper by sakura_magika 2022-04-21T19:39:13Z ♥ 1
8 8-legged creatures escaped, how nice!
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Highlighting where the spider will jump to is a *really* nice touch since the falling leaves aren't exactly predictable! The cycles of rain and sunshine are really nice too, without the rain to wash the spider back down to the bottom the game would be a bit too easy. The game's difficulty curve is perfect, I love how chaotic it gets at the end.
Nice choice of song, too. I wonder why you chose that.... ๐
Kiwis Can't Fly by DDRKirbyISQ 2022-04-21T19:26:30Z ♥ 1
An absolute masterpiece in terms of every category! Everything about this is beautiful, from the serene music to the cute graphics to the simple gameplay. Enjoy some 5-star ratings, this game deserves them!
I sure am glad I used my mouse, there's no way I could move the mouse fast enough with my laptop's touchpad. ๐
Inevitable Cubes by schwede 2022-04-20T23:13:02Z ♥ 1
I can only imagine how frustrating it would be to play this with a laptop's touchpad instead of an actual mouse....
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Certainly not the best score here, but I'm pretty proud of myself for making it past the two-minute mark!
What a beautiful atmosphere! The musical sound effects and calming music really improve concentration, without the peaceful music I probably would have cracked under the pressure of almost every cube being yellow but thankfully I was able to survive longer until the **inevitable** bitter end.
The theme usage is very nice, the mood is beautiful, the audio is top-notch, and visually it has a good semi-minimalistic look! Well done, and I hope you reach 20 ratings!
Slime Showdown by ToC 2022-04-16T22:05:22Z ♥ 4
The difficulty curve is really nice, I think it took.... five tries? Looks like completely avoiding melee upgrades to get health, familiar, and ranged attack upgrades is a good strategy!
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The pixel art is absolutely fantastic, and the gameplay is very polished! Making it so you can pause the game to buy the upgrades *and* pointing out the upgrade system once the player has enough XP to buy upgrades for the first time is really well-made. It annoys me when games try to make you juggle between staying alive and buying upgrades, being able to pause the game takes away a lot of stress and makes it exponentially harder to accidentally buy the wrong upgrade and screw your chances of winning.
Personally I didn't mind the lack of audio, with how many enemy bullets were hitting me when the boss went berserk right at the end I don't think my ears would have been able to handle that many damage sounds.... ๐
Rockagatchi by CypherDoesStuff 2022-04-05T05:51:05Z ♥ 1
A tomogatchi about taking care of a rock sure gets you a nice high Innovation score! ๐คฃ I never thought I'd have to take care of a rock like an animal.
Aside from the button spamming most minigames require making it so I missed the death screen most of the time, it's a pretty flawless game! I didn't encounter any glitches aside from a loading issue that was itch.io's fault, not the game's. I'll have to play this again sometime and see if I can make it any farther than Day 3....
Delaying Ludum Dare by Emily Pitcher 2022-04-05T05:29:44Z ♥ 2
Listening to you guys debating whether Ludum Dare is "Dare" or "Dar-ay" and arguing about whether you should make a gory bunny bakery horror game makes me want to create a team next Ludum Dare just to see what weird crap we come up with. ๐
There was a *lot* of dialogue content in the game, so as I played I jotted down some notes and thoughts:
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- The particles created by the player are a beautiful touch, as is the changing background, it really adds some good graphical touches to a game otherwise mainly made from geometric shapes! - Nice plug for A Taste Of The Past haha, I still need to go play the new-and-improved full version once Ludum Dare ends.
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- This ^^^ sounds like a great idea for a game, actually. I think I'll call it "The Story of Peace Of Cake Game's Life". - The music in this game in *insanely* good, I could listen to it for hours and still be jamming out to it! - The part where the spikes were added really made the difficulty curve have an extremely sharp increase, thankfully it wasn't too hard and didn't take too long to get past. - The actual Discord sounds really confused me haha, I thought I was actually getting Discord notifications while playing a game about a group of game developers collaborating on Discord.
Overall, this is probably the most polished entry I've played all Ludum Dare! A perfect difficulty level, good hilarious dialogue, and some nice visual novel-style elements in the ability to choose your own response in certain scenarios.
Looking forward to "Killer Rabbit Bakery: A Horror Visual Novel About Bunnies Doomed To Be Single Forever While Mining And Crafting The Heck Out Of A Valley To Kill Innocent Fish" in Ludum Dare 51, and its Netflix Original TV series shortly afterwards!
STAY by etrealjunior 2022-04-05T00:01:51Z ♥ 1
*Very* good graphics! All of the screen effects, shading, etc makes this an absolutely beautiful-looking game.
The way each level had different mechanics was really nice, and you definitely nailed the theme with the game's ending. The final level was a really good difficulty and probably took me about 10 minutes, turns out running at the enemies and then jumping to trick them into punching the air works pretty well.
Aloft by ColeSlaughter 2022-04-04T23:43:43Z ♥ 3
I got jumpscared by the balloon popping sound several times in the last level. ๐
Wow, here I was expecting another weird and wacky game to make people laugh out loud and instead I got greeted by this masterpiece.... you guys definitely found a good background music to use in the game, the visual style plus the music plus the theme of the game in general really gives this game a very strong mood!
I never thought I'd struggle this much just to move a game object around, this might be the hardest Ludum Dare game I've ever played. That took me quite a while to get a hang of the controls!
Nanna III: A Girl and Her Bear by gamebuilder 2022-04-04T23:31:52Z ♥ 1
Not only did I get to play another Nanna game, it *also* had stats management, voice acting, and catchy music? These games just keep getting better and better! Well done, this was a real treat to play.
EMBEJEAL by neowhoru 2022-04-04T23:21:25Z ♥ 1
Personally I don't think the climbing and wall jumping mechanics were annoying at all, as someone who has played the game Celeste the climbing felt very natural to me! The difficulty curve in the game was also very good, and I like how there was a reminder of the controls at the beginning of every level. The music was also very nice, it matched the pixel art well and wasn't too loud and wasn't obnoxious or distracting.
Gaia by Atomic 2022-04-04T17:18:47Z ♥ 1
**"YOU DAMN MONKEYS! STOP BEHAVING LIKE... A BUNCH OF DAMN MONKEYS!"**
I love that. ๐
There really isn't anything to criticize in this entire game, from the backing track to the amazing graphics to the hilarious dialogue making fun of how dumb ~~humans~~ monkeys are, this is kind of a masterpiece! Well done @kuro , enjoy some 5-star rankings.
Tax Mage by cagibi 2022-04-04T05:24:33Z ♥ 1
As usual, another well-polished entry with amazing graphics and music! The mana mechanic is really well-designed, it did a good job of making me actually make sure to aim before throwing wands at the enemies. ๐
Aside from not getting a second of invincibility after respawning during the boss fight, can't say I can think of a single complaint about anything in the entire game. Personally I really like how the drones are able to shoot through walls, it makes it so they're actually somewhat difficult to fight.