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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Cm | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 59 | Signal | Build Artifacts | extra | |||||||||||
| 2025 | 57 | Depths | Fisherman's Fiend | extra | |||||||||||
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | Twilight of the Forest | extra | |||||||||||
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | Shattered Reflections | extra | |||||||||||
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | BORDERLINE | extra | |||||||||||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | Cosmic Castaway | extra | |||||||||||
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | Survive Phantom Estate | jam | |||||||||||
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | DNF | unfinished | |||||||||||
| 2010 | 17 | Islands | Dreams of how we once were | compo | 113 | 2.78 | 2.31 | 3.23 | 2.94 | 3.03 | 2.00 | 2.25 | 1.67 | 16 |
I thought you played this out really well. Not too heavy handed.
My only disappointment was that there was not branching to it. I kind of expected the flirt option to take the ending in a slightly different direction. But I played through it twice and realise it still tells the same story.
Really enjoyed it non the less.
Oh well if Increpare is to be trusted (and he seems PRETTY HONEST REALLY) I obviously missed something. My apologies.
Although it bothered me a little how close this was to its source material it is in general a fun game. The extra goals do ad interesting twist.
I enjoyed this, it felt more like the beginning of a cool strategy game than the full thing but I definitel liked the direction.
I cracked up when I realised this was set in a metty station. Newcastle is ripe for horror ambience. Tell Carlo I said hi.
Shame you didn't have fun with the event. I had some fun with the game but yeah the controls felt a bit clumsy and I sometimes got stuck on horizontal doors.
Huge fan of this one of my fav games of the jam I've played so far. Would definitely love to see this developed further.
The interface is pretty confusing at first, I did skip the tutorial because I'm not good at remembering a wall of text before getting into a game. Would have preferred in-context tutorial prompts in the game itslef.
Only complaint is probably that you needed to tie it to the theme of LD50. If this had end points when you'd completed worlds I think that would be a lot more satisfying than the endless death march.
Obviously after playing for a while I got ahead of the economy and could play as long as I wanted but that's to be expected within the limits of a weekend jam.
I do hope you consider working on this more, I think there's something really special in the making here.
I think the session length might be a bit too long for my tastes. When you're using an unupgraded ship, getting through 3 minutes feels VERY long. Especially when enemies can spawn alongside you and one shot kill you before you can react. I sadly gave up after four attempts. I think if the gameplay loop was shorter and i got to upgrades faster I'd have enjoyed it more.
I think the core of what you're aiming for here is really interesting and quite fresh. However in practice it's all a bit confusing and overwhelming. I know it's tough with a strict gamejam timeline but I think some more gradual onboarding and tutorialising inside the game would make this a lot more playable.
Really great game, one of the best of the comp I've played so far. Production all around is really well done.
I think my one main criticism is that there's not enough depth to the card mechanics. I think if the card choices offered slightly more complicate risk/reward mechanics there could be all sorts of interesting emergent strategies.
Although this is enjoyable I think it could have been a bit more difficult, a bit more pressure to keep a few different plates spinning. This was just a bit too easy to solve and complete.
The core game idea is interesting and there's definitely a lot of potential here. I think as it stands it needs a bit more "juice" to the interactions, so you get a sense of feedback. Also I think there's more that could be done with UI clarity.
Visuals are incredible, this is so well put together. Hugely impressive for a jam piece. I did find that it was fun at first but overtime becomes a bit repetitive without really getting much harder.
Really well made stuff, a ton of polish for a jam length game. I did find the character movement a little too slippy for my taste. Felt like I was fighting the controls, rather than getting into a flow with them sadly. However the overall package is really well made.
A simple idea executed really well, solid jam game.
Really loved this, very inventive and a lot of fun to work though. I'm not entirely sure the story works but that's a nitpick.
This might be top game this year, there is just so much going on, so well made. I think my only minor complaint as others have mentioned is that the time scale is so compressed for many of the blessings and curses it's hard to play strategically around them and ultimatele you have to just embrace the chaos.
This is absolutely brilliant. Such a fun and silly thing. The scaling controls are kind of annoying but not much of a problem.
Conceptually this is really awesome and visually it looks great, however mechanically it didn't seem like I was making super interesting choices. Mostly whatever I spammed seemed to always benefit me.
Hey everyone. I'm working on the post LD51 version of the game right now, but as a quick hot-fix I've uploaded a new build where the timer is 30 seconds instead of 10 seconds. Obviously this no longer fits with the theme of the Ludum Dare Jam but although switching every 10 seconds is a cool idea on paper, I think adventure games are a slower paced experienced and 10 seconds makes the game too stressful/annoying. I think 30 seconds should still give the player some pressure but also allow them time to read things properly without being rushed.
Thought this was fantastic, short simple and sweet with a ton of mood. Felt like bite-sized Homeworld. One of those LD games i'd love to see developed more.
Very cool experience, some great mood and a lovely sense of weirdness. The boss fight was a bit annoying but overall I think this comes together quite well.
The look and vibe of the game is awesome, I also really enjoyed the pressured typing mechanic. I think 10 seconds might be too short for this to be fun though. There's a high level of frustration resetting everything if you make a mistake while trying ot figure out where the remaining items are hidden.
I really enjoyed this, it was good fun. My only real gripe is after you've done your first dance set the game doesn't really challenge you to do much beyond that. You just repeat until the end
Though this was absolutely dripping with style, and it's impressive how much text you've put together in such a short period of time. My biggest gripe would probably be the maths based puzzles aren't very fun and there are a lot of thme.
Though this was a fantastic rogue like. I love both expanding array of optins as you get deeper but also the way that recongising the size of what the enemy is doing becomes part of the cat and mouse game. I hope you expand on this beyond the jam. Would love to see a more complete polished version of this.
Sadly the game crashed when an enemy touched me. There's some good style here, feel like it could do with a bit more "juice" to the combat feel.
One of my fav entries this year, a ton of fun with a lot of charm and great production. My only real complaint is the 10 second switch not matching with the dialogs from the suspects. I don't think the game sets you up very well to succeed because you either wait to hear our the previous suspect or switch to the new one. This means on the first run it's hard to make a logical deduction and just end up guessing.
Very solid implementation, nice movement feel.
Thought this was fantastic. Seems like you've taken a relatively simple gameplay loop and really nailed the eexecution with a ton of polish to make it very satisfying to play. Great work
Scope of this is really impressive for ludum dare. The tutorial was a bit overwhelming but I picked it up after one failed run. I did find it hard to understand why I died of unhappiness but this is still a really impressive entry.
Interesting mechanic, would have loved to see a little more challenge
Audio and visuals are fantastic, exploring the world is great and I love the variety of weapon mechanics. Only thing that lets the game down for me a bit is the combat isn't very interesting. However for a Ludum Dare project this a huge achivement.
One of my fav entries for this event so far. A very inventive exploration of the theme and I really enjoy the deductive aspect to the gameplay.
The is a hugely accomplished game for a weekend game jam. Awesome work
The graphics for the planets are really high quality
Great mechanics, really interesting game. Right now the balance doesn't seem quite right. Got quite a few runs that didn't seem winnable, and wish I had a few more options/decisions but there's the start of something awesome here.
@gord10ahmet the solve button for the second riddle will open up if you explore a little and find a way forward
@qusk2 yeah, the game doesn't stop you from cheating but hopefully people are playing to solve the mystery
@blue-pin-studio You may have missed the tutorial prompt at the start of the game that lets you know there's a "Solve" button on the top right that lets you solve the mystery when you are ready.
@blue-pin-studio Hmmm, maybe the game isn't to your tastes. The idea is that by looking at everything and reading what everyone has to say you can deduce what happened. A spoiler but the combination of the missing photo, footprints on the sofa, glass on the broom (along with some other dialogue hints) should help you realise a photo was broken. The whole game is built around you taking in all the information and fusing it together to get the answer. It's definitely not a mechanic that everyone is going to enjoy though.
I really enjoyed how inventive and surprising the game was throughout. The humour is a little juvenile for my tastes but the game is really well done.
Very charming game, I like the web of relationships that slowly unfold as you deliver more and more letters
This ain't it
This is really great, while at it's core the gameplay is fairly simple I think the implementation is wonderful. The split screen interface and progress is a great and the artwork is lovely.
Enjoyed this. Controls are not quite as tight as some of the other foddian type games but there's a lot of fun to be had here still.
A nice little Titan Souls-like
This was fantastic, really enjoyed this. The mechanics were interesting enough to make me really think about my options. Would love to see a bit more of this.
I think the ghosts are a bit too accurate at tracking with you to make an interesting obstacle
Although it's fair standard stuff for an idle game the hook is still as addictive as ever so great work
Sadly fell through the floor
This is a super interesting idea, I think there's some mileage here but in it's current form it's really hard to really understand what choices I'm making and what affect they're having. However as I say it's a very cool project with a lot of potential.
I like the turn based puzzles mechanics, combining differnt creatures abilities to reach keys. However it being mandatory to move each of them when I only needed to move the frog became a bit of a chore. Also enemy AI seemed a little lacking in aggression. Good stuff though.
The multiple layer is a nice idea but in practice it makes the gasme nearly impossible to parse and make smart choices.
I enjoyed the web building mechanics but it played a little janky for me. When I died I wasn't even sure what I'd done wrong.
Loved the visuals, especially the death screen, great atmosphere. The actual platforming wasn't super fun but I think this is still really solid jam game.
Looks great, and it's nice "plate spinner" trying to keep my brain switching between mosue and keyboard attacks. Just wish there was a little more mechanical complexity to the choices I was making.
This is a really nicely executed autobattler. Feels like's a lot of ground to really explore here, that isn't just mimicking SAP. Awesome work for a weekend jam.
This is really great, although it's a simple mechanic it's one I've not tried before. At first I was a bit frustrated there wasn't like "optimal" ways to win each lvel as you seem guaranteed to lose a few but by the end I was embreacing the chaos. Feels like a game that could be developed more with more puzzle mechanics.
I consider myself good at adventure games and escape rooms but I cannot solve this game. I know it's about differences but I'm just not making the logical leap I need to make here. That said this game looks incredible, you've absolutely nailed the visual style.
This felt like a really enjoyable proof of concept, very well polished, looked great. My only criticism was I was hoping you'd maybe find more interesting puzzle mechanics to explore with the idea by the end.
Beautiful game, feels like this is the start of something really cool you didn't quite manage to fit in the LD timeline. As it stands it's bit overwhelming to get into without really enough hand holding to get me into how to play it properly. I started to get it a bit after staring at the pause screen. Hope you folks keep working on it.
Thanks for all the feedback folks. Based on some of the comments I made few small changes to build, adding a few extra bits of text/explanation during combat to hopefully make it easier to understand. A proper tutorial would be the ideal way to go but I'm not looking to dig that deep into the code at the moment to make that happen. Hopefully the changes I've done will help people along enough to figure it out themselves. I also fixed the bug that haste stayed on forever.
With regards to people finding there's too much dialogue, that's a bit of a marketing fail on my part. Really this game was meant to be a story that's supported by some light combat encounters, but I think from screenshots it looks more like it's a combat RPG. So if you're here for mechanics I'm not surprised you'd get frustrated by long sections of text. That's a difficult one to solve because normally when I make adventure games it's obvious who they're for from the screenshots. However I do agree with more time and polish I could make the dialogue sections more engaging. Though not likely for this jam game.
Anyway thanks again for playing and leaving your feedback.
As a lot of said this looks great but is a little confusing to play at the moment. I think I was making progress but gameplay felt a little clumsy. With more polish this could be something really cool
This is beautifully polished. Especially for an LD game. Enjoyed playing it but my main gripe is that the choice for upgrade isn't as interesting/agonising as other games in this style. Felt like I just wanted more of everything in this, rather than choosing my build.
This a nice lemming-remake, enjoyed the puzzles. Will be honest I didn't love the graphical style.
Simple, but really nicely done with great art.
Enjoyed this a lot. Though I will say I think I completed it without really mastering the mechanics. I never found a compelling reason not to just clump all my units into one big death ball, and a reasonable mix of units and sesnible cards seemed to win most fights. Only time I had to change up my tactics was the map with a ton of infantry which I found easiest to win with a counter group of tons of infantry. Really enjoyed it a lot though, great work for the jam.
I think I got stuck here, couldn't get anything to work beyond the tutorial.
Neat mechanic well executed, very solid jam game!
Nice little pet sim. It was a bit confusing for a while but I did eventually pick up what was going on. Great work.
A fun little Pikmin like, good work for the jam. My one criticism is I kind of hoped there'd be some puzzle or challenge to explore the mechanics a little deeper.
Enjoyed this a lot. It was as advertised very silly and we don't get enough of that. No notes.
Really nice piece of work, dont see a lot of stuff like this in Ludum Dare. Great work. The guitar thing is a bit weird, seems out of place but very cool you did it.
The visual design and mood of this game is absolutely stunning. Sadly didn't enjoy the platforming/stealth but this was still a great LD jam game.
Solid Vampire Survivor gamepplay, compelling to play for a while. Would have loved to see more interesting ideas explored with the visuals as it was bit bland but I enjoyed my playthrough.
Absolutely genius idea really well executed. Was both super fun making my own map and deciphering those from other players. Also super well polished implementation of the idea. Great work.
Fantastic stuff, was a little disappointed it ended so soon. Was hoping for more missions to explore the mechanics. You achieved a hell of a lot in a short time with this. Super well polished.
Like the concept a lot, solving puzzles that changes the world around you is a great mechanic to explore. Walking speed really pushes back against the game a lot, spend more time walking back and forth than doing the puzzle solving part fo the game sadly.
Crazy polished for a weekedn game jam, it's insane how much work you delivered in such a short period of time.
It's an interesting tech demo but it doesn't make games anyone would enjoy playing. It also didn't really follow my prompts for game setting or visual style. I'm following everyone's attempts to merge AI into games as closely as I can looking for some real killer ideas that make games more exciting/intereting but I dunno this doesn't feel like it.
@loveapplegames yeah I wanted to see how it reacted to a more controversial prompt, it didn't react it just fed the word back to me. and then literally nothing in the game resembled 90s anime, all the images looked the exact same as your example images. Just flowery environments. If the answer to "you can type anything and it builds a game" is "Oh well as long as you type the right thing" then the tech isn't working. Also regardless of my prompts the game wasn't fun, was barely a game. I do think there's potential to finding interesting ways to using this new AI tech in games, but this feels like a miss. I don't fault you for exploring the tech but judging it as a game, well it's not really much of one.
I think as others have said the atmosphere is good, sadly I didn't actually enjoy playing it. Walking down the long corridors gradually became more tedious than scary.
The core loop here is fun and kept me playing, I think with more polish this could have been really great. It's a shame the drilling itself doesn't have more satisfying "juice" to it like some particle effects. Good game though.
Really beautiful game, super fun and creatve with a really stunning visual style. Nice work.
Simple idea really well executed. Graphics in particular are absolutely stunning. Awesome work.
This was really beautifully done, great art style and a really compelling loop that keep you wanting to hang around for the next thing to upgrade or craft. awesome work
Wonderful entry, super satisfying and enough variety for each level to feel interesting on their own. Absolutely nailed it.
Really enjoyed this played it through to the end. There's a bit in the middle where it drags a little when getting new population is super expensive but once it accelerates again it really picks up towarsd the end. The looks and polish of it all was great too.
The game has a ton of charm, really enjoyed the silly voice acting. Sadly the combat mechanic wasn't great, just mashed attack and won. Very cool to see a dreamcast port too.
This was really great, fun mechanics and a lot of heart. My only criticism would be I think the below sink visuals don't match the charm of those above the sink.
There's a great bug where you can lift carts upwards that allows you to climb anywhere you want and skip the final few puzzles. I think there's a classic indie tradition of making puzzles platformers where you switch between dimensions going back to the newgrounds days. I have to say there's a ton fo charm in switching between final game assets and the in-development process. I think I'd love to see that explored more. Though the actual puzzles in this this aren't the best there's some cool potential. I also wish you'd managed to do some kind of walk cycle to make the whole game feel less stuff.
This is really nice, loved that your ability becomes a hindrance as much as a benefit and so the puzzles become around not trigger your ability when you don't want it to go off. Super interesting.
Really creative idea and the presentation is fantastic. I did found the more I played I felt like I was getting more frustrated rather than feeling like I was slowly mastering it which is a bit of a shame but overall this is really well made.
Enjoyed this, simple but fun take on the roguelike combat trend. Nice art style too.
Fantastic game,, I feel like it really comes into its own once the true level of chaos sets in once you've build the trampolines. Once youre spending more time fishing gnomes out of your blocked money cauldron you know you're having fun.
Hey I know judging is nearly over but I finally grabbed a deck of cards and had a play through of this. I sadly didn't play it through to the end due to the long play time, especially for a solo board game so I read through the rest of the book. This is great work overall with lots of interesting ideas and I love the way the mechanics evolve.
The big blockes for me is setup vs play time seems really off, it takes so long to randomise my deck thoroughly each day and lay out the board and then I can dig through it so fast I feel like I'm spending more time doing admin than playing the game. A week is also a very long time in this game, setting up the board 7 times feels like quite a lot of work. Especially because the way you collect cards together you're undoing the randomness on each day so I really have to thoroughly shuffle to get a good board each day.
I think week 1 in particular isn't exciting enough considering how many interesting twists and turns you start to lay on after that. I understand that's about pacing but it's a lot of manual work to ask of a prologue.
However despite that criticism I think this game does really cool and interesting stuff. I hope you develop it more and perhaps find some ways to adjust the playtime vs admin.
The cool and feel of this game is great and the tension descending the lift is nice. I kind of wish there was a little more payoff but it's great stuff.
Wonderfully bleak mood and it really executes a lot with very little. I will say you seem to lose people and get locked out perhaps too easily. Having someone demand a $500 bible when I have nothing like that kind of income is tough to get past without just giving up.
Quite an impressive amount of complexity to the game here for a game jam. I do think the difficulty ramps up way too fast for you to ease-in and get hooked on the core mechanics. Also it was a bit confusing realising I should be crafting and using items to make even a minor amount of progress, resources seem to drain so fast. There's definitely something cool to the idea, but right now it's a bit of a sensort overload before you've barely moved at all.
This is great, i played this for like an hour. Super compelling loop executed well. hope you expand it with more content and "depth"
Yeah I was a bit confused if I was doing anything or if the game was just playing itself out. Seems like there could be something interesting here but it probably needs some more iteration.
Got the end, enjoyed this and felt like it was the start if something that could be really cool. The lack of any music was a real shame as it would have helped so much. I also think a little more signposting to differentiate different areas of the cave would have helped the exploration.
The visual style and polish of this game is fantastic. I didn't super love playing it but I'm not big on shooters. However it's still really impressive work.
Fun core gameloop, compelling enough to keep me going through to the end and super well presented. I think perhaps the upgrade loop is both a bit too easy to complete and doesn't feel meaningful enough. However I think for a jam game it's super well made.
Asbolutely loved this. Never seen such an interesting twist on the Carcasonne mechanics. Feel like this could definitely expanded out into something bigger.
Enjoyed the eery visual style and overall mood of the game. Definitely reminds me a bit of Inscryption and maybe some Queen's Blood. I don't thin kthe card game itself is super compelling right now but there's the seed of something very cool here.
I didn't love the controls but you get used to them overtime. My main issue was the challenge of this game seems weirdly inverted. Combat sections are very easy since everything just bee-lines towards you I could just get some distance everything would line up in my firing line. Then once it was done I had to struggle pick up all the debris before the time ran out. The real challenge of the game is not fighting the ships but collecting their husks before the next wave spawns. Eventually I realised I could leave one enemy alive to give myself a ton more time to collect them.
The visual style and overall presentation here is fantastic, a ton of style and personality infused into it. One thing I'm less keen on is the core story, it feels like fairly standard cliche stuff and it's a bit of a shame that it lacks the style of the rest of the game.
Really nice visuals, but sadly not the most fun survivors-like. I'm not convinced by the build selections being visual only, takes away the interesting deciion making when you're just guessing.
I do like a good idle game but I was a bit disappointed I didn't feel like I had many or almost any choices to make.
As others have said it's a shame the early progression is so glacial, because this seems really well done. It's just hard to sit and play it, have to keep leavingi it on in the background.
I love a good space strategy game, it reminds me a little of the Battlestar Galactic game. I ran into the issue of the UI breaking on my 4k screen but got it working once I used a 1080p screen. I think right now there's not quite enough interesting decision making from turn to turn, it feels like the basis for a good game but not quite there yet.
@guardaro Nice seeing it running on a handheld like that. I considerd if I was going to tutorialise the deployment stuff, maybe I should make it a bit more obvious. The blue marker are supposed to indicate the direction and distance you need to be searching.
@liam So there's few differnet PS1 SDK setups. I'm using psyq+nugget which is Sony's old libraries converted to support modern C compilers. There's psn00bsdk which is an open source clone of those libraries. And I know the PSX homebrew community now recommends psyqo which an new C++ SDK. But C++ is not to my tastes and psyqo requires you to build a lot more for yourself. I just have it all setup in VSCode so it builds and launches an emualtor.
@guardaro Glad you went back to the game and enjoyed it. I think you're right I'm going to improve the visibility of the blue indicators on the drones. There is one final hidden message you need to find in the game marked as XXX to indicate you're fully done, but you have to really pay attention to figure out how to find it.