Trebuchet Post by zgragselus 2023-05-03T02:42:17Z
Super fun! It's an awesome mechanic, simple but efficient, and I'd love to see more!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Phyrocast
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | MiniMayhem | jam | 306 | 3.78 | 3.81 | 3.36 | 3.88 | 3.61 | 2.92 | 2.87 | 3.36 | |
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | Box Rush | compo | 382 | 2.69 | 2.58 | 2.51 | 3.72 | 3.12 | 1.65 | 2.09 | 2.60 |
Super fun! It's an awesome mechanic, simple but efficient, and I'd love to see more!
A unique mechanic, but you have to type so fast to make it! Good job
Looks great and seems to have interesting mechanics, but the download doesn't work right now..
Great game! Really hard to find that last letter! That final boss tho, truly breathtaking work
Visually super cool, pretty well polished, hard yet challenging, loved it!
Very hard to master but it makes it soooo satisfying when you make progress!
Very fun game! I only managed to beat it by finding a glitch to get where the last enemy couldn't get to me, but it was good!
Impressive! Makes it hard that you mostly get vowels though
Its very cool! Had some minor collision errors where I got stuck in solid objects, but otherwise its a very enjoyable game! well done
Fun game! Had a hard time understandign how to play at first but then it was very nice!
Good game! It's fun, but it's not always clear why you take damage
Great job! very nice game, good social commentary and humour, congrats!
pretty nice looking! although some reused assets add weirdness to the game.. (pressing S makes you slash with a sword as a fox?) otherwise pretty neat!
Great! Although price may need to be balanced, the truck quickly becomes overwhelmed and the farmers stack up waiting at the barn. Also, if you don't choose the farmer as the first upgrade the game gets stuck.. Otherwise, awesome job its very fun!
Very fun concept and it looks pretty good, but I had a bit of a hard time finding out how to rotate the conveyors. Cool game!
Good job! Although there is no confirmation if the order was correct or not, so there is no way to see if you are doing well or not
Pretty fun game! Remind me of those classic flash games! good job
Very nice game! an original concept well made! however I'm not sure if the game ended or glitched but I ended up without any cargo at the start of a new level without anything happening anymore..
Fun Mechanics! A bit confusing at first but once you get the hang of it its fun to try and get a better score!
Very nice! Reminds me of Papers Please! However the stamps can spam-press when held in place, which causes issues with the book. Good job!
Interesting concept, maybe missing a way to know how to lose? It's also pretty hard to find the people at first but that can be a nice challenge as well!
@floke Thanks for the feedback, I'll try and improve on all this. Yes, the player rotation matters, I wanted to make it camera-based but ran out of time sadly... For the trigger area it seems some buttons have in fact kind of broken hitboxes that make them very hard to use sorry about that.. And for the shipping area, once a package has been filled and taken away, you're supposed to be able to start again request a new box and fill other order to increase your score before the timer runs out, but it seems the reset isn't correctly made so the game gets stuck until the timer runs out sadly... Thanks for the detailed feedback!
Confusing at first, and hard to control, but lots of fun still! I feel like the music was a bit too loud at times, and once you're on a building you're pretty much invulnerable, but otherwise its still a ton of fun!
A nice well made game! Love the implementation of the shape recognition, a very smart way to simplify the problem! Well done!
Interesting! I really like the concept and I'd like to see this idea expanded! Though i also had at one point the glitch where the fleas suddenly started shaking and then exploded and froze the game.. :sweat_smile:
Nice concept! I think the different bugs being used differently is a neat idea! Although the combination of mouse pointing and keyboard click felt a little off to me, since I wasn't sure at first how to interact and didn't know how to pick up bugs! Also the number of bugs collected in the inventory doesn't reset when restarting the level, but that doesn't affect the gameplay. Good job!
Nice game! I really like the ambiance, and its a pretty original game concept! Although I manage to get myself locked by taking all upgrades but the astrology center and administrative center, I couldn't find any new hive to get upgrades from, or i didn't have a big enough inventory to get them! Otherwise awesome job!
Impressive! Once I understood there was a shield, it became suddenly much more manageable! Didn't manage to make it past the second wave of spiders though... I think there was a slight issue on character animation too? The mouse kept flickering between its idle animation and walking while I was moving. Jumping, attacking and shielding animations worked fine though. Great work!
Nice game! I'd love to see it a bit improved! Maybe having a timer to add pressure, and instead of just fixing three each one fixed would add a bit to a progress bar, and killing enemies adds a bit too! This way it becomes a race against time and you have to chose between fighting and fixing as well! Good job!
Loved it! I think this is an amazing base to build and improve into a bigger game! Would love to see more upgrades, maybe something to auto-sell, or to make the hook useful again after a while? Great job!
Nice work! Hard to master, and impressive mechanics!
I really like the concept! Feels a little odd to bait them, with some seemingly ignoring your food in favor of another randomly, and I'm not fully sure what the matching criteria are, but still a great idea and a cool take of the theme, well done!!
Very cute artstyle! A simple short game, but very enjoyable!
Nice entry! I think as others have said billboarding the decors would help, and maybe also a mouse sensitivity option? Also the lack of end screen made me a bit confused at the end once i found them all. Otherwise, I really like the idea of a sort of hide and seek game! well done!
Nice game! I'd have liked it to be a bit brighter to better see what was happening, but otherwise once i got my bearing it was very fun!
Nice work! Feels a little unforgiving at first, but in a nicely challenging way I'd say, well done!
Awesome! It was sometimes a bit hard to navigate and to know where i could and couldn't go, but still pretty straightforward and well crafted level design to guide the player! well done!
Nice job! Maybe there could be a way to cross over to the other tree to catch flies from another angle, with a malus if you get hit while crossing? Otherwise I'd say this is a pretty nicely rounded little game! Well done!
Stellar job! The puzzle designs are great and with original mechanics, visuals are cute, go well with the sounds and vibe, overall awesome!
Cool game! Looks really well and the three-sprite turning works amazingly well with the way the controls work! I'm not sure if there was any way to actually finish a race or not, but the base game is awesome and definitely deserves to get upgraded later!
@osh-studio Thank you ! Pipsqueaks are my go to as well! This is a completely solo project!
@silas-reinagel Thanks a lot for the feedback! And I agree! I'd like to improve the game by making things more random, with more variety in what the player can do, like spells, obstacles, debuffs.. I hope i can manage to upgrade it well! Thanks again for the ideas!
@mullenratte Thanks for all the ideas! Definitely writing those down in the list of things to add! Thanks for playing!
@rambobeans It was definitely an inspiration ! I can neither deny nor confirm that I had that very music playing on repeat while doing the final tests before submitting :laughing:
@loveschach I had planned for a more enjoyable tutorial a bit less text heavy but... yeah ran out of time quickly. And for the AI for now it's pretty much random, but maybe it suddenly became sentient, who knows!! I'd love to upgrade this to PvP at some point, it would be much more interesting!
@machwerx Thanks for the feedback! I'll be sure to look into that sound then, the sounds were made using the sfxr tool so there's a chance it has some parameter that gets distorted, I'm sorry it sounded that bad! Thanks for still playing!
@barryrichter I hadn't thought of adding a confirm button, but it makes sense I'll make sure to add that after the jam so that people can cancel and return to their previous deck if they want! Thank you for your feedback, and for playing!
@anson-rutherford thank you very much! not to worry, I am very flattered that you saw this in my game, thank you so much for playing!
Very nice little slime rancher game! Its well made and fun to play! That said, there are a few minor things I've noticed : - The slime damage feels very low, it took a while before i even noticed it - I couldn't take slimes out of the pen, so there was no way of harvesting red crystals once I had filled it - It's not always clear what the purchased upgrades do, or what the level ups mean - I'd have loved a "run" option to go a bit faster sometimes
On the other side : - The game looks lovely! - There are very little to no bugs or mechanics that feel odd, which is pretty rare in game jams - I'd love to see this in an updated upgraded post-jam version! This is a great base for a game to build on!
@ex0tik003 By game jam standards, it is more than alright! And even more for a first participation in a game jam! There's no need to put this much pressure on your game, its a great submission and you can be all proud of the work you did on this project! well done to you all
Very cool! I feel like the swinging was a little quirky at times, and I got stuck at the same level as the other comments with screenshots. Otherwise the visuals are super cute and the level designs are pretty interesting, so well done!
What's there is already a nice proof of concept! Had some performance issues on my side, and I'd say definitely add a control scheme in the description so people can better test what you've uploaded! Keep it up!
Fun game! I think it wasn't always clear how things were supposed to be interacted with, or if there was like an optimal way to shoot for points, or what counted towards the actual score, but still a lot of fun a very nice humor! I'd love to see this game upgraded post-jam into something with more interactions!
Very creative mechanics! The lose condition isn't fully clear, and the theme connection a bit far, otherwise its a super fun game to play around with! Once my tower began falling I started spamming to add a few more to the count, so maybe a cooldown might help prevent that :sweat_smile:
Its nice! I was very much unsure at first if i had any control over anything, but still it was entertaining so well done!
Nice game! Interesting ambiance and nailed the aesthetic! I think the camera controls felt a bit stiff sometimes, but otherwise very nice!
Its an amazing idea to use the Game of Life as a mechanic in this game! Very hard to master though, and I'd have liked a bit more explanation somewhere, and clearer use of UI! Maybe being able to click on the blueprint icon to use it instead of "next blueprint" and "previous blueprint"? Anyways, its super hard but super fun! i really didn't expect anything like this, well done!
Interesting ambiance! I think the controls could use a reworking, maybe a quicker transition between the two screens, and only confirm a cauldron once the mouse button is released? This way it can be a little more fast paced, and It becomes easier to try things and understand the game!
I like the "reverse tower defense" idea! I think there's good potential in this game, and a little more polish would greatly improve it!
Nice job on your first ! Starting with a compo is ambitious, and its a nice result! Here are the little issues i felt in the fixed build : - Sometimes i received damage without knowing why - Having Q and E as shooting button makes it hard to move at the same time, maybe using the mouse buttons could make it more comfortable? - Only being able to shoot from the sides makes it difficult to deal with some situations, though it could also be intentional to add challenge! Overall a nice piece! Keep it up and I'd say definitely keep working on this one!
Well done! That darn owl is really persistent, sometimes it feels a bit too unforgiving! Also the random generation is a nice touch, but sometimes it makes it pretty much impossible to bring the snake to the rock in time.. Nice job nonetheless!
Nice creation! I think there are a couple little issues, but its still a very nice game! The things i've noticed : - the game closes after a while on its own, not sure if there is a timer that isnt shown - enemies can't get damaged - the berries seem to flip to face you for some reason, maybe its intentional - there is no score shown - decors can hide a lot, so it's unclear if berries are hidden behind or not
Apart from these little minor details, great job! I think this is an awesome base to keep building on after the jam is over!
a bit unclear at first, and hard to tell what counted as a win or not, but otherwise a fun idea, and nicely executed, well done!
It's clear that the game was planned to have more to offer! Right now its pretty confusing and seems random, its unclear when to bring back the workers or why they die, but still I can see some nice potential in there, I hope you'll update it after the jam!
I think a way to shake off the lumps would really help! Right now if you get surrounded you just have to wait and die, maybe something to get rid of a few once in a while so there's a way to fight back?
Simple but works well! Would love to see an increase in difficulty, or a way to win maybe? Something so that it doesn't get too repetitive
Pretty fun! I think the explosion is pretty over-powered compared to the other attacks, but still super fun!
I think a file is broken, because it needed to be renamed for the game to work for me. Otherwise, the game is pretty chill and relaxing, but its pretty unclear where to go, or how to play while in the game.. Still, I managed to find my way to the end but I had to wander around a little bit. Still, well done!
Game doesn't run sadly, I think part of the game is either missing or you attached the wrong file..
Nice little quick platformer game! Reminds me of those old flash games i used to play. The strange window size makes it a bit awkward, but its still a nice base for a platformer to expand on, keep it up!