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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | ||
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| 2026 | 60 | Old Tech | π€ | π₯ | Paging Fat Tony's Taxi | jam | |||||||||
| 2026 | 59 | Signal | π₯ | PING | jam | 565 | 3.38 | 2.94 | 3.03 | 3.56 | 3.30 | 2.13 | 3.38 | ||
| 2025 | 58 | Collector | π₯ | Skullk | jam | 747 | 2.71 | 2.38 | 1.90 | 2.88 | 1.88 | 2.76 | |||
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | π₯ | Cell la vie! | jam | 537 | 3.57 | 3.26 | 3.47 | 4.04 | 3.70 | 2.39 | 3.41 | ||
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | π₯ | Dicing with the Undead | jam | 3.35 | 3.15 | 3.15 | 3.91 | 2.22 | 3.09 | ||||
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | π₯ | Discrete Dungeoneers | jam | 2.00 | 2.50 | 3.50 | 2.50 | 1.00 | 2.50 | ||||
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | π₯ | Minetanite | jam | 380 | 3.53 | 3.55 | 3.10 | 3.50 | 3.72 | 3.16 | 2.50 | 3.47 | |
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | π₯ | Baltic | jam | 979 | 3.10 | 3.19 | 2.71 | 2.74 | 3.29 | 2.06 | 3.32 | ||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | Omega Squad | extra | |||||||||||
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | Dungeon Crumble | compo | 3.11 | 2.89 | 3.00 | 3.67 | 3.56 | 3.56 | 2.36 | 3.61 |
picttarge leaves an average of 8.9 feedback comments each event.
hmm switching between two hands on the keyboard and the mouse so often put me off this sorry. Feels like I need to be an octopus to play this properly. When I close the phone and see some of the art behind it looks quite nice though.
Came here to write a comment like @conduit :) Desert Bus! π€£ The timing is really tricky!
There's a ton of work that's gone into this, and it shows! π well done! perhaps a few tweaks, like acorns sort of lose their value when you realise a checkpoint doesn't keep them, and a few interesting camera moments where it was harder to see what's coming, maybe the cooldown on the owl and lightning is a little too short (frequent) - but managed to get to the end and watch my squirrel tv. Great game, impressive for the short time frame!
Actually pretty solid - looks very polished, especially after hitting 'F' for fullscreen. Tripped up on a couple of the first cases but solved the others once I better understood what was going on. Solid entry, well done :)
Looks good - shame it's windows only and there's no other build. Good to put the OS/architecture on the zip file so folks know what it's compatible with.
π π well done! some of the zoom/pan can feel a little clumsy at times but the illumination effect is good (like illuminating the old map) . I only wish I could leave the light pointing elsewhere while I fire the cannon - but this is nicely done.
HTML5 one doesn't play nicely in chromium - locked up and crashed the browser I'm afraid. Intro is rather lengthy :)
Shame there's only a windows build.
Visual style looks great but MI1 is very confusing. Somehow doing nothing and getting destroyed with 7.2M people killed lands me a victory with a score of -980? MI2 made slightly more sense with the jammer and bomber but your explanation above of how to play needs to be clear in game.
shame it's a windows only build. +1 for network communication though
At first a little complicated but as soon as you figure out a way to solve each level you can just repeat quickly to beat your opponent. Frustration with the same fire key being automatically defaulted to 'restart level' on completion so progression was hard having to repeat levels over and over.
Could probably use a screenshot or two on the page to help promote this so people can see what they're about to play. Also indicate what operating systems your game is compatible with (here, only windows)
Seems to not play nicely with chromium, causes red squares to flicker OUTSIDE the browser window which is particularly special, then mouse locks up and entire screen goes black. Temporarily playable on chrome itself but locks up mouse and audio and causes a black screen again.
A great entry! Only minor gripe is not being able to move around the components once placed, but the setting, the idea everything is a lot of fun! One of my favourites from LD58 so far!
This is really well done. The sonar doing a sort of flood-fill mixed with the underwater ambience really gives the impression you're deep underwater, and the ui keeps you removed from 'realistic' graphics as if you're an operator looking at a computer monitor. Very good indeed!
This is really well put together, what a great entry, and a clever ending too!
Nice platformer, some of the obstacles are pretty good. It seems like the game is regularly doing something, or has a performance issue/stutter on a regular basis. Some of the physics of the collisions/traps could use some tweaking. But it has a boss fight and and ending! :) nice
Took me a couple of goes to get the hang of the dash, and heal but this is very well done for half a day's effort!
I'm staggered by the size of the team. This can take a very long time to load (took about 10 attempts) and the UI makes some assumptions about screen ratio which means full screen can drop the bottom of the game into inaccessible areas and mess up some UI elements. There's some game breaking bugs when talking about rumours with merchants where everything just stops, and some placeholder variables that appear. Trading between merchants would be too easy were it not for the constant threat of death-by-inferno, so that was a nice touch :)
I'd suggest the control help (that can pop up when in map mode) is added to the game page here on LD so that people can get a feel for how to operate without needing to be in the game losing hearts to speed read the help text. There's a few quality-of-life things that would really help this feel less brutal, as I can see a bunch of work went into this.
Nice to see some of the sketches as screenshots here too. Main criticisms would be I miss look up/down in a platformer game, and the reason for collecting coins seems a little lost, but it's a good idea here. Extra point for the double jump, even if it allows you to go left and see 'behind the curtain' of the parallax backdrops :)
Reminds me a bit of the old Dungeon Siege style of play. I *think* the player is invincible?
Does not load in Chrome for me on both ldjam or itch:
CCC.loader.js:1 Uncaught (in promise) SecurityError: Failed to read the 'caches' property from 'Window': Cache storage is disabled because the context is sandboxed and lacks the 'allow-same-origin' flag.
[libil2cpp] ERROR: Could not open Il2CppData/Metadata/global-metadata.dat CCC.framework.js.br:9 RuntimeInitializeOnLoadManagerInitializer: Failed reading 'RuntimeInitializeOnLoads.json' CCC.framework.js.br:9 RuntimeInitializeOnLoadManagerInitializer: Failed reading 'ScriptingAssemblies.json' CCC.framework.js.br:9 Input System module state changed to: Initialized.
CCC.framework.js.br:9 [Physics::Module] Initialized fallback backend.
CCC.framework.js.br:9 [Physics::Module] Id: 0xdecafbad
CCC.framework.js.br:9 No GlobalGameManagers file was found at , quitting player!
CCC.framework.js.br:9 Failed to initialize player
404 not found when trying to play in the browser on ldjam
I like the ZX spectrum and all, but this could use some screenshots of it running so we see the end result (other than just the cover shot which is obscured by the 'jam' image.
I want to like this more because my first ever game jam years ago had a similar room setup with 4 doorways. However, I'm not sure what we're actually collecting, it just seems to be fighting and no idea what the recorder does or how to use it?
Colour palette like an old CRT monitor, and orbital mechanics. Very nicely done. Satellite collision seems a bit too eager (larger hitbox than expected) but this is fun to play!
Very tricky - but I love the graphical style and +1 for Danse Macabre
I mean, does what it says on the tin, and with good humor to boot! :) ha ha this was fun
Nice take on Asteroids with a bit more strategy. Great for a compo, only stuttering while flying the ship towards other items can be confusing ^ lack of background perhaps as @Nash mentioned. For full arcade feel some controller support would just perfect. :)
Even more terrifying with headphones! Really good idea and well made, congrats! :) Plays right into the hands of our primal fear of the dark, and keeping bad things away with fire & light. I've played this quite a few times, will mention it to some friends.
nice, I imagine a puzzle game with all these levels would be hard to finish in the time allowed, that's very impressive! The rotatino messes with your head, and that's a brilliant thing! Very impressive!
Tried several times to outsmart the bigger rats but took a while to get the hang of the recruitment thing (at first I thought the tiny mice were flies!) but the shield/bar at the top helped clarify. The scurrying of the mouse can be tricky, it's not the easiest! Well done!
Nicely done, not afraid to put foreground objects in which is great, makes the level feel busy and like a cramped forest, adding to the 'tiny' element of the player. A lot of work here for a compo, well done :)
This was a lot of fun! like someone has already said, the controls seem odd until you get a large group of creatures, then it makes sense. And I like the way the creatures flow around obstacles. Started to seem easy until level 4 when those knights wiped out everything except one blob and had to build back up again. I really like the control of a 'squad' of tiny creatures, very well done! :)
Hmm doesn't seem to load on linux in Chrome (after leaving it for minutes, it didn't get to any menu screen) Looks like fun though!
points for the dungeon keeper style hand for smiting! The objective was a little confusing and spawning lots of mites just makes a pile of them migrate to the middle and spin around. But still nicely put together!
Reminds me of Tyrian / Tyrian 2000 (especially when the player explodes) I ended up accumlating lives and nukes faster than I could use them (was holding out for some kind of boss fight) but you've got good mechanics here and it was fun to play!
Creating a cardboard world with your kid? (tick) Digitally, in a jam? (tick) Backlit with handdrawn art? This deserves a lot of attention - well done indeed! :)
(makes chromatic aberration reference) :) I like the mood here against the mostly monochrome palette, and can appreciate all the work that's gone into the systems for visual effects and really setting the tone. Managed to stagger through the forest and find one of the portals (without godmode) - the atmosphere is quite enjoyable :)
There's a lot in this for one person over 72 hrs and some of the mechanics are great. The strategy of where you're placing your buildings breaks down a little as your lumberjacks march half way across the map instead to find some random trees. Looking at the way the [number of] deer curve around rocks or buildings, I suspect that's where some performance issues might lie, and if those are solveable, your lumberjacks and hunters could start to consider 'nearby' resources so that the player can use the land and building placement to their advantage.
Ah, this caught my eye and I was happy to see 'first game jam' (looks promising for a first jam) and also a link to a linux build, but that seems to have a windows executable in it?
Interesting - I was attracted to this because we also built a world in a petri dish :) Took me a minute to figure out the ropes would only go down, so you have to get above the organisms to capture them, but it's a decent mechanic.
This is very good - want sound to bring this environment to life! Shame the phantom didn't last a tiny bit longer and you got a chance to flip a couple of switches at a time and listen out for a door swinging open. I've always liked the 'avoid the guards' visibility cones puzzles and this is well done - only noticed the main bugs around guard vision: still being in the cell and being put 'back in' twice in a row in quick succession, then seeing through the timed door when it was closed. I think it's just if you're in the guard's sight at all it triggers that.
"Yeah I should write a makefile"
yeah :) getting a bit of grief with SDL (main or src) but I'll bookmark this and check back on it later on
I like the idea of solving a puzzle using tiny bits of information gleaned through some dialogue tree but only got a few pieces of info then stops at the age question (there's no response)
Love the artwork - was also gonna mention not just the z-order of the trees vs UI but also about the y-position not sorted on the trees (in game). Would be ideal if the summoners could also pick up bags of gold but perhaps that would make it too easy. Good to have the boss have some variety of attacks, I really liked that - well done!
My only ask is for a restart map option in the menu! But who doesn't like an isometric factorio-esque internal body simulator! This is really good - well done indeed!
A wee bit of audio would be great but it's well executed and can imagine would play well on a phone or tablet. Seems logical you pay for your brutality by getting served up rotten fruit from the start :) well done!
Family of 2 grows to 3 and without farming anything will survive for 44 days and 17 hrs. That's remarkable :) Anyway played it through to 117 days - it's a really great game - voxel graphics are great and the animations are effective. Good that the veg can spoil or affect seed count too - pretty smart - there's other entries that don't bother with this. Great stuff! :)
This was a lot of fun - reminded me a little of MarioKart's Moo Moo meadows but Isaac Newton had the day off. :) There did feel like a little something off when the rolling mass of iron and steel from 1948 wasn't a bit more tank-like with the fences, compared to the hard-as-nails-superhero radish who could bat everything away without a second thought. I did really enjoy this :)
A java entry (write once and cross your fingers) wrapped in an .exe with only .dll files and no .so files for Linux? Aww... I got it partially working and heard the menu music before it hanged but I'll have to dig out a windows machine and give this another try.
There's a lot of work in this, and I would have given you an extra half point in humour if we could blow away the scarecrow :) Nice that there's better seeds hidden elsewhere - this is fun to play! My only gripes would be: - the control scheme wasn't that intuitive, but hours of Skyrim has me convinced 'use' is 'E' not space so I found myself switching between the two - I can carry 8 melons and one shotgun but not one shotgun and one tiny seed packet (I know, I know)
Good game I spent a fair bit of time in though - well done indeed :)
+1 for java - not often I find a fellow java+libGDX user :) Graphics were good and the use of TiledMap kept the drawing efficient (even if the level behind the scenes is massive) On size of maps - I did find myself getting rather lost rather easily but the paths tiles helped a bit. I'll make one wee gripe about some of the collision being a little off (bottom left corner rather than centre?) but I enjoyed playing this! :) Good stuff
Very dark (accidentally harvested a customer on first click) but good to play. Lungs man, lungs. All the time. The exit menu button is annoying, and the colour of the tanks didn't seem to match up with the upgraded tank level in any way which was confusing. +1 for the tutorial though.
Good idea - clever that the forces shut off when the card is covering the nozzle. A couple of glitches though - the walls get in the way (esp past the first keycard door) forcing me to find a way between a table and a pillar (which worked) and it's entirely possible to blow the card through the walls accidentally and lose it completely. But it's good fun, and pretty funny! :)
Nice game! Demanding corporate profit margins meets - what I can only imagine is the Doom shotgun pickup sound - in Scandinavian nature annihilation! +1 for the title screen btw. Those hidden rocks are brutal! :)
The brutality of thinking you're safe and then the wheatshifter just runs over the tile and nabs you. :) It's a very tricky game but fun to try and beat - but a few sfx might have helped set the tone.
Ok, took a while to figure out how to get started - starting money is low and price is high. Perhaps the farm should be already established or at least free to place - seems brutal to spend 2,400 of 3,000 before you can begin to buy one piece of land and start. Once sussed out (5 game restarts later) it was a pain to find the Shop in 3D, especially in the dark and I'd often end up off-map looking for it. +1 for combinations to simulate genetics though, but I'd be looking to add some UI elements to help reach the shop / farm / lab buildings.
Neither gamejolt nor ldjam page has much of an idea of what lies behind a random .exe 21 MB in size - any chance of putting up some screenshots?
Took a minute to sort out how to unselect something, and figure out what 'assigning' does, but in the end plays rather well! Ended up with 14 hats and gajillions of plastic but this was really fun to play! I'd say a hundred million in each pile is way more than enough resources to play with so not sure why you'd need many piles of them (perhaps later in the game?) This was very good :)
Pretty good game! Compo as well so I wouldn't be so hard on yourself! Having 10s to complete each level is a great use of the theme and although you're dropped in at the deep end and have to learn how the move and actions can be used it works really well! Only glitch I noticed was on level 3 after shooting the target the character couldn't move into the spaces where the pillars previously were? Great game though!
Great game! Key changes messes with my head in a good way - but then hiding the keys and forcing it to be remembered is hard! Funny when there's a key change so that 'down (S)' then becomes 'self destruct' - whoops
sleepwalkers.png Trying to escape the sleepcheckers by breaking through the fourth wall and running away from the user interface! This was really good - graphics are fab and took a few goes to escape! (turning the light off is indeed not enough to hide)
Fabulous. Extra point for the highlander (+ music) really made me chuckle. Only niggle is the spawning on top of the player - comes as quite a surprise rush and can end the game quite rapidly. Loads of fun though π [EDIT] Made the highscore board!
I can see why there's no rating for music (quickly searches through Caravan Palace music collection and similar) Fits the graphics though - very Warner Bros - and the game is pretty solid. Quite enjoyed this - just when you think it's getting samey another trap pops out - well done.
Lovely graphics - as you pointed out the physics can stick a bit (or result in you falling through the floor and walking around unseen offscreen) π Concept is good but it's really hard - he's still got energy to jump but he can't brush away a snail with a sword - seems a little limiting. Played it several times and by the time I'd found the person that supplies energy and made it back to the mushroom, I was back out of energy and couldn't defend anything. [EDIT] Wait this is a clone of the LD39 entry? char and graphics mostly from that?
Nice work - took some time to figure out if interaction was working or not (it is - I just needed to find a suitable object). Says 3 items were required to finish but only seemed to take 2 - but this was well done given the time available and - well - the hashtag at the end quickly brought me back to reality. Well done indeed.
Sorry can't get any of the links to download, and although the workaround for the iframe seems to allow the embedded version to run, the camera seems a little wild (esp scrollwheel zoom) and can't seem to select anything, clicking or dragging the bounding box. π€·
First time playing this the music worked fine but subsequent plays it cuts out at the start as others have mentioned. I really like the isometric view and it's got pretty clean lines :) Completed it first time even though on first play a while ago, a couple of the wabbits eventally tried (jam code: accidentially tried?) to hide behind the robot head. The humour of the text adds to the experience, well done :)
Hmm, Windows defender isn't too happy about LD_MoleGame.zip (the .exe) identifying it (or mis-identifying it) as "Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml" [Severe] ``` LD_MoleGame.zip|https://w3g3a5v6.ssl.hwcdn.net/upload2/game/1220105/4544891?GoogleAccessId=uploader@moonscript2.iam.gserviceaccount.com&Expires=1633478345&Signature=oU0S2Pa78EF ```
Had the rank icons drawing over the text (21:9 ratio monitor probably kicked it out) but a simple gameplay mechanic that works. Captain rank for me, but still got caught out by a rogue wave!
Wow, taking the cool stuff from 1979 Asteroids and then adding so much other stuff to keep track of! Orbits! Fabulous, good fun and very tricky! π
The window drew at the top corner of my screen, almost offscreen, and the 4th level my character was offscreen getting hit by stuff I couldn't see? Tried to move the window/maximise to help but couldn't seem to solve that one. maps/level4.tmx seems to have a top row, I just couldnt' see it. I like the style, the effects and the mood, so apart from the issue above, I think it was great fun!
Nice game - managed to get all the way through quite quickly. Seems like you can almost stick to a falling block on a slope and nearly 'double jump' then sail through the air which makes it quite easy to clear the towers.
Ooft the level with 2x tin foil hat wearers - too tough for me π Good fun and the random movements means a different game each time. π
Looked confusing at first, but got used to it. A bit of audio might help here. Made me laugh when my Marshall killed the Chancellor - that was unexpected π
Good fun to play through, held my attention for the entire set of floors. Overall would be helped with just a few sound effects.
Starts simple, gets tricky fast! Good game, could use some sound to improve the mood/humour aspect (an almighty crash of rock) π
Nice one - the penny dropped after 3rd round and got to round 7. Quite well balanced to make it tricky and careful placement to make it tough to beat! Fab tie-in to the theme! π
LD60 — Old Tech (2)
Loose Screw by UkuleleFury 2026-10-24T18:37:55Z ♥ 0
I think I spent more time trying to see which tools would "turn off" the radio by any means necessary than fixing things. The screwdrivers seem tricky to master - even putting the yellow one away seems oddly tricky. Interestingly done though!
Nightcall by Cahard 2026-10-24T18:29:05Z ♥ 2
This is great - we considered a switchboard game for the jam but this is really well implemented - does what it says on the tin and then throws in some suspicious calls too! The waving wires and satisfying clunk help makes the main mechanic feel solid.