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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| š„ | 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | Meddle | compo | Innovation | 4.70 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 38 | A Small World | Jag Editor | jam | 1.33 | 1.00 | 2.00 | 1.00 | |||||||
| 2016 | 35 | Shapeshift | Linear Motion | jam | 954 | 2.77 | 2.17 | 3.47 | 2.87 | 3.41 | 10 | ||||
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | I can. | jam | 315 | 3.53 | 3.00 | 3.75 | 3.31 | 24 | |||||
| 2015 | 33 | You are the Monster | Monster Mind | jam | 10 | ||||||||||
| 2015 | 32 | An Unconventional Weapon | Guide 2 Where? | jam | 30 | 4.06 | 3.65 | 4.35 | 3.45 | 3.52 | 3.48 | 4.03 | 32 | ||
| 2014 | 31 | Entire Game on One Screen | Megamage | compo | 331 | 3.42 | 3.26 | 3.94 | 3.35 | 3.42 | 3.67 | 3.84 | 3.31 | 26 | |
| 2014 | 30 | Connected Worlds | The Worldly Duke | jam | 20 | ||||||||||
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | Meddle | compo | 127 | 3.74 | 3.43 | 4.70 | 4.03 | 3.20 | 3.41 | 3.12 | 3.00 | 41 | |
| 2013 | 28 | You Only Get One | Wiped | compo | 766 | 2.67 | 2.31 | 2.14 | 2.93 | 2.45 | 2.88 | 2.47 | 2.43 | 58 | |
| 2013 | 27 | 10 Seconds | Jackton Factory | jam | 249 | 3.20 | 2.98 | 3.82 | 3.76 | 2.87 | 2.62 | 2.82 | 2.95 | 57 | |
| 2013 | 26 | Minimalism | D.RE.U | compo | 457 | 3.26 | 3.29 | 3.41 | 3.53 | 2.67 | 3.40 | 32 | |||
| 2012 | 25 | You are the Villain | Prophecy of the Villain | jam | |||||||||||
| 2012 | 24 | Evolution | Untitled | jam | 190 | 2.71 | 2.43 | 2.93 | 2.93 | 2.71 | 2.64 | 1.69 | 2.23 | 26 | |
| 2012 | 23 | Tiny World | Earth Evacuation | compo | 10 |
As a lot of people have said already, slow, but cool, and the first HTML5 game I've ever seen. When I picked up the first guy, I thought "Wow, that's some great AI!" but then realized I was complementing myself.
Amazing game! It's full of atmosphere, and it has (as far as I know) a unique key element. The original version is very difficult, I only managed to get 8 balls, but I beat it in Easy mode. I couldn't figure out if the dog survived or not...
Is the MineCraft-like appearance intentional?
Right-click on the game and do "Show all" to see the whole thing... At least that's what I did. This game is pretty cool, but I think it could use more types of cavemen. For example, ones that take two hits to kill, or ones that have bows. Also, it annoys me how there's a lives system that doesn't do anything... It resets the game completely, I might as well reload the page! And finally, I must say the jumping is terrible! It's like something out of a Scratch game (go to scratch.mit.edu), and a bad one at that.
Sorry for the purely negative feedback - trust me, this is the kind of feedback I always give: long and full of complaints. I have trouble with both complementing and being concise.
Well, that settles it. I'm definitely entering Ludum Dare 23.
I wish it worked in Wine... :( Is there anything I can use to compile that BMX file for Ubuntu?
The link just leads me to a page with some information about the game ans some other links... It sounds fun, though.
Oh, I made it to the SWF file directly, but my screen isn't tall enough for it... In fact, it amazes me that anybody's screen is tall enough for it...
I finally managed to play it. It's a really great game concept! The only problem with it is that at the end, when you shoot the saboteurs, both times I played I missed and hit a bystander and one person got away. (Sorry for commenting 3 times in a row, I can imagine that being annoying...)
Actually, the listed ways are the only ways to die, but you need to get the zombie or the clone to follow you for a bit so you can use the mine to shrink the world and then let it kill you.
Yes... Sorry about the lack of instructions, everybody, but I thought I was out of time (I submitted under 5 minutes before the Submission Hour started). I haven't been able to fix the notes since, I've been too busy. I will add more as soon as possible.
Ok, it's aggravating to say the same thing everybody else has said over and over, so just wait for me to fix the notes, please!! This is really annoying, my first Ludum Dare entry is ruined by a lack of instructions...
I can't run it. When I run it from the command prompt it just prints a blank line and then exits. I'm using 64-bit Windows 7.
Great game! It's really fun if you're careful with your EvoGems, but it can be a bit tedious at times.
Fun game! The moving platforms, though... I've always hated waiting for moving platforms. And when I got to the second level, I saw the arrow pointing down, waited for a platform to arrive, got impatient, and jumped off. This resulted in me dying. It's a fun game, though, I just have a hard time giving positive feedback.
Very good! It's a bit hard, though. I noticed that the person who wins is always the one that just spawns hordes of Fillinis, but when I tried that, it didn't work. Very fun anyway, though! And the multitouch emulation isn't bad, either. I got used to it really fast.
How do I pick up skulls? I found a skeleton in a cave, but I couldn't take its skull.
Fun, but hard. What if getting hit just made you get really hungry instead of one-hit killing you?
Fun game, understandable if it's a bit short. I had to give it a not-so-great rating in theme, though. Good work.
Awesome game! You really made the Game of Life constructs seem more alive to me by having me kill them. They really are systems that can be broken by destroying bits of them!
I can't run it, I get this when I try to run launch.bat:
C:\Users\<My Real Name>\Downloads\octodarwin\octodarwin\octodarwin-desktop>launch.bat
C:\Users\<My Real Name>\Downloads\octodarwin\octodarwin\octodarwin-desktop>"C:\Program File
s (x86)\Java\jre6\bin\java" -cp "..\octodarwin-desktop\bin;..\octodarwin-desktop
\libs\gdx-backend-lwjgl.jar;..\octodarwin-desktop\libs\gdx-backend-lwjgl-natives
.jar;..\octodarwin-desktop\libs\gdx-natives.jar;..\octodarwin\bin;..\octodarwin\
libs\gdx.jar" me.teaisaweso.games.ld24.Main
The system cannot find the path specified.
C:\Users\<My Real Name>\Downloads\octodarwin\octodarwin\octodarwin-desktop>"C:\Program File
s\Java\jre6\bin\java" -cp "..\octodarwin-desktop\bin\;..\octodarwin-desktop\libs
\gdx-backend-lwjgl.jar;..\octodarwin-desktop\libs\gdx-backend-lwjgl-natives.jar;
..\octodarwin-desktop\libs\gdx-natives.jar;..\octodarwin\bin;..\octodarwin\libs\
gdx.jar" me.teaisaweso.games.ld24.Main
The system cannot find the path specified.
Never mind, I replaced jre6 with jre7 in the batch file and it worked.
Charles Darwin as a mad scientist? Hahaha. This is quite a fun game! But it's taking every bit of self-restraint in my body to not open up a new tab in Chrome and go to that URL in the code that sends the scores to the online scoreboard! You might want to see about removing that hacked score of 9001, too, by the way. No, it's not mine.
This is quite a fun and innovative game idea! For my 3rd order, though, the guy wanted green cats, and I kept breeding the cats but didn't get any green ones.
This is a fun game, good concept, but if that statue to the far right is the end, it's really short. If it's not... I'll have to play it again.
It crashed a lot on one of the people who beta tested the game, too. It has never crashed on me (well, at least not this version). I don't know why it's crashing, he sent me the terminal output and he was getting normal FPS and no stack trace. So it's not a performance issue and it's not an exception. I do have a few more ideas, so I'll try to fix the crashes as soon as I can. It would be helpful to know your OS and JVM version, too.
Maacus: Yes, it is rather hard. I usually upgrade agility and avoid battle at first and then start upgrading health like crazy when those guys that can kill you in one hit start showing up. Then I go in and try to kill them. I usually fail, too.
Gidaio: Thanks, I'm glad you liked it! About the platforming element needing refinement, you're talking about jumping, right? Ha, yeah, this way of jumping does seem a bit crude, but I think that in the long run it's better.
I'm glad to be receiving positive feedback for this game! It's not finished, so as you can see the world is mostly empty, the directions are poor, and there's no winning condition, but now that I see people like it, I'm quite probably going to make a complete version. So, pretty much what I'm saying is, thanks, glad you enjoyed the game!
This was great, proves the importance of audio in video games. Was I supposed to die at the end? More importantly, was I supposed to shoot everything that breathes? I'm not really sure, but I think that not quite knowing if you could have made a different choice is a good thing in games.
Ok, before my review: Yayy! This is my first LD where I actually have a phone I can try out mobile games with!
Now that that's done, this is pretty great! It is very minimalistic, and it is quite out of the ordinary to introduce rules with so little information about them. I can see what you mean when you say it's better on a tablet, but I played it with two thumbs on my phone and it was just fine. I can't get far enough to tell if it ever ends, though.
This is great. It was impossible to ever be mad about dying when the character said "Ba-dum, ba-dum!" or "Embarrassing..." when he respawned. The graphics are also good, nice cartoony style, and the transition between shapes looked good.
This game is genuinely fun, which I definitely can't truthfully say of all of the games I've tried so far. It's not the best theme-fitting game, but the theme wasn't so good itself. It could have fit the theme Exploration really well, though - I couldn't have imagined it being this interesting to explore a small platformer level.
The fog makes it difficult to see the obstacles until you're right about to hit them. Other than that it was good for its type, I personally didn't like it much, but that's just because I don't like this kind of game.
A one-button turn-based RPG... You know, I actually like this better than those games that are pretty much just like this except with the illusion of free choice. At least I don't have to blame myself for dying, haha. Also, this is definitely true to the theme.
This is very impressive for 16 hours. Not only is it polished all except for level transitions, it also seems like an actual game, unlike my entry.
Great job, the color mechanic makes for some great levels! You are wayyy better than me at making levels. My only criticism is that the white doors look too much like the grey walls.
This is a very interesting concept. I've seen games where you have to walk the minimum distance or something, but using "chunks" made of lines and squares is much more creative and makes me think a lot more. It could use some polish, but the concept is there, and it's good. I can imagine the algorithm to break up the level into squares and lines may have been time-consuming, as well.
Whoa... A raycaster in Flixel? That is super awesome. The game is original and challenging, too. Great work overall, my only complaint is the refreshing to restart. Did you use static variables a lot or something?
The gameplay was nice and simple, I especially liked the idea of using items directly from the (very Minecraft-like) inventory. As I recall, though, the beta version of this game had nice hand-composed music, and I don't hear any audio of any kind, online or in the applet. Also, it would have been nice if the levels later on had been more interesting instead of being made of mazes full of empty chests, but the super-speed effect of "punching" through the doors made it less bothersome. A pretty nice game overall.
This game's art is good and its mechanics are quite fun. I couldn't figure out that you had to click on thoughts, though, and went into the code with the full intention of finding some hidden line of dialogue to progress me past "Please Lou/Don't kill me Lou" when I saw the word "insight" and thought of clicking on the thoughts. Once I figured that out, it got a lot more interesting, although I couldn't seem to get any endings except F-rated ones. It was exciting, though!
This is the only game so far to make me laugh. :)
On one of my attempts I heard a robotic voice start to say something unintelligible right before it crashed... Does... Does that mean I win?
This game is very innovative, and I like the graphics! The reversal of the idea of 10 seconds - 10 seconds without time - was very interesting, and I liked the delayed mimicking behavior of the slimes. I would definitely like to play an extended version of this game!
This is a very interesting concept, and a fun game! It's quite new to use controls and not have immediate feedback about what position the character's in.
Welll... Actually, it's not... That happens to me all the time when I turn my quality settings up too high in video games. Anyway, though, this makes simple challenges in platforming very difficult. It's like playing with your eyes closed and with no sound, and then being able to watch a replay of your performance.
My only complaint about this game is that it could use a way of resetting without waiting 10 seconds.
A little polish can go a long way in making a game good, and this game abounds in it! The gameplay is original and fun, and the game seems very complete. I especially like the way the music gets happier as the number of living optimists increases. There are only two things I would recommend for an updated version: adding a background to the level (maybe brown grass that turns green as optimists are recruited), and making levels with layouts instead of just populating the room differently as the player progresses.
Very well done!
This game, for its simplicity, is very fun! The way the time limit works reminds me of that game... What's it called? 30-Second Hero, or something like that. I was surprised by the variety of rooms that could be entered, and the way the rooms seem to be constructed as you enter doors and you don't seem to leave the main area reminds me of... Actually, it reminds me of my own LD26 game. Also, this is the only game where I like the constant beeping when you're low on "health", because it's easy for me to forget about the time limit.
This game is fantastic! I found it to be very genuinely fun, and the concept is very innovative, which can often be a hard combination to make. I've said on several games I would play an extended version... For this one, though, I would pay for an extended version!
Unfortunately, both WinRAR and 7-Zip reached an unexpected EOF, so I couldn't try it. :(
The idea and the visuals are nice, but in the end it seems like all there is to do is walk around and die. This seems like a good candidate for further work, though.
This game is surprisingly fun, and the music is nice! I have to admit, I didn't expect much when I saw the word "genetist" - it's supposed to be "geneticist" - but I'm glad I tried it! I had a streak of incredible luck and got to the point where the little mutants that show up in the top row start going offscreen because I had made so many. It can be a bit annoying when there are no pieces that can be placed in the grid, but it's a very good game anyway.
At first I thought this game would be easy, because I thought myself to be an excellent fast-clicker. Both of those thoughts were proven wrong, and now all I have after about 15 attempts is two hurting index fingers.
I couldn't seem to play. The screen just flickered and then turned white. :(
As far as I got, this game was great! I couldn't seem to get past the scary face, though. But the textures are excellent, and the music is great. The mechanic seemed promising, and was fun to mess around with for a while, but doesn't seem like it was used to its full potential... At least not in the first two levels.
The graphics are very nice, and so is the audio. The gameplay is simple, but fun. I like it!
I'm not sure if this game is possible to beat, but either way, I lost. I had a stressful but fun time. The audio really helped set the mood, although the graphics left something to be desired.
Attempt one: Extend both legs and hold them.
Attempt two: Extend both legs rapidly.
Attempt three: Alternate legs rapidly.
Attempts four to twenty or something: Repeat attempt three.
Attempt twenty-one or something is when I finally got it. I enjoy getting the hang of a game, though, so it was fun. :)
This game was great! This was the kind of concept for which it would be really easy to not use it properly and make something really annoying, but I can see a lot of little things at work here to make it less bothersome - for instance, the totems seem to target gatherers last.
The graphics are great, also, especially for 48 hours, along with programming a pretty complicated concept. This is the kind of quality I would be impressed by in a Jam entry. The only thing that reveals the time limit is the ending. It seems a bit rushed, but I can't exactly complain. I am guilty of creating some rushed endings, as well.
I saved every single cat I saw, and yet I still got a score of only 45%. :( The game was fun. :)
The gameplay may be lacking, but anybody who has participated in a LD will be impressed bu just how much content is in this game. The soundtrack is by far the best I've seen in any Ludum Dare game, especially. I like the dove-jumping level especially - it shows the player that Mr. Moore is really just fantasizing, since he can't really jump across a flock of birds to retrieve a ring. The concept reminds me of To the Moon.
This game seemed very complete. I completely forgot that it was a Ludum Dare game most of the time and just enjoyed the game, which, unfortunately, is not true of all of the games I've tried. The correct option ended up being one of the last ones I tried, though. I would say more, but I don't want to spoil it to others.
Thanks for the positive comments! The idea of the game is really to keep trying until you figure out how the game works, and then try to perform while. In case you didn't catch on, clicking on signs will take you to the room they point to.
Yes, it is possible to beat. I put a URL to a video of the best ending in the notes.
Just finished rating the games of all who commented on this game. Even if you didn't get a comment, I rated your game... Except for UnixXNova, whose game I unfortunately couldn't play.
I'm currently working on a complete rewrite of the game, and I'm planning on adding LOTS of new levels and content to the game, because I think that a lot of possible gameplay is what could make this game great. Thanks for playing, everyone!
Autotracker music! Great! The track on the third level really reminds me of the music from my LD24 game.
Anyway, this game is great! The concept is really innovative and easy to catch on to. I found the levels visually appealing and interesting to play. My only problem was that I often spawned moving off the map, and I couldn't figure out how the lives system worked. Thanks for providing a Linux build, by the way!
I really enjoyed this game! I got all 4 endings, although the 4th took me completely by surprise because I was just combining stuff to get funny failure messages and wasn't expecting the most serious ending to suddenly appear. The writing is great, and I actually like the way none of the story is actually shown in the images, it made it a bit more like reading a book.
This is a really bizarre. It gets really, really, really laggy really fast, though. Is there something you're forgetting to remove from the scene?
This game is very funny, I really liked the visuals. Having the gloves flap around without hitting anything in the slapping part makes it even better.
Fun to play, the precise, column-based movement let me feel quite confident in some really close situations while still being challenging.
The last level was definitely the best. Flying fast through a narrow tunnel, making sure not to touch the ceiling, the floor, the platforms, or the bullets, was quite fun, even though that's probably not how it's intended to be played.
It's simple, but fun. It could have used sound, though, even though there is no sound in space.
The Linux build does work on my computer. It doesn't capture the mouse and I had to use killall to close it, but neither of these were big problems.
Anyway, the game actually looks pretty good for the most part. The gameplay was, um... Well, I don't think this is the first game I've ever played where I got several thousand dollars I didn't know what to do with and then jumped off the edge of the world. Both happen to me commonly enough, I'm sure they've both happened in the same game before.
How do I write a review? Oh, of course. X
I stopped when I ran out of things to smash in rage. Next time, keep in mind that it's way harder if you're not the one who made the game.
Other than the obscene difficulty, though, this game is really impressive for 48 hours. It looks and sounds good, and the mechanics are good aside from a few frustrations.
If you try harder to make something beatable next time, I'll look forward to playing it.
This is absolutely stunning. You should port it to Android/iOS, I bet it would be quite popular!
Yes, I'm sorry about the controls. They're preeetty bad. I spent a while trying to figure out a better way, but nothing came to me. Oh, well.
Also, second puzzle: not in the pit, over it.
Anyway, thanks for all the positive comments! I'm very glad to see that my game is enjoyed!
I love this concept! But man, what do I have to do to please the people watching? Hire some actual actors and crew? Yeah, right. Also, the tutorial wasn't so great, it was hard to read it fast enough, but it was easy to catch on to and a lot of fun, even though I did fail miserably at it many times.
This is very complete and a very good concept! It's also very easy, though. There's a simple and foolproof formula for every level, but in each one it's unique, which makes it very interesting and fun anyway.
I like the branching level tree of levels, but the combat is a chore.
This game felt very polished, I really liked the graphics! Aside from the length, it was easy to forget it was made in just 48 hours.
It looks very good, but I couldn't figure out what I had to do.
This looks very interesting, if you make a Linux build I'll definitely try it. Unfortunately, the Unity Web Player doesn't work on Linux.
This is a very fun little thing! It could have used a bit more challenge, though.
There is no way any other games have been submitted this LD with music this good. And the charging sound actually harmonizes with it. I would rate this 10/5 in Audio if I could.
Game-wise, it's unremarkable, but addicting. But, man, I'm going to go download the music from SoundCloud! How can this even be Ludum Dare music?
I like it, the game becoming easier as you go is an interesting idea.
I found the spinning when beneath the surface made it completely unplayable. Too bad, since it seemed like it would be fun.
Great game, loved the graphics, and the characters always had great dialogue. It feels like you put in some thought to your world, too.
~ misson20000, voting on the behalf of our team
The Linux version works, but:
* The score is a bit hard to read
* I can't figure out a reason why I shouldn't just constantly shoot
* Is there any sort of ending?
* Sounds got annoying after a bit, but until then, they were pretty good
* Not very clear how it relates to the theme
Otherwise, it was a pretty fun game
~misson20000, voting on behalf of our team
Could we get a Linux build, please?
~ misson20000
You've got a good story, and the background look great, but the main character could've had better graphics/animation, the background noises got annoying after a bit, and the default resolution didn't fit on my 1366x768 screen
~misson20000, voting on behalf of our team
(Posting as Pitzik4.)
BMacIntosh: Thanks. Although OotS wasn't a direct influence on the style, I did notice the similarity. The animation was done in Synfig. This game uses an engine I made before the Jam, and I also wrote a Python script that converts .sifz files to my custom animation format. I'm especially glad you like the animations, because this engine is also being used in my first big project, Spanner in the Works.
This was quite the experience! The graphics and animation were beautiful, as others have said. The only puzzles I couldn't figure out on my own were the simplest ones... the 1234 buttons and figuring out that you can press the red button more than twice. Well, OK, I also had to look in the guide to figure out where, exactly, the points of the pentagram were, but I didn't really have any way of figuring that out as far as I know.
Hmm. Well, first, I'm glad you guys liked the story and the writing so much! A bit surprising, too, since that wasn't really my focus. I may try a dialogue-driven game next LD.
Looking back on it now, giving the player a button and saying "figure it out" probably wasn't the best way to introduce them to this mechanic. In a nutshell, everything that's not visible from the focus point is nonsolid in the grass world. So, normally, everything in the grass world seems to be solid, since, if you can collide with it, you can probably see it. When you put down the focus point, everything that you can't see in the grass world is no longer solid, so you can pass through it.
I just switched from a laptop to a desktop PC, so this was tough, but I can also confirm that it gave me a great headstart on getting my typing speed back up. The player character sort of reminded me of Arthur Dent: "The word 'bulldozer' wandered through his mind for a moment in search of something to connect with."
This is quite elegant and polished! After a few levels, though, I started having to experiment a *lot* each level, since the way things work wasn't explained at all and things became so sensitive to very, very precise details. Some elaboration on the rules would have been nice; I ended up giving up on the checkerboard level where the "twinbot" is introduced because I was getting tired of experimenting.
I hit an unlucky streak after a while and didn't get any geysers for what might have been a full minute. 371 points.
The simplicity is very nice, though I would have liked to see some variation in gameplay. It gets repetitive after a while. Still, there's an elegance to this game that some people, such as myself, just can't seem to muster. No levels. Minimal text. Only one type of enemy, randomly spawned until the player dies. In the end, a game doesn't need to be more complicated than that.
Huh, I never actually tried counting the endings before. I suppose ten would be a reasonable estimate, so, yes, there are seven more. The true ending is the one that says "Congratulations." I don't really expect anyone to get it, but it would be awesome if someone did.
drludos, I hadn't previously considered doing a walkthrough. That is now a high priority on my "to do" list.
deadbodyoutline, what if I told you... I developed the entire game on Chromium for Linux? :) Because I did. Always nice to see another Chromium user!
I love the movement system. It's unlike anything I've seen before, and it really makes me feel like a ninja being able to pull off such cool maneuvers with just two buttons.
Thanks, but the gear isn't spinning in the wrong direction. It isn't rolling along the walls. It's just... spinning.