a very small planet. by PixelFormedStudios 2017-04-30T23:40:22Z
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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | ||
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| š„ | 2017 | 39 | Running out of Power | Computer Crisis | compo | Humor | 4.56 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
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| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | Storage Corp Ltd. | compo | 40 | 3.99 | 3.87 | 3.74 | 4.30 | 4.09 | 3.68 | 3.78 | 3.80 | |
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | Some Seriously Screwed Sheep | compo | 196 | 3.63 | 3.53 | 3.50 | 3.79 | 3.66 | 3.38 | 3.60 | 3.39 | |
| 2017 | 39 | Running out of Power | Computer Crisis | compo | 12 | 4.18 | 4.18 | 3.75 | 4.01 | 3.77 | 3.87 | 4.56 | 3.73 | |
| 2017 | 38 | A Small World | a very small planet. | jam | 623 | 2.94 | 2.90 | 2.57 | 3.94 | 2.75 | 2.77 | 3.05 |
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Should be fixed now. Sorry about that, been trying to work my way around the bugs caused by my lazy programming.
That is them being used up / dying. When testing, I found that having infinite sources made the game feel too easy to play.
Really liked the controls in this, it is so satisfying to jump on top of enemies. I also love the creativity of the ending where you become the last pixel in the logo. Great job!
Everything about this is amazing. Loved the concept, soundtrack and the graphics were unbelievable for the amount of time you guys had to make it. Very well done.
Really loved the tense mood of the game as you tried to escape from erosion. A little hint that the main goal was to buy the escapist would have been nice, but overall I had a blast playing this!
I really like the look of the small and simplistic character design, reflected on the graphics as well.
I really like the graphics and the puzzle mechanics in the game. Although jumping did feel a little bit frustrating, this is a great game overall.
The game mechanics in this game are amazing. Figuring out that you could jump to different sides of the window just made it better. Really well done with this, outstanding work!
Loved the mechanic and it was very simple and easy to understand, yet very fun and addictive to play. Being able to start off at the last level would have been nice.
A little hard to get started and figure out exactly what to do, but overall a very neat concept!
Very nice game! Loved the atmosphere and the concept in itself. Great job!
Thank you everyone for the very kind words and helpful feedback, I couldn't have asked for more!
Loved the style and the concept. The puzzle was not too difficult but very fun to work out and solve. Great job!
I liked the idea and the humor was pretty funny. Had a hard time trying to find any other controls other than arrow keys, but still a good game.
Really cool how it feels like a strategic text based game but with graphics to accompany it. Some of the bars confused me a little at first, but I still managed to get fully into the game. Good job!
I really like how you don't instantly lose when you run out of power, creating an intense moment to reach the power supplies. Great game, and amazing graphics!
Loved the lighting and the graphics added very nicely to the dark mood. Took a while to find the pistol xD Very good game, one of the best and most polished I have seen so far!
Very nice puzzle mechanic and the graphics were very impressive!
Amazing game as usual Shawn. The level of polish and amazing mechanics are unreal for the given amount of time. Really well done!
Nice and simple game. Got a little repetitive but I loved the idea of collecting all the toys.
Nice game with cool ship mechanics. It was a little awkward to control, but the movement pretty good when you get used to it.
A very fun game to play! Really good concept and the power-up was a great addition to the gameplay!
Really great job! The imagery is phenomenal, naturally accompanied by the dark sounds. I had a blast playing this, and I am not normally a fan of text based games! I think you've convinced me to start playing more games like these with this masterpiece.
Really like the concept and had a blast playing. Also, I love the table flip when you exit the game!
Really like the graphics and attention to small details, making the environment feel like a real working office. Sometimes I would get cornered and the camera would zoom in really close, not allowing for movement. But other than that it was a very fun game!
A simple concept but very fun to play! The starting levels are a little tough, but this is a really good game!
I am giving this a 5 stars on graphics, because I can.
Very good game! A lot of polish and I loved the fast paced action. Maybe a little more indication for when the standard robots are shooting but other than that, everything was perfect.
A little to hard as the spawning rate is too fast and it is too hard to kill zombies, but that may just be me talking after trying for a long time to complete the game. Really well made.
Pretty cool game, really like the flashlight effect. Had a little bit of a hard time moving as I would keep getting stuck on walls. Overall, nice game!
This game is extremely polished and very fun to play considering it was made in a short amount of time. By far, the best game I have played yet. Really good job!
Nice entry! The particle effects were really good and not being able to overuse your gun is a great concept. Also, +humor for that beautiful face.
Took me a while to figure out that you had to throw the fish so they land into the container. After that, the game became very fun! The controls were a little slow and sluggish, but overall I think this is a pretty great game!
The combination of graphic styles was really effective. I also really loved the spring type jumping, which felt very satisfying when playing.
Really nice polished graphics and the characters controlled very well!
Really liked the management strategy in this game. Found it a little bit hard at first, but it is a very cool game!
Extremely polished with amazing graphics! Had a blast even playing it on my own!
I really like this concept. Good job with making this very fun, played it for quite a while!
Cool idea, had fun playing it! A little confusing at first, but the simple controls provided an easy introduction to the increasing difficulty.
The graphics are very polished to say this was made in a game jam. Loved the electric beam idea and having to power objects and kill enemies using it. The only thing I would say is that the ladder on top of the large wheel was not very visible, and I died and had to go back and start up the wheel again. Other than that small thing, really great game!
I was going to say a minimap would have been nice, but then I realized that the game was actually the screen from the Gameboy. Really good concept and really fun to play.
Pretty cool game. Keeping the baby asleep was very hard as holding E did nothing but everything else worked fine.
Really liked the lighting following the player and the transitions between levels were very smooth. The animations were also very polished and I loved the rocket scene at the end. The 3D low-poly models were very nice but I felt as if the black outlined pixel art GUI didn't quite match the rest of the game. Overall, a really fun game!
Really nice atmosphere in the game, sets the mood very well! It was a little confusing to start off, but the game was well made for the short time given for development. Good job!
Very cool game! I loved the transition from having too much power to running out of power. Really good concept.
Loved the turn based mechanic. Had a lot of fun playing this!
Very nice graphics and the controls were very responsive.
Love this game! Really cool how moving decreases power and forces a much more strategic approach than just aimlessly moving and shooting.
Very impressive mechanics and effects. Had a blast figuring out the puzzles. Just a little thing that annoyed me (only because I am OCD about certain things). When the narrator says "Censo...", you could have made them say 'Censor' and cut out the end in an audio manipulation program so he isn't saying "Censu". Apart from that, a really good game!
Amazing game! 5 stars in all categories! I loved the music and the whole feel of the game, really good job!
Cool game, liked the idea of not dying when running out of power but rather becoming unable to fight. I wish the punch wasn't so delayed but that might have been my slow PC.
The recoil on the gun really added a new concept to the game, well executed! Just wish you could move a bit faster.
This was very well executed. The mood is perfect for the concept, setting a really effective dark tone which I found to help concentration on keeping the correct lights on. I do feel as though the game becomes very difficult very quickly, but that may just be me as I only got to the fourth level.
Loved the graphics and gameplay. Not being able to see enemies behind walls was a little strange but very nice combat mechanics.
Really smooth and responsive controls. The game seemed very polished and was executed very well. Great job!
@poshdan Sorry about that being a little vague. That occurs randomly when a sheep mutates and inherits a virus, killing it.
@bonelazy very sorry for that, in the most recent build I forgot to turn off debug mode which doesn't set a limit for how many sheep you need and reduces coin spawning. All should be fixed now, thank you for telling me this :)
@rankaquion What message do you get when trying to launch?
@slavicgames I really liked your game, really good concept!
@profan thanks for the feedback, very helpful. When testing out the mechanics I made other sheep around the diseased sheep also explode, but this caused too much death at a later stage, so I dialled it back to one other sheep dying. Thanks for playing and rating!
A simple but cool concept and I really liked the graphics. Also great take on the theme!
Very fun to play, and pretty humorous in a good way. Also love how the whole concept sort of breaks the fourth wall.
Well, I must say, I am glad I was not the only person to make a game about sheep! Good job on the game.
Simple but strangely addicting little game. The music was amazingly fitting also. Not an issue, but it could have been cool if you had to spell words with letters, and the more letters the harder the game (that isn't a game issue, just a suggestion for a future concept). High ratings well done!
The text is a little hard to read, but the concept is very good and well executed. I really liked the voxel art style. Also, that song progression from Mario to Jingle Bells was amazing, +humour points for that!
Very nice graphics and challenging gameplay. Sounds would have been nice but overall a pretty good entry.
The graphic style is excellent! The messages the game presents the player with are very well done.
Nice little polished game, worked very well with no bugs. Was pretty fun to play, despite the controls of having to use both mouse buttons a little odd (that may just be me though). Don't really see 100% how it fits the theme, but it was a good game.
The rotating effect of the road was really cool! Also, the sound effects were gold. A lot of features that make this a very cool game. Good job.
I really liked the idea of balancing the population, great take on the theme. The whole concept and mood reminded me of my LD38 entry. Overall, pretty nice game!
Nice little game of Tetris. The only issues I found were the audio layering out of sync and the pieces would not move consistently, stopping randomly. Other than that, good game I enjoyed playing.
This was an amazing experience. I loved how you had to try and catch letters amongst the other dark contents of the man's brain. The metaphor for hurdling past objects to just string a sentence together and regaining memories was amazing. Really great job with this game!
Really smooth controls and the gameplay was very addictive. The amount of content is really good as well. Great job!
Didn't really see the theme reflected in this game, but great gameplay overall! Could do with a little polish in the GUI but pretty good game overall.
A really nice game with a great soundtrack and adorable chalk like graphics. A simple but fun concept. Had a lot of fun playing this, good job!
Wasnt very clear on what to do at first, but I enjoyed the concept. Really cool and original take on the theme. The only issue I had was when you tell someone to leave when they are sitting down, their animation doesn't change and they float away sitting down. Really high rating on the graphics and mood though, really liked how the game looked.
Really great concept and smooth controls. Game ran really smoothly and I can tell you have put a lot of work and polish into it. Good job!
Very nice and clean graphics. A little note in the actual game itself saying that a controller is needed could have been nice. But apart from that, this was great! The controls were responsive and smooth, and the audio matched the gameplay very well. Good job!
I really liked the perspective when you could rotate the camera! Also, the mechanic was simple but really fun. Obviously, with that many bunnies, the game dropped a lot of frames, but overall a pretty great game!
Well done on using OpenGL to make this, the game was pretty good. Is it a glitch being able to infinitely jump?
Really liked this game. The controls were very responsive, this was a simple but effective concept done well. I also love how the more enemies there were, the more you relied on the slow motion feature. It felt really rewarding dodging five enemies at once using this feature. Very good game!
Really like pixel art and the gameplay was very enjoyable. Maybe some sounds could have added to the impact of the events (like heavy shooting sounds, etc). Rather that or I have my game sounds turned off. Great game.
@incobalt thanks for playing! I tried to make the gameplay last as long as possible by having bytes be multiplied by an increasing multiplier (along with money and such). If this was made into a full game, the player would have to go through shifts plus an endless mode.
@bustosman I thought I patched that bug. Ill look at it today and add an option to turn off the tutorial if you restart the game. Very sorry about this and thanks for playing!
@andre-van-zuydam @eatthepath thanks for playing, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
@bigbosserndog thanks for playing, great stream btw.
@stephan-shabalin does the HTML5 version not work?
@merpader Don't worry about it, thanks for playing!
@furiouswitch Just went in and that should be patched now. Thanks for playing!
@dwemthy Thanks for playing! I'm not the best at tutorials and I shouldn't have left it until last, which is probably why it wasn't too clear.
@firepit-games Thanks so much!
@axkarth Sorry about the HTML5 version, the random functions used in most of the mechanics don't work in the browser version. Thanks for playing though!
@chupachu thanks for the feedback, this really helps! And Iām glad you enjoyed it. I actually made this in Game Maker: Studio. And I was going to write about this in my post mortem, (the fact that I overlooked the drawbacks of HTML5 and didnāt really take time to change anything to support this platform). Thanks again for the feedback, I will be sure to take note on these!
@darylsteak I would love to take credit for that but I donāt remember adding that in. Are you on the windows or html5 version?
@darylsteak Yes sorry about that the HTML5 version doesnāt work very well I didnāt have time to optimise the game for the web export. The Windows version shouldnāt have this problem. Thanks for playing though!
@tlcoc Thanks for playing! There's an option to skip the tutorial on the title screen. I'll take a look at this bug when I get back to my computer in a few days.
Had a lot of fun playing this. Reminded me of the map in Turmoil but with collecting gold and killing opponents. One of my favorite games this time. It's a shame there is no sound.
Very nice game, similar to something I went for this time. I got stuck at one point when many programs were installing but this is a really solid entry and the hectic tone when all the error messages appeared was really well executed.
I'm giving you a five stars on audio, great work! The float-y motion of the spaceship was really well executed and I actually had a real blast (pun intended). Maybe a mini-map showing the destination could have been nicer but then again trying to map out the level and find the finish helped to get better at controlling the ship. Great work, really fun game!
I'm giving you a five stars on audio, great work! The float-y motion of the spaceship was really well executed and I actually had a real blast (pun intended). Maybe a mini-map showing the destination could have been nicer but then again trying to map out the level and find the finish helped to get better at controlling the ship. Great work, really fun game!
Really great game with a lot of features. Loved the idea of having to buy the machines but also consider the placement to be able to fight and so that they wouldn't be easily destroyed. Great job worthy of a high rating!
Nice game and really cool effects. Only wish there were some sounds. The controls were responsive and fun. When holding space to jump on the springy platforms, they wouldn't sink down like they do when you press space. Nice entry though, great job!
Amazing game! I loved the effect of blocks regenerating, the controls were responsive and the sound design + music was on point. My favorite entry so far. Really solid entry. Great job!
Really solid entry here! The controls were very responsive and I loved the simplistic silhouette art style. Also, very nice implementation of the wall jump. Simple, but really fun to play. Good job!
I loved the idea and the mood was great! Honestly, great game!
Really nice game and a cool concept. Loved the pixel art and the parallax scrolling. The controls felt a little bit floaty but I felt that really added to trying to master controlling the bee. Some packages that were far away were almost instantly inaccessible as the play area shrunk. Other than that, really great idea and great execution.
Good fun little game. I liked how the larger you are, the longer it took to turn. A mode where the classic 'wander off screen and appear at the opposite end' mode could have been cool as an easy mode. Great job!
I really loved this entry, probably taking the spot for my favorite. It was polished to perfection, the audio was amazing (especially the deep sounds of the space travel) and the concept was both outstanding and well executed. A really great job!
Nice game, loved the models and the textures. A few times I managed to fly through the wall and fall to my death instead of being crushed. Overall though, really nice entry and ran really well.
Simple game and fun to play. I loved the simplistic art style, especially the level selection. The text shown when levels are completed was a little bit too big. Great work though!
Cool idea and nice art. Was very fun to play and the variation of the shapes (poses) allowed for an almost jigsaw like game. Very cool.
A really cool idea. I loved the animations of the 3D printers. Great job. Maybe a running tutorial could have been nice instead of text and images on a screen.
That gravity mechanic is outstanding and really fun to mess around with. Really great game and I loved the music too.
Nice game, Max score I got was 7243. I loved the trail effect and the pixel art was pretty well done. Solid entry. I feel like if you stay still the fuel should still deplete a little bit. A full version of this game with levels and such would be pretty cool, good job! Also, loved the soundtrack.
Loved this theme interpretation, probably the most creative iv'e seen so far. You also executed the idea very well, the combination of the graphics, audio and gameplay was great. I found some elements of the game a little bit easy when you can just keep deleting the room behind you but then adding the mechanic that keys also took up space threw this off a little, so well done on that! Great work!
Really liked the idea of this game, very fun to play. I think little adjustments like selection sounds when clicking on fish. Cool idea!
Simple idea and fun to play. Maybe a walk cycle animation could have been nice but I understand if there wasn't enough time for that.
Really cool art style used here! I didn't really understand the game for a bit of time though. I also loved the rotation effect!
Really nice concept and the gameplay was outstanding. I really enjoyed playing this one and finding the perfect path was very satisfying. Upon some polish and animations, this is a high quality game.
Really cool concept and the art + audio was great. Only thing I would say is making the UI a little bit more polished and obvious. E.g. when no more chairs are left to be placed and the chair is still on the mouse, it should go a darker colour or become less opaque to indicate that there are none left. That really all the feedback I can give because this is a really great game and I had a blast playing it. Great job!
That effect of the world being demolished was really cool. A simple idea but a very well executed platformer. Great job!
Really cool idea and the audio was very fun, matching the gameplay. It was a little bit annoying when the box (showing where a tile would be placed) didn't follow the mouse very well and the text on the game over screen was small and hidden behind more text. Overall, great entry, had a lot of fun playing.
Really really great game, and I could tell instantly from the music on the title screen. Truly great job. I loved the pixel art style and the spawn rate of the slugs was on point to create that sense that they cannot be destroyed but only delayed to make a path for a few seconds. Solid entry, deserves a high rating!
Fun little game, had a good time playing it. Maybe adding a beat to the music could have made it so much better. Really well executed concept. Good work!