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YearLDThemeGameDivisionRankOvFuInThGrAuHuMo
202352HarvestHustle Harvestjam7992.572.243.791.862.872.27
201944Your life is currency👥Bioenfluencerjam6123.373.143.843.413.452.833.583.42

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LD44 — Your life is currency

The Tree of Bounty by gelisam 2019-05-03T07:56:24Z

Cool game. No complaints. I played for longer than most jam games I see. I guess audio options might be nice.

Bloodmoon Season by gogo199432 2019-04-30T22:02:12Z

It's an impressive game for a short game jam. Nice graphics and audio. Nice use of lighting. Despite the instructions, on my first playthrough it wasn't obvious to me how to collect the blood. I pressed e to interact but nothing seemed to happen.

Cat Your Life on It by khofez 2019-05-06T01:33:28Z

Great graphics and audio. I'd like that intro text to be fast-forwardable. ~~Is there a strategy to the game, or just straight luck?~~ On first playthrough I felt like I didn't have much agency.

On second playthrough, I see that it's a speed game, how fast you can pull and push the bar.

Grim & Tonic by Calzep 2019-05-02T04:53:15Z

Same feelings as Evgeniya. It's a nice match 3 game, but that intro text was so long, and the way it scrolled from the center made it hard to read. Even spamming the enter key, it felt slow getting into the actual game. Thankfully, when I tried again it skipped the text.

I like the art style. Seems well balanced. I lost one game and won one game.

Explosive Escape by exilegl 2019-05-05T00:54:11Z

Love the art style. Nice entry.

The invisible wall was a bit weird. Maybe it needs some indication of a boundary. The shooting mechanic didn't feel quite right. Maybe the shots need to be faster, or you need to add the velocity of the boat to the shot.

Arcade Wars by Aurel300 2019-05-05T01:47:42Z

Nice game. I liked the enemy wave formations, the slot machine, the coin stack. I ran into a pool table(?) that seemed a bit unfair (it rushed me and it was faster than the player, so I couldn't kill it.)

Couch Change by dwemthy 2019-04-30T17:52:20Z

Cute game. I've never seen this type of mechanic, where you can swap characters so easily, in a platformer. I don't play a lot of puzzle platformers, so I didn't get very far, but I liked what I saw.

I'd like to see a bigger payoff when you tag another coin.

Basil Price: Mint Investigator by minibobbo 2019-05-05T00:14:02Z

Great, fun game. Pretty easy to win, but a lot more interesting and interactive than your standard visual novel. I liked those fourth wall breaks. Made me think it was a realitypunk universe like bandersnatch. Maybe explore that further (assuming you like realitypunk)?

Meat Mountain by gamechoy 2019-05-05T00:29:06Z

Fun game. Mechanically it reminded me of Karateka. I would have enjoyed some audio fx for those slashes.

Angry Hog Head by saucygames 2019-05-02T07:30:03Z

Nice game. Great game-feel. Cute sprites. Great animations.

Carl Currency - Expert Exchanger by yazara 2019-05-02T05:30:07Z

Great puzzle game. Art and gameplay are great. Only thing missing is audio.

Paper Combat by tgiant 2019-04-30T07:07:31Z

Great little battler. I loved the animations. Really impressive! Audio was good too. It felt good to punch and kick the AI.

Shinigami's new assignment by Sun-Wukong 2019-04-30T20:07:02Z

Brilliant game. Loved the animations and artwork. Game-feel is really solid. It all felt super-polished. I'm not sure if the scythe contributes to the game much. Dodging enemies was more fun than killing them.

Coin Bois by Alchemic 2019-04-30T06:00:09Z

Hoo boy. Difficult game for me. I got stuck on stage 6. Lots of fun. Nice mechanic. Nice audio. Elegant game. If I was better at puzzlers I'd play longer.

Life Vac by caranha 2019-05-05T09:44:02Z

Great game. I love Conway's game of life. Impressive that you implemented it in Pico8.

To Health and Back by boaheck-artgent 2019-04-30T19:27:12Z

Great game. Just needs esc to speed through dialog text.

GÖLDF by CaptainPilot 2019-05-01T04:45:31Z

Great game. So many levels! Nicely polished. Good fun.

Seaway by Constantin 2019-05-01T03:51:27Z

I love this game. Amazing entry for a game jam. I would normally give tips for improving a game, but I can't think of any for this one. Oh.. I sailed for a long time with no encounters.. just when I started to wonder if there was anything, I found a town.

Be cool to see a hard mode that has wind direction.

Space Gunner by GerardB 2019-05-05T10:10:56Z

Nice game. Well polished. I liked how the coins encouraged exploration, so the player won't just camp out and shoot creeps.

Microtransaction Mages by Jeremy Ryan 2019-05-01T04:04:09Z

Fun game. I nearly almost quit when I didn't have enough money to revive myself.. then I saw the go to work option. Nice clicker / lane defense genre mashup.

Holding space to shoot felt a bit superfluous / unnecessary. Could just enable autoshoot.

Lifeless Treasure by Grewoss 2019-04-30T06:25:30Z

Nice game. Enjoyed the different weapons and enemy variety. Could use a tiny bit more of that elusive "game-feel" (muzzle flash, etc.) Great job.

The Joy of Creationism with God Ross by AndideBob 2019-05-02T08:40:41Z

I love it! The only things I could ask are a few rivers and oceans, and some way to more closely monitor my creations.. seems like *maybe* there's a foxes and hares simulation under the hood, but the effects were very subtle.

Love the premise, the audio, and the graphics.

GAIZAN : JUSTICE WAR by 3mpty 2019-04-30T05:23:40Z

Fun game. I ran out of stuff to kill though and wasn't sure how to proceed. Good fun shooting the robots though. Nice game.

The Kindercatch by LillyByte 2019-04-30T06:31:56Z

Those graphics and audio are both amazing! Nice reverse stealth game. Really impressive effort for a weekend game jam!

Piggy the Bank by Kusaihana 2019-05-02T05:16:13Z

Cool pico game. Like others here, I was expecting the hammer to catch up when I hit an obstacle.

Spirits of the Unknown by TheSomeoneXD 2019-04-30T06:52:01Z

HTML works for me. Great little exploration platformer. A bit heavy on the exposition for me... I was about to quit, but then busy spirit caught my attention! Forge on, busy spirit! Well done.

Vital Investments by dalton5000 2019-04-30T05:00:07Z

Great music. Great graphics. I enjoyed exploring the town to see what I could invest in. Those hints are a bit pricey. I'd like to see a procedurally generated town, so it's not the same layout each time.

The Vampire's Prisoner by Tuhlienn 2019-05-05T10:04:26Z

Nice graphics. Really would have enjoyed some SFX. The chests and weapon racks seemed non-interactive. If there's a trick to them, it's not evident to me. I got the back but didn't know what to do after that.

Koe by velvetlobster 2019-05-05T09:55:52Z

Loved the art and audio. Enjoyed the fourth wall breaks, up to a point. I was looking for a big payoff, but never got one.

BattleType by Sebity 2019-04-30T22:26:39Z

Fun game. Loved the typing lane-defense genre mashup. I wanted my champions to come down specific lanes, but they seemed to appear in random lanes. Could use a little animation on the sprites.

Blood Collector by icedmetal57 2019-05-05T02:02:04Z

It's surprisingly fun. I played through 6 times. Each time, I was surprised when I died. Thought I had plenty of blood left. If the rate of blood loss goes up over time, that could be communicated more explicitly.

Some hit animations and audio fx would go a long way.

Death Making a Living by Marcus Otterstrom 2019-04-30T20:31:01Z

Great concept. Just needs some audio, and maybe different controls for the consume a soul part. With the rotation on the sprite, it felt like pushing W should go forward instead of up the y-axis.

I really like the item progression and the notion that death is decorating their house. Great commentary-on-life game.

Coinroll Adventures by MrPiedPiper 2019-04-30T06:41:11Z

Amazing game! Great mechanic. Great cuteness. Great game-feel. Good puzzles. Sadly, I got stuck on the big empty level with the spring/buttons.

I loved the feelz as we're forced to give up your coins.

Coinroll Adventures by MrPiedPiper 2019-04-30T06:58:41Z

@mrpiedpiper It was a big empty cavern? I needed to jump really high with springs.

Coinroll Adventures by MrPiedPiper 2019-04-30T07:08:35Z

Ok. That makes sense. I tried emptying my coin stack then jumping on them, because I previously learned that I go higher when I'm lighter.

Don't Die, Eat Your Veggies by GhostGoatsGames 2019-05-01T03:12:37Z

That's so hardcore! Buying seeds takes years off your life. I thought this would just be another farming game, then I killed myself by hanging around the store for 100 years. Second playthrough, I aged while waiting for my seeds to grow, watering them carefully every decade or so. Nice game.

Crafting/Farming games are really ambitious for game jams. It's so much easier to just crank out another twin-stick shooter or platformer. Props for the effort!

Clock of Your Life by JestemStefan 2019-04-30T04:52:04Z

Nice. Love the graphics and the audio. I wish our game had a finely tuned economy like this. That must have been hard to balance!

The Iron Syndicate by Hare Software 2019-05-02T09:00:38Z

Seems amazing until it bugged out on me.

``` FATAL ERROR in action number 1 of Step Event0 for object obj_player:

Unable to find any instance for object index '12' name 'obj_furnace' at gml_Script_ev_player_step ```

Loved the concept and the artwork, although I would have loved to see art in the style of "Social Realism" or Tim Huhn style "Neo-Deco"

Paid in Blood by Scott Steffes 2019-05-01T04:10:09Z

Nicely crafted variant of this type of game. No issues with the game itself, but I'm not a huge fan of the genre. Seems well polished!

Mayan Mayhem by Arcus 2019-05-02T05:06:44Z

Seems like it has charm and heart. Just need to crush those movement bugs to make it playable. I like the artwork.

Age of Coin - Battle Stars: ULTRA by squirmonkey 2019-04-30T06:09:55Z

Two games in one! Ambitious! I think the platformer controls could be a little tighter. Or maybe it just needs a bit more "game-feel" on the platformer stage. I felt like I'd rather be playing the coin battle game, but I didn't want to take the time to collect better coins. If you can get the platformer feeling a bit better, it'll be amazing! I really like the concept.

Impressive effort for a weekend!

Catch all the coins by Matu 2019-04-30T05:37:23Z

I like the progression. I feel like the player sped up a bit after the first level (or maybe that was my imagination). Pretty straightforward gameplay, solid enough. Nice audio. Fun to race around the level. I played through 4 levels. Extra credit for not using a big game engine.

Jukebox Panic! by Kaish 2019-05-03T09:04:41Z

Love it! This game is super fun! I can't think of any improvements.

Dragon's Den by LittleW00D 2019-05-20T07:17:07Z

Fun game. Felt like that old time management game, Tapper.

Force of Nature by Griddolini 2019-04-30T04:47:09Z

Insanely good game.

Victor Sold His Soul by Fear Games 2019-04-30T22:20:20Z

General: Love the character design and the premise! Visuals and audio were really good. Impressive (and ambitious) entry! Innovative design.

Game design, level design, genre: The 2d on 3d effect didn't quite work for me (clipping issues, no camera rotation, fixed paths). I felt really slow with such large levels. I felt frustrated by the non-interactive periods: watching the character walk with no user input after the mob touched me. Walking simulators aren't my style, so I didn't have the patience to get to the second part of the game, which might have been more interesting.

A Miner's Life by oddarock 2019-05-02T05:02:51Z

Good entry. I'd fine tune those collision boxes a little bit. When you've got spikes to avoid, the collision areas should be pixel perfect.

I liked the gem stock ticker.

For A Bike by hwaet 2019-05-01T04:19:19Z

The game got a lot more fun after a couple of upgrades.. I was nearly on the verge of quitting, but I thought I should check the house before I go.. then things got better.

For a game jam, it's a risky strategy making gameplay slow and unfun out of the gate. I imaging a lot of potential players will never get so far as to purchase an upgrade. I figure you've got about 1 minute to wow someone.

Definitely could use some audio.

Mahou Shoujo Monster: Promised Fate by jadedResearcher 2019-04-30T20:36:38Z

Great game. Just felt a little short. Sorry, I didn't stick around to find the second ending. I saw "you win" and it felt complete.

Blood and Glory by adrupen 2019-05-02T05:20:43Z

Nice battle royale. I liked the opportunity for progression. I would have liked a strafe option and some variety in attacks.

A Hill To Die On by longbowrocks 2019-05-01T02:59:15Z

Great first entry! I wasn't sure how to decide how much to spend. Probably plays much better as split-screen party game than 1 player vs AI.

A Hill To Die On by longbowrocks 2019-05-02T03:41:24Z

@longbowrocks I don't have enough Unity experience to give any implementation advice. I do most of my work in Godot. (even in Godot I haven't mastered split-screen yet.)

Blood and goods by selewi 2019-05-05T00:43:39Z

Great game. Amazing artwork and audio. I just wish it was actual words instead of qweasd. I normally type quickly, but when posed with random strings of letters I blanked out. I imagine I'll get the hang of it after a couple of runs through.

I played through again. Helped to think of words that started with that letter. Now I wish the button options responded to keyclicks, so I could progress without switching to mouse.

Goals by vanLeiden 2019-05-01T04:24:16Z

Great puzzle game! Nicely polished.

Designated Victim by toasteater 2019-04-30T04:38:16Z

Great game!

A Shooter Confrontation between the Society of the Sanguine Faith and Dracula by Hyperbian Games 2019-04-30T05:43:26Z

Nice game. I'd like to hear a little audio when you take a bullet hit. At first I didn't even realize I was losing health.

Bioenfluencer by caevv 2019-04-30T05:16:31Z

Lol. Yeah. The feed requires sweat. But that's not really obvious to anyone.

Bioenfluencer by caevv 2019-04-30T18:09:18Z

@hwaet Thanks for playing. I'll log that bug in case we decide to continue development after the jam. Can you give me any more details about the situation? https://github.com/godot-wildlings/Bioenfluencer/issues/18

Bioenfluencer by caevv 2019-04-30T19:29:43Z

@vanleiden Thanks. Surreal is a good description.

Bioenfluencer by caevv 2019-04-30T19:32:09Z

@szabe Thanks for playing! You didn't mess up. The economy could use some tweaking and we need some more content. (more creature parts, more stories to rechirp, some unique events maybe)

Bioenfluencer by caevv 2019-04-30T19:32:38Z

@sebeee Awesome. Thanks for playing. Glad you enjoyed it.

Bioenfluencer by caevv 2019-04-30T19:34:18Z

BTW: For anyone who comments here, we'll play and rate your game too. Good guy developers.

Bioenfluencer by caevv 2019-04-30T19:35:29Z

@nebulousharmony Lol. "small" bug. :) That one definitely needs attention. Thanks for spotting it. I've added it to the list: https://github.com/godot-wildlings/Bioenfluencer/issues/8

Bioenfluencer by caevv 2019-04-30T20:21:21Z

@humnyn Thanks for playing! I've added an issue to our github to reflect that problem. Hopefully we can properly address it later. https://github.com/godot-wildlings/Bioenfluencer/issues/23

Bioenfluencer by caevv 2019-04-30T21:26:34Z

Thanks @xmpted , That sounds like a bug. I've added it to our tracker: https://github.com/godot-wildlings/Bioenfluencer/issues/24

Probably an easy fix, but I'll wait until the rating period is over to be fair.

Bioenfluencer by caevv 2019-04-30T21:27:09Z

Thanks for playing @fear-games . We'll play and rate your game as well. :)

Bioenfluencer by caevv 2019-05-01T20:06:09Z

@myrmyxo Congratulations, you broke the internet! Turns out there was a one-letter typo bug in our code which prevented players from regaining sweat. I've uploaded the one-letter fix version (and left the original there as well.)

There's many more bugs we should fix, but I'll leave that until after the ratings period is over.

Bioenfluencer by caevv 2019-05-06T01:30:10Z

@ivan-garcia-filho Thanks for the awesome suggestions! We'll add those to our project plan for the post-jam version.

forest path by herio5154 2019-05-01T02:53:58Z

Nice entry. Needs a bit more work, but you're on the right track.

D.R.I.E.D. by JasonD 2019-04-30T19:18:56Z

Great game. Nothing I'd change. Great audio, great graphics. It felt well balanced, with there's no single overwhelmingly dominant strategy.

Minimum Viable Piggy by Macks 2019-04-30T06:56:28Z

Great little platformer with an innovative mechanic, a lot of heart, and great game-feel. Love the humour. That was super fun.

mister penny by humfuzz 2019-04-30T05:51:15Z

Great idea. I got stuck pretty early on though. Not sure how to pass the L-shaped level with 2 coins. To be fair, I'm not a huge puzzle gamer, so I gave up pretty quickly.

Arcade Wizard by T.A.C. Commandeur 2019-04-30T19:05:46Z

one more try.

Great gameplay! Felt like a slightly easier version of a classic twin-stick shooter. I really like how that facing mechanic works.

My only complaint would be that the tutorial text is hard to grasp before you've seen the game. I'd move that all into the first scene.

Meter Maid DX by No Grapes Games 2019-04-30T05:11:06Z

Good game. Great graphics and audio. Great polish. Loved the intro cutscene. Nice job making it skip-able. My only request would be some way to temporarily lure away the police. Love that you used the Godot engine! Represent! BTW: Godot exports to html really easily. Next time, you should put an html version on itch.io.

LD52 — Harvest

Agricultural Express by DeathBySnail 2023-01-10T06:53:18Z

Love the artwork. The curved earth effect felt especially nice for some reason.

Grow Golf by torcado 2023-01-09T23:41:59Z

Wow! What a great game! I'd love to know your design process. Was the concept crystal clear from the outset, or did you have to pivot to "find the fun"?

Hyper Harvest by orion-black 2023-01-10T06:17:52Z

The core game loop is very satisfying. Nicely done.

The Orchid's Edge by Cornflowerblue 2023-01-09T23:55:03Z

This is WAY too polished to be a jam game. Very impressive!

Harvest Tataki - Whac-a-carrot by caranha 2023-01-10T05:55:38Z

Solid game. Nice job.

Untitled Farming Game by Ludius 2023-01-12T09:19:05Z

I didn't quite figure it out. I harvested the grass and filled the map with plantings, but nothing much seemed to happen after that.

Harvesting the Dark Souls by MoLa0404 2023-01-09T20:47:55Z

Cool vampire survivors clone. What do you call this genre of games?

Tiny FarmLand by Roalinn 2023-01-09T23:49:46Z

Loads of polish for a quick game jam! Great submission.

Squirrelativity by cassowary 2023-01-11T02:55:30Z

Great, interesting puzzle game. I haven't seen this mechanic before, so bonus points for innovation.

Hedgehog Tree by Alexascher 2023-01-11T08:13:26Z

I love everything about it. Great aesthetic, ambience, design, graphics, audio, game-feel, polish, progression. Who knew you could make such a great game from such a seemingly straightforward concept?

Hustle Harvest by plexsoup 2023-01-09T12:24:38Z

If the embedded web browser version doesn't work for you, try another web browser, or try the itch.io page: https://plexsoup.itch.io/hustle-harvest

Hustle Harvest by plexsoup 2023-01-09T20:05:01Z

Thanks for playing. Andy was a side effect of not-enough-time syndrome. Originally he was intended to slot into other cards as an accelerator, but I never got that functionality working, so now he's just another source of audio for the dynamic music generator. I had big dreams of a whole ecosystem of cards interacting with each other, but it didn't happen in the allotted time.

Hustle Harvest by plexsoup 2023-01-11T05:17:25Z

@tpunisher33 Hmm. I tried to make them exactly on pitch and time, starting with A440 and using specific pitch increments, pitch_scale = [1.0, 1.122, 1.189, 1.335, 1.498, 1.682, 1.89]. Maybe I got the increments wrong. I need a better grounding in music theory, or some guidance from a music theory expert. Thanks for pointing out that it doesn't sound quite right.

Hustle Harvest by plexsoup 2023-01-11T11:13:52Z

@yichenfeng Yeah. In hindsight, charging money for making connections was a dumb idea. It was a holdover from a previous design concept where the player would start out by collecting spawned object litter and deliver them to their destinations manually. Then the wired connections were supposed to be a big upgrade. (like conveyor belts in factorio). Thanks for playing!

Hustle Harvest by plexsoup 2023-01-12T02:46:23Z

@tpunisher33 Thanks for the feedback. I agree 100%. Maybe one day I'll learn a bit about standard chord progressions. :)

Drake's Fortune by chompdev 2023-01-11T00:42:59Z

This is cool. I like how you allow the player to play how they like, and don't impose unnecessary time limits or other gimmicks. I really like the core game loop, like an artillery game but with a mobile platform. I like that the mouse doesn't give you perfect aim, so you have to plan your shots.

You're under harvest by Mastoast 2023-01-11T07:33:38Z

What the hell? How do you get a game this well polished on pico 8 for a very short game jam? 48 hours? It's like a complete arcade game! Well done!

You're under harvest by Mastoast 2023-01-11T11:09:59Z

@mastoast That makes sense. I need to start doing that too. Thanks.

Harvest Village by Dannyk1994 2023-01-09T23:09:54Z

Fun game in the style of Dorfromantik. Good idea adding the screenshots on the LD game page, I would have been lost without them.

Barvest: The Iconic Bug Harvest of 2005 by picross 2023-01-11T07:07:06Z

Impressive game for a short jam!

Wheat Master by nyxkn 2023-01-12T22:56:46Z

Surprisingly satisfying clicker / idle game. The ending also invokes a nice existential crisis, making the player question all of their decisions which led them to this point in their life. Well done.

Hare Runner by Crychair 2023-01-10T06:00:21Z

Impressive game! That artwork! Fantastic.

Corntacular Spectacular by Icoso 2023-01-09T23:46:45Z

Wow. Fantastic submission for a very short game jam!

The Feudal in the Rye by echerry 2023-01-11T07:16:57Z

Seems like it would be a great game, but didn't work well for me on a MacBook, even in fullscreen I couldn't see the interface. (Tried Safari and Firefox) I love the idea, and the artwork though.

Carrot by itsBoats 2023-01-10T06:35:39Z

Super fun! I liked how I had to manage my ammo. Very interesting concept. Nicely polished too!

The Circular Reaper by greenphox 2023-01-10T06:40:51Z

Well done! Nicely polished. Fun concept I haven't seen before.

The Harvester by flanne 2023-01-10T03:43:35Z

Great game. It's humbling to see great submissions like this one!

Hivesters by HexStart 2023-01-10T06:30:49Z

Wow, the 3d modelling and texturing is fantastic! Very impressive! I haven't seen very many line-drawing RTS games. Usually it's drag to select, then click once to move. Good job taking a risk on innovative controls. The pheromone trails fit the motif perfectly.

Aggro-Culture by Ategon 2023-01-12T09:25:17Z

Nice game.

Farm On Wheels by Igor Minenko 2023-01-10T09:12:57Z

Environment art looks fantastic!

Harvesting... by ornitorenk 2023-01-12T09:04:17Z

Fun game. Neat little challenges.

H.A.R. VEST by Breaddysticks 2023-01-12T09:36:12Z

Nice graphics!

Vacuum by vividfax 2023-01-10T03:34:31Z

Very nice, elegant game design. Well done.