The Tactical Trio by Aggrathon 2018-05-14T19:01:47Z ♥ 1
I wasn't a huge fan of my troops killing each other when lined up, considering how difficult it is already to manipulate the orcs. Good fun though.
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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | 👥 | Inner Self | jam | 916 | 2.90 | 2.35 | 2.86 | 2.18 | 3.64 | 3.90 | 1.81 | 3.76 | ||
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | 👥 | Thrust Vector | jam | 320 | 3.70 | 3.43 | 3.74 | 3.61 | 4.14 | 3.30 | ||||
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | 👥 | WAVEFORM | jam | 368 | 3.64 | 3.67 | 2.80 | 2.71 | 4.50 | 3.71 | ||||
| 2017 | 38 | A Small World | 👥 | The Witless | jam | 122 | 3.86 | 3.62 | 3.24 | 3.41 | 3.62 | 2.63 | 3.14 | 3.52 | ||
| 2016 | 36 | Ancient Technology | Retro YouTube Simulator | jam | ||||||||||||
| 2016 | 35 | Shapeshift | Combibox | jam | 121 | 3.78 | 3.54 | 3.68 | 3.28 | 4.41 | 63 |
pogo leaves an average of 19.7 feedback comments each event.
I wasn't a huge fan of my troops killing each other when lined up, considering how difficult it is already to manipulate the orcs. Good fun though.
I love production line style games and this was no exception. I had an issue where setting tasks sent me back to the main window, which was kinda frustrating (web version). I also couldn't work out how to make paper after the second quest.
Music was great, graphics look good. The platforming was a little clumsy and I kept bashing my head on the second level. Overall I enjoyed it a bunch, well done!
Short and sweet, cute game about cheering people up and helping each other out. I like that you kept to the grid, and everything moved predictably. Well done!
Okay so I spent about 20 minutes figuring this out, I signalled password to A, signalled telemetry to get it to respond. Then when I went to set its XYZ, it flew off and I never saw it again. How am I supposed to get the coordinates for the stranded ship? The constant wobbly camera is super disorienting, and really hurts the experience.
Solid game, it becomes a little too much micromanagement with three ships, but this is super cool. Well done!
I've played a few games with the same idea, but this one really excels with the command history feature. Much of the frustration of typos and needing fast typing is taken out, well done!
I enjoyed this, the driving and cooking are each demanding enough to keep my attention, but I need to manage both to succeed. It was a little unclear whether something was cooked properly on both sides at a glance, and I could have used a bin for all my screw ups. I also had issues stacking ingredients to make burgers, but when it worked it worked well!
Nice artwork and music, the gameplay is good but it gets tedious quickly. Well done, team!
I wish I had a little more health so I could have played this longer.
My baddler wasn't ready for this. If my body ever becomes this frail and needy, pissing myself will be the least of my worries.
Pretty cool! The powerups were meaningful and impactful, but a little unclear at first. The flip powerup is overpowered as heck.
I love the procedural levels. These genres sure are incompatible.
Nice job, action trivia is a great idea for a genre mashup!
I liked the idea of this, art and sound are good too - Dying is a little too easy, a few hits to death would have been more forgiving, given that the randomly generated cards can really screw you over.
This was a good effort, I feel like the platformer and rpg elements themselves were a little lackluster, but together it made for a fun experience. It was just the right length to get the most out of it.
This was a super cool game, I like the humour and self awareness the game shows - you clearly have a bright future in games. I got stuck at the "give up" door after finding a fake wall, but enjoyed the rest of the experience!
Nice use of the theme and good art, this is a really solid experience. I did run into one issue where enemies would walk through other enemies if their turns were out of sync, but ultimately this didn't ruin my experience. I finished with a score of 970 👍
I love the music and the change in pace when you swap between the characters! The cars that stop beside you are the most zen penetrating things in the world. The gameplay was a little repetitive, but I think that fits with the theme of manual labour you were going for. Well done on your submission!
Love the cats voice, but the entire game is an exercise in frustration. I ended up checking the source code to find out that you need to type "interact [object]" and "look [object]", which isn't listed in the help text
I like the idea and the game looks fab. The controls are a little awkward because of the orientation of the pitch, though. Also the ai tend to shoot all the balls before I have chance to use them, so after the first minute I rarely had any balls to shoot, which seems like a waste
Despite it's appearances, the bullet hell in this was pretty good. The numbers on the o2 cards didn't seem to match up with how much oxygen they restored, but the cards in general were a cool addition
I love the combination, the art is well done, and it's a lot of fun!
The game really opens up once you get to the bruisers, kicking around strikers is good tactics. I'm fairly sure I reached the end, because it seemed impossible to complete the level with 3 enemy strikers in the way, and only one turn. The single player plays more like a puzzle game than a tactics game, but I think that works well
Hey, returning the review after reading your awesome comment. I really enjoyed the audio and shooting mechanic in your game - manoeuvring into position to line up the perfect shot and then dodging is super cool, if a little difficult.
I like the idea of this, the sound and art all work well enough. I had the same issue with being unable to see my text, but could still play well enough. I couldn't manage to hit any enemy, maybe my ranges were just wrong...
Some levels were definitely easier than others, matching 3 seemed to be totally optional when the key and door were close together. I missed cascading and other effects from making matches.
I couldn't work out the purpose of the capture points shooting, but it was a little fun. I wish you could actually drift though :(
Rhythm games without any sort of music are kind of annoying to play. It's hard to get into the flow of the beat, especially since it's so slow. I'd have preferred a necrodancer style of movement where you hit the arrow keys in the beat instead of using the arrow keys to predetermine your direction and then using space. It just seems like an unnecessary extra step to do the main action in the game.
I really like your theme mashup, but the execution leaves a little lacking. I wasn't a big fan of the mirrored movement, but it did the job of forcing you to act quickly, and solve the level.
I agree with the above comments, the enemies and player being non round made the physics a little unpredictable. I'd have also preferred if you pulled back to shoot instead of dragging where you want to go. That said, it's a super cool genre mashup idea!
This heavily reminds me of the old flash game Avalanche (http://www.avalanchegame.org/). It's a cool idea, and I like the spin with the tetris blocks. The gameplay is a little too slow, and blocks often rotate when they land. You can fix this by locking the rotation about the up axis on your rigid body.
Texturing the blocks more like tetris blocks would have also been a nice way to upgrade the experience.
I like this as like a tictactoe 2.0 type of game. Sometimes there are no moves available, which would be nice if the game detected and gave a draw. It's also not immediately clear whether the blocks under your cursor are already down or being placed, which can be a little confusing too.
When I saw Endless Runner & Hang Man I'm not sure what I had in mind, but I was pleasantly surprised. It might have been better as a top down endless runner with multiple lanes, as currently waiting for the last letter or two is a little tiresome.
I liked the art and sound design here the most. The gameplay was fine, but I couldn't work out the point of summoning creatures apart from blocking spells. They seemed way to expensive for only that.
The mice often spawn a little too close to the edge, which feels unfair. It's a neat little idea, well done for making a game in pure html5/js!
I like the genre mix you chose, but it wasn't communicated super well - I couldn't tell how much training was helping, or what points I was gaining without referring to the description here. I won first time around, buying only the xp boost items
I love the art, animation, and the world you've made (except the bar, is that missing textures?) but the gameplay is flat and boring. I can see the makings of a golf story style adventure, but it just doesn't get there.
This was a cool idea. I wish the music was a little more musical, though. Each battle right now feels a little lackluster, a flashy intro sequence to each battle with some background music and a more "call and response" battle mechanic would have been super cool.
Nice work on the environment and cinematics, the gameplay itself is okay, but I wish there was a little more to do with it. A few more levels would have been ideal.
I think the move and stop buttons are a little bit unnecessary with out some sort of timer. I'd have liked to see more shooting mechanics like fire rate and reloading to force you to make a few more decisions. Otherwise a cool game idea, well done.
This is a cool little game, I like the simple art direction and the ramping difficulty. It follows the theme well. I ran in browser using Chrome, and had no issues.
Interesting idea, the zombies definitely get in the way when you have lots of them. I couldn't actually find a useful way of using the zombies, since they just get turned back into enemies as soon as they get hit, making it even harder to progress. I couldn't work out what I needed for the skull, and navigating became a real hassle once I had white knights and archers following me everywhere.
I had a weird bug where launching this started up steam VR and made my system use loads of resources. I'm not exactly sure what happened but I gave the game a go anyway. I like the environment, the writing and the theme is good too. I wish the narration wouldn't slow me down so much, though.
This was a simple, challenging game. I enjoyed the art and mood, though it was a little difficult to work out whether an asteroid was going to hit, and those that were targeted near to the centre of the ISS were very hard to avoid. A way to shift the camera, or translate the iss would have been nice, too.
I really love the interactivity and the creativity here. It was kinda frustrating not knowing where fans would come from without trying a level and losing a life. Art and audio were well done, overall a good experience!
I love the way the vacuum cleaner moves, it's so stupid and inefficient and I love it.
This was good fun, I found that since the cats moved predictably you could move them around and bunch them up to move as a single cat cluster, which was much easier to restrict with tape.
Well done!
As soon as I launched this I was super excited to see what you had created. Using existing art was an good decision that allowed you to concentrate on implementing everything else. While the quest system is well implemented, and the writing and VA work is good, unfortunately there are only two short quests before the game is over. With the time saved on art and world building, I'd have liked to see a few more things to do to bring more customers into the mall.
The gameplay was good fun, though there were far more own goals than goals! I wasn't a big fan of the pixellation filter, it garbles the text and makes everything look a little muddy.
Overall a fun, simple game that controls well and has some serious joy moments. The difficulty comes from the physics rather than the AI being strong!
I'm not sure if the goal was to achieve balance or to eliminate humanity, but it was at least a little entertaining. While your description says "balance the effects of the population" I found that the powers were more about removing the population than balancing the effects. That might be because the powers weren't terribly clear about what they did, though.
This is way more fun than my actual life. Managed 9.52 CPS, which is close to my personal best IRL.
The game looks great, and the games all work properly and are fun, even if simplistic.
After reading other comments I replayed the game and found some additional depth that I hadn't noticed the first time, which was very refreshing.
This is a cool little strategy game. After I got the hang of the controls, and how to upgrade structures properly, it plays very well. I enjoy the simple yet effective 3d art, and the citizens are surprisingly bouncy and fun for a game of this type. The game doesn't seem to have a formal win condition, and the AI is a little simple, but all the systems work properly and it otherwise comes across as very polished. Congratulations, and good luck in the voting phase!
This is a really cute little game, I love the drab colour palette, and the blocky aesthetic fits right in. Though I'd have liked to see some walls on the back faces of the room, to ground it a little more.
While the game is short - it can be completed in a couple of minutes, the game achieves exactly what it set out to. I'd like to have seen either some randomness to the objectives, or some reason to use some of the other furniture pieces - presently it's easy to cheese the game, knowing that half of the furniture isn't going to be useful.
I liked the controls, the pick up and drag makes the furniture feel weighty, and the satisfying grunt adds a bit of flair. Occasionally, particularly in phase 1, my mouse would reach the edge of the screen while dragging a piece of furniture and be unable to drag any further. This caused the bit to snap back to it's starting position, which was a little frustrating.
Overall, a short-but-sweet submission that needs more attention. Play this if you like a game with strong visual design and a high level of polish.
This is an awesome submission. The music is great, and the sounds are spot on. Jumping around felt perfect, especially after the third upgrade.
The character and background art was also spot on, and generally the 8bit vibe was superbly achieved.
I really enjoyed the logic puzzles, they were challenging but also had multiple solutions. The use of puzzle solutions to select the choice was also a clever use of tying the mechanics to the story.
I really like the way the level builds itself around you - it's like a nod towards Bastion. I wasn't a fan of the movement so much - it's hard to tell where you character is exactly, and the combat with the saw robots seemed to be no more than facetanking it.
I was pleasantly surprised by this. At first launch I couldn't get a good frame rate - lots of dynamic lights and particles. However once I turned it down, I found the game quite enjoyable.
The art was well done, you used the few assets you made very well. Of particular note were the death animations, the sound and camera effects when falling to my death were great.
The player controller was fine; a little floaty in the jumping but it was still easy enough to navigate the level.
The music and sound were overall well done, but the rune sounds were a little loud.
I'd have liked a final chamber to use the final rune with, but otherwise I thoroughly enjoyed Dungeon Runes!
Good fun. Simple game, well executed. Religion made me giggle.
I enjoyed the controls and the intense light/dark styling. The camera was nice, but needed a little bit more speed to make sure the ball is always in frame. Right now it has a nice loose feel, which you should keep.
As others have said, more content would certainly have been nice.
Love the sound design, and the use of colour. It's got a kind of monument valley vibe to it. I would have enjoyed some more levels and a few more mechanics, however!
The sound design was spot on, the little chatter noises and beeps speeding up as the difficulty ramps makes the game that little bit more stressful.
I feel like the dicordes would have benefited from being different colours to each other. Sometimes I would get confused between which end connected to which.
I'd have also like a way to quickly detach a pair of dicordes, or put them back into the supply.
I'm not sure how it related to the theme, but it was an intriguing experience, and well crafted.
Pretty and well designed.
I felt like it ramped up to a point, but didn't get much more challenging after that.
Still I found it very satisfying, and the tutorial was also very clear and useful.
I'd have loved some sound, and maybe a way to look around - sometimes it was hard to see where I needed to aim, in order to get cubes onto the buttons.
Nice art, good humor.
I really like the dishonored demake vibe I'm getting. It's a shame you couldn't fill out the level more before your time was up.
I look forward to seeing more of this!
I agree with the criticisms for the jump control and feel. The spaceship also feels a little to twitchy to steer.
However, the art and procedural generation is fantastic. The best No Mans Sky version I've played yet.
Great atmosphere, good art.
The big open world was pretty, but it was a little too big to know where I should be going. I stumbled upon the upgrades by chance rather than strategy.
Pretty grim ending :)
I enjoyed the aesthetic and the controls, the puzzles were pretty good too. Failing and going back to the start each time was a pain on the poison one, however.
Audio - 5
Art - 4
Theme - 4
Good job. The game feels really good, and the sounds are excellent. I also like the VHS theming.
I feel like the rockets were a little too fast, and having a little time after spawning where there were no enemies would have made restarting a little less frustrating.
I couldn't get the web versions to work, so downloaded the .exe. I like the idea of an uncontrollable berserk mode, with more power and near invulnerable. It was a nice contrast to the vulnerable short range samurai. I feel like the camera should have moved a little faster with the player, though.
I found the stairs really hard to move around - they got stuck in the wall at one point and I had to restart. Good idea to make each dimension unique with music and art changes.
I enjoyed the square and circle, and the merging mechanic.
The synch was a little too far off for me, too. A little slower ramp up would have helped players to get a grasp of the controls before asking for fast shape changes. Otherwise it's a solid game, with decent music and art.
I didn't seem to have any advantage when I had a winning element, the only difference I saw was when the AI had a winning element they could knock me super fast horizontally. So it just boiled down to changing character every few seconds, and fighting super smash with a single move.
I enjoyed the art though, and the music was good.
I enjoyed the art, and the controls were fairly tight - the jumping was a little drifty, however. I like the atmosphere and mood.
Shortly after getting the wings I went upwards to a room with lots of climbing, and 4 spiders. Not having a flashlight while climbing, plus being unable to point it in the right direction reliably, plus the spiders immediately attacking as soon as the light is gone made that room far more frustrating than it should have been.
I like the idea, but the music kinda droned on and the shapes moved so slowly there was no real reaction. I'd have liked a way to directly go to each shape, rather than relying on remembering the order, or at least for the shapes to come in a more "flow-y" way, so that only one shift was needed between close notes.
Rhythm games are one of my favourite types, and you almost nailed it. The chorus feature for getting streaks of notes was a nice addition, too.
I love the difficulty shift when you get to level 8 or so. I feel like you could have done with patterns for the incoming shapes, it felt like they were just randomly coming at me.
I enjoy the minimal style and glow, its got a clean classy look.
This game proves that first impressions can be dead wrong. The mechanics, while simple come together in a really unique way. I found myself rushing around grabbing raw resources and collecting garbage to get the best time I could. The end of shift report is the best part - getting a poor grade on my first shift for leaving machines turned on, garbage everywhere and unused resources made me really want to go again and get it right!
I didn't much like the character controller, and sometimes clicking things into place wasn't super easy.
I really like the art direction and mood, but the theme was a little lacking. The puzzles weren't particularly challenging, but they all showed off the mechanics you created.
I enjoyed the Monument valley style camera and world.
I tried playing on the controller, which worked but didn't let me rotate the world. This didn't really impact gameplay though.
I hope you continue to work on this game, and I'm eager to play more.
I enjoyed the tactical elimination of targets, and the ramping cost of converting. It was a little unclear that I could only have one werewolf in each town, and that made taking over larger towns very challenging. I'd have liked a little more concise text, or a dedicated screen for the map and village views.
This was fun. It took a few goes to understand how the clock worked and what it meant. Once I understood that, there was a cool few levels of playing. I typically don't like lives in puzzle style games, though.
I'm loving the paper cutout feel of the visuals. Fantastic polish for a jam entry
Great art, but the sword felt really underpowered.
I really liked the circle to stick transition - the jumping feels really good. I couldn't find a good use for the square most of the time, though.
The art is great, good consistent visuals.
I like the minimalism, really nice visuals.
The doors are kind of awkward, and the whole left right movement being disabled some of the time doesn't communicate very well. Otherwise a good collection of concepts!
Man that AI is a god tier RPS player.
The time to change between forms is a little too long, and the ai knows before you change what you're going to change into
Cool concept, well done!
I love the 90s art style choice, but the sprites are always running in the same direction. The mood was solid, and the setting was well thought out.
The art really nails the retro style. Unfortunately the gameplay is only a simple dodgem game.
My mailman fantasies are becoming a reality.
I like how the boxes crumple.
I really enjoy how differently each animal behaves. There are a few points in the level where you can get stuck if you don't follow the intended path, which can be a little frustrating.
This was so much deeper than I expected.
I like the art, and the controls are tight and clear. I particularly enjoyed the moments when I was faced with villages everywhere, and only a fire or a storm :) I'd love some sounds and a little more animation when villages appear, but the game is solid. Congratulations.
I really like the presentation!
I found it hard to start with, but once I got it there's a cool flow.
It gets fast a little too quickly, and I end up fat thumbing around 20
I love the 3d/2d switching - the 3d seconds look awesome.
I found that the shooting felt really awkward, and the bullets moved to fast to dodge, so every fight feels like shooting the enemies until one of you dies. A quick restart key would also be really cool!
It's COUCH MAN.
I love the song, and the cutscenes are really cool.
It's surprisingly difficult :)
The puns are real.
Overall I like the concept, but its hard to find the control points sometimes, which can make small changes frustrating.
Good job!
I don't know what I just played but I loved it.
Beautiful looking game, fab music. I like the idea.
I couldn't find a use for the hex power, though.
I really love the painterly art. I wish the movement was a little faster
[web version] I really like the artwork. I'd have liked the body shifting to be a little faster, especially over longer distances.
The audio was too repetitive and loud, more variation would be nice too.
Really nice concept - Art and sound all complement each other well.
One of us.
I really enjoyed this entry - its got a Hotline Miami feel, but with a unique spin. Every enemy has its strengths and weaknesses and they all feel good to use.
This looks interesting - but no download link?
There's some fun to be had here, but its trapped between a lot of slow walking through long corridors and pushing door buttons. The mechanics of the alien are really novel - using it as an elevator feels particularly good.
LD43 — Sacrifices must be made (8)
Few Word by PTSnoop 2018-12-30T18:17:24Z ♥ 0
So the shapes can combine if they have equal complexity and create a shape of one extra complexity. I'm still not sure what the different colours were for though
Smart and elegant, but lacking direction and feedback, good work
The Way Home by Xyterix 2018-12-17T14:13:35Z ♥ 1
The spiky zone after the big lake cross defeated me - the checkpoints were a little too far apart and the timing a little too tight for me to continue. The style for this is great and you really nailed the mood and visuals.
The Flautist by khofez 2018-12-17T14:02:37Z ♥ 1
Good use of procedural generation! I'd have liked a few more mobility tools as walking around was a little slow for the size of the city. The fx, city and music were all excellent.
Grauby Grauby by Danilo Freire 2018-12-13T23:00:27Z ♥ 1
Well done - I really dig the background art!
De-Railed by OccultOne 2018-12-13T22:56:10Z ♥ 2
I'm getting a "The final station" crossed with Starbound sort of vibe from the game - I'm very impressed! The music and sound are fantastic and the art and animation are good too. I will say the combat is a bit shallow and feels tacked on, and being out in the wilderness feels a little aimless, but overall the experience is still positive.
How Many Days Left? by kaiagan 2018-12-07T01:18:32Z ♥ 1
This was really fleshed out and well presented! What were the nails for?
Platformer.txt by Hugo kieffer 2018-12-07T00:58:42Z ♥ 2
This is the kind of novelty that Game jams are all about, well done!
Lab Animals by skiddings 2018-12-05T21:38:19Z ♥ 1
Nice work team. The highlights for me were the weapon feel - the particle physics, sound and camera shake made that gun feel really good.
I like that you had some enemy variation with attack patterns, but for me it was a little too easy to just dodge the enemies, herd them up and let a red guy explode them all. Then I'd have enough ammo to kill the rest and the spawner.
The sacrifice system was cool. The Health one was a little overpowered, and the ammo one wasn't worth it at all. Berserk stuck a nice medium, I think.