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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | ||
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| 2026 | 59 | Signal | π€ | π₯ | Safe Haven | jam | 808 | 2.71 | 2.45 | 2.87 | 3.68 | 3.45 | 2.86 | 3.00 | |
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | Unstable Atom | jam | 662 | 3.58 | 3.77 | 3.27 | 3.50 | 3.69 | |||||
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | The Icarus | jam | 105 | 4.15 | 3.72 | 4.43 | 4.46 | 4.26 | 4.15 | 4.41 | |||
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | π₯ | Scribble from Scratch | jam | 60 | 4.14 | 4.03 | 3.95 | 3.69 | 4.46 | 3.29 | 3.43 | 3.82 | |
| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | π₯ | Montezuma's Revenge | jam | 427 | 3.53 | 3.27 | 3.17 | 3.64 | 3.85 | 3.12 | 2.66 | 3.43 |
PowerAnze leaves an average of 16.4 feedback comments each event.
Oh wow, I am bad at coordinating my fingers for this game. The visuals and audio work well together. You mended a oppressing atmosphere perfectly with the absurd penguin crew and I love it. Especially the little squeak when one of the penguing *accidently* gets crushed.
Great idea. The effects of the actions are a bit hard to gauge. I was never sure why exactly someone died. This is worsened because the sanity gauges are hidden behind the main UI, making them easily missible. Otherwise I enjoyed this, its a great narrative toy to play with and when expanded on could make a great fully fledged game!
Doing something so wrong never felt so right. I would never want to kill any dinosaurs, especially ones so remarkable cute as the ones you created. I am sure that I will revisit this game after the jam. Would love to see this game expanded aswell! Only gripe I have is that the game can get very hard to read with the rapid changes of the stage and effects and bullets flying around.
Lovely idea! So absurd, but just perfect for this theme. Love the very Pikuniku looking passengers. Length of the game is also on point for a jam, just long enough that I still want a bit more.
Very fun game! I enjoyed how fast paced it is. The concept reminds of Void Bastards, but I enjoy the pace in your game much more. Good job overall!
Love the concept behind it. Though I wish there were more clues about whats actually going on, my guess is that we killed the girl we meet at the start? Maybe feed it to the cat? The prison sequence is too dark, it was just guessing if you could walk somewhere or not.
The idea is great! Only gripe that keeps me from wanting to play more is how finicky the aiming is, would love a bit more leeway on that to make some of the very tight jumps a bit more managable. Other than that an awesome entry!
Anmerkung 2021-10-05 220605.png Okay, oof. This took me half an hour. This game is addictive in the best way. Would fit perfect in a Wario Ware style game. Great job.
Is the car getting more volatile the higher the score is? It feels harder to control at higher scores, but that might also just be a trick of the mind.
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Love that line!
Honestly, the writing was superb! Normally I hate story driven games but this one hit the mark for me. Great mix of humour and insight. The changing tones where also a great way to illustrate how different outlooks on life can hamper and/or help in certain situations. I had a lot of fun playing this! Also, more Strudel interactions please. *bark*
Very cool aesthetics and I loved the audio design. Reminded me a bit of "From Dust" if you know that game. The movement is quite novel, but sadly the game outstays its welcome by quite a bit. If the game would be a bit tighter/story beats more closely together it would benefit. Also love the atmosphere it creates.
Very fun and the music is peak humor - would love to hear the whole track, I balanced on the edge just to hear it
Very fun and cute game! Loved the animation with the little sparkles when they break down (οΎ>Ο<)οΎο½‘*ο½₯οΎββ It gets surprisingly hard early on and keeps on being fun - simple idea with nice payoff. The only small annoyance with it I have is the player behaviour when being hit. It can often throw you right into large groups without a real chance of breaking out again, which results in a loop of getting hit over and over. Sparkles ~β
Music is very groovy, I dont agree that it needs a melody to be effective.
[Thank you for the submitting the game to the stream. If you want to rewatch the feedback, you can do so here.](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1008357028?t=04h12m57s)
Your game was such a blast. Do you have any plans of continuing to work on it?
[Thank you for the submitting the game to the stream. If you want to rewatch the feedback, you can do so here.](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1008357028?t=04h01m31s)
[Thank you for the submitting the game to the stream. If you want to rewatch the feedback, you can do so here.](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1008357028?t=03h43m14s)
[Thank you for the submitting the game to the stream. If you want to rewatch the feedback, you can do so here.](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1008357028?t=03h14m23s)
[Thank you for the submitting the game to the stream. If you want to rewatch the feedback, you can do so here.](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1008357028?t=02h56m19s)
[Thank you for the submitting the game to the stream. If you want to rewatch the feedback, you can do so here.](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1008357028?t=02h29m00s)
[Thank you for the submitting the game to the stream. If you want to rewatch the feedback, you can do so here.](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1008357028?t=01h56m59s)
[Thank you for the submitting the game to the stream. If you want to rewatch the feedback, you can do so here.](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1008357028?t=01h04m36s)
[Thank you for the submitting the game to the stream. If you want to rewatch the feedback, you can do so here.](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1008357028?t=00h41m39s)
[Thank you for submitting your game, it was a blast! If you want to rewatch the feedback, you can do so here.](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1008357028?t=00h19m08s)
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The art is super charming, especially the protagonist! I was intrigued about the coins and eagerly awaiting a shop to appear, was sure after the boss there had to be a shop. I am a bit bummed out that it ended there, but that just tells you than I wanted to continue. While the gameplay is basic, I found it to be very engaging. With more enemies and some new skills I can see myself playing this for far longer.
What a great and unique idea. I haven't seen anything like this before, but at the time I feel like there is nothing to expand on in this idea. You can only do so much to manipulate a line and I think you exhausted the idea. While the puzzle plattforming gets too easy pretty quickly you did a great job breaking it up with the little dialogue bits. Very cool entry.
Beautiful game and cool idea - though very hard to coordinate both hands at the same time! Even when just concentrating on the rhythm and ignoring the coins it was challenging, but very fun and interesting!
I have nothing to add that wasn't said already, I just want to reiterate how fun this game is! Also, now I absolutely want a golf based exploration game!
This game is super intriguing. I love the indie wave of simulated OS's. Sadly I couldn't finish the game, I always got a game over when openen chaos.exe and didnt find out the temple log password. I wrote @wandersen on twitter to avoid spoilers here in the comments.
Other than that, super enjoyable and the perfect music choice!
Very fun to play, would love an extension on that game format - was a little disappointed, that it was over so soon! A full game would be great :)
Congratulations on finishing your first jam! The game is cute and there are a lot of different mechanics in that game which all work well enough, which is not a given in jams. Hope to see you at the next jam aswell!
REALLY cute and such expressive visuals! Loved the idea of the dictonary being used for later poems - creating the poem was fun! Would love to see more content like this!
Character design was great and so expressive animations!
Very fun idea! I had problems with jumping: Sometimes, the jump just broke (for w and space) and I had to kill myself so that it worked again. I could not finish the game because of that. Still, nice gameplay!
You achieved a nice progression and difficulty and kept the game fresh with new enemies. Very impressive how much you managed to fit in there. At the deeper depths the game got very tense, especially with the pink and green fishes who chase the submarine. Very enjoyable game!
Really nice graphics and very fun to play - and also quite difficult in contrast to other jam entrys. Loved the high pace and minimalistic design! The comment by @schwede is true though - its really much easier to go to the complete left or right, but it gets more difficult with the random holes deeper down. I didnt like, that the guys jumping down could not be shot immediately, that was kinda frustrating and killed most of my attempts
Great game, I am a sucker for any kind of tower defense. The upgrades and higher corruption density were hard to differentiate, making it difficult to grasp the state of the field at a glance. I am impressed by the number of levels you have in there and the balance feels great. I might revisit this game even after the jam again
Is it possible to win?
Very cool Reigns like game. I am not sure if all the values for the cards are correct, sometimes nothing happened when the card had an effect on it. The Bed card for example didn't do anything. Indications of how the bars changed would have been great, sometimes it is hard to see just how the card affected the bars.
Very cool game and the eels are great enemies which create very tense sections while not being super difficult, just by how menacing there are. The art overall is really cute and well done. The difficulty might just be a little bit too high for my liking. Some obstacles very tight with the timing.
I am not sure if that is intended or not, at the last floor the five rings spawned directly behind the ladders. That setup made it impossible to get through. Luckily a restart of the game fixed that issue.
Intended or not, that showed that the colliders for the enemies are far larger than the enemy themselves, atleast for the rings. I feel like there was a tonal clash, voicelines and setup funny / visuals and music creepy, for me it was just neither in the end. The gameplay itself, while a bit wonky with the hitboxes and weird movement, was engaging enough for me to want to finish the game.
Great entry, only problem I have with it that it always feels like you are wrestling with the ingame physics, instead of you being actually in control. Especially the later areas with the longest sword feel like the level design isnt complementing the gameplay, but exploiting the physics. Other than that I enjoyed it a lot, and especially some of the earlier levels are very cool when you have to traverse them again with a longer sword and the strategy to use changes.
@divford I think its actually 50,000m to win.
Just won the game. The concept is very cute and there are some charming details, like the black dots on the ice, which I can only image are penguins. On the gameplay side the game is quite easy to cheese. If it wasn't so easy to cheese it could have been an interesting challenge to balance the different buildings.
Touching story and a very appealing art style - the mini games were a fun addition to the otherwise were narrative focus of your game. I enjoyed the experience and your take on the theme. But I would have loved to talk to the Shiba Inu some more :(( What is his story?? Anmerkung 2021-04-27 165232.png
Always died right at the edge of 11.000. Took me a while to understand all the weaknesses. There seems to be some problem with stations being bugged and not working sometimes, or atleast the effects not playing. Because of that and overall lack of feedback and very subtle health bars the game was quite opaque and difficult to grasp. But after understanding all the rules the game was very fun!
5/5 for the name and logo design. The art overall is really nice!
Unfortunately I couldn't play further than Level 1. On the level transition the game crashed. I was playing on the windows build:
Error
objects/jellyfish.lua:99: attempt to index field 'image' (a nil value)
Traceback
objects/jellyfish.lua:99: in function 'draw' layer.lua:89: in function 'draw' level.lua:176: in function 'draw' scenes/gameplay.lua:67: in function
I was quite surprised by the end. With the clues I had found I am not sure how I should have ever known who was actually the murder.
Great entry, the core idea is super striking and so is the art, but it lacks the depth to be engaging for more than a few minutes. As the player you have already exhausted all mechanics after the third enemy and there is nothing new to keep you in. If you would expand on the core ideas you could have a real winner on your hands. One major minus for me is the lack of transpareny in the enemy actions and that I could not see the values on the cards without hovering over them.
I have no idea how to categorize this games and my ears hurt just as bad as my eyes, but I still want to continue :D
At 5k I was reasonable sure that there is nothing left so see. I enjoyed this far more than expected, could be neat if the difficulty would increase by adding more in the background to try to get the player out of rythm.
The inconsistent hit detection made this pretty annoying. It was very hard to judge what actual size the hitbox had and even when I thought I had an idea I got still hit because the missiles hitbox were larger than expected. Most shmups get around this issue by making both the players and projectile hitbox much smaller than the visuals suggest and I would recommend implementing this in here as well. Inconsist was also the hit detection on touching the enemies. Sometimes I could slide or walk into them and would get damage and sometimes it didnt matter. My favourite thing about the game were the visuals, they are off putting in a way that makes sense for the cult theme and the emo hairstyle of the dog at the end is a great touch.
Phew, Level 16 is quite the headscratcher. Took me a long while to destroy the castle without getting stuck. The game is very moody and the assets all fit well together and even though I dont enjoy puzzle games it hooked me enough that I did not want to lose, especially after reading that it is the final level. Well done puzzle game!
Just beat your game. The slimes were oddly terrifying and it was really stressfull hearing them getting closer while you are still harvesting a plant. Because of the placement of the portal and the plants I was never motivated to really leave the viccinity of the portal and just harvested the 6/7 plants directly next to it, to win the game.
Cute little Clicker Defense Game ;) It would help with playability when you would include hotkeys for the different tools.
Hey, I got stuck in the church, but still really enjoyed it. The way you obfuscate the enviroment and reveal it through the objects is really cool, but I wish it was a bit more generous. The same can be said about the light cone, I just wish I could see a little bit more of everything. I also found it straining on the eyes because of that. I am a bit torn because this negative sensation seems fitting from a thematic standpoint, but makes it hard to play the game.
Heya, I liked your game and think it is really fun, but I think the theme is really weak. There doesnt seem to be any difference between the weapons and killing everybody melee was my go to way as soon as I accidently realized I could do so in the first level. If you would differentiate the weapons more and make melee more high risk you could have a great little action platformer at your hands.
Heya, just played and won, yay. I think there is a danger that you get stuck on one side of the map, because the of the vehicles blocking you. I could still squeeze through them, but they definetively made maneuvering difficult. I think the theme is quite weak. The buddy bots are not sparse enough that it really hurts you to sacrifice them. I very quickly gathered six of them and could just heal myself whenever I wanted.
Some great art and I found the frantic gameplay very engaging. The difficulty seems to ramp up very fast and it is made even harder because of the lack of in game explanation.
Hey, the art is quite competent and with a bit more time you could have a real looker here. Sadly the gameplay is bad. Because there is no mechanic that makes spamming not the best way to play the match just ends without a winner and both players can just stay in mid trying to outspam the other. Having the grab on a cooldown and increasing the time to free yourself from being grapped with every consecutive grab would help a lot to create a more engaging game.
I had the same problem as @randomphantom and could reproduce that very reliable. Another bug I had was that very often the sacrifice directly after jumping did not work. I had this bug very often in the second to last stage, but sadly I couldnt pinpoint exactly how to reproduce it. The music got pretty annoying very quick. But other than those bugs and the music this was probably the best game gameplaywise I played so far. I am not a big fan of puzzle or platformer games, but this one hooked me. The yoshi style sacrifice is a great mechanic and great implementation!
I enjoyed that. There are a lot of smaller issues but the game itself controlled good and the base core is really solid. Most of the hits I got were sadly from enemys spawning direcly next to. Also the altar mostly spawned on the very edge of the map. Overall searching for the altar is not enjoable in itself. An indicator would be great. If you plan on working more on this game I would wish for more escalation in ability strengt and variety. Right now the difficulty felt static. I think the enemys got a little bit more health with each stage, but that is not enough to keep it interesting.
I have to agree with with @nuclearfriend and @amolker . Right now spamming is the best strategy which is sadly not very engaging. When you try to throw your rockers deliberatly they have to much time to get back to the front and your thrown in rockers lose all their impact. On the other side, Art and music is top notch, some of the best of the games I've played so far.
Wow dude, that was some frantic fun! I could hardly think of critiquing while playing. The micromanagement is intense! Sometimes the dinos would stop seemingly random at the storage area and getting them back to work while not disturbing the other workers is very finicky. A button to select idle dinos would be great. Also the support for controll groups would help a lot.
Wow, I enjoyed that very much. The art is great! and there is some neat decision making on wanting to be nimbler with a smaller amount of followers, have one huge group or spamming congregations all over the map while one guy is channeling. It did seem like the castle did nothing, or are these just spawnpoints for the inquisition?
I like the setting a lot! Seeing the players looming over the battlefield is a very cool imagery. It is also a great touch seeing the other Units attacking the scouted buildings. But the gameplay is lacking, just running from point A to B is not very appealing.
The music is great but the combat feels sluggish. I think thisismyjam covered pretty much everything. Only thing I want to add is that the lack of feedback on landing or getting hit makes the combat very hard to judge. Snappier Animations and and better Feedback would help a lot.
Nice sprite work. I very much enjoyed playing through it. You struck a nice balance between punishing the player for doing bad and giving him the option to make it easier by giving him the choice of sacrificing "innocents"
LD59 — Signal (10)
Dread Frequency by Roitchie 2026-04-28T17:41:23Z ♥ 2
I thought this was pretty cute. From the way the "monster" was talking I expected some kind of twist, maybe like Red Riding Hood that the player avatar is the real monster in the situation. The interactions with the creature were pretty cute in general as well, it seemed we both were equaly confused talking to each other. I honestly felt a bit bad leaving it behind, maybe it just wanted a friend :(
Some kind of ingame tutorial would have been nice. I dont know if I missed it, but at first I didnt understand that I had to time my interactions with the wave while talking. The game left me a bit confused what the intended tone was supposed to be and overall I took it as a humorous game more than a horror one.
New London 3D Turbo 2000 by Revetoon 2026-04-26T20:05:38Z ♥ 2
Heya, thank you for submitting your game to my stream, I had a blast with it! This was surely the funniest game this jam I played so far and getting pummeled by the raining cars was great. For me this felt very much like a rage game and I can easily see the game being expanded in that direction. The visual and sound design are great as well, especially love the sound when you do tricks.
The only real issues I had were with navigating, sometimes the turns were a bit too twisty for me and I got lost on the map. Any help guiding me to the next stage would be appreciated.
Ziggy Zapper and the Robot Factory by rogual 2026-04-26T19:56:40Z ♥ 1
Heya, thank you for submitting the game to my stream. Just came back to it and full cleared it! I am super impressived with this game and I can just repeat what I said on stream already. I love how you iterate on the idea with the different blocks and add new mechanics. The old school bottom UI is great, levels changing color on the minimap to show if you found the triangle, having a music change button. So many great touches. Also the level design is great, especially with some rooms requiring to loop the map to reach specific parts, it is just all fantastic. With more stages I could easily see this become a full release, as it is already a feature complete game. Would love to see where you would take it!
Dragonia Siege by Euler Moises 2026-04-26T19:48:00Z ♥ 7
Thank you for submitting the game to the stream. I dont think I have anything to add to what I said live beside that the AI art is a massive negative to me.
The Sound Store by Jejkobb 2026-04-26T19:44:26Z ♥ 2
Heya, thank you for submitting the game to my stream. I had a blast with it! Actually just played it a bit more to get on the leaderboard. 45.3 Easy and 2:02.5 Hard, so close to sub 2minutes but sadly I wasnt blessed with easier patterns in my runs. This game had been my favourite so far, I love the implementation of signal, the intro is super cute, a complete tutorial etc etc etc. Probably my favourite QOL feature are the little tips though when you get it wrong. From start to finish this game is just so lovely and such a smooth experience to play. I really hope you will place high!
Pied Piper TD by Onizik 2026-04-26T19:17:28Z ♥ 0
Heya, thank you for submitting the game to my stream β₯ I think there is a lot of potential in this game idea and primarily polish that is lacking. For example that spiders might get lured for a wee bit longer after they are out of range, just so you dont have to juggle them as much. Also in it current form it seems like the most optimal strategy might be to just focus on a singular house and just let all the others die? More incentives to keep all houses intact would be cool, or greater punishment for losing a house. Maybe not being able to lure the enemies indefinetly would be good. Currently it was a bit wacky that you could just stand around one house and just lure the spiders away forever without any punishment.
Also curious if it was a bug that spiders sometimes were stuck/got pushed away right at the edge of the song range?
Officially Dead by TechnicalityCreations 2026-04-25T18:54:09Z ♥ 1
Thanks for submitting the game to my stream. It was puntastic. It has so many cute details and especially the little quality of life additions like chairs auto aiming is a great detail. Was a super fun short romp in defending myself with office supplies.
Love Caps by Wouter52 2026-04-25T18:50:08Z ♥ 1
Thank you for submitting the game to the stream. As far as game jam games go, I think this is one of the best designed games for that. Not being able to die, short sessions, replayability. As far as theme goes I also love that you chose mushrooms and their vast "root" networks as the basis. It is hard to read the gamestate/environment easily. A lot of colors are similar, so especially when moving quickyl it kinda becomes a bit of a mush. Especially the stamina mushrooms got lost very easily. I do love though that when you run out of stamina everything fades away expect stamina mushrooms, which is a great touch. The biggest design gripe I have is that it is a bit too simplistic, digging down and following a direction is very straight forward. So disconnecting the "root vision" with the "overworld vision" a bit and adding obstacles could be an interesting way to further develop the idea. Another potential feature could be that different ground types have a different traversal cost and less "root vision", like sand costing more and barely giving a direction.
Overall I did enjoy it a lot though and would be interested in seeing how the idea get further explored.
Walkietalkie Runnie by mofox 2026-04-25T18:33:18Z ♥ 1
Thanks for submitting the game to my stream. I enjoyed playing it a lot! Although I was definitely confused at some points who I need to listen to. I think in part it was also that I am sick and just had trouble processing the information, driving the car and commentating. I do love the concept and interpretation of the theme. A small but easily fixable problem I had that sometimes i didnt have enough time to react to cars, having the camera/player more left on the screen would be an easy fix.
Desktop Jar by ranejeb 2026-04-25T18:25:09Z ♥ 1
Thank you for submitting this to the stream today. I'm not really a gambling person or get addicted to games, with one exception being Idle/Incremental games. So I am making the conscious desicion to not play this game anymore for fear of falling prey to it :(
I do quite enjoyed playing around with this and I think this is a fabulous little companion desktop toy. It a cute way to keep motivation while typing away. Maybe I dont really wanna finish my current task, but hunting the next keycap type could just be motivation enough. All to say, great in its simplicity and I enjoyed playing around with it.