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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 39 | Running out of Power | The Great and Magnificent Machine | jam | 3.33 | 3.16 | 2.50 | 3.00 | 3.16 | 3.16 | 2.66 | 3.00 | |||
| 2017 | 38 | A Small World | Nano : The Mission | compo | 3.00 | 3.50 | 2.50 | 1.75 | 3.25 | 3.50 | 1.66 | 2.00 | |||
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | Nano Run | jam | 632 | 3.20 | 3.07 | 2.60 | 3.67 | 4.00 | 2.87 | 26 | |||
| 2015 | 32 | An Unconventional Weapon | Beans of War | jam | |||||||||||
| 2014 | 31 | Entire Game on One Screen | Behind The Screen - Thanks Ralph Baer | jam | 596 | 3.10 | 2.70 | 4.05 | 4.40 | 3.65 | 2.60 | 2.83 | 20 | ||
| 2013 | 28 | You Only Get One | Super Epic Robot Battles | jam | 10 | ||||||||||
| 2013 | 26 | Minimalism | Nano | jam | 227 | 3.27 | 3.00 | 2.71 | 3.19 | 3.71 | 2.95 | 3.05 | 33 | ||
| 2012 | 25 | You are the Villain | Mr Toothy | jam | 209 | 2.83 | 2.61 | 2.95 | 3.43 | 3.26 | 3.13 | 2.85 | 2.90 | 42 | |
| 2012 | 23 | Tiny World | Small World | jam | 94 | 3.23 | 2.71 | 2.29 | 4.15 | 4.20 | 3.29 | 1.56 | 3.25 |
There's a cheat - keep moving back while the player is falling over and standing - the players movement is being recorded and you'll jump way back to a safe spot.
Just start blasting early as well.
Rapid fire that mouse and you'll be right. I'd like to add the head to side and fix up the aiming - but I ran out of time.
Oh yeah - don't hang around on the title screen - because the bad guys are moving toward you from the start.
@moosh - what are your specs? Perhaps I can make a lite version.
Great concept! I liked the touch screen feel to it. I got to Hero Goat. Easy to play, and pretty easy to master. A refreshingly polished game.
Great idea, and fun while it lasts but it got laggy when 4 or 5 humans entered and became unplayable. Suggest finding that bug obviously and release a post-comp version, but also reduce the time spent with fire coming out the goat.
Thanks for playing. I used the mouse to make it a 1 button game.
@Tyren - whoops ! Forgot that part, so those with fast machine might find it unplayable. The movement increases in each direction as you click further away from the shark but I forgot to add the delta to support multiple machines - does this count as a bugfix that doesn't affect the conditions of entry?
@ Faust - yes there is no interpolation from one velocity to another it is instant.
@ Cake&Coke - I like that idea - didn't occur to me at the time. In the future I'll change it to that.
CHANGELOG: (v1.1) 19/12/2012 - fixed timestep issue only, by scaling rotation and speed by the delta of each frame - an oversight.
I wish I could change the control scheme but I can't since the release date has passed. I think if I put a marker or bouys or something at the edge of the world the player would have a better idea.
CHANGELOG: (v1.2) 21/12/2012 - converted controls to use left / right arrows to turn and up to speed up. Added some 3d cartoony rocks and encircled area with an atoll to keep player inside. You don't stop on rocks but they slow you right down, making for smoother game-play. You also stop completely to munch on humans before moving on. Please try out the new build but don't vote on that one obviously.
It was fun because there was a goat in it :D I really enjoyed throwing people off the bridge. It was required to strategise on which floor and which good people to throw off to pace the assault. Well round and nice ending if you lose. Never won. Nice work nonetheless! I didn't like the voice though - a bit depressing. However the music was pleasant.
Need more sound to add atmosphere. I felt a bit strange silently killing these "targets". I liked the cardboard cutout look of it. Seemed to just loop and so I didn't feel like I was getting anywhere. Nice though.
Yeah... looks classy but the game is almost on rails with no chance to take a different path. Theme and graphics are spot on, but I never felt like a had a choice - other than when to press attack. Nice looking game, just no fun to be had.
I really like the free floating feel as if I was in zero G. However it would have been nice to show the guy leaping with arms out to add a little polish. I really enjoyed it, but I couldn't even finish level 2. The air running out made it very tense - nice work.
Just wanted to update to review audio. Sounds are adequate bleep and bips. Music is really nice. Very atmosphereic. I tried again and got to level 3.
Quite fun, and it was well wrapped up and complete. Jokes were lame but funny anyway. It was different from the other games. Well done.
It crashed three times before I stopped playing (Win7/64Bit)however I can see it to be a great Diner Dash style game. I over-worked one guy and he threatened to report me :D Basic sound but fitting. Needed some more monotonous sounds to fit the mood. Nice one!
Kinda fun, kinda same as other games. Nice graphics and a pleasant distraction, though nothing new here. Solid game play and polish though.
A great space shooter, but the frame rate gets really slow later on (or something - maybe my engine degraded) Could never upgrade my weapons enough to damage Earth. Lost interested after being killed twice because of this.
Great attempt at a tower defence game in such a short amount of time. It was solid game play, just needed more sound effects. I really liked the sheer number of sprites and artwork created. I got to level 6/9 but I want to try again. Well done.
Nice. Loved the drunk cam. Was a little hard to play and get the arm in place sometimes. I managed to kill a row of "good guys". Audio was spot on. Clever idea and well executed if you pardon the pun :D
Had some trouble understanding my role in the game. Graphics are good and fit the theme. Didn't feel totally satisfied when I killed the bit machine though.
Great music and sound, but I couldn't get anywhere. Got to a zoomed in view and it would no longer scroll. Looked promising.
What a great game! Kinda Robotron meets Conway's Life. A well executing game, and 4 levels to boot! Nice work for 8 hours. Well done.
Nice lighting and good use of boxes considering time limit. Great idea, and I like the path finding, but it left me feeling a little bland. Probably really needed screams and actual zombies to enjoy it more. Needed waves as well to feel a sense of accomplishment. Nice work though.
Great idea, and lighting effects. Interesting spin on the theme. Very enjoyable.
You think like me (check out Nano) - can't play as it keeps asking me to install Unity Web Player which I already have.
Great game but it was too hard to get anywhere. I think the problem is the ship moves too fast to shoot enough asteroids so getting potatoes becomes a suicide mission. Perhaps reduces the speed a little. music is perfect as are the graphics and flight engine despite the speed issue. Well done.
My best score was 3840. Really great graphics and sound. Enjoyable and challenging. Nice work.
@gilmore606 - Could you fraps a section or something so I can see the performance of the game on your computer please?
Thanks guys for the insightful feedback. Yes the balancing and speed of controls and bullets have been noted. I'll put these changes into the post-release.
Thanks for playing and the great comments so far. @kyyninen yeah I put the instructions up all the time just to make it easy to reference without having to click on another screen.
I was thinking of making it just the mouse but the mouse I was using during development kept skipping all over the screen and I didn't have a replacement. Stupid, but there you go.
I think it's okay but I don't think it's all your own artwork or voices or sounds. Also I got stuck in the room with the haybails. Not really sure what the objective was. Impressive looking but thats the Unreal engine. Would be nice to see something more of your own work in there.
Great graphics considering the theme - I think the potato was over dressed :D I only got the level 3. The confusion comes from the dot being red so you have to think about it when the colour changes wasting precious seconds. Well done!
Hmm - I really liked your sprite design, but the end of each level ie. the brown bit confused me. Was I dying? I guess it just repeated until I died? Not bad - but more instructions were required. Still it played and didn't crash and I did things - so WIN!
Hmm not bad but the collision detection around the ship was too large. I wanted to play more but felt a little cheated by the nice. Nice work anyway.
I won! 3 lives 18400 - great game. Nice and quick and unassuming. Very well done!
Arrggg my eyes!!! Great game. Reminded me of something the Atari VCS would run. Very clever and you must have had a headache when you developed this, so kudos for bringing it to life. Nice work on all counts. Probably most authentic pixel art I have ever seen.
WoW!!!!! You scared me with a video game! And I me SHOCKED me! Nice work. Replayable too. Will come back to this one. Very well executed. Play with headphones on and lights out. Going down stairs was super freaky, as was turning corners, and opening things...
Only got to the beehive before resorting to cheats. Great concept, just needed an extra clue to continue. Nice work.
Great game, and I only got to 52 seconds. Nice and simple and easier to learn. Hard to master. Nice thing about the 'tader too. Well done!
Great game. Easy and fun. Can't quite get the flower to grow well but I'll practice some more.
Great game. I got to 11
All good notes thanks. Anyone know how a mech turns with it's feet? I mean how it looks? Will definitely add mouse look for targeting and straff. Turning was slow to make it feel like a robot.
Thanks for the crits guys. I found that all the enemy came looking for you as soon as they were turned on. I'll fix that in a future release.
Truly amazing. Like an Atari game mixed with Space Harrier. Awesome work. Well done.
WOW! Mad game. You have got the skillz my man!!!! Gameplay is awesome. I got the skillset within seconds and really enjoyed the game.
Great graphics and environment. The collision detection on dropping the strawberries in the bowl needs to be fixed as a lot just fall out. When I did finish dropping the tally to 0 nothing happened. Great work nonetheless.
What a great game. I really like the graphics and style. Reminds me of Pitfall. Super polished too. Great work.
Thanks. Please try it again since I fixed the bounce bug.
thanks panda - yep just ran out of time. I'll finish it though and post a link up as a final (not for judging though) After that I'll change the game to Space Invaders - yes! Draw each spacer invader - one.... at.... a.. time!!!!
thanks guys - yep it needs those extra features but i ran out of time. I will put up a non-judgable build in the next couple of days to add the completed feature set.
Wow what a great concept. Didn't know how to survive for long though. Got 40. Great work
Got the same error as everyone else. You can fix this error and still upload the change according the rules.
Great game. Very polished. Loved the story sequences. Combat was awesome. Great ragdolls. Well done! Very much an 90s style fighting game.
Awesome thank for the feedback :D
I have noticed that if worms get too big the bounding box hits the containment wall too soon. Will fix that soon
Have fixed the bounding box bug - so now you have more time before the worms escape.
@LevReveur there is checkered wall either side of the compound. If the worms get there it's a containment breach - presumably they escape, the populace find out and the EPA shuts down the facility - or the other way to lose is too many spawn - I ran out of time to add a game over screen explaining that.
Thanks y'all for your comments and suggestions. I really enjoyed making this. Might make it into an full game on time :D
Wow a very professional game - would like to see this on mobile. Loads of fun and easy to play and win which is a good combination to keep players coming back. Nice work. Will come back and play this game again after I vote on some more games :D
Ummm a little bit strange and hard to play because on the WEB version CTRL + RIGHT switched desktops on the mac. I liked the idea of accumulating bullets to use against subsequent microbes. I played it again using OS/X instead of Web and it had the same control issue but I then just used WASD + CTRL which was a little cramped and played a bit longer. But I didn't get very far. Got to the second microbe thing and collected about 18 bullets.
I really like the zooming of the background. The fact that most impacts made you smaller was great. I just didn't like the death ray killing you instantly. Good game - well done!
To ESC you can also press ALT+F4
Hmmm ignore my comment about pressing Alt+F4 to esc it doesn't work. Well I could plant one tree and that was it. Wondering why this got so many views but I guess it's just random. I expect it would have been quite interesting and relaxing to play if it was possible to plant more trees. I would suggest making them saplings first. Then you run around and plant a whole pile, then sit back and crank the time of day to watch them grow. Anyhoo - showed promise. Nice one.
Nice atmospheric sound track. Adorable character and most impressive was the narration to explain the controls. I didn't get any indication taking the pest back to the middle platform/housing was the correct thing to do. Needs to flash or disappear and get a score or something to let you know you are on the right track. Though it was done in 48 hour and looks super slick. Nice to see an Unreal game that looks personalised. Great work. Would make a good start to an even larger story world.
Good idea. Great basis for an addictive mobile game. I would start by making some into levels that had less gravity. Really enjoyed the experience but felt it was cranked up a litle to high on difficulty. Well done nonetheless.
Heya! Mac links to Windows build - just sayin' :D Please update
EDIT: Minor update to release memory on explosions which caused a memory fault over time. Should fix out of memory error with WebGL build too.
EDIT: Fixed bug where humans could be picked up at any speed. Made picture in picture map slightly smaller. Cleaned up player explosion so crawler is not rendered to look like it was completely destroyed.
Yes you circle the enemy for long enough and they will die. Thanks for your comments and thanks for playing. It should be more challenging now that the bug was fixed where you have to slow down to pick up the humans, meaning the worms will have a chance to get you :D
Best played with a controller :D
EDIT:Mac and Linux support added - Enjoy!
Nice work. Plays really well and wow what a great innovation!!! You could add little challenge modes like in pinball and other targst like UFOs to it. But all in all a very complete game sequence.
What a great game. Saving the spider with space was a bit weird, as it ran off and I had a small spider again? But I did keep more score. Nice work. You should put this on mobile. I got 420
Excellent game. Nice little puzzler and very gratifying visual and audio feedback. Nice work!
Nice art style and I liked being able to manipulate the placement of the whales. Great graphics and the drama of avoiding falling all the way to the bottom, with the inclusion of the exploding whales made for a compelling game. Nice work!
I found it really difficult to play and couldn't understand why you made it so difficult. I didn't see the use of power, and didn't understand how to use the TAB system. Sorry I gave up so quickly but it was frustratingly complicated.
Thanks for the feedback oxrock and Tim. It's all good crits thankyou. Yes having the bug where the last base never gets destroyed definitely means the player is at less risk of losing. I think I'm only allowed to fix that bug - or maybe I'm not??? Anyway - I ran out of time to truely balance it. But I really appreciate the feedback anyways :D
Yeah I noticed the enemy bullets seemed to hang around in screen space. Another bug!!! Thanks for playing :D
Great work. The graphics are superb. I think they idea is unique and deserves to be developed more. I didn't know what I was supposed to do to progress other than just bounce around, collect power and avoid cars but it was solid game-play nonetheless. Well done. I ended up tipping over so it wasn't possible to continue. I only marked you down on sound because I though it could have a bounce sound, ambience, car sounds, car impacts, dying and collecting sounds to polish it off.
Wow so impressive with cut-scenes as well :D Really liked this game, but I had no idea what I was doing other than finding forming a solid line was the best attack. I think this could be developed into a peer 2 peer mobile game for sure. Nice work. Though I did not see one lawn mower in the main game :D
I powered up some turrets thought it wasn't clear why I was supposed to be doing this or what the net effect of doing so would be. Controls are pretty good, but it would have been nicer to just hold W going up. Didn't see the need to fire as I didn't run into enemies. I eventually got stuck up the top unable to return to the turrets.
Love it. Easy to control. Well within the theme and fun to play.