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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | 👥 | Maze Of The Minotaur | jam | 982 | 3.47 | 3.36 | 2.88 | 3.08 | 3.74 | 3.72 | 3.15 | 3.50 |
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Feed The Slime | jam | 966 | 3.59 | 3.22 | 3.11 | 4.05 | 3.97 | 3.66 | 3.82 | 3.44 | |
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | Floating Forest | jam | 950 | 2.98 | 2.79 | 2.83 | 3.68 | 3.33 | 2.26 | 2.35 | 2.84 |
A very nice execution of genetic algorithms etc. Instead of a computer adjusting parameters it is the player that needs to tweak the behavior. Having these child nodes you can come up with pretty advanced behaviors. My dots unfortunately mostly died because of insufficient food :)
A very polished game! Very cool idea that the music grows when you collect notes. Good job :)
A very nice game! It is polished in every way, graphics, sounds and fish movement. The game starts out very slow though, I would have liked it a little more difficult. The amount of card variation is fine!
Very cool game. I like the graphics. Couldn't explore far though, because of low energy.
Super awesome idea! I died 23 times^^ It took me some time to figure out the controls, because with 'l' and 's' you can also walk. Also very cool that files that can be opened are highlighted as such. Would like to see a post-jam version of this.
Interesting concept. I really liked the outer black ring for the health indication. I reached level 6.
That guy must have an iron butt... Very addictive, the music is rad! I couldn't really find a connection to the theme, though. Mostly, because I couldn't spent the resources for anything.
Cool idea to let the level build up. The hat on the character is nice :) The character movement was sometimes hard to handle. It wasn't too obvious where I needed to jump on and where not. Maybe because of the camera angle being very steep.
I like the idea of collecting cards to unlock new features. Especially the color cards along with the lasers are fun. However, I spent most of the time running back and forth.
My tribes were immediately killed by the blue guys :) The character animations are great.
The idea of achieving new ways of movement is fun to play. Also the voice acting was a fun surprise :)
I got the same issues that have been described above. I really liked the player and chicken legs animations :)
Interesting idea! The game seems very polished. I had a bit of trouble keeping up with the text that describes the image, as I needed to think about what image to choose and cycle through what's available.
The graphics are looking great. However, the keyboard layout made it hard to play for me.
I managed to beat the game with the above instructions. It was a little hard to find iron and either a tooltip or a name display of inventory items would have helped a lot :) I liked the soundtrack, it was setting the mood quite well.
I really like the graphics. The shadows on the character sprites are very good. I had trouble fighting enemies, but that could be because of my insufficient platformer skills :)
@tasakasama @rolly Thank you :) I had not much time to spent for development, unfortunately. My aim was for the player to built this small forest island and try to keep it in balance. Like trees giving resources for a limited amount of time. Then tiles would vanish again etc.
Hey @kruemelkeksfan that is intended. You are generating points per unit time and new tiles cost some points. You can then spent some to add a new tile by clicking on that white cross.
@jaydubbyasee Thanks for finding that out :) The cost is just a quadratic function, so I guess it reaches that maximum quite fast. For the limited time I wanted to make this a bit more interesting than just adding one to the cost each time you place down a tile.
@kruemelkeksfan Hey, you mean placing trees? Yeah, for that I did not implement costs. And there is no UI that would indicate that. Sorry :)
@jaydubbyasee @kruemelkeksfan Thanks for pointing out the bugs in the tile placement and scoring system. I published a second version where I fixed most of these issues. You can now only place tiles when you have the right amount of score generated. Score is diminished when you place a tile (how it should be) and tile costs are more reasonable now (they could still overflow though).
@ferdi Thanks for the kind words! I wanted the game to be about balancing resources and built up a forest. I haven't reached that quite in half a day :)
@nachtwitch Thank you ;) Although the lighting is not in my responsibility :D I'm using realtime lighting that comes with the game engine I used - Unity. It's very beginner friendly but also quite extensible with the scriptable render pipelines.
@mimusangel Hey, thanks for playing until the end :) I only had about half a day to work on this, so it's very unfinished. Building new tiles is all there is. However, I wanted this to be more of a dynamic thing. Placing more than trees, trees growing etc. Tiles vanishing again.
@mimusangel As a matter of fact I'm reworking the entire game in a new branch right now :D Creating a proper combined mesh etc.
I like the idea of the game and how the objects are spawning into view. However, I ran too early onto the bridge and ended the game kind of in mid-air :)
Nice game with a minimalistic art style. Interesting strategic choices need to be made in order to either heal or get points.
Liking the art style and atmosphere a lot! Finding these diary entries made me just grab a bunch of sticks and wander out into the world. Nicely done!
Such an awesome game! Nice narrative, sounds and graphics. But the gameplay was a really smart idea. Liking it a lot. And the game is actually quite hard.
As you said the game has some bugs. I couldn't move the leaf around and ended up either in the air or below water. The music and the art were nice though.
Good idea and nice graphics! The voice was hard to understand and after building everything I didn't know what to do.
Very creepy game. The heart is so gross^^ And that thing out in the woods... Nice narrative.
Very nice game! Good job with the different tile configurations that adjust to their neighbors. If would love to see a devlog of some sorts about that :) Sounds could have added so much more atmosphere, though.
A very polished game.
The game is pretty hard but intuitive. However, the bear traps always got me. I think I only shot them by mistake :)
The low-poly art is great, especially the animals!
The button presses were a bit difficult, as I'm using a German keyboard layout, i.e. yxc. Would be cool to have the y and z keys do the same thing.
Very interesting mechanics! I really liked the bouncy stone blocks and that you calculate the seed fly path in advance.
The game is quite hard^^ Graphic-wise it reminds me of the early Tron game. Impressive that you've done this in C.
Nice game. An interesting mechanic and it looks very polished. Good job.
Really liking the visuals. The fire animation of the roboty is very cool!
The music is very moody and fits the theme. You managed very well to put the sadness across.
I really like the sound being made when you hit the ballon. Also the arrow indicator for the ballon position is quite cool.
My highscore was 33. The wind got me pretty much every time.
Very fun game. A lot of humor here. Got a score of 100... Just kidding. Everything died :(
Unfortunately I get a timeout error when trying to access the above URL (I also used my username for the room).
Nice music. The game was actually very hard. Didn't come far as I did collide with a bunch of stuff all the time^^
Very atmoshperic game with nice sounds and graphics. Liked the first music track very much :)
Interesting idea. Reminded me of the Firefly series. The peeking mechanic is quite fun.
Very nice graphics, voice acting and overall polish. Good job.
I really like the art-style. The textures look especially nice in the shadows.
The ending was a bit abrupt, but definetly not what I was expecting!
I really like the nice pixel-art. A solid platformer :)
The art looks really polished. I like the level complete music. And it is quite gross how the baby gets eaten by the monsters!
So many details to like! You can break anything :) The ice cream was hilarious. I tried driving on the sidewalk to avoid most of the obstacles, though.
The game remembered me a bit about The Sims. Great mechanic that the dog follows you with the ball!
Really funny how the character can squeeze into these little bookshelves and such :D
Very smart idea that the character gets greyed-out when shooting and you need to refill. It led to me though always trying to stay inside the circle to be able to perma-shoot.
Really liking the idea and execution. The hard-drive was sometimes hard to grab, though.
Jep, game does not start. I even tried copying my own .dll's but that didn't work.
I'm not exactly sure what you guys did, by I canceled the download at ~500 MB. Is that really such a big game or is the ZIP archive bugged?
Liked the graphics and the sounds (couldn't vote on that, though). Was a little unsure what to do. The game was also quite hard.
Liking the humor you developed here. I pretty much just went after Merlin and fixed any mess that I encountered in-between. So he never couldn't actually do stuff^^
Really digging the art and had fun exploring the islands. Good job!
I like that burnt look of the sausage.
A good balancing choice was that I couldn't just run around on the bottom floor, but needed to jump on the platforms from time to time.
A solid idea with nice pixel-art. Hitting enemies was a bit hard though, as you need to grab the exact frame damage can be inflicted.
Cool art and animation of the characters. The light was sometimes difficult to pick up.
Got a score of 195. I really like this game. Starting from the juicy main menu buttons to the art style. The soundtrack is awesome as well.
The Cat-Turtle! :D
Really liking this one! I wanted to keep on exploring. The drive mechanics were really well executed. Great idea of gradually opening up the map.
Got a score of 25. After that I didn't know where to go. Really cool soft-body simulation going on there. Nice!
Wanted to play the game, but I cannot download anything on the itch.io page!
Simple, but effective pixel-art. Nice touch to let levels get darker. The player death animation is nice. The character speed was a bit too fast, though.
Very polished game. I really like that pixel-art, 2D lighting!
Quite a challenging one! The sounds and looks of the slime are quite distgusting :D The voice acting is really good and the slowed down music when you fail is a good call.
@llewellyn-and-michael Yeah, I mainly support the Windows build. I only added the WebGL build for convenience and the Mac/Linux users out there. I really don't know why the game behaves that way in that build. Glad you enjoyed it nonetheless!
@ben-toosey Glad you enjoyed the twist :) But let's be honest: It had to be that way :D
@metalfist213 Thanks for that detailed review. Regarding the sticks: Did you play the WebGL version? I noticed there that the collider positions are quite off as opposed to the Windows build. Not exactly sure why. Other than that I could have increased the collider size anyways!
@rrsmtz Glad you enjoyed the anxiety :) I wanted to expand the level at least a little bit.
@louis-hayes-greenwood Yes, we had fun recording these sound effects :D Glad you liked the ending.
Thanks for the feedback everyone so far. I published a quick hotfix for the Windows and WebGL versions that increases the collider bounds of the sticks. It is now hopefully easier to select them with the mouse.
@texz Yeah, I thought of enlarging the map and add more stuff to feed the slime with, but instead I focused on polishing what I had (animations, sounds etc.).
@versatilesponge Thank you. The sound effects were fun to make. I published a small hotfix that decreases the slime sounds when the player moves away from it.
@humphreysmedia Yeah, I just used a headset microphone. And my audio editing skills are not the best :D Uh, I remember the feeling playing with the mouse pad. Especially for an FPS I think this is rather difficult^^
@mcprog Yes, the WebGL build seems to have issues with the colliders somehow. I already increased their size, but it's still off a bit. In the Windows build it's good, however.
@snail Thank you very much. Yeah, of course I thought of opening up the map or add more resources to feed the slime with, but I wanted to polish what I had in the short amount of time that was left.
@lorenzos Cool, I especially had the Linux and Mac users in mind with the WebGL build :D
@carol03x Yeah, I hear that a lot. I already increased the collider size on those. Maybe it's the WebGL build that behaves a bit different than the Windows build.
@roey-shap Hey, yes, you are right. The transitions could have been made sharper and cancelable earlier. I did not anticipate people playing multiple rounds to be honest. Maybe at least two times^^
@gustavo-christino Hey, thanks for that in-depth review of the game. Yeah, I wondered about the font as well. Maybe the color could have been made dark, so that it will better pop.
@ikrad Yes, I wanted to add a bigger level and other types of food etc. but in the time that was left I wanted to polish the features I already had.
@jiukka Could be^^ I think the game is a bit too hard at the beginning. Players just try to find out the mechanics (different sticks etc.), but then the slime is already dead. It's just I wanted players to see both endings (and thought it might already be too easy, so they see only one).
@josephbyam Yeah, actually the slime is pretty much an ass :D
@nico-thomas Thanks :D
@theforceluke Thanks! The no-sprint option was a decision that I made ;) Kind of to freak everyone out :D
The animations are cute. I didn't quite understand what to do, though.
@vyndilis I tried again. Nice job with the music and the tree mechanics :)
I actually don't have a clue how to play the game.
Nice solid platformer. The pixel-art is nice. I particularily liked the zoomed-out view when placing a tower. It would have been nice to actually see how much each tower costs.
Jep, the game cannot be played currently.
That was a very hungry fly trap! I couldn't find all the flowers before it died.
Nicely executed point & click adventure. I loved the hint of the ... that ate the ...^^
I liked that the music got faster paced when approaching the end of the "crown-bar".
I was able to feed the king with the goo and breed a lot of different colored egg people, but at the end the king still died. I think I missed a vital part of the controls?!
Amazing that you support a VR build. I certainly will try it out!
Nice, simplistic pixel art. I enjoyed the narrative and the overall mood of the game.
Interesting idea. The animations of the character were funny. A bit more variety on the broken ship parts (location) would have been nice.
Sweet little game! I like the monster art and the idea to put them to sleep.
Ah, too bad. I'm not a Mac user, so either a Windows or a WebGL build would reach more people, I guess.
I like the UI. The important thing is that you've learnt something. My last LD game was also unfinished. Now I finished it ;) Too many enemies, though. The performance dropped quite rapidly^^
I like this game. The art is fancy and the tree cutting sounds are quite funny! I got to about 30 seconds. The wind was pretty hard to beat.
Nice game and art. The world is beautifully crafted. I really like how the geometry is removed/made look-through. Got the bad ending, though.
Got to danger level 15 and score 132. I liked the end, that was unexpected. I also could only focus on two colors at a time.
I love that plant guy and his animations. Well done!
Got a score of 231. I think nobody left the party, but it was pretty rough towards the end :) There must have been lying quite a bunch of empty pizza boxes around...
A very weird game indeed! Can't say that I understood the references as I'm not an Argentine. Straightforward tower-defense game, though.
Very funny introduction. The pixel art is great! The lottery must have been given a truckload of money when she could go on holidays for a whole month^^
Nice music and an interesting idea. When hitting the wrong bug I always thought "Noooooooooo" :D Good quite addicting, to be honest.
Nicely executed genre of these virtual pets. I briefly thought of doing something similar. And I have to admit I'm a monster (I used the cheat key)...
I really like the pencil shader/art.
Nice graphics. I like that painted look. Really diverse level building. And the loading and death screen are fitting the game really well.
Nice art and shader work! Also the animations were really polished.
Survived 3:47, level 9. Interesting glossy art there.
Nice idea. It was fun needing to think about dragging the stick along. It was something not easy tracking it with the mouse.
A very fast paced platformer. I liked that the game told me that I was running into the wrong direction :D Needed to start over^^
Nice idea and art. I liked the drowning sounds for some reason^^
That was quite an experience. The sound design was interesting, but also made my headphones crack. Is that sound dynamically generated? Also that bottom platform had some pretty slick moves^^
Got a score of 2250. It was pretty rough thinking of stuff to keep :) I really liked the intro animations, using a physically accurate background story.
How did you decide on how many points each topic gets?
The level loading animations were awesome! Good job.
Got me
That ENDING! Hillarious game, good job :) The jumping part was a bit tricky, I made it through the rings only on the second time. The cinematics were great :)
Same here, please update the link :)
Super cool game! I love everything about it :)
Interesting art style without using alpha on the sprites. Also unexpected use of the color schema. In some levels one can just ignore most of the enemies and sneak across.
Interesting idea. These little legs... :D Couldn't make it past the vertical bridge thing. I guess I did not really figure out the puzzle mechanics.
Very nice art! Neat idea with fading the actual game in and out :)
This one was a bit hard one the eyes. Everything was too close together. Other than that you created a really moody and mysterious atmosphere. The story was interesting :)
Basic concept of a clicker game, nice graphics. The animations were hillarious (super fast). Got some time getting used to the controls and mechanics.
Hey @retronuva10 I would love to try the game out, but I cannot download the game. When I click the download button nothing happens :(
Okay, I used the link on itch.io ;) The art is very well done, as well as the conversations! These puns were quite funny. Got stuck on a wall, unfortunately. Nice entry!
Sweet idea. I get what you mean by *not smooth*^^ The movement controls were a bit hard to get used to.
Really well done with the graphics, sounds and overall mood!
Nice, I like everything about this game. Fits the theme very well. It's very click intensive, however :)
Got a score of 551 :) This is a pretty large level!
Very nice art style! The intro was very funny^^ I had trouble finding out how the game mechanics work. I pressed the buttons but somehow missed some of the cookies nonetheless.
Got to level 6. I like the art style ;) The scene switching using the torch light was a smart idea. I would have liked to pickup items etc. It was hard to know what to pickup and what not (I think only doors are interactable).
A Blender game, interesting! Needed some getting used to, but the Fungus got slain :D
@phealsout @trabitboy Yes, indeed, the left shift button can be used for sprinting. I can make it more clear in the description! Thanks :)
@iman Sorry to hear that the whistling is creeping you out! We tried to make it only subtle, maybe it turned out too loud :)
@hilkojj Thanks, yes, Unity does not nicely behave with WebGL when performing raycasts. It's unfortunately nothing I can change :(
@thesand Great time! Yes, the WebGL build is not the best version, unfortunately :( It's not a horror game :)
@larsdu The key is that you need to trigger some of the gates multiple times. When one gate closes, maybe another one opens?
@jcmonkey The colliders are placed along the lever. On the WebGL build the raycasting is off a bit, so the colliders are - somewhere?^^
@damagefilter Yeah, I know. Unity has problems with WebGL in that regards. Glad you enjoyed it :)
@humphreysmedia It's so cool that you mention Feed The Slime. Thanks so much :D
Original idea! The sword was a surprise :) Nice to see that it has a proper ending! - Beep Boop Boop
Nice entry! A lot of content and a very enjoing sound environment :)
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Okay, I got it working :) I loved the Dark Souls reference^^ Sideways movement felt a bit slow, and it was quite tricky at times. Slowing down time definetly helps a lot.
Nice game! I really liked the enemy models :) I had a problem with the yellow bar that drained heavily underwater after the first site.
@trusty In Unity raycasting does behave very weird when using WebGL. I would have probably also used a different technique when I had more time :)
Okay, I read some comments and noticed that I was using the generators wrong :D Very cool game!
Cute art! Movement was a bit strange, I don't know how many countless times I bumped his head into a wall. Got stuck sometimes.
The custom skybox was funny. A lot of content present :)
I got down to -1000 meters. I found a good balance of just bying the pressure module together with the weight upgrade. Once in a while I needed buy the energy upgrade to keep going. The horizontal movement was a bit slow. Good concept :)
Nice atmosphere! Unexpected ending :D
Interesting concept :) Too bad I'm not a poet^^
Nice game! Cute graphics and overall polish. Not being able to open all the chests or going back up with a found key was a bit strange.
Hey! Cool endless runner. Very challenging because the minecart immediately switches tracks when pressing the keys. Also, as you are using third party assets for art and sounds, you should opt-out of scoring these categories.
Yes, please update the itch.io page :)
Nice game! Smooth gameplay, clear instructions. I just was missing any hamsters in the game :D
Pretty nice that you implemented a scoring system!
Fun narrative :)
Interesting move controls, very ambitious idea. Sometimes a bit hard to control because the player was very fast.
Nice level design! I really like the atmosphere you created. Sometimes jumping was a bit tricky, as it somehow pushed me into unexpected directions.
Very challenging gameplay! I really like the shattered glass effect of the submarine :)
Nice game! A lot of stuff in there, I really like the weapon reload animation. It's a bit dark all in all.
These eye-creatures were really terrifying! The level looks cool :)
A stunning game! Super cool graphics, a polished experience and a surprising ending!
I like the enemy design of these green bush animals ;) Game design is simple and understandable, one color for one enemy.