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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 31 | Entire Game on One Screen | A Programmer's Life | compo | 1033 | 2.67 | 2.11 | 2.78 | 3.61 | 2.65 | 2.74 | 2.98 | 2.84 | 53 |
Nice concept. Like the graphics. And nice audio. Unfortunately, I found the platforming to be pretty frustrating due to the controls. The response is pretty tight but the character skates around a lot which means that even if you hit that platform perfectly, chances are high you will simply slide right back off it and tumble down into the enemy.
Amazing. Beautiful graphics and animations, great audio. Overall just great presentation. Nice simple mechanics. Pretty cool when you first hit "Feed" and you realize that thing is alive. Great stuff.
Great idea and execution. Surprisingly complex simulation for such a short time.
I don't know... this thing is awesome! Great humour and the graphics and the sound just work with the game. Doesn't seem like there's any clearly defined rules or goals, but playing it definitely was a fun experience. Simple, yes, but somehow the entire mix just works great.
A psychedelic experience with bouncy physics :) Got eaten by the Mantis twice. Fun graphics and gameplay. Combat felt a little too bouncy and imprecise, though :)
Very cool interpretation of "Entire Game on One Screen". Well executed. Cool idea with the combination of a 2D platformer and 3D maze. Hit boxes of the enemies in 2D seem a bit too large and unforgiving. Bit weird that the control scheme changed from arrows to WASD in the 3D sections.
Very nicely done. Love the animations and graphics.
Indeed, nice use of the theme. Well done all around. No clue what the widgety things you build actually do but it was fun building them while randomly hitting keys in the manager console. Building an antenna then suddenly ended the game :)
Fun little game. Was a little confusing that what looks like a pickup cannot be picked up yet once you've progressed to the right point in the "story", suddenly it can be picked up. Same for doors. Nice job with the character graphics.
Very nice graphics. Even has a tutorial. Gameplay is fun!
Felt that the fixed camera prevents you from getting a feel for the space in the game, though. Some means of better identifying where enemies are located around you would help.
Anyway, great game!
Great use of the one screen. Quite a lot to explore. Really nice graphics and animations. And like the lighting. Great mood. Fitting audio as well. Unfortunately, seems like there wasn't much to do besides running around and picking up keycards. But really great entry!
Asked my name and then was never seen again :( Sad because it looks very interesting.
Which is installed on the computer, however.
Nice concept. Seemed pretty tough. On my first run I didn't manage to score any points and only got collisions. Seems like you basically have one shot. Once the enemy is close (whether it's because you missed or whether it was already spawned close), you pretty much only have collision left to get rid of it. Maybe that's better once you've upgraded a little.
Looks awesome! But yeah, no Leap Motion either :(
Sorry, too tark. Can't see a thing :(
Game looks fun. But yeah, the 2 gamepad thing makes it hard to test.
Song is really nice indeed. Didn't really get the point of the gameplay.
Fun game indeed. Pretty tough. Really like the mana mechanics in addition to the building mechanics and think there's a lot of potential there. Upgrades felt a little ineffective. "Spells", too. Nice tower defense without the predetermined attack paths.
Can't run the game :( Looks like there's a dependency on libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll which isn't included in the zip.
Nicely done. Once you get the hang of it, it's a fun idea. Unfortunately, control over the outcome seems very limited and it feels like you have very little control (understandable given you indirect nature of interacting with the logic). For me, the most successful strategy turned out to be nothing and just let the game play itself.
Idea is nice and well executed. Even has story and tutorial "cutscenes". Gameplay is fun! And I like the "pick up light bulbs to progressively light the screen" idea.
There's some issues with collision (projectiles going through enemies and picking up projectiles doesn't always work). Also, funnily enough, you can stand on top of enemies. Not sure that is intentional but it sure is cool :) Also, technically the game isn't literally on one screen (it has several levels) but... whatever :)
Overall, great job!
Fun idea and really well executed. Pretty hard. Didn't reach the top after multiple tries. The microscopically small goat makes it extra tough but somehow also makes it cooler :)
Having that animal plummet all that long way to its death is just funny cruel :) Especially with the sound underlining that long fall even more. The avalanche is well done and quite a surprise when it happens to you for the first time.
Really nice animations. Overall the graphics work really well. Great job!
Nice visuals and audio. Like the "concept-y" style of the graphics. Couldn't really figure out how to properly play the game, though. If I randomly press "A" or "D" after the countdown, I randomly. No matter what I did, couldn't get fights to last more than a split second. Most of the time the game was counting down. After the second character was added, couldn't score a win anymore. Think with some tweaking that results in longer fights, this could be really great.
Thanks all for trying the game :)
@Mixer
There's way too much randomness in the game. It's completely unbalanced. One game is over in a matter of seconds, the next one is slow like hell. I made the mistake of making the formulas way too complicated and then not having time to find the right parameter values to balance things out.
@ChronusZ
I never noticed until I tried it with headphones :) Indeed pans around like crazy. Anyway, first ever shot at recording something and editing it in Audacity, so I'm happy :)
Only displayed a window with a blank white screen :(
Great little game. Well executed.
Felt a little slow and I didn't quite get whether the upgrades made any difference beyond the changed visuals.
This entry is super awesome. The concept is amazing and the execution is flawless. Great mood, great interpretation of the theme, great audio, and on top great fun. Awesome job! The exploration mechanic is great.