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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Hu | Mo | |
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| 2025 | 58 | Collector | Fruit Flyer | jam | 667 | 3.05 | 3.00 | 3.40 | 3.47 | 3.27 | 2.88 | 2.78 | |
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | Tug Of Slime | jam | 149 | 4.02 | 4.00 | 3.27 | 4.36 | 4.18 | 3.18 | 3.93 | |
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | Planet Xpress | jam | 390 | 3.75 | 3.76 | 3.75 | 4.23 | 4.15 | 3.01 | 3.63 |
I love this! The art style is very polished and pretty and the controls are tight af. I love that you have leaderboards integrated. My favorite game of all so far! Cannot believe this was done in 72h. Dont have anything to critique other than it took me a minute to understand whats going on. I will play it some more.
I like how one joke was randomly in german. I wonder how you came up with all the jokes. Very fun but also very hard to dodge, read jokes and deliver jokes all at the same time.
Love this idea and how you executed it. Workes very well! Its fun to find the right house based on the hints and the mini game to steer the baby to hole. I just wish there was a way to steer the baby back when you overshot your target.
Great game. Extremely polished and clean, and the audio is just next-level. Voice-acting in a game jam game? Incredible! Also love the art and UI. Just wish I could do the upgrading on my own or at least know when and where I get what upgrade next.
Looks very cool and smooth. The cart mechanic reminds me a lot of Valheim. The controls are not that great though or at least my character didnt really want to do what I told him. Maybe the attack cooldown is just way too long? Extremely impressive for a 72h game though.
Not quite sure whats going on but it looks clean and doesnt crash
Very cool! Reminds me a lot of my own game lol. We basically had the same idea, just that yours has way more pixelse and a tutorial haha. Very solid execution! Love the thruster visuals! One thing I wouldve liked to see is a more dynamic camera though. I wouldve used this as a reference if I had known about it.
Nice little game! Worked well for me, but I was able to keep going forever on the right side of the road. Not sure why but there was no car coming in on that lane.
Neat and fun game. I like the concept and the realistic building layout lol. I sure felt like an actual parcel carrier. The cam was a bit too shaky for my taste and sometimes felt a bit glitchy, but tother than that a solid entry.
I like the concept and that the controls are how they are, its a fun challenge. But I got stuck in a bush and resetting did not move me out of the bush :( And the blue thrusters arent quite doing what I would expect them to do. But still a pretty cool proof of concept and very moody!
Very cool. I think the inspiration is obvious but you cant deny that its a pretty solid execution. Overall surprisingly polished and I love the effects. The only thing I didnt like was the health of the enemies. Sometimes they have way too much health, sometimes they go down immediatly.
Very impressive destruction model! I found it very hard to shoot back though. My cannon was not able to fire high enough. Cool concept
The controls are tight af and the graphics are very nice. The sound also very nice. Very very cool and smooth game. Might be the best top down car steering I've seen so far. But it's pretty hard anyway.
Only outside of the space ship you can pick up and deliver packages. You pick up packages from the conveyer belt (or the rocket if it has any packages loaded in) by standing in front of it and holding down RMB. (takes half a second before he starts picking up packages one by one) If you drop spare packages somewhere you can pick them up again by simply moving over them.
I knew I shouldve added a tutorial or interaction popups. Glad you still enjoyed it^^
Here's what delivering packages looks like (When you see me picking up packages what I'm doing is holding down the right mouse button. To deliver them I only have to move into the targets while carrying them)
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Not sure why. Thx for letting me know! Maybe ldjam.com has problems? I've added a dropbox mirror
Thanks everyone for the great feedback! All very valid points. Maybe I will update the game some more to get closer to what I had in mind when I started working on it.
I like this a lot! The graphics are very nice and its easy to understand and fun. The seagul could move smarter imo but there should be some time to react to its attack. Right now I never have to dig in and its better to avoid the seagul by simply moving out of line.
I think its a neat concept! Couldve used some more particle effects or something maybe and zooming in and out is a bit glitchy but a nice feature to have. Other than that a solid game.
I like the idea and really wanted to drive around and deliver stuff but steering is very hard. I assume thats a feature? :D Being inconsiderate and everything. Still I wouldve preferred it to be able to steer correctly. Overall not too bad though and impressively detailed world with AI drivers, even though they also seem to struggle with the controls hahaha
Quite some nonesense happening on that remote island. But its some very cool tech and a solid PoC! Also very funny sometimes
Is it intended that on day 2 it doesnt really progress despite pressing R over and over again and there is a robot appearing and disappearing on the box dancing?
Cool concept and nice art. Found a bug though, after my first day the item on the desk did not disappear and the next day I had two items on top each other, one half packaged, and even after sending out the new item the previous one still stuck around.
I really like the graphics and its a cool game. Just wish it had more interesting sound design. And I had an issue where I wasnt able to use a summon circle because it was too close to the screen and therefore F always made me put in the ingredient when it was not cooked yet.
Damn that child reading out what I type was kinda scary. Very cool tech
I like this type of game but it crashed for me after a minute
I think it's a nice game! Weird that the bullets are physical objects but the game had some interesting mechanic. I just wish the "summation" puzzles would give me a bit more options and be a bit more challenging. I liked it a lot when I had the option to prepare it in a way to get all of them touch each other at once with just a single move.
Very cool game. I managed to get it done with 5 seconds left. Nice artstyle and UI, fun gameplay. Not much to critize. Great job!
Hey, this is very well made for a jam game and while I did need your screenshots with instructions to understand everything once I got it it was fun, just a bit too difficult. Maybe some slightly better feedback on whats happening would be good because sometimes I think I won a match when I thought I lost it. Overall it was just too difficult to complete and I felt like my deck was getting worse instead of better the further I got, lol.
But overall one of the best entries I've played so far. Played it for quite a while
Damn thats a good submission right here. Looks great, feels very polished and sounds great too. Just a bit too much time pressure for my taste is the only thing I can criticize.
Neat game. I like burger cooking games. But for some reason it kept telling me the order is wrong even though I assembled it just like it said on the order :(
Crazy amount of content for a gamejam gam. Good Job!
By far the best game I've played so far. AAA sound design, cool art, unique concept, great balancing and polish. Truly incredible work, not just for a jam game but in general. It worked so well and the opponent with their comments was just great to play against. Challenging but not too hard. Sometimes it was difficult to tell what was going on or what the next move would bring but it wasnt really any issue. Usually I dont like board games but I had a great time with this one. It's like chess but better.
Did you use AI for the voice acting? And libraries for the sounds? Or was everything done from scratch with actual voice acting?
Well done! massive props
Very impressive. Great atmosphere. Nice art. Even had cutscenes. It really doesnt feel like a gamejam game but like a small but full game with weeks of development time. But the controls are not for me. Or at least not for my brain lol. I bet it would be fun to play with a second player, locally on the same keyboard.
While I do like the idea and visuals I have to agree with others that 30 seconds doing the challenges is a little too long to enjoy, it gets pretty exhausting after 10 seconds.
Damn this is good. Love the mechanic that you can get a lot of different weapons based on what you decide to craft together. I just wish I wouldnt need to waste items because i can only carry two spare items. They also get used up pretty quickly.
Anyway, crazy amount of content for a gamejam game, nice artstyle where everything goes well together and a lot of potential. One of the best games I've played so far. And you even added a cool intro (I love how he spins when he is sucked into the portal lol)
I love this concept! It's a bit too hard imo because the crystals kept getting destroyed so quickly but the concept is great and watching that society grow is also very fun. You should flesh this out some more, it has a lot of potential.
Incredible artstyle. Love the animations. Probably the prettiest game I've played so far. I also like the game concept. But I felt the start was too slow to be fun. The cooldown was just too long and adding more sigils didn't make any difference until I've spend a couple of rounds saving up and grinding. But that was too tedious. I would like to see a skip button to skip the remaining preperation phase time. But again, love the visuals and with some balancing changing this could easily be a fantastic game!
I love lemmings, so I had to play this and it sure was cool. Very nice visuals. But some of the abilities are hard to read, i.e. difficult to tell what they will actually look like after use. Also clicking the cards didnt work anymore for me after I've restarted a level
Where is the key >.<
Cool idea, but there should be a restart level button and I would've loved some camera movement options so I can see whats going on behind walls etcc.
Thanks everyone for the great feedback! I'm glad the feedback is mostly positive. I will put in some more time to work on balancing. I do want this game to be in a good shape before I call it done. But I also kind of like the snowballing. It's fun - But its difficult to get it just right to not become boring. I did have some runs where I thought I will win easily in the next few seconds but the enemy was able to get back at me and ultimately it took me about 10 minuts to win - which is about what I want a match to take in total. Winning is fun though, so I don't want to make this game too hard. Adding difficulty options to choose from is probably the best way forward.
And for everyone who experienced any errors or stability problems please do send me any error messages or logs you have or give me steps to reproduce it. Appreciate it!
I've just released a major update! Fixed a lot of bugs and there are difficulty levels that you can choose from now. Let me know what you think.
Thanks for playing and rating
@kallico 40 Minutes damn, now thats dedication! Thanks for the feedback and your time :D I thought about having ways to command your slimes to retreat, focus on slimes or focus on the enemies "base" etc. But this was simply out of scope for the limited time. I think some other types of slimes (or upgrades) with abilities like being able to attack multiple targets at once or being able to overtake existing slimes could help. But yea, for this jam I wanted to keep it simple and predictable.
@hare-software Thanks for kind words <3
@lame-rat Hey, thanks a lot of the feedback and praise. Yea in the end it's not an actual RTS but a much more casual strategy game where spamming is half the fun imo. Seeing an army of slimes jump towards the enemy is great. I am not sure if limiting the army size would help that much since you could just wait for a slime to die before spawning a new one and unless it's limited a lot this wouldnt make a big difference but do kill some of the fun of being able to save up on mana and then unleash hell.
I did not expect this to be this cool. Serious old school GTA vibes. Sadly I kept getting arrested
I like the idea but overall it was a bit glitchy. I was often not able to jump and the character looked very shaky when walking.
I love me a destructible environment. Very cool game, but I did feel a bit lost. Maybe a bit too overwhelming all the buttons you need to know.
One of the prettiest game's I've seen so far and I would've liked to see more! Sadly my game completely crashed when I tried to summon the first boss and I also had some freezes during dashing, but that fixed itself after some time.
Very cool! I love these kind of games. And this is very well done for a jam game. But there are too many different resources, buildings and units that I have no idea what they are good for or how I get them lol
The art is great and I like the idea of summoning minions to fight for you, but the movement and combat does not quite live up that and the minions were also not that useful since I was able to fight for myself.
This game is hilariously realistic. I can tell someone on the team has worked in IT. The art and gameplay might not be the best but the humor is a clear 5/5 lol. Also great music choice that fits the humor perfectly.
Beautiful but I had problems with the HTML5 version where I was not able to see the Send order button. I think the screen at the bottom was cut off or something
Another masterpiece