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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
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| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | Fleabags | compo | 283 | 2.92 | 2.97 | 3.14 | 3.97 | 3.09 | 3.88 | 4.04 | 3.45 | |
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | The lawyer | compo | 219 | 3.31 | 3.27 | 3.39 | 3.89 | 3.47 | 3.50 | 4.10 | 3.41 |
I completed the game but man, this Archdemon gets bored quickly :D ! It's satisfying to see the invocation circles producing creatures and it would be fun for the levels to be long enough to have more (I saw it's capped after a few upgrades), because, once again, it's satisfying to watch :p It would be nice if you could see the summoning circles on the map :)
Obligatory : Is that a JoJo reference ? :D Okay, it was short but I'm leaving with a huuuuuuge smile :D You have a great base for a fun warioware-like ! I love stupid plots :D
The mood in your game is amazing ! The sound is spot on, as is your pixel art ! It was a great experience :) Very creepy and strange, I'd like to say I need answers but it's even better mysterious as it is... Spoilers : (You should make the top corner of the book easier to click)
I loved your eggheads, I'm really into creatures drawn with tiny black beads for eyes :D The game is fun and strangely addictive, it would be nice to have shortcuts to the different floors or a "map" view to dispatch hungry eggheads faster :)
It's a fate worse than death to become the food you were trying to find... I think this game is pretty creepy under the cute graphics and animations... Today I learned that the "l" in "salmon" is silent :D I had fun but I don't think the villagers that ended up as salmons felt the same :p
That's a very efficient use of minimalistic sprites ! It's also a nice concept to only be able to interact with the sheep with your dog through whistling :) It's crazy how you managed to pack a game that feels like a simulation in a such a small format ! Well done !
The music and the visuals are very soothing :) It sends me back in time more than ten years ago and reminded me of Proteus :)
The music is great ! I took me a few tries to see that you can do combos when the same word appears in different colors / several pages, if you're fast enough, it can be a good strategy to renew your spells :) Do the spells work on offscreen ghosts or only the one we can see ?
It could so much be a rhythm game !
The music is great and the art is amazingly cute ! I loved the demon's voice :)
That's pretty impressive for something you made in just a day !
The demon would be nice as a plushie or on a t-shirt :D
Beacons are lit, Gondor called for help :) Nice and short platformer, it's amazing people are still making cartridge games ! An extra pixel for jump would make jumping more fluid, you don't have much room for error :p By the way, I don't know if it's me but sometimes it feels like I'm snapping through the platforms.
Now, that's summoning ! I found the role of the chickens in the rituals hilarious. I love clickers :) I bought all upgrades, got lots of summoners, blood flows faster than my swords can drain it and I have no idea what unholy thing will happen next... I really liked there is two currencies in this game (blood and chanting), it perfectly fits the theme :)
@tesseract that's really inspiring to see a multiplayer game made in 48h hours, I wouldn't even have tried it if you didn't do it first ! Maybe I'll try next time. The concept of your game is very interesting, it would be nice if there were more players :) Do you plan on adding bots or do you want to keep it 100% real time and with actual players ?
Amazing music and great pixel art (that ending screen, wow) ! I mostly used my powers to heal, it felt like whatever I casted at the assassins was mowed down, maybe buff the invocations a bit to give them a chance to slow down enemies (They faced a constant stream of arrows :D). It was fun !
Having to deal with random powers is interesting, and it would be even more interesting if there were more powers so you can't be sure of what is going to trigger. The teleportation spell could use a background with some kind of texture because you can't see the direction you moved :)
The computer is cheating. It must be, no ? Well... I guess he's better than me :D Your game is fun and it would be nice if we had some kind of visual cue over the units bar to show what kind of movement an unit does while we're in the learning phase :)
Well, that was the worst time to be summoned :D The things you can say under pressure... I may have ended up with some children and a relationship some subreddits would red flag like a street in China the first of October :D
The music is great and I loved the flute backing it ! I'd love to see more games that doesn't take themselves seriously, it reminds me of the Bard Quest webcomic :) I loved exploring the branches, how does working out works out for a skeleton ?
Screenshot 2024-04-15 142908.png It immediately tick my cookie clicker/paperclips urge to click :D When I saw your cover I was, like, no way you can have art this good in 48 hours ! AI is amazing... But back to the game, I could play those kind of games for hours, it's a "good" thing it ends :D
Same problem as others, solved by playing full screen : I couldn't see everything.
That's an excellent puzzle game ! Being able to summon rats using your flute to your aid is very clever and being able to play an instrument reminds me of Wonder Boy in Monster Land on master system. Great mechanics, great mood, great music, I really liked playing this game :)
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At first I didn't understand what got me (A bad guy got me as it just came into frame) but then, I was like nope, nope, nope, go away , leave me alone ! It's fun to run after the beacons :D You should add a "danger halo" near the screen borders when someone is going tom come into frame. PS: Nice splines and night cycle :)
I planted many flowers with moths fellows and we pretty much gave pollen allergies to half a billion persons doing so :D The game gets more difficult as the moths covers the one you control, it's an interesting way to increase difficulty :) I had fun :)
PS: I was on my way to plant flowers all over the world when the game suddenly froze (after collecting three more flowers after filling the bellow bar). The engine also seems to slow down every time you get a new moth in your crew.
All customers were satisfied, no need to apologize :) It was fun and given what you did with your pixel art, it would be even better if the summoned creature changed form, I see event more potential if summoning the creature becomes a puzzle (like if you add some effects that cancel/empowers stuff given a set of conditions, I think that that were you were heading) ! Nice music too (and the voice was cute) !
I really like the concept ! I think it could be useful if the circles were transparent because you lose some of you field of view when they're in the path of where you're going :)
I spent way too much time testing this game, it's deviously clever and addictive :) It reminds me of 2048 but with a bit of tetrominoes added. A nice feature would be to be able to undo the last move, sometimes you click to fast and ruin your carefully planned strategy. it would also be nice if you were told somewhere that you destroy all connected similar items when doing a combo, regardless of shape because it's very useful :)
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Since we're talking about summoning, here are 666 ducks :D My laptop started to suffer at 600 hundred ducks, there was the bunnymark, now there's the duckmark !
I'll put on a itch.io page with the ending issue fixed after the end of this LD, meanwhile, it seems like Jameson, Jameson, Jameson (and others) have cut on the employees retrieval costs and left you stranded in the middle of isekai land... I'll also refactor my ugly code :D
It's strange, it's fun, the music makes me smile and the jurors are weird in a good way :) The art is interesting and silly at the same time :)
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Oh no :) A game where numbers are going up, that's the ones I spend way to much time on... It's fun and fascinating to watch ! Cute slimes :) It would ne nice if we could drag the map with the mouse/cursor and if the demonic iron/pure essence was faster, I think it took me more time to upgrade the portal at this step than all the others combined. It would also be convenient if the slime selected the closest best resource where you click :)
Well, it's not much but it's ~~honest~~ corporate job :D It was a fun experience !
Chill music, cute graphics, addictive :) Given the difficulty past level nine, I really appreciated you let us play after game over, it's weirdly soothing to group the blobbies together ! I really like how you can drag them over the others, everything is juicy in that game :)
Awww, they even follow you once you free them :) ! Making a game like yours was my first idea but I didn't have time to make enough assets, I'm really pleased to see that someone managed to do it ! Congratulations !
I really like your swarm mechanics ! You should add a way to split a group to do some prong type attacks :) It would be nice if we could select a group of cells instead of having them to follow the mouse, it would allow us to use more advanced strategies :)
I really liked the concept, especially after coming back from the dead (Thanks to the OP last power), it took me a while but light prevailed ! I know you wanted to balance your game but I would happily keep purchasing powers past level 10 :p
It would be nice if you had an explanation for available powerups outside of game, it can be stressful to spend some time reading their description and leaving the creatures alone during that time. Some shortcuts to buy them would be nice too.
I really liked how after I thought everything was lost I came back and triumphed :)
PS: Is music/sound working ? You didn't opt out of the category but I didn't hear anything, either on MacOS or Windows.
AHAHA! MURDER ! ACTION ! HAPPY !
This was fun :)
The game was an interesting experience for all the things it made me think about the LD format !
It's just my second Ludum Dare and it already feels like a "man vs self" kind of competition. The compo format is interesting as it puts you in front of everything you are neglecting as a game dev, and more interesting, what you really want to do through seeing that you're not happy with what you produced in 48 hours.
As for now, AI usage in assets can still be obvious, especially if you are familiar with it, but in the future we won't see a difference and the quality of what we can do in such a limited amount of time will spike.
From there, two things can happen: - Competition will shift from all the AI generated categories to innovative gameplay, until AI catches on, then... - People won't care for ratings anymore and like most photography contests where you are juste looking for a theme/constraint, you'll just go back to your "man vs self" thing and just share the results with others. In the end, I think game jams can "survive" AI but it will be difficult to keep ratings of any kind or things like the compo given its "everything under 48h" pitch won't make sense anymore.
That's exactly the game I would have made if I was better at drawing and didn't waste half the compo on some 3D stuff ! Great job and thank you for succeeding where I failed :)
I love this type of graphics, it's original and I could see a whole game hand drawn !
PS: We have exactly the same fleas in our games :D
Their god has been pleased and so do I :) I think I love games where your see a crowd of creatures working on different tasks :)
3060 :) I wasn't expecting something, took me off balance :D
I definitely love swarm based games and you even added resources collection, this is really nice, it's like looking at an ant hill :)
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Ok, I think my tank is thriving, now ! I love small worlds and management simulation games !
What did you use to compose the music :) ?
Wow ! That game is hard on a touchpad ! Very nice pixel art that reminds me of some colorful Amiga games :) The music is peaceful but I think I'll need to play with a mouse to enjoy more of it as I last like, 3 seconds :D I need to git gud :)
Update after playing on windows : the game is far easier on this platform, for some reason it was crazy fast on MacOS and balloons didn't had much counter strength there. It's actually a pretty chill game on Windows :)
It reminds me of games I used to program on TI calcs, where an UFO could be something like -=O=- that :) Catchy tune, by the way !
Didn't have time to add anything menacing or obstacles, so, feel free to devour anything on your path without fear :)
I have absolutely no drawing skills and definitely should learn how to use an engine instead of always rewriting everything from scratch :)
On the plus side, I learned new things with Rapier2D !
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My first try for this LD was a platformer, but I knew I wouldn't have enough time to make enough assets for it to be interesting...
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And it didn't feel you were a tiny creature when I tried to see how it was on the top of the plant. After several hours on this prototype I scrapped it to work on a destructible pixel environment. It was so bad and ugly I won't post a screenshot here. I did what I could and made the "thing" I submitted : A 2D toy where you play as fleas/bed bugs. My only regret is not having any challenges and obstacles in my game, it's a mere toy, but I had fun working on this project. And one more, produced some horrendous code ;D
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In the end, I was pretty sure I was going to abandon yesterday, but I'm surprised I released something.
@pedryx, you're right I should have stopped the game after the last "creature", I was late and didn't have time to optimize it and there are a lot of stuff dangling in memory...
@ejunegao thanks, given it's probably the first time I've drawn animals since I was a kid :D
Well. LOL !
It was fun and funny :)
Very interesting experience, you have a great sense of composition and storytelling !
lol, I think it's the fattest loot I ever retrieved from a single creature !
I feel more like a robber than a thief, though (I tried every path to see if there was a less, well, violent way to steal the gold). On the other end, there was something extremely comically twisted to it :D
Choose your own path adventures are always great !