A Game about Nothing by earnso 2019-10-07T21:53:37Z
Gosh. Got to admit that I was tensed up for a jump scare from the start. But a nice twist on the concept. And 6 hours? Jeez. I don't think I'd even written a camera controller in that time.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Rusty Jim
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | Super Loop Racer | compo | 3.33 | 2.33 | 2.33 | 3.16 | 4.50 | 4.00 | 4.33 | |||
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | The Last Meal of Winnifred | jam | 1089 | 3.55 | 3.33 | 3.09 | 3.31 | 3.33 | 3.52 | 3.52 | 3.23 | |
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | Rusty Jim's Cornycopia | jam | 3.30 | 3.11 | 3.58 | 3.15 | 4.11 | 3.88 | 2.95 | 3.50 | ||
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | Super Rhythm Disco Tennis | jam | 3.50 | 3.50 | 3.50 | 4.00 | 3.00 | 3.50 | 3.50 |
Gosh. Got to admit that I was tensed up for a jump scare from the start. But a nice twist on the concept. And 6 hours? Jeez. I don't think I'd even written a camera controller in that time.
Ha! What a nice use of the theme. Adored those graphics and the scale of the world. I found the game overall to be very hard! Difficulty settings could vastly improve this for me.
Some sorta programming legend here! What an impressive game. Love the art style and the clear signposting. I think someone else mentioned it but the double speed when walking diagonal is a bit annoying! Other than that, great game!
Yes! What a lovely wee game. Crafting is always a compelling primary loop for me and this scratched the itch. Short and sweet with lovely graphics. Clear, cohesive story. One of the best I've played so far! :)
Enjoyed Mavis Beacon back in the day and I really enjoyed this even though I found it a bit hard! I found in most levels that I was left with one mouth at the end which actually seemed to help. The drum loop is annoying to say the least and I feel is maybe even a bit too hifi for the Atari style visuals?
Overall though great job! :)
What an awful lot of game for 72 hours! Amazed at the amount of assets created! I think I got a little stuck after the potato! Wasn't sure what to do with that so a little more guidance would have been appreciated from me. Overall though an absolutely lovely game! Even enjoyed the puzzles!
I really didn't understand how to fight. Even with the tutorial! With that said, I really enjoyed the low-poly characters in the fight scene. Maybe a bit much chromatic aberration though? :)
Yup. Loved it. Took me *ages* to find the lever at the start though. Very Stanley Parable as someone else said. Stellar visual work though, especially the lighting.
Good fun game! Lasted until round eleven. At that point my mullet was simply streaming out some beautiful particle effect stream. With some polish could be a fun little mobile title!
Y'know I was all ready to hate this for both latching onto the goose zeitgeist and taking *quite a bit* of inspiration from Thomas was Alone. But then the sound effects happened. Absolutely creasing myself. I also found the platforming to be challenging but fair. The central message seems to be the opposite of Thomas was Alone: relying on oneself rather than your friends. And I always reckon if a videogame makes you think: you're doing something right. Good job y'all!
A nice experience and I feel that the use of colour was excellent. I also enjoyed the slight physics on each o the water droplets. Weirdly stressful to see a plant shrivel up in front of you, though! I guess I don't have green thumbs.
OVerall though, I enjoyed my time in the Grove :)
Outstanding work! Definitely one of the best I've seen this jam! The music is outstanding and the sheer scale of this thing for 72h of work is just absurd. A great start and I would LOVE to play a full version one day. I simply CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THE ONION MINIONS.
Fun, challenging and EXTREMELY polished. Was this in Blender Game Engine as well? Kudos. The virus mutation which made the controls wonky was hilarious! I am not good at this game... haha
Despite never playing a SMT game or similar I enjoyed this! Nice smooth animations on the characters. The randomised moves was a nice touch but I wasn't really sure what each of them did! A little more visual feedback (or even tooltips!) would have helped me out. I would imagine though, in the context of a full game, that this would make a lot more sense. Overall though I enjoyed this and you should be proud of your work!
I chortled out loud a few times, not going to lie! Very cute. Brought back memories of my own Tamagotchi in c.1996. Like this, it was a bootleg one and had some... idiosyncrasies. Overall a nice twist on some surprising Reigns-influenced gameplay.
This was just great. I don't think I've ever played a tower defence game on a sphere before but it's a great twist. Engaging and challenging game with a great soundtrack. You've done really well here!
Absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE this. The dog model is amazing. Was not expecting something so tonally similar to early Resident Evil games but there you go! Really creepy and atmospheric. I'll admit though, I got very stuck and lost. I had to read your hints here before I was able to finish it. ALtogether though, a great experience. You should be really, really proud of this one!
I dig this a lot! The shaders are just top notch! I found it very difficult at first to work out which end of the frog was the 'front'. But I guess this would have been solved with a frog model. Overall though, a good effort which I enjoyed playing.
I liked this but ran into the same bug as the guy above! So many solar panels on my ship! some of the UI was hard to understand but I really liked the concept and general execution. Well done!
Mate, that music is GREAT! Well done with this. I had fun playing it. A lot of people have gone for the watering plants theme this LD and this is a great execution of it. My only complaint is that it was too easy to drown in the water! Some of the times it felt as if only on pixel of the character's foot was in it. Overall though, a good game with GREAT music and a satisfying core gameplay loop.
Yikes! A stressful but fun experience. I just LOVE those animals! The animations are great and the music very funky. Good job!