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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | The Fields | jam | 65 | 3.77 | 3.26 | 3.49 | 4.02 | 4.63 | 3.75 | 3.24 | 4.13 | 66 | |
| 2013 | 28 | You Only Get One | Flee to Light | compo | 233 | 3.35 | 3.06 | 2.82 | 2.59 | 3.82 | 28 |
I won, but I had a hard time triggering the deployments I intended. I'd often queue up a bunch of fighters and click on the base only to have the order canceled and my money refunded. Also, I feel like the delivery of the theme was a bit of telling without showing. It could have been better conveyed as part of the gameplay rather than as an ending.
I really enjoyed playing this, and not because I also made a "one torch" LD game :). I got stuck on the 7th level. I'm pretty sure I have the right solution, but bridges keep collapsing when people are safely on the other side. Other than that, though, this is a lovely entry.
PS. You get past the spider by baiting him with one of your guys to move the rest across and then come back for him when you can move more quickly. (at least that's how I did it).
This is a fun little breakout game :) Next time, it would help to give the player a little more feedback about what they're doing (sound effects, sparks, etc) when you are doing something in the game.
Very enjoyable, scanning the larger planets is quite hard :) Also, I love what happens when you run out of energy! Very mood-setting!
very true, I'd go back and change the wall height if I could within the rules :/ I'm glad you had fun though :D I hope to go back and fiddle with it after the voting and comments.
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Thanks for the alert, Adam Tea!
lovely visual design. I wish it was more clear that I was having an effect on the aliens or that the aliens were having an effect on me.
My goodness this game is difficult. I find myself really wanting a way of quickly retrying with my previous choice, as soon as I die (maybe a "press space to retry" sort of option on the game over screen).
Fun game! I wish the fire rage ability let me shoot fireballs more often rather than do more damage with individual balls, that would make it much better for handling swarms of little guys that can often be a problem. Also, it's easy to accidentally hit R when you mean to hit E, so maybe next time switch it to something harder to hit like Enter. Critiques aside, I love the art, it's really impressively cohesive!
Fun little tower defense game. I'm not sure how the theme played into it at all other than that I have only one base. If I had limited money and only one collector, I would have to protect that one collector by building routes for him. As it is, though, I had plenty of money to cover the entire map in turrets.
It's working well now :) I liked the game enough that I want more. The player movement and mouse could use some acceleration smoothing. Since this is an exploration game and not a twitch shooter, smoothness is more important than immediacy of control.
That's a wonderful mechanic and the levels were mostly really well designed. I think this game would be even better with a gamepad.
Congrats on making such a fine game!
Man, having limited ammo in a game like this is rough. My high score was Level 6 : 261 points, and I'm pretty proud of that :)
The art was spot on. The game was good but a bit too difficult for me. Still, that's a great game that you all made!
I really liked the work you put into the audio and roots. It was a bit too easy, but I think that was the point. :)
Fun but difficult game. I liked the controls, but I feel that they were too unforgiving when the player crashes. The collision box should be shrunk a bit so that the player doesn't feel cheated when their ship blows up. I think the lives should be renamed to something like health or shields. I expected to respawn when I saw the life counter tick down. Great audio and nice menu!
I like the sort of antagonism and panic this inspires in the players :)
I'd love to see this expanded into a few levels. Maybe have different types of switches the player interacts with.
Interesting mood, but I didn't feel like I had much control other than figuring out the ideal path of decisions.
I really like this game :) nice polish. I wish it had keyboard controls for rotating and/or for raising and lowering the weights; at the moment it feels very hard trying to switch mouse positions and set levels quickly.
I liked it a lot more before you tried to pull a portal. I'd like to see this game expanded on -- maybe have some way of more clearly understanding which things were activated when a given switch is flipped.
Interesting idea. It would be nice if there were a game over screen for success and failure.
It's a bit too difficult in its current state, but I'm sure it could be good with some polish. Nice assets by the way.
Cool game. My only suggestion would be to make the blast ability not be able to push the knights. It made the game a bit too easy.
I enjoyed the game and the whale was very cute :) I wish I understood more what was going on.
Nice audio! The playspace graphics were good but the UI graphics could be more clear. The mirror rotation was odd and the level design from levels 4-12 could use some work.
Overall, it's a pretty decent game.
I like the tunnel idea and how the controls change when you go in one. It would be nice if there was a visiual cue for when you succesfully hit a creature.
I can't play. The menu constantly pauses for about 3 seconds then shows one updated frame.
That was a little multiplayer game. Good job!
Being an orca was fun :)
Wow. That is one impressive game! It looks like you guys are both top notch. My only gripes are that it is difficult to see if an enemy was hit and the player fires one shot in his current direction before rotating. Besides that, this is an excellent 72 hour game.
Nice game. Some audio would have been nice. I like that the game was difficult. I think the red and blue bars could be redesigned to make their function a bit clearer.
Stellar graphics! I liked the controls and how the ship spins about its z-axis.
Wow! That was intense!
I really liked the effort you put into making the sandworms move in a believable manner.
Playing this game was a fantastic experience. Everything fit together so perfectly and you really nailed the theme.