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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| π₯ | π₯ | 2021 | 49 | Unstable | Fractured Edge | jam | Innovation | 4.66 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 60 | Old Tech | Fire, wheels and cathode rays | compo | |||||||||||
| 2025 | 58 | Collector | Virus singularity [Mega Drive] | compo | 51 | 3.72 | 3.64 | 4.04 | 3.29 | 3.74 | 3.37 | 3.52 | 3.87 | ||
| 2025 | 57 | Depths | π₯ | Goodzilla [Sega Master System] | jam | 315 | 3.71 | 3.48 | 3.50 | 2.55 | 4.20 | 4.00 | 3.36 | 3.89 | |
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | π₯ | Friends Adrift | jam | 189 | 3.94 | 3.81 | 3.48 | 3.74 | 4.08 | 3.86 | 2.82 | 3.91 | |
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | π₯ | Burnout Purgatory | jam | 227 | 3.91 | 3.82 | 4.18 | 4.42 | 4.26 | 3.81 | 4.20 | 3.97 | |
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | π₯ | Calamari Odyssey | jam | 930 | 3.13 | 3.11 | 2.72 | 2.52 | 3.15 | 3.41 | 3.52 | 3.30 | |
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | Twisted Pedal | compo | 3.64 | 3.86 | 3.57 | 3.57 | 3.36 | 3.29 | 3.79 | 3.14 | |||
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | π₯ | Total Extinction | jam | 167 | 3.86 | 3.57 | 3.43 | 3.10 | 4.24 | 3.98 | 3.10 | 3.95 | |
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | π₯ | Pupu Pew Pew | jam | 466 | 3.63 | 3.59 | 3.82 | 3.52 | 3.76 | 3.92 | 2.87 | 3.46 | |
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | π₯ | Water Rises | jam | 628 | 3.57 | 3.52 | 3.48 | 3.91 | 3.96 | 3.93 | 3.15 | 3.50 | |
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | π₯ | Fractured Edge | jam | 58 | 4.20 | 4.10 | 4.66 | 3.68 | 4.33 | 3.98 | 2.88 | 4.11 | |
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | Arcade Legend | compo | 181 | 3.66 | 3.34 | 3.26 | 3.26 | 3.86 | 3.66 | 3.46 | |||
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | π₯ | Greed and feed | jam | 766 | 3.68 | 3.64 | 3.64 | 3.46 | 4.57 | 3.89 | 3.91 | 3.52 | |
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | π₯ | Overseer | jam | ||||||||||
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | π₯ | Heart Knight | jam | 351 | 3.63 | 3.63 | 4.04 | 3.46 | 3.94 | 2.98 | 3.23 | ||
| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | Crunch Clicker | compo | 2.50 | 2.50 | 4.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 4.00 | 3.00 | ||||
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | π₯ | Space greed | unfinished | ||||||||||
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | π₯ | Super Happy Curling | jam | ||||||||||
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | My life as a cat lady | compo | 352 | 3.36 | 3.21 | 3.07 | 4.29 | 3.41 | 3.18 | 4.07 | 3.43 | ||
| 2017 | 39 | Running out of Power | Thunder | jam | 3.33 | 4.00 | 2.67 | 3.33 | 3.83 | 2.50 | 2.00 | 2.50 | |||
| 2017 | 38 | A Small World | π₯ | Sweet End | jam |
Samuli leaves an average of 15.2 feedback comments each event.
Lovely to see more homebrew entries! This one was a very tricky game to beat, I liked the unique take on the formula.
I recommend selecting Game Boy from the Ludum Dare platform dropdown. Your game is not currently tagged as Game Boy game so it cannot be found from LD's platfrom search: https://ldjam.com/tags/platform
Really clever movement and game play. Very solid entry.
I was not able to kill any enemies. I shot them as much as they shot me, but just I kept getting destroyed. :(
I love encountering all kind of games in Ludum Dare. Great entry, seemed to know exactly what it was.
Cute little entry. Loved the fast pace of achievements getting unlocked left and right. Could have used some kind of hints for the last achievements, I didn't figure out last couple of them.
Superb entry, good job. The vacuum sack was fun mechanic.
Good job finishing your first jam!
Very fishy game.
Got all the cards! Now all we need are foil variants with even lower pull changes!
Good job on making an online multiplayer game during a game jam!
Very polished and lovely game. The controls could use some more attention, but even in the current format works very nicely.
Fun space drilling. Not sure what was the point of collecting the planets, just more score?
What a cute little innocent game.
Loved the animations. Liked the fact that you could use multiple different builds to win too. I just hoarded swords to kill everything.
Fun to roll around. Unfortunately some of the card effects caused my ball to get stuck, so I couldn't continue.
Works nicely and is snappy to play. Some more game play variety would have been nice.
Loved the characters and animations!
Cool idea. Platforming gets quite tricky, but controls are snappy enough that it wasn't a problem, but maybe greater focus on puzzles could have made this a stronger entry.
Feedback stamp!
Couldn't play the game properly. The camera kept snapping around when I was moving mouse. Not sure what was going on with the input.
Loved the vibes, but could not get past the first level. Most I got was 195 or so.
Poor boss man in the store has to work overtime as magically the shop closing time keeps moving later when people are picking up the items! He might deserve that though, after organizing the store this way.
Gets pretty tough after a while, got around 2k points. Liked the cute graphics.
Played 18 waves, then stopped. The game doesn't really scale. I had 2000+ monies and things still cost like 10 and I was just murdering everything. Other than than balancing, the game was cool, I especially liked the music.
Wasn't expecting to see here a game made with BoR, cool to see variety of game engines used!
As score didn't do anything, I found the optimal way to play the game was to shoot all the collectables as well. That way I was able to finish levels faster than actually collecting anything.
Nice little walk. Encountered one tough soul that froze the game!
Maybe don't have enemies shooting you while you are still figuring out how to even move. Gives a bad first impression. Once I restarted the game, skipped the story and started without being in permanent hit stun roll it was pretty nice entry!
Great mood and style. Pacing was quite slow and boring, but at some point I noticed that strafing was faster than just running straight, which made it more tolerable. Really digging the dither!
Brilliant entry. Super good job. Love seeing all the doodles.
Really nice looking game with plenty of nice details. Motion blur was quite heavy when turning, option to turn that off would be appreciated.
Ah! So I was supposed to eat this, not scalp it! Makes sense! sggg.jpg
Got around 300 points. Pretty tough, even harder than arcade games from the 80's. Love to see C64 entries.
Really chill entry. Captured the feel of stargazing very well.
Readability of the action was a bit difficult with background, enemies, bullets and all having very saturated colors. Other than that, super fun entry!
62 snails! Fun entry, solid work.
Really nice art style and execution on the graphics. Controls and level design weren't as polished, but overall great job!
What a lovely little game. I found the description funnily accurate as I make games for retro platforms. :D
Cool little game. Really nice dither.
Solid entry. Placing the units became tiring quickly and there were way too many floors in the dungeon for the limited amount of units to keep interest in to fully beat it, but overall a very nice game. Loved the little demons trying their best to fight.
Solid entry. Easy way to get hits with the rope was shooting it directly up or down, no need to worry about the gravity then.
Turtle's gotta protect their hood. Good job!
Really nice presentation and UI. Gameplay itself didn't feel very satisfying as I just kept missing most of my attacks.
Nomnomnom ihihihii! Didn't mind a bit of slowdown, it just made my flock feel more powerful than my PC!
Cutesy game until the hard reality of ever increasing rent prices hit you! Very good entry overall.
Really cool concept. Hurts my brain to play. I managed to save a few blobs.
Difficulty curve of starting with maybe 4 windows first, then going to 9 and finally to 16 would have made it easier to understand what to do and get used to the gameplay.
Good amount of mechanics and content! Really solid entry, had fun shrooming around. I noticed one pro speedrun strategy: you can pick up spring mushroom while you jump on them, so you can carry them everywhere you can jump, trivializing some puzzles completely.
Good entry. Some kind of indicator when the enemy is appearing would have been nice. Now it was a bit of trial and error to get a feeling when it comes and then in the following playthrough prepare for it.
Quite confusing to understand how the game mechanics works. First I get dying, then I just spammed the green lettuce on the ground and won. :D
I need this antivirus program. Feels pretty powerful.
Played with a friend. Fun, it is tough being the mosquito!
Loved the art! Very shrimpy! Gunplay could use more feedback on hits, but it was enjoyable shrimpage nevertheless.
I kept restarting my PC, but no creatures appeared. :(
Cool entry!
Not a very fun entry to play in practice, but conceptually cool. Always a fan of trying wacky things.
No idea what the spiders and beetles did, but snakes definitely carried my run. Got to around 400 seconds. The difficulty could ramp up faster as the first 300 secs I felt like there was no danger at all. Nice entry.
Superb mood and enjoyable gameplay. I was able to get 18 points! I think the length of a one session ins pretty spot on, not too long to disencourage the high score play.
Great entry, very nice tutorial as well. Makes me want to bind the A & D keys to some motion controller for proper cabinet bashing!
I clicked the critter! Got 80 points.
Arcade audiovisuals replicated very nicely! Feel very much like cash-grab light gun game that could be found from a corner a smoky pub. I wish it had a credits system, so you could just force play through it.
Flippys successfully eliminated!
Happy for good old Dreamcast for getting some love too. Loved the style and humor! Spear op!
Cool entry and nice use of the theme. Heaviness of the movement was a bit much, but otherwise really solid entry. As a fellow homebrew developer it always enjoyable to see games for retro platforms knowing how much work they are to make.
Really nice to see niche platforms in Ludum Dare. I checked the code and it looked really nice as a learning resource too. Thanks for including that.
Game itself is extremely luck based, but with enough persistence I got a golden seed! antscore.jpg
Cute little game and congrats on getting a DS game made during a jam!
S Rank! I am the mailest man! I will drop this to my Dreamcast next time I am putting more games into my ODE. Awesome intro and great game.
Cool game! Ran perfectly fine on my Famicom. Getting the jetpack was quite grindy as others pointed out.
Ran perfectly fine on Game Boy Light. It was short and easy, but I liked the amount of visual polish on the character.
Really nice entry! I played it on Game Boy Light and all worked well.
Cool entry. Takes too long time to finish, but I had my fun cutting organs nevertheless!
Good job with your first jam! More feedback to the player what is going on would be apprenticed, now it was a bit obtuse what was going on at first.
Adorable game. Not sure if my neighbors agree though.
Rare to see a full rts! Ambitious job. Unfortunately the issues with controls and pathfinding hold it back. As said earlier, less mission and more polish in game mechanics would have done wonders. Superb job anyways!
Really good premise. As others said once you have a good setup there is nothing to do, but as concept I really like the mechanics.
Quite janky, but got a smile out of me.
Good mood and style! I liked the exploration part of figuring out what to do, but gave up as the character moved so slow. With a faster moving character I might have had patience to try out different things. The intro was also unnecessary slow and long. I was spamming space in hope of fast forwarding the texts.
The best game for this theme!
Very surreal and trippy. Larger field of view would make the gameplay better, but the game would lose some of its charm then. Good job!
Really solid music and fun sound effects! Satisfying gameplay.
Loved the vibes! Usually mazelikes a'la Pac-Man have camera further back so you can see more or the entire playfield at once. The game would be a lot less chaotic and skill based if that were case. Can't hate a grim reaper on a skateboard though, nice job!
Got to 26! The game would have benefited from some guidance where the next humans are as the field of view was quite limited.
Gameplay wise very solid entry. Overall mechanics felt logical and well thought out. Presentation was just so boring that I gave up after 40 days out of boredom. Random events or some kind of comments from your community between some days would liven up the game a lot.
Cool little entry. Camping at home was the safest strategy. I was just picking up the closest flower and coming back. Bee getting slower with multiple pick ups felt so slow that I avoided picking up more flowers altogether.
Awesome entry! I would have loved faster difficulty and game mechanic progression, but at least it was very easy to pick and play with the current flow.
The mechanics and the core idea were fun. The balancing was quite bad, but at least it was too easy, not too hard, so nice job for a jam game balance.
Great entry! Transitions were maybe a bit too long.
Great piece of horror! At first I was clicking all the ui button and scrubbing the video back and forth to see if there is a game here somewhere, but I guess the game is just the one you created for the video.
Lovely game. I haven't smiled so much for a looong time!
Nice game. I liked the fact that you could still hit the bird offscreen for more points between the rounds.
Really nice game. A bit confusing at first, but I got the hang of it fast. A run button would be nice as the game had quite many timers.
One of the better uses of the theme I've seen. I like action vs puzzle games and I can see short 10s rounds working well when played with friends. Gameplay depth is well balanced to the timer. AI opponent would have been nice of course, but solid entry nevertheless!
Really good entry! Not really a bullet hell, but like the horse, I don't think you should care what genre pedantics like me think. I beat it without taking a single hit on the 2nd try. As most projectiles are shot toward the player it is easy to kite them to shoot into favorable directions.
Great game, but really hold back by the theme. I really didn't have time to read the text properly.
This was a really great take on the physics Tetris genre! I got to 30+ meters on my first go. Assets and random effects were nice. I think the round timer was just a tad too long to encourage repeated play as the randomness in the game is quite high and your whole run could be ruin during the last minute. Super solid entry overall!
Great mechanics, but I found the first fight to be too hard though and didn't even manage to beat it.
Awesome presentation and gameplay is great! Use of theme is very enjoyable too.
Fun writing. Building rockets was basically impossible for me due the time limit so I didn't get to really experience the game very well. Practice mode without the time limit could have helped to first design what you plan to build and browse the different pieces.
Not a big fan of repeating same sections all over again all the time due finicky controls or just running out of time. I might have enjoyed it more as a casual puzzle game, but now it felt like I was forced to speedrun a difficult memorization game which is not super enjoyable. The core mechanic with numbers was clear and well executed. Maybe more zoomed our view would have helped the game feel less like a memorization game.
Nice game. I wasn't sure what was the end goal. I think I made some progress, but I am not sure? :D
Mood and graphics were great! Game resetting or something every 10 seconds just basically made it unplayable for me, I had zero I idea what I was supposed to be doing and I was just stuck resetting to the beginning.
Cool game. Got stuck with apex jump arc physics as I couldn't get a good handle on them.
Great to see some rts representation here. Graphics and atmosphere were top notch. Gameplay itself was a bit lacking in player feedback of who is attacking what and walking where, but just making a well functioning rts on a jam is a great feat on itself!
Thats one nasty sounding ground!
Amazing art and the gameplay was very innovative too. Only thing I disliked ware the tetris controls, very unintuitive.
Very solid entry. Short rounds made this nice to retry. Calm music and simple graphics were so unoffensive that you couldn't even get mad to those silly deer on the way.
Awesome soundscape! Hitting zxcv fast was more difficult than I though initially.
The graphics and presentation in general were really cool! Gameplay balance was a bit off as player got really overpowered after a few upgrades, but shooting itself felt great at ridiculous fire speeds.
Works nicely on my Famicom. Loved the transformation glitch effect.
I accidentally hit my Famicom while playing and game got really unstable due bad cartridge connection. :D
Jokes aside. Great entry, good beats and I liked the subtle glitching when I was not kicking my console. Happy to see more homebrew devs at LD.
Cool game. Strong mood.
Loved the game. I think less health would make it high scoring friendly. It takes ages to just play a one round with current health pool. I got 1000+ on my second round round and that felt like like a really long round already.
Its looong way home, but at least you are getting hydrated on the way.
Art was great. Got stuck outside of bounds, but I guess its all part of the randomness of the game's experience.
The sliding speed was quite slow, but otherwise solid entry.
Haha. That was fun.
Antivirus flagged as virus for me too, but game played fine after whitelisting. Couldn't get far as the game was quite though.
Runs beautifully on my Famicom. Great to see nes games on Ludum Dare! Controls were a bit stiff and collision detection didn't always feel fair, so it totally matched the memories I have with nes. Awesome job! I especially love the sound cats made!
Solid little entry. Music was really catchy.
Cool game. Really reminded me of 3D frogger games. I especially liked the graphics.
That was plenty of good old screenshake. When playing full screen on a big monitor each stage change felt like a quake!
Good and polished entry. I would love try it as local multiplayer with more people or try playing with more than one ai opponent.
Cool little game. Controls took a while to get full hang of.
Is there way to break out of the loop? I looped back to 100hp monster.
Wheee! I think more detailed background space would have been nice. I could have used it to remember the places I clicked. Now finding the perfect trajectory was a bit trial and error in more difficult levels.
Looks and plays great on my Twin Famicom! Cool to see more retro games in Ludum Dare. Very fitting to the theme.
I loved the gimmick. End game platforming was quite tricky. I think game could have been great even without tricky jumps as the controls weren't super tight. Superb job overall!
This was really solid entry. Played to the end. Finding the boots was the key to the killing of tedium. The initial walking speed was so slow that I almost stopped playing on first loop.
Cat is safe! Daily good deed completed.
Awesome concept! Visuals and music worked perfectly as well. But the controls, especially reverse felt really weird and hard to use.
That was a really solid entry.
Not a big fan of instant fail in stealth games, but I can't be mad at these adorable guards. :)
Echoing the others, font was hard to read and some discussions proceeded automatically too fast. At some point a text box glitched and got stuck and I wasn't able to continue. Before that happened, it was quite interesting game. Though a bit tedious to just walk back and forth the same corridor. Nice entry overall.
Works ok for me. Good little game. Takes some practice to get the feel for the jumps.
Solid entry. Drilling resources had some odd hitboxes, but overall it felt good to play.
Really cool idea. Later levels got a bit tedious to solve.
Nice game! Controlling was quite floaty and unprecise, but that didn't really hold it back as attack patterns were quite generous as well.
Rolling around was fun, animations were on point. Controls on keyboard were a bit finicky, especially accurate jumping. Good entry!
Beat the game, Oogy is now all good! Cool entry, difficulty was just right.
Nice little game. Appreciate the accessibility features even-though I didn't need them.
Btw. the dyslexia helping fonts can be hard to read for others, so having options is the best. For a jam game, one font is enough though. :)
Controls were a bit clunky, but once I got hang of the game loop it was nice entry overall.
One of the best takes on the theme. Enjoyable simple entry!
Good on-boarding and polished overall feel. Great entry!
This was good take on the theme. Had fun waving around.
The crazy plant rushed into flies and died. T_T
Great little entry!
Good and polished entry. Music especially was nice and variety of spells kept the game fresh for a while.
Lol, I made a game about feeding carnivorous plant as well. This is a great entry. :D
So cuuuute.
Fun game, got 4000+ score. Feels good to play and polished due simple graphics.
Awesome idea! It would be nice, when placing the cards, if you could click on an already placed one, to see what you had placed in that spot.
One of the favorites so far. Really satisfying game feel!
This is insanely hard. Couldn't even get the second score after many tries. Good job on the entry still!
Hello carpal tunnel. My wrist hurts now, thanks. :D Fisting the bugs were a little too much fun.
Really good entry. Music and audio were really nice. Would have loved to have a fast forward button.
Such a crazy entry! Good job on making something at this scale alone.
Really unique little game. Great entry!
Gwyn is now happy, yay!
Cool music! I kept the party alive. /,,/
Just managed to finish on first go. Felt very balanced for a jam game, great job!
Quite a feature rich game. Lack of polish is evident, but doesn't really take away from gameplay too much.
Lovely little game. Really liked that the tongue was used both as attack and defense.
Decent little game, not really anything to say that hasn't been commented here already. Good job.
Loved the game!
One of the best ones I've played for this LD so far. Don't really have anything to add that others haven't said, I'd play a full game like this for sure.
Great use of the theme.
Liked the look, gameplay was horrible. :D
Style and mood was great. Controls ruined it though, spent more time fighting walls than exploring.
I had hard time donating my money away! "Failed" the first stage as I wasn't generous enough. :D
I dig the combat and overall mood. Progression was a bit too slow to my liking.
Nice idea. Enjoyed the coin battles. Platforming sections were painful though, the controls and level design ruined them.
Controls felt nice, but respawning was really jarring. Would also loved to have undo button, so I wouldn't have to start the level from beginning when I misplace a platform.
Fun little game. Graphics were really barebones, but death effect was nice. Controls weren't as responsive as I'd like. Still perfectly playable.
Very AAAAAAAAAAAARR! Fun little entry. Quite confusing/broken ux.
Liked the music! Gameplay was pretty basic.
Awesome, another GB game (I did one for this LD as well)!
GB Studio is a fantastic program. I don't personally use it as I can handle code well, but it is nice to see barrier to entry, even for retro games development getting lower. This was a REALLY good for a first game. You should be proud of yourself. <3
As others said, very polished little game. My plants kept dying off for some off reason, maybe bad rng, so I died. T.T
NJAM!
Ran it on my Mega Drive. Playing with two controllers alone was a bit difficult, but I'm not dropping any points for lack of friends in my end!
Demanding cats, can't even survive a day without any help. :) Survived twenty-something days.
I got fat.
Congrats for first LD! Really solid little game.
Presentation was nice, but writing itself didn't really engage me. Ludum Dare meta joke was funny though. :)
Great take on the writer game genre. Definetly one of the more unique ones.
A bit too much waiting around for my taste, speed up button would be nice. Later stages got more hecktic and were more fun.
So simple, yet so elegant. Had a fun time playing.
Laughed at options screen.
Looks and feels polished for a jam game. Lacks some player feedback elements as other have suggested already.
Keyboard controls were a bit clunky. Nice little entry anyways.
Drew some cards, attacked, saved the world! Not perfectly sure how the rules went, but that didn't slow me down. UI scaling was a bit off, it was still playable though.
Difficilty curve was pretty steep, not much room for errors.
Also I couldn't resize the window or make it full screen so text was hard to read on a 4k screen (not a big deal, I applaud you for using your own engine).
Supringly nice little puzzle game. Would be blast as local versus or coop game, pulling the blocks with a friend.
Mmmmmau. I hope this is what I'll be doing in my retiremet.
Toilet didn't work correctly for me so my potatoes just held it in, until they turned red. :( Otherwise really solid entry, had fun tossing them around.
Breaking things is always satisfying. I also liked how it didn't overwelcome its stay, short and to the point.
Music suited the mood well. I really liked how the world "constructed" itself at the edge of the fog.
That was a blast! Would have loved to play something like this back in the days with Saturn.
LD60 — Old Tech (6)
Press Any Key! by Helgust 2026-10-22T19:01:10Z ♥ 1
Great premise and jokes! Pacing could have been a bit tighter.
SKELETONS! G2G by Vinnnie 2026-10-20T16:01:07Z ♥ 1
This really took me back. Loved all the old slang! I wish numpad could have been used as those keys are not staggered on the keyboard like left side of the keyboard.
Screen Dasher by Shlolo 2026-10-20T15:51:17Z ♥ 2
Fun concept. I wish there would have been more puzzle like challenges as you can enter the monitors from different sides and use the falling physics to create more speed for higher jumps. I was able to use that in my advantage to skip couple sections of the game. Difficulty was pretty spot on for me, I beat the extra challenge as well without not too many retries!
Doodle Skate by OddballDave 2026-10-20T15:32:55Z ♥ 1
Green lines were pretty op. Really solid entry. 5/5 humor for the level 3 corner doodle.
Thread by Thread by fnelix 2026-10-20T15:06:03Z ♥ 2
I wish weaving would be this fast in real life! Fun entry.
Tiny Technician by brimstone 2026-10-20T14:56:51Z ♥ 1
Fun entry. I was able to beat it on my 2nd try. Loved all the little notices on what is happening on the PC.