ZERMATT: ZERO by FireSlash 2019-10-14T08:30:45Z
Cool art and mood, and interesting gameplay Nice job!
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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | TIME TO DANCE! | jam | 145 | 4.06 | 3.93 | 4.23 | 4.14 | 4.23 | 4.41 | 4.17 | 4.18 | |
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | Learning the Human | jam | 864 | 3.11 | 2.64 | 3.34 | 3.60 | 3.53 | 2.98 | 2.90 |
Cool art and mood, and interesting gameplay Nice job!
Really cool game, you accomplished quite a lot in so little time! I found the boss way easier than the skeleton boys. Overhall very fun, and interesting game, good job! :)
Awesome :) it was so funny! Nice job!
It seems really interesting but I didn't manage to pass the firt level ^^' I get that difficulty is the point, but I think it could use a easier beginning :) with later a curve in difficulty But overhall seems pretty cool :)
Awesome game! Really cool concept, super nice art and music: good job, it was a lot of fun to play!
Really fun game, and nice pixel art!! But maybe there should be something to prevent from hiding at the right and left edge of the screen? :)
Awesome game! It's super clever I love it :) I would love to see more! Great job!
Really relaxing game! The art is super nice, great job!
Awesome little game, very complete and interesting! Congratulation it's pretty neat!
Cool concept, it was really fun! Nice job :)
Really interesting concept and a cool retro style!
A beautiful game:beautiful art, story and music, with clever interactions, I like it a lot, congrats!
It was fun :) the concept is really good! I'd love to see more items and/or a growing difficulty!
Great game, you accomplished quite a lot in so little time, congrats! :)
Awesome idea, my favorite so far! I couldn't cross the bridge (even if I tried a lot!!) but I loved the concept! Congratulation!
Really cool (and cute) game! Go Pipo :D
The art is actually really nice, and the narration/gameplay is great, good job!
Cool game, it's really fun to play. :) I wish there would be more steps before the game reset tho, I hope to see the concept get expanded!
Cool (but short) game! Nice art and music, I think the combo system should reward more doing chains to kill ennemies. But nice job!
Very nice game with cool ideas and good art :) Congratulation it was pretty interesting to play!!
Really good idea, a fun and cute game, nice job! :)
Really cute game, the paper art style is refreshing and it play nice Good job!!
Cool concept: tricky at first, but then really fun! Nice job!
Cool "Begotten" atmosphere, really cool and creepy setting. Nice job!
10 waves! 360 no scope.JPG Cool idea,and nice general mood! The gameplay is simple, but it get really interesting with every new "enemy" Nice job!
Cute art and interesting idea, but it lacks a timer, and maybe some variation in gameplay (maybe with different boxes?) But overhall pretty cool :)
Haha, "Bad Boy Ending"! Cute game, really fun !
Really simple concept but a lot of fun and ideas, good job!! :)
Cool idea! The sound of shot wasn't in sync with the firing, but overhall it was a really nice game :)
An interesting concept! I think maybe it lacks audio feedback, but the idea is really cool! (also it made me a little nauseous but maybe it's just me)
Friends, laughs, trahison, drama... It got it all ! Really fun game :) good job!
Really fun and cute game :) Especially love the art, good job!
Simple but really fun game :) My only complain is the sound of the dash, really too loud :)
Cool concept and well implemented :) Near the end, the speed upgrades actually make the game harder, but overhall a nice fun little game, good job!
Really cool game :) the puzzles are super clever and it controls smoothly, it's great!
Really cool game! The isometric view vs WASD control is a little confusing, but overhall the concept is very nice :)
It's really cute and pretty fun to play :) If I could suggest something, maybe the passages between screens could be more define, I wasn't always able to tell appart background from "doors".
Really nice game! The concept is neat and the voice acting/humor is on point, good job! :)
Awesome:)! It's great you went with a boardgame, really cool concept and cute art!
Love the music, and the concept is really cool It would deserve to be expanded! Nice jon :)
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Thank you all so much for playing and for the kind words, and apologies for replying to all of you at once. :pray:
We are indeed a French team who completely forgot about this ZQSD/WASD thing! We began working on the game Monday so we pretty much had to rush for every aspect of the game (especially the professional sound effects :sweat_smile:). We’ll fix the game after the LD finishes for fairness.
We try to make an educational game in one day every week, so you might find some other games you like on our page https://savvy-community.itch.io. Your feedback on our existing games, and ideas about future ones **are more than welcome**! Great job everyone. Much love. :handshake::alien:
Hey! Thank you so much :D vv
Cute little puzzle game! Congrats!
Really nice work done on the visuals and on the atmosphere in general, great entry for the theme!
Really nice graphics and animations and overall great use of the theme, keep up the good work!! (by the way, we wanted to join your discord but the link doesn't redirect to an invitation)
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Hey :D thanks for showing us your game! First of all congrats for your entry, the game itself is really well made and works, music is also nicely done. As other players said, the ghost is moving too slowly, that makes it frustrating to go to point A to B by clicking over and over. I also feel like you could enhance the atmosphere to fit your story even more and add different events for next levels, to make it trickier. That's some suggestions if you want to go back working on this game one time or another, but it's already really nice. Good job!
Cheers!
Hey there! Congrats for your entry, overall, I really liked the concept and the simple artistic and UI choice, one thing I've found a bit frustrating was the controls, maybe a bit slow, I think I would have felt more comfortable with the mouse. But that's my only (small) complain, it's a well polished game! Good job!
Very nice minimalistic game! The one-key control style works nicely and trying to make a better time each time is fun! Since it's based on being fast, a "fast reset" button would have been enjoyable after a few times trying hard to get one *perfect* and making a small mistake :)! Nice potential as a one-button mobile game maybe? Congrats :)
PS: I think our time on LVL 5 is close to perfect Screenshot 2020-10-19 at 17.26.36.png
Hey there!
Here's my two cents :D. "Go back" button doesn't work when i'm on the settings but I feel like people already said that ahah. I felt a bit lost while playing, didn't really have a clue what was going on. I couldn't manage the mouse sensitivity since I couldn't go back, so control wise, it's was way too sensitive. That's the few things that unfortunately kind of prevented me from enjoying the game to its fullest :( . But congrats for making it to the end with quite a huge team, must have been a challenge to manage!
Cheers!
Hey :D , thanks for showing us your game! I had a very fun (and hard) time playing it, at some point I was typing nonsense ahah. I would have liked a connection between the words to create some sort of context because right know it feels a bit gratuitous, you could create some funny storytelling with this concept! I also really liked the visual :). Congrats to you for your first entry, it's a really nice mini game :D
Cheers!
Hey there :D
Thanks for linking us your game! Overall, I had a fun time playing it, I really liked the minimalist visual choices as well as the simple concept. There are just 2 things that I kind of struggled with: as said by other players, the controls were a bit "sharp" and abrupt, sometimes it was tricky to avoid the shots. The other thing is about UI, I was having a hard time searching for a feedback about my health and avoiding the shots 😆 . Overall, there are just a few things to adjust to make it even more enjoyable. Really good entry! Congrats
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That's one really good idea, i really loved the visuals and atmosphere, sometimes I was just a bit frustrated to be stuck in one shape and just wait for the moth (because it was the most practical eheh), maybe that's something you can work on for the future (if you want to develop the game). Overall, regarding the time given, CONGRATS!!
vv
hahahaaa that was amazing! Will definitely play again sometime! GG!
Really liked the visuals as well as the writing!! As other already mentioned, I felt a bit confused with the controls. Congrats for the compo!
What a beautiful interpretation, if not one of my favorite of this jam. Sometimes, most simple choices are the most effective, and I think you did pretty great for your entry, graphic and sound design wise. With just a few adjustments, maybe a bigger storytelling, reducing the time to go off the screen, that's a game I could easily buy :). Keep up the good work!
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What a clever way to use the theme, good writing also, adds a lot to the whole concept. The level of difficulty is rightly balanced and kept me looking for the right way to save this poor boi. Congrats!!
vv
That was really good! A free mode would be great, or decreasing the difficulty to really allow us to try different all the possibilities ;)! GG
Hey there ! Thanks for linking us your game (and sorry for the late rating, we were pretty busy these days). Congrats for your entry, it's a pretty good interpretation of the theme, I also liked the duo tone graphic style, animations and UI. As other players, I was pretty lost once I got into the game and confused about what I was doing, so yeah, maybe an animated tutorial would have been nice. I had to try many times to figure out what was actually going on, and then I could appreciate the game. Good job to you!!
Cheers from savvy community
Thank you for the experience :). Nice vibes, nice atmosphere and reeeally good game feel! It makes you FEEL what it's like to be drifting for ever haha, and you get used to it and slipping through narrow places this way feels great. You created a very nice game around this very simple mechanic :). Congrats!
Hey there! (I've played the jam version). I really liked the concept and the feeling created by the artistic choice, that works pretty well! I didn't find any computer and as many aliens were chasing me I've found myself running around over and over again. It's really hard ahah. I would have appreciated a more balanced exploration/chasing system. I've also found the theme a bit arbitrary, like it's there for the sake of being there or just create an emergency. Overall, it's a good game that just need a few adjustments (that's what you did obviously), but it's more fair to rate a JAM version in regard to other jammers :)
Congrats for your entry!
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Nice game, cosy mood and music :). Had to see the spoilers to figure out the code too. Nice little attentions given to details. GG :)
Awesome :)
@ventz @pink-shard-games @w0nk4 @jrevel @khadia @coding4rtist thank you so much guys <3, it means a lot to us!
@jonah you're absolutely right, we noticed too late that it was going be an issue! Thank you so much for the nice words :blush: (turing test indeed: https://twitter.com/savvy_community/status/1312429816428273666)
@tamail thank you! Making games in a short time has become kind of our specialty! We're planning on producing a "real" game, now that we have some (enough?) xp to do so :)
@vlandemart @hank-ather thank you guys! Every choreography you created is indeed stored in the database and all the players (including you) got a chance to encounter it as a "human" later in the game :) (ATM there are a lot of "fwd", "ffffff" etc... because we devs have sent lots of dancers while testing ^^)
@kyontyan thank you so much! We don't think you're not smart, it may be a bit confusing at the beginning :) but anyway losing a few times is fiiine if it's what it takes to understand the goal ^^
@nohua thank you, we're glad too :)!
@dangerblack thanks! We like the idea of a competition too, for now we just might do a choreography tournament, with open votes on twitter (you're in?? what is your in-game pseudo ;) ?)
@fishmasterino thank you so much! You're right! We had issues in the past with synchronizing multiple audio looping tracks, and we REALLY wanted an incrementally powerful music from round to round :)
thank you all again for the kind words :pray:
vv
@snotax @eugenik @erlioniel @h-moon @celuloide @m-dam @quack-doctor @karin-g thank you guys so much :)
@wouter52 thanks a lot! We're glad you finally got to play it ^^ ! We use a database-like system thanks to Google Apps Script, that's a system we used for a few previous jams, but in a less funky way than this :)
@n8dev thank you so much!! We're so glad you enjoyed it that much :). Ragdolls are a Yes! See you in there!
@harrm @jamesor @jd557 @interstateeight @roboshamit @larsdahl @jhax @florianduf @angela-he @no-grapes-games thank you guys so much, it's so heartwarming to your nice words about the game :). We really enjoyed making it too!
@moski thank you very much! Oh you appear to have found Mika... Well, it's complicated... Mika's not really the name of a player, nor are they an A.I. per se... Something in between the two.. Some of us were really surprised to encounter them while testing the game... They're something rather unique! :smile:
@fragileannihilator thank you so much :pray: during the past 18 months we made jam games in limited time to improve our game-making skills, methodology, and try fun concepts and innovative game mechanics. As an experience jammer yourself, you must agree that there's no savvier way to gain some precious XP! The plan is now to try and make "real" games in a limited but longer time!
@madnesssguschenka Thank you so much! We always spend a third of the total time just talking about the concept and what we want to do *this time* ^^. We always take good care to make games that feel good!
@doot many thanks! Stuck in a Soup Loop is on our list of games to play :)!
@itsdanidre someone will for sure! What's your in-game pseudo? The 2 buttons are enabled once you finish the introduction! Thank you :)
@all we really like the vibe in your messages, and we'd like to stay in touch with you guys FOREVER. Since we plan on making bigger games in a near future, we will definitely need your savvy feedback... So please consider following us on twitter (https://twitter.com/savvy_community) or itch.io(https://savvy-community.itch.io/). :pray: much love :heart_eyes_cat: Cheers!
@forgeronstudio , @mateusboga thank you so much, it means a lot to us to read such positive feedback! Gonna play your games as well! :D
@sn4pi Thank you so much for your feedback, the contrast problem is indeed a bit annoying! 😅
@f1krazy Wow, thanks a lot, it's always nice to hear such positive feedback! Yeah we also think the 4 rounds of character creation are maybe a bit too much, resulting with seeing the same name over and over again ahah. However, we won't change this kind of thing/bug since the feedback we get will be helpful for a future game we will do :). Thank you again, and since you're interested in seeing our future projects, feel free to follow us on twitter ➡️ https://twitter.com/savvy_community . Cheers!
@omar-14 @harksa Thank you so much for your kind words :D
@trexxak Thank you :D maybe we will work on a mini standalone about this aspect (if we have some time ahah)
@killerkun @arbex That's so nice to hear, thank you so much!
@meatball Yeah right, we've all been there at some point ahah 😏
@jenny-bourke @dcrdro @dani-tufeld @sli @drjexter Thank you so much guyz!!
@ddrkirbyisq Oh thank you so much for your useful and precious feedback! That's actually a really good idea, as you say, it may be a bit frustrating to create your character 4 times and not see it right after its creation. You can actually see it but later in the game since its randomly generated. Thank you again :D
@garys @snowinn @enad96 Oh yeah, thank you so so much :D
**The whole team is really pleased to read such positive comments, thanks guyz and gurlz!** ❤️
Cheers from **savvy community**
@delender1100 Thank you for your feedback! yeah, we are currently working on fixing bugs, UI and adding content :)
@pluisjen @keibii @flying-dog-fish @karenfarah @codertrevor Thank you so much to all of you!!
Hey @itsdanidre we never answered you about 'Mika'! We had plans to make something huge out of them in the post-jam version but we didn't in the end... So let's explain what they are now! So first, as you know there are 2 types of npcs in the game: the looping human ones, and the random a.i ones. 'Mika' is a third kind of npc that is looping like a human... but their loop is randomly generated like an a.i! We realized afterwards that we let this 'fake-human generator' in the code in case the game wouldn't connect to the database in time for some reason! Mika is an a.i imitating humans in the game, but except for their name, it's impossible (and useless) to consider them other than human! We liked this plot twist a lot and thought of ways to make them part of our gameplay or scenario but had no time to do so in the end...
Hey there! Thanks for linking us your game :D, It was a lot of fun to revive my highschool tech class ahah. I loved the concept, simple yet clever regarding the theme, as well as the graphic style chosen. I was just a bit frustrated to go back to the menu to go to the next level, but that's detail. Overall, that's a solid entry for the jam and in the end, a great mini game. Congrats!!
Cheers!
Hey :D thanks for linking your game to us. Overall it's pretty great what you've achieved in 3 days, it was pretty easy to handle and I really liked the character animations. I will play it again to finish it because I really want to go further, well deserved B). Congrats and keep up the good work!
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Ended up being genuinely surprised with your entry. I hardly find any complains, I really liked your creativity and what you've done with the theme. The music is a bit annoying at some point but maybe that's the plan :D. It was a fun and addictive little game, congrats!!
Really nice mechanics linked to the theme ! Congrats !
Wow that was great! Clever gameplay, cool art and mood (and hard, damn hard). Played almost 40 minutes to make it to level 9, then decided that life was too short and stopped. Will try again in the next one ;). Congrats!
Cool visual and use of the theme !
Very original visual and use of theme :)
This has to be one of my favorite entry of the jam! Great use of the theme, great graphics, easy to handle, congrats !!
Hey there! Playing your game was very pleasant and fun, I liked the RNG and managed to secure a win against the Queen pretty easily! Gets you hungry for mooOOoooore ;). Of course it seems a bit complicated at the beginning, but the nice other comments lead me to keep playing, and since you can get your town back on its feet pretty quickly, you get a clue on how things work without needing tutorial or introduction.. It reminds me a bit of a game we made during a jam last year, feel free to try it out: https://savvy-community.itch.io/what-we-do-with-consequences (and try our entry for this one as well)! Congrats!
Very nice and clever game! The game mechanic is top notch, the mood, visuals and sounds are polished. There are a few issues with the commands ('SPACE' sometimes resets, which can be annoying ^^), and the rewind could be a bit faster after a few uses but congrats to the team :) ! Great work!
This one is a special one <3! Run! hum.. Grab, Grabby! That was so much fun! I could not YET finish it because I'm playing on a trackpad and began having muscular issues haha.. Thanks a lot and congratulations :). GENIUS grabby.gif
This office entrance is a mood. That's one original way to use the theme, would play it again, teeth/10.
I came here because I was really intrigued by the graphics! It's really original but maybe too "dense", like I felt a bit lost searching for the different sections, even though there's a small introduction to explain that. Maybe UI could be improved on that side. Music was also a bit distracting at the beginning!
But overall, it's a really nice entry and I really appreciate the work put into it, keep doing cool stuff :)
Oh! I really loved to mood of this one, makes me want to see more of it! I appreciate the sound design, it feels so dreamy yet nostalgic in a way. There's a lot of potential graphic and controls wise so I'll follow your progress carefully, since there are new modes coming soon :D
Congrats!
Really interesting ideas here and there that could lead to a really great game with a more solid context. Given the time, it's quite good! :D
vv
Great idea, atmosphere, feeling, production, etc. The game feels smooth and comfy: that's a really awesome jam game :).