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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | Dungeon Solitaire | compo | 262 | 3.52 | 3.06 | 3.68 | 4.08 | 3.62 | 3.37 | 2.34 | 3.56 | |
| 2017 | 39 | Running out of Power | Quest | compo | 417 | 3.15 | 3.33 | 2.94 | 3.66 | 3.38 | 3.35 | 3.22 | ||
| 2017 | 38 | A Small World | Defend the Earth | compo | 296 | 3.26 | 3.36 | 2.47 | 3.00 | 3.21 | 3.05 | 2.56 | 2.70 |
This is really nice. The gameplay is simple but addictive and the only thing I got stuck on was working out how to drink potions once I started (I expected H to bring the help screen back up but it didn't). Nice one!
This is quite pleasant to play with. The camera seemed to invert when I rolled the planet too far in one direction, but once I got the hang of the controls, built myself some little islands and placed the first hut down, I liked how the little guy started going out to chop down the trees. Nice one :)
This is cool! I really wanted to add power-ups in my game but didn't get around to it in time. Nice work!
This game is really pretty :D It's simple to play and the ability to grab weapons off the ground makes it more engaging :) My only criticism is that you can only attack left and right. Good work :)
This is a pretty neat idea :) Nice work!
It took me a couple of iterations to get the hang of this, but it's actually pretty addictive. The graphics are simple but I don't think that really matters. Nice one :)
Fun little puzzle game :D I got a little stuck when I found the box with the lightning bolt on it, so I refreshed and managed to finish without it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Otherwise, the game is good!
This is really nice :) It took me a while to figure out what the cards meant but I got it eventually. The game is pretty fun!
I really like how this game looks, the graphics look great :) The explosion of bones made me chuckle.
This game looks quite polished, although I couldn't seem to get the hang of being in charge. Reminds me of my unsuccessful days playing Sim City :) Nice work.
I knew I wanted gravity in my game when I started it, but this is great! The sounds and graphics work nicely, and it is more challenging than it first seems to get an orbit :)
Neat idea and very well put together, but I experienced a few bugs while playing it. The mouse was a little glitchy, and a couple of times after dying, it reset into a state where the cameras were no longer disabled but the button to disable them wouldn't work.
Your graphics are excellent. This feels like a complete game, nice work! With my first run I almost unlocked the max level of everything, but I just died before unlocking the top level of the last item. This game is the one I played the longest so far. On the other hand, the simplicity of it works both ways - it is easy to understand what I have to do, but there isn't much variation to keep me going.
The graphics are pretty nice, but I felt like this could have progressed a bit quicker - it felt like there was a lot of time when nothing was happening.
Nice little game, I struggled to collect things while dodging the little red balls though :)
Nice little game, I struggled to collect things while dodging the little red balls though :)
I had to watch the gameplay video before I realised where I was going wrong - I wasn't taking the batteries back to the podium :) Nice game, I played it several times.
Nice work, this fits together pretty well :)
The loading bar stopped while this was loading and wouldn't progress, but it seemed to load the second time. I found it pretty hard to jump onto the top branches of the tree, and after falling right to the bottom for the tenth time I gave up :( The graphics are nice, though, and the music is very appropriate :)
I played the web version, I had to click around a bit for it to detect my key presses but it eventually did. Nice graphics, simple gameplay. I felt like maybe more things could have appeared at once because I spent quite a bit of time running with nothing on the screen, though.
This game really drops you in at the deep end :) I found myself overwhelmed with having to type so fast. I like the idea though; it's like a text based adventure with visualisations :)
The graphics for this game are really nice, and the game is dead easy to get going in. Nice work :) My only criticisms would be that the red ghost that steals the torch seemed like a pretty severe punishment, and the game took something like two or three minutes to load, which seems wholly too long.
Haha, this game made me laugh. I got to 196 on my first run :) Nice work.
Neat idea, I like the variation in how some of the bodies behave.
I ran the HTML5 version in chromium on linux, and got no sound. It took me a couple of minutes to realise I was literally meant to go up, and I still don't think I know what all the icons on collectibles meant, but I really like the idea :)
Pretty neat idea, but it seemed really glitchy to me. Maybe I was missing something, but the enemies seemed to disappear and then reappear, and some places seemed to have infinitely respawning enemies.
Pretty neat idea, but it seemed really glitchy to me. Maybe I was missing something, but the enemies seemed to disappear and then reappear, and some places seemed to have infinitely respawning enemies.
@amras0000 thanks for such a detailed review :) I also find the interface for the cards pretty tedious. Since the competition end, I have been constantly thinking about how I would do it better. I added the drop mechanic initially because without it the game is very very slow. At least with the drop mechanic you can horde cards in the card room and just use the walls to sort them if necessary.
Here are some options I considered:
1. No drop mechanic, cards can stack in any order in the inventory but still are picked up and placed in first-in-last-out. This makes it really easy to get permanently stuck if you pick up a King with no free slots on the wall. 2. A variation on this would be to have a "destroy" button instead of "drop", which removes a card from your inventory and puts it in the pocket of a monster somewhere in the map. However, I'd have to rework the monster spawning a bit for this. I could respawn monsters in previously cleared areas (but this makes it harder to navigate based on "no monsters -> I've been here" logic) or I could make the map much bigger (or even procedurally generated to improve replayability) and have ample redundancy in monsters to use for collecting cards. 3. 10 independent inventory slots tied to number keys. Cards are picked up into any free slot and can be placed by pressing the right key. 4. Remove the randomization on cards and make it so that the cards which spawn when you kill a monster are always ones you can use. 5. Overhaul the game by having zones which unlock when certain solitaire milestones are completed (eg. reach height X in all suit stacks). The set of cards you can find would depend on the area, so you could seek out a particular card by going to a particular place.
I would love to hear what you think about these ideas, I'll probably experiment with some of them in the [post-compo version](http://www.joe-fowler.co.uk/misc/ludumdare41/post) over the coming weeks.
@Tiberon I was planning on adding either a compass or a minimap as part of the weapon progression but I never got around to it. In the meantime, you can add [`/level.png`](http://www.joe-fowler.co.uk/misc/ludumdare41/level.png) to the url to open up the map file in a new window ;)
@Hilvon yup, I reimplemented the raycasting method. The code is a total mess, but the relevant part is in [`display.js`](http://www.joe-fowler.co.uk/misc/ludumdare41/display.js) if you are interested :)
F and R (assuming QWERTY) put things on the piles, the text will be yellow if you can place a card - it has to stack like the solitaire rules allow (so red after black, and the next smallest value, eg. red 6 after black 7).
After you came and reviewed my game I had to return the favour :) Nice little puzzle game, it reminds me of the N game with the little ninja stick man. Seems like I never enough section cards though :(
The style of this is really nice. There's a couple of other typing games for this ld but this one is really intuitive and smooth, and I really like the style of having the game take place on a tabletop.
I think I must be missing something since I couldn't figure out how to leave the first room. I managed to pick up some pills but didn't seem to be able to do anything with them. Anyway, neat idea, although I'd love a backspace button since I can't type at all with the mouse :P