Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Sean Esopenko
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | π₯ | To Hell With You! | jam | 626 | 3.51 | 3.23 | 3.23 | 3.36 | 4.41 | 3.85 | 3.67 | 3.78 |
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | π₯ | Calorie Crunch | jam | 295 | 3.64 | 3.49 | 3.61 | 3.90 | 4.19 | 3.56 | 3.65 | 3.40 |
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | π₯ | Clique Hell High | jam | 644 | 3.46 | 3.35 | 3.27 | 3.55 | 3.68 | 3.51 | 3.61 | 3.39 |
The mood and music is good, and the recall mechanic is interesting. It took some time to figure out what activates what, and it wasn't apparent immediately that I didn't start with the equipment. Once I got the equipment things started to become clear. It was nice to be introduced to the equipment slowly, so that I could figure out recalling before the zapper.
We built a bullet hell as too but your's is the most unique spin on the genre I've ever seen. Well done!
The art style's interesting because it's simple but effective. Pro tip: don't pick up the dark boxes until you really need them!
Since this was made with Godot it'd be really easy to make an HTML5 build and then more people will play your game! I find that choosing GDNative in the HTML5 export settings to be the best option.
Sometimes clicking to place a mushroom would result in my gnomes running away from what they're doing. The concept is pretty cool though, managing the spawners every 10 seconds and the waves every 10 seconds.
Oh man would you be interested in turning this into an actual running game? It would be pretty easy to do with Godot and if you're up for it, we could meet on discord and I could show you how. I love the art, this is so good!
Thanks for sharing our game on your stream! Your game's pretty funny, I like the concept. I kept getting confused by the trees in the background, I thought they could be eaten. The body getting hauled around by the neck was a good touch.
We were surprised to see you record a let's play of our game, then surprised even further to see you produce an awesome game yourself! The progression works great and the polish is quite good. I like how it's a good take on the "10 seconds" theme without being a panicking, anxiety inducing game. It's a breath of relief among all the other games released for this theme.
Good work, and the colour blind mode is great to include! Accessibility is important!
Found you in your strea. How do I get the 10 second timer to go? Or do I just strike a pose with unlimited time?
Hic! Stop stealing my gear, rock. I like that I can horde items and try to bring them to the end with me, like a "hard mode." I wish that when I was standing on a rock on water that I didn't move at water speed, since I'm no longer in the water.
The art and sound is so cute. I wish you had an HTML5 version of your game so it's easier for us to ask friends to play your game!
oh no! your html5 link is broken, it says 404!
This was executed quite well. Unfortunately I had to start over because I died a few times in a spot which made it impossible to continue the game (died a few times on the edge of the jumping platform for the large spikes on the right). I wish it was possible to push my corpses around so that I can get them out of the way and continue the game.
@settings: Ooooooh! If you made that an ability that was acquired it'd be completely obvious, because the little tutorial text would pop up. Thanks for the response, I really like your game. I'm still thinking about it and comparing other games to it when playing other games in the jam.
Noooo! Vasquez!
The switching between people is a unique tacke.
A clean, well done game. I was a little confused at first and didn't know what to do but after a couple rounds I figured it out. Well executed, followed the theme in a unique way. Well done!
Wow this is innovative compared to everything else in the jam! Thanks for playing our game in your stream last night!
I love the cute art, the cute sounds. The concept is unique, and the level variety is great. It was easy to understand what to do, too. I wish it the main character didn't get stuck moving around. Great game!
The environment is interesting. What am I supposed to do? I opened the store but the people crowd the counter and get angry at me.
Poda wants it now! The poda throwing a tantrum every 10 seconds is so funny and the art style is cute. I wish it was easy to assign a bunny to pick items back up because once the sawmill and quarry are upgraded and I have lots of bunnies the clutter gets difficult to manage. I love how I can play at my own pace and there's no rush to finishing the game, no game-over.
New personal record!
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I wish there was an indicator of some sort making it clear that I'm running out of spray, and when it's refreshed, like a spray meter. The music is great, especially when the UFO shakes the screen in time with the music.
I wish it was easier to figure out how to do the card game but the rest were fun. I couldn't stop laughing at the guy catching the cabbages!
The movement mechanic is clever, it's like a boat going over large waves at sea.
I know it's a rage game but this makes me want to punch the boss who keeps passing by. It's so hard!
I like the cat scratching posts platforming, it's cute. And the noise the cats make when checking in is cute too. The close button isn't working and I don't know how to restart the game.
I wish I could move from room to room with the arrow keys. Other than that this is the best "exploration" style game thus far, because you have to get back in time to pull the lever every time. Good job!
The boss is a crook! I got it to space but he said I failed! It took 8-9 tries but I figured out that you don't click to place pieces but instead carefully touch them against the pieces already placed out. Frantically building a balanced rocket before the timer actually works perfect for the 10 second time period, even after the 20th play through. Great game!
This is the best game I've played in the jam yet. It gives me a lot to do over time, not ending soon, but also not getting repetitive. It's challenging, but just enough to keep me want to keep playing.
It's a little confusing at times but the variety is great.
It played well on firefox by making it full screen. I like the music and the theme while I wish there was some sort of clear indicator of how many I hit and how many I missed. Great job!
Wow building a 3d game in 72 hours by yourself was quite ambitious and you pulled it off. It's working in the browser, too, which is impressive. Good job!
I've never seen a mechanic like this before, it's great.
I want to go faster! This is one of the best executed "type within 10 seconds" games. I wish it got more difficult faster because I'm piling up money and have nothing to do with it. Good job, great game!
I found it rather difficult to type with the text moving right to left across the screen because it's natural to read left to right. I normally type at 140 wpm without errors but couldn't get through a single bird. I was disappointed because the concept is great and I wished I could see more bird facts.
Thanks for leaving feedback on our game, I found your game from there. This is the 2nd game I've played from the jam which had the "get back to the original location in 10 seconds" mechanic. Your theme is really good, better than the other one I saw. A baby trying to trick the parents via the baby cam is hilarious! I kind of wish that I didn't have to click words to do things because I'm partially dyslexic, and instead there were visual icons. Like, the same icon for the same type of interactions for each of the objects.
I didn't experience any bugs when I played. Good job, nice game!
I found it light-hearted and up-beat with the music. Some of the puzzles weren't easy to solve because having to use the AD keys wasn't clear for the movement puzzles. The shape sequence puzzle also doesn't have a pattern to recognize so I had to try it each time with one I didn't try last time to get past it.
It was nice to play a game that was bug free. Good job coming up with all the different game mechanics in the limited time frame, good game.
Holy cow, you recorded a Let's Play for us, [100th_Coin](https://ldjam.com/users/100th-coin)? That's amazing, so much <3<3<3!!!
@human-writes-code what is your browser, operating statement, and hardware specs so i can try to replicate it? It would be good to figure out why it's happening for you. That way others can avoid the same bug when making their own games, not just fix it in my game.
Thanks for the feedback, I'm going to check out your games.
@cdmaniac: thanks, ikaruga was definitely an inspiration. That game is so good.
@settings congrats on finishing the game. Hearing that it was challenging while not "cheap" is good and I'm glad we made you laugh. Thanks for the feedback!
@trusty did you make it to the end?
@bytomancer thanks for your feedback on the legibility of the characters. Definitely give the AnimationPlayer node a look and if you're ambitious, look into AnimationTree.
@diego-escalante yeah with the game being reported as difficult we were thinking it would be good to add a mode that's lower in difficulty. Some people like the challenge but others just want to try the different rooms without having to start from scratch. Thanks for the feedback, good luck with your bug zapper game, I really like it!
@jrevel yeah the lack of visual feedback when switching makes it challenging. If we were allowed to iterate on feedback right away I'd add a visual indicator so that the hearing impaired know when the switch is happening.
Thanks @rincs, I'll update the link to the new one soon. Thanks again for streaming our game!
@kr4ft3r the feedback on inconsistency between plays is excellent, I've never thought of that before. Thanks a bunch, it's something to think hard about.
@kalendhos that language bug is strange. Is your operating system set to French? We hid the language picker and default to English because we're not translating the game but i suspect the menu started plug-in we used, which itself is translated, is picking up a default language from somewhere.
I found myself in carrot zen, collecting them to feed the beast. I wish the music was a little more varied but being able to turn it off made it fine. How do I generate the resource needed for the gold mine?
Can you share instructions on how to play? I like the concept and really want to figure out how to play it.
I experienced a few bugs:
* My up/right movement was swapped during gameplay which made it difficult to finish the game. * I was caught on enemies and unable to move a few times * Sometimes an enemy got caught on me then was thrown across the space
Overall feedback:
* I like the positional audio for the door, it lets me know where I have to go * I can't figure out how the theme was integrated in the game. What events are happening every 10 seconds?
I really like the "hold your ground" mechanic. It brings the survivors genre to the farming genre!
Lots of play time can be had from this game, it's great. It's a fairly deep game which would requires play time to figure out the combinations and the cascading effects makes it tricky to set up combinations. I unlocked about 3/4 of the tiles before I reached the "end" where the lower bar filled. I was expecting something to happen when I filled the bar but seeing it change to "-/-" was a little disappointing. I was expecting some sort of celebratory fanfare.
The first time I placed towns my play area increased, so I built more towns thinking it'd increase it further but was disappointed when it didn't. I still don't quite know exactly what controls the play area increases, maybe the total accumulated points?
Great game, lots of depth to it. Very impressive!
A turn based growing game is something I haven't seen before, interesting idea. I couldn't figure out why sometimes the watering can would give 2 diagonal watering areas while some would give only one.
This is a great prototype, good job for such a short time constraint. Ending each day with a shop was an unique idea, I liked that. When handling movement it's good to keep track of what's currently pressed down, and what the most recent movementbutton was that was pressed down, so that the player doesn't have to let their fingers off all the movement buttons to move to another direction. It makes it feel more natural. I didn't figure that out though myself until I built a few prototypes, so not having that in a prototype isn't a big deal.
The character was intriguing, with a larger, more detailed sprite. The music suited the character well, as well as the theme of collecting fruit.
Nice job, keep making more games!
Hopefully you can get the HTML5 export working because 10-100x more players will play your game. Last night our own game had 150 web plays on itch.io and only a single download. Web play is an easy way to get WAY more engagement because it's so convenient for players. We're all trying to play as many games as possible so making it easy helps.
People like myself are afraid of downloading games because of the possibility of viruses so I hope you can get the web view working soon, your game looks interesting. I can't download games at all on my work laptop because of configurations the IT people have made to prevent viruses, so web players make it easier for me to check out games during breaks.
What was godot doing wrong for the web build? Here are some of my settings I've used in Godot 3.5.1 to get it to work properly:
**Don't use the Ludum Dare web player, it's garbage!** Use itch.io's web player!
Export Window Settings for HTML5 export:
* Export Type: GDNative (this is important, my web builds don't work without it, don't know why it's not default) * Canvas Resize Policy: Adaptive * Focus Canvas on Start: On * Export filename: `index.html` (this is important for itch.io and others, they expect your root file to be index.html)
Here's what I configure in my project settings so that it looks good in browsers:
* Display: Window: High DPI Support enabled (not enabling this results in ugly pixel resizing, this setting makes it smooth as butter and even nicer on high res 4k screens, ipads, etc) * display: Window: Mode: 2D * Display: Window: Aspect: Keep
On itch.io I enable the following settings:
* Shared Array Buffer Support. Seems to work well with my godot projects * Run on page load. It says it doesn't work for unity games but I haven't run into issues for godot games with the above settings * Add full screen button. I like this, it adds a full screen button to the game. Sometimes the game has to go full screen to work properly and lots of people doing the jams know this when rating games.
Oh you're using Godot 4, ok. Yeah I would have liked to use all the new features of Godot 4 but we're waiting for the official release before using it in a jam. What were some of the new features you liked from Godot 4?
I wish you had an HTML5 version of the game to play because I'm always worried about downloading viruses. Can you link to a youtube video of gameplay of your game? I'd love to see what it's like.
@marryvss omg thanks so much I'm going to try it out now. The screenshots looked very interesting so I'm going to check it out right this second!
Uh oh, the built in ludum dare web player isn't playing your game. This is what's happening for me on chrome in firefox. I've seen this bug on other players games where it doesn't work on the ludum dare site but adding the html version to their itch.io game makes it work on itch.
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After my brain turned to mush clicking wheat for almost 10 minutes I bought my freedom. Now I don't know what to do with myself and this newfound freedom.
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It looks very interesting. Do you have a video recording of the gameplay or can you do an HTML5 export? I'm not able to download the game right now because I'm not at a computer I can download software onto (work computer's locked down).
Heads up: Your game is broken for me on the Ludum Dare page (Firefox on windows 11) but working on itch.io.
This is what's happening for me:
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Building a 3d game for the jam is really ambitious and the progress you made in the short time period was impressive. Implementing different tools was a great achievement. I wish there was some UI so that I could switch between tools instead of having to pick them up from where they were thrown because I didn't realize at first it was throwing my tools when picking them up. It makes it a little hard to reach the end of the game on the first play through, I was a little confused. Once I figured that out, I started to cultivate some seeds.
Art style is great. Great job for a jam game, lots built in only 72 hours!
Bug found:
When playing in full screen on itch.io it appears that my camera movement is attached to the mouse, and when the invisible mouse cursor hits the edge of the screen I can't look further in that direction. It resulted in me only being able to look around in a 90 degree area and could only move towards one end of the map. I didn't get this problem when using Firefox on Mac OS using the mac's touch pad. Only when using a mouse on firefox on windows 11.
It's working on itch.io but it's not working on ldjam.com. We stopped using ldjam.com for our own HTML5 games and just use itch.io because it's more reliable.
I got it working and it's just hilarious! I love how the troll is wearing leather spiked cuffs, so funny! I wish the jumping was a little more consistent, it's kinda unpredictable when the ground's at an angle. Pulling out the teeth with the grappling hook is funny, I've never seen a mechanic like that in a game before. Awesome!
I tried for a while but couldn't get past 5/6. I'll come back to it again tomorrow.
omg @phillip-scott that is just absolutely hilarious! 43 waste harvested hahahahaha!
Thanks for the kind words @100th-coin . We haven't checked out your game yet but plan on doing it. We've had some ideas for improvements, based on feedback so far, and some sort of recipe book is high on the list.
@leoatopos πππ did you manage to make a hotdog?
@shadowbrain was it frustrating or was that part of the fun?
Using Ctrl + key combinations resulted in the browser bookmarking the game then booting my ass out because ctrl + something closed the browser tab in firefox. The physics on the little creature is nice. It's the most creative use of the "harvest where you've walked" mechanics. I wish I didn't have to wait an entire minute for it to judge me.
Neat entry!
I like the fly mechanic & sound and the puzzle aspect once I got to the 2nd level. The slurp sound is fun. A few things:
* I wish the 2nd level wasn't so hard, and I could do more levels. I can't figure out how to get through that maze in the time frame given * When I do side platform games I like to make it so that if I'm holding right and I press left while holding right, it stops running right and starts running left. Where it listens to whatever was pressed last. It's the proper way to do left/right movement and you'll see it in the most popular platform games out there. This would make it a little easier to navigate through the maze and get under nooks and crannies in your games.
Overall, good job, it's a good game!
I found your game through your comment you left on our game, thanks for the feedback! I tried your game out and I like what you did. I was playing it long enough that I even had to pause it to go do some chores before coming back to it, it's fun! I wish there were more monsters which dropped different things and would like to see you do more with this after the jam, if you're still into it.
Doing this for a compo is impressive!
Unfortunately it didn't work in the browser for me. Can you upload it to itch.io to play in the browser there? I've seen other games which experience the loading screen freeze bug you have on ldjam.com but work on itch.io.
The polish is incredibly high, good sound and visuals. It doesn't quite play like a rubik's cube because you have to accumulate all of the required pixels before painting the image because as space disappears you need to mix your last few pixels. It's a creative game, pretty interesting.
FYI: The web player works on Microsoft Edge and Chrome on Windows but it's not working in Firefox for me, it's stuck on the loading screen on firefox.
@reikan if you find a solution to Firefox not working you can help others by sharing your solution in a blog post on the site :). It's a common problem I'm seeing with Unity games.
The kobolds talking is what makes it. So funny.
Having to carry and drop the light source is a good idea. I wish the pixel art wasn't so pixelated, I couldn't tell what anything is besides the mine carts and keys, so it was more like playing a game of trial and error with abstract shapes. The music is interesting.
This was my most played game so far and my favourite, I gave you 5/5 for everything. It's so well put together. I bookmarked it to play it more later. Good job!
The mechanics are quite original and I wished I could use more of the ribbon passing through tight areas. Pulling off the mechanic's impressive.
Walking on the jump portion of the ribbon was a little awkward because it often happened when I didn't want to, and having to walk to each end of the ribbon to turn it on and off was time consuming.
I got stuck at the second phase, collecting 4/4 items but nothing happened. I was expecting something to happen on the 4th candy but instead ran around, found the little secretish area up the forward stairs heading right, but couldn't unlock that lock either.
I found using up to move right disorienting, I wish I could use up/down to rotate and left/right to control forward/reverse because then it'd match the screen orientation. The mechanic of attaching modules works well and is interesting and the physics were helpful for the gameplay.
Your "character goes through instructions on the level" system is very similar to the system we used in our own game. I like the concept, the sound works well, and the game's easy to understand. Great job!
@kasmilus, thanks for the feedback. Yeah, you have to balance digging graves and rushing forwards. Once you get far enough you stop digging graves and rush to the end of the level, avoiding the hazards, before heaven is full.
@iluvatar thanks for the feedback. It was hard to tweak the zombie frequency because any less and you can just run to the end without digging any graves. We had conversations after releasing about different difficulty levels to make the game more accessible for players.
Where's the game? I went to the itch.io page and it's not playable.
I like the presentation. I'm bookmarking this to try it out tomorrow after a good night's because it needs strategic thinking.
FYI: When playing the web view on windows in firefox, when I press D on the keyboard, it shifts the some of the UI right, along with the background tiles. I can't get it to reliably do it, it only happened once.
Thanks for your feedback on our game! I like how you took a simple concept and made it pretty fun. The background noise makes it antsy!
The concept is great and the how the art and sound's put together makes the theme of the overall game enjoyable. The gameplay reminds me of crazy japanese game shows where the players have to make strange shapes with their bodies to get past cut-outs. I really wanted to get further but had a hard time remembering which key is for which body pattern. I wish the key letter was part of the cut-out symbol.
Great entroy, it's one of my favourites so far!
I like the eating sound