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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | Bloodia | compo | 276 | 3.30 | 3.08 | 2.78 | 3.65 | 3.48 | 3.15 | 2.15 | 3.17 |
Using a french keyboard with ZQSD instead of WASD makes the game really har to play, but i'm kind of used to it now.
The game is clean, jumps are precise so that's cool. Maybe too simplistic, but hey that's a compo so good job!
How man, a DOS game! Soooo cool! I love this retro feel so much! You should really try to add the angular change when ball bounces the paddle, the idea and the concept is great and it could really become a cool little game! Good job!
So you initially wrote the game in Rust ? Having tried this language, I still have mixed opinion about it, don't really know what to think of it for gamedev.
I love fighting games, it took me sometime to understand the LB to switch direction. Music fits well too.
Kudos for writing the game in C++ and for the skeleton parser, good job ;)
Oh man I did not know I could have fun with an oscilloscope, the idea is really clever and very innovative!
Cycling through the waveforms is a bit tedious, and every time you restart the cursors are reset. Maybe the changes could be saved ?
Life is currency, so the oscilloscope represent our heartbeat ? Something like that ?
That's amazing work, great job!
Omg the music, the sounds, that's epic! :'D
Well done, I don't know how I am supposed to know the exact number of croquettes, but anyway that was a very fun entry meow!
Cool! I can feel the FTL inspiration, obviously but paying for downgrades instead of upgrades is a nice idea and definitely fit the theme! Maybe too easy, I was able to finish the game on first try, and I suck at FTL. Great work!
selling your extra lives for abilities is a really cool idea, nice work
This is a really cool game, i like the graphics and the mood of the game. I also really like the climb on grey rocks mechanism, and dig others.
The music is great, but maybe a little bit too melancholic for the atmosphere of the game ? Or maybe that was intended ?
Very good entry, will live to see updates for this one after LD!
very polished, and very clicky!
Good job for the mood in this novel, it's weird, it's dark. nice!
Good mood in this game, graphics and atmosphere are really interesting. I must say I wouldn't have managed to do anything without the walkthrough, I don't understand what the second cursor (the finger) is supposed to do and the lack of feedback is really making the game hard to play. But, hey, that's a compo so congrats! Keep up working on this, the atmosphere is worth it in my opinion.
Really enjoyed this game, simple and very fun! good job.
Mechanics are simple but efficient! Maybe you could increase the drop rate of health from defeated enemies ? I had some waves with no drop at all.
Gameplay is very minimalistic, the art style works. First I did not know where to click, then ended up clicking everywhere, but ended up dying anyway (at 3:30).
Oh, and the font on instructions screen is hardly readable, so i'm not sure if I understood everything!
Good job.
Game is really fun, and so satisfying to blow up armies for cookies! But a bit hard for me, I died everytime and could not afford a single cookie! Nice work!
Good job for your first compo. I had some trouble with the physics behavior of the character, jump speed could be increased i think ?
Man, tower defense are sooooo time consuming, i've spent too much time on your game! Congrats!
Dropping rocks is not easy in my opinion, maybe you could add an indicator where it would dropped?
Is the game broken ? The up key does not seem to do anything, or am i missing something ?
Guys it's nice! I realy like the mood and the pixel art. Looks great ! You opted out for graphics, did you create art during jam as well ?
It looks great, nice work guys! I love these kind of roguelikes! There are maybe too many enemies, and they get close to me way too fast. The fire rate could be increased ? Anyway Good job.
The puzzle mechanics are great, I really enojyed that there are no explanations and I had to guess everything by myself, such as trying not to get the two life counters down to zero at the same time. I think this is a solid puzzle gameplay! Maybe you could add some circle shadow under the character, sometimes it's hard to see clearly due to perspective. I just don't see the currency in the theme. You have life counters of different colors, but is it currency ? You don't buy anything ? Maybe I was not far enough in the game.
Kudos for making the game in C, SDL, GL. Good job!
Cool! I feel some satisfaction when I reap the right person, good job. The game is getting pretty hard when you have many constraints, I had to keep repeating the No Reap List loud in my head because I got lost quickly :) That was fun, thank you.
That's cool but way too short, I was able to beat the game too fast, I was waiting for other monsters to shoot :) You had no time to add stuff in the level ?
I wanted to test the game, but the intro scene of story mode seems broken :/
Ok I tested the game again, the title screen was not broken but the game only run in high resolution I guess.
That was really fun, the art and sounds are great (especially alien voices). Good mood there :)
@shard sure you can ;) It is coded in Python with an app (that I wrote) called Pyxen.
@youpeoples not sure about this problem, what Windows version do you have ? I tested only on Windows 10.
@phantomeniasll to use the bow, just hit the fire button like the sword (J key to fire, K to open chest).
@anderssonkev thanks a lot :)
@harksa Did you think the gameplay was too slow paced ? I think there is too much random in the game, sometimes it's too easy and you can beat the final boss quickly, and other times i'm beaten at level 3.
And of course, the app I used to write the game (Pyxen) will never compete with Unity, Unreal or even GameMaker, but it was really cool to make a complete game from scratch without leaving the iPad! (Even the music was done on an iPad).
@youpeoples thanks, I'll try to find a Windows 7 to test the game, I should have set some minimal requirements.
@youpeoples I've uploaded a new version compatible with Windows 7, you can download it again from itch if you still want to test the game :)
@silvervalegames hey thanks for feedback :) I've tested the game many many times and I've never been in a situation where the stairs don't spawn. That's weird I'll have a look thanks for report! Sure I wanted to add some highlight when we hit the monsters, but you know, time is running out due to the jam effect and I didn't have the time to polish this ;)
@youpeoples Thank you so much for your feedback :)
If only I had more time, I wanted to add new monsters, new powerups, more levels, ...
I totally agree, the game can be very easy sometimes, and the hero could walk faster, i'll take notes!
@aqws3 thank you so much for feedback! Glad you enjoyed the game and graphics, if only I had more time i could have polished the game a bit more. I have tons of ideas left on a ever-growing todo list!
@fatcrow thanks you for your kind words :) Sure a screen with instructions could have been a great thing, I should have done that. Really glad you enjoyed the mood, the music and the sprites, thank you!
@daspanjo Thank you for for your feedback! I'm so happy you enjoyed playing it ;) I'll probably try to work again on the game post-LD and make it a little faster, many comments report the game is too slow I guess I was too tired to notice that ;) Concerning the timer, I liked the idea that if Life is Money, and Money is Time, then Life has to be Time too!
Thank you all for your comments, that means a lot to me.
@corny the camera panning was near the top of my todo list to be honest. (along with visual feedback for damages, animating sprites). Thanks for your feedback, so glad you enjoyed the overall mood of the game!
@taddl happy to hear that you liked the art of the game, being mostly a coder, that means a lot to me! I will probably try to make future updates post-LD, your feedback is already near the top of my todo list ;)
@kaisean-games Thank you :) Yes, i should have controlled spawning a little bit better, i sometimes get stuck with a legion of enemies and die... I will add visual and audio feedback when monsters hit you, that is not obvious I completely agree with you. Thanks for playing!
@johanhelsing oh man sorry for that, seems to be a problem with OpenGL. Do you have info about your GPU ? Do you have the latest drivers ? I'll try to investigate the problem. Thanks a lot for letting me know about that.
@64mega thank you, i would really like to continue working on this game, there are lots of ideas left on my list! Congratulations for reaching the end, and thanks for playing.
@bentebent thanks for your feedback! Sure I should have done some better visual/audio feedback for hits, but time was quickly running out. I take notes :)
@pixscope thanks ;)
@jonas-tyroller hey thanks for your feedback! In fact I was supposed to add movement speed powerups, but my time was running out for this jam, just like in the game! I noticed too after some tests that I sometimes end up not killing monsters and just avoid them, there's a flaw there, I will improved that. Anyway, thank you for taking the time to play.
@yaen sincere thanks for your nice words :) I think I was too tired to figure out that movement speed was so slow, seemed to be ok at that time lol.
@zubspace hey thank you for your feedback! I could probably decrease the damages received by death chests, I found the idea cool at the moment, but that's unfair for sure (I already died at last level because of this and it was frustrating!). Monsters should drop loot, you're right, I have to work on that because I simply ignore them most of the time. Thanks, I will continue working on the game!
Hey thanks @muzigpuzig for your feedback :) Sure I wrote all the tools I used for this compo, that's the best way to improve my tools I think, I use them in situation. Sprites were made in the same app as Code: [Pyxen](https://pyxen.com), the app was designed for that purpose even if it's still rough at that time.
The sprite editor looks like that :
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I made it to the end, it is really minimalistic (too minimalistic?), but weirdly it's fun to try to get the pickaxe hit the monsters at the right time avoiding their spear. The game is easy to exploit also, just get on the right side of screen, monsters won't look back. Anyway, good job and keep jamming!
This is probably one of the most polished game i've played through this LD. Great job! Left click to shoot always makes me want to aim with mouse cursor, was it the initial choice ?
I don't really get what i'm supposed to do, but maybe i'm too tired. Sometimes I click on white cells and i guess i'm attacking, sometimes it does nothing. The R to restart seems broken ?
Am I missing something ?
That's quite impressive for a 14yo gamedev, kudos! Did you compose the background music too or you used a generator ?
The gameplay is simple but really efficient, i like the idea of selling energy to slow down. Good job!
I really enjoyed the graphics and the dark mood in the game, congrats! But gameplay was quite slow and tedious, I don't know why I keep returning to start, and not really sure what i was supposed to do. Anyway, good job !
There's a strange atmosphere in this game, i like the mood. Good job!
Playing on a french keyboard I don't have WASD keys but ZQSD, making it difficult to play.
What a journey, really enjoyed the effects of accepting the weird man proposals. Very nice work!
I admit, I suck so much at bullet hell games, but it was fun! I especially like how you can trick the "make a choice" step ;) good mood in the game, congrats!
Really enjoyed the theme and I love shooting games, but I was stuck on the shop, no way to close it. Nice job for the intro scene :)
The graphics and animations are great! I just wish I could copy/paste the text in Google Translate :D