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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Overall | |||
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| 👥 | 🥉 | 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | Fit In Bed | jam | 4.54 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 👥 | 🥇 | 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | Fit In Bed | jam | Humor | 4.82 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | 👥 | Fit In Bed | jam | 3 | 4.54 | 4.37 | 4.65 | 4.62 | 4.66 | 4.41 | 4.82 | 4.48 | |
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | A Message for the Stone King | jam | 207 | 3.97 | 3.53 | 3.77 | 3.97 | 4.37 | 2.71 | 4.17 | |||
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | The Lamplighter | jam | 133 | 3.99 | 3.55 | 3.62 | 3.90 | 4.09 | 4.25 |
SelkieHarbour leaves an average of 22.7 feedback comments each event.
Really nice! the mechanics are cool and the levels are well designed! I kept thinking why couldn't I have unlimited slimes by dividing them multiple times (of course that would break the full design but it's something I'd like to do if I were a slime hehe) Congratulations on the entry! very solid (especially for being slimes 😅)
it feels very complicated at the beginning. I kept thinking "why are there so many buttons to do simple things?" the 3-screens long wall of text introduction doesn't help either, it's too much information at once that can't be fully understood unless you've played a bit the game, then things start to make sense but it's too hard to understand to be able to play properly. Also when digging the crystals kept falling on the ground and I couldn't pick them up, and the enemies didn't damage me at all for some reason. The art and the mood are very nice but the experience was very confusing overall :(
Really funny & fun entry! Loved the onboarding and gary is great. At the end becomes very hard and my approach consisted in luring all the zombies around rather than killing them and then it stopped being as fun as at the beginning, but it was a very nice entry congratulations!
This is great, We love this. the mechanics are solid and the level design is great, super simple yet engaging and the puzzles were interesting, thank you for making this! Excellent entry!
Really solid arcade feeling! was the most fun game we've played in this jam so far congrats!
I tried the v1.1 and I could not play this as the graphics quality is too high and it runs at 5fps, I have 32gb ram, gtx970 & Ryzen 5 2600, so I suppose many people won't be able to play either :/
Really nice art and liked a lot that they wake up sarah so she can welcome her new guest
The download link is broken and the embedded version is hard to read because there's not a fullscreen button :(
I liked the simplicity of the visuals & system, it works well to deliver an emergent story. The UX is quite rough though and worked against tracing a proper route as it was imposible to read if you crossed through the same tile twice, and removing the last tile was also finnicky, but that asides, was an entertaining entry to play, thanks for making it!
The mood is great and also the art is outstanding for a jam! driving the buggy was great but the game felt repetitive towards the end. Really nice entry
the art was incredible but the complexity of the design made the game quite difficult to play. We couldn't get past the first potion because we think we weren't able to figure out what the "non toxic ingredient" was (or because we kept failing at the rune creation, we aren't very sure). There are too many moving pieces at once and feels very fiddly, which is a shame because the idea has a lot of potential and depth. It's cool entry nonetheless, so thank you for making it
The idea was fun but I felt I only had to move forward to complete the levels (especially the last ones). It was cool to have a bit of narrative on every different level.
Took me a while to understand that the (!) icon was pointing to the delivery direction and the level felt very big and repetitive and after delivering a package I felt I had got everything the game had to offer but traversing the level felt nice as the hook mechanic is quite polished, congratulations!
Nice in its minimalism, the ship was a bit hard to control and that clashed a bit with the nostalgic overall mood. It was hard to read the text, I feel it would have felt better having it above as it's where I was looking at, having it below meant I lost half of it because I was paying attention to the direction I was heading on. It felt refreshing to play something this different, thanks for making it
I could not understand how to play it even after reading the instrucions :( I moved around with my car until I reched a spot where the guiding marker was aiming to and then I didn't know what to do. The car was a bit too fast to feel nice to control, but the sfx of crashing were well implemented and felt quite reactive
Good mood and nice menu & menu presentation, there's not much to the game part and there weren't any collisions so it didn't really add any kind of challenge, in the end I just waited for the raven to reach the end, or try to trespass as many towers as I could find on the way to make it more interesting. The idea was nice.
impressive you started programming so recently and are already jamming! looking forward to see more from you in the future!
Really funny! tried to be a polite bear but ended up with a style of my own. Loved the bear walking animation
Your itchio link is broken, seems you set up the edit page one instead of the game. It was an interesting take, though I felt it was lacking a bit of interactivity, at least at the beginning there was a lot of waiting time (and it took several seconds to see the money going up, would have been more satisfying having a continous stream of small numbers) The descriptions were funny and the presentation is great.
Very polished! The game felt great especially at the beginning but as the difficulty increased and the key objects to solve the puzzle started to be hidden & death was introduced, it started to feel a bit tedious, and the visual language wasn't that clear so it wasn't easy to know when you were going to find something or be able to jump & cross above different ledges. It was a cool entry overall though, and the art is nice. Also nice to learn about hendl.
I remember watching this video of game maker's toolkit and I think it makes cool points about difficulty, maybe you don't know it and are interested in checking it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G84mU3WPaE
This game was so sweet, I loved the ending message when I got the paint job. I love that there are a few different things you can do to earn money with the objects, and the battery management felt well timed. I was always stressing a bit about keeping my energy up but I could still save a little bit all the time. A little bit like real life haha. The little squeaks when you picked up objects was also very endearing, I felt quite connected to this little bot. The only issue I had was that the area of interaction felt quite small, so when I wanted to interact with an object I had to position myself almost perfectly, when it would have felt nice to be able to interact from a little farther away. Regardless, this is a nice game, well done!
Wow this game feels so polished, I love the art! It was a bit stressful to maintain everything but I suppose that's the point haha, definitely a strong entry. I thought the audio worked really well too. Nice work!
First of all, I love Chef Jeff's hat haha, but I found that this game was way way too hard - 10 seconds isn't enough to do almost anything for the complicated recipes (or maybe I just am not very good). It would have been nicer to have either a tutorial for every meal (because some of them were really difficult to figure out, especially under time pressure), much simpler recipes, or have more time to prepare things. I got "Game Over" within 30 seconds 3 times in a row haha. That being said, I can see this game being a lot of fun once you get the hang of it, and the humour was great too!
Nice entry!! I loved the little "The End" spot, that was nice. Some of these puzzles were a bit challenging (in the best way), it made it all the more satisfying to reach the end. Good work, especially for it being your own engine!
I enjoyed playing this game! I found the camera control was way too sensitive and I would have liked to change it, but the game itself has its own unique identity and I thought it was really interesting. I loved the change of worlds, all of the different worlds looked so different and were so nice to navigate - it's a pity that they had to change every 10 seconds because I think it would be nicer to be able to explore them all at your own pace, especially considering that the character doesn't move fast enough to usually reach your goal before the world changes. I thought the character was really cute too! The ending was a bit confusing because I was back inside the house for a little bit and then teleported to the corrupted world and nothing else seemed to happen after that. Overall, I'm really glad I played this entry, good work!
Nice game! I like the design, it's a pity that 10 seconds are so short though. There were some moments where I spawned right in front of an obstacle with no time to move, unfortunately that wasn't the best, but I had a lot of fun with this game. I think you really got the feeling of speed right during the transitions!
I loved the humour in this one! Very creative spells, and the cooldowns felt like just the right length so I think the theme really shined in this game. Nice entry!
Took me a while to get used to the game. It crashed several times when hit after being teleported the first time. Then it took me a while to find a gun and then I crushed all those disgusting weird worms. At least as many as I could, because I ran out of ammo and couldn't find more :(. Fun game though!
The dialogues were nice to read but as many people commented the 10-seconds loop was against the best of the game in my opionion, even with the 1:10. It was also hard to know whether I'm going in the right direction and making some progress, some feedback would be appreciated. However, the game has potential and would be nice to play a more developed version!
It's very challenging and the gamefeel not so great but still a nice and simple concept that is very fun for a while, nicely done!
This is really good, very fun. I love how everything works together, even though it's true what @skel3ton mentions that in the end you don't jump as much because it takes more ammo and it's not so optimal. I think this mechanic could work well as well in a bigger game with different levels with their own challenges. Thanks for the game!
ps. the 10 binary countdown was also great
Really nice art style! The gamefeel was great, and the timing of each action felt right. I wish I could pet the monsters :( nice game, good work!
The mechanic is nice, and feels polished and pretty. However I found that the level design worked a bit against the game, as I didn't know what the buttons were going to do and the solution to all puzzles was putting the bomb just in the platform before the one where the button was. It's a cool idea that wich more complicated puzzles could lead to a better experience. Good entry!
Loved the beat mechanic and how the game throws you there with just the minimum information so you can start investigating and understanding what's going on. I liked that the aliens aren't very fast so you have a bit of pressure but can spend your time optimizing the beats, collecting the resources and that. Good game!
Very nice narrative, loved it. It was a bit confusing to know where to click and when you were supposed to do so, but the audio and the music and the AI voice, it all works together really well. Very solid entry, congratulations!
Really nice mechanic! When there were more than one row moving I missed the ability to know in which order they would move because sometimes it felt chaotic for not knowing that, but still works well and it has the right duration. Nice entry!
Great implementation! The music worked great. I missed some feedback of when I did great or too bad, and I believe that having a way to increase your hearts when you're doing great would make the game more engaging, but it's a great entry congrats!
The art and animation are great. I felt the gameplay a bit too simple and it was hard to time the beats because the audio felt unsynced (played the executable version). Despite that, I'm glad that I played, nice entry!
Really clever use of the mechanic through the level design, easy to play but with some interesting puzzles. Simple (but challenging), to the point & interesting. The art works super well. Bravo!
Super cool entry! Really liked building the machines. I wished I had a bit more time to build them, or at least that the randomization was a bit less random because sometimes I had too many bad ships in a row and felt a bit unfair, but that didn't matter at all because the game was still fun. One of the entries I've enjoyed the most, so congratulationes!
Very nice game! This game grabbed our attention because we also made a game about lighting in the snow. The art worked very nice and the menu art is very charming! I felt a bit overwhelmed at first with the time pressure and so many things to do, but it felt right after a short while. I liked that you put the effort explaining how to play at the beginning and that you made the end achievable. Great entry!
Only the gamejolt link worked. The small playable dioaramas are nice and it's cool to go through them imagining what's going on. Nice entry!
Very nice entry! I've found the best strategy is running rather than engaging combat, I felt the enemies needed too many bullets to die, specially as I couldn't move fast while aiming. The retro art was very cool and the music works really well. Loved that DEATH screen!
Loved the eyes animation, really nice! The game was simple but engaging and quite polished, really liked it! The best take of the theme we've played so far.
Loved the mood and the artstyle. It was really stressful, almost as much as submitting the ludum dare entry. I love the concept of stealing a homunculus. The only con I can think of is that the flip switch was very disorientating and a bit of a flow breaker, but still fun.
Nice entry! As a player I felt lack of agency, I felt the lack of actions I could perform and my only task was only following a trail. That being said, the VFX and audio worked nicely and improved the mood that was already good. The character was nice too.
The concept is hilarious! Love the windshield effect and the graphics are great. The main issue is that I found the police car is too hard to escape from, sometimes it even appeared in front of me and I had no idea why. I really enjoyed driving and escaping from the police but I wished I could last longer on the road, fulfilling my dream of having a UFO decorating the top of my chimney, but my longest distance has been only 568m, not a very good driver..
I liked the twist the light gave to the maze, suddenly it makes it way more interesting, and the 10 seconds cooldown for the lighting feels fitting. Nice entry!
Very nice, atmospheric game. I really like to traverse the word with a completely different perception. It's quite hard to navigate and the controls to go up and down are a bit awkward, but the music, the mood, and the innovation of the concept makes up for it.
I feel the theme was a bit against the pacing of the game, I felt myself waiting for several seconds to be able to continue only to die and wait again in the same spot. That said, the cat animations and feeling is very nice, and the art though simple worked nicely. Good entry!
The game had a low framerate and couldn't find any resources except the ones at the beginning. Really liked the usage of the destruction of the environment to escape the creepy guy-thing, and the audio worked well. It was really scary, we were playing it together and we both screamed when we got caught. Nice work on the mood!
The idea is very nice! Good 1st LD entry! I agree with @chocolate-endive regarding the death. It's too easy to die in some levels and then you lose all your block-placing progress, I think the game would be way more fun being more forgiving. Personally I find the music a bit too "gamey" but it works well with the game. Congrats!
I enjoyed the change of pacing of being underwater vs being on dry land and the variety of things you can put on your head. The little crab song is going to stick with me for a long while!
Nice idea! Was cool to see all the side effects and I personally liked the retro graphics, great work! On a side note, the framerate was quite bad, but still playable.
Really simple but very nice. At the beginning I was trying to toggle the input the wrong way and wished it could last longer really. Loved the gamefeel of the keys and the way they're controlled. Also very nice atmosphere and art 👌
I liked the feeling of serving drinks, however the game difficulty was very easy at the beginning, I started enjoying it with the addition of the whipped cream but then with the frothed milk I felt the game became too hard to be able to continue, all my customers went to the other café and I ran out of business :(
Nice artstyle & humour! Loved the little ice cream van. Steering while facing down was confusing as the direction was flipped and made some customers unhappy. The time pressure was well balanced because I managed to get just right on time most of the time and felt good.
The enemy death animation is fun. I liked the overlay skill tree as well but didn't use it as much as the only thing I needed to be a happy goose was a giant chainsaw.
I had to play with the controller & a mouse at the same time (didn't notice that you could use the arrow keys until I read a comment here), as the movement keys weren't WASD and I don't use a french keyboard. Would be nice to have a remap keys option (or just a simple toggle for those rare WASD keyboard holders).
Liked the idea of the puzzle-combat & great voice acting! ALLELUIA
It took me a couple of tries to know how the game worked but then I got into the loop and could last a long time playing. Loved the humour, menues visuals & UX. It's a shame everything goes so fast because I wanted to read all texts but what mattered were the colours really. Nice entry!
LD54 — Limited Space (5)
But we still love each other by rongon 2023-10-12T18:30:01Z ♥ 2
it's the first game we see on the jam that tackles the same topic as our own! we played together and laughed!
Compress(space) by Fahim Faysal 2023-10-03T18:13:09Z ♥ 2
the concept is super interesting and the puzzles are cool! I feel the mechanic is a bit too restrictive though, as I've spent more time thinking in what I'm allowed to do rather than in how to solve the puzzle, but it's still very nice. Thanks for the game!
Mashroom by Nazorus 2023-10-03T18:02:18Z ♥ 1
we laughed when we figured the situation, the narrative was funny, thanks for the game!
Windows LD by thristhart 2023-10-03T17:26:08Z ♥ 0
this really brought me back, it's a shame you didn't have time to actually handle the disk space mechanics but I enjoyed the ride nonetheless
Eye See You by Almax 2023-10-03T16:20:15Z ♥ 4
I love the floor creating mechanic. It was a bit hard to understand what to do at the beginning, and I feel the eyes kept grabbing me from behind, so I was having fun and then I got a game over screen, which was annoying. I was also lacking an objective to fully exploit the dynamics that the terraforming tool can create, but it's still very nice, thanks for the game!