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YearLDThemeGameDivisionRankOvFuInThGrAuHuMoCo
202557DepthsFixey 2 (VR Only)jam4583.533.323.453.843.953.423.66
202456Tiny CreaturesCrittey (VR Only)jam2433.873.613.733.953.883.363.55
202455SummoningSummoney (VR Only)jam3.773.503.734.193.923.042.793.39
202354Limited SpaceFixey (VR Only)jam3.583.463.673.673.752.643.50
202353DeliveryDeliverey 2 (VR Only)jam1094.124.193.884.274.094.163.75
202352HarvestPickey (VR Only)jam3693.553.573.753.463.593.293.683.39
202251Every 10 secondsFlashey (VR Only)jam3473.733.473.833.683.452.903.60
202250Delay the inevitableHerdey (VR Only)jam4663.693.613.943.894.033.673.833.86
202149UnstableNailey (VR Only)jam2763.894.123.923.583.573.422.923.35
202148Deeper and deeperDivey (VR Only)jam3.673.504.114.393.722.692.213.67
202047Stuck in a loopLoopey (VR Only)jam3.353.103.202.453.462.952.852.45
202046Keep it aliveDeliverey (VR Only)jam3.503.193.693.353.463.003.27
201945Start with nothingUpgradey (VR Only)jam3.063.223.162.842.942.872.882.87
201944Your life is currencyUnderworldey (VR Only)jam3163.673.323.353.533.643.03
201843Sacrifices must be madeCatchey 2 (VR Only)jam3.504.003.332.503.883.673.75
201842Running out of spaceCatchey (VR Only)jam2.802.832.622.573.032.392.682.69
201841Combine 2 Incompatible GenresCardey (VR Only)jam3303.693.443.613.723.613.063.253.20
201740The more you have, the worse it isSlashey (VR Only!)jam3.253.003.503.503.252.502.002.75
201739Running out of PowerPunchey! (VR ONLY)jam314.194.114.294.373.963.363.393.62
201738A Small WorldPower's out!jam2.753.003.003.503.003.003.333.00
201637One roomSquiddey (VR Only)jam
201636Ancient TechnologyCaveyjam
201635ShapeshiftBoxeyjam2763.533.583.843.293.743.503.4736
201534Two Button Controls / GrowingPlanty Gauntletjam4143.423.453.453.293.453.343.2458
201533You are the MonsterMonsterMysteryjam2613.533.003.003.363.923.393.5065
201532An Unconventional WeaponZombies 'N' Marshmallowsjam1703.653.423.043.813.973.053.513.46100
201431Entire Game on One ScreenFragile Ninjajam5543.153.323.003.613.172.973.283.1169
201430Connected WorldsSpace Puncherjam6382.802.872.301.673.212.442.502.3786
201429Beneath the SurfaceRaged Millingjam3683.213.213.103.392.882.593.192.8657

MiniLD Games

YearMiniLDThemeGameRank
201667Classic Mash RemixJustSnake
201559Swap ShopSwappy Dungeon
201558PONGPong Arcade
201455PreparationWeaponalooza
201454It's a Race!4-Color Taxi

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Feedback left by shadowbrain

shadowbrain leaves an average of 3.6 feedback comments each event.

LD56 — Tiny Creatures (6)

Dino Island Safari by Skleembof 2024-10-09T11:59:53Z ♥ 2

Decent little rail shooter, just a bit confused how this relates to the theme?

And it was fairly basic since all you do is shoot dinos, there's no extra obstacles to shoot out of the way or buttons to press.

Don't Wake me Up by Glassar 2024-10-09T11:51:37Z ♥ 1

Neat game! Default sensitivity was WAY too high for me, and there was a lot of hangs. If you'd done a PC build I would've preferred that, I think WebGL is at its limits on this one

Oozemancer by Vadstart 2024-10-09T11:12:17Z ♥ 3

Holy shit another VR game! Definitely giving this a play, if you could please play mine too! VR players are hard to come by.

edit: I gave it a fair shot but you appear to have rescaled the player without considering if their camera can even see correctly, the IPD doesn't rescale correctly by default in unreal I'm guessing making the hands look stereo-incorrect and way too small, and the near clip plane is way too large making the hands disappear when they get too close to your head while they're already fairly hard to see.

The controls feel reversed, as if they were made by a left-handed person, there's no reason not to just use both joysticks for walking since there is no rotation built in, same with both A buttons, would make it more accessible to right-handed people (I'm ambidextrous but still had some trouble adjusting since most VR games use left for walking and right for jumping/rotation).

The goo looks really nice when it lands though, that whole system feels juicy, though their angles just being aligned with your hand feels a bit weird since it makes platforming somewhat awkward, might have been nicer to have them aligned like platforms which would make traversal feel a bit less awkward.

I hope this doesn't come off as too bash-y, I think you could improve all of this fairly quickly and it'd make the game feel much better!

Restoring Reparia by SerenityDev 2024-10-09T10:57:40Z ♥ 4

Played through it entirely, mainly because I felt the pikmin influence a bit (which my game was also influenced by) and it looked neat, but it was very repetitive.

Was there supposed to be sound? I didn't hear any.

Conveyance was kind of poor, do different colored guys actually have different abilities?

I would've loved to see a little more autonomy in the little guys so I wasn't stuck clicking one guy over and over to kill it, I'd have preferred if I could just click a few guys onto one enemy and move on, trusting they'd take care of them.

There was also essentially no challenge, once the enemy was knocked down, they'd just stay down.

Also, when going back to the "hub" I would often mistakenly re-enter the same level, you should probably 180 the player so holding W doesn't just restart the same level.

Overall decent effort! Definite room for improvement (And sound! Unless my copy just didn't have any...)

MeepToss by killthealias 2024-10-08T16:08:43Z ♥ 1

Awesome! Another VR entry! Definitely gonna check this one out soon.

INFESTO by game dynasty 2024-10-08T09:50:44Z ♥ 1

It looks nice but I couldn't get anything to happen! A little controls description would be nice.

LD55 — Summoning (4)

The Fifth Ritual This Week by Jonathan Fischer 2024-04-24T11:25:48Z ♥ 1

Nice atmosphere for sure, as everyone has said.

The actual gameplay is a glorified fetch quest, you can get through it by spamming F on everything you see basically, could use a bit more direction I guess?

I didn't see the actual summoning instructional paper until I had already grabbed everything blindly, which should tell you the paper should be clearly visible somewhere obvious way sooner...

Also the mouse smoothing feels a bit off-putting and extreme, if you're smoothing out the mouse you should make the default setting fairly subtle I feel like.

Runic Distractions by 1y1e 2024-04-24T11:16:24Z ♥ 0

Interesting! Not a massive fan of button mashing personally but it is a neat creative way to use a keyboard haha.

Poisonous Pact by Stefan Funke 2024-04-24T11:08:39Z ♥ 1

Neat little game, took a little bit to figure out what to do but it all came together nicely!

Could imagine multiple levels that slowly lead to the wizards demise instead.

Nightlife Necromancer by spiralhalo 2024-04-24T11:01:39Z ♥ 1

Gameplay could use a bit more depth, maybe a bit more conveyance of the progress because I felt like I was just sacrificing having access to the skeles I summoned for some unknown amount of time?

Overall it just felt like I was pressing buttons corresponding to symbols and that's it...

Very nice artstyle though, nice overall vibes for sure.

LD54 — Limited Space (3)

Redneck Rocketeers by Virtual Window 2023-10-10T12:20:59Z ♥ 0

Tried it, had no clue what to do.

Seems like there's a lot of conveyance issues here, the general interactions were glitchy and the fonts on the screens are really hard to read.

Smooth joystick walking doesn't seem to work properly at least on the PC OpenXR build since it just launched me backwards, ended up using teleport to make things playable but you can't teleport if you hold an item in your right hand for some reason, and the only proper interaction is removing and inserting energy cells (?) which is really glitchy and hard to do for some reason.

There's some decent art but I would've liked to see the hands animate at all to make it feel less puppet-y.

I think something broke because eventually I was unable to make the ship "jump" to the next section, and the screen on the left stopped showing anything.

I'm mostly left wondering how a team of 25 people managed to put together a game that doesn't explain how to play itself at all and feels this rough.

Was there some kind of communication problem going on maybe?

I really wanted it to be great since this is the only other VR game entered aside from my own but it really didn't blow me away...

Gallery by Lettas 2023-10-08T12:07:56Z ♥ 2

It seems like you hard-coded which object is required for each door, I think a lot of people's inclination would be to take pictures of objects with them to the next room since you can delete individual pictures in the list.

Should've defined the objects as types and have the doors require types instead of specific objects.

Pretty neat game overall though! I will probably make a little VR fork of this one :)

Perilous Platforms by rcxa 2023-10-08T11:04:46Z ♥ 0

Neat little game- definitely feels like it could use multiplayer but that might also make the game take super long... Took me 23 turns, which looks to be about the average looking at the rest of the comments, heh.

LD53 — Delivery (7)

Rocket Car Delivery by TumblingPuffin 2023-05-03T13:31:15Z ♥ 1

Fun little game! Fairly unforgiving in terms of gameplay but that's part of the design I suppose.

Graphics feel a bit bare bones but at least they're consistent throughout!

Deliver or Die by Imphenzia 2023-05-03T13:14:09Z ♥ 0

Very interesting setup, well done!

Hive by blank_3D 2023-05-03T10:05:08Z ♥ 2

For some reason I can't play this one- it just says "Re-bee" as if I've died and clicking it does nothing?

It looks cool though, just can't actually play it!

Pizza Delivery Flying Bot by Artemy Zen 2023-05-02T16:58:25Z ♥ 1

The graphics were nice, just a shame the controls are so impossible...

Cloud City Cargo by homeworld 2023-05-02T16:53:45Z ♥ 2

A bit too hard to control in my opinion, very cool art though!

The menus weren't that intuitive either, would maybe put up buttons hints in the base UI too.

Overall great job, but lots of things to improve!

Entomoria by Frib 2023-05-02T11:35:20Z ♥ 2

Decent concept but the theme does seem a bit shoehorned in there, I guess the ant larvae things were delivering a package? The environment and enemy variation could use a bit more work too.

Superfetch Dog by benjamin 2023-05-02T11:15:51Z ♥ 1

Great little game! This game has much more to it than I thought at first glance, I hope you'll polish up this submission page so it gets a little more of the attention it clearly deserves. 🐢 πŸ˜ƒ

I got here because I was checking out top entries from the last LD and seeing what they made for the current one, heh.

LD52 — Harvest (4)

The Heat by DzejPi 2023-01-13T13:22:50Z ♥ 1

The walking sounds got a bit repetitive but overall it's a neat little game! Gets very frantic once the fire starts spreading- I was trying to destroy crops in a circle around the center to section it off from the fire but it appears the fire spreads far beyond that haha.

Moon Harvester by owca 2023-01-11T12:20:21Z ♥ 1

Fun game! It took me a while to figure out that the containers were generic and not for specific ores, but that was mostly down to me not reading the instructions at first haha.

Calorie Crunch by Sean Esopenko 2023-01-11T12:05:19Z ♥ 3

Fun little concept, I definitely got confused a bunch about which to combine to get what food out of it though haha.

Space Harvest by ThunderChief 2023-01-10T17:08:52Z ♥ 2

I got a bit lost due to all the similar looking walls, could've probably used a few more landmark areas to help folks find their way! Neat little game though. :)

LD51 — Every 10 seconds (6)

10 seconds or less by DrunkardWolf 2022-10-06T13:37:52Z ♥ 2

Fun little game!

I made a VR port of it, thanks for posting the source!

https://github.com/ShadowBrian/10SecondsOrLess_VR_Fork

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzUDecMH6o8

I must say, it works surprisingly well in VR.

I had some difficulties with your wall running script and getting that to work smoothly in VR, so it gets a little glitchy sometimes sadly.

Still fun to play through though!

Parcel Problems. by Jacob Diaz 2022-10-06T10:53:30Z ♥ 2

Your sourcecode isn't set to public :p

I was hoping to make a VR fork of this, seems like it'd fit pretty well.

The Deca-Secundial Plant Nurseryβ„’ (VR Only) by Dawnreaver 2022-10-05T13:55:10Z ♥ 1

Oh wow, a VR title! I might try and dig out my Quest 1 and see if I can get it running- any reason you didn't put up a PCVR build though?

You might have a tricky time getting ratings :(

The CyberZapper by Vhalenn 2022-10-04T21:25:23Z ♥ 3

I made a VR conversion of this one, it's just a thing I've been doing for fun, thanks for posting the github repo!

https://github.com/ShadowBrian/LDJAM_51_TheCyberZapper_VR_Fork

https://youtu.be/OxxL61f8BOI

(The UI looks off but it's centered in VR, video only shows left eye hah)

Faster Food by Ani 2022-10-04T13:18:22Z ♥ 1

Great stuff here!

I was hoping to make a VR conversion of it (I've been doing this since last LDjam to make up for the lack of virtual reality entries) but your source code is literally just code and not a full Unity project like I was expecting haha.

Oh well, fun ideas here for sure! :)

Yo, Listen! by Trabasura 2022-10-04T13:01:44Z ♥ 1

Made a VR conversion of this one- was neat! I honestly have no idea how to complete the game yet but I just really wanted to get it working in VR πŸ˜›

Thanks for posting the source repo!

https://github.com/ShadowBrian/Yo-Listen-VR-Fork

https://youtu.be/FFVEignLbDg

LD50 — Delay the inevitable (8)

Chess? by dreamscale 2022-04-10T13:27:40Z ♥ 1

Fun little game, thanks for posting the source!

I made it into a VR game real quick, here's a short playthrough: https://youtu.be/ADyKpSr6Tu8

Quite enjoyable to play, might also fit well on a standalone VR device, with some love given to the environment, like maybe have it be set in a nice little cottage with a fireplace or something going. πŸ˜›

Ecollapse by Daniel Robledo 2022-04-09T11:28:44Z ♥ 1

Nice graphics, I wasn't convinced my doing anything was actually affecting the planet though?

The way the buttons work in the bottom left was a bit un-intuitive, would've expected them to work like selection buttons that switch what Mouse 1 did perhaps?

AGAIN! AGAIN! by CrocodileTuesday 2022-04-08T15:31:30Z ♥ 1

I'm going around converting entries into VR ones, this one should be hilarious to do.

Back in a couple hours with a VR conversion! πŸ˜„

Reactor Guy by GummiBot 2022-04-08T13:51:31Z ♥ 2

I converted this game into a VR game for fun, thanks for including the source!

Quick playthrough: https://youtu.be/E30UVXTFch8

I forked it on Github, so the source of this is out there, though I messed up some of the commit messages haha.

Well done! πŸ˜„

Hospital Dash by brads.space 2022-04-08T11:59:20Z ♥ 1

Fun little game!

I converted it into VR for fun, here's me playing it on my Valve Index: https://youtu.be/99x3iVB4SMM

Thanks for including the source! It didn't include the camera code though but I was going to throw it out anyway in favor of making the player giant πŸ˜„

Monkey Seen, Monkey Screwed by Roolow 2022-04-07T11:22:21Z ♥ 1

Fun little game!

Graphics could use some spicing up, I can see there's some artistic talent there but clearly you ran out of time to give it what it deserves haha.

As others have said, controls feel weird but make sense after a few moves.

Could try and make the monkey go to the direction you've pressed even if it requires them to move around multiple corners maybe?

Volcano by ABRDs 2022-04-06T23:52:52Z ♥ 1

I made a quick VR conversion of this one, forked it on github πŸ˜„ Thanks for including the source!

This little game was pretty neat. Quick playthrough on my Valve Index (though it works on whatever really since it's using OpenXR which supports a lot of headsets) https://youtu.be/JdK_eoHzCn8 I could've converted it more properly and have the pushing be tied to your two hands separately but that'd require a bit more refactoring than I was willing to do haha. Was fun though!

Also missing is the screen shake when you game over, sorry about that, cinemachine cameras all basically broke when adding VR so I had to get rid of em...

Last Person in Chernobyl Simulator VR by Legolula 2022-04-05T22:14:47Z ♥ 3

Ooo another VR entry. Hope this one is gonna work through SteamVR with my Valve Index- will have to check this one out soon. You should really tag your game on itch as virtual-reality and ludum-dare-50 haha, I thought mine was the only PCVR entry for a bit!

Edit: ah dang, it doesn't like SteamVR :( Well, my entry works with any headset through SteamVR, hope you'll give it a go!

(I'll grab your source code and make it work for SteamVR myself tomorrow)

Edit2: Couldn't resist and had a quick look, all I had to do was swap out the Oculus UnityXR plugin for the OpenXR plugin which supports a lot more headsets, and it "just worked" after adding the interaction profiles for the different controllers πŸ˜„

I forked your game and comitted the fix, feel free to pull it into your source or make the changes yourself if you want- it doesn't break Oculus support.

As for the actual game, you have some fun "my first VR game" interactions here, does seem like you kind of ran out of time and had to rush the graphics together though, but good effort! I liked the refining uranium bit the most as it's a multi-step interaction.

LD49 — Unstable (1)

Turtles All The Way Down (VR required) by andyman404 2021-10-04T18:13:29Z ♥ 2

Fun little game! The environment is a little barren but overall it looks and feels good to play. I got 434 meters!

LD44 — Your life is currency (1)

Necromarket by Flaterectomy 2019-05-19T23:32:33Z ♥ 1

Stellar work! Great on all fronts.

LD42 — Running out of space (2)

Huke by Hegemege 2018-09-06T17:10:42Z ♥ 1

Not sure how often you check your twitter but I spent some time making a VR conversion, short little video here: https://twitter.com/TheShadowBrain/status/1037749109787185152 :)

Night Shift by TomekS 2018-09-05T19:20:28Z ♥ 0

Ah, dang, the source code link isn't public.

I was going to do a quick VR port of this haha, can't get to the source code though :(

LD41 — Combine 2 Incompatible Genres (1)

Sandbox Solitaire by Marchmain 2018-05-19T12:50:29Z ♥ 1

I decided to do a quick and suuuper dirty VR port of this using a physics interaction system I coded for a different jam, didn't turn out so great because it doesn't play very well with the thin and light cards...

Here's a quick video: https://puu.sh/Ap3jw/23ac723049.mp4

LD39 — Running out of Power (1)

Extraction by roguenoodle 2017-08-03T13:45:00Z ♥ 1

Fun little game, love the visual style. :)

LD31 — Entire Game on One Screen (5)

SCREEN HEAD by NickZangus 2014-12-09T16:37:00

Nice game! Feels super polished and nice, but it gets sorta repetitive, I think it's the amount of time you spend just clicking. Great work overall though! :)

I Am Technician by Murchurl 2014-12-09T11:11:00

Nice idea but I think the overly complex control scheme and goal kind of ruin the game.
People shouldn't need a tutorial video to be able to play your game!
Nice job on the visuals though, simple but fit the task.

Serpedelic by deltagardner 2014-12-09T11:04:00

Hah lacks somewhat of an end goal but amazing how you've made it for the Gameboy. Extra points for that!

GTFO by semdog 2014-12-09T10:58:00

You should probably pu the .jar in a zip file together with the assets folder and put that up for download instead! Can't run it like this it seems.

Chance Encounter by allurious 2014-12-09T10:40:00

Nice work! Came out really well, though some additional polish is required I think it stands its ground pretty well for what it is! :D

LD30 — Connected Worlds (2)

God Bless My Spaceship by Autonomous 2014-08-28T13:23:00

Worked great on my Nexus 5, nice game, gameplay felt a bit slow though, probably due to the slow movement, and I ended up having to tap quite a bit, hoping the object I grabbed would fit on.
Also, I had no idea what most objects would do to my ship.
I had fun though, if the speed gets upgraded a bit and it's easier to place parts where you want them to be this game can definitely use a full release! :)

merge guys by Tanner 2014-08-25T20:09:00

Speaking of death scenes, yours isn't so bad either!