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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| π₯ | 2007 | 10 | Chain Reaction | Title Unknown | compo | Technical | 3.75 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Po | Cm | Te | Jo | Ef | Co | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 17 | Islands | Tango | compo | 169 | 2.29 | 1.71 | 2.76 | 2.86 | 2.76 | 1.33 | 2.41 | 15 | |||||||
| 2009 | 14 | Advancing Wall of Doom | Finalized the wall | compo | 10 | 3.82 | 3.27 | 3.45 | 3.82 | 4.08 | 3.33 | 2.89 | 3.29 | |||||||
| 2008 | 13 | Roads | Calling it quits | compo | ||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | 12 | The Tower | Pfff β fin | compo | 27 | 3.20 | 2.60 | 3.20 | 2.80 | 3.00 | 2.80 | 3.40 | 3.50 | |||||||
| 2008 | 11 | Minimalist | The white gazelle laughs maniacally | compo | 2.80 | 3.80 | 3.60 | 3.40 | 2.60 | 3.00 | 3.17 | 3.57 | ||||||||
| 2007 | 10 | Chain Reaction | Title Unknown | compo | 20 | 3.29 | 3.14 | 3.38 | 2.50 | 3.38 | 2.86 | 3.13 | 2.88 | 3.75 | 3.90 | 3.56 | ||||
| 2006 | 8 | Swarms | Dewdles | compo |
shrt leaves an average of 13.8 feedback comments each event.
Not much to add from all the other commenters, so only one small issue from me! I was slightly annoyed at often falling off edges sooner than i'd expect.
I already played through Portal, so I gotta admit im not throwing a 5'er in fun here, but this was definitely technically impressive. I love boxing-in transition when you die (which happened often ;))
Cool idea, but the boat needs to feel much faster, and the tsunami of doom needs to be much more threatening :D I had to miss almost every single speedup to ever get hit by it.
The waves and the buoyancy looked pretty good though.
I like the idea and the looks.
It REALLY annoyed me not having a mouse cursor visible, though. The rotating of the windmills felt odd to me; sometimes it would rotate more than once, when just clicking. It might actually just have been my mouse messing up, though.
Very neat game. I liked the background music a lot, it was very fitting.
I didn't like the rmb-click-on-tile navigation. I felt like it would have worked a lot better if you could scroll by hovering the mouse cursor at the edges of the screen.
For me, the game itself got very difficult in lvl3, and, as noted by ondrew, the game lost the relaxed puzzle feel that I felt the first levels had.
I would also have liked a visual cue as to whether or not a pylon would be aligned with any other pylons before placing them.
Simple fun.
I'd have liked a larger window though, as I keep ending up losing focus to windows in the background when trying to maximize the length of my arrow strokes :D
That was good fun playing alone. Managed to survive at least a few seconds before getting screwed by my brain not coping with the directions to take :D
Also, sounds, :D
The homing balls annoyed me greatly, as the rhythm of your movement gets completely thrown off when you get hit.
Well, alright game I guess. Gets a bit boring after a (short) while though, to say the least :)
As ondrew said, nicely polished. Sounds, music AND a game? Totally makes me look bad :)
If I have to mention anything bad, I guess it would be that the physics tend to bug a bit, and the music dropped unexpectedly at times. I also think it would have been more elegant to let the game end when the ball started resting, rather than allowing the player to just stack up whatever until reaching the bucket.
Oh, and where's the walls of doom?! :)
This is really hard for me to judge because I really don't like shmups, and I suck at 'em too!
The game is way too hectic and intense for me to enjoy it, but, that's just me. It looks like you put a lot of work into this game, lots of graphics, effects, particles and enemy movement patterns. I can definitely appreciate that :)
A little gripe I have is that it doesn't seem to register certain arrow key combos, like for example down+left/right, making it hard for me to navigate.
Hmm, I like the model screenshots.
You clearly put a lot of effort into this game, and it definitely shows both graphically and in the content. Good job, man. I also think it was a nice variation of pacman-ish gameplay, even though I never liked pacman.
However, i did notice one small bug where the game sometimes didnt seem to want to recognize my keystrokes, making me run into bad stuff :(
(also, great to see a lot of journal/food entries! Yours were especially good at showing the entire process of making the game, imo)
Like erik, im also impressed by the fact that you did this in flash.
Initially it took a while before the game would give me control of the vehicle, but I guess it was just calcing terrain or something? :)
Regarding controls the final was definitely easier to play than the first couple of versions you had up, where controlling were handled by mouse.
I found it hard to eat the people, as i just couldn't get used to having to be at/on them before pressing the eat button (eating made you stand still).
Besides that little thing, it was smooth and overall a decent little game :)
Haha, that was cool. At least until I arrived at the actual game :P I found it way hard to drive that thing, maybe if you could turn while standing still it would have been easier.
No worky.
So cool.
I only wish it had better handling of the cars :)
It's a cool idea, and you did manage to get something done that isn't even bad. I especially like the graphics, music, and the felling of trees (when not holding forward).
Generally your entry just lacks polish and bug squashing. It would have added a lot to let the player know wtf is going on, and what he's supposed to do :P
As a fellow XNA'er, and probably the only dude (besides you) in this community with .NET AND XNA installed, I felt it was my duty to try your game.
Generally your game just lacked polish, but it was cool how certain things stuck to the ball, and it looked pretty good. It would have been even cooler (but probably a good bit more complex) if the rolling of the ball was affected by its current state, and if you started being able to roll down the larger cactus plants, or even cars, once you reached a certain size.
What I didn't like about your game was that it took me a while just to understand what was going on, what I had to do, and how to get the ball under control. The initial startup was totally frantic, and I think I got stuck in a couple of cars before even gaining control of the ball. A starting "Press whatever to play"-screen, and initial state that wasnt just random would have eased me into the game much better.
In regards to the controls, everything seemed to just go way too fast, way too quickly. Might just be me, but I think that smoother zooming/speed gain would have made it a much better experience to play.
(NOTE: I only tried it with my xb360 controller, no keyboard)
EDIT: going back and looking at screenshots, I guess I just didn't play long enough to be able to stick to the cars/larger plants.
High quality and polish. This is really a great piece of work. I love how you can just go nuts with the speed, fly off the tracks, and still get yourself back before failing :)
It would be cool if the game automatically switched track after finishing one.
Crazy hard. Looks good though.
I liked it.
My only complaints are that character control feels really sluggish, and that it totally stinks to have to do the entire level again when you do something stupid near the end (ofc i did) :)
Nice work. Very polished with the graphics and levels. :)
I wish the character control was tighter and less sluggish, though.
Another thing that annoyed me was that picking up an end didn\'t always register on the first keypress, might be because i was moving at the same time.
I like the idea in general, but I think it is way too easy. I lost interest already after the first level.
I think a huge improvement would be to let each level have a set of shapes that you had to stack to get above the line. That way each level would be different, and difficulty could easily be scaled simply by adjusting the amount of pieces available. (..i just realized Endurion already proposed this)
Hehe cats.
Hmm.. I tried practice and found it funny how the cardboard box said it had 8 pieces, yet i could just keep pouring out new pieces ;)
After that, I went to main-menu and selected Challenge. This caused an exception to happen, and even refreshing the page doesn\'t reset the app (or whatever you call this webstuff)
But! I liked the graphics I saw before it all crashed! :)
Pretty little platformer.
The ice-zones were pretty annoying as you seemed to not be able to turn while standing on them. They also made me glide into the air quite often (which apparently didnt get caught by the collision-detection, so i was flying for a bit :))
Oh, and you move twice as fast if you move diagonally which made me able to bypass some stuff.
Good job on completing your first LD!
I liked the sounds and the easy to use camera.
I Had a hard time reading the instructions/menu :S That part could have been easily improved!
Sometimes hard to stop the little guys from moving up, since i\'d usually click the closest brick rather than the furthest, so i couldnt instantly click the furthest brick due to the closest brick being in the way of my view.
17 tries, lol.
Hm, never really figured out how to control ships properly. Very slow-paced gameplay, just not my cup of tea.
Fit the theme in terms of minimalistic control-scheme and graphics.
Definitely minimal in every way, shape and form.
Gameplay-wise it is, surprisingly, always fun to move your mouse to the right spot and hear a win sound!
Cool idea. Lots of potential.
Solid, but pretty boring.
The whole idea did not seem to fit the theme very well, and well, as drZool said there's not really any gameplay. You did make something though, and that's always a thumbs up!
I really like it. The graphics are lovely.
Also, big thumbs up for making an adventure game and for making an adventure game that keeps with the minimal theme! :)
Stopped playing after about 3 failed attempts on easy. I don't think I understand the concept :P
I like the graphics!
I have no clue what's going on, but it looks pretty.
Well, if the beat detection/syncing had worked it would probably have been fun to play :P
1 file is indeed minimal :)
I do not have a facebook account, sorry.
I like the sounds, and the actual game runs very smooth. The minimalist vector graphics, and simple controls kept it in touch with the theme.
However, it just seemed hard to me. I didn't realize you could actually move the blue box until after a couple tries, but even then I found it difficult to stay alive once there were more than just one red box in play.
Disables aero theme in windows vista, which is kinda annoying.
As others have noted, it's hard to figure out wtf you're supposed to do :)
Retro graphics fit minimalism nicely.
Both technically and graphically this is really nice.
Makes good use of the theme.
I had some trouble with picking on the cannons, where mouseclicks were not always getting registered.
Impossible to play (and enjoy) on a laptop without a mouse plugged in. Even then, with a mouse, the controls *feel* wrong to me, and in these kinds of games this is what makes or breaks them (A GamePad is necessary, imo).
The gameplay itself is not very innovative and does not make good use of the theme; however, I, for one, will always enjoy these "stick-shooters" :)
Oh, and I like the music :)
Had python 2.51 installed, didn't run though.
Good game. Simple and effective gameplay that is very easy to understand.
The graphics are very stylish and fits perfectly, although over-the-shoulder viewers have said that the animated background is confusing to the eyes.
One of the only problems I had with this, was that the time between getting to the next level/re-starting feels like forever.
I liked burning the fuses all over the place, found it quite hard to actually complete levels though.
Ran incredibly bad on my laptop (Vista, 2ghz dual-core, 8600GT 512mb) using the lowest resolution in windowed mode.
I did not enjoy the graphics, I would much have preferred a solid color surface for all objects :)
Could have been fun, but as had been said multiple times it is simply too hard to control the ship.
I would have liked a visual indicator of which crate was going to be grabbed, and also an indication of being close enough to grab.
Very good use of theme, very nice menu and over-all polish. Love the explosions.
As mentioned, an indicator of when fuse will light would be nice.
Seems that you run faster when going diagonally. (e.g. up+right)
Pretty cool gameplay actually.
However, it did not keep me interested for more than one play-through. This was mainly due to the amount of time it takes for any action to happen.
Cute. Reminds me a lot of the XBLA game "Eets", which is also fun so that's not a bad thing!
I found it pretty unplayable due to the controls, I had to give up trying to move that crate :(
I don't think this type of game can ever have controls that feel good, while keeping the game somewhat realistic.
I really liked the concept sketch you did in the beginning of the compo though! :D
LD17 — Islands (19)
Baby Leviathan: Eat All Fishies by ExciteMike
Loved the idea of controlling the snake like this! It was pretty challenging to actually catch any of the fish, though :)
The tune was cool.
Radio Silence by Terry
Sweet audio experience.
I wouldn't have hated more visual help in regards to finding the sound emitting items, though. It wasn't always clear to me in which direction I needed to go (I was using headphones, better sound setup would have helped perhaps?)
Ascention by kd5bjo
Really cool mechanic. Bit difficult at times; you can't fine-tune your position so if you don't plan ahead it can get a bit frustrating.
tailspin by greencow
I found it extremely difficult to land/refuel. I felt like I was running out of fuel before getting anywhere at all. The plane movement also seemed very "jumpy"; i.e. not smooth at all, which put me off quite a bit.
If the game was more forgiving to bad pilots (me!) this could probably be a lot of fun!
Whales of Aelia by PsySal
This was really interesting to play. I'm still quite uncertain about my goals, but it was a cool experience. Great music.
Islands: Through the Sweep of Stars by Morre
Very cool idea. Reminds me of the try2hack kinda games :)
Some of the riddles seemed impossible, but after a while they all became obvious :)
A Fishing Adventure by Sophie Houlden
Nice to see a game with proper animations. The rainbow trail looks fantastic (saw this in an pre-final build, dunno if its still there, didnt make it all the way through this time!).
Mouse control was a bit sensitive for my taste, but overall it worked fine. I got stung by the "drop fish" a few times like bluescrn, but still completed most levels :)
BRAVE ISLAND DIVER by jwaap
I really hate it when games go fullscreen without asking. But putting that aside - this game is good stuff.
The jump+gravity switch mechanic works very well, and seem to have a lot of potential. At least in platformers.
geology by marblecake
Doesn't work on Mac (Snow Leopard 10.6.3).
Iceland and the volcanic ASH of DOOM by Rolf
I found the controls pretty annoying, and not working as expected. Other than that, fun and topical idea!
Island Warriors by ruben01
Unable to run on Mac (Snow Leopard 10.6.3).
Tropical Islands of Doom by Codexus
Aargh inverted vertical camera control!
Aside from that, though, it looks pretty damn good! Nice looking models and crisp textures. I would have liked some sort of animation for the player character - it always looks so wrong just sliding a stiff model around (at least when it's an organic character like this).
Waves by Gregory Avery-Weir
Left/right controls didn't work in Chrome on my Mac. Up/x did, though. Weird.
Island of Bounty by Ashkin
Doesn't look bad! It would have been nice if the arrows rotated to match the expected orientation as they traveled along their path :)
Artifact Hunt by allen
Must have been a glitch in the unity engine on this machine, because everything looked way washed out, and occasionally the game would flash blue.
I really liked the tune, though.
The Forgotten Isles by Tempest
Pretty nice tune. I really liked the disappearing/appearing terrain obstacles too.
I found the controls weird to begin with, since the character would not move according to the camera's orientation.
Pee Wee Pirates by frosty
Pretty fun.
i thought we had a thing by localcoder
Good little quickie.
I agree with dgfitch that some constraint parameters would have worked well for the quests. Also, adding some incentive to find/finish quests would be worthwhile.
Infinite Deadly Islands Of Terror by Hamumu
Really sweet game. I did get bored after a while, but I guess that's a natural side-effect from the infinite levels feature!