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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
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| 2025 | 57 | Depths | A Very Deep Tunnel | compo | 46 | 3.93 | 3.76 | 3.55 | 4.18 | 4.01 | 4.09 | 2.71 | 4.08 | |
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | Canoe Summoner: I Rose To The Top Despite Having a Garbage Skill | jam | 569 | 3.57 | 3.51 | 3.72 | 3.91 | 3.81 | 3.39 | 4.26 | 3.44 |
Wow! Really fun game here! Great graphics and mood! Took me a second to figure out what I was supposed to be doing and how I was supposed to "replicate the card" but once I got my camera adjusted to a good spot I was cooking! All the art was really cool and I liked how the mouse illuminated the table!
very innovative gameplay! loved the "rage game" aspect where you have to be strategic with your choices, or else risk having to deal with more difficult things later on in the game. The double jumping but with increased risk was an excellent idea! I would have loved if the little slug character had a bit more animation on his lil walks and jumps, but it's such a short timeline its not really doable in that length of time. All in all, great work and super fun game!
AI???
This is a fun Game! I like the lil traps and such! took me a little bit to figure out how the game worked, but I got the hang of it pretty quickly! It was a really great thing that the running guys occasionally stop because otherwise I would have had a really hard time! Only real feedback I can give is that the tooth-ball guys don't ever really follow you so its hard to make them walk into traps. Some sort of way to control/influence their movement would have been fun! The art style was definitely my favorite part of it though, fit with the music super well!
Liked crushing the guy with a piano, fulfilled my inmost dreams... of crushing someone with a piano... maybe next time I'll crush him with the toilet. Overall, really fun! had trouble summoning the sizes of things that I wanted, but I figure that was probably a skill-gap on my part, great job!
Was almost late for college today playing this game because I refused to give up on my ducklings lol! Fun game! fun concept! I especially liked how you had to keep all the ducklings with you for fear of they would wander off if you just left them by the coop unattended! Great work!
Had no idea how to play for the first 5 minutes and kept reloading to read the instructions, but once I figured out how the runes worked, it was awesome! Maybe instead of making the dark green come out of them, make them just a brighter color so we can identify the ones we are supposed to click easier. All in all, super fun! keep up the good work!
Really fun concept, I love the black and white style! It's like a deckbuilding version of slime rancher which seems like the coolest idea ever! I like how fast paced it ended up being and I kept challenging myself to fill up the mana meter, but the closest I ever got was just rapid-sacrificing all my cards to it. Had a lot of fun though and feel like this would be a great game to really flesh out and get on Steam! The artwork on the cards is amazing! I was confused at first if the skull or sword were sacrifice but I figured that out pretty quickly and got some new high-scores!
HOLY CRAP! WHY WAS THAT SO FREAKING FUN? That gun felt like a stick of butter and the sound effects for it were perfect! I know most people aren't going to figure out the teleportation thingy, but I freaking love this!
Hey friend! Got the game downloaded, but the start button isn't working for me, exit button works fine though! (Don't worry, not gonna review bomb you because of a bug, just wanted to let you know!)
This is one of the few games this game jam I have played all the way through because I really wanted to! Such a simple concept, I also love that lurking feeling of always being worried if the way you are using resources is going to come back to bite you later on! When I got my first summon with a 4 minute timer, my first thought was "I don't want to sit around and wait for 4 minutes" and then I looked up 20 minutes later at how I had 3 more of him than I did at the beginning and went "huh, maybe this game is really really good lol" great job!
Took me a bit to get the hang of, but fun!
I clicked on this game because it was thematically very different than the other games I was looking at, and it was a lot of fun! It had very "megaman battle network" combat which I always love, My only thought with the game is that I wish that summoning an ally costed a turn instead of just being able to summon one whenever, I ended up playing less defensively and spamming allies until I quickly won. Super fun game and it made me laugh quite a bit! keep up the good work!
it says on itch that the developer hasn't uploaded a game yet, but I'll give it a go once you have it up, just @ me whenever you got it!
@nsadie very cool game! love the art and especially the fact that you were able to make a word game so quickly!
The art style here is really awesome, and the sound design is really good too! At the beginning it was really difficult but got a lot easier later on!
totally different than all the other stuff I played! great job!
its saying I don't have permission to use the "edit" version of the links
Love the art style and animations! Eventually found out I was supposed to do something with the mouse, but couldn't find a way to fight back, but yeah! Love the art style!
@sheol woah! now that I get the controls I absolutely love it!!! Awesome work! I love the explosions and stuff! this is definitely one of my favorites!
one of my favorites I have played! summoning a huge army that only gets bigger was such a fun thing! The art style was awesome and the different types of enemies really brought a smile to my face when I unlocked a new one! Once I got to the end I was like "that was a pretty good game" and I totally think this is a game worth fleshing out into a full game! If you do decide to go further with the game, for sure add more types of troops, but maybe consider a way to combine them together to make bigger ones or something! Really really great job!
Excellent artwork!
This is one of the definitely more innovative games I have played this game jam! Loved how such a tactical game was turned into absolute madness when none of the cards make any sense! Had a blast playing this game!
love the graphics! the characters are all super adorable!
Really liked it! the lil guys just kept coming! Super fun audio and tapping of the little footsteps! This is really fun for a jam game, and if expanded upon with some fun upgrades and graphic things, I think this could be a really fun full game too!
I liked the old contra-style controls and aiming! Had a few bugs where my gun would just aim all over the place, but all in all, pretty fun! Keep up the good work!
Made me feel like I was back playing the old megaman battle network games, just trying to get all the upgrade pieces to fit!
Itch worked for me! Cool game you got here! I always like me a good 2.5D game! I'm not super into camera rotation with 2.5D stuff generally, but I felt it worked pretty well with this game, great job!
Pretty cool game concept! I love the idea of this demon being summoned as kind of like a pest control worker! Would have been really cool to see some kind of enemy you had to deal with along the way, or some way to decorate your house with money you get or something like that, but as a game jam game with this little amount of time, great work!!!
I don't really understand the game but I like the art style a lot!
This is really cool! Art style really sells it!
Well well well... if it isn't a fellow game with canoes in it... Really cool game though! Love the art style and just game all around!
Love love love the art style! had some issues with the controls, but the whole feel of the game and the rat-character itself was awesome!!!
Super fun, simple, and fast paced! Controls were a little unintuitive, and I wish I had been able to control the lane to spawn the lil guys in with the arrow keys, but once I got the hang of it I really had a blast! Really fun way of making rock paper scissors into a fast paced tactics/reaction game! Keep it up!
Had lots of fun playing this one! Got the hang of how to use the fireball and demon abilities, but couldn't figure out the blue or 4th one, I'm guessing I should have just tried pushing more buttons lol! Loved the sound effects and especially how the fireball would bounce across enemies if you hit them juuuuust right, probably favorite part of the game for me! Eventually the other castle stops spawning so many enemies and you can just summon a little devil guy and have him kill it which is fun that there is an actual end to the onslaught of pitchfork wielding farmers. Keep up the good work!
The Itch.io link was working for me! Game was so random and goofy and I loved it! My brain took 6 seconds to process "draw a summoning circle in 10 seconds" and then I freaked out with 4 seconds left and scribbled one and won the game! Fun little game that made me chuckle! lots of the UI looked really weird and stuff, but I assume that was intentional, and even if it wasn't, I still enjoyed playing the game however short it might have been!
link?
@pebkac gotcha, any specific feedback?
@pebkac got it! Knew this one wouldn't be for everyone when I was making it, so no hard feelings! Lots of people aren't into the weirdness that is physics based combat, and most people who aren't up to their neck in mediocre anime aren't going to make the connection to the summoning thing, but yeah, appreciate the feedback! :)
@colourarc glad you had fun! I had such huge plans for the objectives and bosses, but the weird physics combat and environment took so long to make that I just ran out of time, had a blast just making it though, and although its my first Ludum Dare, I've had such a blast making the game and playing everyone else's!
@hugimugi7 ahh thanks for the message, got it updated! First time jammer!
Love the graphics and little cloud guys! would occasionally take fall damage from jumping up and down, but most of the time it was fine! keep up the good work!
This game is pretty awesome! I love the "gridlike" background and how everything feels very "blueprint-like" didn't get the controls at first, and then realized I didn't read the tutorial, so after I did that it was really fun! Only thing I think I would really make a suggestion about is making the capture points and the places you could spawn lil guys from look a little more different (I know they look different already, but I kept getting them mixed up) anyway though, super fun game!
Opening cutscene was hilarious
Hey guys! Couldn't find a link, I'll play it when the game has a link though!
peaaaaak gameplay, truly a man after my own heart
for all the people that can't get the game to work, the menu is controlled with the keyboard and not the mouse, he put it in the description :)
Nice to see another Unreal dev around here! this is a great game!
Me reading the text at the beginning: nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I've played Stories Untold, this doesn't end well
loved the music and art style, they worked very well together, especially the subtle scanlines, great work!
There was an old board game made by the jigsaw puzzle company "Ravensburger" that was a lot like this and I always thought that the general concept would make an excellent video game, and turns out I was right! you did something awesome here! Great work!
Very cool concept! I would be interested in being to do extra little things with the depth, like put tiny little people on it and interact with it somehow!
enjoyed this game a lot, very simple, but very fun! I think if you had some more time outside of the game jam to work on some cool audio and graphics it could be a very fun "clicker" type game
This game is absolutely fantastic, it wouldn't fullscreen for me so I accidentally kept clicking off of it and minimizing the game, but other than that it was awesome!
Didn't know that a dubstep shark was what I needed this morning, but evidently it was! Also this game is 4x as fun for people prone to seizures, trust me bro
Itch.io link works now!
Here is the error I'm getting to help you fix the packaging problem:
Error: Couldn't load project data at path ".". is the .pck file missing? If you've renamed the executable, the associated .pck file should also be renamed to match the executable's name (without the extension)
use @sicosiber to ping me when you get the upload fixed, and I'll try it out!
@plexium-nerd I played it and I really enjoyed it! I think metal detecting is inherently fun, and something that people find inherently fun is at the core of every good game!
Here's my notes from playing for if you decide to go further with it outside of the game jam and are looking for any sort of player feedback:
- A shop to spend my money on would be really cool (detector range, visual indicators when I get close to stuff, giant circles that appear in the general area of where buried items are etc.) You already have a money system, so it seems like you had some sort of plans to add that anyway.
- You have a lot of funny old person dialogue where he's just talking to himself, and it made me want more of that, like maybe if you go talk to the old shop owner he could tell you extremely long winded descriptions of all the items or something (just a goofy thought)
- If grandpa reaches the end of the waypoints before the energy runs out, it would be nice to place new ones.
All in all, very fun game! Great job, especially within the crazy time limit!
Got the light and couch ending on the download version, but the lights ending wasn't seeming to work on the web build, idk if I bugged something out or that's just how it is. Been trying for a while to find the door code, and can't figure it out. I saw there was something to do with colors, but I can't find anything that gives a sort of order to it. Maybe something in the picture? Eh I'll figure it out eventually. I have to believe that the clock means something as it is the only numbers in the game that I can find, but I did notice that it always starts at a random time from what I can tell. Someone @ me if you figure it out!
(So the clock always starts at 3 something, maybe that's something?)
Really fun concept! My only thought for something you could add outside of the game jam would be a game speed slider that increases the speed of the explosions, a couple of these were breaking my brain so it took me a while to retry every time. Really great work!
neat game!
@evoleo I don't see the itch.io page, just the source code and multiplayer framework links, can you ping me once you get the link up?
good stuff
The game is, in-fact, not mid. it's actually pretty good! Very impressed that you did this in such a short amount of time!
Saw a lot of other games that tried to do similar stuff, but they didn't do it nearly as well as this one, the blur was an amazing way to tell depth rather than just size!
Neat game! brings back a lot of memories about playing a bunch of these types of games on old emulators back when CD Roms were all the rage
I really enjoyed this, I feel like if I got someone else on the red controls rather than doing them both myself, it would be a blast!
Hey, I don’t see any links to download the game here, ping me once you get some links so I can play it :)
I pet the puppy and then killed it, my life is now complete
Absolutely amazing! took me a while to figure out what the goal was, but once I figured out how to move the character between layers, I was having a blast! Five stars!
Hey, I don't see any links to download the game here, ping me once you get some links so I can play it :)
@thisisspy ah darn! I meant to fix that one, but found a bug on the minecart that made it unable to go past 75% of the tunnel so you have to walk the last 25% of it, totally forgot to fix that! Glad you enjoyed it though!
@scott-r-howell So glad you liked it! The whole point of the game was just to play off of the human urge to find the end of a hallway or how deep a cave goes etc, because the game was built around that and not some cool mechanic I tried to make every little thing as satisfying as possible. First time making the reactive audio, but I'm so glad you liked it!
@ibandurist yeahhhh, I had plans for the player to be able to buy upgrades for bee boxes so they automatically delivered the stored crystals to you, but I didn't have time. Glad you liked it! Did you reach the end of the tunnel? (if so, how long did it take you?)
@ibandurist hahahah! That's awesome to hear! I feel like this was definitely the best I've ever done at a jam!
@captaindreamcast Thanks so much, that means a lot! Worked like crazy on this one and am hoping to do a little better ranking wise than last year. All in all though, I think it turned out really well and think this might just be my best game jam game yet!
@the3rdhunter thanks! yeah, ran out of time towards the end a little bit, but overall I do think it's one of my strongest submissions yet
@ellaris yeah, I was planning to make upgrades for the beehives and a separate little creature that collected from the bee boxes and delivered it directly too you, but I ran out of time because I prioritized the dynamic music (still think that was a good call)
@oeuegha Thanks for the feedback! because it was a compo entry and not a jam entry, I didn't have a ton of time to add new elements, also the game isn't an infinite loop and does have an ending. I also finally figured out what was causing the shop bug, but didn't submit that fix because it's after the deadline and I don't think I'm supposed to do that. Anyway, thanks for playing it!
Cool stuff here!
ping me once you get some links so I can play!
I was prepared for the worst
I don't see any links to play the game on the page, can you update it so I can play it, art style looks really cool btw! (Ping me when you update it with @sicosiber)
Played the working link! the player feels a little slow (even while sprinting) But I loved the art style! Great work, especially given the time limit!
Game worked for me, cool concept!
Really cool pixel art!
Love the graphics on this one!
Game worked for me, neat stuff!
Seems like it's working for other people, but the web version gets stuck loading at 100% for me, can somebody ping me if they have the same problem and figure out how to fix it? This seems like a fun game and I'd like to play it
@jazzydingo All good, I have now experienced..... B U C K E T
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@batthecat Nice to see another unreal dev around here! Cool game!
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Cool stuff! Weird that LD won't let you post links!
perfect game, definitely gonna be in the top 10 compo entries