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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 59 | Signal | š„ | Artificial Invaders | jam | 633 | 3.26 | 3.83 | 2.95 | 2.61 | 2.81 | 3.33 | 3.30 | 3.27 |
| 2025 | 58 | Collector | š„ | Astrocracy | jam | 548 | 3.30 | 3.21 | 3.00 | 3.37 | 2.80 | 2.58 | 2.59 | 2.90 |
| 2025 | 57 | Depths | š„ | Pressure of the Depths | jam | 504 | 3.45 | 3.41 | 3.47 | 4.11 | 2.91 | 3.43 | 3.21 | 3.25 |
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | š„ | Mutation Machinations | jam | 796 | 3.28 | 3.25 | 3.48 | 3.08 | 2.53 | 2.98 | 3.00 |
Cool that you made your own engine!
The battle was fun, catching the critters was a but frustrating (especially because you have to focus that you dont accidently press ctrl-w).
The downloaded version doesn't work for me and a friend of mine! [broken.jpg](///raw/38a/3/z/68582.jpg)
I get a big warning when downloading the game, maybe you can take a look at it? warning.jpg
Frustrating is fun right ;) You got my blood boiling a few times.
It felt polished and quick to play! Nice level design.
I liked the theme, and love a puzzle game! It might add to the fun if there was a fast forward button (to increase the movement speed).
I like a good puzzle, tried to get past this one for a while but no idea what i was doing wrong :/
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The jump mechanic was satisfying!
Was satisfying to shoot! Part in the basement was a bit slow. Game crashed at the stairs. A second enemy type would be cool!
Looks cool, everything fits well together. Good _vibe_ :-)
Wished there was a bit more strategy to the gameplay
Bonus points for the name of the game!
It was nice that new mechanics kept being added. It kept going, not sure if there is an ending?
P.S small bug: the sound keeps on playing when the spray button was pressed the moment in the perfomance review opened :-)
Love cooking games, love plant versus zombies: Combination was fun and hectic! Some orders were a bit difficult to read.
Nice to see a platformer! It was a fun little game. The only thing that took me a while is that it was possible to walk through the chrome wall, because it looked like the walls of the cube with the crab inside which you couldn't walk through.
I liked the game! The UI looked great, lots of upgrade options. I did have a hard time getting used to the movement.
Small exploit with the archer to grab it, let it loose to shoot once, then grab it again repeat. Enemies cant do a thing :-)
It looks beautiful, sometimes had a feeling that it was better to just nothing, but maybe I just suck.
stuck.jpg I got stuck when trying to enter the party after collecting everything.
The art and _vibe_ was absolutely amazing, the quests could maybe have been a bit more inspiring (now everything is just collect x)
It was interesting that you target the enemies indirectly, but it became a bit frustrating aiming the cannons. Pixel art was cool!
Game looks great and its immersive, the gameplay could've been a bit more engaging, it felt quite repetitive and with no 'goal' I had no incentive to keep going.
Game looks great! Felt like the pickaxe was a bit underused, the gravity ball felt really satisfying though. Controls were a bit awkward, because you need to use the arrow keys and the mouse.
beautiful 2D art, nice that the game had a bit of story! Fun mechanic :)
Really original idea! And sorry for the person that has to find my map...
The controls could have had some care like others said, but I had fun!
A bit more compact of a game would have been nice (100 levels is a bit too much). My friend had quite a few bugs in which did the level did not spawn the required stuff to finish it.
Nice bit of story and art! Would have been nice to know how expensive everything is. I also felt little incentive to go deeper in the ground.
@defrag thanks for the feedback! Lotus of ideas were cut indeed, because we ran out of time:
We wanted to add that you needed to connect to more ending for the water puzzle (would give the T and 4 way sections more sense)
We wanted to add 2 more puzzles: Fight a threat in which a large undersea monster would come into view. You would need to throw a harpoen at it too kill.
Second puzzle was calibrating the reactor rods in which you needed to position vertical rode in such a way that it would allow a straight line to pass through.
If only time didnt go so fast!
Nice variety! Nice that there is quite a bit of story going on, I enjoyed it!
Nice all the different environments! Looked amazing. 2 suggestions: - It was not always clear what was 'background' and what was 'collidable' - I never really needed the dash move, would have been nice if that was really necessary (beside being faster to the end)
I always like card games! Felt a bit unsatisfying when you do not get any cards to gain power, wasting a turn. Nice game!
Tower defenses are always fun! A bit more feedback when a wave starts would have been nice. Maybe an option to upgrade turrers, but there is only so much time :-)
I also got a bit motion sick due to the head movement and the head-wiggle. The puzzles were cool, I couldn't figure out the goo chamber unfortunately.
The water sounds were really nerve wrecking and loud, it did feel claustrofobic. Would have been nice if there was a bit more gameplay.
Amazing cutscene! I do think I had a bug, because the monster stopped moving completely. When the monster did move it was quite difficult to out-run it.
I really struggled with the movement, it felt way too jittery. The fact that each level was the same was a bit of a dissapointment. The concept is cool felt satisfying!
Cute game! It felt nice to built a small economy. UI could have been a bit better (like telling ingame what towers do, and showing upgrading/building possibilities when you lack the requirements)
Looked really nice! Shooting felt nice. Movement felt a bit "floaty", causing it to dodge things a bit difficult. The boss looked cool! Only a bit frustrating sometimes that it was hard to see the crab, because it went off-screen (because of its size).
One thing that was a bit confusing at the start is that I had to film closer for the money to go up, I was really confused that my uploads did nothing (because I was too far away).
Graphics were cool! Few things I would change: - Not make eat/dash the same button, this was quite annoying - Dash had zero cooldown so you could spam it and move insanely fast - The fish were kinda hard to find, i didn't manage to find 20
Would be nice if the objective would me more clear in the game. Maybe some power ups would spice things up a bit!
I like the mechanics like switching the gravity. Puzzles that use mechanics like that are always really creative!
The physics felt a bit rough, sometimes it felt like i was suddenly attached to a magnet or sliding on ice. I also encountered a bug with an invisible wall, I couldn't finish after that: bug.png
Looks very cool, impressive art! Oxygen did go down really fast, it felt I did not have enough time to reach the oxygen spots. Especially when you needed to 'wait' to go down.
The button i needed to press (right-bottom corner) had a really weird clickbox, I had to position my mouse in a very specific spot in order to be able to click it. That made it quite confusing.
Really creative idea of depths! When i started moving i got really nauseated and had to stop.
The inverted controls really dragged the game down, I couldn't play with it. I also had a big blue box on my screen. Is that a bug?
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Like others said a solid entry, everything is on point and looks great! It really feels tense when everything gets dark. Maybe some sort of ability 'ghost fly' to go really fast for a short amount of time to add a bit of strategy and help with the backtracking or to escape those last-second pinches.
I also really liked the UI design, fun cute little game :)
Building up the beat felt satisfying! I do think it was difficult to anticipate a big astroid on the path, maybe a visual cue to incidate an astroid will soon appear would help a lot.
@Tommeh thanks for the kind words! More complicated tile placement was indeed one of the original ideas (like the park), but unfortunatly time was running out :(
I like that this is completely different than all the other games. Few pieces of feedback: - I think that it would have helped a lot of if the stats had a little spacing around them, it is really difficult to read right now - While I think having the combat being off screen is a good idea, it felt like I really missed something to have an idea of what is happening, everything feels like one big black box. Maybe some small flavor text log like "The wizard killed an enemy" would already help a lot.
Kudos for managing to create this idea in the short amount of time!
Cute graphics, The combat felt a bit lackluster, maybe having the cards add something to it would have been cool. Not being able to pass through this spot felt a bit counterintuitive:
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I do like platformers and it started like a fun game! The camera was really nausiating so I had to stop :(
My first pack was 100 gold, that felt like quite a lot. Maybe forcing the first card pack to be cheap would make the introduction to the game a bit less steep.
Really original idea! I did manage to call one correctly, which I see as a big win since Iām completely not musical at all :D
Unfortunately, the bird was gone before I could take the picture :(
Maybe a small visual cue to guide you through the first few birds would have helped a lot to get a better feel for it.
Creative take on the collector theme! Building the deck and it having an effect on your next rounds is cool. It was a bit too easy, I could just spam the attack on the enemies.
Nice little numbers go up game! You could abuse it a bit with an auto clicker :-). Took a bit to find out that I could swap weapons
Fun little game! It did felt a bit solvable as in when you know what to do you can clear the levels quite fast and get ahead of the nurse. Maybe a few checkpoints would have avoided that.
I like the idea! felt satisfying when you could make a big profit on a coin, few points of feedback:
- The introduction text felt a bit too much with Mr Coinface - Maybe some way to teach us how to find a coin that is valuable, then we learn something while playing :D - The auctions felt a bit weird, beccause at the start you kinda had no chance to win.
I got stuck when attacking the rats:
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The initial text when starting up the game was really difficult to read (lack of contrast).
Nice little game for a first Jam :)
It looks beautifully and the sound is great. Funny lore :D . Gameplay wise it felt like I didn't really needed to do anything, I just connnected the 3 middle turrets, watched and won.
The puzzle itself was fun and satisfying, few points of feedback:
1. The timer felt quite punishing, sometimes when you had to connect 2 points far away it became quite stressful. 2. I would have made the progression of adding new mechanics a bit faster, it became a bit repetitive. 3. I would have liked the signal to turn a different color along the path that you've already connected to make it easier to see if you've made a mistake somewhere where it's not connected yet.
Beside that the graphics and all look great, seeing the entire path at the end is a cool detail! Nice entry.
I liked it! Got to the end. The graphics look great and it was fun to play.
A few points of feedback: 1. The text at the beginning and end went away very fast 2. The jumping took some getting used to, for example here: puzzle.png It felt like the 'logical' jump would be the upper platform, but the character had a lot of vertical velocity, but barely any horizontal.
I kinda had no clue what was expected of me, I suddenly 'won' the game without having any clue what I was doing. A little bit of context would have been nice.
Absolutely top notch graphics and solid gameplay loop. It was a bit frustrating too see how far apart the towers can be placed.
Maybe a different tower for long range travel, but no coverage would have been nice.
Due to the camera angle it was sometimes a bit finnicky to detach a wire
Great take on the theme, and I love the art.
One point of feedback is that it became a bit difficult to see the more 'extreme' puzzles in which I had practically a flat line. It was quite difficult to see if it matched
I played the original build, not the post-jam.
Overcooked games are always fun, but it felt a bit too much the same, maybe a bit of a twist would have been nice.
It was quite polished. The most annoying thing was that the order of putting things on the plate mattered.
When multiple people order the same thing you can't see who was first (in order to FIFO)
Art/sound etc all on point!
Very cool and creative idea and nice graphics :) . The game became a bit frustrating/chaotic with multiple turrets (would be nice if selecting an other turret would immediatly fire the current input before switching to the other turret).
The potential is there, A bit more depth would have been nice. Currently I don't really have any choices to make
I think the background is made with AI? That makes rating graphics a bit weird.