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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
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| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | 👥 | Maid 2 B Summoned | jam | 2.64 | 2.50 | 2.50 | 3.07 | 3.85 | 3.35 | 2.78 | ||
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | 👥 | High Caffeine Black Tea | jam | 567 | 3.56 | 3.55 | 3.28 | 3.53 | 4.19 | 3.96 | ||
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | 👥 | 10 Doujins per Second | jam | 236 | 3.85 | 3.92 | 3.68 | 3.91 | 4.22 | 3.41 | 4.38 | 3.98 |
Absolutely excellent! Blown away by this game, to be honest. I thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of it. Simple in design, but still challenging. Great aesthetic making excellent use of the simple graphics. I was thoroughly disappointed when there were no more levels to play.
Absolutely brilliant, 10/10, probably my favorite game so far!
Cute, simple game with a solid core loop! I would've loved to see even bigger and faster waves of enemies as time goes on, though, since the challenge was more or less gone already when I had both gun and coil at level 2. Music got a little bit repetitive, but not enough that it was annoying.
Really nice game overall, I love the little dog!
Slick presentation and extremely polished. Gotta say, though, the controls were pretty frustrating - my brain kept wanting to press down to go down. Took a while for me to adapt to the relative controls.
Either way, great job and fun game!
Neat little game! I haven't tried out the co-op mode, but in single player I felt the enemies might be a bit too easy to stunlock which made the game less challenging.
I like how they take cover, though, and how you can pick up their weapons once killed!
Nice job!
Impressive as all hell! Really fun and really hard. A little bit of jank with mouse controls (camera would jump around at the start of every level), but nothing I couldn't handle.
Lina's super cute!
Very well done, super impressive!
Great game, enjoyed it a lot! The music really adds a lot. Love the art style, got some Touhou vibes from the Eastern-style/Western-style exorcist combo. Timeline was easy to understand and experimenting with different spell combinations was fun.
All around a really enjoyable experience, GREAT job!
Cute game! Took a while to understand what to do, though. (And swiping isn't optimal with a mouse, but it wasn't too bad.)
Really cute art! I love the stirring animation! Music was also nice.
Quite a charming game, overall! Well done!
Excellent little game! I'm usually not a fan of pixel art, since it often feels very low effort, but this is really nice! Got that Gameboy/SNES vibe goin'. Nice difficulty ramp-up, gets real hectic real quick.
Enjoyed it a lot, great job!
Yeah, that was real good. Feel like I can't even go into detail without spoiling something, but I think when I finally solved it, I did it exactly the way you intended. Masterful clue placement, straight up impressed. Incredibly well done!
Really good use of the theme, nice looking graphics, fun gameplay. The only thing I can remark on is that the Dodge minigame was way more frustrating than the others, the risk/reward didn't make it feel worth dodging through them so I ended up just trying to avoid everything and hoping it would switch to Catch and not Destroy. Maybe if dodging through a ball made it disappear, like in the other minigames?
It was fun, though! Good job!
Very charming game, I like it a lot! It's got a bit of everything - dodge-based Soulslike combat, wave survival, random upgrades - and it really gels! Excellent visuals, too, love the intensifying flames as the clock ticks down.
Great job!
Excellent sound and great use of simple visuals! That autocannon sounds great, and holy shit is the special ammo beefy. Also really good voice acting, which was pleasantly surprising!
(Activating special ammo with E and getting on/off with space felt a bit confusing though, feels like it should be the other way around.)
All around an enjoyable game, great job!
Incredibly polished and impressive! Big Jackbox vibes. Absolutely love it!
A lot to take in at first, but you've got a pretty solid game there! You've obviously put a lot of thought into it, and I think just a little bit of polish on how to introduce all the mechanics to the player will make it really great!
Good job!
Cool game with a really neat aesthetic! Got 6365 feet and 440 kills on my best attempt.
It does gets a little bit slow once you realize that the enemies hitting the train don't actually do anything, and neither do the bats as long as you don't jump, so you really only have to stand by the button and prioritize the foot soldiers gunning for you.
Cool music, though, I like how the train honk is incorporated as an instrument!
Overall very enjoyable, and it's easy to see how the concept can be expanded (Co-op, having to repair the train, more weapon and enemy types.) into a really good game! Solid foundation!
Spooky! Love the aesthetic, controls feel really fluid and nice, the random teleportation was jarring and disorientating in a good way.
Overall a very moody, claustrophobic and unsettling experience. I liked it a lot, good job guys!
To be brutally honest, I wasn't very impressed at first. But then I was intrigued by the presentation (purchasing the UI as upgrades.) I figured I'd just beat the dragon and that'd be it.
Wait, there's even more?
I ended up beating the entire game and I gotta say, you did pretty well! It's neat, easy to understand, and fun to keep on your second screen.
God job!
This is almost cheating, because I love simple (in design) little puzzle games like this! Very cute, easy to get a hang of, looks good, and fun!
I didn't feel that the flipping did that much later in the game and you ended up just waiting for the cube to flip to a position that gives you the resources you need - maybe letting the player choose which row/column rotates would make it more strategic?
Either way, loved it! Great game! (Music did get a little bit repetitive, though.)
What a nice change of pace from other, more hectic entries! Enjoyed this one a lot, but I'm also very biased since I love strategy and puzzle games. Clean, polished presentation with nice art, and gameplay that's simple to grasp. Really well done!
Art, music, gameplay - all absolutely excellent! In a game like that even tiny things stand out, so forgive me for being nitpicky.
Revealing the intro text letter by letter felt a bit slow, almost frustrating. Just speeding it up a bit, or revealing it line by line would probably flow better.
It's pretty easy to accidentally touch the mortar and pestle while trying to drag the leftmost ingredients directly to the cauldron, which was a bit frustrating.
(And I can't help but think that maybe "Sketchy Witchy" would sound better than "Witchy Sketchy"?)
Love the music, probably the best background loop I've heard so far this jam! The art style is fantastic, really cute and characterful. Gameplay is fast paced and fun and with four lives the time limit never feels unfair or frustrating. Very cute witch!
Overall, I loved it. Very impressive, great job!
Making a vtuber game is cheating. Good use of sound, really spooked me the first time he popped up. Great concept and fantastic execution of the vtuber gimmick. Enjoyed it a lot! Citri a cute!
Simple, fun, really stylish and cool - great game! I clipped out of the level in a couple spots, but always managed to get back in so it's all gucci. Love the strategy aspect of planning your moves under time pressure.
Super solid, color me impressed!
Very cute game, love the TV reporter freaking out and the silly headlines! It's hard to tell exactly when to time your hits but otherwise I enjoyed it quite a lot. Gets really hectic when you're juggling multiple comets - fun!
Great job!
Pretty fun! Any puzzle game which I have to use a notepad to solve is good in my book. My only complaint is that the mouse sensitivity is very high, but I just lowered the DPI on my mouse and it was all gucci.
Nice game, good job! I liked it!
Very cute, super polished, extremely impressive. Amazing job, great game!
Hectic, chaotic, stressful, and tons of fun. I love it! I absolutely sucked at it, and I couldn't for the life of me find Kate to give her her god damn coffee, but I thoroughly enjoyed it!
Knocked it out of the park, really impressed!
Controls feel good, I like the puzzle aspect of figuring out what to unlock in which order, overall a pretty fun game! Good job!
As you said, really frustrating, but also pretty fun! I like this take on the theme a whole lot! Great job!
Cool game, the simple aesthetic looks really neat. Controlling the ATV is pretty tricky, and I the physics did jank out a bit and send me bouncing. It was fun, though!
I think having the solar flares be 10 seconds long makes the game feel slower than it actually is, maybe having them slightly shorter would make it flow better.
Good job, either way!
Neat of use of 2D and 3D graphics. The colors are very eclectic and kind of hurt my eyes a little bit, but the game is fun enough! I like the concept, and with a bit of polish it could be a pretty fun party game!
Nice job!
Really cool game, with a very polished aesthetic. It's pretty hard, but I enjoyed it a lot!
Nice, moody game with great art! I appear to be too smooth-brained to figure out how to do the combat mini games, but super cute nun so 10/10.
This is a nightmare when you have absolutely no relative pitch! Very cute and comfy game, though, with nice art!
@actuallythemoon Thank you for the nice comment! Yeah, the white-on-white intro text was definitely an oversight. Should've added an outline, or something.
@vatx I'm glad you enjoyed the game! Yeah, we got to a point where we had to decide whether to make it playable for an ordinary person, or just lean into the niche anime bullshit. We chose the second option. I wanted to put G11 in there, but I got BTFO'd and our GFL man did G36 instead.
@mcmuniz & @Holden22 Thank you!
@chaikadev Skill issue. ("Potatoes..." actually refers to the Girls' Last Tour Fumo, In The Airplane Over Gensokyo is "I love... Kochiya Sanae...". Don't ask me, I've never even listened to the album in question, I only listen to Rules of Nature on repeat.)
@weetabix-su I'm glad! Make sure to hang on to it, wouldn't want to accidentally sell it to the wrong person!
In fact, the original vision for the game also had the items individually priced (listed on a separate price list that you could check, Papers Please-style) and made the player manually drag-and-drop coins to give customers correct change, all within the ten seconds. The only reason we cut it was because we, ironically, ran out of time.
At several points we noted "Man, this game is pretty hectic." to which the reply was always "Yeah, but how can we make it even more so?"
@chitoyuu >You set out to make a game not everyone will like and you succeeded at that, so, no complaints whatsoever. Well done!
This guy gets it. Thanks for playing our game, I'm really glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you very much for the nice comments everyone!
@krasimir-balchev Just tried it out and I can confirm that if you sell the plushie and then fail to sell enough goods overall, the plushie will still be gone when you retry. This is definitely unintended and I'll let Steen know - thanks for pointing it out! I'm glad you enjoyed the game!
@c14 ä½ å¥½! Thank you very much for the praise, I'm really happy you enjoyed our game! I'll try to explain the references for you:
The first picture is of famous video game director (and self-professed inventor of the camera) Hideo Kojima, who really likes the anime Lycoris Recoil and has appeared in public wearing LycoReco t-shirts.
He wants to buy the big nesoberi plushie (same character as on his shirt, although I probably could have made them look more similar...)
The second picture might be one of the more tricky clues, even for westerners. Dick Dale was basically the front runner for Surf Rock as a genre. You might recognize one of his most famous tunes, Miserlou (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYjo__4COIo), from the classic movie Pulp Fiction. So the girl wants to buy the "Touhou Surf Rock 16" album.
The third picture is a reference to the album Soundtracks for the Blind by SWANS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfNOuwUXG2A&list=PLU_aM5EzmeKRZkbmPi7d4-Nz55GxwAHIJ), which is basically exactly what the tooltip describes.
(I hadn't actually read that tooltip yet, since Steen put it in rather late, but I love it).
The "shrine maiden complaining about the empty offertory box" is of course a reference to Hakurei Reimu, who is notoriously poor and of bad temperament.
Hope that helps!
Once again, thank you all for the comments - it makes me truly happy to hear that even people who are completely unfamiliar with anime (and anime-adjacent bullshit) enjoy our game!
@rtdmfn That is, indeed, Hideo "I invented the camera, actually" Kojima jonesing for some LycoReco merch! I'm really glad you liked our game, thank you very much for all the 5 stars!
@brainloaf-studio Indeed, the "getting an opportunity to look everything over" thing is a recurring point of feedback. I understand why that would be preferable from a gameplay point of view, but from a lore point of view I feel that just being dumped right in the middle of things is a very important aspect of emulating the true experience of being ditched by your friends at a convention about something you are completely unfamiliar with, and being forced to sell things you don't even understand. Thank you for playing our game, though, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
@sven-schoeling I'd honestly like to know which references people get and don't get! We put some pretty obscure stuff in there, and it would be fun to see if anyone picked up on it. Thank you for playing our game!
@kr4ft3r The dick-sucking bean plushie is universal. Just look at his little face. Unmistakable.
It sounds like your experience playing our game was exactly what I, personally, was hoping for while making it, which makes me really happy to hear! I was really hoping that the first playthrough would be hectic, chaotic, even overwhelming, but still leaving you wanting to try again. Thank you very much for playing our game!
(And yes, finding the .exe was our secret, second game submission.)
@jirrev PAPA\_ROACH\_-\_LAST\_RESORT[128KBPS].MP3.EXE
I'm not sure about the .dlls, I was told it was "part of the aesthetic", "intended jank", and "please shut the fuck up, sleepy, i swear to god".
Thanks for playing our game, I'm glad you liked it!
@aripize I'm glad to hear our game reminded you of fond memories! Thanks for playing!
@peachtreeoath Haha, I honestly wasn't too sure about the cover image at first 'cause it kinda looks like a DLSite game, and it's also a bit of a bait-and-switch since the girl doesn't appear _that_ much. I'm glad you enjoyed our game, though, thanks for playing!
Great little game! Had to restart a couple times before I realized that building a house only took one turn, and leaving the farmer on that square blocked the new farmer from being created, but once I got the hang of it I really enjoyed it!
I love these little pocket-sized strategy games, and this one it really good! I can just imagine it with more unit types, buildings, enemies, different terrain - a really, really solid foundation for a game!
Interesting game. Didn't think much of the weapon swapping until I was stuck in a corridor with a fuck ton of enemies and I ran out of ammo, suddenly those ten seconds felt very long. You did a good job creating a creepy mood, nice job!
Man, what a promising game. The gameplay itself is alright, a fun little card matching game, but the presentation is really good. It definitely suffers from the lack of a running dialogue as the game goes on, which would have made it great!
Love the art - obviously influenced by Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou which is always nice. Would've loved to get to know the characters better!
Overall I enjoyed the game a lot, and I can easily imagine a more polished version that's a real banger! Great job!
Blown away by the art, extremely polished and impressive! The game's fun, but the art really sells it.
It was a little bit hard to distinguish what parts were interactable, even with the outline, though.
Great game, guys, really well done!
(I did encounter a bug where spam-clicking a cat dumped me back in the main menu, but I can't reproduce it.)
Decent game, although pretty tricky! Never managed to get very high, but it was fun. The main sprite looks really, really good, but the rest of the UI could've used a little bit more love.
Overall, though, pretty fun! Great job!
Fun and hectic little game! I like how you only get a couple of seconds per victim, which keeps the tempo high.
The music is good but way too loud, though!
Fun little game! A little bit shorter and more straight forward than I expected, but I enjoyed it.
Well done!
Really cool game! I hope you'll forgive me for nitpicking here, but it's so close to being really great that even small things stand out.
Discovering the mechanics on my own was a little rough, but only because the explanatory text is rather subtle. I didn't see the "E" in the second level for the first couple loops, for example, and thought that I just had to shoot the switch.
Puzzle design is really good. They're the kind of "What the hell is this? Wait... Oh, I see!" puzzles which I enjoy a lot. Once you grasp the situation it's all about execution. Very satisfying to solve.
The graphics could've used just one more pass to make sure everything reads well. The cube blended in with the pressure plate so well that I just thought that's the plate looked like that when activated.
And I'm not sure if the audio is actually glitching out, or if it's an intentional stylistic choice. If it is, I think you went a little bit too heavy, the glitching isn't "melodic" or "rhythmic" enough so I thought my audio drivers were acting up for a second.
Overall, even though I sound really critical, I thoroughly enjoyed your game! I liked it a whole lot! Great job!
Excellent game, and excellent representation of Swedish culture! (Except it should probably be HÄLL, not HËLL, but that doesn't read as well to a non-Nordic audience.)
Bunnyhopping is peak game design, literally nothing can convince me otherwise. The only way this could be better would be if you could slope surf off cars.
10/10
Simple, brutal, and unforgiving, I love it. Made it to level 15 before I had to go get my laundry, will definitely give it more attempts. Those arrow-to-circle teleport tiles are devilish.
As others have already mentioned, the camera movement is really abrupt. I can feel my eyes straining if I move too quickly. Just a very slight smoothing would make it feel a lot better, I think.
Great game, guys, really fun!
Love the hectic multitasking, only made worse by the constant beeping! Looks great, plays great, stressed me the fuck out - amazing game!
A simple little platformer that's fun enough, but that character is just too cute! Excellent character design! Nice music too. Overall an enjoyable experience, nice job!
Nice little game, enjoyed it quite a bit! Love how not only do you get a random color, but you also have a limited amount of paint. (Color randomization seems to favor greens a lot though, at least for me.)
Hell yeah, excellent concept and great execution! Loved the VA-11 Hall-A-like mechanics and the multitasking.
I absolutely bombed the test - just like real life!
Great job!
Feels very polished and impressive. Aiming the water buckets is tricky and the magma hitbox is ridiculously unforgiving. I liked it, though. Unforgiving but fun. Nicely done!
I found myself playing it longer than I thought I would. I did feel a bit hamstrung by the low movement speed, but the dash does make up for it. You've got a solid concept which, with a bit of polish, could turn into a pretty decent game. Well done!
The sounds are a little bit grating, though!
Cute little game. I found the music and sound effects a little bit loud and not very distinct from each other, so they kind of blended together into a big mass of sound. The graphics are nice and simple, and the objective straight forward, though. I'd call this a nice little game.
I would've loved to see it get more chaotic, though. More aggressive drivers, more parking lots available but they constantly get stolen and you have to fight people over them, ongoing car chases, gang shootouts, people carrying mirrors and huge stacks of eggs across the street.
I feel like I've been put through a tumble dryer, in a good way. I'm honestly not sure why, but I really like this game. It's so bizarre that I can't help but be intrigued. It feels like a prototype for a weird ass minigame in an upcoming Katamari Damacy or something. Well done, I like it!
Cute snek, 10/10.
Solid core concept done justice. Nothing feels out of place or as if it doesn't belong. Music is nice and doesn't get too repetitive, controls make sense, graphics are nice and work in service of the core gameplay. Wigglign is immersive, I really felt like a snek. I like it a lot!
Got pretty stressful, which was pretty fun. Shop seems a bit busted, though, I had like 7 fish but wasn't allowed to buy anything. A nice little proof of concept, overall, and I think with a bit of polish it could become a nice game. Well done!
I'm legitimately annoyed that we didn't think of this ourselves, but if we're gonna get beaten on concept I'm glad it's by you. It's perfect in its simplicity. The only way it could be better is if it got even more unplayable. I want it to physically disconnect my ethernet cable. I want it to set fire to my car.
The girl is cute as fuck.
I'm sleepymenace on discord, too, feel free to add me. Maybe we could do something together next time.
@chitoyuu Hey, we might've celebrated a bit too hard so I've been absolutely gone the last couple days. I just got home and went to finally accept your friend request, but it was gone. I know I saw it earlier, so maybe it timed out or something. If you send me another I promise I'll accept it this time!
It didn't seem right not to draw something for you as well!
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Just excellent. The level of polish is actually unbelievable, especially for the Compo, I'm kinda blown away. The only things I noted was that the sound effects are a bit loud, and that once the opponent's hand is down to like three cards it's very easy to see where a card gets shuffled, so you can just pick the same card over and over again once they have the death card.
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I loved it, though! I'm sleepymenace on Discord as well, feel free to add me if you wanna stay in touch!
My fight or flight response kicked in. I felt physically assaulted. I was behind enemy lines. The paranoid schizophrenia started creeping in. I was hyperventilating. God cried tears of blood for my sins.
This is the game that has left the biggest impression on me so far.
@bstabuu Yeah, uhhh, we're working on it. We had three minutes left on the clock and realized we had no idea how to actually export our game from Godot. We'll upload a fixed version within a day or so.
Thanks for the feedback!
what's a touhou?
my brother in christ, we physically *cannot stop you* from doing.
@thyoi Oh my god, that's amazing! Thank you so much for the lovely picture! I remember playing your game back in LD51, I also remember liking it a lot but it seems I never left a comment. I'll make sure to check out your game this time, too!
@chitoyuu This is now canon. I fucking love it, thank you so much! Gonna print it and get it framed on my desk.
I do have a soft spot for PICO-8, so I dunno how objective I'm being here. The first level felt a little slow, but the sudden appearance of enemies (only visible as dots on the radar) was pretty effective and almost unnerving. I think it's a competently made, cute little game. Well done!
Hell yeah, this is what I'm talking about! Love the way you're using the theme here, limiting something that isn't literally space.
It could use a bit of tweaking - some of the zones are very precise and you have to fiddle with the character to get in the right spot - but overall you've got a really solid concept here. I love the art and the characters. Really well done!
(As an aside - Bro using that much kaomoji in regular speech makes her come off as absolutely unhinged. This is not a complaint.)
The individual rounds are a little bit too long with the current enemy diversity. Having a couple more varieties would make it feel more engaging, I think. Otherwise, solid concept - having to choose between making combat easier immediately or as a reward later. Well done!
Very sleek, nice graphics, competently made. Not much more I can say about it, to be honest. It would've been fun with even more item variety, or more complicated requests. I enjoyed it, well done!
Hey man, shit happens, don't beat yourself up over it! (The theme isn't exactly super inspiring to begin with.)
I'm sure it'll go better next time!