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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 35 | Shapeshift | Polymorphic Menagerie | compo | 428 | 3.26 | 2.84 | 3.61 | 3.77 | 2.52 | 2.37 | 2.79 | 57 | ||
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | Gaia Vine | jam | 24 | ||||||||||
| 2014 | 31 | Entire Game on One Screen | Super Color-o RGB: Legend of the Several Stars | compo | 899 | 2.86 | 2.44 | 3.67 | 3.47 | 1.97 | 2.03 | 1.85 | 2.21 | 65 |
Nifty little program! It feels more like a tech demo than a game, but it's fun nonetheless.
And the physics is fascinating... Particularly given that there's no perceptible lag, despite all those (potential) interactions. Seeing the source would be interesting, I think.
Dude, loop your background music better next time (it's too short, and there's an obvious discontinuity when it loops).
The game drags on for a bit too long, as well - a much shorter time, maybe 2 minutes, would probably make this more fun (since then it'd be a matter of how many mini-screens you can manage to make before the timer expires).
Dude, you should really link to the whole thing as a single zip file.
Very nice graphics :). It's a pretty simple demo, but I'd be interested to see it developed further.
Given the amount of functionality that's present, I think the interface is what's most in need of attention: it's not quite obvious what all the buttons do, and once or twice I thought a character would have a double-turn because I got confused about the difference between the portrait and the turn indicator.
Come to think of it, I also have some SRPG code that is badly in need of art. I, uh... may have to send you an email...
Chrome has flagged this as malware for some reason (Windows version). Any ideas as to why that might be?
The platforming here was non-obvious and difficult, and the disappearing "corrupt" blocks get in the way of play (pretty sure it's an actual bug). Would've been good to do a bit more bug-fixing and balancing.
No idea how to get past the second contract, and the ducks being slightly faster than the monster make it tedious to retry repeatedly.
this is nifty and intriguing, but the LD version is woefully incomplete.
Thanks for giving a completed version - it's a nifty mechanic you've got there! However, you should probably have the first link be to the *LD* version, for the sake of propriety.
Charming little program :). I wish you'd been able to take it further (at the VERY least a way to gain more money).
Nifty idea, although seems to need a bit of balancing - it seems to get into a stalemate-y situation fairly easily, where it's not immediately obvious if you're winning, losing, or just stuck. I think the mechanics in general could do with a bit more explanation - seems like there's nifty stuff going on, but I didn't understand it at first.
Ow. Ow ow ow. My brain. Ow. WHY did I play that right after "The Best of Both Worlds"?
I may have to come back to this after I've done some nice, normal thinking. Like listening to relaxing music... or navigating a 4-dimensional maze... or mucking around with exotic uses of Git...
Pretty neat! Ridiculously hard, but pretty neat!
It's amusing(ly futile), but the UI needs work. It was a bit laggy for me, and hence hard to mine or burn crystals - although I also heard my fan spin up, so maybe it's just unoptimized (I'm on a laptop, although it *usually* handles modern games well).
Clever idea, although the shooting feels a bit weak - in particular, there's no feedback whatsoever when the bullets hit your enemies. A number of times I ran *towards* the enemies because the lack of feedback makes it seem like they're one-hit kills, and I was sure that I had definitely lined the shot up correctly.
I have a mine factory factory factory factory factory (...I think). Recursion ftw!
btw, download the standalone version. Depending on your browser, the web version might not play in the background :(.
Ah, this is MUCH nicer on the psyche than The Binding of Isaac :).
Huh, the bouncy platforms are surprisingly fun, when you can get yourself caught between two of them :).
Also: "J" opens to an infinite-jump-in-midair exploit. Luckily, that's doesn't circumvent too much of the challenge.
Huh, a game in Angular. Interesting choice.
Compo entry, right? Mind posting non-minified source?
Interesting little experiment with Angular, but needs a bit more to make it actually a game. As it is, I'm not sure what the goal is, how to fail, or how to make my score higher.
Also, dude, unminified source for a compo entry, or enter it in the jam :P.
You must have a rather large screen for this all to fit on it. And unfortunately, you do need most of the vertical screen space to play effectively :-/...
Also, the spacing of the fog needs a bit more balancing, I think (although I think you're already aware of that).
Nifty idea, that I'd like to see taken further and polished (and given challenge in interesting forms).
The individual sub-screens are WAY too big - I've got a reasonably standard laptop monitor (1366x768), and I think I was only seeing about 2/3 of each subscreen.
Also, you've got just a few bugs ;). The "you won level 2/3!" text drew in the top-right corner for me, and somehow I got the boss into negative HP (bar going out the left) without getting a win notification.
Rather nice audio :). The art was very nice as well, although it could've done with some improved visual cues in a few places (such as the distinction between pillars and edges being more obvious).
Plus, this was actually more fun to play than some of the games that HAVE been finished.
Interesting idea, which plays with the theme in a clever way :). Needs more game, but hey, it's Ludum Dare.
Rather fun once you get in a good groove. The graphics are nifty and good eyecandy, but I think something about the combination of colors and graphical effects could use a bit of work (though I'm not sure what, off-hand).
Not really a one screen game, though :P. Four screens, maybe.
Very nicely done :). Beautiful graphics, excellent use of the theme (you have one minigame on the front of a screen, the main game on the physical top of the screen, AND the whole thing fits the arcade definition of "single screen"), and a catchy tune.
I did find the controls a bit hard to use, though - I'm confused by the trajectory of the silk attack (left click), and the charge attack (right click) never seemed to hit anything.
Seemed kinda basic, could do with some better graphics, and didn't *quite* fit on my screen :P.
That is amazing and mind-breaking. I think skewed a bit too much towards the mind-breaking, but still awesome.
Also, kudos on doing a good variation on the idea of controlling multiple things at once, which seems to have cropped up repeatedly this time :).
Interesting concept, but there's not a whole lot in terms of gameplay. It'd be interesting to see what you'd do with a bit more time for the gameplay itself.
Ah, good, NON-minified JS :). It would've been nice to see a "source" link as well, but "view page source" is a suitable substitute in this case.
Kinda tricky, and you probably want to call preventDefault() when you handle up/down - in the embedded LD website version, up/down end up scrolling the page.
The farmer grabbing his hat constantly amused me, though :).
The first thing I noticed when opening this was some SERIOUS lag - seems like it's in the game logic loop rather than the render loop. Without looking at the source, I'd guess maybe related to the coins jumping around constantly (poorly optimized randomization)?
The coins jumping around also seems a bit odd - I couldn't really discern enough of a pattern to really boost my score, other than staying away from the creeper. I'd suggest either having coins that move along random paths, or just having a timer as the score.
Some of the graphics were a bit odd, too - I'm fine with the simple graphics, but if you're gonna use a creeper, you should really add at least ONE frame of an explosion ;). Also, it appears that the trees aren't actually obstacles? That surprised me quite a lot - misleading visual cues.
Pretty nifty idea, but I found it really tricky. Couldn't get the pixel production up high enough before I ended up being swamped by the green or the light blue.
Nifty idea. Level 1 is fun, level 2 was irritating (took too long to generate, and there wasn't much indication of what I should do).
Also, get less bleepy audio :P. Or gen less bleepy audio, if you were using sfxr.
Nice little melody in the background :). I'm just gonna let that keep playing for a bit, I think. Amusing end, too!
NICE job, dude! The voiceover was great, and a nice opening to the little world you've got. I'm only sad that I "died" before seeing all of the things :(.
Amusing twist on the theme :). I also like this emerging trend of playing two or more games simultaneously - it's quite satisfying for my hyperactive mind.
Sand! Sand sand sand sand! SAAAND GAAAAME ^_^! I like digging in sand :).
Pretty nifty start you've got, it's a shame that you didn't get more in for the LD itself. I do look forward to future changes, though :). (also, perhaps you could say what license you want to apply?)
Thanks for all the feedback :). Lots of good comments here. Overall, I'm pretty happy with the result - with the obvious exception of not paying enough attention to playability.
Note to self: find more playtesters next time.
Pretty nifty and ambitious. It does get kinda monotonous after you get a stable food supply, though - but, I suppose that's just a limitation of the 2 day time limit.
Some of the sounds were a bit confusing, though - given that there aren't any animations, and there's a BIG set of tiles to assess every turn, I didn't always know what some of the beeps were for.
Also, I had a bit of a sheepaggedon by late winter... maybe put a cap on the number of sheep that can exist at any given point?
Absolutely beautiful graphics. I am impressed.
HAHAHA awesome :D! Incredibly hard, but in a hilarious way. Then again, I like I Am Bread, so maybe I'm just weird.
Nice visuals! Difficult gameplay, though.
The Linux script isn't playable :(. Looks like it was saved with Windows line endings (which screws up .sh files), and when I removed the \r characters, it said that the jar was corrupted.
Can you upload just the jar file? THOSE I can usually run.
Wow, that is trippy and cool. Well done!
That's not a web build, that's a web page about the game. The link named "Web" made me think it would run on Linux :-/.
Awesome! Nice visuals, fun gameplay, solid controls. Very well-made. Just needs some difficulty scaling (which I see that you're already addressing, in the post-compo version).
Hangs without spawning a window on Linux :(. Oh well.
It was a bit hard for me to see what was going on, visually. Then again, it's possible that I had render bugs (playing in Chrome on Linux, and I saw a bunch of black volumes that looked like they were supposed to be shadows of some sort, etc.).
That was fun! It would be nice if the difficulty increased a little more slowly, so that it's easier to get to high numbers of sides.
This is really fun! I was disappointed when the game ended. Two bugs that I encountered: (1) on a Samsung S6, using Chrome, tapping seems to cycle the ball twice (e.g., medium->little->big in one tap); (2) on the second level, you can end up moving fast enough that you phase through the wall. Phasing through the wall is probably not intended, but is amusing nonetheless :).
Wow, that was rather interesting and unique. I'm not quite sure what the story was, but definitely a neat idea!
Awesome. Top marks all around. I noticed a couple nice quality-of-life features, as well, such as hinting about the restart button when the player starts seeming stuck.
Thank you for adding a web build of the jam version, as that means it's playable (without bugs!) on Linux :).
The shield-changing is a neat idea, but yeah, the arc is the only one I really used in the end.
TLansdale - you and me both! I wanted to get flying and burrowing forms into the game, but ran out of time.
I think I'll make a full-sized sequel/post-jam version for this. People seem to like the core gameplay, I really liked it myself (and would love to do more with the game), and I've got some good ideas for how to handle a jam -> experiment -> full release path in this case.
I'll try to get some details and/or a post mortem posted over the weekend.
I'm glad you all enjoyed it :). I certainly had a lot of fun with it!
Neat concept, though it turns into a bit of a slog after a while. I definitely see a promising idea in here, though - it would be interesting to see what you come up with in the future!
Neat game. Would be handy if there was a shadow or something to help you tell when you're about to touch the water. My score: a little over 250m
Awesome music, lovely sprites, addicting gameplay. Your team seems to know what it's doing :).
Nice art/audio, and amusing presentation. The gameplay is a bit tedious, though - I feel like I'm just running around aimlessly.
I have no idea what this is or why you're giving us a 17 lines of demo-ish Python code as a "web" game.
Did you almost make a game with hyperbolic geometry? I think you almost did. Cool!
Very nice. Loved the music :). There were a few places where the game behaved differently than I expected (walls not harming you, 4 shapes rather than the triangle/circle/square everyone else seems to have used), but having a fresh perspective is nice. And once I got into the rhythm of it, it was really fun!
My main critique is that it's hard to tell which shape is coming up next. That's probably because the indicator is down in the bottom-left, where it's out of the way and hard to notice. Maybe put it top-center, and make it transparent? Hopefully that would make it (a) easy to see at a glance, and (b) not too distracting to the player.
Aw, no Linux build (nor even a .sh file in the source) :(? But you have Tux in your credits screen...
I'm sure this would be awesome in co-op. It's pretty tricky in single player, because of how quickly the bugs charge at you. Gonna have to practice if I want to beat it...
Wee, that was fun :). It's awesome that actively changing your shape actually matters in this game - there doesn't seem to be a clear best shape to use.
Interesting, though very tricky. Could do with a bit more opportunity to guess, I think.
Interesting little diversion while listening to the fun music tracks :). Different music for each shape!
Aww, what a cute little chick, I'll just help you-- NOOOOOO ;_;.
Now how much atrocity do I have to commit in order to have my conveyor belts clog up?
Simple yet innovative and fun core mechanic :). I was sad when I realized I'd reached the last level. Well done!
Neat idea, but I found it a bit overwhelming due to the combination of having barely any feedback about what's going on, fast-paced actions, and no pause functionality.
Still, I look forward to seeing what you can do next time around!