Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → spooncats
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | Make Room | jam | 209 | 3.94 | 3.88 | 4.01 | 4.59 | 3.77 | 3.66 | 4.01 | 4.01 | |
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | The Gemancipator | compo | 272 | 3.36 | 3.27 | 3.27 | 3.63 | 3.63 | 2.86 | 3.12 | 3.00 |
Love the combat style and spritework! Landing a parry or attack feels really satisfying. My only complaint is the controls, I think having up as jump instead of a jump button, and maybe having parry on a different button than roll would have been more intuitive and feel better to play.
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Really cute spritework and great bgm and sound effects! Wish I could have seen my total score at the end.
Awesome idea and really well executed! I think one possible improvement could be to automatically move to the next bomb when one is successfully defused, but at the same time I can understand that the anxiety of knowing whether you've defused it correctly sort of plays into the theme. Would love to see you expand this idea with even more levels!
I really like the visuals, the sprites are really cute and the shadow and lighting effect in the levels look great! Mechanically, I think the platforming controls are a little too loose, the lack of friction and low acceleration makes some of the precise jumps unintentionally difficult. The level design is overall pretty good, and balances simplicity with uniqueness well. Some of the collectibles feel like they're impossible to collect and still complete the level in time though. Also level 12 is missing the on-screen timer.
Very polished entry! Unique idea and great visuals. I think it might have benefitted from some sort of equivalent sound or acknowledgement for correct answers to have a better back-and-forth between the characters, since the blank space with no "incorrect" was kind of awkward.
Very simple but very addicting! really nice minimalistic style as well.
Very well executed idea! The item grabbing and placement felt very satisfying and snappy. I think you guys maybe went a tiny bit overboard with the screenshake though. Highest score I got was 129!
really innovative take on the theme and amazing storytelling!
Super challenging game, but pretty fun! Had a couple of instances of stuttering the first time I collided with or killed an enemy, not sure if it was a browser thing (chrome) or not.
Pretty cool! Reminds me of something you might find in in a WarioWare game. Had a bug where using a slowdown near the end of a level caused the next level to never smash the walls together, but it fixed itself after refreshing and continuing.
really clever use of window sizes! also love the art :)
super satisfying parry system, great idea!
Really cool game idea! Combining endless-runner type gameplay with platforming is a great idea. :) The ladders were a little awkward to jump off of sometimes, that ended most of my runs.
I lost because I tried to feed jerma the planets. Great visuals!
Really gorgeous artwork! I wish the camera was slightly more zoomed out so it was easier to see where I'm jumping to, but the controls were great outside of that. The spikes and platforms that alternate states on jumping have some great potential for puzzles!
I think I should get into the jar industry instead of the pickle industry, it seems more lucrative. Very fun game though! I loved scooping up a ton of pickles with the jar and cramming it into the sell area. I'm not sure if it was a bug or intended, but the spawn rate slowed down a lot when the room was almost full so it became pretty much impossible to lose at some point.
Thanks for the kind comments everybody! I think I may have mistakenly changed some values in level 4 at some point that made it harder to win, since I've noticed a lot of people struggling to make it work despite solving it the same way I did when testing it.
Really clever use of the theme and love how simplistic yet addictive it is! The audio is super well done too, great stuff.
Fun idea! I wish the boxes were a bit bigger in general since it was hard to get more than one or two items per box which was a little unsatisfying. It also felt like there was no reason to try super hard to pack stuff together since there's no penalty for summoning new boxes
The controls are beautifully awkward, I love it
I think your itch.io page might still be a draft, it gives me a 404 when I try to access it
very satisfying! love the sound design and juicy graphics.
Great artwork! A couple of times I ended up having an enemy spawn right on top of me, an indicator of spawn positions could be a nice QOL change.
Probably the funniest game I've played this jam, and also just all around great. Super creative idea to have the explosion remains become barriers! If there were killstreak bonus weapons/summons it would have been a 6/5 honestly.
Cool idea! I think a quicker restart would help a lot with getting stuck. I think it also might feel more natural if you couldn't collide with a piece while "carrying" it, since it causes some awkwardness with the platforming