Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Squidmobile
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | Orb Sort | compo | 383 | 3.30 | 3.33 | 3.55 | 3.66 | 3.11 |
A really good take on the theme, the game feels simultaneously chill and tense, and it's fun to manage your energy and time efficiently. I feel like if you were more in control of when/how you received crystals that the game would be even more engaging and add another layer of skill. Overall great though!
Spot on with the theme. Poor guy will just always die of something. I think he has insomnia lol. Loved the graphics.
Great atmosphere. The music was great and the cardboard people were delightful to look at. I wish there was more of a game component like a counter or something for how many you've saved or how many have ascended to heaven (rocket ship style). Loved it though
I really like the visual representation of where you're moving to, either with mouse or arrows, it's an elegant way to restrict the move speed but still allow mouse control. Fun to play, difficult, and replayable with all the different upgrades.
Fits the theme extremely well, turns "the inevitable" into not pressing the button to keep playing, whether out of choice or getting distracted. Not particularly fun, but it forces introspection while playing, putting you in the shoes of an AI who is now questioning if they should simply just stop keeping the solar system alive.
Very neat, simple and effective, it can feel a little frustrating getting through the holes, but you get used to that. Works well with the theme and has good vibes
As a powerless little squirrel it is a comfort to see a man get stuck on a stump and to know that you can save your acorns, your tree, and your livelihood for a few more sweet moments of life.
Neat game! Having to go retrieve the arrow forces you to keep moving and prevents you from just puppy guarding a fuse. You also have to consider what angle you're going to shoot at to make getting your arrow back not a waste of precious time. If an enemy lights a fuse it just leaves, so you have to consider if it's even worth it to shoot the enemy or to shoot something else and just put the fuse out. Tricky and fun. Goes well with the theme and has good style :)
Pretty fun, though maybe a bit easy. You if you chase the rabbits toward each other while punching you can spend your time efficiently and last for a very long time between them actually getting one of your veggies. You can also punch them once to move them toward a solid object and they will get stuck on it, presumably since they're trying to go inside it.
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The link to play on gamejolt.net didn't work for me, but downloading the game worked just fine.
At the start you could jump two platforms at a time which was satisfying because it was a bit risky to predict where the second one offscreen would be, but after using a jetpack your jump is just barely short of being able to go two platforms higher, and you fall right through the second one (as mentioned by @suchista and @autogibbon). It's so tantalizingly close.
I also paused the game for a minute or two and the music cycled, when I unpaused the game was mostly frozen and all I could do was point the fox left or right.
Simple and fun, what a compo game should be, great pew pew sound when clicking. Made it to 36 seconds and had fun getting there over multiple attempts. It's satisfying to get a good streak going, but I feel it can be a bit punishing when you do the burst and destroy your safe spot, especially if you weren't expecting it.
Good art, good tune, I feel like the difficulty should scale faster maybe? Even with the cat weighing it down it still went down slowly enough to counteract it by clicking.
A really neat game, well executed with lots of good little story bits throughout. It fits well with the theme, scrambling to come up with any excuse to delay having to go to school.
Cute and well made! Though I feel like it might actually be impossible. I tried a couple times and never lost by losing all my health, so I tried again not even bothering to dodge and hitting every bullet possible, even killing all the other penguins as soon as they land I didn't die by losing health and only got about halfway through before the iceberg was too low.
Surprisingly difficult, has some fun emergent mechanics like taking bullets for the VIP and body-blocking the melee hitmen. I accidentally shot the VIP an embarrassing number of times
Cool and unique, I got 363 turns in by creating a pillar of dirt 40 high, then all that was left to do was wait around and shoot at the lava with my trusty handgun.
Cool idea, it feels a bit off that as a defender you're so vulnerable, maybe even more than the guy you're defending. It's a bit buggy as well but nothing a simple restart can't fix :)
One of the hands landed on the grandma and she was pinned in place, pretty scary. Simple, short, and sweet as pie.
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Reuploaded as a .zip, I didn't realize it was a cumbersome install process
Cute game, silly and light hearted, works well with the theme and has fun variance between attempts.