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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 24 | Evolution | The Unravelling Of The World By A Man Made Monstrosity | jam | 65 | 3.38 | 3.39 | 2.66 | 2.11 | 3.26 | 3.49 | 3.67 | 2.97 | 62 |
This was really, really nice. It could've done with some instructions as I just kind of blundered about at first, and knowing what each of the upgrades did would've been handy, but I really would love to see more tower defence games with this kind of mechanic. You really are onto something. Great work.
Really like the art in this. The environment looks fantastic. The sound was really good too. Also, you got a chuckle out of me when you turn into the thing with the speech bubble. It really is impressive that you managed to animate so many sprites in such a short amount of time, too.
Really nice, fun game. I felt like I was a Pokemon, which was great. The art was really nice too, although I noticed some tiny mistakes. Stuff like just flipping the sprite to do left/right movement. That doesn't work because the lighting swaps sides and that looks a bit weird. Still, that tiny gripe aside it's a really nice game. Good job.
There was a jump I absolutely could not make on the level where you get the slashing ability. The one near the bat and the snake with the two ropes and the ledge. I'd been enjoying the game though, the controls were mostly really nice (the ladders were a bit finicky but not offensively so). The difficulty was super satisfying too. It felt difficult, but whenever I died I felt like it was my fault rather than the game and that is usually good sign. Really nice work.
I got to level 2 before giving up. Super hard. Died about 50 times. Really well made game though. Controls are tight and do what you want, which is basically all you can ask for from a platformer.
You have no idea how long I was laughing for at the final boss. The game's polish and execution might've suffered because you only had 12 hours, but it was still hilarious and fun. Good work.
The game itself was a little on the clunky side. The movement felt a bit strange, and it was hard to aim the spell because you only have the standard mouse. That art and music was super super super nice though, and I got a few chuckles out of the writing. Really nice work overall.
This is a really, really interesting idea and I think given the time frame it's super well made. If you were to make this into a bigger project, I'd probably like to have more control over the shape and movement and stuff, but it's a really cool idea that's been executed pretty well. Nice job.
The art and audio are real nice, but I wasn't a huge fan of the actual gameplay.
The dead sound is suuuuuper loud. I can turn it down if it's getting to be too much of a problem. The coding situation towards the end got a bit awkward where my partner who was doing that stuff couldn't actually test the game, so the volume stuff is a bit messed up.
@ Dadeyemi - Yeah, I know that you can do that. We were trying to stop that by putting the light machine gun guys in the last room and that absolute mass of assault rifle guys, but unfortunately it just didn't work out that way. Thanks for the nice words though.
@ABPositive03 BEEP.
This was quite fun. The mouse movement felt a little bit off, but wasn't particularly too bad. A little bit more enemy variety might have been nice too. Really good stuff overall though.
I'm getting a crash on launch, Windows 7 64-bit. I've bookmarked this though as from the screenshots, this is absolutely my type of game.
I quite liked this. The spelling and grammar weirdness makes for a bad first impression, but something about the art style and the music and what not make for a surprisingly captivating experience.
Really well done. The puzzles are so well designed in this.
This is the best game I've played so far. It's really, really, really, really, really good. You've probably nailed the Evolution theme better than anyone else, the game was super fun and I laughed a bunch while playing it. Quality work.
Game of show. 10/10. Winner of 40 E3 awards. (I did genuinely enjoy it. Good job).
This could've done with slightly better pacing. Either make it all move faster so that I have to be super active or make it move slower so that I can do other things while I watch the dog grow. I really like all the mechanics though, it felt like the old digimon toys they used to make where you had to raise you're own little monster thing. Good stuff.
Nice and simple, but still quite challenging on the later levels. The movement felt a tiny bit slow but aside from that, I really enjoyed it. The music combined with the background and what not made for a really eerie atmosphere which I thoroughly enjoyed.
I really like this. The game itself wasn't exactly perfect as the controls felt a tiny bit too loose, but the core concept and the writing really tie it together in a nice way. This sort of thing would be a perfect multiplayer game.
Anyway, really good job.
I enjoyed it. It plays quite well and was really fun overall. Some of the art could've done with a little bit more polish (the chest and the apple stand out in particular) but overall, well done.
God this is pretty. Really, really love your art style. I love it so much.
The hit detection seemed kind of broken to me. I couldn't hit anything at all.
That's.. not.. what I expected to happen. (Ending SkO). Great work though, really nice little adventure and also presented really well.
Not sure if it's down your alley, but you might want to look into Inform 7. It's a text adventure engine that a friend told me about recently and, based on this, you might enjoy using it. It seems really powerful and has an "else if" style thing, I think.
This game gave me feels that I had no idea I could feel. Really good job.
Really well made entry. Incredibly relaxing and pleasant to play. I couldn't seem to make anything other than a Protostar/Brown Dwarf but it was still fun none the less. It was also surprisingly educational, which is always a bonus. Only minor criticism is that the bar at the bottom with all the writing on it took up a little bit too much screen space, but otherwise really, really nice. Good job.
Thoroughly enjoyed. 10/10.
I agree with what a lot of the other commenters said in that I found the controls a little bit too complicated for this type of game. I also didn't understand the difference between all of the various attacks. The audio and graphics were quite well done though. Good job on those.
It's a fun and well made game, but it's kind of broken. After a while you can start mashing the market button and you're generating money so quickly that you can just keep clicking and you'll win. Still, not a bad game at all. Well done.
Quite a nice game. I think some extra polish on the visual end would've been nice. The player sprite seems weird compared to the rest of the game because of the difference in scale. The idea is nice though and the gameplay seems really well executed.
Really nice work man. The way the weapon stuff works is super cool, although some indication of what each colour does would've been nice so that I could pick stuff that was appropriate to the situation I was in. Really nice art and sound, too.
Oh! I'm an idiot. I take back my criticism and just say that it is a good game then. Well done d:
Really nice work. It's sort of like a 3D metroidvania which was quite nice. Good job.
there wasn't that much strategy involved which is where it kind of falls through. the music was excellent though.
I absolutely loved this. The atmosphere was perfect, and the writing was mostly really good (a few mistakes here and there but nothing too bad). If you were to make this in a wider time frame, you'd probably want to make all of your graphics make sense as currently the perspective of the character vs the environment was a bit disorienting, but that didn't stop the game from being amazing. Really great work.