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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | 👥 | TARANIS | jam | 1002 | 3.32 | 3.15 | 2.97 | 3.67 | 3.55 | 3.50 | 3.15 | 3.26 |
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | 👥 | Yellow Submarine | jam | 3.30 | 3.40 | 3.40 | 3.70 | 3.70 | 3.12 | 3.37 | ||
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | 👥 | Ambulance Drifter | jam | 1017 | 3.57 | 3.72 | 3.53 | 4.33 | 3.71 | 3.64 | 3.59 | 3.60 |
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | Thierry's Adventure | jam | 876 | 3.10 | 3.05 | 2.57 | 3.12 | 3.57 | 2.78 | 3.13 | 3.05 |
Let's be honest the game is quite easy. However, I really love the cute graphics and the idea of using "the power of liquids". The game obviously lacks audio, and maybe you could have make a bit less levels and have a basic audio loop or some sound effect when pouring liquids. Overall I really enjoyed the game, great job :)
There are a lot of small details that make your game simple yet very addictive, I spent almost one hour optimizing my raft. Really cool game GG
Pico-8 <3 Your game is really cute, I loved it :D
The game is incredible, the only regret I have is: only one level. great job!
Yeah I know about the walljump. We spent waaay too much time on it and decided to leave it with bugs in order to work on other stuff. Thanks for the review :)
Wooooow the transparent window is soooo cool i love it really :D <3 All the screen effects are really cool ! The music is really intense, and everything fits perfectly together :) Only regret is the terrain looks a bit flat. I really love your entry good job :D
It took me some time to understand the mechanics, even with the tutorial. As i am colourblind I have trouble at recognizing yellow and green. The level that introduces the - sign just blocked me for a while since i was trying to find a way to generate purple (or pink idk) with the wrong colour. I would have preferred if colours were replaced with good old numbers, but i guess it would be less apealing. To finish on a good note i think it was quite a good idea to introduce operations with the stack in this kind of game, and the tutorial introduced the main rules quite well. (I would enjoy it more if the green was darker)
I enjoyed the music and graphics, however it often happens that i can't jump or i can't go upstairs anymore, sometimes I also clip through the floor and i'm stuck. I can't really give a feedback for the gameplay since all these little bugs ruined the experience :/ If you release an update fixing these I'll be happy to try it out again ! The idea seems great anyways !
It's exactly the kind of game mechanics i usually like playing with, but i don't really like this one. I think it could be awesome if the heart had an other purpose than just making me restart the game. For the audio, the "heartbreaking" and "prshhh" made me laugh at first, but in the end it drove me mad and i ragequit mostly because of it. The game isn't bad but the mechanic has a lot more potential and you did not make use of it, that's too bad. Anyways good job for not giving up the jam and hope to see your mechanic evolve in a future game :)
Same remark as @snowirbis, at least changing for arrow keys would be great. The random map generation is a good idea since it makes every game different, but i find that it has a too strong impact on the progression. Sometimes I spawn right next to a room full of fuel and i can almost skip the level instantly, and sometimes I can travel almost the entire maps before finding the first fuel. If you fix it the gameplay would be much better. The game lacks animations and maybe the visuals are too abstract. The music fits your olympic stuff great but at some point I muted my speaker because it was just too repetitive and too high-pitched. Nice entry anyways and great job !
I don't know if I should tell your game is cute or gore, poor rabbits :( Amazing pixel art, the music is kept simple but it does the job and it fits the ambience. The idea is great. Maybe you could add another way to go to the next day ? I found it really boring to go back and forth across the map... The pace is pretty slow so adding an other way to control the population could be really great. What about choosing or not to feed them by dropping food on the ground ? Good job anyways :)
It took me some time to understand what to do, you may add a short line in the intro to explain the goal. Also it feels a bit long. I died right after the third stage of the pet because the animation speed didn't let me the time to feed it. Maybe i'm still missing something. The audio tracks you chose for the music are perfectly fitting the atmosphere. Overall I did not like the game that much because I felt completely lost and didn't know what to do except waiting ang looking around.
Very intense game. I constantly felt overwhelmed by the monters, and had to rush across the different floors in order to protect the guy. The pixel art is nice but you should be more consistent for the resolutions of your sprites. The audio and the music fit perfectly your game. Great job !
Thank you all for your comments :D During playtests many friends told us the game was too hard and we thought about adding "easy", "normal" and "hard" modes. We'll make an update for this and some other minor stuff. Btw @ohfiddlediddle I really like your suggestion, maybe we'll add it ;)
Wow really cute game here! I really like the art and the music. However the UI does not really fit the style. Maybe not enough time to work on it ? In the tutorial there is a word missing at the end of the first page ("mouse" i guess). By the way I like the idea of an interactive tutorial, it really helps getting into the game and understand the rules. Overall I really enjoyed it great job ;)
Great game, the black and white handdrawn art style is cute. the game is a bit short and some hitboxes a bit too small (I was blocked for 5 minutes at the end just because I did not drag the object at the exact spot (i'm not telling the exact moment because I don't want to spoil). Great job on this one :)
Not the first game i play with the mouse as a character but this one is the first that reminds me of good old platformers with its difficulty. Idk if it was a bug or if it was intended but the mouse felt "heavy", with some kind of lag, which made the experience slightly less great. Keeping the graphics simple was a great idea to help the player focus on the path. Level design is great but i would have changed the order of some levels to smooth the difficulty curve. Also maybe add more checkpoints could be one way to improve the game. Great entry though !
The game is kept simple but it does the job. I wish it was a bit less repetitive. Keep doing jams you'll get better and better :)
Cool game ! Your game has a really unique look, mixing pixel art and low-poly 3D I love it :D The game is a bit hard, and I wish Bubbles could take a step back to jump further, instead of having to do a 180 degrees turn each time. It is also really fun to mess around with the props and make everything fall. The level design is not perfect but it's great, maybe with smoother controls it would feel better. Also the UI and music remind me old black and white movies, a perfect fit for Grandma! Great job guys ;)
Your game reminds me Daedra princes quests in TESV ! Shbolga has a nice model and textures and the background looks nice. However the rest of the visuals were a bit too simple in comparison, which makes a huge contrast and make the game look weird. I really enjoyed talking to the npc's and it adds some lore to the game. Cool entry ;)
Could have been funnier. You definitly put some effort in the pixel art and the graphics. The audio is great. Maybe there could have been more game mechanics, because the game feels a bit "empty". Maybe some kind of power up or debuff ? One thing that made me laugh is the baby spinning crazy. It really feels like it is one of your first games, but for a starting point it is not bad at all. I hope you learned a lot making this game and I want to see your progress with your next games :)
Completed the game in 23:56, was super fun and challenging. Really nice level design and cute art style. I also liked the the dialogues with the vet. The music is not that bad but it's waaayyy too repetitive. The sounds the giraffe makes, like the "wheeee" and "ouch" are really funny. Pleeeaaase add more levels and a death couunt! Super cool game :D
Stairs are my true nemesis in this game xD It was really fun to play, but the game lacks some music and diversity in the textures.
Quite a fun game. I only found two ways of winning, and all the gameovers I had were because of bankrupt. Never found a way to lose because of diplomacy or justice. It would have been great if more decisions had an impact on the rest of the week and more branching
@antti-haavikko Wow thanks for your comment!
We are aware that the game can be improved a lot and I thank you for all the things you've noticed. Some members of the team were learning Unity during the jam, and much time was spent teaching them how to use the engine. Even with the issues you mentioned we are proud of what we accomplished here.
Anyways thanks for playing and finishing the game, and thanks for the comment :D
PS: The things that "looked annoyingly like something you should pick up" are just some kind of easter-egg!
I like the pixel art style, and the game feels great to play. However there are a few glitches with camera transitions (especially in level 2) and the character sometimes gets stuck in the ceiling while in air. Also I found the colliders of the spikes a bit too big compared to the sprites and some deaths felt a bit wrong or unfair. And I was a bit disappointed to be able to beat the final boss with only 3 hits. The music was saturating from time to time, but overall it had nice rythm and fit the game pretty well. Please note that these issues don't make the game bad or anything, I enjoyed playing it :)
The visual style is pretty nice, however the audio track and the voice acting are really weird and don't fit the rest of the game. The score increases veeeery slowly and there are quite a few errors popping in the unity console. The UI doesn't scale well if not playing full-screen. I liked the introduction before the title screen, it reminds me some old point & click games. Great job overall
Great game, the mini-games are super simple but really easy to fail if you're not attentive. The visuals and audio are really nice and the game feels polished. The only regret I have is that clicking minigames seems to appear more frequently that others.
My highscore is 67 on my 3rd attempt, mostly due to luck I guess ^^
The game looks amazing! It is obviously inspired by Little Nightmares for the style gameplay and ambiance, and I love it! Some details like the camera movements, the step noise and the colliders to prevent the character from falling while in the elevator make the game feel really polished. Congrats :D
I got really confused about what to do. And the words are overlaping each other so it is super hard to know which one I clicked :/
Loved the references to DS1 in the description :D
The game lacks some visual and sound effects to feel nice. Maybe add some visual helps like a charge bar for the jump and an arrow for the direction could help a lot (maybe too much though)
I found a way to consistently get almost to the finish with only 2 jumps (SPOILER: by jumping straight up to the red platforms and getting a bounce up to a safe spot)
Wooo super cool platformer here :D Player controls feel really nice and the levels have a neat design. I really enjoyed the fluidity when chaining jump pads together. There are only a few levels but the game feels very polished and juicy with all the visual and sound effects. Loved it!
Super cool game I had so much fun xD
The game is filled with small effects and details that make it juicy and fun to play. I liked the animation of the driver turning the steer wheel when pressing left or right buttons. The soundtrack seems short to me but it is not too much repetitive which is nice, and it has a nice eurobeat vibe, which is cool