Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → svntax
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | Bomb Catchers | extra | |||||||||||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | Bomb Fuse Madness | jam | 970 | 3.31 | 3.21 | 3.58 | 4.14 | 3.33 | 3.15 | ||||
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | Solar Disturbance | jam | 1069 | 3.28 | 2.93 | 2.70 | 3.13 | 3.60 | 3.15 | ||||
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | Deep Swim Goldfish | unfinished | |||||||||||
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | Pendulum Jumps | jam | 565 | 3.66 | 3.90 | 3.92 | 3.33 | 3.64 | 2.64 | ||||
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | 👥 | Guardian Lich | jam | 286 | 3.94 | 3.85 | 3.41 | 4.04 | 3.98 | 3.79 | 3.78 | ||
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | 👥 | Solar Grid | jam | 596 | 3.42 | 3.05 | 3.21 | 3.18 | 4.03 | 3.95 | 3.13 | ||
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | 👥 | Lifeblood Arena | jam | 373 | 3.61 | 3.71 | 3.03 | 3.61 | 3.59 | 3.71 | 3.49 | ||
| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | 👥 | King's Wrath | jam | 804 | 3.07 | 2.89 | 2.98 | 3.30 | 3.41 | 3.00 | 2.58 | 3.00 | |
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | Slimeblast! | jam | 845 | 3.15 | 3.16 | 3.10 | 3.50 | 3.22 | 2.57 | ||||
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | 👥 | Dungeon Drift | jam | 912 | 3.10 | 2.71 | 3.17 | 3.33 | 2.79 | 3.03 | 3.03 | ||
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | 👥 | Lucky Drop | jam | 510 | 3.50 | 2.94 | 3.28 | 3.69 | 3.32 | 3.53 | 3.89 | ||
| 2017 | 39 | Running out of Power | 👥 | Diamond Lattice | jam | 350 | 3.48 | 3.19 | 3.52 | 4.10 | 3.19 | 2.33 | |||
| 2017 | 38 | A Small World | Oversea the Islands | jam | 2.50 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 |
svntax leaves an average of 12.0 feedback comments each event.
The game is pretty easy to beat, but the graphics are well polished and the music is great! I ended up not using the bomb rabbits much, so if there was a way to give them more potential, like for example, having enemies weak to bombs only, that could help with the balancing.
Pretty fun idea! I like how you have to think about which treasures to collect first to maximize your score since collecting them in a bad order locks you out of the rest. The wall jumping controls are a bit weird, so it was hard to get up ledges sometimes.
Fun spellcasting system, great graphics and audio, and overall nice polish. I think the game could use some balancing because after learning the chicken transformation spell, enemies were really easy to kill.
I had a lot of fun playing this game. The different cards work really well together to make each of the game modes fun on their own. I'd love to see this expanded on!
This was really interesting to play! I think if the tile generation was more forgiving somehow, it would really improve the game's potential. As it is, getting tiles together gets harder really fast after a few rows.
This is such a solid, in-depth game! It took a few turns for me to really start understanding the strategy behind conquering states and using spies effectively, but I can see now how much flexibility there is on how you can play.
This was pretty fun to play! I didn't realize until much later that you could attack the enemies yourself, or at least, the earlier ones since I couldn't kill later ones. It definitely changed how I planned to move. I had just one bug where the camera stopped working after finishing the game and then starting a new one.
I played the single player mode, and this game was a lot of fun! It reminds me a lot of the melon stack "minigame" from Yoshi's Story, but with a unique spin. The art is very charming, and the audio is great.
Really nice puzzle design! The difficulty curve felt right to me, and the game is well polished overall.
Very nice pixel art and great controls. The hp draining form seemed like it was a bit too strong or easy to work with, since you could just click and hold, then circle around enemies until you change forms, so sometimes I just waited until that form showed up to keep attacking the enemies.
Pretty fun concept, but I found it really hard to get the wall plugs to fit, so I couldn't really see more past charging one or two phones.
This is a really interesting, unique idea! Unfortunately I didn't manage to make it far. I was careless in thinking that you could lower your paranoia more than once from the same spot.
Intresting concept! It took a few tries before I really understood what to do, and eventually I managed to win. I could actually see this being expanded on by having multiple phases with different minigames/tasks to manage, and tying them all together into a larger story.
It was pretty fun being able to kick around all the different objects in the game. The narration also fits well. The only issue I noticed was that the front and back ocean waves didn't tile or connect smoothly, but that's a really minor thing.
Pretty interesting puzzle idea. With some more polish and a tutorial of some sort, the game definitely has potential.
This is a really fun game and well put together. It feels like an old-school game with how the graphics, fonts, and music work together. I liked the high-score aspect of it too, which made me want to redo some of the levels for a better time.
Pretty fun game! I managed to reach 1061m. The speed was definitely getting too fast to keep track of everything at that point. I think the game could use one or two more features of some kind to make it feel more complete, like collectibles or more movement options.
I'm not sure if I encountered a bug, but after completing a few rooms, the signs above the door started being inconsistent, where sometimes they lit up after a button press, and sometimes not. Eventually I reached a point where the music would reset, and I couldn't figure out why. The overall mood of the game is really nice, though.
The graphics are pretty charming, and the controls work well. I think you could actually take the idea of warping to different worlds further, like maybe a jogging world where you speed up for more difficulty, but it helps you lose any weight you gained from the fastfood world.
This is a really interesting take on the theme. I think the idea has a lot of potential with more polish. The trial-and-error gameplay feels a bit too time consuming, but if there was a way to speed up a playthrough, I think that would help a lot.
Nice bullet hell gameplay, works well with the theme! I experienced lag sometimes when too many particles/bullets were shot.
The rain and pixel art worked really well together for a nice atmosphere. I did wish that you could do stuff with the resources and gold, and the movement was pretty slow.
Difficult controls, but really well polished game. I was still having trouble trying to figure out an optimal way to move, but everything overall worked really nicely together.
Fun idea, and the platforming controls were great. The striped moving background got a little too distracting over time, which didn't help when trying to focus.
The looping mechanic is great! I haven't seen that sort of warping effect done in 3D before. I did end up finding a bug, though, where I think I fell too many times or fell too fast and ended up outside of the main area, so the looping broke.
This is a great take on the theme. The mood is top-tier, and everything works together really well to make the experience polished. I really want to know more after finishing the game.
Simple idea, but really well made! It feels like a complete game for mobile especially. I actually couldn't tell if the planes continued following your path as the game got longer, but I think that's my eyes playing tricks on me with so many of them on the screen.
The game gets pretty chaotic really fast. I like how solid it feels to hit back the ball. There is a bug I found where if you hit the ball from too low in the title screen, sometimes the game starts with the ball out of reach. It happened only two times for me though.
Really well polished game! I like the style. I played the web version and noticed that I could deflect back the ball even when it looked like it was a bit too late, which I think is fine since it makes the game more forgiving.
This game has such a unique and fun mechanic, it definitely has a lot of potential to be expanded on.
I was also having issues with slowdown in the web version like @seth-tal was, but I also tried the desktop build (Windows here), and while I didn't do thorough testing, I did notice the desktop version also had lag and camera issues when too many enemies were destroyed at once. Specifically, the camera would be offset extremely far away, then lag, then go back to normal.
This is a pretty fun take on a classic mechanic, and it's really well polished!
Really nice aesthetic, and the game was easy to understand. The leaderboard is a nice touch too. I wish there was a way to clear multiple tiles, since that's the kind of thing I'd expect with the grid layout.
This was so fun to play, building up more and more pieces and planning out the layout. Really great job.
Great core mechanic with the egg, charming pixel art, and I really like how the later mechanics were introduced. The only issue I had was with the jumping, which sometimes felt weird when trying to get over gaps.
This was pretty fun to play! Controlling the ball felt really natural. I could see this being speedrun if fleshed out into a full game.
This game is seriously well polished! The art, sound effects, music, and game feel all work together really well. I like how your progress is shown after you lose, since it makes you want to try again to see if you can get farther.
The controls feel great, and I like the fox character's design. The fourth level made me realize that you can lose from falling too high, which I guess I didn't realize in the earlier levels, so that was a good way of showing it.
Really well polished, I loved the intro and how it ties to the theme. At the very end after finding the last piece, I liked how the last room forced me to land on the spikes, reseting everything and reminding me of the friend in the starting room. Really great job!
I like the progression in the mechanics. Sometimes I got stuck when landing on lasers and couldn't get out, so I'd lose all my hp in the end.
Really clever use of the theme here! Collecting coins is such a simple mechanic, but the conversion rates really make it more interesting.
The main puzzle mechanic is pretty interesting. I'm not sure if I got to the ending because after the 6th room everything turned black.
Really nice aesthetic from the music and the art, and the combat controls pretty well too. At one point for some reason slime enemies stopped showing their HP bar, but it wasn't a big deal.
I got to level 23 before losing. I like how in a way, the movement getting faster actually makes it harder to collect the coins.
Pretty good platformer! The controls work well, and the pixel art is nice. Like others already mentioned, it's a bit frustrating restarting completely after dying.
Simple but really well made game! Wasn't sure what some of the powerups did, though.
Pretty good game! The combat controls are a bit difficult to handle, but the enemies give enough notice for you to move away, so it's not bad.
Really well made game! It took a few tries for me to figure out how the mechanics worked, but once I learned them, I realized that they work really well together!
Game was pretty difficult at first, but I eventually got the hang of it. Nice visuals!
It definitely took a while at first to understand what was going on since there wasn't much feedback. The audio was great though.
Really fun game! Really well polished, and the art and music really work well together. Once you figure out a certain strategy, it's pretty easy to win quickly, but the game definitely has potential to be more.
I really liked the flinging mechanic! It was fun stopping in mid-air to fling the slime again and pass through the obstacles. The flinging controls sometimes didn't respond, though.
Pretty funny game! I liked the design of the puzzles too.
This game is surprisingly addicting! I really liked discovering what unique abilities some of the units had after I possessed them. It made me keep retrying to see if I could survive longer and encounter more units. I eventually managed to win by using the attack down and ritual abilities to create a lot of spirit value for later.
This was a really fun game, and well polished too! I really liked how the unique mechanics of each character interacted with each other. The puzzles were just the right difficulty.
Pretty nice game! The balancing for the resources felt right. I managed to reach 41 days.
Really cool game! I liked how well each new puzzle element was introduced. I did get stuck on level 11 because the blue and red crew at the bottom would get stuck moving up the stairs.
I can't seem to get past the title screen. I tried different resolutions, fullscreen on and off, but nothing works. I'm running Windows 8.1 if that helps.
Really well polished game! I like the multi-purpose use of the core mechanic.
I like the mechanic here! I managed to get stuck at an earlier level, where the blue wall first appears. Both of my characters died to the flame, and I wasn't respawning.
This game does a great job at setting the atmosphere! I definitely felt very immersed while playing.
Pretty interesting game! It reminds me of Piece Out from Mario Party 5.
I'm not sure why but I was able to just walk over the holes in the terrain without falling, which spammed a sound effect, and other times it would work normally. Other than that, I really like the concept in this game.
I just couldn't beat the bat. I haven't tried the 2-player mode, but I really like the twist on arkanoid in this game, and it's pretty well polished.
This game was pretty fun! I could see this expanded on as an arcade-style game.
These drivers are so reckless.
Pretty nice and straightforward game with great pixel art!
I really like the classic feel in this game. It felt unfair that the jumping spiders could still damage you when in midair.
Pretty fun game, although it was a bit frustrating getting stuck on all four sides sometimes.
Pretty short but nice mood and graphics. I went to the controls screen first and couldn't go back, so I had to restart the game.
This is such a clever idea.
Really fun game! The driving felt nice, and the graphics and music were great. I got a blank gray screen after finishing the first four tracks, though. Not sure if that's a bug since I couldn't do anything after that.
Simple but well executed mechanic here. Sometimes it felt like I got unlucky if the red bar kept spawning to the far right several times, so I was pushed off.
At first I thought I had to navigate through some level and reach an exit, so I jumped to the right and died to spikes. I really like the art style, though.
Really interesting mechanic with the walls! I liked having to stop and think before moving in some levels.
Haha, this is a pretty clever way of using the theme.
Really great game! The game feels really well polished with the art, music, and feel of the movement working together nicely.
Really like the chaos from driving around and crashing into things! Without having played the postjam version, the game already has a lot of potential.
Really well polished art! I love the style. I kind of wish there was more juice in the moves the player made, like having jazz licks play with combos.
It can get pretty funny seeing what mess you can make after losing. The score was hard to see, so I didn't know at first if there was anything being tracked.
It was a bit hard for me to tell what I was picking up since a lot of stuff was on the screen, but interesting game anyways!
Very nice game! It's nice how fast it is to restart when you lose.
Really interesting idea with combining multiple powers together. I couldn't move on after getting the grappling hook though. It was too difficult to time the jumps right.
Loved the humor in this one when making mistakes. The music is great too!
Very nice mood. I got stuck on the part where the music changed and wasn't sure if that was the end or not.
Really great game! The multitasking was difficult but fun to do, and the game feels very complete.
I like the idea on how carrying more coins is an inconvenience, yet it's the goal of the game. Good job on the theme there!
Super interesting concept here! I really like how well this game fits the theme and the mix between two very different kinds of games.
The falling to gain speed mechanic was pretty interesting. I really liked the sprite for the big blob monster near the end.
I really like the art for this game! It would've been interesting to see more variety, but with the amount that already exists it's pretty good anyways. I was surprised when Kana started not doing work without giving me any choice.
Really fun game. The ropes were really hard for me to get onto since I usually end up moving right past them after jumping towards one.
Pretty fun puzzle game. The way the levels were designed to introduce each new mechanic was well made. I also had the bug where the controls stopped working after some restarts, though.
I really like the particle effects, although the screen can get cluttered a bit sometimes, making it hard to keep track of where everything is.
Pretty fun game. I was so focused on looking at the levels themselves that I didn't notice some of the tricks you could do like wall jumping or standing on the battery tiles to recharge.
I like the idea of having to restore the energy in a level to make it visible. I found it a bit too easy to run into the enemies though, which made me have to restart frequently.
I really liked the idea of a destructible island. Like others have already said, you can get stuck along the shore quite easily. The power-ups are nice and add variety to the gameplay.
I like the idea. If the AI was more balanced it could be more fun. Sometimes you can just hide in a corner and the AI would stay still while getting hit. Also there are some places where the shots from the planets or the enemies hit an invisible wall or disappear instantly, which seems like a bug.
LD50 — Delay the inevitable (17)
Xermatt Redux by kiririn51 2022-04-12T07:06:36Z ♥ 2
Very polished and immersive game. I played all the way through the end, and I actually wasn't sure if I got a bad ending, until I remembered what the theme was, so if that was intentional, that would've been a good enough reason to fit the theme.
Slime Zone by TheMadPangolin 2022-04-12T06:22:21Z ♥ 1
Really well designed and well polished game! I had a lot of fun playing and restarting, trying to come up with a strategy for surviving longer in the next run. The black hole fits perfectly with the theme.
Deathline by ping78 2022-04-12T06:13:25Z ♥ 1
Really great use of the theme here! The gameplay is solid, and the visuals are very nice. The grabbing mechanic really adds to the game's uniqueness.
Fated Fantasy by algodoogle 2022-04-12T06:07:26Z ♥ 2
I thought I was doing so well after finding the strategy of the ice shards special + stacking attack and movement, until I got killed by a giant, speedy vampire. Now I actually want to try again and experiment more with different upgrades. Really fun game!
Door Man by Mavvy 2022-04-12T05:51:13Z ♥ 1
Nice puzzles and polished art + audio. In one of the later rooms with cacti, the first one always seemed to miss, so I never needed to stop it. Good work overall though!
Wipeout by TheMoonrise 2022-04-12T05:41:26Z ♥ 1
This was fun to play! I think there's a good balance here with the controls and how to get more points. My only complaint is the overlap between the multiplier and the score when you jump, but that's a minor thing since it goes up so fast.
Department Of Demise by Crychair 2022-04-12T05:32:04Z ♥ 4
Fun and very well polished game! It took a bit for me to get into a good flow once I understood the controls, but after that, it was fun and hectic trying to manage the lives and read the messages.
THE EXIT WILL CLOSE by Tyler Walton 2022-04-12T05:15:31Z ♥ 0
Fun but difficult game! I had the toughest time in the frogger level with the cars, where I had trouble finding any patterns for when to move.
Time DashKing by Tryston 2022-04-12T04:53:52Z ♥ 3
Really fun combat mechanic! I always ran out of time by the time I reached the first upgrade, but it is fun to dash around the rooms and try to go fast.
Flooded Caves by nusan 2022-04-06T06:07:24Z ♥ 1
This was really really fun to play! I love it! The water physics is really impressive, especially for a PICO-8 game. I did have a bug where sometimes the left half of where the water was falling wasn't flooding to the right, but other than that (and the occasional slowdowns), this is a great entry!
Seed Of Time by theStoff 2022-04-06T05:53:18Z ♥ 2
Very well polished game here! I loved the art and music, and the controls are great as well. By the third level I realized I could shoot enemies offscreen to make things easier, which I'm not sure if that's intentional or not. Overall, the only issue I had was with the halfway time message, which sometimes led to me being surrounded by enemies after it went away.
Can't Tax Me by SasquatchBStudios 2022-04-06T05:28:54Z ♥ 1
Pretty fun game! I liked how you have several rounds to get powerups so you can do better each time. There wasn't really a reason for me to go away from the door, and sometimes the double jumping felt like it didn't work when it was supposed to, but other than that, it was still fun to play through.
Giraffe o'Clock by Kepsert 2022-04-06T05:17:22Z ♥ 2
Really great job here! The platforming felt just right, and I could see a bit of speedrunning potential because of it. The art and music were charming too.
Ceaseless Rain by CaptainCarrot 2022-04-06T04:04:06Z ♥ 1
Really well done game. Even as a "beat your high score" type of game, it still tells a story fitting for the theme. The visuals and audio work great together to set the mood. Overall a solid entry.
Column by Notinatal 2022-04-05T05:39:21Z ♥ 2
Very interesting way of combining Sokoban gameplay with each of the four mechanics. Really solid puzzles that didn't feel too hard or too easy.
Wicked flame! by Kaldrin 2022-04-05T05:26:49Z ♥ 2
Great use of the theme here! The game is really well polished with nice visuals. I especially liked the split fuse mechanic and how it's used in favor and against the player.
Bombfall by Mikado 2022-04-05T05:06:54Z ♥ 2
Nice take on the theme. I found a bug with the shoes where they don't immediately disappear when you collide with them, which ends up giving me a massive speed boost. Also you can walk off the left and right edges a little bit, but I realized there are still walls, so it's not a big deal.