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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | π₯ | HYPERHOP: GALACTIC LANCER | jam | 211 | 4.01 | 3.53 | 3.70 | 3.40 | 4.64 | 3.75 | 3.52 | 3.84 |
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | π₯ | Oracle Pine | jam | 120 | 3.97 | 3.65 | 3.90 | 3.51 | 4.13 | 4.18 | 2.62 | 4.25 |
| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | Hunger Sings | compo | 62 | 3.84 | 3.13 | 3.37 | 3.80 | 4.26 | 3.50 | 3.16 | 4.23 |
Very fun concept and great level designs. Level 4 was super interesting; had me going ooOOOOh and then reversing a bit a few times. Only thing is that i found it very hard to tell what the heights the blocks were
that was super creepy. I think it'simpressive how concisely you executed on the concept, and how painless you made going back and forth between scenes. it was a good transition, too! also the long......... ellipses...................... before the cat part added a self awareness to the action that saved it completely from being too predictable to be interesting. 10/10
Amazing job! it felt really good and had a lot of *awesome* animation and sounds in it. Loved the music a lot too. I think you nailed it with the mood and i especially loved the timing of the Happy/Grim theme flashes. This is also an impressive amount of art assets for compo! So impressed!
This is awesome! the game goes far behind the initial joke of making a ludum dare in a ludum dare game, and introduces an interesting puzzle that made me excited for the fictional game i was making. I favored decorative and extra elements over actual gameplay and got a bad score.
Also, the generated comments are hilarious. Great job.
i was a little confused but figured it out after a bit. It was so cute though! never found primitve spheres so adorable before wow :)
aside from not having confirmation when a module is done, this is REALLY well done. The cleverest use of the theme I've seen so far. 10/10
this is one of the cleverest things I've seen in a long time and it is executed SO well. GO you.
this lighting, archtitecture, audio, _sense of humor(!!!)_, mood, detail, the part with the smoky room and the scattered clocks, the stained glass staring at a plane that will never leave, the creepy stocks in the corner, the faces of the characters, and everything else... really really amazing and full of personality. I admire this game. it is a weird and unforgettable thing that I'm gonna keep referencing in concept and design conversations for a long time and this is the kind of gem that makes me love games. great job
holy s__ this is so rad. amazing sound and art and humor. Elon Skeevehusk turning into a mintoaur was :ok_hand:
super cute character and great platforming scenarios! :C i didn't bring enough antidotes
Phenomenal submission! Polished as all get out. The mechanic was clever and really well executed, and all the graphics were stylish and :ok_hand: the subtext in each of the options items were funny. 10/10
I made a lot fewer sacrifices than i expected to! Fun game and lovely graphics + good sound and controls. I think the player should have a little extra control in the area, as it's sometimes difficult to land on an old body in the lava and i ended up spending two bodies on both of the first two lava pits.
I'm not sure if i was successfully getting pixels back, but i enjoyed trying! cool concept, really well-done screen effect, and fun character art. gj!
When i run the executable i get the "choose a person to sacrifice" message but i am unable to do anything, no buttons or clicks provide input. D:
That was a lot of fun! i got into a groove when i realized you can grab bodies from far away with the ranged spell. I never used the AoE spell, though. I think the timer might be too short to encourage the player to leave the small circle around their blood-pit, even though there's a thick crowd of enemies waiting northways on the map.
i couldn't goat the game to continue after the third time in the field but boy do i feel charmed and into goats right now! this is a TON of polish for the amount of time oyu had. Way to go!
Wonderful audio and art! super well done, and so polished. Only complaint - I didn't realize i had opened the game yet because i had so many LD tabs open, and i kept hearing the offerling go "woooOOOahh" every ten-ish seconds and i was SO SURE i had got funny virus from one of the games i downloaded.. so i was super mad at your game when i started it.
i warmed up to it though :D
I got stuck on level 5 but it was super interesting and i LOVE the style. this reminds me of some games in this vein ive played before, limited movement creating difficult spatial puzzles, esp. steven's sausage roll, but I haven't seen any with the space limited in quite this way, and that made this very intriguing! great sound and art 10/10
This game feels pretty good, especially for a jam game, where moving doesn't always feel so good haha. Very chill vibe and great visuals. I thought it was a little too easy; I didn't feel any pressure to upgrade anything but Boost, and i only hit 1 rock when it loaded inches in front of me while boosting. I had fun though, and happily made it all the way to the end :)
The health pickups didn't work for me, so i was never able to summon more than 1 ally, and it seems like the enemy spawns wait for you to summon another, so the game stops for me. Great idea, aesthetic, and control, though!
Hey that was great! excellent graphics and (o.o) nice grass, nice stylistic choice to guide the sheep with a trail of blood. The game's rules were intuitive and it was a lot of fun. I think the black sheep are a little to fast at the end to feasibly keep up with the impatience of the gods, but i didn't mind losing when i saw the ending. good job!
I didn't have anyone to play it with, so my left hand one and I'm sour about it. Awesome visuals and sounds, and a good menu. great job!
That was a pretty fun! I didn't find that i never took long enough to sacrifice more than the free (meat chunks?)in the beginning, so the sacrifice didn't real become a major part of the gameplay. However, the visual style, audio, and combat were all very enjoyable. It makes me wonder why there aren't more top-down melee dungeon crawlers that i know about :thinking: good job!
two people have mentioned that they thought the end of the game was a bug so I'll clarify: it's totally the end of the game, lol
:D thanks everybody!!! I appreciate these comments so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i was very confused for a bit but managed to get to a place where i could keep the world alive and the pup god happy! never figured out the shop though. I just clicked buttons until the god was happy. i LOVE this concept for user interface, especially in that making it spatial forces you to commit time to traversing it, and causes you to neglect one aspect while addressing another. Cool game!
Hey this is so wonderful and memorable and i'm gonna go make noise about it to other people and reference it when i talk about game jams ok bye
link doesn't work but i'll give 4 stars in humor because the title is a great pun
I got stuck, couldn't figure out the code for the safe and wasn't able to interact with anything else. I tried all the dates in the notebook, the date of the case of the man with a hole in his brain, evene Margritte's birth and death years and the date of his painting 'Decalcomania'. Despite that i didn't finish the game, though. i REALLY love this. awesome work. Like the person above said, this has got a lot of soul and love for game dev/storytelling in it. Really creative idea to have blocked dialogue options, just like the turn Alice couldn't make while driving in 2036.great job.
WOW that's a brilliant. Awesome idea and very well executed. Thanks :D
This was wonderful! I saw a handful of takes on the theme that were about being able to speak, but this one was by far the sweetest!! <3 amazing concept and art, and writing! Thank you :D
I love making 'find your pants' the main objective in a survival game :D
adorable game with an adorable title. I found it a little non-obvious which direction to go, but i don't mind learning the course before trying to get a good run on it. Beautiful art and adorable character! Thank you for the fun game :D
hey that was incredible. Thank you. goals is making stuff like this some day
I got out! i loved the concept and the art style very much and that is one of the best game titles ive ever heard :D
84! **i could have sworn than yellow was blue and green**
amazing touch with the slider noises !!
I'm impressed with how captivating such an ultra-simple concept and implentation is. Very well finessed :D
brilliant idea!! I loved trying to guess where i was and always being wrong and bumping into something haha
This is so extremely interesting and heavy. Took a long time to figure out, and each time i learned something new i was floored. and sad. This reminds me a lot of https://tak.itch.io/agppbp this game - in the way that it simulates text anxiety, and the awful feeling of receiving a negative or stressful text. Thanks!
These are some good good dense vibes!! lovely music and lighting, animation and concept. I got stuck, unable to click on a spring box, but dw i enjoyed my time :D
This was wonderful!!!!!!! beautiful, beautiful art, sounds, music. I enjoyed it all the way through. This was amazingly polished for a jam game! Thanks for making it!!
@morrilet I'm so glad you liked it!! :D thank you. I can see why you'd think that was a crash - we needed the game to end and didn't have for a main menu to go back to.
@jonathan-fischer! Thank you!! i think you're definitely right about the ending. I'm happy with how it turned out though, given the ending came together in the last hour of the jam :sweat_smile:
This art style rules. also the music and the concept. Hey i love this
Wonderful platformer! impressive to pull together so many good levels in a jam. Adorable animation and :ok_hand: graphics
That was a lot of fun!! awesome music and visuals. that zig zag enemy took like 15 shots to hit. i would be a terrible star
I'm just as bad at this as i am at regular etch-a-sketch - love it though :D
WOW I LOVE THIS A LOT. like a lot. so much. Beautiful art, beautiful sound design, wonderful amazing narration, and the most thought provoking and brilliant take on theme i've seen yet. This is definitely my favorite entry so far. I have decided that you win the jam
This is such a cool twist on the fish eat fish/eat stuff that's smaller than u to grow mechanic!β Awesome art and sound!
The game doesn't work for me, I can't jump or move - *however!!* i absolutely love so much the visual style. A++
ADORABLE ADORABLE ADORABLE
The art styleis wonderful!, and I love building with nature elements, reminds me of Islanders: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1046030/ISLANDERS/
I would love to see this become a laid back landscape-building lite puzzle game! :D
ayyyy they were just walking funny because they lost a shoe, nothin weird about that
I love so much when people narrate their Jam games. This was no exception, great work!
and fANTASTIC art as well. Thanks for the cool game :)
Really cool concept! It's like being a little planets-parent and keeping them all from hurting each other/themselves while they grow up. Great art too :D
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took me AGES to figure how to play, but once i did... i've been playing a while O.O
i LOVE this! I think the tutorial was pretty confusing though. I appreciate the minimal tutorial screen, but it took me a while to realize the main game loop was, "pick a letter from the previous word to start with, and then type a new word, and hit enter to go down a floor and start a new word. The new word should follow four rules: 1. consonants go on blue 2. vowels go on cyan 3. letters in the same column have to match 4. you MUST use letters in yellow columns
.. although that's pretty verbose so idk. maybe just a gif showing somebody playing a few words?
I'm going to keep playing this for a while I bet. :D Thanks!
Hilarious and suprisingly fun for how simple it is! I laughed a bunch in the moments where i was holding the watering can half-tilted above the cactus waiting for it to want something.
It was a little confusing at first when i was trying to water the cactus but it continued to want water. Since the physics are so wonky i couldn't tell if it just wanted water again or it never received what i gave it. If there was a sound, or some kind of visual feedback - even a "nice job u watered it" - that would be plenty avoid confusion.
:D pretty inspiring to me particularly as I've been talking with friends a lot lately about making gardening games
I loved the beginning of the game! extending roots down into the soil was a very pretty and relaxing experience. I thought the platforming sections were a little too long - i spent almost 10 minutes in the first one i found. And i kept getting hit when trying to lend on small platforms with worms on em, because the player can't attack until a second or two after landing. I kept getting pushed off the platform and having to retrace my steps.
Still, i enjoyed it, and was super inspired by the beginning section. Watching the leaves sprout upward from the plant was nice :)
@congusbongus Thank you! We've managed to clean up the project and get a better build out - it should be a lot better if you want to try it. :D and now that we've got that together it's time to play some ldjams and give some feedbacks
@god-colo THANK YOU WE ARE V PROUD OF IT :) ! and yes we finished up a bit late during the jam and didn't have time to get a proper build out and decorate our game pages, but we have now got some nice gifs, a thumbnail - the works !!! :)
@pilarius Thanks for the reminder! we finished up a bit late and didn't have time to get our stuff together, but now we've got a fancy cover art and some gifs and everything.
I really like the idea of having this complicated an unweildy neck rig to control an otherwise simple behaviour. Putting the TV in the way of checking the status of the melons was super clever. I ended up just spamming the red buttons though, so i didn't need to check on them.
maybe if you lowered the frequency of crows, and made it so pressing the hammer when there's no crow smashes the melon? that way players would be leaning over back and forth to check when it's time to smash the button, engaging more with the unusual control scheme.
Also, when i turned to the left and right, there's a long smoothdamp time before the head comes to rest looking at a remote. I kept trying to press the small red button during this time, but missing because of how long the head keeps turning/damping. I like that it takes a long time because it adds complexity to the neck rig, which adds to the challenge of switching positions, but didn't like that i spent a long time aiming for the button on the remote. If the water and hammer buttons were really big and arranged vertically instead of horizontally, you could keep the look time but have a less uncomfortable experience trying to aim at and push buttons.
Anyways, this was fun and an unusual take on the concept of taking care of a plant! Great job :D
This is a beautiful example of expressing abstract ideas with game mechanics. I really thought it was just going to be a tamagotchi, and i thought it worked really well that that's how the game is presented until you realize what it's about.
Great job, I loved it. :)
also, DreamRock.exe.zip (your mac build) has 'exe' in the title, but does in fact contain a mac build. It tricked me when i tried to download and play it on windows