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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | The Winter | compo | 137 | 3.73 | 3.24 | 3.41 | 3.92 | 4.47 | 3.65 | 4.06 | 71 | ||
| 2015 | 33 | You are the Monster | The Alchemist | compo | 155 | 3.62 | 3.12 | 3.29 | 2.95 | 4.67 | 3.90 | 55 | |||
| 2015 | 32 | An Unconventional Weapon | The Song of Aria | compo | 36 | 4.00 | 3.37 | 3.90 | 4.10 | 4.10 | 3.84 | 2.30 | 4.18 | 71 |
This was interesting, certainly different and the humour made me want to play, just actually wanted it to develop into some awesome guitar smashing gameplay. I feel like so much time was spent on building up the story and tutorial in a brilliant wacky way that it deserves more.
This game is thematically brilliant and beautiful to look at. The pixel art makes me drool. However I'm struggling with the mechanic. I think I understand what I need to do, it's just very difficult to line up the trajectory of the sword with the thing you want to hit.
I really enjoyed this. I played all the levels and finally got the hang of the mechanic. It took me a while to work out that I needed to use my body to change the oscillation of some of the boxes but once I got that it was really fun! I love the short little story and the art and music is pleasing!
This is an awesome game. I loved the audio, definitely the best part but the art is good too and the gameplay is solid in all directions. So surprised to see a 'level up' choice screen and so happy about it too! Played this for way too long. My only issue was that I thought I was invincible when I transformed :(
This is really amusing and the sounds effects and overall style made me laugh! Really enjoyed it! If I had to ask for one thing in the future it would be some computer controlled rats to race against I think.
This is really interesting and unique. I found the puzzle to be a little difficult to grasp at first but when I got it I really enjoyed the mechanic! What's best about it is the story though. It is roughly hewn but it grips you and really do want to know more about what's going on!
I had to stop playing because I put over half an hour into this game. Really good and loads to do but very challenging!
I like this. It's got tactics to it, I haven't quite mastered the game play yet.
Brilliant game so far. Actually laughed out loud! The game play and dialogue is fluid and interesting. The theme is hilarious! When the character dies he says funny lines, my favourite being 'At least I had [insert unconventional weapon here]'.
An interesting concept. Sadly I found the text at the start didn't work so I didn't full understand what was going on. The controls a little tricky, especially the dive bombing. Certainly unique and interesting though!
Hilariously stupid and funny at first. Does slow down a bit as the enemy (dragons?) are quite hard to kill without spamming millions of pianos!! Which is awesome, however the audio layers on top of itself a lot which becomes jarring. Needs more playing to see how far I can get though, definitely has that 'see how far you can get' feel.
I found this quite amusing! There wasn't much gameplay so much as just rolling through the conversations and you move very slowly. I also found that you can get stuck on the door leaving from the room with the VHS player.
This looks incredible however just getting on the sword was a bit of a control nightmare. I had to jump right on to the end of it and frequently failed making dying and replaying an unfriendly experience. The font was also not a great choice as it took me a while to work out that it meant z and not 2. Aesthetically polished, but could do with some work mechanically.
5 stars for graphics and mood. This game was beautiful. I think the gameplay and movement needed some work though, however the story kept it going!
Quite a fun game, I really like the mechanic. I love how you can bunny hop through the game and also along sets of walls. The glow makes it hard to see the edge of the level a lot though and not knowing where you end up when you use the staff sometimes leads to some irritating deaths.
I like the challenge of this but I think the enemies are just a little too fast. Timing hits on them is very tricky, would have also been nice if they had some more immediately identifiable art.
Probably my favourite game of Ludum Dare so far. This should really be put onto the market as something sell-able. The one thing I think could be done more would be a clearer tactical advantage in game for different genemons.
When I hit enter to start the game closes! :( This is on Windows 8 64bit, Exe download.
There are a few bugs but overall the idea of the gameplay is fun once I got the hang of it I managed to solve quite a few, I did make the mistake of trying to guess an exact word rather than type any that fits mostly because of the 'suggestions' that the ufos give when they leave being misleading.
Windows PC download doesn't contain a playable build :(
EDIT: Correction to my previous comment above, it does, I just horribly screwed up the unpacking. I need to go to bed... too many wonderful games to play! My apologies!
Took me a little while to work out that I had a limited fire range but after that very good fun! I like the idea behind the mechanic, I'd love to see it turned into a much bigger game!
DAT SLOW MO. Best thing ever. It didn't quite line up but that just made it more awesome! I lept towards this huge group of zombies and I was moving in slow mo and then I came out of the dive and just killed them all really fast! Fun game, though I wouldn't say that the weapon is very unconventional?
Really enjoyed playing this! It took me quite a long time to realise that each enemy had a type listed at the top, but I'm probably just really really tired. Still I got there in the end and when I did I started winning. Great take on the theme!
Took a while to work out how to play but once I did it got quite fun. Then it got super hard. I feel that your QnA about J enemies in unnecessary, I would just make them a little less tough to kill. It takes a while to get your head round the crafting and to even ensure that you get the money and parts so it would have been better if that barrier to entry was not so high. I must say the crafting was brilliant though! I love my SUPER SPIKE SWORD.
I love the ending it made me laugh. Also I like how it was one long well built boss battle and the tutorial was useful. It did get a bit predictable though, I could easily dodge.
Good fun to play and quite unique in this competition! One thing that bugged me though, the mech's feel weak... They just don't stand up to much.
Interesting but I feel like it could have added a new mechanic or something after the second level. The game didn't develop over time, it just became the same thing but just more of it.
This was really fun. I enjoyed every moment playing it, even failing was satisfying. The entire system was intuitive and easy to grasp yet brilliantly challenging and engaging. If I could as for one thing it would be for a new mechanic to turn up, some new way to develop the idea but the game is also brilliant in its simplicity.
Loved the art style, it was beautiful and the mood of the environment kept me hooked. The dogs were hard to kill, harder than the guard and I had to play it a few times to get 3 keys but I did manage it. The combat could have been easier to handle.
I like the story and the originality but sometimes I'd find that I'd collide with a rock when move past it just as I'd move up or down. It felt like their bounding box was a bit big. I didn't feel that death by the side of a rock was necessary.
This is a fun little game! However as some have said it is too easily, sadly this can make it dull quickly, if I had half the amount of money to play with I would have had to really think about my choices, so I sort of played it that way to see what it was like and I really enjoyed it! I like your take on the theme!
The controls for this game were very hard to use, and I'm not sure 'I got it'. But the art was well done and I feel that the message works if you understand what you're try to say.
The game started out very fun, light-hearted and amusing, but I think I found a few gameplay/programming issues. You can't see your mouse, so knowing where you're shooting is really difficult, and after defeating all of the slimes in the second room I couldn't proceed, but wasn't sure why. I checked the entire room.
Very relaxing but somewhat confusing. I wasn't certain what I was supposed to be doing but I really enjoyed the art and innovative idea driving the gameplay!
Amazing game! I wish I had someone to play it with! The theme idea is so unique and the game is really polished! Congratulations!
I'm going to refrain from rating this for the moment because I think the laser beams need to render before I can play it properly and rate the mechanics. I can imagine it would be quite fun if they worked!
It's interesting to see another person do a game with a blind character. I congratulate you on being braver than me and going for a more accurate and physical representation! The experience was certainly interesting. Two things I felt: the left click sound was very harsh, it could have been more subtle, and the mechanic doesn't really line up with the theme.
Great point and click puzzle adventure! Just the right level of difficulty for me! I finished it without getting bored! Well done!
The difficulty curve on this game is high, be sure to read the description to understand how to play. However once you get into it it's a really challenging and run mechanic to work with and the turn around time on failure is so fast it doesn't matter if you die a lot.
Gorgeous game. I love the mechanic, the art style, there's a lot of content here too. My only gripe would be that there wasn't enough confirmation that I'd completed a puzzle sometimes so I'd just keep trying but otherwise awesome!
This was really endearing and cute to play, the voice that comes in when you bark too much made me laugh. I found myself getting quickly overwhelmed by the shadows though.
This was amazing. I absolutely loved your last LD entry but this was even better. I can't help but give it an almost 5 star rating across the board. The game play works perfectly and kept me amused for the last half an hour. I really really like getting those promotions!
This game is quite fun, but also gets hard quite quickly. I would suggest making 'eating' automatic as I just found myself spamming ENTER. Love the art style and the take on the theme was hilarious!
Modern art. Fantastically done.
@wijnen, were you trying the web player or the windows build? What OS are you on, I can try and do a build for it!
@FlashMonkey thanks! I think I'm going to have to take a break from this game for a while... it's drained me a lot!
@Sedsibi so do I! I considered going for the Jam and getting a load of good third party samples... but I'm just too tired...
@axoona, that's interesting! What happens when you run it? Did it just not load or did it load and then not work?
This was really fun! I was very engrossed playing it, it's very simple yet perfectly challenging!
This was amazing. The mechanic is brilliant. It's like snake but better. I want more. I want much more. The graphics and audio are also very appealing.
At first I thought that this was going to be impossible to play, but then I got into a rhythm and it was just perfect! All round a good-un!
This made me laugh out loud :)
Sadly this game is almost unplayable for me on Windows 10. It is super smooth up until the monsters spawn and then it lags so badly I can't position my sword! I tried lowering the quality settings and screen resolution but it makes no difference :( I really want to play it! It looks amazing!
How brilliant! That vine growing mechanic is spot on and the whole game in general was very well made.
I really like this!! I'm going to keep it open in the background and keep playing :)
This was awesome! I played it for ages and got loads of rabbits but they all died really quickly!
This is really cool! I love the game concept. The music had a nice beat to it and I gradually got into a rhythm with the sushi!
I really enjoyed this! The mechanics are awesome! I've always wondered what it would be like to be a spider... :P
My girlfriend played this and enjoyed it, then got me to play it too :) I thought the goat flying out of the snowball was very amusing! Wish there were more avalanche effects.
On the WebGL one I get unknown compress method as an error...
Very nice! I loved the different choices of 'what I want to be' being weapons and the art is very pretty. Wish the camera would move faster with me though.
Loved the terminal and the graphics was nice, but it was hard to hit the slimes. Found myself shuffling a lot and getting hit without doing any damage back...
This is a very interesting take on both themes! And an interesting kind of game! The effort put into the dialog makes every click worth it!
Really original idea. The art is fantastic and the game feels fluid! Congrats!
At first I tried to control the ship in little bursts, trying to use minute control to accurately dodge and destroy blocks but I realised its a lot easier just to press and hold both buttons... on most levels this will complete it almost automatically... In general though this is really polished and great fun! Congrats!
I noticed that the only real strategy is to make sure you get the freeze powerup. It's an interesting idea but I think it balances itself out too much.
My girlfriend and I played this game and we both loved it! At first we didn't know if the ball was growing but once we got the hang of it we really enjoyed the mechanic! Congrats on the great game!
I liked this, the animation was great! Would have like the slash bar to refill ever so slightly though as I found moments were I could do neither abilities so I just took damage.
I found the difficulty on this just right. It was full of good design choices and plays really well. Congrats!
Hey batmanasb! I'm really sorry to hear that... I didn't know. Is the webplayer version usable for you? Do you know if there are any work arounds that I can implement for the mouse issue?
Hi Fanttum, I'm not sure I understand what you mean? Dash is either X or right mouse button?
Hi Jupiter, sorry about that! I forgot to pay for my hosting!! It went down today. Should be back up now!
The mechanics in this game are awesome. However I got to the point where I could not do any damage to an enemy at all on a certain spinner and now I'm just stuck :( he has 5 shield and I have 4 attack. I think attacks should always do at least 1 damage to avoid that problem.
I love the concept but actually landing the jump when the bells chime was a little too tricky. Shame there's no sound but the art was pretty!
I really wanted to be able to hold LMB to keep the rope there rather than press on and press off... but otherwise a good game :)
Very interesting concept! I got a little stuck on some bits, particularly a hole in the middle where I couldn't find a way out... I love the art style though :)
Loads of fun! I will probably come back and play this again :) love the art style.
This is really good. I was pleasantly surprised by the fantastic placement of checkpoints. Really kept me playing. I wish I could see my mouse though...