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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Cm | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 24 | Evolution | The Liver Trial | compo | ||||||||||||
| 2012 | 23 | Tiny World | This Town (ABEFTTOU) | compo | 754 | 2.44 | 2.28 | 3.11 | 3.50 | 3.06 | 2.41 | 2.41 | 2.44 | 36 | ||
| 2011 | 20 | It's Dangerous to Go Alone! Take This! | Diagnosis | compo | 71 | 3.31 | 3.44 | 3.19 | 2.63 | 3.94 | 2.44 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 1 | ||
| 2010 | 19 | Discovery | Trip (n.) - an exciting or unusual experience (source: Merriam-Webster) | compo | 98 | 2.96 | 2.70 | 2.70 | 2.81 | 2.85 | 2.77 | 2.70 | 2.79 | 9 |
The way real archaeology should be done. Simple concept but surprisingly fun, got 109 bones and 410.6 meters down before owning myself.
What's really pretty fun is moving your cursor to a point on the screen, and then mashing left-click there, seeing how far down you can get. I've gotten 48.6 meters.
Skiing on grass. Wee.
Platform engine was a bit buggy (shoved me into a wall once; forced me to restart) but I actually think that's a plus as it lets you fly across the map rather fluidly and quickly.
I didn't realize that those things were altars; was looking for a collectible item or something. Didn't realize I'd already won. Might have been better to have some visual signifier for that, but in 14 hours I understand that's not very practical.
Lastly, is that Ronald McDonald?
Amazing. Love strategy games. AI is a bit dumb though; I took the middle and ended up wrecking all three at once.
Great presentation, music (<-- THIS), and graphics. Don't understand how you do this so fast.
Nominations for best music anyone?
Played until I got 233 peanuts; found a dungeon and killed them bats and stuff. Great game, the minimalism was a big plus.
Hm. Really can't be called a game. Works very well as a generator though, haven't seen any messed up triangles.
Still laughing a little.
Great game.
Acceleration seems extremely slow to me, and there's not much gameplay going for it. Sorry :( interesting concept though, I could see this being developed further.
Stopped at the v1.1 level (couldn't find a way to get up). Concept is rather unoriginal, but somewhat enjoyable nonetheless. The theme seems sort of just thrown on there, but that's not too much of a problem (given that "Discovery" pretty much fits every game in existence). Nice work regardless, good luck.
Hey there's where that snail is from.
Neat concept and execution. Graphics could use a touch-up, though.
Left my laptop on with this for a few hours and came back with 168826 rock, 168095 energy, and 172262 plant stuff.
Really like this game. Desperately needs some form of healing though, and I think infinite upgrades would work very nicely. Music and graphics were good, and the upgrades system sort of tied it together. Nice work.
Btw, this only happened once, but one time I purchased an upgrade (the middle-bottom one I think) and ended up with negative energy. Like -76 or something. Can't seem to recreate the bug though.
Sorry, this just goes way too slow for me to be able to play. I found my mind screaming "TELEPORT ALREADY!" at the unnecessarily long parts. I tend to like games like this, where it goes however you interpret it, but the questions asked ("Who am I really?") were a bit dry and uninteresting.
I see where you're going though, and I think if you were to ask some more thoughtful ("interpret-friendly") questions it'd turn out really well.
Rabbits don't like microwave.
No no no no.
@Epskampie:
Thanks, glad you liked it. Haven't had the rocketjump bug yet but I'm sure it's there somewhere; didn't really have time to bugtest.
@Moops:
Sigh, yes. The difficulty curve is steep as hell, it's one of my main quirks about the game. Thanks for the feedback though.
To everyone else: my best time so far has been 169 seconds. See if you can beat that :)
Wow Jeebus I am sorry for being so late to reply.
@Sos: Tell your brain I am sorry, I wish it a fast recovery.
@DeathBySnail: BROTHER! Danke.
@toadfrogs: Thanks, controls take a bit of getting used to but I have to agree, they're pretty annoying.
@ranklar: Thanks, although I think the flashes are what make the game. The ending is crap though; really sort of disappointed that I had to wreck it like that. Ran out of time. 48 hours is a toughie.
@Endurion: Thanks, and again yeah, controls are pretty sucky.
@ryantouk: Took me a while to find the rocketjump bug but found it; it's just on the rightmost wall I forgot to put solid objects. I'll fix after the compo; thanks.
@tonic: The biggest mess-up I have with platformers, I think, is I always trade off controllability for freedom of motion. You don't have to deal with that airy, sticky walljump done in most other platformers, but in turn it takes forever to get the guy to jump without looking like a seizurefest. I'll try balancing the two next time, thanks for the feedback.
@Meep: Same as above really. Was actually hoping it'd scare someone a bit :)
@badlydrawnrod: One of my major failures of this game, besides the controls, was keeping the storyline tense throughout. The flashing images ended up looking a bit disconnected, more like screamers than tense points in the story. Thanks for the comment.
@ACodeGerm: Thanks :) and after the compo I was literally trying to pry my eyes awake, completely forgot about music.
@k_wright: I wish.
Thanks again everyone for the feedback, and good luck! Typed this on an iTouch, my fingers are all cramped and disjointed now :P
Really liked this. Ending drove it home. Seriously this is the best ending I've seen in a very, very long time.
..."discovered hearing" scared the crap out of me though ._.
Discoverometer!
Very well done but can get monotonous, if not impossible (eventually took me 4000 of my fuel just to get to a mining site and back).
Man I really suck at this game. Can't pass the first level, though I'm pretty sure I get close.
Can't really say anything on behalf of my suckiness. I like the intro.
Lololol is that a creeper?? :D
Very good presentation, graphics, and gameplay. Impressive how you did this after starting over once.
REINDEER FOOLS!
http://www.draknek.org/dance/?dino=310q
SUCK IT.
This is so neat I love it.
Neat game, I like the mushroom idea. Why are there so many diseases?
Oh, and I got "humpy" as a word. Huh.
Simple, innovative concept. Not much actual gameplay though. Anyhow, nice job. Get well soon.
Thought this was a necro-cannibal game for a second. Then I realized the corpses reappear after you die. Phew.
"61 people have died so you could escape." Ending makes me think, it's good. And I agree, bigger halo. Otherwise it's very unique, good work.
Okay props to innovation for sure, this is incredible. One of the coolest games I've seen so far. I honestly think this should be used for therapy.
Such a neat concept. Found the secret room but didn't know what to do with it.
And lulz at the ending. Portal throwback anyone?
Very nice job.
Heh, love the intro dialogue. Rather fun, although disappointed at the short length. Looked like you had the whole setup done too.
Ohh cake. Took me a second to figure out the controls. I like the time-traveling mechanic.
Ahah! Very clever.
Whoa, you placed! Congrats! :D
Hey SkullSoft! :D
Enjoyed this game, played it through to the end. Graphics are a bit lackluster but the gameplay makes up for it. Pretty satisfying to launch the earth into a circular fan.
Playing "evil" was definitely a whole lot more fun than "good."
Nice job overall. Also, GM games tend to get false positives from antiviruses, so it's probably clean, but nothing wrong with being too careful.
Big plus on graphics and innovation but the gameplay was rather slow, like others have said. Very cool idea.
Booyah!
Was disappointed there weren't more quotes.
Bouncing on tanks feels amazing. Not sure I quite figured out how to effectively use the allies though.
A little limited but enjoyable nonetheless.
Need to drag your file to the Public folder and right-click -> Dropbox -> Get Public Link from there. Looks pretty cool though.
WOW that is a neat concept. Props.
Thinking the game would be nice with some enemies that actively chase you and also more meteors and also more enemies, yeah.
Music is catchy.
Controls didn't always feel too responsive and the game closed out when I was one move away from killing the wizard, hmm.
Rather nice but it's also way too easy to watch the AI duke it out and pick off the scraps afterwards.
Lots of potential though, nice work.
"Want to hear a joke? A seal walks into a club..."
Hilarious and unique. Just short of full points across the board from me. Excellent work.
Augh it wasn't packaged right, why didn't anyone tell me?!
Fixed version is up. I promise there are no changes except the packaging.
Sorry guys.
...aand the working version now has a bug that pretty much breaks the game.
There's a postjam update that fixes it but I recommend you rate the game based on the un-updated one.
Augh. Same happened to my friend. Sorry.
Also XNA is just the Windows framework used with C# to make games. I'd have a standalone but there's no other way to package XNA games which is sort of retarded.
Sorry again :<
VDOgamez:
Yeah, sorry. Only way to package XNA. Included a little disclaimer in the description.
Jungorend:
The computer's harvesters are twice as strong as yours too, but that's to compensate for the fact that you can use items. The original plan was for the AI to have the same abilities as you but that got canned due to time.
Thanks both of you for playing and giving feedback!
Also for everyone who couldn't play due to graphics card problems, the postcompo version is now built in Reach mode which fixes that. It should work now.
Absolutely one of the greatest implementations of Conway's Game of Life ever. Was disappointed that the space was limited though but that's probably a whole lot better for balancing (R-Pentomino etc).
Neat game. Bit slow starting and going and it isn't exactly too challenging but the style of the game meshes really well.
Interesting game. Bit too much like Katamari but it's still one of the games I enjoyed the most so far.
Wonder what your chances are of getting PETA'd for eating the cat. :D
Has potential but like others have said, more enemies and some effects would be nice. Killing enemies didn't feel very satisfying due to the lack of response. But it's understandably unfinished so that's alright I guess.
Not sure why but killing the Mike Wazowski things is so satisfying.
Some disco music would've been great here, I think. Also a death-worm-esque combo system would've been nice.