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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Cm | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 37 | One room | Broken Breakout? | compo | 14 | 4.15 | 4.22 | 4.54 | 3.88 | 2.95 | 3.45 | 76 | ||||
| 2013 | 26 | Minimalism | Minimal work | compo | ||||||||||||
| 2011 | 21 | Escape | Cut Here | compo | 31 | 3.74 | 3.65 | 4.17 | 2.26 | 3.74 | 2.95 | 1.42 | 2.27 | |||
| 2010 | 18 | Enemies as Weapons | Robots <3 Monster | compo | 10 | 3.78 | 3.63 | 2.97 | 3.91 | 4.15 | 3.56 | 3.23 | 2.91 | 8 |
It's seriously hard, but I like the whole idea of using the enemies sound to power the weapons. I just kept shooting the noisy enemies by mistake and end up without any power :P
The bullets move extremely slowsly (in a nice pattern though) which makes it hard to aim over longer distances cause the enemies moves. If the the bullets were faster it would be easier to aim over distance and not shoot the "good" enemies.
Nice prototype though!
Nice concept, very hectic and chaotic!
The controls are quite hard to master (maybe you could aim with the mouse?)
The advances way too fast. You should give people a chance to learn the game before spawning the chaotic hordes of enemies :D
Please upload a Windows binary :D
Some problem as Zillix. Doesn't help not to skip the intro.
I like it and a played it a couple of times :D, but it very quickly turn into being about 4 - 3 blocks in the middle and taking blocks form the ground and put on top.
It might be fun with some big blocks/towers falling down once in a while to change the terrain completely. Otherwise it's just kind of flat and a big tower in the center.
Also you should consider making the markers for where the new blocks fall a bit more visible. Maybe a beam all the way down?
After a short while I didn't think about the falling blocks as tools, but just obstacles. I always just move blocks from the solid ground to climb on. If the cool down was longer one might have to focus more on the falling blocks. Dunno though.
A very short, but interesting quiet experience.
As for the theme you can take over the mind of a spider and use it for pulling levers or kill it, but you can't really use it as a weapon.
I like the idea and concept, but the levels are really basic and doesn't use it to the full extend. It would be awesome to create some sort of puzzle games where you had to take over the spiders and pull the right levers in order to get pass some obstacle. You have some great elements.
It can't be played on anything but OS/X?
Hmm.. It's impossible to get to the second platform due to collision errors :( Also you can't use your enemies as weapons. If the collision detection was working I bet it would be more fun :D
I just played through the game and I must say: It's way too hard and most of the time you have no idea what you're doing or where you're going. The best part is avoiding bullets and running in circles near the towers.
The controls are quite troublesome as you can turn very fast without going to a full stop (which probably mean that you're going to be hit by a bullet). Also I often hit the walls when walking in corridors.
It seems like you've aimed for too man features (different towers and levels and should maybe have focused more on the core game play. If the controls and movement of the ant had been polished, I wouldn't miss the arrow tower or rocket laucnher (especially the arrow tower.. it killed me way too often).
Nice implementation. I hope you create some more games using this "emulation framework".
It's a shame you didn't create a scenario where you actually had to use the enemies as weapons. As it is now it's not a very central part of the game mechanics :=)
I have to agree with GreaseMonkey. It's god damn hard :D
I like the simple style and I can use the enemies as weapons :D
However, I think it would be nice with some bigger purpose than just picking up enemies trying to throw them and then die.
Also I probably used more time on remembering and finding the correct keys, than I used pressing them.
At first I didn't get it and died. Then i got the idea and played through the game :D I like the idea of the first level, cause the enemy explode and clears the path if you die.
It starts pretty easy, but the puzzle and "timing" action gets harder later on. Pretty decent level design taking time in consideration.
Blog post of the process: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/?category_name=ld-18&author_name=timgarbos
Haha! I thought about that too :P It wasn't on purpose, but I guess it fits the name.
Argh! Damnit about the score. I did fix it, just introduced the bug again :P
It only happens sometimes though. It's a matter of which object that is spawned first :P
I fixed some bugs and did some balancing and added it as a Jam version. I also included some art work that never made it to the first release :) - The name actually makes sense now!
Thanks! Chrome has some issues if you switch tab while loading :(
I'm currently working on some more robots/obstacles and reorganizing the robot spawning in waves.
Great idea! I like idea of picking up the dead enemies. The controls of the ship is nice and seems polished.
My biggest problem was aiming! When I pick up the first deactivated ship and it starts shooting it feels great, but it's like it really doesn't want to shoot its friends. I can't really couldn't understand how/why the weapon rotated around the ship. It might become easier when you pick up more enemies, but it's way too hard to kill the first one.
Aaaargh!! I give up!
You can use the enemies weapons as weapons, but it's not like you can actually aim, it's more just random and not really something you think about. It could be nice if the only way of killing a robot was to make another robots blade hit it.
At first I thought that I couldn't touch the blades on the ground, which made the game impossible :P Maybe you could fade the color a bit.
All in all I don't really feel in control of the game. I just run randomly around for life/emp.
Nice back story though!
Awesome! I seriously enjoyed playing every level :D
In some levels where you have to hit the small ball, it's very hard to aim (with the small ball) and it gets a bit random. I like the randomness, but you get that when there's many balls anyways, so I think the small ball should have been bigger :) Also I don't clearly see the theme.
The idea of being able to move the target hole is brilliant!
I really like the simplistic graphics and atmosphere of the game.
I really like this and it opens up for some interesting puzzles. I didn't really get the escape key thing. You should really do something about that :)
Thanks, I am only using three images. The character, the gun, and the laser beam. Laser beam texture is reused for the goals because I was super lazy. Everything else is just solid colors and shaders.
I created sound effects with Bfxr and Audacity, but borrowed some background ambience sound.
Didn't really get it. Got stuck in the first level. S does nothing and killing yourself did nothing. What did I miss?
Yes. I got it! There are some quite nice and tricky levels later on.
I believe the Wii Play tank game that you mention probably in itself is a reference to the Atari Tanks (combat) or earlier similar games. Yours is not quite as responsive in the controls, but you added some new stuff as well.
With a bit more work it could turn into a decent tank game :)
Nice direction and visuals. Would be nice to see some gameplay and a clear goal besides the score.
Congratulations on making a game :)
Confusing at first, but I still played all the way through. Nice little thing.
Bonus points for using multiple tabs!
Would love to see you use it more... now it could sort of almost just be a button inside the game.
Pretty solid! Nothing new, but plays really well.
The beginning feels a bit slow after you played a few times though.
Fantastic polish.
Click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click click.
Paper airplanes are awesome. Would have been nice with some clear feedback when you hit something. For the best tactic was to stand still on the table and shoot everything.
Neat take on the floor is lava. It's the most promising lava floor game this ludum dare so far :). (There's more of them)
Pretty great for your second game ever.
It's quite confusing :)
It crashes on my Windows 10 x64. Log attached:
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# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
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# Internal Error (0x20474343), pid=16540, tid=0x0000000000000678
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# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0_101-b13) (build 1.8.0_101-b13)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.101-b13 mixed mode windows-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# C [KERNELBASE.dll+0x17788]
Current thread (0x000000001e618000): JavaThread "Animation Thread" [_thread_in_native, id=1656, stack(0x0000000023ec0000,0x0000000023fc0000)]
siginfo: ExceptionCode=0x20474343, ExceptionInformation=0x00000000264cca80
Definitely solid! Played it through and the freezing time/physics in frames creates some interesting moments.
The purple blocks seems a little overpowered though. Sometimes you can almost guide the ball all the way by grabbing the block in the right window and moving it.
Short cute little experience.
Super polished and it's always nice to see a refreshing take on Pong.
Nice little experiment. Would love some more control. Somehow.
Love the simplicity!
Polished and plays well. Too hard for me though.
I never really got a hang of the gravity change :)
Tile programming games are nothing new, but I like the levels and ideas.
At first I didn't notice the extra black walls on the red tile. You could definitely make them a little more visible.
Always a fun concept. Done many times before, but if it's fun why not. I don't see a reason for all the stress and fast rising lava. It's about finding the correct path and doing the jumps is hard enough without the lava.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Oh! I had missed the "http://" in front of the Mac and source download. Sorry. It's available now.
Thanks for all the feedback. I'll definitely look into making a few more levels and putting it up on itch.io sometime.
Pretty confusing. I think I killed everything, but they keep coming back. Can I win?
I didn't manage to solve it :(
With more time it could use some better feedback on the interactions, but yay! puzzles.
Neat. It gets really hard to control once you start turning too much, but who doesn't like tiny toy airplanes :)
Great idea, but I hope you get to add that something extra that it's missing. The best strategy for me seemed to just keep moving in the same pattern reaching all of the rooms once in a while.
Cute little experience. I like how the top down perspective + art style makes a donut and a bottle almost identical.
Dark.
Nice adventure, but I was stuck until I read the other comments. Please add some signs/text or something :)
Great experiment! Maybe someday it will find its way into a game :)
Tower Defenese. Nothing super new, but also not anything super broken :)
Not sure what I just played. Not sure if I did anything right or wrong. Didn't find the poster.
Nice little thing.
Very retro. Might be that I simply didn't make it far enough, but would be nice with some breaks between waves maybe. Right now it constantly ramps up.
I like the idea of you jumping on the controls, but the execution could use some more time (surprise). You can keep winning by just jumping on the shooting button.
Bonus points for letting your screenshake shake individual sprites!
Pretty and nice. Even feels nice to sink :P But the gameplay is somewhat missing. Good luck with it!
Nice little rough game prototype.
Pretty!
Npte to other players: You start the game on I.
I didn't read the description at first so I thought it was a maze and that maybe I was hunting something. So I was exploring the maze for a very long time before anything happened. Played again and it sort of worked, but then I was spoiled :)
Congratulations on your second Ludum Dare! It's a good excuse to learn something new.
You game really got that "made with unity" look, so if you decide to continue with Unity I'd recommend doing something to get rid of it. Forgot the default lighting and shaders maybe :) But hey! You made a game in a day.
Wrong web link :( itch.io says: We couldn't find your page.
Very basic and simple.
Pretty classic hard platformer. Decent execution.
Neat. I really like that your bullets are quite useless in the beginning and you have to sneak. It becomes a little too much walking/sneaking back and forth to the light switch for my taste.
Neat! Polished and elegant.
It's a little slow in the beginning after I die. If you add a skip intro or something I'll play again ;)
Hahaha! On my first play I didn't read the instructions and just build a nice dungeon hoping I would get to play it. I didn't :(
Still It's the best Tetris like dungeon builder I played today!
Well executed, but not my kind of game (or maybe I just had enough of presidents..)
Neat little thing for a first Ludum Dare. Go Blender!
Tip: If you want me to play the game again (or find it) name the downloaded folder/zip something other than "Windows". I already had 6 other "Windows" folder from other Ludum Dare games ;)
Nice premise. I always wanted to go to space... :)
Cool to mix mouse buttons and stepping on buttons. I didn't make it all the way to the end. If you're only 12 years old this is quite impressive!
Some minor tweaks that would make it a lot easier for me to enjoy. (can't speak for others)
- Walk speed should be 4 times as fast. It's about puzzles and buttons, not walking.
- combine the buttons a bit more before introducing new ones.
- Forget the enemy for now (or introduce him/she way later)