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YearLDThemeGameDivisionRankOvFuInThGrAuHuMoCo
201636Ancient TechnologyForbidden Ruinscompo
201635ShapeshiftShift Citycompo1353.693.693.663.533.842.572.783.1262
201533You are the MonsterMutant Snakopedecompo783.813.783.804.243.522.733.253.3379

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Comments by TLansdale

LD33 — You are the Monster

Gleeok by recursor 2015-08-24T20:06:00

Cool idea and good fun. Losing out on meat because it's out of reach is a bit frustrating, though.

Autobahn Monster by Indyo 2015-08-24T12:28:00

Fun little game!

Milky Helps People by reheated 2015-08-25T13:23:00

Easily my favourite game of the competition so far. Great story, very funny, and the logic puzzles are solid. Awesome.

The Walls Have Ears by Ysty 2015-08-24T11:37:00

Cool take on the theme, nicely implemented. A bit depressing but I guess that's the point :)

Hungry Beast by ovenchips 2015-08-25T07:53:00

Nice game. Tongue didn't always seem to snag the flies.

My Cup of Fury by One Seed Fruit 2015-08-25T07:30:00

Moving didn't seem to work for me - I could only fire on the spot. :/

Bombster by DesignerNap 2015-08-24T13:46:00

I enjoyed bombing the goofy monster! It was a bit tricky to get the hang of landing the shot, but I managed to get there without destroying toooooo much of the city.... :)

"Real" by callmemonamiral 2015-08-24T18:43:00

Looks great, the maze section at the end was pretty challenging - good job!

Fluffles the Friendly Puppy by loadsofmana 2015-08-24T23:18:00

Entertaining and silly, I like it :)

Shadow Creature by Halleflux 2015-08-25T11:04:00

Fun idea, I liked the world map!

Evolution by sapermysz 2015-08-24T12:32:00

Firing seems a little bit unresponsive, but other than that - fun game!

His Majesty's Monster by CivvyThePandaTM 2015-08-24T18:34:00

Ambitious idea for a gamejam, so kudos for getting a working mini-DK going! Agree with the other commenters that the UI could've been cleaner, but good UI is a *lot* of work and it got the job done :)

I'd also suggest perhaps slightly more monstrous sprites for the workers/minions - the abstract colour sprays didn't really convey what was going on as well as they might have.

The Werewolf Can Always Lie by Laddo D 2015-08-24T23:30:00

Really enjoyed this, well done.

Monster City Rampage by KamikaziUk 2015-08-24T12:25:00

Looks good, and Clive is nice and responsive, good work :)

Interloper by hoqjed 2015-08-26T18:37:00

Good idea, and good execution too. Felt like you could win "by chance" quite easily by simply being in the right place at the right time, but it was a cool vibe, watching other cells fight and stealing from them :) Happened to me too, so I guess what goes around comes around!

Archaeologist Invasion by Ixeno 2015-08-24T11:55:00

Really good job, solid.

Akumajou Crapula by MaesK 2015-08-24T20:13:00

Nice idea, Alucard made me laugh :)

Nice Monster by walaber 2015-08-24T10:51:00

Cool idea! I found this theme quite difficult to be creative with but you've done a great job. Challenging, but nothing wrong with that :)

Volcano Charge by Pantelis Petsopoulos 2015-08-24T11:20:00

Funny audio! Quite hard too :)

Blobs are stupid by thebmxeur 2015-08-25T22:34:00

Gets a bit tricky when the dead blobs obscure the living ones :) Nice and responsive though, good job!

Monster Truck vs Aliens by SuperChihuahua 2015-08-24T10:45:00

It would be nice if the truck was a little quicker. Nice art though :)

withered by okeedokeben 2015-08-26T18:32:00

The mechanic wasn't obvious at all at first glance, but I eventually figured out why I kept dying and then very much enjoyed it. Great audio and a lovely finish :)

You, Zombie by HawkSandwich 2015-08-24T19:42:00

Quite tough in the early game, but very satisfying to get over that crest and win :)

Crazy Monster Drivers by shimage 2015-08-25T07:45:00

Fun game, well done :)

Razed by kewleus 2015-08-25T07:49:00

Would've been nice to have less health but some way of protecting yourself, but was still lots of fun. Nice entry!

Odell Abyss by Johnicholas 2015-08-24T19:46:00

Short but sweet!

Shadow Fright by togie 2015-08-24T20:00:00

I enjoyed this! Nice idea, would happily have carried on playing it if it were a little longer.

Ancient Storm: Legends of the League of Defence Heroes 2 by 3CGames 2015-08-24T23:13:00

Fun idea, really captures the joy of being sworn at by strangers over the internet :)

Release The Kraken by AndyGates 2015-08-24T11:47:00

Difficult, but fun! Good job :)

Undetected by Robinerd 2015-08-25T19:37:00

Cool idea, well-executed. Not really seen anything like this before. Nice one!

Hungry Monster Attacks by garvon 2015-08-24T12:22:00

Fun and responsive, gets quite hard as you get bigger and all the creatures get faster. Nice job :)

Damage Control by peterkirk 2015-08-25T07:23:00

Nice game, I liked the sketchy art. Difficult, too!

Minos by bufferoverflow 2015-08-25T22:48:00

Really nice idea, good execution too. I enjoyed using the map to chase the little cubes :)

Lair of the Scare by RockhopperGames 2015-08-26T18:26:00

I enjoyed this! Fun concept and fun sounds. Would've been nice to have some indication of where to find the heroes, but it worked well!

Lovers on a Park Bench by peterthehe 2015-08-24T11:02:00

I am a murderer :( Good job though, nice to see a bit of typing gameplay!

Village Terrorizer by Flygamer101 2015-08-24T16:59:00

The village growing was pretty cool, though it was hard to fight the guards without dying.

MonsterCorp by EwChap 2015-08-25T07:27:00

Fun idea! The headlines entertained me greatly :)

Good Night Monster by Multiplexor 2015-08-26T18:16:00

Lots of fun! Very cathartic smashing up the huts and towers :)

Monster Hunt by JK5000 2015-08-25T07:35:00

Nice idea but it seemed to be hard to get the monster to defend himself. Lots of potential though!

Everybody Hates The Fishboy by cgriff 2015-08-24T13:04:00

Poor fishboy! *I* will mourn him.

Power Lich by rattower 2015-08-26T16:28:00

Really cool, enjoyed this one!

Blue Helmet Beatdown by madjackmcmad 2015-08-24T11:14:00

Lots of fun, and lots of variety in enemies/pickups. Nice one!

Human Hunter by spatanz 2015-08-25T07:39:00

Fun arcade experience, really nice game. Good job!

Be My Friend ! by Infokub Arcade 2015-08-24T19:51:00

Good fun! Love the music :)

Sweet Mom by Grhyll 2015-08-24T12:14:00

This is amazing. Love it :)

Monster Escape by KPapaGeorge 2015-08-25T19:43:00

It seems to be hard to get a "high" jump, is there something I'm missing? Nice idea though!

Duskwalker by tayl1r 2015-08-24T13:59:00

I did it, I murdered all the cultists. That'll show 'em.

Running From Pitchforks by puddelipip 2015-08-25T22:37:00

Nice idea, good use of the theme!

Mutant Snakopede by TLansdale 2015-08-24T10:32:00

Thanks for the nice comments everyone - I turned on humour and audio as voting categories as I can't really think of a good reason why I turned them off in the first place.

Mutant Snakopede by TLansdale 2015-08-24T18:25:00

Sorry to hear that Grhyll. An Xbox controller should work too, if you have one of them?

Cheats at Marathons by Not Breathing by tc4mpbell 2015-08-24T13:07:00

Great concept, well executed. Nice one!

GameApi world by terop 2015-08-24T11:25:00

Great graphics, though I'm not sure it's working properly - was very stop-start and I'm not sure what I was doing.

Still, really cool art, not seen anything like that!

Nailed by OutlawGameTools 2015-08-24T11:04:00

Pure and simple gameplay, good work :)

Tales of the Memory Dragon by raducumiczzz 2015-08-24T12:35:00

Lovely graphics and music!

Aberrant by Cake_Catastrophe 2015-08-25T22:43:00

Cool use of the theme, fun too! Good job :)

You are the monster by Arowx 2015-08-26T13:30:00

Ambitious use of physics, nice idea though I was a little confused at how to control the red blob thing :)

KITTEN KILLER! by Cryptix 2015-08-24T10:55:00

Well, I definitely felt like a monster.

Simple and fun, good job!

Motherflipin' T-Rex! by mantis 2015-08-24T23:33:00

Game is exactly what is promised. Lots of fun, good job!

Heavy Metal Monster by Manoloko 2015-08-26T18:20:00

Fun game, I liked the goofy look on the guards faces when you kill the girl :)

The Cauldron of Humanity by Lashiz121 2015-08-24T10:41:00

Fun idea! A tutorial would've been helpful, I didn't realise WASD moved me, but once I worked that out I was away. Gets quite difficult :)

LD34 — Two Button Controls / Growing

Left-leaning by tayl1r 2015-12-15T17:16:00

Why was there only one horn? There should've been a horn on each button.

Great game ;) Last level was a killer, I couldn't do it, but lots of fun and looked good too. Nice one!

Galactic Growth Commander by DesignerNap 2015-12-14T10:41:00

TOO MUCH PLANTS

Good game! I found a bonus secret object too ;)

LD35 — Shapeshift

The Great Transmuter by Yarg 2016-04-18T17:40:00

Nice idea! The collision bugged me a bit but other than that, good job!

OmniDrone by OriginalBigDan 2016-04-18T07:25:00

Fun game, transforming into a plane and zooming to where you want to go works really well. Good job!

Space Cows from Taurus by goffmog 2016-04-18T17:32:00

Woo, a fancy terrain! Nice :)

The Cargo Shift by DesignerNap 2016-04-18T20:08:00

Great game DesignerNap! Very chilled out. "Some" cargo may have gotten lost under my watch. Some might even say too much.

The Mech Republic by aviktorov 2016-04-18T20:50:00

Really difficult, but very cool! Well done :)

The Ship-Shape Shift by greysphere 2016-04-18T18:56:00

Nice little game! Love the music.

PowerShift: The People's Republic of United Democristan by nintendoeats 2016-04-18T20:14:00

Very confusing, but I like what you were going for! The music is great.

The Ooze by Danman9914 2016-04-18T19:49:00

Great work - succeeding on all fronts. Really good entry, well done!

The Dark Room by Laralyn 2016-04-18T17:16:00

Can it be completed? I reached a "To Be Continued" point.

Very cool though, well-written and intriguing. I want to know what happened!

CHORUS by Pantelis Petsopoulos 2016-04-22T16:19:00

Nice idea - perhaps could be made better by using colour to differentiate the shapes?

Totem Chess 2 by ceosol 2016-04-18T17:24:00

Nice idea but it's very hard to see what attacks you're cooking up or learn what made them fizzle. Great music though!

Battle of Britain 2 by SuperChihuahua 2016-04-18T12:15:00

A little confusing, but the planes looked great swooping around. I couldn't really read what the green squares were or where the attacks were (from either me or the planes). Maybe a few quick particle effects would make that clearer?

Good job overall though!

SHIFT by Wevel 2016-04-18T17:48:00

Complicated concept, but very interesting! Well done :)

Squishy's Escape by owyoow 2016-04-18T20:18:00

Very nice, simple and well-executed :) Good job!

Posthistoric Ooze by hunttis 2016-04-18T12:40:00

Lovely little game, I must confess I didn't manage to complete it! Was there a way to delete totems? That would've been very useful.

Great job.

Pasowix's Magical Shapeshifting Workshop by glaze_96 2016-04-18T17:56:00

Great idea though some of the puns and the pixel art made it very hard to guess lots of them. Still, I made it through and I appreciated all the wordplay :)

Polymorphic Menagerie by Soron 2016-04-18T12:28:00

Fun idea - just wish there were a few more combinations! Great job.

The Esoteric Order of Shapeshifters by Somnium 2016-04-22T16:44:00

Really enjoyed this game, well done! It was initially a bit unclear what was going on - but once I understood the system it was pleasantly challenging and fun to advance in.

Chocolate box factory by BoltKey 2016-04-18T12:31:00

Good interpretation of the theme, well done on implementing procedural level generation!

Go Spell It On A Mountain by cgriff 2016-04-18T12:56:00

Great stuff. Really captures the feeling of being brought low by your own past incompetence and failings as a human being.

Legend of the Bucca by A Little Red Panda 2016-04-18T12:10:00

Lovely art, I really liked the Celtic designs on the waves. Good job!

Star Shift Journey by Asturk 2016-04-18T12:45:00

Hints of Ikaruga! Good game. Quite challenging as it required quick switches, but very easy to get into. Well done!

DroneWatch by zzapp 2016-04-22T16:14:00

City looks really nice, good job!

Revamp by tayl1r 2016-04-18T20:45:00

Too easy.

(I kid, I can't get past the second level. Good entry, 2hard4me though)

Shift City by TLansdale 2016-04-18T14:04:00

The ratcatcher is a weird one because he only spawns when you have 6+ slums and satisfying him quickly upgrades your slums to villas - so he may actually make himself impossible to please!

If I had more time, I'd definitely have put time in to try to make sure you always had something new to do every round, and you could always please all of your visitors. Even so, the "core path" of key visitors are the only ones who will win/lose the game for you so it should always be winnable if you focus on them.

Shift City by TLansdale 2016-04-18T21:17:00

Sorry for the red/green unreadability, nintendoeats! Do you know if there are commonly-accepted high contrast colours to go for as an alternatives in the future?

Thanks all for your comments.

TiltForm by Gemberkoekje 2016-04-18T17:59:00

Really hard! But cool :)

Human Tetris by Wirdo91 2016-04-18T17:43:00

Fun idea but far too little control over the limbs to make them do the pose :( I couldn't make his knees bend the right way.

William's Dilemma by thunderklaus 2016-04-18T20:26:00

Level 7 seemed very difficult - so I was glad I could skip it! But fun and charming overall, well done :)

The Cell Stage by Andre Odendaal 2016-04-18T12:50:00

Haha, I loved the goofy little fish faces. Shame there's no game there - it was quite fun swimming around!

Urgent Metamorphosis by doombrowski 2016-04-18T18:07:00

Incredibly difficult towards the end! Very polished, well done.

Escape from the pit! by Been 2016-04-18T12:20:00

Nice idea, very easy to understand and cleanly executed. Well done :)

The 3 Rules of 2-Color Shapeshiftin' in a Microworld on a Flickering Torus by theOnlyGoodDrcz 2016-04-18T21:23:00

Really really nice. A mind-bender in the right way, quite challenging and great music.

I didn't quite understand the rules for when you could shift, and when you could not - is it just that you can't tag-back without the help of the monster thing?

Home Sweet Home by wheerd 2016-04-18T13:02:00

Great idea, it is a little frustrating waiting for people to make their route to their target once it's clear, but other than that nicely-executed. Good job!

LD36 — Ancient Technology

Secret Balance by krish8L 2016-08-29T18:24:00

Very relaxing atmosphere to the secret cave. Would have enjoyed some more explanation as to what was going on, but I liked what I saw :)

The Museum of Time by DesignerNap 2016-08-29T19:31:00

I love it! Your best one yet, IMO. And best of all, it was educational.

Old Tales of a Legendary Fish by SmallPhil 2016-08-29T18:38:00

Good job, was fun and relaxing :)

Headsets Of Yore by cgriff 2016-08-29T19:36:00

Just as in real-life, I have successfully both won at a game I enjoyed while draining my wife of most of her patience and goodwill.

The Switch - Worker by Ghen 2016-09-01T10:56:00

Good idea and great interpretation of the theme, well done!

Sacrifice by tayl1r 2016-08-29T18:13:00

Great interpretation of the theme, love the graphics and music.