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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Overall | ||
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| 👥 | 🥇 | 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | Shotgun King: the Final Checkmate | jam | 4.62 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Category | Score | ||
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| 👥 | 🥈 | 2023 | 52 | Harvest | Furious Farm: Total Reap-Out | jam | Theme | 4.61 |
| 👥 | 🥇 | 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | Shotgun King: the Final Checkmate | jam | Fun | 4.59 |
| 👥 | 🥈 | 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | Shotgun King: the Final Checkmate | jam | Innovation | 4.61 |
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | 👥 | Build The Sun | jam | 13 | 4.35 | 4.01 | 4.18 | 4.50 | 4.67 | 4.37 | 3.36 | 4.25 | |
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | Hot Wax 🕯️ | jam | 87 | 4.12 | 4.06 | 4.32 | 3.37 | 4.32 | 2.06 | 2.54 | 3.79 | ||
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | Hexle | compo | 27 | 4.15 | 3.90 | 4.17 | 3.56 | 4.01 | 3.68 | 3.65 | |||
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | 👥 | Devolved | jam | 160 | 4.00 | 3.72 | 4.37 | 3.76 | 4.08 | 3.66 | 3.94 | 3.75 | |
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | 👥 | Superfetch Dog | jam | 32 | 4.30 | 4.17 | 4.24 | 4.42 | 4.40 | 4.09 | 2.94 | 4.25 | |
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | 👥 | Furious Farm: Total Reap-Out | jam | 9 | 4.40 | 4.29 | 3.74 | 4.61 | 4.64 | 4.39 | 3.62 | 4.14 | |
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | 👥 | The Turgenev Study | jam | 19 | 4.34 | 4.23 | 4.30 | 4.29 | 4.61 | 4.35 | 2.34 | 4.25 | |
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | 👥 | Shotgun King: the Final Checkmate | jam | 1 | 4.62 | 4.59 | 4.61 | 3.62 | 4.52 | 4.36 | 3.84 | 4.28 | |
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | DRLLVINATION 👁 | compo | 159 | 3.82 | 3.84 | 3.54 | 4.21 | 4.66 | 2.97 | 3.52 | |||
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | Tetrolled | compo | 326 | 3.44 | 3.42 | 2.90 | 3.42 | 3.46 | 3.24 | 3.37 | 2.95 | ||
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | Mushroom Délicieux | jam | 171 | 3.85 | 3.68 | 3.57 | 3.68 | 4.18 | 3.71 | 3.46 | 3.87 | ||
| 2016 | 37 | One room | One Room Dungeon | compo | 50 | 3.95 | 3.89 | 3.69 | 4.00 | 4.33 | 3.60 | 2.85 | 3.80 | 33 | |
| 2016 | 36 | Ancient Technology | BRICKS | compo | |||||||||||
| 2016 | 35 | Shapeshift | Figurophrenia | compo | 140 | 3.68 | 3.60 | 3.12 | 3.68 | 3.68 | 3.04 | 2.90 | 3.25 | 42 | |
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | WAR GROWTH | compo | 133 | 3.74 | 3.63 | 3.89 | 3.47 | 3.79 | 3.40 | 3.42 | 3.80 | 75 | |
| 2015 | 32 | An Unconventional Weapon | TETRATOR | compo | 69 | 3.88 | 3.83 | 3.90 | 4.02 | 3.56 | 65 |
This game is way too difficult. I'd like to say that the boss fight was amazing but I really didn't get that far and I don't think I want to anymore. U no checkpoints ?! Otherwise, really good mechanic, nice pixel art and cool music.
Nice concept and quite difficult game ! Maybe too difficult... But cool game anywayz :D
Looks awesome, sounds awesome, plays awesome ! Nice job :D
This is amazing. You have all my respect for this. The game is actually fun to play, and the music is very... soothing. I would have added a sound effect for when you click on one of the girls to have a better feedback feeling. But the end is incredibly powerful. Again, this is amazing, thank you for this.
Really nice game ! Good game design in there I can see... Some people seem to think it was too hard, I didn't. Maybe make sure that we remember the right clic thing, I see that as easily forgettable.
The graphics are so cool ! And the music is even better !! And the concept... Well you know it's pretty cool. But man, dat game !!
One of my favorite games this Ludum Dare :D The possibility to rotate the camera angle is a nice touch !
Nice game ! Interesting mechanics and pretty well executed I'd say :D
Really nice game ! A shame that you can't lose. But great otherwise !
Cool game ! Also a big fan of the colored window feedback ! But I also agree with the others that some interface elements wouldn't be of too much... Nice work though :D
This game is superb.
This is pure genius.
Music ---> freakin' good !
Really nice game ! But what you're supposed to do isn't always obvious. And that causes a lot of wandering, which is ok at first but becomes quite boring very quickly... Very nice graphics and audio though, which sets a really strong mood.
Really fun game ! Good concept and efficient graphics !
Amazing work as usual !
This is hilarious ! I got to 17 interfaces on my third try ! It plays really nice and it is a lot of fun. Freakin' cool entry, I love it !
That was really good ! Graphics look amazing and the game plays really nice ! Fusioning creatures feels very rewarding for some reason... Awesome game !
Love the idea, love the gameplay, love the graphics, love the music, love the game. Your game is awesome.
So... I guess we're in the 69 position together... Chears ! (And great game BTW !)
Really cool game ! Would play more levels :3
Very good puzzle game ! Graphics are efficients and concept is really good !
Great fun ! Although, I think the 'x' key thing to start kills momentum (cause you have to admit, you die a lot). Also, next time please let us brake ! But really awesome game !!
Controls were weird. Game was fun :D. Good use of babies.
I want to play this game but my Thrustmaster gamepad isn't recognized >< !! Does anyone have a simpler solution than Robotic-Brain's ?
Controlling a dozen cars at the same time is so much fun !! But I know how to make it even funnier ! Explosions ! Seriously, add one-frame white circles and a little sfx, screenshake and there you go, best game ever ! Nice work anywayz !
Really cool game ! The art style is nice, the music is very enjoyable and the controls are pretty good although the hitboxes can be pretty bitchy :x But definitely one of my favorite games for this Ludum Dare !
Very nice concept and pretty well executed ! Well done !
Really nice concept. Great music. But the game is too difficult. The combo timer is waaaaay too short. In fact, if you really wanted to make it that short, you may as well just let the player make only one dash and there's no timer at all. But seriously, I understand that a too long timer would have killed momentum but this 'your combo ended' is worse than that. But yea, nice game anyway. I like the enthusiasm !
Best LD game I played so far !
Nice little stealth game. Self derision definitely makes it up for the bad AIs to me !
Concept is pretty neat but give us instructions dammit ! Minimalist graphics are nice !
Cool concept and cool game ! The controls are actually pretty fun I think :3
I promise I will as soon as I get internet back on my computer ! Thanks for the vote and the kind words :D (your game looks pretty good too from the screenshots !)
One of my favorite games for this Ludum Dare ! Really fun !
Simple and fun. Love it !
Hard but great game !
This is a very smart take on good ol' Pong! Gotta love it! Maybe it would have been interesting to have a set of hand-designed levels and after that you unlock the procedural mode or something? But yea, nice and solid entry!
Very nice entry! Super hard too... I'm stuck at a level with parallel lasers that keep you from getting out of a hole in the bottom left corner. Can't find what to do :(
This is beautiful. I'm in love with the visuals but the audio is really good too and the game overall is very cool!
Very very nice! That timelapse effect is neeeeeaaaaattt!! Music is super cool and the whole thing plays pretty good!
For some reason, this ridiculously high sensitivity feels very appropriate! I think it's because it makes you want to be more gentle and the game is all so very calm and zen... The choice to make the screen rotate rather than the head of the vine is also very clever. You definitely nailed the graphics and especially the audio! Gotta love the useless butterflies! Very good game-feel overall.
Great job!!
Oh and I forgot, please next time don't make me alt-F4 your game to leave it, it makes me feel bad :(
I want a full game of this with roguelike elements and explosions. This is mind-blowing by the way.
Use accelerations!! And lerps! Especially when you change the scale, it feels super weird. Concept is nice enough.
Interesting concept. It's a shame you didn't flesh it out more :/
Fun simple game!! Could be fleshed out with levels or goals or something!
That was fun! The final boss felt a bit long but then I got his crown and that was nice. So yea... Nice!
Very nice entry! A general goal (score or ending for example) would have make it better though... But them leaves look güüüüd!!
The minimalist graphics felt very appropriate to the style of the game and so did the SFX. The idea is pretty fun and plays quite nice but I just wish there was a more elaborate ending. Had fun though, so thanks!!
Great fun! Looks and sounds awesome! I think the difficulty grows (heh) too fast and you kinda get stuck at that one level where it's just going too fast for you but that might just be me not being very good at the game. Cool concept anyway and nice execution!
That puzzle-snake concept is really nice! Them cheap pretty graphics are nice too.
System requirements:
- friends
D:
Still, physicsy brawler are fun!!
Very cute and beautiful indeed. I also would have liked the character to move a bit faster, with all the moving around there is to do but it was ok. Superb entry!
Good idea + good execution = neat!
Very ambitious concept!! A shame you couldn't flesh it out more than that really. I did spend half an hour on it before I realize what the winning condition quote really meant... Good stuff!
Multitasking video games is hard D:
Had a fun time, although it really does get too hard when you get to the fourth screen. Nice concept anyways. Me likes.
This game looks and sounds absolutely amazing!!! I wish you had added more effects when you kill the things coming at you though, it would have felt more rewarding ;) Nice work!
Concept is great!! You did a great job of relentlessly throwing lots of stuff on the player!
Very very fast at first but then you get into it and it's ok. Still very hard then though. But nice!! Minimal dark graphics fit the game well!
Really nice gameplay, had fun :3
Simple yet efficient concept! Fat pixels fit the game well too!
Very nice narratives going on there! Love it!
OMG PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME TOUCH YOUR HOLES AGAIN!!!
Seriously, physics are ok, but them hitboxes are eeeeeeeeviiiil!! Otherwise, the game has that lovely gameboy feel we all love so much and with sound yes please! The idea of changing screens mixed with flipper is really cool. I just wish you didn't put your hole there... Or you made it tighter. So I couldn't slip in it. Then maybe I could have actually seen the boss... But yea great game!!
Also, make a main menu next time!
Very nice concept and amazingly clean execution! The game plays very nicely and feels very rewarding. I love all the graphical effects that translate what's happening in the game. Absolutely amazing entry, well done!!
Very frustrating. I was pushing the villagers towards the lava about 80% of the time I was trying to push them away from it. Very pretty, sounds cool, concept's great and good fun. But so frustrating...
That difficulty curve is WAY too steep when the summonings get faster! The game is very very nice in almost of all the ways!! Just that difficulty curve... Still, very good job!
Good concept and amazing execution. The minimalist graphics fit the game very well. The difficulty might need some toning down. Making the upgrades permanent could be interesting too.
Thanks everyone for all the cool feedback!!
I actually kinda messed up what I wanted to do for this entry! I wanted to do a game about the terminal dangers of war and everyone'actions about it but that didn't communicate that well.
Some of you pointed out the side things didn't make you lose. They truly didn't, instead they kept you away from winning. On very top of the game window, there's a count of potential deaths. It is set to 1000000 at start and gets lower when you match patterns. When you don't match the side patterns, it gets higher again. You win when the potential deaths get to 0. But I made that countdown way too small and you simply couldn't pay any attention to it while playing cause your attention was already all over the place. So that was clearly wrong.
My original plan for the side things was that they would make the main middle ones faster if you didn't match their pattern. Then I thought it would make the game too hard. I should have gone for it anyway. With 15 minutes of balancing it probably wouldn't have ended that bad and at least it would have made much clearer sense.
BUT the game is still pretty fun and that's cool.
In the end, I do kinda consider this entry as a failure. I learned from it. I'll do better next time. See you then!!
This is great!! You totally nailed the two button controls, the game looks super good, it feels polished... Congrats!
Wow this looks good! And it sounds really nice too. And plays quite well... Ok, you nailed it, congrats!!
This is HAAAAAAARDD!!! But pretty nice. (still couldn't get past 6 biscuits though D: )
Feels a bit empty but somehow keeps you playing. Good work!
Very original and fun idea!! The graphics and audio are really cool too! The controls feel pretty confusing at first but then you get it. The game overall has a very untameable feel to it, which seems to work pretty well ;)
This is so good!! That music and them light effects really set an oppressing mood and the concept in itself is very nice. I love that you have to chose between keeping it safe and stay by the buttons or go for the points. Amazing first entry, hope to see you around next LD!
This is great!!! Love the win/lose contrast!
Very nice idea! Would love to see this with hand-designed levels or maybe a simple procedural level generation!!
This is ridiculously challenging. The graphics are nice enough and audio is also pretty good except that no SFX :°(
Very nice entry overall.
The one button movement is system was risky design but actually works quite well! The whole idea is pretty interesting. The game feels like it lacks polish tho, not so much visual but rather gameplay-wise. You could have added an acceleration on the thing you control for example, like it gets speed when you press the button (do cap that speed though) and then lose speed when you release it.
So yea, very nice idea but execution could be improved. I'm sure you'll do great on your next LD ;)
Very nice arcadish stuff there! Might have done with a bit more tolerance I think. Looked good!
Give me a score!!! This fly crunching feels so nice but it would be so nicer if it made a number go up! Looks amazing too. Great!
Congrats on making your first game, it may be the hardest step to game development!
Your game needs a game over, otherwise it's cool enough for a firsty.
Good concept and very nice execution!! It feels a bit too easy though.
The main mechanic is genius. I have to say though that the die-and-retry side of the game kinda killed it for me. Still, amazing entry obviously.
Very interesting indeed! Also had a hard time working out how to play and what I am supposed to do but then, it's really cool to play. The game still feels really hard but that makes finishing a level extremely satisfying!!
Could do with a bunch of colors but the grayscale style actually fits the game well enough. Some UI would definitely be helpful though. Like how many letters should be moved for example.
Nevertheless, this is pretty much an amazing entry. Well done!!
Nice arcade-ish game! I love the colorfulness and cute SFX! Very neat entry overall!!
Those holes need to be larger!!! The concept is really cool though and overall the execution is neat! Nice entry!!
Very cool idea!! Maybe it gets fast too fast though...
Graphics suit the shapeshifting really well!!!
Nice execution overall!
Super fun concept! Execution is clean and neat!
Nice maze game! Could definitely do with a bit more polish but it's good enough as it is already. Design is clear and that's good! Good entry!
Very nice idea. Good LD puzzle games always amaze me. Well done!!
I am very very very bad at this. Great idea though!! The one button control just feels kinda messy somehow. It might just be me. But yea, great on innovation, pretty fun, graphics are very ok and audio is really nice!! Great entry, congratz!
Forgot to set the itch.io page as public :x
It's done now!
Two words: eye candy.
I just wish the gameplay was a bit richer... Great entry nonetheless!!
I loved the Spore cell stage too!
The shifting of the different body parts feels like a good simple alternative to the original drag and drop system and is actually pretty fun!
The cell's movement has way too much inertia imo.
It's a shame you couldn't finish. :(
Very interesting concept!! Execution is ok but could have been better. In particular, I feel like you could have put more pressure onto the player by adding effects to the rising floor like some sort of background SFX or a continuous tiny screenshake... Very cool entry!! Did 97!
I like a lot the fact you made leaderboards!
Very pretty game! I like the music a lot too!
Very good entry overall!!!
Nice idea and clean execution overall!
Small coding mistake I think: after the game over, the speed of the game doesn't seem to reset?
I was very confused when I first couldn't see the color of my crystal anymore but then I understood. Although to be honest I'm not very good at memory games and couldn't remember the order of the colors anyway... Maybe a discreet cheat sheet could help? :/
As I said though, pretty nice job overall! :)
It's fun. It's really simple and it feels pretty shallow obviously. But it is fun. The soundtrack and the gradient background make it feel a bit classy which is also funny of itself and makes for a rather soothing experience. A stupid but fun and soothing experience. I like it!
This was super well executed!! The visuals and the sound completed each other sooo well! The gameplay was simple but also super smooth! I loved the fact that you added useless furniture around the levels, it adds some really nice gamefeel when they react to the players actions.
Great job sir!!!
The tech is strong in this one! Like seriously that's super impressive. Also pretty good point & click, I loved the meta jokes!
This is good!
Very cool concept! I enjoyed being an interior decorator! Your pixel art looks super good! I loved the fact that you did multiple styles for the furniture pieces! The characters were pretty cool too but the fact that you couldn't make the dialogue go faster without completely skipping it was weird to me. I also think some floor tiles and some wallpaper would make the rooms look SO good! Music would be nice too. :x
Very nice entry overall!
Very cool concept! Interactive with generative stuff is always fun imo!
Although it doesn't feel like the player has much control over everything that happens.
Still quite fun! Super nice music and graphics too!
OK, I really wanted to complete this game before rating it but I lost over an hour on it now and I feel like I got what I should be doing but I keep losing anyway and it's sooo frustrating.
Amazing graphics, the music is nice but gets repetitive after the first half hour of die and retry. Sfx would have been nice too. The movement and the interactive bits feel really good, watching stuff grow is both nice and intense at the same time.
But it's too difficult. There are just too many factors causing death. The heat meter is tight af, the blizzard breaks everything and makes the heat meter even way more tighter, and the monsters barely let you any chance of surviving, especially if you let them trap you in a corner. Challenging. But too much.
I hope you do a post-jam version or you introduce a fix that makes it slightly easier because I really want to finish it, it'd be so much fun if it wasn't so hard! D:
(also hey we met at Indiecade I'm sorry I couldn't come to Bordeaux for LD :X)
Best mmo I've played in a while!
The idea behind this blew my mind and it's super well executed (as always with you Managore).
I personally feel like the colors you choose are a bit cold but it might just be me.
Amazing entry, we need more stars to rate this.
This was really fun!!! The only problem I had was with the control and the detection of interactable things which I think should be just a tiny bit looser. But the concept is a great one and the execution is really good! Nice job! ;D
I loved this! My few complaints are: menu navigation is not great, different output direction can be confusing but make you need all the tiles so ok, although that means you use the menu a lot. Music would have been nice. :)
Very solid entry nonetheless!
It feels a bit unfinished which is really a shame because it also feels it has real potential to be super fun! As it is though, progression is my main issue, it just doesn't feel like there is any. At some point a faster enemy appears but that's it, maybe all enemies could go faster the more coins you have? Also, you can pretty much live indefinitely by keeping a few hats stored on the side shelves. Overall, it's a very neat entry (I mean, who doesn't love collecting hats??) but severely lacks some challenge to make it more fun in my opinion. Oh and I love the title! :D
What a mess! Controls were a bit slippery, which did not help with how unplayable the game gets as you close in to 100 coins. The sprites for the rotating coins are super nice though! Overall, I liked it!
Hi everyone, thank you so much for all the feedback and all the kind words!
I wanted to let you know that I just did a tiny update where I reduced a little the damage the enemies do as well as the screen shake caused by that event. I hope that makes it more playable!
Thanks again! :)
That was quite difficult! The graphics are simple but super nice! A shame there's no sounds. :X Solid one-day compo overall, great job!!
The ending was somewhat underwhelming, but this was still a neat entry! I love to see some more experimental type of stuff during Ludum Dares! Graphics were good and always intuitive, which is great! The sounds effects and background sound made for a very nice atmosphere! All in all, it's just a bit of a shame that it's so short to go through. :X
The ending was somewhat underwhelming, but this was still a neat entry! I love to see some more experimental type of stuff during Ludum Dares! Graphics were good and always intuitive, which is great! The sounds effects and background sound made for a very nice atmosphere! All in all, it's just a bit of a shame that it's so short to go through. :X
Thanks for your feedback everyone!! So sorry about the crashes, that's what I get for using an unstable version of my engine... :')
I just updated the build with a fix for the crashes, they shouldn't happen anymore. (:fingers_crossed:) I also took the liberty to add controls for toggling fullscreen and the shader. Disabling the shader may improve performances if you are running the game on a weaker machine.
Much love! :heart:
@dustya29 Yes, we're working on it! :)
@f1lthy-c4sual Itch might have been down for a few moments, maybe it'll work if you try again now?
Everyone else: Thank you so much for all the feedback! We're super happy you're enjoying the game!! Stay tuned for the full version! :heart:
Really interesting use of the sand algorithm! Simple and efficient, I liked it a lot. Would love to see a game like this with more detailed graphics. (as in, same resolution but distinguishable dirt, rocks, grass, maybe buildings, etc) The flowing water being drawn white is a very nice touch!
Loooove this! Collaborative art between strangers FTW!! The game's graphics, sounds and general mood are absolutely lovely too!
Really neat little game! Loved that shooting was tied to moving, really enjoyed the Pac-Man-type power-up that lets you eliminate dangers for a short period of time. Simple but very solid gameplay loop and the graphics are tidy and work very well! Great job!
I love this take on the theme! Maybe it's just me but I did find it difficult, and even after figuring out I should grow a little army of golf balls right from the beginning, it *felt* like I was doing good but in the end my score was only a little higher than my previous scores. Maybe I'm just not very good at it. :sweat_smile: Still super fun anyway though, could definitely see myself play much more of it haha
Cute tiny game! I can't say I'm very good at it but the graphics are cute and the music was pretty good!! Well done! You could have gotten a few more plays from me with different difficulty modes that simply change the carrot's and bunny's speed right from the beginning. :)
Simple but effective! I could definitely see it being fleshed out into something with more content and more gameplay maybe outside the farm itself. It would make for a fearsome timesink for sure. :smile: The music is very nice too!
Nice little game! It took me some time to figure out what the alarm did (but maybe that's on me, I only read the instructions afterwards :sweat_smile:) and at first I thought it might speed up the plants' growth while you kept it pressed, which actually might be an interesting direction if you want to take this game further, giving you a nice risk/reward mechanic where you want to hold the button for the growing effect but release it before the plants are fully grown so that they don't instantly wake up and chase you. Just an idea, the game was already some fun as it is. ^^
I really like the visual style of this game, and it goes very well with the audio and the gameplay itself too. It has such a "made in my bedroom over the weekend" vibe, this is what I'm here for tbh. I guess if you wanted to make the gameplay nicer you could add a fast-forward button. I could see this game becoming wildly addictive if you added a way to earn back money somehow, so that you could keep adding more traps.
Really interesting take on the theme and super neat little game! Graphics are very cute. It feels like maybe the game could use a little something more, like this little guy telling me about its life, or an ending of some sorts. Small stuff like this goes a long way in my experience. :) Excellent entry nonetheless!
Nice little game, it would really benefit from having more sources of danger, maybe the various objects could have some gravitational pull and you could crash in them for example? It would make it more engaging. Anyway, it feels like the game features quite a bit of procedural generation which is always nice to see. :)
Very cool take on the theme!! I think all the window operations made the game slow down quite a bit for me, especially later in game when a few different windows are open. Would really like to see a version kindof like Managore did for Windowframe, where the windows are simulated inside the game's actual window set in fullscreen. With the slow down it felt like the game was too easy and I could going as I liked, but then again I don't know whether it's just the slow down or if it's actually a balancing issue. The minimalist graphics work really well and so do the sound effects. The game's concept is very fun. Super solid entry overall, well done!
Very cool little scoring game, very juicy! I think it would benefit a lot from having some music added to it, but other than that it's a very solid entry all around! Nice job!
Nice little game, with an unexpected ending :smile: I didn't really understand why sudenly the game tells me where rulebreakers are midway through the day, it did make things easier but I felt like it undermined the game's point of looking for red pants, puffs of smoke and litterers. Just an idea but it would have been fun if the rules changed during the day as well. :smile: Neat entry!
Very cool little Pico-8 game! Simple amd efficient! The graphics are very cute and the game feels very juicy! I just wish the game would kill me a little more easily to add more challenge. (maybe bigger collision radius on the koi?) As it is I gave up after reaching 984 points or thereabout. Still, I had fun playing, this is a good entry, well done!
Really fun entry, and a cool take on Snake! It does get pretty difficult to use bombs, maybe some sort of time-limited slow-motion when you press the bomb key (and then drop the bomb on release or on time-out) would help. :thinking: It also felt like the speed might be increasing too fast, though obviously you don't want runs to take ages either. Maybe a few difficulty levels that change the starting speed would have been a good compromise! Just a few ideas, honestly the game stands really well on its own, especially for a compo game. The graphics are efficient, and mouth-sounds are hilarious, well done!
@jack728 Yes sorry I made a mistake when writing the rule you mention, I was very tired :sweat_smile:, I fixed it so now it says "a digit cannot appear twice in the same row or column", which is what I meant. :slight_smile: Thanks for the feedback!
This was nice! It felt a bit too easy to me, it seemed like I knew exactly what to do just from reading the cards' descriptions. Maybe the resources flowing in and out should be less static and predictable? I feel like this type of game can benefit a lot from harsh random events that kill 3/4 of your population for example, or where all your gold is stolen, to keep the players on their toes. It's definitely an interesting concept and I'd like to see more from it.
Really cool entry! I really love the art and the sfx are really great. I do wish there was more variation to the gameplay, what you have right now is fun but doesn't feel very challenging, I just play the same way every round until there's just not enough time to get the round done. A very solid compo entry nonetheless, very well done!!
Another grid-based puzzle game! This is cool, it's weird but it does feel difficult when english isn't your first language, even though the words are spelled right there in the box it just feels like it would be easier if I was just more familiar with all of them. Definitely a very interesting game though, great job!
Congrats on making something in only 8 hours, and with a new engine!!
Nice little incremental game, could use a little more content maybe but it's already a solid entry for compo! Well done!
Hahaha I didn't expect to find a Forest Nothing recreation, though it does fit the theme! :joy: This is pretty cool! The controls feel a bit janky but maybe it's just because I'm so used to having keyboard shortcuts for everything in AoE2. :smile: Still it's very impressive you managed to make this in only 48 hours, well done!
Very cool little game!! The mechanic is really interesting, though I personally think it might work better with mouse controls instead of keyboard? The different types of enemies feel pretty simple but do make the game challenging. Visuals are really cute, and mouth-made sound effects are obviously hilarious and really well made too! Well done!!
Really cool game! I love the idea of adapting an old card game with a mixed deck of various game cards, it's really funny and fun. I loved how crazy it gets, but I did find the last part with the health points a bit confusing. Couldn't figure out when I was going to lose HP or deal damage. But for a game made in 48h this is really super impressive all around, well done!!
Great stuff! I think this is the best execution of the tiny/shrinking-area shooter that I've seen. Gamefeel is good, difficulty scales nicely, audio is pretty great for a compo game. Very slick entry all around, well done!!
Nice little game! Throwing crates around is a fun main mechanic but I found the runs to be quite long, I think that tweaking the game's speed to make both the spawning of the crates and the player's movement and crate dragging faster would go a long way in making the game feel more dynamic and alive. Sometimes it was difficult to tell types of crates apart but other than that the graphics were very nice! A pretty neat entry overall, the concept fits the theme very well!
The concept is really interesting, I'd like to see it explored further. It's unfortunate that the physics tend to bug out and send our body incontrolably tumbling around, especially when trying to move the core. :sweat_smile: Still pretty interesting, the graphics are really nice and the music is nice too, though it does feel a bit too mysterious? All in all a nice little game!
Interesting game! My highscore was 319, I felt like the number of enemies was way overwhelming and should have been toned down, maybe until later in game. At the same time I felt like getting hit wasn't doing enough damage and so it seemed the best strategy was just to cast spells and ignore the lasers, which in the end was stressful and felt weird. This is just my opinion to be fair but I think it would work better with only a few enemies at a time but when they hit you it actually hurts. Still a very interesting idea and it's actually pretty impressive how well the letters are recognized. To have managed that and then also build a small game around it seems like a pretty good job overall, why disable ratings? :slight_smile:
Realllly cool entry! I had a lot of fun playing this, the music was great and the concept is really effecient and addictive. Just a Pico-8 tip: you can store things like highscores quite easily using cartdata() and dget()/dset(), look it up in the manual, that way the highscore doesn't get lost when restarting the game. :slight_smile: Anyway, really great job!!
There's an interesting game idea in there. It's a shame you couldn't do more with this during the jam but personally I would love to see this extended in a way that actually uses all 8 bits like 8 different levers. Good job on making and submitting something anyway. :)
Interesting idea and I did give this game a lot of tries to try and get a better score, so you definitely have something there. :smile: I felt like the game was too difficult, in the majority of my runs, the little pickups the enemies drop would never be attainable before the box has shrunk to a size where it's impossible to not get squished by platforms or skewered by those enemies. I did figure out you could jump on enemies to get rid of them, but even that is really difficult because they're so fast. Maybe simply starting with a bigger box would make the game easier to play. Still, it's a nice game that works and kept me trying again for a few minutes, the graphics work well in my opinion, and the audio exists, which is always a little impressive for a compo game haha. Overall I'd say this is a very good compo entry, well done!
Super juicy, and the visuals are great! Gameplay works well but I did wish it felt less redundant. I found myself circling the enemies pretty much always the same way, and since nothing was dealing much damage anyway I felt like I could be pretty careless at it too. Still, this is obviously a very solid entry, great job!
I like the concept, but it felt like if you fell into the right rhythm you could deal with enemies with screen-wide attacks right as they spawned, until suddenly 3 enemies spawn at once and you're out of the rythm and you lose all your hp in 10 seconds. At least that's what happened to me :smile: It also felt like maybe I had too many skills and didn't always have a reason to use one over the other. Still a really cool game of course, the idea is really well executed, graphics are very crisp and clean, nice job there. Would love to be able to start at a higher difficulty straight away.
Soooo coool!! Really well put together, I don't think I had too much trouble understanding how to play, though it did take some trying things out for myself, but that's totally ok imo. Graphics feel a little bit cluttered/overwhelming but it does add to the oppressive and hellish mood of the game, so I approve. :fire: The puzzles felt engaging and got satisfyingly complex. Great great stuff!
Thank you so much for the gameplay videos @local-minimum, these are really invaluable!
And thank you all for the feedback and the kind words! I'm working on a postjam version (with sound! :smile:) which sould come out in the next few days if you're interested!
This is a really great entry! The core gameplay is super fun, the intersection of tower defense X vampire-survivor is clearly genius. The sprites and animations are great-looking but the overall look of the game feels a bit empty, some decoration would go some way in remedying that. :) Would love to see more monsters and maybe specialization upgrades against different sorts of monsters for the familiars? Anyway, great job, makes me want to see more of it! :smile:
Fun little experiment! The game does start to lag after summoning a few sumos in quick succession. You could push this in an interesting direction with objectives and a sort of goat-simulator vibe.
I really like the idea here, and the 1-bit visuals and animations look great, but the gameplay itself is pretty confusing and feels aimless, plus it feels like a lot of combinations actually don't result in what I expect them to, so my best bet is to throw together random blocks until something happens. It's still enjoyable in some capacity and I'd love to see the idea pushed into something more fleshed out! I don't really understand why you opted out of the graphics rating but into the audio rating. The game is silent for me. :sweat_smile:
Interesting concept! It felt like the game was too easy and I could keep going indefinitely, so I just let myself die eventually to see the gameover. I think one way to balance it would be to bring down the rate of the blocks falling (current rate feels a little ridiculous, the board fills up quick and spells are formed on their own without me doing anything) and for each hero that comes to my army, the next one would either come faster or be stronger, or there would be two of them or something like that. The graphics and overall presentation are really solid, the game was easy to understand even after accidentally skipping through the tutorial while trying to test the controls. (but that's probably just my brain being tired from jamming all weekend :smile:) Pretty nice job overall!
This is a really cool entry! I feel like the difficulty curve may be a little too steep, I got to day 5 and I don't really see how it'd be possible to get past day 6, or at best day 7, so that's discouraging me from giving it other tries. But it was really fun to play, the graphics work really well, the music and sfx are great, and the whole concept is very funny / relatable. Loved it, great job!!
Fun concept, nice little game! The randomness of the bergs was a little frustrating at the end when you need a small one or one that can jump higher. Having to restart the level because the level simply got too cluttered with unwanted bergs was funny but not really the greatest feeling haha. Game is defintely well put together though, nice job!
Sooo cool and absolutely hilarious! You did a great job with the graphics, they feel really gnarly (which I love) and the townscaper background town doesn't feel out of place at all with the rest of the game thanks to the pixelated look and limited palette. All around very well built, the gameplay itself was very engaging even if it felt like it could be pushed further. Currently besides final score there's not much consequence to being cautious and using many speeches for example. I finished my run with 11 speeches btw. The audio of the game was absolutely great, the random latin phrases made me laugh a lot, "Ludum Dare" in particular really got me. :joy: The little conversation at the start of the game was nice and short, gave me enough context to want to play the game seriously.
Amazing work on this, great job!!
This is the cutest thing. It's short but oh so sweet. The art is really great, and I loved that the head took the color of the last thing eaten, and then that color would go down the body as you ate other stuff... \*Chef kiss\* And the sound design is really great as well. I do wish there was some music, but seeing as this is a compo game I totally understand why there isn't. :smile: Amazing entry, congrats!
Really cool! I scored 1270! I wish fish wouldn't turn into deathly traps when you take hits or drop them outside the box, as this makes the game's difficulty ramp up even faster when you start struggling. Maybe clearing up a few of the spikes and fishbones when you die could help solve this. The core gameplay itself is quite good and addictive, the graphics works really well, those baby seals are really cute, and audio is good as well! Really good work for a compo entry! Well done!
Hi @dzukika, thanks for checking it out, but I think the build was broken when you played it. There was a bug that wouldn't let you get anymore little guys, which means you really couldn't do anything much beside making your first fire and cutting down one tree or getting a berry gatherer. There's actually quite a lot more to the game if you don't mind trying it again. 😊
@googlefrog Thanks!! There is an end but it's definitely a bit of a grind to get there, I couldn't test the game fully during the jam so I had to eyeball the progression and I didn't do the best job of that haha. :smile: I'll be making a new version with reworked progression and a save system a few weeks from now. :slight_smile:
@cathelaleph you have to hold click for the action to go through! Otherwise it crashes on that first fire yeah. I'm so sorry I couldn't figure out how to fix it, the code for this game became such a mess over the weekend. :smile: Would love for you to give it another try if you don't mind. :slight_smile:
Wow thank you so much for the lil drawing @thyoi I love it, it honestly fills my heart. :revolving_hearts: And congrats on reaching the end!! I know it's more than a bit of a grind to get there. I hope you look forward to further versions of this game! :blush: (with a save system this time, I promise everyone!)
@stmate03 Thanks, I'm aware, hence all the warnings everywhere to make sure to hold click on that first fire. :slight_smile: Even after the jam I have yet to figure out why it's doing that, this game's code is going to need a good clean-up before I continue with it I think. :smile:
Really really cool! I loooove the sound effects, and the simple MSPaint-drawn style works so well it should be illegal imho. Really smart to do an idle game with this theme. I really wish I could get the game's window to stay on top of other programs so that it would be easier to actually do other stuff at the same time!
Really nice entry! The game's main mechanic / the way to control the moths is really interesting, would love to see more done with it! Great job on the sound effects, and the graphics work really well too! Always nice to see Pico-8 games. :)
Jeezus these last few levels were brutal! I got a measly score of 41 but I'm glad I made it to the end at least, I got pretty close to quitting to be honest. :sweat_smile: The game is gorgeous and the levels, besides being frustratingly difficult, were clever, and the audio was great. Lovely work!
Really cool entry! I won on my second try. As others have mentionned, would have been great to have more difficulty options available, but also being able to move insects around with no other restrictions than doing it one at a time is quite OP. Still a very fun time, turning insects against each other is a pretty funny premise too. (albeit a bit morbid but let's not think too much about that :joy: ) The graphics are obviously amazing and the music and general sound design is great! Congrats to the whole team!!
That was so cool!! I think the balancing is a little off as I didn't feel it was difficult for me to get to the very end, but this is a jam game after all, so I would say it's better like this than if it had been too difficult. :smile: For a compo entry this is extremely impressive, it feels like there's a lot of content and different strategies to go for, the visuals are great and the audio feels nice and complete. Thanks for the Shotgun King reference, I appreciate that it's the most OP piece as well hahahaha. :joy:
Nice entry! The graphics are really good and got me intrigued from the start, but the game felt too easy. Since you already have a menu system, I think it would have been worth it to parametrize the attack, speed and HP of the enemies and have a difficulty selection menu at the start. It's always tough to balance jam games, but this way you can just have three levels of balance and with some luck one of them is gonna feel right haha.
I really liked the walking animation on the enemies, it's a little thing but it's really efficient. The attacks both from my minions and from the enemies were clear enough to me. I do wish Archer Skeletons were able to shoot over the holes in the terrain, would feel really cool. :)
Really nice job on the audio as well!
Again, very nice entry, confrats on making it!!
Insane entry. This game oozes personality, it's extremely funny, the audio is great, the graphics are amazing. I did get stuck on Sun IV for a while and I kinda wished for a clue or something, but I figured it out in the end. Honestly incredible job, this should win the jam category imo.