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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | They are coming! | jam | 1060 | 3.22 | 3.15 | 2.60 | 3.68 | 3.40 | 3.18 | 2.12 | 3.21 | |
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | π₯ | Periodic Paradise | jam | 2.66 | 2.37 | 2.12 | 3.25 | 2.75 | 2.72 | 2.20 | 2.31 | |
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | π₯ | Flamebound | jam | 2307 | 2.89 | 2.63 | 3.23 | 3.63 | 2.78 | 2.75 | 1.72 | 2.84 |
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | π₯ | ROGER THE DODGER | jam | 582 | 3.39 | 3.20 | 2.60 | 3.43 | 3.06 | 3.14 | 2.23 | 3.06 |
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | π₯ | astropuzz | jam | 921 | 3.08 | 2.70 | 2.50 | 2.65 | 2.58 | 2.75 | 2.18 | 2.75 |
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | π₯ | Quest for Harmony (Audio is required) | jam | 919 | 3.05 | 2.48 | 3.52 | 2.59 | 2.53 | 3.94 | 3.31 | 3.50 |
Finally someone has the guts to take the biggest fear of the common fanny pack enthusiastic working man and take it into a game! I really laughed hard :D. Great game and really polished too! Thanks!
Hey! Seems very interesting. Unfortunately I have a bug, where I can not move anymore after a short while. I tried to debug your code, but could not really figure out why this happens. There are no KeyEvents registered anymore. I made some debug outputs in the keyPressed method. My system is Mac Os with Java 1.8.0. Does anyone else have this issue?
@mar3k Now I felt challenged to find this bug :D.. i think that it is a known java bug with the newest mac os version: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8167263 .. somehow the keylistener fails to register the keys after pressing a and s several times. no idea why exactly these keys. i did not find a real work around so far. i just use the keys T, G, H and F now :D. I try the game now.
@mar3k you're welcome. i like the game. it really has some retro vibe :). some sounds would be great to add some punch, but overall a really good submission!
Funny and very cute game! :) Nice to play. Especially how steering the helicopter works was interesting, since it differs from most other steering mechanisms I know.
best game so far. though on mac os i could not choose easy mode in the web gl version. when i hover over the checkbox i get my default cursor. maybe this is also the way of telling me, that easy mode is for pussies :P
I don't get how I can enter a bar? I go to the doors and press space, but nothing happens.
ok, now i get that i have to search for a bar that i can enter :).. would be great if control and vision would become more and more difficult, so that it would get actually hard to get across the street. highlighting the next bar to go would also be a great improvement. nevertheless nice game :)
Thanks :D.. we hope the game can be played by try and error. It is dark and you have to find a way out of a dungeon you have fallen into. You can walk, jump and crawl around obstacles. A little tip: Basically you have to go right :D.
It is our first submitted LD game and we are quite the noobs :).
Thanks for your tips @tvance. The last days I thought so much about story and how to put it together, that I did not tell anyone to turn their speakers on :). I fixed that now.
Hi @maxwell: Yeah we just did not have enough time for the polishing. If you hear an "ouch" you are not dead, you just ran against an obstacle :D. You can jump over it or crawl under it. @chuchugeralt: In the end the game turned into a story driven walking simulator :). I think it is really hard to die at all. We had story for two other tribes under ground and some of it is already recorded, but there just wasn't enough time for implementing. The harmony game just really starts to make sense when you are walking with at least 2 or 3 other tribes in your party.
@furet thank you, you get our idea. We ran out of time and couldn't get our harmony minigame and the "blind obstacle avoidance" finished. Especially the minigame should have had 4 different melodies, one for each tribe under ground. And then you have to finish and fill in these melodies that get quicker the more disharmony there is. The more companions you have that follow you the more often they get in a fight with each other. On the other hand each companion can sense a different kind of threat, because each tribe is either good in smelling, touch sense, hearing or tasting. :)
@wakka2 The black screen is desired, because you are in a dark dungeon :).. you should hear a scream at first and then after a while you should hear your steps when pressing left and right. Have you tried the WebGL version too?
Great game. I just did not really get, which nodes are reachable from a node and which ones are not. For example I could not go from the post office to the flower farm, but all the way to the residence on the top left? This could be made a little bit clearer? Or did I not get something in the instructions? Nice work anyway!
Nice game :).. was fun playing. The online highscore was a good idea.. this really motivates :). Thinking about adding some feature like this in my next project too.
Nice game! Would be nice to see more of it :)
This is a fun game :). Damn these snakes are hard. I finally managed to kill a few of these bastards :). Great game!
Really nice game :).. Maybe a little balancing would make it a bit better. The monsters are quite easy to avoid, but when you hit them, it is over immediately. I don't know if i ran into especially hard mummies. I would like the monsters to be faster and more (and becoming more faster :)) and when you hit them you do not die immediately. Nevertheless great work!!
Great game. Really polished for the short amount of time. Can not really find anything bad about it. Was fun playing it. A few more features and mechanics and this is a sellable game :).
Very nice game!
Nice game! I had a lot of fun playing it. I like the idea that you have to pass your own turrets at the end. This could lead to new strategic decisions like where to leave a quite weak lane for yourself. Maybe I would force the player to stay on the lanes in the end. I could escape my punishment too easy by walking off the road. Although this is another degree of freedom, I think it is not necessary and the game would be more "planable" for the player, if one has to stay on the road to escape in the end.
Overall a great entry!
The controls and sounds give a really tight feeling. I know how hard it is to get this right and you did it :). It is really fun to play. The fact that enemy bullets block your own bullets gives you a little pressure not just to run away all the time, you must defeat this guys early or you are dead :). Maybe one could have a limited number of nukes (like in super probotector for the snes) so you can kill the whole screen when you messed up. Also the enemies could fire in different shapes like in many bullet hell games. Then it would get more exciting to avoid the bullets. But these are just some proposals for further improvement. Great work!
Best game I played so far :).. really polished feel. Add some story and additional features and I come playing again.
Nice game :).. as the others already said, it could be better, if you work a bit more on the hitboxes.
Great game as always from you guys :).. The graphics and sound are amazing! The gameplay is great, but seems sometimes a bit unfair to me. Especially the gold monsters when I met them on tight bridges. Great job anyway!
Nice game! Just tweak the pace a little and make it more challenging. I had fun though, it's only the first thing that comes to my mind to boost the game. Good work!
Hi Bastian! Thanks for your feedback :).. it's always a challenging task to get the balance right ^^.. for me it feels right, but I also like bullet hell games a lot :). I think I will make the game a bit easier, if it is too hard for most guys. The fast moving objects are comets. They are really nearly impossible to dodge, which is why you get a warning system at some point, marking areas of comets coming through :)
@sam-estep yes it is frogger basically :).. we added a dash, bullet time and a comet warning system. the latter one should save you from getting hit by those fast comets to often. The UI is our solution to emphasize that you are in orbits and show that some levels are harder than others because they lead to outer orbits. There could certainly go even more work in the UI ^^.
@ogma There are a lot of good tips there :), thanks! We will probably work on that frustration issue. It is really a hard thing, because I don't want the win handed out to the player to easily. Yesterday I played 6 times and won only 3, but those 3 times my heart was really pumping :D. So I was very frustrated 3 times, but that was already forgotten the second I've beaten this asshole game :). What is not ok is, if you are playing good and getting stopped unfairly. So what I will look into is the amount and speed of comets. If you play good, you should earn enough shield points until you have the warning system though.
Thanks for the feedback again!
@ogma funny π.. just yesterday I got this book π. Iβll tell you, when I made an update!
@walnoot: Thanks for your feedback.. yes, I'm working on a less frustrating version of the game right now :).. i will notify you, when it is published. It also has a lot more changes inside that (hopefully) should be fun.
@ogma @walnoot @drums @retallicka @bastian I finally finished the post jam version :): https://mrmasterbit.itch.io/roger-the-dodger-postjam-edition
a lot of things were completely reworked. hope you like it ^^
@bastian Hi! Thanks for your advise. I want to make the cooldowns more visible (directly at the spaceship) in the next version :). Also I plan to improve the comet warning system some more. After I spent so much time for the rework, I needed to make a cut, though I see possible features and assets everywhere :P.
About the story: Have you read the teletext after each level? Maybe I need to work more on the presentation of the story :)
@ursagames Thanks for playing our game :).. this was a very fair test, others might have skipped the quite bulky intro text or after the first game over. There was just so little time :). We already made a post jam version inspired by all the good feedback: https://mrmasterbit.itch.io/roger-the-dodger-postjam-edition
awesome :).. the bugs were no game stopper for me. all what is bothering me, is that i drove this poor goblin away :[ .. is there an ending with him around? if one day you make this game any longer, add some action parts like in undertale or pony island, and viola masterpiece.
Love it! The balancing could use some more work, but the goal and lore is very clear and nicely presented.
I'm outraged :)
I had a lot of fun. Would be great if one could see a forecast of what the humans are doing. I ended up in this level:
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Am I missing some mechanic? I don't know how I can solve this one :P. I can't rotate the animals right? And the only way of winning is to kill the humans? I tried to destroy their houses, but that did not work either :).
I'm so confused :D .. so the message is: if you are an animal, you are screwed anyway? :P
I love the art style :).. just pause the game when one is in inventory or trading. I want to read my options without any stress ^^
if you add a challenging, satisfying goal, you got yourself a great game. really nice graphics for a jam..
Solid game.. had fun playing. Most obvious improvements: I would suggest working on the hit boxes of the colliders (use polygon colliders in this case). Sometimes I crashed without expecting it and sometimes I survived although partially overlapping with the asteroids. As mentioned before: Use itch.io and WebGL (HTML5) to make your game more accessible. Nevertheless great first entry! Keep it going!
Really nice game. Well polished and amazing graphics. Off the top of my head I would suggest a smoother jumping behavior, like explained here: https://youtu.be/7KiK0Aqtmzc
Also the pacing might be improved some more. Do you have a dynamic difficulty system in there (on the bottom right)? How is the difficulty level determined?
Maybe the enemies should not spawn infinitely and they should collide, so they don't stack up in a bunch.
This is all criticism on a high level. Great work, for such a small amount of time!
nice one.. the controls seemed a little complicated, but the graphics are nice. great debut entry!
Nice game :).. had the same issue as cpt_bassbeard, so I had to start over. I would make the cooldowns much lower. One spends a lot of time waiting to summon the next spell. Graphics and sound are pretty nice. Maybe some background music would be fine.
I actually had a lot of fun :).. great idea. Approaching a letter at the bottom is fine, but jumping against the top of it will make you explode. I had to learn that the hard way :D. Don't change a thing, just add more levels and some sound.
So I really like the graphics, sound and humor. Only I could not even grab anything. :D.. maybe a little to whobly controls, even for this genre.
@g12345 Thanks for the tip! I did not know, that it is allowed to make minor bugfixes. Actually the bug is, that your torch seems to work after you went through water. Going through water means your torch is wet and gone. There is another way to solve the level. I fixed it so your torch stays off, if its wet. :)
@rhiz You are absolutely right. The controls are certainly something we will improve in our post-jam edition of the game :).. @aspect11 @dick-claus The trick often includes putting out the player's torch by clicking on his field to spare some rounds for later ^^
I had a lot of fun. Maybe the difficulty ramps up a little steep at some point. I was proud I made it so far and suddenly there was no way to beat the game anymore :D. Also I would get rid of all the randomness in the game. It does not add anything to the fun level for me and there are a lot of situations that seem just unfair. All in all a great title :).
I like the idea of the game and the artwork and music is nice. The learning curve is quite steep, since every item is there from the very beginning. They could be introduced one after the other. Also it would be nice to have the repeating block already from the start, because to change the block for every move is quite slow. At some point I had a bug, where the game said it was enemies turn, but there was nothing happening anymore. Nevertheless a nice fun game for a game jam.
The learning curve was a bit steep. That could be improved by introducing one mechanic after the other. Overall a nice fun game.
Nice game :).. i love the concept and the great learning curve (learning by doing). Maybe it would be nice to have some more overall indication where you are in the greater picture of the story. So for example if I know that the repetitions will last for x rounds or that I'm moving forward in the story, I get really interested in what's happening next. Great job anyway! Had a lot of fun.
Overall a nice game π€.. had fun playing it. I did not quite get where the man that I have to save is coming from. He is suddenly just there. Maybe a story bug? Also you could work on the controls which are quite fiddle. But all in all a great game, I like the minimalistic style and the focus on core gameplay.
I like the game. It is very straight forward and fun to play. Maybe you could implement a little more strategic depth to the perks. Overall a solid ld game.
Nice game. I also would have liked it if the tiles were actually flipping colors. I also think that mixing two games made it a bit easier, but since there are only few numbers I found the difficulty exactly right :)
It is quite fun. Very minimalistic experience :). Maybe one could also add some obstacles along the way.
I had a lot of fun with this game. Did you make all animations during the jam? They are really smooth. It was really hard for me to guess my position over the platforms. Maybe one could at more clues like dropping a shadow or some light or particles over the ground. I'm quite impressed how polished this game looks.
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Sorry for the late answer. I'm really busy these days. I totally agree with you all that pacing is one of the biggest problems with this game. I just did not have enough time to even think about a progression system or more balancing.
At one point I had kind of a health bar for the aliens, but for some reason I threw it away.
I was going for a very hard game where you enjoy living a few seconds longer every round and finding new strategies to delay the inevitable. But this concept would have been proposed a bit more to the player π. Again, no time. π Also the waves are too much random to compare different runs.
There are extra planets? π
I introduced the cooldowns to engage careful aiming and also to debuff the heavy weapon and the mines. But this was not enough to support using the light gun. A little bit more balancing would have been great.
Thanks for your great feedback!
Funny how this is perceived differently. For me the game was way too easy. :P Maybe you should add a hard mode. Or let the player scale the difficulty by choosing how many sailors he wants to have.
This was till now one of the most fun games for me :). Great work. I like the game design idea, that you become one of your npc mates on dying. This is a clever trick to justify multiple lives and also introduce a negative feedback loop. The graphics feel awesome. I can only imagine how great some music would feel with this game. Maybe some more noise on the audio would also fit well in there.
3KM? I got only 1227 meters :)..great game. had a lot of fun! hitting the right buttons was quite hard for me, maybe a slower pace there. also it would be great to skip the intro sequence on retry. Nice work!
Clever idea. Would be great if the "level is the enemy" feature would had a greater impact on the gameplay. If the enemies would be a little more hidden and you actually had time to find them before they get you. I already have so many ideas :D. Great entry for a jam game anyway.
Had so much fun!! Thank you :). Everything the other guys said + maybe the game was a little too easy? I got hit a lot, but never died. Maybe some feedback on one's health points would be nice. However there was just so much in there for a jam game, there was probably no time left I can imagine!
Funny game :).. was it a conscious design decision to make the roads higher than the other ground? This feels pretty annoying. Also I would suggest some kind of time limit to raise the tension a little bit. Great work anyway!
This is a nice game. I only think you could have stretched your talents more over the game. I mean, like 50% of the great assets and lightings are in the room at the beginning that you leave after a few seconds. Later the game design forbids to have a longer look at the scenery. There is a lot of potential i think.
You really understand how to create a high tension. The shaking camera and the voice lines worked perfectly :).
Hey! I had a lot of fun with this game. The idea is simple but executed really nice. The thing I was missing the most were a little bit more UI to tell me, how much hits I could still take or how long I already survived. Also I did not quite get, is it important to shoot as much aliens as possible or can I just evade them?
Hey! One of my favorite games so far! I could not stop giving it another try every time I died :). The Controls are really fair so that you never blame the game for dying. I also could not pass the wall spitters. Maybe fix these issues and I come back later :).
A nice game.. had some fun. Maybe you could add some more content besides the bring and fetch quests. Also the colors took some effort to get used to :P.
Hmm.. for some reason the ghost won't move. I tried W,A,S,D and arrow keys. Escape works. I downloaded the Windows version. Someone else having this problem?
Really nice game. The only question for me is: Why did you choose ~ to enter the shop? :D .. I have no idea what to press on a German keyboard now. Maybe you could change that to the enter key or something else? Despite that, this is a great entry.
At the moment one has to wait quite the long time until the metal is in front of the holes. Maybe you could get a more "puzzle-like" game, if you have to place the black block at the beginning and then push it once. You could also offer different places to put it and one has to decide which one is the right.
Nice game :).. it was really fun playing and the balancing feels right. The reason why you get so few ratings is because you don't have a browser version and your game does not seem to be set as compatible to windows in itch.io. If I want to start it in the itch.io-Launcher I get "not available for windows". So one has to download the game and extract it and allow windows to run it. A lot of people are gone by that time.
This is really a fun game to play :). Well done! We made it to turn 26.
A lot of fun to play and really polished. Would be great if you could publish the source code. I'm especially interested in the shaders you used :).
Funny idea, that one can draw his own monster :D..
Seriously? How great is this game? 8x5 stars.. best game played so far on ludum dare!
I made it :).. first I also thought "where is the challenge?".. but the mechanics are really nice.
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Nice game :).. was fun playing. It would also be nice, if the actions also hat keys assigned to them. It is a lot of point and click for the buttons, although there are only a few options. A mode with higher difficulty would also be nice. Overall a really good entry!
After I understood what to do it was really fun playing. There are some features, that seem a little unnecessarily complicated. I don't get, why there are two equation options to solve. There is to much going on and no time to think about which option one wants and there is no reward in choosing one over the other. I would just get rid of one and get a simpler straight forward gameplay. The other feature is the rage bar. Again there was not really a time to think about, what to do with it. More time, and more complicated equations would be great. Also there should be a small penalty when leaving an equation unsolved.
Just some thoughts of mine. Great entry!