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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 35 | Shapeshift | UprightPath - It Came | jam | 1138 | 2.44 | 2.00 | 2.06 | 2.81 | 2.41 | 33 | |||||
| 2014 | 30 | Connected Worlds | Worlds Collide: a tale of many | compo | 1084 | 2.56 | 2.40 | 2.84 | 3.24 | 1.96 | 1.68 | 2.44 | 2.50 | 44 | ||
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | UprightPath - Temple Depths | compo | 702 | 3.04 | 2.76 | 2.57 | 2.63 | 2.82 | 2.40 | 39 | ||||
| 2013 | 28 | You Only Get One | Fire Damp | compo | ||||||||||||
| 2013 | 26 | Minimalism | Darwinian Monsters | compo | 1056 | 2.67 | 2.43 | 3.57 | 3.00 | 2.14 | 33 | |||||
| 2012 | 23 | Tiny World | Tiny World - Ideas in the Sea of Thought | compo | 880 | 1.85 | 1.39 | 2.80 | 2.20 | 2.38 | 1.11 | 1.33 | 1.96 | 71 |
uprightpath leaves an average of 20.6 feedback comments each event.
I... I can't play this game! My brain is too busy trying to play the game like Escape Velocity! (Left/Right = Rotation, Up = Thrust, Down = Brake.) I ended up spending a lot of time just circling asteroids. xD
Honestly had difficulty with this one, though that was more of a hardware issue since I use a laptop. The touchpad likes to stop working when keys are typed (Perhaps as a palm detection thing? No idea). Got out my mouse and played it.
I loved the graphics. Except the ceiling. And then it was more like I hated, but loved it. It creeped me out to look up and see the movement up there more than ANYTHING else in the game (Not that I played far). I blame the fact that I love the SCP project stuff so much.
I played, and honestly, I ended up stuck in a situation where all I could get was "Go to Gym" or "Do Drugs", or "Find Lover" or "Call Ex", and it repeated for several looking iterations. I broke out of it, but it'd be nice if there were an extra option, like a neutral path at times.
Rather difficult to play due to the speed at which the character moves.
Rather cluggy controls and a VERY high distance between things. Made it difficult to enjoy the game, or get far at all.
Got to the third level as well before I crashed and couldn't figure it out!
Null pointer when I attempt to run the game. It provides no real information (Beyond it being a jarinjarloader/packaging issue).
Oh, dear lord, the movement! The movement was rather hard on the eyes.
Difficult to play that one. Being unable to tell when an enemy is damage is a little difficult.
Difficult.
I've never been good at dealing with the movement with keyboard + mouse. Especially since my mouse messes up just a bit and doesn't like to move while I'm hitting other keys. xD
Collision detection is rather odd. It's hard to know when you're close enough to attack versus close enough to get attacked.
Difficult! But fun. I rather liked it.
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Couldn't get past the first level due never having the right number of keys (The random door assignment was giving issues).
Also, there's nothing catching if you jump off the ledge and fall off the map.
You can package your code and upload it as a release through Github instead of making people clone your repository and stuff.
You can package your game and upload it as a 'Porting' to make it easier.
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Background looks fantastic, however the controls and collision detection are difficult.
Collision detection was rather wonky and the fall speed (slow) compared to lateral motion (fast) made it hard to dodge the enemy things. Also, the 'mini-game' between might need some explanation.
Played the game.
Some of the controls are wonky. The Up key causes you to go all of the way to the top and then continues to circle. It's really jarring when you're attempting to move from the bottom to the middle.
Also, some of the images are a little confusing. It took me a while to realize that the whip (Scourge?) was a grace item.
Did you make use of Abundant-Music to get your audio? The spikes are a LITTLE too easy to hit, it's like the collision detecting with regards to them isn't close to pixel so odd corners catch.
Also, in regards to my game, I'm going to release a little bug-fix about the speed/movement issues.
Can't access the game! It says Insufficient Privileges.
Not too shabby. It would've been nice if there were a way to kill the the bug from the side you were on (Like hitting one attacking the city while you're on top of it.)
Looked rather cute. Didn't make it to game status, I don't think. Heh.
Same issues as the guy above.
I played it but I didn't quite understand what was going on!
As in I didn't get what the bonus/malus was. Was it towards the opponent? And if the number of turns was a negative what did that mean?
Played it and found it REALLY hard. Of course, that's because I made a similar game and the the physics are similar but JUST different enough to throw me off.
One bit of advice I have is to only jump when the player first presses the jump key. I died a few times because I suddenly jumped when landing because I didn't let go of the jump button immediately.
The premise is okay for a sort of puzzle/platformy sort of game. The explanation of using your attack could be better.
Been attempting to play the game but nothing happens when I try to run the executable. (It fails silently, even when I use the command line to run it.)
I had an issue with the jump attempts failing until after I used the thruster.
I have NO idea what was going on (The red block didn't do anything). >.>
Hard to play!
A better explanation of the various key commands would be VERY useful (Like that you can use WASD to turn on engines and the like).
Overall rather nice.
Only thing I'd say is to have a method for deselecting the mage and for instantly flipping the table over. The click-drag feature is bothersome and gives you really weird angles.
It looks rather nice and plays pretty well. Though it's difficult/time consuming to buy things (The fact that you can only carry a small number of nuggets is a bit bothersome).
Also, some issues with the spike trap (I dug under it then jumped upwards and got killed.)
Rather liked what I saw. It's a little awkward attempting to play the game and read the messages at the same time though. I know I missed a bunch there when the first enemies appeared then more when "Strong competition" came up.
Currently can't play because it doesn't have the ants_data file included in the download! I'll try to replay when you fix!
Tried it out! Got to 208 without actually using the mouse because... Well, I'm on a laptop and it doesn't play nicely with trying to use both the mouse and keyboard at the same time...
I sort of just went 'Dolphin' on it and bounced a bomb off my nose for a few moments before strafing to let it hit the people behind me.
I liked the idea, however I had issues with the implementation of the gravity/bouncing. It seemed as though the ball fell at odd rates/bounced oddly off of objects, sometimes seeming to bounce further than it should have for a given impact. Could just be an issue with me though.
I know it's supposed to be intuitive, but it would be nice to have an explanation of what's expected. For a while there, I couldn't score any points at all (Don't know if I wasn't focused correctly or what) and I didn't know whether the intent was to press and hold. Also, I'm not sure if it was intentional, but 3, 5, 0 never had 'bad' spots.
I liked it! Most of my comments would follow the others. However, there're a few graphics issues I'd like to bring up: The princess's speech bubble can cover up the knight, making it difficult to tell which way he's facing; the ground seems to spasm when you're turning in a circle (Changes texture, sometimes a seam appears).
I loved the fact that even the English Translation/Localization style was 'Minimalistic'. I thought it fit the theme pretty well. Movement keys plus a single action key, a small number of enemies. Though, at the end with the spawning goblins? That was NOT minimal at all.
My main issue, as a lot of people have said, is that the controls are rotated by 45. That, and it'd be nice to have your starting place surrounded by blue squares or something. I had a couple of games where I started with reds within two squares of the starting point (On easy).
The character's jumping seems to be off. I ended up having to walk through the spikes at the top of the first level because it wouldn't just correctly for me.
I could only get through the first level or so (I kept getting slain by the lava). It was great though!
Thus far, I've liked it more than any of the others I've played (Not that I've played many). It would be nice to be able to shoot back, hah.
I played around with it a bit. However, I kept dying suddenly (Negative HP) while exploring. Nothing seemed to have attacked. No clue what was happening there.
It seemed a little like the game was in the enemy's favor, like you moved slower than they did.
Very, very hard. Especially since of the ten times I played I only got to go first once. xD
It was a cute game, and the song was nice, however having something else to listen to at some point during it might have been nice.
I didn't actually see a use for 'hiding' until late on in the game because I didn't realize that you could still walk. xD
I got stuck just inside a door on several occasions and my man couldn't target the enemy and thus got killed!
Very difficult, especially with the turning speed of the gun and the fact that collisions with it breaks it. Heh.
I rather liked it, however I felt that it became -markedly- easier to defeat the enemies when you happened to have two of them stacked on each other. Yes, you get drained doubly fast, but you only need to shoot once, and you're likely to get back more of your light.
While I could play it, I did have some issues, primarily with the player's hit box. It seemed as though you're using a much larger box to detect collisions (As least left and right) which makes some things like jumping onto the first ledge sort of counter intuitive.
Graphics were good, but... Beyond that it didn't feel like much of a game. I'm assuming that the click-and-hold then release is supposed to be a battle taking place outside of the scope of the 'house', but it's hard to tell that's what's going on. Especially since there's no "It's over", I mean we could take the destruction of the house as such, but you can still keep shooting after that.
My primary problem with the game is the fact that the grid is off-sized (It sort of implies that you can move things a half-step in a direction) and that there is no placement indicator. So I often ended up misplacing things.
Otherwise, it was pretty great.
Rather liked it! I mean, the music is rather catchy.
However, I feel like it was missing a "Forty billion stars" reference.
Figured since you did my game I'd so yours!
Ahem, it was pretty simple, however I almost died in the pacific since I didn't know the map didn't scroll over to the US!
As for what you'd asked me on my game? Nope, Plato didn't even come to mind. It was just an idea when I was heading to my car to get a soda "What's this? A little spark of thought in the dark?" and it grew from there.
Zhe mechanics! They're rather difficult to get used to, especially when you're on the bottom of the world.
I spent so much time on the platform jumping that I ended up giving up. Heh.
Still, an interesting idea.
Hard! Too hard for me to get right. On my screen the colour difference between the tunnel walls and the background isn't enough to easily differentiate them.
It also seems like the physics are a little too unforgiving for a learner (I mean, you start falling immediately, and in my case, I couldn't even see what killed me. xD)
Clicky clicky clicky clicky clicky. 2,753,031. Working on Windows 7 64bit Home Premium edition!
It's not quite zero-sum, or it doesn't feel that way if you manually lower ground by right clicking. Nothing else changed shape, and didn't seem like I got 'free lifting' somewhere else.
I attempted to play the game, but as soon as I move the cursor over one square away, it gets laggy and unresponsive. Same thing happens if I create a building.
Difficult! Especially with how slow it moves compared to some of the starting particles. I had a huge one swinging towards me at the start and barely escaped it.
Yeah, the idea's alright, though an indication of 'speed' might be nice as well, or some idea of what will slow you down how. It seemed like the river was slowing me down, but that could have just been the fact that I was tired when I hit it. xD
Sort of felt like I was just 'Press down when on a downward slope' automoding it. Otherwise, it was okay.
I had trouble getting the music to work. Otherwise, it was a fairly simple puzzle. Not too difficult and I found it pretty simple to decipher. :D
Simple game, simple story, still pretty good.
The music and the sounds are sort of annoying. At least to me. xD Otherwise, it's a good bullet-storm type game.
Ba-da-boom towards the center of the universe.
Interesting idea about the collision stuff. Nice effect that you can blow yourself out of the solar system.
As has been said, the controls are what did me in each time. I even blew up trying to dock because the option never came up and I didn't realize I was moving too fast to stop.
I had some trouble with the mouse it seemed somewhat jerky at times, moving from smooth to jumping, and it's sometimes hard to 'see' behind structures to play things.
Really, that's my only beef: I have trouble seeing the cursor at times. Heh.
The jumping mechanic, especially in regards to the water, is a little to difficult to deal with. I just started holding down jump the whole time to get through things.
Fun! A little difficult if you don't spend a lot of itme building turrets. Heh.
Also, if you press shift in the Factory when you have nothing in your 'hand' it crashes.
I managed to break the engine, I think. Or at least, use the physics against it, in such a way that I could survive indefinitely (I stopped at around five minutes).
I attempted to get your game to work, however I could not. Your .jar file doesn't have the required LWJGL Library required to run it.
I attempted to play the game, but for whatever reason I couldn't get it to work. The page loads, but the game does not.
I couldn't get the Time Attack version to work, when I attempted to select anything and guide it, nothing happened.
I tried the Survival mode but for the most part I wasn't really sure what I was supposed to be doing. Perhaps using something other than (just) colours would have made it more playable, especially with the two green targets. I was having quite a bit of trouble deciphering which one was the intended goal of a hokey-puck.
Fun, but the motion seems a little weird.
Were you trying for some sort of 'time dilation' effect when you're moving? By that, I mean the way that motion seems to change the scale of things, which can make positioning, planning difficult. Heh.
LD35 — Shapeshift (14)
Vikings by timtipgames 2016-04-21T00:27:00
I was unable to run; please include the required version of Java (As in which it was coded for.)
Goo Patrol by starpixie 2016-04-20T04:57:00
Rather hard! Difficult to handle on a laptop though due to issues with touch pad+keyboard interaction!
ShapeDodger by Djapz30 2016-04-20T02:55:00
Very hard! Very, very hard. And while it allows you to change the size at start up it doesn't seem to scale anything at all.
Extanation by Fake Unicorn 2016-04-20T02:28:00
Cannot play! It says it's missing the Extanation_Data folder.
SHIELD Low by crazya 2016-04-20T02:23:00
I can't actually shoot anything! I feel like it was a weird interaction caused by some laptops not allowing keyboard input/mouse input at the same time. :\
Morph Man by Leroyii 2016-04-20T01:48:00
Fun. But oh my god is it hard. Also, takes some getting used to with respect to transforming in the air. I've accidentally touched spikes by transforming mid air.
The Curse of Mr. Hobo by Fierceshadow 2016-04-20T01:38:00
Couldn't really tell the differences on the health bar!
Shapeshifter's Quest by allstar602 2016-04-20T01:27:00
Very. VERY! Hard.
Jumping seems to be rather bugged for me. Also, I died by transforming too close to the edge. The slime did it (stupid slime!)
Hunters and Hunted by Jadernak 2016-04-20T00:24:00
Rather fantastic; however, it feels WAY too luck based. Especially since there's no way to save scumming or way points. >.> But then, that might be me hating at having 15 supplies and 0 food.
GEMS OF THE ELEMENTS by CornflowerBlue 2016-04-19T23:26:00
Please put down a note about it requiring DirectPlay to be installed; on Win10 it went straight to the 'stopped from running' state and kind of glitched out for a moment.
Also, please please PLEASE remove the escape logic. I had just picked up the third gem and hit escape while alt-tabbing and closed the game. That hurt.
GeoRun by zwrawr 2016-04-19T23:11:00
The game itself was alright; a bit clunky. I felt like I was supposed to be able to pick up the coins but couldn't. Also got stuck in some places due to the platform physics, especially with the jumping thing. I got caught in that spot between the half blocks up top and I couldn't get out of that little space.
ITSNOTME by ChienBleu 2016-04-19T23:01:00
There's too little time to go around and talk to people; it feels like you have to play it multiple times to actually manage to get the right answer. Not a bad thing, though.
I didn't get to a point where 'Shapeshifting' came up, though that might've just been me getting frustrated and giving up.
Proving Grounds by studiopareidolia 2016-04-19T21:15:00
Can't run; I think it needs a specific version of OpenAL.
Corners by Drkr 2016-04-19T20:15:00
Definitely a different view of Shapeshifting than I came up with; but that's part of the point of LD, in'it? An explanation of the meter might be useful sometime as I let it drain without actually knowing what to do (though that might've been distraction.)
As a note, when the game finished for me I got a white screen without any way of quitting. I had to alt+tab out then close it that way.
On a separate note; my game might be working now. I left in some debug code that was outside the main libGDX project (the asset packaging code was in the launcher and I completely forgot.)