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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | About Crayons and my garden | jam | 493 | 3.60 | 2.89 | 3.51 | 3.60 | 4.18 | 3.50 | 3.21 | 4.16 | ||
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | 👥 | Summoning Ritual | jam | 310 | 3.82 | 3.44 | 2.88 | 3.52 | 4.34 | 3.87 | 2.89 | 4.23 | |
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | 👥 | Limited Judgement | jam | 503 | 3.63 | 3.31 | 4.25 | 2.94 | 3.76 | 3.33 | 3.06 | 3.81 | |
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | Message Delivered | jam | 540 | 3.61 | 3.48 | 3.90 | 3.77 | 3.40 | 3.41 | 3.04 | 4.01 | ||
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | 👥 | Glitch Quest | jam | 486 | 3.61 | 3.23 | 3.80 | 3.38 | 3.76 | 3.53 | 3.93 | 3.57 | |
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | 👥 | fireme.club | jam | 485 | 3.68 | 3.25 | 3.75 | 3.36 | 4.16 | 3.78 | 3.88 | 3.63 | |
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | 👥 | Keep it @alive | jam | 1661 | 3.30 | 2.80 | 3.23 | 2.89 | 4.05 | 3.53 | 2.93 | 3.44 | |
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | 👥 | When Nothing Came | jam | 126 | 3.96 | 3.22 | 4.09 | 3.66 | 4.19 | 4.21 | 4.40 | ||
| 2019 | 44 | Your life is currency | 👥 | Koe | jam | 362 | 3.62 | 2.92 | 3.48 | 2.86 | 4.38 | 4.00 | 3.18 | 4.24 | |
| 2018 | 43 | Sacrifices must be made | 👥 | Sacrifice Them | jam | 872 | 2.96 | 2.51 | 3.07 | 2.89 | 3.81 | 3.47 | 2.54 | 3.18 | |
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | 👥 | Spiritship | jam | 1075 | 2.89 | 2.55 | 2.91 | 2.91 | 4.10 | 3.62 | 2.50 | 3.73 | |
| 2017 | 40 | The more you have, the worse it is | 👥 | Epitaph | jam | 830 | 3.15 | 2.22 | 2.80 | 2.85 | 4.52 | 3.55 | 1.86 | 3.95 | |
| 2016 | 37 | One room | In That Same Old Room | jam | 389 | 3.41 | 2.94 | 2.44 | 3.25 | 4.34 | 3.55 | 3.63 | 61 |
I just loved this game. The art is awesome and the music fits nicely. It took me some time to figure it out how to play it and how each crew member works, but once I did I got mildly addicted to the mechanics. This can turn out to be a really fun mobile game.
The story introduction is quite funny. Also the skeletons are really well made.
The pixel art in this is really good. Also liked the way the screen shakes softly in some parts and some little extra effects that make the experience compelling.
Nice pixel art graphics and music
the music is thrilling and fun ... I would like to see more enemy types though
Very nice graphics. Cool to see the UI inspired in doom. Maybe it would be better if I could hold down the fire button. Overall nice entry!
the art is really cool, I did not understand how the gameplay works though
Really like the politics based theme.
Simple but nice entry. I really like this type of game. This fits perfect as a mobile game. Great work.
I liked the details such as the voice over and the idea that there should be a hidden story in here, involving the narrator and someone else. It would be lovely to find any further info about this story perhaps in the books or in a letter over the table.
I like the idea of a local multiplayer. The controls were a bit bug.
We couldnt stop playing until we reached the end, very nice game.
I like the blood effect when you kill an enemy or get killed. Its kinda hard not to be hit so we cannot plan much of an attack strategy. The art is simple but passes the message. The music is also kinda nice and intense.
Nice concepts for this theme. I love the rotation effect. I think would be nice to see a conclusion (It's seems like an infinite loop). Very nice job, reminds me of every day the same dream.
The battle system is interesting, combining mouse hits, upgrades that require time like in gods will be watching and weapons system. I had a really good time, this game is kinda addicting. Having different kinds of zoombies with time would make this a great and fun mobile game.
The shaders are just awesome and the sounds really fit the atmosphere! I loved the details also (birds and some minor effects around the scenario)
the art is nice and the theme fits nicely. The gameplay is pretty hard, but also fun. Perhaps a health system would be nice.
Now this is the most impressive entry I have seen! As soon as I realised how the game mechanics works, I got quite addicted to it, also the simple music goes well with the pixel art graphics and the continuous level upgrading makes it quite a complete game. The changing of room parts is new and really creative, I could not find any flaw in this one, its 5/5 in every cathegory for me. Great work!
The gameplay is challenging after some time. Improving this machanic to add more enemies and objects to the house can make a nice survivor game.
The sand looks nice but sometimes when enemies hit the sand the tank gets stuck and cannot move, perhaps that is part of the difficulty though. I liked that it happens on a desk in a room, that is really interesting, makes it look like toy story.
It has a nice mechanic for an education game. I missed some music though, the idea is quite nice.
Wow, really nice entry. I really liked the pixel art graphics and the atmosphere. Great work! Amazing that you did this in 48h, really impressive!
Good music and nice art style. Controls were just a bit weird on the keyboard tough, but that is perhaps my keyboard layout.
This is kinda relaxing, the water waste theme however, makes it sound like an educational game. Overall it is quite a good job.
The enemy behavior should have been tricky to implement in unity. The idea is simple, I missed seeing different types of enemies. Audio for enemy death was kinda too lound on my end.
Really impressive graphics for a game jam. I also like the physics of bullet. Really nice job!
Woow, that the funniest entry that I have played in this ludum dare so far. This really made me laugh! Top in every cathegory.
One of my favorite entries. It would be reeally nice if I could pass dialogs. The story, art and music fit well together.
The graphics are just gorgeous. The game play looks like Lovers in a dangerous spacetime, but singleplayer. Having enemies coming from above would make the experience challenging and more fun. I missed some music.
Nice game, simple concepts but fits well with theme. I just missed some music playing.
Thanks a lot @Greek85!
We have just uploaded it to Indiexpo, here is the link http://www.indiexpo.net/en/games/one-room
Yes, you can include in your next video for sure ^_______^
Wooow! This is really professional work. The graphics are beautiful and the music fits the mood. Nice work!
Awesome use of theme!
This mechanic has a lot of potential. Its like hot line miami with swords. There could be a mechanic to dodge or jump back perhaps, like in zelda.
I don't know if I am the right person to talk about a twine narrative game. It starts kinda slowly and with some repetitions (feathers, feathers), but then it gets really good, particularly for me when you get a sense that you chose your path (turn left, turn right). I also liked the end. It also fits well in the theme.
This would go very nicely with a perhaps more advanced ship building feature (kinda like nimbatus I am imagining here)
Loved the voice in the title!
Simple and relaxing, real nice!
I agree that the lasers could be larger and have perhaps more impact effects.
I love the choice of colors! Solid gameplay also!
what a cute game! I could not understand the gameplay much though.
I loved this idea, its atmosphere, music and even the character remind me of the old sonic games, which is really cool. The addition of the coin bag toss mechanic was intelligent and went well with the rest of the gameplay. Fits perfectly in the theme by the way. ps: realmente mandaram mto bem com esse game, eu compraria esse ai na Steam com certeza! ;)
this could be a nice metaphor for programming, if you let a bug unresolved, you will end up with lots of unwanted behaviors (glitches) and these can end up killing your game/app/solution.
Loved the time mechanics and the effects in the ball! Its a really tough game and has lots of beautiful visual effects.
This is really sweet. The scenarios are cute, simple and beautiful. I also loved the text effects!
I took a very long time to figure out that I was supposed to use the ropes .. I suck so much in platforming games .. really dig the aesthetics though
I got a bit confused with the controls ... perhaps because I kinda expected something like the unity 3d editor controls .. other than that the interface looks pretty neat. I really like these block based editors. Perhaps with a little more work this can become an awesome title.
Really beautiful game! I love everything here! Its kinda tough, but also kinda relaxing
I absolutely love the mechanics! An incredible addon idea to the shoot and dodge kinda game. I imagine this with a high paced electronic music, kinda like hot line miami but perhaps more .. futuristic? Great game overall
Addictive, relaxing and it does get a bit challenging after some levels! Absolutely love it!
Cute graphics! It would be nice if the balls would ark towards the boat.
The only problem I have here is with the flashing of the screen which kinda made me dizzy after a while, that could be a bit more subtle perhaps.
Shooting the enemies is kinda weirdly satisfying I must say =)
Its fun how the cute penguin contrasts with the blood in the ice when you kill enemies
nice art!
yeah it really does remind of the aquarela song ^^ ! Very relaxing and old school atmosphere, I loved it!
Bitcoin prices could increase each time you play lolol. Fun little game for sure
That is a really nice idea! Very creative! I see the game itself lacks some polishing and some important game features (like being able to go back and choose another patient), but I understand that could come later with more time in development, the idea of the game itself is what matters in this and that is an awesome idea I must say.
Awesome game! Really fun man!
I like the movement, you can really see it is based on the lufthausers, but 3d. The motion blur is also nice.
I loved the art and the scanned materials. The more things you have the worse the moving is lolol that is a good take on the theme!
loved the music, loved the dialogue, loved the sound effects, even the character art was funny and I think it meets the theme. Don't know if that was on purpose or not, but the occasional dialogue gets in the way of the tasks you must do, so you want to rush it to get back to the main tasks.
The heat mechanics is a nice addon to this kind of game, nice work!
Really nice mechanics, it gets really tough real fast. Perhaps adding simple stuff like acceleration to the bullet (starting fast then slowing down) and fast dodging mechanics (can be something like quick dodge left/right) would make this a very exciting competitive game.
by the way it is also kinda fun to play it by yourself... pretending that you should have the maximum bullets flying in the arena for the most time
This is kinda addictive for me. It reminds me of RoboKill, an awesome arcade flash game I played a lot some years ago. Some powerups and effects (like a screenshake here and there) could make this game even more addictive for sure.
I love these games in which you are playing a 2d game inside a 3d game! this has a awesome aesthetics. Love the take on the theme too
As I did not read the description, When I understood the mechanics I was like WOW That is cool!
pretty serious and deep take on the theme. I liked the subtle message in it.
I love the music in this
Love the tv tuning feature. This has a great atmosphere.
interesting mechanics
I would love to be able to have more variety of moves and ways to dodge enemy attacks. This can be fun in an ipad I believe
It does take a while for a new player to get the dynamics, but I see not a big problem with that, perhaps a quick tutorial would solve it. The only problem I had though was with the music. That may be just my opinion, but I think perhaps a not so frenetic song would do better in this.
Fantastic idea of a puzzle platformer! Its really satisfying to find the solutions to each puzzle
the animation has personality, it seems to me though that the more items you get, the more platforms appear and hence, it gets easier, not sure if that was the intention. I would also like to see more of that hand made art in other elements of game like platforms and scenario.
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Thanks man! We intended to paint the animations, but we ran out of time lol
Thanks @tinywords =) We tried so many things gameplay-wise, in the end we tried to just do the easiest mechanics so to have a finished game.
Thanks! The connection to the theme was supposed to be the aging process and how tasks get harder and harder as you get older and your loved ones pass away. As the gameplay was kinda limited, we had a hard time trying to show this increase in difficulty (after each pass in the cemitery, you need more clicks to get things finished) without making it an annoying experience. The last turn (after going to the cemitery 3 times) you have to click so much to get your bed done that you simply get tired and give up ... so, the more years you have behind you, the worse it gets, that was supposed to be the message =)
Thanks! Yeah we noticed people did not see how it was connected to the theme. It was supposed to be the relation: the more years you have behind you, the worse it gets (after each turn you need more clicks to get your tasks done) ... that ended up being perhaps too subtle ... the clicking was supposed to be another mechanic, but we failed to finish them in time so we stick with the plan B which was just clicking
Hi, actually the ending was supposed to be after the 4th run, but there is not much to it, its simply the screen fading away and showing the title to symbolize her being too tired and not being able to accomplish not even the first task which as tidying up the bed ... we will certainly change the gameplay mechanics later on
Hi @cppchriscpp, thanks for playing our game =) I also try to always do the same, playing the games of everyone's comments ... sometimes one or another we end up missing. Your game has a very nostalgic feeling to it, which I really loved.
Very creative take on the theme! Awesome mechanics also
This would be awesome in an ipad! Also can be a great game to play with friends with a single ipad
The game is tough but very satisfying when you get to finish a stage. I got stuck after the 3rd level cause some jumps are a bit too far. Nice idea for a game!
Pretty complex features and nice visuals! With a bit more work on it, a atmosphere on the likes of this one: http://househou.se/goose/ would make it a really enjoyable and fun themed RTS.
Loved the liquid physics and the distortion as you get drunker! Really fun! The music is fun too ... awesome take on the them by the way
Love the game! I agree that some shortcuts would be nice
THIS IS GENIUS OMFG
The music is excellent. Throwing the dishes is fun and satisfying
Interesting idea and I really liked this style of animations, art and music. I wish the music was a bit longer though for its cool but gets repetitive fast. I think I understood how it works, but whenever I tried to play it, the board was just too crowded and lagging too much. You should invest in this project though, its fun and has a lot of potential I think.
beautiful pixel art graphics. I miss being able to go to other rooms and environments though with this kind of mechanics
The drawings are beautiful and the camera transition effects are nice too. Miss having more animations but I know for myself how hard incorporating animations can be. The umbrela mechanics are very interesting and could be used to traverse areas with rain or something as I see, kinda like that game Rain
heat mechanics is nice and lore interesting. I miss perhaps some theme music
Kinda like crazy taxi but with space management, which is kinda cool actually. Would like to see this mechanics in a very fast paced scenario like on crazy taxi though, could be a great addictive game
Impressive graphics, full of nice effects! I think perhaps mechanics are a bit too simple as they are, I can definitely see this as a turn based strategy game about managing remaining space in the arena though. It reminds me of a programming game about robots that look like these.
Looks like every object is made out of paper, I like that!
I miss more walking/running animations in the main player sprite. Love the black and white pixel graphics though. The sound is a bit harsh after playing it for a while
Looks definitely like something I would buy on steam, looking forward to your full post LD release
Great gameplay idea. I perhaps miss a bit more music, but the levels are quite challenging and everything works nicely.
Really kinda addicting gameplay and fun approach to the theme.
Cool small game, maybe a good mobile title
we can make an intense moving truck simulator game out of this, nice!
I like the sounds people make when you get them, reminds of of lovers in a dangerous spacetime
Voice acting was great, explosions are excellent. When getting the laser the player movement kind bugged sometimes. Btw the cutscenes are the best! Great entry!
Hi I love the simple pixel art graphics with the outline in each character, also the guns are quite satisfying to use and the gameplay gets quite frantic fast. I am just struggling to find how that relates to the theme though, perhaps I did not played enough to see it
Wow! My kind of environmental game! I thinks this also as a great table top multiplayer game where one plays as the nature and others play as humans ... perhaps with some adaptions. Really good idea!
Simple, challenging, awesome!
Man I must get to the last level! This game is one of the best puzzle games I ve ever played on ludum dare. Such simple mechanics and such an awesome game, congratulations!
Can be a tricky puzzle with a possibility for complex scenarios. The music is nice but can become a bit repetitive, if you extend it by just a little bit that can be solved though I think.
Feels a bit like Carcassone, the board game. I like the mechanics in this one, and also agree that music and having some events that trigger music to be played could make this a more involving experience for sure.
Favorite game in this jam so far and I mean it!
I like this games that look like old duke nuken or doom. Burning everything feels cool, just wish there were more diversity among the things we burn
The effects are very very satisfying, makes me wanna continue playing ... the music though not so much and after a while it get a bit annoying.
Somehow the graphics in this are kinda relaxing, reminds me of some old 90s games. I like the colors and the simple interface, the transitions are also adorable. Great work!
Great Idea! Nice take on the theme! I have seen some games use the idea of inventory organization but this one is kinda complex indeed. I actually like the art as it is, its kinda like some 90s games, it has something special to it.
Complex mechanics, simple and neat graphics.
Its like downwell with enter the gungeon. I kinda love the guns in here
Yes, this is a prototype I understand that, but I don't know what was the initial idea so I can't know what was the intended gameplay.
I like the subtle music and the visual effects ... too abstract perhaps, I can't figure out exactly how it works
Such amazing graphics oh man
How adorable! The music is so authentic! I love this in so many ways, please continue with this and do a game like Undertale meets Pokemon
That laser beam is very very satisfying to use, also the graphics has a lot of style to it. The sound effects are great too, this is an excellent entry indeed.
Indeed nice music and the drawings are quite beautiful. I don't play a lot of visual novels but this looks different in an interesting way, perhaps something belonging to the Legend of Zelda universe
interesting mechanics that forces you to think really fast, its also very well polished
The pixelart looks beautiful and the sound effects very satisfying. Great work!
Nice art and music. I got stuck often in this part print.png
Sound effects and music are quite good and do not make you want to stop it so fast, well done! Cool project
interesting and creative, quite original. The music is good too
The way movement was designed is very interesting and makes this a challenging experience. The graphics are nice too.
Its amazing how you managed to make so much in such a short period of time, this game has a lot of complexity and is really well done. One can play this for hours. Wish I can make such games one day in a next possible ludum dare =)
I suck so much in this game, but I am having fun nevertheless. I miss perhaps some animations for the main char
Fun idea! The tea cup reminds of that old office clippy, nice reference in there. The interface is amazing! I would love to see this as a full game, perhaps where you can also explore other stuff in the OS, opening other programs and just doing random stuff. Nice job!
Man this is the best usage of theme I ve seen so far! Lolol awesome!
Amazing art and really funny concept ... killing everyone is quite satisfying
@daria-s I think the killing part is definitely the best lolol.
"the mac version doesn’t seem to be working" we wil check on that and upload a new one, thanks for pointing that out
@cppchriscpp thanks for the comments! We usually post games on itch.io and then some of them go to steam (actually currently its just one of them lol). Making complete games is quite hard, but we participate in some game jams from time to time. Btw I think I said that, but I must say again that I absolutely loved your entry to this ld42 =)
Thanks @aeveis and @rahim-pxr for the comments. @rahim-pxr I will sure check your game very soon. From the picks and screenshots it looks promising =)
Love the balance in the mechanics. Perhaps just too much screen shake so I felt a bit dizzy after playing for a while. When the shots hit its pretty satisfying though, nice work!
I like the sound effects, the mood and the movement of the character which really seems like you are in space. Great graphics as well, specially in little details like the cracking of the glass when you die. It felt kinda too hard for me, but I know I just suck too much in these games so that may not be a problem for most players. The sound effects are sometimes perhaps too loud for things that will be played so often. Btw I would love to explore more in this universe.
Love the pixel graphics, really well done! I think I did not get how the scoring thing works, good game though
It took me a while to get used to the mechanics, but once I understood had tons of fun playing it. Love all the work to me it authentically retro
Cute snail, could easily be in a longer platform game, it reminds me a bit of those Diddy Kong Race characters
I had a couple of laughs in this one, great mood! Idea similar to ninja pizza girl
Wow what a style! I am so loving this
It feels, sounds and plays uniqueness. The part where you have to place the teeth is the creepiest for me and also my favorite part. Nice work!
Some adjustments in the camera and intensity could make this a nice intense game experience
Fun game and interesting mechanics. I got a bit irritated with the sounds after some time playing it though
Could be a nice idea for a local party game.
This is really clever, reminds me a bit of a puzzle game I can't remember the name, but it was about rolling stuff on a grill
@marcenat yes, that game is amazing! I love puzzles with simple rules. Yours is a very good example of it I think. Nice work!
wow! Complex approach to the theme, I like what this can become, although I am not sure I have the brains for it, it sound definitely like a good text based strategy game
best usage of theme so far. Love the minimalistic music and aesthetics of it. Love specially the music!
Simple and cool idea.
Challenging gameplay. The part with the flash light really makes you fell fear, which is very good, it seems anything can happen in the dark. I also like the messages in the walls, there is a lot of story telling potential in those. Although I just suck too much in platform games that I could not finish the part with the flashlight, I had a pretty good time. Also the effects you added when the player dies are nice and soothe the frustration a bit. Btw I love to see games that make people rage quit in new different ways on youtube, it will be fun to see people playing this one. Nice entry and congratulations for all your work and effort.
Amazingly beautiful! Kinda hard too. Its so beautiful it makes you want to keep punching.
Great runner! Seems like a good title for apple tv
Stuff I love about this: kinda 2d characters in a 3d world and the sounds when text is shown
one of my favorite entries so far! Excellent on innovation theme and lovable graphics! This would make a fantastic mobile or even pc game! Very very good! Music is really cute too
Its like SAW (the movie) somehow ... sacrificing mates to continue to the other chambers of the game ... nice puzzles in this
I managed to live less than 5 days, that how bad I am at this game lol ... wish the intro music continued in the game, it was pretty nice
Like a relaxing version of angry birds, not a bad idea! The volcano could have some animations depending on how you hit it with the chickens perhaps
its like a conspiracy theory type of game, never seen that idea being used, real nice ... perhaps some more effects when the airplane realeases the gas would be nice, other mechanics would also be nice like having to slow down the airplane when you release the gas
I just love this entry, its smooth and full of personality! The flashing red lights made me kinda dizzy after a while though
Love the texts, its fun to read out loud lolol
Love the sound effects and the people animations ... music is so great! this made me laugh and have a great time
Love the soundtrack! The screenshake makes it real cool and somewhat satisfying, voice over was an excellent idea, awesome job!
This bloom sets a Tron like vibe, which is nice ... however I missed some soundtrack to go along with it, something more daft punk like .. the music is good, but I think it could have some changes to go better with the graphics
its weird, creepy in a kinda unique way and kinda disturbing too, love this entry!
music is great ... it has a very cool and fun vibe the trailer is quite nice too the animations are fantastic IMHO some blood and gore would add a lot to the game, making it like a tragic comedy perhaps ... Love this entry anyway =) nice work!
btw there is a very very good brazillian cartoon called "irmão do jorell" this reminds me a bit of it ... I mean it this is really good
the mood is good, kinda dark a bit perhaps like EVENT[0] ... some kinda quiet soundscape would go along really well with this i think
nice screenshakes! Kinda too hard for me sometimes, but I guess I just suck too much in this kind of game, so great entry anyway.
it seems like he is saying "it shall buy you" lolol ... kinda funny looking creature you had in there btw, i like it ... the music however is just a bit annoying i must say ... i like the ida of sacrifice you did here ... Screen Shot 2018-12-05 at 10.33.10 PM.png
Really nice sound effects and visual effects as well ... I like the neon vibe ... its kinda dark too which is cool
nice effects! wish there was a way to shoot up though
It is indeed charming and fun! ... the fact that they jump while walking is sooo cute! the center of the arena seems a lot like a pokeball lolol
I felt like sacrificing teletubies, which is very satisfying lolol ... nice work and very fun game!
Dark, creepy and misterious ... I love weird games on ludum dare and this one has got some style! You can see it in the sound effects, soundscape and the way our character is so smaller than the others ... they are tall and when they die they just sink into the floor. Love it, love it all!
Second game I see with this idea of sacrificing guards to save trump ... the pixelart in this is really good
Love the banners over the Dynasty Parking sign btw lolol
pixelart here is simple and good, I like the color change effects ... miss perhaps having a bit more texture and variations on the floor
This reminds me a lot of LOVE from Fred Wood, which is a very challenging game like this one. The visuals and music set the mood perfectly. Great entry!
I love the narration in this ... the voices and the art are lovable ... its soo cute fun .. love this entry!
so profound and sad ... the art is solid and creates a great mood ... music is soft and lovable ... +actual statistics!! wow this is a very good project people!
cute deers, cute santa, cuteness is high in this =) ... movement is just a bit clumsy sometimes
Monstrosities are sooo cool and cute I want to have one in my desk! Humans are not so cool but I guess that is ok
I loved the running animation on the characters, is so cute and funny! I can see this become one of those fun games with weird controls like gang bang beasts
Simple, stressful, addictive, minimalistic, great project! ... btw the music is also awesome!
Clever mechanics! Perhaps some more feedback would be nice, to know when something is interactable or not
I need to find a windows to play this, it looks to nice
love the typing effect ... the minimal sound effects make an interesting sci fi vibe ..
Best voxel graphics I have seen so far, lots of beeeautiful effects
cool music!! All bad guys are saying "yes" in russian, perhaps it would be cool to have some different types and chars of enemies ... perhaps some really crazy ones like aliens and illuminati lolol ... this could become a very cool crazy game
I saw myself coming back to the game just for the music after a while ... there was a level that was perhaps too tricky for me, with a kinda narrow corridor and spikes underneath .. perhaps adding new different ways to sacrifice yourself could make this a great puzzle platformer
Nice combat mechanics! I miss some satisfying effects of DESTRUCTION lollol ... this is a nice idea for a project that can become a quite good game
Complex mechanics, nice work! This can become a good puzzle game, there are already some nice puzzles in there
my favorite thing was god's voice lol =) somehow it took me quite a long time to notice here was a giant hand above the land
Adriana Lutz was working quite a lot on my game lol .. I like games that make you feel like you are working on something serious .. I can see this with a bit of music becoming a quite nice game to play on the ipad =)
LOVE the cinamtic opening... the controls are excellent... the text made me laugh quite nicely =) I really liked this one man, if you get a good narrator this can become like a good comedy sci fi crazy game I believe
Managing your sacrifices can be quite addictive ... missed some more sound effects though and visual feedback perhaps ...
nice art style ... the sounds made during the sacrifice are so fun lolol ... perhaps a tune in the background would be a good addition
One of my favorites so far now .. the mood is incredible, the graphics are lovable and everything about it creates a solidly sad and depressive vibe that I like a lot, congratulations on the project!
Its Limbo with a bit of super meat boy perhaps ... graphics are nice!
the tree animation is very cool, the camera effects create a very fun vibe, narration is also great. ... "why are there so many humans ? Is mating season every season?" LMAO great work!
Accurate ludum dare simulator! Nailed!
hey this music is good ... it has a lot of rhythm and coolness =) ... animations are fun but sometimes kinda buggy ...
What a cute art! Miss some music and perhaps more ridiculous sound effects to create a comedy vibe in it ... ridiculous narrations would perhaps go nice with it too
@archimagus actually we got just one day to code the mechanics for it and tried to use our time in the best way possible lol ... we wanted to make a game kinda like angry birds, where you had to throw your business person into a piramid of ragdolls representing other people so to get the prize that was underneath the other people ... when you hit them, the ragdolls would fall into pieces just like in angry birds ... we could not finish that however and tried to use that idea of sacrificing other people to get the money ... it was suppooosed to be a metaphor for how the business world sometimes work ... not a very great one I know lolol but that was what we could accomplish in the time we had =)
@joh yes it is pretty aimless the way it is now, its more like an experiment than a game ... it was kinda fun though trying to make a game out of the ragdoll and spawning mechanics in the last minutes before the end of the jam lolol ... @gao-ming thanks! @suchista the time thing is a problem ... we see that, you just don't feel any urgency or challenge to try to live longer, which was the intended purpose
@tacohej yeah the cave idea kinda sucks indeed ... it was actually an excuse to have one color walls that would not look so weird and could be stacked and moved around ... the whole cave is actually 2 walls that we rotate, move and stack to make it all look like a cave
@norb the idea was that you can get all the time in the world and all the money by sacrificing others and getting their money (if a coin falls into one of the other bodies, the money actually goes to you) ... but the sacrifices in the end stack over you and you cant move any more ... not sure it is a good metaphor, but it was like our last minute idea to make a game out of our initial mechanics lolol
@skettynmeebs yes you did! =) thanks for playing and for the screenshot ... later i found some bugs or rather strategies that can allow for a greater score of sacrifices and money, like not releasing the left mouse button as you right click like crazy, so that the bodies will stack over you and fall instead of locking you in place
@plagueofminds yeah man you got exactly what we were trying to convey! Thanks for playing btw =)
@eddie-li yeah there is a lot missing indeed, and there are loots of glitches I found myself but then we had already sent our entry and time was over lolol ... thanks for playing it! =)
@jlv thanks a lot for playing! The spawning of people was actually meant to mean the spawn of dead people which was meant to mean a "sacrifice" lol ... I know that metaphor is kinda not good, but it was the idea ... the sacrifice of freedom sounds a lot better you are right about that
@plagueofminds thanks a lot man =)
@zayah0-0 yeah ... after some 400 sacrifices you browser goes easily to lower than 1fps ... which makes it a challenge to achieve a higher record for it just can crash your browser at any minute lolol
Spider alpaca!! somehow the background music in this one reminds of the music inside the deku tree in zelda ocarina of time ... graphics are great and cute ... gameplay gets quite challenging ... this has great potential!
the sound effects and soundscape make this kinda creepy and dark which is good ... I miss some more effects when the weapon hits, like some screenshake perhaps
Its like Nimbatus, a game I really like... seems real complex to accomplish within a ludum dare, so congrats people, this must have been quite a challenge
@maksim-chugunov have you idea how you managed to accomplish it in a compo, great work man!
the mechanics are really good, controls are great! A bit more effects and screenshake perhaps could make this those stressful but dynamic and addictive games
oh man I love this music, I mean it! Reminds me a bit about a 5 min indie game about life and death that I fail to remember the name now
This can become quite nice if you add some animations showing the gods angry and grumpy, in some kind of short cutscenes like the ones in the old Theme Hospital.
Using the guns is very satisfying, particularly the bombs
I liked that some of the sacrificed tanks stay where they died ... this is a challenging kinda platformer puzzle, great entry!
the typing mechanics are nice ... some sad chiptune would go nice along with this ... like that Passage game ... I had some trouble reading but I guess that adds to the mood. Great entry!
Oh man I got really curious about your game .. wish I had a windows machine to play it though ...
It reminds me of a reverse horror game called Carrion, which is an amazing idea for a game! I thinks some more effects, music and tense sound effects could add a great deal of value to this game
the vibe and the theme are there, this could do good with a minimal soundtrack perhaps and some soudn effects
that was fun, kinda has a surgeon similator vibe to it
amazing art, great style and music! the vibe is perfect! Killed myself thinking that would be not allowed, like when you don't have enough coins lol. Must say again, the music is my favorite part
had some trouble with the scrolling ... apart from that, I like the idea, I feel a bit of the FTL vibe in it
nice mechanics very good usage of the theme more filters would be nice though =)
I just absolutely love this narration folks, its humorous and make you feel bad for stealing lol ... Robert must really love eggplants
maaaaan that was actually fun and made me laugh ... one thing I must say though is that, at least to me, this would be so much more fun if you actually had to through the investors in the pits and the more guys you dropped in those the higher your score lol ... that was the first thing I thought when saw the pit and immediately jumped for it lmao
amazing how can someone make such a complex game in such a short time, congrats folks!! i love programming games, and the mood in this is so nice, you also have a very detailed tutorial and help texts, this is incredible
yeah this is hard ... I like the visuals, perhaps some post processing effects or filters would help conceiving a mistery action vibe.. if you wait 2 seconds to observer the first floor your are done, dead lol
I spent quite sometime deciding what i should do ... nevertheless the music is absolutely great and the atmosphere is perfect
Man this game is hard, or its just me being too slow with reflexes .... can be a fun party game
wish there were more levels, this is quite a nice idea and made think it would have been perhaps cool to do a game about lizards that let go of their tail to escape predators ... I like that it is turn based and in future this can become quite a good puzzle game
loved the music and art! I thought it was turn based though in the beginning ... second level is really difficult
I like the art of this and it seems like a nice idea, a rhythm based fighting game... its hard to create rhythm games ... it seems the fullscreen is kinda buggy in my pc btw ... the text in the top part is cut so I can't read it, also the gameplay idea is good, but could not get it to work in here, the power bar does not seem to go down
@blaster391 it seems the screen is being cut, like when you have to adjust scale and something like that ... oh so I am supposed to use space, I was only pressing the arrows
just noticed it was written there in one of the first images here ... I always miss those things
its fun and well made, although with this kinda morbid theme
ow I played this for longer than I thought I would lol ... this is really addictive, it would be great if you make this into those online games which you just get in and start playing with random people ... sometimes it seems the sound is not triggered btw
Oh it took me a while to stop laughing of a pig trying to escape being destroyed for its coins ... really fun idea folks
I feel a Hexen vibe, which got me interested in seeing more about it! I also think there could be some difficult balancing perhaps ...
thanks everyone! I was pretty damn lost so many times during this project ... I am a terrible programmer nowadays so in the end I just tried loads of things ... lots of things can happen randomly and some events are pretty rare too ... hope not too many people will get stuck in bugs
@manuel-rauber thanks man! As for the art, the characters have indeed a different art style and that was purposely made, I personally like unexplained contrast, so we have a well detailed dirty sorta background and some really simple child like characters and items on top of that ... that was the idea at least ^^ @dumivid oh thanks a lot for those words man! @eliphas yeah there are some bugs for sure ... and colliders are delicate spot @digigee yeah I got that same impression too you are right ... was a bit too late to fix though ... @vulpineblazeyt I would love to have someone to work with in ludum dare ... particularly in the coding department ... I usually code frequently, but coding for games is another thing completely sometimes, all those colliding events and race conditions get me crazy lol .. in this ludum dare I had to rush desperately against the clock in the end to see if I could fix the maximum amount of bugs, most of them I had to fix in ... so to say ... non elegant ways lol @rumsquawks yeah that is also true ... I did not have the time to fix that bug (its a bug actually) ...
thanks everyone who played it, I will make sure I play your games as well as soon as I get home from work
sorry for the space bar bug ... yeah the constant message is really annoying we noticed that ... it was quite hard to fix because we were trying to sorta develop a mini framework for the game, which in the end got several flaws and we needed to improvise ... quite a lot I must say lol ...
the bed reset is not actually a reset, it inserts new variables to the game, that will make some new events happen (not a lot though)
there was a script and cutscenes and even a sorta linear timeline in the plans ... there are also currently several events and custscenes that are impossible to trigger due to some serious bugs, for instance, if you manage to die when the spiders attack, you trigger a whole different ending, the game kinda splits in that part, but we noticed is fairly impossible to die, maybe if you trigger the bed before the next message comes and keep doing that in a loop for like 5 times ...
yeah I know it lacks a lot and we will perhaps try to find someone to team up for the programming part next time some bugs could be fixed in like one hour, but I believe we are not allowed to submit new patches after the ludum dare is over, so we didn't and kept the bugs, already expecting it not to be the best entry ever, but we did it nevertheless =) Thanks a lot for the detailed review @mike-inprinciple
Just gotta say I loved the title and it made me laugh already ... will play now!
sound effects are very funny in this ... sometimes I think random objects have a function, some look like the switches .... the scenes between stages are amazing =)
what an amazing art! Animation is sweet and color scheme is pro level.This by far should be one of the bests. cats as a theme is always a good decision ^^
this is truly a work of art, reminds me of momodora ... found the controllers to be somewhat slow though, whenever I think of Momodora I expect really fast responding controls and it was a bit slower than I expected ... awesome entry!
lots of content in this, amazing how you managed to have a working version of tetris and all these minigames ... awesome job folks!
the mechanics is interesting and fun, the sound through the main gameplay gets repetitive fast though, with the right soundtrack and some powerups this could be a nice casual game (I am thinking too about multiplayer mechanics ... could be interesting)
Love that there are some sprites in pixelart in the scenario sound effects are fun it could be even funnier with a dash feature
love the music, could be a bit longer though! the art style is scratchy and beautiful, my favorite type lesson in life: go directly to the playground to get happiness from the head start
that is the mirror of my life .... happy and poor
the game seemingly broke once I sad "who wants kinds?" lol
I love the vibe of this so much that I will have it playing in the background while I chill and perhaps do some cooking ... the animations are so fluid man how do you do that thing? This actually made me smile from the start, such a nice work folks, congratulations!
one you die the game gets impossible ...
this was entertaining, it kept me playing for a while ... simple, fun and a game that doesn't take itself too seriously, good entry!
Lots of people using Godot in this jam ... combat was a bit unreliable but I got the idea and in overall it was pretty fun
I love the kinda hand drawn assets
love the colors and movements, sound effects are there too, real nice .... need to go through with it once more to think what more to say
very interesting approach on the theme, its very painful to see myself crawling up through the spikes, i like it that it was not immediate death ... at first the characters seemed to be a backpacker to me though
graphics seems very beautiful, will play it tomorrow for sure ... too sleepy for that now
I always get lost in these maps ... I always get the cat first, which is named "the cat", good they offered that option right away still love rpg maker
This art is amazing, with a very own style. sometimes text seems too slow
perfect title! I have seen similar ideas in this ld before, but this one is really well polished. the colors, the music and the mechacnis all seem to belong to a real full game ... this could be a nice mobile game even for kids for sure
the lost screen could belong in a horror game ... loved it ...
movement can be just a bit to fast at times
interesting you even were able to make localized versions of it .... I like the main character art! Just an info is that A and W seem not to be working to move, only S and D ... the arrows are fine so no problem
the characters reminds me a bit of don't starve
wow! the narration is very professional! the kids are pretty creepy and the mechanics are clever, congrats folks!
kinda fun, pretty hard to get the hamburguer ... I struggled a lot to go through the red things
Excellent take on the theme, its funny and yeah you are made of the things you use to lure your enemies and attack them ... perhaps the blur is too close though, it makes me a bit dizzy
nostalgic for sure and very beautiful wish I could do one of these one day ... short and soo sweet thanks for this exeperience!
wow, how creepy ..
I like the ape's out vibe in the way you get surprised by the enemies ... thought it would be easy because enemies stop when you target, but it seems I died quite a lot lol
oh awesome! I used c3 as well ... still by far I prefer c2 though ... so many plugins ... GAAAAAMEEE OVVVEEER my favorite part was this voice over btw the song is really catchy nice work!
when you use knights you feel very smart about any strategy ... tried to do a chess based game in the past too ... 1 month after and it was still full of bugs ... no idea how you managed to do it in a weekend ... congrats for the work!
Dash hability ... i just want a dashing skill.
cute art btw
amazing shaders ... complex stuff ... very beautiful
I also have never been a great fan of clicker games, but this feels not bad at all, perhaps just a bit more visual effects and music would already make this a very good and perhaps addictive mobile game
very interesting mechanics to discover new things, this could go very far into this exploring process by combining previous elements
really really good idea for a game, very original gameplay mechanics, with some enemies this could be like a new kind of dungeon crawler puzzle game, please make the battles turn based then =)
I love how the character has a smooth movement to it ... its the most interesting part of the game for me perhaps ... the skeleton and the other scenario details makes you want to understand more about the lore
I also must say that the scenario was very beautifully made
very cute character, the texts add an intriguing narrative layer to it, the death and restart cycle feel a bit like Celeste, particularly the levels where you have to escape your other side
ow that is a really polished game
this art is just amazing .. the sound effects remind me of some modern indie games, amazing how you accomplished that in a weekend
the colors just feel very soothing
the submarine movement is also very satisfying to play with
Favorite pico 8 one so far, the environment is lovely and makes me remind of that movie where the kids are shrunk and have an ant friend
there was a kinda frustrating part though ... the way it rotates the weapon as he turns caused me to die very often in this situation:
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the bettle would approach and I could not move the weapon without also walking towards him, so death was common:
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that said ... little did I know that in that moment, after a sequence of frustrating deaths, I would have my sweet revenge:
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DIE you beetle die!! That made this game already worth it
I just loved the ocean movement effect, this kind of art is very laborious to make, wish I saw more games in such art style
wow, the vibe feels a lot like Ori and the blind forest, there is also lots of effects that add some juice to it .. the puzzles are challenging and the art is flawless
nice animation and music, the text is funny and interesting ... it seems the skeleton only strikes when a enemy is touching ... wow i am really digging this music
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wanna fight?
i see some problems with the collisions as sometimes the skeleton is like over the houses like this
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Minimal and authentic! My favorite part was the sound effects somehow, it looks and feels like 90s pc game or like a Atari game
sweet animation, actually very very well done imho .. the scenario is not bad either, it has an identity and a solid vibe it feels a bit like earthbound perhaps ... and also seems to have influences on some new indie game titles on the art department, awesome work!
quite misterious novel, still trying to see it through
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that is what i like to hear !!
Just went through this game again and I must say, the writing is lovely, just had to say that
the sound effects make it feel very satisfying ... its a more dynamic take on a very known type of puzzle ... the choice of colors add to the dynamic mood. The graphics overall are very polished, you use just a few elements and you really deliver a good experience on what you chose to make.
nice choice of colors ... the animation on the main char is very fluid too
beautiful graphics and i love the screen shake
this seems a lot inspired by gato roboto, a game i absolutely love
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my favorite type of ludum dare games are the dark and creepy ones, this is a very interesting example of those and may have potential. I wish you had some audio effects to add more player feedback though, that could also create opportunities for suspense and horror.
Love rpgmaker games, love games about cats, the dialogue here is great and actually made me laugh a couple of times, the music adds to the vibe
best game on the subgenre "universe origins", I got addicted to the blackhole absorption effect, it is very very satisfying, the spawning is also very soothing
this is so lovely .... wonder why I can`t rate this in the graphics category
how had I not seen this game is beyond me ... this looks the kind of thing I would love to play ... you can feel the Undertale vibe on it from the start .... and you have multiple tunes, how amazing!
The idea with the compassion and affection lens was clever and feels like "Nino kuni" ... The metaphors about emotions being used as items is something with a lot of narrative potential, that in your game makes me thing of "Figment", which is a great game!
I found some bugs as in every ludum dare game, as it is to be expected, one of them made me go through a wall and I had to go all the way from the beginning ... as I was quite enjoying my experience so that was not a problem tbh
This wall was the culprit
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folks this game is sweet, lovely, has one of the most incredible soundtracks and the most amazing characters
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And overall it is so relaxing that I just want to chill, walk around this world and enjoy the music
I would really like to have a full version with the vibe I see in this one, so I just followed you on itch.io so I don't miss in case you decide to evolve on it
Congratulations for this work of art！
first pico 8 game this time .. this has a lot of style and a good amount of screenshake
this is very dynamic and smooth, those explosions feel great! Its perhaps a bit too hard for me at parts though
wow that is cool animation and quite an interesting character .. fantastic pixelart you have in there
This feels like an action packed version of Lisa in some parts ... also it feels a bit like Broforce, love how you can go stealth or just go wild! Man this is very very satisfying to play I must say that, and the take on the theme was simple, but one of the best I must confess
it has a Proteus vibe (if you havent, check that game because it may be a very nice reference) ... the "voices" add a creepy vibe to it, together with this kind of art makes it like a much creepier approach to the philosophical Proteus, which would be something at least "new", and a very challenging creation... it feels new and different, which is awesome, it just does not feel hmmm ... polished ... which is expected for a LD game, I would encourage you to keep working on it to find where this idea can go
Lovely graphics and it got my interest spot on ... when I started playing the charisma of the characters is very noticeable and the colors wisely picked ... missed some soundtrack and sound effects to make the camera a bit more dynamic I got all folks, but these were my favorite ones
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I like those bone arms lol
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give my leg back!
Oh i am sooo boring! love these mechanics on dating sims ... there must be a game to go beyond Florence one day =)
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one could say that this is a more puzzly version of florence
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wish i had this option during the ludum dare lolol
cool idea and made me laugh sometimes ... this is obviously very challenging to make though and I commend for your courage on it
it would be cool to have some possibly random interactions with this pen helper
Nice character animation, the music also has a beat
my character was perhaps sticking a lot to the walls and also was able to sit comfortably in the spikes, which I don't actually think its bad because I suck far too much on platformers to be able to make any jump
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Not sure I was supposed to die in there, but the blood bar stopped falling after a while
a bit slow in my pc but I could enjoy the experience anyway, the voice over is very good, particularly for a game made in such a short time. The character being faceless added a mistery and kinda creepy vibe to it .... this reminds me a lot of a movie i love ... I must remember its name, it has a very similar scenario and I am glad you were inspired by it (if you actually used that as inspiration) because that is a great movie
Yes Dogville such a great reference, it was really clever that you decided to go that way
oh first time I played a ludum dare online game I think, this could be very addictive with more players, however I could not find more when I played
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never seen this combination before, its bold, new and unique, I love word games and this has a nice potential
@guoboism that is a very accurate description, i also do feel the baba is you vibe in it
this was a bit heavy to download, aside from that, the music is very beautiful and the landscape you created is quite impressive, it seems like a good exploration experience which I wish I could appreciate for longer .. the light rays are amazing how did you achieve that?
It has a feeling similar to a rpg maker game named "suits" which i like a lot ... the minimal color pallette and walking animation provide an intriguing mood
This makes me think of "Stone Story RPG" meets "Noita", two recent indie games that I have been playing a lot lately and are both great references to create new games. I particularly enjoyed the different spells and the messages midst all the letters ... player animations would be a great addition in the future ... very solid entry! One of my favorites for style
i like that when you knock on doors the music feels like you found a wild pokemon
I like the laser effects and how disturbing it feels once you start it and everything is so dark and oppressing ... it seems like Ape Out meets Splinter Cell, with a bit more tenseness in it though ... nice combination!
satisfying to kill and move ... the screenshake that comes with the sword movement was perhaaps a bit too strong for me, made me a bit dizzy after a while ... there is a very hard game called +Love i believe ... this reminds me of it, it feels like a more juicy, and a bit more friendly, version of that one
nice fire effects .. ghost animation is smooth, though the human animations were a bit laggy in here ... the pop up conversation bubles were very cute too
wooooow this is feels lot like stanley parable 2d ... very challenging choice
and it is impressive how you manage to achieve something so nice
from the start the voice is like woooow this is cool
and it interrupts and seems to change so smoothly when I enter the house, it gets you focused on the experience
this has some true potential
I can see me playing this until I see every line of dialogue (like i did on stanley parable)
some things i noticed ... (web version, which you mentioned maybe kinda buggy)
* the trigger to go up the stairs seems not to work always
* going through the rooms too often made me a bit dizzy (particularly the first floor ... room > stairs > room)
amazing idea and take on the theme btw!
not sure that helps, the message was
"Failed loading file 'KDS.wasm':"
i love the identity of this game and how you chose to use stop motion, that is so rare to see and is also my very favorite kind of animation ... that maybe just me but the first minutes of this game made me fall in love with it, really, its so unique and its the type of thing I search for when browsing through ludum dare games ... that said ... i think perhaps I am not such a fan of some game design choices ... perhaps the tapping thing is not for me (although not necessarily bad) ... it feeels a bit like "getting over it" gameplay wise ... I mean ... it does make you feel that the difficulty is due to the control not being so "direct" .... ok so in all, love the visuals, love the style, perhaps i can grow to love the gameplay mechanics, for now though perhaps just not my cup of coffee
love the way the characters walk, its like they are all in a party ... it feels like those old MMOs like Tibia ... the ghost`s smile is pretty creepy which is also funny ... the houses are cute, quite a nice halloween themed Tibia inspired game, great work!
this made me laugh and has clever mechanics that are kinda satisfying to use .... i remember of Doki Doki universe, but obviously a lot creepier ... the character face looking up feels like the kind of humor you would see in a Ricky and Morty episode ... this scores very high on the humor, mood and audio for my taste
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did not realize the green ones were enemies in the first round ... and it gets a bit unresponsive in the web version, i like the idea though. There could be stamina, health conditions such as diseases like a jungle based survival strategy game ... i cant get tired of turn based games
"from nothing fate created love" that was so nice, thank you for making it
the screenshake and colors remind me of lufthausers
"stop clicking use the keyboard" i say that so often to my fellow programmers that i honestly laughed a bit in the intro
I was a bit slow to understand this and got stuck a couple of times, was able to appreciate it anyway.
it is beautiful and feels like some old Mario levels, with a puzzle aspect to it
the narration makes the mood sad and interesting, the music and character makes it remind me of a five minute game about life and death which i am having trouble remembering the name
the passage is the name of the game i mentioned
Hey this is very good! A very lovely puzzle which is cute and also addictive
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The audio although it fits the game and is actually very nice, it gets repetitive after a while for its short loop
I like this angry armadillo quite a lot, particularly the voice sounds lol, it reminds me of Banjo Kazooie characters
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I love chess. And I also happen to love different implementations of chess games, with sometimes a few different moves and different rules ... this was fun and also a very good interpretation of the theme, thanks for making this!
What an interesting idea, unfortunately though I had already read some comments before reading “better played with no explanation” And perhaps you are truly right, it would be better not have any info before só folks don’t read the comments and go straight for the game for its a very worthy experience, congrats for your work on it! Hope to play some more for a more accurate feedback later tonight
very different game concept, never played something like this, although i dont know if i got it fully. The effects are well done and the typewriter cutscenes have a lot of potential
The intro is pretty impressive, I was like woooow that is cool
plus you can write messages with fences
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it makes me thing of "she dreams elsewhere"
very good story telling you have in here, this one I think i need to check again later to be able to give a more accurate feedback
great neon aesthetics, and quite a fluid gameplay ... it also does perform a bit slow in my pc ... it may be just my pc though, havent tried anywhere else, did you have any inspiration for the colors? It feels a bit like a rhythm based game I like a lot but i am having a hard time remebering the name
clever idea for a board game and also a nice puzzle, lots of ways this can evolve with more levels
The texts and story make me thing of the first Dead Space, with all that scifi mining stuff ... it feels trippy and meditative if you feel the art and music, but has a kinda creepy vibe to it ... perhaps because I am reminding of the first dead space now ... maybe just me ... love the entry either way, quite a beautiful work!
I love these LD simulators … it actually fits very well the theme, you have to start with nothing and make a game really nice idea
this has a very clever and new mechanics of dragging things ... although I think that maybe improved (sometimes you have to just drag, then drop, then drag, then drop several times in an effort to move things) it is indeed a clever mechanics ... moreover I also liked a lot the art in this, nice work
the soundtrack is neat and sets an interesting mood, although the idea seems very abstract, which is not bad but could be worked on to provide a more clear message perhaps
it was quite interesting then i got stuck on this part ... am i supposed to just wait? either way i found the idea to be quite promissing
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very good art and it reminds a lot of lovers in a spacetime plus impact mechanics and something a bit katamari like .. hard to describe ..
its going awaaay
I like that you can just add random stuff to you ship and end up with something like this
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I love pool games ... it is nice to see people doing different things in this genre, it feels new and classic at the same time ... i had the impression that the balls where a bit too bouncy ... not sure if that is accurate or just my impression of it ... really enjoyed it and hope to see more new game ideas of classic pool games
This for me is 80% cute and 20% spooky
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Lets make a potion together!
did not realize it was a multiplayer game so at first i thought the guy on the top was a guard ...later thought it could be a partner and just a while later realized it was the second player ... so dumb me ... i was like
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duuude lets escape together!
Very very beautiful and a nice interactive meditation experience ... I imagine this would be really nice being played on the ipad with the fingers
@mrerdalural I will try it when I have my ipad on and see how it goes then ... perhaps you could leverage from features like force press and multiple touches if you intend to focus on mobile platforms in the future
I felt like athena in the knights of the zodiac anime! sad i did not manage to take a screenshot of my confrontation with the ghosts nice camera and visual effects btw
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I am in love with this submission, my very favorite so far ... the voice, the storytelling... everything ... this is now my favorite LD submission, I speak sincerely
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... just one detail ... gender neutral pronouns can make stories a lot easier to make perhaps ...
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the art is lovely and the music is sweet ... the controls get a bit weird though, she keeps jumping even after i stopped and i dont know why ...
sometimes i miss a photo for just a few pixels
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sweeeet voxels folks! There is a fire animation along the way that was particularly well done, I am not good in this kind of game so could not go too far with it, loved the part where you go through a log though
i will make some dinner now while i wait my plant ...
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music guy does not want to be muted
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thinks going slow in here =)
I love tower defense games, this one has even a very fun soundtrack to it
thanks!! that is a very productive feedback, we would do that but we run out of time and I personally did not like the sounds we were testing on for the text feedback
Thanks folks! some people said it was not playing in certain browser versions, could not test it though
@anticdope thaaaanks a lot really! I wish it was a bit more polished, some effects did not work out as we intended but were either ok or too complex to refactor .. also wanted to add more effects to the words, but placing them individually was too much work already ... most of what is there was made in a veeeery manual way lolol
@kooshy there is a very fast way to go to the end of the game ... 1. click plight amd he shore ... click key by the car ... enter the house 2. in house ignore everything and go to the end ... click on kind 3. go back to the outside and go to the shore again click on the earth, art and then the end
Thanks a lot for the valuable feedback @terribly-awesome-games , I totally agree on that, lots of people just noticed you could click and interact with words after a while, there is also the common problem in point and click adventures where you just see yourself hovering with the mouse everywhere aimlessly to find something useful or interesting ... there is lots we attempted to do and luckly a lot of it made it to the game in the end and there was not much we had to throw away ... we were trying to implement a drag and drop mechanic with the words but that ended up being far too complex for the time we had ... another feature we wasted quite some time implementing was a mechanic where you could drag a single letter of a word and the whole sentence would follow like a rope ... far too complex and ambitious so we dropped the idea afterwards ... also luckly the frame by frame animation on the main char worked on the first time, that kind of animation is very very time consuming ... the environment itself was quite simple since it uses very simple drawings with some effects that were quite easy to implement, that was a wise accidental decision lol, otherwise the project would not have been possible
thank you all for playing and thank you for the feedback @nathan-wash , btw, something that not many people find is that you can actually click on objects like the vase over the fireplace or the penguin over the fridge, or the toys in the bedroom ... we finished this version of the project just barely meeting the deadline so there was not much time to implement anything else, which made it a bit confusing
thank you all for playing! @amerigo-gazaway actually that was quite a workaround, we developed a very tricky thing in which a counter would keep track on where you were in the music and then calculate where in the reverse music to seek so that the reverse music would always be in sync with the non reverse music ... in the end though ... although that worked, it was just not so cool .... so we switched to a simpler approach, we play a rewind sound and then loop another rewind "music" so it seems as if it was rewinding but actually isnt ... i know the ideal would be to use something as FMod, but as no one had ever done that and that would depend on lots of complexity perhaps ... the simplest workaround was the way to go, so I am really glad you liked it ... the rest of it was just a simple change on the timescale when you are rewinding
I am so glad that you could feel that @bozarre , thanks a lot for playing it, there are indeed a few bugs I imagine could happen when you click to fast on things ... not sure i would be able to fix them fast enough ... thank you all for playing, will see and rate your games now
Hi @ropedog, thanks for the comments. You can send a message to the composer, I think he is awesome, here is his soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/janyork
Thank you all for the comments and for playing the game. @thepiratenun , yes we indeed intend to do more of those so thanks a lot for the valuable feedback. @annie-owl really glad you liked it and found it to be entertaining =)
thanks folks! Thanks for the comments @matthewjd389 ! Luckly the animation was acceptable, I spent a looong time drawing them and was afraid it would not work, I have never animated anything before and we were missing the main character (usually that is done by another artist but no one had time for that at that moment), just decided to try it and the shaking effect was actually not much intentional if you know what I mean lol (my hand was actually shaking a lot .. its very tiresome to draw something over and over), I wish I knew good softwares for animation, did those on Procreate on the ipad and tbh that was a very blind attempt, could not onion skin nor preview it anywhere before the final result ... luckly it worked it seems lol ...
@aradied yeah you are right ... I was very much afraid we would not be able to finish it so I was uncertain on how we could address that issue of players being lost on it ... had to submit like 5 minutes before the deadline and until now I do not know the best way to address that ... we will think it over and try to find a solution to that issue and try to evolve the project after the ludum dare
I just love you managed to get to the end @tonho , and that you feld so emotionally engaged in this experience, that really makes us very happy for this project was very special for everyone of us .... btw, just some a few people found that interaction
Hi @paulsams thanks for playing it! The idea is that you play as the sadness that invaded that girls life and then you search for her through her home, looking everywhere ... in that state she has left the house and in her thoughts she finally found comfort with the sadness that invades and that is what the ending means .... at least what it was supposed to mean lol ... I realize now that some interactions and mechanics were perhaps too abstract we will think them over once the event is over and evolve upon them, your feedback is very valuable. Some mechanics were kinda accidental too lol
Hi @finnthepirate thanks for playing, yeah we will surely work on those latter ... the letter dragging thing btw was kinda accidental, we were working on a feature that you could drag words into objects or into other words so to create cool things like dragging the word “froze” to the cloud and then it would rain ... we were having trouble with the programming part so I gave up on it but forgot to comment the dragging feature out ... just noticed it was on after people started playing and posting comments lol happy I left it on though
@ryzy27 thanks so much for such a sweet message, it really means a lot to us <3
@honey-pony thanks a lot for the feedback and the piano arpeggio is the best idea we will certainly test that once ludum dare is over. Actually the word drag feature is unfinished and was supposed to be removed in this build ... I accidentally left it on, but yes the idea was that things would happen with certain combinations and depending on where you dropped them ... we were having trouble with this feature so I gave up and thought I had removed it ... I am actually glad I didn’t because players here have found interesting ways of using that, ways I honestly did not even think of
Hi @arithipathic what an interesting idea this thing about the playdate console, I will definitely look for it and see how they are getting games into that console, thanks a lot for pointing that out!
thank you all for playing and for the feedback
We are very honored to have so many people playing our game, it shows to us that perhaps this is a style we should continue working on.
@pranjalbisht that is exactly the feeling we wanted to convey in the end, glad you could feel that, we sure need to make it less confusing though, you are right about that
@dib you are right about the volume in the backward music, I thought maybe I should have made it half the volume but forgot to check that in the end
thank you all for playing! and thank you @weeping-rupee for recording a playthrough, it was awesome to see somebody else playing it to the end, wish I was there live to watch it. @prodigalson that is a great way to solve a puzzle, not sure how to implement that though, in future versions I will certainly include that kind of thing, clever suggestion. To find the key its currently kinda random ... you need to click on "plight" and then look close to the car, there will be a key in there ... also looking in @weeping-rupee 's stream we noticed click is not activated by dragging, so triggers require that you actually click and not drag to activate ... another thing to fix in next versions
@antti-haavikko
I am very happy you were able to enjoy and find the messages besides all the bugs and crashes, happy you gave it a chance.
Some people reported similar issues, but never seen the trees breaking ... sadly it seems that most of the problems are related to the engine we chose, which gives us a very frustrating feeling ...
About the interaction, most of them were planned, some of these worked, but a lot of those ended up incomplete
among the incomplete ones are those related to continuation of the verses ... there were supposed to be clues as to the sequence of the verses and that would make the story more clear as each part of the house was being searched. There would also be drag and drop mechanics where you would have to move words to form rhyming verses ...
also objects would react to the words being dragged into then, like the clouds that were supposed to rain or snow and plants would grow on the floor depending on the words you placed nearby ...
we also were planning on a scene where the girl would ride with the flower in the lake in a boat, a symbol of how she had learned to cope with her sadness after the end ...
less than 1 hour before the deadline we just decided to pack everything together and just guarantee that at least players would be able to reach the end, even if it was a simple end, so lots of the exploration options ended up incomplete
yes that was supposed to be a kinda of exploration instead of a challenge ... but the intention was also to offer clues about the story, which although is not linear, the poetry it forms overall kinda has different possible sequences.
yes the exploration gets quite repetitive with elements being so static (that really was not the intention) but I feel that after each Ludum Dare we get more and more prepared to do a better thing in the next one.
Overall thank you for such a detailed feedback and bug reports, that means a lot to us We will make sure to play your game right next and do our bests to provide a productive feedback
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thank you all for the feedback folks! We will get back to playing your games quite soon
This reminds me of swords of ditto a bit ... but also particularly because of the music, makes me nostalgic about the old lion king game in the mega drive ... playing this made me smile, thank you for that!
love gravity base mechanics, this makes me remember of super planet crasher and Mario Galaxy, but with a kinda Katamari approach perhaps ... the menu is well worked as well which makes it feel more polished
you adventure was shortened by an incident involving your death ... funniest death quotation ... didnt manage to attack though ... dont know what i am doing wrong
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Ops adorable sounds an music .... not sure if i got the way to play corerectl
The music reminds me a loot of truberbrook which has an awesome soundtrack was that an inspiration?
"You plummet into a dark void and lose consciousness. Eventually you find yourself in a dream state"
Just got back to this game and I must say that it feels even better played a second time ... love the mood about it .. btw @gamebuilder this is the truberbrook I mentioned, you might want to check that for future inspiration, I believe you might find it interesting https://store.steampowered.com/app/757300/Truberbrook__Trberbrook/
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i am far too dumb so it took me a while to notice i had to select those guys to do stuff ... the game is neat, mechanics work just perfect .... perhaps the only thing i would say is about the music, which although quite nice, since it has a short cycle starts to get really annoying
Now this is a type of game i absolutely love ... i cant deny i love this
will wait until tomorrow to finish this gameplay and be able to give a proper rating
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this is very relaxing ... i was very pleased by the music also ... it makes me remind of yoshi story and crayon physics
its like a very minimal game editor, its actually very clever
Clever idea to use letters as platforming characters, this has a lot of potential and particularly a lot of narrative potential, if you create more complex scenarios you might achieve something really thoughtful
the darf animation is creepy and lovely at the same time ... the cola enemy is creeeeeepy man this has a very interesting aesthetic that is at the same time cute and creepy ... the char seems to stick a bit too much to the platforms though
Noo idea how you managed to make such a complex game in such a short time ... the characters are very very smooth and you even have multiple levels, that is some amazing work ... there could be a story if this would become a full game, it could be a comical story with perhaps permadeath and so on Screenshot Capture - 2019-10-08 - 01-17-30.png hello there
the art for the squids and the robot are intresting, something very different, wish the squids had some animation to them ... a screenshake here and there would also not be bad perhaps
sweet and satisfying animation, particularly the cheese .... sometimes the bread got bugged int the edge of the table making it seem it was dancing, which was actually fun, it seems related to the collisions .... great entry!
it feels like Job Simulator VR experience, this would be awesome in VR btw
not sure that is doable, but on the shell i am used to typing tab to autocomplete commands, i accidently typed that in your game, forgeting it was a game ... it seems to lose focus of the typing input and you are forced to use the mouse to get back to it .. having auto complete would give the precise shell feelings
it took me while to notice you could actually rotate the shell screen ... this is very nicely done and reminds a lot of event zero ... maybe i would expect some event zero type of narrative in this
neat tower defense game, its fun and all but I think it could include perhaps some experimental mechanics to add to the genre ... i liked the explosions and the fact that planes do not follow the traditional path of the tanks
somehow this feels a bit like "the Cube" movies ... this has an unsettling vibe to it which is very authentic and makes you curious about it .. I love the weirdness in this puzzle.
it is kinda addictive to see those numbers going up
found my favorite char btw
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the most interesting thing here is the main character which is very very polished and has a aesthetic that reminds me of a n64 game i used to play a loooong time ago, it also reminds of megaman n64, except the character is yellow this time .. love the sunflowers btw
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indeed i just understood after i played fullscreen ... even so it was perhaps a bit too small for my poor eyes ... you could add a mouse over effect to magnify it perhaps
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Such a original aesthetics, I saw this during the ludum dare and added it to my mental playlist to look after once the ludum dare was over. Gonna play it just now
Just tried it with the keyboard, but this seems much cooler with the controller so I will wait to play again with it to be able to give a proper feedback, nice wind loop sound btw
I confess I did not get the Bacurau reference in the Katakana in the first time @caio-rmota ... and I feel very stupid now ... being from Brazil too I loved so much that movie I am glad you put that reference in a game ...
impreessive music, outstanding effects, glad you made this, perhaps I would add some more sound effects, perhaps even subtle ones for player feedback ... the music is very very good i must say again
This is very intense, love the aesthetics, the music and the art is very cohesive great work!
its very difficult to pass the first wave ... it took me a while to notice the stones. I love tower defense games, some music and sound effects on this would be interesting and also animations when the enemies were attacking
wow loved this so much!
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I had a good time with this, hope you can continue this work, there is a lot of potential in this mechanics ... btw it would be very cool perhaps with a narrator
great take on a typing game and I do love in the hall of the mountain king, there couldnt be a better soundtrack for this, nice combination you have there
do not know if i am doing something wrong .. my controls do not seem to work so this dude keeps punishing me to my death
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nice music and art btw
thanks! i will try it again very soon
wow this is very dark, it feels like Kholat and ... perhaps a bit Alien idk ... the corridors are a bit too long for my taste ... the sound effects add beautifully to the vibe of it ... I particularly was delighted by those light effects as well, beautiful thing you have in there
Love this, it has a Lisa vibe, in case you don`t know it is an awesome game https://store.steampowered.com/app/335670/LISA/ ! I found a portuguese line too, good that we are from Brazil so it took me like half a minute to notice that was in a different language than the rest of the text
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Nice work folks!
one of the most charismatic characters in this ld jam, the choice of colors is nice too and the aesthetic has a lot of the halloween vibe to it, just a bit more fun
the atmosphere is nice and the 3d models are well done, particularly the pumpkins ... however the movement was a bit sticking to the walls apparently ... in this situation for instance, I pretty much decided I had no chance to fight those enemies
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it was not bad to be surprised by one of the pumpkins, it seems to me to be a part of the vibe to have the pumpkins a bit hidden and then be surprised by one of them
wooow what a creative idea! Did you get to this concept intentionally or was it something that came about along the way? Random good ideas happen a lot in projects which you have such a shor ttime to develop something, so I wonder if this was intentional or whether it just happened.
it was really clever, I love games that use letters and words, there is so much narrative potential that can still be explored in them
yours is quite a nice example of what can be done in this subgenre
very smooth animations and very original idea. I would say it is like Katamari in reverse or Katamari with something else, then I read the description and noticed you already found a more proper definition for it.
there are lots of metaphors that could be extracted from this gameplay, which is a kinda disturbing experience, which also actually makes it interesting. Some simple graphics would already create a good atmosphere for story telling
The art is very stylish, like the colors and the characters .. the hitboxes seem a bit glitchy which makes it weird to walk around Screenshot Capture - 2019-10-08 - 01-13-04.png Come on lets have a beer!
Love the robot matching puzzle thing
the robot movement and pixelart is impressive so its quite satisfying to play this
this 3 robot mesh is quite tough
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I feel like playing as Kouma and Kotake from a Zelda game and those are among my very favorite characters.
It took me some time to notice i was not supposed to touch the balls ... it feels to me as a existential metaphor, you should not get to close to your thoughts, but close enough to make them move .... it has potential, very challenging type of creation though, there are as many references to be based on.
great ambient music it really does set the mood
Soooo sweeet and cute!!! I love these interactive novels in Ludum dare ... the thing I like the most about this one is the art which feels like a Gouache painting
I like the music, it has a rich rhythm that makes you just chill to it ... some more dynamic elements in the environment would be nice in the future
this feels like Terraria with Sonic, the jump and particularly the jump sound reminds a lot of that this is interesting ... i confess i closed thinking it had crashed the first time, then i read your message that it was just generating the world
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minimal but very well done ... btw the movement keys were not working for me either on my first attempt
the art and the mood are very palpable ... i mean, i am really enjoying that soundtrack, with the birds and all, you have a very nice work in there ... the movement perhaps could be a bit more dynamic in the future, it feels a bit weird because after a while I feel you have a tendency to just keep the mouse button pressed at all times and that can be tiring
I aaaaalways wanted to see a katamari like game like this in the ld jam .. somehow never seen one and this is the first time ... i cant get tired of this mechanic ... although i have some feedback ... the online version is very laggy and the camera makes the ball be perhaps too far from view at times ... please add ludum dare link so i can rate you there
my favorite part in this is the art, I actually love that the characters don't animate when they walk, it makes they seem like a piece of paper moving above the landscape, which is kinda cute I feel
its kinda poetic
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My light is fading =´(
your game reminds a lot about a tale my mother used to tell me about the boy who wanted to get rid of a snowball in his foot and ended up trading with scalating evil characters ... never knew where that tale came from but I was thrilled about that story and she told me over and over ... there is a lot of narrative potential in that trading thing ...
love the art, if you happen to evolve this game past the jam, please keep it hand drawn as it is, it has a very unique taste to it that most games miss ... it maybe just me, but this art style I think is just lovely
my favorite character so far btw
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sound effects here are soo good ... the interfaces in the computer and the all squared objects like the mouse adds to the comedy effect ... I agree on that there could be more feedback on actions, but hard thing to achieve on a LDjam, if you add those perhaps this can became a very interesting title
I confess i laughed loud once i saw what it was about, best take on the theme so far, this was so fun to play ... the minimal soundscape is also not bad
this feels like "layers of fear", nice effects btw!
just noticed you opted out of the graphics category, was gonna rate for that cause this is really cool
I have no idea how one can develop a game in their own engine, I barely can do it in the simplest ones. This is fluid actually and I just wish you could add sound, but as you said the engine does not currently support sound, perhaps that is a nice feature to add.
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it seems the helmet got stuck to my skeleton lolol
nice game, though the music gets quite annoying after a while
my favorite part are the explosions, is such a delight to see them
The initial cutscene made me laugh ... hitler sound effects were also quite fun
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some objects were a bit ... sticky, not sure if that was intentional
veery interesting and relaxing mechanics ... i remember a game with similar mechanics that won a lot of prizes some years ago, it was about growing trees and stuff ... cant remember the name
Don't have a gamepad right now =( will try it again with a gamepad later ... btw cant get how it relates to the theme hmmm
very good mechanics i must say
I love the stepping sound effect
the lights and the bells in the beginning work well to set the mood
the shadow effect is niiiiice
the animation of the main char seems cute, but the scenario is creepy, which is a combination i always love
this feels a lot like "Deception", one of my favorite psychological horror games out there
the characters animations are smoooth and the lack of sound really set an unique mood
I got stuck in this part for some reason, no matter what I click or type or do, nothing happens, I see the text "i am grateful for the janitor, he treats me with kindness"
though the experience is funny and the music action packed, the sound effects get a bit perhaps kinda annoying after a while ... I would add some animations in the characters to make the experience more dynamic overall
ok now this was one of my favorites so far... right from the start the music was special
the walking sound effects were in sync and the color choices help set up the mood, the character is charismatic and the visual effects add an interesting layer to the narrative ...
i confess though that i had some trouble going pass this part
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gameplaywise it was a bit hmmm frustrating perhaps, that feeling you have when you constantly die for missing a platform ... not necessarily bad though, just wanted to see the end of this story though
very interesting concept .... clever, could be perhaps ... educational ... but it took me a while to realize how to play
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the chars talk like in banjoo kazoooie which is great already ... its like banjooo kazooie with gooze busters!
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Nice art, the way they talk ... it reminds me of banjookazooie
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sorry accidently copied the commentary of another ld entry here which imagens and stuff
sorry accidently copied the commentary of another ld entry here which imagens and stuff
i love the interface ... it has a TIS-1000 vibe to it ...
there could be some easter eggs like this being an acceptable solution to it in the future
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Great art and mood I am dying a lot because I am not sure I understood the controls in the red yellow green bar
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really liked the idea btw, very original and heartfelt
oh that is an interesting usage of physics ... it seems like a game about building bridges that was quite popular a while ago, great idea
this is very intense mental work ....
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does this mean i am a winner?
I love the sunflowers in here this pixelart has a lot of style, this would also be a great mobile relaxing game with some changes, do you think on releasing this somewhere or evolve it after the jam?
interesting drawing choice on the enemies and energy not sure the sound effects fit it though
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sometimes they were already too close
Best quotation on this game ... nice art and idea on the theme, however the sound is a bit buggy, sometimes it restarts on simple interactions which makes it a bit annoying
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The text is interested and nice and the character there is charismatic ... I confess I found it far too satisfying to just make the polygon break all the walls I possibly could to care about the points lolol perhaps there could be an alternative playthrough where you would gather points by breaking things instead than trying to keep them from breaking
Interesting idea to develop a platformer around, a polished game and solid platformer ... actually not sure I call it a platformer ... perhaps a new thing? Sure has a lot of potential for lots of levels which is precious
This feels like a simple and hilarious metaphor, I love how you took something simple and turned into something interesting that also makes you laugh. This becomes quite chaotic and frantic after a few minutes on it. Perhaps making the creatures die without warning would make the players even more worried about keeping them alive.
They look so cute I thought I could talk to them
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The game is cute and the music is pleasant, so much so that I could not bother trying to run away from the bears lol, was having a very good time with my family by the fire
I love games with dinosaurs, that must be said so I am a bit biased on this one. One of my favorites on the humor part, cause just by the look of it it already made me laugh.
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I did not do a good job protecting these feelas though lolol
I really love how this looks and feels like love, that impossible 8bit game. The choice of color combinations and the creepy vibe convey a very interesting dark mood to this one. This is a very neat bitsy game folks, one of my favorites in the mood category I gotta say.
Amazing graphics, this goes without saying ... and seeing the behind the scenes you had very clever strategies to create this. sound effects are also nice, the music creates quite a misterious atmosphere
this character looks like those mayan stones, was that intentional? the idea of having to jump constantly is quite interesting. The music kinda annoys after a while though.
if you create different behavior and kinds of platforms this can become quite a different a new take on the platforming genre
This is beautifully weird, the kind of submission I always love to see in LD. It looks unique, is kinda creepy, kinda sad and also scary in its unique way. This reminds me of some weird 90s windows games I played whose names I would not remember. The sunflower (not sure it was a sunflower) was my favorite part.
This has a "Minit" with "Don`t Starve" vibe. It seems the red eye creature refuses to die lol. Nice graphics. I miss some music to go with this mood.
This feels like a minimal 2d luke skywalker in a 3d moon simulator. Quite funny to watch, like that "getting over it" game.
I like the smiles of the viruses
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The mechanic is cool, I perhaps just miss something to tell me I am doing right when staying still
this is creepy in a very sci-fi way, I feel a bit like in those cube movies, interesting idea, the choice for colors and effects add to the mood. Clicking and dragging does feel a bit odd a times though.
this is very beautiful ... perhaps the phone cable could be made a bit brighter .. perhaps ... in my screen its very very dark, or I am really dumb for it took me ages to find that there was a cable connected to the phone. I like the sound effects also!
Ok so on the theme approach, this is one of my favorites. I really feel this has great potential. I wish you had an online version of it so I could play it again to do a more detailed overview (windows kinda crashed here so my experience was short lived). The idea here is powerful and the implementation of this idea was also very polished. I would perhaps work further in the shader to make it more unique if you plan on working on this further after ld.
I really dig this aesthetics. It has a bit of Cat Lady to it, which I never get tired of. It is uniquely creepy and dark. This entry is very polished overall, very nice work. Voices also help a lot to setup the mood.
Impressive shaders man
also the camera is very good, it really makes you feel small
thanks for playing @talia and @solah ... we will start playing the other games now =)
This is not good for Tendinitis lol ... very fun game, good music, nice graphics, cute and funny mood. It is charming and pleasant. This feels a lot like a clicker mobile game but with the keyboard, which makes it a lot more tiring for me so I could not play it for long, all dudes started dying very quickly with me. Solid entry though.
I confess I had to read the hints. I love how weirdly original this feels. I like the music, the vibe it conveys and the strangeness in it. Also I like how creepy the characters are and how simple the movement feels after you get it. Its a nice text adventure.
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Btw not sure if this was on purpose but this image seems to be ever moving to me, it took me a while to notice it was not moving.
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Just love this Stela char
Btw really digging this tune
I got a lot of playthroughs with very very low scores, I am terrible at this rhythm thing but I could well see that the mechanics in this are very clever and the game is neat. I was digging that tune as well.
I absolutely love the art in this and the thing with the minigames is just very well polished! I think this has a lot of narrative potential that perhaps has not been explored in here, perhaps bringing more subtle themes of our state of isolation, perhaps little changes in the way the minigames work would convey some deeper feelings that go a bit further from the obvious so to say ... about the art, it is very pleasant to look at and the color choice brings a kinda old school vibe to it, feels a bit like mother3 perhaps ... there is a subtle creepy vibe to it too that makes me wanna come back to it.
The hand made art in this one is just gorgeous. The mechanics feel very smooth and the game overall is very polished. However, I don`t know if it was just me or if the game really had no audio ... I could not listen to any audio, will try it again later to see if it was a problem on my end. Btw it cannot be overstated that the art is very good in this. The effects are also pleasant to see and make you wanna come back to it again. The take on the theme is simple and was often used in this ld, but you made it in a very well polished game.
Kinda philosophical. the color choices really create some contrast and a very unique aesthetics.
Very hard to stay alive in this one. Controls are indeed very smooth though and the aesthetics is interesting, kinda like escape doodle land in a sense.
I also really like the colors here and that you also approach our relation with social media. This has a very cool aesthetics and good mood. I am also glad that you managed to make the mechanics work much better than we could lol. I kinda feel a 90s vibe to it too, kinda nostalgic. It has a bit of Emily was away .. perhaps? Congratulations for your nice work!
clever puzzle. This could be perhaps kinda turn based, it would make the strategy and planning more meaningful perhaps, so you could plan every step of it and see if it worked. Nice puzzler entry!
This character looks like that Nu char in Crono Trigger really cute
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I just miss some sound effects like a random animal sound in the background
I was really digging that tune
very very beatiful little game, I saw this earlier but decided to play later because there was no screenshot in the page. Was surprised to see how beautiful your game looks. The story part was amazing too. Wish I could do a bit better in it. Btw it worked fine in my windows but in the mac it was very heavy on the browser:
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Very good choice of colors and style. Fun and simple. I am trying to remember the name of a rhythm game this reminds me of with a similar style.
This was also a bit hard, but it felt rewarding. I like the scenario and the mood. Would work more on the character to bring it more to life though, perhaps with some animations and more smiley like expressions.
Kinda katamari vibe. I felt the controls to be a bit hard. The art here is very crazy, which also makes it feel like an old school katamari kinda of game.
Cute character and cool idea for the theme! It feels like Mother, but a bit creepier, which I find very interesting.
satisfying screenshake and sound effects, wish I could survive longer
oh this is adorable, I get a penguin club vibe to it (a very old 2k online game) but a bit more abstract, which I love ..
The rod does look like a long range weapon when holding this way. I fell like snipering the fishes :laughing:
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nice one :thumbsup:
I like the drawings they are so so loving. At first I thought this was about florest devastation, which would also make sense. I see lots of narrative potential in this game in a future version of this.
oh I love this, the vibe, it makes you giggle each 5minutes playing it
I was trying to capture the fox, so cool
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love the 2d characters running around the 3d environment
the intro text is also so much fun, awesome entry!
that level of polishing is astounding, so cool, it has that tense sci-fi distopia kind of vibe to it, on top of all of that it is actually addictive to play, what a feat
Oh I like how satisfying the killing is, the character does seem angry like on a revenge spree, I can imagine some drama behind it
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#diehard
I love the 2 color palette thing.
the jumping sound was kinda a bit too high when I tested so I felt I was kinda avoiding it a bit.
so the dinosaurs (when fist playing without reading the comments I thought those were dinosaurs, but it seems they are the shadows that come at night right?) I found they cute, cute / scary which is cool
very satisfying shooting effects, I like the enemy ship looks like one made in Nimbatus, a game I absolutely love.
This is also very addictive. :clap:
I love the art in this, so satisfying to destroy the dinos. I figure the theme is in that dinos extinction is delayable but not inevitable something like that, is that it?
This is pretty addictive, will try again tomorrow to see how far I can get
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Oh got it! I really like this one either way
this is like the opposite of the cow combining game that went almost viral some 5 years ago, very clever idea :clap:
Oh this is real real hard ... and also addictive when you start getting the hang of it
The only thing I don't appreciate that much about this is the soundtrack that eventually starts to get annoying.
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I really thought this was shrimp
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best so far in terms of juice. Awesome effects
makes me think of an old creepy online experience where you played as a cell which had to consume the cells of a sibling ... creepy and interesting, with some sound track this could be a sort of management game about avoiding to get sick
oh this so so cute, I love the graphics that look a bit like cardboard cut pixeart, kinda like paper mario.
it took me a while to figure out how to throw the boxes though.
this king is adorable
perhaps if the momentum in the player movement is transfered to the boxes so it would be easier to throw them with the horizontal movement, currently I feel it uses a lot of the vertical momentum but not the horizontal one much idk
very cute take on a farming simulator
I love the approach on the theme to be about plants, lots of ways to expand this idea
I love the windy sound effects and the feeling of isolation like Limbo. the puzzle aspect of it got me thinking a bit. The light effects make me remember of those atmospheric games where you character is very small in the middle, there is one specific I cant remember the name tho.
oh I am returning to this for sure, lovely sound work in the text voices, cool vibe and very challenging ... a few things which I think maybe bugs, idk:
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should that be negative at any point?
in this turn it seems the wood stoped raising and I got raided :laughing:
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I am returning to go up the ranks
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I could build things on this all day. the lava physics seems quite interesting, wonder if it could behave differently depending on the block material, like that game where you are a magician and all pixels have physics on, cant remember the name now
this is indeed original, feels like Tacoma (awesome game btw) and a bit like a VR chat late night thing.
I like the firewatch vibe to this
BTW, why did you opt out of the visuals category in the ratings?
oh so cool I had seen lots of game dev logs of this one, can't wait to play it now
oh I am trying to find a windows, a lot of games I wanna play (including this one) are windows exclusive .. by any chance you could have a web version soon?
awesome!! please send me a message when you do, really wanna play this one, I can say I love the characters already :heart:
this is a clever funny and has a lot of potential for either a solid single player game or a multiplayer party, couch type of experience. very good work :clap:
this is sooo cute, I would definitely play a full game with this art style, something like "daddy simulator" but a girls dating sim ... also I noticed its is not easy to get to the end they stay together, did once tho =)
The picture in the ending is so so cute, but I won't spoil it
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Oh this crab is killing me in so many levels lolol Love the humor in this one
bubble is great, however it is still a few features away to be recommended as a tool for game development, even those that do not require much action like this one.
@otterfaelure currently, the point is to win the ranks, which, although the easy fights (fight selector favors easier fights), going up the ranks is quite hard (perhaps too hard at the moment) perhaps that should be told more in the tutorial
@koolruz yes we do need some tutorial there, we kinda went on implementing mechanic after mechanic and had not much time for tutorials and balancing
thanks @snory and for everyone that played so far ... we see the mechanics should really be better explained, I will add a few screenshots in the tutorial part
thanks for the comments on the mechanics @otterfaelure @apandso
@steve-dragon lets try doing something cool with bubble next ludum dare :smiley:
@erikengineengineer not too sure, how was the performance in your end when playing?
thanks for playing @cyzaine I am very happy your team liked it! BTW you can use the ranking to fight specific people by increasing the bet on a specific fight
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then you increase the bet as far as 10k or something so you in one fight pull someone from the top
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Hi @pickyburrito49 thanks for playing :smiley: bubble.io is a nocode development platform with a very good database ... we were using it to develop all sorts of stuff and this is our first attempt of a game on it.
btw @pickyburrito49 as we were using bubble we focused on developing the system for the card game, so actually it is very easy to balance / create cards / edit how they work if you have ideas that can be done without changing any part of it
oh I see, we were trying to knock down Rodrigo during the dev process now i see you are unbeatable @cyzaine
wow you are now 2 times the second place if you all go beyond 200k we will add a card for your team :gift:
@cyzaine
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@andre-sadie I think the best way to describe is to say that it is another take on the pets auto battler type of fight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6L8mHuTerQ
wow! we will get a special card for your team @cyzaine :art:
@xedur oh it was delay being fired :laughing: oh domain setup is as quick as
"hey, fireme.club is available"
"setup domain in bubble.io is seriously one input, like this"
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we changed the name of the game to fireme.club after starting, it was supposed to be something with procrastinator.club but not only was taken but also a lot ... longer and full of consonants (english is not our first language so that was not such a friendly :laughing: name to use)
it took us longer to figure out the name than to set it up actually
btw I consider bubble.io to be a few features away from being a decent game dev platform, I would love to have more devs knocking on their doors asking for game dev features
hey @cyzaine there is a little homage to your entry now in the store, we hope you like it
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thanks for playing @zacharypinkham :smiley:
ok we do need a better tutorial and balancing ... basically you can choose the traits that you will lead into battle and which cards to hold, and which to sell (when you throw away you are actually selling its stamina, the "water" sign) .... as people will battle you cards even when you are away, you can be "fired" even if you are not playing directly if your cards get out of stamina.
yes the choosing of attributes only makes sense for cards that have a lot of attributes like this one
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each trait has an attack, health and an attack debuf
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debufs apply first, so you wanna have debuffer traits before the attack ones ... if you think you have a considerable chance of winning you can increase the bet
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if you actively started the battle you have a huge advantage for your traits will attack first always. a fast way to go to the top is to pick someone on top of you in the ranks and bet real high, you have a lot more chance of winning if you actively challenge them, like this:
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thanks for playing folks =), @matt-rice yes I do agree that it could be bigger, but we did not want to change things after the 2nd day with a thousand things to do in terms of core mechanics lol I am glad you enjoyed it @jason200101 those numbers are easily adjustable, evil is indeed very powerful, but not if you attack first
@tigerj if you manage to knock out the current top player @cyzaine we will get a special card made for you :smiley:
thanks @kemsou
thanks for the detailed feedback @vixenmink
oh I have no idea what makes things break if you go beyond that lolol :laughing: :cry:
so I basically gave up for now so not to break anything else
thanks for playing @gabriel-dias-oliveira-de-almeida and @roronoacherry
thanks for playing @papabirb and @peterfiftyfour and @sofignedova and @bios3008 @leiv-erik
it feels like click fight to win because you started the fight when you click it, but for the person who is in the other side that is a defeat (all fights are against real people) so that also means your cards are available online to be fought against and easily won (initiating the fight gives you the advantage, so the thing is not wether you win or loose an initiated battle, rather how much you bet you will win)
so it feels like you are winning easily because you are starting the battles, but for other people that are initiating battles against you that will also be the case so you might get fired because of them
thanks @boaheck-artgent and @keichits for playing :smiley:
thank you all for playing @trexxak @okamit
@yusovv, thanks for getting back to it
We plan on releasing it as an app on mobile just to see how people receive it. We will be changing the cards and powers based on the LDJam feedback tho
oh @cyzaine that is so lovely, you guys are awesome :love_letter:
my best strategy for this was desperately hit up + right until I get to the far right, then lef + up until I got to the far left and keep doing this to create an umbrella of protection of sorts :laughing: for I believe meteors can be destroyed far before they are visible so that strategy was useful
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I love the style of this
any chance of getting a web or mac version so I can play and rate it?
Oh this is so far the game that made me laugh the harder :laughing: omg this is a piece of art I cant even play cant stop laughing at this
OMG this little fella broke me :laughing:
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only one thing I would suggest, very simple ... if you make arrows in the keyboard work the same as ASDW its easier for lefthanded people to play (my mouse is in the left side of the board so its a bit cumbersome to use AWDS and the mouse)
this entry is perfect folks, thanks for making this
I like the colors and the vibe of this that feels like chrono cross + kirby + rare 2k games.
so therapeutic, I could watch the movement of these particles forever, I used to spend long hours playing planet crasher just to see the gravity simulation. This maybe could become a sandbox type of experience where you could experiment with different physics settings.
I think I was traveling so fast I broke reality
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really thought those were flags
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I giggled when I figure out it was like a crazy taxi type of experience, love that game.
I like the benches are bigger than the cars. In a post jam I would definitely wanna have a crazy ice cream taxi type of game in my steam library :thumbsup:
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I like the vibe of this, like a chilling anti chamber patobox type of feel. my humble contribution
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ok, its official, this is the BEST LD experience so far, I don't even wanna show my project after seeing this
I like the ET body builder
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I think I might be doing something wrong, wherever I click or type I can only see this initial screen
Oh so lovely, kinda makes me think of Aviary Attorney
lovely pixelart, great work here
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got it! It seems to move with scrolling, which I thought was really clever
I was enjoying the experience
but then ...
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I like the typing interface and the tone of the conversation. Feels a bit like that game where you have to ask an AI to help you through a typing interface in space ... need to remember the name of that ... and also Tacoma.
@thevinter when the chat asked the name I was trying to make conversation so I wrote "what?" something like that :laughing:
I really wanna see the end of this
I have no idea what I am doing but this does look amazing, kinda makes me wanna wait to see the details on the destruction level
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wow now that is a beautiful pixel art @yogurtthehorse :open_mouth:
So cute animations!
I can surely empathize with this situation, my cats keep causing chaos in my house :laughing:
I love the art in this, the controls were pretty confusing tho. I need to try this again
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feels a lot like the cutscenes in donkey kong 64, I love that, the voiceover is lovely! the nature of the fight feels also like star fox 64, which is also a good reference to have in a game, not sure if that was on purpose but you nailed it :clap:
@frogman have a check, I believe you will understand why I thought it was a nice reference :smile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KIObmo4rSM
Donkey Kong 64 is one of the best games of the n64 era imho
I love the graphics, particularly the char playing prompts, feels like the ones in Celeste. I went very far into the dark and could not go back, but found this cute little house
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I also loved the old guy by the lake (not sure it is a lake)
really wanna play this but it is crashing my browser sadly, anyone else having that or is it just me?
what a nice crispy voice recording you have done there, I would listen to this voice all day
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I thought I would suffer a lot more than I did in this.
I think it would be a lot of fun if the character would wear the boots after picking.
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Soooo cute, smooth and polished, wish I could do this level of game dev, this is astounding, this is magic :tophat:
OMFG I am so glad I did not miss this one!!
To be very honest, I think still did not grasp fully the mechanics in this ... it does not matter, because for me uniqueness is what I am here for and uniqueness is what I see, so thanks for making this. I wish I had the courage to do a full motion video type of game in a game jam but I dont, so thanks for being that brave.
And thanks random LD algorithm for showing me this before the jam is over
BTW, this is my favorite god:
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just after this one
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Hope I see you all in future jams
oh so this it took me a while to figure out it was a tower defense type of thing. this is actually really well implemented. I like the music and the fun penguins Captura de Tela 2022-04-05 às 05.20.29.png it seems this bulky dude is not helping much fight the enemies lol
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oh it took me a while to get this, the characters were way too small for my old eyes.
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got stuck in this part feeling very stupid
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oh I really thought I would play as a dinosaur that could not get out of bed in this one :laughing:
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wish this was me during the ludum dare :cry:
oh this is so beautiful, any chance I get a mac or web version so I can play and rate it?
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very satisfying effects ... I think I did not get the controls 100% tho
got it @kupnu4 , thanks, I was doing that, just did not know where they would shoot the projectiles
this was very satisfying tho
what an awesome chilling soundtrack, I don't wanna close the tab
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oh and this dude has real long arms
Oh what just happened in the end, I tried waking up a person in the cryo chamber and it ended there ...
I love the change in vibe as well, the colors, text, going around talking to people in a space station makes me think of Tacoma, one of my favorite games of all times.
BTW if you allow run also on the left shift key it will make it easier for left handed people to play (like me)
this is very clever and satisfying ... also the making of is great! I also do love kurzgesagt <3
I think you should show them your game
neat camera moving effects. wow what an awesome soundtrack! best time I had on Ludum dare so far.
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way too much fun
this reminds me of the untitled goose game
but where you are actually the goose farmer, cool and funny idea
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I am getting a bit of a BABA is you in the art style! I love that you turned moving into a strategic decision, which makes if feel like crypt of the necrodancer. Really good entry
fun idea, I like the cardboard graphics thing. I am not too sure I got how it works tho. it seems like a reverse mario game, which seems like an awesome idea. I think I create a few fortresses but not sure if I did all right. Captura de Tela 2022-04-05 às 05.34.05.png
there it seems the princess had a mustache, lol it was a nice experience this one =)
really cool idea for a mobile game! 2 things:
- playing with a mac touch pad is appearently real hard
- what do I have to cut in these cases?
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I won't sleep after having seen this
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my best position was 19
ou the print got cut in the wrong place, it was like the cat had a hand tail because of the monster behind it
this seems interesting looking into the comments, any web or mac version?
amazing soundscape and voice acting, this got me laughing
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best vibe I have seen in the LD so far, so original, so clever and funny, I wanna see a full game of this
the music is so lovely and the art so unique
I love the room transitions, the train theme reminds of me of Pinstripe
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any chance of having a web version?
I love tower defense games, this is quite funny and has a cast of interesting characters, I still did not finish but wish to go through the end. Great entry!
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oh I really wanna play or see this, any chance someone with a windows recored it ... any chance to get a web version?
oh was almost checking this one as "windows only" to play later, then I remembered that in the video you mention that there was a web version ... perhaps you should mention it here so people that don't have windows (or not always have access to a windows pc like me) know they can play on the browser ... ok so I am checking this one right now
ooooh so sad there was no score at the end I thought I was going very well in this :laughing: this was a lot of fun to play, I have a few suggestion for improvement:
- it feels a bit desperate to use a card while trying to shoot the right penguins, perhaps if there was a "pause" of sorts, like a slow motion type of thing you could get into when choosing to pick a card I think that game "random" has a similar mechanic, action + card using - a bit of screenshake could add greatly to the sense of impact perhaps - I would love to have some melee happening when penguins got close, that would be dope but that is me, loving melee
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this was me trying to do a screenshot while playing :laughing:
the web version is great, this is a lot of fun, if it had a score I would sure wanna play all day to beat other players in here :laughing:
one of the best interpretations on the theme, so cool
very minimalistic. I like the idea of collecting things in space, sometimes it gets stuck tho, or I am doing something wrong.
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oh I suck at this, can't last more than 10 seconds no matter how I try.
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this is like pokemon meets gta vs golden gun mode from goldeneye
I love the minimal soundtrack I love the 10 years ago flashback I love the "out of this world" vibe, tone and minimal art. this game has an identity, it is distinctive and atmospheric. Love it
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Please let me know more about this project if you think about going forward with it :smiley: Just wish the sounds were a bit higher, I don't know if its my notebook but the sounds were very very low, so much I thought there was no sound
gorgeous art style and mood
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I love this interpretation of the theme, and the graphics in this make it even more hilarious it took me a while to figure out that the hairs were sticking to the face.
not sure what I am doing but I think I won :laughing:
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I like the music in this, you feel like you need to be real good to listen to it all, which motivates me a lot :laughing:
figuring out the controls took me a while.
I love the idea of having multiple mini games to play.
The sci-fi vibe to it does make it interesting and makes me wanna try longer to see if something happens.
good concept to be evolved post jam :thumbsup:
my favorite soundtrack, a bit sad, a bit moody, a bit cute ... so simple and delicate, I just love this
Oh I cant go pass this one but I am vibing with this soundtrack
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this game is very very cute ... I am feeling very very stupid now for thinking that Corgi was a type of fox, just learned it is a dog :laughing:
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I also thought that was a bag of money they were throwing
I can't last too long in this
oh I love this trope, forgotten old company material read the manual to figure it out type of thing :smile: like TIS1000 with overcooked. The 3d shaders are looking great
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it feels so good to stamp that I ended up perhaps playing too much with it in the start of the game and it won't start anymore by stamping the start :laughing:
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I love the sally face references in there. Although the aesthetics is really pleasing, I can't get pass the start button
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Those rats are pretty pretty scary, it seems I did not learn how to shoot in the right direction and they got me cornered :O
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Neat graphics, I really like the fog and the pixelated characters. the text is also quite interesting. BILLY BUUUUTCHEEEER
omg the scores are hiigh here, I am struggling to go past 600. on Itch it seems it moves the screen as we type the arrows, I will try fullscreen maybe I will get better records. Great grapphics and effects, a very crazy taxi vibes in here.
I am getting a TIS-100 vibe from this. The type of game that you can put in your resume if you get to finish it. great work doing this in a jam
this so sweet aaa.png this guy was my favorite
I see "Failed to read the 'serviceWorker' property from 'Navigator': Service worker is disabled because the context is sandboxed and lacks the 'allow-same-origin' flag." in the web version, will try the desktop later on
sooo satisfying!
omg this is really good! It feels great to develop a strategy to hit them in a line ... but them they escape in the last milisecond lol
wow nice shaders, effects, style ... choice of font as well, fits perfectly ... I could spend all day just navigating this hex land just to feel the movement of the hexes.
this game btw
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was really wanting to play this, after having watched the stream during the jam =). First time playing I got confused if this was a "paper's please" type of experience, where I had to find illegal stuff inside the packages using the xray device ... then I noticed that was not a xray device lolol
Sem título.png it seems clients were really mad at me will try in the desktop later so I can get to the leaderboards
thanks for playing @alphabetasoup we thought about adding instructions but thought it could spoil the crappy OS breaking experience lol.
heey folks, thanks for all the comments, we will play your games as soon as our work day is over =) @jeanne-rossat the game was kinda random, but there are lots of easter eggs in it rarely found @r3d3r thanks, the drawing was a kinda last minute type of feature we were out of ideas lol @davidbradbury you are right, we really need to add some instructions, did not know how to do it without spoiling too much the experience of trying everything randomnly thanks for playing @aaron-smith @cptplastic
thanks everyone for playing, we appreciate a lot the feedback, after a busy week we are starting now to play all the games in the jam. thanks @dis0rder for the comments, and for sending us that one, I feel like someone told me about that win93 but never got to check it. I think most "exploits" are in the game you have inside of this, we just tried to put the most random stuff in there, like, there are places you can go like an office and a house with characters, lamps you can break (the lamp breaking thing I don't know exactly how to do it for that part was @jean who improvised and kept creating new hidden mechanics in there) the drawing board was a kinda last hour type of improv, it was a bit buggy so we almost gave up having it on the game. In the end we decidedd to leave it as it is and make the "bug" a part of the theme lol.
@solah I saw your commands there, that would be a good idea to have it respond to more commands, but currently it kinda works as a chat, as you can use it to talk to other players
@johnnysix oh yes the scores are persistent, the way it actually works is that we have 2 databases, one in firebase so to collect every action in realtime then every N seconds we save the persistent scores in another database so we can more easily sort and do stuff like graphs and such.
@sulo lol yes the deletion is also another achievement and there is a score for who deles most pictures lolol
seems neat, adding it to our list https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe40qwNQnhWWdDOWv8it0f-hKKtJznUzRWl4r23EuMVwXsvmg/viewform?usp=sf_link
very beautiful, it must have been really tough to generate all these AI art assets, we tried and had very little success in creating usable stuff, it is so unpredictable.
how long was the process of generating those assets? I will definitely try SD on a next one, your assets are crazy good.
thanks for the explanation @ausstein I would very much like to see more about this, we have done a lot of stuff with midjourney and recently trying DALE. Did not manage to make them work to generate good game assets though.
this is full of style and personality, thanks and soldiers are really well detailed, its like a darker version of that old flash games style, love it
I love card games and having a time limited card battle thing was something I would love to have done ... got too scared though and gave up that idea. yours is so neaaaaat
a feedback i have is that I got tooo desperate to drag the cards ... maybe something quicker like clicking and then clicking to select enemy .. or even keyboard shortcuts ...
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I saw this during the jam time and it was already one of my favorites in style. Animations are satisfying to look.
I died trying to take a screenshot of the FPS session lolol. the sounds are also really good. Its fun and kinda surprising when we get to kill our inner green demons in the FPS. I played in a macbook, it was a bit hard to control the camera with the touchpad but I had a good time anyway. this is an amazing entry folks
btw was that his brain he is holding?
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wow mindblown here loved the gun but did not realize that was the gun in there
very good idea for a 2 side mechanics, the weapon that you use to kill the thorns also creates thorns that you should avoid, really clever. I loved the dying scene btw
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this made me spend the last couple of hours obsessed by what TempleOS is. learned something today.
not found for me as well
this is really charming I think I still did not master hitting the ball when it is jumping in place
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interesting take on the car lane game. I would like the bus to take a bit longer or a harder hit to get a gamer over though, cause it is pretty satisfying to hit on things and destroy the cars, far too satisfying to want to avoid them lol.
I got the same as @fedir tried in itch and see the same gray screen
oh forget it, just loaded in itch
very very neat graphics, the 3d animations and effects were quite a surprise, I thought it would be just cutscenes
3d models for the ships is insane! shaders for attack and shield feel so cool! this turn based strategy thing you created is very new and bold. I really imagine a full game with this mechanics. The EMP power is genius. I think having more attacks and variety of strikes could make this a very competitive strategic game. One suggestion I would do however, perhaps having a list of the moves the enemy has (it would be like, you know the ship and you know what it can do, but you don't know the order) and removing the ? blocks entirely from the enemy line, would make more sense to emulate a "real" ship battle. But that is just me, the game is awesome already, amazing entry!
I absolutely love this creepy ps1 vibe. I imagine this being streamed in Alpha Beta Gamer for sure. Remembers me of that game where the gun speaks, a very creepy one too. This is now one of my favorites of the jam, best in mood.
neat art. the box physics feels so satisfying. its like a 2d sideview unpacking.
very cute presentation, very colorful and bright, has a "nintendo game" vibe to it. I like the animations for the characters walking and they also have a lot of personality.
I found the controls a bit weird at first too. I like the humor in it "its your fault", I laughed at that one. the kenny art pack fits well with the pig and the rest of the assets. neat entry
oh I very much want to play this, the title is so interesting and the clips seem so stylish. any chance of a web version?
Love the voices in this, not sure I am a dad though, got too many strikes
I like the paper's please vibe to this game
but just noticed its windows only, will check it later at home
very intense and also veeery hard to play on a touchpad :smile: this has all the juice and the action
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quite a surprise for me as well, got me intersted in testing roblox game dev.
the name of this made me laugh already.
very good idea to incorporate midjourney assets into this.
we used chat gpt for text content in a lot of the content we do have in ours https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/message-delivered
I am one of those players that starts to play before reading the instructions :laughing:
so I thought I was supposed to run them over lmao
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very cute pico game!
I played for quite a while thinking that the deal was to throw the stone as far as possible.
after like 100 throws I found that there was a target
after 1000 throws I found I cant do angle math and just went back to throw as far as possible with the trick, click in the bottom corner, hold and release in the top opposite corner.
this was the biggest number I got :laughing:
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very good vibes, its like overcooked without the moving aspect,
btw I have no idea where the bag is so after a while in sandbox mode this is what I got :laughing:
I think I won
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with so much nice graphics and art and effects and progressions, I wonder if it was a choice to leave the bullets just as single paint balls like this.
I feel this could be a cool bullet hell space invaders type of experience
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Oh this is game with very good balancing mechanics, I have never played a scorting adventure with such vibe, very innovative, I was really tense playing this however the funny Minecraftian models.
In the end I thought it was already over and stopped shooting, only to find out
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ABSOLUTELY LOVELY
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thank you for this awesome game
thanks @bobbie in theory we would create more content so to make it more fluid for people navigating the stories and finding information gradually about the plot, since we could not do that, I just wrote here the key to finding the most important part of the plot so people could see the ending.
thanks for playing @cole-hutson oh it kinda works like that, but takes a few seconds to load as we made A LOT of content lolol
thanks a lot for playing @hopla I would like to the discovery process more fluid and all, but I was really in a rush to solve the bugs to at least make it playable :laughing:
thank you all for playing! @greenwooddrive I was aiming at something slow and glitchy and minimal with the soundtrack, I was only able to start on it in the last few hours, so I am really really glad some people liked it, thanks! @oter some of the buggy features were due to me not being able to create enough content to make a full UI, so I thought, maybe the broken UI can be a thing, maybe it is a feature, not a bug lol ... I am very happy that I was able to convey some feelings with it. @fluffy-kaeloky yeah I got very frustrated seeing I could not so easily find the solution myself and ended up creating several emails that say the codes and the email, but even then they were a bit hard to find in a fluid manner. With more time I would work more on that part, making sure there is enough content that would make any investigation path intriguing.
btw just noticed I haven't played yours @hopla seems to be a really nice narrative game, gonna play it right away
thanks a lot for the feedback @lisek-gagatek actually the idea of this game was kind of a dream project for years, perhaps I need some help to expand this and make it look more 'professional' so to say.
@bangkerpow oh yes that is purely accidental but I loved it :laughing:, there was a password we tested that chrome even says it was found in a leak and that using it was dangerous, but then we already had so many emails containing the current password (and a full thread of investigation concerning that) that would make it complicated to change the password lol.
@francis yeees actually I had another ending planned ... but could not execute it, in case you get the email right but the codes wrong for instance ... wanted also to include an ending screen or something like that but was far too late lol
@eric-nguyen thanks for playing, and I am extra glad to find people that like Sam Barlow's work and played this
@triangle-point , @perryseity
if you look for sequence you gonna find an email that looks like fish.bail@gov.us, the emails contain conversations leaked about codes to start a nuclear strike in case of national threat, so sending an email to that address will initiate the protocol.
So when you send the code, the contact you have been talking to (and that requested the job) reveals itself in a very subtle manner (but anyone that has ever used CHAT GPT will be familiar with that type of response).
In fact the one that requested the job is an AI that is trying to create a nuclear and requested your help to do that, in the promise that you will be protected in the new AI dominated world.
If you close the windows and see the background you can see that the character (the hacker) that you are might have a tendency to be more "pro AI", as he/she has a robot arm in the background (I know that was subtle but we had no time to find a better free image lol)
thank you all for playing I will be looking into everybody's games shortly
thanks for playing folks :smile:
@kler your analysis is precise. I planned to have all of those but could not do it in the end, the only easter egg I managed to have there was the fact that all spams are actually emails from other users, when they send emails to wrong addresses.
also the intention was to have multiple endings and better balancing in the ways the users could find the sequence thread, but I was kinda worried cause its ludum dare and people do not spend much time in a single game so just decided to leave lots of emails with that tip to be safe.
btw you gave me very good ideas for easter eggs there and I now feel stupid I was so in a hurry I did not think of them.
very good music, I like the baaaasssss
oh the sounds are soo good
It took me a loong while to figure it out, its like factory + overcooked
Impressive cool pixel art that reminds of me that 2 people sword fighting game with kinda jelly arms and body ... oh I am so bad with names ...
love the bouncing, this would be an awesome game for streamers to play live
this is a very delightful little puzzle game about magnets, you should suggest Mark Brown (the GMTK guy) to implement these features in his game
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I thought this would kill it after a while :laughing:
very good 2d joint physics btw
I will definitely let the tab open to continue listening to this awesome song. Perhaps a continuous mode where music does not stop when you finish a level because omg what a good vibe.
this was tricky already for my tiny brain :laughing:
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very interesting physics and grapple mechanics, explosions, particles and shaders, there is a lot in here. Lots of complex physics in here make this a very impressive entry
very neat driving mechanics.
not sure if I die in this.
good car sounds
I was trying to take a good sundown pic
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I suspect I am not seeing the full screen I am supposed to see, got here but see no buttons to click. So far was able to see a very nice start screen with some sounds.
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I am playing on a macbook 13-inch
I would love to do this on full keyboard, mouse is kinda funky when you have only a touchpad :laughing:
you score high on the :cat: games category
this is like an inverse "moving out" (that chaotic game you have to move things into the move out truck) I could really see this in a 3d setup such as moving out in the future. really good concept
ok, not sure I got the mechanics and rules right but this surely reminds me of penguin club, that game that went down in history in the early years of the internet.
this was penguin club
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after a long time I read that these are supposed to be my enemies, they surely dont look like it, I thought they were friends and I had to take the fishes to them
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oh man this is haaaard.
Love the careful driving type of game idea.
The first level could be like going on a straigh line cause that was already very hard for me :laughing:
love the drifting mechanics it is very satisfactory to go full speed just to drift in a corner like there is no tomorrow.
I see this evolving with cool visual effects and perhaps things that break, that would definitely be very very cool
I was perhaps too excited about the speed and this happened :laughing:
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this is so much satisfaction omg. I could punch all day. got stuck in here though
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I got myself laughing hard at this
the sound is really good but seems to be extra low for some reason (compared to others games I played)
neat cutscenes
the zoombies are really really hard to go through
oh man this IS hilarious
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this is absolutely lovely, there is a roller bar nearby my city, that has a similar vibe to this game ... well it just does not have bartenders delivering stuff on rollers, but has a roller arena of sorts :laughing:
the movement was really really well made
I absolutely love the graphics on this and the music oh perfect mood
this is the best game to play during meetings to keep your face serious like you are working really hard on something. You should use that as a selling pitch :laughing:
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love the art on this btw
I love the flat 2d art style and the "dont starve" vibe of the characters.
the only thing against it is that you feel compelled to try all alternatives to find solutions kinda brute forcing them.
very strong mood btw
ok I love this, I am getting a 'lovers in a dangerous spacetime' vibe with some narrative, like 'doki doki universe', lovely characters, lovey text and narrative.
the undocking effect is kinda satisfactory.
the art assets are so good.
this penguin planet is the sweetest
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nice drawing of a package. It is like almost all of my pay checks :laughing: :cry: :laughing:
I thought this would be an experience like "moving out" + tycoon game ... but the shaders are crashing my computer somehow and did not manage to go very far, here is how it is looking when I managed to take a screen shot.
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playing on a mac btw
wish I had read the warning
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This feels like calculating tension and voltage of systems in high school after a certain level, I kinda like to get this feeling in a game, kinda work simulation.
One thing though is that in my screen the game uses a lot more space and I cannot see nothing more than the central area of the game.
I feel there is more cause they keep telling me of the readme file, but maybe it is out of bounds for me.
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oh the controls are really really hard
it is a good idea the concept of skate board delivery and the music fits this theme well
but this was how far I got after a long time :laughing:
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this is a very very nice concept, its like "I am bread" + that fish game where you need to get to the ocean I forgot the name of.
The sounds make it even more ridiculous and the drammatic music adds up to that, impressive title for such a timeframe, congrats
this is a crazy crazy idea, the kind of thing I love the most about ludum dares, some people will go far beyond what one can imagine a game to be, thanks for making this
lmao, funnies game so far. Having mold is a good reason for prescription lol
this music is making me cry Lovely choices and mood, rated you 5 cuz there is no 6
I like the concept of starting a story in a boat. The horizontal movement at least in this mac were very laggy, but managed to get some of the story through. I like the slow burn, but the text could run a bit faster.
I love games that can get this chaotic
I like this wooden ps controller
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somehow I thought the dog was a monkey looking backwards
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ok no that was stupid put my glasses on now
I got tha this is a tower defense type of experience, but when playing on the web version of this ld page it seems to get cut so I got the rat eating the cheese and lost, I feel there must be something I am not seeing in the page, this is what I see
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I felt almost guilty that I laughed at the first "I am dying" prompt.
dragging mechanics are pretty hard with touchpad.
I feel kinda dark humor vibes to this and I really like it.
this surprised me.
very good art and mood, I like that the story is being told in as you fly.
btw minor thing, for a left handed it is kinda hard to stop WASD to press space
again very good art and mood
these whales kept killing me :laughing:
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love the movements in this, very cool art style as well, the movements although in the ground remind me of a game where you play in the air with dog fighting airplanes called luft... something
I am getting a kinda 'red strings club' type of vibe.
The characters are quite unique.
I tried pressing the alarm buttons to cause chaos
this guy was pretty rude
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Very tense slow death, the pace in this game is really good. The fact that the enemies are slow makes it a lot more tense.
It took me a while to figure out the key to send them to vahalla, I know I should have read the instructions first :laughing:
I will be having nightmares with this scene
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I am having a great time playing this, I love the minimal sci-fi vibe it has
the fact that it does not show much is very interesting, makes it feel more realistic somehow
I think you could show the name of the icon when you hover them, it took me a while of experimentation to learn what was what ... or maybe I missed something
its been 14 years and I still do not fully grasp what produces the elements on earth
I built some stuff on mars but I cannot find where it shows something is being produced there ... mars producs silicon but the silicon number does not go up unless I set an earth rocket to take silicon there, which seems to be magically produced on earth
ok it would be great to have a speed up time, I am almost creating my first colony
ok my first colony took almost 48 years, got really distracted moving things around in the planets
it is a beautiful thing when you get to make the rocket dance work
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oh I miss having a windows so much this looks very interesing
will try it later at home
it seems there is a problem when I try to run it.
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playing on a mac btw
intricate puzzler, feels like the rolling potatos game I forgot the name
I was really expecting to kill the zoombies with my super power muscle car lol. instead they did this to me lol
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Funny concept, with some powerups to allow more mayhem would be great. btw nice car sounds
Ok the music and mood are obviously very good.
I love the Valkyria Chronicle type of turn based war mechanics.
I know this is a jam period and maybe there is not much time, but I would love to have a confirmation when you choose not to move lol, I was accidently clicking out of the limits very often and it would skip my turn.
I would love to see some form to fight back, it could be leading the troops to traps
it seems it is still password protected at this moment
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:laughing: I was looking for games to play browsing through the posts ... I think I found yours through a post you published :laughing: ping me when its ready
@agentparsec yes, its a database, we thought of others ways to use players decisions and to make them impact others, but we ran out of time and we were really focused in doing a very basic gameplay since we were on a very tight schedule all of us, thanks a lot for playing ...
thanks for playing @treenut @lespaul59
@jesse-j-jones yeah, the initial idea was to have a system there, where you could ask a specific number of questions, but we ran out of time lol ... so basically you use whatever criteria you want now ... kinda lame I know, sorry for that
btw if you reopen the tab and someone has decided your fate, there is a small but new part to be played ...
@tomrijnbeek you are absolutely right, we were a bit in a hurry and forgot to have those ... I am updating the description to include controls
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been a while thinking about life looking through the windows ... however a bit stuck as well lol, reset does not seem to work
really like these hand drawn art, feels eerie and creepy but cute
the sound is really good, almost ASMR like, felt really immersed ... has that old school fps vibe with some rebel cartoonish vibe to it ... maybe the anime like style for the characters was bit idk, kinda distant, but definitely potential in this style ... I managed to escape after dying a couple of times .... random thoughts section:
omg this is driving me crazy this much waste lol ...
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omg the dude is huuuge ... or I am like a dwarf ..
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LOTR fan goes to prison ... boxes and reads all day ... manages to escape punching concrete walls daily
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omg this is ADOORABLE :heart:
art styles remembers me this one of this one
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wish my cats knew exactly what they want like these :laughing:
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oh maan this is reaaaally fun ... got a bit said though, after quite a long fight of survival ... leaderboard seems to be off :cry:
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clever puzzle that could be expanded and have so many other "skins" applied to it.
the letter sounds are quite satisfying and it is cool that you introduce something new in every level.
the paper tear thing makes the visuals stand out.
moving was a bit confusing I thought however ... the tank movement along with using the mouse was a big jarring
I kinda like the little subtle sound that you have there in the background and the minimal UI.
the assets for all of them are also quite cool, having s and rmb as options for changing summoned creatures is good.
I am so bad in puzzles, I think I am already minutes stuck on level 2
voice over, really cool.
I like the cutscene as well.
the voices of the people you talk to brings me back to banjoo kazooie, although more serious here and gives a kinda cute vibe.
wish I could move with keyboard instead of only mouse to click.
the music creates a really intesting atmosphere.
overwall I love the graphics and atmosphere, I was kinda curious about the last item, wonder if it could grow into a giant tree that goes to heavens type of story, I would love to see this going this kinda misterious direction.
btw on itch you cannot fullscreen and the screen is way too small to see, glad it is also playable here.
impressive stab
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this is like flapbird on steroids lol
I am not gonna lie I was pretty confused with the choice for controls in the beginning though, I noticed that clicking does something but after reading I saw that all game can be controlled with the keyboard.
this is pretty hard and perhaps not being able to quickly evade, maybe with a special power idk, can make it a bit frustrating since what you want in this type of experience is the speed (at least I like the feel)
great pixelart and music btw
Although indeed the AI seems quite impressive, the sounds are my very favorite part, from the first "OLALAA" I was already in love with them.
the UI needs some work because its not much intuitive what you have to do though, it takes a while to understand, but that is ok being a ludum dare game, no idea how one would do the AI and also all of that in 72 hours.
I love autobattlers so I had to try this one
ok I feel a bit lost ... lets see it seems a bit like dredge in the management of space and that backpack hero ... ok I think I got it figured out ...
this feels quite frenetic I like what you did there, there are elements of a lot of games, in the end it felt quite like loop hero, where you autofight, but need to constantly pay attention to new items and so on, quite interesting loop that if you hone it you might get something real amazing that makes you just spend all day grinding non stop lol clever game folks
I loved that you start with a visual novel type of thing ... just to surprise with a binding of isaac meets zelda meets swords of ditto experience.
I kinda felt an eerie vibe it being so silent, and I thought the main character has a lot of personality
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really want to see more of her
the black cats are a bit annoying particularly because they offer no real risk and just make the pace slower
I like that the sword is long enough so that if you hit space real fast you kinda become invincible
oh man this art is amazing looks like a HQ from the 90s
it was a bit confusing to have to go from a mouse challenge to a keyboard challenge and at first I did not understand what I had to do in the spinning on (yes I am pretty dumb), but after the first attempt I managed to get the summoning complete
my very favorite was the nose one and the chopping, it was satisfying to chop violently that poor plant lol
most unique and impressive game I have seen so far, feels so unique with the voice effects the camera movement, the slashing effect and the kinda doodle effect to the creatures
I could certainly play this for a long while, waiting for the easiest restrictions ... I found the "no pants" the hardest one lol ... the "only the flying" was the easiest I got
from the second culling onwards it seems it gets real hard you have to move crazly fast.
this feels really good, ... could also be a vr game I imagine.
this is definitely one of the best concerning mood, I love the black and white color pallete and the music.
I need to see more of this tomorrow, but for now I can say I love the atmosphere and I am crazy to know where this leads me
those cute characters you designed seem to be something between sponge bob and among guys chars ... they are kinda jelly like as well, pretty well rounded, they seem to be a character in banjo kazooie universe
loved the messages in the opening .. not made in java lol
smooth paralax and nice choice for colors
the sounds are so sweet and well placed
man this is kinda addictive
I feel however at least in the web version there is some framerate drop when the camera kinda moves around.
the choice for controls clicking on space and shift makes me feel less ... less agile ... playing this with a controller must be a blast.
man this feels so cool I could play this for quite a while.
awesome juicy entry!
@alezjl try getting to the end and you will see =)
ooohhh thanks @unless-games somebody else mentioned that I thought it was on itch
folks thanks everybody for playing the game, we really wanted it to be simple so everybody could get to the end with less than too many minutes =) @rakowu we also thought to make it a cat, which was our first model, we kinda changed the moment we started doing the cutscenes thanks @frib @meru @emiliabea if we had more time we would have made the stars shine as we had initially planned, but good that the current sky could please you =) thanks for playing
thanks @jvolonte =) it means a lot that it touched you
@rakowu yeah when I noticed it was too late to implement it was worried that I could break something, I am not the best in logic you know lol
@unless-games OH YEAH the initial draft of the story included a sacrifice, but we thought it was a bit too dramatical and just wanted to go towards trying to make it cute instead
@lexi89 thanks for such nice comments and yeah you have good narrative ideas =) and yes those would require a lot more character development, its an option for a bigger game
@lachlan-james thanks for playing =) oh I feel kinda mad that we still had time on monday but we kinda tried to fix some very rare bugs instead of looking into adding sounds. I am very happy you finished it =)
@ryaneklipse @weefairyfabi thanks a lot
oh thanks for heads up @ffenril I will defintely check if there is wrong in that part .... maybe because it is when it loads the last song, idk ... but if you still wanna try it again we would really appreciate that =)
definitely checking on that tomorrow @vivid-hallucination thanks for the heads up, btw did you guys play on chrome?
@risminator thanks for playing
@pimeko =) thanks for stopping by, we really wanted to create a short script that most people could relate, it feels great to see it touched a few people, although the bugs
@digitaliliad thanks, seeing it on stream was something else
@andreas-decker I am glad it could touch you, thanks for playing
@benjaminw your comment made my day, thanks soo much
@re-markable thanks a lot for playing, the last music was made by the so talented jan-barbosa in the credits there
thank you everyone who tried our game, it truly means a lot
wow I love this ominious atmosphere.
showing the size of things as you get smaller going out of the cave is a clever move that builds the mood really well.
the sacrifice scene with this atmosphere makes me feel a bit like in Carrion with a kinda Fear and Hunger vibe.
I got like 3 sheep, cant find the next one.
very impressive voice over
oh I thought something wrong happened that I was not seeing anything, but very clever transition there.
the voice interacting so vividly, responding to your moves really builds a strong vibe.
it even alternates between sentences when talking, you feel really immersed in this.
cant resist going brute force with this.
the second one kinda made the brute forcing a lot easier with the new notations being more obvious.
the third did not add too much difficult to it, but I really liked the ending.
man the atmosphere in this is awesome. But I gotta be honest that I solved all puzzles brute forcing my way lol.
wonder what the something is.
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I wish you had a "play it fullscreen" here, the interface is currently being cropped in the sides makes it a bit hard to work with.
but it works, camera feels smooth and the overall ominous vibe makes you wanna expand and get more lore.
this feels awesome with lots of feedback and juicy visuals, it feels quite delicious to draw the spells, even when you get them wrong lol
this feels perfectly polished, this is something else
I am getting a disco elysium vibes with the personalities and the tense vibe.
the gameplay to be honest was a bit confusing for me, but I would read a full novel with that preface and so well designed characters, this one being really intriguing
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the original angel inspired image, really wanna see what this guy is about
very complex game, no idea how you managed this in this timeframe, but it really workds.
what is missing perhaps is just the visual aspect to make the turn based aspect more exciting to see. I imagine it with character figures in place of the squares and some feedback on their attack and the summoning
this game idea would also fit that other ludum dare theme "sacrifices must be made" lol
very cute skull characters and clever gameplay loop.
The UI kinda seems not as smooth as the very detailed assets, but we all kinda speedrun in doing UI to focus on the game for gamejams so very understandable.
lovely lovely chalk drawn characters
I love the choice of colors greenish purple and blue
the music has a very short loop and becomes a bit repetitive.
Gizmo-core got me laughing lol
the magazine is so rich and the personalities feel authentic
the music in that room you have to find the items is way better
oh no
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btw this took me a looong while to find
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Amazing experience I had a blast, the only thing that I would change is that background music, way too short of a sound loop
I will write along as I play ....
I can relate so much already being the one
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I feel a connection with those players already
wow it is like a game about people that are coming at age and struggle to find time to play games, again I can definitely relate to that.
this puzzle does feel like the puzzles in inscryption
I confess that I find the interface of rearranging time a bit confusing ... to match with the vibe of finding time, this could be a game of managing several google like calendars perhaps, to find time for friends to play DnD.
oooh after 15 minutes I think I understand the interface, the center is the time for DnD oh got it
oh when the question "do you want to skip" shows and you say no, it kinda gets stuck and the
oh I see ... I am 45 and manage to get no time for DnD, this is so clever omfg, makes a lot of sense
this is something real real smart, feels like Emily is Away with another theme, finding time for friends ... omg this is real good folks
after spending quite a while with this I have to say that I did not think this would be my favorite game of the jam, but now it is and I am glad I insisted, it took me quite a while to understand but once I did I felt the feels vibe I also do have a group of friends we dont do DnD anymore because everybody is always busy so definitely something I can relate
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amazing art assets indeed, particularly the characters and their cartoonish animations that take me back a bit to those flash games.
the title itself is very inventive and made me laugh a bit.
the controls are kinda unconfortable, using mouse and several keyboard keys which could be perhaps automatic based on context like E and space, it is particularly harder for people that use left handed mouse to use AWSD + space (like me)
love the death animation ... perhaps because I have seen that so many times cause I suck at this lol
I was kinda lost in there though, admiring the little enemies destroying the forest, they feel kinda cute and funny, the humour vibe is interesting here
I love autobattle games and this is easy to get hooked on, the fights being short and the roguelite elements make this a very interesting one that you may wanna go just for another last one.
the minimalistic art fits well with this.
Impressive 3d assets and environment, it feels like that antie Ethel dungeon in bg3.
this has a lot of things that made me feel very powerful and I liked that.
I kinda kept smashing b and k like crazy and it felt awesome to jump over the bombs
I made a storm of these
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this is like a stealth ship type of experience don't remember seeing anything like this, hope can speedrun this, its real tough
I love the visuals in this, definitely something I hope to see in alphabeta gamer channel as a full fledged version.
could perfectly fit the lsd game jam
I dig the visuals, I dig the atmosphere, the colors, the vibe
hand made assets gives a personal touch.
I thought the dog's pawn was a tartigrade, which would also be fun.
at home we have 3 cats (or better they allow us to live in here lol)
so I can relate with this soo much and actually the three of them are a lot like if I had snowball, blackie and ginger <3
I think a lot of people would relate to this, but the puzzle element for me feels a bit too easy to just brute force your way through.
love the music and the lofi pixelart cats.
very juicy sounds and summoning effects
I feel like a mage hacker of sorts.
it all feels very beautiful but it is kinda confusing having to alternate between a terminal like hacker experience to a 2d kinda enter the gungeon type of thing.
this is very beautiful and to be honest I was far more excited about the fantasy terminal thing (never seen that before but now I would love to) than the action which kinda is not that new as the terminal
LMAO LMAO LMAO clever clever
this could easily be a successful skit
I was confused though in the start whether I should wait and fight or if fight was something going to happen eventually in the conversation.
also this is really hard not to get her to dump you lol
in the beginning I was worried I am having this error on the web version ... but the game seems to work ok
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tried once and had no idea what I was supposed to do, then went back and tried the tutorial ... from which I got only the drawing thing, man that is interesting, its really cool to draw your invocations. I could see this concept as an tablet game drawing real quick and memorizing all types of invocations even ... also this would be really fun as a competitive multiplayer I believe
I absolutely love the character design the long haired girl is my favorite.
I see this combat system you guys created is very interesting, its good when you see new turn based systems being born, this one could evolve into a more tatical one, but it needs some feedback with hovers and perhaps some options to speed them up so it does not get too grindy and slow... I also imagine this with movement options, having movement being a big part of the strategy perhaps, idk, I know I would love to see that, big fan of turn based combat and my favorite systems I found in valkyria chronicles and also in child of light in the clever use of interruptions and attack order.
the beachy vibe is lovely btw.
it was ridiculous how long it took me to find this book, wondering "what the hell is a tome" lol
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amazing art and sound sync
my first playthrough made the car bug and I could not get in
ok the car driving thing is pretty good
the music is not bad
the sounds on the voices are cute as hell lol
I got stuck with the car in an alley lol
the controls are kinda confusing with lots of keys that could be contextual like E to interact and F to get into a car, when only interaction with a car is entering in it
this felt like an evil prank making the player close all tabs if they are playing in the brower lolol
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really like the mood.
cant resist to click everything like crazy before I start reading lol.
this is very relatable.
the click, drag, cut mechanics are impressive, particularly the sugar opening.
oh yeah and it feels a bit "a little to the left" @weefairyfabi forgot to mention that
I love that this has voice over, quite lovely btw, I felt the voice volume a bit low though, but it was a nice touch. I feel this has a lot of potential in the humor aspect, like if you make the sounds real bad when you play it wrong and perhaps add some complexity in the act of playing a note, perhaps using pressure that can be read if you play with a controller or a touchpad like interface to produce the sounds, idk, it would make it a bit like trambone champ with lore. very nice art btw, resembles Mutazione a bit. btw, just a reminder your itch page has no link to ldjam website, I kinda guessed the url to get in here, found you in itch.
love the effects in the text boxes.
the outlined cute assets have a lot of personality.
very satifying gameplay and interesting depth.
on itch it feels a bit that the interface is being cut on the sides.
I like the humor in the text, and it feels sometimes funny a dog figure acting a bit like a cat sometimes.
very interesting lore building here, I like that I can hover over words to know what they are.
they all have very distinct personalities Arthur, Lysander and Zavidar .... cant help but feel like one for each harry potter school.
there is an impressive amount of content in this
impressive lofi pixelart
love the music and the vibe you are creating with this intro
I feel the numbers and the god talk is kinda way too big in the screen though.
Impressive work on the little details like moving slow on the water and how the cuteness of the speech sounds and color contrasts with the kinda scary mood.
this was pretty intuitive and I loved it.
it took me like 10 seconds to understand what was going on in here, the "defeat the card to win it" is very clever and fits the theme like a glove.
the art was also awesome and the soundtrack adds a kinda jazzy vibe ... the sounds are so in sync that they feel part of the soundtrack.
one of my favorites so far.
very beautiful scenario and smooth walking animation.
one can feel the good vibes walking around is quite delightful.
I am having a hard time finding what I need to do to actually match the objects and be sure that I am doing it right.
Impressive amount of content here,
I smoke a lot of cigarretes, all of them ...
made the worst choices and was carried by the shadows ...
I was wondering what these pink things were:
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and this
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they were just before the ending both in the same page, in my ending I ended up pretty dead lol
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what was supposed to be there? I don't remeber how I ended up in there
oh yes I was curious about this columbarium thing
so many interesting characters, amazing soundtrack that is both kinda haunting and cute and misterious kinda don't starve vibe ... loving this
TRHDGRTWYTYHBD!!!
I like the wiggly little creatures and the the background music is not bad at all, I am enjoying seeing the battle unfold ...
I have the impression that it might not be spawning the creatures that I drop on scene though ... a couple of times I dropped the red demon and one of the others had spawned.
I feel I am doing something wrong in here.
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got it! @madness now I see! thanks
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I kinda missed having a way to scroll away to see all units since they move around so fast and the area is so vast.
I found it clever the priority system you devised fels a lot better than having to command them to do things in specific and I can imagine how useful this can be in a big big area with hundreds of minions
The gameplay aspect of it takes a while to understand if you are not familiar with this kind of game.
Needless to say that the art is stunning, keeping a cohesive style being a stylish pixelart
I thought it would make sense to have some mouse hover feedback and controls
its kinda difficult to control, at least in the web version I had to read to understand what I was supposed to do, but not super hard after a few minutes, the enemies get predictable. I kinda like the design of the characters and love the eyed background in the start =)
the volume is a bit low.
I like the visuals, they kinda take me back to those saturn isometric sonic games in the colors.
the choice for controls make it a bit hard to control for somebody that uses the mouse in the left hand though, I had one hand in the arrows and another going 1,2,3 and click.
I like that you have to be very deliberate, calculating the movement speed of the creatures, but more feedback on the time the magic takes to do its effect.
the game mechanics is surprinsingly intuitive and it makes you feel like a powerful evil ninja (that was what I thought killing all those people), I liked that quite a lot
using your hand to also protect yourself while killing those folks felt satisfying and the rope like effect of the hand looked quite nice.
this is quite a good game and I had a very good time with it, we need more people seeing this.
Wow, I think this is the most inventive and innovative gameplay idea I've seen so far in the games I've reviewed here at the Jam. It's truly chaotic, fresh, and intriguing. Man, it's really cool, really cool indeed.
Wow, and the background music gives off this relaxed vibe, contrasting with the chaotic motion of the physics at play. This is super cool. I'm really excited to see this moving forward and to find out what else you can include in a full game.
Oh, my, it's truly refined here! The artwork is quite beautiful, and the sounds are incredibly pleasing—honestly, they're quite satisfying to listen to. Rolling the dice, you feel the urge to jump into the next battle, and the minimalist soundscape keeps you wanting to play over and over again. 🎲
Wow, that was truly beautiful. The artwork, without any text, has a minimalist charm that's genuinely delightful.
And now I'm just feeling extremely silly because I've been stuck on this puzzle for about 10 minutes, which must be very simple.
I really want to finish this game, but there's just this last part, and I feel like it's just this final piece. However, I have no clue how to solve it.
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I used to adore these little creatures in this style of art.
The puzzles are quite engaging, particularly as you start incorporating more than just two little pink haired "critters".
I believe there's a lot of potential to expand this game and create countless puzzle scenarios using these mechanics of kicking and jumping.
OMG this is so effing loving <3
The assets in this game are quite charming, with a delightful design. The monotone color palette adds a unique touch to the experience.
I truly enjoyed the sounds made with the mouth as well
Hey, I really enjoyed the soundtrack here. It has an atmosphere that leans towards psychological horror, which I found quite intriguing. The artwork of the face is particularly interesting.
I think I found a bug though. When you grab more than one creature at the same time, it seems like one of them gets stuck in your hand, and you can't capture any others or release the extra one that's in your hand.
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And it remains right there even when you pick up the hammer. If you look behind, you can see the little ball.
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I really enjoyed the sounds; they are quite pleasant. As for the gameplay, I must admit it took me a little while to grasp it. building the path and after walking with the spider is quite inventive and original. it seems simple, but it turns out to be complex because you can create a quite unfeasible path, as was my case most of the time 😄.
I loved it; this art style is quite remarkable, fitting seamlessly with the background music and the vibe it conveys there.
The characters have quite a bit of personality as well, and it's nice how you can sense touches of humor from the start with the Goblin, wielding its grand impressive rifle to negotiate. 😂
Wow, I seriously loved the Claymation style of the Assets' animations; it reminds me of ClayFighters, even some of the sound effects have a ClayFighters vibe. It took me a while – and I'm not proud to admit it – to figure out what I was supposed to do, but once I got it, I realized this thing has a really frenetic energy.
this was the best score I could get
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Hey, this is really quite good, genuinely impressive, and you can clearly see the inspiration from Katamari, with that whole bizarre storyline featuring insects and tiny creatures. It's very amusing. The art is simply delightful, and the game, with its chaotic and frenetic nature, is really fun. It's akin to a 3D Tetris with a Katamari mechanics and vibes.
Moreover, the characters, their sounds, and the comic book style of the cutscenes are quite enjoyable.
This game seems truly captivating. I'd love to play it, and I really wish I could try it out here. Is there any chance you might release a web version?
I am trying this one then when on pc, seems real nice, thanks for trying @jonathan-fischer
I had the chance to test it on a PC, and I must say, it's indeed quite charming. However, even when setting the configurations to the lowest, the performance was still quite challenging and I have an RTX3060, not the best, but not supposed to suffer so much on it I guess ... I'm not an expert in optimizations, so I'm not sure what's causing it, but it must be some configuration because it’s really quite heavy. It really made me think of another game, Tiny Echo, where you play as a little creature quite similar to the one you created, navigating through tunnels to deliver letters. 😊 I think once you address the performance issues, it looks quite promising. The creatures are captivating, the environment is stunning, and the music fits the vibe perfectly, so it can be quite promising once you resolve the optimizations.
Oh my, the animation of that shrimp is delightful! The playful background music adds a humorous flair to the overall experience. My only issue here is that using the WASD and space bar controls is quite challenging for a left-handed person like me, who uses the mouse with the left hand. I lack the skill, let's say, to control it like that. Perhaps including both WASD and IJKL keys could solve the problem because then I could use my right hand for controls. 😊
This mechanic of catching morsels is quite clever—simple, effective, and surprisingly addictive. It reminds me a bit of the fishing mechanics in Dredge. You know, having to release or press the button when the pointer is in a specific area of the round thingy.
Hi there! 😊 I noticed that the game link on Ludum Dare isn't on itch.io. Just a heads up—I had to find it here by guessing the url.
The art in this game is quite charming, with a delightful touch. in the start It seemed like the game was zoomed in when I started the first level, and I couldn't quite see where the ducks were heading. Then, almost by instinct and somewhat randomly, I scrolled with the mouse, and voilà, there was the duck mama
that is a pretty good idea @eugen-rantev we will make sure to add that in the next stages of our development
you are right @coleslaughter , we do really need more characters ... What happened was that we had very little time to finish the game. We were leaving on Sunday, and we wouldn't be able to do much after that. So we rushed to complete it on the first day, and that's why we ended up with just these characters only ... Certainly, we're planning to expand later and finally implement all the ideas we've wanted to include since the beginning. 😊
Thank you to everyone who is testing and providing feedback. I'll make sure we take a look at all of your games. 😊
Ah, @karenchik I believe you might be referring to whether or not you agree ... that you actually have to use the same key, the "Z," to confirm. This might have led to some confusion since they aren't exactly buttons you click with a mouse.
I'm not sure if it was a good idea, but we tried to simulate a way of "insisting". You know, you have to agree three times or not agree three times ... There is some feedback where the agree and disagree options shake a bit. But I'm not sure if it was enough. You can also navigate them with the arrow keys, so you never actually use the mouse in the game.
thank you all for playing and for the messages. @dis0rder thanks for the detailed review. what graphic elements do you think might have been broken? yeah I think some more feedback is necesary, we are already working on them for a post jam version
@faofid In fact, I believe you're absolutely right. We wanted to add more elements, like collectible items, additional characters, and more options. However, we ran out of time and couldn't include them.
Certainly, it is a more comprehensive version that we intend to keep working on. The idea is to indeed add more elements, insert more, let's say, "objectives" or "paths"
And you are quite right to say that, at this moment in time, it resembles an art installation more than a proper game. I believe it could evolve into a bit of both in the future.
Thank you for the sincere and well-detailed review =)
I truly enjoyed the concept here; I love these Idle games where you can just watch and see things unfold. 😊
The bubly bear animations are quite charming.
I can imagine this game playing with a lovely lo-fi soundtrack, paired with delightful animal variations. I love the idea that you can't die, so it's the kind of thing I'd have on my second monitor while working and enjoying some lo-fi beats. 😊
I'm eagerly awaiting the web version so I can dive into your game. 😊
Wow, this is pretty cool. It's like those ant colony games, but here you're managing bee colonies instead.
I particularly liked this style of art, as it truly makes it stand out.
I found the choices for these evolutions quite interesting, such as the astrological tower. It steers in a different direction compared to games like ant colony simulations, where you're drawing from real ant concepts. Yours includes a certain element of fantasy it seems.
That was quite fun, an intriguing concept, and it's really satisfying to play around with the pigeon and try to hit a car, although it seems I'm not particularly good at it. 😂
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Really interesting concept here. It's quite innovative, with a touch of chaos—just a tad challenging to get the hang of it, but once you do, it's quite satisfying to catch those flies and get to them. 🪰
The background music is genuinely beautiful, and the art evokes a somewhat melancholic, yet samurai-like vibe. It's quite impressive.
Just letting you know that on your Itch.io page, there's no link to your game here on ldjam. I found it here, but there's no link there.
I loved mixing the ingredients there, but I have to confess that I ended up creating the creatures sort of by accident. I'm not sure if I truly understood that magic book; I just threw things in randomly, and eventually, little critters started to emerge.
I thoroughly enjoyed the little animation of the creature's emergence; it's quite satisfying to watch the whole thing tremble, and it truly feels like you've created a majestic being.
Just a heads-up, I noticed that your Ludum Dare game link isn't on your Itch.io page. I found you there, and I had to guess what the link was here, but I got it. 😄
I found it quite interesting that there is a mechanic of escaping and collecting flowers. It's amusing to imagine a bee detaching an entire flower head. 😂
Later, it surprised me when it suddenly turned into a typing game, which is cool, but I really wasn't expecting it, especially since I jumped in without reading anything about the game.
Hey, I was also surprised by the handmade artwork in there—it's got a lot of promise! 😊 I think a game with these kinds of hand-drawn arts would look adorable, especially if they were scanned in.
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This is quite nice, but I'm unsure how to actually purchase clothes for my cat. When I click, it seems like nothing is happening.
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Another thing I'm curious about is how you... it seems there's a multiplayer element where you can see how your cat is doing and how the cats of others are. I'd like to know more about this, but where can I find that?
I really found the little sea creatures quite charming, and the shrimp with a briefcase and hat is downright adorable. 😊
The segments with texts between levels seem quite disconnected from the gameplay, especially since there's nothing visual to accompany them. It actually took me a while to realize there was any text happening there because it just felt like something unrelated to the gameplay.
I Imagine the possibility of populating the sea with an endless variety of creatures! Different types of plankton, perhaps, and other marine life, which could certainly make navigating these waters quite fascinating.
The art in this is just so beautiful! The soundscape that plays in the background is also really cool, truly very cool. The whole monotone, black and white theme makes for a really interesting experience. I just think it might need to be a bit less, let’s say, obvious in reaching the more optimistic ending. This way, it can be a bit more impactful. But this can be achieved by working more on the project, making it richer in the future.
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The playfulness with the name is quite clever, kinda "Ori and the will of the wisp." but here its the will of the wisp without Ori. The movement is smooth the camera zooming in and out feels nice. The art pairs wonderfully with the music, crafting a mood that's delightfully introspective. The concept of showcasing thoughts while you navigate is quite intriguing; it enhances that introspective vibe even more.
Wow, the number of texts here is quite impressive!
I've experienced numerous ways of 'game over' and ended up with various scores.
I get the impression that this 'True' wasn't supposed to be there.
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Certainly, it’s worth mentioning that the atmosphere of the game is quite captivating. The artwork is impressive, and it keeps you at a certain level of constant tension, which cleverly contrasts with the fact that it's a story about fairies.
I really loved the sketchy and scribbly art style, the music has a very mysterious and point-and-click vibe to it, which is quite intriguing. What you've done here is pretty interesting.
It's also fascinating that there seems to be a cool metaphor woven in with the elements you've created. My favorite was this one.
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I think the only aspect that seemed a bit off to me was the somewhat cartoonish design of the arrows—it kind of takes away from the mysterious vibe. But other than that, everything here is quite intriguing. I can definitely envision this growing into a larger project.
Okay, this is quite enjoyable and gives you some laughs right from the start.
My favorite child was the one with sunglasses. 😎
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The news is even more hilarious. 😂
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Wow, I found this idea for an automation puzzle to be truly brilliant! I don't think I've seen anything like it, focusing on painting. It's incredibly satisfying when you manage to, well... make it work. It would be interesting if there were different little figures, and if they had some behavior when they look at each other.
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This is quite charming, reminiscent of an old fairy tale book. I also loved how the movement of that little box, from which the story is revealed, gradually shifts and displays segments of the scenery as the tale unfolds on the left side.
I believe a few issues I've experienced here are related to the lack of clarity in highlighting elements—at least for me. The design often features a uniform tone, making it challenging to discern when interaction is required. For instance, that part where you're supposed to click on the book at the very beginning took me a while to notice. It wasn't immediately clear that this was a standout element within that scene.
At another moment here, it seems like it froze because when I click on anything, nothing happens. I'm not sure if I did something wrong. It was right in this scene. 🤔
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I enjoyed sitting here pretending to be the bar manager. 😄
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anyone like mine?
I'm genuinely thrilled that I returned to find this game—it's truly something special.
You can definitely notice the personal touch, with the dialogues, the sounds, and the texts. It's all really well done.
By the way, it doesn't say at the beginning, but I think, like in every RPG Maker game, you can move by clicking on things with the left mouse button. This might actually be a faster way to interact with objects.
oh yes I noticed that, some interactions for some reason do not work with the mouse
The music is quite lovely, and the entirely hand-drawn art is really cool too. 😊
I managed to catch all of them, but I confess there was one that I think I caught by accident.
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I quite enjoyed that spider web physics system. It turns out to be an intriguing experience—somewhat in the realm of a platformer, I suppose. You jump, yet it's all based on physics, which is a cool idea to explore. There's definitely something captivating about it. I wonder if it would be intriguing to introduce levels that are a bit more chaotic, allowing you to explore and have, let's say, multiple exits for the levels.
Wow, I spent the entire game thinking it was an abandoned pizza box that took over people's bodies. So, I was wondering why people felt the need to hit the pizza box, quite puzzling. 😂
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This is truly quite enjoyable; from the first scene, it already gets you laughing.
how did I miss this one until this moment, this is amazing omg please release it on steam and let me pay for it
Ah, the text, the music, and the cutscenes are all truly impressive. Just impressive. It's my favorite.
I watched the trailer and remember not being able to hold back my laughter at more than one moment.
I truly believe it's quite challenging for anyone to score higher than this in humor.
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I truly enjoyed the artwork, particularly those animations. That doodle effect, kind of wobbly, adorable.
Something that happened to me, is that during the main cutscene, there was that big button to skip it. After waiting for quite a few minutes with nothing happening, I ended up having to skip it. But I was really curious to see what it was all about!
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This seems like a sort of terrarium simulator, quite interesting.
I can see this with a soundtrack, perhaps a bit like a slightly melancholic lo-fi. It would transform into those cozy games you keep playing on your second monitor while you work, watching the progress of your terrarium.
My favorite game so far—simply fantastic. There were a few puzzles where I got a bit stuck, took me a little while to get through them, but it was so worth it for the art and storytelling. Everything is subtle yet very powerful and really well-executed.
I must admit, this sentence here truly left a lasting impression on me. 😊 Screenshot 2024-10-08 143148.png
Some observations I would add to this are that I found the sound to be quite low, particularly the music during the opening and closing cutscenes. It's a shame because the music is genuinely good. Perhaps it could be turned up a bit? I'm not sure if it's just me, but it seems quieter compared to other sounds here.
In the second puzzle, it was also challenging to figure out which horn belonged to which box, as there were more than one that looked quite similar. I believe there were two horns that resembled an "S" and two more that looked like a "5," or something along those lines.
In the dragonfly puzzle, it was the first time I had to use the hints, and that's when I realized all I had to do was listen. You can actually hear the sound of the dragonflies—I hadn't picked up on that before. 🐉🎧
The art is quite charming and intriguingly peculiar in a good way. This kinda remind me a bit of Pikmin. There's just one little issue ...
I think I'm supposed to take, let's say, 10 here, right? But if there aren't 10 because most of them are gone, it's kind of like the same as losing, right? Because you can't complete the level, is that it?
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I quite enjoyed the art; it gives off a really nice vibe. The background music adds a touch of melancholy, which I found quite interesting too.
That being sad, I did find a few issues. One of them was the battle scene that caught me by surprise. Suddenly, it transitions from a platform to turn-based combat, and the interface elements were somewhat faded, which made it unclear what actions were available or what was expected. I started the game without any instructions, so I was just thrown into the experience.
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Another aspect still connected to the battle is that you're controlling with the keyboard, and suddenly you're thrown into a scene where you have to use the mouse to make choices. I would hope that you could also use the keyboard, just like in Pokémon, where you use the arrow keys to navigate through the turn-based battle menu options.
I appreciate how, all of a sudden you are drawing a pumpkin.
I got stuck here twice. If you go back to talk to the witch, with the claw, when you press E in the last dialogue, it triggers a new dialogue again. So, the trick I managed to pull off to get out is to press and hold the opposite direction while pressing E, because that way, Pata doesn’t trigger the conversation again.
The other time, it happened at the gate again. I used the same trick to get out.
Anyway, I found the text delightful, the blending of art with that somewhat melancholic music in the background, and you get to play as a cat—something that's always welcome. 😄
I got a baby faced fish.
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this one was also nice
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I really dig this thing of expecting the next cool creature ... the art and ambience are awesome btw
this is really a nice experience, I just wish there was more feedback or some fishing minigame like the one in dredge ... I often had no idea what I was doing to do the fishing and just went clicking everywhere randomly
Wow, this is indeed a fantastic idea for a child-friendly game. The animations are quite charming, the sounds are satisfyingly pleasing, and the design is truly adorable.
Wow, this is pretty cool—it's like a cross between World of Goo and Katamari, and it also gives off vibes of that game I am fish. Wow, I absolutely loved the sounds. It's so satisfying to hear the ball rolling and sticking. Man, I could play this for hours on end.
Hey there! This is genuinely cool. I loved all the assets crafted from paper; it's such a creative touch. I'd definitely buy a full version of this game with more levels and some control tweaks on Steam.
One thing worth mentioning is that some letters have very little contrast, and I took a while to understand or even read the part that says I broke the car.
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Perhaps using papers of different colors and/or writing the text with a marker or a thicker pen might do the trick.
The paper crumpled as we hit the car. Simply brilliant, by the way. 😊
Wow, I found the artwork here simply fantastic. The subtle sound effects complement it very well, and the animation of the creatures makes them quite genuinely terrifying. That plot twist at the end is really cute, I thought it was all pretty cool.
It was simultaneously rather cute, yet also quite frightening.
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reminds me a lot of Forgotten Anne
This game is really fun and quite cute, but also a bit challenging. It took me a while to successfully carry my first object. 😊