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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | ||
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| 2026 | 60 | Old Tech | Plug & Play | compo | |||||||||||
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | 10 Seconds Nuclear | jam | 969 | 3.11 | 2.90 | 3.31 | 3.97 | 3.61 | 3.34 | 2.20 | 3.48 |
VenFola leaves an average of 19.5 feedback comments each event.
Nice concept!
For me the bad points are: at first it was not clear to me you had to type the space and the music loop is a bit short and gets annoying at some point. Also, a score would have been nice, even with no score board to make the player wants to play more and know if they did better than the previous time.
Overall nice to play, I got hooked ;)
Fun game! The concept works, I have to admit I got hooked.
But I think the game could be paused when choosing upgrades, and sometimes selecting cards is bit buggy, you have to click multiple times to make it work.
Nice aesthetics, cool concepts but I think you should have displayed the controls in game instead to have to open the pause menu, as I would have never seen it without reading the game description.
The collisions are very buggy which makes the game hard to play.
Love the aesthetics! Graphics and sound design are great!
Concerning QR codes, the idea is cool and original, but it breaks the rhythm having to grab your phone every time you want to read something and so becomes annoying.
For the platforming part, the character feels a bit heavy when it comes to jumps, but overall it feels good.
I probably missed something, but to me it was not clear if the blinks would teleport me or not.
Overall a very nice entry, gorgeous and well polished!
Very nice platformer. Graphics are simple but the effects and change of colors are great! At first I found the jump a bit too short, but I understood why when seeing the upgrades.
The time we have left is not super clear, even with the music on, it could be accentuated. And death is very punitive, 10 levels with no death is quite hard, but the fast pace make up for it and makes you want to play 'just a last game'.
Pretty fun, reloading every 10secs is a good idea and works well, plus the bonuses are well thought in accordance to it.
Might be missing some feedback when hitting enemies, but overall quite nice!
Great job, the art is amazing! The overall mood is nice and the music is good. It's very well polished and intuitive.
Only bad point for me is the timing between the choices that is a bit too short to read sometimes. And the integration was not working, I had to play it on itch.
Art is nice, and animation is fun!
Particles are really cool, but more feedback like changing the sprite color would make it more clear when dealing/taking damage
Following camera is a bit too slow, at some point you can't anticipate slimes coming at you. It's not clear that you don't deal damage without clicking as there is a red line. And maybe you should as spamming the click button to attack is not really interesting.
And small bug : the number of survived waves is not reset when dying.
Updating the store is a good idea but make the game not well balanced I think. I was only able to build one turret in a few minutes so upgrading the existing ones was not enough. So maybe you could have done it not completely random (if it's what you've done). And resources were all spwaning at the same place making exploration useless once you found the spots.
Anyway it's quite fun to play and an overall nice entry.
Graphics are nice and the cold atmosphere is well made with the snow falling and the wind sound.
Gameplay feels right, and levels are cool. The sound of the enemies trying to enter is a bit loud and becomes annoying, and sadly I think I had some bug with my character being still slow after restarting, so I wasn't able to go further without restarting the game. And a more different sprite for enemies would have been great as they look don't look like danger at first.
Anyway it's overall a pretty good entry quite well polished.
Interesting concept and the art is simple but pretty. It's quite fun to play.
It seems almost impossible to predict the orbits, feels like having the canon in the same position does not launch satellites the same way (maybe it's me though). But it would have been nice to see the path of the satellite before launching it I think.
And sadly the music stopped after a few seconds, but it seemed pretty nice.
Good idea well executed! Graphics are nice, the gameplay works and all the information is clear. Needs some balancing though as quite quickly enemies are killed before appearing on the screen.
Loved the grandpa voice acting! Cool idea and well made overall.
Just wished the Gameboy screen was a less dark (even if that's how it really was) and the platformer character is a bit slippery. Also the music loop is maybe a bit too short so it can be annoying.
Good idea! The game is quite slow during the first levels though so not very interesting but It becomes way more fun when the number of spawned kittens grow. The music is good but the loop is a bit short, it becomes quickly anooying.
Overall fun to play, especially when getting to higher levels.
Best bee management game I ever played!
Overall very nice game, might seem hard at first, but is actually quite easy when understanding how it works. It can be hard to spot flowers with no resources, maybe darkening the one that are empty would have been better.
Overall quite nice, graphics and sounds are terrific, and it's fun! Might be more juicy with better feedbacks when using wrong buttons or adding stuff to the potion. Changing the controls is a good idea but you should keep them displayed as it's already hard enough to switch from one to an other.
Nice graphics, well polished, very enjoyable! To know how far the character is going can be quite tricky even with the blade filling up. But still very nice to play and juicy.
Loved it! Very polished, nice looking, sound is good, good game mechanics and super fun! Plus it has a tutorial. Very good job, the only bad point was my brain not managing to move both hands separatly. Maybe having the second hand on the arrows would makeit easier to control.
Graphics are so nice and the concept is good. Might be a bit too hard as once you start loosing buildings it seems like there is no way to come back. Overall well realised anyway, for me the main thing missing is feedbacks when your buildings get attacked and destroyed, and the firegun sound quickly become annoying.
Very fun to play and looking so nice. Maybe the only issue I had is the lack of feedback when dealing damage and killing enemies, it kind of felt like my beam was not doing anything. But overall well polished and very enjoyable, plus you nailed the atmosphere.
Good idea! Fun to play and the humor is pretty good, but either I missed something or you can just use as many cards as you can during the 10 seconds which lose any strategy you may have. And the effect of the cards once you play them is not always clear, maybe more feedback would have been great.
The art is simple but works well, and the overall melancholy mood is well realized. I suppose the opportunities missed so quickly are the point of the game, but that may be too much, as I didn't even have time to read most of it, which makes it lose some of its relevance.
LD60 — Old Tech (15)
SnakeSketch by HagamosVideojuegos 2026-10-23T20:38:09Z ♥ 0
I thought the concept looked great when I first saw the visuals, but I was a bit disappointed to find out it was basically the classic Snake with different controls. Maybe having to control the knobs with the mouse or something like that could have made it feel a bit more original.
Anyway, the graphics are great and the game is really well executed. Great job!
Medieval Hotline by sanechekz 2026-10-23T20:18:40Z ♥ 1
Liked the idea, but at some point I was just looking at the gauges. I would have like to have to deduce the good decision from the dialogues. It also get a bit too repetitive.
Good graphics, good sounds and music. Overall well done!
DeadLine by Saumchick 2026-10-23T20:07:44Z ♥ 0
Everything is well executed but it quickly becomes too repetitive.
The atmosphere is great, the graphics are nice but way too dark, on my screen I was really struggling to see the plugs in general and the lights on the far sides.
Subvivor by Ueighti 2026-10-23T19:57:01Z ♥ 2
Fun concept, I really liked the movement being cut between angle and propulsion.
Concerning the oxygen, I'm not sure it added anything interesting. I feel lik the game would have been as fun without it.
Also, I think that having to find our way is a bit annoying as moving around is not that easy, maybe you could have focused on obstacles and timings more than exploration in your level design.
Atmosphere and graphics are very good!
Overall a nice entry :)
Photoman by mikoolec 2026-10-23T19:45:26Z ♥ 0
Love the idea, exploring was fun even though it's a bit hard to find your way in the building with all the walls having the same pattern and the room and corridors looking very alike.
I think the NPCs are sometimes taking too much time to get back to the place where you need to take a picture of them.
Also it would have been nice to find a way to tell the player directly in the game they need to take the picture of the caracters in the places because it's really not clear if you don't read the description.
Overall fun little game, the atmosphere and the world created is nice and it feels good to explore. Good job!
Hold, Please! by artemco 2026-10-23T19:29:06Z ♥ 1
A lot of informations at once when you start, things could start slower and add new places later. But once you get it it's quite fun. Graphics are simple but work well. Sound design is good but the beep become quite annoying, it's maybe a bit too loud.
Overall good concept and I would love to see longer levels with even more places at once!
Vitruvian Machine by JoeShanahan 2026-10-23T19:17:22Z ♥ 1
Levels are interesting, lot of mechanics, graphics are nice and coherent. It's fun and nicely polished, good job!
Antiquus Labyrinthus by Trusty 2026-10-23T19:03:40Z ♥ 3
The music and general atmosphere is really nice! I think it is missing some visual feedbacks, especially when hitting enemies. But overall good job!
Snakia by Wendel Scardua 2026-10-23T18:54:34Z ♥ 1
What a fun twist to a classic game. Love the snake design and how it gets bigger where it eats things. Also adding mazes is a very good idea. Overall simple but very good entry, good job!
Scrap Treasure by Pazio di Dante 2026-10-23T15:39:27Z ♥ 0
Really nice, I lost track of time on it! Not very clear at first, I started to thought it was quite reptetitive then understood you can automate things.
Fun entry, good graphics, well done!
Shadow Drop by DevBubz 2026-10-23T15:09:03Z ♥ 1
The bonuses don't seem particularly useful, as you can simply walk through the levels without really needing them. The cheatcodes are also a bit too many and complicated to make them worth using.
The font is very hard to read.
I also didn't really understand what taking photos was supposed to do. Maybe providing more feedback when taking a picture would help make its purpose clearer.
Overall, a good concept and a great atmosphere!
The Lamplighter by NickoGino 2026-10-23T14:54:29Z ♥ 1
The mood is really nice! The sound of footsteps in the snow could be a bit more muffled, but overall, the visuals and sound design work really well together.
It's not immediately clear that the screen can scroll sideways at first. Maybe the camera movement could start a bit earlier to make this more obvious.
It's also a bit difficult to understand everything that's going on.
Overall, an original entry with a great atmosphere. Nice job!
Lensor by orpheus 2026-10-23T14:43:13Z ♥ 1
The objective isn't very clear, but other than that, it's an interesting and original take on incremental games, built around controlling light rays!
The visuals are nice, but they feel a bit all over the place. Choosing one art style and sticking to it could help make the game feel more cohesive.
Overall, fun concept and nice visuals. Good job!
The Automaton by silkworm_sweatshop 2026-10-23T14:23:41Z ♥ 1
The fact that the cursor keeps moving forward when repeating "use", but not when repeating "move", feels a bit counterintuitive.
Other than that, really fun game! Love the mood and the robot and doctor graphics. It's a nice, fun puzzle game!
The Taoist, Warfare, and Ba-na-na by lanius 2026-10-23T14:04:30Z ♥ 0
It's a shame that the UI takes up so much of the screen. Maybe the gameplay area could be scaled down a bit to fit everything into a smaller space, keeping the UI around it as it is (or slightly smaller). Visibility is quite an issue at the moment.
Other than that, fun game overall!