The drop to the top by jk5000 2019-10-07T20:29:44Z
Cool multiplayer ! Finished by smashing down button and putting all objects on a corner ! The minimalistic art style works well !
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → Users → Vhalenn
| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | Collector | The Cult-lector | extra | ||||||||||
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | Tiny nomads | jam | 98 | 4.09 | 3.79 | 3.54 | 4.37 | 4.67 | 4.15 | 4.40 | ||
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | 👥 | Gros épée | jam | 412 | 3.72 | 3.71 | 3.48 | 3.88 | 4.32 | 3.72 | 3.65 | 3.75 |
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | The Herd's Journey | jam | 161 | 4.01 | 3.46 | 3.66 | 3.68 | 4.46 | 4.42 | |||
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | The CyberZapper | compo | 207 | 3.48 | 3.15 | 2.98 | 3.51 | 4.25 | 3.66 | 3.61 | ||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | Tower of cards | compo | 68 | 3.92 | 3.26 | 3.66 | 4.04 | 4.40 | 3.42 | 3.72 | ||
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | 👥 | Immortalizing unstable beginnings | jam | 270 | 3.89 | 3.33 | 3.91 | 3.79 | 4.64 | 4.35 | ||
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | 14 billion years | compo | 110 | 3.73 | 3.34 | 3.79 | 4.20 | 3.86 | 3.58 | 2.04 | 3.79 |
Cool multiplayer ! Finished by smashing down button and putting all objects on a corner ! The minimalistic art style works well !
Feels good to see Moebius art style in video games ! Cool looking gradients !
The gameplay is original as a "one man" managing game I think ! But I think you've seen too huge with too many buildings, we can do so many things in it !!!
The game is both very simple and funny ! Great idea !
A really cool experience ! Loved the pixelart, audio, the mood isgreat !
Really interesting concept here ! Even if sometimes text are overlapping each other ! Fun to discoveer !
Awesome idea ! I just find strange the limited time combined with the slow flash light to see our location. Moving all the objects in the room is great !!!
The game is full of cool ideas, i wish it has more puzzles and utilisationof double or triple slimes ! The actual double jump and wall jump are really not precise and plateform fells frustrating to me, we can't control the slime mid-air :( The game has a ton of content and cool modelisations !
Best game i play until know ! I know what to do now until DOOM Ethernal is realeased !!! Best menu !
The idea is really great ! But the game is very unfair spawning directly on player and ennemies can spawn on block and drop on you haha
Original experience ! I miss those old text adventures !
@cethin @lukein @djee Thank you so much for feedback ! Yes it is my first WebGL game and I didn't anticipate that game will run badly on browser... But normally windows build runs smoothly :)
@boats @nestral @ryu Thank you so much for feedbacks ! Yeah I know performance could been easily fixed but I didin't had time during this jam ! And didn't have time for balancing levels too, sometimes I just combo chained and skip the phase in 5 seconds, the levels are 100% procedural !
@hajden thank you for your comments ! I know the void nature of the game make the controls hard during the first time, I added the trail behind you to know where you are and how did you move ! @smilewood Yes depending of what you take on final phase you can become a star, a living planet, a rock planet and a gas planet, sorry I didn't know the exact way to say it in english ! !
Art style is pretty cool this game needs more feedbacks, fx and sounds ! :D
I really love this combat circle idea ! This is so great !!! But unfortunately the game is slow I had to relaunch the game to see all the controls haha ! but a complete game with this combat could be incredible ! Amazing to have a save system in a jam
Awesome game ! Super cool graphics and funny references !
The principle is really interesting ! A world creator is pretty cool ! A bit more content would have been awesome !
I love the mood of this game ! And the plateforme gameplay is cool ! That moon is incredible ! I Ended up stuck on bottom of the tower, hold space do nothing, just wish graphics were a bit more detailed, with glyphs, symbols, landscape or asteroid, to create more mystery :)
This is very cool ! Maybe just add an history of what we tried would have been neat :smiley:
This is a great idea about this theme, but you can comppletly stay in first room and look at graphs. The game could proably have been more polished if you focus on the main aspect of the game.
I don't feel there is a morale to the game ? Like destroying your environment ? But congratulations for the work ! This is an interesting game !
The game is really polished visually ! The GD is ruthless and our little expedition will very quickly starve even with gathering every berry in sight ! Congratulations !
This is an Incredible game ! The only bad point of the game is the 3D platforming which is really hard to see where to jump in the fog if we can't control the camera but this aprat the game is amazing ! So much great ideas, congrats !
Graphics are really great ! I would have loved a bit more juicy feedbacks when shooting bullets !
This game is amazing ! 5/5 for the audio too ! So much work done here this is impressive !
Really impressive game ! So much work done for a jam, Congrats !
Your Itch IO page seems restricted, I cannot access it :/
This is a very ambitious game to make a 3D vehicle ! Maybe signs can help understand what road to take because actually the ice factory is putting us in the direction where there is no road to the top of the volcano. We can go into the Volcano but once there we are stuck. A good advice I think is do less things and try to polish them as most as you can. If you want to make a 3D vehicle, do a game with just one very fun to control !
Have a great day :smile:
The water looks amazing ! And the music is really cool too ! :smile:
Thank you a lot for the comments ! @dante2001 There is no "sucess screen" yes, I didn't had time to create one sorry ! This was a very intense end of jam haha, I planned to much 3D and underestimated the ui coding part !
Oh no ! I didn't think to this ! Haha sorry for the bad control choices @timo-strating
Thank you for all the comments ! It was a very intense jam for me, I did the maximum to put everything I could, I'll think about what to add if I continue this. :smile:
@aleh @davision The huge meteor is the only "timed" and unique event, this is the meteor causing the huge impact in front of you after 30s of orbiting I would say.
Thank you for the nice feedbacks :smile:
@aleh Yes I wanted to do this but unfortunately adding this meteor was already a huge work to do and didn't had time to make it "loop".
@erlioniel Thank you for your comment ! This is why I didn't put the Audio category in the rating, because audio is very important but we are a team working on visuals all year so creating audio is a huge challenge for us !
Great experience but it hurt a bit haha
The graphics are really cool but the game is really slow and unforgiving, the only way to not explode is to go even slower. Congratulations for the artistic part !
This is the best game I tested so far ! Graphics are so polished ! This is great !
This is so good ! Had a great time ! Loving this infiltration twist !!!
The mood of this game is incredible !
Continue like this, there is a lot of good ideas ! Maybe try to have a consistent pixel size, adding more juice, there is a lot of ressources online that will help you :smile:
The game is really fun and it has cool sensations ! Visuals are really nice, love this style ! :smile:
This is a masterpiece.
The game has a lot of content, the mood is really cool and the music is really well integrated I felt. I just found the combat strategy hard to understand, not very intuitive and maybe the narration part could be a bit more polished with graphical elements or animations as it is the main part of the game. Good job !
This is probably one of the best jam games I've ever played !
The game looks and sound really great but it was very hard to understand, I only understood fully with the comment of Pizzasgood , I stayed stuck having the good result just searching the you have to press a button to validate you result, maybe this could have been simpler. Great work !
The game is really fun and clean ! Congrats !
@william-corrin Thank you for your critic !
For the "confusing" part, I made the decision to deliberately make the tutorial messy to reflect the fact that no one know the good answer to "How to manage a company growing" and this is a lighting fast tutorial in 5 seconds, this is literally just a shit of paper that people gave you.
For the audio I had really few time after working on all of the game base, balancing it. Audio is really where I have everything to learn, this is why I exclude this rating category. Have a nice day ! :)
@mixon00 Thank you, I really appreciate !
@darzu Thank you a lot ! I'm really happy you enjoyed it !
@tristian-tee Thank you a lot for your comment ! Yes I wanted to explore this idea of how to manage a company by always having to reach financial goals, this is very interesting to reflect I found during this jam.
If I had more time I really wanted to destroy this building of course, breaking the windows and structure but I only had time to do a quick balancing shader to show that it's not as solid as we could think. :smile:
@meta-link and @ani Thank you ! :smiley:
@langotriel Thak you a lot ! I'm very happy you understood the game and enjoyed it !
@etherion Thank you ! I though of adding a speed button but there was so many thing to do so I didn't had time to do this. For the end game button yes it work for the windows build but in a web build I didn't found a way to properly reset the game, exiting the app just made it freeze.
@alex-stewart Thank you for your comment !
@nsadie Thank you, I'll guess I'll just do this for the next games, it's simpler and easier ! :smile:
The game is perfect, polish and full of humor ! Loved it !
I love the graphic style of the game ! The text is just hard too read overt the light background I found.
The graphics are nice but I felt the controls a bit rigid, maybe some inertia would have been nice on the movements and dash !
The audio is cool and the graphic style has interesting ideas but in a majority of my tries first platforms wasn't even accessible with double jump.
The graphics are great and we can really feel the mood, but the speed is really slow and we can move with no cooldown so it's possible to just catch everything on the three lanes if we want to.
The game is really good ! Love the idea, I would just have love more visual feedbacks with the interactibles objects because it take some time to understand what can be done in the game.
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The game was fun even if it was hard to read the tutorial and play at the same time, the start is rough but after some time it become very easy ! I love tower defense games !
The chain of mini-game is really fun ! I like the different styles !
This game is so lovely ! Love it ! :smile:
I really love the game ! It was challenging and relaxing at the same time !
The game is amazing ! It has a simple structure but very effective and it fells great to discover every new ability ! Thank you for this !
I love the humor and there is some pretty clever puzzles, Congrats !
I really liked the visuals !
Very fun mini-game ! Just the "unfocus" while pressing Enter was unfun but it was really cool to observe the desk to find clues and having different answers at every run !
I really liked how the scanner is screen space and force us to move and play with the parallax ! The mood and audio is so polished ! The pixel post process at the start is just really violent for a start. The game is so long and rich of upgrades, impressive for a jam ! Congrats for this great game !
Almost perfect game ! It is really cool ! It is just hard to select moving characters and see enemies coming from above or below because the borders are really smaller than on the sides !
Really hard to survive for long but the mood was great !
The game is so cool !!! Illustrations of gods are amazing ! Super impressive for a game jam !
The mini-games are really good and fun ! It's fun to discover each one of them !
The game is really confusing, it doesn't sounds logic that guards only see us when falling and they don't see us attatching to objects. But the game works so that's still a good point ! :)
@tengusheath Thank you ! :)
@pinkemma Thanks for your review ! I wanted to display this better but you can see your "room number" at the top of the screen, the boss can be killed because it doesn't regen between your teleportation if you kill him it will become a secondary regen point, but probably that the game is too easy and can continue indefinitely if you do so !
@harry-alissavakis Thank you a lot for your comment ! This is the things I wanted to do, displaying timers only after the first "Zapp" ! But I was way too short on time, my scope was way too big for a solo 48h jam ! :smile:
@jim-jagers Thank you ! I really needed to add Particles and Fx yes this is one the most needed things but I was really short on time at the end ! I should've done that the first day !
@senso Thanks ! :smile:
@castitatis Thank you so much ! :slight_smile:
@brusnika Oh congratulations for reaching this ! But as long as you are zapping the "basic evaluation" doesn't matter anymore, I am sorry tho I didn't had time to add a victory condition so this is just an inifite scoring game but the difficulty is probably too easy because the armor packs and life respawn
@henrik-ganard Thank you for your review ! Some arenas are just here to regen and rest so you don't have to fight 100% of time.
@xorel Thank you for your review ! I am really glad you appreciate those visual effects when zapping that took me so long to do ! :smile:
@benjamin-halko Thank you !!! :sparkles:
@soul-grinder Thank you ! It wasn't really intended but in the end the basic 3D style looks close !
@slush Thank you ! I am glad you liked it !
@peter-jonsson Thank you very mutch ! :smile:
@matt-green @frib @rubentipparach Thank you for your reviews ! Yes this is really the point to improve I know I got too ambitious on levels and weapons when the victory/game over is not clear. For the victory this is just scoring, you can see your room number at the top of the screen and for the loose this is just going back to the menuu screen. Sorry for that
@zakroutil @pusheeneiro Thank you for your reviews ! :smile:
Thank you everyone for all your reviews that's so much ! :heart:
@shadowbrain Waow thank you this is so cool !!! Thank you for your work ! I am surprised it is playable like this because it was really not intended for this ! Maybe the UI looks off too because it is on a separate camera, but you probablty saw that. Thank you a lot !
@dodidouda Merci beaucoup ! J'ai adoré ton jeu il est trop cool ! J'essaierai d'avoir wasd/zqsd/les flèches pour les prochaines jam !
@pete-thorne Thank you a lot !
@pier-v Thank you so much for your complete review ! I am glad you liked too the music, it was my first real song composed for a jam and I have really little experience of composition !
@liii22 Thank you ! For the time when you cannot shoot this is due to your weapon, like the sniper has some long reload time, but there is no feedback on it on ui so it is completely my fault.
@scidev Did you used the space bar to ZAPP ? Because if you never Zapp after the first room yes the game is waiting for you to understand. Thank you for your review !
@sivam Thank you ! Ho and by the way this sentence is not Japanese !
@krakadushka Congratulations ! No unfortunately I didn't had time to add more "dialogue lines", but basically you were supposed to pass a test of 50 rooms, but you are not a trainee doing the test, you are Zapping/Teleporting threw rooms, I wanted to add a server to destroy among the rooms but I was really short on time. Sorry for this.
I love the graphic style and especially this pumkin looks gorgeous ! The game was pretty tense but fun !
A really polished game as always from this team !
The presentation of the game is incredible ! It would have been so cool on a DS !
150 years ! The game is so cute ! I want to play it again and longer !
The mood is great but I always loose my satelite really early and it impossible to bring back around the planet.
I really love this background and the graphics !
Really cute game !
The graphics are so amazing ! Congratulations !
The game is so juicy ! I really love the character squash and stretch ! The neon colors are really cool too !
I hesitated doing a RTS for this jam and the result is really cool ! There is just this long timer on every building that feels very frustrating. I managed to create a mecha but it didn't saved me ! Congrats for your game ! :)
I love so much the graphic style from the intro and ending ! Making a complete game like this would be incredible I think ! The game was a pleasure to do and very relaxing with this music ! Thank you for this !
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The idea is really great ! I love the orginality !
The mood is so good this is really a great idea ! That's an amazing game !
Really cool game ! I like the mood and the color choices ! It would just have been nice to have a skippable introduction.
Really well done game ! It feels like we are jumping on the moon so sometimes the ceilling is our enemy, the blue lasers works especially well !
Waow this game is really cool and the idea is innovative ! Cool memory style game !
Simple but efficient game, it is just very unforgiving to do a single mistake.
The corruption effect looks cool !
Amazing idea ! I love the universe !
The game is very easy to understand even if the difficulty rise up very roughly ! Soldiers become doctors when killed ! :smile:
Very fun small mini games !
Great managing game, it was very tensed !
The game is fun ! I feel like we can often loose if we don't receive the weapon asked ! Nice job !
The simple graphic style works really well ! But I am not sure to have understood the gameplay, if you just deconnect the TNT and put the wire anywhere you will win super easily every level ? This make really every logic gate useless unfortunately.
I like the mood but often the transitions can kill us when we are place in front a spikes.
The game is really fun and well made ! I just found that is was funnier and easier to control to do the opposite ! Even if I feel bad for rabbits now !
An amazing game with really cool mechanics, trees especially are a really good idea ! And I love the color choices, it's very clean !
The mood of this game is so good ! Congrats for all the work here !
A tone of fun to play and an amazing shader work this clearly ! The ending was so tense it was great with that grapplin mechanic !
@superklever Thank you a lot ! Controls were hard cause I made it first for standalone then I had to do some fixes to work properly in web, some issues happend because like mouse cursor cannot be contained into the game's screen.
Waow thanks you all for the amazing feedbacks !!! I clearly wasn't excepting all of this ! @stefan-funke @iluvatar @vidu @roilbauk @jhax @cepeka @enad96
Thank you @anstabo & @meta-link ! I am glade you liked it !
@ruslana Thank you a lot for playing :)
@asasin56 Thank you a lot for your feedback !
Ho waow, what a game in did !
The visuals are so good ! This is an amazing idea, I always wanted to make games with plants like this !
Very organic and fun mechanic to explore but the game is so unforgiving ! That poor lad took so many rocks
Amazing concept that fits so well the theme !
The style is pretty cool, I liked the iteration over Celeste mechanic but some jumps like in the second level are so hard ! Good job !
The graphics looks amazing ! This is so cool ! KRAB !
Such a cute concept ! Good boy / 20
A very zen game ! Nice entry !
I love the music !
I managed to do it but pfiouuu it was so hard because there is so few ressources at the end ! Great job it was challenging and some VFX were truly great !
And gathering was really smooth, I felt like it was the best thing here.
The graphics reminding of Kurzgesagt are amazing ! Kudos for this amazing job !
Thank you for the support @thenerdster !
Thank you @wolkp ! It was our first game using Unreal engine and making that Trail was quite a challenge, thank you for noticing the work putted into it !
Thank you @rongon I am glad you liked the GROS ÉPÉE ! You game is a masterpiece !
@muri As would have said Mamie : "Merci beaucoup !!!"
@yidu76 Thank you a lot !!!
@dwarfid Nice one ! Maybe try it next time without hitting too much trees! Who knows? Maybe it's a magical sword or maybe it's the same reason as in Berserk!
@greynovembergames Thank you so much! It was really intense to animate things on a new engine!
@matthartley Thanks!
@nbyrsanu9 Thank you so much! Actually we had only one artist for visuals and two of us mostly on blueprints!
@pabloabraham Thank you a lot for your detailed review !
@bobbie Yes in did we didn't wanted to make too much of a hardcore game so cutting trees is not that a big penalty ! We found a better way to do after the jam, maybe we will release an improved game when the ratings are over !
Thank you a lot everyone !!! We are blown away so many of you tried the game despite it being not playable from browser !
A bit hard at start but quite fun to try and retry ! I managed to dodge 27 rows ! Great job !!!
This is big obvious AI graphics while at the same time not saying it and Opting in the Graphics category.
Waow the visuals are incredibly polish! I thought I understood how to manage dices then I got stuck in the second fight with opponent having incredible quality dices and I could not do anything against them to save me. Screenshot 2024-10-08 151435.png
Congratulations for all this work! I will try another time to understand more the strategy!
I really like the Pico-8 style! Nice little entry!
Waow thank you so much everyone for that support it is incredible! Didn't expected that!!!
@fishmasterino To explain more clearly, grass is consumed during the night by the creatures, if you don't have enough your shelter will loose life and potentially be destroyed (game over). The day & Night cycle changes how creatures follow you, they rest at night except the last kind that is awake at night.
@hajpappan Ha sorry for that, I tried to make a tutorial without any words but Should have done more drawings on the rocks for that and I didn't had enough time. I just added a Help mode with "O" where it gives you the direction of the closest trapped creatures.
Waow thank you so much everyone for all the nice feedbacks !!! I cannot reply to everyone but I updated this page with better information if you want to understand everything about the resources & goal.
@mibi88 I am sorry to read that, I updated this page with way more informations, in game what the first mural says it you need Food and Wood, otherwise your creatures are starving and your camp got destroyed.
@doot Thank you so much for testing the game! Yes I think the management side is so little I could have completely drop it.
@haoro I would have dreamed of that but maybe too much animation work.
@lllarso Originally I wanted to have multiple shelters, you have to fix because the wind damage it, a lot more resources like coal to heat better the camp, but I ended up making the game more friendly and dropping some camp locations because it was way too big of a world to craft/make look pretty.
@brainoid I didn't wanted to make the game punishing as it is a very chill one, so in the end I think it would maybe had a better choice to drop it and be 100% peaceful. Didn't made the best decisions on this.
Thank you so much for your support!!! I clearly didn't expected that much!
Thank you so much for those feedbacks @norah @tobaccoleopard @stega @astrayrae @utopia !!!
Your game is really so cool and polished visually! The tower-defense is quite simple but works so well at the end with the two sides to manage at the same time, the difficulty is well managed!
The maps you show here are goregous but it is impossible to reach in game, what can I do on the first map once everything is cleared and I built a lot of buildings ? What is the goal to reach next maps ?
Quite fun for a simple game with the score at the end! Great job!
The first 3 turns were really hard to understand but once the cycle is understood it is quite fun and that Slime has no chance! Feel maybe a bit too powerful to be able to spam the same lines of abilities every turn. Special mention to the incredible music piece here !
Waow I love your art style so much! I like how the gameplay is precise! Amazing job congratulations on how clean this is!
Those animations are really fun but I just spent my time hitting spikes farm from me or having a hard time to precisely control the character that required very quick dodges. Congrats!
@freeworld Thank you so much!
@stuckne1 Thank you! I really wanted to try some dark humor for a long time!
@khaotom Thanks for your good work, the master is now very happy!
Thank you a lot for your kind comments!
@dock-frankenstein It was my whole idea to focus about orientation of a tiny map. I was alone working on this and had some personal issues during the jam so no time to do more!
Thank you so much for all your comments! Sorry I am only responding late.
@theoratkin @loiclegrosfrere Don't worry the puppies are all really happy... Maybe the master just wants to build a really nice shelter for them....
A lovely little game! I only regret we cannot gather multiple acorn at the time otherwise it was a really relaxing entry! Congrats!
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I love all those little creatures!
The game is really so polish! It's quite amazing how much it's juicy for a simple jam game! Congratulations!
The mood and idea is really incredible, 10/10! I just felt it was quite hard to understand what each tool was doing, it needed a lot of trial and error to finally get it!
The game looks really cool and I love the mood and music. But it felt really really hard from the start so I could not pass level one. I will try it to give it another shot!
I think it would be a minimum to say it's all AI art instead of saying "expressive art style". Otherwise it would have been nice to have multiple places to hide to have more strategy.
I found the mood so cool and all the cinematic work. But very surprisingly the levels are so pure white, it's a total opposition with the cutscenes. Congratulations for finishing your first game and being able to have a working web build!!!