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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Cm | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | Space Docker | compo | 276 | 3.27 | 2.87 | 2.77 | 3.58 | 3.54 | 2.65 | 2.34 | 2.98 | |||
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | Disposal | jam | 4.50 | 4.50 | 4.50 | 4.50 | 4.00 | 3.50 | 4.00 | |||||
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | Paradox | jam | 330 | 3.86 | 3.77 | 3.77 | 4.10 | 3.93 | 3.37 | 2.65 | 3.44 | |||
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | Vlad the Tomater | jam | 2.50 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 2.50 | 1.50 | 5.00 | 3.00 | |||||
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | The Swarm | jam | 699 | 3.28 | 3.29 | 2.79 | 3.05 | 3.71 | 3.14 | 2.23 | 3.00 | |||
| 2016 | 35 | Shapeshift | Shifty Thing | jam | 222 | 3.61 | 3.79 | 3.00 | 4.00 | 4.04 | 3.50 | 3.16 | 46 | |||
| 2015 | 32 | An Unconventional Weapon | Parasol Inc. - Project Z32 | compo | ||||||||||||
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | Forsaken | jam | 17 | |||||||||||
| 2011 | 22 | Alone | Abandoned Planet | compo | 390 | 2.60 | 1.80 | 2.53 | 3.33 | 3.27 | 1.14 | 1.29 | 2.71 | 2.20 |
@EvilDemonCreature: I hear you, I definitely want to improve the use/pickup/carry mechanic in the not too distant future.
In all honesty I bit off a whole lot in this project and certain aspects didn't get the attention they deserved, like my Hope mechanic (which is going to be awesome once it's done and dusted!)
Thanks for the crit though, it makes me stronger ;)
sanonjian: is that after the intro screen? I tested on chrome now and it gives me the same result. If its the same error then it's because it's a streamed build, so it would download the intro level, then start loading the main level (the black screen). I've just uploaded a new version where the entire game is downloaded at the start.
Tested and working! Thanks for the heads up!
@someone: If I have time today. I'll put up a new build with the ability to skip the intro and (maybe!) some instructions in game. Thanks for your input :)
matthias_zarzecki: I definitely agree with you on all your points, some have made it in already, not in the currently online version though.
Thanks for the feedback.
I love the graphical style and the background jingle :)
I love the poses and the premise. Reached the end of the world pretty quickly though.
Really cool art and animation. I like the pace and the mood of the environment.
I like the innocence of the monster. "Feel what it feels like." :D
Art and game design are top notch!
Interesting experience. I like the mood and style, the switching fonts and rules were really cool, I think it did it's job putting me off ease. The first time the text changed I did wonder if I was nuts, cos it was different the first time I read it :P
Rating this for fun was difficult, because while the experience was a good one, calling it "fun" is a bit... wrong.
Really enjoyed this one, like the stretchy "bleh" sounds :D
Matching your shape to the portal can be a bit too tricky, especially when the portal is facing away from you.
Not bad overall.
Strangely addictive.
Thanks for the feedback, peeps! orkybitz, I agree with you on the light being op, have a cunning plan. I'm going to post a new version with some tweaks (I'll mark it for LD-clarity).
Thanks again, everyone!
@Freank, sure thing ?
@siryakko: already happening ?
Pardon the ?s, they were supposed to be emotes :P
@joemid: you have a ways to go, my college has 54 ;) my best is 44 :D
Interesting concept, not like anything I'd seen before. A bit more of a goal would be a good idea, but overall quire cool and strangely addictive.
Possibly a bit too short.
Interesting, if a bit long. I love the dog :D
Looks cool, but overall couldn't figure out what to do or how to do it.
I can't run this game.
Love the style and polish, I played on PC, but mobile with multiple fingers may be a pretty cool way to play this, great job all around!
Cool simple idea with surprising depth. Multiplayer would be great.
It's pretty weird, but cool weird. Like a clown under a streetlight at night. The music fits all the sweet loving the humans must be doing to populate that quickly.
I enjoyed this very much, tangential application of the theme which is always fun and really cool retro art. I appreciate the fact that there's no fall damage, so I can feel like a bad ass book in correct place placer. I did notice a lot of pops when traversing what I'm assuming are portals.
Your game is reminiscent of papers please, with some of the same tension, especially when you miss scans and double scan. This could make an interesting job simulation VR game (with a little graphics work, obvs :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: ).
@monetai: Thanks! I have submitted a new build that fixes some performance issues, bugs and some balance.
@plukers: Glad you enjoyed it! I only realized the mouse bug after submission. I need to look into that.
@earnso: I was going to, but unfortunately the current build doesn't work on Mac, I'll need to change some things to get it going. Watch this space!
@lootgrounds @thatsommes @robo-chiz @swift @bredera @jlv @fakefirefly @swift Thanks for the kind words! It's so cool to know you like it! @thatsommes the new version should perform MUCH better now. Unity HDRP is not suitable for all situations :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
@swift it's not really FOR removing boxes, the boxes contain useful items :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
@mrsylar59 Thanks for the feedback, I have every one of those issues on my list for future updates already :smile: I just feel that implementing them now will skew votes, so they'll go in down the line.
PS Could I ask you lovely people to rate my game on Itch? I'm really trying to get my cred up there, thanks! :joy_cat:
@noah-beckman Thanks for the feedback! (EDIT: you can kick the crates open in the latest version :thumbsup_tone1: ) Everything you mentioned is either on my list already or going on there now. I suggest trying to get to 300 seconds :grin: There's a pretty cool surprise :wink:
Thanks for the feedback @gregwlyons @chrissx2. I just tested and I see what's happening, looks like a bug in the new Unity Input System. I'll see if I can get a patch out for that soon. You can mitigate the effect by moving your window to the top-left of your screen.
@andrei9 @erikiene @timbelion Thanks!
I really enjoyed this, it gives me serious overcooked vibes, which is never a bad thing. It would be cool if the customers took the items off the desk as you give it to them.
Love the visual style
Nifty little puzzler. Put me in mind of a Warioware game, small mostly unrelated mini-games, but still tied together by a familiar thread.
[EDIT] Oops! Sorry! I rated the wrong game here!
As a non-touchtyper I found this pretty challenging, cool idea overall.
Cool little puzzler, would work great as a mobile game.
I like the idea and the graphical style, but the controls are way too finnicky, I found it very difficult to get anything pushed/pulled around to my satisfaction (which I guess is kind of the point, but I may have gone a little too far.)
This was definitely a goofy one, but I enjoyed it. I like the little touches like the broken arm and the watch actually showing the exam time. Took me a moment to realize why I was getting Xs but I figured it out in the end :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Cool idea, I do think though that a fully mouse based UI would be better, or fully keyboard for that matter, as it is switching feels pretty awkward. Having the hero carry on without you would be a cool idea too, would pick the pace of the game up if the timing were out of the player's hands.
That's pretty messed up, like a bad fever dream or a day at the beach. Besides the controls needing a little tightening up, I enjoyed this. MEAT!!
This would make a cool multiplayer game (I only played single player). The characters do move infuriatingly slow when carrying the lighter packages, switching that up would allow for some strategy.
I enjoyed this concept, the action when clicking on the passengers doesn't always seem clear (but that could just be me). Having to pile everyone back in after a stop is particularly funny. A mobile version of this would be pretty fun.
I like the concept, but I feel the feedback loop for the beginning of the game should be a bit tighter, I had to play 3 games (1 rescue, 2 deaths) before I could afford anything and unfortunately I hit a bug where the continue button wouldn't work. And the controls feel a bit grindy, if you could tighten those up you could have something really special in your hands.
Love the visuals and the sound track is awesome, great work!
The game looks great, but unfortunately I wasn't drawn enough to play for more than a few minutes. I saw slenderman twice and that was fun, but the game needs a bit more of a driving force, ie. some sort of goal besides just walking and opening doors, if there was something to discover in the rooms (like being able to read the notes, etc. [can you read the notes? I couldn't :shrug: ) it would have had more holding power.
I know it may seem that I'm being overly hard on the game, but I do feel there's a lot of untapped potential in here and I hope you explore this idea further.
The game looks great, but unfortunately the experience is a bit shallow. More challenges and mechanics, like having hallucinations that reduced the player's space over time, forcing them to take alternate routes, would go a long way to add to the experience.
This is great, I like the graphical style. Some telegraphing on the eye lasers would be great though.
I really enjoyed the visuals of this, and I like the work-a-day schlub style games where weird things happen.
Really cool idea, definitely would find a place on mobile. Took e a round or two to figure out I didn't need to use all the numbers for each wave :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Interesting idea, it needs a bit of polish but you have something here. Some on-boarding would be a good idea, but there's definitely something to explore here.
I really enjoyed this one. Your aesthetic, while simple, is very appealing. I would have played for much longer, but... that camera, that took me back to GTA1. By the time I had fixed two bridges I was quite nauseous, I didn't hold this technicality against you in my ratings, but fix that and you have something that can go somewhere.
I enjoyed your entry, I played until the enchanter told me to go through the portal but there was no portal o_O And I dig the micropixel art aesthetic.
Now for the biggest criticism: the controls feel really stiff, it feels like you have the if(up) moveUp(); else if (down) moveDown(); system going for your movement, which can lock out axes when pressing multiple buttons when play gets intense. That aside, a few more monsters and locations and you have the start of a promising twin-stick souls-like here.
I like the idea, Just Cause 3 meets Portal inside Syndicate. You got a really good mood going. The controls are a bit stiff though, took me a while to get a reliable jump-dash going. All in all, pretty good.
Really cool, and similar to my entry. It would have been 5/5 but precision platforming with a fixed position tracking camera is a cardinal sin of game design so you get a 4/5. Looks really good though and has legs for a larger game.
Hey, I finished this one! I enjoyed it. Sokoban is much easier when you don't snap to grid :smirk:
That's the weirdest take on tower defense I've seen. I approve! I enjoyed your aesthetic. But I think that the gripping mechanic needs to be nerfed a little, it feels a bit too effective.
I can see what you were going for but I feel the controls need a bit of tightening. Cool idea though, I'd like to see it taken further.
I really like the look of your game, when the objects float while you're carrying them that kinda threw my perspective though. It has a bit of a 2.5D Stanley Parable feel to it which I find appealing.
That the offices get more disorganized the deeper I went was really interesting, not sure if that was a bug or a feature, but I liked it nonetheless.
Pretty good, has some legs to make it as a standalone game. Doesn't adhere too closely to the theme IMO, but that's alright. Pressing R is a bit of a stretch when things get hairy though, pressing E felt more natural.
Pretty cool concept, sokoban meets Inception somehow. I couldn't finish it, but I enjoyed what I played.
Cunning use of the theme. Took me a while to realize that I was supposed to collect the 8beats with my cursor, I eventually read it in the tutorial text, but I think some sort of in-game hint would be best. All in all I enjoyed it.
Brilliant idea! (mine is very similar :wink:)
Good graphics and a cool interpretation of the theme. The camera was a bit nauseating though and the sound fx gets drowned out by the music a bit too much. All in all pretty good though.
It helps to be a programmer :grin:
Your game has a fantastic aesthetic and mood, but it's let down by not being able to do anything to protect yourself from the monsters (hiding in a locker would do), think Alien: Isolation, less Alien: Colonial Marines ;)
WTF did I just play? Funny as hell though.
I didn't play for too long, but I can get a feeling of where this is going and it's got potential (I have a huge softspot for quirky vampire games and your vampire design is really cool).
My major problem with your entry is player feedback, I never knew when I was attacking or if my attacks actually landed, same for the enemies attacking me, never knew exactly what was going on with the attacks. Get that feedback going and you're on the road to getting a great game going here.
It looks cool and plays pretty well, the perspective (or lack thereof) makes it a bit too difficult to navigate the world. If you can figure that out you'll have a winner here.
This reminded me of an ancient ZX-Spectrum game called Storm, for that alone points are awarded. I also liked the design of the bot.
Took me a while to realize I could pick the tiles up. But after that I got the gist of it. Pretty cool.
I get nauseated by certain graphics very easily (not being mean, just some visuals make me a bit woozy) the underground bricks in particular were a bit much for me. I also found it difficult to aim and the weapon impacts could do with some work. I like the setting though, a debt spiraling grave digger is pretty grim.
Pretty cool. I did find the death/trap change location thing a little too unpredictable.
Kind of reminds me of a Game and Watch title. Cool interpretation of the theme.
I only got about 4 layers deep, but I can see where this is going and it's pretty cool. Making your text selection could be clearer, the colour change felt inverted to me, so an arrow or something would be cool. Something that drove me a bit nuts was that I couldn't stand still and turn, so if I want to turn in place I need to walk away and walk back in the direction I need to be to interact with the object I want to interact with (I understand doing that with things like the dollhouse will be rough, but doors, posters, etc. you should be able to turn without moving.
All in all, cool entry.
This is really cool. The making your path solid thing gives it a feeling like you're playing TRON against yourself.
Did you use ProtoTexture or Texture Grid Generator for this? Those textures look might familiar ;)
I really enjoyed this one, it would work very well on mobile. Some temporary buffs would be cool, hiring a floor manager gives you a productivity vs boredom meter per floor, a radio slows down a floors rate of getting bored, a coffee machine makes everyone overdrive their productivity but then they all crash hard. I could go on. The sound design is pretty good too, though I would make it that each floor's soundscape reflected the overall production vs boredom ratio (if that IS happening, I didn't notice :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: ). All in all, good game.
Edited: REALLY bad grammar and spelling.
Great graphics. Decent sound. Vehicles are a bit janky, but getting the vehicles as stable as you did in a jam is still very impressive. Rocket League meets Portal meets Hi-Octane, has legs for a full game if you add multiplayer.
I enjoyed this, but once you get enough juice in the main box the challenge basically goes away, some sort of adversary that knocks the juice on of you in transit might be a good idea. But overall it was fun.
Really enjoyed the visuals. The orthoganal controls threw me off more than once, and a bit more challenge in the combat would be nice, but enjoyable overall.
Took me a while to figure out what to do, but I enjoyed the game once I did. The controls need a bit of work though, I actually got quite frustrated at times, especially with keyboard controls. All in all a good game though, probably one of my top 5.
Not bad. The catapult is far too sensitive though, and the graphics could be a little chunkier, difficult to see exactly what's happening.
I can't play the game, before it can load I get this error message in the brower: Unable to parse Build/Build.framework.js.gz! This can happen if build compression was enabled but web server hosting the content was misconfigured to not serve the file with HTTP Response Header "Content-Encoding: gzip" present. Check browser Console and Devtools Network tab to debug.
Tried reinstalling multiple times, tested in the Itch.io app and Firefox.
The game is fun but starts feeling very samey pretty soon (or maybe I don't have the patience :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:) I love the homage to the classics, and I like your aesthetic.
The launching slice, spinning/empty chamber, pizza canon is inspired.
@douwe-ravers Thank you for the kind words! I added the audio an hour or so before the compo ended, be happy you got ANYTHING!!! :grin: I'm pretty sure my headphones were cranked to full, so my mix was TOTALLY off :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
@emily-ttg Thanks for the feedback! I struggled with that bug a LOT, that part of my blueprints are spaghetti with all the exceptions I try to handle :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
@fnelix Thanks for the compliments :grin:
@john-gabriel Not intentional, just a happy accident :paintbrush: Though I did consider adding local multiplayer for 7 seconds, then I saw it was 3 hours to deaadline :stuck_out_tongue:
@torte478 Glad you liked it :thumbsup_tone2:
@tanis ~~I'll see what I can do. I could probably build it but I have no way of testing it, so I hope you don't mind being a guinnea pig~~ :grin:
Edit: Seems I won't be able to make a Mac build, AFAIK I need to build a Mac version on a Mac build of Unreal Engine 5 (that I must build myself on a Mac), to make a Mac mode. MAC!!! I've never been able to build UE5 from source and I don't have immediate access to a Mac.
@tanis yup, 5.2 preview 2, I walked on the wild side. Good thing I didn't use the new PCG tools cos they crash on packaging 🤣😂🤣
@pincushion, thanks for the feedback! I was worried about aspects. I was going to try something more like Overcooked where the game happens in a defined area. I had a tracking camera, but it felt disorientating in the later levels.
@daandruff, thank you. I actually did bite off a LOT more than I could chew initially :blush: That's why the game is called Space Docker, but the project source is called Smugglers Tale. Most of what you played was made on day 2, I actually had a spaceship the player could get onto and pilot to other stations to drop packages off. Getting onto the ship, piloting and all that is implemented, you can probably still try it in the source (if I didn't break it in the mean time :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: ), but there's a technical problem in the UE character controller where the character would jump to a different location when taking control of it again. This game was supposed to be MUCH bigger, so that bug probably saved my entry.
@philocode Thanks for the kind words. I had that issue a few times myself, but couldn't quite get my finger on why.
@vydra Can you give me your computer specs? Any error windows or anything to work from?
Thanks for the kind words @salvation :grin: I know about the bugs and I have the spaghetti blueprints to prove it :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
@aaronkaa Thanks for the kind words! Music would have been great, unfortunately I have the musical talent of a flatulent donkey so maybe in the future I'll find someone to make some for me. I'll check the package loss out, it's not a bug I'd experienced before.
@captaindreamcast Thank you :heart_eyes: There are a lot of ways to play, I'm glad how emergent strategies started showing themselves. Especially when you can get into a rhythm of throwing packages perfectly into their bins over the void of space.
@xandruher Thank you for the kind words. I do want to revisit this and add some actual balance to the levels (I made all the levels in about 30 minutes, and the timers were just guesses 🤫
@wighz Thank you. I'm going for a more Overcooked! style game than a puzzle, but I agree that more elements would be good.
@dzejpi Glad to give your PC a workout, the packages float because they are in zero gravity (when not over a platform), I didn't have time to explain that in the game, but yes, completely intentional :thumbsup:
You missed an opportunity calling this Death Scootin, it felt like I was playing a cartoon. Some animation of the packages falling in the stacking scene would be great. Had fun with this.
This was a fun one, played it all the way through. Took me a while to figure out you can buy shields and I'm grateful they recharge on the mother ship. No real criticisms, but I would have liked a smoother transition to the mothership, but I'm just spoiled :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
Okay that intro is WAAAAY too long :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:, it was funny though. I enjoyed the gameplay though
I like this idea, and I had fun but I feel the one hit kill is a bit much. When you have an almost complete tower and the wrong color box comes in from the side there is nothing the player can do to avoid losing. Having the wrong color box hit attached boxes should maybe just destroy that box or even a bunch of boxes, but a box hitting the paddle should still be ain instakill.
I think there's potential here, but the controls are quite fiddly for what the player needs to do. I was unable to deliver a single package :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: Give this game tighter controls and a better camera and it will go places.
This was quite enjoyable, but something that was really difficult for me was that there wasn't enough visual separation between the background and the obstacles you bump into. That made the eagle section too tough, IMO. But overall it was fun and kept me going for quite a while.
I found this strangley absorbing. I would prefer if I could adjust my aim a bit sooner after firing (waiting for the truck to land feels a bit painful sometimes). Also, allowing for a truck to miss but slide/roll onto the target should count, but with a lower score. Overall pretty fun.
Overall pretty fun. I'd just give a bit more grace when gliding when we've run out of power, dropping like a stone feels weird, and some subtle particles in the air would give some feeling of movement when there are no pickups on screen.
This feels like a DS game, that's probably a good thing. A full keyboard option would be nice. Overall pretty good.
I like the cyberpunky feel to this. The controls are a bit stiff though, I think that and a slight camera angle change could do alot for the gamefeel. I also got the cutscene thrust bug :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Pretty good, the one hit death is a bit frustrating, but otherwise I enjoyed this.
I enjoyed this one. The drone controls feel really good, I'd have preferred if collecting items didn't require the mouse click though, like having something on the drone that we had to get onto the collectable, that challenge would have been great. Otherwise great stuff.
Can't play the game, get the following error: Error The following features required to run Godot projects on the Web are missing: Cross Origin Isolation - Check web server configuration (send correct headers)
That is playing through the itch.io desktop player and Firefox.
That was pretty good, I feel hitting the monsters is too difficult though. I like the mood and the visual style of your entry. Good stuff.
I'm a sucker for sailing games, Wind Waker, Black Flag, etc. Even though I couldn't play much because of technical issues (text scaling, duplicate town names in the map, overlapping text) I still really enjoyed this. I hope you take this further.
I like the core mechanic here, I just feel that maybe the pace should be picked up a little. It feels like something that was designed for mobile, which isn't a problem :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: Good job, and great visuals.
I like the idea, but I kept on getting bugged on the ladder, most of the time I tried climbing a vertical ladder I'd start limbing down from the top (which is particularly painful with the time-limited ladders), instead of climbing up as intented. I also enjoyed your visual style.
This gives my CalGames vibes, which is good. Getting past the pedestrians is a bit annoying, keyboard controls would also be great, switching between sides with the mouse is a bit too fiddly for me.
I enjoyed the Moist Critical simulator :grin: the playform controller feels both stiff and floaty, weird as that sounds. I got the ultimate package though. Feedback for when you actually hit the boss in the final fight would be good, I didn't know I was doing damage until he died (and I died like 5-6 times :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:)
This was good. I like your graphical style, but I am deducting half a star from graphics for those scaled down moon graphics with the tiny pixels: I don't make the rules, I just enforce em. Otherwise this is one of the top games I've played. The music reminds me of the combat music from Ur-Quan Masters, which gains you a half star on audio. More levels and puzzle elements (and bespoke moon graphics) and you'll definitely have something for Steam/Epic.
That was fun. The progression was very intuitive, interesting puzzles. Got a minor bug where the movement sounds were playing as if there were 3+ slimes running around.
Interacting with the boxes feels good, but I have absolutely no idea what I was supposed to do. It was also very dark and seeing what's what was very difficult. The box sounds were funny though.
I really like the feel of the game, it feels otherworldly and nightmarish, but the game itself is quite difficult to play. I found myself stuck in corners quite often and finding the customer was quite difficult.
A smoother ramp into the game would be nice, it's a bit overwhelming having so much thrust on you so soon.
Looks good.
Fun runner, I enjoy the visual style. I did get a few hits that I shouldn't have but otherwise fun.
Is there a windows build on the way?
I really enjoyed the visuals, and I actually cheated a few times by bypassing most of the roads, but that becomes tricky in the later levels :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: Something that might be interesting for the late game is getting money for deliveries, and you can buy single attempt powerups, like rope to slightly increase the stability of your stack.
Good entry overall.
I like your visual style and I feel there is a bigger game in there. The only real critique I can give is that the input feels a bit stiff, changing directions feels a bit harsh.
Despite it's simplicity, I enjoyed this a lot. I love your art style. The music was way too loud though :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: Rotating the structure could be an interesting experiment (around the center of mass), cos in the late game there is very little to do to shield the cows.
I like the overall experience, the animations in particular sparked joy. The camera feels a bit weird, and the pickup could be made more visible when we have direct line of sight.
Overall I enjoyed it.
Can't play the game, loading bar doesn't move. Most likely a problem with the LD site, an itch.io upload may be the way to go.
Took me a while to figure out that I had to hold the mouse button to hold the package :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: The sound of the boxes colliding got a little grating after a while. That said, it held me enough to see it through to the end so it was definitely entertaining :metal:
I enjoyed this. I'm an inverted look guy, so having that as an option would be nice. I like the way we drive over the pizza after delivering :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes: