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Chicken farm by Hadik 2022-10-04T12:50:03Z

Great clicker game! Brings back memories of stardew valley.

Enjoyed growing my farm to 45 chickens. Swiping across the screen and clicking got a bit tiring after a while. It makes for some good aim lab practice though. Did not interact much with the pricing/killing mechanic, hoping the older ones would go away whenever I had my farm overpopulated.

One annoying bug is that clicking on a building menu that happens to be above another building takes me to that other building's menu, i.e. menus don't have precedence over buildings it would seem. Ended up having to destroy the building behind to get rid of this.

It also seems chicken focus on a particular food source and complain next to it instead of going to the other maxed out ballots of hay.

Really enjoyable overall and I can see how you can easily expand this into a fully fledged game that would be tons of fun - more buildings, automation, different types of animals, finished products, etc

Gelato Drift by thomz12 2022-10-04T14:49:26Z

It's not 6830 but it's something! I'm just thankful collisions don't damage the truck or I would've struggled immensely.

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Fun game overall, liked the music and sfx in particular.

PipeNightmare by Sarah 2022-10-04T14:18:34Z

Super difficult to get more than one or two pipes done and it all depends quite a bit on RNGJesus, but the game is otherwise well done and the sound effects and music while not created by you at least fit the mood and game very well. The graphics are good too.

I do wish there were some less difficult levels and more sense of progression as opposed to being forced to just franticly trying to lay pipe as soon as the game starts :)

10 Second Laps by albertnez 2022-10-04T15:03:11Z

Tiny arcade game indeed, but well done overall. Controls are smooth and the animations quite nice.

10 Second Mixtape by Scott Steffes 2022-10-04T11:14:14Z

This is one of my favorite entries so far, very well done, nice graphics, sounds, everything. I feel like a permanent version of this should be uploaded somewhere. If people use sfxr to make sound effects this could totally be used to make game music. Maybe I just got lucky, but I really felt like the final result was something I could actually use in game. Very high marks from me!

What's the rules? by Pusheeneiro 2022-10-03T22:34:46Z

Fun game overall though I must admit I have no ideea what to do with the vegetables, and the prospect of frantically swiping away the balloons over and over kinda puts me off trying to get back to the vegetables. Might try again on my windows machine, where I got my proper gaming gear setup :).

Really liked the music as well, I think it sounds nice and fits the mood well.

Rockatoo by AdamCYounis 2022-10-03T22:15:02Z

Great entry, nicely polished, with 5/5 music and graphics. Very enjoyable gameplay overall.

- I also found the unplanned moves mechanic a bit confusing at first - It felt like my eyes were running across the screen vertically quite a bit, trying to see the upcoming notes, the unplanned moves, and also to admire the big bird - I found watching the big bird slide across the stage and bust its moves the most exciting, so for myself at least, I think I would've enjoyed an UI that allowed for that more.

The CyberZapper by Vhalenn 2022-10-04T09:34:11Z

Very nice effects, graphics, and I particularly like the music, it fits the theme and mood very well. The level progression felt a bit confusing, wasn't sure I was really making progress, felt a bit random, but still played for about 15 levels because the game looked and felt really nice and I was curious what the next weapon would be. Solid entry!

Poda Wants a Statue by Doot 2022-10-04T11:30:45Z

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Statue took a while, *only* 280 years, but I was more interested in filling the map with bunnies :)) and had great fun with it. Core loop is great, the graphics/sounds are great, and the theme is integrated very well.

I do feel however like the jam theme is more of a limiting factor than anything, as it gets somewhat repetitive after a while. Having more varied events happening not necessarily on a schedule would probably add quite a bit of depth. But that's for the post jam version to consider of course - which I think you should totally do and release.

Very solid entry, a great little game!

Orzeł by NoelOskar 2022-10-03T17:10:42Z

Fun game! The platforming feels pretty good and I like the interpretation of the theme!

Fight The Darkness by Ryan Ackermann 2022-10-05T16:16:51Z

Fun little game! Simple mechanics, but pretty well done. I think the flame losing strength after shooting is an interesting ideea to play with and I'm a big fan of the art and sfx/music too.

Satellite commander by Henrik Ganard 2022-10-04T13:07:31Z

Fun game, and from the looks of it not too far from reality is it, given how much space junk a internet satellites seem to be going up :) I really like the theme and the controls were quite nice, though I must admit I struggled to get above a C rating - am I back in school? Great entry!

mood swing simulator by alexander epton 2022-10-04T13:35:00Z

Cool interpretation of the theme! I particularly liked the music which expressed the mood pretty well.

Jelly Jar by Asieke 2022-10-03T23:10:48Z

Nice artwork, everything fits together nicely, and feels quite polished! The gameplay is fine, and I particularly like the treadmill movement, but I do wish there was a bit more to do to on the map, other than frantically running away from the imp :))

🌙 Night Shift by Puree Adventure 2022-10-04T14:34:51Z

Very cool graphics and music/sfx. Throwing pizzas around is fun, though I do wish I could pick them up from the ground in case of a misclick - how would the customer even now, am I right? Happened to me a few times trying to click to open the compass.

I do find it funny how there's a bunch o people saying they got lost on their first attempt - I did too :) Though I'm not sure this is a design issue. On the other hand maybe having always on indicators for where the customer/store is would help? Multiple stores/multiple food types? Although at this point we're getting into post jam territory.

Birdwatching by Iguanana 2022-10-03T16:57:34Z

Fun twist on the typing game concept! Easy to pick up and play and I can see how this could easily grow into the next big typing practice website. You could have a whole encyclopaedia of animals/birds/plants/etc and the world would be filled with both more knowledgeable people and faster typists!

To Catch a Wizard by badcop 2022-10-04T10:12:31Z

Really enjoyed this up until the boss fight :) It felt very much souls like in that I had to look stuff up, up and raged hard at the hitboxes.

Did not figure out how to damage the boss for a long time, gave up, but went back after watching the hall of fame video. The wizard's projectiles did get a bit overwhelming at times but eventually figured out how jump and dash around them.

The fight was still immensely frustrating, and I'm not quite sure whether it was the good type of soulslike frustration, the fight needs polishing, or I'm just too big of a noob.

Outside the boss room, the game was very enjoyable. Figuring out the pathing/puzzles was fun and the timing constraint was just right. Great compo entry overall!

Life is Fleeting by Sarah Alexa 2022-10-05T16:02:41Z

This is fantastic! The mechanics are great, everything works perfectly well (the slippery mechanics might feel a bit unpolished but I though they were quite fun), and Robin is life goals! The artworks is cute and the music, while kinda short and a bit repetitive after a while, still sounds great and fits the mood very well. Really enjoyed this!

Jekyll and Hide by Gangrue 2022-10-04T12:58:29Z

Great take on the theme, great graphics and characters. Had a lot fun trying to time my murderous tics (though it took me a while to figure out that is not always the solution :D). Well done!

Machine! by KITmani 2022-10-05T15:08:29Z

I think this is a really interesting ideea and can be really fun to play, but it probably needs a bit of improvement in the control schemes and in how the game is introduced to the player. It's quite fast paced and quite frustrating when the level ends and I don't even figure out what I am supposed to do.

One thing that got me at first was that I expected the first item in the list (at the top) to be the first task I need to do. Maybe it's just me, but this made me fumble quite a bit thinking I just don't understand the mechanics. I also struggled a bit with figuring out what each machine does. To be honest I didn't even notice the manual for quite a few runs and when I finally saw it, it still takes quite a bit of time to read and understand everything and then the level is over. I feel like a visual representation on the machine itself would make this a lot smoother. The manual works too but not as much under theme imposed 10 second constraints.

Other than that I like these sort of factory type games and this definitely has potential. I think the graphics and visual presentation are quite nice as well.

Every 10 seconds, mother comes in by lustdante 2022-10-04T14:00:54Z

Funny game and nice interpretation of the theme :)) We've all been there, and many still are, alt tabbing in and out of games/videos/etc that we shouldn't be using, it's just now it's the spouse, or the boss, or whoever. Great entry!

Cartesian Planes by Nicholas Maddalena 2022-10-04T11:51:27Z

Great core mechanics and ideea! I wish there was a way to replenish the directions and continue playing for as long as possible as opposed to just for one minute. I can see many ways in which you could expand this ideea and make a fully fledged game and it would probably be tons of fun. I remember playing this sort of air traffic games a long time ago and this brought back some pleasant memories.

Aberration by waterfowler 2022-10-03T20:51:03Z

Windows and Mac executables now available for download (no source code changes).

Please note - My UI implementation is terrible and depending on screens/resolutions/etc it might break. In my testing the game launches fullscreen (scaled up from LD embed resolution) and seems fine. However, if I start messing with the window sizing, resizing, etc, the Simpson Back Fat meme unravels, and the UI breaks. Hopefully you don't get to see this.

I also think the art looks worse (less detail/a bit overexposed) on the windows exe but maybe that's just my graphics driver/display settings.

Aberration by waterfowler 2022-10-07T16:41:29Z

@frozenfire92 when you say “the game broke” do you mean the inputs stopped working? Were you perhaps using the arrow keys to move the character? If so, those don’t work in the hacking phase, it’s WASD for movement that works everywhere.

If that’s what happened I’d appreciate you trying the game again, there is a bit more content and story left that id love for you to try to get the full impression.

If there was some error/issue then I’m not sure what could be the problem, but I do appreciate you trying the game.

SHOTGUN DISCO QUEEN by cannibalgirl 2022-10-05T19:09:20Z

The art style, color palette and music are fantastic, everything is really well put together! My frontal lobe light up light a Christmas tree experiencing this one. The game play and enemy ai is quite smooth too. A very nice package overall!

Keep it clear, Bob ! by blk_dg 2022-10-04T12:06:25Z

Funny little game, loved how a few pixels of animation still conveyed quite a bit, and i found the death screen attitude quite funny - just get another guy i guess :))

The Little Bot That Could by Xenoparticle 2022-10-04T13:46:30Z

Nice simple game, works well, and I actually like the main character bot/tank quite a lot. The track animation was pretty good. It does feel more like time is a resource than every 10s but it's a good enough start to build on top off.