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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 59 | Signal | signOS | extra | |||||||||||
| 2025 | 57 | Depths | Diving Suits | extra | |||||||||||
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | Petri Plate Potpourri | jam | 205 | 3.92 | 3.76 | 3.98 | 4.37 | 3.71 | 3.91 | 3.16 | 3.67 | ||
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | Doppel Effect | jam | 199 | 3.95 | 3.97 | 3.85 | 4.08 | 3.82 | 3.05 | 3.47 | |||
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | MIROH | jam | 157 | 4.01 | 3.96 | 4.14 | 4.30 | 3.88 | 3.71 | 3.80 | |||
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | 5-STAR | jam | 350 | 3.79 | 3.67 | 3.81 | 4.42 | 3.82 | 3.45 | 3.56 | |||
| 2023 | 52 | Harvest | Moon Harvest | jam | 368 | 3.54 | 3.31 | 3.32 | 3.96 | 3.68 | 3.68 | ||||
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | Tense Conds | jam | 408 | 3.67 | 3.70 | 3.69 | 4.22 | 3.45 | 2.45 | 3.23 | |||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | Stallar | jam | 723 | 3.51 | 3.40 | 3.48 | 3.72 | 3.23 | 3.56 | 3.39 | |||
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | Improbability Fighter | jam | 612 | 3.62 | 3.53 | 3.57 | 3.86 | 3.52 | 3.41 | 3.19 | 3.52 | ||
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | Deep Blue | unfinished | |||||||||||
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | Ouroboros | jam | 748 | 3.54 | 3.47 | 3.58 | 4.26 | 3.48 | 3.41 | 2.77 | 3.32 | ||
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | The Espacito | jam | 583 | 3.39 | 3.50 | 3.08 | 3.72 | 3.29 | 2.59 | 3.08 | |||
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | Claustroom | jam | 588 | 3.44 | 3.36 | 3.60 | 4.03 | 3.38 | 1.82 | 2.84 | |||
| 2016 | 37 | One room | Ballroom | jam | 3.87 | 32 |
I loved the idea of representing full stories in this simplified way... I just wish there was a way to keep track of the interactions with mouse click selection instead of mouse over, because they keep walking out of my cursor. Great game anyway!
Not only this is fun, but also it looks beautiful :-)
This game is nuts! :)
But seriously now: I like that the machines are almost unstoppable (although for flavor purposes this is kinda sad), because it fits better the theme of space running out.
I think this game has a lot of potential, although I found it hard to land anywhere, haha
Also: My SO saw me playing this and they said they'd love to play something like this in VR... and I do agree with them :) (not that we have any VR system on PC...)
Thanks for the comments! @sylvie and @bilzc10 I was so focused on adding content that I ended up not adding a retry option, although I do intend to make a "post-mortem" version after the jam and this is one of the things I'll add to it. Also, the web version was done in a hurry (because I remembered it would be easier for people to play it than to download the Windows one), so it still says "Press [esc] to quit" which only makes sense on the Windows version.
@Bilzc10 about enemies being easy, there's at least one exception: the "Sunship". It's a rare enemy that moves in an orbit and shoots fire in 8 directions.
Oh, and the pun "Despacito" / "The Espacito" was the first thing that came to my mind - the whole game came after that. Something like "I bet 'espacito' means 'small space' in Spanish... so maybe a game where the available space gets shorter... in space?"
@oats thanks for your comments. I agree there should be more balancing, but bear in mind that the number and variety of enemies scales with the score, so although at first you don't need to move that much, eventually things get chaotic... Because of this, staying at the place the points home in becomes a risk VS reward situation.
@starhacker I do want to do more work on it, to be released after the jam. I don't know if I will add feedback for the laser movement, though, because I like the way the enemies can distract the player from them. Maybe a delayed feedback... Like after 1s of movement your "radar" alerts you or something. Anyway, thanks for your feedback - when I get home I'll check your game as well :)
@pixeljerry thanks for your comment :) I still can't believe how nice the ship ended up looking, since it was my first time trying to draw better pixel art. I made the laser eye ships on Friday night, then I googled for some pixel art tips and made the player ship and other sprites on Saturday/Sunday.
About the power-ups, I had plans (and made sprites) for at least 2 more of them, but time was short... I'll try to work on these and other things for a "post-jam" release.
@nam-nguyen thanks for playing, and sorry for the loud sounds, I guess my TV volume was too low so I didn't notice how loud it was. I'll have to check the yellow ship, but all the loot drops should follow the same logic: start at random points around the place the enemy was, and start moving with constant speed towards the point the player was at the time of death (so the player has a chance to catch them, but still requiring some effort if there are more enemies around).
@nam-nguyen oh, you mean the orange/red ship. Yes, that one was supposed to be harder than the other enemies (I put one at the beginning just to make things more intense).
Thanks for your comment, @vfabien21. I'm at work right now, but I'll check your game later at home. About variety, I'm trying to make a more complete post-jam version, to be released later on gamejolt (I could upload it along the ldjam version but I want to avoid confusion, so I'll wait until the voting period ends). I've put the most recent webgl build on http://scardua.net/the-espacito in case you're interested.
To anyone reading this: I've decided to post current and future post-jam versions on Game Jolt - the main package is still the LD42 version (at least until the event ends), the secondary package being the up-to-date version, both having appropriate titles to avoid confusion.
Nice game, loved the character :) Do your team intend to keep working on it after the jam?
Useless trivia: My LD41 entry (Claustroom) was also about walking over a Match-3 puzzle, but it was a 3D FPS instead of a platformer...
This game has potential as a party game - or as part of one larger party game :)
Loved the way the game asked me not to cheat, hahaha
I love everything about this... except my own lack of skills to play this :) (my high-score was about 2500).
This is really cool, mainly how you take a simple mechanic and improve on it as the levels go by...
This game reminds me of some kind of cellular automata... One suggestion I have: the tutorials for 'who-eats-who' should make clearer that, for example, the hawk eats all the other animals instead of only foxes.
Cool game, reminds me of Bit.Trip Void (I'm a fan of the Bit.Trip saga). The things I'd criticize were already said by the others: a high score would be nice :)
The game over error screen, with sound, was really awesome! Also, I had to facepalm myself because at first I didn't notice those things inside the files were trojan horses, hahaha.
I loved this puzzle :) (but also I almost gave up at the last level, haha). I'm intrigued by this puzzlescript language, never heard about it before.
@rexpeppers thanks for the link :)
@vfabien21 I went to check the comment you mentioned... And it's exactly the same they posted for mine (down to the typo on their URL). Probably they're copy-pasting it everywhere, which is both shady and kinda sad :(
Great entry... Also: I didn't expect all those feels from a jam game ;_;
Wow, the swarm movements are pretty cool! (just played it after reading your post about pathfinding)
Really cool models :)
I like the idea, and that it actually works on mobile. Unfortunately I'm really bad at playing it, couldn't even reach the first planet, hahaha.
I thought about doing "fake but more fun gravity" for my game, but with the short time I had I too just did an "almost real gravity" instead. (two enemies have movement around some specific focus, as if there was a massive object there; I just apply the gravitation law's acceleration every fixed update). And like you said, maybe "cartoony" gravity would work better in both cases.
Interestingly I've just read a blog post here about someone using a realistic 3d black hole on their game, and then changing it to a cartoon-like effect because it didn't feel nice for game purposes.
I like how the drawing looks bad and good at the same time, and loved the humor. Like the others said, the gameplay has some issues (for me it turned into "just press W until you get tired"), but it has some potential. I hope your team is enjoying your first jam and keep participating in the next ones.
Loved everything about this, the mechanics, the humor, even the "impossible" level :D
Is this what they call a "killer app"? :-)
I think everyone already said what I was going to comment: other than some tweaking of the controls it's a nice game (buy why is the browser called "Baron"?)
@anarchid oh, that makes more sense :)
I can't play it because I'm not home right now but I just wanted to ask, out of curiosity: Is your game title a reference? I do intend to play it at home later because the idea seems interesting, but it'll be too late for me to be able to vote on it :(
@inferture Nice :) For my entry it was the opposite thought process, first the name came to my mind and then I created the whole game around it.
Oh, and I see you checked my game... (thanks for your comment btw). If you get to play my post-jam version you may notice some HS references in it :) (and it does have a retry button now!)
I wish the character could walk a little bit faster, but other than that this is a really cool take on this puzzle genre...
The ads were great, sometimes I had to click them just to see what they did. But I got confused because one of the ads were in portuguese - I'm from Brazil and the game surely couldn't have detected that, so what gives?
Nice touch with the "Boo" made of spikes near the end :)
You were right with the "more explosions -> more fun", haha
I also loved the title screen, with the programmers' ads and the menu / high scores being part of the world.
I'll try playing more later, but I don't think I'll manage to reach level 20 (my best until now was level 3)
I like how you expanded Slitherlink to 3D surfaces - I suppose the hints where represented by pictures so they can make sense regardless of the puzzle orientation, it's a nice touch.
I wish there was some say to zoom in and out, otherwise some shapes are too hard to nagivate (torus, suzanne). Also, I would be nice to have some music, or at least some sound effects.
I loved your game! Good to see that I wasn't the only crazy one to make a ROM for a game jam :)
The ending was funny, but it reminded me that I never tried to challenge the elite gamer. I'll have to replay the game to check that later.
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And I can't believe that only now - while writing this comment - I understood why there was a cat asking for a cheeseburger :face_palm: :sweat_smile:
I liked both the game art (don't know if it was intended but it reminds me of xkcd) and the "Computer Science paper" style of the description (which, in a roundabout way, reminds me of xkcd as well).
Unfortunately the game froze in the middle of the last loop, while I was pushing a crystal, so I couldn't finish it.
Great puzzle game, I like your music in general and the one here is not an exception :)
The 1-bit graphics is good, and the "flipbook" thing was a nice touch. I haven't finished it yet, but I'll keep trying later.
I think yours was the most innovative take on this "interacting-with-past-selves action puzzle" sub-genre I've seen on this LD. I'll have to try getting the other end later.
Edit: just got the bad ending as well
Nice roguelike, and it's cool how you managed to represent everything in with so few pixels :)
So, instead of a bullet hell, you decided to make a bullet purgatory? (or maybe, a bullet reincarnation cycle) :)
Some details I really liked: the music progression (it reminds me of a song from a certain webcomic's OST that does this thing with loops that keep adding instruments), and the way the time and health indicators are part of the scenario (with 413 bullets flying around I wouldn't want to have to look outside the area to check these things).
I think the tutorial could've mentioned that long shots deal more damage - I know, I should've noticed because the bullet effect gets larger, but for a while I was confused about why some enemies died in one shot while others took two. Maybe it's more like a bug between the keyboard and the chair, haha.
Anyway, amazing game! (I'm still trying to beat the high score, but my best is still Round 10)
I like how you managed to make a magical version of the "character-following-looping-commands" subgenre, where others usually went by a "programming a robot" route. The art is really cute :)
@rhornbek is it something that can be fixed? (like, it was too easy to dodge, or too hard so it became impossible to win, etc?) I ask because there's a "one game per month" jam that will use the same theme for this month, and I may reuse this game for it..
@zashers I tried to make the difficulty self-balancing: as the end of the game approaches, both the player and the music get faster (so the slow music is kind of a penalty itself), which would increase the risk of collision. Unfortunately the way I coded the change of speed I could only slow it by a factor of 2, so at the slowest it is much slower than I wanted it to be.
About the counter-intuitive goal: at first I thought to make the game a normal "infinity runner" where the goal is to survive the longest, but with the theme being "stuck in a loop" I thought a more appropriate goal would be to escape from being stuck there as soon as possible.
(Maybe I'll re-reverse the goal before submitting to the other - monthlong - jam I'm participating)
Thanks for your comments :)
@stefan-b sorry for not making it more clear in-game (in my defense I did wrote all that in the description :) ), thanks for playing it!
@minibetrayal I agree, the RNG is a double-edged sword: sometimes it's impossible to survive, sometimes you can run in circles on the same track and win with no effort. I did have plans for some tweaking that would make for a more balanced game, but I almost ran out of time. But I'll try something for the next, post-jam version.
@sophiemae0 I'd love to put a tutorial. Unfortunately I ran out of time, and at least for this game, I had to write most of the text by hand, pixel by pixel. Note to self: I should make some kind of font tool for the NES.
@mrbamboo cool! I'm thinking about trying SNES dev in the future as well. I've been learning and making NES games since March, and if I'm not mistaken the compiler I use supports SNES asm as well.
@eldar in a way you're not really wrong. The goal of the game (escaping in the shortest time in a single game session) can be trumped by the metagame, which is simply restarting the game until you run into a more favorable game session. I made the goal like that in order to fit the theme, but I can't really keep the player stuck in the loop if they can simply reset the console :sweat_smile: (or as someone did, simply using the emulator's save/load feature)
Maybe I should've had reversed the goal at the price of not fitting the theme as much as possible; maybe I should try at least making this an option in the post-jam version.
@etrealjunior there's no problem with the game, you simply skipped the description both here and on itch :) Please read the description, then try again.
> First - the top and bottom crops in the outer track difficulties the readbility of the game state - also considering that is a reflex game with limited graphics/animations/transitions and found a little frustrating and this deeply weighted in cognitive spawn.
Oh, I know what you're talking about, @edugpinheiro ... It's (partially) the emulator's fault: some emulators cut the first and last few rows of pixels of the screen, because some CRT TVs did that as well. I forgot about it because the emulator I was using during development, Mesen, didn't do that.
@edugpinheiro also, there is some complexity sure, but the basics of it can be learned from this online book: https://book.famicom.party (even though it's still unfinished)
@ursagames I'm watching the video right now (I missed the stream), thanks for playing it
@samuli I can't believe I forgot to test on my NES, nice to see that it worked fine :)
> as I know development for NES is *not fun*
@bentglasstube I guess "fun" is relative, because I am having fun learning and making these NES games :)
(you may want to check my other ones at wendelscardua.itch.io)
> At first I was annoyed because I couldn’t tell what was good to hit and what was bad but it turned out everything was bad
Yeah, between the color choices and lack of in-game instructions I'm seeing why people miss that. I tried compensating by putting instructions in the description - and then by highlighting the important parts - but I guess the visuals strongly suggest that some things are good and others are bad.
This is something that I'll have to fix on a postjam version... There's a local one-game-a-month jam reusing the LD theme, and I intend to submit this game there as well.
@initialposition I remember that! I loved the frantic movement, hahaha
@javasaurus hey, that "earlier comment" you said that "got lost"? I just found it by sheer luck - it's on this other game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/loop-stuck
(I was confused for a moment with your comment about "valid NES game" on a game that had nothing to do with it)
This one was so cute, really nice how much was done with such a small palette
I love the stained glass art style; also, congratulations on making this game so funny, starting by that mute button at the beginning :)
I found it weird that the intro explains the unicorns, but not the other buttons. Also, it would be nice to have a Retry button on the Game Over screen.
Small issue I had: after finishing the last level the game just stopped - I think it should at least return to the main menu. Also, in "Running" thought the jump sfx was way too loud compared to the background music, I think it would be nicer if they had similar volumes.
Other than that, it was a really nice rhythm game :)
Great art style! Took me a while to get the relation with the them but then the penny dropped :)
One thing I'd nitpick: at least on the WebGL version, the mouse cursor was free to move out of the game, so I ended up clicking outside after lassoing a dude.
This is one of the most unique takes on the theme I've seen around here :)
Managed to enter the high score at 1min26s
Cool puzzles with a nice progression. To avoid the "build mode" I think it would be better to change the instructions based on which mode is currently active. Like, when in build mode, the controls box would tell about "WASD" and "R", and in play mode it would tell about "Space" and "R" buttons.
Loved everything about this, the music, the aesthetics, being able to see the chaos unfold at the Uh Oh screen :)
My first time - after many crashes - was 01:06, later I did it in 00:35.575, abd I guess I'll keep this tab open to keep playing later
I liked how you managed to turn chess into an adventure, I found some bugs but still managed to reach the end. I'd love to see a full game like this.
I liked the difficulty progression, how the game starts simple and then later it throws lots of similar shapes :)
(my high score was 25)
The book giving indirect hints was a nice touch. Also, I really liked the art!
PS: I must confess I tried attacking the mirror at the end to try avoiding my fate :sweat_smile:
Could you post some spoilers somewhere? I've managed to do lots of stuff, but I feel like I'm still missing something. For example, I got the "Luke Inn..." and "...your room" clues, but I don't know if this is about stuff I had already found in the room or not; and I think I tried everything with the clock and the magazines, but it didn't seem to change anything. Will the true ending stop the loop?
I'll keep trying later, anyway. Congrats for making such intriguing game...
> Post your final health total to see how you stack up against others!
Unfortunately my final health total was zero because I'm bad at this kind of game, but I loved it anyway :) (at least I've managed to play for one loop... I'll try more later, I want to see more of the story)
Maybe the issue isn't much that 60 bees are too much, but that we lose all of them on the smallest mistake.
I liked the pun in the game name, sometimes my game jam ideas come from puns :)
I loved everything here, the humor, the game play, the pixel art and its animation, the writing and recording of Crash's lines - all that must've took a lot of DEADication :)
The memory we type, is that sent to you? Not that it matters, I felt like writing something even if it was just for me - and I don't even like writing, that's how much I liked your game. Thanks for making it.
I liked the concept, and the pixel art with limited palette :)
The only thing I'd complain is that any key can be used to leave the game over screen. Given I was pressing lots of keys while playing I kept going past that screen back to the title, so I have no idea what my high score was :sweat_smile:
Finished in 8:30:5 (and then 2:36:3 after seeing the comments about wall jumping out of the pit), great pixel art and animations.
I love a lot of things here: the humor, the metalanguage, the risk/reward thing where sometimes you have to lower a variable (or even the score!) in order to keep the system working...
PS: as someone said above, playing fullscreen on a 21:9 screen causes some popups to appear out out reach.
The hiccup mechanic was very innovative. The only thing I didn't like is that the spike corridor is really frustrating :( There could be at least a lever to turn the spikes off on the other side of the corridor, like the one near the red fountain. (or I should just get good at the game, haha)
@ericbolseiro the problem is not going back through the corridor (oh thank [insert divinity here] for the teleporting!), but if a monster takes the red potion you have to go through the corridor in the original direction again.
Maybe @pov can help, they may be able to remove the Audio/Graphics categories. (I'm not sure but I think I saw something similar happening with another game)
The card mechanic is fun and the platforming itself is great... I only wish there was some suicide/restart button because I got stuck inside a hole
I had played it a little before, tried playing again today. There's some lag (I guess it may be because I'm too far away) but I went as far as making the raft and later a golden pickaxe - couldn't find any magical rock to apply the golden pickaxe to it, though. Also, I found out that the statue doesn't like pebbles, I seem to have decreased the score go from 15 to 14, sorry :sweat_smile:
I like how the movement seems to be grid-based and yet the grid isn't apparent - I spent some time moving the pentagon-shaped cursor around my character, trying to understand this invisible grid :)
I liked the idea a lot, but I'm not a fan of the physics - it didn't need to be perfect, but I wish curves weren't so impossible to make.
I'm a big fan of time travel stories, this one was really fun to play/read. I know it probably wasn't intended but thanks for letting me drink my frilly strawberry drink after the "THE END" :) (I totally forgot it was in the inventory until then)
Finished with 108 deaths, and as I said on the stream I really hated your game in a good way :)
"10/10 would be bullied for taking a plasma ball in my face again"
39.93, at least it's a palindrome
So, the meaning of the universe is that it is made of snails all the way down? Anyway, very cute recursive snail :)
Just finished playing, and I liked the concept of the puzzle. In particular, it's nice how Level 1 teaches two important rules at once - the swapping when the next tile is right beside the bubble, and the traveling followed by swapping when the next tile is far away.
It slightly bothered me that the rule presented by Level 2 - that the player can move while the bubble is moving and this isn't a turn-based game - wasn't needed in any other level. But this is only me nitpicking, really, it's a great game overall!
I did enjoy the water shader :)
I liked how even with the lack of collision with the walls the game didn't let me cheat my way to victory.
Cool way to match the theme, there being even a "meta loop" from the last level back to the first :)
It just took me a few moments to get the `sub` function, but that's more a "me" problem; my first thought was substitution instead of substring because I use Ruby at work. Playing with the arguments and checking the output made easy to solve the level anyway (in hindsight I could've googled for lua docs :sweat_smile:)
Both fun and funny! I like the addition of a "challenge mode" after ending the normal game (my best score was 9)
Just finished playing your game... The art was nicely done. Also, I liked the puzzles and how they were connected to the horror in the game, like that part when you flip a switch and suddenly you start hearing a monster running towards you, but nothing actually happens; somehow that was more scary than if the monster had simply appeared there.
I really like this infinity mechanic (I've played until level 5, because it's 1a.m. right now)
I'd love to see a full game like this, with more puzzles :)
Finished after seeing it on Outfrost's stream - that one level is really hard (and I don't know if the reversed version of the level has different hitboxes but it felt even harder). But the humor in the writing was good, and I liked how
Congrats on making your first jam game :)
Cool roguelike! By coincidence I've resumed playing NetHack recently, it's nice that this uses the same movement keys (don't know if this come for free from the RL engine or not)
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Finally finished your game - and wow it was hard! (I don't think the time on the screenshot is accurate, though - I had left the game open for a while to do some stuff)
My SO saw me when I was stuck at the part where I got the arms, they asked "what is this, 'Spider-man from Hell'?" :sweat_smile:
The dialogs were really funny. It seems that while in Portal the cake was a lie, here the [REDACTED] was true :smile:
"Hyper! Hyper! Hamster!"
I really liked the effects used to give the sense of speed - the speed lines and the hyperspeed camera
I've played until level 2-4 and not only I liked the puzzles, but I've really appreciated the small details as well, like the character's costumes.
The only problem with this game is that there aren't enough Dung Bettle Dad Jokes (tm) :) The art is really cute.
Great concept :) Only thing I missed was some way to know the length of the recording, but even without that it's a good game.
The last puzzle was so clever, it was really satisfying to solve it. I like how much detail you packed in so few pixels, like the lighting of the buttons or the warning stripe on the moving platform.
Your game is amazing! And it felt so good when I finally noticed the boss "tell" and defeated them (I died a lot before that).
Nice arcade game, one thing I'd nitpick is that maybe the camera should be a little farther, so we could see the enemy ships better (I liked the back shield, but it was hard to point it to the enemies direction when they were all attacking me off-screen).
Congrats on making your first jam game :) My high score was 28 - I was trying to play in order to place the shape I got as soon as possible, and I think it would be nice if there was some bonus for managing to do so.
I liked the way the theme was represented here, and endless cycle of reincarnation. By the way, I had already played and rated yesterday, just couldn't comment because the comments weren't working.
PS: as the others already said: please refrain from copy-pasting the same comment everywhere; if you want more people to play it, I think your best bet would be submitting to (and then watching) streamers. On this tag you can find people playing Ludum Dare games: https://www.twitch.tv/directory/all/tags/c8d6d6ee-3b02-4ae7-81e9-4c0f434941cc
Loved the game, nice touch with the text scattered along the levels waiting to be found :)
I found a small bug: if you start a level, then return to the main menu without completing it, it still unlocks the next level. It doesn't really needs to be fixed for the jam, only if you were to expand this into a longer game in the future.
The controls felt kinda weird sometimes, but that didn't stop me from enjoying your game :)
This game looks and feels so great.
The only problems I saw were:
1. sometimes, moving to an end of a straight line would teleport me to the other end 2. it was hard to move between some short lines in level 18, even more because of the bouncing when we hit the end of a straight line.
Other than that it's almost perfect and I agree with the comment above: this has potential as a full (probably mobile) game.
Great game, beautiful pixel art, I *had* to play it at least until I had managed to enter the leaderboard (with 400 points).
I have only two little things to point out that you may or may not want to fix in a post-jam version: One, I think the timer being in front of the view made some targets harder to hit. Two, maybe ties in the learderboard should be broken in favor of the first player to reach that score, instead of the last (there were other two players with 400 points when I entered the leaderboard).
Nice neon visuals... I think the description could've told more about the gameplay (at first I didn't even try to move my character). Also, I don't know if it's a bug or a feature but on the level with a single, long vertical wall, the enemy managed to stay glued to that wall and shoot bullets through it.
PS: remember to play, rate, and give feedback to other people games, that way you may get more ratings as well.
The "please stay behind the yellow line" thing made me stay behind the "Warning" yellow line for a while, lol.
I'm confused because I finished the game but I didn't get why it ended - was it by the number of travels, by the amount of junk collected, by how many upgrades I've made?
The bullet hell was nice, not too easy neither too hard.
I think something would've helped is adding subtitles for the poem, since it was important for playing the game; lacking time for implement it in game, at least write the poem in the description (it would be a nice touch to replace the "Say something" in the current description as well)
I felt like the mouse sensitivity was too high, fortunately most of the game was a straight line so it didn't bother too much.
I liked how you conveyed progress with the drawings on the walls, and with the poem finally ending after defeating that creepy person.
Great puzzle game, I'll have to keep playing it later as I got stuck in level 8.
This must be one of the *sweetest* games on the jam :)
The only thing I didn't like is that it was possible to get stuck - maybe the game could change a rune randomly when there are no more valid moves to prevent that. If you ever consider turning this into a full (mobile?) game, I think there should be separate game modes for points and for objectives.
Really good bullet hell :)
I would like the phases to have some form of progression, though. For example, the first phases could have fewer weapons than the following ones.
Great game! Maybe a bit too hard, but that's fine :)
One thing I'd point out is that it's kinda unfair when the enemy changes orbit right before being hit... I think the suggestion someone else wrote here - some form of indication that it will change orbit soon - would help with this.
I was watching your game on PomoTheDog's stream (and then stopped looking at his solving attempts so I could try it myself). I love your use of Game of Life here! And the diagonal walls for breaking the period of the loop were a great addition.
I agree with the other comment that a preview of the next state would help a lot, but I don't know how hard it'll be to do it in Puzzlescript.
The aztec pixel art style is very beautiful - I saw a screenshot on the feed and I just had to check it out.
I wish the game wouldn't do that zoom out / zoom in when the ride returns to the beginning, but that's just me nitpicking.
I liked the concept, the art, the audio, almost everthing. But, weirdly, I have the opposite problem from the other people commenting: once I got the hang of the mechanic, it became too easy to continue playing forever, to the point I had to lose on purpose to stop the loop (with an score of 24). I don't know what to suggest, though... maybe the time to fix everything could shorten after a while?
Found your game from someone commenting on mine about both having unstable shooting abilities, and... I really loved yours! Currently my high score is just around 1k points but I'll keep playing it. The only thing I'd nitpick is that it's not clear that the loadout menu navigation is by WASD, since we use the mouse for everything else in the UI (maybe there could be arrow buttons for scrolling, or something).
Even though you've made it in only 24 hours it looks pretty polished, and I really liked the weird shapes - it stands out compared to similar games based on tetrominos. The score falling with the rest of the game area was a nice touch. The only think left for me to nitpick is that I think the game should track the high score (I think mine was 1.5k points, but I don't remember now).
Nice game :) I wish it kept the "score" (current level, number of boxes delivered) on the game over screen, though. Also, I don't know if it was intentional to make it more difficult but whenever I landed over a box I couldn't jump from it.
Very creative take on both the theme and the runner genre. It like that you actually added a leaderboard to the post-jam version (got the #8 place there), and that the track is consistent (so it's a fair competition).
@ricardobusta thanks :)
@elveverx thanks and yes, that's the reference :) my idea was using the Improbability Drive on a different kind of spaceship
@agameortwo The second type of enemies were supposed to prevent safe spots but I ran out of time to implement that.
@noctiphobia I thought about doing that (at least moving the whole row left/right, as they're drawn onto the background because of the NES limitations). Maybe I can add moving enemies on a post-jam version.
Thank you both for playing!
@vectrex28 thanks! And you nailed everything I still had on my TODO list. For example, the code is a little bit more convoluted than it should be because it supports multiple enemy types on the same screen, but currently it never happens. The slowdown is probably due to me using C this time instead of Assembly 😅 (even making only 25% of collision checks per frame wasn't enough)
@bloodbane thanks... and, Gunstable is this one https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/gunstable, right ? I'll check it (and yours) later
@firetaku thanks for playing... one thing that I liked making is that the first "transformation" takes a little bit longer than the others, in order to surprise the player :)
@verysoftwares there are actually 3 NES games on Ludum Dare 49: https://ldjam.com/tags/platform/nintendo-famicom :D (thanks for playing!)
@euler-moises eu acho que vou aceitar as aulas viu 😅 obrigado por jogar
@samuli the tree ended up looking better than I expected (for some reason I haven't yet played in on my actual NES, and even then I don't have a CRT). Thanks for playing and for the picture :)
@cppchriscpp Thanks for playing :) And I think I'll expand it - or at least polish what's already there - for a post jam version.
@omiya-games thanks again for playing it. Addressing your comments: I've been making some changes for a post-jam version, I've already managed to optimize my code so there's no more slowdowns. The enemies being stopped is in part a limitation of how they're drawn on screen (but even that I think I found a solution for).
The only thing I didn't get is when you say you "would have also liked the ship you swapped to be randomized as well", because the ship *is* randomized (maybe it didn't seem so because there were only 3 ships, and it never turns into itself?)
The graphics / UI are really polished, this is a great entry. I only wish the player wouldn't collide with the ropes, because that makes chaining jumps between ropes almost impossible (even jumping safely out of a rope is hard).
The game concept and art style gives a vibe of old flash/smartphone games... Unfortunately I'm really bad at this one so I couldn't go past the second obstacle 😅
I like how the game used those NES PPU glitches as instability effects :)
I liked the idea ~~but I couldn't figure out how to make 50% and 75% colors (diluting affected only the Alpha channel) so I got stuck after a few levels.~~ Update: I figured out, the canvases explain it, just need to combine the diluted potion with a white one 😅
Great game, if you all ever make a post jam version I'd suggest just making the hand and the battlefield more distinct, and making the current prices for buying/selling/etc more visible as well.
Great puzzle, your take on this genre of game felt refreshing :) I only wish I wasn't so bad at it, got stuck on Level 6 (maybe I'm missing something, I don't know 😅). The only thing I felt was missing is some indication of which levels were already completed and which is the current one.
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Congratulations!
For having made it in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 49
:)
(I only found a little bit weird that the victory animation is an "explosion", I almost thought I had done something wrong at first)
Loved your game :) (finished in 07:57 with 17 deaths) Small details, like the idle animation, were a nice touch...
Only thing I'd change is that the text sometimes changes too fast and we may not have enough time to read it.
I feel like idea is good, but the progression is too slow for it to be more fun. If you ever do post-jam updates, I'd suggest having some groups of particles around (even whole smaller atoms, maybe?) so the player can increment the counters faster (the player having to avoid going past the target values would add some risk to the game).
I liked the aesthetics, with the different palettes each game, and the relaxing music. Only think that I'd nitpick is the scoring - it seems to count whenever a collision happens, so: 1. when the physics cause some shaking we get lots of points for free, and 2. it keeps scoring after the "game over".
I think I can barely enter the leaderboard? Playing with touchpad is almost a hard mode, I think :)
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I really like how, not only the object have durability, but it also is very clearly displayed for us, it's a nice detail.
PS: I was about to ask if IIILII meant something but I think one of the comments above already explained it (unless they're wrong, who knows)
@adriankrawczyk I did get the IKEAish logo, what I missed was the loss reference (until I saw dwid28's comment)
Even though the game was short, it was fun and funny :)
I liked how it begs for a speedrun - we first keep trying stuff (e.g. it took me a while to find how to dispose of the clock), then when we win it says how much time we took... and now we get the motivation to find a shorter sequence of actions to beat that time (but I don't have much mouse dexterity so my best time was still 11 seconds)
In that sense I agree with other comments here, I wish there was a restart button when we win (it could've even be flavored as "next day..." or something)
Why didn't you want to be rated for Humour? (I see what you did there with the Vi'Kooreentcha planet :) ) Also, are they called Redi because they di over and over again?
But seriously, I really liked the soundtrack and effects, and I love how the game is both a really hard bullet hell and very forgiving (as being hit just restarts the level instead of making us play from the start).
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The mechanics are really interesting, I could see this working as one of those "card minigame inside an RPG" :).
I like the idea of having the rules described on screen with drawings instead of text. I was going to say that I wish they would match the actual rules better, but I have no idea how to say "Air: 2 points if not adjacent to any other Air card" with pictures 😅.
One thing that I missed was something telling which pictures correspond to which elements (eventually I've managed to deduce / remember, but I think the written rules would work better if we had that information).
I liked the crazy premise, and the sun is the best :)
One problem I had was that the high score didn't seem to work, it was always the same value as the current score.
@papabirb you're welcome :) And yeah, I've noticed the destination getting longer, I like how that adds some challenge for the player (but I'm bad at it so I haven't reached it yet 😅)
I love how the puzzles teach about the mechanics without spelling out everything. Good work with the level progression, 10 took me a long time (funny how I managed to solved just when I was about to give up 😅)
Just out of curiosity, was this made in Puzzlescript?
The UI looks really polished, the help tooltip with the rules during gameplay is a nice touch. To compensate for the RNG I think it would be nice to be allowed 2 rerolls per turn, like other similar games usually do.
Congrats on emulating that old cartoon style (although I'd wish that "feed me" text wasn't reversed)
Off-topic, @yikescloud, it seems you've posted here on your own page a comment that looks like it's intended for someone else's game, something about a "nice shoot’em’up arena"
It was really fun to trying to get all the reactions, I like how you've added optional goals even though the player is free to just mess around (btw, my current score is 119, with 9/9 reactions). One thing that could've been interesting here was a button to enable "heat vision" - basically your debug view, but with the game's flavor.
The idea is good, looks like a good base for a roguelike. I think it would help the player if instead of having to click to pass the turn, the attack button itself did that.
The characters are so, so cute! This has a lot of potential as a mobile game :)
One thing that slightly bothered me was the "⏩" button to advance the story, it could've be mistaken with "Fast-Forward". Maybe just a single "▶" would be fine.
That screen effect was a nice touch :) The best part was that unexpected last log, haha
I tried the space-smashing thing you mentioned on Outfrost's stream and this happened 😅
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(and it kept stable after at least 5 or 6 pieces)
I really loved how much depth the mechanics have. In particular I like how healing is balanced: not only it's risky but sometimes it's even undesirable.
The low-resolution, 1-bit pixel art of your game is amazing! The variety of the curses, enemy patterns, even multiple game modes (I almost beat it on normal, then went with easy mode to see the ending, may play some more later), I can't even thing of something to criticize here. If this weren't a jam game, the only thing I'd miss would be some kind of collection showing which curses you've already got during your runs, for some extra "replayability".
Nice to see more homebrew on Ludum Dare :)
I wish the ball were launched with more speed, most of the time it didn't go to the upper half without bumping. I also wonder if the game could work better with a smaller ball, but this is just a guess.
I liked the concept but I found it hard to play in practice (it may be just me lacking dexterity, though). Little Beethoven is very cute, and I like how the game tells the story (with the notes getting dimmer representing Beethoven's hearing). I appreciate the "coyote time" thing the game does (where the jump works even if we just left the platform), it's a nice touch.
Did you use a beat-em-up engine to make a shoot-em-up game? :) (I just googled for "Open Beats of Rage").
Nice execution, I liked the variety of attacks but I think some enemies were impossible to defeat (like someone said above, some of them move faster than us).
Nice game :) Only thing I'd nitpick is that I wish it was more clear where and when the level ends (I accidentally fell from the top of the end of level 2, then level 3 started and at first I thought I was back to level 1 again)
Cool idea... I wish the difficulty progression were more smooth though, so the player could have more opportunity to play with the gene mechanic. Also, I've noticed the enemy attacks hurt themselves, was that on purpose?
This has a lot of potential :) I like how there's some strategy factor, we can't just shoot randomly because it counts towards the lost letters...
Fun fact: I was about to suggest a feature, but I just went back to play again and the feature was already there, haha 😅(I felt bad when my text went past the enemies and had to type a whole new line to reach them... It turns out that *backspace actually works!* 🤦♂️)
Wow, can't believe Hatsune Miku is here making games! (no, Minecraft doesn't count).
The balance between fuel and stability was a nice idea, and I liked the texts made of coins (although sometimes it was a bit hard for me to read them while they were spinning). One thing that slightly bothered me was that when we end up out the screen the "game over" was almost always inevitable, but it takes a while to actually happen (in other words, I wish there was a retry button).
I should try playing this with a controller later, this was my best score with a keyboard (zone 5):
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One thing I felt missing here is that this screen only shows the last score - I'd like to see the best score as well. But even without that it was really fun, and the fast retry made it really addictive :)
Nice game, it took me a bit to understand how to play it but eventually I got a score of 31. Only think I felt was missing is some sound effects for when the ball hits each circle, I think it could make a sound similar to when the ring hits the center.
I was so tense playing this one...
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The way the controls are presented to the player right at the beginning was really nice.
Unfortunately I couldn't play it well because of my unusual resolution (2560x1080):
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But I liked the humor in the introduction :)
I like the concept, even though I'm not much a fan of autobattlers (and I'm actually surprised Wizards didn't make a MtG autobattler at this point)
One thing I missed from this game was some scoring of how many games we lasted.
@nbumgardner it... should just work on the browser, the embedded emulator should start automatically. What happened when you opened the itch.io link?
@nbumgardner it must be some browser compatibility issue, because the usual behavior is for the emulator to start the game automatically, no need to click on the arrows or anything... Anyway if you're downloading the rom, you can install any other NES emulator on your computer as well to open it (I recommend Mesen: https://www.mesen.ca/)
@cppchriscpp thanks for the feedback :)
I *am* curious about your fix, if it's not much of a hassle I'd like to see it.
About the emulator, I wonder if Chrome changed something because I could swear em-fceux used to work fine on it at some point in the past...
About the lack of an ending, the original plan was to make the random parts more and more difficult (for example, occasionally a goal flag would actually move to ambush the player), so it's still infinite but more likely to end, and also making it more clear that the game is angry at the player "cheating" the original ending.
Unfortunately I've got sick on the last day (and I'm still not fully recovered), so I couldn't do it in time... Maybe I'll do it in a post-jam update.
@jvdwijk you have a good point, once you've start playing there's not much reason to go back to the title screen. I'll add this to my TO DO list for a post jam version.
@renge I understand the feeling - it's "trollish" on purpose - but it's possible to learn which version of that segment is which by the position of the stars by playing multiple runs.
@renge if the middle path has no stars on it, it's the right path. Otherwise, if the bottom path has no stars, the top path is the correct one.
@nbumgardner I've updated my embedded emulator setup, it should work for you now
@bluishgreenpro yes, it's feasible... Maybe I could even do a "bag" system like Tetris does - taking a list with one of each chunk then shuffling that list.
@kaldrin thanks, and although I couldn't make it in time my original plan included stuff like occasional moving goal flags, either falling into the player or even chasing them.
What a sad coincidence that you also got sick on the last day, I hope you are (or get) better.
About the game: I liked the puzzles, the art and the "meow-like" sound effect, and I only have a few nitpicking points to make:
* I think it would be n**ice**r if moving over ice didn't have the same animation as walking, the character just sliding over it instead. * For turn-based puzzles like this, I like the character to slightly pause after each step - too many times I'd walk past the point I intended and had to undo a step or two. * I know it's not trivial, but when pushing blocks it would be nice if they were temporarily turned into sprites for a more continuous movement.
This is very cool, the only thing that took a bit of the fun is that the wave with two archers get way too hard if you don't have enough boxes to reach them - even the strategy of jumping on the falling boxes is hard to apply when there are twice the arrows flying around and breaking them. I'll have to keep playing later to see how it ends (in my best run I died on wave 8)
I really liked the tension the game generates, at some points I thought more time had passed than it actually did ("this time I'll enter the leaderboard for sure..." "wait, what do you mean my time was only 1:08 !?")
Watching people play this one made it seem easier than it seems 😅 Escaped with 9 researchers on my third try. The game was so polished, the only thing I can suggest if you decide to keep working on it is that we should be able to get the lizard when the rocket is ready to launch :)
PS: I just found one small bug, when I select the quality in Options, choosing any of the non-High ones changes the font for all the four quality buttons:
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Jogo adorável, principalmente pelas expressões da Mel... E muito boa aplicação do tema, uma das mais criativas que vi.
Acho que realmente só fez falta um pouco de som mesmo.
#LoveIsLove <3
I liked the concept, the voices were a nice touch :) One thing I found weird is that sometimes I kept hitting a zombie in the same place for a very long time - it seemed like the zombie was dying and another was respawning in the same place (or it was just blinking once in a while). Also, I found the information on the top left of the screen a bit hard to read, I think it should at least have a darker background.
The island was really beautiful, and I liked the idea of sending and receiving actual messages in bottles. One thing that I had a bit of trouble was trying to grab my own bottle to throw, but other than that everything was fine.
The audio was great :) I feel like there's some potential here for a more challenging game, if you were to keep working on it after Ludum Dare.
A melhor parte é como a música de casamento foi adaptada para uma música de ação, que ainda por cima se encaixa bem com o jogo em si. O máximo que eu poderia criticar é que a fonte usada na notificação podia ser um pouco mais legível, às vezes no meio da ação não deu pra reparar muito bem no que tava escrito ali (não que isso afete a jogabilidade, claro).
I liked the variety of the puzzles you've managed to create around the same idea of avoid the sun... But I almost didn't manage to finish the game because sometimes it would almost freeze my browser - For a moment I thought the last level made the whole tab blank on purpose as it coincided with the two suns meeting in the sky 😅
I had some trouble trying to play it on itch - some things were visible only on fullscreen, while others were only visible out of fullscreen. Although to be fair, my screen does have an unusual resolution (21:9)...
Other than that I liked the concept of the minigames (but I couldn't do the bicycle one).
I'm really bad at this game, I'm still at the point were I just hit 01 pools 😅. It wants me to hate it, but I can't, the sounds, the physics, everything was great - except for my skills at piloting a flying lawnchair.
@almost: I think you misunderstood one of the cards, there's no "1 1 1" card, the "\* \* \*" card is supposed to be "3 dice of any value".
@marcmagus: finally got to play some games on TTS (my high score was 350). I like how "strategic" it can be - there was a moment where I knew that I lost not because of the randomness, but because I made a bad decision when choosing a card for scoring. The only thing that could take a bit of the fun is having to check if the dice added up to 50 when playing IRL.
Also, I think one thing that could help with the instructions would be to first present that picture with the example and labels for each type of thing ("upright score cards", "upside down penalty cards", etc), so then the instructions could refer to them more easily.
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It was very fun to try coordinating the two characters, the physics made it a bit harder but the game is short enough that we can just keep replaying until we succeed (one "strategy" I've found was to make one character deal with the thrusters, the other deal with the fuel, but when the first is holding a thruster the second would pause the fuel task to start making another thruster, compensating for my bad aim 😅)
Loved the graphics, the music... Also, I liked that "trick" of using a wall of 8x16 sprites to hide the bg updates :)
Unfortunately it was too hard for me (this may be more of a "me" issue 😅), maybe it would be a bit easier if there were a more direct way to place the crates (e.g. B to place a crate, Select to change the type of the next crate to be placed)
I find it amazing when people manage to make actual online multiplayer games for LD, and yours is very n**ice**.
The graphics are very good, and I liked the concept (vaguely reminds me of Reigns)... At first I found weird was that we only have information about which constructions we will place (and which of the four classes will be affected) *after* placing the classes' houses, but it's ok to learn after replaying a few times (I've managed to "break the game" on my third try :) )
Loved the game, placing the components feels so satisfying, the only extra feedback that I could give that I haven't seen already on other comments is this:
I wanted to post a screenshot of my score here (I don't remember how much I had, surely above 130000¢ but could've been ~160000¢), but when I started pressing the keys to take the screenshot the end screen closed, returning to the main menu. Maybe that screen should only be closed by clicking on "exit to menu" instead? Or if allowing to close it with the keyboard, restrict it to a few keys, like space, escape... (or at least allow the high score to be seen from the main menu)
(likewise, when I tried to pause for a bit on one of those "end of shift" screens, as I started to press alt-tab it closed it)
Managed to take a screenshot with Print Screen (which also closed the end screen):
**Score: 224800¢ in 12 shifts**
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I liked the tutorial and the mechanics, the only thing I didn't like much is that those timed walls seem to require a bit more thinking than the movement speed allows, so I ended up just treating them as solid walls and avoiding them as much as possible 😅
Loved the aesthetics, I just found the controls a bit weird and it took me a while to get used to them. Played until I've managed to enter the high score list (at the bottom, but still...)
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Uma coisa que eu sugeriria é colocar desenhos representando os botões do mouse, porque de início eu também achei que era pra clicar dos lados esquerdo/direito da tela.
The art at the end was beautiful, and I found the jumping mushrooms very creative and versatile. I didn't understand why some doors were weird with flying watermelons and stuff but I guess dreams don't need to make sense anyway :)
I liked almost everything about this game, it's challenging but at the same time it's forgiving (bumping into stuff doesn't result in a Game Over, for example)... I think it would be nice to have at least some sound effects, but it's a great game even without them. The explosion effect was a really nice touch.
Really liked this one (got to day 32 before writing this), the sound effects are great... Only problem I had is that sometimes there was an indicator pointing towards the locomotive, but it was already fueled.
PS: I knew the main character looked familiar to me... It was the same [Mink from LD49](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/drunk-hill)!
Loved the neon aesthetics! Unfortunately I'm bad at it so I've yet to finish - even using shortcuts. I'll have to go back to it after playing more entries...
One thing I'd suggest is that the tubes could have some (neon?) borders as their outside can blend with their inside.
Had fun with this one, I like how some strategies can emerge from the simple rules of the game (for example allowing some bombs to explode walls to make it easier to move around the map)
My current highscore is **1:50.78**
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I liked the concept of using short rhythm minigames, so we have the fun of playing more of them on a single run. The "swamp song" was a funny surprise. I've played just the Sun side for now, will check the Moon side later.
I have a question: Is that final score counting the results for across all the players?
Forgot to send an actual feedback before 😅 I found the giraffe neck platforming very creative, and even though it may have been a bit excessive I do love some fourth wall breaking (and puns, like in the joke about the dog called Rolex). As I mentioned elsewhere the only problem I had is that the game didn't support my resolution on Windows (2560x1080) cutting the top and bottom of the screen.
Great game, the voice acting was a nice surprise. Only things I felt missing were a way to see the rest of the map and/or an general indication of where the reaper is when not on screen, and some indication of the reaper's reach.
It seems that most of the critics I could make about the jam version were already addressed in the new html one. I liked the "organic" look, and loved the jellyfish emoticon faces. This was my score playing the html version:
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(the jam version seems to be very hard to lose, I've even left the PC for a while to finish making coffee and it kept going past the 100k points)
The move and turn speed made it hard for me to even pass the first level, but it may be just me because I didn't see people playing on streams having the same problem 😅.
One thing that I'd like here was a faster retry after losing (or even a restart button for when we already know Blant won't have enough time).
Other than that, the low-poly graphics are nice :)
I liked the style of the intro. Also, the way the mold spreads feels very "organic", that was really good. One thing I didn't like much is that apparently the fire from the flamethrower hits the player as well (mostly because it was already hard enough for me to avoid the mold without having to worry about that)
My best time was 02:07 on the first try... Somehow every other attempt after that I died much faster 😅:
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@lexi thanks for playing it :) (if you have the Scorecode I'll put you on the leaderboard - it works as a rather basic anti-cheat thing). ~~I guess I can share the source code: https://github.com/wendelscardua/tense-conds (it's kinda messy though)~~ (I didn't think this through 😅 repository is private for now, I can open it again in the future)
@dis0rder I didn't expect someone to actually mess with the ram on an emulator 😅.
Also, about the pun, you see... the game kinda exists *because* of my pun :) I thought about it first, then tried finding what game I could make around it.
@euler-moises bastava o Scorecode :) De acordo com ele foi um Score de 165 com Seed 0379, certinho :)
(e obrigado!)
@rickylee it's ok, I can see the Scorecode is valid:
``` ❯ ruby tools/scorecode.rb 0r65k50j k50j 12079149 0r65 217477 score = 338 seed = 224 ok ```
@lexi source code is available (again) here: https://github.com/wendelscardua/tense-conds
(it was private mostly for hiding the scorecode thing during the jam)
I liked the concept a lot :)
One thing that I'd suggest is to use a font which avoids confusion between some symbols (like between lowercase L and uppercase I, O and 0, and so on). Maybe a serif font (but then it should be one where 1 (one) and l (lowercase L) look different - they look almost the same on the text box I'm writing this 😅)
@dhim ooooh, if that's intentional then it's an awesome idea :) (and it's sad that you couldn't implement it before the end)
HARD
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By the way, I found a bug but don't know what exactly caused it - it was right after the timer ended, and I had a piece with the power up effect, and that's all I remember. The screen stayed like that and I couldn't do anything:
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I really liked this game :) I wonder how much the game would change if we were able to rotate the pieces like Tetris
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Nice entry, I liked the combination of genres. Only thing that bothered me a little bit (just a bit) was that it was too easy to unalive the zombies (so I lost my lives mostly due to taking longer to drop the barrels than I should 😅) Maybe this could be alleviated by the barrels needing to be in a row in order to match or something?
Não sei se as inspirações foram propositais mas adorei a _vibe_ mista de _"point & click"_ e _"text adventure"_. Para uma jam pode ter sido arriscado dar tantas opções de objetos inúteis, mas acho que é coisa do gênero mesmo 😅
A few things I'd point are:
- I think either there should be more illustrations during the story, or none, for consistency - I think [enter] while the text is being written on screen should first skip to the end of the current page, instead of skipping to the beginning of the next page (I wanted to read it faster and ended up missing a couple of pages)
But nice entry, I liked how the decisions affect who will help you in the end (and how the first scene hids who was with Alex at the final battle)
I loved the ending and its message :)
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Got 349k points :)
As I said on some twitch chat elsewhere, I really liked the asymmetric mechanics - and by making new gems unlock during progression it was easy to learn and get used to each one, that's nice.
If you intend to polish this gem of a game after the rating period, some small issues I had:
- sometimes the tutorial progresses by interacting with the board (like the first one, about switching gems), but sometimes we need to click on the pop-up, and it's not clear which is which (so maybe the tutorial pop-ups that need to be clicked should have a "close" or "next>>" button?)
- at some point in the middle of my playthrough there were two pop-ups at the same time, and one was in front of the other so I couldn't read the second one (and they both closed together).
Also, not an issue per se but maybe you should consider adding support for mobile/touch devices :)
I saw the posts about the game on Mastodon and knew instantly I *needed* this game to exist :) I'm a great fan of things revolving around time travel and metalanguage, and even more so of things that combine them (like Carrot Conundrum).
I found the grim dino-reaper very cute :)
I don't know if it's a NESMaker thing, but when I go back to screens were I already reaped a dinosaur it reappears for a frame or two.
BTW which emulator did you use for the WebGL version?
Besides the camera issues, one thing I'd point out is that I feel the end screen should display how many people you kept alive (because otherwise it doesn't make much difference if you try to save them all or not)
@la-bread I just uploaded a hotfix to make it cheaper to get the jetpack (actually a meta-hotfix, because the previous hotfix was wrong). And yeah, the original plan was a bit longer (multiple shops, upgrades, etc) but I spent most of the time making the "scroll back the level" thing work (compare with https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/stallar, where the level only scrolls in one direction).
Thanks for playing it :)
@grizeldi you can't get softlocked; as the instructions say, you could use "Home" to sleep and regrow the plants (and to be even friendlier with jammers, you can use it even if out of money). But thanks for playing it anyway :)
I guess everything I could say was already said by others.
One small and unimportant bug I've found: no matter which country you choose, it always says "Belgium" on the top right.
Also, it's funny how your description says "In Cattle Juice, you try to eradicate the population of the world", but I still kept being afraid of killing everyone and running out of juice 😅😅😅
I won in 22 days at first, then I turned on the post-jam better AI and beat it in 14 days (right before needing to pay the second week tax).
One thing I found missing: I wish there was a way to see the delivery queue for the units we've bought.
One thing I missed was a way to see a tile's recipe once I've managed to make it, because there were some times when I missed what interaction created it - doesn't even need to be the full recipe, just telling what tile it was before would help.
Oh, also I couldn't find a way to quit the game (other than alt-f4'ing)
@flyingkaida one suggestion: you could change the type of your game from "Web (other)" to "Oculus", so it shows up on the list of games made for it: https://ldjam.com/tags/platform/oculus
If you make other builds like WebGL and Windows you can repeat the same link with different types, like I did with my game (which has the same url for both "Web" and "NES")
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I liked how the various mouseover sounds make up for the lack of a soundtrack :)
One thing that seems to be either a bug on the game or on the rules: it is stated that "If you plant a veggie next to a watered border, the card’s value increases by 1 for each side touching water", but this implies that on the top left corner the value would increase by 2 (as there's 2 sides touching water) but instead it only increases by one.
I know it's probably hard to define it properly but I wish there were some kind of chaining (for example, you plant a 3 near some 3s, then we reap those 3s and they become 2s; then if these 2s are touching *other* 2s, reap them and they become 1s, and so on)
Edit: forgot to screenshot but I just got a score of 152 :)
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Some things I missed: some way to know where enemies are when they are too far away from the screen, something to avoid enemies from spawning right besides the player, and this is a selfish thing but I wish the game accepted WASD besides the arrow keys (my laptop's arrow keys are too small 😅)
Other than the balancing issues already mentioned, I liked a lot your idea of the resource (the wheat blocks) doubling as a weak wall, so the player has a reason not to always harvest them.
Just finished the game and, only then, I got the pun ("Harry D. Boyle" / "hard-boiled") 😅
It's very cool that you managed to make clever uses of the sliding puzzle mechanic.
I'll try playing it later but I was watching a streamer playing it now... and I think it could be fun - or at least funny - if there was an option to play it like Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes, with a second player dealing with the binder for the first one.
I loved everything that I saw. It's nice how the scoring is conveyed through a letter instead of having it in UI. The menu intro was something I'd expect from a full game, so... "cinematic".
If I were to suggest something, it would be to space things out so the first day starts easy with simple deliveries, then the next day (or later) introduce valve failures and so on.
I liked how forgiving the game was - it's (probably) always possible to eventually reach the goal, so the player can aim to try it in fewer days, or using fewer drones, and so on.
(not me, though, I just delivered salads for days until I had money for more drones 😅)
I love the funny conversations with Gary, they (and the many cat ears everywhere) give an extra charm to the game, which already had some of it on the art and animations :)
Can't think of anything to say that either wasn't already mentioned, or you haven't already addressed on the post-jam update 😅... like, the art is great, the controls are very original (but hitting my head on stuff felt like an unnecessary extra difficulty point)...
Ok, one small thing: I feel like the Emu Express logo should be a bit more prominent, we barely see it on the transition between tutorial and game
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I've yet to beat this one (clicking on my trackpad is hard). I like how hectic it got eventually :)
The puzzle itself was interesting, and I like that there's an extra replayability with the golden stamps. Only two things that bothered me a bit were:
- sometimes it was hard to see the vehicles (on this one level I thought there were 2 cars and was surprised when the game pointed out there was a third one to move) - the indications of where to take the packages looked like packages themselves, which felt weird
The pseudo-3d thing is really well done :) I'm only a bit saddened that the audio logs don't have subtitles, though (but that's most a "me" problem I guess 😅)
Sorry hot dog, I couldn't rescue you... (but I saw at least one stream rescuing it, so I know it was eventually saved :-) )
I need to try this one with a controller later, just found that with my laptop I can only activate at most 3 thrusters at a time 😅 (at least I got to deliver the first baby)
Congrats on finding a really original pun for a game :) (I don't know why but at first it took me a bit to notice I was the right character and not the left one 😅)
Although an AI may not be the best judge at comedy, at least I liked the idea of mashing two wildly different things :)
BTW, for some reason it gave me 75 out of 10 once:
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Oh, also you may add a notice about the computer time on the description (I couldn't play it properly before because my PC time was wrong, now on the laptop with the correct time it's working just fine)
PS: Got a score of 54 :-)
Playing during lunch time, got 33800 points :) (will try on my actual NES later)
I love how you make your graphics seem more "3D" and "metallic". And I gotta check the scrolling stuff someday, I've yet to play with scroll splits without using a mapper IRQ.
The only reason I'm not more impressed is because by now I'm already used to being impressed by your entries :-)
I guess I won't participate on Score Chasers this time 😅
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I guess I get to enter the Manual Leaderboard™ at 5th? :)
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I was going to post a worse score at first, but the game was fun and short enough that I couldn't resist trying it a bit more until I got a better one. BTW I'm using Firefox and I didn't notice any performance issues.
My first delivery was so bad, I thought surely the game would be impossible to beat. But then I understood how to push the cards so they fly faster, and managed to defeat the dragon :)
Maybe there could be a bit of wind coming from the cursor to the balloon to make it clearer that we are blowing it?
Just got to the end :) I liked how each different type of block was introduced; one thing I really missed was a "undo" button (to revert step by step instead of restarting the whole level)
Finally played this one, just in time 😅 I loved everything from the mechanics to the dialogues (including the giraffe o'clock reference). I also had the bug people mentioned above, I think mine happened when I pressed space right before the dialogue options showed up, not sure of it.
If you ever get to make a post-jam version (judging by the comments here), a few things I'd suggest are:
- a larger area for clicks (at first it took me a while to find where to click on the docks) - a tracker of which endings where obtained (I like that you numbered them but my memory is bad - I think I got them all, though)
One question: the person who took your coin is one that ended up being not included on this version, right? Because at first I thought it could be the person on the first area but in hindsight they don't seem tall or gray enough 😅
At first I was going to say that I didn't like the horizontal movement much, that I wish it moved in discrete steps, but I kept trying playing and... I kinda got used to it? Eventually I got a high score of 7222 points :) (I ended up not using the dash much, because I kept bumping into walls after using it, but that's more of a "me" problem 😅)
Didn't expect to see the Akira slide, hahaha
I found the bosses mechanics very clever, so the game wasn't just a sequence of "just hit this enemy a lot". Unfortunately I'm very bad at it so I had to use the cheat button to see the ending. (How bad am I? Well, I've managed to get a game over *after* learning about the cheat button 😅) Loved that ending and it's music, though.
Got some ~80 points, but I was having some problems with the mouse movements (maybe it was the sandbox thingy I was using). While someone else commented that they wanted more hints, I was wondering the exactly opposite - if it would be more fun to have to discover the meanings on your own. I guess in the end having those notes are a nice middle ground :)
I liked how chaotic it becomes when suddenly there are too many aliens. Can't think of anything to criticize here - if I were to say I miss something, the only thing that comes to mind is a tracking of high scores.
The art is beautiful :) and also the way the pigeon flies is very well done... I only wish we had more time to react to the worry ghosts (like if the action was zoomed out a bit)
One thing that confused me for a little while is that the camera does an almost instant 180 turn when we move backwards, I wish that camera turn were either bound to a key or not so instant because sometimes it was a bit disorientating (and the first time it happened I actually thought the car was going the other way 😅)
I just played it and, as my party died, I just figured out the name of the game (it's a pun with "party wipe", right? like the one I just witnessed? 😅)
I liked the concept, the variety of skills, even the choices of typical RPG monsters like the gelatinous cube :) Only thing I missed was an ending: after my party died the game just kept going on turn after turn...
My head hurts 😅 I'm at exercise 6/9, but I still need to play some other games before time runs out so I'll pause here for now. You nailed the Zachtronics vibe, and the channels thing was a really nice twist on the genre. I only wish we could see the other people's solution (maybe after we solved the respective exercise?)
Was the game updated after the jam period? I ask because I see people speaking about not being able to shoot in a different direction than the one they were moving to so I wasn't sure if this was there from the start and people just missed it or if it's an undocumented post-jam update.
Anyway I got to the 10th wave before dying. The game felt a bit unfair with the difficulty scaling faster than one could get upgrades to fight it. With the way the level clears between waves leaving the gold behind, I felt like I was fighting in wave N to get gold during wave N+1 to *maybe* get upgrades for wave N+2.
@ethan-g but the blocks don't hurt you, you only lose by hunger (only if the board is filled and you can't place more blocks the hunger bar would fill faster to end the game sooner). Are you thinking it hurts because of the flicker? Because the flicker is there just to circumvent a hardware limitation - the NES can't show more than 8 8x8 sprites on a single scanline. So if I don't flicker, some of then would be actually invisible.
@alexrose ping! I'm not sure if it *will* work on MiSTer but it probably should; I tried looking it up and apparently it does support the mapper I'm using (mapper 028)
Loved the art, and it was cool to see the development on stream (even though I was mostly lurking and plinkoing while trying to finish my own game). Finally stopped to check it out luckily the team I chose was already winning :D
One thing I didn't get is what capturing the square areas do... isn't the score just based on the painted areas? Or is it a combination of both?
@honest-dan the Windows version is known to be crashing (it says so there with the link), but the web version seems to be working fine (I came back to check how the best team - Yellow - was going :) )
The game was so perfect, even though it was short. For me the best part was when the name of the levels clicked on my head and gave me hints about what to do (I bet I would've taken way longer to figure out the Theseus one if it wasn't named Theseus 😅)
I loved this game, one of my favorite things was the whole theater aesthetics with the ducks moving around the scenario ("vrooooom").
I should have gone with my first guess on my first playthrough, but I second-guessed myself and went for the wrong culprit, so I had to replay it 😅
Olá, mais um 🇧🇷 aqui :)
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Fui muito mal, mas adorei a mecânica :) (só me incomodou um pouco não ter uma visão melhor de pra onde eu estava indo em alguns lugares, mas assim, só um pouco mesmo)
A propósito, vi o comentário do @branquelo no [Firewall](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/firewall) e, jogos feitos pra consoles antigos são mais comuns na Ludum Dare do que você pensa:
- Jogos de Nintendinho: https://ldjam.com/tags/platform/nintendo-famicom (eu costumo ser um dos que contribui pra essa lista aqui 😅, e tem pelo menos uma outra pessoa que quase sempre também faz) - Jogos de Game Boy: https://ldjam.com/tags/platform/nintendo-gameboy
Eu costumo sempre dar uma olhada na lista de plataformas ( https://ldjam.com/tags/platform/ ) pra ver que bizarrice alguém andou aprontando (só é um pouco chato que essas listas de plataforma não separam por evento, então são jogos de todas as Ludum Dares do site, mas pelo menos estão em ordem da mais recente pra mais antiga)
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One thing I liked a lot is how each upgrade has some sort of flavor text :)
I suggest you to put the controls at least here on the LD page (you can edit it), because it took me a few tries until I found out it was "hold right button to aim, click left button to shoot" 😅
Now I feel a bit dumb 😅 I played it twice; on the second run I even had learned to sacrifice fregs and food to block stuff... But I was still thinking "it seems unfair that they are attacking without me having turrets to defend myself". Then when I came to write this comment it hit me that obviously that was also a time I was supposed to sacrifice them.
But I really liked the game, both the aesthetics and the mechanics :)
I like how you got some original mechanics there with the different objects having different effects while being pulled. I only found it a bit unexpected that the train could be pulled sideways, but it's fine either way. Besides what everyone else already said (the camera, lack of keyboard controls for next level and restart), I wish the level selection had an indicator of which ones were completed (at some point I went to the menu to check how many levels I had already done and how many were left, and then I had to guess where I was again 😅)
@andreadbx oops, I guess I just got lucky and the one I clicked was the one I was before, and it was at the end of one of the level pages 😅
Game felt really polished - the restaurant-themed menu was very pretty :) Only thing that got me confused was, is there no end to it? It seemed to keep going on after level 8 (unless I did something wrong 😅). Also, I think the conveyor belt should be a bit more balanced in its RNG, because even being patient and doing everything right, sometimes I would lose an order because an ingredient never arrived.
It was fun (and funny) to play (and to watch others playing on streams). I just had one problem that I can only guess it may be related to my 21:9 resolution: moving up/down was way, way too slow compared to moving sideways; it seemed to have not only way lower speed but even acceleration (I almost thought it was something with my keyboard not sending inputs)
Finally stopped by to actually play this Myself Simulator (after watching it so many times on streams). I don't think I have anything to add that wasn't already mentioned by everyone else at this point 😅... Except that maybe I would like to have the option to retry separate scenarios after the end, but even that is not a big deal.
Finalmente parei para jogar depois de tanto assistir os outros jogando :) E, realmente, eu acho que a parte de localizar os inimigos pelo som funcionou muito bem (melhor depois de aprender que o som é mais baixo quando próximo diagonalmente, com isso dá pra inferir melhor onde eles estão). Apesar de que seria interessante ter uma forma de marcar onde a gente acha que as coisas estão, eu não diria que seja *muito* necessário, acho ok o desafio extra de lembrar onde tá cada coisa. Mas hei de concordar com alguns outros comentários que ter que olhar cada possível lugar para encontrar os objetivos acaba deixando as coisas um tanto maçantes; para não mudar muito os princípios do jogo (tipo, não tem lógica uma chave fazer barulho) eu sugeriria no mínimo a fase carregar mostrando só a chave e a porta com as luzes acesas, daí elas se apagariam e o jogador chegaria no escuro.
Mudando de assunto eu acho curioso como, ao ver pela primeira vez num stream antes de ter vindo ver o jogo aqui, eu imediatamente pensei que a arte devia ser do @euler-moises :)
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Nice spin (*wink wink*) on the tetris genre :) I had some trouble with the perspective and with noticing that I shouldn't place robots in the middle area, but the worst part was on me: I kept wanting to move the robot sideways without hard dropping them 😅 (now I know what people felt when accidentally hard dropping blocks on *my* game)
And even though I ended up missing those at first, I liked how some game features were... how can I say... "embedded" into the world, like the timer being the station clock, the "next piece" being just robots waiting for their turn to enter the car.
My front row mates will unfortunately stay thirsty, because the best I could do was to deliver one beer 😅
Even though I'm bad at it, it was fun to play and to learn the paths :)
BTW, sometimes I would get the spiky person stuck on the emo person, was that an intentional thing?
@sevadusk I did the same, thought I had to shoot the animals, then on the second playthrough I got it 😅
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In all this years I never knew or stopped to think about that, thanks snail game for the snail facts :)
My scores have been all around ~160 😅 I guess one thing that would have made it more fun for me was if there was a way to discard a card to get a new one - even if it cost a turn and more sheep arrived - because sometimes we get in a situation where there's nothing to do but to place columns, just waiting for the game to end.
\*reading the comments\* ... oh, I thought the theme was being used as "**limited** functions for the **space** key" 😅
Just finished it; one thing that I liked was having to discover stuff while playing - like the way that white block (snow?) dampens the jump but not the dash, so that staircase full of them becomes not so trivial (but I still lost much time on that last step because I kept trying to jump over the last white block 😅), or the way the order of the functions matter in one other screen (and that we can manipulate said order).
One thing I felt was missing is some tracks to tell the path of the moving platforms; sometimes I was misjudging the way a platform would go.
Finally, I've beaten the game (on easy mode, of course) :) Of all the final attacks, the final final one was really unexpected and I'm glad I avoided spoilers of it. I don't know if you already added this to the post-jam version, but can you save the unlocking of the endless mode? Because at least for me when I reopen the game it doesn't seem to remember it was unlocked.
Oops, somehow I forgot the description already says that 😅 (I didn't even need to scroll back to check, once I read your comment I instantly remembered it)
I loved how, for some puzzles, you have to literally think outside the box :)
Someone could think this game is **derivative**, but I felt the **limit** in space was very **integral** to it. (Forgive me for the **sin()** of making math puns on a **tangent**ial comment)
I had a small bug at some point 😅
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Nothing that stops me from thinking this was an amazing entry <3 (I had to quit on the last level because I couldn't get past the rest of the level after collecting the heart, but I'll try to come back to it later)
Fun fact: I sent this game to my partner for them to check it out; they said they only stopped playing because an (unrelated) alarm went off on their phone, otherwise they would still be playing for hours 😅
Didn't expect a Ludum Dare ren'py game to make me teary-eyed like this...
I wish the best to the aqua and hazel eyed bananas <3
At first I didn't like the mechanics at all ("I need to bump on a wall far way to rotate? it rotates even when I bump by accident? I can't even move the piece while it's dropping!? how would I even complete a line here!?!?"). But, as I was playing it... the game grew on me a lot :D
The only thing I still don't like, and I kept making mistakes because of it, is that the "next piece" shows the same piece that's already visible above - at first sight it seems to imply that would be the next piece *after* that one.
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The worst part of your game is that it's good so I can't make the joke of saying it *sucks* :)
But seriously, everything feels so polished here; I'd say the only thing that took a bit of the fun was that the waves start dragging too long at some point (but maybe it was just me being bad at the game and missing all the power-ups 😅)
@mascoll yes, the compo is very open, not only it's fine to submit games from another jam, you can even start making a game before the jam officially "starts". As long as it is an original NES game and it fits the requirements stated there (*), it's fine :)
(\* requirements are mostly about size (up to 64KB) and specific mappers; submitted games have a chance to become part of a physical multi-cart in the future (**), and the requirements make sure everyone's games are supported and fit on it)
(\*\* but the cart isn't guaranteed - and in fact because of various reasons they are still preparing the cart for the 2019 compo...)
Even though there's not much to do I must agree that the chickens are cute :)
Tried both versions (jam and postjam) and while I rated based on the former I think everything I would criticize on it was already addressed on the latter. But it was fun playing either one :)
Finally played this one - I had seen a glimpse of it on someone's stream a while ago, it seemed so intriguing and beautiful that I stopped watching and saved it on a browser tab to check it later...
As I had thought, the art itself is beautiful; the story was also great, but the card game felt like just a cute random pastime. Now I'm downloading the latest version because I want to replay it to see the other endings, and to see what changes were made to the card game :)
The art is very cute; the cave mood was well done with the glowing mushrooms, the sound changing when you get in the water, etc... The gameplay on the other hand felt a bit repetitive with all the going back and forth - I know, it's because of the theme, but still...
BTW I saw people on the comments confused about the "E" button not doing anything. I think when you show a button prompt it's better to make it do something, anything, even if it just shows some text like "Uh, I should put valuable stuff here", or "If I had some fuel I could make this generator work". Otherwise the player may thing there's a problem with the game inputs.
PS: I accidentally killed the yellow thing on my second playthrough, sorry yellow thing 😅
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I liked the art and, most of all, I loved the subtle plot twist that the game doesn't tell you anything about the angels :) You just see "oh, it's a cute dragon eating random food" then suddenly "BE NOT AFRAID" 😅
(I also really like how you made something clearly recognizable as a red bull can with so few pixels)
Noooo.... why did you put a timer? Now I have to try getting a shorter time :)
(a dozen attempts later...)
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@yndajas what's your best time?
You can add a ludum dare tag to your game on itch - and when doing so it asks the url from here, so it will link this page from over there (I say this because I got the itch link first, then I had to guess the LD url to come here)
Olá, curti bastante o jogo :) Os diálogos com os programas tiveram piadas bem infames mas eu aprovo esse tipo de humor 😅 E achei legal que apesar de ser perceptível a inspiração de Undertale as batalhas em si tem uma mecânica própria do seu jogo.
Eu gosto muito também da coisa de imitar um sistema operacional - inclusive fiz algo do gênero nesse jogo de Nintendinho que programei pra uma outra game jam: https://wendelscardua.itch.io/file-fixers
Agora, por que que veio uma música largada como áudio de WhatsApp no zip? 😅
Ah, e por algum motivo o texto final da lixeira me fez lembrar dessa música (em que a Miku tenta cantar uma última canção antes de ser deletada, enquanto dissolve em zeros e uns em direção à lixeira): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWVtIg5cdDU
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Great game, I like how there's a mix of action and puzzle challenges; I can only wonder how hard must have been to make the physics work so we can push the cars correctly in some of them. Also I love puns in general, so I appreciate that you used so many that you ran out of them :)
That being said...
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... can I never see one of these small cars in my life ever again? 😅
I may not have played many games on this LD yet, but from the ones I've already seen (either by myself or watching on streams) this seems to be the one that most fits the theme. Having to move in such **limited space** almost gives me anxiety; for now I've solved only the first two puzzles, maybe I'll come back later to try the third one.
(I don't have any new criticism that wasn't already pointed by the others above me)
The story was very well written (even if a bit short). Only small issue I had (but it's mostly a me problem) is that on my ultrawide display the dialog window covered most of the scenario - but I've managed to "fix" this by just resizing the game window 😅
I just wanted to say that this mechanics of summoning past players alone makes me want to give 6 stars out of 5 in Innovation :) Now, I know only the winning inputs are saved, but it still surprises me that I managed to finish that level full of buttons and spikes 😅. One small QoL thing I felt missing was a way to restart the level while keeping the same players I had chosen, but it's fine either way (I'm just being lazy, I can - and did - simply memorize their names)
I stopped at level 7 for now (and for some reason level 3 was way harder for me than all the others together 😅). The way you count the cells was clever - if it were me, I'd try to figure out a "geometric" way, fail to do so and give up.
One very small issue I noticed is that the % appears to be rounded, so a score that is almost 80% (the goal) would show as 80% and yet the puzzle wouldn't complete.
Anyway, great entry :)
I'd never expect the game mechanics of "try to merge two things to see what they turn into" to be used in an horror(?) game.
I only had a small issue that sometimes it was hard to click on stuff - to the point where I thought the seed cards on the plot were already planted 😅 - but once I figured it out it was fine
I liked how the monster seemed to teleport out of view when approaching from far away.
Loved the art and the mechanics, unfortunately I couldn't complete that level where the door is in a small platform surrounded by saws - whenever I teleported right besides it I'd fall to (re)death again and again ;_;
Given how hard it is, I wish there was at least a way to resume playing later, like a level select screen or something (on my first attempt, as soon as I left the first level I thought "wait a minute, it said every level has a lantern... so shouldn't there be a lantern there as well?", then i found I couldn't go back to a previous level unless I restarted the game)
But other than that (and the occasional clipping out of bounds that happened at some points), everything else was very, very good.
@ategon as Ryu StreetFighter says: sure you can! (sorry, this was funnier in my head 😅)
Saw one comment about this looking like a NES game, but for me it feels more like a Game Boy Advance game, I wonder if that's intended :)
Not only the graphics are beautiful, I like the attention to detail, like the base of the characters being an indicator of how damage they took.
One meta-suggestion I have is to try to submit the game to other streamers (https://www.twitch.tv/directory/all/tags/ludumdare), because it would make more likely to have more people playing at once :)
Finished the 2-x levels, but I'm still stuck on the 1-x ones... I'll check one of the vods to see the solution, but I bet it's something that I just overlooked 😅
But that didn't stop me from enjoying the game; the summoning via moves is a clever mechanic (and it has a very cool UI too).
Áudio como sempre excelente :) (claro a arte também ficou ótima, e as mecânicas funcionam bem, mas quando leio "@euler-moises" já imagino que o áudio vai ser maneiro 😅)
Eu acho que a única coisa que eu criticaria é a necessidade de clicar pra ativar o círculo de invocação, acho que só apertar o número já poderia ser o suficiente.
I like how much you've conveyed in such few chonky pixels :) About the menus looking like plates, I guess just making them more rectangular instead of square would help (like, 5, maybe even 6 pixels tall instead of 4)
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Great game, but where's Lucky Lefty? (just kidding)
Funny how one of the bird has music even on their scientific name (Song sparrow / Melospiza melodia), very appropriate for this game :)
I saw the comments above about the controls and I was thinking it would be really hard to use the mouse as the two hands are already busy moving and casting spells... but then I had an idea:
Currently you have to type the action then the two parts of the element, and the last input casts the spell, right? That leads to players typing only two thirds of the spell then waiting for the right position to finish casting it. So, what if instead the player is required to type the whole spell to prepare it, then it's the mouse click that actually casts it in a certain direction? Maybe even let the player keep casting the same spell once it's prepared (keeping that cooldown between uses, of course).
I liked the puzzles, the last level took a bit of "thinking outside the box" when I noticed the path I wanted to create wasn't possible (for a moment I was afraid it would take too long to solve it)
Other than what people already mentioned, one thing that felt a bit weird is that all rotations are counterclockwise, except when going from East to North where it turns all the other way around.
Had a bit of fun playing it. But then I remembered about the jump/float/fly thing and it became way more fun :)
btw there's a typo on the instructions:
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It's not that important, except it was the first line I read so I got confused for a while until I read the rest 😅
Besides that, I...
uh...
... I just got the meaning of the title, we are *summoning* a *dungeon* (I was reading it as a summoner *in* a dungeon 😅😅😅)
I liked the mechanics a lot - at least when I finally got the hang of them :) (forgot to capture the screen but I got 6 demons and 512 points)
Only thing that I found a bit weird is that there were two different goals that (apparently) don't talk to each other - the score and the number of demons captured. Maybe the demons should add a large bonus to the score, or failing to capture them should cause a penalty, etc.
This doesn't stop me from thinking this is a very good entry, though. Very polished. :)
ps: I hope you all have a great day too 😁
Hi, I wanted to try it on mobile, but I can't start the game at all. It asks for the username, but when I tap "username", it temporarily hides the title and show only "username", and less than a second later it goes back to the title.
I forgot to say it, but it was the itch version (I just noticed there's a play store version 😅)
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One thing that I found a bit counterintuitive is that there's little incentive to actually plant the trees - sure, each tree gives lots of points, but they also increase the difficulty. On my second run I kept farming biomass and power ups for a while then I resumed planting tree only because the easy enemies were too easy by then 😅. A more patient player could just keep playing on easy indefinitely to get a higher score.
I loved the different rules and the way the game teaches them :) (I got stuck at some point but playing on the Eternal Suffering room I think I learned the rule I need, I'll go back at it later - more exactly the interaction between blue and green blocks)
I should take a better look at Puzzlescript one of these days - I even thought about the possibility of porting Puzzlescript games to the NES but I fear the whole rules system is too much for me to implement 😅
@rollcreators I just finished the game, the game ends when you find and play the tape at the very top.
The game was great, just finished it and played a bit of a second run because I wanted to check some tapes I missed... Which I guess would be one thing I missed: a way to continue after the credits to keep looking for tapes.
I like how the map is spaced in a way to make use of the movement mechanics, it was cool to nyoom around with the long jump :)
Also, one thing I found weird is that apparently there's a limit to how much we can turn around, sometimes I had to spin all the way in the opposite direction to look somewhere (but maybe it's just me, or a side effect of me playing inside a sandbox, I dunno)
Loved this, and I see the terminal seems to be made by someone who uses terminals :)
The game itself doesn't need much more, I think only thing I felt missing was an ending for when we try to spawn multiple enemies, to mirror the ones with multiple rooms, players, and princesses.
@cheesepencil the summons and the walls consume the specific element "runes". When you summon runes it adds a random amount to each element.
Given one of the best points of the game is the dialogues, I think it would be better if the missions were sequencial or if still random, that it wouldn't repeat the same one twice.
Also, crab.
Crab?
Crab.
:)
I guess I can enter the public leaderboard in 5th place 😅
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I think the only issue I had was that, because lots of symbols are closed paths, I thought these two were too and couldn't figure out why I couldn't summon them until the penny dropped:
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(In my mind the missing lines were just hidden by the lower resolution graphics)
I found it funny that it took me a while to get to 9 points, then I saw the leaderboard and thought "what am I missing, how are people getting such high scores?"... and right on the next attempt I got to 26 😅 I guess one just gets used to all the minigames at some point, haha
This game felt very polished, fun, and funny :) One small thing I found missing is that the game over screen on endless mode doesn't show our final score.
I love how you all nailed the stream vibe - even the credits at the start as scrolling comments :)
I've yet to play your game but...
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... your page says it has an HTML5 version and I can't see one on itch, you may want to either add such version or remove that line (otherwise it will incorrectly appear on the [list of games with HTML5 version](https://ldjam.com/tags/platform/web-html5) )
After playing it... I liked the of summoning different helpers for the platforming (I think it was one of the ideas that crossed my mind before starting my entry). I had some weird issues, like places I couldn't walk or couldn't jump. Also at some point a spider pushed me down the ground and I fell forever, couldn't click on the reset button and had to close the game.
If you're going to keep working on it, I'd recommend balancing the physics so the jumps feel less floaty.
This is not really a criticism of your game but it was a bit hard to play it on a touchpad 😅
I saw the other comments and the idea you mentioned of having different directions for the ship and its sail seems very promising.
I found it interesting that we have an experience that is both chill (slow ships, calm music, summoning some winds here and there) and hectic (too many ships to take care of, ships crashing here and there, colliding with each other...) at the same time :)
I think I found a bug (unless it was intentional)... there was a card for a plague doctor's arm, but the art looked like a leg, and when equipped it did appear on the leg, along with whatever was already equipped as a leg.
As a meta-commentary, I got confused for a bit because the title screen shown here is not in the actual game.
Now, I'm not surprised it's a racing game, but I'd never expected to pilot hundreds of ant-driven cars all at once :) It was fun to try to aim for a flawless run as fast as possible, I just wish there was something tracking the best times (and whether they were flawless). Also, it was cool that the credits were a track on itself.
Finally got to play this one, and I liked it a lot :) The random latim gets some extra humor points from me 😁
A funny thing, when I saw the game earlier (either the pictures or streamers playing it) I had found the buildings kinda familiar, but it took me reading your post-mortem to figure out they were from Townscaper 😅 .
The whole way you composed the screen to make the king look down on those tiny people was very cool (I kinda wanna "steal" the color reduction trick in a future LD entry, don't know how much it'll work with the NES palette though).
Finished my first run with 7 speeches. Then I tried two more runs, but I got greedy and lost both after two speeches, hahaha. Did anyone else finished with less than 7?
The only complaint I have is that you made this in 48h as a compo game instead of taking months and making it a longer game hahaha /jk
But seriously now, I loved everything, from the dice-shaped animals to the different challenges... The dice effects even seem to combo with each other (like, A re-rolls B with increases C...).
Just so you know, the HTML5 link (on the proper submission links field) is pointing to the post-jam version:
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(but I did play the compo version, linked in the middle of the description)
It took me a while to grasp the DWARFS system but I liked it. The risk-and-reward situation of having to choose between dismantling and shipping was interesting.
One thing I didn't quite get is the endless mode. I mean, endless modes usually end anyway when the player loses the game, but here there isn't a lose condition is there? Other than closing the game (which I did after I finished the 3rd planet), does it really never ends? Or was I just impatient and it's possible to lose at it? (sorry if that was the case 😅)
I don't think I even knew this console existed until I saw your entry as the only one in the [Nintendo (other)](https://ldjam.com/tags/platform/nintendo) platform 😅
Although I have already too many unfinished NES stuff I should work on... I'm kinda curious about this thing, maybe I'll try playing with it someday (I'll bookmark this page just in case, your source code and references will be helpful).
PS: My best score was almost 90 points.
I'll need to stop playing for now because I keep failing the 3rd stage 😅 Worked great on PCSX-Redux, which I just downloadeed.
Sadly it didn't play any sound on the JavaScript emulators I tried before it - otherwise I would be tempted to jump on the PSX bandwagon next LD (I'd like people to be able to play and rate without needing to download an emulator)
I think any criticism that I could bring was already mentioned before: I wish there weren't gaps between tiles that don't require jumping, but other than that the platform gameplay was great.
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I love the risk-and-reward aspect (and the quadractic scoring makes the risk even more tempting). Unfortunately I'm a coward so I won't be getting much higher scores than these, hahaha 😅
Didn't have any issues using the original runtime on my Windows 11 (running inside a sandbox just in case). Out of curiosity, do the names of places and people mean anything?
@moonlightbomber the prologue story did felt too specific and yet I never suspected it to be a real incident. What an horrible person that husband is :(
Hi, I got curious when I saw a post on the feed and started playing this, but I think I found 2 bugs.
First: on Level 2 I'm not able to pick the "~" for the rules, which seems to be required for a "solution". Unless the idea is to do some workaround solution with the other characters, but then it's too tricky for a Level *2*.
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Second: I tried playing Level 4, and apparently one of my rules moved X to the left, outside the grid, then the game stopped responding. I couldn't even press restart.
@loveapplegames oh, okay then - i thought "follow the trail" meant "change rules so the ~ follows the : towards the o instead of spreading everywhere" 😅
@itskdog I wrote the code in C++ and 6502 Assembly using the LLVM-MOS SDK (target "nes-unrom"). Graphics were made in NEXXT and Aseprite. Music and SFX were made in FamiTracker.
@ategon thank *you*, and yes of course you can use it :)
Time to address some specific comments...
But first, thank you everyone for your kind words :)
> @magopian: (...) The floatiness of the controls wasn’t very fun for me at least, but maybe it’s part of the idea of the game? (...)
> @samuli: (...) Heaviness of the movement was a bit much (...)
The floatiness was a bit intentional yes. I have no experience with a microscope, but I had used a small telescope a long time ago, and more recently a camera with x20 zoom, and in both cases it's hard to move exactly where you want to. Although TBH in those cases it's more "overshooting" than "floatiness". The exact parameters I used were **not intentional** though, I would've balanced them if I had more time (the current acceleration, max speed and drag were pretty much the first or second guesses I made)
> @andreia: (...) A small improvement could be to show the controls (...)
I'm not against the idea of showing controls, but it's a bit complicated to do it in my case 😅 (for LD54 I tried this by making two separate builds, one that shows the NES controls and another for the WebGL emulator showing keyboard keys)
> @euler-moises: (...) Há um final? (...)
Não tem final não; tem uns 11 níveis de dificuldade, mas depois deles os últimos 4 se repetem indefinidamente. Mas em compensação há o timer de 180 segundos, e a pessoa ganha só 5s para cada placa limpa, então o jogo não é tão infinito assim.
> @moonlightbomber: Looks like this is the only NES game for LD56, based from my itch.io search (...)
You can also check the Platforms page here on LD: https://ldjam.com/tags/platform/nintendo-famicom (admittedly it's a very hidden page; if it wasn't already on my browser history I couldn't even tell you how to find it 😅). Sometimes I check it to see which unusual platforms got entries; I collected some from this LD here: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/petri-plate-potpourri/entries-for-unusual-platforms-ld-56-edition (there's even a game for the Pokémon Mini console, which I didn't know was a thing)
@pov I don't know if you'll read this but this Exa user is spamming comments on multiple entries. I just clicked on a handful of the top graded entries and there's almost always a generic comment by them. Most of the comments are the literal string "Nice game,very interesting plot!!!!Nice job!!!!" but I've seen a couple of variations (including the one above).
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update: well, they said that it wasn't intentional in the comments of this post: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/its-a-bees-world/yeah-im-dealing-with-spam-ratings-too
@sebbernery I have a question, did you say you lost immediately after an error happened? Because that isn't supposed to happen, and I never saw it happening to anyone else; the game does track mistakes and ends after 3 errors across all plates in a run. I wonder if it's a bug on the virtual console emulator...
It's 3am. I should be sleeping. Why am playing this nightmare inducing game? (affectionate)
It may not have a win/lose condition or anything, but it's still an intriguing toy...
BTW other than the bug mentioned above where a creature gets stuck in the hand, I had also a bug where, after I moved the mouth, I couldn't move it back anymore.
Funny how I had the same experience as Wind1e above - lost the game with a couple of different characters, then finally won with Christabel 😅
I don't think I have anything to add here in the comments. The only issue I had was a lack of a way to focus on the spawn point... Then I re-read the description and I found I totally forgot about the spacebar, hahaha.
You know what you did? I was supposed to be playing more entries, but now I'm reading an article about the Belgian fries ( this one, which includes a recipe: https://tastecooking.com/belgium-fries-never-wimpy-sorry-america/ )
The art is great, audio idem, potato puns were the best :)
I guess the only thing I can complain about is that you all keep making it more and more difficult for me to find something to criticize 😅
I'm only saddened by the fact that I keep getting worse at this game (I got to 11th place; then I tried going for the 10th and instead got bumped down to 12th, and from that I proceeded to never get to 4k again)
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This was one of my favorite games, although somehow I got this score on my second run and have gotten worse results ever since 😅
The only thing that stops the game from being perfect is that it still gives one round of "choose an upgrade" at the end, when the upgrades won't do anything (although the fact that one of the upgrades was just coffee tells me that this may be intentional somehow).
I guess the only small criticism I could bring was already mentioned on the other comments above: - the bug during the notes minigame (for a moment I got confused as to why I had failed it) - I wish it was a bit longer to lower our guard and slowly tease that there's something "wrong" going on (but on the other hand this is like 4 games in one, it was probably a lot to make during a weekend already)
Anyway, I liked it for what it is :)
PS: I came from the post-mortem, and... I find it weird that people missed the "Z X C" prompt at the bottom of the game - I wonder if, were the letters written directly on the buttons or near them as label, people would be less or more prone to miss it.
Lots of great things here, the UI, the art, even the little dance on the title screen. The whole thing feels polished. I'm just sad that I'm really bad at it so I couldn't enjoy it more (I'll keep the game around, maybe I'll keep trying it later).
First a meta-comment: funny how above me are comments from 8 days ago, 8 hours ago, and 8 minutes ago.
And now the comment I wanted to write: you wrote "I’ll upload an HTML version after work" but it seems you never actually did it 😅 I'll need to play the native version for now.
@epb9000 thanks, although I ended up playing the Windows version already 😅
I played until level 15, I assume it just keeps going, right? At that point I just gave up because the sprites kept stopping all my walls 😅
I think it would be more fun if: - the walls were a bit faster, and/or, - the sprites didn't change direction all the time (like, they could almost always bounce on walls perfectly, then every once in a while change the bounce direction)
... so the player has more chances of placing walls successfully.
(but maybe the point of them being sprites instead of balls is exactly because they can move more erratically? 🤔)
PS: the level skip buttons were a nice addition :)
@epb9000 oh, so they do have specific behaviors... I had the impression there was something going on but never connected the sprites with the movements so I just chalked it up as being purely random 😅
Pausing in the middle of playing it to tell I found a typo: pygmy rabbit says "the sum of the first **the** digits" instead of "the sum of the first **three** digits"
I'll go back to playing it now :)
I went to sleep after I finished it and forgot to submit my comments 😅
I really liked the whole game (in particular the code puzzle). I can't even think of a something that I could say like "hey, [...] would be better if [...]". Details like the the outline for interactable stuff, or the panning to the statue everytime a riddle was solved, were very welcome.
(btw I just searched for pictures of the Etruscan Shrew and... how can it be so tiny? You really picked the best animal for the theme :) )
Loved this game, even though I still haven't figured out all the puzzles (but I'm still trying; the last room when all colors are the same is one such case (no spoilers please)).
In other news I was happy that I got to finish it in 31s:
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... only to come to the comments section and have my happiness crushed 😅
PS: Two words - Hatsugnome Miku
This was my best score so far (and on the first try - every other run since then I had worse scores hahaha)
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I'm amazed that you've managed to make all your mechanics out of automata rulesets, it was fun noticing the little "gliders" that show up sometimes.
Concordo com Rincs ali em cima, porque eu também estou desapontado de ter demorado um pouco pra sacar a referência. Inclusive, ao escrever esse comentário é que eu me dei conta que o "radar" também é parte da referência, hahaha.
Apesar disso o jogo se sustenta bem fora dessa piada... E como sempre o áudio muito bom :)
Só uma coisa, o jogo foi atualizado? Aqui na página não foi dito nada, mas quando vi Pomo jogando o "radar" era um mata-moscas apontando a direção, e agora é um "brilhinho".
Behold the Leaning Tower of Snailisa :)
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One small complaint I have is that at some point it get a bit tiring to drag 200 buildings from the top left to wherever I want to place them 😅 (at some point I just button-mashed over there directly then started placing platforms right below them)
Very fun and funny entry, and the music was amazing :) Got an audience of over 1.7 million (1,760,000 iirc)
Now, it's gnome by everyone that gnomes don't exist, but I think you could have put some gnomes (fictional, of course) in your game to make it fit the Tiny Creatures theme. [insert twitch Kappa emote here]
Your tardigrade samurai is a pretty cool design :)
I wish there were opportunities to block, unless I did something wrong I didn't seem to need to block attacks until the end of the game.
One thing I liked is that, while the movement is getting-over-it-like, and some parts of the map seem designed for that salty feeling of accidentally losing progress, it is still somewhat friendly thanks to the checkpoints. One thing I never got the hang on (pun not intended but not unwelcome) were the hooks. Most of them I couldn't hook to, and when I did hook, it didn't seem to be touching the pickaxe at all.
I finished with 15/20 wisps, but for some reason the collectibles page still says I got zero :(
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(well, at least I got to enter on the top 10 leaderboard... for now)
Looking forward to the post-jam version (even though I know I'll be as bad at it as I was here 😅)
I would never ship QWOP with LocoRoco, even less expect them to have a child, but here we are :)
I'm so far from mastering the controls, but sometimes it clicked and it was satisfying to move around... only for me to get confused between left and right mouse buttons and then the run was lost 😅 . At least I'm ok with my score of 7 for now.
And I'm still not sure what kills the Jamos. There's times it's a instakill, other times I'm just taking them to a walk along the stage...
One thing I felt missing was some sort of audible cue when a tiny creature got eaten - and another cue for when it is in danger would be even more welcome.
I lost during the 3rd round, but had fun anyway. I saw people commenting that they wanted to see the creatures on the field but I actually liked the tiny squares :) But I did wish there was some kind of animation or something showing the cards the enemy used before their units appeared on the field, so we may learn what their tiny squares represent.
I liked how the "enemies" (the water drop, the wind indicator leaf, even the bug's back) had evil/skull faces on them (I didn't notice any markings on the wasps, but everyone already know wasps are evil 😅)
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Got the same 320 points twice in a row. I guess I won't be reaching the dev high score of 400 😅
I didn't dislike the skeleton per se, but I feel that maybe part of the map doesn't "connect" with the rest of the game - like, you want to do everything as fast as possible but then you need to stop and wait until the skeleton slowly moves away from your path. Didn't stop me from playing a handful of runs though :)
I liked this idea of having multiplayer but it's people coming and going and taking care of the same pet, no need to join lobbies or connect at the same time, etc... I just wish there was more to it than just pressing buttons whenever they're available, but I guess you've already got plenty of comments about that 😅 The details added to the cat animation were cute, though :)
The mechanics should have made this a rage-inducing game, but the cute characters make the journey way more pleasant :)
Got all characters and later all the money (I almost thought the first one could not be reached 😅).
The last level was so tense, I almost thought I wouldn't make it in time (ended up saving 11/10 blobs). Very fun, very polished...
I was going to say that only thing I wish it was there was a way to see your scores across the levels and to be able to replay them (for example, to try getting the missed golden blobs, or even just to beat the previous times), but seeing in the comments that the original goal was to have one single tall level it kinda makes sense to not have that.
As a meta-commentary I find it funny how many people as asking you guys to keep working on the game when you already said you don't wanna make a card game ever again 😅 (but it's your fault for making such a great duckbuilding game)
Thanks for making characters revive between rooms, otherwise I probably wouldn't have beaten the game on my first try.
The graphics are very good, I liked the art slightly leaving the frame of the cards like the Fireball one.
PS: I played two runs. Funnily I got multiple Heal cards during the second run, but I never saw any on the first one - I even thought about asking why there was no way to heal 😅
After a handful of attempt I almost gave up, kept losing to some question where both options were bad... Then I said, ok, one last time (bc it's almost 4am here, why am I still awake?), and finally got to survive the whole week (this seemed to be a way too realistic simulation of a work week now that I think about it)
I really liked the weird 3d paper people, and I bet it would be way better with that mp4 background going on...
Somehow I enjoyed the vibes of just answering nonsense questions with nonsense answers and effects (I don't know how random are the effects, but I never saw the chicken nugget question affecting my chicken nuggets lol).
I'm in the middle of playing the game, but I came here to say that for some reason this dialogue was mirrored 😅
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(don't know if it's a bug or intentional)
So far I think the first boss fight was interesting :)
One issue I have, is that either the sound effects are too loud, or the music is too quiet.
Forgot to say: I really like how the "attack" persists for a bit after pressing the button, makes it easier to hit the enemies :)
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At some point coins were spawning right after I got them 😅
Everything being so polished, I only wish it saved the progress between runs.
@tyrannas I had the same bug as you when trying to use the polished gem... But I've found out that if you double tap space (to open and close the inventory in sequence) it frees the mouse.
My suggestion seems to have backfired, sorry (but at least I got to play it enough to rate it)
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One thing I found that takes a bit of the fun is that moving sideways feels kinda slow - which wouldn't be a problem on itself, except the game gets fast really quick. With a field that large, maybe the mouse could help control the horizontal position.
But it was still fun, I even got a leaderboard-worthy score :)
I liked the aspect of having to figure out how to move each creature, and how they interacted with each other (I avoided reading the spoilers :) )
The game itself was very fun, it felt very polished... The only thing I think it's missing is a way to see our final score - when I died the game went right back to the title screen, so I don't know how many points I had.
(em pt_BR: o jogo em si é bem divertido, pareceu bem polido... a única coisa que achei que faltou é um jeito de ver o placar final, quando eu morri o jogo voltou direto pra tela de título então não sei quantos pontos eu fiz)
I liked the voices :) I wish there was a bit more of a challenge (e.g. player having to figure out and remember what matches with what instead of it being always selected, or at least the spiky thingy showing up on any level before the last one) but it's fine as it is now.
Speaking of the spiky thingy, I had some issues with the game not restarting after I got prickled by it (well, at least it's a short game so I just replayed it all over again 😅)
I think I'm satisfied with my (future) placement on the leaderboard (for now)
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I need to stop playing for now because it is addicting 😅 Not only the game itself is good, but it's very quick to do "just one more" attempt... But alas I still need to play and rate more entries.
PS: I love that the logo shows the koi reaching for the food :)
Can't rate it but I gotta say that 1. I liked it a lot (thanks for adding checkpoints instead of making it foddian, otherwise I probably wouldn't finish it for a while) and 2. I bet my presence on the leaderboard won't last even a day 😅
Vindo dar uma nota só agora (eu perdi a jam, mas postei um jogo de cartas agora há pouco como Extra só pra dizer que participei 😅)
Gostei bastante desse; eu só não sei se entendi direito qual era a mecânica lá no círculo da Gula (tive a impressão de que era pra atingir eles em alta velocidade mas não tenho certeza se era isso mesmo). Mas no geral gostei dos desafios :)
Agora, preciso dizer que foi bem engraçado pra mim ver as imagens gigantes aqui na página e na hora de iniciar o jogo me deparar com os bichinhos microscópicos lá rs (merece um ponto extra de humor culposo)
Loved how quickly everything became chaotic. Felt very dumb when the boss asked for a timer tempura; I thought I had to, like, combine the ingredients to make the shape of the timer 😅, only when a following order asked for a coin tempura the penny dropped (pun partially intended)
Loved this one, it deserves to be a full game in the future... (also, happy birthday(ish)!)
@creepyounguy thanks for your comment. I tried to think about some way to enable moving blocks to empty spaces, but without sacrificing the swap mechanics (which I like because it makes things harder than if I allowed any two blocks to be swapped) but I've ran out of time so I didn't implement it :( (At least I've managed to draw some nice cubes on Blender, almost at the end of the Jam)
I've seen a post of yours on the LD blog, my first thought being "hey, someone else had the same idea-ish!"... I'll play it right now :)
@Bodaciouslycrazy Thanks! I had the same complaints/thoughts (mainly the sensitivity), but I had no time to do it for the jam. I think I'll try to these and other things on my free time and then upload to Gamejolt or something.
@weekend-panda you've described the same idea I had after the jam: some limited ability to pull blocks, maybe earned by making N matches or something. Without it, the game is too hard, with unlimited pulls it became too easy. (I'm trying to make it better in my free time)
I liked this idea, a lot, but I think the rhythm part would be better if other game parts followed it. For example, the health bars should pulse with the expected rhythm (unless they already are and I'm just bad at rhythm games), maybe some enemy patterns could follow the beat, etc.
I really liked your take on FPS + Match 3 :) It kinda reminds me of Antichamber
Cool art everywhere, from the game sprites to your team's logo :)
The only things that bothered me are the "How to play", which doesn't match the actual controls, and the fact that sometimes I could mash the buttons and solve the puzzles before they appeared on screen.
Nice game :)
On my run I think I only got the fourth symbol, which meant "above". The game felt very complete, fun and funny.
Now that I think about it, this reminds me of another jam game from some previous event; don't remember the name and the mechanics aren't that much similar, but it had this concept of the player doing the association word-symbol themself and having to keep track of those.
@kapitstick Robo Rally the board game? I guess it was subconsciously in my head because I did play it with some friends like a month or two ago 😅
@guardaro
- I'd love to have more audio as well, but I'm not good at it 😅 (I only transcribed the first notes from Windows XP start up jingle I found a music sheet for); this game I did recently for Down2Jam is an example of how my audio sounds like: https://d2jam.com/g/memory-in-plants . Next time I should find a composer who knows how to use FamiTracker...
- You know what, I'm kinda wondering if I should make a proper post with my process. I will think about it, but for know, this post lists my current "stack": https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/signos/im-in-or-am-i
@jahwffrey
> Sorry, did you write this for the NES?
Yep, mostly coded in C++ with a dash of assembly... This reminds me, I can edit the game page to link to the (ugly) source code
> Very cool!
Thanks :)
@coleslaughter @conduit-games @embedder72 about an undo queue/stack, as of now it's pretty much unfeasible. I mean, if I ever decide to polish and do a proper release of this game I may consider the idea but like Jared said it's very hard to implement if it wasn't planned from the start. Even more so in a limited environment where I can't just save the whole game state every step. (... or can't I? hm... 🤔)
But I think at least allowing the player to cancel the script if they made a mistake would already do wonders to usability (or, with a proper tutorial, I could make Select/Start be the Prepare/Send buttons, then "B" could be the backspace/cancel button... and maybe "A" could be a new action, who knows).
> I think the level difficultly ramps up a bit too fast. Yeah, as I wrote in the description, the difficulty doesn't much ramps, it goes on a rollercoaster 😅. But I intended (and may even do it in the future) to have some sort of "2D" level progression: each level unlocks one in the front and one below, with levels on the same row using the same concept in progressively harder puzzles while each row introduces a different concept.
> Also, it lacks much audio and I do love me some audio. It does. It does lack audio a lot. I need some help with that.
(btw thanks for your comments, y'all)
@papaver
> When I revisited this level, I had an idea how to start with it at least, but the game kept freezing at this point:
Just so I know, did you mean "freezing" as the game itself stopped working, or just that you were locked out of options to solve it?
PS: thanks for the comment
@Emsea thanks for this very detailed feedback.
I just want to mention two funny(?) things:
- About the gate blocking signals, it actually wasn't my original plan. I did think about letting it pass through the gaps... and now I don't remember why I ended up not doing just that. oops😅 - About the robot colors, I *did* start designing the yellow robot with the intention of it being the player, and then just applied some random palette and called those sprites "other robot" (like, I had RobotIdle1 and OtherRobotIdle1, etc). But it felt dumb to have to double every sprite just to recolor it, so I made the software recolor the sprite instead. Given the only different robot was the player, I ended up keeping the original color for the other robots, and only the player got recolored. If I ever make a post jam version (and the feedback I'm getting is making it more and more likely), I'll be sure to make the player be yellow again as intended.
@euler-moises vou tentar responder tudo...
> Eu me confundi muito com aquele comando de looping. Eu não fazia ideia do que fazer no começo e penei pra entender. > Com algum tempo eu comecei a entender. Mesmo assim, nos niveis finais, que tem looping dentro de looping, foi difícil > (se lembre que para a minha cabeça não programadora uma variável já é complicado de entender).
Curioso, nunca tinha parado pra pensar nisso como "looping". Eu só tava seguindo a lógica de: - o jogador aperta botões pra mandar seu próprio robô fazer coisas - duas essas coisas são preparar um pacote de botões pra mandar pra outro robô, e mandar esse pacote - (sacada 1) hm, se ele pode mandar botões, ele também pode mandar esses dois aí né - (sacada 2) hm, se ele também é um robô, ele também pode receber esses pacotes
> Realmente a música faz muita falta! Pra você ter uma ideia eu liguei uma playlist de NES aqui pra entrar na onda. Estava valendo qualquer coisas pra não torrar a cabeça no silêncio absoluto. Já sabe quem chamar na próxima.
Sim, mil vezes sim. Alguns streamers inclusive eu sugeri que deixassem tocando algo de fundo. E, talvez não só "pra próxima", deixa só eu acabar (quando?) o Miroh Jr e o La Patifferie, que eu tô cogitando bastante fazer uma versão definitiva o signOS em algum momento. Ainda não sei se isso vai acontecer com meu time de sempre (Plem/M-Tee no design, Jordan/Raftronaut no áudio), mas se eu for fazer praticamente solo eu te chamo pra ajudar com a música.
> Alguns bugs apareceram na jogatina. Aparecem mais janelinhas e as coisas ficam bagunçadas (vide imagem).
Eu vi um streamer tendo esse e outro bug. Pelo menos o outro eu tenho um palpite vago, esse daí eu teria que parar pra ver.
> A arte está muito bonita.
Eu que vejo o que o pessoal anda fazendo ainda acho que falta muito pra minha arte ficar aceitável 😅 mas eu ainda sinto orgulho de como ficou o robozinho, mesmo nessa arte de programador.
> Claro que eu adoro os sprites de nintendinho isso me cativa. Eu estou estudando um pouco sobre os sprites de NES.
Eu acho engraçado que existem dois lados nisso. Eu, por exemplo, tendo a fazer os jogos seguindo as restrições típicas do NES (tipo a imagem de fundo só pode usar uma paleta de 4 cores pra cada área 16x16). Do outro lado, tem gente que taca tecnologia (mapper) no cartucho pra burlar essas restrições (num caso extremo, [Former Dawn](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/something-nerdy/former-dawn) quer simular como seria se o NES tivesse recebido uma extensão pra ler CD-ROM nos anos 90, e consegue fazer absurdos com imagem e som).
> Deu bastante trabalho, mas eu consegui terminar o jogo (imagem). Quebra-cabeças bem desafiadores. Principalemte do meio pra frente. É uma pena que não conseguiu terminar a tempo.
É, eu não consegui ordenar formalmente a dificuldade do mais fácil pro mais difícil mas tentei deixar as fazes mais complicadinhas na segunda metade. Só Capricórnio que eu tive que simplificar porque tava causando lag no jogo. É, eu só peguei o trocadilho "sign OS" = "Signos" e desenhei o chão das fases baseado no zodíaco 😅.
> Sabe se os extras também entram no ranking? Eu espero que sim, porque o seu, com certeza, terá ótimas avaliações.
Então, os extras só ganham o direito de ter e dar notas, mas não entram em ranking. O que é até ok, eu não teria muito mesmo chance de ranquear alto, eu fico feliz se as coisas que me esforcei tiverem nota >= 3.
Obrigado pelo review e parabéns por ter conseguindo terminar :)
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you're welcome :)
I like how the other levels have some kind of error tolerance just by the fact that, as long as we understand the message, it's fine (not just because I kept missing some letters 😅)
I wonder if TAS is really as fun as your game makes it seem to be. Kinda wanna try doing it with my NES games (I've found that someone already did it to some of them 😅)
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PS: I loved Chat Quizzly, gives "Bill Cypher" vibes :)
I loved it, the way the instructions are given and easily understood, the well placed challenges, the cute art... I think the only thing I didn't like much is what another comment already said, it feels bad when momentum makes the drone fall out of range - but I guess it's just a matter of "git gud" 😅
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Haven't finished yet but had to pause to post this (I spent too much time trying to pass this level before noticing this)
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Gotta say I agree with the sentiment of other players, this is a great entry, very polished. You all should do this hot potato challenge for more jams :) (says me, having no idea how hard it was to coordinate this)
There were only very few things I wasn't a fan, like having to wait the whole level to rotate to free me from my prison 😅
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Gostei que tem até bastante interação e "puzzle" para algo que à primeira vista parece ser só "andar pra lá e pra cá". Queria que tivesse pelo menos alguma dica de onde usar a pá (se tem eu não percebi, esbarrei no local totalmente sem querer). Os gráficos ficaram bem legais, a música mais ainda (por favor faça músicas pra mim na próxima vez, desde que não tenha muitos efeitos eu consigo exportar do FamiTracker 😅). Adorei que até o Soldado Aleatório N°427 tinha uma fala (me pergunto se mais alguém foi falar com ele além de mim).
A única coisa que não curti ver - mas que não influencia na minha avaliação do jogo - é o monte de "arte" de IA aqui na página. Não sei se é o tal do "uncanny valley" mas me dá uma coisa ver imagens de genAI em geral, não sei nem explicar. Se fosse de uma pessoa desconhecida talvez eu nem tivesse tentado ver o jogo.
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I would never think someone would make a game about a car shooting at CyberDracula, and I'm glad someone did it. 😅
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good jorb making a whole FMV game :)
I'm still playing it, and having fun, but I wanted to tell about a funny bug I found: the game keeps running after the Game Over screen, so eventually the zombies all die and the screen changes to "You Won".
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... and finally I won for real 😅
Hi, I'm still reading the PDF (and the whole game looks interesting so far - I'd never think I'd ever be interested in the journaling aspect but I kinda wanna try it now), but I paused just to tell I found a typo (I think):
> If you didn’t fully comprehend the Snippet, total up the value of the cards that **weren’t** removed from the Snippet, then total the cards still in the Snippet. Is the total of the cards removed less than the Snippet total
I think that *"weren't"* was supposed to be *"were"*, right? (because the cards that weren't removed are the same as the ones still in the Snippet, unless I misunderstood something)
PS: why did you opt out of the "graphics" rating? Surely the PDF counts as graphics, and it's very well illustrated.
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The only bad thing about this game is that it ends.
Reading the comments, it's funny that I was not the only one who forgot for a moment that we could stop for a beat, luckly one of the earlier levels requires it to progress.
@lllarso
> @wendel-scardua Under 100 deaths after bonus levels is quite good. Thank you for the kind words.
I must confess I changed it to "easy" at some point because I kept missing notes (probably I just didn't calibrate it correctly)
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I think I can stop for now 😅. It was funny that at first I would lay down dozens of "X"s and had to dig them myself because they didn't dig them for me fast enough, but by the end even when I tried spreading them across the beach they were sooo fast, most of them didn't even need to move to clean them up.
Checking the other comments, I guess I don't have any feedback that wasn't already given, so I'll just say I loved the groan-inducing puns 😅
One thing I don't get i why the game embedded here is different from the one downloadable on itch:
- here, the letter graphics are simpler - and yet the word count works - and it's easier to see if a letter is partially coded - the .exe at itch draws cards for each letter - and yet the word count is always zero - and it's less clear where we are in the letter
Is the .exe supposed to be a "post jam" version?
PS: why only now I got that "gasp away" is a pun on "cast away" 😅 I even told Kuvi the Wilson was a Cast Away reference....
My current score btw - still trying to get the whole message...
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@emsea got it... I had thought it was either that you had updated the exe after the deadline, or that you had forgotten to update the html before the deadline; I totally forgot about the third, secret option (Murphy's Law) 😅
Funny how, even if I don't know the language itself, I recognize it as toki pona 😅. I assume the glyphs are random toki pona words as well? I tried playing this but I'm not coordinated enough to score more than 1 point, apparently.
Out of curiosity I tried to search if there was a CHIP-8 emulator for the NES and someone already did it (as the person who keeps making NES games for LD, the thought of making such emulator crossed my mind 😅)
Jogo bem completinho, tem até plot twist, a única coisa que parece ter faltado mesmo é um balanceamento (muito rápido cheguei num ponto que sempre tinha ouro sobrando e podia ficar só segurando o botão de tiro parado no mesmo lugar; aí eu esquecia de parar de atirar e saía comprando tudo na lojinha na sequência).
Só achei curioso - não criticando nem nada - que a arte do jato atrás da nave é tão mais detalhada e animada que a própria nave que é só um triângulo vazio 😅
(comentando em pt-BR porque eu tava no chat de algum stream que o Euler adivinhou que você também era BR; foi como eu achei o jogo e deixei aqui aberto no navegador pra jogar depois)