The Alchemist by DallOner 2021-05-08T08:06:37Z ♥ 1
I think I had fun but I'm not sure I understood what I was doing. Looks like it has a lot of potential, nice work!
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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | Necromatcher | compo | 165 | 3.54 | 3.44 | 3.44 | 3.40 | 3.10 | 3.10 | 3.08 | ||||
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | Slimefall | jam | 1733 | 2.88 | 2.57 | 2.93 | 2.93 | 3.12 | 2.69 | 2.78 | ||||
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | The Obelisk | jam | 3.50 | 2.75 | 2.75 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.50 | 3.00 | |||||
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | By the Sword | jam | 2430 | 2.71 | 2.66 | 2.95 | 2.43 | 2.63 | 2.65 | |||||
| 2016 | 36 | Ancient Technology | Clockwork Dragon | jam | ||||||||||||
| 2016 | 35 | Shapeshift | Twirlygig | compo | 10 | |||||||||||
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | Button Simulator 2000 | compo | 430 | 3.30 | 2.85 | 3.81 | 3.45 | 3.06 | 2.93 | 2.98 | 76 | |||
| 2015 | 33 | You are the Monster | Baby Simulator | compo | 10 | |||||||||||
| 2015 | 32 | An Unconventional Weapon | Colour Rocket | compo | 782 | 2.92 | 2.60 | 2.67 | 2.67 | 3.13 | 2.76 | 2.65 | 48 |
wilsk leaves an average of 18.8 feedback comments each event.
I think I had fun but I'm not sure I understood what I was doing. Looks like it has a lot of potential, nice work!
Very nice puzzle game. Relaxing and beautiful to look at. Will bookmark to play again later!
Wow, that got me in the feels. Nice work.
Great job, a really unique idea that looked very polished and sounded good.
Fantastic game. I'd love a "zen" mode without the monsters, they kept getting in the way of my mining time đ
Nice work, really polished and an very interesting combat mechanic with varied enemies. Maybe its just me but HTML5 audio is always so loud I have to take my headphones off.
Nice idea and very well put together! The sounds got a bit repetitive after a while but were a cool idea, and as others have noted the hitboxes seemed a little off at times, but really well done.
Unique idea, nice one.
Nice fun game loop, although it got a bit repetitive after a while. Often my shots hit the targets (or at least I thought) but they didn't die, I feel like they could use health bars or something.
Art style kind of reminded me of forager which is neat.
It looks really polished and sounds good. Overall a great job for a game jam game!
Maybe I missed some key instructions, but I didn't feel like I had much to do other than wait for X number of resources and shift+click a button and hope for good RNG? Maybe it could do with a bit more UI feedback about what the icons mean and when they are disabled / enabled as that wasn't really clear so at times I found myself just spamming shift+click in the hope that something would happen.
This game looks and sounds fantastic, and I think there is a really deep mechanic behind it, although probably too deep for me at the end of a work day đ
There were some minor issues with the tutorial - on the first load nothing happened, it seemed to get stuck. I refreshed and There was a tutorial but as far as I could tell it just randomly progressed when it felt like it. I'd mash all the key and nothing would happen and then suddenly it jumped forwards 8 steps and I missed all the instructions.
Nice work!! đ
Looked super nice and was fun to play, especially with the dash. I thought the layout of the levels was paced well to introduce the dash, dash+jump mechanics, although it felt a little too easy in combat at times, I just ran in swinging!
Would have been good to have a health bar for the boss, I wasn't actually sure whether I was meant to be attacking him because he seemed to soak a lot of damage.
Nice work!
Nice work, really simple concept but very well done.
Nice, was very satisfying to swing around the place.
Nice, really enjoyed the "vibe". Simple but very cool and I enjoyed the technical explanation in your post too.
Yaaaay bevy!
Nice work, I would love to know how you packed the assets into the exe, but I'l ask on discord.
My train kept falling off the top of the loop and dropping out the bottom of the world, so I couldn't really get it to work. Looked interesting though!
Thanks, this game really fuels my Australian dread of long grass. I'm not sure I'll head outdoors ever again :)
Nice job, interesting take on the pirate theme! I would have like a little more feedback when pirates were doing certain things, i.e. a "wind" meter or something like that. As it was, it was a little hard to work out what effect putting sailors in the different places had.
Lovely graphics and peaceful audio. It gave me a "No Heroes Here" vibe, although a bit more zen in theme.
Great atmosphere - music and art spot on.
The only minor comment I'd have is that the story text at the bottom could have been a bit more prominent - for instance slightly larger and maybe closer to the hummingbird as I found it a bit distracting to be moving my eyes back and forth.
Cool idea, was exactly like a "real" helicopter sim in that I struggled to hover in the one spot :D
I'm getting too old for games that require fast clicking :D
Nice work, looks good and a simple but challenging concept.
Well, I lived to 31 days, I guess that's an achievement? Thanks for the game :)
Really well done... super atmospheric and a very enjoyable game loop. Flinging fireballs everywhere was pretty fun.
Looks like a pretty mammoth job for only 72hrs. The game looks interesting, but I wasn't really sure what to do so I just had fun walking around pushing buttons. Thanks!
Hmmm, seems really interesting, and a cool idea.
I had some issues which may have been me as much as the game. The first play through either I missed the "press ALT to defend" box (or it disappeared too fast when I rescued the villager), so I didn't know how to place villagers to defend.
The second play through I managed to kill the first raider, then nothing happened. In the end I had to ALT+F4. When I restarted it seemed to work.
At the end the demon seemed to die when there were no raiders nearby. It happened when I placed an inquisitor, there was about 1cm of health left and no enemies on the screen.
Nice job though!
Fun to play, nice sound/music and effects on the ball thingies. I wasn't really sure what was meant by "get to the top" so I just rolled around bashing into / shooting other rolling things.
Sometimes the controls were a little twitchy, for instance shift+left arrow would be one side of an object and shift+right arrow would be on the other side. Possibly mouse aim could be a bit more fluid?
Other than that I really enjoyed the game, looked great, nice music and sound effects and well polished. Cheers.
"Angry catapaults". Not bad! I would have liked some particles or physics when I hit some bricks directly rather than just blinking out.
Fun typing game. The first time I saw a boss I was like "3?? thats it? pffft" then I died because I had to type in a bunch of other numbers. Thanks.
Nice infinite runner, looks pretty good and I didn't encounter any issues. In terms of progression, I didn't feel like upgrades were all that helpful - i.e. my "coins per second" was relatively constant - so a way to gather coins faster would have been more satisfying.
Nice job.
Looks great and a simple but fun mechanic. I can see this expanded as a kind of 2D Orcs Must Die.
I would have loved some keyboard shortcuts but I guess that would make it too easy! Some of the help text on the second page was covered by the header at my screen resolution 1900*1200
I literally have no idea what to write here... ha
Nice looking game and good music. Only minor points were that It wasn't quite clear what could be shot and what couldn't (I shot the first robot about 20 times to no effect) and at times the undergrowth at the bottom of the screen looked like a lower platform, but when I tried to jump down to it I died. Once when the game lost focus when I refocused it wouldn't respond to keyboard input but clicking the mouse still made it fire.
Great job though, a really solid entry, thanks!
Interesting take on an infinite runner. My best scores were where I didn't do anything, just ran in a straight line :)
Nice work... playing a game where you have to plug in a game console to play a game..."game game simulator"?
lol. Nice idea and well together. Fun.
Very detailed and nice artwork. Congrats.
A short game but showed lots of potential. Reminded me of some old school dungeon games like maybe the very early Might and Magic ones or something. Thanks.
I shocked some mice slaves and laughed as others got rained on. Seemed interesting but not sure how I was contributing :) maybe a few more hints in the UI would have been useful.
Hmmm... looked interesting but I couldn't really understand the controls. There didn't seem to be any relationship between what I was pressing and what happened on the screen!?
Fun, thanks - well polished and good sound and look and feel.
Looks really nice and the animations are great. Shame you didn't have the time to add some game play but that's game jams isn't it!
Interesting idea for a control scheme, definitely not the type of game something I'm good at! Thanks for the fun times.
Wow, had to scroll a long way down to comment on this game :) A very addictive game, but I almost wanted a zen mode where you could just switch switches all day without worrying about losing lives! Then again, I'm a sucker for switchy games.
Nice game, I loved the background image :) I pressed space to jump though and the screen scrolled down and then it took me a while to work out the only way to scroll back was PgUp. After that I was too scared to jump!
Wasn't really sure what to do so just roamed around for a while looking at things. Oh man inverted mouse controls kill me though!
Nice game if a little short. I saw a game with a similar idea released the other day on Steam so I think you are on to something :)
Nice!
A couple of times I got so far out in front that I couldn't see the track ahead of me and crashed before the "P1 point". Also after one respawn my steam engine was going round in circles as if I were holding down the turn button, but I wasn't touching the keyboard.
I like the idea and the controls but I found it a bit difficult!
A great idea, and a neat puzzle mechanic. It took me a little while to get used to it but once I got the hang of things it was really fun. Thanks.
Nice job, I found it a bit difficult to keep the mouse "in bounds" but a cool idea.
Cool game. It turns out I'm terrible at working out what customers want!
Nice background music and a fun mechanic. Thanks for the game.
Nice job, fun to play although I suck at using the arrow keys to shoot :)
Basically what others have said - looks and sounds great but a short tutorial would have been helpful.
Cool idea but not sure how to ram - our ships literally merged and there was no kaboom :)
Well polished and a nice mood. Thanks.
Cool - a fun jumpy game with some neat animations.
An interesting intro with nice graphics style. Once again Australia survives a "movie apocalypse"!
A fun game. Controls were fine for FF on Win10.
Interesting idea!
Short and sweet. Thanks
Fun idea! Added difficulty because the window kept scrolling away from the game when I switched track types :)
Nice job!
Neat looking and unique game. Would probably be more fun without the two button theme so you could add a few more gameplay elements! Looks very polished for only a few days work though.
A fun infinite runner with nice looking graphics. The volume of the "ping" sound effects was pretty loud compared to the music.
Fun game if a little laggy on the web version in firefox.
Looks fantastic!
Like others it gave me a Papers Please vibe... a good looking if a little sinister game!
A very nice looking puzzle game
I had no idea what was happening half the time but I enjoyed myself :)
A great looking game.
I got stuck on the third day, ate the two chicken legs on the ground and then tried to interact with everything else in the level but couldn't find any more food.
Interesting logic game, thanks.
A very nice looking game with great lighting effects. My poor baby bunnies kept getting eaten by hungry foxes which makes me a little sad. :(
Well that made me giggle.
Wow - a pretty impressively complicated game to make in a Jam. Not sure I got all the mechanics but still, pretty impressive.
Interesting idea, although I'm not sure I understand what made a good vs bad game - luck? Nice graphics.
A very nice looking game with a simple but entertaining mechanic. Thanks!
Neat little game, I do like the bendy mechanic. Maybe just needs a health bar or some indication of when I will die?
Hmmm... looks fun but for some reason the web player just had all the planets as black circles for me.
Kind of like a base building tower defence... interesting!
Nice rhythm game with a bit of a twist.
My fingers got sore before I got to the end... is there even an end? Other than that, I enjoyed the game, thanks!
A great looking game, and very well polished. Fun to play.
(I'm really curious how you made the bean stalk in Unity!)
Very nice looking game... I wasn't really sure if I was at the end though until I read the comments. It feels a bit like a preview for a full game. I'm intrigued to see what you could make of it if you had more time.
Also, programmed in C and on the web? whaaaat? :)
Fun game. It took me a while to work out the little red pad wasn't a pool of lava. I'm a sucker for a circular world.
My people ate each other when I tried to build more building, oh the humanity. A fun if simple little game. Thanks
A good solid game, nice sound, smooth controls. Thanks
Ah the genuine dino noises... no idea how you got the microphone back in time but 100% worth it. A silly little game which I had fun playing.
Great job, really loved the way the vine grew and the flickery / time lapsey images either side.
Love it - having a baby daughter myself I definitely get the feels playing this and watching them grow up :)
A lot of nice relaxing games in this LD and this is certainly one of them. I liked the background too.
Didn't see any other players but a nice looking 2048 style game which involved me randomly mashing buttons until the numbers got larger :)
Interesting idea, however you only used one of your allocated buttons haha. Thanks!
Playing it has told me that I'm not going to be a vine driver when I grow up - I spent most of my time growing downwards!
Nice looking game with peaceful music. Music was a little loud but I think that's probably because other games I've played have had quiet music so my headphones were right up. Thanks.
Nice atmosphere, a fun and relaxing game.
It maybe could have used another game play element or two to keep it interesting. Sometimes the upgrade/harvest buttons just randomly didn't work - particularly the upgrade buttons, I sometimes had to build a house before I could click it.
Anyway, good job - thanks.
Nice little zen-like game. Initially I tried to avoid the obstacles, then when I realised you could stick them to you... ooooo!
I did like the way the terrain formed up in front of you as you rolled downhill, although it was sometimes a bit too obvious when it seemed like the seams in the ground closed just as you rolled over them.
Thanks!
Neat - almost reminded me of playing the game Snow! Best part was when I rolled off the world... wheeeee!
The "impact" / crunchy snow noise seemed to play a bit randomly when I was just rolling along.
Thanks
Simple but very very frustrating game :) I'm hopeless at flappy whatever so struggled to get past the first barrier. Thanks
Fun, challenging little game which looked very nice. Was a little small on the screen but I squinted and leant forward in my chair which helped :)
Also, I'm a sucker for a time lapse!
Enjoyed the art style, and also the idea of having "clones" or whatever rather than lives.
Nice job - probably the longest time I've spent playing an LD entry :) The edges of the text were cut off on my screen when it was full screen (1920x1200) but other than that a great, fun little game. Thanks!
Nice work! Fun to play and a good retro feel. Thanks
The jump key didn't seem to work sometimes on the floating rocks, but other than that an interest and good looking game with a cool concept.
Looks fantastic and very well put together. Thanks!
Nice! Fun to play and looks polished.
Nice work, I enjoyed the game and it looked great.
Haha, nice idea
Cool little typing game that made me realise how hard it is to type undescores quickly.
Nicely done retro golf game... that I completely suck at :)
I'm a sucker for Narwhals so thumbs up from me :)
If you miss a shot on the third level it automatically things you've run out of Narwhals even if you haven't!
I'm terribly at Solar Tycooning, every business I run can only afford a bunch of solar panels and then makes virtually no money :) Great concept, will be interested to see what you make of it.
Good fun... thought I was pretty awesome at the game until I started getting a few missiles at once :)
Nice idea!
The web player seemed to crash whenever I clicked on the ground which made things a bit tricky.
I like the simple art style and it seemed like an interesting idea but drawing lines didn't really seem to work for me. Sometimes a line would be drawn but not other times and I seemed to get lines from the middle or right mouse button sometimes!?
Interesting idea. I really struggled to hit the target :)
A nice slow paced puzzle game with neat graphics.
Not sure if the green skull is meant to be redirected by closed gates as it sometimes seemed to be but not other times.
Nice job. I found the controls a bit fiddly and it cut back a bit too quickly after the explosion effects but other than that an interesting idea well put together. Thanks...
Looks great and a nice take on the old school arcade game.
Wow... fun but as others say quite hard!
LD55 — Summoning (26)
Rituals by nelow 2024-04-21T02:07:27Z ♥ 2
Nice job, very atmospheric and looks great. I got a bit stuck after the candles - I *think* I was meant to drag the pieces near the correct coloured candles from the book, but I couldn't seem to get them to "activate" other than the blue rectangular piece. Some pieces got stuck at the bottom of the screen and I couldn't interact with them any more.
Lil Lads Hit the Notes (Or fall into lava and they don't want that) by Josion 2024-04-18T10:47:00Z ♥ 1
Neat little game, simple but fun. Its a very subjective thing, but I found the mouse movement a little bit too "sticky" in the slots for the notes. This made it feel a bit heavy, if that makes any sense?
Mathemagical Sum-moning Battle! by DaSquid 2024-04-17T22:23:32Z ♥ 1
Oh man this game made me wish my keyboard had a numpad đ. Nice simple mechanic but fun, thanks
Hardcore High School by CaptainDreamcast 2024-04-17T22:20:23Z ♥ 2
This was very entertaining, I loved the voice overs and the humour. There was quite a lot of artwork and dialogue in there, I have no idea how you found the time.
The only feedback I'd have was that because in the battle screen both sides had similar graphics, I wasn't 100% quite sure which side was mine until the results screen after the fight. Maybe some uniforms, or school banners behind would be helpful as a hint?
Great job, I had fun playing it.
Arise, QWERT! by niterich 2024-04-17T13:05:47Z ♥ 1
A unique take on the survivor style game! I had fun zipping around and seeing what weapons I could get. It's always difficult in a game jam time frame but it would have been interesting to refine the theme a bit more, for instance linking the new demons to pickups, and/or maybe unlocking new demons rather than randomly typing combinations.
Accio! by alanbrook 2024-04-17T12:14:36Z ♥ 0
Nice work, what a unique mechanic. The music was very loud for me, but cool.
archmage by OldDog 2024-04-17T12:08:53Z ♥ 0
A nice polished little game jam game - nice work! I did find by the end I was just watching the unit cooldowns and not even looking at the game đ
Mana Tactics by argensis 2024-04-17T11:53:52Z ♥ 1
Great job - a full blown strategy game is a real stretch for a game jam and you've delivered! As others have said the map size was a bit unbalanced, and there were some other "quality of life" things that might have been nice, for instance shortcut keys for moving between units that still had actions available.
Campo by Braulio_JG 2024-04-17T10:54:46Z ♥ 1
Hey, fun idea and an interesting mashup of farming and platforming. Would have loved some music or sounds. Some feedback:
- the character controller was a little floaty and often got stuck on the corners of platforms, - if I placed seeds too quickly in the farming area they'd clump together and then fall through the ground, - a couple of times I summoned a bunch of veggies (particularly in level 1)and they'd get in each other's way and get stuck in a back and forth changing direction loop, meaning that I basically couldn't walk any further. - in the third level I got stuck between an enemy, a pumpkin and the lip of a platform. It wall hacked me through the wall and I ended up inside the level and unable to complete it without a game restart.
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Orbitals by pvg 2024-04-17T10:37:15Z ♥ 0
Hmmm... I'm not really sure what I was meant to do here. I pressed space as instructed then the other balls seems to just fire randomly at the one in the middle. I tried pressing space again but the yellow balls just blew up. A simple tutorial or some more hints might be helpful?
I really liked the music!
daydream by Mathstr0fficial 2024-04-17T10:33:20Z ♥ 3
Hi,
An interesting idea and quite a well fleshed out experience for a game jam game - nice work! I had a few bits of feedback:
- I'm a relatively fast reader generally find it uncomfortable reading dialogue that progressively "types in". Most games let you hit the "skip" button (c here?) once to skip the typing in and just show the text, then again to progress. I think this is better UX than just skipping the entire section of dialogue - Some enemies seemed to hit and damage me after they had despawned. I think this happened with both the initial "tadpoles" and the invisible black cat enemies. - Often the black cat enemies would disappear for (what seemed like) 5 or 6 seconds. As I could generally only hit one at a time this meant some rooms took 30 seconds to clear where for the majority of the time I was just sitting there waiting for the enemies to respawn. - I got stuck underneath one of the eyeball bosses, (it looked like I could get through between it and the wall while was avoiding the beam, but couldn't). I took 6 sudden hits of damage and was booted back to the start. I think I would have preferred to be respawned outside the boss room rather than having to walk through the entire level again so I gave up at this point.
Wrath of Wrathmus by Fredrik Andersson 2024-04-16T13:51:37Z ♥ 1
Congrats on your first LD! I really like the look of the game and the banter was fun.
It took me a while to work out I was the little guy and not the boss, given I built up the boss I thought I was playing him. I also found it fairly easy to kite the boss by standing next to them until the attack warning came up then backing off, running forward and hitting him a couple of times and rinse and repeat. Some variety in attacks moves might have helped there. I also found sometimes that I was next to the boss (facing away) and pressed the arrow key to turn to face the the boss, and ended up taking damage.I think maybe it would be better if the arrow keys first turned you towards the direction you pressed rather than moving you, but maybe I'm wrong here? đ
I wasn't sure how to attack the boss once pieces started getting locked. He didn't seem to take any damage, but couldn't hit me because of the kiting so it was a bit of stalemate.
Nice work!
The Klent by sirJupitron 2024-04-16T13:40:45Z ♥ 2
Nice old school platformer, controls felt decent and it had a strong visual theme. Great job!
Cultist's Cookbook by chromaticGray 2024-04-16T13:26:51Z ♥ 0
Looked great and quite interesting but was a bit confusing on keyboard with all the controller hints.
Demon Farm by ViniFlores 2024-04-16T13:24:31Z ♥ 1
A great game loop, and quite fun to play. Definitely satisfying to one shot the creatures once you've spent the cash on upgrades. I would have liked a little more feedback from the enemies, at times it seemed they attacked me a bit randomly and I felt like I died sometimes without seeing any attack animation. Great job though, I enjoyed the game.
Delvecologist by Wheffle 2024-04-16T11:30:58Z ♥ 2
Cool music, a nice humorous intro and a unique puzzle mechanic - nice work! I did find it pretty tricky to work out the rules and why my summoned creatures died or why I lost the games, perhaps a bit more visual feedback might have made things a bit more clear?
SLEEP PARALYSIS by Dinoraz 2024-04-16T11:23:22Z ♥ 1
Nice work, was atmospheric and nice looking enemies. Like I others I also worked out it was better to just sit over the bed and lean back from the keyboard đ
Diemancer by WorldOfMush 2024-04-15T22:00:30Z ♥ 1
Interesting idea and fun to play. I definitely think its got the ... skeleton ... of a really fun game with different combos and effects etc.
Time constraints are obviously a thing, but it felt like it lacked a little bit of *juice*, sound effects, visual effects when you make certain combs etc. I think it might have also benefited from having the "current" score tally up as you go or having the info panel pop up when you hover over the dice in the rolling screen, as its easy to forget the specific combos.
Great job!
From Below by Pincushion 2024-04-15T13:23:20Z ♥ 1
Interesting idea. It would really have benefited from some feedback i.e. when you select a demon, or demons that have finished their turn. It was very impressive work (especially having a functioning AI) for only 48 hours.
Summoning Stones by Pe7e 2024-04-15T13:14:02Z ♥ 2
Nice work, had fun cruisin' around looking for crystals. Some feedback when hitting the zombies would have been great as others have mentioned.
Flickering Hope by Domenixius 2024-04-15T11:05:45Z ♥ 1
This reminded me of the feeling I got watching other people play Myst or Riven - i.e. I was not very competent at solving the puzzles đ¤Ł
Seems like a neat and pretty unique idea, and it was pretty spooky roaming around with just a candle.
Elements of Kha by WouterK12 2024-04-15T10:44:38Z ♥ 3
Nice work, looks and sounds great and an interesting idea. I got through the tutorial then had an exception thrown in the game. Looks like Unity doesn't throw great errors in wasm, I had:
``` Invoking error handler due to RuntimeError: index out of bounds ```
and a bunch of internal stack traces.
BIRD SOUP by jefvel 2024-04-15T10:40:01Z ♥ 1
Hey, this was great! I'm not very good at timing the clicks on the way down (skill issue!) but its very polished and fun to play.
Summoner Chess by seurimas 2024-04-15T09:52:12Z ♥ 1
A very impressive piece of work for 48 hours! It was a little small on the web build but I guess if I wasn't overly cautious I'd download the desktop build and it would be larger đ
Brew Some Unique & Appetizing Potions! by HacksawUnit 2024-04-15T09:24:03Z ♥ 2
I like the art style and the gameplay was smooth once I worked out I could use the space bar rather than clicking the green swap button! I found it a little bit confusing working out what I was meant to do initially - the format made me think it was a like a match 3 style game so I lost the first round matching similar potions and had to re-read the instructions. I think it would have been better if the groups of 6 automatically cleared?
Honorius by BitLuderRb7804Fr 2024-04-15T08:42:29Z ♥ 1
Turns out I can only remember two things at once also đ. Nice work, a simple well executed concept.