Shovel Master by DBRalir 2013-12-20T06:07:00
It's a bit of a guessing game, but it's fun enough.
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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | Turn-based Talladega | jam | 3.37 | 3.25 | 2.37 | 3.33 | 2.83 | 2.00 | 2.00 | ||||
| 2014 | 31 | Entire Game on One Screen | Mailman | jam | 729 | 2.94 | 3.00 | 3.11 | 2.89 | 2.79 | 3.17 | 3.19 | 2.82 | 24 | |
| 2014 | 29 | Beneath the Surface | Reflection Runner | jam | |||||||||||
| 2013 | 28 | You Only Get One | un-Equipped | compo | 131 | 3.57 | 3.59 | 2.63 | 3.50 | 3.27 | 2.41 | 2.14 | 2.79 | 100 |
It's a bit of a guessing game, but it's fun enough.
Interesting theme, but the gameplay is a bit bland.
As well rounded as this is, it feels a bit too difficult to have too much fun with. Otherwise, a very solid entry.
Great game! The movement of the camera combined with the movement of the mouse can get annoying though.
A very fun puzzler. Pat yourself on the back.
A fun vertical shooter with an nice fantasy setting and well-made, colorful graphics. Very nice...if a bit difficult. :P
Really well-made and looks and sounds great. This is high quality sheep.
Sounds were kind of annoying, like the puzzle you had at the very beginning. Sadly crashed before I could complete it. I'd say this is rather decent, keep trying to improve.
A very solid, fresh experience. I like that you took the theme and weren't too limited by it.
I'll give your game points for being trippy as hell.
A little too simple, but a good distraction with a friend.
Very fun game. I wish the player had more than one hit to die though. I feel a bit cheated when I die.
A bit fun, but also slow and a little lacking in depth. If you can find the time to expand on it, expand on it
Very good entry. It's one's with production values like this that make me jealous.
Fun game. The ball bouncing around did get annoying though
Thanks for all the feedback everyone. It's good to know people are enjoying the game.
cjacobwade -- Yeah, I was thinking of adding in some new enemies and maybe even some obstacles, but I was worried that I would start something I couldn't finish. I spent a lot of work on the extra characters. Though I am keeping this game in my "come back to" list, because I think it came out better than I thought it would.
adnzzzzZ -- Thanks for the advice. I'm not much of a programmer (hence I used Game Maker), so I can use all the advice I can get.
A really good effort. The pixel art is fantastic for the time you were given.
I just love how this game ends. Great, funny twist.
Really good, albeit simple. The art style is a very nice touch.
I just find this game silly in all the right ways. Thanks for making it, man!
Even though it doesn't fit the theme very well, It is probably the most polished and fun game I've played so far.
Intriguing. Simple to play but it presents a very complex system of movement. good job.
Great job Chris! The art is nicely done. I kinda want to see more of it though. Otherwise I had fun, even if it was short.
Nice Bomberman-clone.
Decent game, but it can get tedious.
I feel that this game is a bit too unfair. I like the concept (heck I did a very similar one) but it needs to be balanced and polished.
I love the mood that this game has. It's very somber, if simple.
Great game, but how do I get past level 3? For the life of me I can't figure it out!
The game ran for me, but it was messed up. I was playing in some black void with a couple of flat sprites.
Hah, that was actually rather fun, and the pun was awesome. Sadly saved the RPG for 3rd to last, and it wasn't nearly as effective as I'd hoped. Kept me interested for the duration of the play, even if it needs a lot of polishing. The concept is pretty good too, good job I say.
A really fun top-down shooter with some rpg elements. Nice.
This game need major polish, the sounds sound like they were made by a 5 year old, pressing up only jumps about 1/3rd of the time for some reason, and many other things.
I understand the concept/art was from 4/8 year olds, so I mean that's fine and all, but the programming could have been far better.
A fun little game. A bit basic for a top down shooter, but still fun.
I don't get it.
A solid entry, but too frustrating without frequent checkpoints. Great presentation though.
Well rounded, but hard indeed.
Probably one of (if not "the") very best games here. Fantastic job.
Very repetitive, unfortunately.
Very cute. The presentation makes up for some dodgy collision detection.
It says that a data folder is missing.
Needs work. Nice effort though.
The game does indeed look like it would be quite the fun multiplayer game, but there is no mention of the controls anywhere, not in your post and not in the README. I spent about a half hour figuring out you aim and click with the mouse to throw the potato.
Aside from this, the potato doesn't do enough damage in my opinion, kinda hard to get to the computer and throw in time to make it worth it really
Also, in one of my game the potato got stuck in the wall.
That all aside, great game though, high quality, especially if you were worrying about multiplayer as well, even if it didn't work that way in the end.
A fun little physics game. That's saying alot cause I usually hate physics games.
Fantastic tone! ...less than fantastic jump. Seriously, fix that thing.
It's a fun game, but it can be annoying to start from the beginning.
Pretty good. I wish I could move with WASD though.
A fun little politics simulator. The results of my playthrough just show how *sarcasm* awesome *sarcasm* a politician I would be.
Err, I really like the concept and gameplay, but boy is this thing brutal! It's hard to enjoy when I an barely do anything. Still a good entry, but a little more time to input the swipes, maybe?
Wonderful little art game. Brings on the feels.
Amazing production values...but a bit repetitive. I barely felt endangered or excited while playing. I like the concept (Hell, I did something very similar) but it really should bring on some sense of tension or excitement.
It is a pretty fun game. Not the most original but still a simple fun tower defenese-type game.
A fun little top down shooter-esque dungeon crawler thingy. I wish I could move in more than four directions though.
I can't see anything...
Really inventive and interesting to play. I've always wanted to see a "hearing only" game.
Pretty decent, not the most interesting though.
Fun aesthetic, and the humor pulls it all together.
One of the better games I've seen so far. The spikes could stand out a bit more, be a different color than the grass.
Really fun entry with unique gameplay. So many games are about shooting things, why not one about rotating around and dodging things? The intro is a bit long, though
A little complicated and hard to get decent at it, but pretty good over all.
A solid game, although getting around can be a little too tedious and frustrating at times.
Interesting concept. Needs polish. Would be more fun to play if locked to a grid.
Character jumps far too quickly, it seems more like a teleport to get over the fact that there isn't any real gravity and you're just moving at a constant speed downward until you hit another block. The second level is far harder than any of the other levels, and actually utilizes the glitchiness of the game to get through it, rather than mechanics that make sense.
I'm assuming this was something like a first game though, so I encourage you to keep experimenting and get better. At least you got collisions to not bug out too too terribly, that's always one of the hardest parts in a platform game.
I really, really love the presentation and the whole thing is rather polished...but this game is WAY too finicky in it's controls. Fighting enemies is a chore with the hammer charging. I feel like I'm sliding on ice half of the time. If these things were fixed, I would have enjoyed the game so much more.
Really good game. It's always fun to mow down zombies.
Very fun to play, with the whole 24 hours thing making the gameplay interesting. I may want to come back to this one for more.
Very nice! One of my favorites so far. Very inventive and fun
Umm, am I the only one who notices that alot of the puzzles are the same thing just with more things in it? I mean it would be fine if the answer wasn't always the same.
Incredible...
Good game, but it can be pretty frustrating and repetitive considering the difficulty.
A simple betting game, nice!
Hmm, interesting concept, and it works pretty dang well. I especially like the feel of the artwork.
I like the concept, and you did an awesome job with the pixel art. I think it would be much, MUCH better with better controls. I feel like I barely have any mid-air control, and it also feels a little floaty. Nonetheless, nice game
As much as I like the style and the unique mechanic, it felt pretty uninteresting gameplay-wise. Plus I didn't understand why I died.
Pretty good game.
Ha! Very clever! And it's well polished!
This is actually a really great concept. Make a version that's much more polished and less glitchy and I think it could be phenomenal.
Have to say, I liked the feel of the graphics, and it was actually pretty fun. Nice concept. I'd say flesh it out, but on the other hand a fully fleshed out version of this concept would have to have a LOT of trivia, and constantly adding new trivia packs and whatnot.
Apparently I can win by just shooting in the same spot. I feel with more polish this could turn into an interesting concept though.
@thy-duck On the dropbox website, after you click our link, you need to click the "..." button on the top right and then click download.
@nina Are you playing on a Mac/Linux machine? My apologies if it isn't working, we never had the chance to test it on those machines as we do not own them.
@beebo-studios Thanks for the honest review! Apologies about the audio rating, didn't think about that. It has been removed.
@thy-duck Have the latest Java Runtime Environment installed? .jar files are meant to be run with Java, usually when you've got Java installed on your machine they can be opened just by double clicking them. They should not be extracted in this case.