YM

Games

Year	LD	Theme	Game	Division	Rank	Ov	Fu	In	Th	Gr	Au	Hu	Mo	Co
2015	34	Two Button Controls / Growing	Sluggy's Fruit Emporium	jam										10
2015	32	An Unconventional Weapon	Heist Time	compo	238	3.54	3.50	3.48	3.48	3.37		2.83	3.21	76
2014	31	Entire Game on One Screen	Space Docking Sim 2014	compo	331	3.42	3.08	3.92	3.61	3.92		2.33	3.48	57
2013	26	Minimalism	Vortex Runner	compo	293	3.44	3.27	2.53	3.64	3.84	2.30	1.90	3.03	72

Performance over time

overall score (left axis) percentile (right axis)

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Feedback left by YM

YM leaves an average of 16.2 feedback comments each event.

LD34 — Two Button Controls / Growing (3)

AngryPeopleHateFlowers by yonas 2015-12-15T09:09:00

Can you upload a built exe please

Amidepet by Trocader0 2015-12-15T09:03:00

There's so few of us Vive devs, don't make it harder by only uploading source files and not an actual build :'(

Fallshift by shole 2015-12-15T09:00:00

This would be an awful lot better if the movement between spheres was more linear and didn't have that horrible slow down as you land. It works counterintuitive to everything ever. As you fall you speed up not slow down!

Anyway, this made me uncomfortable. I've got good 'VR legs' as they say, I have no problem zipping around like Iron Man, but evidently your spongy landings is where I need to draw the line. I played for maybe 3-4 minutes before stopping.

Walking around the spheres didn't phase me, but it was a little bit lost, I only noticed it was really happening because I have my floor bounds on permanently and they ended up splayed away from the initial sphere. If they'd had a texture it would have been far more obvious that they were rotating beneath me.

LD32 — An Unconventional Weapon (20)

Quiver of Claws by Bensonance 2015-04-23T13:37:00

Really nice entry. Being able to jump and charge an arrow mid air, slowing time makes you feel really badass.

Areas for improvement:
-I ran out of arrows every time with no clear way to get more, I didn't seem to be able to pick up enemies arrows.
-The way the camera follows the player's aim means it's virtually impossible to aim at anything directly above/below you. The camera should be more relaxed about its positioning rather than zipping all over the place as the character moves around.

SHROOMS by duon44 2015-04-23T13:25:00

Bit of an odd one. I liked it though :)

Love is in the air by BabaJaga 2015-04-23T13:19:00

Neat idea, well executed. It would have been a little nicer if the movement was grid based, since the levels were all grids, would have helped smooth things out a little

bloodshot by rogueNoodle 2015-04-21T18:48:00

Love everything about this. The trade off between reviving guys quickly and losing lots of blood, or piece by piece staying topped up on enemy chunks. The nice glitchy effects when enemies pop in. The clean low poly blocks that are almost unity's default cubes, but so much better.

Rocks.

slappy the frog goes to town by rubna 2015-04-21T15:32:00

ew groossss

Bomb Your House by rohtie 2015-04-21T15:24:00

I drew a poop in the toilet. 5/5

Lollihop by Hemuuuli 2015-04-21T14:41:00

Great work for the jam, love the aesthetic and music.
Couple small issues for me:

You lose all momentum when you jump off a moving platform. The jumps are all stupendously hard because of it. It's also super hard to tell what you're currently level with.

The camera is really keen to move on from the relevant area, right where you make the first wall jump, I kept missing the target and the camera basically had me off the bottom of the screen. Again where there's a staircase made of the shaky-falling cubes, you're looking at the bottom 15% of the screen max until you're at the top of the staircase.

Flail Rider by jushii 2015-04-21T11:01:00

x to start is a reaaaallllly unintuitive key. Frustratingly odd choice.

Otherwise, this was awesome. Lots of fun. And hard :(

Slam Jam Bakery by DragonXVI 2015-04-20T19:07:00

Aiming with the mouse wasn't working for me for some reason, nor with the right stick, it was however taking the triggers as aim input, so with some very hamhanded aiming I was able to get through a little bit. And what I saw was great. The flying by spraying out purple juice is great, as is jamming up gears and swamping hostile...things...

Really nice

Bagelbot by furriKira 2015-04-20T18:42:00

Very impressive for a compo entry, the break time when you lose focus is a really nice touch.

Enemy patterns aren't too varied, so it's possible to stand at one side(halfway up the screen), face the other and spam fire. You'll hit virtually all of the red dudes and miss with virtually no bagels, this wouldn't be the case at all if they didn't pause when eating.

Space Cowboy by jk5000 2015-04-20T18:04:00

First 3-4 attempts ended at <10s. Wasn't sure what was going on, but I think because I didn't realise you could move, I was shooting the first alien to get angry but the hit detection was grazing the alien between me and the angry one.

Sooo once I realised you could move around the scene things got a lot better.

The voice chatter from the aliens is great, they look like jellytots too which is pretty amusing.

The mouse sensitivity is stupendously low so I cut my successful run short at just 45 seconds to avoid getting wrist pain.

So overall, pretty funny. Lots of potential if developed further :)

Rogue Paper Scissors by bearcabin 2015-04-20T17:49:00

What a neat concept for a roguelike.

I got to floor 19 on my third run

Emotional Golf by CamRFWhite 2015-04-20T17:43:00

It doesn't seem very responsive to where I'm pressing. I can't really tell if it will actually drop the bomb where I click or not. Nor can I tell what kind of area the bomb will actually effect.
It's an interesting idea even if it's a little rough around the edges

The Heist by blaster391 2015-04-20T16:41:00

I am struggling with the controls, and having to swap manually to the hacked person after performing the hack takes time and wastes it.

Death Touch by uheartbeast 2015-04-20T12:35:00

You need lightning reflexes, the enemies who are at the veeeeerrrrry edge of the screen still mostly obscured by the vignette keep killing me. Exiting stairs near an enemy is also a pretty unfortunate situation.

Other than the gruelling difficulty right off the bat, it's pretty nice. I like.

Calling Mr. Blacksmith by Junber 2015-04-20T12:26:00

I don't think I can get to these stairs: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2126504/stairs.JPG

Beta Bot by Josh Riley 2015-04-20T10:52:00

haha I love the idea that you have to earn basic functionality like attacking. Really fun to play

What Do They Want? by DesignerNap 2015-04-20T10:47:00

Getting lots of fatal errors :(

action number 1
of Mouse Event for Left Button
for object obj_spaceButton:
Push :: Execution Error - Variable Get -5.fakePOW(100024, -2147483648)
at gml_Object_obj_spaceButton_Mouse_0

Never figured out what this button does because it always crashed, also if I tried to fire once the Earth was destroyed, similar message.

Once I stopped doing those things though I made it through the whole game. Getting near misses is hard!
I like the idea that sometimes Aliens just need a hand with something. At least, that was my interpretation, did I get that right?

Food Fight by jovoc 2015-04-20T10:19:00

It'd be really nice if the evil turnips didn't always come at you in single file, it makes standing still and holding down space the best way to win. A little randomisation or patterns in their motion would go a long way. They don't walk into the grinder either which is a little disappointing.

Everything looks great though, it's a solid base for 48 hours. Lots of potential :)

(mental)fairy by 0x0961h 2015-04-20T10:10:00

Got art and sounds down, it all looks great.

The idea of personal demons was cool, though I couldn't tell which of the enemies was my personal demon because they're facing away and the portrait is facing you

The big area of improvement here would be how enemies spawn, they spawn and move slowly and very predictably, once you've got the 3-split weapon every single enemy will enter its path if you sit in the middle, and they're all slow enough that nothing will ever get beyond halfway with this stationary method.

Lots of potential

LD31 — Entire Game on One Screen (16)

I Am Technician by Murchurl 2014-12-14T23:06:00

Love it

Super Mega Ultimate Game of Minigames! by NuclearChocolate 2014-12-08T05:55:00

Feels like its a multiplayer with only one player.
10 seconds between minigames is a long time, especially as it makes you wait that at the start.

Critters by salmonmoose 2014-12-08T05:54:00

Clearly very similar to lemmings, but that's ok if you're going to continue to take it to new places (or just learning)

Is there a functional difference between bricks and struts?

Screen Saver by Vtor 2014-12-08T05:04:00

ooooooooOOOOOOoooooooooEEEEeeeeeeeeeeooooooooooOOOOoooooo

Nice.

Core by MrSun 2014-12-08T04:58:00

Really nice concept. Can be a little tricky getting the jumps right initially but with a bit of practice it gets easier.
I love how recursive it is too, with a bit of polish this could make a decently addictive mobile game

Explosive Painting by snowyowl 2014-12-08T04:47:00

Hahaha letting me save the canvas afterwards, what an idea!

Character is a paintbrush and yet shoots paint? butt-hearts?

Love it.

Trapped?! by Grouflon 2014-12-08T04:34:00

Got to the end :)
Took me a little wile to figure out what exactly the mechanic was, but as soon as I realised the rest came pretty easily.

Yibbits by cbear_wallis 2014-12-08T04:13:00

I am -terrible- at this kind of thing but this started going neat places. Had a nice "ahhhhhh" moment when reaching the first start and the next level popped in.

Adventure 31 by Somfunambulist 2014-12-08T04:00:00

Died first time and when my sprite reappeared the controls did nothing, died a second time and got a fatal error:

FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Draw Event
for object O_RopeBridge:
Push :: Execution Error - Variable Get -1.Sag(100033, -2147483648)
at gml_Object_O_RopeBridge_Draw_0

Besides that, this is a nice interpretation of the theme. I like the idea that it's a zelda like world, but screens are large enough now that you can draw the whole map at once.

Could probably have done with 2x pixel scale, it's really tiny.

Two Hearts by dkilford 2014-12-08T03:52:00

Windows link is a 404 :(

Leviathan by jovoc 2014-12-08T03:51:00

Prettty fun. Took a few goes to work out what was going on. It'd be nice if the creep's text was the right way up, made me think it was an alternate use for the card rather than a response.
With a little bit of polish and some audio this would make a really nice little game. :D

Paws of Fury by ehtd 2014-12-08T03:44:00

Haha there's no way I can click fast enough for this D:

Skyfarms by GagaPete 2014-12-08T03:41:00

Nice and simple. It's sad that you can't jump or fire faster though as it quickly leads to getting stuck in a corner with too much coming for you to escape.

This Is How It Comes About by DesignerNap 2014-12-08T03:27:00

I like it. Simple and effective.

I crashed that plane too many times to admit. heh

Avalanche by uvwar 2014-12-08T03:13:00

Ye gods, "Entire Game on One Screen...and the surounding walls, the ceiling and the floor too" How big is your monitor?

The music was nice, pretty comical actually, but it faded out to almost silent as soon as I moved the goat away from the start position.

I must admit, I can't get beyond the little avalanche, I'll try again later.

Dabug by Devark 2014-12-08T02:59:00

15170 was my best score. It tails off and gets a little sparse between 5000MB and 10000MB with all three powerups (were there more?)

The graphics and sounds that are in there are nice, it has a very polished feel to it.

I was really hoping it would start using GB, TB and so on as my score got higher, it really felt like that was going to be a thing. Still, a great overall entry :D

LD26 — Minimalism (26)

Dot by Frolacosta 2013-05-08T15:37:00

252 clicks. Neeeaaattoooo little thing. Reminds me a little of dontclick.it or whatever that experimental site was called.

Mustache Armies by TurboDindon 2013-05-05T16:10:00

39 soldiers used.
Ballin

Stargazers by Cake&Code 2013-04-30T10:00:00

Wow really nice!

The Unseen by Lamprabbit 2013-04-30T09:40:00

This is beautiful.

As everyone else says the collisions are _very_ unclear.

I must have been wandering around for half an hour, I can't find my body. I used up all my explosions, barely any of it is left still hidden and no sign of my body. I realised once I got to the opposite end that I didn't even know what I was looking for! What does MY body look like? How is it distinguished from the 50 or so I've left lying around the battlefield from stubbing my toe and falling to my death?

Anyway, this is really good and with a teeny bit more polish it could be great. :D

Arena by rogueNoodle 2013-04-29T23:38:00

Beautiful

Escape From _____ Mansion by Cosine 2013-04-29T23:32:00

Really nice concept. The limited vision mode was a bit harsh but I suppose that's the challenge!

Minimalistic Color Labyrinth by humpback studios 2013-04-29T23:16:00

116s 38 conversions. :)

Atom That Matters by Babek 2013-04-29T23:06:00

This is probably my favourite so far. Lovely aesthetic, lovely ambiance, interesting gameplay. Floating space toilets :D

I did the first go trying to shed all the junk and had quite a bit of difficulty, then the second time I tried to collect as much junk as possible instead and had far more fun!

ITTEN by Avrec 2013-04-29T17:18:00

Love the visual style and sounds, hate the jump mechanic. It feels so artificially slow and forced. There's one jump that's just to get over a knee high platform, that really illustrated how wrong your mechanic feels.

There were lots of low jumps where you jump as though you're going really high, but hit your head. Awkward.

To improve it I'd split it into two kinds of jumps, short and long. Short requires no breathing but is really small, longer requires the breath mechanic. I'd also allow inhaling and walking so you can maintain the flow when approaching a jump instead of having to stop before each one. Being able to breath and move at the same time would also prevent all the (many) miss-fires where I started moving a split second before pressing space resulting in a cancelled jump and a fall to my death.

:)

CubeLike by stuckshut 2013-04-29T16:39:00

Took me a _long_ time to realise that + and - didn't work for the stairs and that I had to use the numpad's + and -

Other than that, nice and clean and simple :)

Ville by simvig 2013-04-29T14:29:00

Not sure if I found prosperity or not. I found the bitter plant, that was the last message I got before reaching thousands of people/resources with all the buildings placed I could. Nothing happened in the last 10 minutes so either I missed the objective or the objective is just to continue on.

Please don't force fullscreen if you don't know my resolution, it messes everything up with multiple monitors! :(

MinimalJump by Xatulu 2013-04-29T13:53:00

Dead ends :(

The Last Tower by MagiMaster 2013-04-29T13:35:00

I liked the random (or reasonably extensive) enemy shape design.

It starts off incredibly slowly and takes quite some time to build to an interesting pace but even then enemies seem to be limited to one at a time which makes the concept of any of them reaching the tower quite unrealistic and pushes a game with potential into the realm of wasting it.

SquareRoot by Masadow 2013-04-29T13:14:00

Really like the idea that each colour does something different, controls felt just a little too slipery for fine control and wall-avoidence but overall very nice. :)

<Insert Title Here> by hannardynamite 2013-04-29T13:07:00

Had a red spawn half in a wall and get stuck, also seemed to lose a life if I went in the top left corner, otherwise pretty neat :)

I Dream Of Circles by SpaceStudios 2013-04-29T13:04:00

I'm not sure if falling through the blocks more and more as the game goes on was intentional, but it stopped me progressing beyond the first screen of circcledom :(

Run by Ryxuma 2013-04-29T12:39:00

"ere have you gon"?

Darkness by LrdKzrth 2013-04-29T12:22:00

Same as MagiMaster, win7 64bit and it just blanks the screen and sits there. As soon as I try to get back to the desktop it stops responding. :(

WAY. by celiacjoe 2013-04-29T12:11:00

Oooh really nice concept,

1951 by Andrei Barsan 2013-04-29T11:29:00

Pretty good :)

After the introduction of the + particles I didn't realise the - particles couldn't be merged with them so I spent quite a frustrating while trying to do so.

The click+drag mechanic was quite tricky and the movement of the particles didn't seem to add anything of value to the puzzle of merging the correct ones. It only seemed to be a source of frustration.

Graphics were good, level of polish was high, just needs sounds and this would be complete.

Gravity Worm by steve 2013-04-29T11:03:00

Fantastic!
Simple, clean, challenging and fun. Couldn't ask for more in a puzzle game

20 Seconds by KayZ 2013-04-29T10:50:00

I kept losing the balls because my mouse was in the wrong place as the 20 seconds ticked down.
Losing balls quickly combined with the occasional 20 seconds of indended nothing meant about 70% of the time I was doing absolutely nothing feeling quite frustrated :(

I like idea of doing something new every 20 seconds, but the implementation was off, too much waiting around.

Noise by Diventurer 2013-04-29T10:35:00

Never saw more than 2 rainbow sprites on screen at once and even 2 at once was quite rare.
Lowscore -315,296
I can only assume the noise devoured me lots. I had incredible trouble collecting the rainbowsprites. I could circle around one trying to hit it and missing every time for ages and ages. Then the noise suddenly vanished, my score jumped into positives and I can only assume the game reset, though there was no indication of that being the case.

SOLIX by bentog 2013-04-29T09:50:00

Really nice puzzle mechanic, fun to work out and complete.

The friction on surfaces got very annoying though and when combined with the timing elements proved too much for me.

Centroid by daniel 2013-04-29T09:29:00

Finally lost at level 15, could do with a restart button!
Enjoyed the concept but it quickly lost its fun as the shapes became more random smatterings of colours

Littleballs by littleball 2013-04-29T09:09:00

Liking this. It's a simple and easy to understand game initially but there seems to be quite a bit of complexity in the explosions wich would add depth as you learn more of the strategy.

I was only playing by myself but I had a few surprises where the losing colour came right back and won in only a few turns.

Only thing it's missing is a "replay" button once somebody wins.

:)