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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 46 | Keep it alive | 👥 | Shieldbearer | jam | 1182 | 3.51 | 3.53 | 3.46 | 4.22 | 3.90 | 3.53 | 3.50 | 3.51 |
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | Pineapple Run | compo | 315 | 3.44 | 3.36 | 3.10 | 4.01 | 3.05 | 2.98 | 3.05 | 3.17 | |
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | Barcelona Secret Party | jam | 712 | 3.33 | 3.16 | 3.17 | 3.09 | 3.56 | 3.25 | 2.80 | 3.14 |
Nice concept! The largest problem I had was with the navigation, clicking on a planet just places it into focus and you have little idea were you were. Some panning transition would do wonders. Or maybe just a top-down view without any spaceship movement.
@auxc Yeah, have to figure out ways though to make any more complicated action processable with the fast pacing.
@wolderado I was afraid it was gonna be too hard and tweaked the blue-red ratio and speed factors, apparently made it a bit easy. Will use a few people to playtest it next time :)
Thanks for the feedback!
Excellent sound effects :D
Nice visuals and loving the camera/perspective, wish there was a fullscreen option. The movement would also be amazing, but it's kinda ruined by stopping when hitting a skeleton, especially a dead one. Bouncing from the wall while dashing also feels good, but then your combo breaks so you're discouraged to do it. Probably bringing the normal movement closer to the dashing, making it faster and the whole thing more fluid would do a lot of good. Great work!
Loving it, fun to play and looks great! Kept running low on blue boxes most of the time, maybe I should be spamming the resupply lever way more? :)
Never felt more connected to the angry old men chasing off people from their lawn. They just ruin everything!
Nice one, I like the dashing mechanics and controls! Maybe dashing into the wall to stop the shrinking could make it even better, and then you have to balance out killing enemies and keeping the circle up :)
Thank you for the kind words everyone!
@joh: Enemies keep spawning faster during a round, and their initial spawn rate also increases a bit after each round. But the turning thing is unfortunately a controls bug.
@davidpeterworks @reddarkwh: Yeah, the roar attack is a bit underdeveloped, it's meant to push back everyone for a short bit for some breathing space when you are getting overrun.
Thanks for the feedback!
Thanks @almost! I certainly need to do a better job of explaining the game & controls. You do control the bear, it's just the movement is only rotation around the emperor. I had some movement and emperor-lagging-behind mechanics in, just didn't have time to work out the kinks - like walking over the emperor didn't look too good :)
Thanks for the great feedback and ideas!
Should definitely go with a faster pacing & larger hitboxes, maybe even ditch having to press space to hit the ball back.
Surprisingly fun game for such a simple interaction, nice! Being able to move upwards (the camera following) would make it a bit more interesting, and maybe add some second chances on catching the ball before it hits the ground.
Why are my plants dying? Is that too much water? What more do you want from me? This hits too close to real life.
Great visuals and atmosphere! I feel like the platformer gameplay conflicts with that though, jumping around floating islands isn't really a great fit for the this style. Just walking around in some open area, trying to find scrap pieces of wood might work better. I like not being able to jump with a lot of wood, but couldn't find a way to drop it to be able to get back to the fire.
Starved to death playing video games about bamboo. 10/10 would test again.
Nice visuals and style, beautiful third animal! Gameplay-wise, other than the movement issues mentioned, restaring just the current level on failure would be also nice (especially if this had a bigger scope, more levels). But above that, it might be worth thinking about another genre for this style and mood, jumping on floating platforms doesn't really feel right with the slower pacing the atmosphere would suggest.
Nice graphics and gameplay. The control and hitbox issues mentioned makes it a bit hard to play & enjoy, but that's easy to fix. Well done!
Love that you can just pick up the aliens and throw them over the river! Two negative points, the music is pretty annoying, and the text is hard to read. Otherwise, really well done!
Nice! For a bit more challenge on on-theme-ness, you could add a rule where at least one letter must be kept, or a random letter from the word. (But remove the timer) Was not trivial at first that I can replace existing letter and not just have to extend at the beginning and end, which was hell :). Keeping it at three letters forever howevers makes it a bit easy. (Except for the timer) Not sure that more and more letters being available is intended or a bug, but that should probably be limited, or tied to current world length? For the power-ups, some attention-grabbing animation might be good, I completely forgot about them. Overall great idea, well executed!
A mouse-based UI would be probably better here, maybe turning some valves by clicking, it's hard to keep all the keyboard controls in mind. I can see this idea and gameplay being fun to play with some better controls and feedback on causes and effects. Maybe throw in balancing a limited water supply too.
Solid game! The typing sounds are a bit annoying, and the dialog could be better non-blocking. Would not keep alive a god this much of an ass though. No wonder everybody left him.
Definitely needs more potatoes. Very nice graphics and polish. I think it could do well with less/more compressed storytelling bits, so that more of the game is spent playing and progressing through goals the player has control over. (Setting the farm up, keeping it alive)
Congrats on finishing! I think building all the rougelike/rpg things like an inventory system is a bit of a miss for a short jam. Would have loved to see instead some more done with the nutrition mechanic you started exploring.
Really nice style and atmosphere. Wasn't obvious at first that I had to select patients, and just packed things for nothing. Also filled the first ones up to 100% blue stuff as I thought the 15-25 number under the pill was something like a price for it, a % sign might help in there. The customer cured sound effect breaks the mood a bit, it sticks out a bit from the general slow monotone feeling. Well done overall!
Fun! Good scope for a game, this is well executed. Kinda relaxing :)
The tutorial fish was really annoying, just let me play the game already! The time limit also takes away from the game, not sure if its needed. The core mechanic is pretty fun, and the fish look is awesome :)
Instructions unclear, town dead. Now where do I spend all this money?
Great fun!
This was pretty fun and challenging, congrats! Maybe the controls could be simplified, combining the walking and aiming direction, with the picked up thing always in front of you.
Looks great and plays even better!
Turns out getting shot at does not improve my memory skills! :D
@-FA- There is no end goal or win condition, just try to start as many parties as you can while more police keeps coming.
@kilosaurus Sorry about that, the WebGL thing probably needs a lot of juice as the game isn't optimized and there are a lot of dynamic lighting going on. The downloadable version should run a bit better.
Pushed an update that should perform better, but sadly still not working on Chrome for Windows.
Thanks! The weird wall moves were originally added as punishment for taking wrong turns, and then turned out it can also help escape the police in stickier situations. Probably could use some tuning though :)
On my first play the hole was on the side of a mountain :D Cute game, even though it seems impossible to actually control which direction balls are going :)
This is a great game!
The teleport mechanic is great, nice solution for adding puzzles that integrate with the sports gameplay. Shame about the controls, a more intense, softer and bouncier pace and physics would fit better - right now it's more like (desert) golf, and I had to spend a lot of time trying to get the ball out of corners and stuck positions. Nice job overall!
Very meta, liked the ending :)
Great mechanics!
Well that was something :D