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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Cm | Co | ||
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| 2014 | 30 | Connected Worlds | Alien Gift Exchange | jam | 294 | 3.35 | 3.33 | 3.52 | 3.95 | 4.30 | 3.90 | 3.29 | 26 | ||||
| 2013 | 26 | Minimalism | The Side Factor | jam | 99 | 3.62 | 3.14 | 3.59 | 2.97 | 4.00 | 3.17 | 3.15 | 49 | ||||
| 2012 | 25 | You are the Villain | Reclaimed Empire | compo | 635 | 2.46 | 2.08 | 2.42 | 1.88 | 4.04 | 2.29 | 1.23 | 2.42 | 41 | |||
| 2012 | 24 | Evolution | Maple | compo | 641 | 2.41 | 2.35 | 3.09 | 1.87 | 3.04 | 2.43 | 1.62 | 2.47 | 45 | |||
| 2012 | 23 | Tiny World | Desire | compo | 160 | 3.45 | 3.00 | 3.97 | 3.62 | 3.34 | 2.28 | 2.33 | 2.95 | 52 | |||
| 2011 | 22 | Alone | Statue | compo | 186 | 3.00 | 2.53 | 2.11 | 2.94 | 3.60 | 1.50 | 1.09 | 2.83 | 1.70 | 52 | ||
| 2011 | 21 | Escape | Qua-tzar | compo | 360 | 2.54 | 2.00 | 3.38 | 2.00 | 2.23 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 2.80 | 6 |
zazery leaves an average of 20.0 feedback comments each event.
Solid experience overall. The graphics, gameplay, and audio come together quite well. I noticed balls clipping through already drawn lines. I like how the spaces you create need to adhere to Mondrian dimensions.
Think about adding more levels and challenges for the player to meet like a point/area that needs to be covered in a specific colour.
Took a long time to load the HTML5 version. I like the resource system and the speed of the game. I died almost instantly since it took me a few seconds to realize where my character was.
Beautiful game. The levels were very entertaining to play with the low passage ways so you'll rapidly destroy blocks to break up the pacing.
I played against myself. It's an interesting game. I like the aesthetics and the audio is pretty good. Gameplay wise I found the Wizard the most difficult piece to position but it was also the most useful.
Nice multiplayer game. It's a bit hard to tell when a ball is going to be repelled by a ring and who owns each ball. I do like the force mechanic but I always forget to release movement. Great job on the game!
Very deep game. I felt a connection to the characters.
I scored 25 on my second go once I read the instructions. Once you get a nice rhythm going it feels great.
Looks so pretty both in visuals and animation. The ending was beautiful. At first I was trying to collect as much junk as possible. Reverse Katamari, neat!
Really interesting game. If you made the rules behind each module more clear ahead of time it would be a really solid game. Consider making a board game version of it with randomized event cards and releasing it on The Game Crafter.
Took me 9 rounds to beat the CPU. I like how minimal the rules are and yet it's quite interesting. The trick I found to defeating the CPU is to more 1 square a turn by moving a space, forward, and back. I also noticed blue didn't move sometimes.
Loved the music and the art. It set a good mood for the story which I quite liked. I beat the game.
Anyone who is having trouble beating the game should be holding down spacebar for rapid fire. Your shots have a longer reach than the turrets too.
It's very satisfying to see them fight. The visuals are quite pleasing and it's just cubes. I discovered on my own that you could click on a unit to zoom in, that was a pleasant surprise. Great job!
The audio is a bit quiet and the music stops playing in game.
At first I was shooting everything, then I read about the idea and thought it was pretty neat. It would've helped if there was a bit of feedback but I guess it's very minimal.
I clicked on the link without seeing the screenshot. I was pleasantly surprised when I hit the green S'. Sometimes it was a bit hard to understand but it was pretty cool.
Pretty challenging but I like the idea of putting on different hats to change your controls. The sword's idle position makes it seem like just running into an enemy should damage them.
Made it to the second platform. This game is really hard without visuals in the background to tell your velocity. It sounds like this was intention because of the theme. One way you could have done it without adding visuals is make the camera lag slightly behind the character. Congrats on your first LD!
Outstanding game! Reminds me of SpaceChem.
It took me awhile to realize I needed to drag a component onto a vat because I thought I needed to rearrange them on the board. The in game tutorial is very well done otherwise and the level design is smart.
No problem running it on Windows 7. Controls are intuitive but feel a little sluggish. It's hard to tell when you hit something or how much health you have left. I like the ship design and the graphic style of using AO and flat shaded low-poly ships.
It didn't take me long after reading the instructions. At first I didn't realize it was timed and when I started playing I lost almost immediately.
I really loved the concept and the execution. Excellent work!
The attention to detail in the animations is incredible and the gameplay feels pretty tight. I'm a big fan of local multiplayer games so I'll try it when my friends are over.
I think it would look even better at 2x pixel resolution. Both Chrome and Firefox make the edges fuzzy when zooming in.
I really enjoyed the game, great work! I was able to figure out how to play the game without reading your instructions. The graphics you have are good but I think you could push it a bit further if you had time. Instead of using arrows the path could be a dirt path. It would be great to see art for each building that showed the progress of your upgrades. I had a hard time remembering which buildings I had already maxed out. What you did for the compo is fine, however, I'm just talking about where you can go from here.
As for gameplay I found it too easy but I can see a lot of potential in the current systems. See what you can do to give players more meaningful choices. There are some interesting ones now and the upgrades are very thematic to the building.
Here's a screenshot of when I stopped playing: http://puu.sh/1Eyxv (all upgrades)
Cool idea. For the longest time I couldn't figure out why I could kill one chef but not the other with the wire. Then I found it I was supposed to poison the food. I think if you add some animations that explain why a method doesn't work would make the game more interesting. For example I thought about why killing the right chef first wouldn't work since the other one would see it.
At first I thought the health icon represented portals and that every time I fell it looped me back to the top. The speed you can get is insane. Just hold right and you're a blur.
I really like the concept but I found it a bit difficult to control. Audio was awesome.
I found this game very challenging. Graphics and level design are interesting.
Freezes in Chrome so I downloaded the Windows version. Not a big fan of installers but I played it anyway. I liked the ending I got, it was a pretty neat idea. It took me awhile to figure out I couldn't jump over the black platforms (it does look like you can walk under them too)
When I first read the description of the game I imagined upgrading the AI to adapt to the behavior of the enemy. Well, the experience was completely different but it was pretty interesting. The malfunctions had more to do with the environment than the ships themselves. The gameplay had a really good tempo to it.
Nice graphic style.
Nice aesthetic and concept.
As others have mentioned the controls were difficult to master. Often I would try to jump from a wall and just fall instead. The game looks nice and the audio is pretty good. I did skip to the end to see the theme and it's an interesting idea.
I thought the concept was interesting. At first I didn't realize I had to stay upright but once I failed I understood. It was difficult to tell if you were touching an object or not.
Nice graphics. I think the theme would've come through more if it was easier since villains need to think they are winning.
I enjoyed playing it. The choices were intuitive enough to figure out what would happen to your stats.
It's hard to tell which areas will lead you to your doom. It's also quite easy to get lost without recognizable landmarks. The audio really works well with the visual style.
Nice atmosphere. I saw an early screenshot of your game and it inspired me to explore Unity's image effects in mine. I especially liked the rooms with the curved walls near the beginning.
When I saw the screenshot I became really excited. Great concept and I was not disappointed with the execution.
I wasn't sure what the objective of the game was. I assume it's to annihilate all life on the planet but that doesn't seem to match the name.
The web version didn't work for me despite other Unity games working so I downloaded the Windows build.
I enjoyed watching the ecosystem grow. At first I ate a lot of trees and grew really big. Then I wanted to try to be a carnivore but there's a slight delay after you take a bite out of another cube that was frustrating so I gave up on that. The relationship between what you eat and what you become is a bit confusing. Graphics were nice but the audio was a bit repetitive.
Love the pixel art animations. Gameplay feels tight but sometimes it's hard to know if you got hit.
Interesting concept but I wish there were more powers you could research. The music gives it a nice mood.
That got creepy fast. Beautiful pixel art, great mood, and the audio is really well done. The timelapse was pretty cool to watch too.
Catching birds isn't a mechanic I've seen in the games I've rated so far. It's interesting but like other people have said there needs to be a point to it. I was expecting to die of starvation without eating birds, then I thought it was about matching birds like catching 6 of a kind.
Animations are nice but the sound effects are a bit annoying. Sounds like sfxr. Try selecting a Sin wave for a softer chirp and running it through the equalization filter in Audacity. I'm not an audio expert though.
It took a bit to figure out what was going on but it was pretty fun once I figured it out. I like the dynamic of crashing into planets to pickup bacteria and avoiding hitting newly seeded planets.
I watched in horror as my Mincertrons huddled up between the ramps starving while an impending asteroid attack was coming. Most starved before the asteroids came. 2 survived in the end.
Neat idea but it's not fun at this point but I can see it becoming fun after some tweaks. Mainly the interface needs improvement. For example, displaying the name of each horse next to them on the main screen. The racing screen is fun since watching your horse race is pretty entertaining. At first I was confused which similarly coloured horse was mine so maybe an indicator above that horse would help. Without entering the breeding screen it should be easy to tell when a horse is ready to breed. Perhaps a heart could float above the horse's head when they are ready. The put down button is kind of close to the okay button and there is no confirmation. I ended up losing a horse I wanted to keep.
There's a lot of downtime between breeding since you can only have 6 horses. Still, overall this is a pretty cool idea.
This is so awesome. The DNA code sharing is awesome.
This game feels really fun. Thee visual effects, specifically the speed trail and how it changes based on speed feels really tight.
It's a bit frustrating when you fall down. Thought it was really cool how you evolve when you move up a level.
Once you understand how to play it's a pretty fun game. Ask the villagers questions and know when to migrate before the dumb cat comes.
Fun little tool and interesting take on the theme. I'm usually pretty bad at drum machines but I was able to make something decent with this one.
I must have played this at least 20 times. The core mechanic is really fun. I made it past the first 2 levels and half way through the third. This game has a lot of potential and I could see it being successful on mobile devices or web portals.
At first it took a bit to figure out how the the mouth worked. I thought the yellow bar indicated how large the mouth was. Since the green squares are on a grid, the corners of the mouth are the same size. Drawing a distinctive mouth on all sides of the cube would make it much easier to understand.
I'm still not clear on how the orange bar works, the semi-transparent rectangles you leave behind, and what direction the cube expands. Although I think the last two are related.
It feels like this is a mechanic that can be explored even further. I hope you expand on it.
*Hits spacebar* "Whoah!!!"
A bit hard to know what to do. The 3D elements look interesting for the perspective.
Played it by myself. I really like the building mechanic. I think the end condition should be tied to building things. Like once a player builds somewhere, there's a period where another player can destroy it until it becomes permanent. Whoever has the most buildings win. Buildings could have upgrades too. So much potential!
I beat the game on Tiny World mode. I really like how landing and taking off from planets works. It feels really good. In space unless you see planets it's hard to gauge how fast you're travelling. If there are little specks of stars that move in the background it might make it easier. The mini map was certainly helpful. Combat had a lot to be desired.
Very interesting control mechanic. Took me a bit to figure out how to move the legs though since I thought after time the arrows appear instead of clicking on the foot. Laser is pretty awesome too. I wanted to know how damaged each part of the mech was and some way to defend those parts better.
The ammo in binary and score in hex is a nice touch.
Wow, it's hard to believe this was done in 72 hours. The world feels big but it's a delight to explore. One moment that I enjoyed early on is climbing up a long rope into the clouds. The propeller hat while holding jump is really neat. Animation and art style is great.
Well done for your first entry. The worlds that generated for me were quite barren compared to the screenshots until I teleported to the man.
I definitely enjoy time travel games. Managed to figure out the battery to open the door and how to grow the plant. I wasn't sure what to do with the spider, open electrical panel, or gun.
Nice idea. It took me a bit to realize you could travel anywhere you wanted instead of just the windows and your home base.
I didn't develop a good understanding of the collision volumes so I found myself dying a lot. The first time I played through I didn't realize you could double jump even though I read it. When I did double jump I felt even less in control of the player. Landing is hard!
I figured out teleporting right away thanks to the x+c on the title screen. I really do enjoy the mechanic and the enemies that forced you to use it. The presentation is great, especially the checkpoint and boss battle text.
I really liked your game. Shooting worked well but I felt it could use a little more visual feedback. The character could use more frames for aiming the crossbow. Something feels off when the player's visuals don't change when moving the mouse around. Lots of content, great music and good pacing.
I liked the in game tutorial. The game was really fun to play. The waves got pretty crazy. I managed to win my first game though. I'm still a little confused as to how the power value works and grows over time. It seems to go down as I take action yet the game says if the power is too high the other deities will take action.
Definitely could use more visual feedback like a warning if you are close to drawing attention from other deities. Also I'd like to know the breakdown of what is causing the life force number to go up.
Nice and simple but surprisingly fun. Would have liked to see a bit more variety and AI that reacts to the player. Liked the music.
I'm sure I'm not the only one that started rampaging the moment I accidentally hit a house. Perhaps there could be a way for the giant to regain the world's patience by doing good deeds. Wish there was audio.
Really liked the concept and the perspective the game was set at. Nice, relaxing and sort of creepy. At first I thought the ambient sounds were someone sleeping but then I realized it's what breathing sounds like. Collision detection could use a little work.
Robot mating season? Laser proof Viking helmet? Awesome. That said I would like to see the helmet actually knock the robots back. I died many times since I held my arrow keys too long.
Definitely could use a lot more visual feedback such as a score and fuel counters. The enemies don't actually threaten the small world, instead they threaten the player so I was a bit confused as to how I would protect it.
Like others have said, a bit more polish with the UI would be great. I found that even though I deployed ships to a certain sector they wound up far away from that point. Really liked the ship designs and it was a fun experience.
It just keeps going and going. The boss was really fun to fight.
Absolutely loved the game. The audio, animation, and graphics are superb. At first I found myself wanting to go back to the first screen with the story to see who the first and last person in the chain but then I realized the story tells you at the appropriate hour.
Amazing! I felt really immersed in the environment and it felt like I was alone.
Interesting concept but a bit difficult to play. The dwarves are too unpredictable and most of the time clicking to place traps didn't work when I had the money.
Really liked the audio.
I stopped when things changed and didn't realize you could hold down to do something special until I read the comments. It seems like the whole game unfolds then, which is pretty cool. But the controls were quite frustrating so I had to give up on the more complicated block puzzles.
I liked how you panned the audio as the player moves around the screen. Movement was quite annoying even after learning about dashing.
The first thing you receive should be bullets. In my first attempt a zombie came and killed me. In my second attempt I got a gun and one zombie came for a minute. I heard zombie noises though but didn't see any zombies. Visually you could make the area the player must stay in more obvious like others have suggested.
I thought it was absolutely amazing. Clever puzzles and take on the theme. I was about to close the game but then I came across the first puzzle where you have another self and then I played until the end. The ending was quite special, no pun intended. It reminds me of the shift you make at the end of Portal 2 although not as dramatic.
As you said in your postmortem, better puzzle design would have been nice but it's pretty good for 48 hours.
What a crazy storyline. At first I thought by staying still or hiding in small areas I could recover but I quickly realized the only way was to take the pills.
Really cool concept and intro sequence.
The cellular automata mechanic is really neat. I never fully figured out how to use it properly. I had the same technical problem as Robmaister.
The level design reminds me of Link's Awakening where it reveals a screen to show you where to go but you must take the long way around.
At first I had trouble getting the game to work (Windows 7 64 bit) but starting it via the console helped. I liked how the old man accompanied you on your journey but it doesn't go with the theme.
I really enjoyed the puzzles and the mood created from the audio and graphics.
I wish you had time for more content. I especially liked the music.
On the third level I managed to pull off a narrow escape and make the enemies fall off. That felt good.
The way the blocks interact with each other is interesting. Consider adding a way for the player to manipulate/create obstacles to help catch the green block and block the red one.
A non-installation version would be nice.
This is pretty cool. I think it has a strong connection to everyone participating in the competition. Congrats on making your first game ever.
Nice concept. It would have been great if you developed it further.
Simple but effective use of lights. Controls were a bit sluggish. Really cool for your first Unity project.
Needs randomization.
Very intense! I think it would benefit from a long vertical aspect ratio so you can see the lava and rocks and have more time to react.
I agree with dramble that it could have used more mechanics. Maybe some special blocks that required obtaining a certain item to break. I think some sound effects would have really made the digging mechanic more fun to use.
Great concept and interesting level design.
It took me a couple levels to realize you had to collect two white squares to finish it. If they were more visually distinct or the level structure changed it might be more obvious.
The hit boxes could be a little more forgiving. Pretty intense game!
The spotlight effect works quite well in creating tension. I wish there was music to go along with the visual style.
My favourite mechanic is pushing boulders into the holes. I can definitely see the Link's Awakening inspiration in there as I'm playing through it myself. Thanks for streaming your process.
Being chased by other squirrels is awesome. It needed some sound to complement it.
I really like the concept, especially the water bombs. Oh and the changing tips at the top of the screen were extremely useful and a great way to ease players into playing the game.
Congrats on finishing your third game ever and first LD submission.
I like the whole computer feel of the game, especially how the minimal text contributes to it. It didn't feel like I was escaping but I did get the feeling when I was chased by the red enemies.
More visual feedback would be nice like how much power is available to buildings in a network. I wasn't completely sure how all the buildings worked. Felt lots of tension when the plants get to the mainland. Nice premise.
LD30 — Connected Worlds (7)
Starpiercer by Schrodinger Games 2014-09-05T01:02:00
The animation is my favourite part. All the little bits hitting your ship and the weaving animation your ship's spine makes. Really amazing ship design too.
Twin star by t4u 2014-09-05T00:56:00
My first instinct was to crash into comets to protect the center planet. Wasn't hard to figure out out how play. Very challenging but a neat idea.
Multifaceted by Riley Adams 2014-09-05T00:52:00
Very nice portal effect. Yellow world is tricky because of the inverse controls. I would have liked to see more variation but what you have works very well.
Universal Information Superhighway Connectivity Simulator 2014 by egdob 2014-09-03T22:21:00
Really cool concept. I ended up failing but I'm not sure why. Sometimes it was hard to figure out how each of my actions affected the different numbers.
Power the Planets by FrozenCow 2014-09-03T21:53:00
Easy to figure out and later levels present some interesting puzzles. Once you figure out what to do it would be nice if there was a button to speed up the planetary movement.
Awe by Oddly Shaped Pixels 2014-08-30T08:01:00
I spent a long time just playing with it creating music before actually trying to figure out the patterns. It was a bit frustrating with everything rotating to hit the correct colours sometimes. Great job overall!
These Cosmic Chains by ploogle 2014-08-26T07:06:00
The death quotes are great. Once the sun leaves the screen it's a bit hard to tell how close it is. Also when you are running away you can't see that far in front of you either. The asteroids being attracted to the Earth was a nice surprise. Camera issues aside it's a nice game. Also nice music!