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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | Pixel Wielders | compo | 296 | 3.11 | 2.91 | 3.36 | 3.01 | 3.37 | 2.71 | 2.87 | 2.88 | ||
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | Sheep Delivery | compo | 323 | 3.10 | 3.12 | 2.98 | 2.88 | 3.16 | 2.98 | 3.00 | 3.12 | ||
| 2022 | 50 | Delay the inevitable | Demon's Call: Inevitable Summoning | compo | 2.00 | 1.50 | 3.00 | 2.50 | 1.00 | 3.00 | 4.00 | ||||
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | Deeper Dunegon | compo | 1.66 | 1.16 | 1.00 | 2.83 | 2.16 | 2.33 | 1.25 | 2.16 | |||
| 2018 | 42 | Running out of space | Manticle | unfinished | |||||||||||
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | Spitballs | compo | 1.50 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 2.00 | 1.00 | |||
| 2016 | 35 | Shapeshift | Pup8Bit | compo | 10 | ||||||||||
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | GrowGridGrow | compo | 14 |
I want to play more and I think you didn't mean for the player to move soooo slow but it is hard to do more when moving that slowly, I will see if I can figure out what is cause that since you included the source.
Yes, indeed it is, and it was kind of a goal of mine. Hehehe
Is it something like Unsupported version exception. Cause I compiled with java 1.8.0_31
Me too it's turning out to be a decent codebase. I am continuing the development, hope to see if I can actually make it playable.
Thanks, a lot. I'm getting better each time. Yours looks good too man.
I did package it just no scripts, you have to run `java -jar Pup8Bit.jar` from the extracted zip or tgz
Linux build would be cool.
Thanks man for the review yeah wish I had more done 🙁
Ok I'll look at the build process, didn't get a chance to test all builds yet.
Thanks for being the brave soul to test this.
@tulio @david-york @snesgaard @phoenixofforce Ok bugs should be fixed. I really appreciate you guys trying.
xD thanks, you were supposed to be able to attack the enemy minions but that did not get implemented in time. Like a lot of other things that was supposed to happen. All the art was just supposed to be placeholder.
But I wanted to fly the airship! :(
It did leave me wanting more. Nicely done 👍.
This is a really good start, good to know there was a short-cut. I made cake before then lolz. It was kind of a long trek hauling that single nut back with 9/10. I was also wondering at first if I was going to have to put a nut in each basket.
I like how simple the concept is, nice job.
cool game, plays pretty smoothly, you can kind of move as quickly as you'd like.
Hey I like the concept. I kept restarting by accidently pressing r instead of e. I am not sure whether the amount of time till impact incentivizes the need for upgrading. I find I want to be really choosy as to which ones I choose an in which order to make it easier. Not sure speed, accel, make it any easier and I wasn't sure how range played into things and if I even need to care. I will keep playing to see if they work themselves into play if I get good enough to escape.
It was pretty tough for me, placing roads was a bit of weird experience. I see you kind of worked around the difficulty instead of making it smoother. I felt weak and unprepared, ah its a dangerous world out there.
@tudvari That is a fine strategy, I think what was bugging me was kind of weird, I don't know if it is input related or hit box. It led to a little frustration. Balancing the challenge the way you did I think is fine. I think though there is a balance between making something difficult and making some frustrating. So like in the design if you made the placement of roads really easy you'd probably have to increase the difficulty somewhere else to compensate.
I just played it again and I know what it is, I expected the placement of the roads to be at the characters feet but I think you are using the center of the sprite. I'll see how far I can get now.
I also hosted on a local web server and played! Good job! I was able to hit a few targets but only because I had the camera looking at the player from one side. There are a lot of targets on both sides. I also turned myself around and feel into the abyss :laughing: which was great.
Thanks, I still plan to make updates till end of compo. Though you are spot on 😁
@gog Care to try again! :stuck_out_tongue:
@lathomas64 there isn't a lose condition. I will need to make a final goal achievement where you'll be asked if you want to stop playing or continue. There's a few more ideas I'd like to work in to add variety and a little more challenge.
Couldn't really come up with good lose conditions.
@tofucat Hey thanks, glad you enjoyed it. As for the numbers not in the box, sound I decided to leave the sound there even though there is no negative to getting them. One more thing I need to add that I have time for is an ending condition which is when you reach >=32768 (max number for pixo-8).
@equalenergy thanks I'm glad you enjoyed it, I've added a timer now and it should capture your last delivery time once you reach +32768 sheep. :grin:
Here the devs time first play through after submission!
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Gotcha, yeah I see how the numbers are a little confusing. The original concept was that you were delivering sleep by catching sheep, baaa. Though that changed a bit to that you are trying to deliver a particular number of sheep. In the least amount of time.
I'll add a little blurb about it in the game post thanks for mentioning it.
@nivbeth Your 8475 away! You need to get to 32767 to deliver.
@bartalomew @zahkros PICO-8 is a total joy to make games with I will definitely be making many more games with it.
@cinterre totally agree on that, missed opportunity
@joe-cowman @chum-chum Thanks for the feedback totally agree definitely more potential there, I did not have time to add.
@squidgod I wasn't sure if it was going to work in an idle game theres definitely potential there. My first attempt at an idle game.
@fnelix @meta-link @igor-minenko I'm glad you liked it thanks for playing.
@risingleaf Current Champ! I know a guy who was raising sheep doubt he has that many but that is the goal :grin:
@tyrannas That is weird I hope you are ok. I'll have to look at the code, I don't know that I even used the camera function which might do that if there is a bug.
Thanks for the great feedback and so glad I was finally able to make a game for LD that people could enjoy! This has been a blast.
kind of gives me gameboy type vibes, and I def dig the music. Well done and props on NES rom.
I like the controls for the bike well done. Sadly I didn't hear any audio on the web version. (Edit it was the browser) I'll try desktop though. And I also got some extreme slow downs after a few attempts where i slowly crawled into a trash can.
Good job this was fun to play. I like games like this, I have not played one in a really long time ever since the incredible machine.
I do like a good gravity puzzle game. I would have liked some more puzzles. There also seemed to be an invisible timer that would fail me randomly not sure what that was about.
I enjoyed the controls, they made it feel close to driving a boat. Also like the audio fxs especially with pico-8 nice job
Very relaxing experience, was a little unsure at first if there was a goal. Obviously didn't read the description. It takes a quite a bit of time to get to the mountain. Do you ever stop????
I like how you set the game in the webpage and in the canvas very seamless. I think the wind sound is too quiet I was hoping for a point which the character jumped off the bike to stare at the mountain and perhaps give me a sign that the game was tracking my delivers in some significant way.
I think there's potential in this for sure. Well done!
@squidgod hey totally understandable, I think what you accomplished was awesome. Its great when there are a multitude of opportunities in the core of a game.
I agree with many of the others here. Overall I enjoyed it though, would love to play more with a bit more challenge and sound fx would be great. Also that tutorial in the beginning is mint, I love it.
Nice job, I like the movement controls, needs some work I'd say. I liked the sticky wall coverings I thought that was a cool concept as well as carrying a stack of suitcases.
This is really well done, I have not beaten it yet trying to figure out what pressure plate your talking about.
@dishwand I saw the dark blue square, and moved the rover over it though when I did it didn't do anything.
Ah I see nvm, I got it, I thought that the little bots would be able to be placed over pressure plates.
I was oddly frustrated with the inability to build a lot off of where I randomly found myself. I managed to block off my ability to build to the right anymore and left just oddly got truncated. I like the lanterns or bulbs or whatever but they did not seem to do anything. I thought may be they would make and robots in the room continue working during night time or something.
without any real goal once building as much as I could I was only curious about seeing how many I could keep alive. Though to be honest without counters that was difficult.
Only 2:14 but nice game overall don't think I understood all the did mechanics of the challenge though I felt I did not survive nearly long enough.
Nice cat! Also oh the slaughter!
very nice, I enjoyed it for a while, though the server slowed several times and things started disappearing which was interesting because it added a bit of panic to my trek among the stars. Took me a bit to realize it had this tron thing going on where the tails could kill those running around leaving bubbles everywhere.
interesting game, I really like the shield effect you got there.
Hey good game, intriguing puzzles.
Seemed extremely short to me, and I was kind of expecting to be forced to move after a little while just sitting there in most levels.
Very nice, well done.
There seems to be a lot going on here and I like it. I think I got a bug hands.png
Great simple puzzlers, I felt that the progression could use some improvement, also making the goal of either color touching an interesting decision that could be fun to play around with, though I felt it needed some more feedback to really solidify the choice.
I hear you on the overlapping keys, I think the best way to play is with two controllers. I actually have not looked how I can change the keyboard layout if I even can in pico-8.
And in case you hadn't figured it out. There are actually two ways to kill your opponent, I wanted to add some more ways to kill them. And also limit your range but ran out of time! you know the story. Thanks for playing!
@chaineddreamer Hey its tough being a wizard, takes some practice for newbies!
@gamer-fates I picked up pico-8 late last year, its been a lot of fun. I'm still learning it. I'm glad you enjoyed the game. Hopefully you found someone you could challenge to a duel!
@bloodbane You are a master wizard after all. Though honestly yes there were meant to be limitations as the magic for you is very powerful. For me alas I am but a poor magician who cannot do time magic, YET!!
@greenpig Yeah about those controls, its outside mine sadly, those are pico-8s built-ins. If you have pico-8 and play the cart file you can rebind them using the keyconfig command as one option.
@cheesepencil Hey yes that's really effective heat spell. And I'm glad you liked the art.
@feor Thanks I appreciate it. And I totally agree with you on the matches being over too quickly. I've gotten a few suggestions I wanna try out and see if they fit.
@kanagg Awesome, as you could tell it was a frantic dash to add the title screen in there and game over screen. And I hear you on the difficulty in mastering the controls. I think that it became part of the fun. As it kind of plays into the idea of being a good wizard.
@zimny11 Thanks I'm glad it kind of came together as most of the time was spent on playing around with some simulation pieces. As for the spell selection mechanism I have a few ideas and I do hear you on the looping while fighting.
@little-doctor-games So fun to watch you battle on stream really appreciate the two of you doing reviews and having fun with it. And appreciate the feedback and suggestions keep up the good work.
@digitaldude555 Thanks I'm glad you got some fun out of it. Good suggestion, I will play with some kind of ways of extending the battle a bit and trying to get some more tense moments out of it.
@damp-squib Glad you enjoyed it, and I'll admit there is a little bit of something players need to get used to with the controls. And I am super glad you noticed how the spells were meant to be used together.
I really appreciate everyone trying the game, there are a few ideas I was not able to accomplish as per usual that I will hopefully be expanding upon and experimenting with so would appreciate anyone who follows me on itch or the pico-8 bbs to check out any updates and comment on the changes.
Super awesome I like it!
drill baby drill!!!
Nice simple puzzle game, I think you did a good job introducing the different puzzle mechanics, though I'd like to see a bit more difficult puzzles. The art was very well done.
I was hoping for at least one more element of difficulty to be introduced. I liked the explanations and progression of the levels up to a certain point then found the later levels repetitive. Also seemed a little weird to me to have all the pipes disappear when clicking on a single color I would have liked more control over which got removed. And sometimes hard to control and tell whether or not I was able to drag the pipes. Overall good job!
Nice job! First several tries were rough going, the timer through me off as I was not expecting it. I could imagine a ringing bell right on top of it when time is up. Not sure why I had two different scores when reaching the game over looks like some last few points were not counted. Really good job and I liked how they all crowded around on the platform waiting to get into the car.
Can confirm the lag spike after like 4 pylons, I am running a potato. I love the art style overall well done it was a bit forgiving as I made some mistakes in the beginning and had to destroy one building. I am a sucker for a building/management game. I felt there might have been some counter balance to create some urgency I noticed you could over deploy your robots but not sure if it did anything. I see the definite Frostpunk influences (which I love).
I did not exactly like the constant menu hiding/showing I had to do I feel like that was a hinderance. Not sure why you choose to do it, I would have liked the resource icons always visible same with the building expendables. If they would collapse/expand on hover is an easy option.
I like that you actually disabled with a warning if you remove robots from a pylon or destroy one, kudos on that. Of course after meeting the goal there was not much reason to continue building except to perhaps see what was out there and how far you could take it. As you can see I'm a messy builder not much incentive to organize. Overall great job!
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Man that took a lot of play throughs, but finally success I might have the Venus, Saturn, Mars, Mercury comment. Though even missed a couple of opportunities for the extra buff.
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Oh I am pretty sure he killed earth man with an attack or two after someone died but never got credit for it lolz.
I really enjoyed it, got it yeah vampires good timing for the season too. Would have liked a few sound effects for feedback when picking up or placing creatures.
I really enjoyed this, it was challenging in spots, the amount of challenge didn't seem to progress linearly to me though. And some quality of life things like a 2x 3x 5x speed adjuster would have been nice. Also the buttons while awesome, had their hit boxes a little weird and their responsiveness felt laggy.
I reached level 34 it was an interesting take on tower defense. I enjoyed it. I was unable to hear any sound though otherwise very fun.
I like it though I reached an impass, I could not get the gate to do anything.
Good start keeping going, there were definitely some rough edges but I am shocked by how many different screens you managed to add in, plus the different systems.
Nicely done, I really like the music.
likewise the game did not provide too much feedback, at least there was some knockback on enemies I could kind of tell when I hit them. Not sure of too much else that was going on, eventually my weapons stopped working for some reason. And wasn't sure what the spells were. Congrats on getting this far
That difficulty ramps up quickly, you get this unencumbered start but then you have to start dodging. Nice. I liked it.
wow I was totally glitching out on this, and having fun machine-gunning me some jpegs.
Nice simple puzzle game, I've done a lot of this type of game so it was kind of easy for me would have like some more difficulty. Things felt a little...sticky to me maybe just my machine...altogether great job perhaps a timer would have been nice at the end.
Hey not bad, I liked the idea. Though I was not really sure why I ended up loosing a bunch of times, wish I could have seen the reason.
Nice I like it, definitely more you could do with it. I enjoyed it once I figure out how to make lemonade :lemon: :lemon:
I do like the graphics they're nice! I got eaten by dino's lolz
This was a bit confusing to begin with though once it got going and after reading some comments got a automated rocket pipeline going :-) very cool.
Its impressive, I thought the audio queues while really nice having them I found them a little harsh. I don't know if there were any reward sounds to point me in the right direction. It was unclear what would happen once a box was filled, I like that i could see the amount filled. Very nice job!
Nicely done but man I cannot even get better than 2:26
To be...or not to be..
That was a nice little bug...it has been fixed
Sadly...nope I ran out of time, didn't even have time to tweak in some last little progression elements to at least make it challenging. Would be extremely easy to add though. Just need to tweak the litterbox.lua to store and decrease the timeout amount to increase cat frequency, and increase the speed of the cats and probably health too.
Thanks for playing! I definitely appreciate it.
Hey nice job very clean and smooth. Though I think the last level I just chanced the rng to win.
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