A Fly's Life by recursor 2022-10-04T20:28:33Z
The buzzing sound is a little annoying but FLIES ARE ANNOYING so it's okay. Really fun game. Among my top 5 so far.
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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 56 | Tiny Creatures | (o o) | compo | 153 | 3.56 | 3.30 | 3.26 | 2.86 | 3.65 | 3.53 | 3.14 | 3.32 | |
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | Farm Fortress | jam | 5.00 | 4.75 | 4.50 | 4.75 | 4.75 | 4.75 | 5.00 | 4.50 | ||
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | 👥 | SpaceSparse | jam | 565 | 3.57 | 3.81 | 2.85 | 3.52 | 3.90 | 3.92 | 2.95 | 3.52 |
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | POSTLORD | compo | 208 | 3.50 | 3.60 | 3.55 | 4.21 | 3.76 | 3.55 | 3.52 | 3.50 | |
| 2022 | 51 | Every 10 seconds | 10HEAD | compo | 110 | 3.73 | 3.84 | 3.79 | 3.75 | 3.43 | 3.22 | 3.08 | 3.41 |
The buzzing sound is a little annoying but FLIES ARE ANNOYING so it's okay. Really fun game. Among my top 5 so far.
This is like a (fever) dream. Interesting concepts brought together but the gameplay/story aspect could be improved.
Wow I love the mood and the sound design. So far I only played it once and only managed to get two out of the three remaining crystals. Good game!
Amazing modelling and art and putting it all together in just 48 hours. I do however really dislike the concept of getting thrown off your bike (maybe I'm just bad also). It was cool that you can just walk around though. Really odd racing game (in both a positive and a negative way. The electric obstacles and ramps were cool features.
A little slow and odd to play as a game. But I love the original artist and the concept.
NICE! I was able to beat all levels. They get really difficult towards the end and I was thinking of giving up on what I found out was the last one.
It feels a bit like Super Meat Boy but has some additional mechanics. Like for example I like that you can die and still win.
Most of all I like that you have to BE FAST!
I was unable to play any of the HTML5 versions of the game (Chrome on Ubuntu).
Pretty epic game. I love shooting people.
Epic game. It reminds me of Nuclear Throne; a good compliment coming from me.
Took a little while to fully understand but once I did the game got a little too easy maybe. I got to 20k points. At 14k it started to lag quite a bit. Very nice graphics and it controls super smoothly.
Love these type of engine builders. Reminded me of the Candy Box games. I really like the use of HTML and emojis to build a game. A first as of what I have seen in this LD!
On a second thought there is a lot of grinding. If I would give a suggestion I would say to change obtaining info up to battle information to be a lot cheaper. It is currently very expensive but gives a lot of nice info while grinding to beat the dragon.
Smooth. But I really suck at knowing movie actors.
Really fun game. It seems very polished and took next to no time to learn. Yet there is lot of tactics to learn.
Fun concept for you to design your own bullet hell. A bit too much dialog for me though.
Loved this game. The humor, graphics, concept was straight up my alley. This take on the theme was beautiful. I'm giving this one HIGH points.
The darn champagne shower and Tinder games were the most difficult ones. I wonder... is Potat-OS a reference to Portal 2?
This is so dumb. I love it.
The sound design and the graphics are pretty clean and minimal. I like that. I also like that the tutorial is short and easy. Really gets to the point quickly. Only thing I would add in the tutorial is that shots can damage the octagon.
As you play you develop some strategies for what triangles you want to keep/shoot. Easy to learn, difficult to master. Epic game.
I only dislike that you get stuck on walls. Otherwise very polished.
I like the mechanic. It's difficult to master but feels great when you nail it.
THE WIZARD BOSS FIGHT IS SO DIFFICULT!!!
Very funny game. I liked the theme a lot.
Fun game but way too stressful for me. I really like the mood of the game. You should not have opted out of that category!
Got only about 8k in score lol. Fun game and nice concept. I like the crude art of the ghost. Maybe there could be a grace period after getting hit? I lost 80% of my health at once.
Very fun time. I can feel myself becoming better after each try.
This is really epic, very satisfying lighting and menus. But some colours are hard to tell the difference between. Nice work! :)
What a good game. Very impressive.
Wow I think I like the mechanic not it's soo difficult. The most difficult part is to get the start correct. Like, you HAVE to start moving immediately. Maybe a starting grace period would make it a little easier.
The mood is nice and I like the textures. Happy birb :D I enjoyed the ending. It might have needed some more mechanics if the game was longer but for this length it was pretty sweet.
@badcop Thanks for the positive feedback! It is actually me that is literally colorblind, but usually where I can tell a small difference in color, people see a large one. But this was one time where it was actually the opposite!
@mrwarranty Thanks! This is actually my first "song" ever created. And I kinda surprised myself with how well it turned out given my lack of skill :P
@bowlercaptain @ben-barsdell Thanks for the feedback! I fixed the colors in a patch shortly after the release. I agree that the rules could be worked on, I thought I would have time to come up with something better... Maybe in the future!
@ben-barsdell @rinkuji @jaykayey @airwaffle Thanks for the feedback! And yes there are quite a few blocks. I don't think I will be able to fix them all at least not for this LD. The combining of 4 10HEADs was lazy coding by me. Being able to squeeze between them was a bit of a limit of the game engine. But the bug of all characters turning white/gray seems to be the game switching to/from OpenGL due to the browser disliking some memory usage by the engine... alas, thanks for pointing it out!
@mrwarranty https://www.beepbox.co/
What a nice game. Cute overall story. I'm a big fan of the 3D graphics and the core mechanic; delivering honey in a jar on a string by only using WASD keys to move in a single plane seemed pretty limiting but there were surprisingly many vertical obstacles that could be overcome. Clever!
Love the mood in this game. A bit difficult to steer but you get the hang of it pretty quickly (except for the fact that the controls are inverted!!!). Also difficult to exactly intersect the small white fish. Maybe they should have a larger hit box. I also think the evolution stopped after level 1 for me. It kept saying 12 fishes to go but it never changed... Unforgiving that you just die and start over x_x
Still this might be my favorite game so far. Really nice music and sounds and the lighting as well.
Nice game, also a fan of bullet hell games. I thought bees and flowers liked each other? I guess not always.
The level switching was pretty cool but also laggy. The sting attack was nice. A bit difficult to control when you have acceleration and deceleration, but overall a fun game.
Really liked this. Feels pretty nice to control and the music is sooo chill. Well done.
Why am I playing as pinguinz0?
Nice pretty standard platformer. I love wall jumping mechanic. The small packages were difficult since they rush you and the final boss was pretty difficult too (made easier by the spawn in the boss room :P). The king was super chill. All in all nice small and neat game. Keep it up.
Lil cozy puzzle game. I love grid based games like this and the character design is awesome.
Cute game! Love the consistent art style.
Really cute! Love the art and the music and how well it all fits together. Feels like I'm playing Pokemon Ranger again.
Hehe it felt a bit retrofitted to the theme but I really like how the overall game works, being weak to word puzzles.
Evil simulator
Haha this game is simple but I really like it! Cute theme.
Also the rain song goes incredibly hard.
Yes me too, it looks really pretty but can't access the game.
AAGH! I can in fact NOT beat the dev at a score of 320. Very nice art! And very frustrating gameplay. Annoying little spoiled demon.
Cool game! But difficult to play on a touch pad
Wow I LOVED this game. Probably my favorite so far. It played really well and I do enjoy the upgrades of adding more characters. It reminded me a bit of Brotato.
Also I thought I was done for but managed to turn my game around and beat it with 996 enemies killed at a time of 5:25.
Well done!
I'm not really sure I know how to play... do I mainly look at the combinations of animals? I really liked making chimeras like that as a kid. They're cute!
@richjbaron Thanks! I had a lot of ideas for the game but a lot of time went into just getting it to run at all! haha
Would be nice to be able to pick up guns or powerups yourself as well.
@wo-ri-gou-le Hehe thanks! Really tiny game, but still has the ability to lag a lot due to many (unoptimized) css updates! I noticed the weird framerate on my Linux system browser too... odd... There is always a thousand things I want to fix and improve on games like this, but ah the time...
@rpgwanderer loved playing around on the TI84, definitely a precursor to a lot of my programming these days!
@rynti Thanks for all the feedback and the kind words!
I am indeed happy with how the "grind" was rewarding. I did (and still do) have a lot of problems with the Google Sheets interface. Sorry that your score was lost :/ I suspect that if two players submit score at close enough time, one might not be recorded. It's free and easy but might be good to have something better for my next project!
I had a lot more features planned but ran short of time... clarity would be one of them and powerups indeed!
Good feedback @bestjess and I do agree! It has a slow ramp up for me too. Would be cool if you could get more points earlier if you have more skill.
Thanks @daminator4113. I'd say it gets A LOT laggy at some point haha. I even had to shrink the game stage to remove more bullets haha. This would be a challenge to solve if I ever did this again!
It's a hard life being a slime blob.
I like it! Cool random world generation, diverse mobs and powerups. I would have liked it if the powerups stacked so you would be inclined to pick more of them up, or if they ran out (I don't think they currently do?). Also a bit difficult to keep track of score since it insta-resets. But otherwise I really liked it :)
should probably not be playing this on a touchpad
Not sure I've ever seen a MOBA before in LDJam. It's a bit frustrating to control but it's also very charming.
OH MY GOD! Maybe I suck but it's super frustrating to control. I really like the art and the icky bugs. Would be nice if there was an indicator towards where you were going because without it it's really hard to know where you will jump.
Can't get the game to load :(
Wow! Really cute and has an awesome vibe. Reminds me of an animated movie meets point and click games from my childhood. Everything is just so charming. Very well put together, and so many small secrets to find.
THAT FUCKING OWL
almost