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Still looking for the best jam games - Drop your favorites (Assembling list for a video of best games)

A topic by Igor Konyakhin created Sep 03, 2021 Views: 1,289 Replies: 24

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Igor KonyakhinSubmitted2 years ago (2 edits) (+4)

What are the best games you played in the jam?

I am planning to make a video about the best games of Brackeys jam (and also possibly about most original ones) for my channel (https://youtu.be/aP9eKrnyxe4)

So I am assembling candidates for best games

Please only submit game-candidates if you:

Played at least 15-25 games (or already participated in 4 jams) so you have something to compare it to
AND
Genuinely think that the game can be in top 40 (by fun or game-design, everything else is secondary)
remember, top 40 out of 1771 is top 2.26% - that's a HIGH BAR

You can take a look at how many games you've rated on the submissions page.

My picks so far

Collection of the games I liked most (updated as I play games): https://itch.io/c/1789251/brackeys-jam-20212-best-games

If I were to make top picks, so far it would probably be:

Please don't submit your game

unless you are absolutely sure it can be top 20 - it's harder to see flaws in your own game so the bar should be higher. I typically give honest reviews and rating, so if you are looking to get high rating, I am not the best person to do that anyway.

The Path DevelopersSubmitted2 years ago

here https://ruinthread-games.itch.io/rocketcop my personal favourite

Also if you can please play my game as well as my download are less than no Of rating :(

Igor KonyakhinSubmitted2 years ago

here https://ruinthread-games.itch.io/rocketcop my personal favourite

I'll check it out, thanks

I've already played your game. It's cool from a technical perspective that you've made digging mechanic, but it's lacking gameplay-wise:

I felt like a have no goal (the main one)
Challenge (enemies, etc.) was missing
The character becomes tired and then moves very slow, energy doesn't seem to restore
Gun-energy is limited and doesn't restore either

The Path DevelopersSubmitted2 years ago (1 edit)

There is a goal forgot to mention in the game it is there in the game description

The biggest challenge was being saved from tornado when you're speed is slow I did want to add enimies but unity navmesh which is for ai doesn't updates in runtime and I will have to use machine learning for it to be good it requires a day to train itself I only worked2 days I also made a dinosaur model with 5k textures

Gun energy is limited but if it restores you will take a easy way and just explore underground and find the ⛵

The character slow speed helped in causing a chaos and to create some challenge and thanks for the feedback :-)

Igor KonyakhinSubmitted2 years ago

https://ruinthread-games.itch.io/rocketcop

I think this is actually very weak, to be honest: impossibly hard to play, requires page reload (with game redownload) to restart, etc.

The Path DevelopersSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

I won't disagree on page relod but that's a WebGL problem and I found the game quite fun in my opinion ofcourse.

Zues54Submitted2 years ago (2 edits)

Out of the 32 games I have rated I think these are my personal favorites. They're all pretty polished

Office Chaos - https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-6/rate/1177392

Total Ethical testing area - https://mbq.itch.io/totally-ethical-testing-arena

This ones pretty unique - Yin - https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-6/rate/1173466

Igor KonyakhinSubmitted2 years ago

I'll make sure to check it out. Thanks!

Igor KonyakhinSubmitted2 years ago

Played all these three. My take:

Office Chaos is quite polished, but also not super interesting/fun
Yin: cool mechanic idea, but no game-play so far (no challenge, you just go back and forth)
Total Ethical testing area - is a gem and a very strong candidate - I played it for 39 minutes and I have yet to complete the last level

By the way, you gave wrong link to "Total Ethical testing area" - here is the correct one for anyone wanting to try it:

https://mbq.itch.io/totally-ethical-testing-arena

Thanks again for posting your favorites!

Igor KonyakhinSubmitted2 years ago

Played your game, pesky humans got what they deserved, I think all of them.

The main thing I would suggest is:

to make it so you could kill people and possibly animal control as well.
add more gameplay, e.g. missions (enrage human in greeh t-shirt, kill N people, etc.)

You are probably already aware that you can't see behind houses and that's inconvenient.

Zues54Submitted2 years ago(+1)

Thanks for trying out my game and the suggestions. I'll keep them in mind when i'm remaking it. Yeah the overlapping is pretty annoying, it was my first time making an isometric game and i didn't predict how well the view would work with the actual gameplay.

MIShantoSubmitted2 years ago(-1)

I'd love you to check out mine. Its unique platformer and top-down blending. This is my first jam BTW. Please check the gameplay, I bet you will love the challenge when you play by yourself.

https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-6/rate/1177946

Avocado JamSubmitted2 years ago

Over the games I played and rated my personal favorites where this 2:

The beggining of the alpacalypse: Rate The beginning of the alpacalypse by viciao100, Unstable Alpaca for Brackeys Game Jam 2021.2 - itch.io

And text and drive: Rate Text and Drive by HurlCatGames for Brackeys Game Jam 2021.2 - itch.io

both are fun and I liked the ideas :D

Also would appreciate if you could play our game <3

https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-6/rate/1177206

Igor KonyakhinSubmitted2 years ago

Thanks, I'll check everything

Igor KonyakhinSubmitted2 years ago

My take on these:

Alpaca game is quite weak
Text and drive is an interesting idea, but I think lacking in game design (I wrote more details on game's page)

I had already tried your game before. I'll write a comment on the game's page.

Rated by 142 people so far

How? How did you do that?

Avocado JamSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

We'll I think our cover art helped us a lot, also we,ve been trying to be as active as we can posting in the community and playing games and leaving good feedback

forewarSubmitted2 years ago (3 edits)

Hi, I've tried 53 games so far. The best for me is Creational Chaos ( https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-6/rate/1168382) I'm playing it three days in a row. Удачи ;)

Igor KonyakhinSubmitted2 years ago

I'll check it out!

Спасибо :)

Igor KonyakhinSubmitted2 years ago

Checked out your game as well)

HoomanJSubmitted2 years ago

Please Play Balls of Chaos before publishing video.

Igor KonyakhinSubmitted2 years ago

I wrote a detailed comment on the game's page.

It's probably not going to make it into my list, but nevertheless, interesting concept. Thanks for suggesting!

CFHMSubmitted2 years ago

This is my 4th jam. I've rated 70 games so far. Here's my current top 3 (in no particular order):

Chaos Warrior: https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-6/rate/1177401 (for coolest moment)

Maze of Disorder: https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-6/rate/1174504 (for satisfying progression & difficulty curve)

INFLATION: https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-6/rate/1176593 (for overall polish and gameplay)

Igor KonyakhinSubmitted2 years ago

Played your game!

I'll play these three later. Thanks for recommending:)

Igor KonyakhinSubmitted2 years ago

Still looking for the best jam games - Drop your favorites here

Igor KonyakhinSubmitted2 years ago

Couple more days passed, several more games you've played. Did you find anything worth trying?