The up-side of those kind of things, though, are that word of them gets spread anyway, and it can be a nice surprise after not having played a game you love in a while that there is more of it to explore.

What do you individuals look for in a secret level (or area)? What makes them so special? Is it just that you figured out something about the game that it was trying to hide from you, or does the content that you unlock matter as well? Is it that there is simply more of the game to play? Bragging rights? In-jokes? A view into the world of the developers? I figure it's probably at least a bit of all of these. Any other ideas?

Hey dudes.
I made a short game for the mini Ludum Dare and I thought some of you might wanna play it. It's only like 5 minutes long but it's goofy, so it might be good to kill a bit of your free time.



Enjoy!

Oof, this game is tough. I'm playing the SNES version. I must've found a "secret" level or maybe just a different path through the game, but unfortunately, each, say, "Field 4" is called Field 4, so it's hard to know which is the alternate path or whatever. I got as far as the tadpole guy, but I didn't figure out how to beat him. Attrition?

Thanks! Yeah, it was short not so much of the time constraint, but because I didn't want to make it drag on. I figure it's better to have people say it's too short rather than too long.

Also, it was a mini-LD, so it was a week rather than 48 hours, but also it's during the week and I have other things to do, yaknow? ;]

really more of "this week" rather than just today, but i made a little flash game for the miniLD: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/minild-36/?action=preview&uid=10488

[Umihara Kawase]

I vote for Umihara Kawase even though I totally don't deserve to vote.

so do all of you pretty much agree with what udderdude said or do you have your own reasons?

"Best short game" is a bit of a misnomer for the thread. "Best quickly-developed game" would fit it better, I think.

Good idea.


Any chance I can get you guys to expand on what you think made them good?

Hey TIGS, what's your favorite game that took (or you at least expect it took) less than a month to make?

Mine's probably Don't Shit Your Pants. It's got all the stuff you want in a wham-bam, get-in-get-out type of game: humor, clever puzzles, and a sense of satisfaction when you're done.

Gimme some more, dammit.

Glamorama

E: i don't know how, but this got posted into the wrong thread 

yeah i saw. WHEW. happy to have it back, and thanks again for doing it, by the way.

It's down.  DEAR GOD, why is it down?  Any chance it got moved to a different server and the link just needs to be updated?  I was just about to check out some more of it when I realized this... 

the visuals are looking quite snazzy to me. it doesn't look too saturated on my laptop, unless you're talking about how the background of the corridor looks like it could be considered foreground. either, i like the look of it, especially the snippets on the first page.

Thanks for making the thread.  Welp, for these kind of replayable things, I usually like to start with the more "standard" type of character(s), so I think I'm gonna start out with Julian.

Ogre Battle scaled the rankings, but it didn't quite manage to surpass Romancing SaGa 3, so we're playing that. DO IT.

This tactic got more people voting last time, so: i'm closing the thread at this time tomorrow. Get your votes in, people!

Pretty fun. It took me a little bit to figure out the pipe jumper too. The only thing I would've changed design-wise for that is to maybe let the first time they hit -> make them move forward a step. it's very counterintuitive to press <- to start going right.

My favorite part is when you select the text with the mouse