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Bored Pixels Jam 8

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A jam submission

Pin-KnightView game page

Pinball with knights and goblins!
Submitted by WispStudio — 25 minutes, 42 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Concept#553.4433.583
Relevance to the Theme#713.2033.333
Gameplay#772.6422.750
Presentation#792.8823.000
Overall#832.9143.033
Immersion#962.4022.500

Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Credits
Just me

External Credits
Art - most by me, just the vine covered cobble texture from the web

Music - 8-Bit Music from Asset Store
SFX - 8-bit Game Sound Effects Collection from itch.io

How did you/your team interpret the theme?
Instead of controlling the hero, you control the flippers on the pinball table.

How was your/your team's experience in this jam?
Fun! A little stressed and time constrained, but yeah. It was really fun!

Content Warnings
N/A

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Comments

tducasseSubmitted3 years ago

great concept, it made me laugh!

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Not on my watch!
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DortexSubmitted3 years ago

Using a pinball idea, it's great concept for ,,you are not a hero" game!

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StitchSubmitted3 years ago

Now that's an original approach! Making hero pinball game?  Such a great idea :D 

Good work!

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Hero's Hooves
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ScarfRavenStudiosSubmitted3 years ago

I'm giving a lot of this a pass since you ran out of time, but while I love the concept, the execution is a little lacking. Enemies stopped spawing after 60-70 points, losing/keeping health feels random even though I know how it works, and all the pixel sizes for the art are off. It's a bit of a shame really, I like the concept, and having an unbalanced player in a pinball game seems like fun.

Still, it's very impressive that you managed to submit at all! Definitely deserves to be polished and worked on more.

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The Vengeance of Chickens
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TLLanghamSubmitted3 years ago

Pinball hero seems like a fun idea! Definitely ran into some weirdness where enemies just seemed to stop spawning. Could be interesting to see this expanded further post-jam. Congrats on being able to submit even with all your setbacks!

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White Knight
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Captain CoderSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Love the art and the sound makes it feel good! Simple controls and for the most part plays nice. I ran into a few weird things but solid got a game jam! I'd love to see it expanded. Nice work 😁

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Pocket Hero
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WispStudioDeveloper3 years ago

"I'd love to see it expanded." - Me too! It has a lot of potential!

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unseenpeakSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

I tried several times and ran into bugs with the monsters not moving, but wow! I think this concept is really cool. My brain immediate took me to all these wonderful possibility you could expand your game. You could really expand this to being a tower defense pinball game where the knight is protecting a castle from hordes of an invading army. trying to get through the flippers which are doors to the castle. At the end of each round the camera could pan down into the castle and provide upgrades like trebuchet shooting from behind the flippers etc! Really cool concept!


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Balloon Bonanza
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WispStudioDeveloper3 years ago

Yo! Those are amazing ideas! I love it! After a bit of a break I'll definitely upgrade this project, with things like upgrades and more levels. There are some strange bugs with the enemies, but as I wrote, the ideas I spent 2 days on didn't quite work out, leaving me with a lot less time then I'd have wanted. But all in all, thank you for taking the time to give feeback!

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Doug TSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

i thought it was great!

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Housecarl
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WispStudioDeveloper3 years ago

Thank you!

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Hydro DevSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

A good game! The art is good. A little bit hard but that's probably just me.

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You are not a Hero!
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WispStudioDeveloper3 years ago(+1)

Maybe should've added a difficulty option... Well thats for another time.. Anyway, thanks!

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