Really simple and yet quite fun. Nice work making so much use of so little. Really what game jams are all about.
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Juggling Frenzy's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Sound | #273 | 2.944 | 2.944 |
| Music | #362 | 2.833 | 2.833 |
| Fun | #362 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Mechanics | #454 | 2.667 | 2.667 |
| Aesthetics | #506 | 2.778 | 2.778 |
| Story | #603 | 1.667 | 1.667 |
| Theme | #705 | 1.778 | 1.778 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How many people worked on this game total?
1
Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
Music, SFX and font
Link to your source?
https://github.com/OuterGazer/Juggling-Frenzy
Comments
2 years ago(+1)
Thank you for your feedback! I wanted to make this game since a long time ago and I couldn't find any good theme implementations... So I just went to try and submit the best I could. I'm happy that you enjoyed it :)
Thanks for your feedback and taking the time to play!
This game isn't really aimed to be played with trackpad due to its nature, I tested the game with my own trackpad (as I work with a laptop) and it made the game unnecesarily so much harder that I decided against implementing anything. That's why there are no alternate controls (plus lack of time to think about any and implement it).
To encourage juggling with the mouse pointer, after a ball bounces 5 times on the platform it starts subtracting points instead of adding. This is explained on screen when you have just one ball on screen and falls down the lower limit. Did you have that screen show up? I think there could be a bug where it's not showing to some people.
Played the game several times and got pretty low scores just trying to keep the balls up. After that I ended up just spamming the right mouse button and kept the paddle in the same place. Never really used the left mouse button. Nice idea, but needs more expanding to make ppl come back to it.
Just seen prims score and now feel bad.
Thank you for your feedback. That strategy is penalized, as after 5 bounces balls start to subtract points instead of adding, although is actually a fun strategy too so in a variant I might explore it better. The game is about pure skill in the same vein of the physics-based flash games of the early 00s. If you persevere you will probably be able to juggle a few at the same time.
Thanks for taking the time to play it :)
2 years ago(+1)
Thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately I didn't have time to implement alternative controls, but you're right.
The lag you encountered is intentional. I pause the game for a brief moment and play a short sound effect as feedback for the player that they lost a life.
Thanks for trying out! I hope you can give it another try if you get your hands on a mouse.
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