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A jam submission

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Make your last stand as a lone bowling pin
Submitted by Onnox โ€” 1 day, 8 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#643.8723.872
Overall#1833.5963.596
Music#2083.4263.426
Mechanics#2273.2983.298
Theme#2433.6383.638
Sound#2573.1493.149
Aesthetics#4253.2553.255
Story#4612.3192.319

Ranked from 47 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 in total?
1

Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
Sprites, sound effects, music. See game description for credits.

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Submitted(+1)

Simple to pick up and play. Great entry

Developer

Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

This is a great submission, I loved your game!

Developer

Thanks for your kind words! ๐Ÿ˜„

Submitted(+1)

Very cool game with awesome matching soundtrack. Works really well with an awesome level-up sound. Congrats!

Developer

Thanks for playing! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Submitted(+1)

Fun game, really good progression so not too difficult at the start, but ramping up later. Well done!

Developer

Thanks! I'm glad you had fun playing!

Submitted(+1)

You chose a great music track to accompany this, and I think you ramp up the difficulty at a very good speed. Nicely done!! :)

Developer(+1)

Thanks! I'm glad you had fun playing!  ๐Ÿ˜„

Submitted(+1)

Great game.

Developer

Thanks, glad you liked it!  ๐Ÿ˜„

Submitted(+1)

Wow I did not know I could have so much fun moving a bowling pin around with my mouse! I replayed this a bunch before I realized that I needed to put it down and play other submissions haha. It was very fun and satisfying to try to squeeze through the windows of open lane especially in the later levels.

Great game!

Developer

Thanks! Glad you had fun playing! ๐Ÿ˜„

Submitted(+1)

I think the mechanic is simple and fun, and liked the interesting use of mouse movement to represent you as the last standing pin. Overall, nice job on the game!

Developer

Thanks for playing, and I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Submitted(+1)

Quite fun! The choice of music helps to make it more addictive to keep trying!

The main thing I would suggest is varying the speed of balls per level. Because every obstacle moves at the same speed, except for a brief moment between level transitions, the fact that they player can move left and right doesn't have a mechanical use. This will probably make coding the game logic more difficult, since you've clearly set it up avoid any impossible situations (where there's no gap for the player to fit through,) but I feel that it would be worth it. :)

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing and thanks for the feedback! I had ideas for additional mechanics which I de-prioritised, so that I could polish the game before the deadline   ๐Ÿ˜„

Submitted(+1)

Fun!! And a cool idea! :)

Developer

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

Really fun game... well done!

Developer

Thanks for playing!   ๐Ÿ˜„

Submitted(+1)

Surprisingly fun and engaging for how simple it is to play. The difficulty ramps up nicely. I managed to get to level 15 on my best attempt.

Developer

Wow! I thought I did well getting to level 13. The crown goes to you. Congrats!  ๐Ÿ‘‘

Submitted(+1)

That was fun! I ended up getting addicted to this one, I liked how easy it was to pick up and get into but at the same time the game got challenging. The only thing I was hoping for as I was playing is that it would be cool to see me as the bowling pin go flying after colliding with the bowling ball. Overall though it felt really well put together and I had a lot of fun!
Nice work!

Developer

Thanks for playing! I agree it would have been nice to have a game over animation. I also wanted to do one of those old bowling screen animations too if I had time  ๐Ÿ˜„

Submitted

Pretty cool arcade game, I like the color changing and the fire at high rounds, although I'd wish the game progresses faster in the sense of reaching faster speeds quicker, although I have no idea how to implement that in a good way..

Very cool!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing and I'm glad you liked it!

After seeing high scores reported by players, I also had the same thought on reaching higher levels quicker - and luckily I have made the scoring and level systems to be easily configurable to allow that change to happen! All I need to do is set the amount of points to beat level 1, and how much it should increase per level - then the levelling and scoring systems will take care of it!  ๐Ÿค“ I could even use it to quickly implement multiple difficulty levels in the future...  ๐Ÿ˜„

Submitted(+1)

The music and sounds are really nice and integrate well with the gameplay.

Developer

Glad you enjoyed it!  ๐Ÿ˜„

Submitted(+1)

Felt great and addictive! :)

Developer

Thanks for playing, glad you had fun!  ๐Ÿ˜Ž

Submitted(+1)

Yooo I love how one of my ideas on the theme implementation was something similar, but I didn't know how to execute it and u did it in a really good way! It's a simple mechanic but feels fun and polished, love the music and aesthetics in general! good job

Developer

Thanks for playing and thanks for the kind words!   ๐Ÿ˜„

Submitted(+1)

Great take on the theme, and well implemented! Would be interesting to see what you could add to it to increase the depth a little, but it was more difficult than I expected and there seemed to be patterns with the bowling balls that made for interesting obstacles.

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing! Glad you enjoyed it  ๐Ÿ˜„

Submitted(+1)

Really cool game! I loved your take on the team as soon as I saw the .gif :D Plays very nicely and the visuals and music are great, really enjoyed going a couple rounds. Nice one!

Developer

Glad you had fun! Thanks for playing ๐Ÿ˜Ž

Submitted(+1)

Very simple game mechanics, and a pretty clever idea as well! I wish if I thought of something like this lol

Honestly no flaws, music is great, as is the art, and it turned out to be more fun than I expected!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing and thanks for your kind words ๐Ÿ™

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