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Basketball Vacation's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Design | #60 | 2.510 | 3.000 |
| Originality | #62 | 2.390 | 2.857 |
| Fun | #63 | 1.912 | 2.286 |
| Gameplay | #63 | 2.271 | 2.714 |
| Theme Use | #64 | 2.271 | 2.714 |
| Overall | #64 | 2.271 | 2.714 |
Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
What was the theme you used for your entry?
Basketball sports game
What was the most challenging part of making your entry?
Figuring out how UE4 works again and coming up with a odd game that uses the above theme.
What was the most fun part?
Once I started to remember parts of UE4 again. Also, fixing bugs that had me stuck.
Anything else to add? (important controls, assets used, special mentions, etc)
M is pause. A/d or left and right keys to move and that is about it.
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Really hard to run, my laptop is good and yet my cooler was about to go crazy lol.
Nice game ^^ really cool idea, reminds me of katamari damacy, would be cool if the sphere scaled up as you collected rock textures.
That is probably because I manually placed each platform into the level and each one has a collider attached to it. Also, the texture for the basketball and snow was manually made and is likely extremely inefficient and causing problems. I probably should have made it so the platforms were destroyed once you left the collider.
The sphere does scale up it is just very minuscule. By rock texture do you mean the white texture. That was meant to be snow haha, I guess my texture creating skill needs improvement in both realism and efficiency.
Unfortunately the game wouldnt start for me, it kept crashing so I couldnt play :(
I'm sorry to hear that. You aren't missing much the game is very simple haha. Gravity rolls you down a slope. You move left and right trying to collect the white tiles (snow), which increases your mass and size a little. The mass then makes it harder to maneuver around. You reach the end and that is it.
If you really want to play it I can try and see what I can do. I would first need to know when exactly you were crashing. For example, was it during the loading of the game, as soon as you got to the main menu, shortly after you clicked play in that menu, or sometime else.
Ran rough on my laptop. But interesting mechanics.
That is probably because I manually placed each platform into the level and each one has a collider attached to it. Also, the texture for the basketball and snow was manually made and is likely extremely inefficient and causing problems. I probably should have made it so the platforms were destroyed once you left the collider.
Looks like a simple rolling game to me! Looks like there might have been a couple errors in the top left hand portion!
Wish there was a bit more gameplay then move forward!
My thought was this is more of a mini-game that is part of a large collection of mini-games all involving a basketball used in sports that aren't normal for it. This one is downhill skiing, but I was sick the weekend of this, so my productivity was pretty low and I didn't get to do as much as I wanted to. I also spent the majority of the time I did have trying to setup blueprint(s) that will allow me to spawn a set number of platforms to the sides and in front of the original platform and then have the platform that was spawned in front do the same thing. That was going to lead into adding new types of platforms that could be spawned in, such as bumps, jumps, etc.