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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #1130 | 3.256 | 3.256 |
| Originality | #1191 | 3.488 | 3.488 |
| Overall | #1228 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
| Presentation | #1526 | 3.256 | 3.256 |
Ranked from 86 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
The boat is joined to the balloon, the boat is the player element and the balloon is a target the player must be careful not to shoot else they will fall out the sky.
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
Yes
We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam
Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?
No
We used pre-existing audio
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Comments
Interesting concept but I will give coins faster at the beginning to help to understand that the goal, I kept shooting at the red balloon and killing myself :-)
But when you got it, that a very addictive game, a great idea that worth to be push more!
It's a cool game but it starts off real slow. Gaining money takes a long time, and dying to enemies outside of the screen is pretty frustrating. But when you have everything upgraded, that's when the game is at it's best and ended up very fun!
Simple fun!
Love the silly idea! The transition from losing to opening the shop was super clever. Nice choice of audio too. The art could be improve a bit more and if time allows you could add some new types of enemy and obstacle. Overall had fun playing this!
A very clean looking game, my only gripe is that it get's a bit repetitive
I like the concept, it is wonderfully weird. The game seemed repetitive at times, due to the long restart times, but some of that is because I'm not that good. I like the art, and your world almost has a story to it. Nice work!
Great work! love the concept, and the ability to buy more things when you lose your balloon is a nice touch. Well done!
Very clean game, feels very polished. Feels like a game I would've played for hours on cool math games back in the day!
This was a really cool concept and take on the jam's theme! The gameplay was a little bit confusing at first but then once I understood how the game worked then it started being more fun. The system for having upgrades was really cool as well, it adds for engagement and it was really cool to see your ship gradually get stronger and better.
The graphics are simple and I like the color scheme, but like what bymuno mentioned if you're going to use pixel graphics try to make the pixel size constant, that way the art looks cleaner and more consistent.
This was a really fun submission, I hope this one does well for the rest of the jam!
This is INCREDIBLY fun! I played this for WAY too long! I even beat it but still wanted more so I ignored the win screen and shot my balloon so I could fall down, then set sail a few more times and even upgraded my right gun once more! Nice work!
I was wondering if anyone would notice that! haha, thank you
a cute little game with a nice aesthetic! reminds me of the "Learn to Fly" flash game everyone played years ago.
being "joined together" to something you need to NOT shoot is a cool take on the theme!
aesthetically, for pixel art, try making all of the pixels in the game the same size (i.e., making every asset the same resolution). this helps make the game feel more cohesive, instead of some elements being hi-res and others being really blocky
the cannon feels kinda tough to aim (maybe a guiding line could help?), and the cooldown can also make it feel unresponsive (since you can't tell when it's on cooldown).
also it's kinda tedious to slowly float upward every time you restart
overall i enjoyed it!
Nice arcade game !
Groovy song! I kept shooting out my balloon and laughing! Nice work
Cool, very cute game!
Pretty cool game, I like the concept a lot. The way that your gun shoots your balloon is actually a really interesting mechanic. The ship does feel a bit slow at times, I wish there was a way to control it.
thank you, I wanted to go wider with the balloons but it got to the point where upgrading it wasn't worth it. Originally the player could move sideways but being even a little out of the middle made hitting enemies coming from the close side a real task. If I do a post jam version it's top of my list to figure out.
My dreams of being an airship captain have finally come true! Except I keep shooting the balloon out of the sky....
Game is aesthetically good, music is excellent.
thank you!
This is nice. That'll all I have to say.
Great music! Gun was a little slow (I guess it gets better if you upgrade?) I did not make it to the extraterrestrials unfortunately
i really like it bro!.
I like the hilarious take on an old saying.