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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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Adorable game! I like your art style. : )
Nice game! I like the simple design and cute art style, it give it the potential of being a really great arcade game. It takes whatever floats your boat quite literally which was nice :P
The upgrades in this game kept me engaged for a long time. Once I unlocked the second gun, it felt like a completely different game!
Nice one! I love the aesthetics of the game!
Bird spawn rate could be less punishing... but still fun!
Cool concept! Would have been good if you could see the number of coins you have during the sailing so you know when you can upgrade.
Good work!
Really cool entry! I just think the upgrades could be less expensive, the progression feels too slow, specially for a Jam game
This feels like a good time waster of a webgame. I think if you added shop checkpoints and/or cheapened the prices a bit it would feel like it respected players time a little more. But overall a good game, I did still sink a good amount of time to get the final upgrade of 1 cannon, add 2 layers of balloon and upgraded the ship.
I will say, I feel the order of ship upgrades visually was a bit off, 2nd should've been the starting boat. then 3, then 1 :p
thank you, I hated the drawing of the second ship too much to make it the starter, I really wish I'd just taken it out the game because nobody would've missed an extra boat upgrade
Daaamn, this game has potential, it was really fun to play but the cost of the upgrades was to high and i only played long enough to get the second gun, it was too tedious to shoot down 50 birds at a rate of about 5 per run due to slow reload speed, otherwise it was fun
Well done! I enjoyed the upgrade system to the boat and I also liked the dynamic mechanic with the balloon (where you could shoot it yourself to go down and visit the shop). Also I found the simplistic art style to look nice as well. Overall, I had a lot of fun playing this :)
its great but the boat needs to be more detailed it really throws me off that every thing else is very detailed in pixels but the boat is like 10 pixels.
Very clean. I like that you can self-sabotage by shooting the balloon. Nice!
The best game of the jam I have played so far, simple, nostalgic of the flash era and fun. Sadly it doesn't really meet the theme.
(one major flaw it had was the REALLY slow progression at the start of the game, progression shall start fast and then go slower, not the vice-versa)
I think this is my favorite game I've played in the jam so far! That "walk of shame" feel when you're falling all the way to the bottom cuts deep lol
Really fun game! The music was so good, and the controls felt nice. Maybe as one note the boat could fall/start a bit faster, but the game was real good. Great job and congrats on submitting!!! :D
Super creative idea! Good selection of music, and the spritework is stripped down and very readable. I rather like this!
Very cute! I would love if I didn't have to wait for the boat to fall alllll the way down every time the balloon pops, but I like the design. I enjoyed my time playing it. :)
I think you have a really nice mechanic with lots of potential here. Nice work!
Cute game. I like the clouds; I think similarly rough edges on the boat would've fit in better with your visual theme. Also yes, shooting my own balloon is the first thing I did haha
I genuinely busted out laughing when I shot the balloon right off the bat on the first go. That's a great way to teach that mechanic. It's a little slow to get going but I can definitely see myself playing more of this with more polish.
The idea not shooting a balloon and it being your lifeline is a really cool concept that I think could be really expanded upon. Unfortunately I think it's a really repetitive loop unfortunately. Upgrades are really expensive and take a long time to get.