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A jam submission

Tether BallView game page

GMTK 2021 Game Jam
Submitted by PewPewBoi — 15 minutes, 24 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Originality#6973.7163.824
Fun#7893.4303.529
Overall#14053.2583.353
Presentation#28472.6302.706

Ranked from 17 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?
Tethers connect (join) the player to tesla coils. These tethers are then used to damage enemies and other fun mechanics.

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

Submitted(+1)

Got to lvl 13 before being swarmed by a million of those speedy green balls.

Loved every moment of it though, I kept finding out new things about the mechanics, like the way you can overheat a coil and cause it to explode, but doing that also makes it so that you lose a coil in that area that you were using, so you have to be strategic.  The fact that you have so many different upgrades & stuff was really unexpected and really awesome.  

I think if someone asks me if they can make good games but have no art knowledge, I'd send them this.  This game is so chalk full of good ideas, that your presentation would just need a bit of work and it'd be a really good game.  Presentation isn't as hard as people say either, you could invest some cash if you wanted and have something looking pretty great within a week, finding a good game-loop requires intuition, knowledge n a bit of a luck.

Great game over-all, you should be up there in the top 100 tbh.

Would appreciate you giving ours a looksie n sharing thoughts/rating as well :)

(+1)

That was pretty fun! However, the second wave of enemies were impossible to kill while dodging their quickly fired bullets. They started swarming me and I couldn't swing around to use the tethered laser to kill them. If there was a way to lock on to one coil and swing around it, then I could kill more enemies. Or perhaps I just wasn't great at it, I don't know. Great job though!

Submitted(+1)

This was so fun!

Submitted(+1)

This one starts out slow, but once you get an upgrade or two can be a blast.  Sometimes slow to chase down enemies at the end of a level.  Had to stop at level 9 when I got in a stalemate with a boss enemy.

Submitted(+1)

Good fun, after you get your first tether length upgrade.

Submitted(+1)

Cool idea! Since the enemies only aggro on the player it makes it kinda difficult to get them consistently into the tether.