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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Visuals | #20 | 1.735 | 2.125 |
| Ease of Learning | #20 | 1.735 | 2.125 |
| Overall | #20 | 1.327 | 1.625 |
| Spectator Appeal | #20 | 1.225 | 1.500 |
| Sound | #20 | 0.816 | 1.000 |
| Engagement | #20 | 1.327 | 1.625 |
| Overall | #20 | 1.361 | 1.667 |
Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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I tried to play but the executable isn't working for me. Is there any other build I can download to play it? :)
Here the pop-up for ref
Hi, not yet! After voting ends I'll update it and let you know.
It was fun to discover I could have the octopus spike the ball! It seemed like I could play pretty indefinitely once I learned the ropes. Not sure the leaderboard was working. Nice job finishing a project for the jam, keep going!
Woohoo! Thanks, "finishing" is a strong word :) I bit off more than I could chew ahah
It comes with the territory, I know how you feel 😅
I tried to play but couldn't get the game working, my error says "The code execution cannot proceed because VCRUNTIME140_1D.dll was not found." The assets look SUPER cute though so if you know of a fix let me know, would love to try it out!
I think the concept has some promise, but it doesn't quite come together here.
I think the game is hit a bit hard by the lack of sound and animation, which together make it fairly difficult to figure out exactly what's going on. The main goal also doesn't really get explained ingame, and the mechanic of bouncing the balls off the octopus doesn't end up feeling relevant, since you can still just toss the beach balls into the crabs yourself, which is much easier to aim and doesn't seem to penalize you in any way.
The hitboxes also feel inconsistent - you have to shoot *above* the crabs to kill them, since if you aim so the ball goes directly through the crab sprite, it'll just pass through them harmlessly.
There's also only 40 crabs. If you kill them all the game just... kind of stalls out? There's no end, you're just on an empty beach until you close the game.
I could see this going somewhere if the bounce mechanic was tuned a bit more, with the crabs only vulnerable to the ball once its been bounced or something; and with more enemy variety or at least more of the crabs spawning over time.
Very clear and ordered comments, I appreciate it, and thanks for trying out the game!
the .exe doesn't seem to work for me at the moment! I keep getting system errors like the following. I hope this gets fixed, because I'd love to try this!
Oof good to know, thanks. By the following–what do you mean? is it an llvm error?
Yeah, I tried to attach an image but i guess it didn't attach for some reason. Im getting like 2 VC runtime errors and then some other errors too, im Scrumbo in the IGC discord, if you want send me a dm and I can show you the errors