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A jam submission

Bowling DefenseView game page

Submitted by bryengx — 11 days, 21 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#23.8333.833
Innovation#93.4173.417
Audio#103.0003.000
Overall#103.2783.278
Progress#113.5003.500
polish#133.0003.000
Graphics#142.9172.917

Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted

Great concept and very fun. A few suggestions to keep the dopamine bowling:

  • I’d love to start with a ball so I can start bowling right away!
  • Balls can’t be picked up unless you get there after they spawn. This is most obvious when starting a new game, but occurs anytime you camp out by the gutters.
  • I keep having to jump between keyboard and mouse. The simplest solution might be to let us click to bowl. Bonus points if we could use the keyboard to select our level up rewards.
  • I’d love for more sound effects for whenever we pick up a ball, bowl, and level up. For example, the ball types could have different sounds as they roll and strike pins.

Keep it up!

Developer

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it!

HostSubmitted

This game was a lot of fun!

- loved the progression and the idea of earning new bowling balls
- I tried my best to get on a high score but it didn't happen in the end
- if I had more time I would play this all day, it was very addicting

things that could be improved (IMO):

- more visual indicators on what's happening in the backend would be nice, it took a while to figure out what the "meta" was

Submitted

Couldn't get a good score (still need to play it more), I wasn't expecting this kind of gameplay, I was positively surprised by how fun it is!

Submitted

I like the improvements you made since I last tried it! Definitely tricky to aim down the lane (which adds to the challenge/skill). Fun little game, nice job!

Submitted

Very cool idea!  The bowling ball power ups are super neat too~ a magnet ball might be a cool idea (pulls pins back with it).  Keep working on it, it's a fun idea for sure!  Or if you are bored of the bowling concept, you could change it to like a wizard defending a bridge from hordes of enemies while grabbing different spells hehehe. Great job!  Please check out my Hollow Knight inspired metroidvania when you can :D

Developer

Thanks! I could definitely try different consept. Been hard to come up with ideas for different balls and enemies with this one.