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Portrait Curling's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Innovation | #39 | 1.735 | 2.833 |
| Your personal opinion | #41 | 1.633 | 2.667 |
| Use of the chosen theme | #42 | 2.041 | 3.333 |
| Aesthetics (Art or music) | #42 | 1.735 | 2.833 |
| Overall | #42 | 1.786 | 2.917 |
Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Theme its based on
Tee'd Off (the centre of the target in Curling is known as the tee)
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Finally a sports game that tries to be too faithful to the orignal sport! I feel like it would have been perfect if my screen set-up was 6 monitors stacked vertically, seems like you built out all the systems of a robust curling game here. Nice job, thanks for Jamming ✨
Haha, thanks! I’ll send the extra monitors over ASAP. I’ll be building on this maybe as a scrollable but still tall view for mobile.
The premise (and the way love files are distributed, not your fault though) are inherently a little inaccessible, but if anything, the fact that you made a curling game with a screen resolution as tall as a curling field makes me like it more, because commitment to these kinds of things is awesome to me. I really like the idea of a video game that's as accurate to the real sport as possible.
If you decide to update the game after the game jam, I think it might be nice to explain the controls in-game & inside of the gameplay, but for now I was able to read the instructions on the page, so it was fine.
Thanks for the your feedback, I agree entirely with all of it. This is actually the first love2d game I’ve ever made. “Mistakes were made!” as they say. I’ll know for next time. I will expand on it and make it onto a proper game with good accessibility and so on. Thanks for playing.
Wow, this feels better than real curling (I've never played curling before)
I think so, too! (I’ve also never played real curling before)
It seems itch serves downloads of this as a
curling-pizzajam.love.zipand your browser might automatically unzip it.Don’t unzip it! Rename the zip to
curling-pizzajam.loveand double click it. That will launch it in the Love2D app.Apologies, this is the first time I’ve distributed a love file.
There's no exe file. Just Lua file. I've tried running it in love2d exe file, but gives me an error.
It seems itch serves downloads of this as a
curling-pizzajam.love.zipand your browser might automatically unzip it.Don’t unzip it! Rename the zip to
curling-pizzajam.loveand double click it. That will launch it in the Love2D app.Apologies, this is the first time I’ve distributed a love file.
I got it to work now, thank you for the instructions. Game is pretty good.
I do like the physics when you move left and right with your hockey puck and slow the puck down with down arrow.
Great, thanks! I’ll continue to build on the game. The latest version is on my GitHub where I’ve also put a double-zipped version to avoid the problem with browser unzipping the .love file.
I don't know how to play this game, it only seems to come with a single Lua file.
It seems itch serves downloads of this as a
curling-pizzajam.love.zipand your browser might automatically unzip it.Don’t unzip it! Rename the zip to
curling-pizzajam.loveand double click it. That will launch it in the Love2D app.Apologies, this is the first time I’ve distributed a love file.
I'm also unsure how to run. Do I need to install LOVE somehow?
You need Love2D downloaded on your PC then you can launch the .love file and it will open in Love2D. Sorry for the hassle. Please see here: https://gingerbeardman.itch.io/portrait-curling/devlog/638048/how-to-download-and-play-the-game