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A jam submission

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A small game of juggling challenges.
Submitted by mirkohd — 2 hours, 26 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity - how original is the idea?#113.7143.714
Overall#212.8892.889
Entertainment - how enjoyable is it?#262.4292.429
Presentation - how does it look/feel?#302.5242.524

Ranked from 21 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

Cool idea, it would be nice if the balls were different colours. I kept losing track of which ball was supposed to be hit by which hand

Submitted

It felt weirdly hard to play. I think the crowd watching gave me anxiety lol. I’m proud of you for not using pixel art!

Developer

Ah, good to know, I initially I wanted to drastically change the physical properties of each prop but it was impossible to win. I'm glad you like my programmer art (I don't!).

Submitted

I have to take a look how you created the game! I didn't quite get the rating, is it just displaying how many balls I keep in the air at the time? I don't like to move the character to throw the balls again. Would be nice if one could have a mouse button press event to give an angle and amplitude to the thrown ball.

Developer

The bar increases faster depending on the number of juggling props in action, the goal of the game is to fill the bar, I did not tweak the score mechanic enough to get a more intuitive feel. I like your idea of an angle selector, maybe for  a special move or a more difficult mode, since  I would have to reduce the  current gravity value.

The source should be in in the download page.

HostSubmitted(+1)

A new genre: the juggling type game! I always enjoy jam games with simple controls that are easy to pick up and play. I do wish the hitboxes were bigger for the player's arms as I felt like I had to be too precise in my movements to keep the juggling going. I'm about as good at juggling in this game as I am in real life (which is to say: not good!) It's so cool that chose to use Hoot for this project!

Developer

Thanks. I originally intended to create a more realistic juggling animation, and the juggling mechanic to be just pressing a button at the right time, but in the end  a poor  animation with simpler mechanics seemed to work best( a happy accident I guess).

I considered drawing the hands, but knew I would not have time to animate them. I will probably add them later, there is a list of things that i would like to add, and learn a bit more of Hoot in the process.

Submitted

It was fun!  Really quite nice for a first game jam entry... you made something that could be played and beaten.  And hey, nice job using Hoot! :)

Developer (1 edit)

Thanks. After the jam I realize now that I totally underestimated how time consuming creating art and sound is (which is why I ended with no sound and the cartoony style). And I expected to finish with coding much sooner, my original simple design was harder to implement than expected.  Anyway I'm hyped for the next jam.

Also, Hoot is fantastic, this was a great opportunity to learn about it. I will definitely use it ( if not for a more fully developed game)  for making some tools or for web development.

Developer

Yes, I had a list of things to add but I barely managed to finish before the deadline (this is my first game jam) . I will add better sound effects and descriptive text. Thanks for the feedback!.

Submitted

Took me a few tries but I managed to beat it! Good job! It took me quite a while to figure out it's spacebar to begin throwing the item, so adding controls in the description would be nice as well

Submitted

It's creative. I had to do a bit of thinking before realising that I had to move the character underneath the falling balls for them to be thrown back up. A bit of help text would have been nice.