Pipe Golf is a short puzzle game where you play mini-golf with no putter! You must create a path for the golf ball to land in the flag.
The game can be found here https://dow-the-dev.itch.io/pipe-golf
Here's a peak at the first level!

Came back and finished the game...not sad anymore :)

The game is VERY hard with the narrow paths, but besides that you had an incredibly clever idea for the theme and great implementation of it. The visuals were excellent, and the game didn't even need a tutorial.

I'm only sad because growing big on the main menu didn't result in anything (that I noticed)

This is the best game of the jam clearly.

I don't think I need to play any more, you fit the theme perfectly.

I was initially confused as to how it met the them and was ready to be critical of it, as I was just landing on the ground for the first few jumps. In almost a No Man's Sky-esque way, though, the game opened up to be a lot bigger than I thought with the upgrades. Seriously, the dynamic change in music as the view got bigger was a great design choice.

I've played games like this before, and this was an excellent take on the genre. The theme helped this, and you interpreted it in a great way. I actually found myself playing this one for way too long and had to move on. Great job!

My only criticism is maybe the sharp sounds used for the boosts and teleportation.

Couldn't figure out how most of the game worked and how to get to any other ending than good. I can definitely tell there was a lot of effort here, and thanks for implementing a 'skip introduction' button for multiple playthroughs. I can see the influence in this.

Oh wow, were you able to get out of it? That's too bad, that one's on me for sure, with the weird way that I tiled the game. This was my first experience with that, but I will know to be better about it in the future.

Hope you enjoyed the game, regardless. Thanks for taking the time to review it.

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I loved the transition, and the artwork in general. I'm sure it took time to create those unique customization options for the character, and I think it gave your game a unique charm that other games didn't have. 

I liked the house burning mechanic, and how you could lead the villagers towards their own houses, destroying refuge. 

The gameplay was tough, I couldn't figure out what some of the power-ups were doing, or really how to play the game very quickly, but it is a good interpretation of the theme.

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The art is captivating. Great approach to the concept, although I'm admittedly awful at the game. Can't praise the art enough. Good job!

I'm surprised. This interpretation of the theme is an advanced version of what we wanted to do; I was actually hopeful that our idea was unique. Regardless, great job with the approach. The art is incredible for the time frame, very well done. Very tough, I don't think I can beat it, but good job with what I played.

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I love math, I think that's evidenced pretty well in our own game. With that said, it is incredibly hard to make a game where the 'fun' part is math.

You balanced it well.

Great job with the gameplay. Short and sweet, and somehow made a small math game fun.

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I've played most of these blind, without reading the descriptions so that I have just the game's instructions to tell me how i should approach it. I didn't understand at first but after realizing I was inconsistently getting a green flag, and piecing together the theme, i figured out the gimmick. That timer is relentless!

Good, cute game once I understood the gimmick.

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Excellent game, seems like there was a lot of effort in the art and I noticed no bugs. I'm usually quite critical in my reviews and offer some criticism, so I'll offer that in a slightly better version of this, the player could skip dialogue that they've seen before. Great job and I don't want to spoil the end but good job with it, regardless of how common it is to see that dichotomy portrayed.

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Wow, the art is vexing. I adored it. As for the gameplay, it was short and simple, I understood what you were going for. Pretty unique interpretation of the theme.

I feel like you unintentionally made an ironic horror game, which is the best kind of horror game to me lol. Good job.

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The art is delightful. You have a knack for pixel art. The gameplay, maybe because of a lack of explanation, was hard to understand. I'd love to see how the game was intended to be played, because I loved what I saw.

I like the interpretation of the theme. I have seen a lot of people doing platformers where make the player switch some part of the screen, but this game is a unique take on the theme and it's got weird addictive gameplay. I personally think my team's interpretation is unique as well. Good job, and nice art!

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You must have been hungry, like me, when hearing about the "two sides" theme, haha! Good interpretation of the theme, and good art.  The gameplay reminded me of the old Diner Dash game that I was somehow obsessed with. Good job!

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The game had charm when I could swing myself around. The colliders could have been a bit better, but overall good job.

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Nice implementation!

Cute game, good music and clever platforming. I love bunnies!!!

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I will recommend, though, looking into something called Coyote Time, it's something I think would have been useful here (or more importantly, future games). The idea is analogous with old Wile E. Coyote running off the side of a cliff, defying gravity. Basically, adding it here would just give the character a tiny window to be able to jump when transitioning into mid-air.

Excellent and unique take on the theme. We did something similar, but your idea is fun and the game as a whole is perfect as far as game jams games go. It had a unique art style, great music, and interpreted the theme uniquely. Great job!

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I initially had the idea of coin flipping for my game too, but ultimately went with something different because I couldn't think of something good. You implemented this well!

It was not as easy as I thought it would be! Nice job! Only thing I'd change is how far the coins can get from the camera. It can be really hard to see them.

Looks good!

It's a shame that there were quite a few issues and barriers to finishing. What I played, though, was clever. Maybe luck will be on your side next time.

Movement was incredibly slippery. I've played a bunch of the jam games now and I've seen a bunch of games take a similar approach to the theme, but I think you did a really good job with it by choosing to invert the levels colors. That was clever.

First, I want to say I think some people are struggling with the jump because they may not know they can double jump, understandably.

Pretty good idea but could have benefited from some fixes to how the monsters moved around. I really liked the idea of throwing them in or trying to keep them wrangled on respective sides to meet equilibrium, clever thinking. Good job with this especially with the art.

Ok this damn goblin was the silliest pixel art I've seen this jam and I was seriously expecting the game to be a little lackluster. While short, the game is charming because of the cleverness of the puzzles and I won't 'spoil' the end but the final room and the end sequence was great, too.

Congrats, you made me like your silly looking monster.

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I did not finish the game but returned to the level select and realized it said "impossible", I just assumed that it wasn't meant to be completed. I gave that one quite a few tries as well, thought I could get it.

The art was adorable, and the concept was well executed mostly well. Would have recommended making the tiles alternate between two colors to make it easier to count how many steps would need to be taken, definitely.

With that said, I would have really struggled with understanding how to actually play if I didn't find out about this kind of game a few weeks ago. Regardless, loved the idea.

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Yeah, we both agreed that it was hard and that was the intent. Something did feel slightly off, though, and that might have been it. We tried to fine tune a lot, but movement was low priority among the many other things we were learning. This is good feedback for whatever we each do next!

I personally really loved the title screen, but that's good to know. I wonder how others feel. We could certainly have taken the saturation down a bit.

Thanks for taking the time to write this, it means a lot.

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I am committed to finishing games when I start them, but damn 119 tries, that is sorta indicative of intuitive design as others have pointed out. Good audio, loved the post processing.

For the last level I put a sticky note on my monitor because of how annoying it was to have to switch quickly, but I'm sure that's been pointed out to you. Great take on the theme, regardless of some small issues.

Played through the game, it was good! A little hard to get into some place because of how fast the player moved and how big the player was, as mentioned. I've seen some platformers that are pretty unforgiving and have you restart a whole level if you mess up, and it seems like you guys thought through some edge cases so that it wouldn't need to happen. Great job.

Also, I didn't realize this was pixel art until I looked at the tags. Looks unique and great for pixel art, to me. And I loved the dedication to Josh's wife, very sweet.

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The original intent was to make holding the bullet a mechanic which would grow the size of the projectile, and therefore the area that you could see. We didn't get to that feature, unfortunately.

Thanks so much for playing the game, and thanks for the review.

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Good art in my opinion. The audio was quite harsh. Good game, though!

Tip for web version games - i would suggest not having control as a key option. I accidentally ctrl+w'd which closes the window. I needed to restart during the boss.

Great job on the audio, and art. I love the effort put into make the game's settings editable, and make the game easier to understand.

Short and simple. I love the portal animations and would love to know how you did them. Plenty of potential in this game's concept 

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Thanks for the feedback! We actually tried this, and it felt good, but we felt like it would make for pretty interesting level design to force the player to position themselves around the enemies.

We didn't get as many levels in as we wanted to, so maybe this concept didn't shine as well.

Thanks again! :)