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Balancing Act

By madbeagle

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3.5511
Fun3.3811
Innovation3.3811
Theme4.0011
Graphics3.2510
Audio3.6111
Mood3.2711

Comments

blind-archer 2021-10-03 20:02

Amazing idea around the theme unstable. Gives a good representation of the mass vs distance on a balance.

lenan 2021-10-04 00:10

Incredibly relaxing game, the music contributes a lot to that feeling and overall felt very good to play.

kora0h 2021-10-04 01:02

Music is so comfortable.Very good combination, I like this game.

jcmonkey 2021-10-04 22:37

blockgame.jpg i set out to get over a million and it was actually pretty easy to do. nice little game, i think the blocks fell a bit too slow, though i was eating while playing your game so that was fine. lmao!!

anchorlight 2021-10-06 00:53

This is an incredibly simple and polished idea that clearly has a lot of thought put into it. My only concern is how the scoring system works-- would it be possible to exploit the mechanic by scoring close to perfect and deliberately _not_ using the speed-up function? Random thoughts aside, I have nothing to complain about except that I wish the game could continue for longer if you reached the top with most of your blocks covered as a sort of endless mode. I would have liked to see the game expand so that you had to account for higher numbers like 11-15 with the same scale of balance as before and try to accommodate this.

First playthrough results: firstattempt-balancingact.png

I found your game out of curiosity since my own game was registered as balancing-act-2 on LD-- I'm glad I stumbled on this as it's quite polished.

itshornunicorn 2021-10-20 16:08

The most unique balance game on the jam. For me visual looking was a little boring and so as music. But i think it's subjectively. Nice entry and good job!

aaln 2021-10-20 17:52

Nice game, visuals and music. You seem to have had too much fun on piano, it hammers so much a dramatic aspect even if it's not the the case.

Unfortunately, even if adding blocs takes time, I didn't feel really thrilled about balance and points. Maybe it would have been better to have more things at stake?

Also, you are super fast.

negator2vc 2021-10-20 19:19

Excellent simple idea turned to a very nice game! Simple but effective visuals and equally good sound. Great job!