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The Nuclear Ball

By 0x-void-x0

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3983.7767
Fun2493.8768
Innovation5753.4767
Theme4043.8867
Graphics10293.2868
Audio3923.6262
Mood6203.5263

Comments

pashaloban 2021-10-04 12:32

Good game

soulo 2021-10-04 15:48

The mechanics is quite simple, but well made and enjoyable. Especially liked the music.

swen 2021-10-04 16:09

Congratz on your first jam game, nice job!

Made it till the end :D Knipsel.PNG

Fun and challenging game. I like how the bouncy pads can be your enemy, but also your friend in certain circumstances.

0x-void-x0 2021-10-04 16:17

@swen woah you actually finished it! lol, Im impressed good job dude

calutron 2021-10-04 16:44

This mechanic is very satisfying, especially with the sound.

meritcoding 2021-10-04 16:55

I only managed the first level cause level 2 was a bit hard for me. All I managed was going down the hole then I would bump with the wall

darsa 2021-10-04 17:55

Good job; it might be a little bit annoying when you keep losing but overall it's pretty enjoyable and the music is nice. Keep up the good work!

neeko69 2021-10-04 18:03

It's a really fun and challenging game!

bhughes 2021-10-05 02:50

Cool! fun game with cool music

marbles 2021-10-05 09:27

Pretty enjoyable game! Good job on your first jam! I liked the "bounce" walls.

colbymakesgames 2021-10-05 12:50

i ended up raging but good game

chillertyp 2021-10-05 14:13

The different sizes of pixels are strange...

amikatag 2021-10-05 14:51

Very good for the first jam. Bounce walls are annoying at first, but then you forget to slow down your ball right about the finish and it goes ka-boom with both ball and your "insert word with b and double t"

mimusangel 2021-10-05 15:09

A small game really nice, a little difficult to take in hand the velocity but eventually not get used to it after several death and retry A little strange atmosphere ... I finished the game using in my hand the same card + extra dmg 5

cabjhegas 2021-10-05 15:38

Hi there, it was also my first LD. Nice feeling for submmiting it, right? haha I liked the aproach to the theme. And the mechanic works really well. Good job

0x-void-x0 2021-10-05 15:46

@cabjhegas awesome man, it trully is cool, I missed the jam 3 times before Im really glad I finished this game

wormius 2021-10-05 16:28

I really like this game. Perfect design of the last level.

parttimeindie 2021-10-05 16:41

Had fun with this one

rafael-garcez 2021-10-05 16:45

nice job! Really fun and well made

alex-one 2021-10-05 16:47

Addicting game, the right amount of difficult. The control felt intuitive, went full Initial D with it.

furfel 2021-10-05 16:48

This is great, it reminds me of my first published game. It's simple but very challenging

indigowolf 2021-10-05 17:02

Simple and well polished. Great first attempt at Jam!

zwodahs 2021-10-05 17:11

Congrats on your first jam submission !

This is a simple game that is quite enjoyable.

I think adding a timer would make it more fun. That will make it more of a time attack rather than a stage based game.

Thanks for the game !

evgeniya-zapolnova 2021-10-05 17:24

Really cool. I wasn't able to finish first level 🤣 but I like simple games that aren't simple

sawdust 2021-10-05 17:46

Very challenging dexterity game! I like the simple controls. I really appreciated the blinking laser indicating it was about to blow, and the duality of the bouncy pads being good or evil depending on the circumstance.

I might like it if you had to slow the nuclear ball below some certain velocity for the chamber to accept it instead of just launching it full speed once you get to the final stretch.

orangutanrider 2021-10-05 18:33

Nice simple refreshing game. Alot of content.

haematite 2021-10-05 19:02

A nice simple concept done well. I think this would be great on mobile, really great job for your first jam!

falzock 2021-10-05 19:03

Very nice and polished. THis is your first Jam Game? This is realy impressiv! I hope we will see more games from you in the future :D

chris-mcknight 2021-10-05 19:05

Perfect example of a simple but well executed puzzle game. You did a great job getting the movement to feel satisfying, the right balance of slippery-to-precision.

anchorlight 2021-10-05 20:29

Congrats on an incredible first jam! Simple, well thought out, has a variety of challenges that are all reasonable, and controls are fine tuned-- it's just a reasonably well made game through and through. The ball can feel hard to control at times, but only so much so that it makes you sweat a bit at tight corners-- the actual controls are surprisingly precise.

It's possible that the game could be made a little more tense by adding some kind of timer or mechanic where the element could need to be pacified, maybe a system where there are checkpoints in the level that you need to rush in between but save your progress per point, but that might have changed the flow of the game. All in all, you set out to make something and did it to absolute perfection, and the completeness of your project is commendable.

neilkleistgao 2021-10-06 02:54

Challengeable game! Very interesting! Good job.

marc-antoine-girard 2021-10-06 03:54

A very well executed game! Love the mechanic and fits perfectly the theme!

cloistered 2021-10-06 09:06

Nice game~I like it! The magnet idea is so nice! No time limit is a mercy:)

maybe you can let explosion more bigger:)

Followed you and waiting for your new games~

foxxy 2021-10-06 13:06

Looks great. I got stuck on level 2 'cos I suck.

misfire-dev 2021-10-06 13:16

wow that's a hard game :D but really fun, simple and addicting. nice entry.

deltamain 2021-10-06 13:20

Interesting idea, liked music, and core mechanics, graphics still needs some polishing, feels like game is drawn in ms paint.

redsti 2021-10-06 13:21

very nice game, didn't finish it but i like the concept a lot, a speedrun timer could be cool too

stroe-andrew 2021-10-06 13:28

Woah, Woah - Damn game is hard man, hahaha! Love it, Love it. For being one of your first is amazing.

sunnyrx 2021-10-06 14:11

Nice game! I died nearly a hundred times in the level 9, then I found out that I was on the wrong path 😂 Snipaste_2021-10-06_22-38-02.jpg Snipaste_2021-10-06_22-39-31.jpg

0x-void-x0 2021-10-06 14:38

@sunnyrx did you... did you cross the lazers in level 9 ???? whaaaaaaaat ? bu.. but it's supposed to be impossible ????? hoooooooow ???

wouter52 2021-10-06 15:37

Cool game! I tried several times, but could not get past the first level. But that is because I suck at these kind of games :laughing:

glebshik 2021-10-06 15:53

Very cool for the first published game, many levels, great sounds, interesting mechanics. I had to try many times to at least complete five levels. Well done!

thegamerasd 2021-10-06 23:23

Nice game, I really liked the music and gameplay!

monkeyfox 2021-10-07 00:24

Really good mechanics and controls. Very fun!

a-jeannerod 2021-10-07 11:28

Nice little game, with an easily addictive mechanic. And congrats on your first jam !

jaspior 2021-10-08 04:23

I loved the music used there and the sfx are on par. Great choice!

james-wilson 2021-10-08 09:44

Really nice work, great job on your first entry. Loved the music and the controls were just the right amount of skill testing. Nice incremental level design. Did a full playthrough and had a lot of fun. One small bit of feedback would be checkpoints feel really good in a game like this. I don't know how it would tie into the flavour of the game, perhaps shortcuts open up as you progress. But overall, great work.

dioinecail 2021-10-08 11:35

a really well made game! you could potentially release it to app stores and have fun on mobile :)

ttu-hasan 2021-10-08 11:38

interesting controls and overall great game

smooches 2021-10-08 15:34

Movement mechanic turned it into almost a drifting game which was really interesting and could make for great speedrunning play. Some of the turns were a bit too tight but otherwise I think there's a core of a really good game here!

randomerz 2021-10-08 18:25

Wow! That was really impressive for a first jam game! I really enjoyed the dynamic music kicking in after the first stage, and the subtle hums of the ball really fit well. The mechanics were interesting and you explored a lot of room with the dragging-ball-around game type. I think the levels were a good length, though the mechanics did barely start to feel a bit repetitive at the end -- maybe you could look at other games like super monkey ball for inspiration? Also, a subtle hum when you're using the magnet would be really nice too.

Overall though, great job!

robbietaco 2021-10-08 19:24

Fun game! Pretty challenging! If you had time to improve I would add a timer to give a bit more motivation to the player to complete the level faster. I think it would have also been interesting if the speed of the balls movement was tied to how far the magnet was to the ball. Really good entry, really enjoyed it!

ekun 2021-10-08 19:55

Easy to get into and fun, with a good soundtrack as well. Nice job!

micheldever 2021-10-09 11:41

Wohoo! That was so much fun. Really enjoyed playing through that and nice work on your first game jam. Loved the animations and the look&feel of the game. The magnet move mechanics were nice and I like that the obstacles weren't grid-based. Would be cool to have metrics shown at the end, e.g. time to complete each/all levels or number of deaths.

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guimoliveira 2021-10-09 15:46

Great game. Good job. I played for a long time and gave up at level 6. :(

chesiq 2021-10-09 16:45

Nice game! Keep it up! I enjoyed the mechanics and completed the game (after some time hehe)!

itsboats 2021-10-11 03:50

Great game man! I think it has one of those "easy to learn, hard to master" mechanics that's fun to get better at. The ball always moved exactly how I expected it to and if I died it was my own gosh dang impatient self's fault for going too fast haha

Only suggestions I have: - the animation for completing the level and the animation for teleporting are too slow - add more levels, I wanna play more! :D The long parts where you drift around a curve were my favourite xD

blumber 2021-10-11 19:35

Great game! I think the second level it's a little hard compared to the first. But I like it in general, is fun to play and to understand.

adriankrawczyk 2021-10-16 10:19

Very hard but satysfying game. Pretty good entry for a first jam you tried. Great job!

togis 2021-10-18 03:44

Hey there! This game was really amazing to play! Thanks for joining us live!

I finally had the time to come back and rate everything I played so far!

Here is a link to the vod of the review if you wish to see it again: https://www.youtube.be/watch?v=1gUA0Q2dn6I&t=7850s

2022-04-06 10:01

Cool and little hard game