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Ball size matters

By devez, bunchanurds and Prskvs

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall9573.0831
Fun8713.0332
Innovation7173.1832
Theme10932.5432
Graphics9692.5432
Audio6991.2528
Humor7492.5130
Mood10542.4431

Comments

anton4ik-dev 2023-10-03 18:11

Simple and funny. I enjoyed it

iliusha 2023-10-03 18:28

nice game

jozgames 2023-10-03 18:36

Interessante a ideia, eu só sou burro de mais pra conseguir jogar xD

unfinished632 2023-10-03 18:40

Gave it a 5/5 for humor just because of the title

depression 2023-10-03 18:41

Cool idea but very sad no audio :c

jk5000 2023-10-03 18:43

I love the idea, and I had fun trying the game. I will say it's really difficult, and perhaps a bit too difficult. The game do also need some music and perhaps some sound effects. Overall is it a pretty good and fun little jam game.

vlad-dn69 2023-10-04 11:58

interesting ideas and attractive mechanics))

soul-grinder 2023-10-04 19:43

Fun game and quite tricky. I agree with the other comments about the audio. Almost any audio is better than none at all. Aside from that, a nice game jam game!

savidiy 2023-10-04 21:14

An interesting idea, but I couldn't cope with the first springboard (

griddolini 2023-10-04 21:17

I don't mind the difficulty too much but the stages making you repeat the whole thing again is a little demanding of patience for a jam game. The mechanic is great though, I had fun with it :)

oggeloppe 2023-10-04 21:20

Fun game. Do miss having some sounds in the game but I like the idè a lot.

whysguy52 2023-10-06 02:38

pretty fun. your numbers in the hud are broken but pretty good.

igor-morgun 2023-10-06 15:54

Nice game, interesting mechanics and well graphics,a map in game somewhat reminiscent of the flatgrass map from Garry's Mod, well work.

rakthalekk 2023-10-06 23:10

Cool game, the levels were fun and I like the idea. I do wish there was better control over the ball's speed, as I never quite got the hang of how to slow it down or gain speed by changing size. Also I recommend noting in the instructions that Esc closes the game, I tried to pause at the end of the second level and it closed it instead

kanity 2023-10-06 23:50

I love the mechanic with shrinking-expanding, and the game seems chill ^^ A bit difficult for me maybe, as I am not that good with physics, but I like the idea and I'll keep it on my laptop, might practice bit more sometimes :)

fatemperor 2023-10-07 16:08

Manipulating size changes is a cool idea.

jakubbala 2023-10-08 01:39

this was apretty fun game however It was very difficult from the first ramp. I spilled my red label from hitting my desk. I liked it though :)

emkani 2023-10-08 15:21

like the idea with a simple arcade gameplay. Had a hard time figuring out how to get past the ramp though.

sentmoraap 2023-10-08 15:51

I didn’t managed to finish it, I can’t finish the level where you fall down in a white tube, bounce off a tilted surface, jump through a hole and must land in a transparent tube.

This is a cool twist of Super Monkey Ball. I think the physics whould be tweaked a little bit, but I can’t tell how. I am not sure how changing the ball size affects the speed.

You displayed controls which is nice. WASD controls uses scancodes so it’s not messed up on non-QWERTY keyboards, thank you for that. The right joystick is not sensitive enough, I ended up holding the controller with my left hand and the mouse with my right hand.

mhorth 2023-10-08 18:37

Really really neat idea, I think tuning the physics to keep players a bit more in control would have made the game more enjoyable for me. I like the concept that small ball = more control less speed, and big ball = less control more speed. That should stay, but I would have liked if the control was overall higher across the spectrum.

I have two other small suggestions. - Make sure every surface has a pattern on it, just something to make it not a flat color. There were times I had the camera pointed down, so my background was filled with the flat blue color of a platform, and I couldn't gauge my speed or direction. Having stripes or a grid pattern would solve that. - If I'm not pressing any movement input, I think it would feel better for the ball to slow down to zero speed. Tapping back and forth to stay still didn't feel great.

Aside from those, I think the core concept that you have here seriously has potential! I hope you continue working on it, I truly see this concept becoming a hit mobile game.

thorpalsson 2023-10-19 18:31

A deep philosophical question if ball size matters. From play this game it seems that the answer is yes.

ganny 2023-10-20 17:25

Really nice and unique game mechanic. It was something completely new for me at least. It was fun and challenging at the same time. I just missed some music. Great work!