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Footsypool

By antti-haavikko

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall54.3230
Fun44.3030
Innovation283.9630
Theme2822.1230
Graphics224.2530
Audio194.0928
Humor633.2229
Mood653.8126

Comments

william-corrin 2026-04-20 04:53

You have made a really addicting little game, and its so cute too! Love the music and the little characters. Lots of juice. Great job

poddub 2026-04-20 16:05

very smooth and polished game ✨ really like this football spiders 🕷️⚽️

mathemagics 2026-04-20 22:39

This game reminded me Ball x Pit — well, aside from the other obvious game, billiards xD Anyway, it was fun to play. In general, it's hard to even imagine that a game like this could be made in such a short amount of time. Add a few variations, some meta-progression, and the game would be ready for mobile — I can see people playing stuff like this. All in all, good work!

tweekus 2026-04-21 10:59

I didn't get a theme here, but it still funny game)

captaindreamcast 2026-04-21 18:02

Do you need to do set something special setting to get on the leaderboard? I made it pretty high, according to the current board, I'd have a shared second place, unless that's supposed to be me, but that's the Romanian(?) flag instead of the German one, so I dunno. Well I can still post it here, just look at this field, I could have gotten another shot maybe if I hadn't been stupid that round, but three million more for first place were very much out of reach:

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Super fun game! It's very addicting to see the combo number go up and up and up. There is a bit of a learning curve, but the quick gameplay loop really makes you want to jump back in and try again. Very well-designed and polished! Music and art is top-notch as well, I especially love the cute players and their little customizations. Great game, very well done!

antti-haavikko 2026-04-21 18:13

@captaindreamcast Ye that's probably you, score seems to match. The flag is based on geolocation, no idea why it would show up that wrong for you. Never heard it being off from anyone else where I've used the same system. And I guess you changed your name after you had failed (ie. already submitted the game). If you play again though and submit any score again, it will still use your most current name for the older scores too.

edit: Took a peek at what's going on there in the backend and it shows locale blank for that score. And in that case I guess it used the first flag on the sprite sheet, ie. Andorra. Maybe the next time I use this system on a game, I'll add some "unknown flag" sprite for if the locale can't be resolved.

wdebowicz 2026-04-21 20:50

That was super fun. Menage to reach 1M. I tried 4-4-2 but it's clearly outdated!

23edsa 2026-04-21 21:25

Amazing! Great idea and polish

2026-04-21 21:29

super cool game! Definitely gets more interesting once you have a few teammates on the field competing with opponents while still trying to manage bounce. Nice work!

goodwayman 2026-04-22 08:49

Chapeau bas for such a polished game! I really like the idea for the core mechanics in the game - it makes the players to really use their brains ;) Also, the UI is beautiful and creates unified mood with the whole game. I also really liked how the game communicated with me - that's the most important aspect many devs forget about. Very good job!

thomas-gelman 2026-04-22 18:10

This is VERY good! And Super polished! The gameplay was intuitive, and easy to grasp, and I had fun trying to strategically place characters to ricochet shots off walls for a maximum combo. Honestly not much I can say other than that it's a very solid entry, great work!

jiri-hysek 2026-04-22 20:22

I like replayability of the game. It's fun, easy to grasp and there is still room for improvement so you try it play again and again. Level of polish is stellar as always. I'm not sure about the theme but making fun game is more important to me :)

le-don 2026-04-24 14:19

Really fun and great game! I had a lot of fun with it and I areally like the more tactical approach.

bestdtang 2026-04-25 20:56

Absolutely love this! Everything feels incredibly smooth, and the character animations have such a satisfying quality to them. The art is clean and cute, and the color palette is spot on. A perfect small but highly polished entry. Amazing work!

t4ran 2026-04-26 16:41

Cool, I've never seen anything like this before.

rubatotree 2026-04-27 03:11

The graphics is so cuuuuuute! Love the juicy and polished animations! The gameplay is also fun and addictive.

ikado 2026-04-28 04:45

quite fun! very impressive for only 48 hours