Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD59 → Trail Signal
By uvwar, foolmoron, hydezeke, Salohcin894 and Alex Niemeyer
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 662 | 3.20 | 32 | |
| Fun | 501 | 3.27 | 31 | |
| Innovation | 129 | 3.86 | 32 | |
| Theme | 754 | 2.78 | 32 | |
| Graphics | 775 | 2.22 | 31 | |
| Audio | 273 | 3.65 | 32 | |
| Humor | 329 | 3.04 | 27 | |
| Mood | 750 | 2.90 | 29 |
Absolutely love this! I had a lot of fun playing around with different tracks and different sounds. I appreciate that there was plenty of space to experiment with different designs. The only thing I felt was missing was a way to erase tracks or balls (did I just miss that?). Overall, nice work!
There are literally only two things to do (place the balls and draw curves) but it’s amazing how much time you can spend trying to create different sounds. It’s impressive how the game manages to offer players so many possibilities with so few tools. I'll make a note of that for myself. Congrats.
Love this. I could play this for hours. Really wish I could erase stuff though.
Quite a quirky and fascinating experience! Is there a way to clear the scene?
This game is Balling!
An original mechanic that, unfortunately, doesn't fully realize its potential. At first, it's hard to figure out what to do or what the lines are for, at the start, I didn't even see the ball, and the camera work isn't very engaging. It would be nice to have “tutorial” levels that explain how to draw a line, how to position the ball correctly, what the different sounds are, etc.—all while helping the player get the hang of drawing lines and then letting them play freely, because right now I’m really struggling to make a cool sound. But well done for the mechanics, it’s still a great game!!
The simplicity made me sceptical, but after trying, it was really fun to tinker and mess around with different. I'm actually interested to know how you tied the playback speed to the velocity of the ball, because I'm sure that if I tried that it would sound bad lol. Anyway, great game.
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Really really cool! I didn't really expect much based on the art, but the sounds way exceeded my expectations! Super well done!
really fun to goof around in, slowing down/speeding up sounds will never not be funny. I really want a way to recycle the balls into some kind of rube goldberg/ blue ball machine. this could be the next killer DAW :^)
@pres2300 @orjan Yeah theres no way to delete balls or lines, maybe I'll revisit after the jam
@meemog Its pretty much exactly how you describe it; just the ball velocity tied to the pitch of the audio track. I should have the source files on my itch if you want to download and poke around.
Wow, what an unexpected idea. Great innovation! I enjoyed playing the game with my drawing pad :)
Pachinko time! chrome_0JjZ8Sz3DF.png
It's a lot of goofy fun and a great mix on the multiple themes.
Would have loved the ability to like hold off the balls falling through, so I could set them all up and then release them all at once?
@miclefirst beautiful...
Very interesting mechanic. It was fun playing around with the lines and balls. Adding a smooth zoom function (like with the mouse wheel, so you can have really small steps) would feel much better in my opinion. It is nice how simplistic yet so engaging this game is. :)
very fun and silly toy-like game! i love that you can zoom and scroll out, feels like using miro or a drawing app except way better and cooler obviously
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We had a great time playing your game [on stream](https://www.youtube.com/live/AsrUFSHAVx4?t=2773s). Check out the link to hear our feedback.
Funny toy. Wish there was an erase or board wipe!
nice fun game!! would love it for as a mobile app