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A jam submission

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Simple rules can lead to very complex systems
Submitted by Double Top Games (@DoubleTopGames) — 5 hours, 18 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Innovation#723.8213.821
Theme#1423.7863.786
Overall#1643.5603.560
Game Design#1993.6073.607
Fun#2103.5363.536
Audio#2863.3213.321
Graphics#5593.2863.286

Ranked from 28 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

In what way does your game fit the theme?
When the objects collide, a few simple rules determine the result, but complex-ish situations emerge from this interactions and it's hard to predict what's going to happen

Did you write all the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes. To be honest, there are just circles

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Interesting take on the theme. I like the clean visuals. It was enjoyable figuring out what each collision does.

 I think it would benefit from having some objectives you need to acomplish like having X balls of a certain color. Or maybe have some different crazy effects that have a small chance to trigger on collisions instead of the usual ones to spice it up.

Submitted

good game but if you make win will be COOOOL

try my game

Submitted(+1)

Pretty nice game. At first I did not get the theme, and then the black circles appeared. It was fun playing it! 

Submitted(+1)

Nice and simple game,  30/30 stars

Submitted(+1)

Nice and simple game, try to add more levels in the next update...if there's one

I await the update after the jam...would there? and nice/  music choices

Submitted(+1)

Nice game, simple and smart. Well done!

Submitted(+1)

It really reminded me of watching the dvd logo hitting the corner just perfectly. It was fun trying to figure out how the game was and how to progress. So simple, yet genius!

Submitted(+1)

Really fun game. didn't know what to do at first, a 'how to play' would have helped. Otherwise, it was one of the funnest games i've seen yet. things became very chaotic after a certain point and i loved that

Submitted(+1)

man, I  suprised my self so many times , since the way it plays untill all interactins of all balls got understood, really cool one of the best for me

Submitted(+1)

Fun Game, but it needed a goal like a score to beat, because it got repetitive quickly.

Submitted(+1)

very liked the idea of your game

Great game and keep going👍

Submitted(+1)

nice game it will be more nice with audio

Submitted(+1)

interesting idea. It's fun to look at the different interactions and try them out. Overall, the game lacks a clear objective, but it can still entertain and motivate for a while.

Submitted(+1)

This is the kind of graphics that I like. It's sort of minimalistic but I like it!!😮🙃😶

Submitted(+1)

Neat idea! The game lacks a goal but is still very engaging. Looks very similar to our game at first glance but is thankfully very different ^^ Very cute game!

Submitted

Game lacks music and sound effect. Overall, game is fun and cool. It fits the theme very well!

If you want, you can play my game:

https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-6/rate/1174936

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Very nice game. I think we went with some similar ideas into this game jam :D

Submitted(+1)

Great game - how do you make a purple ball ?

Developer

When you combine 2 balls of the same type, they "level up".
The purple one spawn from 2 blue ones

Submitted(+1)

Cool game!

After i got a few blacks, things started going backwards and forwards – is that intentional?

Developer(+1)

So, when the pink ball touches the black one, every ball except the black ones reverse their direction. It does look weird tho

Submitted

OOO cool!

Submitted(+1)

At first i was confused as to what i am supposed to do and the mechanic of the black ball took some time to figure out as well. Also there were a few bugs like sometimes I would aim the ball one way and it would go the other way but other than that it was quite good.