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A jam submission

ChaolfView game page

Submitted by davisarthur — 1 hour, 50 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#1663.6223.622
Game Design#1743.6493.649
Theme#1863.7033.703
Overall#2533.4463.446
Innovation#2673.4053.405
Audio#5173.0273.027
Graphics#5693.2703.270

Ranked from 37 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?
The golf balls in my game are an example of "dynamical billiards." This is one of the simplest physical systems that exhibits chaos. In fact, some of the earliest notions of chaos theory in modern physics came from the theoretical study of "dynamical billiards."

Did you write all the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
I wrote all of the code from scratch. The art and music were compiled from two sources listed in the description of my page.

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Submitted(+1)

Can't say I've heard of this one before! I'm a sucker for golf games, so the low-friction and ball-factory take was really fun to play with. The holes looked pretty and were fun to bounce around in. I feel the chaos! Holes 6 and 7 really kicked my butt though, it seemed like the difficulty curve ramped up outta nowhere, so  I didn't make it past 7. But it seemed really polished and a fun romp.

Developer(+1)

Thank you for playing! If I keep working on the game in the future, I'll definitely tweak some of those later holes :)

Submitted(+1)

This was an interesting one with a nice basis for I feel like a lot of cool different directions and overall a really interesting base concept.  Though I feel with a few holes that sorta remove the challenge, mostly since time trials are so weird in terms of challenge etc. with a game like this.

Cause a lot of the time my main strategy ended up just being to launch a bunch of golf balls and hope they reached what I needed, as long as they were following the right general path.  I would say that's probably partially encouraged by the fact that there is no indicator on what ball hit the exit, or what path it took etc..  I feel like some sort of indication of that could be helpful for planning later runs, cause this definitely feels like a game you'd want to play a few times.

Another thing I'd say is maybe a bit more specific control over the golf ball, some sort of, last path visual etc. would be great for attempting to slightly tweak where you were going and try and get there faster.  Or just ignore it entirely and setup some sort of cascading setup that hits a ball into the goal.  Whichever works!

Overall tho, interesting, I feel like some more mechanics could help mix it up, but cool right now nonetheless.

Submitted(+1)

Interesting idea. The game is well made, the music and graphics are good, the sound is lacking, but that's not so bad. I think the game has its strongest levels when more than one of the balls is actually needed to advance in the level. Otherwise it often feels like try and error, which is fine, but the other levels are more fun imo.

You should definitely try it out for yourself!

Submitted(+1)

I finished the game and I would say it was great. No comlains or visible bugs in my playthrough ... would have liked if my cursor was not visible or the ball targets the position of the cursor...

That was a cool game !! Kudos!!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing :)

Submitted(+1)

Fun game! I kept trying out different angles and kept praying for the best. The levels were all very nice as well. Nice job!

Submitted(+1)

enjoyed it

Submitted(+1)

This was a neat little game with a lot of spirit. I've always love billiards style games and this definitely scratches that itch, but in a more chaotic way than normal. Great job!

Developer

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you for playing :)

Submitted(+1)

I feel like I have a soft spot for these kinds of games because I love mini golf and any golf-like mobile games, specially if they require a bit of strategy! At first I felt that spamming the balls (love your tagline by the way) would make it too easy but when you introduced the laser that destroys your balls it got really interesting.

Great entry!

Developer

Thanks for playing :)

Submitted(+1)

Simple but engaging, Solid GamePlay and level design as well, congrats one of the best games of the jam I have played so far.


Please come over and check out my game :)

Developer

Thank you! I really enjoyed your game as well :)

Submitted(+1)

Cool and fun game !!! Good job!!!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing :)

Submitted(+1)

Nice idea of not having the player to reset the level if one shot was screwed. 

Had fun

Do check out mine,it's a golf game too

Submitted(+1)

Great game! I liked that you were able to try as many times as you needed.

Developer

Glad you enjoyed it :)

(+1)

I love the game concept. Hate the lasers lol as they take away from the chaos after a while. I loved the way the balls kept going. With that said i won one hole in one just by waiting for the ball to get the right angle on it's own. the only thing i would change is the aiming. It was hard to arm in this game and once you get to the laser levels it becomes crucial to aim correctly. Over all this game has mass potential just fix the aiming a lot. 

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing! If I keep working on the game in the future I am definitely planning to change/remove the laser levels. I will try to fix up the aiming mechanic as well. :)

(+1)

if you do work on it more hit me up. I would love to play more of this game. the concept and idea was awesome.

Developer

Will do! Thanks so much :)

Submitted(+1)

very fun game for such a simple machanic. realy good game.

Developer

Thank you for playing!

Submitted(+1)

This game is cool! Being able to shoot as many balls as you want is a unique but simple mechanic that reminds me of the good old flash game days. Good job!

Developer

Glad you liked it! Thanks for playing :)

Submitted(+1)

Really good game made in this small time...

You had so many good mechanisms in it...

Developer

Thanks for playing! :)

Submitted(+1)

Really fun game, the music is good, with nice art. Just straight up a good game :)

Developer

Thanks for playing! Glad you enjoyed it!

Submitted(+1)

made me cry

Submitted(+1)

I loved this - really fun game! I enjoyed the music, though after a while I would have liked to hear a different track to mix it up. Great job!

Developer

Thank you for playing! I'm hoping to mix up the music if I keep working on the project in the future!

Submitted(+1)

I like the simple art style and the general vibe of the game, but some of the levels were difficult and felt more luck based (a lot of spamming the same spot waiting to get the key on level 8 for example). I think this game shines in the simple levels because of the timer mechanic. I liked it a lot and played it three times, good job :)

Developer

Thanks for playing! I completely agree about some of the levels being too luck based/hard, especially holes 7 and 8. I was hoping to rework them, but ran out of time. If I keep working on the game in the future, I will definitely scale those back a bit.

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