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A jam submission

POWBALLView game page

Suika and pinball have a baby. Shoot and combine for more score.
Submitted by gregwoodsfrontier — 5 days, 19 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Innovation#563.1643.164
Gameplay#843.0733.073
Overall#1222.7822.782
Audio#1402.6002.600
Graphics#1532.6912.691
Theme#1612.3822.382

Ranked from 55 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous.

  • What happens if you mix fruit merge with pinball, we get powerball. In this game, you have to play as if it were a pinball, trying to mix different balls to achieve larger balls. If I had to improve something, it would be to fix the giant balls that jam the pinball, although I suppose this was to be expected.

Challenges

Open Source

Build it with Phaser

GitHub repository url
https://github.com/gregwoodsfrontier/gamedvjs2024_powball

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Submitted

Nice game. I like it when people combine two different kinds of games into one, and honestly you did a great job of that here. Well done.

Submitted

Pretty cool game! Definitely hard to keep track of all the things happening haha. Great job!

Submitted(+1)

Cool game and a really cool idea to combine the two mechanics! Here is some feedback of things which might even improve the experience:

  • Maybe at some point I would stop bringing in new balls. Or at least slow down the spawn rate for the new balls. In this way you can concentrate more on combining these balls. With the current spawn rate I was very busy to avoid not too lose many lives and could not concentrate at all on the combining mechanism.
  • The sound effects and music could maybe be improved a bit. The music is very short and for the flipper I would use a more clicky sound.
  • Maybe an additional game mode with unlimited lives and time would be fun. Just for a more casual game experience.

Still, this is a very cool entry and I had fun playing it. Well done!

Submitted(+2)

Played with 10 lives and got a score of 1310. 

Submitted

Fun game! Really addictive :)

Submitted(+1)

pinball mixed witrh 2048, so it's about the "power of two"

quite fun game, nice amient music, but the noise of the paddles... ooof.. :)

Submitted(+1)

Fun game! I liked the combination aspect! I would if you were inspired by a certain watermelon game ;) I liked playing on 60 seconds because it was to hard to try and keep track of all the balls. I thought the flipper noises were a little annoying. Great work!

Nice. I had fun trying to beat my highscore each time.

Submitted

really fun game my highscore for Powball was 2190 at 10 lives. Great work and fun concept.

Submitted

A fun twist on pinball!

Submitted

Pinball merge. Cool idea.

Submitted

Nice result of combining two well known games!

Submitted

2048 with pinball physics!

Submitted

the art needs some work, but i liked it!

Submitted

This is a fun game, though it could make it a little more fun if there were new things introduced mid game, like powerups.

Submitted(+1)

Probably one of the cooler concepts to grace this jam, though the final project is notably rough around the edges. The presentation is rather basic and gameplay decomposes relatively quickly into violently flipping the paddles in the hopes one of those small baseballs doesn't slip through. There's good potential in the concept alone, however, so take this away as a positive from this game.

Submitted

Nice job! I'm a huge pinball fan and this was a really cool idea!  I wasn't a fan of the flipper sound fx, but I really liked the chaos once things got going.  I scored 3500!  Love seeing games made with Phaser!!

Submitted

A fun and interesting combination of 2 types of games! The gameplay was quite enjoyable and I liked the art style. Nice work!

Submitted(+1)

Kind of fun! But it’s a bit frustrating when a ball appears just between the paddles :(

Submitted(+1)

Nice! Bit of a thrill once the balls really start stacking up. I did eventually run into the basketball blocking the exit which was a fun touch.

The github link leads to a 404, or perhaps the repo isn't public. Worth fixing so the judges can see it!

Developer

Ah. Thank you for the alert. I have fixed the visibility now. 

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