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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Controls | #15 | 3.217 | 3.217 |
| Accessibility | #28 | 2.870 | 2.870 |
| Theme | #29 | 3.304 | 3.304 |
| Originality | #36 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Fun | #37 | 2.870 | 2.870 |
| Overall | #51 | 2.720 | 2.720 |
| Graphics | #59 | 2.565 | 2.565 |
| Audio | #69 | 1.217 | 1.217 |
Ranked from 23 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
3.5.1
Wildcards Used
Procedural Generation, Faustian bargain
Game Description
Treasure! Free Treasure! Come one come all and break as many gold bars, gems, and jewels as you can get your hands on. Just don't mind the fine print...
How does your game tie into the theme?
All the treasure you can get is cursed. The more money you try to earn the more difficult it becomes to progress
Source(s)
N/A
Discord Username(s)
Calamador
Participation Level (GWJ Only)
0
My game has an export for Linux, Windows, & Mac and/or is playable through HTML5
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Comments
Fun game! I was getting pretty slick with the bank shots. Great job on the submission!
Thanks for playing! Also yeah nothing feels better than having the ball hit something just right and get the exact combination of gold you wanted!
Nice usage of the curse theme. I really enjoy this type of game, so that's a plus from me.
Good job!
Thanks for the kind words! Yeah I also really like peggle like games! Very fun and straight to the point.
woow I like the graphique of the game its soooooo cooll , I like the idea , nice game !!
Thanks for playing!
Nice and fun game, congrats! The phantom guide ball was a nice touch, it helps a lot. The idea to use souls to get money and be able to use money to get souls was great, it's a really nice push-and-pull.
Thanks! Yeah I really wanted it to be a balancing act where you were rewarded for being slightly greedy and try to push the limits of balancing money and curses. Glad you explored the mechanics!
Really fun! at first I was intimidated by the 100 gold requirement, but after a few tries I got the gist of it and it felt really satisfying to beat, I beat it twice in fact!
Really appreciated the ghostball mechanic, it was a simple yet clever way of showing the trajectory. I also loved the deal with the devil mechanic, it mixes strategy with skill very well! And the ominous "or your soul is MINE" text really gave it some weight!
Good game!
Oh wow thanks for playing my game so thoroughly! Yeah the ghostball was my way of trying to make the game more accessible. Without it, fulfilling all of the conditions can be a hassle.
Cool game! I was a bit confused by the shop, I couldn't tell if anything was even really happening until I exited the menu and realized by "free gold" you meant that it'd be added to the game board. That's a pretty clever idea, having the items directly modify/add to the level!
Like others have said, the fake soulball is also a clever solution. Using Raycasts would definitely work, although it'd be off by a little bit because the ball moves in an arc rather than a straight line (Which tbh is probably completely fine, as it likely wouldn't be off by too much).
You could also take what you're already doing and instead of actually showing the fake soulball, just keep track of it's position every X number of seconds. Then you could pass all those points into a Line2D to draw the full trajectory. That'd be 100% accurate, although you'd still have to wait for the fake soulball to travel it's full duration. Lots of ways to solve the same problem!
Yeah I think there are probably advanced ways I could predict the line with math given that I know the exact location and velocity of the ball and wind doesn't exist but for the purposes of the Jam I just went with the ghost ball haha. Mostly cause I didn't know how raytracing works (This is my first game in Godot outside of a quick tutorial) Thanks for the advice on drawing a line with Line2D I'll definitely keep that in mind for future projects!
Thanks for playing and leaving a review!
I'm not sure if I had a bug or what, but it seemed like after I beat the initial board, it just moved the fire closer to me and didn't reset the board or anything, so it was weird. I'm not sure if that was intentional, but the game itself plays well, and it was a clever solution to just use a fake soulball to indicate trajectory! In the future, you may want to look into just using raycasts + Line2D, but the idea is solid.
ah yeah that's intentional, the way this game works the fire dynamically moves itself up when treasure is completely removed. If you don't have treasure to destroy you can get more from the shop, but beware the treasure is cursed haha. You win the game by buying your freedom from the shop for 100 money.
Also I'll try out raycasts in the future! I'm rather new to Godot so I kinda just went with what I knew for the guide. Thanks for the suggestion!
Ohh okay, sorry! I didn't realize it was intentional. That's actually kind of neat, then! Well done!
Oh yeah no worries this game really could use a proper tutorial that isn't shoehorned into the description haha. In the future I'm hoping to take a page out of yall's books and try for pictogram tutorials. That was a super elegant design!
Strange little game. I wish the whole tutorial was included in the game and not in the description, but you did your best to take the time to add it, which is much appreciated. Not my jazz, but I can see the appeal. Good work!
Thanks for taking a look! Yeah I'll have to try and get a tutorial in the game next time. I actually wrote lots of bits of the tutorial after the jam ended haha. This is my first time trying Godot out so I have a lot to add for my next entry. Sound and Tutorials are definitely up there. I might actually try and take a page out of your game. The textless pictograms for tutorials were really nice and intuitive.
Good take on the Faustian Bargain Wildcard - neat idea to allow the player to create their own board and choose how complex they want to make the rules. Managed to repay my debt with a lot of left wall and ceiling curses.
Game looks great too although the score is hard to read on the normal itch.io player (although it looks fine when fullscreen) because of the change in aspect ratio. There's this tutorial in the Godot docs that goes over a few ways to fix this kind of thing. One of the first settings I change in a 2D game is the Stretch Mode to "2D" and the Stretch Aspect to "keep" (apologies in advance for the unsolicited advice).
Oh by all means the advice was great! I'm a new Godot user for this game Jam. Just hopped over from Unity so any and all hints are appreciated. I'll be sure to keep an eye on the GUI for the next game I make with Godot. For the time being I've fixed the UI to work with the default resolution.
Also good idea on stacking lots of ceiling and wall curses! It's really cool to see people dig into the depth behind the generation for my systems.
Nice work :)
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed.
Interesting take on the classic Breakout game. I did not get very far but maybe I’m just bad at this. :P
Haha yeah its a bit strange to get the hang of but thanks very much for trying it out!
Hint: Some curses get easier to complete the more treasure you collect. Try getting many curses with the same or similar conditions and refresh the shop to get many of them.
Nice concept, easy to start playing but hard to master. some music and SFX would have been a big plus
Yeah the easy to start but hard to master was a huge goal of mine! Thanks for taking the time to explore the depth behind the procedural generation. This is my first game outside a tutorial made in Godot. I recently hopped over from Unity and am still tryin to find my footing in this engine haha so I didn't quite get to adding sfx and music. Next time I'll definitely try and have audio.
Thanks very much for playing my game!
Peggle: Curses!
A great idea, and a nice implementation.
Well done!
Thanks! Yeah I thought it would be something easy I could complete within the timeframe of the Jam. This was true but just barely haha. Peggle has a few moving parts I hadn't anticipated that threw me for a loop.
Fun game. I especially like the ghost ball.
I didn't even see the shop until I hit the fullscreen button. I guess your screen resolution is much higher than mine?
A little audio would go a long way.
Thanks! I'll change the starting resolution back. Originally itch had it at 640x480 and I upscaled it to like 1600x900 but I think that was probably going a bit overboard. Shrunk it back down to 640x480 so now I think just about anyone should be able to see it and then fullscreen to fit their monitor.
Also yeah this is my first game in Godot (outside a tutorial) so I didn't quite have time to figure audio out haha. I'll definitely try it for the next Jam. Thanks for playing and the feedback!
Fun take on a brick-breaker like game! I like the art and the curse mechanics.
Thanks for playing! I really tried to make a compelling curse mechanic and I'm quite proud that I managed to get a procedurally generated curse system up and running.
Also much of the art was done in a mad dash towards the end of the Jam haha.