There's something here, but it needs more polish. Adding sound would give this game a lot more juice. Exploring the theme more would be cool too.

There was also one game breaking bug. At some point the bubbles stopped spawning, and I just had to finish the game :( 

I mentioned it in Discord but I’ll paste it here. Very nice bubble puzzler. It may be missing some juice but I was following your journey and looks like you prioritized the tech underneath. I hope you can leverage it and grow it into something. Also, I kept running into slowdowns when there were a bunch of bubbles being “popped” or “dropped”. I believe you are already aware of these. Also, another challenge in these games is that you need to estimate where the ball will go. Since you use mouse input I can just click where I want the ball to go even if its outside of the line of sight/preview. I’d suggest maybe allowing only clicks close or even behind the fire spot (which are not even allowed now) to incorporate that into the game.

Good simple game. The border is not nessry and go agent the rule of the  jam I am not taking any star a way for that because game have to a edge.

A good starting point for a more complete game. Besides the obvious issues others mentioned: it felt a bit tedious for me. I had to move the cursor up and down a lot to select, aim, and shoot. I’d like to suggest that you pre-select one of the balls automatically (randomly, perhaps), and if the player wants to change the selection, allow them, like it is right now. That would make the gameplay more dynamic.

Looks great, nice consistent visual style and smooth gameplay.

I got some lag when popping bubbles sometimes and it made me misclick my next projectile. But it's probably just the webGL build.

I'd like it if the 3 balls to choose from were not all randomized each shot, but just that the one you used is replaced by a random one. That would make planning ahead a part of the game (should I use the yellow one now or save it to clear some blue bubbles first so I can better reach it).

It's obviously missing sound and on completing the game it just goes on. But those are just the jam time constraints I guess.

Cool game!

I managed to clear all the circles and I got 16,000 points. How do you get higher scores?

Your game is a simple but well-made bubble shooter with a clean visual style and a perfect fit for the theme. While it does not add much new to the genre and lacks audio, it is fun to play, polished in design, and shows really good work within the jam’s constraints. My score: 15 860. These are my thoughts on the different categories:

 Gameplay / Fun / Engagement ●●●●○

As already mentioned, this is a bubble shooter... Nothing groundbreaking, but still fun and engaging. I especially liked that you could choose the colors for shooting, which adds a bit of control and strategy. However, I don’t get why sometimes you keep the colors and sometimes they change completely (This is also when the lag happens)? Occasionally there was some lag, but it was minor and didn’t really hurt the experience. Because it’s “just” a bubble shooter, missing an end and becomes repetitive quite easily, I give it a solid 4 out of 5.

Art Style / Visuals ●●●●○

The visuals are very appealing, with a good use of color and a consistent style that sticks nicely to the limited shapes constraint. Everything is simple and clear, which works well for the genre. However, compared to other entries, it feels like less effort was required, so I rate it 4 out of 5.

Audio / Sound Design ●○○○○

For me, there was no audio at all — no music or sound effects. Because of that, I can only give 1 point here, though even a small bit of audio would have greatly improved immersion.

Theme ●●●●●

This is where the game shines. The concept fits the jam theme perfectly, making excellent use of the limited space and sticking entirely to circles. It feels consistent and thoughtful, earning a full 5 out of 5.

Hey theChief ~ very cool entry! First of all - I love the aesthethics. Even though it's simplistic it feels very harmonic. I think you have a very good eye for color composition. I didn't have any audio so I can't really say anything about that.

In terms of fun a bubble pop shooter is pretty solid :D it's nothing "new" but you don't have to reinvent the wheel to create something fun :)

There is a tiny freeze between when the bubble hits and the row pops. I'm not sure if it's intended or a bug, just thought to let you know!

Anyhow, good job and I'm looking forward to how it will turn out (if you decide to continue on it)

Nice! A bubble shooter is certainly an excellent choice for this game jam, as it's primarily based around circles. You mastered the gameplay aspect of this game quite nicely - it plays, feels, and acts exactly how a bubble shooter should be.

However, this leads me to my next point and that is that the game doesn't have much of a creative twist, or a unique mechanic that differentiates it from other buble shooter type games.  I was expecting more of a twist with the name "Not Another Bubble Shooter."

In terms of art, you did quite well - especially considering the time limitation! The game also fits the theme fits in an intuitive and logical way. Nice job integrating that.

It would also be cool to have some sound effects and music, which would make the experience even more engaging.

Great job, @theChief! This is a great submission that cleverly solves the theme and shape limitation in a fun way :D 

The game is nice (Score 25.815 I guest that is the maximum score for the moment =D). Good job!

I use brave browser and I can confirm that when you hit a large number of balls it gets stuck. It seems related to the animation.

Being able to choose the color of the bubble removes the difficulty from bubble shooters. Also I experienced heavy lag when clearing some bubbles sometimes.

Super cool, works smoothly sometime s bit of lag but actually a cool game one of those old ones! Like the simplicity. Well done!