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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #3 | 3.623 | 3.800 |
| Creativity | #3 | 4.005 | 4.200 |
| Graphics, Sound and Polish | #3 | 3.242 | 3.400 |
| Overall | #3 | 3.432 | 3.600 |
| Interpretation of Theme and Completeness of Game | #6 | 2.860 | 3.000 |
Ranked from 5 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Which theme did you choose?
Together
Which BASIC did you use?
RC
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Gameplay: Amazing! But why does the computer never get to serve? Also I think it's odd that your bat can overtake the ball in the air and when you then stop and it reaches the bat again, your opponent scores.
Creativity: Well ... table tennis is not your innovation, but I do not want to give a bad vote just because of that.
Graphics, Sound and Polish: I like the simple style and the sound. But you could have put in a photograph of a real tennis table or some pixel art. Extra points for linking to a website in Polish 😉.
Interpretation of Theme and Completeness of Game: The game is rather complete, but ... you play against each other, so I do not see the connection to the "together" theme. Yeah, there's a multiplayer mode, but it is still against each other.
Which version did you test? With a tree in the background? In the version without the tree, the computer serves and the physics is improved, although still not perfect, because it is very difficult to accurately read the speed of the mouse movement. In addition, the mouse is very sensitive, if I would translate all its speed into the movement of the ball - the strokes were too strong. Most of the work on the game was about this aspect.
Tennis is not my invention, but I believe that the way of recreating it on a computer is unique, nowhere else have I come across it. And in tennis, you don't hit a spherical surface, but a flat one ...
If the players are playing tennis against each other, it is not said that they are playing tennis together ?? I believe that no other entry has a better match to the topic.
Hello! I have tried the entry. Making a ping-pong type game is quite challenging. I think that the game is a nice try. Moreover, the backgound music is also enjoyable.
Gameplay:
When I first saw the gameplay for this, I was almost certain that this would be my favorite game in this Game Jam -- the ball physics just looked ridiculously good. Unfortunately, some things look better than they play because I found the controls to be functional but frustrating. For example, yes, it's pretty easy to move the paddle around and hit the ball, but trying to accurately aim the ball somewhere was much more difficult. Before I knew it, the computer was winning 13-2.
Creativity:
I imagine some people would have tried to make this game from a top-down perspective, but using the side view looks better and has the added benefit of showing off the very impressive ball physics. Other nice touches I like are the tree in the background and the color-coding of the players (and how the colors switch when you swap sides). Overall, it's a very creative Basic interpretation of ping pong.
Graphics / Sound / Polish:
Even though the graphics are mostly circles, lines and squares, they get the job done and the color contrast is excellent. What I was not expecting was for the sound to be so irritating -- especially the robotic announcer voice. That being said, the ping pong ball sound is perfect.
Interpretation / Completeness:
I'm not really seeing the Together theme here since ping pong is a game where you play against another player. It would be different if two players could play on the same side against an AI opponent.
Practice makes perfect. And if you practice, I will tell you the secrets, with the "z", "x" keys you can change the speed of the game. Sound is a product of my speech organ, the graphics are completely programmed and actually consist of circles, lines and rectangles. :)
In my country, Together is also about playing against each other. If I had known it was a mistake - perhaps I would have reported the "Holka" football game, where it is possible to play together against the computer.