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A jam submission

GoolfView game page

Strike your goolf ball, avoid the obstacles, and get to the hole!
Submitted by Geek_Joystick, Bracc, Mastrum, GR!F — 3 hours, 38 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Sound Design#783.2003.200
Gameplay#833.3003.300
Fun Factor#953.2003.200
Overall#1402.9002.900
Art#1543.1003.100
Innovation#2242.4002.400
Theme Integration#2762.2002.200

Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game bring our theme, The Error is the Feature, to life?
We took the risk of making the game in a custom engine from scratch, in order to maximise the bugging potential. We got to making a golf platforming game, and at some point messed up the tile breaking code, found it funny, and that was our bug-feature! We also leaned in more into the chaos by making the tiles glitch out more and more as you progress in the course.

Did you work in a team? If so, link their itch profiles.
https://bracc.itch.io/
https://mastrum.itch.io/
https://grifounet.itch.io/

Did you include a fake publisher splash screen at the start of your game?

No

Did you use the Audius API in your game?

No

If AI was used in your game, let us know how you used it.
We did not use AI at any point in the project.

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Comments

Submitted (2 edits) (+1)

YES! I enjoyed the game, very cool golf style game, nice punchy sounds, NES feel. Hmm, what else, seems like really good quality you all put a lot of good levels in there. Thanks for putting it up for all of us to play! Hmm how would i improve it,,, time machine back to 1992 beach party! (I mean a literal party on the beach by the real actual ocean, I would be the only topless dude in the south of france)

Submitted (1 edit)

please rate my gama little challenging, e too if you can, thanks.

Submitted(+1)

please rate my madagascar ai bot from canadain french albanian argintina chile 

Submitted(+2)

I honestly tried to understand your comment but I couldn't. You could speak to me more clearly. One thing I find very strange is commenting on my comments in other games and not on the comment I made in your game. I try to comment on something that I find most interesting. I'm not very used to giving my opinion. I'm not much of a dialogue person. If you noticed some errors in the connection in my sentences, it might be because I use the translator. I don't know how to speak English, and I use the translator. I intend to learn, but I don't have much free time.

Submitted(+1)

sorry, i didn't think of that i just say one time there where like lots of bots that where the frog avatars and it just made me wonder if you were a bot, it's all good I use ai to translate English into English because im still learning English too. lol

Submitted(+1)

Apologies accepted. I also checked with ChatGPT, and it pointed out that my comments might seem a bit like a bot due to some translation errors and because I kept repeating the same phrase asking people to check out my game. I'm going to try using it, like it suggested, to better translate what I say and also to add some variation when asking people to take a look at my game. Live and learn. I also want to apologize — I didn’t realize some things were being translated incorrectly. I trusted the translator too much, and I know I need to improve how I write my messages.

Submitted

hey wow, I can tell a difference already in the translation!

Submitted

I'm amazed that you were able to build this in a custom engine in such a short amount of time. You guys nailed that old arcade game feeling and managed to make a very complete and enjoyable game.

Submitted

Incredible that you guys created a whole game engine from scratch, truly impressive. I really enjoyed playing the game, it was quite challenging in a good way. 

This brought back a very nostalgic feeling for me, and made me remember when there were table top arcade games in restaurants. Built in babysitters when your parents wanted to converse over a cup of coffee. 

Maybe its just a me issue, but I did find that the par in the later levels was a little bit unforgiving. I think I hit the ball over 100 times on a par 14, lol. Other than that, this was incredible. Excellent job in 3 days!

Submitted (1 edit)

go to the depths of autmn like a smashed pumpkin your motherbord sparks longing for a GPU. Or whatever happens to AI bots that raid game jams on itch.io haha