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A jam submission

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A survival game where you need to use your ping pong skills.
Submitted by Giovane Machado — 58 minutes, 51 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Novelty#14.0004.000
Creativity#34.2224.222
Fun#43.6673.667
Innovation#63.4443.444
Pong-itude#193.0003.000

Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Summary
A zumbi survival where you are a ping pong player

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Comments

Submitted

Hilarious graphics and effects, love it! I ended up not hitting the ball at all, just strategically placing the ball and guiding the baddies towards them. Good job sir!

Developer

Gonna say to you this was not intended! hahaha but I noticed and didn't fix, thanks for playing!

Submitted

I enjoyed experimenting with the ricochet effect of the pong ball!  Oddly satisfying and I just loved the sound effects and graphics.  The game does overwhelm the player quickly, which could possibly be remedied with upgrades and powerups, but for what it is you pulled it off well.

Developer

Thank you! You're right, balance problems :p

Submitted

I really liked this one! I think the player movespeed could've been higher, or maybe it could've given some recourse for when the ball gets out of the player's range, but it was pretty engaging trying to figure out the best way to approach an incoming horde and sort out the angles. Great take on the prompt!

Developer

Thanks!!

Submitted

The game is one of the most creative games in this jam! At first I thought it was a horror game because of the menu hahah. Anyways it was fun at first but after some time it got both difficult and boring (no offense). I recommend making new enemies and such ^^

Developer

Yeey thanks! That's make sense

Submitted

Super unique take among the other pong games made! I really like it’s concept.

I will admit that the execution of the idea could be improved. 

One of those things was how slow your player went, not only did it mean that there wouldn’t be a great window to hit the ball back at the enemies, but it also meant that if you miss the ball, you would have to wait for the ball to come back to you automatically.  I can see why it was like that, to makes sure that there’s a punishment for not hitting the ball, but it also meant that it was super easy to be punished.

Another thing was the hitting of the ball itself, it felt like whenever I actually got the ball close enough for me to hit it, it would pass by me half of the time. 

I also thought the enemies could’ve been better, or at least more varied. What if there were enemies that could hit the ball back at you and (if you don’t hit the ball back) could hurt you? What about enemies that have more health but when you kill them give you a cool power up or something. Stuff like that.

Overall, I can see this being a very cool game with a bit more stuff in it!

Developer

Thanks for your comment! You're right, by reading these comments I miss a better tutorial for some stuff, but yeah good ideas!

Submitted

Interesting game! Definitely one of the more unique ideas I've seen so far, so huge points for that. Killing zombies using a pong ball is hilariously fun and that gave this small game a fair bit of replay value.

The game was probably a bit too hard imo. There are too many zombies to really run from and you get surrounded as soon as you make one wrong move. At some point there are just too many zombies to possibly deal with, and worse, the ball sometimes flies away too fast to follow off-screen and doesn't 'respawn' since it's still bouncing somewhere, leaving the player completely defenseless as they get surrounded. Makes the player feel a bit helpless as soon as the ball leaves the screen. When the ball stays in the right place and you keep bouncing it against the zombies over and over though, that is really fun!

Those polishes aside, this game is a great idea that could totally be expanded upon too. Would love to see some crazy powerups appearing on the field at some point, like multiple pong balls and stuff. A very replayable arcade game could come from this for sure!

Developer

You're right, I was trying to achieve that juice moment where the ball hits multiple zombies and comeback to you! But yeah, there is a lack of polishment and balance. I tried sometimes with less and slower zombies but it became so easy hahaha. 

Also, there is a way to respawn the ball (right click), you can do that every 3 seconds, that's useful as well (and it shows that I should create a tutorial next time)

Submitted

This was a fun game! I liked that the ball bounced when it hit the zombies. I got into trouble once when I tried to hit the ball from my left-hand side... it didn't work! But this is a really creative entry, good work! :)

Developer

Thanks! I suppose the ball was out of range, cause the hit works in a circle area around the player (is not the player works discovered this by himself but it is what it is). Next time I'll add a tutorial! Thanks

Developer

my own best score -> 103 :)