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A jam submission

Bowling DefenseView game page

Submitted by bryengx — 7 hours, 8 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Gameplay#272.9632.963
Sound#322.7042.704
Overall#452.5282.528
Aesthetics#542.5562.556
Theme#621.8891.889

Ranked from 27 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted

Nice game, could totally worked as an ultra casual mobile game!

Submitted

I like the concept! I never thought I'll see a bowlling game hahahaha

Submitted

Nice idea . It's very funny !!!

Submitted
Addictive and super satisfying.  Looks great.  Well done!  Eventually scored 35900, made it onto the LB for now at least ;)
Submitted

Interesting idea! I would love to see more added!

Submitted

Great game! Discovering movement was a big life changer, also i'm in love with pins aesthetics, thanks for great time!

Submitted

Really fun idea, and I loved the little thunks of the pins falling down. The movement was a bit slippery for me, but overall I had a lot of fun!

Submitted

This is simple and fantastic, good Aesthetics n.n

Submitted

This was a lot of fun! Finally, a chance for the bowling pins to strike back!

Submitted

I thought this was a lot of fun. I played a few times and when I was done noticed the info about how to move 😅. I then played again and it was a lot easier and I got to see more of the pins evolving! Really nice work!

Developer

omg. so many comments about movement makes me feel so guilty for not explaining it in game :D

Submitted

nice physics, responsive controls, solid gameplay loop

Submitted

pretty fun :)

Submitted

Wow, that's not the usual one. Nice

Submitted

I find the 3D excellent. I learned too late that movement was an option.

I'm not sure about theme or originality but does it matter when the game is fun ?

Developer

Yeah. My original idea was that you would have limited number of balls that you would have to pick up from corners and they would return back to you after rolling off edge (like in real bouling) and they could be individually "evolved" into different types of balls. But I quickly realised I won't have time for any of that :(

Maybe after the Jam ends.

Submitted

What I can say is that you have a pretty and well-working basis to build your final game upon. Congrats for submitting something that work and is fun to play.

Submitted

Cool idea and nice graphic 

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted

Cool game, especially considering everything except sound assets was made by you. The textures look really nice. Is the player an infamous among us reference?

The player movement is a bit floaty, feels like you are applying force to a body - but in a game like this i'd expect movement to the more 'constant' if that makes sense.

In the later stages of the game when there's a lot of pins, it can be hard to process visually where to shoot the next ball - since standing pins are mixed in with knocked over pins. Maybe a color adjustment to the knocked over ones would have helped draw the players focus to where there's still standing ones?

Developer(+1)

Thanks! I will try your idea about coloring knocked pins.

Not really Amongus reference. More like run out of time for player model :)

Submitted

Simple game, yet very fun😂
I didn't know I could move left and write, an in-game control scheme would be nice, but its a nice concept. Good job!

Developer

Thanks! Was hoping description onn page would be enough and I could focus on other game features. I'm not very good at maniging in 3 day Jams :(