Trijam #262: The 3 hour game jam

Ball Smasher jam comments

2024-03-23T08:45:34Z

Smooth and polished mechanics. Some feedback: Good implementation of the theme. The background music doesn't loop so if you play long enough it just becomes silent. Surviving felt very easy and was not a challenge. Changing the level design or the enemies could alleviate that. Although the input timer mechanic is good in theory, I didn't feel like it impacted my gameplay at all. It was quick enough to the point where I forgot it existed. When I did remember it, it just detracted from the experience.

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A jam submission

Ball SmasherView game page

Smash all the falling balls while avoiding falling spikes BY BOUNCING ALL OVER THE PLACE!

Submitted by paperBag23 — 2 days, 1 hour before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
How well does the game fit the themes?	#18	4.199	4.600
Gameplay	#27	3.469	3.800
Audio	#27	3.104	3.400
Overall	#27	3.359	3.680
How much do you enjoy the game overall?	#42	3.104	3.400
Visuals	#46	2.921	3.200

Ranked from 5 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How long was your dev time?
3hrs

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theneoxsSubmitted40 days ago(+1)

A very good project, somewhat reminiscent of classic games

Quickly - yes, jumps away - yes. But there seems to be no difficulty. If I ever came across red triangles, it was purely by inertia, and then mostly by accident.

That would be it, but for a bigger arena...

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Dev MungSubmitted40 days ago(+1)

Smooth and polished mechanics. Some feedback:

Good implementation of the theme.
The background music doesn't loop so if you play long enough it just becomes silent.
Surviving felt very easy and was not a challenge. Changing the level design or the enemies could alleviate that.
Although the input timer mechanic is good in theory, I didn't feel like it impacted my gameplay at all. It was quick enough to the point where I forgot it existed. When I did remember it, it just detracted from the experience.