Really cool game - was fun racing against the AI to get my barrels and timing them properly. Super polished arcade style gameplay - really taps into what makes those games great!

Cool twist on donkey kong !
Was fun and challenging once I understood the bum to kill red ones. I didnt get what the bannas were for tho.

Cool game !

Classic idea done well, great job! I really appreciate the small details, like the day/night cycle and the flavored game over text. And of course the art is fantastic and a really good fit for this game. I'm also always appreciative of people who used the "My Own Noise" diversifier :) [I think technically this is a one-button game too?] 

For constructive criticism, I definitely agree with the comment below about being able to use additional control schemes rather than clicking. I'd also add that I wish the BAM cooldown was desynced from the barrel- at a certain point the red zookeepers were unstoppable because you couldn't throw and bam them in time (only one or the other) and that doesn't feel great when you're stuck in a losing situation

Hey, cool game, works well and is like an arcade coin machine game indeed.

While it is donkey kong -like game, it has it own nice spices on the playable banana split.

I would change the monkeys sounds to fix 8-bit theme, and then make the barrels more weighted and heavier on rolling. This could be playable on the mobile devices, while you can click the edges of the screen to roll barrels and by double tap to bam.

Good luck, this is a great Jam game. Hope to see it somewhere in the future. Don't make it to remind too much the Donkey Kong though (yeah, well... - lol)

I really enjoyed it! I would recommend adding keyboard or gamepad controls, it felt intuitive to use the arrows and space bar. I liked the concept and how crisp is the screen shake.

This is great!
The music is super chill, which is a nice balance against what becomes quite frenetic gameplay :) The art is gorgeous, and I appreciate that they're quick games.

This is the jam game I've replayed the most so far :)

I thought Chonky needs to step out to take the bananas, it turns out he only need to roll a barrel to them.

It was fun and tricky :)

great idea to reverse the roles of the original Donkey Kong. Love the death animation :P

This is a big shame, I can't open it on Mac I just get "Unable to find game!!:" prompt. It looks very good regardless

Chonky Bam is barrels of fun! There’s an addicting quality to throwing barrels at mad zookeepers trying to put Chonky back into captivity. I’m just not quite sure what that quality is because I don’t think I used any real skill while playing the game.

 I would just toss as many barrels as I could, usually alternating from side to side, hoping I would send a zookeeper into oblivion. That seemed to work for a a period of time, but once the sky changed about three times I would get flooded by red zookeepers. The green zookeepers didn’t pose any real problems (maybe paying tribute to the skills of the green plumber that came before him) but the red zookeepers would often kill me before I could get the timing of bam down.  Luckily my strategy of throwing random barrels worked for cheesing the red zookeepers because they can’t jump right after they get off of a ladder, and I often had enough barrels on screen to hit them on one of the ladder exits.

Whenever I did nail a bam, it felt great. There would be moments with multiple red zookeepers and barrels on screen and the bam would take about five of them out. When you get into that sort of flow the game really shines. I just felt like when I did have those moments, I was there based more off of luck than skill.

The music and sfx are great  but I couldn’t hear them too well on my computer speakers. I did love hearing Chonky say bam and banana every time though! 

Chonky has strong yet innocent look to him that definitely kept me rooting for him to escape captivity. 

I’m still not sure whether I did well or not but something about this game keeps pulling me in. It’s easy enough to jump right into, but challenging enough to keep you itching to beat your own high score. There really is nothing more satisfying than seeing five red zookeepers get taken out by one bam and getting Chonky that much closer to freedom.

Cool spin on a classic game!  Loved his sound effects and I also had a chuckle with the "live in captivity forever" button.  Well done!