Did I have to manually search your discord username to find this game? Yes.
Is this my favorite game of the jam so far? Also yes.
Great job, there's a ton of things I really like about the game. I really love the players animation, and im curious as to what the process was to create that. The gameplay is just incredibly smooth. The idea is fantastic, id love to see this evolve into a full game. The art style reminds me of Pico-8, very retro style. Really fantastic job. Im glad I manually searched this, I think you should really try to get an image and screenshots on your page as it will help visibility. More than happy to help with that!
Some feedback if you did want to continue to work on the game:
- Having items with special effects would really take this game to the next level. Thing that could start an "engine". For example I found myself hitting the ball with the back of the paddle often, if I had gotten an upgrade that make those hits stronger or something I would have freaked out.
- You could kinda abuse starting the ball really close to the player and easily break out half the level. If not intended should be pretty easy to solve.
- Sound effects were not on par with the rest of the game, but as a solo dev I cant fault you for that.
- Was a little frustrating when there was 1 brick left, maybe there's a way to make that last brick a little easier since you're never really in danger with just 1?
Didn't really dock you point for any of these, just feedback.
Once again great job, and keep up the great work.