Great game feel, I love the juicyness of your game. Models, animations and FX are super cool, I wish my game had this level of polish.

The only thing I didnt quite get was how the game fits the jam theme until I read your description. Either way, great game, I hope you have some time to play mine and give some honest feedback if you can.

https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2021/rate/1082241

Neat idea, I would expand more on the joined together concept as your combo is joined together by the ball, so maybe the player themselves could act as a combo extender and the ball keeps bouncing around.

Cute arcade style pong. The bird was never really a nuisance to me, and it didn't particularly feel like a blend of genres. The gameplay is pong with ball retrieval. Despite that, I do think it's a fun little time sink. I got 42, and I imagine I will quickly be dethroned from the leaderboard.

I did get one slowdown on the downloaded version, right at the beginning of the round. Nothing major though.