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A jam submission

SmorcaView game page

Bounce a ball off the right walls
Submitted by Paerowgee — 20 hours, 35 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Innovation#573.6043.604
Audio#2893.0003.000
Fun#3112.9732.973
Game Design#3213.0453.045
Overall#3453.0003.000
Graphics#4002.9732.973
Theme#6142.4052.405

Ranked from 111 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
The game is about an orca who does math to stay underwater.

Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
No, I've used some 3rd party assets.

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Submitted

This game is really cool, but I struggled to hit the ball.

Developer

Thanks! Yeah, ball's size/speed ration turned out to be a problem.

Submitted(+1)

Very cool concept!

Developer

Thanks :)

Submitted(+1)

Good concept only suggestion would be the ball could be a bit bigger 

Developer

Thanks! And noted :)

Submitted(+1)

Very interesting concept!

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted

Voted! Good Job =)!

Developer

Thanks :)

Submitted(+1)

Dang, who new simple arithmetic could stress me out so much? What a creative concept! I did feel like the game moved a little fast sometimes; often, the levels would just solve themselves before I was even able to take in what the goal number was. But altogether, what a great package! Simple to understand and control, great animations and sound design.

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted

This was a really cool idea! I like the idea of trying to solve these math equations, but you have to solve them by redirecting the ball to hit the different numbers on the walls. For me, I found that hitting the ball was really difficult, as it moved pretty fast, was a small ball, and the orca's hitting range was very short. I think a combination of changes to address those (i.e. slower ball, bigger ball, larger hit range) would make this much easier to play, and maybe as the game progresses it gets more difficult.

Solid SFX and the orca art looks nice. Personally I also don't see the relation to the theme, as it didn't really feel like I was diving deeper into anything. Overall though, excellent job on this, and really creative idea!

Developer

Thanks for your feedback!

Submitted(+1)

Really cute little game! At first I didn't know what I was doing but I got the hang of it after like 30 seconds. I think I got to level 12, and I was going super tryhard at that point lol. I love orcas so this was really fun to see. I liked the unique gameplay as well, I didn't know adding numbers together with a time limit could be so fun. Great job overall! Definitely one of my favorite games I've seen so far this jam.

Developer

Thank you very much!

Submitted(+1)

This was interesting took me a minute to get what was going on but once you get the hang of it it's pretty fun. Thank you for the post!

Developer

Thanks! For the feedback and your post as well :)

Submitted

Ok, I couldn't figure out what to do... I can hit the ball and sometimes the number in the middle changes when I hit a number on the wall. But sometimes it doesn't seem to change... Sorry, but I can't figure it out

Developer

No worries, thanks for sharing your perspective and sorry for unclear mechanics! JIC the number in the center changes when you hit a wall with a (operation)(number) written on it. Although if you hit *1, it stays the same for math reasons. Why did I add *1 in addition to empty walls? Mystery yet to be solved (work in progress).

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

This is interesting. I found it way too hard to interact with the ball and ended up reaching level 14 by doing basically nothing. I was also a little confused about the math equations, for example, when the game displays "-2 =/= 0", that is already a correct statement, but the way to progress seems to be to change the -2 to a 0. 

I came to understand that what the game was saying was that the left side did not match the right, and it needed to be altered in order to match. This might have been clearer if it just said "-2 = 0" and had a red X or highlight to indicate that it was incorrect, which could then change to indicate a correct value when appropriate.

Developer

Interesting, I actually thought the other way around would be confusing, look at that. Thanks for your perspective!

Submitted(+1)

I love math and this game is pretty fun, although i think the ball is a little too hard to hit haha

Developer

Thanks :) Yeah the ball speed is all-agreed-upon problem.

Submitted

man this looked cool but unsure a little of what I was meant to do. 3v3n after reading the page. Maybe an quick in game explainer would have helped. I liked the art style and maybe I just need to practice it more? Or I am just awful at mathes 😅 well done 👏 on getting a finished game made for the jam.

Developer

Thanks :) I thought in my head the goal was clear when I shipped it, but man was I proven wrong by the feedback - in fact, I steered people almost in the opposite direction in some cases. (JIC - you need to equate the number on the left of the inequality at the center to the number on the right)

Submitted

not to worry. Are u a solo dev? I find this with my projects at times. I think something is well clear and it's not during  jam feedback. I have taught myself to keep things simple(mostly) and question... wohld other people understand this lol . The feedback u have received looks generally positive.  I think alot of people got it and enjoyed it so well done 👏 

Developer

Thanks again!

Submitted(+1)

Great creative and innovative game! :O

Developer

Thanks :)

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Nice. Fun little game. Cute graphics. Good job

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted(+1)

Pretty decent polished game.

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted(+1)

Very very unique idea, loved the audio very satisfying to hit the blocks!

Developer(+1)

Thanks :)

Submitted(+1)

This game is very innovative, I like the idea. The art and sound are very good too.

Developer

Thanks :)

Submitted(+1)

The Game idea is really good and i had alot of fun playing the game. The ball is maybe a little bit too fast to hit, react and do math at the same time. Great Game!

Developer

Thanks! Yeah the speed is definitely too fast, you're not the only one on that :D

Submitted(+2)

Took me a time to understand. But my favorite thing was the way the smorca smacks the ball haha

Developer

Thanks, that's the selling point :D

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