This game is really cool, but I struggled to hit the ball.
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Smorca's itch.io pageResults
Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Innovation | #57 | 3.604 | 3.604 |
Audio | #289 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
Fun | #311 | 2.973 | 2.973 |
Game Design | #321 | 3.045 | 3.045 |
Overall | #345 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
Graphics | #400 | 2.973 | 2.973 |
Theme | #614 | 2.405 | 2.405 |
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.
Comments
Good concept only suggestion would be the ball could be a bit bigger
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.
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!
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.
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!
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).
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.
I love math and this game is pretty fun, although i think the ball is a little too hard to hit haha
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.
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 👏
Took me a time to understand. But my favorite thing was the way the smorca smacks the ball haha
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