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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #12 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Theme | #45 | 3.250 | 3.250 |
| Overall | #53 | 3.375 | 3.375 |
| Audio | #79 | 2.938 | 2.938 |
| Visual | #129 | 2.688 | 2.688 |
Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Are you using any third party assets?
I made everything during the jam
Are you using any AI generated assets?
No AI
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Really liked the way you had to manage both your own health, and the balloon too, adds a nice bit of management to just mindlessly shooting at things!
Really charming art too, nice entry :L
Nice concept to have a possibility to use the balloon as a shield. It look like a methaphor to a corporate ascension.
This was a weird entry, very different to most, and maybe not really aligned with the theme but still a fun take and a cool entry.
Thanks for playing! Themes are open for interpretation.
My idea was to create an unstable flight mechanism. The balloon is either too small, and the pilot risks running out of air, or too big, making it vulnerable to attacks. Pretty unstable if you ask me!
This was fun hahaha I love how after dying I fell all the way down
Would have been nice if I didnt have to press everytime to shoot and could just hold it down
But I had a blast playing!
Fun and neat little game with a very addicting game loop. Good work!
Cool experience! Its fun to rerun the game and see how high you can get. It took me little while to get used to the mechanics but got it in the end. I love how you die XD One thing I would say is that I would prefer for the camera not to shake when an enemy dies, save that for the big boys
This game is super addictive, lol, though it has a few key flaws that prevent it from reaching that perfect flow state of a flash game of this kind. First of all, if it actually showed you an indicator of exactly how high you got so you had a record to beat every time you died, it would've done a lot. Second of all, I found the shooting kind of annoying-- Why can't you just hold to shoot like a normal shmup? It's not like bullets have a cooldown anyway so it's just all about how fast you can mash; it makes killing enemies kind of exhausting at no real benefit.
That said, the game is still immensely charming. I love the feeling of falling allll the way down before hitting the floor. With a bit more polish this game could become a real obsession for me lol.
Wow, thanks for the detailed feedback :)
This was way more fun then I thought lol, it just worked well all the balloon mechanics with the shooting, while filling up the balloon, well done...well done!
Clearly pilots are political opponents that should be imprisoned! I like that the ballon can be used a shield to block bullets from hitting you, and then finding a needle to get high again before it comes crashing down lol
I don't know why the politician is being shot at while flying up a balloon... but when you consider it, we should do this more often.
I think I reached the end (the black section).
I enjoyed this one a lot, I think it's very well executed with all the right controls, speeds, feedbacks and difficulty, I reached the end after I thought I had spent the appropriate time on the game. The presentation is good with a clear screen and catchy feedbacks, both visual and audio. The music perfectly fits too. I like the tension and need to navigate to get more pumps added by the balloon mechanic, it's a cool feature. Finally the death sequence is hilarious, I love it.
Especially in the context of a jam where we're going to play plenty of such games I'm not super fan of games without autofire without a very good reason, my wrist is hurting.
Very fun!
Thanks a lot!
Honestly wierd premise aside it’s quite fun to play :)
I also like how you’ve let the player spam click to shoot instead of having it an autofire, plus the baloon mechanic is quite clever once you get the hang of it (cause i’ll admit i didn’t at first)
My personal favorite detail is the fact that death isn’t immediate, you’ve let the whole fall in real time, which can be quite a drop if you managed to survive for a while :p
Overall well done ^^
This is a pleasant game! The mechanics of the balloon and avoiding damage while shooting is a fun combination. And it has a nice bit of polish that makes it fun to play for a while. Great work!
Fun :P