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Rolling against the grain — one tiny golf ball's epic quest to find its hole.

Submitted by lockintwins, burnabl — 3 hours, 4 minutes before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Enjoyment	#726	3.828	3.828
Audio	#1128	3.483	3.483
Creativity	#1499	3.862	3.862
Artwork	#2123	3.552	3.552
Narrative	#2286	2.724	2.724

Ranked from 29 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?
Ballsy (the sentient golf ball) yearns for the holes. But his sentience is limited -- he can only remember a few directions, so he'll continuously loop them... until he gets bonked back into reality.

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Comments

hyqkSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

A really fun and enjoyable take on the "recording your actions and looping" theme I see across many games in this jam. Had a good time trying to get Ballsy to where he yearns for. Good stuff haha

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Through The Edge

PimekoSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Loved the original take on the theme, kind of reminded me of algorithm exercices to learn loops and stuff – great game :)

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TimelyIdiotSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Man I love balls

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Just Another Day

LestavolSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Nice fun entry! I like the music choice and the visuals is also fairly nice. I didn't get the weird sound effects you get when the ball goes into the hole, but that's not too bad. The resolution on the web build on both windowed and full screen is not correct, but the game is still playable.

The mechanics is also fairly simple but fun and I enjoyed it.

One bug I have found is that the first time I load the final level, there were invisible hitboxes on some of the empty tiles, preventing me from completing the puzzles, even after I had figured out the solution in my head. I thought I was not supposed to go there so I tried some random things until I died. Then when it reset the level, there were no more invisible hitboxes so I could completed the puzzle.

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Elevator Operator

kankjeSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Awesome! Great idea and execution. Funny sound design as well! :)

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koutrouSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Great game! I enjoyed it very much. Dat dramatic level ending each time :D. Great implementation of the theme, great job!

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Chessmen Knockout!

Alex JLSubmitted1 year ago(+2)

Incredible game! And for a first game it's superb. It was a lot of fun and I now want more. I also just made my first game so I think its crazy how nice your game feels. (please make more)

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burnablDeveloper1 year ago (4 edits)

Thank you pointing that out!! We were thinking about feel the whole time.

ThinkerSubmitted1 year ago(+2)

This is seriously amazing (especially when I read that it's your first game!)

I like the theme interpretation, and the game overall is incredibly polished. Very good audio, song, and visuals. As others have said, the only feedback I have is that there should be a visible grid (maybe faint, semi-transparent, but there), because at times it was difficult to measure distances.

I think there's a bug on the last level. I pressed <-, then ->, then up, and won lol. It seems I bonked into an invisible wall and got right next to the hole. It didn't take anything away from my experience tho, as a matter of fact it was kinda funny.

Really nice entry, one of the coolest I've played so far.

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Heroes of Loop and Magic

burnablDeveloper1 year ago (1 edit)

Thank you for the thoughtful review and use of superlatives. Great bug find!

Julie Besançon - LoupioteSubmitted1 year ago(+2)

Looooved the art and the story !! Also the winning screen make Ballsy look incredibly evil, which I love, which nefarious purpose is this little guy up to ? Seems like he's out for vengence

The one note I might have is that i sometimes struggled to figure out the distance between elements ? Maybe having a discreet grid overlay would fix that

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The Tangled Tapestry

lockintwinsDeveloper1 year ago (2 edits)

Thank you! As for the grid — 100% agree, that was on our list but time ran out (as always lol)

AshKetchdemSubmitted1 year ago(+2)

So far this is my favorite implementation of this jam. I think you've implemented the theme perfectly and backed it up with quite some levels. I love the idea of the looping movement inputs! The music was a bit loud for me and I'd love to have some option to lower it of turn it off altogether. Great job, great submission!

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burnablDeveloper1 year ago (1 edit) (+1)

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed. We assumed it was BYOMB! (bring your own mute button)

MarswakeSubmitted1 year ago(+2)

Haha! Loved it, one of those games I actually fully completed from this Jam. Very nice!

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lockintwinsDeveloper1 year ago

Appreciate it, that means a lot! I think I only finished like 3 games out of the 30 I played too 😅 Glad Ballsy made the cut!

OS99Submitted1 year ago(+2)

Really cool !

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lockintwinsDeveloper1 year ago

Much appreciated! 🙌

MarkWolfSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Great game, easy to grasp. The puzzles are clever and the pixel art graphics are beautiful. On a 4k screen, the game takes up a quarter of the window and an eighth of the screen, in full screen mode. But this doesn't spoil the fun ;-)

I really like the BGM melody.

A great submission!

burnablDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

We hard-coded pixel sizes instead of using screen-relative scaling. Great callout - wouldn't have caught that without your comment. We'll keep it in mind for our next!

Thanks for playing and for the thoughtful feedback! Love your word choice.

Laica StudiosSubmitted1 year ago(+2)

Nice submission! I really enjoyed reading ballsy's back story! Great art and sound! I saw someone mention that it was hard to judge how far he would go, I had the same experience but overall amazing job! Congrats!

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lockintwinsDeveloper1 year ago (1 edit) (+1)

Thanks so much for the kind words and for playing! We totally agree on the movement distance — we had planned to add a grid but ran out of time (if only we had 5 more minutes)

WheelsRPGsSubmitted1 year ago(+2)

Really nice visuals and music, and a fun idea. I found judging how many spaces Ballsy would move based on my inputs a little unintuitive. Might be worth adding a grid to show how far one space of movement is?

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burnablDeveloper1 year ago (1 edit)

We felt that too! Great area for exploration.

burnablDeveloper1 year ago (2 edits)

We're working on a new version of the game!

It'll feature 1 more level with an infinite "length," and a leaderboard! You'll have 5 wall hits before your body "shatters." How far you can get with different move combinations? See if you can beat other people's high scores on the leaderboard, including the creators' high scores!

vinnieidkSubmitted1 year ago(+2)

excellent presentation, can't believe it's your first game!

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burnablDeveloper1 year ago

Thank you! Congrats on making it to the end.

Envilon ScriptSubmitted1 year ago(+2)

Nice and finished game, well done!

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lockintwinsDeveloper1 year ago

Greatly appreciate it and thank you for playing! 🙌

LryKoSubmitted1 year ago(+2)

Nice game, well done, lockintwins & burnabl. I enjoyed the puzzles and the artwork. The soundeffects fit well. I had the feeling that my controls weren't always converted exactly the way I put them in - but maybe I just forgot what I had entered 😂

Keep up the good work!

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lockintwinsDeveloper1 year ago (1 edit)

Thanks so much, appreciate you playing and for the kind words!