Nice idea and visuals. The atmosphere isn't creepy though. I like how you implemented shooting bowls in this game. There is room for improvement, but it's a well-polished game. Congrats. 

Interesting original concept! Mixing bowling with horror is such a fun idea, and the pins moving closer was a clever touch. The controls take a bit to get used to, but it's well done, once it clicks, it’s satisfying. Great work. It already feels well polished for a jam build.

The concept of a bowling game with rouge-lite elements is really interesting and I thought it was clever how the game gets easier the worse you are by the pins moving closer. Unfortunately, I had a lot of trouble aiming the ball. Several times, the ball left with a lot less force than I expected or went in a direction I wasn't expecting. I found that I needed to turn my character sideways to get it to go straight. I think this may have something to do with the angle I hold my mouse at and might mean it's inconsistent depending on who plays. Maybe adding some bias to make the ball go straight or aiming the camera down a bit to see it swing would help. Other than that, I think you've got a really promising concept here and I hope it's successful if you decide to develop it further!

The visuals are really polished! I really liked it!

There was something addicting about throwing 10 bowling balls at the same time haha

I think I missed the scores you usually have in a bowling game, but apart of that, great work!

The game is very smooth.

I loved the way we control the bowling balls; it’s very fluid, even if it is difficult. Yes, I threw my balls all over the room before gradually managing to aim at the lane. In fact, the left-right direction seems very sensitive, or maybe there’s something I’m doing wrong.

The effects on the balls are original, I found it fun even though I didn’t quite understand what the tickets were for.

The scary pins…!

Well done!

amazing

The controls feel really smooth — you can tell a lot of care went into them!
I’m terrible at bowling in real life, but I was amazing at it in this game.
(Well, to be honest, I just brought the ball right up to the pins for an easy strike. There might be other sneaky players like me, so maybe consider preventing the player from getting that close to the lane!)

By the way, I’m curious — how many special abilities do the bowling balls have?
When I first played, there was only the Regular Ball, but on my second run, the Holy Ball appeared too, and on the third run, I also got the Cursed Ball.
Do the balls unlock progressively like that by design?

Immediately lost my ball behind the tables and got stuck trying to get it back. Personal Hiccups aside, once I understood the bowling mechanics (which were admittedly pretty hard to get right at first with how you need to flick the mouse to send the ball meaningfully forward which also changes your direction), the game was actually pretty fun! It wasn't all that scary but I don't think that was what you were going for, I do think it would have been cool to have the pins turn into some kind of huge elongated teeth monsters or something as they got closer, just to add to that horror aspect. But overall the game was quite fun and I enjoyed it quite a bit, excellent work!

Goofy game! I was thought it was just bowling where the horror is how much I suck at all forms of bowling... but then the pins got real spooky

Great game, I love the setting of the cursed bowling alley and you turned it off really well!

The idea with the special balls was great too, maybe you could turn it into a balatro-styled deck-builder. :D I didn’t quite get what tickets do tough.

One thing you might have overlooked is that you can just walk up straigt to the pins with no punishment which makes the game significanlty easier to say the least. Altough I still managed to miss a shot at point-blank range. xD

Who doesn't like a bowling, ahah!! Nice game, throwing the ball is very challenging and I like it. Overall fun game :)

Pretty neat idea and well executed.  I'm not very good at bowling in real life, and even worse in a horror computer game apparently, but still quite an enjoyable experience.  

I want to know how to throw a ball

that's drive me crazy!

T_T

Really nice sound design and gameplay, thought the controls were really smooth. I encountered a few bugs, namely due to me throwing multiple balls down the track at the same time, particularly when I could see one was going to be a gutter ball. If I ended up with a gutter ball and a strike at the same time, my pins sometimes ended up freezing. I also wasn't sure if there was anything past the first round (I made it to the store and then after that nothing reset - but that could be intentional as its just a jam build?), else it might have also been because of the aforementioned bug. But regardless, really cool concept and would love to see how it progresses, I reckon you could make this super scary! :) 

Tuns out your linux build lacks all the sounds! Which explains why it weights so little compared to other builds.

Other than that, bowling mechanic is cool, and I see where you were going with special balls. Maybe I'd do some clearer goals for rounds (i.e. in "Clover Pit" you have X turns to score Y pins) and several separate rounds, which would progress game and make it harder and more complex and interesting. Overall, pretty cool, I love bowling 🙂

Honestly I wasn't a fan on how you control the game, trying to swing with the mouse has a chance of you swing your camera and it very annoying.

Fun little game. Never thought I'd be scared of bowling pins.

What a great concept, and good execution too! A few things that I think could spice it up to something really special:
1. Have the pins do more than just change red as they approach, have their graphic morph into something sinister
2. Don't use the evil laughter right away, it becomes less menacing the more you hear it, save it for when the nightmare has increased. Some more subtle, slightly sinister sounds would be effective at first.
3. The concept for how the music needs to change is there, but since everything else is warping something that is already there, I would have the music also warp, instead of changing to different material altogether. If it is slowly becoming more sinister with each failure, it will go along with all of the other elements much better.
Really fantastic, I enjoyed it a lot!

What a silly little game, there are quite a few bugs but you can actually make something pretty fun out of this. Probably shouldn't be able to walk down the alley tho