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A jam submission

Protocol: BOOMView game page

Place boxes, load them with explosives and puzzle your way through the lab!
Submitted by Teriall — 5 hours, 42 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme Implementation#74.3814.381
Special Object Implementation#184.1904.190
Gameplay#193.2383.238
Overall#193.5003.500
Fun Factor#203.3333.333
Audio#432.9522.952
Visuals#582.9052.905

Ranked from 21 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How is your game related to the Theme and Special Object?
Your main goal is to move the sphere via explosions (and sometimes implosions). You start each level by planting boxes. You fill the explosives into the boxes. In the second Phase you can detonate the boxes.

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Submitted

Nice game, I managed to beat all the levels, the last one took some careful planning to complete!

Portals feels a bit weird because they look like they are on the ground but are actually suspended in the air and reaching the portal by ground is not enough to win. Also the boxes moving and squeezing each over in planning phase feels a bit janky. But these are some nitpicks and I enjoyed playing the game, the puzzles are good and require creative solutions.

Another thing I would change is the control scheme. Instead of using drag and drop, I would bind 1,2,3,4 keys to empty box, explosive, timed and black hole respectively. You hit the key then click around to place chosen boxes, right-click to remove boxes. I think drag and drop is good for one time actions but not for repeated actions.

Developer(+1)

Really good feedback thank you! I completely agree that the drag and drop does not feel intuitive for this kind of game. I realized that while doing a bit of testing but I was already in too deep :D. Thanks for the hints in the right direction! 

Submitted

I have difficulties with physics base games because of all the freedom there is for interactions and timings you have to get to fo some situations, but I had a good time with this game. You can have the ball to what you want and it's easy to test and retry your ideas (exept for not being able to remove one box at a time)

Nice job !

Developer

Someone mentioned I should've made it possible to delete the boxes with right click and I funnily enough never thought about that. There is a trashcan item that lets you remove one Box at a time but I agree its not really straightforward! Thanks for your feedback and thanks for Playing! 

Submitted

Your game gives me nostalgia over the best flash games I played!

Really well done!

Could use some quality of life and funnily enough I used only the black hole because of how fun and easy to use it is.

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much! I agree I may have taken balancing not too much into account but the main thing is fun anyway so there is that! Thanks for the feedback and thanks for playing! 

Submitted

Reminds me a bit of the old incredible machine games, which I really enjoyed as a kid! Nice submission, I love the void soud effect! VOIP!

Submitted

Definitely my favorite game of the jam, this game is literally perfect, I gave it 5 in everything

Developer

You are making me blush! Thank you so much! 

Submitted

Definitely my favorite game of the jam, this game is literally perfect, I gave it 5 in everything

Submitted

Clever physics puzzles with explosive creativity, great game! :)

Submitted

Nice implementation of the theme!

Submitted

Cool game, in a way it's similar to our submitted game, so that was great to see :) Good luck with the ratings

Submitted

Very nice jam game!  Cool little physics puzzler.  Great job!

Submitted(+1)

Very neat game! Great job!