Really good game! I loved the gameplay and music (the music was reallyyy nice) The art is simple but good and fitting for this. I appreciate that getting hit only resets your position instead of making you start over, but having a way to lose (like getting hit a certain number of times) and restarting the boss fight would've been better in my opinion. As for the theme, I don't think it's the best representation of soccer. I mean, yeah I can see that you use balls, but they could be replaced with any projectile. It took me a while to beat the last boss but that's just me being bad lol. Overall, amazing game!! but it has room for improvement. Oh, and the illustrations are really good (the cover art and the in game ones) 
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Sound | #4 | 4.111 | 4.333 |
| Gameplay | #9 | 3.795 | 4.000 |
| Aesthetics | #15 | 4.111 | 4.333 |
| Overall | #23 | 3.558 | 3.750 |
| Theme | #175 | 2.214 | 2.333 |
Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Thank you for playing and the last minute vote 🙏 Glad you enjoyed it, if I were to expand or reiterate on the concept I'd probably redesign the stages to have threats, as well as making it possible to lose/force a restart with checkpoints, which would feel too awkward if it were possible with the current iteration.
The theme was definitely a bit of a stretch, the goal was to reach at least 3 stars for it without compromising on style, you're using your S-Ball to strike at the horizontal goals but they don't really give off a conventional soccer vibe I must admit
Блин, я в шоке нафиг. Игра очень стильная и приятная. Меня прям затянуло. Прошел игру с удовольствием. Музыка качает. Ее можно где-то отдельно послушать?? Звуки крутые. Визуал минималистичный, приятный. Геймплей мне понравился. Хороший баланс сложности лично для меня. Импакт от действий игрока очень сочный, особенно в начале. Даже сюжет есть, абстрактный - но мне такое нравится. Могу выделить только 2 минуса:
1. Соответствие теме сомнительное...
2. Не хватает глобальной таблицы лидеров
Ну а так игра бомбезная. Спасибо за кайфовые 10 минут или сколько я там играл.
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Soccer goalkeeperРадостно слышать, что игра так понравилась! Первый трек можно послушать на странице композитора здесь - https://cybershroom.bandcamp.com/track/earth-prime (второй трек ещё пока никуда не выложен)
Насчёт темы - тут да, внезапная и очень специфичная тема джема нас повергла в шок. Уже упомянуто в комментарии ниже, но создавать генерную футбольную игру совсем не хотелось, поэтому пришлось подтягивать элементы дизайна в надежде, что хотя бы на 3 звезды сгодится
Lemme start from good things:
Art is awesome I like the way game looks, game looks and feels very polished, surprising for 3 day jam
Game sounds absolutely phenomenal, song is a banger
Gameplay is pretty statisfying and surprisingly long, like OMG 10 minutes of raw gameplay!
Now the bad things:
First of all, I see no soccer in this game nor the score incline
It's impossible to die which is a bad thing because game gets boring like 7 minutes in. (also it makes impossible to get really low scores).
Nobody is going to play 10 minutes all over again to get a bit better score, especially without online leaderboard.
WASD and Z are very weird controls, I think it's possible to remap them in game but default option could be better.
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S.O.C.C.E.R.Thank you for your feedback. Glad you enjoyed most of the aspects so much! Firstly, the default controls for keyboard are actually the Arrow keys + Z/X, WASD is an alternative for people who prefer it. You can remap everything as you want.
For the theme - a generic soccer-like type of game is not my style at all. While the setting is sci-fi, the main character wears a soccer-inspired uniform and uses a ball in a vaguely sport-like setting, the rest is up to player interpretation. This is about as much as I was willing to compromise with how specific the jam theme was, the intention was to make it at least worth 3 stars in theme, it's fine if you don't agree.
"Nobody is going to play 10 minutes all over again" is valid criticism for this jam in particular, but in general - this isn't really true and strongly depends on scene/genre. It's actually on a very low end of length spectrum if you take shoot 'em ups, for example. Online leaderboards would be great, wish it were possible.
You cannot die, but some score bonuses are lost if you take hits. There are no threats until the boss fight begins, so having the player die and lose the run only during it would make little sense. I don't think it makes the game more boring or more fun, since the objective is not to survive, but to make precise shots to take down as many enemies as possible for higher multiplier.
Wow this is very cool, in fact I would play a similar game only with a complete story with the same art style and similar gameplay. The art style is very cool, as is the gameplay
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Don`t Foot MeI managed to play the entire way through, and I got to admit, this game is super awesome. At first, I thought this game was going to be super easy because the strikeball was fully powered up and there were no enemies.
However, once I progressed further into the game, there were this white diamond shooting white balls at me and the strikeball was weakened, which makes me think that this game is slowly turning to a bullet hell type of game.
The way that the strikeball became weak was a result of someone hijacking my powers 😂.
I got a highscore of around 8 million and reached the end. I did get hit a bunch of times and I don't know if it's possible to die in this game.
I also found the music, aesthetics and the storytelling super incredible.
It's also creative that the soccer ball is being used as a powerball to destroy things.
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