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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Definition of Done | #17 | 3.980 | 4.875 |
| Game Feel | #20 | 3.266 | 4.000 |
| Fun | #23 | 3.266 | 4.000 |
| Sound and Music | #23 | 3.062 | 3.750 |
| Overall | #23 | 3.232 | 3.958 |
| Visuals | #29 | 2.960 | 3.625 |
| Accessibility | #29 | 2.858 | 3.500 |
Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Game
Challenge #1, Pong
How many members of your team?1
What Engine was this created in?
QuickBasic 4.5
How many of the 20 Games have you completed?2
How many Jams have you done?
2-3
Source Code Link
http://Download link is listed as one of the downloads (pong.bas)
Comments
Nice fun version of pong, works well, cool how you made it with QuickBASIC! I think I maybe encountered a bug? It looks like it should have hit the paddle, but didn't? It might just be a couple of pixels off hitting the paddle though?
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Robot RebellionEverything is fine.. the mouse sensitivity is actually fine.. I did not feel anything at all. I was confused though, are we playing against ourselves or the computer? It was Game Over for each side. It was still well done.
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Mine Sweep cloneNice, the game runs smoothly and the gameplay is fun. I think the paddles size is fine, the ball's reaction to the paddles is very well made too. I agree with the mouse sensitivity being too high but you already adressed that.
Great job achieving this with those huge limitations!
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Insect InvasionOk it's insane that you have DOS PC and made a DOS game that runs on modern windows. That has got to be insane to make anything with those limitations. But also probably pretty fun. I turned my mouse sensitivity waaaay down and it was much more manageable.
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Knight SoulsThank you! I had a lot of fun with it. Testing things out, side by side, my windows mouse seems about twice as fast as my DOS mouse, so that checks out. Might just be the case of modern windows moving the mouse faster, or something not taking into account that it's running a 320 x 200 game in regard to mouse coordinates inside the emulator.
Post-jam I'll probably look into making some in-game mouse settings but I agree, changing mouse sensitivity in Windows settings was very helpful.
Really cool idea! I really like that the bounce reacts to where the ball hits the paddle and not just a simple bounce. Only thing I wish I could change would be the mouse sensitivity, it felt a bit too fast for me, or making the paddle bigger... other wise really good job
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Pebbles by SyncNoneAbsolutely- Regarding the paddle size I also thought that they were a bit small, however I was mimicking the size of the original Atari pong, which was also small.
Regarding the mouse sensitivity, that's very fair and something my partner suggested when playing my game. One pixel of mouse movement = one pixel of paddle movement currently, but past a jam submission that is definitely something I could think about customizing. However, that would also require storing fractional pixels (i.e. moving 0.5 pixels to 1) and some of that math is a costly operation, so on my real DOS PC trying to do fractional x and y speeds for the ball was causing too much lag in the game, and it ran jittery. I didn't have enough time to look into mouse speed customization during the jam, but it's something I would look into if I refined the game further.
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