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A jam submission

The Lionel CountdownView game page

Can Messi score before the referee blows his final whistle? It's the Lionel Countdown...
Submitted by Sundler (@sundlegames) — 3 days, 23 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#44652.9552.955
Narrative#51432.3282.328
Creativity#64402.8512.851
Audio#64542.3582.358
Artwork#81262.2242.224

Ranked from 67 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Can Messi score before the referee blows his final whistle? It's the Lionel Countdown...

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Submitted(+1)

Kind of boring in my opinion, the defenders don't really do anything to stop you and it doesn't really feel like football at all.

Developer (2 edits)

When I play real football, I suck.  I don't want to play a game that makes me feel like that.  I want to feel like I'm Messi.  Like I move so fast, it's as if my opponents are statues frozen in time!  Like I'm some football god! 😉

Submitted(+1)

Great game, pretty fun and engaging, with controls just hard enough to make it challenging, I recommend a better way to tell players they start on training mode and then change to friendlies. Other than that, pretty good, I played so bad I felt like I was the real Messi in the world cup final!

Developer

Thanks for the feedback.  I completely agree with informing people about the modes.

Submitted(+1)

Hey this game is cool! The pitch looks nice and clean and love the art. I also like how friendly mode of difficulty made the game much harder.

Pieces of feedback:

  • Maybe being able to change your team or at least your opponent's team to be some team other than Italy would be cool
  • I think a tutorial or something that makes the option to change difficulties more obvious could be helpful
  • I think creating a starting screen will make the game feel less abrupt to begin with
  • Maybe you could step it up eventually  by making sprites that have walking animations and running animations and kicking animations so it feels less static

Anyhow I look forward to seeing more games you make!

Developer(+1)

This is great feedback.  Thank you.  I should definitely have let players select the game mode before starting the game.

Submitted(+1)

At first glance, the game looked very simple and basic, but once I started playing, it turned out to be much more fun than I expected.

I’m not usually a fan of soccer games, yet I genuinely enjoyed this one. After playing a couple of matches, it started to feel a little repetitive, but as soon as I tried the other difficulty mode, the experience changed completely. With just a couple of simple adjustments, the game became much more challenging and managed to keep me engaged.

I think you’ve done a great job with such a simple concept. It’s a great example of how a straightforward idea, when executed well, can be genuinely entertaining. Congratulations, and great work!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the useful feedback and for trying the other modes.

I'll get around to reviewing your game eventually.  I just have a long back log.

Submitted(+1)

This is a pretty silly game! I love the story concept and the gameplay is kinda addicting. I only played one match but found it quite fun trying to score. The gameplay is maybe a bit too simple but still fun. Thanks for making this silly game!

Submitted(+2)

liked it just for the title pun alone. wish I could move the camera around.

Submitted(+1)

I won't lie I wasn't expecting much when I saw this, but it was actually quite fun and I played a couple of matches. Nice job!

Submitted(+1)

Wow, I was not expecting to come across a football game at all.

This is really awesome. Simple but really awesome.

The gameplay can be fun, dodging  the defenders and all that. 

I will say there's a bit too much time - 1 Minute would have been better and with some target score as well. Like opposing team has scored 4 we need to score 5 to win else restart the match. That could be something.

Other than that I don't have much to add, maybe the jump could use some work, some shooting mechanics of the sort. Moving enemies in a set area, all that stuff.

Overall this was so much fun to play. Great Work!

Submitted(+1)

Dodging the little defenders on the way to goal was silly and surprisingly fun!

Submitted(+1)

As an Argentine, I haven’t played yet, but gave you all 5 stars.

Submitted(+1)

As an Argentine, I haven’t played yet, but gave you all 5 stars.

Submitted(+1)

I guess Messi finally won his second world cup

(+1)

We've really peaked with this game!!!

Submitted(+2)

I got 11:2, great game, better than fifa

(+1)

Awesome

Submitted(+1)

Well of course he's gonna score, he's playing against Italy...

Submitted(+2)

The fifa games if they were good

Submitted(+1)

I remember seeing the blank submission page way in the beginning of the jam, this is really good might just content FC 27👀

Submitted(+1)

Messi ! Messi ! Messi ! Messi ! GOAL!  GOAL! GOAL!  GOAL! GOAL!  GOAL! GOAL!  GOAL!

Submitted(+1)

Italy's playstyle is accurate hahaha 10/10

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