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A jam submission

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Baseball, with bombs!
Submitted by benji — 1 hour, 46 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#29083.2863.286
Audio#33543.0003.000
Artwork#45063.0713.071
Narrative#49702.3572.357
Creativity#51413.1433.143

Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
You throw bombs at each other (3 second count down fuse) to prevent each other from holding the diamond for 9 seconds (which counts down until you score) like a countdown-based Capture The Flag. Also, all powerups are temporary based on a countdown!

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Benji

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Comments

Submitted

This is a fun little game, I tried in the school lab. On my PC idk why but it crash my web browser, next time can you also have a window build version for me to download? Thank you mate <3

Developer

Thank you! I’m really glad you were able to play it. It’s broken on some people’s PC’s, and it’s version dependent :(

Submitted

Really fun little game ! Would love to try it on my main pc with the fix

Developer

Thank you! It’ll be uploaded at 1:01 PM today after the jam ends (with lots of other improvements like a tutorial)

Submitted

What if Bomberman... was good? Nah I haven't played Bomberman but wow is this game super fun, would be a great multiplayer party game if expanded upon!

Developer

Thank you! I would have LOVED to make it multiplayer (and might still do it after the jam’s over) but there wasn’t enough time :(

Submitted

Chaotic and silly game, loved it! <3

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted

like the party game vibes! the ai are crazily polished

Developer

Thank you! I was surprised myself how well the AI worked out… because they follow SUPER simple rules:

  • If Baseball Diamond is on the field, go for it
  • If someone else has it, chase them
  • If you are within range to throw a bomb, throw one
  • If you are outside that range, do a homing bomb instead
  • If someone gets too close to you, hit them with a bat or slide
  • If you have the diamond, compute the point on the map that is farthest from any player, and run to it

And then each AI gets a differently tweak set of configs related to how fast they turn, aim, react to bombs, etc.

Submitted

Cool game, kinda 3d smash bros.   

Developer

Thanks! That’s the kind of party game-vibe I was going for.

Submitted

Firefox: type about:config in the address bar and look for webgl.disable-angle then restart your browser.
Still not load game

Developer(+1)

Thanks for letting me know, that’s a real bummer. I’ll keep doing what I can to find fixes for WIndows folks. Wish I could just upload the fixed version.

Submitted

I love the chaos and the art of the game! it's so cute :3

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted

super fun and chaotic game!! would be helpful to have a tutorial at teh start to explain how the game works but other than that i love the mechanics and concept !

Developer

Thank you! I was in the middle of making the tutorial when time ran out :(

However, I've recorded a video of the tutorial so people can watch before they play to learn the basic moveset.


Submitted

ahh i didn't see this thats super helpful thanks!!

Submitted (1 edit)

It sounds like a fun concept, but I can't get the game to run in Google Chrome or Firefox :(

Developer(+1)

Thanks for letting me know, it ended up being a very small bug only on Windows...

You can fix it by changing your settings under chrome://flags/#use-angle to anything other than DirectX (like Vulkan or OpenGL) but modern versions of Chrome have made it harder to access Vulkan.

Submitted

I'm really impressed by the terrain deformation! Wonder how you got that working!

Developer (2 edits) (+1)

Thank you! The whole terrain is actually voxel based, but smoothed out with surface nets, and to prevent physics from being blocky-feeling you pretty much just linearly interoplate and position the player on the fake terrain height.

Hey nice game! Maybe its just me or my web browser but the controls seem to be extrem clanky. I guess your game needs some fine tuning here and there. Great game overall! Keep going the good work.

Developer(+1)

Thank you! Unfortunately the web build had more problems than I expected... that's what I get for submitting 2 minutes before deadline.