This was really fun! The physics felt really satisfying and I liked the time being the limiting factor. Could see this being a whole GB campaign!
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Pinball Plunderer's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Soundtrack/SFX | #84 | 3.791 | 3.791 |
| Graphics | #163 | 3.837 | 3.837 |
| Overall | #183 | 3.403 | 3.403 |
| Gameplay | #203 | 3.256 | 3.256 |
| Secondary Theme Interpretation | #259 | 3.023 | 3.023 |
| Quirkiness | #271 | 3.163 | 3.163 |
| Gameboy Soul | #283 | 3.349 | 3.349 |
Ranked from 43 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game meet GBJam's theme
It's about a pirate who's fighting against a clock, because he's getting old, and the goal is to get as much gold as possible before retirement
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This was really fun! The physics felt really satisfying and I liked the time being the limiting factor. Could see this being a whole GB campaign!
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All That GlittersI really loved the visuals and art style! It’s very engaging...
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Buzzy & the Old GoldThe presentation was great- I really liked the music, and the pirate theming led to a lot of interesting pinball mechanics like the captain's wheel and plugging up holes in the ship! The ball physics also felt really well done and were satisfying to engage with.
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Fool's Gold: A Jester's QuestIt's an excellent little pinball game. For trying to be a gameboy game with the theme old gold, I do feel like the rotating wheels/flippers don't align to pixels well. You'd nail that gameboy feel if you had used sprite animation instead of rotations. The controls weren't intuitive, so I had to read them to figure it out, but after I realized the setup, it went well enough. Good job!
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Doubloon TroubleThis is really cool, the music is really catchy and I love the dog. The only suggestion I'd say is it seems like rotating objects aren't snapping to the pixels so I think the resolution its being rendered at is too high. Also, funnily enough I didn't find this game directly through the jam, but a friend of mine saw it on social media and mentioned it to me. So you're doing a good job capturing the attention of non jam participants lol
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SkelescapadesIt's really cool! I didn't like the default layout of controls on keyboard at all - I ended up flipping my keyboard upside-down in order to play. Obviously it would have been a lot easier to control on a real gameboy, haha.
Balancing a pinball table in a week sounds so difficult. I'm a relative novice at both pinball and pinball video games myself, so this might be mostly a skill issue, but I found it very difficult to shoot with intention on this table. Cradling the ball seemed to only put it in useless places and I had so much trouble shooting up the ramps. I was able to unlock the boss fight but died early without being able to hit the ball each time I entered.
Anyways the graphics are great, the song is good.. it's very memorable! Such a cute game. My high score was 119k... I might have to go back for more though.
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The Relic ShipDon't remember when I played my last pinball game. Still fun even if I still suck :D
Brilliant integration of the pinball board with the ship theme!
Very cool game!
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Factory ExitPretty good game, even if it doesn't entirely capture the Game Boy soul, but I prefer to play pinball flippers with left and right arrow keys. I also think the physics made it hard to reach certain points in the game, but that's just me.
I love the dog, though. It's a shame you can't pet him.
If you like, you can play my underwater game with a forgetful goldfish.
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Fin and ForgetA fun take on classic pinball. The art and sound is great, very polished, and I love the dog, 9/10 (-1 because I couldn't pet him). I've noticed that the (cannon)ball and the ship's wheel are not adhering to the pixel grid, so this would not have been possible on the actual GameBoy display. The controls confused me as well, but once I got hang of them, it was pretty fun!
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The BeachThis feels like pokemon pinball, it is amazing!
The only thing that kinda bothers me is that A button is for left side and K for right side 😭
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Dig'n CrawlThis is fantastic! I love pinball, and you nailed the sound design and the feel of it. Also the art!!! As usual with pinball tables, I sorta just hit the ball into as much stuff as possible and only after my first play went and read the description to discover "oh there's objectives and such." So, of course, had to give it another go haha. So much fun all around. Thanks for creating and sharing this!
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