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| 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!
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!
I really loved the visuals and art style! It’s very engaging...
The pinball machine is nice, as is the art and music. But I find the controls more confusing than the other pinball games.
The 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.
Nothing like a good'ol pinball. I was never good at them but I enjoyed this one. It fell short on the innovation side maybe (not a requirement of the jam) but it is a great quality entry and I loved the music.
It'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!
This 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
Thank you! Where on social media did you find us from?
Catchy tune and a nostalgic-feeling pinball game. Loved the details like the sails being bouncy and the ship wheel spinning! Great job!
It'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.
The game feels solid to play. It has a fun concept and I like pinball games. the controls I feel a little bit off. like I want press the left flipper but instead of the arrow left I just press the X key on the keyboard.
Great pinball game.