Basketeerz by Jhelle

made by Jhelle for LD27 (COMPO)

Pick up the ball and fling it into the basket. Get as many points in 10 seconds in each of the 9 levels. You can only pick that ball up when it's in the shaded area. Good luck!

This time I tried to use Construct instead of AS3. The events got messy very quick but its very easy to use and enjoyable to prototype in. Which makes it great for Ludum Dares.

The game should run best in Chrome (But also works on my Android phone, veryyy slowly).

Controls:
Left mouse Button: Pick up the ball
Right mouse button: Toggle sound
Middle mouse button: Disable music

Hope you enjoy the game!

Game	https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/590809/ld27/index.html
Source	https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/590809/ld27/Basketeerz.rar
My twitter	https://twitter.com/Jhelle9
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=2232

Ratings

Coolness	58%	3
Overall	3.18	428

Audio	2.67	495
Fun	3.11	393
Graphics	3.11	419
Humor	2.05	668
Innovation	2.77	702
Mood	2.59	662
Theme	2.91	786

Feedback

tiffi

26. Aug 2013 · 10:40 UTC

really fun game, good physics. A highscore would have been great

hungyg

26. Aug 2013 · 10:43 UTC

Fun game, the controls were a bit wonky but very enjoyable nonetheless! Great job! :)

Rave Radbury

26. Aug 2013 · 10:43 UTC

Great take on skeeball and other skill shot games. The physics were satisfying, but I felt that sometimes I didn't have enough space to launch the ball properly.

Anoarith

26. Aug 2013 · 10:44 UTC

Simple and nice :)

CustomPhase

26. Aug 2013 · 10:45 UTC

That was pretty entertaining :) I wish you could reset the ball, so it wont take so long time for him to come back

Terrabyte

26. Aug 2013 · 10:45 UTC

It's a nice little game. I particularly like the graphics, and the music is quite catchy too.

sirtetris

26. Aug 2013 · 10:58 UTC

Fun game. :)

One thing though: my score disappears when I reach more than 9 points. ^^ Guess it's a font issue ... I'm on Linux and my score number looks like some fallback standard font.

Oh and the background music seems to be played twice simultaneously when you play a second round w/o reloading the page.

DiaboloHunter

26. Aug 2013 · 11:32 UTC

I really liked the game. Nice physics and graphics!

Mekuri

26. Aug 2013 · 12:35 UTC

Very nice game. I scored 10 points on my first try, but after that it went downhill lol. I really enjoyed it. A high score would have been awesome.

Very good game!

Nitrodeus

26. Aug 2013 · 13:29 UTC

nice game :) physics are great, graphics too.
Nice job !

matthias_zarzecki

26. Aug 2013 · 13:58 UTC

This is fun. Nice work!

Wertle

26. Aug 2013 · 15:58 UTC

I like how the game started with a traditional basketball hoop setup that one would expect, then evolved into wackier and wackier arrangements. Very clean art, nice job!

comrad_gremlin

26. Aug 2013 · 17:44 UTC

Greatly done, man. The graphics are really high-quality. +getting those physics must have been a real challenge :)

🎤 Jhelle

26. Aug 2013 · 18:35 UTC

Thanks for all the kind words and feedback guys!

@sirtetris actually missed that one, thanks for the heads up

@comrad_gremlin that was actually pretty easy to setup in construct, without that I wouldn't have been able to make it in a weekend :)

SpiralCodeStudio

26. Aug 2013 · 19:21 UTC

A nice addition to physics puzzles!

KevinWorkman

28. Aug 2013 · 00:32 UTC

I played this on Android, and like you said, it was pretty slow. I actually liked it once I got the hang of it, and could see playing a version of this after the jam. Nice work.

Beardbotnik

28. Aug 2013 · 19:52 UTC

interesting game, though in one level I apparently through the ball hard enough for it to disappear, then on the later stages there were lots of areas where the ball would easily just get stuck and I had to just wait a while for the countdown to finish. It's an interesting take on a mini golf sort of game.

tigerj

31. Aug 2013 · 03:35 UTC

for a compo it's really impressive. It felt like box2d almost. great work with the physics.

I'd get sfxr/audacity and get some sound involved. a little noise can go a long way for the experience.

nice work and a real creative concept. I like it a lot.

uwap

01. Sep 2013 · 12:11 UTC

Final score: 7. Sometimes the ball just disappeared when moving the mouse too fast. But it's a nice and simple game anyways.

PaperBlurt

04. Sep 2013 · 11:26 UTC

Fun way to make use of basket ball. Like these simplistic but entertaining games!

MrBlade

16. Sep 2013 · 01:22 UTC

Nice work! It is a bit difficult to get the ball in the basket, but it is reasonable level of difficulty. Okay sounds, nice graphics. I feel like the ball falls A BIT slow, making it hard to get off more than one or two shots on most of the levels. Keep it up. 6/10.