Ball & Cup by ohsqueezy
Charge up! Send the ball!
Based on Balero, a cup and ball on a string game sometimes given as a party favor, my entry is like shuffleboard with a moving target. Charge your shot and time it to stop inside the target. If successful, your accuracy is measured, and the next level begins. If unsuccessful, the game restarts.
Keys:
LEFT - **charge**, next level
F11 - fullscreen
ESC - close
I ran out of time before I could add a high score list, sound and an ending. The current version resets to the beginning after level 30, so if that happens, you win!
Thank you Hegemege for making a windows version!
Notes:
- The distance between ball and cup in the game world varies between levels. Smaller balls are farther away and need more charge.
- The fruit measure accuracy and are based on a color gradient from red to green. Greener fruits are closer to the center of the cup.
Based on Balero, a cup and ball on a string game sometimes given as a party favor, my entry is like shuffleboard with a moving target. Charge your shot and time it to stop inside the target. If successful, your accuracy is measured, and the next level begins. If unsuccessful, the game restarts.
Keys:
LEFT - **charge**, next level
F11 - fullscreen
ESC - close
I ran out of time before I could add a high score list, sound and an ending. The current version resets to the beginning after level 30, so if that happens, you win!
Thank you Hegemege for making a windows version!
Notes:
- The distance between ball and cup in the game world varies between levels. Smaller balls are farther away and need more charge.
- The fruit measure accuracy and are based on a color gradient from red to green. Greener fruits are closer to the center of the cup.
Ratings
| Coolness | 85% | 2 |
| Overall(Jam) | 2.88 | 367 |
| Audio(Jam) | 1.63 | 449 |
| Fun(Jam) | 2.96 | 252 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 2.50 | 453 |
| Humor(Jam) | 2.31 | 228 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 2.94 | 278 |
| Mood(Jam) | 2.38 | 443 |
| Theme(Jam) | 3.98 | 55 |
Also worth noting I used the A key to charge, found it out just randomly.
I ran the game by renaming the ball-cup file to ball-cup.py in Windows and running that from cmd. On ubuntu I just chmod u+x'd the ball-cup file and ran it.
Funny game, but greatly punishing if you fail.
CherryNukaCola: yay! :D I wanted to save the strips each time to make a high scores table. The color is based on how close you are to the center, so you can judge your performance by how red or green it is.
What's with the seemingly random fruit names "awarded" to you after each level btw?
I ran this on Linux, and it worked well. The only weird thing is that it displayed a copy of the game on each of my three monitors. Was this intentional?
Great work!
lorancou: +1 for level numbers. I was thinking that myself yesterday. The level number is the length of the color strip but it's hard to tell what it is specifically. Either a scoreboard would clarify or a ghost strip of your current high score behind the current score.
Fnkee: yay! and ME TOO I thought because of how simple the game is it would be easy to add every feature in time but alas this was not the case. Scoreboards are first on my to-do list!
Frosnite: :( Windows exe or source?
While the game is neat and addictive, I kind of wish the idea had been used in more of a puzzle game. I'm sure that some cool mechanics could have been introduces to expand the concept in later levels to add more variation and challenge. Maybe something to consider?
Still, great job!
Game is a bit hard, though. As you mentioned before, adding lives would be great. I'd also add more redundant controls (besides "A" and "Left", use spacebar, mouse click, etc).