Beer Pong Arcade by banan
Beer Pong Arcade is an arcade game where you throw a ball into cups containing beer. If you manage to get the ball inside the cup, you must drink the beer. Of course, the inebriation induced by the alcohol may cause some involuntary head motions and make hitting the cups slightly more difficult.
Gameplay
You throw a ball and attempt to get it in one of the cups. The strength of the throw can be varied and the ball can be controlled after throwing it.
When the ball lands in a cup you drink it and get more drunk. This impacts your stability and hearing. The cup is removed from the table. When all the cups on the table have been removed, you get a new set of cups.
You get points for getting the ball inside the cups. How many points you get depends on what type of cup it is, and it multiplied by the amount of successful throws you have had in a row.
When you miss two times in a row you lose a heart. The first time it starts flickering and the second time it goes dark. You regain one heart when you make a successful throw.
Screenshots
The hearts represent your hp.
The bar on the right shows the strength of your throw.
Clicking the coin slot on the left opens the menu or restarts the game after game over.
After throwing the ball the camera gives you a bird's-eye view of the ball so you can more easily see where it goes.
The menus
Controls
Keyboard
Hold space and release to throw the ball.
Press escape or click on the coin slot to open the menus or restart the game after a game over.
WASD / Arrow keys to move ball.
Controller
Hold and release A on an Xbox controller or X on a PlayStation controller to throw the ball.
Press start to open the menus or restart the game after a game over.
Left joystick / D-Pad to move ball.
Ratings
| Overall | 518th | 3.026⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 460th | 3⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 428th | 2.959⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 325th | 3.487⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 512th | 2.829⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 287th | 3.081⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 223th | 3.083⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 309th | 3.129⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 51🗳️ | 34🗨️ |
I really enjoyed all the aesthetics of it. The graphics and music work together well. I also liked the take on the theme. At first the camera tilt was so subtle, I didn't think it had much affect, but after a while, it was really messing with my shots!
The biggest negative, however, is the difficulty. At first the controls were tough, but I got used to them. Unfortunately, the unforgiving nature of bounces, the cups, and the power slider caused more frustration than I was willing to take after a ~5 minutes. Had fun up until that point though!
Interesting concept. The ball physics is pretty good, behaves like what you would expect from a pong ball. The graphics are nice and the music fits the theme, albeit a bit repetitive after a while.
- When game is over you need to show more clearly to the player, because Game Over title is too small.
- The music is great but I miss some sounds, like the ball's bounce around the scene or the ball falling into beer.
- The implementation of the theme is very funny but so soft.
- Nice job on the difficulty curve, but reach a point at which it's pretty dificult and this can frustrate the player.
- The force bar need to be readjust. Only with the half of the bar you throw the ball until the end of the arcade.
- The Quit button is covered by the beer glass. Be careful about that on next projects.
- It would be cool to fix glitch of the overhead camera, but I didn't keep in mind.
Definetly, I think if you continue working on this project, might be good but on mobile platforms will be better. :D
Straightforward concept (if not a little on the nose for the theme) and good mechanical transference -- it felt pretty damn similar to how it is to throw a beer pong ball in real life. Oh and the music too has this meandering off-tempo quality that adds to a sort of "drunk" feel. It's pretty damn fun-- I let my daughter play it for literally 20 minutes which is twice her attention span for super Mario Odyssey. I got really tripped up on the three cup level because it felt like a big jump in skill up from those beer bowls on level 1 and 2. I did beat it eventually but I could not make it past level 5.
My main suggestions would be this:
- Maybe make the "drunkeness" more extreme with the screen wobble as time goes on and misses accumulate.
- Like in real beer pong if you get a cup you should get another throw no matter what. I had one scenario where I made it but I was still given a game over screen. Not sure if this was a bug or not.
Dial in the controls a bit (just a liiiiitle more give in the low power range) and this could be super addictive. Nice job!
Nice work with setting the mood. The arcade machine looked cool
Anyway! The game itself. I really think some soundFX for the pingpong-ball would help a lot with the immersion. The music is nice 'n jazzy, which makes you relaxed no matter how many times you miss :slight_smile: Other than that I don't really have a whole lot to add to what's already been said.