Noah's Balloon by nettleflap

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made by nettleflap for LD 43 (JAM)

Save people from rising lava with your hot-air balloon, but don't forget, to save some you need to sacrifice others!

Objective: Gather as many people as possible from locations and reach the end goal before lava kills you.

Be careful with wind fields and spikes!

WASD = Balloon movement

Left Click = Throw a person in a direction to boost yourself in opposite direction

Escape = Get back to main menu

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Ratings

Overall 119th 3.943⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Fun 215th 3.671⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 151th 3.686⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Theme 221th 3.914⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 212th 4.071⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Audio 107th 3.871⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Humor 76th 3.957⭐ 37🧑‍⚖️
Given 13🗳️ 12🗨️

Feedback

DoubleBlackStudios
04. Dec 2018 · 02:57 UTC
I really enjoyed your game. Good job!
TheCrittersCove
04. Dec 2018 · 03:39 UTC
Really cute game, love the style! Both the banjo music and the voice clips are fun. The mechanics are interesting, but the levels seem like they need further tweaking. The first level was beginner friendly as expected, then the second level seemed like a death trap at every turn. Otherwise the game seems very well polished for a jam.
Pukami
04. Dec 2018 · 10:21 UTC
That audio is hilarious! Nice voice acting. Definitely quite difficult to go through though, but I enjoyed the graphics.
Morg
04. Dec 2018 · 10:39 UTC
Game is really nice, a bit frustrating to get into it at first but once you do it's really hard to stop because you really want to finish all the levels. I loved the humor and the voices, they really sold the game for me!
ursagames
05. Dec 2018 · 08:27 UTC
Your game was played on my stream ( twitch.tv/ursagames ) for the first day of Ludum Dare streams - you can find the timestamp of your game here: https://goo.gl/N2rkr8
🎤 nettleflap
05. Dec 2018 · 12:05 UTC
@ursagames Thank you! I wish I was there to see it live but I watched from the past broadcast. You are the only streamer who actually finished the game :laughing:
ILD Games LLC
05. Dec 2018 · 16:35 UTC
Really neat concept! I'm not quite sure that standing at a goal flag will save the balloon from the rising lava, though. ;) I had expected to land on top of the mountain, rather than staying inside the caves!
PabloDap
05. Dec 2018 · 16:53 UTC
Neat graphics and humor!!! The balloon reacts kinda slow for me and has too much momentum, but I guess I might have to use more people to boost it XD

Some spike locations were too tight and it was too hard to navigate through them with the movement of the basket making the balloon spin, and also getting the balloon to pop when only the basket touched the spikes. I'd make the basket a safe zone and only lose if you touch them with the balloon itself. Other than that, very solid game!
recursor
05. Dec 2018 · 17:35 UTC
I enjoyed the humorous comments and the graphics were also well done. Well done.
ReiMari
05. Dec 2018 · 17:48 UTC
The difficulty really ramps up quickly, I can't make it past the 3rd level. Besides that it's a really nice game with an interesting take on the theme.
nkrim
06. Dec 2018 · 00:25 UTC
Beautiful and polished, maybe a little hard and occasionally frustrating (and the nerve-wracking tilting of the balloon didn't ease the anxiety :laughing:), but overall a wonderful entry!
namnam
06. Dec 2018 · 17:37 UTC
Nice entry, simple but very enjoyable. Loved the art and the music, it would be a very cool mobile game.
kantieno
06. Dec 2018 · 18:06 UTC
I really enjoyed this! The audio was great! The voicework was really good and fit really well with the style of the game! I immediately started the first level by throwing several people to their doom without even realizing it!

It worked really well with the theme once I realized what they were supposed to be for! The gameplay itself was challenging and fun, though a bit tedious later on. The banjos were a really good choice for the style of game!

Overall this was a very nice entry, one of my highest rated for humor and audio!
Lucien Catonnet
07. Dec 2018 · 22:43 UTC
Oh yeah! Banjo! The music is really great, the graphics are very polished, voices are a nice touch. Controls are interesting but the game is too difficult I think, spikes pop your balloon from pretty far. Overall very nice game :)
randomphantom
08. Dec 2018 · 05:29 UTC
Love the nice graphical style! The game was fun at first but the third level was just too much of a difficulty spike with all the tight corners. Love the speech and audio work too! Great job
Kciwsolb
13. Dec 2018 · 15:08 UTC
Great use of a simple art style. Great job!
Jupiter_Hadley
14. Dec 2018 · 14:49 UTC
Neat game, great art! I included it in my compilation video series of games from the Ludum Dare, if you’d like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/aRIyiUZY0TQ
🎤 nettleflap
17. Dec 2018 · 01:12 UTC
@jupiter-hadley Thank you as always :)
UnidayStudio
19. Dec 2018 · 12:04 UTC
That's a very interesting game! Some levels are hard but very funny to play! Congratulations for the amazing game!