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Painball by LDJam user 261538

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made by LDJam user 261538 for Ludum Dare 57 (JAM)

Heaven is under new management. Their first order of business is to lay off the entire department of divine punishment, leaving Satan alone to manage Hell. Worse yet, Heaven is suddenly pardoning all the sinners! This will not stand. You must not let those evil souls escape. Slap them back to the depths of Hell where they belong!

EMBEDDED VERSION DOES NOT WORK WELL. LEADERBOARD IS BROKEN AND IT DOESN'T LOAD IN CHROME. USE ITCH LINK INSTEAD

Built using Unity game engine All art, code, and music is original. Fonts and sound effects were sourced online. Check credits for those below. PainballScreenshotDownToTheDepths.png

painballScreenshotReleaseSoul.png

painballScreenshotLeaderBoard.png

painballScreenshotGameOver.png

Special thanks to the following authors on Freesound for their submissions used towards the game’s SFX: Bernuy, daveincamas, Suspirias, megashroom, Artninja, newlocknew, plasterbrain, newagesoup, The-Sacha-Rush, Syna-Max, SoundDesignForYou, julius_galla, SoundFlakes, nicktermer, adamgryu, sillygrizzlies, marc3122, Darsycho, Theshaggyfreak, landlucky, florianreichelt

Link https://castitatis.itch.io/painball
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/57/painball

Ratings

Overall 18th 4.375⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Fun 7th 4.453⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 53th 4.141⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Theme 65th 4.297⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 35th 4.578⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Audio 173th 3.79⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Humor 24th 4.328⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Mood 63th 4.226⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Given 22🗳️ 39🗨️

Feedback

oxnh
08. Apr 2025 · 00:27 UTC
Really cohesive, the art and sound effects are super nice. Game is fun as well you can't really go wrong with pinball. SFX is really loud compared to music though.
oxnh
08. Apr 2025 · 00:32 UTC
Also satan sitting in the corner malding pressing the buttons is pretty funny.
izzqz
08. Apr 2025 · 00:33 UTC
Awesome style! My favorite
TopperVideoGames
08. Apr 2025 · 01:03 UTC
Very well polished game here! Flipping a pinball table does add a unique perspective in predicting how the ball will move around. I was afraid at first to place traps, but I was glad to see the game slows down when placing them. I did lose a few lives though as I wanted to place a trap, but could not save the ball at the very top when the normal speed resumed. It was bad timing on my part!

Excellent attention to detail, seeing the devil press the buttons alongside me was nice. Great job!
fungus mundus
08. Apr 2025 · 01:26 UTC
Really cool concept and art!
kenevil1
08. Apr 2025 · 01:26 UTC
Really good game, actually wanted to only play for like a minute but it sucked me in.
LDJam user 379094
08. Apr 2025 · 01:30 UTC
This game was lit. The Art was amazing, the theme was on point, the audio was satisfying (but could've been a bit more maybe), the gameplay was the best so far. Score 212865
woergbi
08. Apr 2025 · 01:31 UTC
Awesome idea - Very polished entry! I honestly can't get enough of it and I will likely play again in the future :)
I really like your re-imagination of the pinball genre.
munmungames
08. Apr 2025 · 07:14 UTC
This is really great, you've made an awesome job with this entry, congratulations! The concept is great and the execution is super high quality! Love it ! Can't believe you even had time to make a leaderboard :D
zjuWindKing
08. Apr 2025 · 08:07 UTC
I like this art style and expressiveness! The combination of flipping pinball gameplay and store is great, but the slight drawback is that the feel of the pinball is average
Tyrrer
08. Apr 2025 · 08:08 UTC
Very fun and loved the art/concept !
no_firing
08. Apr 2025 · 08:10 UTC
Really Fun 😈![Screenshot 2025-04-08 130928.png](///raw/a2b/36/z/6b462.png)
infecsean
08. Apr 2025 · 08:25 UTC
Based on the main menu alone, this deserves so much praise. You guys seem to strike the perfect balance between vision and discipline, with a very functional game and loop, and leaderboard, this feels like product.
titos2k
08. Apr 2025 · 08:43 UTC
Cool idea and gameplay. 5 for graphics. Bit hard to switch between keyboard and mouse sometimes. maybe when cursor is in the game area left click should be left flipper and right click right. Or that slomo should be triggered on some button press and hold. Also space to shake the screen is missing.

I borked a leaderboard too - you probably should detect some combo crazy numbers and limit stuck ;)
Dywanix
08. Apr 2025 · 10:39 UTC
Very nice idea! Gameplay is very enjoyable and artstyle looks soo good
Dywanix
08. Apr 2025 · 10:39 UTC
Very nice idea! Gameplay is very enjoyable and artstyle looks soo good
WhaleJam
08. Apr 2025 · 10:49 UTC
Very nice art! Sounds are great too, I love the little detail of satan moving their arms when you hit the buttons. Kind of annoying to swap between mouse and keyboard, maybe have some way to pause to add upgrades or let me do the paddles with mouse. Very well polished, nice animations and attention to detail, good job ^^
nextnoon
08. Apr 2025 · 13:45 UTC
Incredible game! Extremely well thought through. Only suggestion is to make it clearer what all the traps do
Teist
08. Apr 2025 · 14:40 UTC
Awesome game!! Really good take on the flipper thing, nice art and good theme usage
[Capture d’écran 2025-04-08 163843.png](///raw/764/b5/z/6b690.png)
🎤 LDJam user 261538
09. Apr 2025 · 02:37 UTC
@titos2k thanks so much for playing! If you hold space, it will slow down time by the way :) but not the most intuitive controls. I agree that having to use the keyboard and mouse to to control the different things in such a fast paced game was not ideal
BarnabeWild
09. Apr 2025 · 05:13 UTC
Very fun! pixel art nice, did not go very deep tho, the combined focus of mouse and keyboard were quite hard for me. But sharing the mouse/keyboard with someone could help with that and make it a two player game!
ACarr
09. Apr 2025 · 13:57 UTC
Managed to snag 10th place on the leaderboard as of this comment, hehehe.
Great game! I found it hard to get any deeper than where the second flippers are - maybe I could have used the boxing gloves to launch them up instead of putting axes everywhere - but this is otherwise very polished with a rewarding gameplay loop and great (& funny!) art.
breadley
10. Apr 2025 · 03:46 UTC
The "build it yourself" pinball game is a concept I don't think I've ever seen before, but it's such an awesome idea! Also the art and presentation really make this into a pretty polished product! Minor gripe would be that it'd be nice to have more time to apply new items to the play board, either by freezing everything mid turn once I purchased an item to place, or put it in slow-mo. All around amazing job!
Castitatis
10. Apr 2025 · 03:56 UTC
@breadley Thx for your feedback, I'm glad you enjoyed the game :)
There is actually slow motion when you buy an item and you can also use space bar to slow time.
breadley
10. Apr 2025 · 05:48 UTC
@castitatis OOPS!!! Yup you're absolutely correct, I dunno how I blanked on that slow-mo!? Ignore me, I'm losing my mind lol.
kuboi
10. Apr 2025 · 11:08 UTC
Such a cool game! I love clever spins on classic games and this is one of the better ones I've played! Love the mechanic of going deeper and placing your own 'traps' strategically. Something that happened to me a few times was that the soul flew right between the paddles straight after being released, but I guess that happens in real life pinball machines as well so it makes it more authentic in the end:D
Vary
11. Apr 2025 · 02:50 UTC
ooo what a fun spin on a classic game. I really like the art style and the Satan sprite pressing buttons in the corner lol. The trap mechanic is really neat and I appreciate that we're able to replace them, it lets the player test out how the different traps work without it feeling punishing. Nicely done!
ScoobySnacks
12. Apr 2025 · 10:20 UTC
Love the artstyle and humor. Fun premise. I wish there was a tutorial or labels with controls (i skipped start text at first)
AgrMayank
16. Apr 2025 · 14:40 UTC
This is a great take on the theme as well as pinball!!! Love the concept, and the artstyle. It's on point. The story and sounds double that charm, although the controls do take a bit getting used to between mouse and keyboard .. oh,, I totally forgot there was slo-mo while playing :')
Borabee
17. Apr 2025 · 19:21 UTC
Very original idea and really fun to play! The humour is spot on!
I accidentally broke the game by changing a canon to a saw while the human was inside.
TheLastSlowpoke
22. Apr 2025 · 21:14 UTC
Very interesting entry! I don't remember stumbling upon a pinball with buildable level and some economy for that, and it works really well! I believe there are too many "balls" to get, it is too easy to have infinite points, you just have to have patience, I think it would work better with just the starting three. Anyway, it looks great, plays exceptionally well, and overall, awesome!