Pop by mcmahoniel

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made by mcmahoniel for LD34 (COMPO)
You're a balloon just trying to escape your humdrum daily life as a party favor. Ascend higher and higher, but try not to get hit by a meteor!

You can move with you left and right arrow keys. You'll grow larger as the atmosphere gets thinner, so be careful!

This is only my second Ludum Dare. Like my first entry, I built this with some great inexpensive/free tools. I drew all of the graphics in Aseprite, generated the popping sound with cfxr, composed the music (quickly) in GarageBand, and brought it all together with Phaser.js.

I was, surprisingly, able to embody both themes that were voted on this year!

Thanks for playing!

Ratings

Coolness 50% 3
Overall 2.72 858
Audio 2.70 447
Fun 2.92 653
Graphics 2.40 808
Humor 2.63 359
Innovation 2.25 889
Mood 2.87 554
Theme 3.40 715

Feedback

mukult
14. Dec 2015 路 06:22 UTC
Good game! Simple and music felt good! Nice work! :)
Nooner Bear
14. Dec 2015 路 06:22 UTC
Simple and fun, good work! Though, I'm unsure of how to restart after I've died other than to refresh.
yumaikas
14. Dec 2015 路 06:24 UTC
Not being able to restart kinda makes it hard to replay.
馃帳 mcmahoniel
14. Dec 2015 路 06:43 UTC
Sorry about the restart functionality, I ran out of time. :) Thanks for playing!
floppya
14. Dec 2015 路 06:50 UTC
Solid, simple game. Nice work getting both themes in there.
Ghen
14. Dec 2015 路 06:52 UTC
yep, simple and fun
the music fit the game really well
jerry111zhang
14. Dec 2015 路 07:00 UTC
Would be better if we can restart
GodsBoss
14. Dec 2015 路 07:28 UTC
Is it just me or is that game insanely hard? Why does the balloon try to ascend during the late heavy bombardement the Earth once went through?
Still pretty fun, though.
Serg
14. Dec 2015 路 07:31 UTC
Simple, but nice.
blohod
14. Dec 2015 路 07:37 UTC
Needs restart! balloon looks weird but still an ok game.
NaoisTheGuardian
14. Dec 2015 路 08:58 UTC
Well done on a solidly implemented game.
rantt
14. Dec 2015 路 13:57 UTC
Music really fit the game. I enjoyed it, nicely done!
hexagore
14. Dec 2015 路 18:08 UTC
Would have been nice to be able to restart after being hit. A simple idea but it's executed nicely.
lXxGarrisonxXl
15. Dec 2015 路 04:10 UTC
fun game and easy to play
psychonull
15. Dec 2015 路 14:56 UTC
Simple and fun game. Nice work!!
argowen
16. Dec 2015 路 02:10 UTC
I now have a complex with falling objects popping my balloons.
barret907k
16. Dec 2015 路 04:36 UTC
Fun yet hard. No way to reset?