Unstables by joonamo
Team Airfryer presents
Unstables
Hold on to your horses!
Controls
- Z: Hands
- X: Feet
- Arrows: Move
:horse: Play Now! :horse:
https://youtu.be/3WS8plVPVrw



All animations are done in Unity 2D physics with tiny amount of code and lots of hinges and springs. No horses were harmed while making this game.
The leaderboard service is slightly updated version of my old Highscore server created for my Ludum Dare 46 game. Web leaderboards also available!
Team Airfryer is
- Code and Animations by @joonamo (Tools: Unity, Visual Studio Code)
- Art by @noke (Tools: Photoshop)
- Audio by @Pekuja (Tools: Cubase, Squier P-bass, Roland V-drums, Audacity)
| Play in browser! | https://unstables.joonamo.com/ |
| Game Sources | https://github.com/joonamo/unstables/ |
| Leaderboard Sources | https://github.com/joonamo/highscore |
| Web Leaderboards | https://unstables.joonamo.com/scores/ |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/unstables-1 |
Ratings
| Overall | 52th | 4.219⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 34th | 4.26⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 135th | 3.958⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 59th | 4.375⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 172th | 4.323⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 300th | 3.74⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 56th | 4.223⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 154th | 4.043⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 86🗳️ | 80🗨️ |
Really nice game with impressive art and pretty fun gameplay!
The art and music fit well (would have been nice if the music loop was a little longer. It seems very repetitive.)
The scoring system adds a lot of pressure to the movement which in itself is already quite challenging.
i haven't said that the art is wonderful.

Fr now: simple controls, easy to grasp, hard to master, great cute graphics, hilarious music, sounds, every single word of praise you can think of apply here. I'm forever grateful that this exists.
Haven't given up on getting on the leaderboard yet.
@fupi I'm not used to that much praise, thank you very much! :flushed:
This game had me laughing out loud in my room!
How did people get more than 100 scores lol

Erm... Might have found my favorite LD49 game so far
I think this game demonstrates why I don't ride horses: no one would ever let me grab medals with my butt while hanging on to the horse's thigh with one hand. 😆 This is pure entertainment right here.
@peace-of-cake-games I've tried riding a horse a few times. I think a trained horse is actually much easier to ride than the ones in our game :horse_racing: But I didn't dare tring to grab medals while doing it. Maybe if I had my own horse... :thinking:
If I am super picky, more SFX would be nice, like galloping, random horse sound effects to make the experience more lively, etc.
I commend the game for its amazing ragdoll physics and animation (both for the horse and the person). It looks and feels very nice. The overall visuals of the game looks really good, and it is fitting with the tone and mood.
I wanted to complain that the game is too difficult, but I am seeing that everyone is getting really high scores, so maybe I just suck.
Again, really amazing game.
I agree with @marvin-chong that the lowest-hanging fruit for improvement would have been sound effects, although unfortunately this is a theme where getting sound effects that would fit (like horse clopping) might be difficult.
The gameplay is fun and hilarious, although it did seem like you could get lucky or find a weird strategy that makes you do better. I found grabbing the tip of the horse's tail and then just spinning as fast as possible can get you 30 points or so if you get lucky.
It might be nice if the hands and feet grabbed as one unit, rather than two, since getting unlucky and having your hands grab when they're spread apart completely cripples your movement/reach until you reposition.
Great visuals and sound for a game jam!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocvB5-bTSFc