Keep Your Marbles by damijin

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made by damijin for Ludum Dare 50 (COMPO)

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Keep Your Marbles is a hypercasual monochrome physics puzzle game where the player has extremely little direct control over whether or not they are able to "delay the inevitable" outcome of their marbles bouncing out of play.

Extremely small "game" I just wanted to enter something! Happy LD50!

Made with no image editor available, drawing polygons to the screen in Stencyl. Sound effects made in bfxr.

Ratings

Given 4🗳️ 4🗨️

Feedback

Mistafixxa069
04. Apr 2022 · 01:09 UTC
Short, concise and kinda humorous. Nice game with minimal graphics and design!
Nick Barrash
04. Apr 2022 · 03:14 UTC
Cute concept. The physics is really well tuned and satisfying to watch.
kory
04. Apr 2022 · 03:15 UTC
I like it :)

The ability to shift the springs around as the marbles fall is a good touch I think, something to do even if it has a pretty minimal impact on the final game. Fun :)
Constantine Pallas
05. Apr 2022 · 06:25 UTC
I like the idea of moving the springs around to find the best way to contain the marbles, but once you have a design, nudging them around doesn't seem to do much. Also, it's not clear that you need to press enter on the opening screen, because the label for that control doesn't appear until after you press it. I'd be really interested to see how this idea could be expanded on - great work!
magicdweedoo
05. Apr 2022 · 06:25 UTC
interesting lil thing i got 951
Boon
05. Apr 2022 · 06:27 UTC
Minimal game with minimal agency, maybe this is saying something about us all, haha. It's fun to try to set up the springs to maximize your ball time and enjoyable to watch. Thanks for the entry!
ZwodahS
05. Apr 2022 · 06:27 UTC
![Screenshot 2022-04-05 at 2.22.45 PM.png](///raw/9f2/72/z/4c613.png)

The strategy I went with is to create a funnel and just try to hold the last ball as long as possible lol. I wish there were more types of blocks rather than just spring.

Thanks for the game and congrats on the submission.
Paperdomo101
05. Apr 2022 · 06:32 UTC
Very fun game given such a simple concept!

Here's my high score:

![hiscore.png](///raw/6fc/1/z/4c617.png)
🎤 damijin
05. Apr 2022 · 07:39 UTC
Thank you all for the kind feedbacks! and your scores! The amount of plays definitely encourages me to make something a little less micro-scoped next time :)
Ossi
05. Apr 2022 · 23:18 UTC
I got a score of 908! A nice and simple game that's very chill to play. I got a bit of a pinball vibe while playing too. Great work!
zimny11
21. Apr 2022 · 18:50 UTC
Fun concept for a game! I'm not sure if shaking blocks with arrows helps or not XD

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