Billiard Hero by thyoi
Here is a table, come and play billiards.

your goal is to knock in all these crop balls into the hole.
But wait a minute, there seems to be something unusual
Do not scroll down, beware of spoilers. CLICK HERE
I uploaded the HTML version, but it is not in HD. I recommend downloading it and playing it in full screen




Tips
* Most of the balls have 4 points, except for the initial balls. * * Gold transparent balls have 8 points. *
The Death Swamp spell was indeed very difficult as it was supposed to be the last spell, but there was some time left at the end so I did Sans' spell (which was even harder)
It's a shame that you won't see Sans if you don't pass the Death Swamp so I'll explain the idea of the Death Swamp here and hope it helps you.
The Death Swamp can be broken down into five parts. The first part is a lot of yellow explosions that are used to drive the cue ball to the left side of the table.
The second part is the swamp ball and more explosions. There are two safe spots between the swamp balls and the area of explosions.

Originally the second safe spot was covered by the explosions in the first part. Avoiding the cue ball getting too close to the right side before stage three. However, to reduced difficultys, stage one removes some of the explosions, allowing you to stay in the second safe spot.
The explosions in stage three start from left to right and you need to reach the right side before they catch you. There is also a bomb ball on the far right side of the table, whose purpose is to help you clear the dense swamp balls. If you stay at the second safe spot of stage 2, you can easily reach the right side after the bomb ball explodes.
Stage 4 is a mirror of stage 3. It is also the most difficult part of the Death Swamp spell. The third GIF shows the fourth stage of the Death Swamp. The original stage 4 was horribly difficult, but I have reduced the explosions' speed (originally it was the same as stage 3). It is extremely difficult to reach the left side of the table directly, as the swamp balls on the left are very dense. So you still need to clear them with the bomb balls. Here comes the fourth stage key. There are three bomb balls on the left side, however they are wiped out by a yellow explosion a split second before they explode. So what you have to do is push the three bomb balls away from the yellow explosion area with the right click and make sure they destroy as many swamp balls as possible. Just as GIF3 shows.
The design of stage 5 is very obvious, I won't reveal it to you here, you can solve it.
You don't have to go through Sans Spell, which has two chapters. The second chapter named COMBO is very, very difficult. I thought it was just a little bit hard when I tested it, however I didn't take into account that I am an experienced Touhou Project player.After watching jitspoe being abused by Sans for an hour on stream I realised that the difficulty did get a bit out of hand.
These Spells are definitely passable to clear, I've tested them many times and if you want to challenge yourself you can try to get through them. If you don't have the patience, I'll do a clearance video afterwards.
Although the difficulty has been reduced many times during the test, I still made a greater difficulty adjustment
1, 15% reduction in the collision box of explosion.
2, Gaster blaster judgment area narrowed by 20%
(they originaly equal to the visual range)
3, the death swamp stage 4 explosion delay of 0.5 seconds
(This is a big delay)
Ratings
| Overall | 20th | 4.12⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 23th | 4.054⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 26th | 4.022⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 328th | 2.233⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 16th | 4.351⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 47th | 3.878⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 43th | 3.722⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 43th | 3.889⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 15🗳️ | 32🗨️ |
As of the time I am writing this your game didn't have a cover photo - so I will admit I came in assuming there wouldn't be much to look at and was surprised it was so polished. Would definitely recommend adding even just a screenshot as a cover photo if you want to draw more people in (in addition to giving other games reviews, etc.)
Thank for your feedback.
New stages are unlocked based on the score. To control the number of balls on the table, the score changes between stages so no hints are made.
However the hiting section is just a tutorial for the game to help you understand the new abilities. the main point of the game is Spell Battle(unlock around 500 score), You haven't played Sans battle have you?
It would have been nice to know how mutch points each ball gives.
Overall a great game.
Keep it up
I will say that trying to perform ultra precice dodging as a slow, heavy, billiard ball with tons of inertia that ricochets off of the edges of the board is very frustrating.
Sorry Sans.
I did technically get to the end of the game after my stream, but I somehow cheesed it. I guess it balances out all the times I got cheesed by things that didn't look like they should have hit me. 😄
I had to record a video because I couldn't figure out where ti was safe to go during one of the last SANS attacks (didn't realize it was safe up top), and when I alt-tabbed back to the game, my ball was gone, and all the attacks played without hitting me.
I absolutely love the vibe.
Well done!
The game have a nice pacing, the progression is very effective, it's just a shame that i was spoiled by the GIFs on the project page, I would have loved to discover everything within the game, but i understand that i can motivate people to play and finish the game in a jam context
Playing the game was still very fun, and some suprises worked on me anyway :thumbsup:.
, the beginning is too slow, you could almost get bored... and the end is way too frenetic! it brought back memories of elden ring: ') Great job! Bravo !
I want to say that THIS game will definetly win the compo.
In just 2 days (!!!!) so a great game. I really loved it and was hooked over a half hour about it :D And i think i will play it again to reach the end haha.
Here’s the start of your game if you wanted to re-watch initial thoughts youtu.be/y26fNN5FUi0?t=11003
Amazing artwork, mechanics, and polish! Loved the challenge of the last two spells! Congrats on such an awesome game!
I really in to it when i paly this game on stream!
Thanks for made this fabulous game ;)
Cheers!
Here's the VoD so you can jump to your chapter and see it again!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYvmJ8_8kww
What I liked:
* Great particle effects! The overall feel of the game was really polished and very fun to look at
* Very innovative mechanic, and I like how they keep changing throughout the game
* Amazingly complex for a compo game! I have no idea how you managed to do so much in 2 days, this is crazy!
* Last levels felt very challenging but still masterable.
Issues I had (all pretty minor):
* I felt the first half was a bit tedious with every time getting a new score objective, and it wasn't clear what the "real" objective is and when the game is going to advance - I think this part could have been much shorter.
* I have no idea what's the relation of this game to the harvest theme :smile: