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Beenball by Stratcat66

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made by Stratcat66 for Ludum Dare 58 (JAM)

Hello Everyone, my game for the jam is BEENBALL

A pinball game where you help bees to collect nectar.

How to play:

  • Left/A/CTRL-Left to move the left bat
  • Right/D/CTRL-Right to move the right bat
  • Space: Launch the ball

All controls are also displayed in game.

The game was written in Godot, the graphics where created by myself in GIMP.

Since I am not talented in sound and music, I used freely available resources for that. All external assets are listed ingame.

AI-Disclaimer: I used ChatGPT to help me write code and for GDScript-Documentation questions. As far as I know, none of the other assets where AI-generated.

itch.io https://stratcat66.itch.io/beenball
itch.io https://stratcat66.itch.io/beenball
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/58/beenball

Ratings

Overall 684th 3⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 424th 3.289⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 763th 2.289⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 774th 2.395⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 597th 3.105⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 499th 2.722⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 710th 2.816⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 13🗳️ 10🗨️

Feedback

FlyingKiwi
Oct 07th · 08:16 UTC
Simple and sweet and quite playable, took me back to windows xp days in a school library playing pinball.

Scored 2700 wasn't sure if there were combos or anything for higher scores.

The bumpers seem to favour the side escape ramps a lot and you can't stop it.
Kalbshack
Oct 07th · 11:08 UTC
Can beat that with 4400. Funny game. But very aggressive music :smile:
Grummelchen
Oct 08th · 19:51 UTC
I like a nice pinball Game. Nice theme, might have benefited from some more advanced interactions. The center of board seems a bit empty. Currently I was just shooting for the Openings at the top. The bounce and the physics was really well done
LDJam user 260720
Oct 08th · 19:52 UTC
Nice pinball game! and great choice of music! I think it doesn't loop though, at some point it just stopped, I had to reset to make it come back
lindote
Oct 08th · 19:52 UTC
I liked it!
Although, If I may... I would suggest to add an option to lower the volume of the game next time.
The music was beeeerry loud. hehe
Winter2277
Oct 08th · 19:52 UTC
Quite fun, the physics are satisfying and the graphics are nice. I wish there was more sound effects when the balls hit stuff on the board, but the music made up for it with its high intensity. Well done!
RedPhoenix2412
Oct 08th · 19:52 UTC
The music was a bit annoying after a while, but the gameplay is a pretty solid pinballgame. Nice touch to include the bee-theme. :)
Archaeognathus
Oct 08th · 19:52 UTC
When the music drops and the nectar hits hard. Its hard to hit something, but the hive is very fun. Managed 7035 :sunglasses:
zubspace
Oct 08th · 19:54 UTC
Very nice flipper game. Love the art style and I was very happy to hit the multiball a few times. Good job and Kudos for using Godot 👍
Ranarh
Oct 08th · 19:56 UTC
Agree with the above posters although I scored much worse ;). Never seen a pinball in a jam before! A few more shenanigans would be nice for a full game.
🎤 Stratcat66
Oct 08th · 19:57 UTC
Thank you for all the nice comments, tips and advises!
Pierre-Marie
Oct 08th · 19:57 UTC
I wasn't expecting to see a pinball machine :D

It's a good implementation, I had a great time! I didn't get past 8600 points (I pressed R by mistake :( )
SteD
Oct 08th · 19:59 UTC
Didn't expect pinball as entry. Great job! I managed to score 3870. If you continue working on it, please add some mechanic when the ball falls on the side :D
Electric Sun
Oct 08th · 20:02 UTC
![BEEPONGSCREENY.png](///raw/c2d/56/z/6efff.png)

though i got a multi ball, sent 2 into the spider cave at the same time and now the game might be a little stuck. With my score of 4560 i have the highscore!
🎤 Stratcat66
Oct 08th · 20:12 UTC
@electric-sun You are right, that's something I overlooked and that probably confuses the event system (which is something I wrote 1 hour before the end of the jam ;)

I am really happy that you all seem to enjoy the game. From my experience, when you work on it, you also see all the ideas that you could not implement out of time reasons (like more elements, events, graphics on the score screen...). Or a music volume slider :)
Eugenik
Oct 09th · 02:40 UTC
great.
Planetary
Oct 11th · 20:04 UTC
As a raw pinball game, it's a good concept. Even if there are a lot of pinball video-games, every board is unique. After "recovering my skills" in pinball, I enjoyed a little. The problem was the side bumpers, they tend to send the ball into the escape ramps (maybe make the entrance a little bit smaller?).

Overall, good entry!
Euler Moises
Oct 12th · 23:44 UTC
A pinball game!

:)

I'm incredibly bad at pinball. Sad!

Congratulations
Diralf
Oct 18th · 15:20 UTC
A great pinball foundation, there are secret paths, and I liked the multiball effect. It's missing the kind of visual craziness these games usually have, but the core is very solid. Excellent work!
MAR Zockmeister
Oct 19th · 00:46 UTC
Haven't been playing a pinball game for a while, great idea - although not really matching the theme. :wink: I think the graphics are quite nice, too bad it is difficult to see all the small details in the upper area. Would be cool to have different camera angles. And also some more targets. But I had quite some fun und it is really cool to see a pinball :smile:
Ginger_Kyoko
Oct 20th · 20:38 UTC
Nice game! But I`m sooo foolish at such types of games. And the music created even a tense atmosphere, ahah)