I Summon Bounce by nardandas
Test your breakout juggling skills in this unique twist! There are no blocks - just an endless supply of balls. You're not a flipper, you can summon flippers! If you let any of the balls by, that's fewer flippers you can summon, but bounce them? That's more!
What's your score?
Controls:
A/D OR Arrow Keys OR Controller Stick Left Right => Move
Space OR Enter OR A Or B => Attack
W/S OR Arrow Keys OR Controller Stick => Navigate Menu
+/- (no shift) => Change SFX Volume
> (no shift) => Change Music Volume
Accessability
Use Q to turn off and on Screen Shake at any time
| Link | https://nardandas.itch.io/i-summon-bounce |
| Link | https://nardandas.itch.io/i-summon-bounce |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/cat-wizard |
Ratings
| Overall | 538th | 3.605⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 374th | 3.674⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 349th | 3.628⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 867th | 3.286⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 521th | 3.814⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 208th | 3.826⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 734th | 2.769⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 866th | 3.274⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 44🗳️ | 73🗨️ |
Digging the tunes. Nice work!
I found the easy mode a bit hard though. I think maybe the balls could be bigger on this mode.
Like others experienced the Ludum Dare embedded version doesn't seem to work. It might be because you need to change the Unity export settings as mentioned here: [https://ludumdare.com/resources/guides/embedding/](https://ludumdare.com/resources/guides/embedding/)
Anyway, great entry! :smile:

Once you accumulate everything it becomes very easy to Lose everything or Come back from the dead. x)
Sweet
Excellent execution, controls, and overall polishment!

https://youtu.be/25pr3bVYXnk
And I'm the host for the ludum dare score chasers tournament this Ludum Dare. Wanted to ask if youre fine if I put some gameplay of the game in an intermission video. Last year for reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM_eIvjBmIQ
@dreamscale I think it's not super clear it's a physics sim where the summoned platform follows your velocity, I'll have to play with that.
@oni it definitely needs an overall balance pass. I'll have to play with ball size!
@themixedmaster I totally get it, it's kind of a brain breaking thing to get used to juggling so many things. I'll have to figure out how to make it more accessible at the start. Thanks for playing!
@ricky-owings yeah, a great strat is to get a ball going with zero velocity and divert your attention to other balls to stay alive and get higher multi.
@saffwong I hear you on the roguelike mode! I wanted to implement it but I started on this on the last day so I didn't have time. I think that'll be a post jam version.
Thanks all for your feedback! Glad everyone enjoyed the music too, this was my first time in a while trying chip tune.
The one little point of feedback/suggestion would be to be a bit more lenient with the ball hitting the platform. Maybe if you are a little late placing the platform, or the ball just misses the platform, the ball could still go up. That might make it feel a bit nicer to play. Maybe it would make it too easy, but just a suggestion.
Thanks a lot for making this! This was fun :D