First LDJ, excited to see what everyone comes up with this time!

Take a wild fucking guess

(but we'll work with it)

Last jam, I made a little arcade game that I am really proud of. It performed way better than I expected, especially in innovation! However, it's missing one nice-to-have that I just didn't have enough time to add: an online leaderboard. I think it would have been awesome to see the scores real players achieved. And who knows, maybe seeing the current highscore could motivate some players to try one more time to beat it.

Anyway, since I had a little time on my hands (and knowing that I wouldn't during the jam), I decided to write a very small NodeJS application that should handle all of my score tracking needs. It has a simple REST interface that works well with Godot's HTTPRequest (and probably most other ways to make HTTP requests).

You can find the entire thing here if you want to use it yourself: https://github.com/leogeier/highscore-backend (though you need to host it somewhere)

Impact Juggling is a fast-paced arcade game all about keeping up to four balls in the air while racking up points. It also has a rather small feature that I'm nonetheless proud of: an online leaderboard.

Before the jam, I was already toying with the idea of adding an online leaderboard to my game, so I prepared a backend for that and published it here. Luckily, I got to use it! And man, I'm glad I did. Seeing the scores you guys achieved is every bit as awesome as I imagined. I know that people have to play the game to rate it, but now that fact somehow feels more real.

Let's have a look at the current score distribution. There have been a total of 81 submissions. The histogram below excludes the top three scores because they are so much higher that the graph would have been useless.

The mean of all scores is about 911 and the median 470.

Clearly, this game isn't exactly easy :sweat_smile: That's usually the case with my jam games. But most players seem to do really well!

The in-game leaderboard only shows the top ten scores, but you can take a look at the entire leaderboard here.

The current highscore lies at a whopping 13320, which is absolutely insane! I did not expect anyone get a score that high. Congrats ben!

🎾 Think you can beat the highscore? Test your skills here! 🎾

(And don't forget to rate the game!)