Juggler
The objective in Juggler is very simple: using an Arkanoid-like paddle, keep as many balls in the air as possible! If you synch your button presses well, you can give them a push to make them stay up. The more you have in the air at the same time, the higher your scores! If they all fall off, you lose. How high can you go?
How to play:
- move the paddle with LEFT and RIGHT
- give a boost with UP
- the timing of the boost with the moment a ball hits the paddle dete thrmines both how much additional speed it gains and your score. 100 is a simple bounce, 500 is a boost perfectly synchronised with the hit, 200 and 300 for good but not perfect timing
- the score is additionally multiplied by how many balls are on screen at the same time. Keep as many up as possible!
- new balls keep falling from the top
- if a ball falls down the bottom, it disappears
- if a ball manages to disappear again from the top, you get 1000 points, but it disappears too. Don't make your last ball disappear this way or you'll still lose!
- if you lose, press ESC to restart
Game made for #trijam 80. Theme: "What goes up (must come down)".
Made in three hours with Godot engine. All assets have been created by me except for the font, which is "Silkscreen" by Jason Aleksandr Kottke.
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This is a Great Game!!!
Nice little game! I like the visuals and audio. They go together well.
There's a balance issue, though. You can just let a ball (or two, if there next to each other) bounce without moving the pad. Eventually it will bounce every frame. I managed to get two balls to do this and could just sit back.
Thanks for bringing this up! I can think of a few solutions to this but I won't fix it until the Jam's usual stream is over, since my three hours time is pretty much over... for now, people, please be sportive and don't use these low tricks to get high scores!