Balloon of Death by paulpaul168

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made by paulpaul168 for LD 43 (JAM)

logo.png bild.png To avoid planes, birds, storm clouds and enemy ballons you have to sacrifce your crew to slow down your fall. Its our first game and first ludum dare so we depend on good feedback to improve!

NEW: ADDED Linux, Windows Versions

Ratings

Overall 946th 2.818⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 886th 2.705⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 884th 2.682⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 776th 3.068⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 390th 3.273⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Humor 378th 3.114⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Mood 860th 2.762⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 23🗳️ 12🗨️

Feedback

Hawkie
03. Dec 2018 · 15:09 UTC
The balloon headed left and off the screen straight away so didn't get a chance to play test it. Shame, I made a balloon game too and wanted to compare. Nice graphics though.
zzcalvinzz
03. Dec 2018 · 15:15 UTC
the "D" key doesn't appear to be working to move you right. Only the "A" key works to move you left, then you are stuck on the left side. The clouds looked pretty cool and the music definitely fit in with the atmosphere. If the controls were working, would be a fun little "avoid the obstacles" game.
scarfdev
03. Dec 2018 · 15:15 UTC
The web version doesn't seem to work for me, and since there's no alternative download it's hard to really try it out.
bugninja
03. Dec 2018 · 15:16 UTC
I liked the blazing fire at the end, that was cool, and how the music picked up too, increasing the intensity. Nice job.
JakNak72
03. Dec 2018 · 15:18 UTC
The speed somehow doesn't reset after dying so it gets more difficult the longer you play witch is a lot of fun and you can reload the page anyway if it gets too hard. Simple but fun mechanic. I like how throwing the people out of the balloon looks like you kicked them out because they fly up a little first.
🎤 paulpaul168
03. Dec 2018 · 15:24 UTC
thank you all for the feedback ;-) the game sadly is only optimized for 1920x800 in Browser so no Fullscreen for now. I will port the game to windows mac osx and linux for those with non working web version (?). "D" key is working on all our Testmachines (Fedora 29, Win10 and MacOSX) could it be that you have only used up all your fuel?
Nakami
03. Dec 2018 · 15:27 UTC
Fun little with nice concept.
I thing move control (left-right) should be a bit slower.
I like the way the theme is used.
Slowpro
03. Dec 2018 · 21:16 UTC
I love the music!
Grafexy
06. Dec 2018 · 13:06 UTC
Fun to play. Music is awesome. Well done. Maybe just a little bit slower movement left and right.
Benjouille
06. Dec 2018 · 14:33 UTC
The gameplay works well, it's simple but efficient. Visual and audio are cool. It just need the fullscreen mode. Good job :)
🎤 paulpaul168
07. Dec 2018 · 11:38 UTC
Thank you again for the constructive feedback ;-) We really apprechiate it!
Suchista
17. Dec 2018 · 20:34 UTC
Interesting! Yeah, slower movement, or maybe at constant speed would be cool. Good job!
agwblack
18. Dec 2018 · 20:15 UTC
Sadly I couldn't get it to run, either on the web or on Linux :-(
andrazg
18. Dec 2018 · 20:51 UTC
music is the booomb.
farsdan
18. Dec 2018 · 21:05 UTC
enjoyable, great audio and thematic
Rodrigo Denúbila
19. Dec 2018 · 02:50 UTC
Interesting take on the theme, but I think that the "sacrifice" is not so clear. If the player lose health, fuel or had another punishment when sacrifice would be nicer.

The art style is simple but is nice. Overall is a good game. Good job!
🎤 paulpaul168
20. Dec 2018 · 10:56 UTC
@rodrigo-denubila maybe you have overlooked it but you lose a lot of score points for every spacebar press = sacrifice ;-) thanks for the input we might add some indication like "- x Points" appearing near the balloon in a future version