Greedy Balloon by maoap

You are a greedy hot air balloon travelling through the mountains. You can pick there your favourite gold bars and carry them with you - but beware! They are really big gold bars and therefore heavy. You can also encounter dangerous birds. Luckily, you can kill them by throwing away your earned gold bars. Try to collect as much gold bars as possible and don't forget to kill the birds with the gold bars, because it's fun! Press up on splash screen to start the game ;).
This was our first LD, so we were really glad that we finished the game. All graphics and sounds were made by us.
BTW: We managed to get 11 gold bars. Can you get more?! ;) (there is unlimited amount of them in the world, so don't hesitate to throw them away if needed)

1st blog post (includes balloon graphics history): https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/greedy-balloon/$68821
| HTML5 (web) | https://jeysym.itch.io/greedy-balloon |
| Windows | https://jeysym.itch.io/greedy-balloon |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/greedy-balloon |
Ratings
| Overall | 898th | 3.083⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 787th | 3.06⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 846th | 2.866⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 556th | 3.465⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 890th | 2.89⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 666th | 2.413⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 693th | 2.684⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 987th | 2.615⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 31🗳️ | 40🗨️ |
I had some gold spawn in walls, but other than that, nice work.
If I could add one thing I think it would have been a little animation to the birds to see the art come more alive.
Nice entry that hits all the bases here! Good job.
Our record definitely broken by my schoolmate... I can't even imagine how he did it :smile:
My schoolmate after 2h of playing this game =D Congratulations for him!
And about the game - I enjoyed the artstyle a lot - simplistic and good enough to give as much feedback as possible (easy to distinguish between birds and terrain for example)
I love dropping butter at birds, however I enjoyed crashing into them much more :D
Hope to see you at next jam!
Nice game.
In all seriousness, fun game! Reminds me of phone games, but in a good way, the ones I fondly remember playing. A bug I noticed is that when you drop a gold bar on a mountain, it gets dragged by the screen edge before disappearing. I lost half of my health thinking I could Mario the birds, only after realising I lost 10 HP each time :(
: D
but so good ! :-)