Hell's Pinball by Valden

made by Valden for LD 44 (JAM)

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An infernal Pinball. Try your luck in devious challenges that will reward you with many points, but don’t run out of time or you will pay for your mistake with your life.

Features : - A finely crafted pixel art pinball table - Many challenges for you to complete - One final boss fight - Finely tuned physics - One heavy metal inspired midi soundtrack - Many earth shattering sound effects - Screenshake - ~72 hours of work

Controls : - Left flippers / Choose in menu : Left arrow, A, Z, Q, S, W, X, Left Shift (doesn't work in web) - Right flippers / Choose in menu : Right arrow, P, O, L, Right Shift (doesn't work in web) - Plunger/ Confirm menu : Space, Down arrow - M : Mute Music

Instructions : - Go inside the demon shop 3 times to choose a challenge. If you take the bet, you will have to complete before the timer expires. Finish the challenge to complete the pentagram at the center of the screen. But beware, if you run out of time, you will loose your ball.

Once the pentagram is complete, you can go inside the portal to fight the boss. Kill him to score many points !
You can activate the side ball savers by completing the HELL word at the bottom of the table.
You can activate the central ball saver by hitting the four purple aliens.

Tools used : - Game Maker Studio 2 (Code and physics engine) - Aseprite (Sprite Work) - FL Studio 20 (Music and sound fx)

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HTML5 (web)	https://element-dev.itch.io/hells-pinball
Windows	https://element-dev.itch.io/hells-pinball
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/hells-pinball

Ratings

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65🗳️

33🗨️

Feedback

entirelyBees

30. Apr 2019 · 01:56 UTC

Genuinely got really hyped when the music started. The graphics are great and satisfying sound effects!

shadow30

30. Apr 2019 · 02:07 UTC

I love pinball and you made a great version of it. I love your mechanics and your art. Good job!

woofdog99

30. Apr 2019 · 02:08 UTC

same as @entirelybees, the music was nice. I LOVE pinn-ball. it's just a shame I can almost never find one. I would love to see a map selection later, maybe even a ball customiser. it has a lot of potential, keep it up!

aevek

30. Apr 2019 · 02:09 UTC

Fun pinball table! Unfortunately I am too bad at pinball to beat the boss, but I had fun all the same.

karmicRetribution

30. Apr 2019 · 02:39 UTC

Oh wow, what a great pinball game! The music was SUPER HYPE, the sound effects were all really visceral and spot-on; and the controls were snappy and responsive. I wish I was good enough at pinball to actually spawn the boss!

Lucien Catonnet

30. Apr 2019 · 08:41 UTC

The graphics are stunning (so much attention to details!), the music is really cool, the sound effects are also on point, the overall feel of the game is really well done! It's really refreshing to see a pinball game, it sounds overdone but because it does, we don't actually see any, isn't it ironic? (Don't you think?)

Now for the sad part, I was UNABLE to go three times into this stupid shop, I lit up the 'HELL' letters a thousand times, I poked the 4 purple demons a thousand times also, went up to a score of a million, three hundred thousand, but still never could go three times into that little shop cavern thingy. Which makes me sad because I couldn't experience the whole game.

You made a great game nonetheless, congrats!

P.S.: Something else I forgot, there seems to be performance issues after some time, maybe some effects or whatever don't get properly destroyed? I didn't take it into account in my rating because it wasn't game breaking.

Kerdelos

30. Apr 2019 · 10:58 UTC

Reminds me of the glorious time I could play pinball on my computer! It's a remarkably well executed game with detailed graphics and a groovy music ! I do feel like there's some kind of slowness in how the ball and the flippers moves but that may be because I'm playing the html5 version. My best score is 325 000 but I unfortunately wasn't able to go three times in the shop :/

alixmi

30. Apr 2019 · 11:35 UTC

Good nostalgia vibes from playing space pinball on the family computer! Audio is awesome and good overall effects that makes it a very pleasing game.

Saering

30. Apr 2019 · 12:10 UTC

Got some Windows XP vibes, truly a great experience! However, I did not read all the rules because I'd rather find them by myself, and playing a pinball is pretty easy, so I didn't understand I had to go in a shop. And when I read that it was actually the goal, I tried again and it is too hard to get in there xD

Still, I love the art, the music is amazing, and the game feel is really cool!

Niarkou

30. Apr 2019 · 13:19 UTC

Great music and mood!
I managed to enter the shop several times (hours of training on the windows pinball finally paid off) but failed at every quest proposed to me :(
BI still enjoyed the game a lot though, nicely done :)

A_ColtZz

30. Apr 2019 · 18:45 UTC

Perfection is a word this goes past it 5/5 great job guys really enjoyed the music having a leaderboard would've made it 6/5. IF you have time check out my game too :v:

Linheha

30. Apr 2019 · 18:54 UTC

So I need to train way more just to manage to enter the shop more than 2 times, and finally play one of the quests, but I will! (...I hope haha). But even if I don't, I still love just playing and trying to beat my score. (A scoreboard would be great :p maybe later? )
Also, what a great idea to design a pinball game, and, as usual, your game is very polish and graphics and sound are very cool! :)

BoxedMeatRevolution

30. Apr 2019 · 21:41 UTC

That was a lot of fun. The game feels very polished, the sound and art are both great. The only criticism I have is that it doesn't seem to fit the theme very well.

nusan

01. May 2019 · 07:52 UTC

Super great game! A bit harsh when you finally activate a guest and you fail to complete it. I used to play pinball games when I was little, and I felt the same today, with the incomprehensible rules and quests and my inability to control the ball ^^. Great job!

Le Slo

01. May 2019 · 09:27 UTC

Wow, really slick pinball! Around 550,000 points, I had a hard time trying to enter the ball in the box, and with 1 life remaining I entered it the 3 times in a row: "Hell in 30 seconds". Let's go! 20 seconds left "__L_", 12 seconds left "H_L_" 7 seconds left "H_LL" and with all the tension, I kicked the ball, went slowly up just to fall between the two flippers. What a moment! The art is super nice and the music wraps up this masterfully crafted game. Congratulations!

T-Bo

01. May 2019 · 14:49 UTC

Great job with this amazing pinball ! I love your art style and the music is cool ! :clap:

JulienLussiez

01. May 2019 · 14:52 UTC

The music was very cool. It's fun to play a pinball during this game jam. It works pretty well. Good work !

Sholyu

01. May 2019 · 15:42 UTC

Super game ! i love pinball and yours is really cool. the music is repetitive but really catchy ! nice job mate

samh

01. May 2019 · 19:55 UTC

Help! My ball’s been stuck here for ages and I can’t shake the table :dizzy_face: ![hell-pinball.png](///raw/9b9/1/z/2435c.png)

Help! It’s happened again :cry:
![hell-pinball2.png](///raw/9b9/1/z/2437d.png)

Goomboo

01. May 2019 · 20:46 UTC

@samh Yes, this is a known rare bug and there's unfortunately nothing you can do about it once it happens :s
We'll make sure to fix this when we'll release a post-jam version of the game

I'm sorry for the inconvenience and I hope this won't stop you from trying to get the highest score ;)

dasMaichen

01. May 2019 · 21:10 UTC

Nice pinball implementation! :round_pushpin: Also great that you made a web version of it. :thumbsup:

icxon

01. May 2019 · 22:53 UTC

Great game feel, great animations, great setting. I want to fight a boss, but I'm not good enought to hit the shop three times :japanese_ogre: will play more of it!

Here are my first attempts:

https://youtu.be/MOXHv9SZ8ww

InsanityCode

02. May 2019 · 07:13 UTC

Woohoo, haven't played that type of game since WindowsXP :)

shubart

02. May 2019 · 11:58 UTC

Excellent. Really fun, nice and well polished. Music fir perfectly the game. Thank you

TiagoRrech

02. May 2019 · 16:57 UTC

Love a good pinball, and this certainly fits the bill! It wasn't clear to me how the game relates to the theme, but awesome work nonetheless!

Ivaylo Dombi

02. May 2019 · 17:41 UTC

Nice game,love the graphics and the gameplay is great

Tommyflower

03. May 2019 · 14:44 UTC

The game I played for the longest time here :D Loved the music but would have loved some music accent added,(this is just because it reminds me the good old Pinball Fantasies :)

Black Flag

03. May 2019 · 15:48 UTC

I really like the sound effects, graphics and the gameplay! It is really satisfying get a massive combo of points! Overall, its a really good jam entry!

InsanityCode

03. May 2019 · 22:19 UTC

Already rated this one yesterday... Still awesome :)

Dr4g0nsoul

04. May 2019 · 18:44 UTC

Awesome game. This game has real potential to become something great. Would buy it on mobile. The music is also great as is the overall gameplay and animations. Great job.

falak

04. May 2019 · 20:23 UTC

WOW! really nice pinball! One issue I see is that the screen change rapidly between lower and upper. It should be more smooth i think. Good luck!