Sisyphus - The Game by poupiste
Help Sisyphus delay the inevitable fall of the ball by placing ~~random crap~~ carefully crafted objects along the hill!




A game by Christopher Matt and Lilian Cartellier. Check out Christopher's work at https://christophermatt.fr/
Unfortunately the Greek language isn't available on browsers. For the complete, poorly translated Greek experience, download the windows, mac or linux build
| Link | https://lilian-cartellier.itch.io/sisyphus-the-game |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/sisyphys-the-game |
Ratings
| Overall | 260th | 3.878⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 322th | 3.716⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 108th | 3.959⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 187th | 4.108⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 209th | 4.257⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 175th | 3.914⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 189th | 4⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 59🗳️ | 72🗨️ |
Love the art-style and humor!
And the idea of a pinball machine that you make yourself is super original
The one place that I think the art style ran into issues was readability - I had a somewhat hard time figuring out exactly what the collision was for each object, and I had a really hard time reading a lot of the text.
I was also really disappointed that if the ball got stuck, it counted as a loss - I was building a maze to try and get the ball stuck as often as possible, so when that ended up costing me the game, it was really disappointing.
Nitpicks aside, the game was unlike anything I've seen before, looks great, and it fits the theme perfectly - Great job!
(Did the leaderboard is online ? If yes, I hope I will stay on the top :sunglasses: )
Cool concept and interesting to play.
Could maybe use a small description of the items you can build.
About the fact that the ball stopping causes a game over, the idea was that as soon as it stops rolling, Sisyphus as to get it on the top of the hill again so he doesn't want that. (and from a gameplay perspective, stopping the ball would mean an infinite score, and we can't have that :p )
Great job!