Ball Boy's Cool Party by BrothersT
Get pyramid to stay at your party as long as possible, using only your formidable powers of conversation!
No one else turned up...
Big thanks to Flowerhead for lending his crazy musical talent! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXb6QLCaLxjvucwNlQuS2gg
Code and Design - Joseph Thomson. Art and Design - Robert Thomson.
There's lots more we wanted to add, we'll be continuing with this for sure :)

| Link | https://brotherst.itch.io/ball-boys-cool-party |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/ball-boys-cool-party |
Ratings
| Overall | 62th | 4.149⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 18th | 4.297⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 66th | 4.069⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 39th | 4.392⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 203th | 4.27⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 248th | 3.819⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 4th | 4.662⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 91th | 4.208⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 29🗳️ | 53🗨️ |
The take on the theme is A+, probably one of the best representations in LD50 that I've seen and played.
I think with some polish and more content this could be a really fun game to play, Well done <3
Everything looked really crisp and fluid, which it really should since--for whatever strange reason--the game was running my GPU (GTX 1070) at 100% constantly and even started causing coil whine, which I've never had before on this card...! O.o
I've no idea if that's something you can fix or if it's some very niche problem that's only affecting me, but I didn't want to play too long, just in case... Sorry...! ^^; I really did want to play through it more than once. :confused:
> the game was running my GPU (GTX 1070) at 100% constantly and even started causing coil whine, which I’ve never had before on this card…! O.o
@skruffye I'm pretty sure that the author switched "vsync" off.
If you need voice work for a post-jam version or future LDs, hit me up :) I do some casting and could probably get a couple of pro voice actors in on this!
One of my favorites!
I love this. This so was so fun and endearing, the visuals were great, simple shapes with clear, pleasant shading and the choice of colours was very good, also the choice of font made this visually very very pretty!
The animations were also cute and clean! Really made fully-fledged characters out of these simple shapes!
The convos were fun, the convo choices hilarious and really made you wanting to keep trying.
the controls didn't need any explanations at all, I liked the topic and literally everything.
My best is so far almost 3 minutes :D
After a while, I tried to hush out that pyramid head as soon as possible because I'm sure all my ballbuddy really wants is watch some Netflix :b

haha! Really good. Don't really have any critique, maybe being able to interact with the environemtn would have been nice :) (and let the player figure that out themselfes, like clicking on the fridge to get the dude a beer or something. or like turn on music or whatever. maybe with an inventory and you can grab something and give him a gift haha.
Good job!