Thank you for playing,

I totally agree on all those points.

A lot of these things will be addressed after the jam. However, with the POW, I was thinking more like how metal walker for the gbc did it. So when you go to launch the ball you have a power meter cycle through. As for the finding enemies and navigating, I'll add in little icons at the edge of the screen to make it easier to find them. Kinda like this:

Thanks for playing :)

First I've heard of the sound effect issue. Good to know, I'll make sure too many instances can't play simultaneously when I update the submission after the jam ends. As for the collisions, oof yeah, they're rough I know. It's something that will take a bit more work on my end to get perfect.

Thank you. I personally don't think the gameboy could handle the speed the ball gets up to. But, one thing I learnt was mad respect for the og development of the gameboy. Because, my gawd, how do you even get any precision for angles or collisions on such a small screen using integers.

Thank you for playing. The minimap seems to be the bane of this game atm. I didn't have time to implement indicators, or even a player icon on the minimap. Thinking about it, even having a "press B for map" on the screen would've helped out a lot. I'll be sure to update this after the jam as it's an easy fix.

Just to help out though, the minimap can be used while aiming by pressing x, then you can pan around the level so you can see the enemies. only objective is to destroy the enemies before they reach the centre. Or to make the ball go fast and get lots of numbers.

Yeah the minimap is the worst. Sorry. I will update it after the jam a little to be more intuitive 

Thank you for playing. The game morphed quite a lot from the original idea, so I'm glad that it was somewhat cohesive. The original idea was a take on snooker crossed with tower defence. But it was really slow paced and I had (and still have) issues with the bouncing not being consistent. So it didn't pan out and changed into what it is. The path finding is still a remnant of that.

As for the visual indicator, I agree. Even a little bar at the bottom would've made all the difference

Thank you for playing I'm glad that you enjoyed it.

hit ball hard was definitely what I was going for. I didn't end up getting a hit meter that lerped in place before submission. But that would've been satisfying to get max power on a hit for that extra juice.

I don't think I explain the objective well. I think changing the text from get ready to destroy all enemies would be an easy way to clarify the objective. 

Thank you for giving it a go.
The ball launch is a VCR, the score and explosion sound is me. The ball and pickups are glasses from the cupboard. The music was supplied by a work colleague Auxie444

Thank you for playing.

Unfortunately, a lot of the QoL things were missed for the jam submission. I already have quite a list of things to implement after the jam has finished

Thank you for playing.

I am especially proud of the particle effects, screen shake and the ball animation. It's the first game that I've made fully code driven effects like this, so it was all new. Though to be honest it's all smoke and mirrors. The particles are the same logic as the ball but with no collisions, timed lifespan and a rect instead of a circle. 

The ball animation though is needlessly complicated and took a pretty much the whole jam to get working correctly. But I think it really sells the '3D' effect of the ball, so it was worth it.

Thank you for playing.

I really dropped the ball on conveying how to play clearly. Funny you mention being able to view when not aiming. This was a feature. But collisions only calculate on screen so the ball would clip through the obstacles. I only noticed on the last day of the jam while I was adding the arcs to the ball so it looks 3d. I'll address this after the jam if possible.

Glad you have fun regardless.

The hard mode turns off the map completely and the ability to control the direction or power, if that helps at all.

Thanks for playing. 

I agree, the cursor is sluggish. The earlier builds were 4 degrees instead of 8 and would only register on press instead of repeating from a cooldown. So could've been worse haha. I think I'll add an increment on the press so it speeds up if you hold it for longer. Thank you for the valuable feedback.

The physics. lol, I tried my best in it's current state. But I'd probably have to rehaul it as it's integer based and there's just not enough pixels on screen to calculate the edges correctly. Just chalk all bad physics down to being unlucky

I'm glad.

The final output was so different from my original idea I had no idea if it was any good. The original idea was more like snooker crossed with a tower defence where you could build the angles to bounce against and knock the enemies into each other to chain damage etc. But it turned out to be less fun that it sounds and difficult to implement. I also, thought at some point it would be fun to do something like kirby tilt 'n' tumble. But it felt too rip offy.