Ricochet Heroes

by spotco
Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.16
Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.17
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.30
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.36
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.00
Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.17
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.64
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.75
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★85%
A game like no other, Ricochet Heroes is a pinball RPG! Fling your mighty heroes into the wild unknown to fight monsters and save damsels in distress.

The "one screen" is that the game is all in the world map (screen). A little abstract but bear with us here :)

Controls:
Click and hold to aim your hero and release to shoot.
WASD or arrow keys to "tilt" the game, bumping your hero in the desired direction.

Wrote a postmortem here:
http://ludumdare.com/compo/2014/12/16/ricochet-heroes-postmortem/

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Comments66

MrMushroomCloud9 Dec 2014, 02:06
This is great. I clearly made the right choice when I chose to play this instead of study for my final tomorrow :).
ruerob9 Dec 2014, 18:03
What a great game. very fun to play. cute graphics nice music. Well done. Thank you for that game.
Wolve
Wolve9 Dec 2014, 18:55
wowowow, spotco, this is amazing!
SaintHeiser10 Dec 2014, 02:41
Not bad. But cant find connection with theme. Seriously.
Anyway game has interesting game mechanic. Like the hybrid of RPG(?) and pinball.
spotco
spotcoauthor10 Dec 2014, 06:41
@SaintHeiser the idea was to have the "one screen" the world map in a rpg. a little abstract, but still happy you liked it :)
CosyCave10 Dec 2014, 09:37
I loved the pinball/rpg mechanics on this one, had a lot of fun playing it :D.
Frump10 Dec 2014, 18:17
That was excellent. One of the best games I've played so far. Extremely clever genre mashup and I love both genres. I didn't see any indication of how many balls I had left, that would have been nice. Otherwise, very solid. Great Work.
TiagoJDFerreira
TiagoJDFerreira11 Dec 2014, 09:05
I might have missed something, but how do you pass the second village? When I get that 1st fork on the road, my "throws" are not strong enough to pinball around and reach the other side.
Also, when a hero gets stuck between trees, it currently dies. Consider changing that mechanic to just making it come back to the village you were in.
The game seems fun, but I can't get pass the beginning, so I will not rate it for now.
01rafael11 Dec 2014, 09:15
Pinball RPG! Sounds grteat!
I like this entry!
Boracho11 Dec 2014, 09:17
Wow! Very good effort here! Music, sound, graphics, all great! The tilt mechanic could use a bit of polish but overall a great experience. I could see this being on the appstore. Great work!
FergusonTV11 Dec 2014, 09:29
The concept of a pinball RPG is really cool. The tilt mechanic is perhaps not clear enough but I had a good time.

Died in the second screen after the gate, it's pretty hard to go up with the mountains and the bumpers. Good job anyway !
Agram11 Dec 2014, 09:30
It is the funniest game i played so far !!!
I play game twice to the end !
Great music too !
spotco
spotcoauthor11 Dec 2014, 09:43
TiagoJDFerreira: you need to tilt (there's some text telling you to press arrow keys or wasd)
hundredhundred11 Dec 2014, 10:16
Wonderful much wow such brave ahaha! I love this game! Very well made :) Great entry
Nokifict
Nokifict11 Dec 2014, 10:54
Wooow such wooow !!!
Really good idea of gameplay RPG/Pinball well realise !
Good work !
farwyler
farwyler12 Dec 2014, 13:06
Great ping pong RPG! I love it!
csanyk
csanyk13 Dec 2014, 05:57
Holy cow what a good game.

It doesn't fit the theme, but excellent marks in all other categories.
BoxedMeatRevolution
BoxedMeatRevolution13 Dec 2014, 06:09
The Kirby-like music brought tears of nostalgia t my eyes :')
DonovanWu
DonovanWu13 Dec 2014, 09:10
I've played it through. It's got a super innovative game mechanics! You can feel many things are happening if you are familiar with RPG games. Though sometimes it becomes kind of hard to keep track of everything.
The game is very polished, too. The audio is good. But the most impressive of all is the unique game mechanics.
Zi
Zi14 Dec 2014, 02:53
Very cute, polished, and a unique concept! I have no idea how to work the "tilt" though. :(
Ossi14 Dec 2014, 06:46
Great game! Unique, innovative with nice graphics and cute sounds! Not sure exactly how this fits in with the theme, but it's extremely polished either way! Well done!
6DownStudios
6DownStudios14 Dec 2014, 06:47
What a brilliant idea! So much fun, and really well executed. Excellent art, music, the whole shebang's quite dandy! Only criticism I have is that I wish the camera were a little smoother; not sure if that's possible considering the multiple objects + distance you're tracking, perhaps just zooming out slightly more would help?

Anyway, fanastic work. Unique!
Dans17
Dans1714 Dec 2014, 06:51
Innovative concept and well polished, nice job!
ripatti14 Dec 2014, 08:37
RPG pinball? Excellent! So much fun!
snickersnacks
snickersnacks14 Dec 2014, 09:11
This is pretty awesome :) I like all the sound effects! Great job!
janovbyrnisson14 Dec 2014, 09:30
You made an awesome game. Wow. Cute graphics and music, great idea, and it's really fun to play. Well done, Sir! :)
Scam14 Dec 2014, 09:31
I had to play this through. This was fun! Loved the audio and the humor.
raxter
raxter14 Dec 2014, 09:41
OMG this is one of my favorites so far! Such a great idea and so well executed! Really well well done on this!
Franklin's Ghost
Franklin's Ghost14 Dec 2014, 11:11
Clever mix of genres and liked the way you have the different players as your different balls, fun entry.
MaesK
MaesK14 Dec 2014, 12:44
Awesome! Great music, great homage to Final Fantasy, and a surprising mixture of RPG and pinball.. that works! It even perfectly represents the typical RPG story structure. Impressive and funny :D
Kuality Games14 Dec 2014, 13:58
Hahahahahanother castle! Thanks for this funny game.
hissssssssss14 Dec 2014, 17:02
This was fantastic! My only gripe might be that once a hero engages with an enemy, even by tilting you can't seem to escape. I lost heroes to bears every single time, and no single hero seemed able to kill one.

That said, you've combined two genres so, so well here, your visuals and audio were both excellent, and I had a lot of fun with this!
Trite Games14 Dec 2014, 20:57
Cool FF-like title screen, and a very funny gameplay mechanic, pinball RPG, nice :D The controls to "tilt" are a bit random I feel and your game didn't fit the theme. But it is a great game. Good job :)
pkenney
pkenney15 Dec 2014, 00:20
Very cool mechanics, and excellent graphics. Fun game!
LegacyCrono15 Dec 2014, 04:35
This is amazing. Seriously, if this were a full game with more polishing and content, I'd pay some serious bucks for it. It kinda reminds me of Half Minute Hero. I loved this. Great job!
lycrashampoo15 Dec 2014, 07:42
Fantastic game! Absolutely loved the concept, and the graphics were cute. Personally, I wish there'd been less reliance on tilting, because I am bad at it. :p
Murchurl
Murchurl15 Dec 2014, 11:20
This is a game I really enjoyed! quite an interesting concept, Awesome entry!
codeapparat
codeapparat16 Dec 2014, 11:06
Overall very cool entry. Art, Music, Humor and Idea are great. I don't see any connection with the theme, though.
lemmily16 Dec 2014, 14:20
Reminds me of half minute heroes with a twist!
DrGeraud
DrGeraud16 Dec 2014, 14:49
This game is really really cool. I love the FF touch !
OldPeculier
OldPeculier16 Dec 2014, 16:34
Totally genius. Pinball meets RPG. Wow. Just wow.
sputnik
sputnik16 Dec 2014, 16:36
Great remake on ff!
hoyt hoy
hoyt hoy16 Dec 2014, 17:28
Great Game!
Nice mechanicals!
But I didn't saw the use of the theme
Grindstorm16 Dec 2014, 18:33
OMG THIS IS AN EXCELLENT GAME! *

My only drawback is that there isn't a lose condition. Hopefully, if you'd add this, I'd definetly buy this on the Play Store!
ArcturusDeluxe16 Dec 2014, 20:39
Bloody genius. I've seen slightly RPG-ey takes on pinball before but nothing quite like this. Love it. Fun to play, and nice presentation too. Only problem is it doesn't really follow the theme, but otherwise excellent!
LeReveur
LeReveur16 Dec 2014, 22:10
A RPG-Bumper, classic.
Wait, what ?! O_o
Incredible idea, and good realisation, well done. :)
Ithildin
Ithildin17 Dec 2014, 00:19
Brilliant idea, although a bit hard to link to the theme. The visuals and music are perfect, too, a wonderful tribute to FF games.

I could see this concept made into a bigger game. Great work!
barryrowe
barryrowe17 Dec 2014, 00:46
I love this game. I was pretty frustrated at first, but I should have read the directions more clearly. I didn't get the tilt until unable to make it to village 3 for 3 minutes. Great visuals, great mechanic, great music, great controls. The theme is a bit of a stretch. I see where you're coming from though.
sP0CkEr217 Dec 2014, 02:54
i think this is my most favorite game of the jam
Wayward
Wayward17 Dec 2014, 16:46
Omg, this game is so great!
sikosis
sikosis18 Dec 2014, 11:10
Crazy fun game with cute graphics and music to boot. Great work on this.
Tifu
Tifu18 Dec 2014, 16:21
Lacking in theme, but really great game! Super fun. Great music and art too!
Valandre
Valandre19 Dec 2014, 13:40
Great entry, i love the game mechanics!
dunin
dunin19 Dec 2014, 15:21
cute and cool game.
Remind me of "squids".
I love the "extraball" feature...
broknecho19 Dec 2014, 15:48
Definitely one of the best games I've played! Well Done indeed!!
Lynx
Lynx20 Dec 2014, 04:26
I would buy this so fast for mobile or even just on my laptop!!!!!

This is BEYOND amazing and fun. I found the tilt mechanic a little weird and unpredictable but it was still cool.

Two things I'd love to see:

1) A combo meter that keeps building like pinball

2) RPG elements like different stats for party members and shop or towns to upgrade stuff!

All together, this is EASILY in my top 5 games! Please, please, please make a post-jam version!!!!
alyphen
alyphen20 Dec 2014, 12:17
Wow, really neat idea to combine final fantasy, pinball, zelda and mario. You executed it well too - it was paced well, the music was great, the physics weren't too frustrating, and there was a neat graphical style. As far as improvements go, I'd say adding some more variety in mechanics would be nice - the inns and guild houses were cool, but a larger variety could keep the game going longer.
ncannasse
ncannasse22 Dec 2014, 12:55
Nice, I played it to the end :) but I can't give 5 stars because it's not respecting the theme.
PapyPilgrim
PapyPilgrim24 Dec 2014, 10:52
So much for the theme, but thqt entry is awesome (wow, such fun. Very idea. Wow)

The control could use some work though.
metalchouchen27 Dec 2014, 14:09
My favorite entry! This game is really awesome. I really hope you made a full game with this idea. Congratulation !
mathmadlen28 Dec 2014, 03:41
Fantastic idea, really pretty with nice sound and good mechanics, great job!
ehtd
ehtd29 Dec 2014, 03:26
A gameplay I haven't seen before, that was really refreshing. My only comment is about the bouncing, it feels a bit weird. You should consider making it a full game, I am sure that if you add a story it will sell.
Sestren29 Dec 2014, 04:12
This game was a lot of fun! I loved everything about it!
redoxkun29 Dec 2014, 10:04
Very fun but a bit confusing come times. Love a lot the music and the graphics. Very nice game!
ketzer29 Dec 2014, 22:12
Lovely tune, weird and confusing gameplay but still really fun.. 4/5
logon13
logon1318 Feb 2015, 00:59
Wow simply amazing.One of the most innovative games I have played.

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