Pop

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.72
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.92
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.25
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.40
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.40
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.70
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.63
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.87
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★50%
You're a balloon just trying to escape your humdrum daily life as a party favor. Ascend higher and higher, but try not to get hit by a meteor!

You can move with you left and right arrow keys. You'll grow larger as the atmosphere gets thinner, so be careful!

This is only my second Ludum Dare. Like my first entry, I built this with some great inexpensive/free tools. I drew all of the graphics in Aseprite, generated the popping sound with cfxr, composed the music (quickly) in GarageBand, and brought it all together with Phaser.js.

I was, surprisingly, able to embody both themes that were voted on this year!

Thanks for playing!

Comments17

mukult14 Dec 2015, 06:27
Good game! Simple and music felt good! Nice work! :)
Nooner Bear14 Dec 2015, 06:27
Simple and fun, good work! Though, I'm unsure of how to restart after I've died other than to refresh.
yumaikas14 Dec 2015, 06:29
Not being able to restart kinda makes it hard to replay.
mcmahonielauthor14 Dec 2015, 06:48
Sorry about the restart functionality, I ran out of time. :) Thanks for playing!
floppya
floppya14 Dec 2015, 06:55
Solid, simple game. Nice work getting both themes in there.
Ghen
Ghen14 Dec 2015, 06:57
yep, simple and fun
the music fit the game really well
jerry111zhang14 Dec 2015, 07:05
Would be better if we can restart
GodsBoss14 Dec 2015, 07:33
Is it just me or is that game insanely hard? Why does the balloon try to ascend during the late heavy bombardement the Earth once went through?
Still pretty fun, though.
Serg14 Dec 2015, 07:36
Simple, but nice.
blohod14 Dec 2015, 07:42
Needs restart! balloon looks weird but still an ok game.
rantt
rantt14 Dec 2015, 14:02
Music really fit the game. I enjoyed it, nicely done!
hexagore
hexagore14 Dec 2015, 18:13
Would have been nice to be able to restart after being hit. A simple idea but it's executed nicely.
psychonull15 Dec 2015, 15:01
Simple and fun game. Nice work!!
argowen16 Dec 2015, 02:15
I now have a complex with falling objects popping my balloons.
barret907k16 Dec 2015, 04:41
Fun yet hard. No way to reset?

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