Balloon Rush 2

Really cool music and artistic direction !

love the hand drawn stuff. the gameplay was also very interesting. clever "lives" system. fun to play with relaxing music. as soon as the music started i knew this was gonna be good. Well done

I really really love the aesthetic of this game. I'm super jealous of the wobble and animations that your UI menus have. That looks like it took a LOT of work (coming from someone who loathes doing UI dev).

I also like how simple the game is to pick up and play. At the same time, it feels like a unique mechanic that's fun to learn! I kiiiiiind of wish the difficulty ramped up a little faster for more skilled players, but that's a tiny nitpick in an otherwise nicely polished game! :thumbsup:

I like the drawn visuals and gameplay is overall simple and pretty well made. I would have liked just a bit more gameplay. Overall an okay little jam game.

Nice short game :)
Menu was great. Music was great.
The Gameplay was easily comprehensible and the graphics are really neat.
I'd wish for some more agility in the control but that would probably make the game a lot easier.
Good job!

Man this game is great! The aesthetic is great and matches so well with the music. The theme is followed perfectly and the gameplay is tight. I currently have the high score at 1:57.109. Let's see how long it lasts hahaha.
Congratulations and this awesome game!

You really did a great job! I like how the difficulty scales over time, ranking is a great idea. This way you encourage the player to want to continue playing and improving his record. The music is great!

Interesting game! Easy to figure out. It certainly gets inevitably harder!

I love it, it is simplistic, easy to understand and very addictive!

After multiple tries finally got 2+ minutes!

@jvdwijk Awesome! We also cleaned up the fake entries in the leaderboard and you're first now :)

Easy to understand and really fun with the adding of scores, LOVED the music, super chill!!! Sadly couldn't get further than 1 minute myself haha

Awesome! Makes me happy to see :) @stefan-laimer

What a zen little experience that was! Loved the acoustic music paired with the pencil drawings.

The feel of moving the balloon was very airy and reminded me of trying to keep a balloon bouncing when I was kid...granted there were far less buzz saws involved then.

Just popping back, this has been so fun for our team! Been sitting here for around an hour just to get our whole team on the scoreboard, this was awesome and will probably keep trying to beat my score haha

@jamjamem Thank you so much! Hearing that really made my day and I'm glad you're all enjoying our little game :) Also those are some insane scores, good job!

Great art style and presentation. I liked some of the little touches like how holding the mouth makes a more powerful gust of wind (like you're breathing deep)

Almost got into the top 10! A lot of games try to add in too much complexity. I really like how simple you've kept this one. Getting a minute+ in felt really tense and fun! Love the art style too. Great job!

Very chill game, really loved the music. It gave me a little place of repose inbetween more intense games. Nice job!

Loved this game, really meditative and addicting. Graphics are simple and work well. Great work! :D

This is really pretty, the hand drawn sketch aesthetic is super nice! Also loved the peaceful music. It's a simple loop, but quite addictive. Very nice game!

Very nice artstyle! I thought about going for this style too, but pixel art won. :)

The art style and music makes the sometimes clutch and stressful moments of the gameplay into a hypnotizing and relaxing experience! Fantastic job! Really cool that you made a leaderboard too!

Thanks for bringing your game by my stream for feedback! If you’d like to revisit the play and commentary you can view the highlight at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1448039299

Lovely calm little game with an interesting base mechanic. Beautiful art and music.

I did find lots of tiny puffs gave me better control than bigger puffs, so I ended up not really using the interesting part of the mechanic in the end, though, though that might be my poor play.

Nice visuals, music and mood. good job!

Nice game! I liked the simplicity of the design and the idea in general.

THIS WAS ADDICTING, If this was an app I'd play it probably all the time when I'm trying to kill time. I liked the art style was kept simple and it was just fun !! Excellent mood, Nice job!

I really loved this, the physics felt floaty in the perfect way - exactly like when you try to keep bouncing a balloon up in the air. The visual style is lovely, the music is just beautiful, and the two work together really well to give the game a perfect atmosphere. Great job!

What a great game! Super simple but a great idea and very fun to play many times, the artistic style is very nice to mix digital drawing with digital is very creative. great job! xD

So hard to play but an amazing game. Simple mechanic executed perfectly, and the acoustic music also works really well with the pencil art.
Another future feature I can see being added is environmental gusts (or maybe it was added but I didn't endure long enough...)
Keep up the great work!

Loved the hand-drawn style. I wish there was more visual feedback when charging to show what direction the gust was going to go. I was a bit confused as to how it was calculated. And perhaps a sound effect! The music was very good and I love the simplicity of the game along with the addition of a leaderboard.

Simple but very well executed concept! Love the visual style

I like your graphics, simple but great!

Very nice game, I liked the style and the music as well, also representing lives as the amount of balloons is really good idea. Well done.

Really good music and simple but very pretty graphics.

Good game!

This was awesome!!! I loved your artwork a lot and the music did an incredible job at setting a very relaxing and wholesome mood! Everything was well implemented and I really felt incentivized to do well just by virtue of how pleasant the experience is! Great work!

Really love the visuals. The hand drawn style works great here. The game feels surprisingly fair with the gust of wind not being overpowered but also not too weak. Like many of the other comments, I found myself replaying this one quite a few times.

A really solid entry, simple and elegant! It was great that you could move the ball in all directions, not just upwards. Simple but very well executed, just as a jam game should be! Congrats, keep it up!

Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my stream!

If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1450162412?t=02h30m04s

Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D

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nice game, think it would be best if the top of the map popped the balloons too as you could generally chill up there for a while, other than that well done

Really cute Art! The music is also fitting to the art style very well.

I found even the good strategy to stay alive long time. I need to just keep the balloon at the top of the area to avoid most of obstilces.

love the art and menu,

Sweet and relaxing, love the art and mood :)

a great approach! very intuitive even the goal is very sincere! loved it perfectly fitting artstyle too. well done! my only feedback would be (and this is not a must or even necessary totally up to the dev obviously!) but having all the obstacle random is preventing player from strategizing a way out. maybe fine tuning that would extend play time even more! :smile:

You first broke my child hear popping my balloon then you lighted up my competitive spirit ! I WILL GET YOU JAMJAM !!

Cool and original game! nice music and mechanic, pretty art, great job!

Simple but cute game! I included it in my Ludum Dare compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/dNThIjw08MI