Ludum Dare #50compo

Keep Your Marbles

by damijin

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.28

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.22

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.44

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.28

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.06

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.36

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.50

Keep Your Marbles is a hypercasual monochrome physics puzzle game where the player has extremely little direct control over whether or not they are able to "delay the inevitable" outcome of their marbles bouncing out of play.

Extremely small "game" I just wanted to enter something! Happy LD50!

Made with no image editor available, drawing polygons to the screen in Stencyl. Sound effects made in bfxr.

Tools: Bfxr, Stencyl

Comments11

Mistafixxa0694 Apr 2022, 01:09

Short, concise and kinda humorous. Nice game with minimal graphics and design!

Nick Barrash4 Apr 2022, 03:14

Cute concept. The physics is really well tuned and satisfying to watch.

kory4 Apr 2022, 03:15

I like it :)

The ability to shift the springs around as the marbles fall is a good touch I think, something to do even if it has a pretty minimal impact on the final game. Fun :)

Constantine Pallas5 Apr 2022, 06:25

I like the idea of moving the springs around to find the best way to contain the marbles, but once you have a design, nudging them around doesn't seem to do much. Also, it's not clear that you need to press enter on the opening screen, because the label for that control doesn't appear until after you press it. I'd be really interested to see how this idea could be expanded on - great work!

magicdweedoo5 Apr 2022, 06:25

interesting lil thing i got 951

Boon5 Apr 2022, 06:27

Minimal game with minimal agency, maybe this is saying something about us all, haha. It's fun to try to set up the springs to maximize your ball time and enjoyable to watch. Thanks for the entry!

ZwodahS5 Apr 2022, 06:27

The strategy I went with is to create a funnel and just try to hold the last ball as long as possible lol. I wish there were more types of blocks rather than just spring.

Thanks for the game and congrats on the submission.

Paperdomo1015 Apr 2022, 06:32

Very fun game given such a simple concept!

Here's my high score:

damijinauthor5 Apr 2022, 07:39

Thank you all for the kind feedbacks! and your scores! The amount of plays definitely encourages me to make something a little less micro-scoped next time :)

Ossi5 Apr 2022, 23:18

I got a score of 908! A nice and simple game that's very chill to play. I got a bit of a pinball vibe while playing too. Great work!

zimny1121 Apr 2022, 18:50

Fun concept for a game! I'm not sure if shaking blocks with arrows helps or not XD