I Accidentally Made A Game in 12 Hours For The Kenney Jam (Devlog) 

It would be nice if there was an indicator to where a pickup is going to spawn for about a second before it spawns so you aren't caught completely off guard by it.

6:35 Damn, that polish was insane! It went from 0 to 100 so fast!

When you finish the game jam in 25% of the time

So... it's so easy to make a game nowadays that apparently you can just make one without realizing it? Sweet

Lmao in 12 hours I figure how to download Unity

Me: Can't even make one simple program This dude: "Whoops, I made a game."

Woahh! This is super trippy, I just made a circular ping-pong game the other day!

Fun fact: this type of game was shipped by default with some 2000s iPods and it was really interesting because the movement of the bar was controlled with the spinning wheel / touch wheel!

8:41 'COunter Clockwise'

Me: *sees title* Also me: Go on-

When you had the problem that the pickup suddenly came in front of the ball, I instantly thought of the idea that the time just slows down for a second so that the player can brace herself/himself. That would be an interesting addition.

this game is looking kinda AWESOME ngl

Went and played, absolutely loved it! Enjoyed this devlog and seeing your thought process.

A new good video! Thanks for the content!

The clicking sound while rotating is so satisfactory love it!

This was a great video, a lot of laughs and amazement! Can’t wait for your next upload!

Really cool looking game you ended up with, Vim! You got time to polish this concept very well and it's also really cool to see a different art style (I mean no pixel art). On a side note, remote previews are a very powerful tool from Construct! I've been using it on my Discord community to get early feedbacks on new features and it helps a lot. Thank you for sharing your experience like this. This is really helpful, and congrats for this very cool and original entry! A.

I could see this with more things and power ups in your way to make it captivating. Good job!

Wow the idea is SOOOO nice!

You're always so inspiring, thanks!

Another great video well done Nick

Another great video as always!

How do you accidentally make a game? Its like, "Woops! I tripped on my PC and god damn it i made a game in 12 hours!"

Thanks for the inspiration in all of your vids🙂

How funny. The experience you described about stumbling into a jam mirrors what I experienced Friday evening for Miz Jam 1. I'd never done a jam before, and neither did I think I would.. but as I was rating some of the entries, my brain picked up on an idea that it could not let go of. And, the rest is history. Also, I learned the lesson that you suggested: it's better to make a game too easy than too hard. By the way, the impact that you added to the collision (the sort of pulse on the ring) looks A+

Such a simple idea, creative implementation. Nice one.

I love this I want to make a game (my idea being way more complicated) and seeing something come from just a simple idea to a fun addicting time killer game is fascinating

Cool idea

Hey Vimlark. Cant wait for the stream. Woooooo

At the start of the video when you showed the paddle moving circularly for the first time, I said "wow that is cursed" because there is a trend in minecraft where people make videos /mods and call them "cursed minecraft". In the video/mod the mechanics of the game are changed in unexpected/weird ways. (Look up cursed minecraft on RU-vid to see what I'm talking about). And then I find out that the theme is cursed! I guess that's another way your jam fits the theme.

Loved the idea. You should also try to release it as a mobile game. Its also a nice experience

I don’t know what’s gonna happen but I’m excited

After watching a Ben Bonk video, the only videos the algorithm is giving me are a bunch of game jamming dudes. I’m not complaining

honestly this is a pretty cool take on circular pong

Yes! A new video 👍 😄

Cool video. Really nails down the thing small and then think smaller for game jams. I made a similar game (independently) called Brick Buster Revolution, a circular Brick Breaking game. There was an old game called Vortex that put the rotating paddle thing together too.

kinda reminds me of my first game Tilebane, except its pong not brick breaker and not multiplayer. really cool definitely a cool concept. great work my dude, love the videos!

Love your devlogs - they are always so insightful in how the game got constructed. Tried to make a couple of devlogs myself, but really struggle with the huge amount of time it takes to find the right video. And seeing you uploaded a video after just a couple of hours, I was wondering if you could give a bit insight into how you make your devlogs. For instance, do you record all the time while working on your games and then later browse through it all looking for specifc parts to complement your voice-over / story? Or do you keep the devlog in the back of your head all the time and record small pieces while working on your games? Would appreciate it a lot if you could help me out a bit ^^

0:47 Is that the Royal Game of Ur? -edit: it sure is, I was just behind on Vim's vids

Alternate Title: I got carried away of making a prototype and ended up turning into a game jam

Nice little game^^

congrats! you’ve made circle ball 💀 that game is so addictive

I’m quite liking your upload schedule lately

My dude beat fire with fire

The custom power ups like an extra paddle seem so cool tho!

Finally.... I Made it Early

I'd love to see this turn into a rhythm game where there's a song that plays and the ball moves in time with the music and you have to hit it on the beat

this could be a rlly cool rhythm game :)

Nice!

you deserve more subs

Wohoo vimlark

This definitely seems like it would be a perfect game to mindlessly play on your phone while using the toilet. LOL

This is such a great example of iteration on a small solid idea. Well done on finishing this!

Cool idea! Definitely agree this would work very well for mobile! :)

0:17 those sprites were used to make one of the arcade games in sneaky Sasquatch!

These random youtubers been holding me over until Dani uploads

I think that a random spawn that acts as an obstacle that immediately ends the game sounds interesting, maybe you should try having both a reset and a grow

omg I didn't know other people play Ur as well!!!!

It took me 45 minutes to see thus amazing video

I like it, I think the only thing that I'd change is make it so when it bounced off the pickup that the Ball's speed would be cut in half so that if it spawned out of nowhere so it doesn't feel unfair.

I thought you meant Miz Jam 1, since the required assets were from Kenney.

Once you had the power-up start rotating with the paddle, it made me think it might be interesting to have a different shape for them (maybe more rectangular?) so between the shape and the rotation the player can control the direction of the ball more.

The game looks so good and fun to play, wish I could accidentally make a game like that haha

you know, this has potential for a great mobile game!

0:36 nice dog mate

Anyone else on headphones get freaked out by the sudden bass at 4:48?

Sometimes i'm really wondering how others feel on gamejams etc. I'm always kinda extremly stressed and don't really know if thats good. Also making videos is a huge effort. Props to you but take your time, otherwise you will forget to enjoy gamemaking.

WOW! My game Possessor made a cameo at 0:06!

You know what would've been cursed? If you needed to use left, right, up, or down depending on where you were on the circle. (E.g. right is clockwise if you're on the top but counterclockwise if you're on the bottom - it always moves you to the right)

upgrades could work, but if you make it so they may have to try to avoid them if it's an upgrade they don't like. Or put 2 on screen at the same time, then they can try to pick one, and it can add the chalange of dealing with picking up the wrong one

Awesome game love it! One suggestion.. I’d make the paddle a solid color so that it doesn’t look bent when orbiting (I believe it has 2 shades of blue, tough to see on my phone?), other than that fantastic!

This would be great game for some smart watches

THE O IN COUNTERCLOCKWISE IS CAPITALIZED REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Reminds me of that one game I had on my iPod.

some small ideas if you ever do another update to the game: a hard mode that shrinks the circle a little every 10 hits, a multiplayer pvp mode where a central spinning paddle has to hit the ball away from the main paddle, and possibly some obstacles that spawn and debuff you instead of helping

Nice

I think a nice little addicting addition to this game would be collecting money and spending it on different visual themes, power-ups, etc.

If might be too easy, but a mouse based control option would be great

I haven't really even started coding yet but I also envision games when I here a theme

id like a boost that makes it shrink faster and go faster

I struggled reading the little splash text in the thumbnail. I kept reading 'Kinky Jam' and thinking to myself that it sounded wrong

How did you make your transitions? That can also be applied in other engines?

HOW DID YOU ACCIDENTALLY GET INTO A GAME JAM HOW

“Have song stuck in head? FIGHT BACK URGE TO SING” - everyone

Can we just talk about the shake when you hit the ball 😩

Yea I also hate it when I accidentally make a full game in 12 hours

:ooooooooo u r so epicccccccc

Code bullet needs to make an Ai for this.

8:42 The tutorial module of move counter clockwise is "Move COunter Clockwise"

You can also add a background music too Its a great game btw

i think you shoulda had a smaller spawn circle inside the big circle, then make it trigger a random chance to spawn the reset block when it leaves the spawn circle so that the reset block will only spawn when the pong dot is moving away from it. that way you cant get screwed by a random spawn as easy

I would love to get a tutorial on how to make the level transitions you have between the game rounds.

Can you do a video or provide some tips on how to make a good dev log? What's your process? Do you have any recommendations for software? (PC and Mac)

I wish the pitch of that sounds effect got higher as you played

This would be super cool with a rotary encoder as the controller

You just reminded me Samuele Sciacca's game called "Zero"

It could be really interesting to add space Invader style enemies into the centre of the ring and to get points by hitting them instead. That would definitely leave space for some weird and wacky power ups.

How or what do you use to code and simulate the code

just got a 52! all done.

Pyscosis91 had made this game call "Bounce Coil"