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Nice, simple game :smiley:

And a very good battleships game with georgous art style!

Sadly I still can’t get past the moderation :frowning:

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Keep at it! Took me three attempts to pass.

Anything the forum might be able to help with?

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One issue is that they don’t see ads, while I tested it a lot and it works for me, from different browsers, only sometimes I see an info that there is no adv to show:

But otherwise I see ads without any problems:

Second is regarding saving progress - it also works for me, but it looks like saving in browser cache is not working for them. I have a workaround for this sadly - I enabled all the levels from the very beginning, so there is no more “progress” to save.

Third is regarding some problems with buttons, that don’t want to work “sometimes” - and I can’t define why - I am trying to debug it now

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Ah, the old “it works on my machine” type problems. The worst!

There’s a three minute cooldown for showing adverts. The advert wont display if requested within that limit. That’s really the only thing I can think of.

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For this limit there is another error message, I also saw it. I don’t know. Previously adv was playing after 10th level, maybe they were not playing it again, so now I changed to play after 3rd (First 3 are the easiest, one shot levels). I submitted the game with corrected input handling (used gui.picknode instead of wrapper onscreen I was not so familiar with)

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Why not after every level? I think Yandex will throttle ads anyway so that you can’t show too many ads.

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In this jam, I tried to make a 3d game for the first time. And this is my first experience using blender in games. I was making a game in my free time. I had to set my morning alarm an hour earlier. Of course, I would like to add a lot, but unfortunately the timing of the jam is limited.

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I uploaded now a version with ads trying to be displayed after each level and that timeout by Yandex indeed blocks them. Submitted for moderation :grin:

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So. My target was:

A little game is ready :see_no_evil:

Sent game to review Dec 9, in moderation yet :confused:

Link to draft version:
Лис Рубака — Яндекс.Игры (at .ru)
Foggy Fox — Yandex.Games (.com)


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Congratulations @Alexander_Bulatov and @Dragosha, very good games! Generally this jam is full of high quality, fun games! :heart_eyes:

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Amazing stuff!

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Epic! Amazing work as always, Dragosha!
I can’t find the last ball T-T but I suspect something went wrong down here. I can see a shadow but not the object. Maybe the last ball bugged for me?

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possibly bug ( Try to: exit to previous location and back. Balls should spawn again on their place.

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I did this on the previous session but didnt work (the stage was cleared already. It didn’t reset). I closed the game and tried the continue option. The first time I coudn’t move my character. I did refresh the page and all looks normal now. All balls there \o/ Good job again!

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I was lucky enough to finish my jam game in time:

It had to be a failure for many reasons, I only had night time at my disposal, development was complete improvisation. Until the very end I had no idea how it would end. But everything somehow settled by itself :smiley:

The game will take 12 - 20 minutes to beat (according to leaderboard).

Game mechanics are based on drawpixels extension by @AGulev.
Also, huge gratitude goes to the Russian Defold community for ideas, advice, stress testing and feedback.

Some strange words i’ve used:
Yolka is a transliteration of the Russian word meaning New Year Tree (usually spruce).
Baba Yaga is a flying cannibal witch from Slavic folklore.

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Yay! My game got published! https://yandex.com/games/app/180748

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Really good fun! Particularly when things start to speed up…

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How do you do it! My top score is just barely above 2000.

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Updated the game with High DPI on, now looks better. https://yandex.com/games/app/180748

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The game approved and in catalog now:

libs and extension used:

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