Racket to Rise

in Racket to Rise, you are a person wanting to get to the top of a mountain (“scaling” it). You have built a platform with a couple balloons to ascend, and to keep the weight down you can only bring yourself and a tennis racket. Rocks fall, which you have to swing away from the balloons as you propel yourself upwards. Three balloons popping will be enough to deflate the device.

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Racket to Rise was the first game jam i have completed, having created all assets and logic in the final product. i wasn't able to get everything i had hoped completed, but i have been able to learn a great amount in a lot of places, as well as creating a functional (if minimal) game. i am forever thankful of the support i received from Godot content creators, documentation, and GMTK for creating this jam in the first place.

Near the end of the jam, some interesting circumstances arose, including Godot's export template manager failing to download 3 consecutive times (cutting valuable testing time at the end); the 'i' key on my keyboard just... breaking in the middle of the jam (i've been pasting it for the duration of this description); and the usual breaking bugs that appear when you start to think you're almost done. These hurdles gave a much-needed dose of reality that preparing for release comes with headaches and sleepless nights.