Combo Pool
Update : You can now use the mouse to point and shoot!
Here is Combo Pool, a game made using Pico 8, and winning entry to p8jam2. It's a game where you throw colored marbles against each other. If two marbles of the same color make contact, they merge and upgrade to the next color. Your lifebar diminish with the number of balls on the field. If you lifebar is empty, you enter in a sudden death mode, and your last ball must save you by removing some balls.
Accessible mode: in pause menu (press enter) you can toggle a mode where numbers are displayed on the balls, so you can better identify them
Controls :
- keyboard: arrows left-right to adjust direction, and key "c" to launch a ball
- mouse: point toward where you want and left-click to shoot
Pro-tips :
- Dark and grey balls do more damage to your life bar, so avoid keeping too many at the same time
- Score system depend on number of rebound before merging and on balls colors
- A useful technique is to quickly throw two dark ball and make them merge at the first collision
- Try to avoid exploding pink balls as long as you can, you can expect to make more points in the final explosion
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Development log
- Play Combo Pool with the mouse!Dec 17, 2023
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.. Wait a minute, this is just 2048!
Very enjoyable game :)
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bastante entretenido me gusto buena idea
Can't play, the game won't install on my phone, maybe it's the Android version but I tried on an older device and it still didn't work, it said it needed to be an older version of Android
Me gusta mucho el 8 ball pool
Was gonna play it again on my new phone after playing it waaaay before on my older one. Unfortunately doesnt install on android 14,will have to try a different way.Great game from the time i played it before
I've been playing this all day on my phone! Really fun, simple, and super addictive. It looks and sounds nice too. This is the type of game I love!
Thanks! I'm glad you like the game, and yeah, I found it never gets old to play with those little colored balls!
Unironically my most played game on itch. Hell its my most played game on mobile
Thank you so much, I'm glad you like the game so much, and yeah, I still play the mobile version myself regularly, it's so chill
nice, fun, and simple
The game is really cool. Enjoying it!
I love games with one button controls and this one is amazing.
acabei de bater 178130 no hard, alguém consegui bater meu recorde?
I just got 238880!!! :D
HOW
TAKERU?
Just reached a high score of 224,900 on normal mode! Time to stop playing for the day.
Lol eu bati 46.290 no modo HARD, agora eu posso para por hoje =)
Incredibly fun and satisfying! I love pulling off a really big combo and acting like it was intentional
thanks! yeah it's so satisfying
I love this game :D I did find a bug - sometimes if a ball is hit to the bottom left corner it gets stuck. When I try to hit it with another ball it just pushes the stuck ball further and further off-screen. I haven't noticed this happening in the other corners, just the bottom left.
It's very cool, i love it
This is really fun!
Thanks!
This is literally my new fav game of all time rn
Thank you, I'm glad you like the game!
I am just recharging my old phone because i like to play this game. Sadly it is not working on the new android phone because of a missing data privacy setting.
Ah that is not great
I'm not sure I can get the android port working easily again to make a new version sadly...
Any effort would be greatly appreciated. I like the game too but can't play any more on my current phone.
I'm not sure if this is a bug but when you shoot the last ball when the life bar runs out there's a death screen, and if that shoot happens to be the very last shot that combines the pink balls for a win you get a bug?
Doesn't show my stats and the negative death just keeps negative-ing
Otherwise great game! Had a lot of fun and even though I beat hard mode countless times I kept coming back to play lol
yea almost 100% a bug it is just it rolling over and not knowing what to do
it is quite funny I was able to remake it
Absolute blast of a game. Great work on this!
This is so much fun! I think I will have this installed on my phone for a long time. I just wish there was something between endless and non-endless mode, where you have a health bar, but you can keep playing after you win. Would you consider an update to add a "keep playing" button after winning in easy/medium/hard mode?
Cool game! Lot of fun in easy.
very good concept and executed very well especially for being made in pico8 and reminds me of 2048 a little bit which is one my favorite puzzle games
Nice game!
Very good game!
beautiful little game. simple, quite polished. love it.
The game really made me addicted, even because the game is very simple, you can spend time playing it when you are bored, good game 👍
This is a great game! The pixel style and sound effects make it really cool. 10/10
cool game, saw it on pico 8 site before
very addictive
I downloaded the APK but I get the error "You can't install this app on your device." Not sure if there's a way to get a more detailed error message. I have a Google Pixel 6 Pro on Android 14.
the apk is probably for arm7 only
Wow! Really enjoyed this one!! Came here for information and inspiration. Stayed for the fun!
Great game! Took me an hour, how bout you guys? :D
Cheers!
what is the point of endless mode?
it's cool if you just want to relax and throw little balls without thinking, you can't loose and instead of winning you can continue without interruption. But I guess it might be confusing as a name and most people like a bit of challenge
Changing it to something like “Free play” would make it less confusing i think.
Good game, with lots of colors. Is this available on any other platforms.
thanks, what other platform would you want? there is a raspberry pi version I could easily produce
Do you plan to bring this game to the PlayDate?
pretty please?
Unfortunately I don't have a PlayDate and beside Pico 8 (the engine I used to make the game) doesn't exist on PlayDate so I would have to remake it from scratch. And also I like how the game play with different colors for each balls, so a greyscale PlayDate version doesn't seem like a good idea, sorry
all us Playdate folks would be so thrilled to have it, but I understand if that's not in the cards.
i'm glad this exists in any form!
apparently someone has already made a port!
Combi Pool
oh, that's pretty cool, I didn't know that, well there you have it! I tested it a bit, but like I said the black-and-white patterns on the balls are not very legible to me so it's hard to play, but otherwise it looks and sounds great!
yes, yours is still the definitive experience. maybe there are some improvements that can be made to the Playdate version to make the "colors" a bit more discernible
i'll ask the person who made the port
this is so fun! I played it on and off during my 10 hour flight home to Australia from Tokyo. I got my score to 3.4 million in endless before the tab reloaded itself while I was doing something else
I'm glad you liked it! And it's nice to see people using the "accessible" mode where numbers are displayed on the balls, can I ask if there is a specific reason for using it? Anyways, thanks for your message, it warms my heart, I hope you flight went well!
I used the accessible mode because it simply made it easier to quickly check which balls were which :)
156500
1) I love this game and still migrate it from device to device on my Android.
2) Love to see you updating it.
Best of luck!
thank you! I'm glad you like the game, and it means all the effort I spent on the android version where not a waste of time! Now with the new browser version, you can play it on android/ios using touch screen, but the native android version is probably still a bit better
yeah I still remember the amazement of you answering my android request with an apk :) did you apply the updates to the android one, should I redownload it? :)
haha, it took me while to make because there is no simple way right now to port pico 8 games to android so I had to port it to another engine (love2D)
And no, the android apk has not been updated, the source code for it is probably buried in an old hard drive and setting it up for everything to build again would take forever. Fortunately it already had touch control to aim so there is just the new accessibility mode, which is a sad to not have, but people can still play with it using the browser version