Combo Pool by NuSan

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