Ball and Chain is an action adventure game where you take the role of a recently escaped convict from the Wild West, known as Chain! 

You just broke out of jail, hooray! Sadly, you had a ball stuck to you to keep you trapped in jail, and you couldn't get it off. Now Ball will join you as you attempt to escape the long arm of the Green Cube law! If you get to the train, you move to the next level!

Use WASD (or arrow keys) to move around, your mouse to look around. Click to shoot (if you have any ammo), and press space to throw Ball towards wherever your mouse is! Killing enemies allows you to gain ammunition.

I'm going to make a making-of video in the next few weeks, so stay tuned for that! My channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd4A_w8cRj-CU4UWdds8_2A, but I've only posted memes so far :D.

I was only able to implement 2 levels during the game jam,  but had a lot of fun doing so! I could add some more if there is interest, all the ground work is done.

Theme music (Tequila Starter) by Dan Knoflicek. Sound effects from jfxr (https://jfxr.frozenfractal.com/)

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BallAndChainWindowsFinal2.zip 26 MB
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BallAndChainMacOS.app.zip 35 MB

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Doesn't finish loading in Safari (console shows SyntaxError: Invalid character '\u001f'). Works in Chrome and Firefox though!

😬 uh oh! I'm not sure what that is about... Glad to hear it works in Firefox though!

Awesome concept! I had trouble with the controls though. I think it would have been better if WASD moved the player independent of where the mouse is pointing. It’s too confusing as it is to control, on top of aiming and shooting. Otherwise great job!

I think when I next update it I'll change the controls to your suggestion! Thanks for playing!