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Nice BlitzMax game! Well polished!
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| Innovation | 60 | 3.13 | 23 | |||
| Polish | 4 | 4.23 | 22 | |||
| Graphics | 4 | 4.35 | 23 | |||
| Audio | 6 | 3.95 | 21 | |||
| Humor | 61 | 2.67 | 9 | |||
| Technical | 42 | 3.18 | 22 | |||
| Journal | 61 | 3.08 | 12 | |||
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Nice BlitzMax game! Well polished!
Very well made, game is insanely hard! :)
Was able to get the game running after the fix (Vista x64). Nice game and very polished. The movement seems a bit too sensitive; holding down an arrow key very briefly would move the ball a lot. The speed may be because of the frame rate (average was around 470 fps) as the ball bouncing sound seemed to be continuous. The game is pretty fun, I managed to get past a few parts of level 1 by slamming into walls and hugging them :)
GREAT job on this. Feels really polished. I like the gameplay a lot, but I felt that the way the ball bounced was frustrating. I figured out how to control it, but it never quite felt like it was going where I wanted to, and I would often bump into walls because of it. It probably would have still felt hard but less frustrating if I could have rolled around, and only jumped when I wanted to (for speed or whatever).
Punishing but rewarding! I liked how you had fun with the level design.
It works on my other machine.
You really shouldn't be switching modes during the game.
Quite nice game, the falling platforms are nasty, since the slow you down as well.
Also, when you've got 100 orbs it wraps back to 0 :(
Good that you were able to get music done. Too bad though; it's the style of music that makes me switch stations really fast ;)
My balls are legend! Yessir!
I get some screen thrashing at the beginning... After pressing the equivalent of ctrl-alt-del, it settles down, but I usually miss the title screen entirely. But then... I'm using Wine.
The game is very tough for me. I couldn't complete the first level (assuming there's more) in many tries ( >20 lives). The ball gets a little crazy when I have to hurry, which gets me killed quick. I do like the polish.
I initially found the controls a bit frustrating, but after getting used to them, they became interesting. I was starting to wonder what level 2 was going to look like if level 1 was so long.
believe me, this was really special! first time after playing a game i got visual distortions =) (for a couple of seconds...). it is dazzlingly hypnotic and steadily demanding. having that much effect by that little input got my brain a little out of balance i guess... i like it, it's the kind of game i'm interested in. looks and sounds good, and i like the already visible music game touch. 2 points though: finer, less nervous control would make it probably more fun (and a bit easier), and more connections between the strong beat and the movement would make it even better... - i can't wait to play your rez like creation! :)
Hard but exciting =). Frustrating controls though. Didn't finish, got beyond the crocodile chasing the duck once but died on the twist after. Nice music.
Way too unforgiving.
Its quite polished though and the graphics and sound work well together.
Nice minimalist design, cool music. The gameplay is pretty hard because of the delayed controls of the marble and the fact that some passages are obstructed and hard to be seen.
Awesome graphics, too hard, but fun.
The controls were lagging a bit, which made the game hard to control.
This game is far too punishing. I died two times after playing for a long while, both times thanks to silly mistakes. And I had to start all over again. The second time, I just gave up. I don't want to play that same first bit over and over again. That long level desperately needs to be replaced by several short levels. Or have some sort of checkpoint system.
This is probably the most visually pleasing game I've judged so far. Stunning!
It was also a great deal of fun until those deaths. If I'd never died and noticed that issue, I might have given you a 5 for fun. As it is, I'm going to have to detract from that score. Or perhaps polish, I'm not sure. :/
On a side note: Windows's "compressed folder" couldn't deal with your ZIP, I had to extract it with winrar. Something to think about for future contests. :)
Overall, an excellent entry. Lovely work!
Very smooth. Feels like it could have been a commercial Amiga game 17 years ago ;)
Music and graphics are great, I love the procedural/random "music" produced by bouncing around. Controls were awkward at first, reminded me of my own game... it's possible to adapt though, and it worked out reasonable well after a while. I think I managed to beat that level, or perhaps it bugged out. I got very far and then it just reset. I noticed that there doesn't seem to be more than one level in the data files, so I'm assuming it hit the end. Would have been nice with some proper notification.
Do the yellow/green-ish tiles do anything? I first thought they were the exit, but they're a bit all over the place and don't seem to have any effect.
A couple of graphical glitches and limited "game stuff" in terms of win/lose/etc subtracts a little bit, but otherwise a top game.