andrew-2 2012-08-27 12:07
I think there were too many colors to sucessfully be able to free balls given the inherent lack of control in pinball games.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD24 → Pinball Color
By ninjakannon
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Innovation | 512 | 2.53 | ||
| Graphics | 612 | 2.27 | ||
| Fun | 629 | 2.18 | ||
| Overall | 667 | 2.33 | ||
| Theme | 734 | 1.56 | ||
| Coolness | 932 | 26 |
I think there were too many colors to sucessfully be able to free balls given the inherent lack of control in pinball games.
I just didn't get the game.
it's too hectic with all the balls dropping to really plan any shots, the screen is just in chaos within seconds.
Pinball with the targets appearing on the screen. There is something to the underlying idea here, but the constant flow of balls kind of robs it of much tension or excitement.
Sound in a game like this would be very good :)
I found it rather mind-boggling, in a good way. I was struggling to meaningfully press the right and left flip buttons, but found myself at a loss. I think this experience can be explored. It's sort of a mind/body control yoga or zen thing. Requires a lot of balancing, obviously, but I do like how weird it felt.
Didn't really understand what it had to do with evolution, and was confused as to what I was supposed to hit the circles towards even after reading the description...but was kind of fun to try to keep all those balls from dropping down.
Really nice job with the pinball physics - that's a very hard thing to pull off. It was a little hard to do anything useful, though, because multiball pinball is hard to control, and you were always dealing with multiple balls. I had a hard time intuiting what the relationship between the colored balls and the circles was, although you did explain it in the rules - I just didn't get it until after I played for a while. Fun, though; just very hard to feel like you weren't just clicking the flippers at random. The evolution theme seems not very present here, too, but the programming is very solid. Nice work.
Nice engine... balls may bound too much but it is really well implemented.