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Mispool

By veryfinestlions

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Fun4133.21
Innovation4223.33
Graphics5743.08
Overall6663.10
Humor6792.15
Audio7292.37
Theme8132.86
Mood9952.40

Comments

mintarcade 2014-08-25 11:29

Nice. I even got in to space ;) Cool idea

camilleh 2014-08-25 11:31

Took awhile to get used to the controls, but eventually got the hang of it. Nice idea :)

midgard 2014-08-25 11:32

Had fun playing, nice controls and bouncy things! I couldn't feel the relation with the theme thought..

gatinmnsok 2014-08-25 11:33

Interesting concept, quite hard though.

shashwat 2014-08-25 11:40

Nice game. A little hard to play, but I'll get better.

tannernetwork 2014-08-25 16:35

I really like physics based games.

nnelgdabandit 2014-08-25 17:20

Cool little monkey ball like game.

sneeuwpopsneeuw 2014-08-25 17:33

nice physics and just the right music at the time the only think that i miss is some background music

macocco 2014-08-25 18:09

Nice but the objective could be explained little better.

veryfinestlions 2014-08-25 19:30

It is a bit obtuse, I concede. I personally think it's fun when a game is a *little* baffling, but I know a lot of people would disagree!

donutttt 2014-08-25 22:08

This was AWESOME! I could just roll around forever. I mean I was terrible at getting the balls in the holes but still I loved it. Great work!

ohfiddlediddle 2014-08-25 22:18

This is actually a really fun little physics game, but as a few other people ahve said, the objective could definitely be made a lot clearer, well done. :D

andrewjamesadams 2014-08-25 22:26

Cool. Need a power meter or some kind of force feedback. GG

off 2014-08-25 23:11

I think that the goal is pretty clear. I think that the theme is a little bit too far but after 5s the game became the best pool game i ever played!

Actually the execution is pretty simple, and maybe the game could be less "pool-looked", but after that the game feel is excellent, and you drive your ball with feeling.

Could had some GUI for information but even like that the game is fun.

IDEA : add other situation like golf to change from the same set.

robber 2014-08-26 19:41

very interesting concept end very fun to play, could have maybe some powerups or special balls ? needs some good music..

vallar 2014-08-26 19:45

Well that was an interesting concept and definitely a fun game. I found that it was weird that after the others descend they come back up and I have to redo all my hard work again.

The sounds were OK but I felt it needed music. All in all, it was a really fun game and a job well done :)

veryfinestlions 2014-08-26 20:31

Stuff comes back up because it's still active on the other side! It can be frustrating, admittedly.

Originally the idea was to have the holes branch to different specific colour-coded fields, each ball having a particular destination you need to get it to (and then it'd stay there); but I ran out of time before I could get around to doing all the interesting (ish) obstacles and stuff I was hoping to put in. So instead it just makes one new barely-different field each time you've potted all the balls and followed them across.

matthias_zarzecki 2014-08-26 21:47

This is fun! Love it. Simple and efficient :)

ragepaint 2014-08-27 03:02

Ah, playing pool but as the cue ball. Interesting. Could definitely use a power meter bar instead of having the screen shake so much.

zillix 2014-08-27 05:27

very sleek! the big grey ball really freaked me out the first time it launched at me :P

honcho 2014-08-27 06:41

Physics are great! Controls are challenging to play with.

manou 2014-08-27 13:10

Hard to control for me :(

wdebowicz 2014-08-27 18:04

Cool idea, very addictive! I'm still not sure if there is a way to win?

eatsleepindie 2014-08-27 20:09

I agree that a power meter/UI would have helped, but without one this was still a lot of fun. Could probably translate to touch controls pretty easily. Hope you continue development.

veryfinestlions 2014-08-27 20:31

There isn't a proper win state as of now, no. For now you can consider yourself to have "won"-ish once you've received and potted all eight coloured balls; I might continue messing with this and going in the kind of better-structured (but more time-consuming) direction I was thinking of before, we'll see.

allusion 2014-08-27 22:43

At first I thought "where is the theme?" But now I get it. Nice game.

robotfriend 2014-08-28 01:52

what a great idea.. kinda hard but very fun

masamunedragon 2014-08-28 06:43

This was surprisingly fun.

lkr 2014-08-30 10:06

Fun concept and nice physics :)
Would be cool to see more done with the idea, maybe balls with different behaviors?

veryfinestlions 2014-08-30 10:38

Yeah, see above - I had more complicated plans, but ended up going with this very simple (and nevertheless sort of buggy) version because I was running out of time. Something to possibly get back to later.

rantt 2014-08-31 01:55

Fun idea, I liked it.

adharris 2014-09-02 01:46

i'm not really sure why i like this as much as i do, but it was really fun.

solifuge 2014-09-02 01:56

Man... I had no idea what to do in this, possibly due to my lack of experience with pool in general. It wasn't just a "little" baffling, I had no idea what was going on ._. I think that if the controls had been a little bit more sensitive or I'd had a UI to fool with, more feedback, I might've had more fun. Really liked the zooming SFX on the 8-balls, that was actually pretty damn funny and almost made getting wrecked by them forgivable ;]

Seems like a neat concept, though. Thank you for the game!