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V BALL

By longloaf

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Overall1493.71
Fun1913.58
Theme2334.00
Innovation2383.56
Graphics3283.39
Mood3803.10

Comments

mukult 2015-12-14 09:53

Took me a while to understand the controls and the gameplay...

Clever gameplay.

makiki99 2015-12-14 09:54

A pretty intresting take on physics. It fits theme well, graphics are good, but 4th level seems to be impossible.

davidamiller 2015-12-14 09:54

Very cool game. I like the gameplay controlls you´ve came up with. Good level design, and overall a nice game.

christianbraun 2015-12-14 09:56

Liked the basic game idea. The controls are very smooth! Congratz on that! A blasting soundtrack would have been great! To make me adivtive to the game a highscore would also be nice.

ghen 2015-12-14 10:10

really dig the control and aesthetic, really fun and challenging

cyranh 2015-12-14 11:02

Played it from the beginning to the end. Fun game. Great solution to the problem of not having a jump key!

niphram 2015-12-14 11:03

Really interesting, i like it!
It's simple, but challenging :)

velddev 2015-12-14 11:28

It feels a tad bit slow on the edges.

wuppy29 2015-12-14 11:30

The physics are so confusing....

ghostbomb 2015-12-14 12:13

I really dig the minimalistic art style here.

However, it really feels like you tried to force a design that probably needs at least 3 buttons into a 2 button control scheme rather than building a game that works best with 2 buttons.

pjimmy 2015-12-14 15:09

nice, entertaining and challenging

scottrick 2015-12-14 15:25

Couldn't get the game to start; arrow keys didn't seem to work.

reisen 2015-12-14 15:30

Fun.

Up to level 3, you can roll your way up the walls.
Level 4 is the level where you either quit, or find out about the undocumented control.

kiyaku 2015-12-15 08:32

Bit confusing at first to get used to the controls but didn't take too long. Once i figured it out and once you added obstacles, this became a ton of fun really quickly!
Finished all 8 levels, number 7 gave me so much trouble haha, but it's awesome.

While playing i imagined i was some kind of little spaceship flying through a cave or something. I think this game could do really well if you add a few more mechanics to it!

concalf 2015-12-15 08:53

Really cool puzzle game. It would help if the switching blocks would indicate that they are about to change (like flicker or something)

epicruins195 2015-12-15 08:55

What I liked:
- Controls feel wonderful and responsive
- Well designed and effective levels
- Simple but nice visual style
- Runs very well in the browser

What could be improved (IMO):
- An explanation of how there are actually three ways to push the controls would be nice (took me a while to figure it out)
- More levels (of course this is unreasonable given the time restriction, but there's so much potential here).

Excellent work.

dlowe 2015-12-15 09:02

Great game! Eventually got too hard, but I think I'll come back to it later :)

bazkur98 2015-12-15 23:04

Wasn't able to play, kept getting "Unable to initialize 3D settings".

antonuklein 2015-12-16 14:28

It's not clear that you can hit left and right and the difficulty, in my opinion, rises too fast. Otherwise, the game itself feels quite responsive (even if I personally find the physics weird) and it runs pretty well.

reggianito 2015-12-16 14:32

Challenging little game. Reminds me of flywrench a bit. Great job.

ethanwebster 2015-12-16 15:40

Really nice concept, would make a great mobile game :P

kuhnerdm 2015-12-16 20:55

That was very fun. Controls and physics were really great, although I wish it also had wasd support so I could give my right hand a rest. Very addictive.

big-cow 2015-12-16 20:59

Fun addictive and frustrating. Dynamic of floating up automatically when you move was very smart and the graphics are simple but nice and softly rendered.

kualitygames 2015-12-16 21:15

Interesting controls, very tricky but innovative and fun once I got the hang of it. Well done

x92rwzb 2015-12-17 12:50

Some levels remind me of geometry dash.

drteaspoon 2015-12-17 13:58

Solid

nisio 2015-12-17 20:01

The hovering mechanic is very cool.

shrapx 2015-12-17 20:07

hey smart idea with the left and right also pushing up!, the lines and graphics looks so clean and crisp. Level 5 was just, no. very hard, took a bunch of tries to get past the circles. I made it! woohoo, nice game. The movement is just right for a tense skill game. good work!

chromewisp 2015-12-19 20:33

I like how natural the controls felt once I understood what they did. Excellent work on the physics!

knason 2015-12-19 21:02

Fun game! nice puzzles! I liked the graphics, it reminds me of math class :-)

taffaz 2015-12-19 21:50

Enjoyed the game, not sure if I was missing something but I felt rolling up the walls was slow.

local-minimum 2015-12-20 16:34

Very well made and quite hard game. I got to the end, but was close to giving up at an early stage. I would recommend easing up the difficulty acceleration in the early part a bit. The first level that introduces the red blocks is rather hard for someone still struggling to manage the controls. Equally so with the up and down moving balls, quite a bit to get through especially since they are moving vertically and thus when the player pushes a button to move past them the player will go up a bit and before you are used to it, timing it is really difficult. I wish there had been some music to it though. And finally, if you make left-side of screen go left and right-side to right, then you have yourself a mobile game!

cppchriscpp 2015-12-20 16:35

I beat it. Well done! A little bit of a test of hand-eye coordination, but that doesn't make it not fun. I think the dashed lines in the background made it a lot easier to figure out where each button press would land you.

ruerob 2015-12-21 07:34

Great job! I played it to the end and it was very fun to deal with the controls! The graphics and sounds totally fit to the game! Give it a soundtrack and more levels and this could get a good complete game!

jupiter_hadley 2015-12-28 17:09

Neat game, challenging but fun to play. I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/Fm6iQk47yZ0

geckoo1337 2015-12-31 19:52

A really good project - one of my favorites for this 34th LD session. The physics at start is a little bit strange, but after a while this game becomes really addictive. I want more levels. Thank you ++

awesomerex 2016-01-04 01:16

OMG! So difficult! took me forever to complete level 7! great job!

nusan 2016-01-04 11:30

The gameplay fell weird at first, but after sometimes it became prety precise. The level 7 was a bit too hard for me. The game was realy fun, challengind and rewarding. Keep up the good work !

gallerdude 2016-01-04 16:20

Very fun! Loved the last level!