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Data Break

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Audio4902.95
Graphics7143.05
Fun8912.67
Mood8922.58
Innovation10222.33
Theme10592.29
Overall10892.57
Coolness148341

Comments

buzzwerd 2016-04-19 01:31

Wish the instructions were in the game. Didn't realize you could switch the ball and almost gave up. Otherwise, an interesting take on Brick.

jdeuce 2016-04-19 19:26

Not bad. Gameplay maybe feels a little slow. Might be nice if you supported a "follow the mouse" mode for left/right controls in addition to the arrows, I don't like moving my hands.

xanjos 2016-04-19 23:36

Interesting take on Breakout/Arkanoid. Game pace is a bit slow though.

keyboardmonkey 2016-04-22 19:25

This is a promising idea. It looks great and sounds great, but game-play suffers. You cannot guide the ball depending where it hits on the paddle, which kinda is the point of ball and paddle games, otherwise you just hope the direction suits your needs. The ball randomly bounces down after hitting a wall. Nice try but focus on the core mechanics is needed :)

spiffl 2016-04-23 23:36

As keyboardmonkey says, the lack of ball control stings, but the "make it go back up" power and on-the-fly ball-switching is a good idea! I'm not sure what the point is of the score decreasing... maybe it would be really interesting to make this a "survival" game, where it's not really about not dying but about not letting the score hit zero? Just a thought! Though it wasn't too exciting, I enjoyed the aesthetics, and it was well-programmed as far as I could tell! Good job :)

rnanoware 2016-04-24 00:05

The mechanics were all quite interesting, but the gameplay wasn't engaging enough to hold me through the whole thing. However, I did realize early on that you can in fact change the angle of the ball's flight by hitting it on the very edge of the paddle--that small fact made all the difference!

balbinoaylagas 2016-04-24 05:41

game was good but did not find anything really different from other similar games. nice work.

obsessivenotion 2016-04-25 09:33

Fun but was slow.

geckoo1337 2016-05-01 13:11

Simple concept, but well done. It reminds me Arkanoid. It could be more frenetic so as to increase gameplay ++

rhastapunk 2016-05-02 08:11

Interesting arkanoid variation, I would love the blocks to match the ball type color at least