PyWeek - ThEdA_P12 - feedback

At first, I thought it was a great and simple concept, but it didn't take long until I realized how hard it would be to play this game. The hint system is definitely a plus, but even with the hint, I had difficulty aiming the ball correctly to hit nine times in the later levels. Having a notion of where the ball should go isn't so hard as you can mentally trace a path backwards, but it's hard to make it go where you want it to go. Maybe an optional guiding system would help as in pool games. Anyway, I like the core of the idea.

theme?

The idea is interesting, but it needed to be executed better.

It looks pretty, but I find it hard to do better than random (or a single run of zigzags).

Enjoyable little puzzle game.

With such extreme sensitivity to initial conditions, the position of the ball after a few bounces seems more or less chaotic. Utterly random whether you can hit the goal with the correct number of bounces - not even a trial and error approach seems to work.

Exceptional!

I felt the link to the theme was a bit tenuous but otherwise a fun game.

The difficulty quickly ramped up beyond what I could handle. Perhaps some way to indicate the ball's trajectory might make it a bit easier and therefore more fun.

I had mixed feelings about this game. It's basically a pool game spinoff with oddly placed bumpers; or maybe a mini golf game with odd rules. I tend to like those for idle fun. I didn't take to this one so readily, though, and I'm not sure why. Perhaps it was the difficulty of accurately aiming the pointing device. Maybe if it was thinner, or just a single width line. Not sure.

The ball kind of still-framed across the screen: I would like to have seen smoother motion, and may with some effects for eye candy.

The "charge" rule gave the game a significantly different feel that I was compelled to rate it above average.

The "nine" aspect was there, but shallow. This could have been done as easily with 8 or 10.

I think I played through level 5, stopping in level 6. What kept me going that long was the ease of retrying the level. This was a nice feature, and I give you kudos for that. :)

I would like to try this again with more "goodies" in the future. Nice little game, definitely worthy of showing to friends.

The idea is quite innovative and the game is polished but somehow it's not really fun. Even when I'm using hints it still seems like I beat the levels just because of luck. I really liked the music and the graphics style but the gameplay just didn't work for me.

Interesting idea, but it only seems to be possible to succeed by sheer luck -- predicting the path of the ball after more than a few bounces is too hard.

Kinda slow. Surprised how well it worked: how hard to just bounce it exactly nine times in a tunnel, how hard it still was hint, and how well the hint path worked. Amazing sound work- music and fx blend beautifully.

It's a nice idea but boring gameplay, since you have no real way of predicting bouncing its all trial and error. A prediction for the first 3 or 4 bounces woulda been nice but still the game would need some other feature to make it more interesting.

Good idea but not very into the theme... Regarding the game strategy I feel like I have to try randomly several times until I get some good bounce combination.
Pay attention that if you start dragging the ball on a wire, as long as you keep the ball on the wire the bounces increase, so you can easily cheat all the levels.

Very fun game! If I can nitpick, I think there should be an option showing your last shot, as a way to know exactly what you did last time and improve your next shot. But that is just a tiny detail, actually it is a great game, a great idea and a great execution. Kudos to you!

This game is hard.

liked the idea of nine bounces/volts.

The animation framerate was as crisp as a fried aubergine. The game lends itself to exploration because the player isn't punished for attempting the same level 6 times before a success. I haven't yet had the urge to replay the game. But when that day comes, I will know where to find it. Thank you for this refreshing slice of heaven served in a zip file.

Well executed, but nine is just way too many times to be able to use skill to pull this off. Every time I did it was just luck or trial and error.

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Slightly addictive but too hard to be fun

Simple idea with great fun play.

Background music very nice. GFX simply but efficient.

Ridiculously hard. Also, the ball isn't going to the direction I send it.

sometimes it is too complicated