Mispool by veryfinestlions

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made by veryfinestlions for LD30 (COMPO)
Just... just go after them. After, not before. Careful, friends.

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Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 3.10 666
Audio 2.37 729
Fun 3.21 413
Graphics 3.08 574
Humor 2.15 679
Innovation 3.33 422
Mood 2.40 995
Theme 2.86 813

Feedback

MintArcade
25. Aug 2014 · 11:24 UTC
Nice. I even got in to space ;) Cool idea
CptDustmite
25. Aug 2014 · 11:26 UTC
Took awhile to get used to the controls, but eventually got the hang of it. Nice idea :)
midgard
25. Aug 2014 · 11:27 UTC
Had fun playing, nice controls and bouncy things! I couldn't feel the relation with the theme thought..
gatinmnsok
25. Aug 2014 · 11:28 UTC
Interesting concept, quite hard though.
shashwat
25. Aug 2014 · 11:35 UTC
Nice game. A little hard to play, but I'll get better.
Tanner
25. Aug 2014 · 16:30 UTC
I really like physics based games.
NnelGdaBandit
25. Aug 2014 · 17:15 UTC
Cool little monkey ball like game.
sneeuwpopsneeuw
25. Aug 2014 · 17:28 UTC
nice physics and just the right music at the time the only think that i miss is some background music
Macocco
25. Aug 2014 · 18:04 UTC
Nice but the objective could be explained little better.
🎤 veryfinestlions
25. Aug 2014 · 19:25 UTC
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
25. Aug 2014 · 22:03 UTC
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
25. Aug 2014 · 22:13 UTC
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
Andrew Adams
25. Aug 2014 · 22:21 UTC
Cool. Need a power meter or some kind of force feedback. GG
OFF
25. Aug 2014 · 23:06 UTC
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
26. Aug 2014 · 19:36 UTC
very interesting concept end very fun to play, could have maybe some powerups or special balls ? needs some good music..
Vallar
26. Aug 2014 · 19:40 UTC
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
26. Aug 2014 · 20:26 UTC
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
26. Aug 2014 · 21:42 UTC
This is fun! Love it. Simple and efficient :)
Rage Paint
27. Aug 2014 · 02:57 UTC
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
27. Aug 2014 · 05:22 UTC
very sleek! the big grey ball really freaked me out the first time it launched at me :P
John Drury
27. Aug 2014 · 06:36 UTC
Physics are great! Controls are challenging to play with.
Manou
27. Aug 2014 · 13:05 UTC
Hard to control for me :(
wdebowicz
27. Aug 2014 · 17:59 UTC
Cool idea, very addictive! I'm still not sure if there is a way to win?
eatsleepindie
27. Aug 2014 · 20:04 UTC
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
27. Aug 2014 · 20:26 UTC
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.
Scott Baker
27. Aug 2014 · 22:38 UTC
At first I thought "where is the theme?" But now I get it. Nice game.
RobotFriend
28. Aug 2014 · 01:47 UTC
what a great idea.. kinda hard but very fun
masamunedragon
28. Aug 2014 · 06:38 UTC
This was surprisingly fun.
lkr
30. Aug 2014 · 10:01 UTC
Fun concept and nice physics :)
Would be cool to see more done with the idea, maybe balls with different behaviors?
🎤 veryfinestlions
30. Aug 2014 · 10:33 UTC
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
31. Aug 2014 · 01:50 UTC
Fun idea, I liked it.
adharris
02. Sep 2014 · 01:41 UTC
i'm not really sure why i like this as much as i do, but it was really fun.
Victory Garden
02. Sep 2014 · 01:51 UTC
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!