Pain Pong by N4tticus

Keep the streak alive to keep the clone alive!
Compete for a Top 5 position on the Global High Score Board!
Play some completely normal solo pin̴̈́͂ǧ̴͠͝-̸̝̐̓̚p̵̼͈͈͛̋o̶̳͛̎̈͗n̶̢̫̻̬͈̖̅̈̈́̾͜͝ͅg̶̪̎͐
| Youtube | https://natesampo.github.io/LD46/ |
| Youtube | https://github.com/natesampo/LD46 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/pain-pong |
Ratings
| Given | 2🗳️ | 0🗨️ |
The sound effects were really nice for getting the timing down for multiple balls, and it was neat that more challenges kept getting added as you went.
It would be nice if the paddle was semitransparent --- it sometimes felt pretty bad that you had to track the path of the ball while obscuring it with the paddle (or hold off until the last moment, then cover it, but I was bad at judging when that was).
Fun framing device with the selective breeding of ping-pong super-clones.
I had a lot of trouble trying to line up the ball with the paddle but maybe that's just part of the challenge haha. It was fun to slowly get better at predicting whether my paddle was going to cover where the ball was going based on the limited trajectory information. I love how the difficulty escalates as you play. Gonna keep playing to see if i can see some of the later challenges!
If it helped to keep the theme, have a clone body counter or something at the side ( to still show the failures stacking up haha )