Awesome ^_^

Wow, fantastic!! I just played for ages, but I got stuck on level 16. I’ll be back to play it another time for certain though. My only complaint is that there isn’t a purely mouse-only control option, although I know that would be tricky to offer with single mouse button input. I love it though, great sound and graphics too!

I’ve been passing this around at work. Superb! The win music is so great… I keep starting the game and beating the first level just so I can leave the music playing in the background. The later levels are so brutal…

Heh.. isn’t the music a bit repetative for that?

You could try something along the lines of what I had for CherryBrush pan/rotate before changing to a more conventional interface – track a “lagging” point behind the mouse cursor, delayed by a few frames, and use the vector between that and the current cursor to infer rotation if the user “swirls” the mouse rather than moving in a straight line, stopping, then moving straight again. I guess you need an additional point too, or an inertial direction vector.

The idea is that you do a dot product between the “expected/current” direction and the “new” one, which will be 1.0 as long as it’s moving in a straight line, but decrease as the path is curved. I guess using cross product would give similar results but with directionality for free, so you can just compare against zero to get direction and magnitude.

That’s an interesting idea.. I just tried it out now and it’s quite fun twirling cats around. I tried a variation too where if you grab an object away from the center point, it points in the direction of the mouse (as if you’re moving the head of a floaty ribbon around). A bit fiddly in practice in both cases though, so I went back to good ol’ keys. Hrm.