After a while, the circles begin to push YOU
March 13, 2015 1:26 PM Subscribe
This is a game where you push circles into other circles. This is a destructively massive time sink. You have been warned.
This looks like Game about Squares with the addition of some novel circle-based mechanics. Cool!
posted by mbrubeck at 1:29 PM on March 13, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by mbrubeck at 1:29 PM on March 13, 2015 [2 favorites]
is this the swarm? we care about the swarm.
posted by boo_radley at 1:31 PM on March 13, 2015
posted by boo_radley at 1:31 PM on March 13, 2015
(which is to say, I've got a massive timesink already, buzz buzz)
posted by boo_radley at 1:32 PM on March 13, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by boo_radley at 1:32 PM on March 13, 2015 [2 favorites]
WTF? Is it actually trying to hold me hostage and saying it won't tell me how the game works until I get 10 people to like it on Facebook or something?
posted by Naberius at 1:33 PM on March 13, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by Naberius at 1:33 PM on March 13, 2015 [3 favorites]
Only works if you turn off sound? Got the level six and said, yeah, no...
posted by Sintram at 1:37 PM on March 13, 2015
posted by Sintram at 1:37 PM on March 13, 2015
Hit 5, gave up.
posted by showbiz_liz at 1:38 PM on March 13, 2015
posted by showbiz_liz at 1:38 PM on March 13, 2015
Yes, luckily Level 5 doesn't believe in physics.
posted by sparklemotion at 1:43 PM on March 13, 2015
posted by sparklemotion at 1:43 PM on March 13, 2015
Yeah, it was a good concept undermined by poor execution and really unnecessary social media fuckery. I basically hate the developers because of their help button.
posted by Spacelegoman at 1:49 PM on March 13, 2015 [11 favorites]
posted by Spacelegoman at 1:49 PM on March 13, 2015 [11 favorites]
Metafilter: This is a destructively massive time sink. You have been warned.
posted by Fizz at 1:51 PM on March 13, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by Fizz at 1:51 PM on March 13, 2015 [3 favorites]
I couldn't get past 11. I think it's impossible. Liked it while it lasted though!
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 2:25 PM on March 13, 2015
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 2:25 PM on March 13, 2015
Oh man, so just going to close that tab and nope my way elsewhere.. (also, a cruelly clever little "help" trick there)
posted by Ravneson at 2:30 PM on March 13, 2015
posted by Ravneson at 2:30 PM on March 13, 2015
Bahhhhh, level 19. I am going home now, level 19. Good-bye.
posted by aabbbiee at 3:02 PM on March 13, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by aabbbiee at 3:02 PM on March 13, 2015 [1 favorite]
Level 4, click. Time sink averted.
posted by cashman at 3:26 PM on March 13, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by cashman at 3:26 PM on March 13, 2015 [2 favorites]
Something wonky with 11 for sure. The social media "help" is BS though. It's actually only refusing to tell you the answer to the stage unless you share it, but should at least describe the rules!
posted by auggy at 4:07 PM on March 13, 2015
posted by auggy at 4:07 PM on March 13, 2015
Level 19: Nope. Don't have time for this.
Not that I did in the first place when I had a eureka on stage 5 and decided to keep playing for another 14 levels, but whatever.
posted by ThrowbackDave at 4:19 PM on March 13, 2015 [3 favorites]
Not that I did in the first place when I had a eureka on stage 5 and decided to keep playing for another 14 levels, but whatever.
posted by ThrowbackDave at 4:19 PM on March 13, 2015 [3 favorites]
Level eleven hint: Start from the far right during the final step or you'll push things out of alignment just enough to matter.
posted by ThrowbackDave at 4:21 PM on March 13, 2015
posted by ThrowbackDave at 4:21 PM on March 13, 2015
Bailing out on level 12.
posted by Obscure Reference at 5:05 PM on March 13, 2015
posted by Obscure Reference at 5:05 PM on March 13, 2015
Gave up on level 3.
posted by sarcasticah at 5:34 PM on March 13, 2015
posted by sarcasticah at 5:34 PM on March 13, 2015
Nothing responds to clicks apart from buttons with Facebook or Twitter logos. Time sink averted!
posted by flabdablet at 6:21 PM on March 13, 2015
posted by flabdablet at 6:21 PM on March 13, 2015
Cute so far (am on level 6) though increasingly suspect that Firefox needs an 'open this page in Chrome so it actually works' button.
posted by motty at 7:02 PM on March 13, 2015
posted by motty at 7:02 PM on March 13, 2015
Up to level 6 on Firefox, strongly suspecting the rest of you haven't installed Ghostery and AdBlock Plus! Everything working perfectly hunky dory, no social media intrusions either.
posted by barnacles at 8:48 PM on March 13, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by barnacles at 8:48 PM on March 13, 2015 [1 favorite]
The circle just sits there. No amount of clicking, click-dragging, WASD, cursor keys, space bar, enter, escape key does anything.
User interface fail.
Moving on, not looking back.
posted by nonspecialist at 11:50 PM on March 13, 2015
User interface fail.
Moving on, not looking back.
posted by nonspecialist at 11:50 PM on March 13, 2015
Oh my. I clicked the "help" button and it offered the solution to level 5 if and only if I shared the game with 10 other people.
Is that a thing that they do now? It's the first time I've seen it.
posted by RobotHero at 10:42 AM on March 14, 2015
Is that a thing that they do now? It's the first time I've seen it.
posted by RobotHero at 10:42 AM on March 14, 2015
I finally figured out level 19. Since the "reward" is level 20, I'm very unsure it was worth it.
I'm not having the interface issues others have mentioned - running Firefox with Adblock and Ghostery, like barnacles. But I kind of wish interface issues would've intervened and saved me from myself.
posted by EvaDestruction at 12:43 PM on March 14, 2015
I'm not having the interface issues others have mentioned - running Firefox with Adblock and Ghostery, like barnacles. But I kind of wish interface issues would've intervened and saved me from myself.
posted by EvaDestruction at 12:43 PM on March 14, 2015
Hello everyone, creator of Circle Push here. I saw this page pop up in my referrer logs, so I stopped by and created an account. Thank you all for this de facto feedback!
Good eye, Matt - It was indeed inspired by Game About Squares.
To those for whom clicking the circles does nothing: May I ask which browser you use?
To anyone stuck on a level: Disregard the "Help" gimmick - Feel free to ask, and I'll provide the answers.
posted by stevenh at 2:03 PM on March 14, 2015 [1 favorite]
Good eye, Matt - It was indeed inspired by Game About Squares.
To those for whom clicking the circles does nothing: May I ask which browser you use?
To anyone stuck on a level: Disregard the "Help" gimmick - Feel free to ask, and I'll provide the answers.
posted by stevenh at 2:03 PM on March 14, 2015 [1 favorite]
Thanks for the offer, stevenh! I think level 19 did me in, though. It's where I hit the wall of "I can puzzle this out" vs "if I bash at this long enough, something will give" and it did give, but that's where the logic of the puzzle started to feel aggravatingly obscured to me.
posted by EvaDestruction at 2:55 PM on March 14, 2015
posted by EvaDestruction at 2:55 PM on March 14, 2015
To those for whom clicking the circles does nothing: May I ask which browser you use?
The game is broken for me in Firefox on Linux, even in safe mode. Only the goal circle appears. This happens in every version I tested, from Firefox 31.4.0 to Firefox Nightly 39.0a1. It works in Chromium on the same computer.
posted by mbrubeck at 10:16 PM on March 14, 2015
The game is broken for me in Firefox on Linux, even in safe mode. Only the goal circle appears. This happens in every version I tested, from Firefox 31.4.0 to Firefox Nightly 39.0a1. It works in Chromium on the same computer.
posted by mbrubeck at 10:16 PM on March 14, 2015
If I can make a request, make it possible to reset a level with R instead of just the mouse. It doesn't even need to be documented, I tried R out of habit since so many other puzzle games use it. I assume it was "mobile-first" design, which sometimes inadvertently becomes "mobile only" but adding some keyboard controls on-top of that is worth considering.
Some part of my brain kept clicking on the "back to the previous level" arrow when I wanted to reset. After the first time I consciously knew that's wrong, but I still kept doing it.
And I was using it in Firefox in Windows 7 and it works.
I made it past 5 and got stuck on 6. There's something I have a hard time wrapping my head around in terms of getting these precise positions out of what I'm doing. Like, I bumbled around on 5 until I found something that worked but I never understood the difference between the one that worked and the ones I thought would work but didn't.
posted by RobotHero at 11:15 AM on March 15, 2015
Some part of my brain kept clicking on the "back to the previous level" arrow when I wanted to reset. After the first time I consciously knew that's wrong, but I still kept doing it.
And I was using it in Firefox in Windows 7 and it works.
I made it past 5 and got stuck on 6. There's something I have a hard time wrapping my head around in terms of getting these precise positions out of what I'm doing. Like, I bumbled around on 5 until I found something that worked but I never understood the difference between the one that worked and the ones I thought would work but didn't.
posted by RobotHero at 11:15 AM on March 15, 2015
An "undo" rather than a reset would be nice.
posted by Obscure Reference at 6:40 AM on March 16, 2015
posted by Obscure Reference at 6:40 AM on March 16, 2015
To anyone stuck on a level: Disregard the "Help" gimmick - Feel free to ask, and I'll provide the answers.
Level 13. I've figured out the sequence, but I can't get the final circle to land perfectly (it leaves a thin crescent that taunts me). Damn you. Having trouble determining if the circles move the same distance with each push. Firefox with outdated PC.
posted by GrapeApiary at 1:39 PM on March 16, 2015
Level 13. I've figured out the sequence, but I can't get the final circle to land perfectly (it leaves a thin crescent that taunts me). Damn you. Having trouble determining if the circles move the same distance with each push. Firefox with outdated PC.
posted by GrapeApiary at 1:39 PM on March 16, 2015
I've enjoyed this game. Got to level 32 on the iOS app.
I was annoyed that the app will sometimes reboot and take me back to the first level. It saves my place and I can arrow up to the level that I last won, but it's still annoying to have to do that.
Level 13 help: green x4, blue x10, red x3, blue x3, green x2, blue, green, red
Yes, the circles move the same distance with each push.
posted by aabbbiee at 10:32 AM on March 17, 2015
I was annoyed that the app will sometimes reboot and take me back to the first level. It saves my place and I can arrow up to the level that I last won, but it's still annoying to have to do that.
Level 13 help: green x4, blue x10, red x3, blue x3, green x2, blue, green, red
Yes, the circles move the same distance with each push.
posted by aabbbiee at 10:32 AM on March 17, 2015
thanks, aabbbiee, I did manage to get through 13 and am now stuck on 14. I think I've hit the limit of my IQ.
posted by GrapeApiary at 12:46 PM on March 17, 2015
posted by GrapeApiary at 12:46 PM on March 17, 2015
oof, 21 is rough. I'm making progress, but it's slow going.
posted by vibratory manner of working at 5:34 PM on March 17, 2015
posted by vibratory manner of working at 5:34 PM on March 17, 2015
Made to 35. I am not going to bother with 35. I should not have bothered making it this far, probably.
posted by vibratory manner of working at 4:24 PM on March 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by vibratory manner of working at 4:24 PM on March 23, 2015 [1 favorite]
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