Comments on: Poom!

Poom!

jasper411 — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:25:35 -0800

Friday flash fun! Try Poom! You move a constantly changing floor around in a virtual 3-D space so that a ball will bounce on it. Curiously entertaining...

There goes the rest of my day. via zannah

By: smackfu

smackfu — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:50:42 -0800

My brain hurts. Anyone know what the mirror does? I only saw it once at around bounce 25.

By: cedar

cedar — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:55:40 -0800

Woo-hoo! Three, damn it. THREE. I think I have the hang of it now.

By: ericost

ericost — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:55:43 -0800

I found it much more enjoyable after turning my sound off.

By: gurple

gurple — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:57:52 -0800

This game would be much better if the really-high-bounce thingies appeared more often and weren't quite as good. As it is, you're pretty much guaranteed not to do very well without one, and most games don't get one. The mirror thingies suck -- you break right through. 34 bounces, 4000 points, getting tired of it

By: dreamsign

dreamsign — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:00:22 -0800

The nuclear tiles are fun. 61 bounces and I think I'm done.

By: maxsparber

maxsparber — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:04:49 -0800

The key is to watch the shadow.

By: Mr Bluesky

Mr Bluesky — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:05:25 -0800

4599877 Bounes...but I think my meth is wearing off!

By: kika

kika — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:14:01 -0800

I can't even enter my name...

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:29:13 -0800

kika: click on the name field with your cursor. That had me stumped for a while there....

By: smackfu

smackfu — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:30:55 -0800

The other key is to always go for the bouncy things if there is one.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:31:59 -0800

ah, I found this a while ago and loved it.

By: wheelieman

wheelieman — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:33:00 -0800

Ban Friday Flash Fun!!!! I cant win any of them!! JK

By: gurple

gurple — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:35:15 -0800

OK, 78 bounces, 8650 points, on a lucky game. I STOP NOW. Really....

By: TheStorm

TheStorm — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:42:00 -0800

You guys, the trick is to always try to make teh ball bounce on one of the tiles. If you can do that, you'll really do well.

By: obfusciatrist

obfusciatrist — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:42:27 -0800

That was very difficult. Until I noticed the shadow.

By: kika

kika — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:43:12 -0800

I clicked on the name field. Didn't work. But now I tried again and I could enter my name. I don't like it though. Mapping a 3D interface onto a 2D coordinate system is hard. And in this case not very well done, IMNSHO. If the fun of a game is in the learning of the controls they lost me.

By: gurple

gurple — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:45:51 -0800

Yeah, I agree, kika. The shadow lies, sometimes. It will appear on top of the coin, even though you're going to miss the tile entirely. Bad, bad projection.

By: tomplus2

tomplus2 — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:54:30 -0800

the key is to put mark on your monitor that shows you where the ball comes down. a bit of a cheat.

By: nervousfritz

nervousfritz — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:15:05 -0800

that's annoying.

By: alumshubby

alumshubby — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:21:47 -0800

Even with an inkspot on my screen, it's still really hard -- dunno why.

By: selfnoise

selfnoise — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:42:11 -0800

Kinda fun, but the 3D plane is just not registering with me. I can't connect the depth of the ball to the depth of the plate.

By: philosophistry

philosophistry — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 16:29:06 -0800

this is really hard with a trackpad, I will play it when I get back to my desktop.

By: jmackin

jmackin — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:25:24 -0800

nuclear tiles are definitely key to winning. haven't played it in a few weeks, but first game had 63/5900.

By: meh

meh — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 18:10:52 -0800

This one's going right in my cool stuff folder.

By: flagellum

flagellum — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:31:10 -0800

Aargh. Makes me glad to have stereo vision in real life.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:12:50 -0800

That was fun but now I'm ready to go back to my Hot Coffee.

By: sexyrobot

sexyrobot — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 01:51:45 -0800

i got a treasure chest!