DoubleJeu X Y Z!

October 27, 2006 3:09 PM

DoubleJeu is a simple French flash game; balance a ball on one axis while playing pong on a reversed axis. Easier to understand if you just visit the link.
posted by jonson (40 comments total)

That game is frustrating madness.
posted by Pontius Pilate at 3:12 PM on October 27, 2006

I seem to be able to do about as well as Paris Hilton
posted by noble_rot at 3:13 PM on October 27, 2006

Ok. That's just sadistically evil.

"Hell is being trapped in a room with all your friends for an eternity."

"Yeah, but all Sartre's mates were French!"

Second Red Dwarf reference in as many hours. Kill me before I strike again.
posted by loquacious at 3:14 PM on October 27, 2006

It would be more fun if you could bounce the lower ball into the air and play pong with both. :)
posted by evilangela at 3:16 PM on October 27, 2006

21 seconds is my record so far.
posted by jonson at 3:17 PM on October 27, 2006

Merde!
posted by monju_bosatsu at 3:18 PM on October 27, 2006

Translation for les anglophones:

A Pain in the Ass Game Using Two Parts of Your Brain

Can you use both sides of your brain independently?
Are you intellegent enough to believe you can do it?

Don't let any of the two balls fall as long as possible, and you will be.

(Umm, unless my French sucks more than I think...I think, therefore I am?)
posted by portisfreak at 3:24 PM on October 27, 2006

Crap, beat me to the post.

Bonus game: The Game Of Disorientation. Short but tricky.
posted by MetaMonkey at 3:44 PM on October 27, 2006

What's a parpoing? I'm about as smart as one, except the one time I got 8 seconds, when I was not bad for a 3-year-old.
posted by ibmcginty at 3:48 PM on October 27, 2006

metamonkey, that's pure evil.
posted by pdb at 3:51 PM on October 27, 2006

32secs - not too bad but I still can't pat my head and rub my tummy at the same time.
posted by patricio at 3:59 PM on October 27, 2006

I seem to be able to do about as well as Paris Hilton

45 seconds, bitch.
posted by Paris Hilton at 3:59 PM on October 27, 2006

(by the way, it gets really, really fast)
posted by Paris Hilton at 4:08 PM on October 27, 2006

7.?? seconds. My cursor seems to escape the game. The game seems to extricate itself from my control. My control has evacuated my mind. My mind has extricated itself from my skull. Which is now empty.
posted by econous at 4:12 PM on October 27, 2006

Second Red Dwarf reference in as many hours.

This is going to be a good meetup.
posted by cortex at 4:14 PM on October 27, 2006

One hour and three minutes.
posted by Kwantsar at 4:14 PM on October 27, 2006

25 sec. Stupid cursor moves off game. Between this and dicewars i have done nothing today.
posted by captaincrouton at 4:15 PM on October 27, 2006

32.28. I'll believe 45 when I see it.
posted by aye at 4:15 PM on October 27, 2006

There's also a british flag on the intro screen to switch to english (or frenglish?)...
posted by mrnutty at 4:26 PM on October 27, 2006

26 seconds on my second try. But I'm bored already.
posted by obfusciatrist at 4:26 PM on October 27, 2006

34.102. The trick past the 30-second mark is to bounce the ball over the fulcrum repeatedly because the collision detection isn't nice enough to let you move in the paddle in quickly.
posted by aye at 4:31 PM on October 27, 2006

13 second is long enough for me to curse my trackpad many times over.
posted by peeedro at 4:37 PM on October 27, 2006

Noticed the english translation, but it's really poor.
posted by portisfreak at 4:47 PM on October 27, 2006

Sweet metamonkey... i'm Markyp.o
#1 on tha scoreboard!
posted by wumpus at 5:00 PM on October 27, 2006

28.29 seconds, yeah baby!
posted by Vindaloo at 5:02 PM on October 27, 2006

Reminds me of my ex-thesis advisor's rotating inverted double pendulum. It's all in the time constants :P
posted by Chuckles at 5:12 PM on October 27, 2006

I don't get it, is Paris Hilton like really good at this game or something?
posted by tastybrains at 5:25 PM on October 27, 2006

28.411 seconds. This is fun. I want to break a minute.
posted by HighTechUnderpants at 5:31 PM on October 27, 2006

26 seconds. I'm not normally a Flash gamer, but this is definitely a cool widget. Thnx!
posted by dbiedny at 6:51 PM on October 27, 2006

You guys amaze me. I have come back to this twice this evening, and my best score is 13.1. Behold, I am a spaz.
posted by tastybrains at 8:54 PM on October 27, 2006

I beat you all with my massive score of 16.
posted by econous at 9:20 PM on October 27, 2006

My score is strictly less than 35s, although it seems I can get arbitrarily close :P
posted by Chuckles at 9:37 PM on October 27, 2006

I guess it's not that easy for everyone, but the trick for me, once I got past the learning curve of keeping the cursor in the flashbox, was to get the large ball rolling towards the direction the small ball is coming so when you go to hit the small ball the large one gets balanced out. I can consistently get 45-52 seconds. After that, the speed just gets Insane. Try practicing tabla for a few years and maybe this sort of thing gets easier. Or maybe I am a unique snowflake(who finally found his talent).
posted by a_green_man at 12:32 AM on October 28, 2006

It says you've achieved the same score as Paris Hilton. In other words, you're an idiot.
posted by portisfreak at 12:58 AM on October 28, 2006

FYI un parpaing is a breeze block.
posted by jontyjago at 1:39 AM on October 28, 2006

30.338 seconds. Loading the flash file directly eliminates the "mouse out of bounds" problem..
posted by metaplectic at 2:56 AM on October 28, 2006

43 seconds, I am KING OF THE WORLD!
posted by dbiedny at 12:02 PM on October 28, 2006

OK, I'm up to 62 seconds, it's time to stop.
posted by dbiedny at 5:53 PM on October 28, 2006

That site has a lot of other fun, evil games. I especially like the one with the maze that gets blurry over time.
posted by raf at 8:48 PM on October 28, 2006

You cannot miss the reggae machine!
posted by rom1 at 7:59 AM on October 29, 2006