Comments on: Sunday Flash Fun

Sunday Flash Fun

sveskemus — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:20:30 -0800

- Drop the different blocks on the stage to affect the direction of the ball. Try to use as few as possible, but you may use as many as you want.

By: grouse

grouse — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:01:22 -0800

Interesting concept, but I thought the gameplay was a bit dull.

By: chara

chara — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:30:51 -0800

How do I access the actual game? I just keep getting promos for MechQuest and BiteFight...

By: sveskemus

sveskemus — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:51:12 -0800

How do I access the actual game? I just keep getting promos for MechQuest and BiteFight... Click "Play" after it's done loading. It's just under the MechQuest and BiteFight promo.

By: Elmore

Elmore — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:56:35 -0800

That was fun. Thanks.

By: raygirvan

raygirvan — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:19:49 -0800

A spot of advice for those who hate freakin' games with insufficiently explained operation. First you click and drag from the lower block menu to place the blocks on screen where they'll affect the trajectory of the ball, then you click Go to set the ball in motion.

By: chara

chara — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:22:43 -0800

I don't see a 'play' button at all. Oh well, perhaps this is a sign that I should be off doing other things.

By: sidereal

sidereal — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:26:11 -0800

In the last week, I've seen several Flash games with MechQuest and BiteFight promos on the splash page that have trouble displaying the "Play" or "Go" button. Hmmm.

By: ursus_comiter

ursus_comiter — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:49:53 -0800

Yeah, gameplay is pretty dull. On levels without mines, you can change the ball's vector once or twice and then just let it keep on bouncing. Eventually you'll clear the level.

By: Harkins_

Harkins_ — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:17:47 -0800

Flash plugins badly need a mute button for all of these apps that fail to include one.

By: norabarnacl3

norabarnacl3 — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:27:12 -0800

It was fun until the level with 6 mines on the ground and I guess the idea is you have to twitch the ball just perfectly into some sort of parabolic bounce between them. Screw that.

By: Shepherd

Shepherd — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:31:47 -0800

Level 12 and enjoying it as a contemplative exercise -- more just logic puzzles with no time limit and some nice music rather than a traditional relflex or point-scoring game.

By: ErWenn

ErWenn — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:34:51 -0800

It's not fantastic, but I loved this piece of commentary: I have combined elements from the previous levels to bring forth a sense of accomplishment in learning game mechanics.

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:17:27 -0800

In case it's not clear from earlier comments: You can clear all the early levels with no more than two boxes and letting the ball bounce for as long as you can stand it. And then all of a sudden the challenge is to be pixel-precise and right the first time.

By: sidereal

sidereal — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:26:15 -0800

For levels with, say, mines along the floor, I just smothered the floor with up-blocks. They ceased to be a problem after that.

By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:35:41 -0800

Aw, I like it. I can understand the "it's dull" complaints—to each his own, etc—but it doesn't have to be easy if you're willing to go for minimal fields. This reminds me a lot of on old black-and-white game I played on Mac Classics back in high school that involved a similar idea: you deployed a limited set of positive and negative point charges into each level, in order to guide a small charged particle to the goal without hitting any of the (increasingly oppressively placed) walls. I want to say it was called soemthing like "Electromagnetic Hockey". I killed a lot of time playing with that game. In fact, google time: someone has done a reasonable faithful recreation of it (or maybe it's just an updated by the original author, who knows) with the name "electric field hockey", and you can play it right now. Java web start link.

By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:37:40 -0800

Also, as far as the let-it-bounce-a-bunch thing goes, there's a nice sort of Lorenz Attractor thing that you can get going if you set things up just right. It was kind of striking to see that just happen in the middle of a little flash game.

By: prefpara

prefpara — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:40:21 -0800

Harkins: FlashMute

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:43:13 -0800

Enlightenment by flash.

By: demiurge

demiurge — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:59:46 -0800

A very nice puzzle game. I liked the patterns the path of the ball made as well. Just goes to show how complex systems can show up with very few elements.

By: sunshinesky

sunshinesky — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:08:37 -0800

This reminded me a lot of Spaced Penguin. Thanks.

By: synaesthetichaze

synaesthetichaze — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:39:39 -0800

This is a great game. It is so satisfying to solve Level 18 with a single block.

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:12:56 -0800

Hm. I beat 10 with two blocks but it counts my score as 3.

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:18:08 -0800

I'll see if I left a superfluous one around in that, actually -- it correctly says I beat 14 with 3.

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:42:51 -0800

Beating the pro scores is fun! 1 on 17.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:51:01 -0800

Second run: 188. Anyone beaten that yet? I got most on pro, one or two under pro, and three over (I just couldn't see it). That's definitely the last two and I forgot which other one. Fun, thanks sveskemus!

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:55:05 -0800

I'm at 196% with a score of 58. I've got pro or sub-pro scores for everything except 20, which is stymying me.

By: sexymofo

sexymofo — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:06:20 -0800

flatluigi: see here. But even with that help, I couldn't get 20 at pro.

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:11:54 -0800

nah, I'm not going to use a guide. The good thing about this game is even if it's frustrating you you get to see pretty patterns.

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 14:28:29 -0800

And.... Done! 200%, 57 points, 93 under par, 3 under pro. Beat that.

By: MythMaker

MythMaker — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:18:59 -0800

I got 154 the first time through. Pretty fun.

By: shadow vector

shadow vector — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:26:47 -0800

I managed 8 under pro. -3 on 14, -1 on 16, 17, 19, 21, and 24.

By: shadow vector

shadow vector — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:37:21 -0800

Hah! Managed to do 20 with 4.