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Introduction
Ball Boomer is a physics based platformer.  You start out by building your level with parts provided in the game.  Then once your level has been created you start it by hitting enter which will then start the level and physics will become active. Controls, download, and official website are below!

The game is still in early development and the next release already has improved greatly over this one.

Controls
Enter generates terrain
1 - selects terrain parts as object to place
2 - selects bouncer as object to place
left mouse - places object that has been selected using 1, 2

Downloads
Ball Boomer Release 4 Download (http://sandbox.yoyogames.com/games/181180-ball-boomer)

Websites
http://ballboomer.bobhoil.com/ (http://ballboomer.bobhoil.com/)

I think it could use some in game instructions, as I had to check back to this thread to determine the proper procedure for playing a level. Definitely could stand some visualization for the terrain part as it was not clear to me what it was doing at first. I only saw dots when placing terrain and thought it was a bug until I found out how to start it and saw the points connected into slopes. There also needs to be a way to edit your existing placements instead of having to restart. I assume you probably already plan to fix all of these though.

I also got this error on the second level:

___________________________________________
ERROR in
action number 1
of Collision Event with object terrain_obj
for object player_obj:

Error in code at line 16:
   force = (5/7) * gravity * angle
                             ^
at position 28: Unknown variable angle

Thanks for playing the game! The problem with setting up the terrain has been fixed as we have added a line that is drawn when placing the points. That way you can see the slopes of the terrain before you start the level. We have also added an undo button which will assist with fixing mistakes besides restarting the whole level.

As for editing existing placements I am going to make the terrain points draggable after you have placed them.

Thanks for the error report and we have fixed the problem!

Next release will be coming soon thanks for the feedback.

Yeah, I agree with Famil that it definitely needs more instruction, and I think the available terrain/bouncy tools need to be a little more noticeable. Also, the restart button took me a minute to figure out that you have to actually click the arrows and that you cant just click the center :P
Something you might want to add would be the ability to reset the ball and not the whole field so that you can test your terrain and revise it as needed.

Just some simple suggestions, but nice work :)

I have fixed the refresh button in the next version so you can click center too.

Here is a video preview of the next version!

http://www.bobhoil.com/?p=823 (http://www.bobhoil.com/?p=823)