Hi all! I'm one of the dudes that made the game with Telephant. Nice to see some feedback for our game, positive and negative! As my first post on this forum I thought I'd answer to some of it
This is awesome!
Thanks BlackseaOdyssey! We all kind of love this little game and would like it to evolve further.
Very cool game! One thing I did notice is that the space bar works on all the buttons except the "Go" button on the controls page, which means I had to use the mouse instead of just hammering space to play again.
This is a good point, we wanto to completely rework how the menus work and how the game sets up levels (since it's all very gamejam-hacky at the moment), and quick access to replay is a great thing to keep in mind, thanks!
to be honest, it does not seem like a very good multiplayer game. there is no way (as far as I could tell) to actually target and make a point. but it might be good as a single player, where one player uses both panels and has to destroy something in the middle?
Two paddles is an interesting idea. During development we sometimes would test the game like this, with both paddles being controlled by the same keys. It's possible there might be something fun there. I'll look into it! Why I think it really works as a multiplayer game is that the competitiveness of players really makes a lot more fun. And you can influence the bounce of the ball, especially once the slowmo-mechanic kicks in!
Pretty good for a jam game. It's actually really nice how (to human eyes) unpredictably the gravity affects things.
I wish there was a way to put this more positively, but I think five obviously talented people could do much more interesting things than a Pong rework, after the jam. Don't put more time into this.
Thanks starsrift! You actually sort of touched on one of my favourite things about the game. Yes the physics seem unpredictable at first and while they never become entirely predictable, it's cool how over time you do get a sense of how things are going to bounce, until a sudden slingshot around the sun completely undoes all your grand plans.
As for the second part of your comment, I understand what you mean, but for a lot of us this is something we want to work on in our spare time as a fun thing. A lot of us work in games/tech during the day and it's fun to kick back and work on a small fun project after work.
Wow this turned out much longer than I thought. Sorry about the wall of text everyone!
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