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This game is way better than the 1st place one. You were robbed! (not to mention, the first place one is pretty much a copy of a website I've come across before, in which you place the same kind of arbitrary reflectors to bounce a ball around (albeit with no goal)
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also i just wanna add that looking at the rating of this game, boy am i glad that the final placings in the competition weren't chosen by the idiot public!
I truly feel your pain in getting sounds to sync with the beat in Flash, it's something i'm struggling with too; it would be really nice if you did a little blog post explaining your method in the end of making all the sounds go on the beat. I've noticed for example how there's a delay before the music gets updated when you first place a reflector. Am I right in saying you use the StandingWave library to prepare the beat only when each ball is created?
Getting the sounds and visuals synced with the music was challenging. I spent more time on that than anything else in the game. StandingWave was a huge help. You're right that the beat is "prepared" ahead of time. The game looks ahead to see when future collisions will happen so it can add the sound to a ListPerformance ahead of time. I'll post a bit more detail on apparitiongames.com in the next few days. Good luck with your game and thank you so much for the comments!
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this.. this is just genius. as a musician-gamer you have made me very happy indeed ^^
(also, having played all the entries, i actually honestly think this one should've won just for being i think the only entry where music was a very integral part of the game without feeling like it had been tacked on for tacking-ons sake. for example how everything fits to the beat so perfectly, oh my goodness i just cannot believe how genius this game is!)
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The soundscapes on 1-5 and 11-15 are great, but 6-10 are sub-par. The gameplay is very clever; I love how well everything meshes together. All in all, this was a very well put together game and I think that if you perfected it you could possibly even market it for an app store or something.
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@Moi7 There shouldnt be a mute button on the game since its for a music project so
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@lokilotus I had trouble with level 5 as well until I stopped taking the direct route. Hint - blue first. PS And what is wrong with people that they would rate down a request for help???
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You should have the option to continue to listen to the music even after the level is over, instead of automatically going to the level select screen.
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Pleasant little game, the music works much more often than it doesn't. Much better than Drop, which beat it in the Child of Eden contest.
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Deserves to be rated a lot higher! I can only assume that the low rating is due to competition nastiness? Interesting game, though a bit too short/lacking in features. I didn't much like the last level either.
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I think my favorite music was in level 5. Only thing it needs is to not automatically take you to the level select screen so you can enjoy the music.
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Thanks for comments everyone! I added level select last night. I also made some adjustments to resolve audio playback issues. If you're still having technical problems let me know!
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also also, i want to explicitly praise this game for fitting the spirit of the contest so well. this is so much more impressive than the many games that digest a music file with an algorithm and excrete a boring shooter level.
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Great game! Puzzles had a sufficient degree of difficulty (not being frustratingly hard) and I just love the quirks associated with the beats when the balls collide with objects.. you can tell when you get a puzzle correct by how awesome the beats sound! A suggestion would be to add a level select option and also.. I'm not sure if its just me, but I found level 14 to be trivially easy.. I finished it by using 2/4 of the given reflectors. Btw, good luck with the project eden contest!
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Some really good puzzles, but gets way too easy toward the end. Also, a level select would be nice as the game got messed up and the projectiles stopped coming out and I had to F5. 4/5
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Actually, playing it a second time with the sound turned up was very enjoyable - once I knew the solutions, the sound was no longer a distraction and added a lot to the experience.
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Very clever puzzle game, enjoyed solving them. The downside is that the sound was really annoying when I was trying to figure things out. I had to mute it to play, which kind of defeats the point of the game, unfortunately.