The Grumpy Pinball Ball

by olofson

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.85

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.69

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.54

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.08

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.08

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.42

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.10

Mood★★★★★★★★★★1.75

Community★★★★★★★★★★2.38

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★17%

Well, if you spent the last few years being slapped around a table all day, you'd be grumpy too! This ball just wants to be alone on his blocky islands.

UPDATE: Rotated the controls 45 degrees for less confusion.

Original version here: http://www.olofson.net/download/LD22-TheGrumpyPinballBall-0.2-Win32.zip

Comments9

Kitch20 Dec 2011, 02:57

That was fun. Thanks!

TeamEpsilon20 Dec 2011, 03:30

Fun but controls were a bit confusing and rather annoying to learn.

Olofsonauthor20 Dec 2011, 14:03

Turn keyboard some 30-40° counterclockwise. ;-) (Or add "dir -= .25 * PI;" and brackets as needed around line 322 in game.eel.)

Pierrec20 Dec 2011, 20:18

Why Up=left ? It's pretty unusual and consequently hard to control. On the other hand : It's pretty fun!

Olofsonauthor20 Dec 2011, 22:55

It seemed natural at first to have controls world axis aligned, and I got used to that. Fixed (as described above) in version 0.3!

Jacic22 Dec 2011, 17:23

It was hard to control, but very fun.

SonnyBone29 Dec 2011, 18:47

Plays like other old school marble games, so the controls are fine for me. Do the enemies ever fight back?

jeffz2 Jan 2012, 09:48

Couldn't open the 0.3 zip, winrar says the archive is damaged.

Olofsonauthor4 Jan 2012, 15:32

SonnyBone: If you played the 0.3 version, that's where I rotated the controls 45 degrees. Should probably be user configurable...

And no, there's no AI whatsoever. I was short on time. :-)

jeffz: Strange... Tried 7-zip? (Built with Zip 3.0 on Linux.) Also, file size should be 1244287 bytes.