Score: 7
"Buggy but fun"
date: May 16, 2009
There are a great many bugs because of lag, and some general design flaws.
When you or someone else lags, you can see him to
- fly through your bombs or your flames unharmed
- place bombs a couple of steps ahead of himself
(this one is weird because even when he lags, i would've expected both his movements and bomb placements to lag identically and not be offset)
- blow up a brick a second before his bomb goes off, and a second later his flame appears and goes through where the brick was and kills you
(really annoying, and i've seen it often enough to be quite certain it was not a case of different bombs; and again weird as there is some kind of desync between the bomb explosion, killing of bricks and powerups, and killing of players - they somehow lag differently from each other)
- place bombs that carry over to the next game if it was started very fast and kill a few bricks or even players
- stand in one place and be virtually immune (poor disconnect handling, i guess; also, sometimes i've seen it happen with moving people too)
Displaying the ping times of all players to the server would be good, so people would know who to blame :p
The "click to play again" or whatever text is bad design. It is annoying to have to let go of the keyboard and get the mouse between every game. A keyboard shortcut would have been good.
And it is buggy too. Because of lag, sometimes when the game ends one person can click and start the next game very fast while another would keep seeing the "click here" thing until he also clicks it... which restarts the game again, and the other players would not expect it and may often place a bomb on their start location or some such.
At the end of some games it is really not obvious who has won. Some type of scoreboard would be good.
But the game is a lot of fun when it's playable, thank you for it.
