Reviews for Crazy Ball!

[Bezman]

I didn't find it fun.

Pointers
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---- I strongly felt that the difficulty gradient was too shallow. As I so often find (with online games), 90% of the time was spent getting to a point where the game became interesting.

-- Interpolating one or 2 steps in the 'defence' mode would have been nice. (i.e. hitTest for 1 or 2 extra points between the previous frames _x/_ymouse and this frame's.) As it is, I often felt I should have picked up some balls.

--- In survival mode, the power-ups meant that sometimes death felt a bit unfair. Not entirely my fault.

++ Lots of modes

+ recognisable/sensible symbols used for power up/downs.

overall
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If it was the survival mode and it just got speedier at a faster rate, I would have preferred that a lot.

To be honest, I see no reason to raise the speed in 'steps'. Why not in a gradual shift?

As it is, maybe you could have considered the 'Game & Watch Gallery-style' difficulty curve - the speed raising quickly, then dropping to slightly above its original speed each time the level is increased.

It's basically just a seperation of the 2 elements seen in games such as Gavin Shapiro's 'Squares'. Fair enough, you've presented them in your own way. But I think a little more work was necessary to make this truly fun.

[Spikeyboy]

great idea - nice to see something different

Nice to see different ways of playing the game (even 2-player). Good learning curve too. The ball could do with being a little more responsive (v. minor niggle - it's nearly pefect as is), and it would be helpful if there was a little more warning before the level changed - flashing the background colour, maybe? Also, I must admit the music was switched off right away - Probably just my taste....
Great game all round though.

[DamionGrave]

Nice

Very good game.
Good Graphics and style.
sound is simple and works for this kind of game.
You can't get much more interactive than avoiding barriers with different attributes changing your ball around.
Love the effects, good music.

[tow34587]

wow it was awesome

hard but definetly fun

[Ch4osDr4gon]

Nice game, but it's been done

It's a good idea, well initially it was, but there are other games that have the same survival mode style as this game, and they did it much better. The ability to use the keyboard is a plus, but is not as effective as it should be-- the ball should move faster with the keyboard.

Defence mode could've been done a little better. Maybe some powerups could've been placed in like the survival mode.

I don't think that I've seen a 2-player mode for such a game before, but I just don't see TOO much entertainment value in it.

As for the sound, even though I liked the techno loop, it starts to get a little annoying, especially with the fact that the end doesn't match the beginning 100%, which also makes the ending of the "song" very noticeable.

Keep up the good work, but try a little bit harder with future flash games.