I like the idea, but here are my suggestions:
1) make instant respawn (like just pressing spacebar)
2) make more levels
3) add more stuff..

Thanks for your feedback!

Please give me a keyboard shortcut for starting a level and going to the main menu. You ask me to hold my hand on spacebar, arrows and the mouse. I do NOT have 3 hands :D. Honestly that killed the experience for me, not the fact that I kept dying.

Ah, I can't believe I forgot to do that. If I was allowed to change it I would, but I think its against compo rules(not sure).

I absolutely love little games like this. Great time killers, and they leave you with a sense of "I can do this" but you have to keep trying and trying and trying.

Nice game. Simple, but there is nothing wrong with that.

I completely agree with laserbeam. Pressing "R" to restart or something similar would be much appreciated. Another thing; it would be nice to see my score on the end screen. I think I had 4 or 5 seconds left, but I'm not sure. Games like these demands that you do them again and again to beat your highscore, but I don't know what my highscore is :-P

Nice idea and a solid implementation. Making us start from the beginning each time was brutal but I finished eventually!

Thanks everyone for the awesome feedback! I just added a keyboard shortcut for the buttons just now, but I think it would be unfair to edit this entry.

This was way harder than I thought it would be, but in a good way. Fun little challenge. Nice work.

A fun little game. :) I found myself thinking "just one more time", over and over again. Always a good sign. Well done! :)

As others have said, space for respawn would be great! :)

Very simple. Good effort!

Wow, that was really really hard. Looked easy at first but.. dammit.

Having to go back to the first level after losing at the second and third was kind of frustrating

harder than it looks. A great challenge. I made it to level 3 after about 10 tries. I'd like more levels, a faster restart/respawn and some easier levels on the way to some of the harder ones.

Really nice concept and execution of the theme!

Very frustrating, I couldn't help but notice that it was not frictionless. Good programming though. Good Job!

Would be cool if dying send you back to the start of level instead of the start of the game. Other than that, a nice simple little game you have. :)

I like the idea of added time to the next level, encouraging you to go as fast as possible early on to get more breathing space for the harder levels (like level 3! grr). Could do with more stuff in the level, maybe moving obstacles. I actually kind of like starting from the beginning provided a bigger version of the game is split up into 5 level chunks. It really forces you to learn the levels quickly in order to advance.

ah... fun...
slightly addictive..
but frustrating...
having to start over after multi fail on 3rd lvl... especially on collision detection...
definitely more levels...
maybe power up (for wall bounce or walls you can bounce off from)...
but all in all, pretty cool for 48hr compo.
btw... like the timer carry over...

SAAAAAAAAAAAANS! :D
Apart from that it's a great game, took me quite a while to finish it

Good idea, and fairly smooth ball control -- but a couple of suggestions, which are pretty much the same as other people have said: keyboard shortcuts for playing and restarting, and restart to the level you died at, not to the beginning of the game!

Maybe add so that you can keep trying a level until your time runs out. Lack of friction make the game kind of interesting.

Thanks for the great suggestions and feedback everyone!

Games like this, especially for jams, should sort of checkpoint each level. It's generally not fun to replay the previous levels? Nice idea though. Work on it more and maybe give it a theme and new art.

good job

hard control, but i like it