{"author_link":"\/author\/impiaaa\/","author_name":"Spencer Alves","author_uid":"25511","comments":[{"author_name":"Thepattybeast","author_uid":"18033","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:28am","epoch":1450063380,"text":"Like the game but am very bad at it. How many levels are there? I can't get past the start of level 4."},{"author_name":"Spencer Alves","author_uid":"25511","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 3:36am","epoch":1450063860,"text":"Sorry, I didn't mention that anywhere. There are only 4 levels, after level 4 ends it just starts generating random blocks."},{"author_name":"dekart","author_uid":"14826","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 5:34am","epoch":1450070940,"text":"Very well done game concept, I like it a lot. Simple, but challenging, very interesting to progress.\r\rFew notes:\r* it would be great if the ball would be always visible within the viewport. It goes out of my vision when I put it too far to the left or right.\r* it would provide much better hit feedback if the block I've hit would fall apart or throw out some sparkles\r* yellow text isn't well visible on top of the white sky, a black border around text or a shadow would be great"},{"author_name":"walaber","author_uid":"31888","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:10am","epoch":1450073100,"text":"nice job! the obstacles are well designed- would probably be more fun with a dedicated speed button, but you did a nice job of working it into the theme."},{"author_name":"SoulBound","author_uid":"57021","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:11am","epoch":1450073160,"text":"I really enjoyed playing this game! I really loved the speeding up mechanics. One thing I would recommend would be to have the timer speed up relative to the player. That way you can compete with friends without some of them going really slow. Overall, a really fun game that I'm probably going to be playing for the next few hours. :)"},{"author_name":"Elenesski","author_uid":"57748","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 4:29pm","epoch":1450110240,"text":"Liked the game, but it got too hard too quickly at level 3, good idea though."},{"author_name":"sanojian","author_uid":"7542","time":"Dec 14, 2015 @ 6:28pm","epoch":1450117380,"text":"This game is fun. Clever way to get speed using the directional keys. It is hard, too. The good kind of hard."},{"author_name":"dos","author_uid":"52499","time":"Dec 15, 2015 @ 2:11am","epoch":1450145160,"text":"2 minutes! Great music and fun little gameplay, I'm digging it!"},{"author_name":"TheMeorch","author_uid":"44776","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 4:18am","epoch":1450239180,"text":"This is great! It's a really satisfying challenge to control the ball around the obstacles, given that your control over it differs along each of the 3 axes in a way that is totally natural.\r\rThe only thing I would look into is the fact that players are very likely to momentarily hold both the left and right buttons when they're changing directions -- the current result is an awkward staggering of the camera. Adding a longer wait time before the ball speeds up when you hold both buttons might help.\r\rAnyway, great job!"},{"author_name":"GAFBlizzard","author_uid":"12278","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 7:53am","epoch":1450252080,"text":"I got to 2:08 -- how many levels are there? There seems to be fullscreen spam of obstacles somewhere late in level 3-4.\r\rIt would be nice to be able to beat it. :P\r\rThe game seems cool, but I was bad at it. I think one thing that makes it confusing is that the shadow is diagonal because of the light source. So, it's hard to judge what vertical line you are actually on. Maybe some sort of highlight on the ground could help with this.\r\rTwo, the block hitboxes are big, but the extra life hitboxes are VERY small. I was carefully trying to him them and I kept missing them. :P"},{"author_name":"Drtizzle","author_uid":"32775","time":"Dec 16, 2015 @ 6:43pm","epoch":1450291080,"text":"Neat concept, but there is some room for improvement.\rWhen I press both buttons the ball floats to one side, it doesn't go straight. And some holes are impossible to get trough, because the ball is the exact same size.\rWell done!"},{"author_name":"wooltech","author_uid":"46350","time":"Dec 20, 2015 @ 1:58am","epoch":1450576380,"text":"Works well, but is a pretty tricky on level four!\r\rSometimes pressing both buttons to speed up would send you moving left or right too if not pressed exactly right, which hurled me to my death a few times! Maybe that's just me being bad at it though."},{"author_name":"Hectigo","author_uid":"3671","time":"Dec 22, 2015 @ 8:52pm","epoch":1450817220,"text":"Fun gameplay, and especially the unusual style of the music makes the game feel fresh."},{"author_name":"cubicme","author_uid":"16008","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 6:38am","epoch":1450852380,"text":"great game, fun to play just needs a little camera and control tweak"},{"author_name":"Gamepopper","author_uid":"21252","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 1:43pm","epoch":1450877880,"text":"Not bad for an endless runner, the music gave it a relaxing tone, and I liked the design of the obstacles as ones you couldn't avoid so easily."},{"author_name":"XenosNS","author_uid":"28415","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 7:06pm","epoch":1450897260,"text":"Decent. Would of preferred if the shadows lined up more under the spaces to gauge where I was."},{"author_name":"Loneshark","author_uid":"35329","time":"Dec 23, 2015 @ 10:25pm","epoch":1450909200,"text":"For the HTML5 player I found out that with a gamepad I can make the ball go in reverse by moving with the left directional axis! Unfortunately the velocity is static so eventually the ball's positive velocity will override it and force it to go forward (albeit at a slower pace).\r\rLeft (A) didn't seem to do much as the ball clung to the left wall the whole time, but I found it an entertaining concept to only be able to accelerate or move to the other wall."},{"author_name":"ZYXer","author_uid":"20509","time":"Dec 29, 2015 @ 10:28pm","epoch":1451427780,"text":"Good game idea! I like how you can control the speed, but still have a minimum speed, so you are constantly under pressure.\r\rThe difficulty curve is quite tough, but that can be good."},{"author_name":"samreid","author_uid":"50503","time":"Dec 31, 2015 @ 6:44am","epoch":1451543940,"text":"Nice game, I made it to level 4. Very solid entry, with gameplay, graphics, etc. Nice work!"},{"author_name":"Geckoo1337","author_uid":"35835","time":"Dec 31, 2015 @ 3:11pm","epoch":1451574360,"text":"Like the game but am very bad at it. I dislike jazz ++"}],"images":["ld34\/25511-aaceb55b3ed92a3c18322da5463433d4.jpg","ld34\/25511-1e2afb6f67fa1e19715e5d3410dd7078.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.boatcake.net\/media\/ld34\/","text":"Unity HTML5"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.boatcake.net\/media\/ld34\/BallBall Babbaballoo Windows.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.boatcake.net\/media\/ld34\/BallBall Babbaballoo Mac.zip","text":"OS X"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.boatcake.net\/media\/ld34\/BallBall Babbaballoo Linux.zip","text":"Linux"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/impiaaa\/Ludum-Dare-34","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"7326","g_author":"25511","g_event":"LD34","g_eventkey":"31","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"7358","g_title":"BallBall Babbaballoo!","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"377","g_commentcount":"20","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/25511-shot0-1450059832.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/511439\/25511-shot1-1450059832.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Use left and right (or A and D) to move the ball back and forth. Press both at the same time to speed up. Dodge obstacles, and go for a high score!\r\n\r\nIf you're having issues with the HTML5 player, you can also try the legacy Unity Web Player: http:\/\/www.boatcake.net\/media\/ld34\/web\/","title":"BallBall Babbaballoo!"}