awesome, fixed for brave thanks. I now get to see the 'run finished' page, but feels strange, I played 4 or 5 levels and then run complete, then another 4 or 5 levels, and reached smiley, but looks like you lose upgrades each time. Anyway lvl 3 ball piercing with 2 balls was started to feel like a bullet shooter with coins exploding everywhere, great fun!
I had one level completed that showed 0 out of 0 and 0 in 0, or something like that.
Also an occasion where I got to pick 3 upgrades after a single level, felt like god mode or something hehe.
On my old FF(esr) it fails at ctx.fillStyle = currentLevelInfo()?.color || 'black' (game.js 148) expected expression, got '.' which is what most sites these days seem to use to crash my grumpy old browsing.
Ah yes, I guess the a?.b syntax is also quite new, and as a grumpy many myself, i didn't feel like adding a js preprocessor. This syntax is used 25 times, i think at that point it would be more reasonable to write my game in typescript or something else kids do these days haha. The run should complete at level 7, unless you extend it with the "+1 level" upgrade up to three time. If you stop at level 4 or 5 it means you dropped the ball, or there's a bug. And yes, once the run is over, you loose all upgrades, however some new ones are unlocked and added to the "pool", same for levels, so you'll see interesting new things in the next run.
The "pick 3 upgrades" should happen when you play very well and clear the level in 30 seconds without missing any coins and without ever shooting nothing (well, then you'd get 4 upgrades actually). If the game bugs out and ends the level immediately, it will effectively consider you did all those things. I don't have telemetry, so I have no idea what could have caused this. Can you tell me the OS, browser name and browser version ? I'll give it a try on browserstack. Or maybe even better, open the dev console and see if there's some funny business happening over there
I'm glad you have no stats, especially for hours spent playing!
I have a better feel for it now, and still really like it. Although it can be a bit jarring to have crazy upgrades and clear a level in 3s, only to have completed the run, and be back to 60s+ level 1.
I worked out the extra levels thing you mentioned (it was probably always 7 but felt shorter because of the fast pace!) and I hit 10 levels on a few runs, but the text was wrong a couple times eg. '+1 level lvl 2 - 1 more brick replaced by a bomb'.
The new coins are cute, although I also liked the spray of colour on the old ones.
The repulse is fun, although I had one ball bouncing left to right a few times, before another one shifted it, but could imagine a stuck ball had it missed.
6149 my top score so far. Do those scores/stats persist between plays, otherwise I might never be able to close the browser again!
Right, 'one last game' to see what wind is all about.
The '+1 choice permanently' is maybe '+1 choice until run end', I knew it sounded too good to be true hehe
It would be nice to see which level I am on between levels since that influences choice.
11,531, but more than 10k score from a single level in a few seconds, but it was seriously overloaded! Might be worth to merge 50 coins into fat coins when that happens?
The +1 level shows level count only sometimes.
mouse/paddle gets stuck sometimes, not sure on this one, maybe out-of-play could pause? until back within the play zone.
I got a catch rate 119% I think I had a level with caught more coins than 'out of n'
sturdy? bricks was a fun pick with 3 balls, oopsi!
Thanks for the feeback, very welcom of course. I have to ctrl+f for "hours ago" to find recent messages in the conv, HN is taking some time to tame. For the coins merge, it's already the case, coins sometimes contain more "points" than they seem, once you have at around 300 coins on screen. I suspect the pause/lag could be js garbage collection, there's still a lot to do concerning reuse of particles and coins to avoid sipping on the ram every frame.
I still get a few: 'You caught 0 coins out of 0 in 0 seconds (+1 upgrade and choice). You missed 0 times (+1 upgrade and choice). Well done !'
it would be nice to see score from final level, because it is normally too hectic to see whilst playing!
The level thing looks better, but maybe 8 instead of 7, then goes to 9 instead of 8, 10 instead of 9.
I had a peek at the code, because there was a strange symbol like a pair of eyes at the top, maybe it was the heart.
I play desktop, and when the mouse moves out of bounds left or right, it doesnt move the paddle at all until back within bounds, that is what normally ends my game.
I try to resist playing more because I reached Worms and realised I ran out of perks. Well done again, and best of luck if you commercialise the game.
PS and if you click your username in HM you can access all your comments, it might be easier searching for replies.
I had one level completed that showed 0 out of 0 and 0 in 0, or something like that. Also an occasion where I got to pick 3 upgrades after a single level, felt like god mode or something hehe.
On my old FF(esr) it fails at ctx.fillStyle = currentLevelInfo()?.color || 'black' (game.js 148) expected expression, got '.' which is what most sites these days seem to use to crash my grumpy old browsing.
I'll give the last brick another run, thanks.