Pop-A-Holic Beta Download
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| This game was originally written by a friend of mine who is helping me out with Glimmer Games. I agreed to shine it up a bit, add some GUI stuff, profiles, high scores, tutorials, menus, change a few graphics and a 3d character to replace the sprites and this is the result. It's another variation on the "Match Three Items™" theme. The tutorial mode explains the game as well as I could, so go right for that. It's likely to be a bit rough here and there and there are a few features missing. There's no level editor included in the beta either. I'm basically after performance problems and bugs, but other feedback is welcome of course. I've implemented a slightly unusual custom timing system too, so if anything goes cuckoo with that, let me know. Puzzle games are sooooo not my thing ( playing or writing them ) so I've had a really hard time figuring out if this is a decent game or not. Hopefully the feedback will help me figure that out. I think the levels, particularly the early ones need some tweaking. I think some of the early levels ( 5-10 ) could do with being a bit faster. Other than that, I don't really know. Controls : Left and Right cursors move the girl. Down cursor catches a balloon and Up cursor throws balloons in hand. Download : http://www.glimmergames.com/downloads/pop_a_holic_beta1.exe Screen:  |
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| i love this sort of stuff, and the 3d character very nice touch, i like the run anim, the fact you can collect more than one makes it more interesting, controls nice, no problems, look forward to seeing the other characters/profiles me thinks my kids will like this |
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| I think it looks very polished -- not bad! Couple of remarks: 1) After creating a profile, it's not very intuitive that you need to select it first before you can go into the graphics options and such. Especially since you can't just click on a profile to select it, but actually have to press the 'select' button at the bottom of the screen to activate your already high-lighted choice. 2) A full-screen mode is missing... The problem with windowed mode is that there tend to be a lot of other distractions around the edges of the window, or if you pick a large window it may not fit properly (taskbar, etc.) 3) The biggest issue with the gameplay itself appears to be speed -- while things are running very smooth, I find myself waiting for the main sprite to finally make her way over to where I want her to be, which takes some of the 'immersion' away. You may want to consider bumping up the movement speed a bit, or making it user customizable. (Personally I would prefer it if the sprite at the bottom of the screen would move at about twice the speed it currently does) |
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| i love this sort of stuff, and the 3d character very nice touch, i like the run anim, the fact you can collect more than one makes it more interesting, controls nice, no problems, look forward to seeing the other characters/profiles me thinks my kids will like this Thanks. That's good to hear. 1) After creating a profile, it's not very intuitive that you need to select it first before you can go into the graphics options and such. Especially since you can't just click on a profile to select it, but actually have to press the 'select' button at the bottom of the screen to activate your already high-lighted choice. Agreed. The profiles are irritating, but I'm not 100% sure what to do with them yet. The reason you have to use the select button is that clicking twice on the profile lets you edit the name ( someone is bound to misspell their name. ) 2) A full-screen mode is missing... The problem with windowed mode is that there tend to be a lot of other distractions around the edges of the window, or if you pick a large window it may not fit properly (taskbar, etc.) You're right. Fullscreen is definitely required. 3) The biggest issue with the gameplay itself appears to be speed -- while things are running very smooth, I find myself waiting for the main sprite to finally make her way over to where I want her to be, which takes some of the 'immersion' away. You may want to consider bumping up the movement speed a bit, or making it user customizable. (Personally I would prefer it if the sprite at the bottom of the screen would move at about twice the speed it currently does) I think user customizable would just result in everyone picking the highest speed to make the game easier. I'll see if I can make it a bit faster though. |
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