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mjl156's Circle Pong Extreme (PC)
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| [March 5, 2009 07:46:55 PM]
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Circle Pong Extreme is a nice attempt to make a Java Application game. Java is not renound for it's ease of use when doing drawing programs, so I commend team Alpha on their accomplishment.
To start off, the game is more fun than it may look, when it works correctly. The shrinking of the paddle adds a new gameplay variety. The powerups are also nice. They are composed of Multi-ball (few and far between), Sticky ball (i wish were uninvented), Lengthen paddle (handy), Large Ball (good IDEA), and possibly others (that i never got).
Again, team alpha played it safe by going with a tride and true game, but at the same time really chanced dropping the ball. My main concern with the game is the collision detection. The Large Ball powerup made the ball easier to see, but did not actually make the ball bigger at all. If you didnt quite Center it on the paddle, it can just pass straight through. Also, in the same aspect, the powerups had almost non-existant detection themselves. If you did not pass the ball STRAIGHT through the middle, you werent getting it.
My first 15 playthroughs were quite short. I double-clicked the Exe and watched as it loaded. The game screen turned on, It loaded the paddle and the ball, then I told me "You Lose HighScore : 0" on the 16th playthrough i managed to actually MOVE THE PADDLE without losing, then the ball dissapeared and i lost anyway.
Shortly thereafter, i loaded it up and played a round. I could play easily enough, then almost as is it were an act of god, i got the Stick Ball power-up, and noticed, with a slight shock, that the paddle had become invisible. However sicky the paddle may be, being 99% invisible does not consitite a POWER-up. Generally power-up "Empower" the player. Needless to say, I lost AGAIN. This pattern of game crashes, vanishing balls, and invisible-sticky-multiball, no paddle powerups continued for another 5-10 games.
I finally took the time to TRUELY try my best. 110% of my gameing mind went to defeating the high score, however rediculously high it was. I got powerup after powerup, even turning my monitor's brightness up so high it gave me a slight sunburn so i could see the thin blue paddle. I was 3 thousand points short of the record when I hit a muliti-ball powerup, which hit two more multiball powerups, which caused the game to physically cut itself off.
In the end, the game is a good attempt, especially in java. If the paddle shrinkage were smoothed out so it didnt jump in increments, the power-ups had bigger "hit boxes", and the ball didnt vanish upon the start of the game, i think it would be more impressive.
Very very nice try, but I guess God, Satan, or even Tizoc did not wish for me to enjoy the overall experience.
-JB Little
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mjl156's Circle Pong Extreme (PC)
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GameLog started on: Thursday 5 March, 2009
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