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[Kirl]

I am putting the finishing touches to my game and I was wondering how you all like it? It is my 1st flash game which I plan to distribute on several sites. Please submit a highscore (shouldn't be difficult), I can only seem to enter 1 name myself, so I'm unsure if it's working correctly.

You may notice I have sold my soul and included an ad at the loading of the game (I'm not making any $$$ yet, I'm waiting for the aproval process). This is an experiment, I would like to hear your view on this. It feels slightly cheap...
 
C&C is very welcome, you may be blunt!

Try it here: www.kirl.nl/bw3.html

[benny!]

Nice game indeed, Kirl. Congratulations. I know that there are some games around
of this 3D Pong, but this is the only type of this game I know where you have multiple balls to play with. That's make it special and nice.

Wish you good luck with it.

[Kirl]

Thank you Benny and Clyde for submitting a highscore! Those are some poor scores, lol, but I'm really glad you submitted them. I was a little worried I had mistakenly set the highscore to one name, I guess it's only one highscore per IP or something...

Any words on the difficulty or the adds in particular?
I was hoping for some cleansing words of wisdom or some scolding words like sellout! 

[Shockwave]

I found it pretty addictive but difficult, 300 was about the best I managed.
Good game though and as Benny said, there are variants of this game around but I haven't seen any where you can lose the walls and have more than one ball which makes it different.

[benny!]

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Any words on the difficulty or the adds in particular?
I was hoping for some cleansing words of wisdom or some scolding words like sellout! 

Hmm .. I like the difficulty so far. Well, it may be hard - but it is not too hard.
Personally, I think it has the right level of difficulty that makes you wanna replay
that game again.

About the ads. What should we say about it. I personally also used mochi ads
in my flash game. I think the way you used them is not disturbing at all.

[rdc]

Neat game. I like it.

[Kirl]

Thanks all, those were some cleansing words of wisdom, I needed that! 
Also my game is aproved, I'm gonna be rich!

*lol, I just checked out the smileys. Some disturbing smiley's we got here, I like it!

[Kirl]

Oops, sorry rdc, it seems I have accidentally smitten/smotten/? you, I wasn't really paying attention and was curious what that link was (it's getting rather late around here). I guess it's a Karma thing so I have aplauded as well, I hope I haven't upset the balance of the force or whatever...
My aplogies, please accept this humble hara kiri

[benny!]

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Also my game is aproved, I'm gonna be rich!
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What ways of monetizing do you have in mind? There are several ways to monetize
a casual flash game (sponsorship,exclusive site locks,API integration,ads ...)

[Kirl]

I'm kidding mostly, I just have the single ad at loading. I'm not really familiar with this stuff yet, I'm still reading up on the possibilities. If you have some suggestions I'd like to hear them.

[Clyde]

It's a really nice, original and addictive game.

i'd recommend to new players to try it with one ball to start out with.

when you hit the ball(s) does it work like tennis, in that spin and swerve and taken into count?

[Kirl]

Yes, you can add cuve/spin to the ball, but as the back wall gets further away and the balls speed up, the effectiveness of it drops. It's really only usefull at times when you're trying to keep a ball from passing by the front screen and curve it back inside the field.

When looking at the highscores it seems as if most people don't understand the concept very well, this is probably related to my attempt at a short explanation (players hate reading). I get scores of well under 500 pts while you can get 500 points in only 10 bounces with 1 ball (1050 pts in 14 bounces), if you manage to avoid the sides that is.

I show a brief explanation after loading the game, but it seems it's unsuccesfull in communicating this concept.

Any ideas for a better worded description are very welcome, I'm not a native english speaker, so I'm not entirely sure about the effectivenes.

[Clyde]

the instructions are clear enough dude, just im a bit rubbish at picking up the knack ( method ) Just scored 890!

[combatking0]

My best score so far is 120. It's addictive, but I'm not sure what's going on.

[Kirl]

What don't you understand exactly?

The nr on the ball is the nr of points you'll receive when it hits the back wall, if the ball hits a side all it's points are lost. So if you manage to avoid the sides for a couple of bounces, you can collect a huge nr of points on every bounce. As Clyde mentioned, it is easier to focus on a single ball at first.

Let me know if my explanation helped.

[combatking0]

The sides disappear some times and the balls escape. It might just be my computer not rendering it properly.

[Kirl]

lol, it's part of the game, if you hit a side several times it'll dissappear. I guess I really should add some sort of hitCounter or clue when this is about to happen.

Thanks for your feedback!