Suggestions/Inspiration for levels
jigglybean
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Hi all
Right now, I have almost 50 levels in a physics based puzzle game using balls. The ball drops from a spawner and the player needs to catch as many balls as possible.
However, this is made more challenging due to a variety of obstacles in the way, making the balls change direction.
I am starting to run out of ideas to make the levels challenging, but not impossible so was wondering where people turn for inspiration for stuff like this?
The balls come from a spawner which moves in different directions. Some levels have it moving up/down faster etc
Obstacles include
Windmill Sails
Magic Hats that teleport balls
Bumpers from a pinball machine
bouncy pegs
Deathball which ends the game if collected
Variety of platforms for the balls to roll down.
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Comments
Just thinking out loud here….
How about teleporting balls they drop as normal then stop falling and interpolate alpha to 0 then teleport to a new position interpolate alpha back to 1 then continue to fall.
A bomb ball that will blow up any balls in the radius of the bomb ball if touched, idea is to avoid this ball.
You could have a wind machine type actor that the user can rotate to blow the balls in the right direction avoiding spikes for eg.
A video of the gameplay might inspire some suggestions
Hey Darren thanks for the idea. I have a 'magic hat' that already does this. Wind machine sounds like a good idea
I will add more detail to my description.
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I did run in to this problem with my first game, and realized that if you flip your scene vertically or horisontally (not actually flip it but place the obstacles like if you flipped the scene) you get a whole new level, and you can tweak it from there
Just a thought