Comments on: Spectraball Enters Steam’s Pipes

By: Vinraith

Vinraith — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:32:03 +0000

@RPS

“We’ll have more thoughts on it once we’ve had a chance to play it.”

You guys have been thinking about this one for a long time, I guess. :)

Seriously, though, DID you guys ever play this one? I notice it’s $5 on D2D right now.

By: Harvey62

Harvey62 — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:51:22 +0000

Went back and forth with Steam about crashes at startup for a few days. Finally went to the forums and fixed the problem in a few minutes. Neat game

By: Oliver

Oliver — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:25:25 +0000

Kennel that would be marble blast gold. That is one of my favorite games of all time by the way.

By: pepper

pepper — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:37:01 +0000

I just played it a bit, after giving it a go at school this morning. It didnt run well on those computers and the ball was rather hard to control. But on my own rig with my own controls at home it worked just like it should.

The first few puzzles are pretty straight forward, after this they can get quite challenging and presume you have full control off the ball, and insight in how it will react. This is also were the fun starts, here you need to think, time and coordinate your actions to solve the puzzles. Which give quite a satisfactory feeling when you finish them! I have to leave house in a bit, but if i wouldn’t need to then i would be playing this game all evening. Definitely worth the 10$!

By: scott

scott — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:23:01 +0000

From the video though, it looks to be a lot more dexterity based. Switchball is basically just a bunch of “Here’s a physics puzzle where the solution is relatively obvious” Solve it, move on to the next one. Etc.

I desperately wish I could play this thing right now but, alas, I am too broke at the moment :(

By: isolated1

isolated1 — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:40:24 +0000

It doesn’t seem to be as well programmed as Switchball, it looks worse, its not as smooth. I probably wouldn’t have paid for it if I had tried a demo before I bought it. Its a bit amateur.

By: Jetsetlemming

Jetsetlemming — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:38:45 +0000

I’ve been told the game is shit- extremely buggy and unfinished.

By: scott

scott — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:59:47 +0000

Kennel: Only thing I can think of is “I got some balls”…

http://www.caiman.us/scripts/fw/f822.html

It’s not quite 10 years old yet (almost) but it sounds very similar to your description. I love that game BTW. There is a castle level although it’s not the last level.

Another great ball rolling game that everyone should play is the Metaball mod for UT2k4. Very very refined gameplay for a mod. :-D Too bad the author canned part 2. :(

By: shinygerbil

shinygerbil — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:12:50 +0000

@ryanb: thanks for the tip – but it didn’t work. ;) Well, I’ll keep trying anyway!

Sigh…my computer crashes with lots of things these days. Something to do with most of the components being well over 5 years old, methinks…?

By: pepper

pepper — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:30:09 +0000

This game definitely looks like fun! Il get it ASAP so i can give it a go. You can hardly go wrong with those amounts of money.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:57:07 +0000

The music from Marble Madness started running through my head as soon as I read the words. That was an awesome soundtrack.

By: ryanb

ryanb — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:02:11 +0000

@ shinygerbil: yeah, you have to download physx; the installer with the game isn't working with steam quite right as of right yet but its being worked on. This thread should help: http://flashcubestudios.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=60