https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2767018323

Absolutely amazing. Synergies feel great. Kinda ignored hole upgrades, but I dig the humor.

Failed on the first run, succeeded on the second run.

My only feedback would be - please add some sort of progress bar to the "accumulating" items, like knives - because I'd love to see how many would be launched next round.

Otherwise - amazing stuff. Absolute heroin in digital form.

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Got to round 36(no failing to meet goals) then decided to leave it there. I didn't blow the points out of the water, but at times I was doubling/tripling the required score. By the last round it was pretty close. 

I'm somewhat surprised you're doing a Inscryption by having a dark moody room where you play the game. Mainly since the game doesn't really have a horror feel at all, though it does have a hell set dressing I guess. Besides looks, it's also very casual since it's mostly spray and pray that you get enough points.

When the boss round says you can't use the first item slot, it means you can't click drag the item inside it. The only way to swap it out is if you drag another item onto it. I assume that's a bug, because for instance if you only had 1 item you couldn't move it into the 2nd or 3rd slot if you wanted. Speaking of moving, I somewhat expected that I could move the special pegs around on the board. If you don't want that, then I would have expected to choose which peg gets the upgrade.

Due to random chance I only got a couple Item Shops in the early game, so at the end I only had 3 items. Not sure if I could have upgraded to 4 or 5 slots or not, which would make the winning margin even easier.

It took me several boss rounds to realize that the difficulty increase was for the rest of the run, due to the name it sounded like a 'this set of rounds is the boss' or something. Maybe small, but consider choosing a name more obviously for a creeping difficulty, like 'enter the next layer of hell' or some such.

Really nice presentation and tutorial. The art style reminds me of some flash games that really stood out, like Zombotron for example. The 3D area is a nice touch too. I agree with Penguin Garden that the lives indicator looks like it can be hit, my first shot was towards it, good thing it was during the tutorial. Really fun and solid gameplay loop, best of luck with development! 

I played it a lot, it's really addictive! I died shortly after round 36 on both runs, I though I had a good strategy the second time around but I guess not..

A few nitpicks: The thing that shows your lives looked like an obstacle at first because the cannonball path goes under it. I didn't really get why the timer only works on the last ball which made me get some items that turned out to be not as good as I thought. The boss stages say that you need "double" the score so at first I thought I had to have double the target but it just calculates it for you.

I really like how you can combine items even though I didn't understand it all that well at first and I'm pretty sure I made some of my items worse the first time I tried it. It opens up a lot of possible combinations, especially if more items get added later on.

Good work so far, I'd like to see more in the future. Curious what the 3d area is going to be used for

I enjoyed it a lot! The 3D starting area was really cool, not at ALL what I was expecting, and the plinko gameplay was simple enough. I managed to get (can't remember the names verbatim so bare with me) 2 devil deals, a knife shower and a couple other things which steam rolled me through the game with easy 90k every round. I'm keen to see where you'll take this in the future!

I keep getting invalid zip archive when I d/l this?

This was actually pretty fun. I lost track of time while playing it.

What's the purpose of having to hold RMB in order to drop a ball? Seems like you could just press LMB, and nothing else would change.