I beat 6 out of 8 levels! I thought it was a unique and fun idea and I'm happy to see a physics based game :) My main feedback is that I wish the bars wouldn't reset everytime I pressed X. It would be so much easier to adjust my preexisting platforms than to remember exactly what I drew before. Otherwise very nice overall!
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Marble Drop's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #1182 | 3.714 | 3.714 |
| Creativity | #2382 | 3.714 | 3.714 |
| Audio | #4876 | 2.714 | 2.714 |
| Narrative | #7567 | 1.929 | 1.929 |
| Artwork | #8732 | 2.071 | 2.071 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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The marbles count down as they fall. They also have numbers, and they fall down. (no depressed counts, sorry)
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52 days ago(+1)
Thanks for playing! I’ve had a couple people agree with you on that, so I hope to change it after the jam! If I can figure it out, I might also add a way to adjust the line’s points after placing, so you don’t have to completely redo them.
53 days ago (+1)
Haha, yeah, I got a little crazy after the tutorial! I’d already taken up 3 of the 8 levels on really easy stuff, so I guess I panicked a little bit and made it too hard. I appreciate the feedback, this has all been a great learning experience so far!
EDIT: Also, for that particular level…
Spoiler (hint for level 4)
...make sure your lines aren't too steep! On a steep track, the marbles are quickly pulled downward by gravity more than they're rolled across. On a flatter track, they're still affected by gravity, of course, but they have more time to build horizontal momentum from rolling across. That momentum is needed to cross the gap over #2!Such a simple concept, executed perfectly. I don't play a huge number of puzzle games, but I didn't really enjoy this; I think it's probably because it's physics based!
The last couple of levels were definitely quite challenging and took a decent amount of trial and error, but got there in the end!
N.b. on the resizing issue, Firefox worked perfectly and it scaled up to my monitor. I don't know if monitor resolution has an impact, but I'm just on 1080p.
The music and audio is nice and works well, perhaps there could be a little juice on the marbles, but it's a pretty minor thing. I do agree with another commenter that I would have loved a restart button that maintained my current line setup, but maybe that would have trivialised the game too much by allowing fine tuning on a line-per-line basis.
I enjoyed this, and probably spent close to an hour playing! Thank you.
54 days ago (+1)
Thanks for playing and taking the time to write this out! I did go back and forth a couple times on whether the X button should delete the lines or not, and if I had extra time, I probably would have made it a difficulty setting. I’m glad the UI worked alright for you, it’s super annoying to have a massive bug like this one but at least not everybody’s getting hit by it.
Yeah, I had similar reports about the UI. I had to try and fix it in the last hour, so I probably missed something 😅
But thanks for playing! I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Can you actually tell me your monitor resolution if you don’t mind? I obviously can’t fix it now, but I’m curious if it’s something with that.
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