Magnetic Billiards: Blueprint

[JPickford]

Ste's blogged about your guide Andrew. Hope it's okay to use/slightly edit your image?

http://www.zee-3.com/pickfordbros/blog/ ... p?post=594

[Andrew__72]

No problem at all. Very nice.
I've no doubt 100 million grand score is possible. I just can't do a few tables anything like their max.
Got the one week achievement, good job most of it was on holiday!
When I was on 1.6 million looking up at 14 and 20 million scores I thought it was like angry birds with the top few scores being impossible and hacked or due to a bug (I was top 100 on seasons at one point). Then I got 500,000 on one table and started to really understand the scoring system by going through the casual tables again.
I have 620 points on casual table 1 and 2140 points on casual table 2.
Ok so that's a drop in the grand score but if you can work out how to score well on the simple tables it'll help later on.

Andrew

[PVB]

@Andrew: While I won't get anywhere near your scores, I did manage to make a doughnut for the first time yesterday using your guide.

Have shared Ste's blog post on Facebook.

[JPickford]

Andrew, we're designing a lot of new tables at the moment. Do you want to design one? We don't have an editor or anything so you'll just have to sketch your layout. The levels are constructed procedurally with randomised ball colours etc. If you have an idea for a dream/nightmare layout let us know.

JP

Just a few hours left to vote BTW: http://appmadness.net/?p=1200

[The Caffeine Kid]

Are you planning on adding any other table features to shake things up?

I think interior walls and/or bumpers would really make new tables really look new.

[JPickford]

Two new features. Pegged (fixed in place) balls and balls tied together with struts. Combined they can make tables VERY puzzley. Almost like sudoku in that balls have to be cleared in a certain order.

I've experimented with different shaped tables and stuff but I don't think they add very much.

[matt]

The struts thing kind of reminds me of E-Motion. Although obviously i've not seen it in your game as yet.


http://members.home.nl/bas.de.reuver/emotiondeluxe/

[JPickford]

Yeah basically like that. Only it'll be balls of a different colour connected.

I once made a prototype a bit like E-motion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUftbZWaH30

[Andrew__72]

Only thing I'd really like to see is the 3x3 parallelogram count (super parallelogram or rhombus?).
There is enough in the game not to need too much more, internal walls sound interesting and simple.
Think my grand score is 3 times second place now so I'm not sure it would be fair to have the advantage of creating a table I knew I could score highly on.

Andrew

[matt]

@JP cool prototype

Maybe Andrew's "super high scores" tutorial could be put in the game somehow?

[JPickford]

I can link to Ste's blog page.

[Tmuk]

Would it be possible to allow people to listen to their iTunes while playing in future? I currently don't play as much as I might on the bus, cos as soon as I load it up my music cuts out.

[JPickford]

That's how it's meant to work. Works fine for me but not for everyone it seems. I'll have another look at the code.

[PVB]

Is everyone still voting?: http://appmadness.net/?p=1200 - Sorry to keep nagging but this hangman game seems to have a lot of fans.

Has it finished?

Can't seem to vote any more?

[JPickford]

Yeah it finished on 14th. Not sure if anyone is at the controls of that site as they don't seem to have announced us as the winners. Maybe there's a recount going on.

The game is no longer free BTW. It's an incredibly cheap 69p instead.