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No gamepad support?

Looks like a fun concept, but maybe a bit buggy at the moment.  By the second tutorial level, the balls can't even reach the next step after the splitter right at the start, meaning you have no way to actually do anything at first.  At best, you can turn the angle of the repeater to fire directly at the gold blocks, but the splitter is useless due to crazy short range.

are balls that pass through splitters supposed to have a lifetime of less than one square...?

Please bring back that old soundtrack you had few months ago :/

can you update the wins 32 version(like please)

Hello! I really like the concept of this game, and it was quite fun(albeit grindy) to play through a few levels. I Like the gameplay and the graphics aren't bad. One suggestion, if I can, I would love it if you could add a "sandbox mode" where you can just play around with unlimited money and learn how to get good at the game. It won't be very hard to implement, considering those debug tools are already in the game. You can reuse a lot of things from the code of the debug tools for it. 

Thanks!

Very cool, would just need some UI improvements as it looks a bit off, but the idea and gameplay are on point, congrats!

I love this game, its so fun

Love the idea, do you plan Linux support?

A very great thing!

First, i found out the mechanics. I found out a few stuff and also found out some really good workarounds, including this one:

I also like the game, but you could create new levels. One example is where you have to take down 5 voids but they all need a path to get to them, making them have more chance to grow before they can actually get damaged.

Its actually one of the best factorio/shapez.io styled games i have played. I hope you read this review :)

Absolutely awesome!

At first glance the game gave me a factorio type of vibe, but the way it's set up makes it so resource management isn't really a problem (I was able to very easily beat every level with just repeaters, splitters, and side projectors) so it's pretty chill. I really loved the game's concept, and its sound effects and music do a very good job of really selling the execution. The soundtrack could use a bit more variation, but it's not really much of an issue since the current song is pretty good.

I found a few glitches: There's the shooting-through-blocks glitch that you already know about, though if I'm being honest that glitch isn't game-breaking so I'm not sure if you'd even need to remove it since it could be used to add a bit of strategy to things. (Imagine a level that bans the piercer and wants you to figure out a way to get through some walls. You could use the glitch, or you might rotate the edge blocks to form a tiiiny path way if the corners are missing.)

There's another glitch though: amplifiers and piercers don't seem to refund your money when you sell them. Or, at the very least, they don't refund all of the money you spent on them unless they're at the default price. Normally it's not a problem but... I'll come back to this later.

I also found the piercer to be too OP. It can pass through everything—walls, gold blocks, void, and I think even the wrong side of redirectors—with absolutely no limit to it other than how many redirectors you can place. I agree with LipeCarmel that you only really need one, but they only cost 300... the lack of sound effects when pierced objects fly through something also makes it feel worse to use than the fun bouncy balls that you start with. I kind of feel that it should have a max pierce limit, or maybe make it so the bullets don't keep their pierced property when they enter a redirector.

I really love the fact that you took the time to make so many variables in the game customizable, though! I personally am a fan of RTS-like strategy games so I managed to make a custom pre-set special challenge that puts you under a good deal of pressure, but is still 100% possible. I know LipeCarmel mentoined the game could use a more challenging aspect to it so... hopefully this helps!

It forces you to scout by buying and selling in the fog, plan ahead a bit, and figure out what you want to save for early on. Voids grow faster. Repeaters are less powerful but their low price makes them feel a lot more useful. They aren't enough on their own, though, and resources are somewhat limited... but there's still enough to work with. You also get rewarded for being fast because the faster you work, the less of the map gets destroyed. It's really interesting and fun to play!

This is also where the amplifier/piercer no-refund glitch is so detrimental, though. When you spend like 6k on a piercer or 8k on finally getting an amplifier and then sell them, you lose the HUGE amount that you invested in them for their power. (I'm also considering reducing the piercer to 5k.)

I also found out about another really fun concept: beating a game without a single repeater. I did it by starting a game with a void right next to my starting repeater and then didn't buy another. Instead of a repeater I used a redirector loop with a splitter, so it's more limited and you can't just sell and place it wherever you want—You have to work with where the first loop is. Really fun!

Sorry if my comment is too long. When I write comments/review for games, I tend to be wordy, and I'm even more wordy with the games that I like the most!

This game is amazing, and I'm really looking forward to seeing what you do with it. Thank ye for all the work you've put into it!☺

Really fun game.
I think I've found a bug, if you place any shooter block pointed at a wall it will shoot through it.

Feedback:
Although I really the sandbox nature of the game, it would be nice to have a couple of more challenging puzzle levels, maybe with very limited space, or using a limited number of each block. For example, I find there is absolutely no reason to have more the one piercer and one amplifier, because once you have a fast amplified piercing bullet generator you can just split the beam and send it directly to wherever you need it, you can even repeat it back and forth across the void.
I also agree with the previous comments about the wall block being mostly useless and the level selection being a little weird.

Hey!! I really love the game and I want to see more of it, is there any discord or something where a community would grow up? That'll be really helpful in strategy-searching and for suggestions :D

Very cool and fun! Satisfying to watch when there is hundreds of balls destroying the void.

Some comments:

• It would be great if escape removed the selected node, or it deselected automatically after placing a single one.
• The initially selected level should be the tutorial. I launched the game and I think it must have been on random or something I was very confused. This would also be better by clicking the level launching that level not changing what the start game functionality is.

5/5 stars

"Cool"

Cool, cool and cool, also cool and cool altough cool and cool, cool is cool. Also cool and cool needs to cool because cool has a cool and cool needs cool.

Very strong game loop! I had a ton of fun discovering new pockets of gold and figuring out how best to exploit them.

I never really felt a need to use an amplifier (it may just be that I'm not entirely sure what they do), and I DEFINITELY never felt like I needed to build a wall. I could be playing it inefficiently and wrong, but to me it felt like building a wall might hinder future expansion. At one point I tried to angle the wall at 45 degrees to bounce the balls in the direction of the face, but that just bounced the balls (which were coming in at a 90 degree angle) right back to the node from which they came, leading me to achieve the desired effect with another node and not looking at the wall option again.

Overall, this is a very good prototype and I can't wait to see what more comes of it :)

Is a Linux version possible? most game engines let you compile for Linux just by clicking a button and if this relies on something without a Linux version(like DirectX)you could package it With wine and everything else needed to make it work along with measures to make it easy to run and avoid conflict with other versions of Wine installed on the system. If you want to avoid troubles with different distros package it as both a Flatpack and a Snap(Ubuntu doesn't have Flatpack and newer versions of Linux Mint prevent Snapd from being installed by default)

The game doesn't fit vertically on my 768 laptop screen. A resizable window or resolution settings would be really nice.

Really great game. Controls could use a little bit of work.

this is a really fun and entertaining time waster. the music is just so good. it really fits in with the game. This is a game that i would spend hours on if it had more goals than just destroy the void. I can see this game being a lot of fun with just more things to accomplish.

Nice Job.

Saving?

unfortunately the game window does not fit on my 720p monitor lol

The game looks really good
However, it seems that I can't run the game is it requires 64-bit, Is a 32-bit executable possible?

Hi, I tried to download the game and unzip it but the computer says that I don't have the necessary rights to open it. What can I do?

Unplaced repeaters do emit balls. This means you can take your players ability to place repeaters, for an extra challenge.

how do i fix this bug-?

Also a noob question, how do you full screen it

moar levels!!

Maybe a noob question, but how to move the camera around? I have tried to use arrow keys, AWSD and dragging mouse, but nothing seems to work.

The game is pretty fun and tactile, I love the sound design. 
However I think it's kinda too easy to build a cheese machine like this and then spam amplifiers all over the map. Really like it tho.

This game has an awesome idea and visuals. However, font is something odd and there's an issue with audio settings, when I drag SFX slider the music disappears, but dragging the music slider gets it back.

This looks awesome! What a cool idea.