subcon959 posted on Dec 20 2006 at 06:37 PM said:
1 - I seem to keep the X key pressed permanently. I might be the only one but I'd love to have an option to keep the paddle at fullspeed without having to press the button.
How about holding the X button pressed for 1 second, and then the paddle becomes permanently full-speed? There'd be an icon on the screen indicating that it's fullspeed, and then you could hold it pressed for one more second to revert to the slower speed. During that 1 second, you would still be able to move the paddle fast, as in the current game. Please let me know your ideas about this, I didn't really think this through, just ideas that came to me while I was typing this.
subcon959 posted on Dec 20 2006 at 06:37 PM said:
2 - I actually dove straight into the tournament first time I fired up the game and won without conceeding a single goal. I'm definitely not a particularly skilled gamer so perhaps the difficulty could be raised a little.
I'll look into it, although I was under the impression that it's pretty hard, especially starting at the Normal difficulty, when the AI has faster reflexes. Did you win the whole tournament on the first go, or just the first game? If you actually won the whole thing, try again and be surprised

I'll be honest and admit that I have no desire whatsoever to alter the AI code right now. Little gameplay tweaks are another thing, but for now I want to focus on my next game which I hope to release a demo of this weekend. That's not to say I won't come back to Airplyr, as I already optimized some parts of it, and I plan on refining the tournament mode.
subcon959 posted on Dec 20 2006 at 06:37 PM said:
3 - I had to keep the volume quite low when I played so I may be wrong here but I didn't notice a sound effects. If so then I think that awesome sound of the puck being smashed in real air hockey would be the icing on the cake here. I assume you already thought of this though and it was just too difficult to find the appropriate sample.
The thing is, the puck gets smacked quite often, and I find repeated sound effects frustrating. At a certain point I had them playing, as well as little beeps each time you roll-over a menu button, but that got on my nerves rather quickly :lol: On the other hand, there's a sound effect playing each time a goal is scored and the puck falls into the table.
Thanks for your thorough feedback!
- Alex