Ball and Octopus are such a delight to play with the crank, you've done a terrific job and I can only hope you keep these coming. I would love to see Manhole, Vermin, and Fire.
By the way, I am a games journalist who is commissioning a Playdate game and would like to contact you. Please let me know how to get in touch.
Hi, thanks for your blitz reply. I already had a highscore , I played it since it came out. I have revision 1 hw, and 2.4.2 . As I write this comment I tried your solution and remove game data. Now it works! :) only wish it was playable after 180 score, the ball doubling effect is too prominent. On Game & Watch I was able to go beyond 350
This looks so crisp on the Playdate screen! I was genuinely blown back when I first opened it. So excited for more - would love to see 'Chef' in particular!
(Happy to say that I've been made aware of and picked up Strangest.io's 'Paging Dr. Floppy' since leaving this comment!! Game & Watch fits this platform like a glove.)
I was looking up for this one to be relased! I seems to play easier than original, but after around score 270 in game A balls start to leave traces. There are 4 balls on the screen, the current and previous positions are shown at the same time for each of the 2 balls, hard to keep track.
This is in line with the original G&W version and any other later releases. At a score of 280, the ball will start showing a ‘trace’ effect to make things little harder.
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Ball and Octopus are such a delight to play with the crank, you've done a terrific job and I can only hope you keep these coming. I would love to see Manhole, Vermin, and Fire.
By the way, I am a games journalist who is commissioning a Playdate game and would like to contact you. Please let me know how to get in touch.
Thanks for the feedback!
I’m a bit on a hiatus right now, but I hope to pump out a couple more this year.
On newest fw it crashes before catching the first ball
score. lua:95: attempt 01 index a nil value (global
'highScore ")
stack traceback:
score. :enT 95: in function
incremen tScore
lcggler. in field Tuai,6on 'update in function reverseBallDi <juggler. lua:151> rection
balls.lua:238: UT function
main lua:81: in function cmain. lua: 66>
Thanks for the heads-up, I’ll try to look into this as soon as possible.
Would you know if you have the v2 hardware? And is it firmware 2.4.2?
I have the v1 hardware and don’t get any issues when playing, even after clearing the game data.
Was this seen the very first time playing the game, or was this game played before with a previous high score already saved?
Hi, thanks for your blitz reply. I already had a highscore , I played it since it came out. I have revision 1 hw, and 2.4.2 . As I write this comment I tried your solution and remove game data. Now it works! :) only wish it was playable after 180 score, the ball doubling effect is too prominent. On Game & Watch I was able to go beyond 350
Is there an option to show high score? I just played till 299 but never saw it shown
Press the menu button ⊙ and the left portion of the screen shows the controls and the high score for the current mode in play.
you sure are right! 😎 Thanks. Still by far my fav game and watch adaptation
this is amazing!! Thanks for creating and sharing it. Please do more Crank & Watch games!!!!
This looks so crisp on the Playdate screen! I was genuinely blown back when I first opened it. So excited for more - would love to see 'Chef' in particular!
(Happy to say that I've been made aware of and picked up Strangest.io's 'Paging Dr. Floppy' since leaving this comment!! Game & Watch fits this platform like a glove.)
I never got to play the originals and I'm having a lot of fun! Fantastic work!
I was looking up for this one to be relased! I seems to play easier than original, but after around score 270 in game A balls start to leave traces. There are 4 balls on the screen, the current and previous positions are shown at the same time for each of the 2 balls, hard to keep track.
This is in line with the original G&W version and any other later releases. At a score of 280, the ball will start showing a ‘trace’ effect to make things little harder.
Thanks for the download!
I never would have known how much fun Game & Watch actually was until these ports.
Thank you <3
You're doing the Lord's work with these Playdate ports! Keep up the great work! 👍