Love this game! Got to x9 combo and then called it quits. Finally, a claw machine I'm good at! I'm curious, does the spawning of new items depend on items available and current required combo? I ask because at some point I needed to smash 3 apples, but only had one on screen and thought to myself "uh oh, I might be screwed now" but the game only ever spawned apples as long as I needed it, which was cool! Was this intentional or a happy coincidence?
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Combo x9, well done! Knowing that the game is a bit buggy and unfairly ruins some combos in progress.
As for your miraculous apples, this is indeed intentional. The game detects when a type of object is no longer there and gives you one again. Then, as soon as there are less than 12 items in the machine, three are randomly redistributed. With these two rules, I've tried to achieve a kind of controlled chaos that doesn't result in impossible combos :D
Thanks for your kind comment and thanks for playing!
I'm glad you enjoyed the game.