A good foundation for a quality little physics sim with some nice difficulty progression in the puzzle design.
PROS:
- Graphics and style are clean and everything reads well as it should.
- It's super fun to see some of the chaos from having a lot of blue balls bouncing around the table and that also makes the game more forgiving if I slightly miss.
- Overall design of the game is very straight-forward and easy to understand.
CRITIQUES:
- Agree with increasing the friction of the balls just to let the physics play out sooner so that turns don't seem to drag as much.
- I don't feel a ton of pressure on me to try and complete the puzzle and it could be interesting to see a limit to the number of shots I get to take to add that element of difficulty to the puzzle designs.
- The pool stick rotation feels a little slow, which adds to the feeling of slow pacing on the game. It would help quality of life if you had a button combo for "fast rotation" to get the stick to about the spot I want it quicker and then a separate button combo for "fine rotation" that rotates at the current speed to help keep the player from over-rotating their shots when they don't mean to.