Unnecessary features are always most fun! Ball pit!

[u/Levardos]

Hello! I'm the developer behind Dark Roll 2. The game is a marble platformer inspired by soulslike genre, but for the ucpoming Steam Next Fest I am preparing someting special - a backrooms inspired bonus level with no real goal... One redditor's comment gave me idea to put in a ballpit, so I had to at least try to play around see how it would turn out... I can happily say I'm satisfied with the result! I specifically made the balls magically go back to the pool, so the fun is never ending!

This level along with the ball pit will be put into free demo of my game on monday as Steam Next Fest begins!

[u/Hephaestus_God]

Try lowering the ball speed back to the pit.

There isn’t enough incline to warrant such a high rollback speed, and giving a little more time to see how many balls you can get out before they come back in is another satisfying aspect which would keep people there.

[u/Levardos → u/Hephaestus_God]

Hmm, you do have a point, but do you think a slower "speed" would work better, or a cooldown of X seconds after the ball falls out, and before it begins to roll back in?

[u/Hephaestus_God → u/Levardos]

An X timer might work but how would that affect them if you start moving them outside the pit? Would the X reset each time a ball is touched?

Might just come down to preference and what looks/feels best. I think the simplest would be to just adjust the speed first and see how it goes a little at time

[u/errorblankfield → u/Levardos]

Personally? Until the player left the area, I would wait for any and all reset functions. Let the player have fun making a mess then when they cross the wall threshold, turn on the "return to pit" magnets.

[u/PISS_OUT_MY_DICK → u/errorblankfield]

or just add a little button to reset the ball pit

[u/FullMoonTwist → u/Levardos]

Definitely slower sleed, it looks like they're pulled by magnets vs gravity

[u/TreatOthersNice]

Looks like fun! Love the graphics!

[u/Levardos → u/TreatOthersNice]

Thank you! <3

[u/Tacotellurium]

Reminds me of the game Bounce on Series 60 Nokia phones ages ago, looks so cool.

[u/TuzkiPlus → u/Tacotellurium]

What a blast from the past, I remember getting finger cramps from repeating jumps due to those stupid spikes

[u/Levardos → u/Tacotellurium]

Plenty of "ball games" were made over the years... Trying to make one that's memorable!

[u/SimisFul]

Is that the ball game with the pillow?

[u/Levardos → u/SimisFul]

Yep, and I'll do you one better. The pillow also makes it to this bonus level.

[u/xamlima13]

As a father, I WISH the balls in a ball pit went back to it automatically irl

[u/Levardos → u/xamlima13]

I feel you! And it would also make the kids play longer

[u/Absorbent_Towel]

Thought this was katamari for a moment and got excited

[u/Master_Bruce]

I feel like if I heard that in the backrooms down the hall it’d be terrifying, and I think seeing it would also be terrifying. Well done!

[u/Capital_1212]

This is the kind of chaos I live for!

[u/allursnakes]

Ya! Ball pit!

[u/Additional-Window-81]

Are the balls sentient and want to be in the pit?

[u/Levardos → u/Additional-Window-81]

... could be

[u/Succ_Up_Some_Noodle]

The true rollslop is back. Michealzakis could never