There’s something nice and perverse about that!

Try installing OpenAL.dll, which may clear it up. If not.. Um.. *shrugs* guess my framework needs more work!!

Thanks for posting my game here! Always good to get noticed.

Apologies that the free edition doesn’t include online scores. My server sucks! That’s GoDaddy for ya :/
Hopefully enough people buy the iOS version, so’s I can step things up a notch!

Something of note: the motivational structure is curious here because — at least in the three bouncing ball modes — the game is ridiculously easy if you don’t care about your combo multiplier. Unless I haven’t played long enough to see things get more complicated, it seems like a dedicated enough player could simply wait carefully at each spike until absolutely sure of their timing and thus accumulate a practically infinite number of points by playing slowly, indefinitely, one measly point for each spike.

So it’s purely up to the player to decide either a) their time is too valuable for that, or b) the game is only fun if you try to move quickly and smoothly.

I guess the classic way of handling this would be to replace score with combo-count as the tracked metric for the leaderboard? I can’t decide if, as-is, the ambivalence toward bad/boring player behavior is a neat thing or not.