Falling Balls!

Update: Falling Balls 2.0 has just hit the store. Complete rewrite in OpenGL. Multiple difficulty levels.

This one’s a freebie. It’s actually based on a Flash experiment I did way back in October or 2001. As a matter of fact, I opened up that original FLA and ripped out the frame by frame graphics of the running stick figure guy, pasted them into Fireworks and saved them out as pngs for use in the iPhone game. So, despite what it looks like, this game has been in development for over 7 years. :)

The strategy is to tilt your iDevice left or right to run left or right. Watch out for the falling balls. That’s all.





Get it here!

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=301545989&mt=8

Also, if you like the game, now you can wear the shirt:

Get it here:

http://www.cafepress.com/bit101.348761822

Note: I’m offering these with no markup. My goal is just to see people wearing them. :)

19 Responses to “Falling Balls!”

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  3. sr.paul, on February 16th, 2009 at 5:57 pm Said:

    When you find time …
    I like to show FBs for humor purposes rather then a challenge. However as funny as it is, it could use a little more audio detail.

    That I would do if I could program.
    1. The balls should have a pitch reflecting their size. (The Smaller the ball the Higher the pitch and lower the pitch for bigger balls.

    2. The stickman looks to be panting. (I would like to hear him.)

    3. When The stickman changes direction he should yell “ay!” when he take just one little step. When he jogs he should be yelling ” Aay Aay Aay.” ect. And AAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! when he runs.

    4.

  4. Jim, on February 28th, 2009 at 7:29 pm Said:

    Keith,

    1. Can you offer Difficulty Levels like easy, medium and hard? I mastered the beginning, now I just want it to start on a higher difficulty level right away.

    2. On my ipod touch, i can’t get the stick guy to run all the way to the left. There is 1″ of space that he can’t go to.

    3. Ability to re-start the game as soon as you die, NOT when all the balls clear the screen.

    4. Change the trajectory path of the balls so that they are not actually AIMING at you as you run across the screen! I feel like there’s is a magnet on this guy or something!

    Thanks!

  5. janko, on March 11th, 2009 at 7:07 am Said:

    This is a really great app!

    It is my favorite app since i bought my ipod touch :D

    Can you please make online highscores?
    My current highscore is 232, but i want to compete with other players:)
    That is my only demand;)

    greetz
    janko

  6. admin, on March 11th, 2009 at 7:54 am Said:

    High scores are in the latest version. Update!

    Jim, #2 is not a bug. If you went all the way left, none of the balls would hit you and you could just sit there forever. #4: balls do NOT aim at you. They are completely random. Everyone seems to think they aim though. :)

  7. Jan, on March 11th, 2009 at 12:23 pm Said:

    hey very good game pls bring it out for pc :D

  8. Jim, on April 10th, 2009 at 7:15 am Said:

    Keith (admin),

    Thank you for your reply. I now understand the logic behind point # 2 :)

    What about points # 1 and 3? If # 3 is difficult to do, then it’s not a big deal to wait 10 – 15 seconds for the screen to clear.

    However, point # 1 is important. It is very frustrating to sit and wait for the momentum to pick up after ball # 64. Is it that difficult to somehow introduce difficulty levels? Can you confirm if it’s at least being looked up?

    Also, can you share what potential enhancements will be in the next version by any chance? :)

    Thank you!!!

  9. Jim, on April 10th, 2009 at 7:44 am Said:

    Oh!! I almost forgot.

    Is there anyway we can improve the High Score server so that we can re-send a high score to it?

    For some stupid reason, my WiFi connection on my iPod Touch stops working and when I try to submit a high score, it says “Cannot contact high score server.”

    Very frustrating!!! Also, if I’m on the bus and I get a high score, I have to wait to get home to Submit it.

    Can we build a safe (duplicate free) mechanism to send over a High Score at anytime?

    Thanks.

  10. Jim, on April 30th, 2009 at 8:28 am Said:

    Hey guys, can you pls provide an update as to where you are with having different difficulty starting levels in place?

    Heck, even if you charged $0.99 for that update, I would gladly pay it :)

  11. Thad, on May 10th, 2009 at 12:37 pm Said:

    In the “WHAT’S NEW IN THIS VERSION:” of this app in iTunes it says, “In other words, this version will have less ads!” Of course it should say “…fewer ads”. PLEASE correct this. Grammarians will appreciate it. ;-)

    Thanks.

  12. Jim, on May 24th, 2009 at 6:04 pm Said:

    are we any closer to getting different starting levels in the next update?

  13. flutence, on June 13th, 2009 at 4:17 am Said:

    what about allowing game replays?????

    cool app by the way

  14. Doesn't matter, on June 24th, 2009 at 8:15 am Said:

    Seriously, did the developer give up on this game? Where is the update? I used to play this game all the time, but it’s definitely on my last screen now.

    any news on the next, or revised, version?

  15. Steve, on September 9th, 2009 at 11:28 am Said:

    Is it just me, or does the upgrade have lower quality on the balls? The falling balls on the GS are fuzzy at the edges in a way that makes them harder to see. Bring back the old or give an option on which to download, because the game isn’t what it was.

  16. Jeff McDonald, on September 18th, 2009 at 3:10 am Said:

    Is there a PC version availible for all the hard working people at work?

    Jeff

  17. Lukas, on September 29th, 2009 at 7:51 pm Said:

    I cant submit any high scores… I let it lie there for 3 hours and it kept saying that it loads…

  18. jeff, on September 30th, 2009 at 5:07 pm Said:

    i scored 512, i want to see how good other people are, ik there is a high score website on the ipod but i want to see them from the computer

  19. mellow.cypriot, on October 10th, 2009 at 4:38 pm Said:

    Love the new update! I wasn’t sure if I liked the new ‘smoothness’ but it has grown on me big time…it is much more accurate and responsive. And Advanced & Ninja modes are great…thank you for finally letting us put in high scores with those modes.

    I do have one critique…I don’t like the new menus/font/sounds! I like the feel of the old one much better, where it was simple and consistent from the menus to the game. It feels like you’ve pulled a little bit of a Star Wars where you’ve gone back and added unnecessary special effects to something that didn’t need it! Please simplify the look (and take away the page turn and ‘whoosh’ sound) to give it back that retro feel.

    Thank you for making this game, it’s still one of my favorites.

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