Spin The Black Circle

byuu · Post by **byuu** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 6:29 am

Okay, a flash game, but I thought you guys might like it. I had a blast. It is fuck all hard, though. Someone needs to tell the author that insane difficulty makes games less enjoyable, not more.

http://www.wickedsmallgames.com/games/s ... ck-circle/

After failing miserably at Mystical Balloon, Hua Rong Dao (Chinese Klotski), and Desktop Tower Defense, it was a real treat to finally beat one of these "impossible" games. I'm also curious how many savants we have that can beat it in 30 minutes or less.

And of course, the real reason I posted, bragging rights and time comparisons :)

Took me about 3-4 hours to clear. Very appropriate game completion message, wish I would've grabbed a screenshot. Beating it a second time didn't show it again. It was something along the lines of, "Congratulations, you have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder!" :D

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declan · Post by **declan** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 7:57 am

not in answer to your question, and a little off topic.
my favourite flash games are those.... i don't what you call'em.
y'know Funky Truck and those BMX and snow boarding games, do you know the ones i'm taking about?
Just thought id take this opportunity to bring up flash games

Post by **grinvader** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 12:12 pm

Very nice game.
Got to the last stage and found how to clear it, but momentum-screwing ultrasucking one-way walls aren't fun.

Jipcy · Post by **Jipcy** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 4:47 pm

I love physics games. It's very similar to Cameltry.

How does it save your scores? By IP address on a central server? Or a cookie? Because I can't find a cookie for that web site.

This might be old news to the people around here, but another great physics (java) game:
chir.ag/stuff/sand/

whicker · Post by **whicker** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 6:41 pm

Jipcy wrote:I love physics games. It's very similar to Cameltry.

How does it save your scores? By IP address on a central server? Or a cookie? Because I can't find a cookie for that web site.

This might be old news to the people around here, but another great physics (java) game:
chir.ag/stuff/sand/

how about this:

in addition to the great "features" like disallowing the play button in the right-click menu and stealing the right click in general, flash programs are allowed to store information on your hard-disk just like cookies.

Post by **badinsults** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 8:43 pm

I played that game a bit last week, but I could think of better ways to spend my gaming time.

alexz721 · Post by **alexz721** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:18 am

I wouldn't say it's super-hard, but the difficulty's definitely up there. I got a fair way through it, and was having fun, but unfortunately I just haven't had enough time to see how far I can go.

That's how a lot of the games I play end up, now that I think of it.

byuu · Post by **byuu** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:19 pm

I wouldn't say it's super-hard, but the difficulty's definitely up there. I got a fair way through it, and was having fun, but unfortunately I just haven't had enough time to see how far I can go.

It gets progressively harder. The hardest level by far, for me anyway, was level 22. I just don't have the timing, so I had to play it 100 times -- finally beat it with luck, not skill.

It's very similar to Cameltry.

Exactly what I was thinking. I recall some people really liked that game here.

Got to the last stage and found how to clear it, but momentum-screwing ultrasucking one-way walls aren't fun.

Level 24's not too bad. Takes about 20 minutes to get the hang of it. I'm very impressed you could make it to 24 and then walk away, heh. I wish I could do that -- the further I got, the more determined I was to finish it at all costs x.x

King Of Chaos · Post by **King Of Chaos** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:39 pm

Nice game.

Named after the Pearl Jam song of the same name too.

Jipcy · Post by **Jipcy** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:06 pm

Having some trouble on Level 16. Any help?

Total time so far: 3:36:60. I assume that's the sum of the best times? Because I've definitely been playing it longer than that.

byuu · Post by **byuu** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:44 pm

If 16 is the one where you roll off the edge and have to turn quickly to avoid 180 degrees of spikes ...

I just kept trying and eventually got it. Took about 50 tries, you have to have it exactly right. I tried to look up some help for you, a couple forums said to turn up the keyboard repeat rate to help out. Note that I didn't have to do this, but it apparently makes it easier if you do this.

Nightcrawler · Post by **Nightcrawler** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:19 pm

I got up tot he levels where you had to avoid the flames and then lost interest due to lack of patience.

Pretty neat though.

Post by **grinvader** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:50 pm

byuu wrote:I'm very impressed you could make it to 24 and then walk away, heh. I wish I could do that -- the further I got, the more determined I was to finish it at all costs x.x

It highly depends what I'm playing - I used to stay hooked on a console game until I cleared it or dropped asleep, when I could pull that sort of shit.

(<- 70 hours FF7 clear in one sitting, woo)

The past 1.5 years I had to leave after big apple time*, though. Fulltime job wants its beauty sleep.

*: Nach can explain, while he's around. ;p
Hint: it involves pizzas.

alexz721 · Post by **alexz721** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:18 pm

grinvader wrote:It highly depends what I'm playing - I used to stay hooked on a console game until I cleared it or dropped asleep, when I could pull that sort of shit.

(<- 70 hours FF7 clear in one sitting, woo)

How in the fuck did you ever have that kind of time to waste? It took me two weeks to put in 35 hours.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:24 pm

Long weekend?

Johan_H · Post by **Johan_H** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:33 pm

alexz721 wrote:
grinvader wrote:It highly depends what I'm playing - I used to stay hooked on a console game until I cleared it or dropped asleep, when I could pull that sort of shit.

(<- 70 hours FF7 clear in one sitting, woo)
How in the fuck did you ever have that kind of time to waste? It took me two weeks to put in 35 hours.

It took me two years to put in ~110 h. The complete story involves a broken VCR and an old TV.

Post by **grinvader** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 6:43 pm

alexz721 wrote:How in the fuck did you ever have that kind of time to waste?

At one time I was almost done graduating and not working on zsnes or anything else. Spent my days gaming and trying weird sleep cycles.

Also a decent amount of sugar kicks me into high gear mode, which is usually how I stay focused on one thing for a loooong time.

(<- also did stupid like one-sitting 100% spyro runs, one sitting >206%/195% SotN runs, naked alucard galamoth pwns, months of massgrinding in disgaea & co., made a whole set of ultimate weapons & armor in vagrant story, went through parasite eve 4 times for the awesome murderous rampage, got almost every final weapon maxed in dark cloud 2, and going... and going...)

stale · Post by **stale** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:59 pm

If you liked this game, then I'm here to tell you about

On The Ball,

the classic, unknown SNES masterpiece. It's the same idea as this game, but bigger, and without the constant death that this flash game has. Plus, it has gravity control, pinball-style bumping, and an Engrish fortune teller.

try it !!

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:42 am

Ok... and where can it be found?

Johan_H · Post by **Johan_H** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:06 am

franpa wrote:Ok... and where can it be found?

Is that a ROM request?

alexz721 · Post by **alexz721** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:26 am

On the Ball? I'm sure you meant to say Cameltry.

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franpa · Post by **franpa** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:58 am

Oh, i misread it, i thought On The Ball was the flash game... just ignore ^

xamenus · Post by **xamenus** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:58 am

Fun game. I played this today, and after roughly 2 hours I got to around level 20 and stopped. When I returned later, my progress was somehow deleted. Fortunately, I was able to work my way back to level 20 again in about 30 minutes.

Now I'm stuck on level 23...

blackmyst · Post by **blackmyst** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 5:02 pm

Woo, beat it! Nice game. :D

Combined best times: 9:04:04

About 3 hours real time as well, I think.

(edit: shaved a bit off my time in a few levels: 8:17:39. Yay!)

byuu · Post by **byuu** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:54 am

(<- also did stupid like one-sitting 100% spyro runs, one sitting >206%/195% SotN runs, naked alucard galamoth pwns, months of massgrinding in disgaea & co., made a whole set of ultimate weapons & armor in vagrant story, went through parasite eve 4 times for the awesome murderous rampage, got almost every final weapon maxed in dark cloud 2, and going... and going...)

Heh, most I've done was getting one character in FF3 NDS to level 99 / Onion Knight with complete Onion Armor set (had two swords / blades (whichever was the stronger one that dropped on the dragons) and two shields) -- before even beating the dark cloud (1HP damage from an end-game boss -- ouch). Soloed the Iron Giant that way. Very easy with two Onion Shields and 99 Elixers.

the classic, unknown SNES masterpiece. It's the same idea as this game, but bigger, and without the constant death that this flash game has. Plus, it has gravity control, pinball-style bumping, and an Engrish fortune teller.

Cameltry was way too easy, and moved too slowly. I beat it on my very first try, and I suck at games.