Brilliant again, I love the ball series <3
anyone got past level 19 yet?

kowalaa - Yes, I've completed them all in one go. Here's level 19:

Here's the end bracket, for obsessive people like me.)

I'm stuck on level 24. I almost have it, I think, but I can't get the circle to come out right. Any hints?

Kana:

I just cannot do Level 25. All the others have been logical to me, except this one.

level 25 is really annoying... any idea?

Tip to 25:

(level 25)

A hint for 25:

For 25,

Level 25

level 25

Still stuck?

Dang I'm really having trouble conceptualizing what I need to do on Level 26.

I'm going in circles on level 28 and getting dizzy...hint please?

Lovely little game! (as is Factory Balls 1&2). Ball number 25 was a bit tricky, otherwise not too difficult just need some patience. And the ability of mental image rotation.
Looks good, plays nice and gives the brain a light snack...

Did I miss it, or is there no way to get back to the main menu once you started?

argyblarg: If you pause the game and click to start it again, it will take you to the menu.

26:

28:

Addendum to 28:

YES! I love Factory Balls #1 and #2 so much I actually did a search for "Factory Balls 3" last-week-or-there-abouts, and ended up replaying them anyway - and now #3 really has turned up! I'm saving it for the weekend! ^_^

Is it just me or does the face mask tool behave differently in one of the later levels? Otherwise excellent.

Or maybe I should say "earlier levels". I should beat the game before talking.

This is a very fun craft of Bart!

I love Factory Balls #1 and #2 but this one is AWESOME (a little bit hard but it's nothing)
:)

anyone lvl five?

Dunno if it's just me, but it felt really easy compared to Factory Balls 2. Still, it was a blast to play, as usual. Great job and thanks to Bart for letting us have our Factory Balls fix =)

(Oh, and on the end screen, sit and watch the ticker at the bottom for a while.)

Yay!! Iwas just about to replay one of the first Factory Balls games when I found this! It's awesome! *does a dance*

Anyone got level 29? I finally got past the other part I was stuck on through random clicking. I hope I don't have to do that here.

I absolutely love this series, it's just the right combination of simple and intriguing to create a fun challenge.

Does anyone have a tip for level 29? I keep getting stuck.

Haven't played it yet but I JUST replayed the others in this series the other day and was thinking 'I wish a new one of these would come out I love playing with balls!'

Factory Balls 3 Walkthrough

One Through Ten

Eleven Through Twenty

Twenty-One Through Thirty

Congratulations and thanks. At the scrolling bottom, it has a message if you wait long enough. It talks about the next Bontegame, a musical game. I didn't read the rest, but you can, after awhile I beat the game again to make this walkthrough.
-Travis

Kana and JIGuest:
Below is the answer if you are truly stumped, in order from left(1) to the recycle bin (8):

Great walkthrough, Travis, thank you!

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I love this series! I actually did a little jig in my chair when I saw this pop up on my feed reader.

A treat as always, but it's far too short. I got through all thirty levels in about ten minutes. There really needs to be a puzzle maker for this game. There's so many tools that we can use, and I'm sure that people could come up with some truly fiendish puzzles with them.

Next time, maybe?

Excellent! The spin feature made some of the levels a good challenge.

This game BEGS for player contributed levels. Just BEGS for it.

The best one yet in my opinion! I love that he is able to find even more ways to taunt you with little more than balls and paint. Some of the grass levels are particularly nasty. Additionally, I love that there is no ball limit (can't remember if that was fixed in number 2 or not) because some of the mechanics are just plain not explained, you just have to do them. Love it!

That was fun!

I always enjoy Bart Bonte's games. There's something about them that reminds me of the simpler days of Flash gaming, before everything got all professional-gaming-studio-like and what-not.

That's not to say that his games aren't professional, but instead that they have a simple directness to them. Plus, I always enjoy games where you feel like you "get to know" the developer, like Tonypa's games and other single- or small- developers.

Thanks again, Bart!

For those who are asking for a level builder, the long scrolling text gives a (partial) explanation as to why he doesn't.

The issue is that there are a lot of combinations or components, and he hasn't necessarily designed the graphics or mechanics for a lot of the combinations. It's no problem for the developer: if he needs a new combination for the game, he adds it.

But what happens if someone decides to have blue grass with flowers rotated 45° and a nose plunged out, rotates 90° and then takes an Ax to the result? It's not a real 3D model, and there isn't necessarily a graphic for a 1/4 notched blue-grass flowered nose (depth=1).

I can see his point, but I have an idea: He might think about is having user levels that have to choose a set of tools ahead of time. IE: start with a "Gardening", "Animal" (plungers & glasses), "Eyeball" (?) (headphones), or "Stripes-and-Colors" template. This gives a limited number of tools that the user can work with, and significantly reducing the combinations.

There's also no reason that all devices need be available on user levels.

Then you can pick which tools you want (has to fit in the bubbles), then make your ball using the existing interface. Finally, click a button when you are done. Then the user-based code just needs to store which buckets, and the final result. I don't know how he currently stores this, however, and that might be tricky.

One slight issue with the walkthrough: maybe it's my browser (latest Firefox), but because there aren't any spaces, the instructions go off forever and I can't see them for some of the longer ones, like 26 in particular. So please, if possible, put spaces in to break things up?

Thanks.

Way more fun than I would've thought, and thoroughly addicting. Loved it!

loved the first two, and this one (if possible) is even better

i WON!!!! it's easy really but i kinda got stumped on level 25, that one was a bit hard, anyways it's a really fun game, the whole series is. great job! :D

i would like to see it so you could make any balls you like then play around with them, but it would take along tme to get all the peices to do stuff together, :/

Awesome, awesome, awesome. This is one of my favorite series of games, and I was so glad to see a 3rd! I only wish they were longer!

I was really glad to see that I could recycle balls this time. The grass levels are really tricky and it usually takes me several tries to get them right!

For 19, following the walkthrough exactly didn't work, it left the ears white because the scraper removed the paint on them, too.

I had to dunk it in black, then use the small glasses, then the scraper, then swap the little glasses for the big glasses, then dunk the whole thing in black, then use the plungers, then dunk it in red and take the big glasses off. (Just confirmed it by trying exactly this twice.)

Thanks Sarah :)
I found the walkthrough for 19 didn't work for me either.

Level 19 walkthrough didn't work, the ears weren't the right colour. x

An easyer way to do lvl 30:
1,4,2,4,5,5,5,5,4,3,2,3,4,5,5,5

Hi.. Can anybody help me with level 27?? ;s

Grr...I can't get number 23......

27 IS A PAIN!!!

please help me! i am stuck at level 25

I LOVE THESE GAMES!!!

omg, Travis' walkthrough on Level 26 is very long!!

I need help on 30 the numbers don't seem to be right on the cheat above.

Okay, 29 shouldn't exist.

When you can perform the walkthrough six or seven times and STILL not see how the result actually comes about, it's too bloody hard.

Other than that, (and the weirdness of 27, as in how-were-you-supposed-to-stumble-upon-how-that-works), wonderful game, like the other two.

You got level 19 wrong!
It is:
Black
Little Sunglasses on
Scraper
Little Sunglasses off
Big Sunglasses on
Black
Left Plunger
Right Plunger
Red
Big Sunglasses off

so, after he got those mails, did he also pet some meeses and catch a few mices? LOL because obvioulsy you use mail like moose and mouse... I'm so stupid I'm really going to post a grammatical error and attempt(sadly) that it's a joke...