Off Balance

ok, I may be being dumb but I cant get this game to play.
Page loads, advert fades...then what?

If the CandyStand links above don't work, try this one:

http://off.balance.fizzlebot.com/

woot! I'm in. Thanx Jay

If the candystand links don't work, change your country to United States (top left option). They (apparently) don't want to offer games to us canucks.

The acceleration constant seems too low.
Normally a game like this requires a certain amount of finesse. This is more like put your mouse all the way to the edge of the screen and pray it moves fast enough.

The little ball of cotton looks bizarrely like one of the chicks that featured in last week's Neutral Halloween Minigame

Coincidence? Or the power of JiG? ;)

I'm certain it's purely coincidence.

Control is horrible.
Cutesy repetitive music make me want to stab people.
Not for me.

Ezrabbit - Horrible control because it's different?

So often we see games that try something different getting panned because it's not what many players would expect, and we continue to hear complaints from players who get tired of clones and rehashed ideas.

I found that the controls of this game made it humorously entertaining. :)

Sorry, but I too must be negative about this.

Except making the controls more quirky I don't see anything exciting about that.

The idea to have something not as absolute as the mousepointer, but moving in dynamic is not new. Only normally the avatar you moved around, the cursor destinated its movement relative to the avatar. The "invention" of this game is instead of making it relative of the avatar, make it fix into the middle. Nothing exciting in my eyes.

And many first person 3D flying games have this exact control too, for years.

Okay... I UNDERSTAND the steering concept. Let's make that clear. The arrow in the center determines where your cloud goes. The further away your cursor is from that arrow, the faster your little dude goes.

But it's still TOO HARD to steer, no matter what speed you're at. Not only that, it's frustrating having to move the mouse all over the screen just to get it to behave.

It's as much fun as playing on a joystick that doesn't spring back to center. Some find it a welcome challenge; the rest, infuriating.

I can't get past the grenade level only because I refuse to buy misspelled 'breaks.'

Cute game but no Zen points.

LMAO, that was one great review.
Don't worry, all feedback is excellent.
Thanks Psychotronic.

I'll make sure my next game makes it here.
The controls of my next game are far easier to master.