(But Windows said I was a 4.0!)

At this stage it's hard to tell where the unresponsiveness from the physics stops and the unresponsiveness from my system begins, which makes it a little frustrating.

(But Windows said I was a 4.0!)

At this stage it's hard to tell where the unresponsiveness from the physics stops and the unresponsiveness from my system begins, which makes it a little frustrating.

It took quite a bit to figure out which direction was each up/down/left/right, so that I totally forgot about the space bar! I'm going to try it again with that.

As a side note, I'm getting a bit of hiccupping in the simulation, I believe. when moving in a (more or less) straight line, it will occasionally jump about a square or so. I'm running in Chrome, with an OK PC that would probably do fine if I weren't also running a dozen different applications.

I would have preferred avoiding anything like that, but given that the most consistent comment is that no one knows about the space bar it's a pretty essential addition.

Gameplay feels really nice. You've got a good risk/reward balance going on, which I'm always a fan of, and I like how I can almost get myself in to real trouble only to be saved at the last minute by magnetizing to the board. I also like how the butterfly can headbutt the point spheres as well as hit them with the wrecking ball – it hurts, but sometimes it's the only way to score and add to the life meter. The emotional spirits were a little confusing at first, as I don't tend to associate pretty blue and purple things as harmful, but I figured it out pretty quickly.

Overall, it's some very nice work. Fun, challenging, engaging, and pretty to look at. I'm rather impressed by how much polish there seems to be for such a short dev time.

When I first developed the introduction, it had an actual prominent narrator/voice via small bits of text that faded-in and out. Among these bits of text were a couple tutorial lines (namely movement and the use of the space bar). The whole thing just felt totally off, though. I ended up tossing the controls on the same page as the applet and hoping for the best, which still wasn't the greatest idea, but it seemed better than nothing.

I began to move around and liked the weight and 'feel' of the butterfly. Almost like Thomas the train engine trying to pull a rather heavy load and struggling at every bend to control the rest of 'his' body. Amazing feeling. It very much so reminded me of an early concept of a game mechanic I had where an action – in this case movement – was required to advanced in the game however, by performing it all too often it can hinder you so you must find the perfect balance. I did find it incredibly hard though to actually have the wrecking ball collide with any of the objects. In fact, I began wondering why the name magnetic butterfly.

This is a probably a good time to interject and state that the way I usually play and learn how to play a game is through self discovery. I rarely read instructions. So after I was an idiot for a while I read the instructions and the spacebar unraveled the 'magnetic' portion of the game. After doing so the game became fun. Before, I had been engaged but I wasn't having fun, however, now I was both engaged and having fun. I'm still early into the learning curve so unfortunately my comment is a bit limited however, my favorite things are the 'feel' of the weight and physics in the game as well as the reward / risk / penalty involved with player movement. You could almost describe this game with the quote “That which nourishes me destroys me.”