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From: sburke@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Scott Burke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Diamonds - some suggestions
Message-ID: <10656@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 4 Feb 91 22:29:18 GMT
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Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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HI.

A couple more comments on Diamonds:

1.  Overall, it's just too EASY.  I don't think this is the fault of the game
    itself; rather that the distributed levels were too simple.  Witness
    Leprechaun.

2.  I agree with previous posters that more icons are needed, such as Speed
    bricks, Gravity bricks, Split bricks (would this work? -- multiple balls)
    Rainbow bricks (cycle the colors of the existing color bricks), and 
    maybe even an Axis brick (which changes from UP/DOWN to LEFT/RIGHT
    movement of the ball).

3.  VARY THE MUSIC!  At least give us different themes for each level.

4.  Fix the unstandard Practive Level Select interface; make the buttons
    UP and DOWN work on the arrows, and make the return key select start.
    Don't violate standard Mac interface just because it looks cool; the
    current behavior is annoying.  Actually, the looks are ok.

5.  I LIKE the 'Ha ha, start over' aspect of the game.  DON'T change that.

Scott.
sburke@jarthur.claremont.edu