I thought this was a cool version of pinball with the gates acting as the flippers/paddles. The visuals are very aesthetically pleasing, nice use of pastel colors and god rays. Even a refractive material on the sphere :) The game itself is simple and enjoyable, but my greatest frustration with it is that of all pinball games - sometimes it's just completely unfair. In every single time I played I ended up losing due to a bad guy falling down between the cracks and there was nothing I could do to stop it from happening. Just a random bad luck of the angle and speed. Great game overall though! Well done.
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Thanks for your review, apparently my time writing shaders was well-spent!
As a player, I usually prepare for an inevitable loss and focus on delaying it for as long as possible. I'm certain that won't work for everyone, but I doubt it's possible for a pinball game to be purely skill-based, taking luck out of the equation.