This was fun to play! I didn’t really understand how to dodge after staying out, though. When the hammer comes to your location, it whacks twice in quick succession, and while I can dodge the first one, the second seemed to very often predict which hole I would go to next (with like 60% accuracy), without leaving me any time to move out of the way like I’d normally have.
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Hmm, that sounds odd! The hammer hits one of the four holes randomly every two seconds, or if you stay out for too long, so there is a chance you got unlucky with the timing and where the hammer chose to hit next after the "out too long" hit and immediately got hit (I've had this happen and ruin good runs 😭) I think the solution to this is possibly make the hammer hits slightly less random so that they're a bit easier to predict and fairer. Often times the next hole you chose unluckily happens to be the one the hammer also chooses 😅
Thank you for playing and the feedback! I'll need to take a look at how to make that feel more fair :)
Randomness can be a bit weird, so it’s definitely possible I just got unlucky. And now that I’m playing it again, it doesn’t happen as often anymore. Maybe the last few times I was somehow on a really tight cycle where the second hit happened almost immediately? I’m unsure. The timing of it feels a bit unpredictable though.
I think there might be a bug where the hammers timer sometimes doesn't reset when it flies over to hit you if you've dodged it before. I reckon there is something that's not quite functioning as intended. I'll try take a look and see if I can smooth it out. I plan on making a v1.1 and uploading it after the voting period!