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love this game!

super fun and a great hi-score chaser.

I noticed that the music gets jumbled if the game is reset when music is playing. It sounds like two tracks are playing out of sync with each other. I can achieve the bug consistently by rapidly pressing B at any time.

what do you think about having the pogo follow the crank directly? I have made a habit out of starting the game while the crank is in the lowest position so the on-screen movement corresponds to the actual crank position. implementing this correlation in-game would probably be most easily done by having the pogo start at whatever position the crank is currently in (instead of always starting the pogo at the bottom).

thanks for developing such a great experience on playdate!

thesambassador37 days ago

Thanks for playing and the feedback! I really appreciate it, especially how to replicate the music bug (I had seen it but hadn't reproduced it yet).

I hadn't really thought of starting the player at the CURRENT crank position honestly. The movement should be 1-1 so 1 rotation of the crank is 1 rotation of the player, but I think that there's a little bit of crank "drift" over time as well (just a limitation of the hardware I think?), so sometimes the crank movement doesn't correlate 1-1 all the time, but it should be fairly close. I can see how starting the player at the crank's position could be helpful, I'll have to look into that.

I'm working on another Playdate game at the moment, but I'll definitely look at an update to PogoArc at some point.

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