Well I'm not sure if it is a direct requirement to have a soccer ball in the game as long as the game relates to soccer somehow. Since it is said that the game needs to be anything related to soccer, we have nets :), I think that relates to soccer enough? I agree that the spawn rate may be a bit high but it is not game breaking. Thanks for the feedback we will be sure to keep such things in mind in future projects.
Well since the theme is anything related to soccer, we just made it so that you score the robots into the "recycling" goals in order for their metals to be recycled into something else. If by sluggish you mean the game runs slow, that could vary from computer to computer, it was play tested on a laptop and a high end gaming pc and ran fine on both but there could be other underlying issues that we don't know about if it is running sluggish for you. If you mean the gameplay loop is slow, well, it was supposed to be fast paced, jumping from end to end beating the robots and throwing things at them but I guess that's that, I myself thought it was fast paced so I'm not sure how we would tackle that one. And the soccer ball was the friends we made along the way.
