Gravity Shield

[dreammelter]

Because the paddle is BROKEN.

Despair not, though. Maybe a Gravity Shield will do the trick.... and be more interesting, too. The idea:

• press (shield key) to activate it; can either be toggled or a press-and-hold situation.
• if the ball is outside the shield when activated, it bounces off (reverse gravity maybe)
• if the ball is inside when activated, it can be captured

[dreammelter]

Gravity shield is gravity shielding but only for rigid bodies. It also has potential hilarious effects with the player as the center, but not effects that immediately strike me as "playable." Don't think being bombarded by 1kg balls half your size is gonna cut it.

My "simple ball" would have to figure the physics response out...

This opens up room for exploring ideas again, but we're supposed to be out of that phase now. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Gonna close this door and try to work on the backlog for now. There's still a lot to be learned from a simple platforming game. (And maybe we can do some attached-gravity-area things.)