Pegfall: Bounce Roguelite

Thank you for buying the ad removal, and for taking the time to write this up. I'm the developer, so let me answer each one.

Upgrades and deck size: a duplicate does not add a second copy to your deck. It upgrades the orb you already own, and it buffs that orb's signature effect, not just its damage. Your deck only grows when you take an orb type you don't have yet. Orbs are drawn in a fixed cycle rather than shuffled, so a wider deck means any single orb comes around less often. So it's a real choice: take duplicates to make one build hit harder, take new orbs for more tools. Stat cards are separate from this, they buff every orb you own. Relics can't be removed, but they never dilute anything either, they're always active.

Power: there are three steps, soft, medium and full, and they set how fast the orb leaves the launcher. Lower power means a shorter path and fewer bounces, so in most shots it really does mean less damage. You're not missing anything there. It's meant as a placement tool, for dropping into one area instead of sending the orb across the whole board. If it isn't helping you, leaving it at full is a perfectly good way to play.

Step size and targets: your instinct is right. Targets mode exists exactly because crit pegs and bomb pegs are usually the right thing to aim at, and it gives you the angles that reach them. The step sizes, one, five and fifteen degrees, are there for the cases targets can't cover: fine-tuning between two targets, or lining up a bounce off a wall when the target list is short.

Sounds: this is the part I'm most glad you raised, because the next update is mostly audio. It adds a defeat motif for bosses, twelve combat earcons for things you currently have to infer, like armour soaking a hit, poison ticking, the board refilling or a lethal warning, and variation banks so repeated peg bounces stop sounding identical. There are also optional sound themes that change the whole set. I'm finishing that update now, so I'd rather not promise a date.

Two questions back, if you don't mind. When you say a winning sound for KOs, do you mean regular enemies, bosses, or both? And would you find it useful if crit pegs and bomb pegs sounded different from ordinary pegs while the orb is bouncing?

Gökhan, birkinapps

To answer that question about sounds, oh yes i'd love new sounds, at the moment it works great but it's quite samey.

Do you have any plans on making any of your other games accessible? I've not checked them out but honestly once i get some money i wil be buying the full thing, i ond't need most f it but this accessibility is amazing and hasn't been seen in a long long time.

I never thought we'd get a bounce bounce game, as i cal them, on IOS but here we are, different sounds for different things would eb great, so instead of hearing so mmuch info we hear it through sound, a boom for bombs a healing sound for healer pegs, a sharp kind of thunk for crit pegs and maybe more woodeny thunk sounds for the ball bouncing off the corners.

Thanks, Brad, and thank you for the kind words about the accessibility. It means a lot.

Good timing: the update I mentioned, version 1.2.1, went live on the App Store today. Here's where your list stands:

- Bomb pegs: they already had a boom. Now there are four versions of it, so it doesn't repeat the same sound every time.
- Crit pegs: they already had a sharp sting on top of the bounce note. Now it has four variations and it's used only for crits. Before, healing and card picks borrowed the same sound, which made things blur together.
- Healing: collecting a heal now has its own warm, rising sound. If you also want a cue the moment the orb hits a healer peg, go to Settings > Accessibility > Audio profile and choose Detailed.
- Bosses: each boss now has its own short motif, including one when you defeat it.

Not in yet: the wooden thunk for walls and corners. Right now the side walls make no sound at all, so it's a good idea and I've added it to my list.

None of these sounds cost anything. They're all part of the free game.

Other games: yes. I'm adding VoiceOver support to Tindrift and Logic Loom, and both should be ready soon. Restaurant Rush will take a little longer.

And "bounce bounce game" is my new favourite name for the genre :)

Gökhan, birkinapps

I really like this, my spatial awareness is not the best but I'm still managing to have fun and score points. And thank you for working hard to make your games accessible. I'm especially looking forward to Restaurant Rush, I looked at the description when you mentioned it.

Thank you, Paige. That's exactly what I was hoping for — that the game stays fun even when spatial tracking is hard. Restaurant Rush is on the list; it'll take a little longer than Tindrift and Logic Loom, but it's coming. I'll keep working to make all of them better.

Gökhan, birkinapps

Thank you, and congratulations on finishing chapter 2!

Stacking crit damage with a few heals is a solid build. Crit builds get very strong once the multiplier climbs.

You're right about the enemy defeat sound. Bosses have their own defeat motif, but regular enemies don't, and it's easy to miss a kill that happens in the middle of a bounce. I've added a defeat sound for regular enemies to the list for the next Pegfall update, planned for mid-October.

About the other games: Tindrift is ready. I got a few more pieces of feedback and made one more fix, with big thanks to Matheus for his testing, and I sent it to App Store review today. If review goes well, it could be out by this evening, together with Logic Loom, a logic puzzle game. I'll post here when they're live.

Thanks again for the kind words. Feedback like yours is what shapes the accessibility work.