Penguin Blaster, a iPhone Mobile web accessible game I’m currently building

This is an interesting game and a pretty fun concept. After all, who wouldn't want to spend a day tossing snowballs at penguins? 🐧
Sadly, I likely would have better luck hitting a real life penguin with a real life snowball. While the concept of this game is fun, the controls leave something to be desired. The gestures for navigating are not difficult to perform, but there were several times when the game simply could not register the gesture I was doing. Swipes, for example, I had to slow drag my finger completely across the screen for the swipe to even register. Taps worked, but not always in the area where I actually was tapping. This was most noticeable in game menus, but was also prevalent in the gameplay itself. For example, on the first level of the primary game, at one point a penguin appeared on the left side of the screen, however when I tapped that spot, it was like I hit the middle or right side of the screen, as if I completely missed the penguin.
While in game menus, the swipe gestures were not always moving to the very next item, but rather several items over. The settings menu for example I would go from the first item, to the second item, to the fifth item, to the ninth item, just by simply swiping left or right. Thankfully, voiceover can be used in the menus, which makes navigating them much better.
If this is working as intended, then my apologies.
As for the ingame gestures, if you can somehow tighten up the controls, so they are a bit more precise, I think this game will be an instant hit.
One more thing, in the settings screen we have an option for ambient music/sounds, but for some reason I did not hear any music or sound effects either in the game menus, or the gameplay itself. Just wanted to give you a heads up on that.

Overall, I think this game has a whole lot of potential, the controls just need to be tightened up a little.

Thanks for reading. 😎

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Poor penguins, they need a lawyer. Long live cats and penguins.

This is a terrific game with a lot of potential. I really like the daily rewards, the minigames and the daily calendar challenge. However, I have earned enough diamonds to unlock Penguin Pop but am unable to do so. In the settings screen, when attempting to select Penguin Pop, I am instructed to start the game first before unlocking it.

Do you think this will become a standalone app in the future, or will you keep it as a web-based game? Just curious.

I was able to unlock both Penguin Pop and Diamond Dash a few minutes ago. However, I am experiencing a problem where i am sometimes thrown out of the game when tapping the bottom half of the screen. Is anyone else experiencing this?

I recall when I could see there was one, where you move your spaceship left and right and shoot the spaceships coming down to you. I think it was call space something. It was cool. LLC

That would be "Space Invaders".

Emily, you could totally do this with your current game setup. The aliens in Space Invaders or in a grid, I don't remember the exact number count but I'm sure you can Google it. Something like 12 x 10, for example. They simply moved left or right in sync with each other and as they moved from one side of the screen to the other they would drop a few pixels, then move back over to the opposite side, drop a few pixels, rinse and repeat. your ship only move left and right, and you had a button to fire. All you had to do was shoot and destroy every alien in order to complete a level. So, you can make the aliens the Penguins, and the little ship moving back-and-forth could be something like a snowball launcher.

Just a thought. 🤷

Yes, If I recall the ships came down from the top of the screen in roles and colums. They drop boms and they shoot mistles to you so you need it to avoid them and same time destroy the ships and not let them pass. It was simple but cool and the sounds effects were cool. LLC.

Oh yeah! Space Invaders is a timeless classic. I know they tried to make a few audio versions of it on various platforms. I think there might be one on iOS as well. Windows definitely has one, maybe macOS too. 🤷

Is if not 3 d hearing sounds cool, issues with hearing. If is like Space invader's be cool. Let me know. Thanks.

Use my windows PC to check this web page. Not apple devices. I did send you my email so if you can send it to me. It is my email for my apple account. Thanks.

I like it. but,maybe you can imcrease the sound/ audio vollium a bit.

I hope y it can work on the pc browser .
so, we can play using keyboard...

Please with extra sugar, email me the link. I do not check this web page in my iOS but windows PC. I did sent you my email when you send me a private email at my gmail. My other email is the apple and I use that for my iOS use. LLC.

This is the first time I have attempted to play Penguin Blaster, since my initial review above. The gameplay mechanics have improved quite a bit, with more precise touch gesture accuracy. I was actually able to play through a couple of levels of the primary game successfully. I also unlocked one of the arcade games, Penguin Invaders.
Penguin Invaders is interesting and fun, but I do have one tiny complaint. There seems to be a glitch during gameplay. A few times while I was playing, I would somehow find myself in the settings menu, completely throwing me out of the Invaders game interface. I am not sure if there is a gesture to jump to settings that I am activating by mistake, or if it is an actual bug, but I wanted to make you aware.
The primary game is fun as hell, and my only real complaint on that would be to please, please increase the volume of sound effects. I had to almost max out my poor iPhone's volume in order to really be able to hear the sound effects. I do not use Bluetooth anything for this, I use the standard OEM Apple EarPods, the ones that used to come with earlier iPhones.
The shop, from within the settings menu, is fascinating. I purchased, and enjoyed a number of the options that were available for me. Enhancing gameplay further.

All in all, you have created something quite unique, and incredibly entertaining. Other than my Remarks above, I really don't have any complaints at this time.

Thank you for sharing such a fun and unique game with us. 😁🎮

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well,
it seems doesn't work on pc/ mac yet.
for me I am using windows pc nad use NVDA for screen reader.
and for gaming, we always turn of brows mode. then press up arrow and down arrow to netvigate the menu and press enter to activate.
in game.
press up,down , left , right arrows to shoot .

Check out the add-on store within NVDA, for an add-on called Game Mode.
It might help. 🙂

I haven't tried Penguin Blaster on my PC laptop yet, but I will give that a go, and report back here. 👌

Much better!
Below is a copy/paste of the text from a screenshot of my most recent Penguin Invaders gameplay. Enjoy~

A smartphone screenshot showing the end-of-game results screen for a game called “Penguin Invaders.”

Text on screen:
Penguin Invaders
Game Over!
Classic mode finished
240 points
15 kills
100% accuracy
15 shots
S LEGENDARY
Best Combo: 15x
+48 (diamond icon)
293 total (diamond icon)
Tap to Play Again!
Back
Tap to play • Two-finger tap to go back

Be My Eyes for iOS was used to collect the above text. 😇

Don't get me wrong, I am absolutely enjoying the main game, and the arcade games. The mini games, however, are just fun. Especially Penguin 21, as I've always liked blackjack.
Will you be adding any other arcade and/or mini games to Penguin Blaster?

I have been playing the game for a few days now and love it. However, I have noticed that my level progress has reset back to level 1 for each day. Is this intentional?

I could be wrong, but I think you have to have a Lovable.dev account in order for it to keep your statistics, etc. when you first open the game, if you look at the very bottom there will be a link labeled, "edit with lovable", or something to that effect. Double tap on it, and it will take you to the page where you can sign in or sign up.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Question, Are you planning to make the games into apps? LLC.

Brian could help me remember. There was a game in which a frogs were trying to cross a road and avoid getting squash. It was a cool game. LLC.

Frogger, like Space Invaders, classic Atari for the win.

Emily,

Was I right about signing up for a lovable.dev account? Or is there another way to sign into this game? I signed up for a lovable dev account and so far I've been able to keep my records.
I have something like 23,144 diamonds, currently at level 21 and my title is called, "Ice Ascendant".
I may or may not have played Penguin Blaster too much. 😅

That was the one! It was cool, what about PacMan? Can it be made accessible? LLC.

If I recall, there is an audio version of Pac-Man on audio games .net.
I have never played it, so I cannot tell you if it is fun or not.

Absolutely possible. However, I think the most challenging part of this will be trying to establish what type of audio Q to use for letting the player know which directions are available to them as they navigate through the maze. You could have speech, but that might become a little verbose and headache inducing. You can use beeps or clicks.
I suppose you could do letters, or numbers. Like, in, W, E, S, announced as you are approaching an available path in any of the four cardinal directions, or replaced with clock face, 12 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 6 o'clock, 9 o'clock.
If you decide to make this, you'll have to play around with different options, and decide what you feel is best. Remember though, Pac-Man is very fast pace, especially in the later levels. So you don't want something to verbose, otherwise people may not be interested for very long.

Just my two cents. 🤷

Sidenote, Emily you didn't answer my question about the sign in process. 🙂

Good point, I am sure Emily would look into it. Perhaps haptics and sounds? LLC.

How about adding Pengo since that was already a penguin-themed arcade game. I love penguins, so definitely need to check this out. Maybe I missed it, but is this ever going to be made into an actual app? In general, apps work better for me than things that are browser based.