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This is fun!

A quick note that I think I found a way to cheat that you may (or may not) want to patch (though I’ve still enjoyed my plays while “cheating”).

I’m on iPhone, and can simply lift my finger to pause the game. Putting my finger back down immediately transports the puck to where my finger lands.

So if you just keep tapping slowly where you want the puck to hit a ball or catch coins, you can easily catch most coins and still hit the ball(s), and play the game in slow motion.

I was pretty quickly able to clear a run while collecting most coins, and it became very easy to make it through without missing a ball.

I guess one fix would be to not immediately transport, and have the puck still animate towards where your finger lands.

But still, I imagine it’d still be easy to never miss a ball, because of being able to simulate slow motion. So you may need to drop the “pause on lift” altogether, and just leave the puck where it is but keep the ball(s) and coins moving.

Good point, yeah, it's not hard to exploit this, but as it's a single player game, cheating just hurts you. On desktop, you can open the console and write score=100000. However, i see how the challenge feels less interesting if you have to actively avoid cheating. I think i could add a slower and slower puck move as you pause the game more and more times in a run, this way that "trick" quickly looses interest, while you still get to pause the game if you reached your stop in the metro, and won't be punished for it.