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#1 DudeNtheRoom
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If you don't know "The Ball" is a puzzle game. I only have the demo but in it, you use a man-size ball to work your way out of rooms via buttons and such.

Anyway, I got stuck in a room b/c to continue I was suppose to have the ball. The previous roomhad a button in lava, but it was a ball button. So I sent the ball under some wooden beams into the lava and pushed the button. Some more beams came out of the ground and connected to the other beams. So I walked onto the new beams and walked to the next room.........pushed a player button and then I got locked in a room.

I was suppose to use a gun (kinda like the grav fun) through the beams and lead it to the next room where under more beams, in lava, was a ball button. Since I had not done that and walls had come up all around me, I could not go back and get the ball nor proceed.

It's mistakes like this that make me always question what is going on in a game. This is why I don't like puzzle games. I always think the developer screwed up, instead of actually thinking the puzzle through. For that matter, it goes for any game. I second guess everything wondering if I'm acutally doing it right but think the devs screwed up.

Anyone else?

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#2 ventnor
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So you played the UDK version? The UDK version wasn't bugfree at all.

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If you don't know "The Ball" is a puzzle game. I only have the demo but in it, you use a man-size ball to work your way out of rooms via buttons and such.

Anyway, I got stuck in a room b/c to continue I was suppose to have the ball. The previous roomhad a button in lava, but it was a ball button. So I sent the ball under some wooden beams into the lava and pushed the button. Some more beams came out of the ground and connected to the other beams. So I walked onto the new beams and walked to the next room.........pushed a player button and then I got locked in a room.

I was suppose to use a gun (kinda like the grav fun) through the beams and lead it to the next room where under more beams, in lava, was a ball button. Since I had not done that and walls had come up all around me, I could not go back and get the ball nor proceed.

It's mistakes like this that make me always question what is going on in a game. This is why I don't like puzzle games. I always think the developer screwed up, instead of actually thinking the puzzle through. For that matter, it goes for any game. I second guess everything wondering if I'm acutally doing it right but think the devs screwed up.

Anyone else?

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Go to the place with the button for you and do the bring the ball funtion thing. Then loop the ball around the little peninsula thing youre on through the other door and up the ramp to where you are.

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So you played the UDK version? The UDK version wasn't bugfree at all.

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I played the demo that is on Steam.
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Doesn't sound farfetched to me that in a puzzle game you're trapped if you're doing it wrong.:P

Walkthroughs can help.

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#6 GuitarPAaron
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Doesn't sound farfetched to me that in a puzzle game you're trapped if you're doing it wrong.:P

Walkthroughs can help.

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Yeah you just gotta think about it haha. Took me a bit when i did it