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Go Home Ball - Time Waster
by Jason Clarke Sep 18th 2009 at 12:00PM
Go Home Ball calls itself a physics game, but is really more of a time-based puzzler. Your job in the game is to get the red ball from the top of the screen, where it rolls out of an opening in a tree, to the bottom of the screen where an opening in the top of a tree trunk awaits, ensuring to collect all the gold stars along the way. Your tools to move the ball along vary across the levels, but they are typically a stick that you can temporarily lay to allow the ball to cross gaps, and a hand that you can use to nudge the ball in the correct direction.
Don't let the simple and cute appearance of the game fool you; the timing and placement for each move is crucial, and your skill with a mouse will play a big part in the success you have at the game.
(after the break, Happy Gilmore weighs in with his thoughts about balls going home...)
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The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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