Hole Punch: Bend a Spaceship's Course with Black Holes
Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields
Hole Punch is a puzzle game where you cannot steer the ship. Instead, you place and grow black holes on the field, and their gravity bends the ship's path toward the station. Later sectors add beacons, no-hole zones, and a fuel-less ship. Fewer holes and less matter earn a better score, and an 'I give up' option shows the solution for no score.
You cannot steer it. Place black holes, and their gravity bends its course.
- fogleman
Well, this is strangely familiar to a game I just vibe-coded recently!
- rkagerer
Great game, though the controls on mobile are a bit too imprecise.
As you drag a hole, the size widgets should disappear so you can better see what's around it. They could pop back up again once you're done dragging.
Personally I'd rather if you had to press a button or something (or long press?) to add a new hole. I keep accidentally adding new ones when all I want to do is adjust an existing one.
Also spamming the user with the help screen right off the bat is a bit much. As long as they know it's there and can pull it up / dismiss it, I think it would be more fun to sort of discover the game mechanics yourself.
Note several of the first 8 or so levels can be accomplished with a single minimum (8) sized black hole. Eg. I liked the simplicity of doing that on level 6.
- willguest
Nicely done, and interesting to see how the computer "solved" some of them. It is even sneakier that I am.
- adamesque
Fun idea, but kind of maddening that I can click and hold to add mass to a hole but if i overshoot, i can't do anything subtract mass or delete a hole.
- drob518
Very cool. Had some trouble figuring it out on iPad.