Lightballs

Lucky me has the dubious honour of writing the first review for "Lightballs". Lightballs is a 2D minimalist air hockey ripoff (the developer says "soccer" but if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's air hockey). This feels a lot like a student project or something, the "developer" couldn't even work out how to do AI so it's local PvP only. At least there's customisable controls, and the game does actually work more or less, but that's where the good stuff ends. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. This is the kind of game that lends itself to analog mouse control but the developer couldn't work out how to do that, so it's keyboard only. That's not really going to meet expectations for PC gamers in the year 2023. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. There's no way for gamers to try improve the low quality graphics. The gam…