I used code 1. The game looks and plays really great! Love the haptic feedback.
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Hey-hey, 1.5 months have passed and here’s a new update:
http://anvil-games.com/defold/catapult/index.html
What’s new?
- Collect coins on levels!
- Unlock 9 cute characters!
- Play totally rebalanced levels!
Little more details:
- I really like coins, should’ve been added much earlier - at the same time they give you additional micro-goal and guide through the level. Sometimes I even miss the goal and wait for level completion after collecting all coins on the level. Maybe make the whole game about collecting coins?..
- Characters are good, might be even better if add them more life - moving eyes, sounds, squashing and bouncing animations, but unfortunately I can’t implement everything at the same time and have to prioritize tasks
- Levels rebalancing was made relying on analytics collected from few thousands of real players. The goal was to reduce losses of active players between levels. I’ve built a funnel showing how players are passing levels + calculated how much time is spent on each level and what is the frequency of skips for each level. I’ve rebalanced levels to make them even more easy and “snackable”, so, for hardcore players it’ll probably look boring, but this was done by design, as planned.
What’s next?
- Ads, Interstitial and Rewarded
- No Ads purchase
- Android release
Going to try Enhance for ads - both as a tech solution to cover bunch of ad network SDKs and as the ads mediation tool.
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Anniversary day! 
The first prototype was made one year ago, in one day, 21-11-2018, and I even have a link to this first version: http://anvil-games.com/defold/catapult/2018-11-21/index.html
As you see the game did not change dramatically 
For sure, it’s not really adequate to spend so much time to such type of game, but I’ve learned a lot from experiments on this project and it still generates data to be analyzed.
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Nice! I’d like to have Bouncy Catapult in the showcase section of the Defold site. If you’d like to get it featured there please send me some promo images: Get your game listed on www.defold.com!
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Another behaviour, that was not obvious and expected with default settings:
My colleague reported a bug in HTML5 build on his PC, where game was playing like in fast-forward mode: https://forum.defold.com/uploads/default/original/3X/0/a/0a66633fdabaa666dddae47a545221d39316201a.MP4
When I disabled Vsync and set Frame cap = 60 in Display setting of the project the bug has gone. I expected, that by default game timing is always consistent and do not rely on the hardware config, but I don’t blame Defold here, Vsync, frame rate and delta time was always a tricky topic. Just sharing my experience and bug investigation.
P.S. maybe it’s not required to limit Frame cap specificially, but it worked in this way and I did not check other options.
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Finally, Bouncy Catapult reached Google Play!
It’s in Open Beta any feedback is appreciated! 
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Nice! I hope it goes well.
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How was your experience with Poki? Did you have to integrate some services?
It was pretty smooth, I’ve integrated all needed APIs in about 4 hours - my web-version was already ready for showing ads, so I’ve just changed one calls and callbacks to others, with some help from @AGulev (by the way, contact him if you want a referral bonus for launching the game on Poki). In general you need to implement JS calls for their ads + some other minor stuff, docs are pretty clear and they have a fancy QA tool to test all these APIs. I’ve used a JS to Def extension as a bridge with JS.
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