English Pub Pool - B4
This is a great free pool game - It's gotta be the best English pool game on the web.
You can play 8-Ball and Straight pool against 5 computer players - v. easy to v. hard - and you can even decide the rules!
Plus, there are lots of challenges too.
Enjoy!
P.s. Oh yeah, I helped to make this game - the aim being to make the best English Pool game on the web!
If you think of any improvements - let me know. Same if you find any glitches - Cheers!
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 8:48, Reply)
HELLO SPAMMER!!! HOW ARE YOU?
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RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 8:49,
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it's your first post
and it's a link to kongregate (who have spammed in the past).
Not saying you're a spammer, but to sites like that it's not unusual, and the message you've posted sounds a bit, well, naff.
Good game though
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lazygamer VS tittybiscuits, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:01,
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Oh
Well, I helped to make the game, but I thought that was kinda the point of this site - to show-off what you've made. And I thought you guys would like it?
I'm just spreading the word.
I'm glad you like it - enjoy!
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:10, Reply)
that's why there's a 'I Made This' button when you post on /links
so we know it's your work (and it's best to say in the post as well that you helped make it)
Otherwise you're just another person posting things they've found on the internet :)
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lazygamer VS tittybiscuits, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 9:24,
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How come you can go for any coloured ball?
Even the black?
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megapowerskills is farming apple meat, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:24,
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...
because you can in real life?
You still get a foul.
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lazygamer VS tittybiscuits, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:31,
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I didnt put that right,
I meant, how come you get point for potting any ball. Thats not English pool.
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megapowerskills is farming apple meat, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:34,
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Eh?
If you're playing 8-ball (English pool), then you'll get a foul if you pot the wrong ball first. You have to pot your own balls.
If you're playing straight pool (this isn't English pool) you can pot anything you like - that's the rules of straight pool!
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:40, Reply)
The fouls are a bit wrong
If you pot a red and a yellow in one shot whilst it's an open table, it should still be an open table.
Also, it's not a foul to pot your own colour followed by the opponent's colour in the same shot.
Other than that, a good game.
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:28, Reply)
pool rules are all fucked up anyway
in some parts of the UK after a red/yellow double on an open table:
- It's an open table
- Or the break taker get to pick a colour
- Or their opponent gets to choose
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lazygamer VS tittybiscuits, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:34,
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I think official rules state you have to nominate a colour
They're here, but I CBA to read them.
www.epa.org.uk/wrules.php
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Fishcat Difficult difficult lemon difficult., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 11:18,
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I didn't check the World Rules...
Their rack is different to what I play - I've always played with the diagonal stripes in the triangle like the flash game does.
The site says the rules have been changed last Jan - so anything goes really!?
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 11:29, Reply)
The merkin rules are fucked up.
Fluke shots are what make the game interesting.
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Zuowan, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 12:56,
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I hear what you're saying...
But where I'm from if you pot a red and a yellow then you have to decide on your colour straight away.
Also, we always play it's a foul if you pot your ball and a opponent's ball at the same time.
You can change some of the rules, like 2-shots on the black and an open table after fouls before you start a match.
I couldn't be bothered to add every possible rule - there are too many variations!
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 10:47, Reply)
Scarily addictive
I'd prefer to have better control over the power of my shot. Rather than a timing thing, maybe you could freeze the angle of the shot and select the power by moving the mouse up and down.
Not sure how feasable that is though.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 12:23,
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i find it a bit annoying that theres no way to cancel a shot
so if you click by accident or hold the click too long theres no way of going back.
Good game though
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mutated monty, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 14:07,
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CANCEL SHOTS
You can cancel your shots by moving your mouse off the table - I should add this to the keys info...
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 15:29, Reply)
Hmmm...
Yeah, that's possible but I don't like that style very much. Just holding the mouse down is quicker and easier - you've just gotta get used to it :)
The lines on the power control are there to help you - each line will hit the ball about half a table length.
Oh, I'll have the chips please...
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 15:26, Reply)
Well I take your point on the lines
but even a few pints down I've usually got finer control of the power than that. Seems odd to have such fine control of the angle but not the power.
On another note, it shouldn't tell me to press M to place the cue ball after every single foul should it?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 16:48,
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Yeah, you're probably right.
But I don't find it too annoying. Once you've played it a few times you stop reading the messages anyways. I just click through all of them.
A single quick click won't take a shot - so you don't have to worry about that.
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 17:30, Reply)
Naahh
Should have to pull back with mouse to set power.. Timing jobbies suck :(
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mugwump In summary then, oh no. Chris., Sun 22 Feb 2009, 19:25,
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Nice version.
Would like a rule that you can only shoot down the table after placing the ball, and a rule for only taking one shot instead of two when you're on the black.
Other than that, great.
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Zuowan, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 12:45,
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I've never liked the rule where you have to hit the ball down the table - so I didn't include that.
But you can alter the 2-shots rule on the black already. Just click on the 'Rules' option before you click 'Play' when playing 8-Ball Matches.
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 15:33, Reply)
I broke it
Something to do with it asking me to move the cue ball after I'd set the line of the shot up.
ho hum
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spagaroony, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 13:26,
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Bug???
I haven't had any major bugs for a while now - can you give me more details?
What game were you playing - 8-Ball/challenges/time attack????
Did it crash?????
Cheers
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 15:36, Reply)
Player names
We're adding some more players to make tournaments, so if you can think of any good/funny names let me know (e.g. E. Z. Pickings, etc...)
Cheers
(, Sun 22 Feb 2009, 17:34, Reply)