r/Crokinole

I've been building a little browser soccer game for the last few months, and something unexpected keeps happening.

I'll spend days building a feature because I think it's going to make the game more fun.

Then people play it. Sometimes they love it. Sometimes the feedback is basically, "This was more fun before."

The weird part is that the more feedback I get, the more I'm simplifying things instead of adding new mechanics.

I've toned down special shots, changed the AI, simplified parts of the tutorial, and even cut a few ideas I was convinced would make the game better.

I'm curious if anyone else has hit this point.

How do you decide when a feature is actually making the game deeper versus just making it more complicated?

If seeing the game helps, it's SnapFC
https://snapfc.com

I figure most people here would be familiar with "Chess Boxing", and thought that at least 1 person here would appreciate the spin off "crokinole jiu-jitsu". Alternating rounds of crokinole and submission grappling, this is the first time players have gotten to duke it out between rounds

Full match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6_sHgNvqUs

Good afternoon everyone, the National Crokinole Association 2026-27 Season is well underway, and we have just released the finals from the Turtle Island Crokinole Championship, a reputable tournament that brings out the best of the best - and, in the last match of the day we saw two titans of the game go head to head: Josh Carrafiello, the 2024-25 Tour Champion VERSUS Justin Slater, 5-time World Champion. We haven't seen these two play against each other in singles since (I believe) the 2025 London Crokinole Championship. Enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ajZ_VJhv6I