PlinkIdle

you ABSOLUTELY should have named this "Plinkremental" or something adjacent

I like this game so far
Some of the sound effects are worse/more annoying than others, so more complex sound controls might be nice

minor bug/missing feature: Auto II and Drop II upgrades are missing (i) help text

things i like:
- the way the screen changes when the rarer balls are on screen. on level 4 if all buckets are at 10, this no longer occurs btw
- the way that higher rarity balls have actually different art

more reasons to go back to older levels would be nice. My own ideas for this would be either a specific currency/energy/etc that can be gained in each specific level that you need, OR a higher-than-gold-ball rarity unique item/relic that can be unlocked per-level

the demo seems to go by pretty fast, i know balancing idle games to be satisfying but not over too soon is both difficult and highly subjective but it does seem a bit faster than i'd anticipate. And then once I"ve "beat" the demo I've been sitting here just trying to max everything which is then really slow, more than i'd think

ideas/suggestions
hiding maxed upgrade buttons
prestiging/upgrading of buckets beyond the 1-10 level up system they have now (gilding? using overflow to buff some tertiary currency?)
candy level (mmm candy) or maybe cookies.
unique upgrades, such as a one-per-level-limit pin that just doubles balls that hit it or similar. idk more unique stuff is nice imo
some sort of DPS meter/more stats (money/balls per second, chance per ball rarity etc)
maybe mousing over individual pins could show money sums (I am dying of curiosity to know what % of my income is from my ONE gold pin)
different obstacles or shapes in levels
higher or lower gravity in levels (we all love moon levels, right)

Nice demo, keep up the good work!

Here are some things I noticed on my first experience with the game:
- Game scene isn't centered – it's snapped to the left side. At first, I thought that some UI might be missing
- On some stages it's very hard to see what's going on. Specifically on stage 3 – due to snow particles and white-tone background, it's also hard to see which pins are upgraded. Maybe some toggle buttons for effects/background would be cool?
- It feels odd for an incremental game not to have any permanent upgrades between stages. Right now, the only motivation to go forward is upgrading, but they will reset anyways, which feels unsatisfying
- I also feel like, as a player, I don't make any gameplay choices. Not every incremental games needs them, though
- While being opened in a website it feels like the game does not progress when being out of the screen viewport. That might not be an issue in a standalone app, but for a browser game I feel like this is a must have feature
- My inner math enjoyer don't understand how this setup results in uniform distribution haha. But it's more like a joke rather than serious question

And don't let folks like me frame you with solutions! Stick with your vision and we'll be back to check new updates :)

adding on to my previous comment, when I saw the golden ball and the way that the screen visibly changed, my heart kind of skipped a beat and was really excited for what might come :D im gonna get addicted to this arent i

actually an amazing demo, love this idea! how much do you think the steam game will cost? :)

So far my issue is that none of your previous progress matters at all whenever you move on to the next ball. Functionally a blank slate every time.

This is a very mild annoyance but if you're going to floor the visual cost of an upgrade, you should also floor the upgrade cost itself. If I am told it costs "5" to upgrade but I can't upgrade it with "5", that's a bit annoying. Fun game though.

do previous levels keep running when ur on the next ones? if not, then why can you go back to them and continue upgrading them? i'm finding that aspect confusing.

The tooltip for "Drop II: scale drop count" upgrade is missing

Its nice but... why would you show upgrades for 5-2 and 6-2 when you cant access them?