The outcome of these 48 hours is a reasonably decent game, that just barely stays within the theme. Taking that aside, I do think it’s good fun to play and that’s all that matters.

Hopefully at least a few people will be able to try it out, but since there is no single-player component it gets a little bit dull playing by yourself

The entry can downloaded from here:

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Added support for various control schemes, and prettied up the display:

A couple sounds are in also! Thanks DrPetter! (sfxr)

A few things have been implemented since last entry; most notably the springy goals. Well, only the back of the goals actually. They add nothing gameplay-wise, but they’re kinda fun to watch when a ball is hammered into them. Barrier advertisement textures have also been made, i’m not crazy about them but they’ll do for now.

What I really need to get started on are the controls. The gamepad controls are perfect, but the majority of people here does not have such a peripheral so keyboard/mouse support is essential. Keyboard is currently supported, but man, it feels quite crappy. I think pure mouse control would be better.

Since I woke up i’ve mostly been making graphical improvements, e.g. colored players, textured field barriers.. But I also implemented a better camera, so every moving thing should now be visible at all (most) times.

Later I will try to model a better looking goal, and possibly add a menu.

A bit progress here; it’s now possible to actually score! I took a really lousy approach to getting score displayed on the ground.. It’s a quad with texture coordinates, and then I have a texture for each number (i.e. 1, 2 and 3). Not very awesome performance wise, but meh.

So I kinda went back and forth between some ideas I had sketched out. They all involved the same mechanic though, so I was basically just figuring out which was more fun.

I came to realize that there’s simply too many possibilities with this setup. There could be major amounts of violence, I mean, just look at the spikes on those tails! But, I think i’ll simply make it into some kind of sports game, i.e. get the ball into your opponents goal, at least just for the compo entry. I will, however, be keeping the spiky tails.

Dinner will be had in approximately 30 seconds.

I woke up this morning discovering the horrific theme of Chain Reaction, I was pretty bummed that something like Evolution didn’t win and to be honest, I was doubting if I could come up with anything that wasn’t just another Boomshine clone. Well, I sketched around a bit and came up with some ideas that involved chains reacting to input

Originally I was gonna do some kind of “throw your rope and catch something” kind of game, but by tweaking spring properties I stumbled upon something that feels much better to play. You’ll play as some snake-like creature, and have to either kill enemies, or collect stuff by bashing your tail into them/it.

So this is a debug view of the current condition of the game. I prefer writing the gameplay mechanics before delving into doing the artsy fartsy stuff.