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WORMBALL


8 years ago

WORMBALL - A snake/pinball mashup developed for the Stencyl Jam. Here's the story so far.


Hey Folks,

It’s a little late posting it, but at the weekend I developed WORMBALL, a pinball snake mashup using Stencyl. Here’s the brief, GIF heavy summary of development:

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Basic Ball and Flipper Mechanics. (Originally set out to build a pinball game with tower defence mechanics).

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OH GOD THAT WASN’T MEANT TO HAPPEN

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Whilst creating particle trails, made a worm. Enthusiasm explodes for the project.

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Added some bumpers and googly eyes that follow the player, as well as the beginning of collectables that the worm can eat.

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Added a spawn, score, stamina for the paddles (To stop the hoarding of collectables) and made the bumpers release pellets.

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Added decals and an overlay - Failed miserably to implement a camera that panned in time with the height of the player smoothly.

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Opted for a static camera, added health and hunger, along with portals. Opted for a more modest less blinding font.

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Switched the collectables to a more distinct colour, added icons for hunger and life. Added worm shake, title page and controls.

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Added decay to the brain bumpers to reduce the torrent of collectables, added instead poppable spots and harsher paddle stamina.

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Other than that, I’ve got a tablet version working and just need music and sound doing!
If you’re interested in finding out when WORMBALL is released, keep an eye on my Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/alexvscoding

Once the browser version is released, I’ll be taking the phone/tablet version further with more levels and mechanics, as well as building a custom cabinet to play the game with.

WORMBALL Was developed as part of the Stencyl Jam, a game jam for users of Stencyl. Stencyl is a games development tool that combines the simple code structure of Scratch with the ability to export. Check it out here some more here: http://stencyl.com/

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