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[ferreiradaselva]

In SmoshiBall your objective is to throw the ball (it's a disk!) in the goal! Of course, that's the objective of the advensary team, too!











It's inspired in the oldschool Sanrio Smashball (SNES) plus some Bomberman features.

* Will have a simple "story mode", which are nothing more than sequential matches against unique characters *
* Match mode will allow 1vs1 and 2vs2 *
* 6 playable characters (so far) *
* Very nice AI *

[ferreiradaselva]

The initial implementation of the AI started. The AI can hit and follow the disk if the disk is going in the direction of the goal that the AI must defend. The initial implementation used many raycasts (GIF above), but some were replaced after by triangular shapes. Same effect, but requires less processing than the raycasts.





Added effects for when the character hits the disk.

[ferreiradaselva]

What's the difference between this video and the last one? In this one, it's the AI playing

For purpose of test, the blocks are in "indestructible mode", so the game doesn't end.

[ferreiradaselva]

Two AIs fight to death! Humanity loses.

[ferreiradaselva]

Progress on the menu for character selection

Four players can battle (the cursor of player 2, 3 and 4 will blink if not activated). The players can modify any "slot", so they can select COM (computer) characters to join, too.

[ferreiradaselva]

The disk was replace with a ball Now I need to produce a good sound effect to use when the ball is kicked. The "pop" sound when hitting the disk was pure satisfaction.

[snackycactus]

This game looks adorable! *follows* 

[ferreiradaselva]

@snackycactus:

Thankyou thank you, that's very much appreciated <3

I'm still wondering if this menu design is understandable by players:



The player can click on any slot to select a character. Except if that slot is currently being *edited* by another player.

[ferreiradaselva]

The gang of death, chaos, destruction and smashball.

[Jamie_D]

So this is looking great. Evokes a GBA vibe which is really nice.

So I did a quick paintover of some changes which will make it clearer.

-Each player presses A to join.
-Once a player has joined, they can press left or right to select their avatar/character.
-Pressing B will let players drop out (I didnt put that in the image though)
-Pressing RB (or whatever button you deciede) will let you add a AI player. I would probbaly have a pop up which lets you assign an AI to a slot.

-I also moved the return to menu and begin buttons too, to be a little more obvious. (I would also have it that when every player presses start that the game begins)

- I made the window backgrounds a solid colour to make it less noisy.

Also, add a dash. Dashing makes everything better.


Hope this helps, its looking realy good, keep it up!

[ferreiradaselva]

@uk_resistant:

I like the idea of making the background inside the frames flat. I'm not sure if those controls would work, though, because each player would be *attached* to a specific slot. In the current state, the player can select any slot to include even AIs, or even change teams (go from one side of the "vs" to the other). I like the idea of adding a "press start" for the other players.





The video above shows the character selection (player 1 selecting only AIs). The ball goes faster each hit. And, Kepo (frog) animations are done :D

Expect more explosions next video.

[Jamie_D]

Ah yeah! I hadnt taken that into account.
I think what is throwing me off on the original is so many moving white arrows.

Maybe it needs more visialy to seperate who is what cursor?

What if it was more like how football games do it. I cant find a good image but they used to have it where there were three columns - Team 1, unselected, Team 2 and once you had chosen your character, you would press left or right to pick a team. That could work maybe?

[ferreiradaselva]

Ohh, I check that, I have some football games in mind that I can use as reference!