Gem Ball

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@rtur(Posted 2006) [#1]
Game made by my friends from URSE Games:

Screenshots:
http://www.ursegames.com/gem-ball/screen-shot-1.phtml
http://www.ursegames.com/gem-ball/screen-shot-2.phtml
http://www.ursegames.com/gem-ball/screen-shot-3.phtml
http://www.ursegames.com/gem-ball/screen-shot-4.phtml
http://www.ursegames.com/gem-ball/screen-shot-5.phtml
http://www.ursegames.com/gem-ball/screen-shot-6.phtml
http://www.ursegames.com/gem-ball/screen-shot-7.phtml
http://www.ursegames.com/gem-ball/screen-shot-8.phtml
http://www.ursegames.com/gem-ball/screen-shot-9.phtml

Description:
URSE Games announces the release of Gem Ball, an amazing 3D arcade that changes the approach to the “don’t let the ball fall” games. The beautiful graphics, involving plot and creative gameplay will make Gem Ball a real diamond in your collection of arcanoids. Gem Ball offers an adventure where the myths of Ancient Egypt will lead you through perilous dangers to achieve the great goal of restoring the long lost gifts of Amon Ra, the King of Gods.

Link:
http://www.ursegames.com/download/gem-ball-setup.exe


Grey Alien(Posted 2006) [#2]
say, this looks cool. I'll try it later. It's Blitz3D I presume? I like the 3D backgrounds too.


@rtur(Posted 2006) [#3]
Yea, B3D.


Grisu(Posted 2006) [#4]
GREAT game.

If you could add 1280x1024 or 960 as screen resolution it would be perfect! ;)


Geehawk(Posted 2006) [#5]
This is visually impressive, and fun to play, although it felt a bit slow.

Loving the dropping block stacks, and implementation of powerups etc..

A few things spoil it for me though.

The bat motion always felt to be lagging behind the mouse movement.

I really think these type of games should have ball to ball collision when multiple balls are in play.

I hate arcade type games that are given an 'adventure' theme. Its just an arcade game intersposed with a picture of a map ;-)

A laser powerup and guns just felt out of place.

Got an error when exiting.
"Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime library
_gemball.exe
Abnormal program termination"


Grisu(Posted 2006) [#6]
Agreed with the lasers. He could change them to spears or arrows to fit the theme. Same goes for the cannons.

Reached Stage 4-1, time's up... :o)


Grey Alien(Posted 2006) [#7]
map is pretty much the normal for portal games these days though. Not having one would make your game look funny.