Ping Pong Battle Demo
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| At long last, the demo for Ping Pong Battle is finally ready! (Full retail version to follow shortly hereafter.) http://www.mediafire.com/?iwzjmmeu3zm Look forward to your feedback, and Please let me know if you find any glitches ;) Save the world through a Ping Pong tournament, in this unusual and wacky game!    Features: Over 21 unique powerups. 16 playable characters, each with their own unique stage. 2 different game modes. Over 80 unique special attacks. Awesome music, made by Kevin Macleod. Full version coming soon! (Two of the characters are named after blitzers. See if you can figure out which two ;) |
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| haha! This looks amazing :) Cheers Charlie |
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| Right now I'm working on an improved demo, to remove the glitches that play testers have found in this one(For the most part, only minor glitches), and it would be extremely helpful if any of you who have downloaded this could post, or e-mail any glitches that you might have found so I can add them to the list ;) Thanks! And any suggestions you might have as to how to further improve the game are always welcome. |
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| looks good, change the font tho, |
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| Oky doke. Any suggestions as to what font I should use in its place? I'm currently using the Vera font, and a little Verdana for the sections where I used a special image instead of DrawText(such as the text on the title screen). |
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| looks like blitz font on all the screenies, you could use a futuristic font, ??? open up gimp and it will let you write stuff with the installed fonts on your pc |
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| Ok. I'll poke around and see what I can find ;) Thanks for the suggestion! |
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| Go to 1001freefonts.com. is this written in Bmax? if so you can Incbin your fonts. |
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| I think this is a cool concept, the most interesting take on the `pong` concept. Your graphics are awful but in a way their `terribility` makes it very much a comedy :D |
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| (Two of the characters are named after blitzers. See if you can figure out which two ;) *cough* :D Hehehe Dabz |
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| Go to 1001freefonts.com. It's written in Blitzmax, and I used the font I used, mainly because it was royalty free. I'll take a look at the license agreement at 1001freefonts though, so see if I might be able to use them :) Your graphics are awful but in a way their `terribility` makes it very much a comedy :D LOL! Well said. Maybe I'll put that on the box for the full version ;) @Dabz You only named one of the characters named after a blitzer :) |
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| WERDNA, Now that you have this all working have you considered bringing in an artist to polish it up? |
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| I think all of your characters look funny, as in comedy, so I fear you'd lose that if you tried to have an artist make funny-looking characters. I like the `over the top`ness. Probably the funnest character is that one that looks like a pile of steaming poop - .. which could describe at least four of them, lol It does look fun though. |
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| Now that you have this all working have you considered bringing in an artist to polish it up? I currently have a 0$ budget ;) The whole point of Ping Pong Battle, is to do as good as I can with the graphics, sell it, and at least make a little cash from it so I can buy art, music, etc for my next game. Although ImaginaryHuman does have a good point, that making the characters look more polished\professional might take away some of the wackiness. I'm going to clean some of them up a little bit for the full version(I.e, Meathead who just looks awful), but the graphics won't improve much beyond what they are now. (Although I'm investigating smoothing the edges of the characters to give them a bit more depth) I forgot to mention in my first post, but major thanks to Ross C for the Hippy and Dark wizard images, and major thanks to Yeshu777 for some of the music :) I'm working right now on the 2.0 demo, to fix several small glitches found in this one, and the full version will follow shortly thereafter. |
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| Now that I've received some general feedback, what would be really nice is some character feedback, since thats what the game is all about :) So, what characters do you like\dislike, and when you first played the game which character did you gravitate towards first? Any abilities you think I should remove\edit, and which ones are your favorite? Thanks for all the excellent feedback so far, just this little bit extra will tremendously! |
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| A new demo will be ready very soon. It will feature the following changes. Fix to the Dabz character so he is no longer super powered. Several minor glitch fixes. The game will not exceed 60 FPS at any time now. A new image for the McDao character. A new set of menu screens, with at long last an options menu. A scoring system, much like that in the Super Smash Bros games, where you earn 'awards' after each match, each award being worth so many points. (Each character has their own individual high score for the campaign modes, and the high scores automatically SAVE) The story has been slowed down a bit also, to make it more readable. I would be uploading this new version right now since its done, EXCEPT I found what appears to be a memory leak while playing, and the game crashed after about 20 minutes ;) So after I solve that, I'll go ahead and upload it. Cheers! |
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| Fix to the Dabz character so he is no longer super powered. :( Dabz ;) |
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| People were complaining Dabz ;) The Dabz character could win a match with only a single ball getting past him IF he was unlucky. He's still one of the better characters in the game, lol! |
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| Ive just seen the screenshots! well that looks like a fun game! :) I think you are a good designer hope you do well |
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| Thanks Mainsworthy! I'm working on it ;) |
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| I would rather play this game rather than a normal pong game, I think the charectors make a great impact, I would say keep the originality of it as it works well |
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| At long last, I think the memory leak is fixed! I have some more play testing to do, but initial results are quite positive. Played for 46 minutes earlier, without any problems, winning both the easy and normal campaign. The plus side of all of this, is now I know how much RAM the game requires to run, so I'm working on getting system requirements put together :) Plus I have a better understanding of just how much memory things use, lol. I have removed a few more minor glitches, and this should be ready to upload by Sunday. All I have to do, is a little more play testing, remove three new glitches, and downgrade the Dabz character yet farther(He's still too good, lol). I'm also going to upgrade the Meathead character, because he currently sucks eggs ;) |
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| He's still too good, lol It doesnt matter what you do Mr W, I'll always be awesome! :P Though, Laura will disagree if shes asked, she'll probably just say I'm a useless bugger! :D Dabz |
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| You've been one of the most problematic characters in the game Dabz, second only to Baldo the dwarf :) Your abilities are just too good, lol. Plus I had problems with you killing the frame rate with all of the extra objects you create :) The game is all ready for upload, and will be uploaded sometime tomorrow(Sunday) unless the Wi-Fi connection I have access to on Sunday is feeling unstable ;) Then I'll have to wait till Monday. |
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| http://www.mediafire.com/?i2jnhztejmt NEW DEMO :)  System Requirements. Supported OS: WindowsXP,Vista,Win7 Processor: 2.00 GHz or higher. I have no idea what brands work and don't work. RAM: 1GB Or more Video Card: 32MB DirectX 9.0-compliant video care or better. Sound Card: DirectX 9.0-compliant Audio Card. DirectX Version: 9.0 or higher(I 'think' it will probably work with 7.0 or higher). Hard Drive Space: I was never sure what this was, lol. If someone could help me out that would be great ;) Display: 1024x768 32-bit-display or better. Even though the game is getting close to completion, the demo is still free to download. All that I request is A: feedback, and B: Some system information to help me finalize the system requirements ;) Hope everyone enjoys the game! |
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| For the hard drive space, just find out how many MB/GB's the game takes up after it's compiled and round up. |
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| Ok, thanks :) Should be 1.6 GB in Hard Drive space then! |
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| Hopefully you're not including the source code into that number because the folder is only 45.8MB for me. |
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| Oh, I did, lol. I compiled the code to check it ;) Did you mean how much memory is soaked up when you first start the program? |
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