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Ball Murder
Ball murder is a fairly gore game, where you defend your home from invading enemies with a giant ball. The only way to stop the invaders is to roll over them.
Team
- Rasmus Halsas 0358373
- Teemu Hokkanen 0387849
- Niklas Nygren 0387975
- Arttu Urpalainen 035700
Idea
Our idea was to use a phones gyroscope in a mobile game. Our game shaped up to be Ball Murder, where you control a ball by tilting your phone and making use of the gyroscope it has. In order to accommodate older Windows Phones we also built a joystick into the game to control the ball if the phone doesn't support gyroscope. This was also built as a failsafe if we didn't have enough time to finis the gyroscope, which unfortunately was the case.
Motivation
Main motivation for our group was to create something new, and especially for a mobile phone. We wanted to create a game, because it seemed to be a good platform to try out the gyroscope of newer Windows Phones. We chose Windows Phone as our platform since it seemed easier to distribute than a game designed for computer users.
Features
Unprecedented joystick
- control the ball with unique style joystick
Multiple game levels
- 3 levels with different end bosses
- different themes for each level
Original music and voice effects
- game music composed by a member of our team
- self made sound effects
Original artwork
- all graphics made by our team members
Tech
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 & 2013
- GIMP 2.0
- Audacity
- Hydrogen
Timetable
Monday | Figure out an idea for the project, divide work and start coding |
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Tuesday | Try to make a basic version of the game with joystick and moving ball |
Wednesday | Add enemies, do music and voice acting |
Thurday | Add different levels, gyroscope-controlled-version, bosses, whatever we manage to do |
Friday | Finish wiki and documents & Presentate |