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 Teemu Hokkanen Niklas Nygren Arttu Urpalainen

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.

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

Game control using gyroscope

in gyroscope supported Windows Phones you control the ball by tilting your phone

without gyroscope support you use a specially designed 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
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