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
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

Files

project_proposal.pdf