CocoBall by blitzcloud

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made by blitzcloud for Ludum Dare 45 (JAM)

Summary:

We started off with the idea of making a game where shell-less turtles would compete for holding the shell (so they would "start with nothing" and compete for the shell) in a king of the hill-esque game. Our main concern was the AI, which we had no experience about. After less than 24 hours we realized that concept would not see the light of day in less than 72 hours, so we took what we had been doing (mapping and character creation) and went through with a soccer game where they use their shells as their main weapon.

We believe it ended being a very fun local VS experience (that you can play over the internet with applications like parsec). You can use the shell to knock your opponent, or you can shoot a very high speed coconut to knock him over! We had great fun with our friends!

What we did on the project:

-All code was from scratch aside from one shader.

-3D models, texturing, all done by us.

The only stuff we didn't do were the animations (Mixamo) and the music (even if we have a license to use the assets)

Controls:

Player1: W A S D and Left Shift or Space for using shell spin

Player2: Arrows and Right Control or NumPad 0 for using shell spin

We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed doing it!

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Ratings

Overall 594th 3.422⭐ 47🧑‍⚖️
Fun 371th 3.511⭐ 47🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 921th 2.682⭐ 46🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1113th 1.909⭐ 46🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 200th 4.12⭐ 48🧑‍⚖️
Humor 315th 3.205⭐ 46🧑‍⚖️
Mood 396th 3.534⭐ 46🧑‍⚖️
Given 52🗳️ 22🗨️

Feedback

Webox
08. Oct 2019 · 00:49 UTC
Cool game!! pretty nice graphics and mood. I'm not entirely sure what was your take on the theme but it's a neat game. Great entry!!
patvanmackelberg
08. Oct 2019 · 00:59 UTC
Very neat game, the music gave it a nintendo 64 vibe :P
Moritz Jaeger
08. Oct 2019 · 01:04 UTC
Nice graphics.
🎤 blitzcloud
08. Oct 2019 · 01:05 UTC
Hey @webox! thanks for your comment! The initial take on the game was more of a king of the hill concept. However, we realized it wouldn't be fun enough with our lack of knowledge of AI programming. The initial idea would've been turtles without shells fighting to get inside a shell then stay with it as much time as possible.

So, as of now, the theme only gave us the mood of the game. We wish we could've been closer to the theme, for sure!
Almighty Games
08. Oct 2019 · 01:50 UTC
I wasn't really able to 'play' the game, since I am just one person. But the graphics, music and sounds were all very nice. Simple concept, and the controls seemed to function smoothly.
🎤 blitzcloud
08. Oct 2019 · 01:53 UTC
@almighty-games parsec is a very good program that allows you to stream the game to other people and play it over the net with minimum delay (even cuphead can be played!)
jellzilla
08. Oct 2019 · 02:02 UTC
Really cute game. I wish I had a second player to play with. I loved the animations, especially the dancing and getting hit with the ball.
Seth Marx
08. Oct 2019 · 02:55 UTC
This gave me a smile :) Very adorable, gameplay and aesthetic is on point :tm: gg
Eryph
08. Oct 2019 · 12:48 UTC
Really cool game, sadly i'm alone to play it... Had fun messing around with the ball anyway ! Great job ! Maybe i don't get it but i don't really see the theme in the game ... And the no shell turtle would have been great too !
jharler
09. Oct 2019 · 19:57 UTC
Superb modeling, texturing and animating here. Seriously great job. I'm unfortunately unable to test with another person, but my left hand crushed my right hand. My one input would be to make the rounds a little shorter. Maybe 60 or 90 seconds. Great job!
🎤 blitzcloud
09. Oct 2019 · 20:43 UTC
@jharler we can't take credit for animation because mixamo gave us the animations (although we did take a long time selecting the ones that'd fit the most and converting some to stay in place). Thanks for the kind comments!
Ausstein
09. Oct 2019 · 21:47 UTC
Haha what a cute little game. really awesome artstyle. I can offer you to write a basic AI for your game if you want to, so people can play single player. :)
nikchernyakov
09. Oct 2019 · 21:51 UTC
Funny idea, I like the style and turtles. Unfortunately, I can play with my right hand, because Num0 doesn't work with other nums and the right shift too far from other keys. But I think the problem mostly in my keyboard :) Will try to play with friend.
Christopher Wong
09. Oct 2019 · 21:54 UTC
Very intersting game, had fun playing against my friend
🎤 blitzcloud
09. Oct 2019 · 22:40 UTC
@nikchernyakov hey there! if you download the second binary (executable), it allows to change controls so you'd be able to put the keys you want and even setup controllers.

@christopher-wong glad to see you could play with someone :D!

@ausstein we'll tackle that in the near future, we just couldn't manage based on the 72h we had plus the fact we had a somewhat tight schedule
CaptAndrey
10. Oct 2019 · 06:29 UTC
nice art for 72h) good old offline PVP
Gehad
10. Oct 2019 · 13:57 UTC
very beautiful and entertaining , Great job guys :thumbsup:
ljol3
10. Oct 2019 · 22:30 UTC
Im happy to see an arcade-style sports game, as those are the best sports games. If I had a player 2 I'm confident this would be a blast of a little romp.

I see what your original intent with the theme WAS, but the final product doesn't really reflect the theme much at all except for the fact that your score starts at nothing, which is a bit of a stretch.

also, the graphics were pretty good and stylized for the short time frame given.
Its_Jackal
11. Oct 2019 · 02:31 UTC
Very simple concept, great to see a local MP game, graphics and anims are good, physics are goo, overall solid game!
Sergio1811
11. Oct 2019 · 08:34 UTC
Well, cool game, the speed probably don't match with the game, and some physics were bugging, like the ball, but was fun play with a friend but to risky for the rest make a two player games.
Hugo Guerin
24. Oct 2019 · 18:14 UTC
Nice little game to play with a friend! Like the dance when you score haha!
J-fret
24. Oct 2019 · 19:03 UTC
Very fun multiplayer game!
Rensen
24. Oct 2019 · 19:25 UTC
Loved graphics, especially character animations. Not sure how it relates to gamejam theme, but had fun playing it and knocking out other player :D
Taldius
24. Oct 2019 · 20:30 UTC
Graphically impressive for a game jam submission. The game feels slow though, but ... well ... it's turtles playing soccer so, it makes sens :sweat_smile:
Good job!