Balloon Bash by ExeVirus
Balloon Bash!
Single Player:
Click the Balloon Bash.exe to play!
Delay the inevitable: keep the balloon(s) off the ground!
- walk with WASD
- jump with spacebar
- punch the balloon with left click!
Try to get as many balloons as possible :)
Multiplayer!!!
This game is based on Minetest's Engine, and as such can host a server really easily. Anyone can join you and bat those balloons, using android, mac, linux, and windows!
To set up, go into the game_data folder, then the bin folder, and start minetest.exe
from there, check the box next to: [] Host server and set your name (leave everything else). Click Host Game
Then have anyone else ON THE SAME WIFI join by downloading the Minetest game or app, and going to the join game tab.
On your host computer, click the windows icon in the bottom left and search for cmd open command prompt.
In this black screen, type ipconfig, and hit [enter]
look for your ethernet or wifi "adapter" then look for your IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.#.#
That 192.168.#.# is what your friends and family put into the Address part of the join game tab.
After that, they enter their name and click Connect! That's it!
Enjoy :)
Other notes
IF YOU FALL OFF (fue fue fue), just quit and come back :)
This is based on minetest engine, yes the full engine/game is inside your gamedata folder. That codebase is fully LPGL licensed, with the included textures, sounds, and game:minetestgame under different licensing, see the LICENSE file(s) for more info.
Hint: cheat with /help all ;) (specifically "fast" might help as a priv)
| Github | https://github.com/ExeVirus/balloon_bash |
| Win64 | https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=kZlGM5VZ7Upvx5SCYLRdApqFHaTvnjsd3w0y |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/balloon-bash |
Ratings
| Overall | 995th | 3.288⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 919th | 3.167⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 691th | 3.318⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 479th | 3.833⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 678th | 2.948⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1034th | 3.141⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 23🗳️ | 45🗨️ |
The Minetest engine is still improving and changing the text for chat messages requires me to change that text size for all games. So anyone who goes inside that game_data folder to player real minetest will have a weird experience using the larger font.
So, until that engine improves, I'm not going to mess with it. Though I will definitely change the color to be more obvious.
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Thanks again for playing this very short entry, do give multiplayer a try, it's quite fun with friends, and also be sure to try out the underlying games in the engine, Minetest is a cool open source project.
Found minetest back in the day when it was just a Minecraft clone, they've really expanded their horizons the past few years, it's more like an engine every day.
This was more of a bet with that community I could make a fun game jam entry this year in 3 hours. This is the result:)
i got to 7 balloons pretty easily. It ran well enough under WINE, though i do wish there had been a linux native version.
It'll be under the same name on their ContentDB, probably in a few weeks.
Instantly you start to think about ways to keep them together.
It would be more interesting if the balloons could collide with each other. and if they spawned in a bit more of a random location.
Collision with each other would make it harder, and I wanted this to be easier for solo players. It'll end up on a server somewhere so I'll be sure to turn that on (simple toggle actually) when it goes to that kind of environment.
As for the random location part, you can edit the code yourself (plaintext, in the game_data/games/balloon_bash/mods/balloon_bash/init.lua, look for the add_entity() lines and adjust the distance from +-4 to like +-10 to make it really hard.
Alternatively, find some friends, as they will randomly spawn over any joined player.
Thanks for playing, and the feedback:)
Good job :smile: