Today I want to talk to you about Playground, a third and the last game mode in Wreckin' Ball Adventure.
This mode is more casual then Endless. Is still a cooperative mode but more light and forgiving. It's perfect to practice player skills. This a hunt for stars (these stars have nothing to do with stars in story mode). The rules are simple: there is one map and on this map, stars are generated randomly. The player who finds the biggest amount of stars wins.
But on this map players will find checkpoints, traps, environmental traps and event buttons. Like in Endless the player can activate traps to interrupt another player get a star. We can not forget about fake stars - this is a special trap only for Playground. They look like a normal star but if the player gets closer, they change color to red, start shaking and after a few very short seconds explode - watch out for them!
Today we join Wreckin' Ball Adventure devs, Don't Bite Devs, to show you the game in action! Be with us and have fun!
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Today I wanted to talk to you about Endless, a second game mode in Wreckin' Ball Adventure.
The story mode was designed for cooperation, Endless is focused on chaos, destruction, and survival. This mode is more cooperative. The main goal of Endless is to survive longer than other players or longer than the previous run (If you play alone).
https://youtu.be/KQlthitnakY
In this mode, there are no checkpoints, if you die you're out form the race and you have to wait for other players to finish the game. So how long is one play in Endless? It depends on the players. The map is randomly generated form prepared fragments but relax, on the map the player will find a lot of ways to die. There are even events button to activate a trap to kill another player.
https://youtu.be/_w2yU3PkEjo
If the environment and traps are not good enough to kill the players, to the race can join a special energy orb. This orb is chasing a player, every the player have his own energy orb. If the player will be in the range of this orb for a few seconds the orb will destroy the player.
Let us know what are your favorite game modes and why :) Do you enjoy playing storyfull games? Or maybe just free modes?
Hello everyone! ËsteamhappyË
We are finally back, sorry for the radio silence for soooooo long, we had a lot of work, a lot of changes. Back to the main topic, in this month we wanted to bring you closer to game mods in Wreckin' Ball Adventure.
Today story mode. In this mode, the player will have 60 levels available to play. At the beginning of the game, the player will have access to prolog and 1st map. In classic style to unlock new level player have to beat a current map, collect orbs and stars. Stars are crucial to unlocking new levels, every map will have always 4 stars to collect. Levels are divided into the set of levels (e.g 1-10,10-20, 20-30) and to unlock a next set the player has to collect a certain amount of stars.
Like the name of the game mods suggests, levels are story-driven. But in no typical understanding of story mode, a lot of a story will be hidden in the environment. With each new map, the player will discover more and more information about the word of Wreckin' Ball. There is even a boss fight! But I don't want to talk about it, I don't want to spoil the fun.
We designed story mode for players cooperation but if they want they can race against each other. Every game mode can be played in 1-4 players.
Let us know what are your favourite game modes and why :) Do you enjoy playing storyfull games? Or maybe just free modes?
We are happy to announce that Wreckin' Ball Adventure will be released on
2nd of August 2019!
The game will launch simultaneously on both platforms:
1) Steam
2) Nintendo Switch, thanks to our partner, Qubic Games
Wreckin' Ball Adventure is excellent to play solo or in couch co-op mode.
Discover how to interact with your fellow robot escapees', helping one another.
Roll, jump and swing using your handy-dandy grappling hook to reach new heights!
Gather the orbs and collect the stars to unlock the next levels.
Wreck through the walls, avoid the hazards to reach your goal - breaking out of the gaol.
Discover a story layer hidden under the action surface - find out why SuperCom wants to destroy a sweet round robot!
Curator invite!
Hi guys!
As we are much closer to the release date, we would like to invite you to try and review our game.
If you are youtuber, twitcher or steam curator, feel free to contact us on Keymailer:
https://www.keymailer.co/g/games/72116
Last call to sign up for beta!
If you want to be a part of this adventure just follow the link below:
http://eepurl.com/dK24yg
We'll send keys to the game on Steam tomorrow.
Also, you can watch here a co-op trailer.
Hope you enjoy it and we encourage you to try this game yourself :)
This is it! We'll start beta tests in two weeks!
If you want to be one of the first who will play in Wreckin' Ball Adventure and wants to give us some cool feedback all you have to do is follow the link below.
In two weeks we'll send you a key to the game on Steam :)
Help us improve our crazy, platform game :)
Hello again everyone! :D Today I wanted to talk to you about an art style for Wreckin' Ball Adventure.
On the one hand, I hate to work on a new art style, but on the another I love it. Maybe because it is another hard part of game development or maybe itâs just tricky? We have lots of ideas, but we are limited to picking only one and somehow we have to show our vision to art designer. All we know is that we want to release this game on Nintendo switch and PC. Wreckin' Ball Adventure is a perfect game for a switch, 1-4 players platformer. So the game has to look like some kind of "eye-candy" but be practical at the same time.
Kinga provided us with 3D models for the prototype (Now she's working on UI and it's going to be great! :D, we will make another devlog about this).
Anyway, she is a very good 2D artist and a wonderful person, but when it comes to 3D, she's still a beginner.
As for someone who just started with 3D these graphics weren't that bad, they looked quite nice but they didn't draw attention.
We kind of felt that on PGA 2018 which is one of the biggest gaming events in Poland. (More about that in another devlog)
First gameplay of Wreckin' Ball Adventure ever:
Prototype first design:
Wreckinâ Ball Adventure:
So when Kinga is working on UI, our 3D models are made by us, RafaĆ and Krystian.
After almost 2 weeks of thinking and talking about changes that we can make in Wreckinâ Ball Adventure art style to draw people attention, we finally got it.
We changed our color palette a bit, added more glow and polished some objects
Our main inspiration for the whole game was Portal 1 and 2 made by Valve.
I know, I know... You probably think that those game don't have anything in common with Nintendo games but we just loved the idea of a test chamber. We felt like it's the only way to improve our storytelling. At first sight, you can think that it's another lifeless/boring platformer but there's more to that. You just play in a sterile, mysterious laboratory and from time to time you see windows that can be like puzzles if you look more closely.
So you are not getting just this fun and basic game to spend some time with, you are also getting a mystery that can drive you very far from the main story. (We'll leave storytelling for yet another devlog).
best,
Marek
Devlog #1: What's in a Name?
My brother and I are big fans of Overwatch, we play this game a lot. In August 2018 when they released a new hero Hammond, a hamster in a wrecking ball mech, we were inspired. âWhat if we create a game, a platformer that relies on physics and moving like a ball?â A few days later we had our first prototype of Kirro, a build in UE4 and it was fun :D The prototype was simple, just 1-2 players, basic mechanics of movement based on rolling, jumping, and hooking ( the most important thing in the whole game) with few small maps.
First gameplay ever made of Wreckin' Ball Adventure:
When Jarekâs wife played our first prototype she noted that our hero (His name is K160) looks very similar to the main character of Assassination Class, Koro-Sensei. This is a bit of an oversimplification, but let's say he is a "yellow octopus", who, when angry, transforms into a yellow ball.
To avoid legal disputes we came up with the name Kirro and we loved this name for our game. Kirro in Japanese that means yellow. Our happiness didn't last long, there was one problem, something called "Kiiro" already existed; it was a shop for erotic toys. The titles were too similar, a small error in your search and you may just find something you were not expecting.
We wanted to create a family-friendly game. We didnât want to kids looking for our game and finding this shop. So, we decide to change the name to Wreckinâ Ball Adventure.
I still think one of the hardest parts of creating a game is choosing a name. Because when a player sees the name, he should know what to expect. The name also should be catchy and easy to remember. A lot of good ideas for the name were already taken. I hope we made the right decision with Wreckinâ Ball Adventure, but only time will tell ;)
