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Something with Balls Blog
20th August 2021
Made a fun little engine, yesterday, in SmileBASIC.

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Taking cues from my Falling Petals/Lemmings test thing in GotoJSE, I got balls falling onto Platforms, and then wondered where to take it from there.
I made the "tilt" be thumbstick controlled, and then added a little boat at the bottom, where Platdude can fire giant balls into the air.
The balls then fall down, and you can kinda guide them using the tilting platforms.

From there, I'm not sure.
A few ideas got sent to me on Twitter, and it looks like it's either going to be a shoot-em-up, or a target range, or something to that effect.
*shrugs*

If the game works out well enough, I'll likely rewrite it in JSE, later.
For now, though, if you want to see roughly where this idea came from, the Falling Lemmings example is on the Pink Examples Disk, or the code is here.

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