Blast!

Hey everyone, quick update.. Blast has now been implemented! Right click (or shift on Mac) will use a blast similar to Marble Blast Online. A small UI component on the bottom right of the screen shows how much charge you have, past 50% and you can use the blast, but letting it build to 100% will give you a larger effect!

Come test it out!

Edit: Also added three new ball skins

This game has made fast progress! Tried the blast out the other day and i had a lot of fun. I also played on my logitech controller and that was really fun as well.

When you say controller, do you mean a mouse or a USB joystic/controller. I didn't realize it was compatible with non-keyboard controllers, as I've programmed in Get Key w -> Go forward

I mean Usb controller and I use ControllerMate to bind buttons to keys. So the controller can be used for any game.

awesome, eventually the idea would be to universalize the controls for any controller, but that takes a bit of work

Jul 28, 2013, 11:37am, blueteak wrote:When you say controller, do you mean a mouse or a USB joystic/controller. I didn't realize it was compatible with non-keyboard controllers, as I've programmed in Get Key w -> Go forward

Shouldn't you be using Input.GetButton (forward) -> Go Forward?

Do it with epic paticle shoot!

Jul 28, 2013, 2:38pm, helpme wrote:
Shouldn't you be using Input.GetButton (forward) -> Go Forward?

Ya, that's not the problem (I should but for some reason I like to hard code keys ), it's transferring p and t for pause and chat respectively that would present any problems.

@Ralph, check out the current particle effect, the particles blast out and bounce off the environment

You can use the input manager (I believe it's at edit > project settings > input) to set up buttons for pause and chat respectively. And while you're in there remove anything you won't use and rename what you are using to mean something in the context of the game.

It bugs me when I open up a unity game and the pre-launch control settings are completely unintelligible because they left the default list, which usually has far more buttons listed than are used in the game. And how should I know what fire1 is in a game with no guns. (Sorry, ranting)

EDIT: and you probably know, but my previous post was kinda wrong, better to use Input.GetAxis (Vertical). What I put would only work if you set up your own forward in the input manager, but still not as good because controllers....

I haven't played with Unity in a long time so my memory of it isn't great, (and I never was any good at it to begin with)

Sorry for being a backseat driver

Since I normally just use keyboard and mouse (and iOS requires an entire recoded control solution for touch controls) I haven't really ever experimented with the Input settings, so thanks for giving me a tip for where to look! I'll be sure to transfer the controls over eventually.

Working on prettying up the visuals atm (check out latest blog post for an update )