Summary

MuBall is a music-driven physics-based puzzle game which challenges your rhythm, exploration and reasoning skills. Adventuring through imaginative levels, you must reproduce the sounds of the world by moving around, jumping, and interacting with objects, while following the rhythm of the music.

Notes

Development was done in Flash. Click on the image above to play the game. Instructions on how to play are in-game. Since there is only one level implemented, when you beat the level, the game restarts.

We did not end up completing the things I thought we'd be able to. Instead, we focused on getting a single level well-polished and playable.

Postmortem

Things that went well:

• I did a lot of the technical work early, so it would be easy to add content to a mostly-working game.
• Lukas doing 3D models and Matt doing 2D art was a good split and the resulting art came out well (even if it wasn't all included).
• The design of the game was interesting and (potentially) pretty fun.

Things that did not go well:

• Underestimating the amount of time required to implement polished mechanics. It took a lot of playtesting and tweaking to get it to a playable state. Level editing was really difficult, I wrote my own level editor but it was fairly primitive.
• Getting anything done at the end of the term - we were all in classes that had significant workloads near the end of the term.

End Game

Because some things were not completed, we've included some art and level designs to give an idea of how we'd expand on the game. So, take a look at the bonus folder to see things that didn't get included in the game.