By Marco Chiesi

INTRODUCTION

Laser Balls is a funny deathmatch battle for up to four players, either controlled by the user or by the computer. You drive a bouncing coloured ball into a sort of arena, and you have to fight against other balls with your laser sword-gun. The game also provides a scripting engine, so you can write the behaviours of the computer enemies.

DOWNLOAD

LaserBalls10-src.zip - Source code (200 kb)

LaserBalls10-win.zip - Windows version (390 kb)

LaserBalls10-dos.zip - DOS version (350 kb)

SCREENSHOTS

HOW TO PLAY

Simply move your ball around the screen, using UP and DOWN arrows to go back and forth, LEFT and RIGHT arrows to rotate and the fire key to shoot to the enemies with your laser weapon, until only one ball survive.

ALLEGRO SPEEDHACK

This game was written in a weekend for the Allegro Speedhack 2002 competition. The rules were:
- The game should include at least 2 pages of the Allegro demo game
- The game should have a scrolling message somewhere within it
- The game should contain a Virtual Machine
- The game should glow with radiation inspired content

Visit http://www.allegro.cc/speedhack for more info.

CREATE YOUR OPPONENT

You can use .lb scripts to create computer opponents. Watch at the file cpu.lb for an example. A better documentation about how to write the scripts is coming soon.

SETTINGS

Once inside the game you will be able to modify the following options:
- Enable / disable sound
- Enable / disable background music
- Change the control keys
- Set up the players

To restore default settings you simply have to delete the file LaserBalls.cfg

CREDITS

Thanks to:
- All the Allegro Community at allegro.cc
- Shawn Hargreaves for the Allegro demo game and for EGG
- David A. Capello for the utility ttf2pcx
- Fausto Predieri for helping me test the game
- Radiohead for the music