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SparkBall! SWF by game designer Mike Sagara
Oct 6^th, 2008 at 11:08pm

Hey, we have a new online ShockWave Flash game featuring SnowBuni, ShaddoPhase, and a Dethret Overseer by game designer Mike Sagara. Screencaps:

Mike writes:

I renamed this game as Sparkball! since "Battleball" seems to be fairly common when googled. This game is probably best thought of as proof-of-concept because it isn't fully developed. The biggest lack is it only has single game mode and no high score table. However, it is playable and, at this point, I'm going to put this project on hiatus since I want to turn my attention to other projects. Feel free to comment though and I'll incorporate them into the next iteration.

Play SparkBall!

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Re: SparkBall! SWF by game designer Mike Sagara
Reply #1 - Oct 7^th, 2008 at 12:18pm

jhwood9 wrote on Oct 6^th, 2008 at 11:08pm:

Hey, we have a new online ShockWave Flash game featuring SnowBuni, ShaddoPhase, and a Dethret Overseer by game designer Mike Sagara. Screencaps:

I should explain that the screenies are of an earlier version. Also, you start over at zero after each bout.

Yippee, I'm a game designer! I get to join Kyle in the game gallery finally! Cheesy

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jhwood9 YaBB Administrator Offline Artist Formerly Known as BuniMan Posts: 5904 Northwestern United States Gender:	Re: SparkBall! SWF by game designer Mike Sagara Reply #2 - Oct 7^th, 2008 at 2:21pm neeters_guy wrote on Oct 7^th, 2008 at 12:18pm: Yippee, I'm a game designer! I get to join Kyle in game gallery finally! Kyle needs to teach you the secret game designer handshake.
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Kyle Miller Global Moderator Offline I am...the TOONGUY! Posts: 1106 Massachusetts Gender:	Re: SparkBall! SWF by game designer Mike Sagara Reply #3 - Oct 7^th, 2008 at 4:44pm jhwood9 wrote on Oct 7^th, 2008 at 2:21pm: Kyle needs to teach you the secret game designer handshake. If you ever make it to Massachusetts, I'll show you where they make Candyland.
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jhwood9 YaBB Administrator Offline Artist Formerly Known as BuniMan Posts: 5904 Northwestern United States Gender:	Re: SparkBall! SWF by game designer Mike Sagara Reply #4 - Oct 9^th, 2008 at 2:10pm That Dethret dude is kicking my posterior. I think my win-loss rate is about 1/10.
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neeters_guy Senior Member Offline Posts: 285	Re: SparkBall! SWF by game designer Mike Sagara Reply #5 - Oct 9^th, 2008 at 5:36pm jhwood9 wrote on Oct 9^th, 2008 at 2:10pm: That Dethret dude is kicking my posterior. I think my win-loss rate is about 1/10. Hmm, I should add a difficulty option next time. Or maybe sexy/funny ending screens as motivation.
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jhwood9 YaBB Administrator Offline Artist Formerly Known as BuniMan Posts: 5904 Northwestern United States Gender:	Re: SparkBall! SWF by game designer Mike Sagara Reply #6 - Oct 9^th, 2008 at 5:44pm neeters_guy wrote on Oct 9^th, 2008 at 5:36pm: Hmm, I should add a difficulty option next time. Or maybe sexy/funny ending screens as motivation. Both.
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Kyle Miller Global Moderator Offline I am...the TOONGUY! Posts: 1106 Massachusetts Gender:	Re: SparkBall! SWF by game designer Mike Sagara Reply #7 - Oct 10^th, 2008 at 11:23am jhwood9 wrote on Oct 9^th, 2008 at 5:44pm: Both. I concur.
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jhwood9 YaBB Administrator Offline Artist Formerly Known as BuniMan Posts: 5904 Northwestern United States Gender:	Re: SparkBall! SWF by game designer Mike Sagara Reply #8 - Oct 16^th, 2008 at 9:51am I thought of another improvement for the game... I usually listen to Internet radio when I'm online, so I'm hearing two conflicting feeds when I play SparkBall. Although I like the in-game sound, there should be an option to turn it off.
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Re: SparkBall! SWF by game designer Mike Sagara
Reply #9 - Mar 12^th, 2009 at 11:07pm

My 3 1/2-year-old son likes to sit on my lap and watch while I work on the computer, and I happen to show him the SparkBall game the other day. Now he wants to see it every time we sit at the computer.
Shocked

He thinks it's funny and laughs whenever Daddy loses, which is often... I have yet to develop a strategy that improves my win/loss ratio.

Ironically, he likes the cat better than the bunny.
Sad

His other favorites include Kyle Miller's Closet Chaos! game, Mike Sagara's Animated SnowBuni Walk Cycle, and John Morgan's SnowBuni disassembling the Giant Robot (he considers all robots scary & unfriendly, probably because of his early exposure to Itchy & Scratchy Land via the Simpsons).

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Re: SparkBall! SWF by game designer Mike Sagara
Reply #10 - Mar 14^th, 2009 at 5:10am

I guess I'd better work on version 2 Tongue

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jhwood9 wrote on Mar 12^th, 2009 at 11:07pm:

He thinks it's funny and laughs whenever Daddy loses, which is often... I have yet to develop a strategy that improves my win/loss ratio.

The original BeadBang game is way harder. Truth is my middle-age synapses are too slow for these twitchy type games.

Maybe I'll add a "slo-mo" option as well Roll Eyes

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