Snowball Battle DS

Snowball Battle
General
Author	Angor
Type	Shooter
Version	1.4
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2006/05/14
Links
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Website

A winter snowball battle homebrew coded using DSLua.

Installation

You need a FAT-enable Nintendo NDS homebrew card (as the M3) or a Nintendo DS emulator.

Download DSLua, then copy both DSLua.nds and the script folder to a directory on your card.

Extract Snowball Battle to a folder and move the folder to your card.

Run DSLua.nds, browse to snowball.lua and launch the script.

User guide

Four players loaded with some snowballs in a snowfield.

Try to hit the others throwing snowballs while dodge theirs (you can throw up to 3 balls).

Two out of the four players of the game can be humans. The rest will be controlled by the DS.

Menu options:

• 1 player icon - 1 player game.
• 2 player icon - 2 player game.
• Tool icon - Configuration menu.
• Exit icon - Exit game.

Configuration menu:

• Speaker icon - Sound effects on/off.
• Music icon - Music on/off.
• Windmill icon - Game speed/Difficulty level.
• Clock icon - Game time.
• Exit icon - Back to main menu.

Controls

Splash/Result screens:

Any key - Enter the game

Menus:

D-Pad - Select

A - enter icon

In game:

D-Pad - Movement (P1)

L - Throw snowball (P1)

A/B/X/Y - Movement (P2)

R - Throw snowball (P2)

Select - Pause game, Continue game

Start - Finish game and show game results

Screenshots

Changelog

v1.4 (public) 2006/05/14

• Graphic animated game menus + splash screen.
• Results/winner screen added.
• Time limited battle mode added.

Known bugs:

• Human player ocasionally loses snowballs.

v1.3 (public) 2006/05/03

• Added music.
• Added music/sound on/off controls.
• "npc against the wall" bug fixed.

v1.2 (public) 2006/04/26

• Added snowball crash sound.
• Added top screen background.
• Code clean-up + img/snd separation in dirs.
• Player1/2/npc throws balls in diagonal.
• npc moves/dodges in diagonal.

v1.1 (public) 2006/04/27

• Ball shadows + sprite optimization.
• Player 2 can be human controlled or ds controlled (npc).
• Game menu upgraded: 1/2 human players, difficulty level.

v1.0 (public) 2006/04/25

• Basic game operation.

0.x (private)

• Alpha versions.
• Basic game development.

Credits

Code:

• Angor

Moral support:

• She knows who she is

Graphics:

• Original player sprites from Cleft of Dimension
• 3D artwork by Angor

Sound & music:

• Music from The Mod archive
• Sounds from Flash kit

Special thanks to:

• www.dslua.com
• www.lua.org
• dualis.1emulation.com
• www.m3adapter.com
• www.nintendo.com

Greetings to:

• waruwaru and Zhen from dslua website

External links

• Author's website - http://snowballbattle.blogspot.com/