Snowball Battle DS

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

Greetings to:

waruwaru and Zhen from dslua website

External links

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