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A minor update to BendBall, which may fix many of the glitches that appeared in 0.1a. More testing is needed to see if they’ve been completely eliminated, though.

Changelog

• Added the maximum speed requirement to the grab feature.
• Tweaked physics settings to reduce the appearance of glitchy behaviour.

Downloads

BendBall 0.11a for Windows (.ZIP, 2.4 Megabytes)

BendBall Development Version (Visual Studio 2008 project with source code, .ZIP, 3.51 Megabytes)

BendBall was my first 3D game project in C++. Its primary purpose was to help me teach myself OpenGL using GLUT, as well as the use of shaders with GLSL, and later on for writing my own physics engine. If you’ve played Pong, you’ll comprehend the basic gameplay – it’s 2 players (no AI yet), there is a ball and a paddle for each player, and each player’s objective is to get the ball past the other’s paddle. The twist is that it’s in 3D.

Planned Features

• An AI-controlled player.
• Progression of the game over time – e.g. arena spin speed and ball curve rate.
• Tweaking of physics and game configurations for balance & playability
• The “ball grabber” feature needs to be weakened so that it can’t just grab the ball all the time.

Known Bugs

• The GLUT timer function is weird, or incorrectly set up, so performance may differ between machines.
• The ball may pass through a paddle when moving too fast.
• There is a crash bug that may be related to the above issue.
• The depth marker for the ball may return when the ball is destroyed
• The ball bounces incorrectly when it is “rolling” on a surface.

Screenshots

Click for full-sized versions.

Videos

BendBall 0.1a Demo Gameplay Video (1:37, WMV, 34.6 Megabytes) - A demonstration of a sample game in the preliminary alpha version

Downloads

BendBall 0.1a for Windows (.ZIP, 2.4 Megabytes) – Initial release of the alpha – contains some known issues (fixed version on its way)

Version for Linux may be forthcoming once I work out how to get it working outside of Visual Studio..