Volleyball Moles by pjchardt

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made by pjchardt for LD29 (COMPO)
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EDIT: I uploaded a post compo web version where 2 or 4 players can play with only two controllers. Here are the controls for the post compo version.

Left Analogue to move on top. Right analog to move on bottom.

Left trigger to jump on top. Right trigger to jump on bottom.

One additional note about the post compo version. I was not sure of the rules, so I did not modify the original. However, the only change I made for the post compo was to the controls to allow 2 people, or 4 people on 2 controllers, to play. I don't think anyone was really able to play otherwise. So I think it should be okay to rate the post compo version. Not sure though...
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A sports game for four, Volleyball Moles is a take on volleyball with variant game play for the teammates. One player tries to fend off an opponent and bounce the ball on their own teams point square while the other team member, below the playing field, jockeys for position moving their teams point square around.

The game requires four players and four Xbox controllers(may work with Playstation controllers?). I know this severely limits the number of people who can play it, but if you have some friends at arms length, I greatly appreciate it if you give it a spin. It is a pretty fun little game.

If you are playing the web build, controllers need to be turned on and hooked up before game loads, or they won't register.

How To Play:
Left Analogue to move
A to jump
Esc to exit on Linux
Each team has two members, Point Square and Point Bucket. Point Square is on the upper level and tries to bounce the ball on their teams colored square as many times as possible. The Point Bucket is on the lower level and moves the teams point square around to collect the points. If the opponent's Point Bucket is above your Point Bucket, they will get their points and your teams points.

Made in Unity, C#
Photoshop for the one 64x64 white texture I made.
Bfxr for SFX: http://www.bfxr.net/
Soundation for music: http://soundation.com/studio

Thanks!

Ratings

Coolness 49% 1314
Overall 2.53 1117
Fun 2.31 1102
Graphics 1.81 1226
Innovation 2.67 843
Theme 1.87 1229

Feedback

Shire
28. Apr 2014 路 03:59 UTC
tried controllers and that didn't work, I button mashed until something happened and a green rectangle appeared but I couldn't figure out how to actually start the game.
馃帳 pjchardt
28. Apr 2014 路 05:13 UTC
@Shire Were you using Xbox controllers? Were they turned on and assigned player numbers before the game loaded? Were you playing web build or Linux build?
mrhill
29. Apr 2014 路 21:52 UTC
oh this looks good, is there anayway to play one with keyboard and one with controler?
馃帳 pjchardt
30. Apr 2014 路 00:17 UTC
I would like to make some other control options as soon as I can. Right now it requires four controllers :(
mildmojo
30. Apr 2014 路 06:49 UTC
If you don't have four controllers, you may be able to emulate controllers with your keyboard or smartphone/tablet.

In Windows, some combination of PPJoy and/or GlovePIE should get you virtual controllers powered by the keyboard:

http://ppjoy.blogspot.com/
http://glovepie.org/
http://www.jim-melton.com/tag/ppjoy-windows-7-64-bit/

I once used PPJoy and x360ce to drive a virtual Xbox 360 pad using keyboard keys. Heh.

There are a whole bunch of gamepad apps for Android, probably some for iOS too. Quick googling turned up these Android apps:

http://www.addictivetips.com/android/droidpad-use-android-device-as-pc-gamepad-mouse/
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/bt-controller-use-android-as-gamepad/
TheZiggy
30. Apr 2014 路 20:15 UTC
Too bad you need controllers to play this :/ Looked good.
lajos
30. Apr 2014 路 20:16 UTC
Looks fun, but unfortunately I don't have 4 players nor 4 wired xbox controllers ;(
vladimirdlc
01. May 2014 路 14:03 UTC
I like the music, and the sfx, will rate it if I can find 2 more controllers.
馃帳 pjchardt
02. May 2014 路 02:16 UTC
@vladimirdlc I would love to get it working with 2 controllers. Maybe I can get some time this weekend to play some games and add some support for only 2 gamepads for my own game.
rvmook
02. May 2014 路 06:01 UTC
Sorry man, no controllers and no friends...
IL_yoshioka
02. May 2014 路 07:09 UTC
I play this game on Unity Debug Mode..
Idea is good. If 2~4P are programed simple AI, this game gets better, I think.
Logun
02. May 2014 路 20:02 UTC
Nobody to play with me :( Looks fun I want to try it !
Dreii
03. May 2014 路 06:29 UTC
I have no friends to play with QQ
馃帳 pjchardt
03. May 2014 路 19:26 UTC
If I only I had a networked version. Then everyone commenting could be friends and we could all play :)
jsmars
06. May 2014 路 06:04 UTC
Looks promising and fun! But I think it's difficult to get many people to really play it when it requires 4 people.. You should really have added a basic AI for people to be able to test it solo, it does look really fun to play 4 people sometime.
mechabit
06. May 2014 路 11:18 UTC
Looks really interesting but sadly not enough friends and controllers.
D2FXRayG
06. May 2014 路 17:14 UTC
sorry, I don't have 4 players :(
JimmyBoh
06. May 2014 路 17:22 UTC
Please implement keyboard input!
mustaine
06. May 2014 路 20:01 UTC
Got one green dude in there. Couldn't actually play. I Llke the music though :)
csanyk
10. May 2014 路 15:36 UTC
Couldn't play it, but it looks like it'd be fun:)
gre
13. May 2014 路 13:23 UTC
Looks interesting but no way to play without controllers