Smashball - Coming to Steam June 11

Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by Krenzo, Jun 4, 2009.

  1. McGyver

    McGyver Experimental Pedagogue

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    My first sentence in game: How do i spawn? :D
    First impressions after 10 minutes playing: It's a good and professional release, although the gameplay is chaotic and a little random. Nice tutorial and on screen helpers.
     
  2. Krenzo

    Krenzo Administrator

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    There were roughly 700 people playing over the weekend. My box is filled with crash dumps. It's reminding me of Empires 1.0 release. :(
     
  3. Beerdude26

    Beerdude26 OnThink(){ IsDownYet(); }

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    Heh :D

    You'll get through it ;) I also noticed the Steam notice just now, cool beans :)
     
  4. PwnedYoAss

    PwnedYoAss Member

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    Well Krenzo, at least this time around you have the experience to fix it!
     
  5. Metal Smith

    Metal Smith Member

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    fix it efficiently and quickly you mean. Obviously he already had the experience to fix them the first time :P
     
  6. Mr. Weedy

    Mr. Weedy I will report bugs on the bug tracker

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    Sooo, my dear friend, did you learn anything at coding Empires? :p
     
  7. Brutos

    Brutos Administrator Staff Member Moderator

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    Ah you already got them, I already searched my steamapps folder like mad for crashdumps too send.
     
  8. arklansman

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    I've only crashed once, and Krenzo made me do it. :<
     
  9. Brutos

    Brutos Administrator Staff Member Moderator

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    I crash everytime someone scores a ball
     
  10. blizzerd

    blizzerd Member

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    i kinda like smashball for a sports game

    its not enough sports to be disliked because its a sports game to me and what i seen and played from it it looks fun
     
  11. Brutos

    Brutos Administrator Staff Member Moderator

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    The ui should be streamlined a lot more, a higher field of view could help too and button that can throw the hook with 45 degree no matter where you are looking at would help.
     
  12. Krenzo

    Krenzo Administrator

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    I learned to implement crashes in the game to weed out the unfaithful. :p
     
  13. Trickster

    Trickster Retired Developer

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    G4TC has the first Euro server up. We win! :D

    EDIT: And 2 crash messages when I log into server, I should have screenshotted them, I'll check for crashdumps.

    EDIT2: Too lazy to sign up for your forums or email/whatever.
    Here are 3 server crashdumps if you want them.

    http://files.getdropbox.com/u/10347...Steam__3740__2009_6_23T19_54_18C75906875.mdmp
    http://files.getdropbox.com/u/10347.../Steam__273447__2009_6_21T22_21_25C39406.mdmp
    http://files.getdropbox.com/u/10347.../Steam__273447__2009_6_21T22_21_25C39406.mdmp

    The first is the one with those 2 messages I mentioned.
     
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  14. theotherjms

    theotherjms Developer

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    I still don't get how this game is supposed to make money, or where the money the devs are getting paid comes from. From the one Google ad on the homepage?
     
  15. Vessboy

    Vessboy Member

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    probably the advertizing space on the ingame bill boards
     
  16. Mr. Weedy

    Mr. Weedy I will report bugs on the bug tracker

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    Aaah, I see. :D

    WOW SHIT! I just realized something awesome. :D Why use your own non-real ads on in-game billboards while you could have real dynamic ads on your billboards which get updated every now and then? The billboards and ads still wouldn't distrub the gameplay because the game and the ads are designed to fit together in the first place! Genius!!!
     
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  17. theotherjms

    theotherjms Developer

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    OK, didn't see those, I only played like ten minutes.


    Welcome to games circa 2005.
     
  18. Krenzo

    Krenzo Administrator

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    Avair, you lost your place for internet celebrity. The #1 Smashball forward has his own fan group now.
     
  19. Krenzo

    Krenzo Administrator

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    Krenzo, i've been following the forums over at smashball since its release, though unfortunately I can't play it due to my crappy laptop. However, I would like to keep watching the mod and more importantly the league thats going to be formed eventually.

    So, I was really hoping that you could maybe appoint someone to make videos from the demos and post them on youtube. I think as far as computer games go this could be pretty fun to watch.
     

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