Otaku-Ball: The Ultimate Arkanoid Game

[Mr.Block]

Many Breakout/Arkanoid games have been made in this engine before, but none as complex as this game:



Otaku-Ball is a two-man project with Superjustinbros being the designer/artist and me doing all the coding. We have worked on this game on-and-off for about 3 years and just recently, we have sucessfully implemented all 135 powerups in this game. Therefore, I thought this would be a great time to finally release the game to the public.

This game was inspired by pretty much every Arkanoid game that ever existed. We have borrowed a lot of powerup and brick ideas from games such as: Ricochet Infinity, Alphabounce, Aquanoid... ect.

Initially, Otakuball started out as a C++/SDL game, but I made the decision to port this game to LÖVE halfway into development. And so far it has made my life MUCH easier.




This game features an in-game Level Editor that allows you place bricks on the board from a selection of ~40 brick types. The editor also has a Powerup Weights Editor that allows you to modify the drop chances for each of the 135 powerups as well as the overall drop rate.

Features:
-135 Powerups
-About 40 brick types
-4 types of patches that can be placed over bricks
-Menacer Balls: Enemy balls that hinder you in some way
-40 default levels
-Level Editor
-Powerup Weights Editor
-Playlists that allows for you to play levels in sequence

About the Audio:
Neither of us know how to do audio so Superjustinbros had to rip a bunch of sound files from other Arkanoid games. We are looking for a Sound Artist/Composer to make proper sounds for this game.

THIS GAME IS STILL INCOMPLETE:
There's still a bunch of sound files missing and placeholder sprites to be replaced. Also in the future we're going to add a level progression system with boss battles. If you encounter any bugs, please let us know and we'll fix it eventually.

Libraries used:
-Hardoncollider
-Hump
-Middleclass
-Lovedebug

Download:
You can download the packaged game in the following Dropbox link. The .love file will be provided in an attachment.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/flqfjfwmrj9i ... S8kla?dl=0

[Superjustinbros]

Glad to see this released! Thanks for all the hard work helping make this a reality.

[Nixola]

I haven't tried it much, but it looks great! Unfortunately, requiring lovedebug makes LÖVE (0.9 and 0.10) segfault, so I had to comment out line 31 in main.lua in order to have it running.
EDIT: that's probably because you require it before love.load; moving it there makes it work too.

[Mr.Block]

Well, moving require("lovedebug") to love.load seems to also disable lovedebug. That's probably why I moved it outside of love.load. Have you tried playing it on versions 10.1 and 10.2? I also modified lovedebug.lua such that the terminal opens with the tilde(~) key.

[Nixola]

Actually, just extracting the .love file to a folder did the trick, without having to change anything. Sorry about that.

[scissors61]

I enjoyed a lot playing my first round. The different power ups makes it addictive and entertaining, so I plan to keep on playing it. Great work!

[raidho36]

Doesn't work on Android (real shame! missed potential) Throws a bunch of errors about nil mouse and game tables and whatnot in the corner and otherwise it's just black screen.

[Mr.Block]

Well I don't plan on porting this game to Android(or any mobile devices) anytime soon. Are you able to play this game on a computer?
Edit: I think Nixola is in the process of porting this game to Android. I hope he succeeds!

[zorg]

Mr. Block: How much audio stuff are we talking about? I'd be up for it if it wouldn't be that many. Feel free to PM.

[Superjustinbros]

Mr. Block: How much audio stuff are we talking about? I'd be up for it if it wouldn't be that many. Feel free to PM.

Pretty much everything in the game that's not in place: Powerup pickup sounds and powerup activation/fire sounds for the most part. You're also welcome to suggest replacement/improvement sounds to what we already have.