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One Red Balloon
A browser game made in HTML5

Thanks to everyone who's tested so far!

Patch 0.0.9 is now online, adding a couple of fixes:

  • Agility of the balloon has increased further to 50, which means you can zip about the sky quite smoothly.
  • You can now bust clouds with the rope or box as well as with the balloon.

Earlier fixes:

  • Moving left & right is now much easier (the 'agility' stat your balloon has has been changed from 15 to 30)
  • Rate of ascent is now slower ('lift' stat has been changed from 2 to 1.75)
  • Parachutists now fly in rather than just dropping from the sky, so they should be easier to dodge.
  • I've added support for Retina monitors so the balloon character looks less blurry. Haven't checked it on a PC yet.
  • Occasional bug where the balloon races off into space for no apparent reason - this seemed to occur whenever the balloon moved to the edge of the screen due to the method I was using to stop the player leaving the edge. Have changed how this works and haven't seen the bug again.

So the current known issues are:

  • High score doesn't always register (I'd thought I'd fixed this but one tester has reported it, am looking into it)
  • NPC characters  don't behave 'realistically' when they bump into one another

Next steps include:

  • Adding sound
  • Improving animation for player and NPCs

Files

  • BalloonDevBuild0.0.8.zip 8.6 MB
    Aug 24, 2020
  • BalloonDevBuild0.0.9.zip 8.6 MB
    Aug 25, 2020
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