Cosmic Boll (Demo)

PTBR: Cosmic Boll é um remake de um jogo chamado Bolinha que eu publiquei em idos de 2006 no fórum Gaming Brasil. O jogo é um beat 'em up em alta velocidade com jogabilidade baseada em Dragon Ball Advanced Adventure e Astro Boy Omega Factor do GBA. A demo atual possui cinco fases.

Cosmic Boll is a remake of Bolinha, a game I developed back in 2006 that was itself based on comics I drew as a child back in 1998 (the old game is included in the project's Omake folder). After several iterations over the years,  I've settled on a fast-paced brawler gameplay style for the project. 

The game is built on Clickteam Fusion 2.5 and the Sonic Worlds Delta engine (plus the basic enemy AI from LakeFeperd's Simple Sonic Worlds which is likely the same used in Spark The Electric Jester). It mainly takes inspiration from GBA beat 'em ups such as Dragon Ball Advance Adventure and Astro Boy Omega Factor.

Story:
The little blob warrior Bolinha must bowl his way through the army of ducks that has destroyed his home.

The current build goes up to stage 1-5 and it is updated every so often with fixes and such. A miniboss is present at stage 1-2.

All music used are placeholders.

Controls:

Arrow Keys: General movement.
A: Jump
S: Normal attacks
D: Core Shot
W: Dash button
E: Core Swap

Tips: 

• Please combine the arrow keys with either attack button in the ground or in the air to see what moves you can do and how they can be chained together.
• Parry attacks and hazards by blocking right before they hit. Quakes and grabs cannot be parried.
• Don't get your guard broken, as you'll take double damage and lose SP. When SP goes into negative values, parry something to recover it quickly.
• Dashes are only vulnerable to electric attacks. Roll while dashing along the ground to boost.
• Wall-bouncing is enhanced by doing it from a rolling jump. 
• Some of Bolinha's attacks can deflect round projectiles without needing to parry them. And I mean Round. Don't try that on stuff like squares, stars or laser beams.
• You can collect and equip certain items in the pause menu.
• Enemies of certain colors, like red or pink, won't flinch from attacks and deal double damage. Enemies generally attack in fixed periods, so you can tell when to block and parry them.
• Keep a fire core equipped to prevent knockback from getting hit while attacking. Keep a bolt core to gain more invincibility from either getting hit or collecting items.
• Why push blocks when when can air dash into them instead? Certain attacks and the bounce ability will move them too.

Consult the Guide section on the game's pause menu for more details.

Note: The game might trigger false positive alerts on antiviruses due to being made in Clickteam Fusion, but a December 2020 update on that software appears to have greatly reduced the chances of it happening. 

Note 2: If the game runs very slowly and you've got a gamepad plugged in, try removing it and playing with the keyboard. This is an issue regarding an extension used for detecting controllers in the Sonic Worlds engine which I'm not sure what to do about.