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BitBall 759

BitBall 759 demo is a physics-based, challenging game entirely made of ray-traced spheres and is the fourth entry in the Hidden History Saga.

I’ve developed this unusual game in my free time and would like to know what you think of it. Your feedback will help me decide whether to get the ball rolling and complete all the stages of the full game so… I hope you’ll find it well-rounded​ and have a ball​!

Disclaimer: no balls where harmed during the making of BitBall 759 (not much anyway).

youtube: https://youtu.be/AkDI-1_uboM

System requirements

• Minimum:
  • Windows 64 bits.
  • CPU with 4 cores.
  • 8 Gigabytes of RAM.
  • NVIDIA GeForce GT 730, 2Gb (does not use/require NVIDIA RTX nor DXR API).
• Recommended:
  • Windows 64 bits.
  • CPU with 6 or more cores.
  • 8 Gigabytes of RAM.
  • NVIDIA 1650 GTX or higher (does not use/require NVIDIA RTX nor DXR API).
  • Game pad.

Inside BitBall 759

The Particular Engine runs on the CPU at 1080 physic frames per second and is based on this previous work (which itself is based on this previous work from around 2005). It stems from a belief that ‘existence,’ at its deepest essence, is point-like, and all other non-point-like properties arise from the relationships between points—like orientation, rotation, or angular inertia. These are emergent behaviors that don’t need to be explicitly coded.

Everything inside BitBall 759 is constructed with balls that serve as a kind of voxel. After much thought and deliberation, I’ve decided to call them… “ballxels!”. These ballxels are the kinetic and graphical building blocks of the Particular Engine. They are sometimes united by damped springs, which keep them together and give the resulting chunks physical properties such as flexibility and elasticity.

Graphically, the ballxels are shader ray-traced spheres (without using NVIDIA RTX nor DXR API), so they intersect correctly with each other and tend to elongate toward the edges of the screen, as they should. Is there a more ballsy game? 😅​

I hope you find this information useful and would love to hear your thoughts on the gameplay experience!

Donwload: https://albertoven.itch.io/bitball759