Amoeball: Hot Single Cell Action
Amoeball is a game I made in my spare time over two years. It began as a simple learning experiment. I was teaching one of our artists, Steve, how to use physics in the development platform we use, Virtools. Within 45 minutes a simple volleyball game was completed, but we played the game itself for a good two hours after that. It was one of those rare times where you spend much more time playing a game than you did actually making it.
From there we decided to slap some art treatment on the game. I added a simple AI and refined the menu a little. The end result is what you see here. It seems simplistic–and really, it is–but give the game 30 minutes of your time playing against a friend. You might be surprised how deep some of the strategies run.
Click on the above screenshots to enlarge. The game is playable online right in your web browser using the Virtools Web Player.
Click here to play the free Amoeball volleyball physics game.
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The Beginning
Welcome to Fun-Motion.com! This site is one of the projects I’m starting up in 2006, so there isn’t a whole lot here yet. The focus of this site is talk about physics-based computer games such as Bridge Builder, Gish, Trials, and Ski Stunt Simulator. For more information about who I am check out the About page.
As time goes on I’ll be adding game reviews, developer interviews, and some of my own physics-based gameplay tests. I hope you find this site as informative as I find it fun to make!