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When the sun goes down the night balloonists battle for pollen over a sea of ink.

  • Local 2-4 Player competitive multiplayer, join or leave a game at any time.
  • Deep one button gameplay: Spit ink and boost into opponents, raise and lower your balloon to catch airstreams, dodge enemy attacks or capture pollen.
  • Play with keyboard or Xbox360 gamepads, includes force feedback support.

The Night Balloonists was originally created for the GAMMA 4 One Button Games competition. Like all games created for GAMMMA 4 it uses only a single button per player. No arrow keys, mouse, joystick or d-pad. GAMMA games are meant to be played in a large social setting with people playing short bursts while others spectate. The Night Balloonists is optimized for these settings and have included a continuous side display that teaches spectators the basic gameplay.

However we've found it also plays great if you have a few friends over and want a good quick party game to play together. The one button interface makes it a great game to play with non gamers who are intimidated by complex controls.

We have also tried to optimize the game for 'one-switch' devices used by players with disabilities. If you use such a device and have found our setup doesn't work for you give us a shout. That said, the game inherently requires fast precise button presses and 'double tapping' so it may not be suitable for all players.

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Requires Windows XP or newer and up to date
Direct X. Due to some of the background animation effects it may not play on older computers.

If you get a "XINPUT1_3.dll not found" error or have gamepad issues you need to get an update to Direct X HERE

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Video

Credits

Miguel Sternberg - Art, Sound & Game Design
Andrij Pilkiw - Programming

Created using Game Maker 7.0 Pro

In addition the following 3rd party dlls were used:
GMXInput.dll by Yellowsix
supersound.dll by tsg1zzn

Sound effects include audio from freesounds.org and are
used under a Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License.
These sounds were created by the following users:

AGFX - andriala - Benboncan - delphidebrain
Dynamicell - fabe - junggle - pengo_au - petenice
Pogotron - Rock Savage - sagetyrtlee

All music is from Apple Garage Band’s default loops.

Updates

March 4th 2009 - Game Released! - The Night Balloonists is released. Minor improvements over our GAMMA submission. Specifically: added sound, proper keyboard controls, credits and logo screens. Also the balloons now flash when rammed by opponents to better indicate when they've lost pollen.

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