Balloon Battlefield

Devlog

• Preperations for Playtest-Session are complete now
  November 05, 2025 by TheFrog

  - Updated ballon colors...especially colored balloons it should be much easier now to understand the behaviour of balloons - Changed most dialogs into "little gags" - Improved the design of some level... Continue reading

  
• Improved some Levels for upcoming Playtest... disabled hard mode
  November 04, 2025 by TheFrog

  One of the improved levels... Continue reading

  
• Added Ninja Slime Transformer + Changed Piece-Movement from fixed time for a move to constant tile velocity
  November 03, 2025 by TheFrog

  - With constant movment now... you can really hear pop pop pop for balloon popping - Added ninja slime transformer... Continue reading

  
• Added Lasersystem
  October 30, 2025 by TheFrog

  Fixed none closing portals... added laser_system... Continue reading

  
• Added Gates, Buttons and Walls
  October 27, 2025 by TheFrog

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• Changed to Fullscreen (to prepare for enhanced Art)
  October 23, 2025 by TheFrog

  - Changed to fullscreen mode - fixed a (recently new) bug with time bombs - added exit button... Continue reading

  
• Added first version of portals
  October 22, 2025 by TheFrog

  Added portals and added them to a few levels. ... next will probably add fences(maybe i will make portals move in the future)... Continue reading

  
• Added rotators - a tile placed directly on the battlefield
  October 19, 2025 by TheFrog

  Hopefully the rotators will increase game fun... it definetely made the gameplay more dynamic... next portals and afterwards probably fences are required... Continue reading

  
• Finished first implemetation of ninja slimes
  October 14, 2025 by TheFrog

  - fixed but relating win condition with slimes - added to show slime direction movement - added preview screen for moving slimes... Continue reading

  
• Added new tile - the ninja slime to normal difficulty
  October 14, 2025 by TheFrog

  Added first version of the ninja slime. More improvement is needed... e.g. some preview for moving ninja slimes. And arrows to indicate directions... Continue reading

  
• Finally added last missing dialogs
  October 05, 2025 by TheFrog

  After various adjustement to the difficulty and a bunch of playtesting... a lot of bug fixing and adjustments to showcasing balloons that will be hit, and adding two types of difficulty and latest a m... Continue reading

  
• Corrected bugs with tile marking
  October 03, 2025 by TheFrog

  Now wind bombs and armored balloons are handled correctly... Continue reading

  
• Enhanced Player-Feedback
  October 02, 2025 by TheFrog

  Since white markers on balloons are not "enough visible" for many playtesters to connect them to "ballons" that will be hit... Change the color of the whole field were the balloon is resting, when the... Continue reading

  
• Added difficulty selection screen
  September 26, 2025 by TheFrog

  Added first version of difficulty selection screen now player can choose between normal and hard... Continue reading
• Made the whole game a lot easier
  September 26, 2025 by TheFrog

  After seeing a playtester struggle really hard with the game...I lowered the difficulty of most levels... later I will add a difficulty setting (allowing people to play the original levels as well)... Continue reading
• Important bug fix
  September 26, 2025 by TheFrog

  Fixed a game breaking bug... regarding the movement pattern of windbombs... Continue reading
• Made the game easier by adding more levels so players can adapt to the game mechanics
  September 25, 2025 by TheFrog

  After this update twice more levels are available... to adjust the difficulty curves... if things work out... players will have a much easier time to get into the game... Continue reading
• Changed a lot of graphical details fixed some small bugs
  September 24, 2025 by TheFrog

  Enhanced some graphical details: - fonts - colors - changed design of dialogs (Fixed a bug with the timing of the ballon popping)... Continue reading

  
• Added many Soundeffects
  September 23, 2025 by TheFrog

  - Added many Soundeffects for weapon movement - Fixed a bug with the soundbars (music would determin master sound) - adjusted volume of existing sounds... Continue reading
• Added First Version of Title screen
  September 21, 2025 by TheFrog

  Doing the title screen took me quite some time... Continue reading

  
• Added new load screen + mouse cursor + bugfix
  September 18, 2025 by TheFrog

  Replaced the loading screen with a provesoric replacement screen Added new mouse cursor (which will vanish while holding a weapon) Fixed a bug ... in turn prepredictor..."explosion out of range" ... n... Continue reading
• Added marker for tiles that will be hit + fixed some bugs
  September 17, 2025 by TheFrog

  Added a marker for balloons that will be hit fixed mistakes inside the dialog started to adjust some fonts (not done yet) fixed a bug when loosing due to pacifists would later crash the game... Continue reading
• Fixed two bugs where ballons where not marked or false marked as hit
  September 16, 2025 by TheFrog

  Circular Boomerang was marking tiles which shouldn't be marked ... for the time bomb not every piece that should be marked was really marked... Continue reading
• Added Panel Border + Pointlights to mark placement options
  September 16, 2025 by TheFrog

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• Added Wind Particle Trail
  September 16, 2025 by TheFrog

  Added wind particle trail to ballons when pushed with a wind bomb... Continue reading

  
• Added new animations
  September 15, 2025 by TheFrog

  Added animations of: - spear - smoke bomb - wind bomb... Continue reading
• Added animation for boomerangs and magic boomerangs
  September 15, 2025 by TheFrog

  Added animations for boomerangs and magic boomerangs... Continue reading

  
• Added shurican animation
  September 13, 2025 by TheFrog

  Added a first shurican animation ... not feeling that great will probably take a break now... Continue reading

  
• Added Dialogs for previews
  September 12, 2025 by TheFrog

  Of course weapon introductions need some dialog as well... Continue reading

  
• Added hit preview (To make level 6 more accesible for casual players)
  September 12, 2025 by TheFrog

  Since getting used to the tile movement patterns, seem to let many people give up quickly (on level 6)... I implemented a tile marking system, which will automatically mark, which balloons will be hit... Continue reading

  
• After several requests in this direction added a tile preview
  September 07, 2025 by TheFrog

  For every new tile introduced (except the normal balloons and the pacifist balloon, there is now a looping piece introduction)... Continue reading

  
• Added 24 Dialogs to have a "full story" for all levels of the prototype
  September 05, 2025 by TheFrog

  Now all 28 level have dialogs like the one below... Continue reading

  
• Added first version of Dialog System + Dialog for first three levels
  September 04, 2025 by TheFrog

  Added a Dialog system (for ninja master dialog) Added Dialog to the first three levels (Drawing the ninja master took nearly the whole day though)... Continue reading
• Added Exploding Ballons + Armored + Balloons + 4 Levels
  September 03, 2025 by TheFrog

  Added 2 new ballon types: - exploding: which explode everything (including weapons) in a 3x3 area - armored: will loose armor first before being delete on the next hit added four additional levels on... Continue reading
• Added Easy "Explaination" Levels + added "sound sliders"
  September 02, 2025 by TheFrog

  Now 12 addiotional easy levels focussing mainly on one kind of newly introduced pieces... Continue reading
• First QoL update
  September 01, 2025 by TheFrog#qol

  - added music - added sounds for (bomb explosions, ballon popping) - added first marking of weaponpath on board - improved some fonts - added automatic "selection piece restoration" - added a level co... Continue reading
• Added Win and Loose Animation + optimized Bomb handling
  August 30, 2025 by TheFrog

  - Now two little animation (ninja smiling, ninja crying) will show game won, game lost - added an internal game_manager as simple way out for "race conditions" (just delete and load the complete main... Continue reading
• Added Pacifist Balloons + 2 new levels
  August 29, 2025 by TheFrog

  Still not feeling to strong today... so i will just take a break for now. Just added pacifists balloons that shouldn't be popped and added to new levels featuring them. (Also removed a first bug from... Continue reading
• Circular Powershoots are implemented now
  August 28, 2025 by TheFrog

  Added circular power shoots, internal level editor now works with "piece pictures instead of tile title text" - added a break after a windbomb dropped for better "clearatiy"... Continue reading
• New Tiles and two levels updates
  August 27, 2025 by TheFrog

  Still feeling sick... - created all circular standard tiles (which were missing) - created two more levels... Continue reading
• Graphic update
  August 26, 2025 by TheFrog

  Since I felt quite sick the past few days, i focussed mainly on graphics... added first animation for - Smoke bombs - Explosions for regular bombs - gras back ground - tiles are sperated now - probabl... Continue reading
• Added first version of smoke bomb and time bomb
  August 22, 2025 by TheFrog

  Added the first version of time and smoke bombs... next probably comes the "wind bomb"... Continue reading
• First Version of Prototype is finished
  August 21, 2025 by TheFrog

  This is a prototype of a maybe ninja ballon pooping game... Continue reading
• Next update of Prototype
  August 21, 2025 by TheFrog

  Fixexd two bugs: - one error, when placing icons back from board to original panels - one error regarding tiles popping up on the last screen New Features: - added new types of balloons - added new ty... Continue reading
• Grafik update + added first Type of Bombs
  August 21, 2025 by TheFrog

  Added Balloon Animation Added First Bomb Type Added diogonal Powershoots Improved Grafik of powershoots... Continue reading