Okay, so I’ve been messing around with this idea of making a simple volleyball game, and I thought, why not make it extra goofy? That’s where the slimes come in. I wanted something simple, fun, and kinda silly, so I went with a “slime volleyball” concept.
First thing I did was just get a basic environment set up. You know, the ground, the net… just the bare bones. Nothing fancy, just plain shapes to start with. I used some built-in primitives, threw them together, just to have something to look at.
Then came the hard part (for me, at least): the movement. I wanted the slimes to be, well, slimy. So, I messed around with some physics. I made them kinda bouncy, so when they hit the ground, they’d squish a bit and then pop back up. It was pretty janky at first, lots of weird stretching and clipping, but I tweaked the numbers for a while until it looked… acceptable. Definitely not perfect, but good enough for a goofy little game.
Adding the Volleyball
- I added a simple sphere for that, gave it some physics properties.
- Made it so that slime will touch it, it will move the ball.
The controls were the next hurdle. I wanted something super simple. I ended up going with just left and right movement and a “jump” button. At first it was just sudden jumps, but then made it so you could hold the button to “charge” your jump and get a little extra height. It felt more… slime-like, I guess?
The actual volleyball part was pretty straightforward. I put a net in the middle, made it so the ball would bounce off of it and the ground, and that was pretty much it. I didn’t bother with scoring or anything yet, just wanted to get the basic gameplay working.
And it Works (kinda)!
So, yeah, right now I’ve got two slimes that can bop a ball back and forth over a net. It’s super basic, the graphics are terrible, and the physics are definitely wonky, but it’s… playable! It’s actually kind of fun in a really dumb way. I might try adding some scoring and maybe some different slime types later, but for now, I’m pretty happy with my little blobby volleyball game.
