Pull the plunger. One ball begins your combat turn.
A COMBAT PINBALL ROGUELIKE
BATTLEBALL
PINBALL FIGHTS BACK.
GAMEPLAY VIDEO / GIF / SCREENSHOT
YOUR GAME GOES HERE.
Drop in a real capture when you're ready.
Build a pinball table into a combat machine. Bumpers punch goblins. Ramps poison knights. Rollovers crank up damage. Keep the ball alive long enough and the whole run starts getting weird.
OKAY, BUT...
WHAT EVEN IS BATTLEBALL?
It is actual pinball, except the shots you make are attacks, heals, status effects, combos, multipliers, and whatever ridiculous nonsense your run has turned into.
The table is not decoration. It is your build. A bumper can become a weapon. A target bank can heal you. A ramp can finish an enemy. A rollover lane can crank your damage higher every time you complete it.
BUMPERSDAMAGE / FEAR / GOLD / CHAOS
RAMPSBIG HITS / POISON / FINISHERS
TARGETSSETS / HEALS / COMBOS
ROLLOVERSMULTIPLIERS / SEQUENCES
THE LOOP
LAUNCH. SMASH. DRAIN. GET STRONGER.
Make shots and trigger whatever your current machine has become.
The queued damage, healing, statuses, and multipliers resolve.
Win the fight, pick something dangerous, and make the next ball stranger.
RUNS GET WEIRD
BUILD SOMETHING STUPIDLY POWERFUL.
The goal is not a pile of +1s. The goal is a run you want to tell somebody about afterward.
Poison specialists. Back-line assassins. Fear controllers. Blood mages. Shock chains. Risky berserkers.
Bumpers make gold. Overkill heals. Poison spreads on death. Ramps spawn extra balls. Weird global rules stack up.
Heal now. Block the drain. Double damage. Magnetize the ball toward bumpers. Trigger multiball mid-shot.
Bumper-heavy tables, ramp-heavy tables, loops, target sets, and layouts that change what a good build even means.
EXAMPLE INVENTORY
+10HEAL
×2DAMAGE
MAGBUMPERS
SAVEDRAIN
×2MULTIBALL
BEHIND THE TABLE
SHOW THE MESS.
Gameplay clips, rough prototypes, enemy sprites, board experiments, upgrade screens, and all the weird stuff that happens while making a first game.
GAMEPLAY / BOARD CAPTURE
ENEMY SPRITES
UPGRADE SCREEN
DEV LOG
DEVELOPMENT
ALL DEV LOGS
DEVELOPMENT
LOG.
The loop finally loops
Battles can now be played from start to finish: survive the ball, resolve combat, win the encounter, choose an upgrade, and keep going.
READ IT →Building a pinball table that fights back
One ball is one combat turn. The interesting part is deciding what every physical mechanism means once it becomes part of a build.
READ IT →Where the roguelike goes next
Characters, persistent relics, active inventory items, shops, multiple boards, and increasingly strange builds are all on the whiteboard.
READ IT →
FOLLOW BATTLEBALL
WATCH THE GAME TAKE SHAPE.
Gameplay clips, new enemies, table changes, ridiculous runs, balance disasters, and eventually playtest news. BattleBall is my first game, and this is where I’ll share it as it comes together.