The 7 Year Making of Ballistic Zen | BZ Devlog
Channel: footnotesforthefuture
Date: 2023-01-25

It took me 7 years to go from "never made a game before" to "I finished my first commercial game and released it on Steam." This is a rough documentation of that journey.

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Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1966930/Ballistic_Zen/
Itch: https://footnotesforthefuture.itch.io/ballistic-zen

TIMESTAMPS:
Intro: 00:00
Inspiration: 00:55
Perfect Stride: 05:41
Goals: 07:26
Hoverblade: 08:45
Action Blocks: 12:48
Collaboration: 18:07
The Marathon: 22:40
Lines: 33:04
Ballistic Zen: 46:09
Everything Else: 47:25
What's Next: 48:26

REFERENCES:
My copy of Perfect Stride Alpha: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0rMPGG6B5FaWFZ3R2ZWTS1MRVU/view?usp=share_link&resourcekey=0-wZHE32kuKgS8o2fm-qCEpg
Bunnyhop Tutorial: https://adrianb.io/2015/02/14/bunnyhop.html
RCSG tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqaiUMuGlRc
Hedera: https://github.com/radiatoryang/hedera
How I made the NPC models: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw6_notcFLE
Footnote Utilities (my unity library): https://github.com/alexjhetherington/FootnoteUtilities
My article about how I ended up with lines: http://www.footnotesforthefuture.com/words/ballistic-zen-flow-discussion-1/
My article on wall running: http://www.footnotesforthefuture.com/words/wall-running-1/

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