Gameplay

A match in Bomb Bots Arena is played against one or more opponents. These can be real players from across the world playing from different devices, or computer controlled AI characters. To win these matches you will have to either defeat your opponents with your bombs and wits, or be the last player still alive. You will find the most basic information regarding these matches on this page to give you an idea of how matches are played. A short tutorial will also been shown to new players if they so desire when starting a match for the first time.

## Starting a Match

The bottom button displaying "BATTLE" will open a screen that shows the other various game modes this game has to offer. These are: "Quickplay", "Brawl", "Rumble", "Royale" and "Custom". When the player clicks on the "Quickplay"-button, the system tries to find an open queue that already exists within any of the "Brawl", "Rumble" and "Royale" game modes. If none are found, it chooses one of those three modes at random and starts a new one. The player can also choose one of the three specific game modes where the system will at first try to place the player in an already existing open queue, before starting a new one if none are found. Custom matches can also be created/joined. The player is able to adjust some of the rules of each game mode according to the players own desires but leaves all players without any rewards. At this moment, this game mode is still pretty limited in the amount of different maps and rules.

Once a game mode has been selected, with the exception of Tournaments, the player will be placed in a queue while the system searches for real players. Since a Ranked queue will only start after it finds enough real player, the timer displayed is counting up. In the other game modes, where the timer counts down, bots will fill up any remaining slots left empty if the system is unable to find any real players. These bots can be recognized by the fact that they start to appear in queue at the last three second, just before starting a match.

## Bombs and Blocks

Regular bombs cannot be detonated pre-maturely by a player, however they can be made to explode sooner if they are exposed to a blast of another bomb. This can cause a chain-reaction to occur where one bomb after another is set off to explode and can surprise even the most veteran player. Trigger Bombs can be made to detonate at the players will, but they are not available to all players due to the fact that it is an ability.

## Death-Zone

To ensure that games can't last an eternity and also to keep some pressure on the players, all game modes feature a death-zone in some form or another. With the possible exception of custom matches, given that those matches can be made to go on indefinite. These lava red tiles will consume everything in their path and shrinking the playing field over time. In "Ranked", "Tournaments", "Brawl" and "Rumble" the death-zone will only appear once the initial timer has expired and will be made known to the player with a flashing sound, an audible noise and an orange arrow that will indicate its starting point and direction. It wil then start to spiral towards the center in either a clockwise or anti-clockwise motion until it has consumed all the outer two rows of tiles leaving only the center of the map for the players to fight on. Once it has consumed the outer tiles, a second shorter timer will start to countdown. Once expired, the death-zone will resume it's old path without any warning.
The "Royale" death zone is slightly different than the others due to the fact that it is already present from the start and moves towards a blue flag somewhere on the field. It also doesn't start spiral towards the center, but is actually all around in a large circle and consumes the outer most tiles at the same time.

## Results and Level Progress

All players will be brought to the results screen as soon the match has ended. But only the top 4 players will be shown with their result. the winning bot wil have its arms in the air and the other three will be seen clapping their hands.

The number behind this little skull shows the total amount of kills that person has gotten during that match, but keep in mind that getting killed by your own bomb counts as -1 and thus can be a bit misleading.

Clicking on continue will bring the player to the level progress screen, but only if "Ranked", "Brawl", "Rumble" or "Royale" was chosen as a game mode. On this level progress screen the player will have his rewards shown in regards to  (experience), (season points) or (ranking points). Pressing continue on this screen will bring the player back to the main menu again.