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Ballpoint Universe

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Genre: Shooter, Platformer

Platforms: PC, Mac

Languages: English

Players: Single-player

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Oct 2, 2012 @ 6:33pm

May 1, 2013 @ 8:19pm

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Final Game Demo!

March 4th, 2013 - Abusive Taco

Game Demo!
Play it online
HERE!

bp.donthackmywebsite.com

It requires unity web player, so accept the install!

Have fun!

-Jacob

Beta demo out now!

November 23rd, 2012 - Zigzag

Hey hey hey! For those of you wondering what the game feel is like, the beta is now available for Windows!
You can play if at:

Clicky!

Just install the unity web player and give it a whirl.

There's the link. Cheers,
-Leo

Edit, Removed the old dead link, put in the new one: -Jacob

Description

(formerly College Ruled Universe)
Ballpoint Universe is a Sidescrolling shooter/ Platform adventure game about a doodle named Doodle. Every asset of the game has been drawn with a ballpoint pen and scanned in to build immaculate environments.

PRESS----
"I’m not in any way, shape, form, or doodle of a mechanical steampunk owl creature writing this one off. It’s positively packed with promise, so I’m eagerly awaiting its May 2013 drop date. Which is very soon! Hurrah!"
-Rock Paper Shotgun

"Ballpoint pens: bad for math class, good for having a gorgeous visual aesthetic in a game."
-Kotaku

// KEY FEATURES
Classic space shooter gameplay! Shoot and dodge through a hell-storm of enemies to obliterate the logic fleets and their Admirals. Fight for the future of creativity itself!

Planet Exploration! Explore doodle realms, meet intriguing, eccentric characters. Get hints, and items to aid your quest.

Upgrades! Fully fledged, 4 slot customization system.Customize your ship with the gear you acquire along your journey. Equip for the needs for a certain mission; do you need a shield and sword? sword and gun? Gun and gun? Exploit the enemy fleet's weaknesses and overcome their systematic genocide of imagination.
Customize these parts on your ship:

wings - Different wings can boost your ships speed, combo gauge, or HP
nose - The nose of the ship houses a special attack. Charge up your combo gauge to use it!
Top equip - Choose from a vast array of guns, shields, swords, or spears
Bottom equip - Now do it again! Pair your equips wisely to survive in battle

Trophies! Do good on your missions and collect! There's over 50 spot-illustration style ballpoint trophies to collect.

// SETTING
"Every inkling of creativity goes somewhere, every thought, hum, sketch, scribble, dance, spoken word is both pulled out of, and fed back into a creativerse so vast it has no real logical meaning. In the realms of notebook paper, creativity is hunted down like an infection. The ordered societies of logic: Geometry, Algebra, Grammar, Physics, and Anatomy wage war on the creative spurts that have settled on their pages, and they are winning. But every idea starts small, and even the smallest spark can start a raging inferno."

//SYSTEM
PC / mac
System requirements TBA.

// LINKS
BU on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/collegeRuledUniverse
Arachnid Games: http://arachnidgames.com/

Popular Discussions View All (5)

Jan 30, 2013 @ 3:00pm

New Name

Zigzag

Mar 6, 2013 @ 1:25pm

spydor

Mar 6, 2013 @ 1:26pm

Gameplay Feedback!

Abusive Taco

227 Comments

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Ela1_Ted 18 hours ago

nice

Geleiras May 22, 2013 @ 4:49pm

nice..

Nordics May 22, 2013 @ 9:18am

Artwork looks great! I would give it a go!

playeruno1 May 22, 2013 @ 5:39am

Here are my first impressions of Ballpoint Universe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEzvuejjlBE

MrCoreus May 21, 2013 @ 3:16am

It's a really nice game in my opinion..

mccaTachikoma May 17, 2013 @ 11:48am

this looks like a nightmare to me, but one i would like to have^^ it reminds me a little of madoka

BionicBadBoi May 14, 2013 @ 1:50pm

The gameplay is great. I've been playing the Alpha, and I love how your choice of weapons shape the way you play. Great action game. I think in the demo you can move around an owl with a shield wall, and if you do, you die? That ought to be fixed.

Fantastic game, classic sidescrolling shooter action, but brand new. The narrative is good fun and i love the backgrounds and tactical hints that goes on there. Plus, it is beautiful.

Getting gold sketches when doing a level perfectly is a bummer, but the rewards are really frequent enough.

Monk May 3, 2013 @ 8:01pm

I like the art. The gameplay leaves something to be desired.
Bugs I found within two minutes of gameplay:
If you jump into a ceiling you recover your jump
If you move around an enemy that you are supposed to shoot down in the spaceship section you cannot leave the spaceship section.

yamsterenDK Apr 29, 2013 @ 4:02am

Unique art style and proof that theres more to be had from the sidescroller, im a fellow doodler and my doodles are looking at me like "why are we not in a game hmmm?"

Mask and Mirror Apr 28, 2013 @ 4:58pm

I don't normally go for action games, but the graphics here are too awesome to miss.

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