Volley Your Friends
Gameplay
Volley Your Friends is a 2v2 volleyball game. However, there is one twist: the players cannot jump and the net is substantially higher than one would expect. This means that the players cannot really reach the ball. However, the players have the ability to grab their teammate and throw them into the air. Once a player is in the air, they can reach the ball and get it over the net. The goal is of course to score points by getting the ball to touch the ground on the opponent's side of the court. However the players have to be careful not to throw the ball out of the court as this will result in a point for the opposing team.
Development
Volley Your Friends was created as my second university
project in the third semester of my bachelor's programme.
The game was developed together with a fellow student. In
our game development class we worked on creating a simple
game engine using C++ with SFML and Tiled which we could
then use for making our game at the end of the semester.
The game itself was made in approximately two weeks. The
first one consisted of four days of development and one day
of user testing. The second week was used for bug fixing and
polishing. My part in the development was mainly focused on
gameplay programming. I implemented the game mechanics and
the player and ball movement. I also created the UI of the
different menu screens.