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Hopefully most of you have downloaded the 2nd Deathball Map pack. In there, is DB-SlamBall. Back in the days of 1.8, I wrote a new gametype to make deathball play a little more like basketball, just for this map. That was lost forever when my old hard drive crashed and burned.

It was a bit of a buggy POS, so my final plan is to rewrite the whole thing when db2.0 comes out.

However, I thought it was a damn shame that ppl playing the map were only getting half the fun, so I took a couple of hours to hack it together for DB1.9 and here it is:

SlamBall One and a Half
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http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~jdsg102/SlamBall.zip
-4.2 Mb : Includes the map and the gametype files.

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~jdsg102/SlamBallU.zip
-24 Kb : Only has the gametype files.
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So how is it different to deathball?
-Normal Goals are worth 2 points
-Volleys and Dunks are worth 3 points
-Goals scored from own half are worth 3 points
-Couple of variables have been tweaked to allow for faster volleying
-No Keepers

Have fun, and happy new year to y'all

'Tis fun to play...With or without the points thing...

I got a mention in the readme!! *goes nuts*

suggestions for next slamball version:

new maps
skin for the ball (basketball prolly)
player skins (i know it won't happen, but it's an idea)
disable boosting at least for teammates, and at least weaken it for enemies, so it's more like a push than taking them out of the play completely
game keeps going, no ball respawning at middle, team that got scored on gets ball under own basket
jump ball to start game
replay support
new hud

Some excellent idas there Hoju.

-Anyone is free to make their own slamball map, but I will prolly have a go at making a couple of new ones.
-Definitely gonna re-skin the ball.
-If db2.0 has shiny shiny skinning support, I'll see what I can do.
-The boosting thing would seriously affect the gameplay, but I'll see how tweaking about with it goes. You might be onto something.
-Ball respawn under the net. Oooh I like this idea. I don't know easy it would be to code in, but I'll sure as hell give it my best shot.
-Jump ball start. I like this one too. I'll have to see if it's possible to start the ball off with some z-axis momentum.
-Replay support is already there in this 1.5 version, although it has a couple of minor bugs.
-Afaik, a new hud is coming with db2.0.

Thanks for the input

plær: Check the deathball.net

\o/\o/
Thank you
<3 Dajero

*sniff* I was one of the first to test this map and the gametype, but I'm not named in the readme ;)

Nah, I'll always be your loving fan, jame--err plær congrats with the comments and coverage by db.net n1

<3 and gj

<3 messy

I think I'm going to update those readmes...

<3 Plaer and Messy
The gametype works great, nice work dude. :p

i r thanked in readme neway

though i think thats only cos he tes's on meh server ^^

<3 plaer, keep up the gd work

Always wanted to play this map online but its bleeding hard /o\

Meh It's not *that* hard
Just is to volley sometimes :<

hey plaer
do you have the old trick movies?
they were extremly leet

<3 plaer