- UPDATE 1.0 - The Long Awaited "Solo Reflection" Single Player DLC is LIVE! - 12 July 2021
It's been a long time coming, but now one of the most unique brick breaker games ever created is live as a DLC to Prison Ball: Full Blown! In this single player mode, you'll control Andy Simms in a relentless action brick breaker where risk vs reward is always part of the game! Broken bricks from your reflected ball will release copper, silver, and gold coins that can be collected and saved up until the time is right to deposit them in your own personal bank. To get your bank, you'll need to accumulate at least 10 copper (or 1 silver) and press the space bar (or your A button on your controller). You kneel down and blow a "bank bubble" as seen below and be charged 10% of all your coins. This takes time and finding the right time where you won't lose a ball is part of the frantic fun! Once the bank bubble has been blown, it will float around the screen several times before finally choose…
- UPDATE 0.98_7.10.21 -- Minor Graphics Upgrades - 10 July 2021
Hello all.. This is just a small update of many that is intended to start overhauling the overall look of Prison Ball: Full Blown. Eventually we will see Update 1.00 when I am happy with the overall look of the intro screens and the character models in the game. The long time waiting DLC "Solo Reflection" will also see a launch soon as well and add an all new single player mode to the game with some unique break-out twists never before seen in a brick breaking game! The Damon Blood DLC is also still in the works and should see it's way to this game in the coming months, definitely by the end of this year! ..Maybe Halloween will be a good target date to see this blood thirsty monster hit this game! Prison Ball: Full Blown has become one of my most worked on projects, only surpassed my my first game on Steam "Rock 'N Roll". This game has many more lines of code, and many more hand drawn s…
- Prison Ball: Full Blown Base Game Will No Longer Be "FREE" - 9 July 2021
Prison Ball: Full Blown was made free-to-play way back in January of 2020. The ultimate reason for this was to get the base game in the hands of many Steam players. Since that date, more than 10,000 Steam users have taken advantage of getting this game for free, but the sales of DLC hasn't increased and sadly the game hasn't gotten more than a small handful of reviews. Prison Ball: Full Blown was not developed to be handed out at no cost as it offers a completely unique blend of several popular arcade style games and also allows you to play against a friend or an AI opponent. A lot of hard work and creativity went into Prison Ball: Full Blown, and I'm sad to see that making my game "free" hasn't benefited the game in any way. It saddens me as an indie developer that so many people don't mind downloading a game and playing it for nothing, and won't even consider spending a few moments wr…
- Massive Improved & Cleaner Overhaul + Solo Reflection DLC is Coming SOON! - 13 August 2020
It's coming soon everyone! Update 1.0! With the Solo Reflection DLC and a brand new overhauled cleaner and much improved look! I did the same kind of overhaul to Rock 'N Roll last year and it definitely improved the overall look of it! Now it's time for Prison Ball: Full Blown to get the same upgrade! I think you'll see by the before (top) and after (bottom) that the new look is a drastic improvement! Coming VERY soon!! Make sure you put the Solo Reflection DLC on your wishlist now!! =)
- Solo Reflection DLC as well as Damon Blood & Cheyenne Storm DLCs DELAYED! - 1 May 2020
I hate to have to delay the Solo Reflection DLC I had hoped to launch today, but recent life events have caused unexpected delays in my coding and progress on my Prison Ball content. It's not that I haven't had time, but more that life distractions have made it difficult to focus on the needed coding and planned content. Because I don't want to rush this content just to push it out on time, I will just say that all three of the DLCs are coming.. but they will all launch "when they are done". I would expect it to be a delay of just weeks on the current launch dates shown rather than months, but I don't want to set any hard dates for any of them. I can say that the Solo Reflection DLC will be the first to launch right here and that it is currently about 70% complete. Thanks for your patience while I deal with what I need to and try to find the right mood and time to make sure that these u…
- UPDATE 0.96 - Numerous Bug Fixes, Character Insults Added - 20 April 2020
Update 0.96: Insults have been added and the characters will now throw funny and often unique insults at each other to make the games more interesting. - We love our drama even in games right? (From the welcome screen, Pressing F7 will turn on insults and F8 will turn them off. The game will save your choice and load it from the same setting you last exited the game) Damon Blood has been added as a playable character that the computer might choose in the AI vs AU PWN'ong mode. Unfortunately, he is not playable yet, but he will be in the game soon and playable in both modes of the game. Look the upcoming DLC for Damon Blood soon! ..Speaking of the AI vs AI autoplay mode, that will be a purchasable DLC itself called the "AutoPlay All Day!" add on and it will be available for under a dollar this week! Bugs fixes include: - Complete rework of how the balls bounce off of the bricks and I bel…
- Damon Blood Is Sharpening His Blade and Preparing To Strike! - 18 April 2020
Damon only cares about clearing the bricks so that he can make his way to his opponent on the other side hiding behind that paddle. But he knows that if he can avoid the blow attacks and get close enough that his enemies blood will spurt into the air with a quick strike! Gashing his opponent is the only way Damon see's to finally make right of all the wrong in his young life. He doesn't see Dante, Andy, Angela or Deborah as who they are. Damon purposely landed himself here in prison because every inmate he sees as the haunting image of his own father who took the life of his mother five years ago! Filling his blood meter with blood is the only way Damon can score any points in his troubled mind, and his opponents better be concerned about more than hitting those little blue balls once he arrives! - Damon Blood is coming to Prison Ball: Full Blown soon!
- UPDATE 0.95 - Andy, Angela, and Dante Get Special Abilities! New DLC too!! - 18 April 2020
In this update, the default three characters that come with Prison Ball: Full Blown completely free have received all new special abilities! Let's take a look at each new ability: Andy Simms gets the "Erection" ability! Andy can now use his ability button to erect a new green wall directly in front of him when the wall has ten bricks or less. This can be used with good timing to trap his balls inside to score big points very quickly! ------------ Dante Vaughn gets the "Aggrandize" ability! As if Dante's huge paddle wasn't big enough already, Dante now gets the ability to make his paddle insanely massive at the push of his ability button! While it only lasts a few seconds, it can be used to either deflect balls that might otherwise had got by him! Also note that while his paddle is enlarged with Aggrandize, Dante's paddle will also effectively destroy incoming blow attack bubbles! His pa…
- UPDATE 0.88 - Massive Update! Balance, Bugs Squashed, More! - 7 April 2020
I've been working hard to make my Free-To-Play title "Prison Ball: Full Blown" a more enjoyable and better polished game to play! Here's just a few of the things changed in this huge update to my unique Breakout / Pong combination game: - The computer A.I. for all characters has been completely overhauled and should present even the best breakout players a run for their money! - Shadows and polish added to characters Angela Diaz and Dante Vaughn. They look a little better and their movement looks cleaner now. - Every brick now glimmers with sparkles of light - Brick layout has been changed to allow for better gameplay - Enhancements made to the re-spawning of walls to make it look crisper and cleaner - An indicator now shows "slowdown" above the head of any character slowed down by getting hit by a poison ball from character Toxik Karess - Balance change: Vast Shadows movement speed red…
- The Next DLC Playable Character Is Seeking To Splatter Blood On The Bricks! - 6 April 2020
Coming Soon to Prison Ball: Full Blown... The dastardly blood thirsty "Damon Blood" !! Damon grew up as a child watching his father sitting for hours sharpening his knife in the evenings. He always wondered what anyone would need a knife to be so sharp for, especially when it was never used. And then the death scream of his own mother woke him up in the middle of a cold winter night at the age of only 13. His mother had been the recipient of that knife and the images of his father holding that knife that dripped his mothers crimson blood would haunt him for years until he finally decided to seek revenge. At the age of 18, Damon intentionally threatened to kill local cops near his small home town with a desire to go to jail. But jail wasn't enough. After only three days in jail, he knew he wasn't where he wanted to be, so Damon broke the neck of a fellow inmate and was sent to prison whe…
- UPDATE 0.87 - Brick Layout Changed - 5 April 2020
Update 0.87 really just involves my deciding to change the layout of the bricks in the room to provide the balls with proper room to reflect between the walls of bricks. (The spacing between the walls used to be just 16 pixels and now has been changed to 48 pixels) The number of bricks in each green wall has also been reduced by one layer and each green wall now has 9 less bricks than before to provide room for this extra spacing between the walls. That's it for this update. Have fun out there!
- UPDATE 0.86 - Fixes and Adjustments To Vast Shadows - 5 April 2020
This update primarily focuses on the last DLC character "Vast Shadows".. It should be easier than ever now to split your balls in the face of your opponent while playing Vast Shadows. Here are the changes made in this update: - The keyboard controls to split your ball at the appropriate opportunity to split your balls into three additional balls have been changed to: SPACE BAR if you control Vast as player 1 on the left side of the screen RIGHT SHIFT key if you control Vast as player 2 on the right side of the screen Using a controller, the button remains the controller X button to split your balls. - The window of opportunity to split your balls has been made bigger and easier than before. Remember, once you turn a ball your color and it is moving towards your opponent and on his/her side of the screen, you'll get a "Balls Out!" visual and aural indicator. Press your active ability but…
- Prison Ball: Full Blown Discounted to Just $2.99 - All DLC Reduced by 50% ! - 19 November 2019
To further promote my most recent title, Prison Ball has been reduced in price again from $4.99 USD to just $2.99 USD, and ALL DLC has been reduced in price to just 99 cents! If you play Prison Ball: Full Blown and enjoy it, please spread the word!
- Lem-Amaze, my newest game in development is on Kickstarted NOW! - 20 October 2019
Please check out and consider supporting my newest game in development now! Remember that just sharing the link to the Lem-Amaze kickstarter is also supporting it! This game is a completely different direction for me in indie game development and I'd appreciate your support in any way that you can! Read the details about Lem-Amaze at my Kickstarter link here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lem-amaze/lem-amaze-sell-lemonade-to-make-money-and-a-love-story-too
- Update 0.80 - DLC Playable Character "Toxik Karess" is Live! - 30 August 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F35273872%2Fe9a2fe3ea31b8ba4b286567b18022cc1dce08a8d.png Toxik Karess took me about a week longer than I had hoped to finish up with my full time job and life and all... but he is now here and ready for you to purchase and play! Toxik uses his poisonous paddle to poison the balls his paddle reflects. When a poison ball hits any body part of an opponent, they get poisoned which fades slowly over time. A player poisoned shows as a green poison gas cloud over their character. This gas cloud will fade over time, but while poisoned, a characters movement speed is drastically reduced, giving Toxik Karess a big advantage and opportunity to score more points! If a Toxik's own poisoned ball hits his body, it will NOT poison him, unless the poisoned ball his body touched is from his opponent who happens to also be Toxik Karess. ie..…
- ** New LOWER Price! ..Now Only $4.99 USD! ** - 16 August 2019
I've decreased the price of Prison Ball: Full Blown from it's original launch price of $6.99 by more than 28% to get it under $5 at just $4.99! Hopefully this new lower price point will allow more people to enjoy my slapstick competitive break breaker! Have a good weekend everyone! =)
- UPDATE .079 - Steam Achievements Added! First 14 Steam Achievements Are Live! - 29 July 2019
In this update, I've added the first 14 Steam achievements to this game with dozens more planned in the coming days and weeks! If you are a Steam achievement hunter, then this first set of 14 Steam achievements should make you happy and give you plenty of achievement hunting to do! - In this update, the next DLC playable character "Toxik Karess" has been added to the game and is fully functional. Once he is polished and balanced a little more and the DLC is approved by Steam, he will be available for your purchase!
- Upcoming DLC - Playable Character "Vast Shadows" - 29 July 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F35273872%2Ff890612d35e39b47f5d5609c00ecdc1e19e3fb3e.png The next planned DLC playable character after the soon to be released Toxik Karess... Is none other than the deceptive and cunning "Vast Shadows"! Vast will bring an unnatural ability from the dark side to have amazing power and control over his balls. His greatest pleasure is seeing the agony of his opponents when they are deceived by his manipulation. Witnessing his opponent make a bold move for his balls only feel no satisfaction of that connection but instead only contact shadows of Vast's balls bring out his most sinister laugh! Vast Shadows is currently planned for release in late August or early September.
- UPDATE 0.78 - Cleaner Welcome Screen + Random Character Option! - 27 July 2019
With this update, I've reworked the welcome starting screen where you make all your choices to give it a cleaner overall look. https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F35273872%2F458552a850b6c15cae0cc7345e7d1c267cc37033.png I've also changed the controller highlighter to a green frame as opposed to the old flashing white highlight to show you where you are making changes with the controller. A new option has also been added to add a little mystery in your character selection with a randomize choice as seen in the above screenshot. Not much else in this update but I wanted to push it out.
- Deborah Fire DLC - And - The Naughty Ice Formations DLC Are Live NOW! - 26 July 2019
They aren't showing up on the store page yet, so I'll provide the links here to anyone interested. Both DLCs have a first week of launch discount of 10%. Deborah Fire Playable Fire Element Character DLC: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1127750/Playable_Character_Deborah_Fire/ Naughty Ice Formations DLC: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1128820/Naughty_Ice_Formations_Regular_Mode_Option/ Enjoy!
