- PRICE INCREASE FOR SIX ZAXTORGAMES NOTIFICATION - 10 May 2024
The six games listed above will be increasing in price on or around Monday, May 13th depending on when Steam approves the price changes submitted. These price increases are influenced by a number of factors including these six games haven't seen a price increase since 2022 or earlier. These are games that offer incredible value for their price even after the price increase, and also due to the inflation of almost everything the world over. While these price increases are only a dollar or two each, if you've been considering purchasing one of these six games, this weekend before the price increases would be a great time to grab them! Have a great weekend or day whenever you read this message! Sincerely, ZaxtorGameS .. (Solo Indie Game Developer)
- UPDATE 1.23 - Small Tweaks Per User Feedback & Possible Complete Overhaul Coming - 16 October 2022
Hello, this update is the first for Laser Ball in a long time and is here now per the suggestions and feedback of Steam user Mihailovich on the feedback forums recently. In this update, I've decreased the size of the deposit bin hit box so that it hopefully no longer feels as if you can "throw" a ball into the bin from very far away. For any players who've played this game in the past, you may now just need to be sure you move your character a little closer to the deposit bin before being able to drop the ball in. I've also changed the deposit area so that when you are needing to shoot the ball, it shows the color of your "target ball" here as well as the border of the screen as seen here: When you've already shot and neutralized the target ball and picked it up, the bottom deposit ball area now simply tells you to "deposit the ball here" with an arrow as seen here: I MAY DO A COMPLETE…
- New Lower Price! - 40% Reduction In Price To Just $2.99! - 2 February 2021
Laser Ball is believed by many to be my best indie game I've made yet! And now it's under $3... It's time to save your balls and don't let them kill you in the process, hmm? - ZaxtorGameS - indie game developer
- Lem-Amaze is my newest title in development! Check out the Kickstarter 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
- Price Increase from $2.99 USD to $4.99 Effective Immediately - 17 August 2019
Hello everyone... Laser Ball continues to be my best selling indie game here on Steam and has seen many good changes since I first brought it to Steam back in March of 2018. When I first announced the generator repairs as "coming soon" and gave Laser Ball a massive overhaul back in March of this year with update 1.20, I did announce back then that this game would see a price increase from $1.99 to $4.99 USD. When I put out the generator repair update, I decided to do a slower, more gradual price increase and went up to $2.99 then and now this game will go up to the $4.99 USD price I announced was coming almost six months ago. I believe that Laser Ball is a super fun, relentless action game that is VERY unique on Steam today. There is no other game quite like it and I firmly believe that this new higher price still delivers a very high value with the crazy high replay value that Laser Ba…
- UPDATE 1.22 - Generator Repairs Now Reward You Points + Ball/Player Fixes - 27 May 2019
In this update: - The Electro-Blob will now spawn in the top middle of the screen at a random position if you are playing the Electro Blob mode when you deposit the multi-colored ball after NOT neutralizing it with the laser gun (due to it becoming neutral in color because the timer ran out). ..So no longer can you just wait until the timer runs out to deposit the multicolored ball without spawning the Electro-Blob if you choose this mode of the game. --------------------- - I've fixed the way the charged balls behave when they touch you. Before they would move to the players position unintentionally and this would sometimes be the cause of the balls getting caught on the borders or even in the player safe zone. The balls will now no longer move to the players position when they shock and kill the player. They should now keep their coordinates and sometimes reflect off the player as int…
- UPDATE 1.21 - ElectroBlob gets even deadlier! Plus Numerous Fixes! - 23 May 2019
In this patch, I've made the Electro-Blob even more challenging to face as he now shoots as you as before in update 1.20, but now he will continue bouncing around the screen for several seconds at the same velocity! https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32345131%2F27945362a699b699f8c738da563e40a040221b5c.png I've also added new sounds as well as adjusted all of the game sounds to give it all a good balance. Multiple things to note with this update: 1) To get the 1,000 points for dodging the Electro Blob's charge attack, you need to be out of the safe zone on the left side of the screen when the Electro-Blob turns back to his normal white color and you need to have been out of the safe zone for more than half of his charge attack time. 2) You can now repair the generator at any time it has regressed, not only when it is in need of repair with more than 50% dama…
- UPDATE 1.20 - Generators To Repair! A Blinking Nur.. Errr A Blinking Electro Blob.. Oh My!! - 20 May 2019
It's here people! I promised back in March that a HUGE new update was coming to Laser Ball! And NOW It's live! You'll start each level with a broken generator in the upper right corner of the factory floor. To use the control panel which controls your laser gun, the generator must be repaired.. and kept repaired if it gets broken! You'll find a wrench on the floor that will allow you to repair the gen! Also live in this update is a very angry Electro-Blob! No longer does he just mosey around doing his own thing and accidentally shock you if you stumble into him! That's right brave factory worker.. This energy filled enemy will now focus all of its power and form into a little red ball and then shoot out directly at your position trying to kill you! Oh my! You can, as always, choose to play the "No Electro-Blob Mode" but be warned that this mode has double the damage done from all balls…
- Update 1.20 Coming with Generator Repairs & Overhauled Look! ..READ! - 28 March 2019
Look at this new screen showing your player repairing the damaged generator in the upper right corner in order to power the laser gun! https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32345131%2Fe83cd699acc34b6f36d83ae622c26656e8635b92.png New Improved Look with completely re-drawn sprites and more! https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32345131%2F87de50c31b3c3a0554a4f81bd9eb018eed1399e9.png Other planned changes to Laser Ball will be a changing "Electro-Blob" to be even more deadly than it currently is with a new ability to focus on your position, form a small tight ball and charge at you at crazy speeds to try and zap you! This is an element I think will be fun. Dangerous, but fun! ..With these changes, the game is likely to be much more difficult and balance changes might need to be added giving the player more ability to somehow reflect bal…
- UPDATE 1.10 - Global Steam High Scores Available In Game Plus HUGE SCORING CHANGES! - 25 March 2019
Okay everyone.. Laser Ball launched just under a year ago today on Steam and with this one year anniversary, I felt a couple of changes were really needed in this game. The first was adding global high scores directly to the game for easy access to see where you rank and the second was an over-hauled scoring system to better reward players for choosing to take on the Electro-Blob but not penalizing players for choosing to play without it in their games. ---------- New Global High Scores Added: ---------- No more needing to go to the Steam leaderboards here on the Steam page for Laser Ball just to see where your score ranks! All the high scores are available right from the welcome screen in Laser Ball anytime you play! WooHoo! ---------- New More Fair and Balanced Scoring System ---------- Also a big change in this update is more points for facing the Electro-Blob and more specifically..…
- UPDATE 1.08 - Minor Change in Ball Code for Better, More Predictable Bounce Angles - 18 February 2019
This update is nothing new for the player except a complete overhaul in the way the balls bounce against the outside walls to provide for more efficient and more realistic bounce angles. It's funny how this stuff works.. I fought for hours on getting the bounce angles correct around the launch of Laser Ball last spring, almost a year ago now and never was completely happy. When I started work on a new game I call PrisonBall which is a game I expect to launch in the coming months, the ball bouncing code just kinda game to me without much effort or thought and using that same, much simpler code in Laser Ball for this update seems to provide better results here as well. Anyhow, that is all for this update and I hope you have or are enjoying this retro game inspired by an old type in game I loved on my Commodore 64 back in the 80s today! ..I wouldn't have remade it today if I didn't firmly…
- UPDATE 1.07 - Quick Start Changed From Level 5 .. To Level 10! - 5 September 2018
Previously, the Quick Start Option was a way to start your games at level 5 with 6 lives and 25,000 points and was unlocked once you achieved level 5 with at least 6 lives and 25,000 points one time on your account. The Quick Start has been changed in this update 1.07 to an option to start at level 10 with 8 lives and 100,000 points. The old quick start has been removed and changed now, so you'll need to achieve level 10 with at least 8 lives and 100,000 points to unlock the Quick Start option. .It won't be real easy to unlock this as you'll to make it to level 10 without losing a single life and you'll need to either score a lot of accuracy bonuses if you choose to play without the Electro-Blob in play or still do well even against the Electro-Blob! ..It IS very possible to unlock this new Quick Start however, it just won't be as easy as it was to unlock the previous level 5 Quick Star…
- UPDATE 1.06 - Critical Game Sabotaging Bug Fix + More! - 4 September 2018
I would like to give a HUGE shout out to Steam user Kinzoku for posting a critical bug that would cause you to sometimes no longer be able to finish a game. Kinzoku posted this screenshot in the bug reports forum thread that showed how in one game where a ton of points were scored, the border color suddenly demanded a color that didn't have a matching ball to shoot! https://puu.sh/BnhKW/4489eb2215.png I believe I've tracked this bug down, and as usual, it was a super simple mistake made when I was coding my game where I put a 1 instead of the letter l in a variable name. Ugh, silly me! *-* Update 1.06 also includes all new more efficient ball bouncing code to handle the way the balls bounce against the walls. It was only 13 lines of code removed, but when you realize that your computer reads those lines of code 60 times a second as the game runs at 60 fps and it read those extra lines f…
- Price Lowered To $1.99 USD! - 12 July 2018
A couple of days ago, I reduced the price on Rock 'N Roll from $7.99 USD to $6.99 USD. Today, I am also reducing the price of Laser Ball by one dollar down to just $1.99 to increase the value for this game as well.
- UPDATE 1.05 - Improved Ball / Border Bounces AND Ball Tearing Issues Resolved! - 11 May 2018
In this update which comes right at the same time as the previously announced price increase to Laser Ball, I've fixed a couple of issues that had my head spinning when I noticed them. Neither issue happened much, at least on my computers, but I seemed to notice it more when I watched other people play my game... BALLS MOMENTARILY SLIDING ALONG BORDERS RESOLVED: ________________________________________________________ The balls have now been completely re-coded to make sure that the issues that sometimes occurred where a ball would slide along the edge of the border has been fixed. SPRITE TEARING HAS BEEN FIXED: _______________________________ Also previously, at higher levels and faster ball speeds, you'd sometimes notice sprite tears as you moved across the screen, and it seemed to happen more often as you carried a ball. That issue has been completely fixed now. DOUBLE BONUS POINTS F…
- UPDATE 1.04 - Laser Gun "Auto Aim" has been removed, pixel perfect shots now - 9 May 2018
Early in development of Laser Ball, way before I had the idea to add such thing as an "accuracy bonus", I added a laser shot "auto-aim" in the same manner I added auto aim to the smaller rocks in Rock N Roll to help you land shots easier. But when my 12 year old son was playing my game recently, he noticed an issue of balls he didn't want to hit getting hit as well as his target ball because of the auto aim I had added. This, as you know causes your accuracy bonus to fail at the end of each level, even if you miss a single shot or miss a single shot. The problem happened specifically when two balls were really close together and you were trying to be really precise and perfect with your shots to hit the correct ball and not waiting until the balls might separate more. To fix this, the balls hit box and the laser collision are now PIXEL PERFECT. No more auto aim or added pixels to make l…
- UPDATE 1.03 - More Balancing Tweaks.. Playing Against the Electro-Blob Now Spawns More Bonus Stars - 4 May 2018
In this small update, I've made a small tweak to the ways balls bounce off of walls in hopes it it lower the amount they seem to "slide" against the outer walls. My ball bounces have gotten much better than before in recent updates, and I think I'm finally close to getting them right where I want. Also, to help better balance the game on your decision to play against the Electro-Blob or turn the Electro-Blob off, I added about a double chance of the bonus point star sparkles of light spawning should you take on the more difficult challenge. So to understand the full difference in the modes I've made these lists... TURNING OFF THE ELECTRO-BLOB AT THE MAIN SCREEN (Checked): - You'll score 30% less points on all scoring events except for accuracy bonuses awarded a the end of each level - You'll have a lower spawn rate on the collectible sparkle of lights (immediate bonus points) - Your Tim…
- ** NOTICE OF PRICE INCREASE TO $2.99 USD FRIDAY MAY 11, 2018 ** - 4 May 2018
Hello everyone! I am giving everyone a full weeks warning to make your purchase of Laser Ball at the early price tag of just 99 cents (USD) before I plan on increasing the cost to $2.99 USD. After putting more than triple the hours of work and extra content into Laser Ball that I never planned to this game before it launched, I strongly feel that Laser Ball has become a much better looking and more fun to play retro action game. The new price also better matches other unique games such as Laser Ball with similar graphics and game styles. Since the launch of Laser Ball, Laser Ball has had the graphics and look overhauled to a much cleaner and better overall appearance. Laser Ball has had a whole new scoring system added to it to make advancing rewarding and interesting and this has taken a lot of time to both code and balance properly. A new challenging and unpredictable enemy has also b…
- UPDATE 1.02 - A Little More Time Given If You Play Against the Electro-Blob and Slight Nerfs given to Electro-Blob speed increases - 29 April 2018
As I've stated before the release of version 1.0, this game would continue to get little patches as needed to adjust the balance of the game and any bugs that might come up. With update 1.02 here, the only change is a little more time has been added if you choose to play against the Electro-Blob (You can turn the Electro-Blob off with a check mark option on the welcome screen) The additional time given for accepting the Electro-Blob in your game is not much but I feel like it will help better balance the game. The formula used is a base 5 seconds at level 1 plus an additional second added for every round level number you advance to. So for example, at level 8 you'd get 5 additional seconds plus 4 seconds for the level 8 making a total of 9 additional seconds. At level 10, you'd get the initial 5 seconds plus 5 more seconds for level 10 making a total of 10 additional seconds and so on.…
- UPDATE 1.01 - Better Bouncing Balls, Game Code Optimization - 28 April 2018
This updates optimizes the game code considerably and should provide better bounces for the balls so that they shouldn't ever wind up in places they shouldn't be (deep inside walls or in your safe zone, etc)
