Neverball a game that deserves to be experienced with an accelerometer
 

Tilt the floor to roll a ball through an obstacle course before time runs out. Neverball is part puzzle game, part action game, and entirely a test of skill.
Also found here is Neverputt, a hot-seat multiplayer miniature golf game, built on the physics and graphics engine of Neverball.
Neverball and Neverputt are both known to run under Linux, Win2K/XP, FreeBSD, and Mac OSX. Hardware accelerated OpenGL is required. A 500MHz processor is recommended.


http://neverball.org/images/shots/04...mym1-19-04.jpg
http://neverball.org/images/shots/02...med.-08-02.jpg
http://neverball.org/images/shots/05...mym2-05-05.jpg

The game is available for Windows, Mac and the source is available.

Link: http://neverball.org/download.php

If you want this game ported please contact the developers over here: http://forum.nevercorner.net/viewtopic.php?id=1961
And don't be shy in sending them an e-mail:
parasti
rlk
Jean Privat

Re: Neverball a game that deserves to be experienced with an accelerometer
 

There's some discussions on their message board (from last couple years) about porting to OpenGL ES but it all seems very secretive, mentions of Apple NDA's, etc.

Summary is that it has been ported, but source code is not being released at this point for whatever reason.

Re: Neverball a game that deserves to be experienced with an accelerometer
 

Perhaps they plan to port it to iPh0ne and hope to have some profit.

Perhaps we should contact them, they might consider a port for maemo aswell :cool:

Re: Neverball a game that deserves to be experienced with an accelerometer
 

looks just like a level or two from Super Mario Galaxy, my son's favourite Wii game.

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If you guys want this game ported, you should check this topic on the developers forum:
http://forum.nevercorner.net/viewtopic.php?id=1961

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LOL @ "Never Ball"... I thought this was a metaphor for Nokia stringing folks along or something. anyway.... it does seem like an awesome game

Re: Neverball a game that deserves to be experienced with an accelerometer
 

would have the same gameplay as Bounce evolution, though i like this better for some reason :P ... besides it seems like we're not getting more levels any time soon, just the 2 demo crappy ones :(

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be awesome to get this.

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Update

We should also consider an e-mail/PM to the developers via their forum, here are their profile pages, taken from the member list:
parasti
rlk
Jean Privat

Re: Neverball a game that deserves to be experienced with an accelerometer
 

Hey, uhm... source code IS available....

So uhm... ANYONE could port it.. well, at least anyone would some programming skills.

I tried to compile the debian package (yes, it IS packaged for Debian, and the game does scream for the accelerometer. And yes, it is nausea inducing on a large screen TV....)

The debian compile didn't quite work, said it was missing some header files (GL/gl.h) and then gave a lot of errros of gui.h and libSDL errors. If anyone would like the log...

slaapliedje

Re: Neverball a game that deserves to be experienced with an accelerometer
 

Wow! this is great news, perhaps other devs will gain interest in this as well.
Could you perhaps link to the source code and post your progress with some more details?

Thanks for your effort:D

Re: Neverball a game that deserves to be experienced with an accelerometer
 

But AFAIK the source code from the OpenGL ES port is not available, which is what we really need.

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http://raydium.org/svn.php?f=/trunk/...per-opengles.c

This wrapper might help out with the porting.

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Looks fun, loved to see it on the N900 :D

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Well why not tell them?
http://forum.nevercorner.net/viewtopic.php?id=1961

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Hmm:
http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Neverball

EDIT: I've just played 20 levels on PC and this game is giving me headaches and making me feel dizzy. It's the way how the game moves with you. It would be even worse on a small screen. For me a big no-no lol.

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Here is the link for the Debian Squeeze package, or you can 'apt-get source neverball' if you are running Debian.

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/neverball

I'm not a programmer, but I wouldn't think it'd be all that hard to port it from OpenGL to OpenGL ES.

I would think adding the accelerometer as the control would be more difficult, but would make the game a billion times less nauseating and much more fun (well, unless you like to vomit, maybe if you're bulimic or something).

slaapliedje

Re: Neverball a game that deserves to be experienced with an accelerometer
 

Well i had similar games on symbian and they were nice:)
Maybe if the phone would be the moving thing it would be nice.

Anyway, now that I see your location, waiting for black mesa source too?:D

Re: Neverball a game that deserves to be experienced with an accelerometer
 

hmm... are we able to play it@ easy debian??
was that a stupid question??

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On Symbian they didn't look so good and so real lol. I can imagine it could be a great game, but it would need tweaking.

Me? Definately! :D It should have come out some time ago, but i'm still waiting, it will be worth the wait! HL1 was and still is a legend. Playing it again with great graphics will just make it even better. :D Though i must add that i'm curiously awaiting HL2: EP3. Valve are being quiet about it the third year and that smells fishy. Unless they're already working on HL3. Gee...how much i love Gordon..ehm..Alex :D

Btw, looking at your avatar... you like Evil Con Carne/Grim & Evil :D ?

Re: Neverball a game that deserves to be experienced with an accelerometer
 

Has anyone tried it with Ubuntu?

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I've played it on Debian and Ubuntu throughout the years. It was much more playable on my 21 inch screen than my 42 inch that I have now.

Only because when the entire world is tilting like that in front of your face, you tend to want to firehose your lunch all over the place!

Performance is awesome though, well at least on nvidia cards, I don't think I've ever tried it on an ATI or intel card, but I don't think it uses any high level shaders or anything, so should work just as well there.

From playing Bounce, I don't see how the N900 couldn't handle it very well.

Speaking of which, why would they have it all open source, then have a closed source port to OpenGL ES? I personally blame Apple!

Let's get this ported!

slaapliedje

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just been reading up on this game, would be an amazing port :D

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+1 for that - it's the perfect game for the n900

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Neverball is coming :)
Blog post with video

I personally don't find that the accelerometer input is the best way to control the game, but maybe it's just me who's not skilled enough. :)

Re: Neverball a game that deserves to be experienced with an accelerometer
 

Looks awesome! Thank you.

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There are Neverball and Neverputt in extras-devel. Beware though:

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I have installed neverball but I can't play it. I can't find the icon in menu.
:(
How can I start it?
Thanks!

Re: Neverball a game that deserves to be experienced with an accelerometer
 

i got the same problem ...i dont see an icon in the menu...how can i solve this problem???

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yep same here. i have installed everything but no icon

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It segfaults me even when I

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i want alladin game and good super mario game ... not like b4

Re: Neverball a game that deserves to be experienced with an accelerometer
 

And i want a Lamborghini Murciélago, but thats probably not happening either.

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Were there any errors when compiling?

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The fact that there's a package in extras-devel doesn't mean that the game is ready. :)
Now I believe I got it packaged correctly, but I'll announce it here when it's ready.

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That's because you want a murcielago, I think a Gallardo is more realistic and will surely suffice. :)

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There is an accelerometer issue. Doesn't want to tilt forward.

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OK, now it's in extras-testing!
And neverputt is also there: http://blog.mardy.it/2011/07/e-neverputt.html

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Neverputt doesn't appear to be in testing yet. I only see it in devel.