| Chinese version / 中文版: | Ballance/zh |
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| Genre | Puzzle |
| Platform | Microsoft Windows |
| Developer | Cyparade |
| Publisher | Atari |
| Designer | Klaus Riech |
| Composer | Mona Mur |
| Mode | Single-player |
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Europe: 2 April 2004 (20 years, 7 months ago) North America: 25 October 2006 (18 years ago) |
Ballance is a 3D video game developed by German studio Cyparade, published by Atari and released in 2004.
In Ballance, players need to manipulate a ball of which the physical properties can be transformed to travel through large and complex maze buildings built in high altitude or space, avoid traps and solve puzzles, and finally reach the end 飞船 to complete a level. The game provides 13 关卡 that are roughly increasing in difficulty for players to explore (level 13 is downloadable content, but existing installation packages generally include level 13), and set a score system to attract players to challenge to more Complete the level at a high level to get better results. In addition, it is equipped with a very reductive, real physics engine that makes the ball's manipulation feel very close to the cognition in real life, so it greatly improves the playability of the game, and players can fully experience the effect of gravity on balance.
Ballance comes with 5 languages by default, including German, French, English, Spanish, and Italian.But Ballance吧 has produced a version of the game with Chinese language patches, which is Ballance中文版.
目录
How to play
In the game menu interface, the mouse can complete all operations. At the same time, the keyboard ↑ and ↓ keys select the option, ← and → keys adjust the option numerical parameters, Enter (Enter) key determines the option, and ESC key returns to the previous menu (press ESC in the main menu to confirm whether to exit the game, this (←, → key to confirm whether to exit the game). While the game is in progress, the keyboard ↑, ↓, ←, and → keys control the movement direction of the ball, Space (space bar) to expand the field of view, Lshift + ← / → adjust the angle of view, ESC key to pause the game and bring up the menu (press ESC to return Games, which are often used in racing to ensure that all scorers who are tracking the player are absorbed before entering the next quarter).
Hardware and software configuration requirements
Ballance, like other Games, requires a certain level of performance from the player's computer to work. But because it was released so long ago, most computers today can run it.
The requirements for the Computer configuration can be found in the documentation included with the original Ballance installation file, which is excerpted here for your reference only:
| Hardware / software | Minimum requirement | Recommendation Requirement |
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| Ram | 64 MB | 128 MB |
| Hard disk space | 150 MB | More than 150 MB |
| CPU | 350 MHz Intel Pentium II | 450 MHz INTEL Pentium III |
| Display card | Integrated Graphics Card | A 3d graphics card with a minimum of 16 MB Ram |
| Driver | CD-ROM | CD-ROM |
| Operating System | Windows 98（No WindowsNT） | Windows ME / 2000 / XP |
| DirectXVersion | 8.1 | Greater than 8.1 |
In addition,，Ballance is largely incompatible with the configuration of today's computers.As a result, the runtime often fails to perform as well as computers do today，This resulted in Cottonwood, frame dropping, and other serious bugsBUG。If you want to optimize the performance of Ballance, see Ballance optimization:Ballance的优化。
If you can't run Ballance，You can see some Solutions inQ&A/zh#非Windows XP系统打不开游戏/进入游戏黑屏/游戏内吃命卡死怎么办？.
游戏内容
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主条目: Ballance关卡结构 |
Ballance Level is made up of Checkpoint、机关、Balloons构成。（Italic Body is an essential element）
Topics & activities
After 15 years' developing, currently topics in Ballance forums mainly are:
In addition, there have been new discussions recently and good results have been achieved：
- 背景: Using image software to make a new Ballance background map。
Please jump to the relevant page above for more details
机关
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主条目: 机关大全 |
In order to make the level more challenging, more playable, more interesting, Ballance provides a large number of organs props. In the process of making a map, the clever collocation of these organs can greatly affect a level of the game experience and map quality. In particular，The internal program mechanism of Extra Point and Extra Life is the same as that of other organs, so they are generally regarded as organs.
场景
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主条目: 背景 |
Namely "background".Except that levels 4 and 13 share the same background，Each level of Ballance takes place in a different scene environment.The scene is only determined by the background texture under \ Ballance \ Textures \ Sky,并And the scene will not affect the brightness of the game level.The brightness of different levels is determined by certain files under \ Ballance \ 3D Entities.
Game loopholes and level design issues
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主条目: Ballance漏洞 |
Ballance has many bugs like other games. They can be harmful, causing the game to crash and frightening the player due to the sudden appearance; they can also be beneficial to the progress of the game and are recognized for use in racing.
In addition, due to the mistakes of the creators during the production of the original level map, the ball may be stuck in some cases, unable to move or completely unable to continue the game.They are:
- 欲死不能 The player's ball is stuck in a certain area and cannot commit suicide or escape. Without a suicide device, the player has to restart the game.
- 欲生不能 Players can't pass the game if they change the wrong ball attributes, and the map logic design error makes it impossible to change the ball attributes even after suicide and rebirth. They can only restart the game.
玩家群体
At present, only Ballance吧 founded by 相关QQ群 and Baryo is active in China（Another previously active forum, 中国Ballance联盟, has been shut down.But a less active forum has been set up Ballance Resources）。There are various forums scattered internationally，Among them, only the Discord服务器 established by BearKidsTeam is more active and can receive more game resources。On the left side of this page, there is a "Related Website" column to access these discussion sites.。
History
Ballance was designed by Klaus Riech, developed by Cyparade and published by Atari on 2 April 2004 (Europe), with the music composer being Mona Mur; its North America version was released on 25 October 2006. Its offical website was http://www.ballance.org/, however, after 2006, no new news was added and this website has been shut down since 2009. (web.archive.org) Ballance Developers Homepage (archived on 20 October 2007)
As of now, everything about Ballance's official information is very scarce. This game mainly relies on player groups to research, support and publicize themselves.
相关作品
Ballance is arguably one of the earliest 3D ball games. In addition, there are many formal companies launched completely independent of other ball games; Its excellent playability has also attracted many copycats to create new games: PIRATED BALLANCE Games and Fan Games created by Gamers in game forums。Main entry：