Ballance
| Chinese version / 中文版: | Ballance/zh |
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 MenuLevel of Ballance | |
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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 mazes in space, avoid traps and solve puzzles, and finally reach the balloons to complete the level. The game provides 13 original levels with roughly increasing difficulties for players to explore (level 13 is the downloadable content, but current installation packages generally include level 13), and a score system to attract players to challenge to get better results. In addition, the very real physics engine makes the manipulation of balls feel very close to that in real life, which greatly improves the playability of the game, and enables players to fully experience the effect of gravity, eventually feeling the charm of "balance".
Ballance comes with 5 languages by default, including German, French, English, Spanish, and Italian. However, the fan-made Chinese version also exists in Chinese Ballance Forum, which is available as a patch.
目录
How to play
In the interface of menus, all operations can be completed by mouse. At the same time, ↑ and ↓ keys can be used to select the option, ← and → to adjust the option parameters, Enter to set the option, and Esc to return (pressing Esc in the main menu makrs the game confirms whether to quit). While ingame, ↑, ↓, ←, and → controls the movement of the ball, Space to expand the field of view, Left Shift + ←/→ adjusts the direction of the camera by turning 90°, Esc pauses the game.
System 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？.
Content
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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
Modules
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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.
Scenes
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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.
Bugs, glitches 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.
Player communities
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：
