Battle Splash - Third-Person Water Shooter Game on PC (Pre-Alpha build released)

Nov 12, 2015 at 5:28 PM

Hello everyone! I've been working on this game for a long time, and now I want to show you guys some progress that I’ve done. I’m an avid fan of many great shooters on PC, especially arena classics such as Doom, Quake, and Team Fortress 2, but not quite fond of violence elements like blood and gore. With that in mind, I decided to spend 4 years with my own programming skills to make a little game called Battle Splash.

Pre-Alpha Download Link:

IndieDB: http://www.indiedb.com/games/battle-splash/downloads/battle-splash-pre-alpha-build
Itch.io: http://dranyastudio.itch.io/battle-splash
GameJolt: http://gamejolt.com/games/battle-splash/236663

We’ve just launched our page on Patreon to seek more funding for better improvement of the project. You can subscribe in there to get more access of current Work-in-Progress.

https://www.patreon.com/battlesplash

Battle Splash is a third-person shooter which takes inspirations from water fights, featuring action-packed, fast-paced water fights in peaceful and relaxing environments. In this game, I want to include the elements that defines 90s arena classics (something like Quake with bright colors, water splashes, and no violence) with class-based elements. Players can choose one of 4 cheerful girls with same weapon loadout, while having distinctive stats for creative playstyles. Furthermore, each girl carries an exclusive item that serves their co-operative role. Currently, I’m optimizing the game so that up to 32 players can join in large playgrounds for water fights. I’m also planning to support modding tool that allow everyone to customize their own water fights for their own preferences.

Thank you very much for taking a look of my project. I hope that you guys are interested in my little game, as well as leaving feedbacks to improve it. Have a nice day!

Nov 15, 2015 at 4:59 PM

Hello everyone!

This Sunday, we'd like to present you the teaser of our game, Battle Splash.

This clip will show you some aspects of the maps and players in the project.

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Feel free to give us comments and feedbacks for project improvements.

Thank you and Have a nice day!

(Music for this teaser is created by BenSound.com)

Nov 22, 2015 at 5:00 PM

Hello everyone!

It has been a week since the last update of our game - Battle Splash. This Sunday, we would like to show you the latest project development progress.

Alongside with the current Graphics Overhaul phase, we've added additional details for the map Countryside Farm. These details will enhance the overall visual experiences in the game.

Stay tuned for upcoming information of Battle Splash - The Third-Person Water Shooter on PC.

In the mean time, you can check and follow our latest progress of the game in these following pages:

Steam Concept: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=507974419

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/battlesplash.dranya

IndieDB: http://www.indiedb.com/games/battle-splash

Email: battlesplash@dranyastudio.com

Thank you very much & Have a nice Sunday!

Nov 29, 2015 at 6:33 PM

Hello everyone!

It's time for something cool, new and fresh for the latest progress update of our game, Battle Splash.

For the first time, we bring you the first looks of the latest map in game roster and it's called Paper World. This map will take you to an environment that is 100% created by colorful and vivid paper materials.

In order to make this map, members of the studio have spent times to create different paper-based models as prototypes. As a result of the prototype, we've created some of the basic assets to define the aesthetics in Paper World.

All subjects can be changed during the development time as these images doesn't represent the final state of our product.

Hope you'll enjoy the preview because more game info about Battle Splash will come in a near time soon. Stay tuned and Feel free to give us comments, feedbacks or thoughts about our project.

Steam Concept: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=507974419

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/battlesplash.dranya

IndieDB: http://www.indiedb.com/games/battle-splash

Email: battlesplash@dranyastudio.com

Thank you very much & Have a nice Sunday!

Dec 13, 2015 at 5:09 PM

Hello everyone!

We bring you the excitement of Sunday by introducing the previews of our latest character in Battle Splash - Temiko.

You'll find lots of surprised from this wonderful little girl ;)

Stay tuned for more game info and Feel free to give us comments, feedbacks or thoughts about our project.

Steam Concept: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=507974419

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/battlesplash.dranya

IndieDB: http://www.indiedb.com/games/battle-splash

Email: battlesplash@dranyastudio.com

Thank you very much & Have a nice Sunday!

Dec 20, 2015 at 5:27 PM

Hello everyone!

It has been quite a while since the last update of Battle Splash - Third-person Water Shooter Game.

Last week, we've revealed our first playable character in the game with a girl named Temiko. After defined her style, we decided to introduce her to real-time environment with the Medieval Map. Moreover, we also put it in monochrome style so that we can check whether black and white suit the overall visual experience of the game. Have a look of our results!

Feel free to comment and send us feedbacks so that we know what you think of our game.

Stay tuned for more info in this page as well as our social media with the links below.

Steam Concept: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=507974419
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/battlesplash.dranya
Twitter: http://twitter.com/battlesplash
IndieDB: http://www.indiedb.com/games/battle-splash
Website: http://www.battlesplash.com
Dev blog: http://battlesplash.com/blog/
Email: battlesplash@dranyastudio.com

Thank you for reading and Have a nice day! :D

Jan 3, 2016 at 5:56 PM

Hello everyone!

We apologized for slow release of new progress updates till the first days of year 2016. Here's the latest development info of our game, Battle Splash.

After the introduction of Temiko - our first playable character in Battle Splash, we would like to show you the demo of movement animation implemented in the girl. The demo includes the movement of walking and running, but we haven't made the idle animation yet.

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During the New Year holidays, we decided to make a small tribute to Star Wars - the legendary sci-fi action film series, by posing Temiko with a lightsaber. However, the lightsabers will NOT be included in Battle Splash due to various issues, including rights and gameplay themes.

Feel free to comment and send us feedbacks so that we know what you think of our game.

Stay tuned for more info in our page as well as our social media with the links below.

Steam Concept: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=507974419

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/battlesplash.dranya

IndieDB: http://www.indiedb.com/games/battle-splash

Email: battlesplash@dranyastudio.com

Thank you for reading and Best wishes for a good year of 2016!

Jan 13, 2016 at 5:45 PM

And now for the latest development update of Battle Splash!

Although this is somehow a little bit rehash of our previous images, we would like to put Temiko into the Countryside map as a test of compability between the character and the environment.

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Feel free to give us comments, feedbacks or thoughts about our project.

Jan 18, 2016 at 5:02 PM

We would like to show you the archived images of old prototypes in Battle Splash. These early versions of our project was created by using the former Unity 4 engine. After the transition of Unity 5, we have to take lots of time to convert our project in terms of new implementations.

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And here's the assets of Suburban Town in the old prototypes. We had made it by ourselves by using Blender as the main modeling tool.

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Feb 1, 2016 at 8:00 AM

Winter is coming! *plays Game of Thrones tune*

Actually this isn't Game of Thrones, but a new exciting and dazzling environment that will make an appearance in our game, Battle Splash.

Feb 22, 2016 at 5:32 PM

(Foreword: The following development post is written by the project lead of our studio, Mr. Mai Nguyen Binh Hung (a.k.a Delta Kangara). He has discovered new techniques to generate the terrain in easier ways, as well as opened new potentials for our game, Battle Splash)

The concept is simple: A big map, with a lots of stuffs! Well, technically, YES, it's that simple, let aside the map design, stories line, assets, art style or whatever. However, "THAT SIMPLE" comes with a great price:performance and resource management. Imaging a huge world with a lot of trees, rocks, houses, and many more "little things" like barrels, fences, or even some interior item like cup or spoon (Skyrim, yes?), and all of them fits into a single, resource limited computer. I'm not talking about some players or developers' machine with 16~32GB RAM, core i7, GTX 9XX and so on, I'm talking about much lower rig, something likecore i3~i5, Intel HD, 2~4GB of RAM, etc... Of course, some of you may think that: nah, that's just a common office rig, not suitable for gaming or something. Yet, if the game can "run", or can "barely run" on those machine, I believe it can perform well on high-end machine (I've been expected it to be 40~60FPS with maximum settings on medium rig) as well as its efficient in term of quality scaling.

To deal with the concept, several approaches have been listed out based on my knowledge and my research. The very first approaches is very simple: do a single experiment that uses only a single, huge terrain object and see what is the cost of a terrain. I've been tweaking around Unity and try to make the biggest map as possible. So far, the countryside map is the biggest playable map that I've created, but as for the scope of the experiment, I've created a single terrain with the size is 100 times bigger than the Countryside map. To make it clear, the tallest character of Battle Splash is Quadra with the height of 1.8 meters, while the biggest map's diameter that I've tried is around 7692.3 times larger than her height. Therefore, I believed that the actual map size is around 169 square kilometers (theoretically), with 200k trees from 3 different types. And here is some actual rendering with that big size of the map:

Here are some statistics for Nerd:

Resolution 1920x920 (Unity GUI prevented full HD in editor)

Average FPS: 65 (capped). Actual FPS: ~250FPS

Tree types: 3. Trees in terrain: 200k

Terrain and trees only, wind effect included.

In other words, I'm very surprised with the result. The draw distance was about 277 meters, and even when I tried to increase the draw distance and camera far clip plane to around 10 kilometers, average FPS still exceed 60 compared to the previous test. Unity terrain system did it job in simulating such a huge area. And as for the memory, the map take up to more than 100MB. Of course, this test doesn't mean it is possible to make a 169 km2 map out of the box with Unity, in terms of both technical and content development. However, it doesn't deny the fact either, that it is POSSIBLE to make such map if suitable methods are applied. Let's dig in and find out how!

The test showed that it is possible to achieve 60 FPS in rendering such terrain. However, the maps only contains trees and a single terrain object, and no grass or terrain foliage, so the FPS can dramaticallyincrease. In addition, there are only 3 types of tree, which were highly optimized and used in the Countryside map, thus there should be no problem rendering thousand of them (if there was, perhaps I had to re-optimize those trees again).

The thing that I did not mention before is the workflow to produce a map. Well, things often start from map concepts, then design, then sculpting the terrains (or importing height map), then placing assets (both procedural and traditional), etc... For this test only, all I've done are placing trees automatically, setting up splat map and then try to sculpt the terrain. There are some problems to be considered. First of all is the visual representation of the map itself. The map was too big, and navigation was really such a pain. It's hard to find the right place to sculpt and also there is no pivot that helps identify the correct height or shape of the chosen areas. The way to solve this problem is kinda simple (which I will discuss in the next part), yet the other problems seems to be way more serious than this one.

The picture above represents the Navigation map for a much smaller map (59 square kilometers, less trees than the 169 km2 one) and it took me almost 20 minutes to finish all the calculations. The size of this navigation mesh is about 70MB, compared to 6MB of Countryside map. The process used up almost 1.5GB of RAM, and you can imagine what would happen if I baked 169km2 map instead of this one. And there is not much assets just yet, so if there is any problem with navigation, then re-baking it might be a greater pain. Oh, about Occlusion Bake, you asked? Nah, my computer is NOT gonna last.

And for the final result, well....

The above picture represent the final image of the map, which was applied several image effects. To be honest, I'm quite satisfied with the result. Unity does a very good job with the terrain system in terms of rendering. But it's just the graphics, let alone physics, game logic and ton of additional assets. There will be plenty of problems such as: memory management, navigation (yes, huge map might lead to performance spike), Occlusion Culling, etc... Still, our workflow for such huge map is unclear at the moment, so I'll continue to dig deeper into it in order to make sure the balance between performance and quality.

Mar 7, 2016 at 5:26 PM

After long and careful works, we're proud to bring you the revamped version of our new map, Paper World.

Mar 29, 2016 at 4:01 PM

Sorry for the slow update of Battle Splash in recent days. Here's latest development progress with 2 clips taken directly from the game. The first clip shows the first weapon test with the iconic [water] launcher, while the second one presents first footages of our new revamped map, Paper World.

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http://www.indiedb.com/games/battle-splash/news/first-in-game-preview-of-battle-splash

Apr 25, 2016 at 4:08 PM

After nearly 1 1/2 months of silence, we would like to present to you our in-game sneak peek of Battle Splash. This trailer includes the first look of the story in Battle Splash with cinematic segments and a little bit of gameplay with sceneries and splashes. The video itself is 100% rendered in real-time graphics with Unity engine. It is a representative of actual graphics and gameplay of current work-in-progress development.

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After the trailer had been posted on last weekend, our game has just reached #1 rank of Most Popular Game in IndieDB for the first time. Many great thanks for your support that contributing to our success! You can check our latest article in IndieDB with the following link:

May 25, 2016 at 3:58 PM

Continue from the Player-vs-AI Test Session, includes HUD and put in player's direct perspective.

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Dec 14, 2016 at 3:11 AM

4 years of continuous development come to this fruition: Our very first gameplay video of Battle Splash. Everything you're about to see in here are what you can expect when playing this game.

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Oh, and don't forget to vote our game on Greenlight. Thank you!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=804737940

Jan 22, 2017 at 3:04 PM

Our voting campaign in Greenlight has ended successfully as the game is officially Greenlit after 16 days, right in the end of year 2016. Therefore, thank you very much for supporting us and we'll do our best to create the finest experience in this water fight game.

Right after being Greenlit, we've started experimenting and making new features in Battle Splash. "Balloon Hop" (a.k.a "Water Balloon Hopping") is the first mechanism to be implemented in this year and it's a really fun one. This mechanic requires precise aiming and timing in order to be successfully executed. A series of perfect "Hops" will keep player leaping very fast.

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Along with the "Balloon Hop", we also decided to remake our Medieval Town map based on the community feedback. The buildings are re-modeled and the color tone is being adjusted in order to unify the overall aesthetics. At first, we tried with the tone of fresh green with examples below:

This is the comparison between the original version (upper) and the remake version (lower)

However, many feedback shows that most people prefer the orange/yellow color tones that implemented in the original map. So we decided to mix the original colors with new building models, which resulted in something fresh right here.

Comparing to the prototype made one year ago, this is a tremendous progress that we've done during the development

These are still Work-in-Progress, which you'll expect more changes to be made in time.

Feb 19, 2017 at 4:12 PM

This is how Battle Splash evolved after 3 years of development, 8 Unity versions, 10+ prototype builds, and many hours of bugfixes after upgrading newer Unity versions.

And here's what we discovered while testing the shield item for one of our girls. In fact, we DID have a full ping-pong match by only using that item.

Feb 28, 2017 at 2:59 PM

After a long period of preparations, we're proud to bring you guys the very first Pre-Alpha build of Battle Splash - Violence-free Third-person Water Fight Game on PC.

Download Link:

IndieDB: http://www.indiedb.com/games/battle-splash/downloads/battle-splash-pre-alpha-build
Itch.io: http://dranyastudio.itch.io/battle-splash
GameJolt: http://gamejolt.com/games/battle-splash/236663

Along with the Pre-Alpha build, we also want to show you a video featuring various gameplay aspects of Battle Splash in this Pre-Alpha build.

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Pre-Alpha Features:

Large playground with the theme of Medieval Town
Team Free-For-All game mode
All characters and weapons are available
Single-player and Multiplayer via LAN up to 32 players
Challenging AI bots for comp-stomp

System Requirements:

CPU: Intel Core i3
GPU: Intel HD Graphics (2nd Generation)
RAM: 3GB
HDD: 1GB
OS: Windows 7 32-bit
Keyboard & Mouse
Network card for LAN Multiplayer

We're really happy if you can come along and join the fun of water fights with Battle Splash. See you at the playground!