Ballistic Zen
A downloadable game
Ballistic Zen is a first person open world platformer with a unique movement system based on old-school air-strafing, updated for the modern age. Simple to pick up but difficult to master, Ballistic Zen celebrates the joy and meditation of movement in games.
Find collectables and follow lines to earn the respect of your peers, who will unlock new locations and share their backstories.
Join the discord to share custom lines with the community, using the experimental custom lines feature! https://discord.gg/XS29Pdr
Key Features
- Unique movement system based on old-school air-strafing
- Wallrunning!
- Play one handed with just a mouse!
- Open world with 5 distinct areas
- 50+ challenging collectables
- 20+ lines
- 5 NPCs with unique backstories
Shoutouts
- Music: Doctor Dreamchip
Download
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Development log
- Ballistic Zen 1.6: Custom Map Improvements65 days ago
- Ballistic Zen 1.5: Custom MapsMar 11, 2023
- Patch 1.4: Custom Lines!Jan 29, 2023
- Pre-Release Patch 1.3Jan 23, 2023
- Pre-Release Patch 1.2Jan 22, 2023
Comments
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Damn, this game is really fucking fun. I was super surprised by how smooth and satisfying this game is to play despite being so simple. I guess it's somewhat inspired by counter strike movement mechanics? Reminds me a lot of air strafing and surfing in that game.
Yep! I talk about my inspiration more in this video - but if you can't be bothered to watch, the short version is surfing is my jam, and I wanted to make it easier for people to learn
Oh that's cool, N is also a game from my childhood, cool to know it inspired you to make another game I really enjoy
Loved your video on this, keep up the amazing work and can't wait to see what you have up your sleeve next!
THIS GAME IS SO GOOD. I'm not really one for surfing/air strafing games in, like, CS:S, so I was unsure if I'd like this (I guess those are different kinds of things, though!) BUT IT'S SO GOOD. Just feel so nice bouncing from wall to wall and completing lines and climbing up buildings to get the funny blue rocks and auugghgGHGH. The fact that you literally only have forward momentum, aiming, and jumping makes it so easy and enjoyable to dig into... AND THE WHITE LINES HELP SO MUCH WITH JUST, TRYING TO FIND WHERE THE ACTION'S AT... It's fun!!! It's fun as hell!!! I haven't finished it all the way (got like, 60% through I assume?), but certainly plan on doing so!!!
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS!!!
thank you <3
I'm on mac so I played this in a VM at like 20fps, which was probably not in line with your artistic vision, but I still had a lot of fun. Thanks so much for making this!
Indeed! I'm sorry it's running so slowly, but glad you're enjoying!
Good. damn. game. Really addicting.
<3
Uh oh.
Yeah, I didn't know that was possible until I released it and got some pretty interested screenshots in DMs and discord. Keeping it for now because it lets you do some pretty fun things ... ;)
You should add climbing as a feature and add climbable walls
the climbing could be more like rocketing upward at a high speed than climbing because normal climbing would probably be out of place in this type of game
Finally!
Been following for a while now, so cool to see the itch page! Good luck the future releases :D
I LOVE THIS GAME I GOT IT IN THE BETA I LOVE IT AND ITS FINALLY RELEASING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
<3
I litteraly cant wait