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Duck Volleyball is a mobile game designed from top to bottom by me for a university personal project.
In this game you control a duck jumping between 5 platforms and your goal is to juggle the ball and aim for a high score.
See how this project came to be and even download an unreleased playable build for Android.
Overworld Theme

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Videos
Intro Cutscene
The Intro cinematic of Duck Volleyball. A nod to the over saturated market of space shooters at the time. Turns out it has nothing to do with world saving but instead a duck minding his own business .
Logo Animation
Heavily inspired by the amazing logo animation for Sonic Mania, but of course in a way smaller scope.
Theme Song
An original theme composed by me for Duck Volleyball, it was however never used in the final Previz.
Other Videos
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Gallery
From Concept to Completion
Here you can see what the game looked like in its early stages, going through many incremental changes.
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Hi Res Promotional Art
Here you can view promotional art, and posters in its original resolution.
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Story
Development Story
This personal project was the final module for my university back in 2016 where we were given 5 months to fully realise any project we wanted.
Throughout the course, I've always wanted to expand my horizon and work on more than just UI, and this project will allow me to work on not only UI, but gameplay mechanics, characters and environments, menu flow, animation and logo.
My initial concept was to have 3 mini games in one, much like during the 80s where a lot of knock-off game cartridges were produced with hundreds of games built-in.
The project began with having a playable build as the final product in mind, unfortunately the coder I was working with decided to quit 3 weeks in, due to personal problems. Therefore the game had to be turned into a Previz instead.
On the other hand, my project was no longer constrained by programming limitations which allow me to include all the features I was going to add in the first place, such as an opening cinematic, a more full fledged menu system, alternate skin and backgrounds and more.
With 5 months of continuous and stressful production, everything turned out okay. Unfortunately the plan of having the game published on Play Store didn't come into fruition, but I was really happy about the project as a whole.

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Downloads
Unreleased Build - Android Only
Big thanks to Zinex for putting the game together!
However please keep in mind this is a very early version of the game, It is still a work in progress.
Working:
Basic Ball Physics
Menu System
Alternate Skins and Balls
Duck Movement
Sorta Working:
Intro Cutscene
Sound
All Menu Features
Not Working:
Leaderboard
Info Screen
Pause
Game Over Screen
Spike Mode

Download Size: 49MB - Version 1.3.3
This is safe to download, it's my legit portfolio after all.


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