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| Platforms: | PC |
| Publisher: | Atari |
| Developer: | Cyparade |
| Genres: | Puzzle / Logic Puzzle |
| Release Date: | April 2, 2004 |
| Game Modes: | Singleplayer |
Ballance gives a literal meaning to ‘being the ball’ as you navigate its ethereal, maze-like 3D worlds using an inanimate ball instead of a character. The unusual concept is nicely executed and enjoyable.
The object of the game is to steer a ball using your keyboard across twelve vertigo-inspiring levels that become increasingly difficult as you progress. You start off the game with a tutorial level explaining the game’s very basic mechanics and the game’s pace slowly picks up from there. The final levels are darn difficult, requiring careful thought and surgical-like manoeuvrings to solve. These levels take full advantage of the game’s physics model, giving it new life.
Reinventing the ball
Placed throughout the maps are points where you can change your ball to one of three available materials – paper, wood and rock. Shifting between them equals to changing your body mass, adding new depth to puzzle solving. Paper is lightweight and easy to control; rock is heavy and cumbersome while wood is somewhere in between the two extremes. Depending on particular circumstances, each material can either be an asset or a liability. A heavy rock is powerful enough to knock a clean path through obstacles but is too heavy to cross a bridge, climb a steep surface or descend an incline without flying off the map. Paper is light enough to be blown upwards by fans and can climb some very steep walls but lacks the mass to manipulate other objects.
Certain parts of each level will require you to switch between materials in order to progress. The puzzles in each level are based on the physics engine and solving them takes reflexes as well as common sense. Passing these levels always seemed reasonable thanks to strategically placed checkpoints that save your progress before and after the more difficult bits of each level.
You control the entire action with a total of only six keys, four of which are directional while the remaining two let you change the camera views. The controls are so simple and basic that anyone can handle them, which is why I find it strange that Ballance doesn’t go that extra mile to offer gamepad support (or a mouse view for that matter). Regardless, the default camera controls work well enough. You have the ability to switch between four side angles and one overhead view for a better look at your immediate surroundings. Some parts of the later game have large-scale puzzles with multiple intertwined paths that become confusing, making me wish the game had an automap function to better understand my surroundings. But these are exceptions to an otherwise simple, functional interface.
Ballance is both simple and fun. It’s a shame how a level editor was never added as this would have surely prolonged its lifespan. To my understanding, the official website www.ballance.org hosted several free level downloads and the game itself before it was shut down sometime after 2008. In either case, German developer Cyparade reinvented the ball in this creative puzzle game and it’s worth a try.
System Requirements: Windows 98, 64 MB RAM, 2MB Video, 120 MB HDD Space
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Game Information
| Official Name | Ballance |
| Version | Full Game |
| File Upload | Torrent |
| Developer (s) | Cyparade |
| Publisher (s) | Atari |
| Designer (s) | Klaus Riech |
| Platform (s) | Windows, PC |
| Release date (s) | 2004 |
| Genre (s) | puzzle game |
| Mode (s) | Single player |
| Distribution | CD-ROM |
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Ballance Full PC Game Overview
Ballance download free. full Game is a 3D puzzle computer game for Windows. It was developed by Cyparade, published by Atari and first released in Europe on 2 April 2004. The gameplay is similar to Marble Madness: The player controls a ball via mouse and keyboard that they must move along a course without falling off the screen.
Gameplay
In the game, the player can change the ball's material with special changers throughout the game's 12 levels. It can be transformed to a wood, rock, or paper ball.[1]
The wooden ball is very stable and can be used for several puzzles in the game. It is the very first ball, used in the easy levels.
The rock ball is extremely heavy, and can be accidentally rolled off an edge very easily, but this ball can easily push down boxes and bridges. Rolling a rock ball through a bridge made of planks will make the bridge collapse and cause loss of one life.
The paper ball is very light. Its surface is not smooth, unlike the wood and rock ball, and can be a bit rough at first. A paper ball can be blown into the air by fans and can roll up steep hills easily.
Two power-ups are available.[1] If the ball rolls into them they provide either an extra ball or extra points. Checkpoints are scattered evenly across levels so that if a player falls off the course they only have to restart the game from the last checkpoint reached. Ballance Free Download.
There are 12 different levels. As the player navigates the ball along a path each become more difficult than the last. On occasion, the player has to push other balls down holes or onto rails to continue rolling along the path. Each level requires the player to complete physical challenges, which often have more than one puzzle to solve. The side-rail is introduced in level three. The player's ball needs to roll on its side along two rails which are aligned vertically one above the other. In level 12, the player's ball has to balance on the center of only one rail.
An additional level 13 was released for free on the developer's homepage. Ballance Free Download PC Game.
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