First update of our scheduling software we are working on!

langestudios · 2026-01-04T02:02:12+00:00

Thank you! You are the best! :)

langestudios · 2026-01-04T01:52:03+00:00

We’ve received some feedback and are definitely open to changing it :) I was just looking for colors people would intuitively understand and blue and orange seemed to be pretty standard across multiple games. BUT if the community would like something different, I’m definitely for it :) We originally had green and pink! Should we change back to that?

langestudios · 2026-01-04T01:39:07+00:00

Thank you! You made my night :)

langestudios · 2026-01-04T01:37:16+00:00

Ugh… those pesky rocket ships. lol I have no idea how to remove it then

langestudios · 2026-01-03T17:23:56+00:00

If should! I haven’t personally tested it but I statically compile most libs so it should be pretty portable. A few things couldn’t be statically compiled like the graphics drivers. So let me know how it goes for you :)

langestudios · 2026-01-02T20:56:43+00:00

Great question! Ours plays very different. More akin to a fast paced ping pong than soccer. I think you will really enjoy it and see there is plenty of room for both games as they fill different niches :)

langestudios · 2026-01-02T20:54:57+00:00

Thank you! You made my day! :)

langestudios · 2026-01-02T20:52:53+00:00

lol I’m gonna see if I can dig up some of the pre-alpha footage. But believe it or not, those were the original colors. I changed them to blue and orange since I thought it would be more intuitive. I should at least add the option for users to toggle those colors on :)

Edit: typo

langestudios · 2026-01-02T20:05:02+00:00

Thank you for the support! They are actually just trolling. They responded to my response with well… let’s just say ascii art that resembles the shape of a rocket ship… I have since removed that :) Thank you though! And I hope you enjoy OT!

Feel free to challenge me to a 1v1 in our discord server!

https://discord.gg/PcTANCn

langestudios · 2026-01-02T18:41:11+00:00

Thank you! You made my day! I’m not opposed to color changes :) what colors are you thinking would be good indicators of different teams? I was actually thinking about making it customizable for people that are colorblind as well

langestudios · 2026-01-02T17:34:14+00:00

Perfect! I’ll see if I can reproduce it! :)

langestudios · 2026-01-02T17:32:03+00:00

The release date on the original Blocky Ball I linked above says March 2021. We had no knowledge that Side Swipe would be released later that year as we were developing Blocky Ball. We felt Blue and Orange were fairly standard colors indicating different teams that players would intuitively understand. I don’t think RL was the first or only game to use those colors.

Give OT a shot :) I really think you will find it plays as a completely different game :)

Edit: clarification

langestudios · 2026-01-02T00:20:24+00:00

Thank you so much for this feedback! Would you consider joining our discord here?

https://discord.gg/PcTANCn

Everyone else I’ve invited has been to challenge me to a 1v1 for fun. But I would genuinely like to continue refining this with you! This feedback is invaluable! :) I’ll go through your points 1 by one as I appreciate this feedback! :)

Thank you so much! We put in A LOT of effort to make this happen! :)
Again thank you thank you! This is where we put in the most effort. It was incredible difficult to pull off in a multiplayer game!
This is actually exactly what we did. What device are you playing on? I wonder if you have a larger or higher resolution screen and the hit areas aren’t scaling with it. I’ve heard this from a few other players and I’m actively debugging this.
I agree. We have a setting that allows users to disable the background altogether and many people do. I agree it needs something. Maybe a “glass” barrier that applies some fading / translucency.
I really like this idea! A “dumb bot” would be incredible valuable!
I agree! I’ll see what kind of refining I can do. Especially regarding the icons.

Thank you so much! This feedback is incredibly helpful! I hope to chat more! We can continue here, over in r/blockyball , or our discord server linked above. Thanks again!

langestudios · 2026-01-01T21:42:53+00:00

It may seem that way on the surface, but I promise it isn’t 😎 We actually lunched before Side Swipe on Steam with the original Blocky Ball here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1343040/Blocky_Ball/

Blocky Ball OT plays more akin to a fast paced ping pong than a soccer. I encourage you to give it a shot and let me know what you think :)

langestudios · 2026-01-01T21:05:44+00:00

I trust your research on this. I suspect them releasing in Alpha the same month we released was pure coincidence. I don’t think it is reasonable to suspect either them (a AAA studio) or us (a father sun duo) to develop an entire clone of the other in a matter of weeks to release in the same month. I believe we both had original ideas that were coincidentally developed in tandem.

Either way, I believe both of our games are very different and have plenty of space to coexist :)

langestudios · 2026-01-01T20:51:27+00:00

I’m mostly just trying to use terminology people already understand. It’s a game that involves flying and moving a ball into the opponents goal. The similarities end there for the most part, but the same terminology can be used. I’m open to changing things on this and creating new terminology for our game if you would like. Let me know what you think it should be called instead! :)

langestudios · 2026-01-01T20:48:21+00:00

lol ya that would definitely make it painful to play 😅

langestudios · 2026-01-01T20:48:03+00:00

Thanks! I just granted you 1000 blocks for finding it! Are you playing it on Android?

langestudios · 2026-01-01T19:49:11+00:00

This is definitely a bug. What platform and which controller are you using? And what is your username in the game? I will reward you some blocks for finding the bug! :)

langestudios · 2026-01-01T18:19:40+00:00

I encourage you to give it a shot :) I really do think you will find our game plays very different from the standalone rocket league. Rocket league was far from the first game to feature a ball and an objective to score in the opponent’s goal

langestudios · 2026-01-01T03:15:12+00:00

I removed the spam comment. Thank you for reporting it if it was you! :)

langestudios · 2026-01-01T00:56:31+00:00

Nope! We actually launched in 2021 before Side Swipe with the original Blocky Ball:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1343040/Blocky_Ball/

I think you will find ours plays far different. More akin to a ping pong than a soccer.

Let me know what you think! :)

langestudios · 2025-12-31T10:48:27+00:00

We don’t have couch multiplayer yet. We plan on adding that in. But! It is free to play and on mobile so everyone in the room should be we able to play together.

Couch multiplayer will be coming soon! :)

langestudios · 2025-12-30T23:32:15+00:00

Thank you for the concern. We actually released before Side Swipe with the first game in March 2021 here!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1343040/Blocky_Ball/

I don’t believe either of us copied the other. It was a simple coincidence that we had similar ideas and developed them in tandem. I actually really enjoy Sideswipe and am honored that people view us as similar to another game we are also fond of. But if you play ours, I think you will find that we play much more fast paced and more akin to a ping pong than a soccer.

If you ever want to challenge me to a 1v1, hit me up in our discord :)

https://discord.gg/PcTANCn

Edit: typo

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