Formship Games / Released, online rooms live
ThunderBashers
An arena brawler where spinning is your only verb: strike the storm ball, parry it, or get knocked out of the league.
The game
Robots in a circular pit bash a storm-charged ball at each other. Spinning is the whole kit: it strikes the ball, parries an incoming hit, and shoves a rival in close. If the ball catches you while you are not spinning, you are out.
The rule that took longest was the one that sounded easiest: the ball kills you. It only felt fair once the ball showed its own danger with a heat tint.
Five bot personalities, each a profile for reaction time, aim and nerve, fill a three-arena campaign.
- Genre
- Arena brawler
- Engine
- Unity 6
- Platforms
- Browser on Wavedash and itch.io, Windows
- Credits
- Design, direction, programming, bot behaviour and feel tuning by Christian D'Albano.
Where it is now
Version 1.1 rebuilt the look around a league identity, with seven dressed arenas, announcer lines and a strike-feel pass.
Online rooms followed: decorate your robot in the Garage, open a public or password room, and fight up to three other operators with bots filling empty seats.