I saw a youtube video on Worldy Cup, which, besides being fun, was also very helpful for me to see a few things i have to explain better and make more intuitive in upcoming builds.
For the meantime, some quick tips for when getting started with the game:
*Wifi Multiplayer and Windows Firewall Popup:
Worldy Cup can not just be played single player and multiplayer on the same computer with several connected joypads, but also in Wifi Multiplayer between several devices in a wifi network.
To allow doing that, it will try to check for computers connected on the wifi network, which brings up a windows popup asking if you want to allow that in your firewall settings the first time. When you don't allow it, the game can still be played in single player or multiplayer on a single computer, but will not work when you choose the option "join mp game" and you can't start a wifi multiplayer game.
I'll change it to explain this in game, but wanted to mention it here for now so you know why the popup is shown and that you have to allow the connection to make wifi multiplayer work.
*Game speed:
Worldy Cup is fast paced and when you play it the first time and if it feels too hectic you can set the game speed lower in the match settings menu and you can set it higher again later once you have a feel for the gameplay and controls.
*Retro Voxel Arcade Mode and Experimental realistic mode(s) :
Right now the match settings menu shows a row where one can choose between Voxel Arcade Mode and two experimental realistic modes.
In Voxel Arcade mode the art style is in retro voxel 3D look and one can collect powerups, do super shots and one always plays as the captain of the team and can give team commands to your team mates to do slides, tackles, shoot and pass.
In experimental realistic mode A there are no powerups and super shots (yet) and instead of giving team commands to your team mates one switches between the players to control them directly.
(As the game is in development these things may change and i'll likely make some of these things adjustable in upcoming early access builds)
*Controls in Retro Voxel Mode:
-Running:
run by pressing the run button and sprint faster by tapping the run button repeatedly. The faster you tap it the faster you can run, but an over heat meter will fill up and you get fouled when it is full.
-Team Commands:
You can tell your team mates to slide, tackle, pass and shoot by pressing the buttons for those actions. So you can tell them to pass to you or shoot at the goal.
They will shoot less precisely when you tell them to shoot while they only had the ball a very short while.
-Powerups and super shots:
-You can collect powerups on the powerup fields.
When you collect a bubble shield you can use it to deflect super shots and it also protects you from getting fouled by a slide.
When you collect a super shot powerup you can charge a super shot by pressing the shoot button until the meter fills up.
One can also do super shots in a few other ways like doing a strong bike kick when timing pressing the shoot button well when receiving the ball mid air.
Please let me know if anything else is not intuitive enough or well explained or you just have some questions on something.
I'll push to make some of the things more intuitive and explain a few others better ingame but i hope these quick tips are helpful for a start =)
