AzuPong ver. 0.1 alpha (October 2024)

Hi everyone,

Back in October of last year I started work on a meme sh*tpost Azumanga Daioh fangame, called AzuPong. It will be a pong tournament battler featuring the characters of Azumanga and some meme characters / characters from other animes like Nichijou and Lucky Star, and will contain a complex storyline, social aspects, minigames, open world exploration, and more. I had to abandon it temporarily cause of college and life becoming more busy, although I had done a decent amount of work on it. Now, I'm back to working on it with my friend Yuresko assisting me with the production.

Since it's a meme parody game, most of the art assets, music, sfx etc. will be borrowed from other sources. Mainly I'm using the Azumanga Puzzle Bobble spritesheets for character art but I will also use some assets I find on the internet and give credit to the creators, as well as making my own for it.

Here are some screenshots of the first version from October:

Here is a link to all images from 0.1

As you can see it's pretty barebones but that's the point, this is 0.1 alpha. For the time being, you have to play as Bubbles from TPB in his wrestling getup lol, but I plan on changing it later to a customizable character. And the open world - it's a top down view with basic map art right now, but I'm going to upgrade it to 3D landscapes, which I'll design myself in Maya.

Since my laptop that had all my collected assets for AzuPong stored on it died on March 29th from a power outage (R.I.P. Bessie 2018-2025), I'm currently in the process of re-collecting everything that was lost. I'm also thinking that I should redesign the game from the ground-up, since there was some complete *ss coding and mistakes that I made last time lol.

I'm studying animation and video game development in college right now, but I only took the course for the animation. I'm kind of cr*p at gamedev honestly, that's why I'm using Scratch. (We actually spent our whole 2nd semester studying Scratch with our programming professor, and the 1st semester we learned GameSalad 💀)

I was thinking of maybe using something else to make it, like Godot, but right now I'm too lazy to learn anything new and I'm already good at Scratch. My profile is here, hopefully a playable demo of the game will be posted sometime in May.

I will regularly update this blog, as progress is made on the game 👍

Take care and thank you for reading 😁

Grafko