Have you ever wanted to play dodgeball with watermelons? Well, if you haven’t, that’s reasonable. But if you have, oh man, you should be excited! For Fall of 2009, three programmers and myself made a multiplayer modification of the popular game Half-Life 2 as our final semester project. We called this feast for the eyes Melonballer. Within it, you are put on a team and pitted against your friends with a bin full of explosive watermelons on a battlefield that used to be a farm. We were actually surprised at how fun it turned out. I mean, I didn’t expect that after just barely programming binary search trees a month before.

Below is a video of it in action, kind of explaining how it works in more detail than I can put here. We never got a working version of it out to distribute through Steam as this is pretty much just programming practice for all of us, but I DID put together a snazzy video using Windows Movie Maker. Music used is some summer bassanova by Leslie Wai.