Animation Added screen shake on special shot 3D Modeling Optimize textures, lightmaps and quality settings Character Design Player tic tacs now blink (!) UI Auto hide chat lines while in match Added indicator for unspent skill points in main menu Added close button to login menu Gameplay Adjust slo...

Hey Widukind,

thank you very much for joining Pixel Tennis and showing your appreciation!
Your forum account will serve as your login for the gameserver as soon as the first testing stage of M1 is announced ;)

Network Gameplay Increased network poll rate for lower latency Network Gameserver Prevent starting a match with not enough players Prevent starting a match not as room master Animation Improved charge effect Added ball hit and smash effect Fixed charge animation not resetting between match rounds R...

Network Gameserver Set free character slots to 2 for new accounts Do not restore free character slots on character deletion Prevent character creation for names with less than 3 letters Make exp rate bonus configurable Animation Improved animation state handling Adjusted ball trail visuals Changed ...

Network Gameplay Added ball reset on heavy desync. This should not happen, but if it does, it is handled by the server Player forfeits are not treated as disconnects anymore Smoothed out network player movement and rotation Animation Added ball bounce ripple Fixed camera stuttering on logon and dur...

Considering that there are "no fixed specifications" you're certainly a picky one.

Especially because there is no fixed specification, it is important to try out different looks.

Thank you very much for your patience and the voxel file!

We are getting close! Can you do like "shortly after the verge of explosion" with also some more hair on the sides like in your previous example? I wonder how someone would react if I am describing this sitting at a hairdresser... I am very thankful for your effort so far! We finally can p...

Network Gameplay Added some primitive form of latency compensation. If a client hit a slice at the very last position, the controlling instance might considered it as too late, because the hit information was transferred x milliseconds after the ball bounced twice. Now, clients "negotiate"...

Thank you for the preview! I think no nose and less lipgloss would look better :D


Can you make the outer hair look less exploded? Sorry, I do not really know how to describe it better ^^".

Hi Zetsu,

it looks quite nice
Can you check if you could also build a somewhat similar hair style like this: https://images.sftcdn.net/images/t_app- ... enshot.jpg?

Website / Forum Updated forum to phpbb 3.3 Gameplay Gameplay balancing adjustments to be closer to Fantasy Tennis - shot speed between 0 and 100 str - movement speed between 0 and 100 dex (+5 movement speed) - ball spin between 0 and 100 wil - stun time for hitting air and returning smashes - speci...

Gameplay Revised player shot creation logic. Now, players can only send input direction, source position and charge duration to the game server. Ball speed and position is handled for each client individually preventing manipulation from the hitting player. Added basic cpu controlled player to debu...

Network Gameserver Added option to kick players in a room. Kicked players cannot rejoin the room Added option to switch room settings while in room Added character name validation and configurable blacklist Limit room size based on game mode, prevent switching to room slots 3 or 4 on 1on1 UI Added ...

Hi there, the year is almost over and it is time to review what happened and what is coming up next. But first of all, I want to apologize that there were no big news or videos regarding the development of the game. Lots of important changes to the backend and bug fixes were done, but none of them w...

Network Gameserver Prevent bruteforcing logins Fixed returning to current room after finishing a match Fixed handling unexpected player disconnects Fixed trying to start a game when not all players are ready Animation Added character idle animation Character now looks towards its movement direction...

Network Gameserver
Added RSA encryption for user login message

UI
Improved login and character creation screen

@LinLin: Thank you for registering and showing you appreciation! People like you keep those fan projects alive!

Menu Navigation / UI
Added character creation UI
Added settings UI for controlling screen resolution, visual quality and audio volume

Gameplay
Adjust framerate based on the screen refresh rate

Just to prove that I tested the version:


I am very happy that there is now a way to experience the old music, visuals and gameplay again. Additionally, I now have a better reference for designing Pixel Tennis gameplay mechanics :)

Please note that pixeltennis.de is not affiliated with this project. It is happening! For all people who are not watching the Fantasy Tennis Discord Channel - there is now a very early version of a private server for Fantasy Tennis! Although it currently has a very limited set of functions (e.g. no...