Antonball Deluxe

Antonball Deluxe
Developer: Summitsphere Publisher: Proponent Games Platform: Windows Released internationally: March 5, 2021 This game has unused areas. This game has unused playable characters. This game has unused objects. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text. This game has revisional differences. This game has a prototype article

This article is a work in progress. ...Well, all the articles here are, in a way. But this one moreso, and the article may contain incomplete information and editor's notes.

To do: Everything. Snick is still in the game's data. A few unused objects (such as crabs, ladders, rubies, etc). Lots of unused sprites & code, including leftovers from SAGE 2020 and earlier prototypes. Tilesets, which have inaccurate pixels. Mention Antonland somewhere. Other text strings where I can't figure out if they're used or not. SPAWNER NOT FOUND, SELECTING RANDOMLY EXIT ATTEMPT WARPING SKIP? (maybe used for the tutorial?) Not in a menu! Too many arguments! Don't forget to set cmn_chat_sprite to a white rectangle sprite! It would help if more people helped out with this page.

Are you ready to play with your balls? That's the question that Antonball Deluxe dares to ask, featuring three games in one, 69 levels, 21 playable characters, an online mode and heaps of unused content, just left to be found, along with placeholders and early builds to show off the game.

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Prototype Info

SAGE 2020 Leftovers It seems you forgot to bring the pizza.

Changelog The only game on earth with the "Quickest Update In The West."

Unused Sprites

Wew, there's a lot.

Factory Pipe Placement Guide (bg_brickfactory_guide)

An image for helping the developers with the placements of the steaming background pipes in Brick Factory.

Anton Chungus (spr_anton_chungus)

An unused sprite of Anton as... Big Chungus. This was used earlier in development as a placeholder, but its object doesn't exist anymore.

Autosave Icon (spr_autosave)

Meant for autosaving the game, which happens almost instantly with Game Maker games, making this useless.

Big Chungus (spr_bigchungus)

A sprite of Big Chungus himself, and also goes unused.

Antonball Ending Cutscene Sprite Sheet #1 (spr_cs2_anton675)

A sprite sheet for Antonball's final cutscene. A majority of the sprites are used, except for the oil drip.

Antonball Ending Cutscene Sprite Sheet #2 (spr_cs2_sheet)

Another sprite sheet. The scene was originally intended to last longer with Anton waving his fist and falling down the pit in anger, as well ending with a similar shot to the opening cutscene.

Unused	Used

Nina Falling Over (spr_cs4_nina_fallen)

An identical sprite to spr_cs4_danton_nina_knocked, now without Danton.

Vs Level Banner (spr_level_selected)

Part of an early version of the Vs level select screen. This would've been shown below the Vs stage icons when a stage was selected that has a question mark. All of this was later changed to not only change the icons, but remove these banners.

Vs Level Icons (spr_levels)

Icons, also for an early version of the Vs select screen. Only 3 of the 9 levels have an icon, and the rest has a question mark. Notice how the beach icon was originally set at daytime.

Dot Matrix Level Banner (spr_levelpreview_dotmatrix)

A banner for "Dot Matrix", also meant for an earlier version of the Vs select screen, though this level was later changed to be a hidden level.

Early Lottery Machine (spr_lotterymachine_OLD)

An older version of the Lottery Machine with different shading and lighting.

Unused	Used

-10000 Points (spr_n10000)

Used for the big bomb, which has some scrapped functionality as seen in a very late prerelease video. When you would've hit the bomb in a regular stage, all the bricks in that stage would be broken, but the player would lose 10000 points as a penalty.

Anton Face Fadeout (spr_pinhole1)

An alternative (sort of creepy looking) pinhole sprite for Anton with a cutout for eyes and mouth.

Unused	Used

Spinning Red Ball (Sprite792)

A spinning red ball with the Summitsphere logo on it. Very fitting.

Trump On A Shell (hi)

Considering this comes from the same game that has a sprite of Big Chungus in its files, it's not even surprising to see an unused sprite of former US president Donald Trump riding a koopa shell in Shifting Sand Land from Super Mario 64.

Unused Music & Sounds

Alternate City Audio (mus_city1)

It's almost the same as mus_city, except it's missing the bird sounds.

Unused	Used

"Good Luck!" (snd_anton_goodluck)

Would've played when restarting a level, which was removed from the final game. This was used in SAGE 2020.

"Yahoo!" (snd_anton_yahoo)

That's a weird sounding Anton for sure. This would've been played when performing a backflip, and can be heard in some prerelease footage.

Camera Zoom In (snd_camera)

A camera zoom sound effect from Super Mario 64, just as a placeholder. Interestingly, the file originated from www.TheMushroomKingdom.net.

Hit (snd_hurt)

A hit sound effect from Wario Land 2, also originated from www.TheMushroomKingdom.net.

Scene Transition (snd_transition)

A key get sound effect from Super Mario World, and yep, www.TheMushroomKingdom.net.

Unused Objects

To do: Capture footage of the objects in action.

Big Big Ball (obj_bigbigbrick)

A brick ball powerup that works the same like the golden ball in bonus levels, except this was meant to be placed in regular levels. It also plays an unused clip called snd_bigbigball. Without fixing, the ball never grows big and can get stuck in walls.

Background Crab (obj_crab)

This is a stage decoration that probably would've appeard somewhere in an early version of Beachbrawl. Standing on the crab squishes it, and it can't hurt you.

Test Curve (obj_curve)

The name says it all. It's just a functioning placeholder curve, even though no curves appear in the game at all.

Functioning Ladder (obj_ladder)

Although the game has ladders in Sewer Slam, those ladders are just for decoration and don't function. This one does, and even shows an unused climbing sprite for Anton and Annie.

Ruckus Rubies (obj_ruckusruby, up to obj_ruckusruby6)

Six different colored rubies that act and drop the same way as coins, though they can't be hit by a platform to be collected.

Trashcan Test (obj_trashcan_test)

A duplicate of obj_trashcan, but with more code and there is no sound effects.

Water (obj_water)

The name of the object pretty much describes what it is. It's a transparent object that makes the player walk slower. Dashes and backflips can't be performed, and you can only continue to press jump to swim up.

Colored Switch System (various objects)

There's a switch system similar to Mario vs. Donkey Kong, meant for a gamemode named "Antonland". There are blue switches (obj_blueswitch) and red switches (obj_redswitch) with colored blocks (obj_blueblock and obj_redblock) and ladders (obj_blueladder and obj_redladder). Jumping on either of these switches activates the blocks and ladders of the switch's color, and deactivates the other. Antonland was later separated from Antonball Deluxe, but the objects remain fully intact.

Unused Rooms

Ending (fin)

An empty room, that once used a now removed sprite of Anton.

Beachbrawl Background Test (rm_beachbrawl_bgtest)

As the title suggests, it's a background test for Beachbrawl. It only shows the city background layer and a single row of Boiler Sewer tiles though.

Work In Progress Message (rm_demotext)

A leftover from SAGE 2020, but the banner had its date crudely changed to 2021.

Steam Antumn Game Festival Hub (rm_sage)

To do: Record this room, it needs some proper fixing.

The SAGE 2020 hub, modified for the Steam Autumn Game Festival demo.

Sewer Slam Template (rm_vs_template)

A room used to create Sewer Slam (and possibly other Vs. stages). The stage also used less bricks and colored bricks for both teams instead of only red and blue bricks. When the bricks from one side have been destroyed, the game never ends and you're stuck forever. The placed tiles are also broken, and the old Boiler Sewer background is missing.

Template	Sewer Slam

Unknown Level #1 (rm_l25)

An unknown level that possibly would've gone in between Fudge Mountain and Brick Factory. Stages with a vertical hole were the ball could pass through the floor was a thing at some point, but scrapped because it was, according to one of the developer's words, "bloody awful". Just like rm_vs_template, all the tiles are misplaced and there is no background.

Jungle Jam Level (rm_l26)

A cut Jam Jungle level, but it's for Phase 26, which is very odd. There are no power-ups, and early tiles from Boiler Sewers are used instead of Jam Jungle tiles.

Unknown Level #2 (rm_l68)

Another unknown level that has the unused Big Ball power up. And yep, misplaced tiles and no background.

Unused Text Strings

Anton's Dog

A leftover from Anton's Dog talking during the Steam Autumn Game Festival demo

Woof! (Hi, Anton!
It's me, your dog.)

Arcade Game Names

Names for the arcade machines in the SAGE 2020 hub.

VS. ANTONBALL
ANTONBALL ARCADE
PUNCH BALL ANTONBALL

Empty Leaderboards

A message right below TOP SCORES that is only visible if the leaderboards are empty, which is not the case anymore.

NONE!

Fin Message

A text string meant for fin. The @ is a !! in-game.

CONGRATULATIONS@
YOU ARE A
GREAT PLAYER.
TRY AGAIN?

Paul Apparition

A SAGE 2020 leftover that shows when you beat Antonball.

YOU HAVE UNLOCKED AN INTERMITTENT VISITOR ON THE SAGE FLOOR...

Something (?)

A message found between Classic Anton's and Classic Annie's unlock screen. Probably just a placeholder.

SOMETHING (?)

Other Oddities

Cutscene Room Order

In the game's cutscene room files is an array of the same cutscene name, followed by a number (for example rm_cs2_1, rm_cs2_2, etc). For cs1 is an array for rm_cs1_1 up to rm_cs1_9. However, rm_cs1_4, rm_cs1_5 and rm_cs1_6 are missing, with no data for these scenes being left. What would've made this one cutscene longer is unknown.

"Super Gangston!"'s Different Name

Super Gangston!'s early name is Septic Slam, suggested by the image name (spr_septicslam) and track name (mus_vinyl_septicslam).