# Melon slices? **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions\ **Created:** [September 20, 2015, 12:29am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/melon-slices/2585 "2015-09-20T00:29:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Drachen](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/drachen/32/12014_2.png) [@Drachen](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/Drachen)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 12:29am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/melon-slices/2585/1 "2015-09-20T00:29:50Z")
I know that cuboids were tentative and never planned to remain, and I could understand a change, but fruit? Melons, specifically? Am I missing something here? It just seems real whacky and out of place for where its used. I’d like to hope these melons are also placeholder? ---
**Author:** ![MightyBalian](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/mightybalian/32/34283_2.png) [@MightyBalian](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/MightyBalian)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 1:09am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/melon-slices/2585/2 "2015-09-20T01:09:34Z")
Well, the Gmod Tower Ball Race uses bananas, so… ---
**Author:** ![Drachen](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/drachen/32/12014_2.png) [@Drachen](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/Drachen)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/melon-slices/2585/3 "2015-09-20T01:32:26Z")
Ah, so we’re keeping the silly/over-the-top theme? Makes as much sense as a human racing in a man-sized hamster ball, I guess 😆 ---
**Author:** ![113mac113](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/113mac113/32/2132_2.png) [@113mac113](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/113mac113)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 1:50am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/melon-slices/2585/4 "2015-09-20T01:50:22Z")
Wait, Are Melons in the game right now? Or is it just an idea. ---
**Author:** ![Sabrina](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/sabrina/32/83818_2.png) [@Sabrina](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/Sabrina)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 2:01am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/melon-slices/2585/5 "2015-09-20T02:01:13Z")
> [@113mac113](#): > > Wait, Are Melons in the game right now? Or is it just an idea. They are in the game as of Alpha 0.0.5. ---
**Author:** ![Cakemagic](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/cakemagic/32/26308_2.png) [@Cakemagic](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/Cakemagic)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 2:38am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/melon-slices/2585/6 "2015-09-20T02:38:52Z")
I actually liked the cuboids. Even though I didn’t know exactly what they were, they were still recognizable and I really felt a drive to collect them for some reason. I liked them. I miss my cuboids. ---
**Author:** ![Drachen](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/drachen/32/12014_2.png) [@Drachen](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/Drachen)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 2:57am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/melon-slices/2585/7 "2015-09-20T02:57:34Z")
> [@Cakemagic](#): > > I actually liked the cuboids. I did too. They were a perfect ambiguous unit to collect. #### #BringBackCuboids2k15 ---
**Author:** ![macdguy](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/macdguy/32/3448_2.png) [@macdguy](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/macdguy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 2:59am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/melon-slices/2585/8 "2015-09-20T02:59:39Z")
Cuboids were placeholders. They were literally a cube. Cuboids, to me, are really stale, lack life to them. I want to keep the old happy fun feeling of the original Ball Race so I thought up some fruit ideas and decided on melon slices because of an idea of collecting all the melon slices it would form a full melon. I’m also redoing the HUD to match this. Right now the hud is very flat and doesn’t fit the happy feel Ball Race should have. ---
**Author:** ![Drachen](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/drachen/32/12014_2.png) [@Drachen](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/Drachen)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/melon-slices/2585/9 "2015-09-20T03:01:59Z")
Pretty strong statements there. I don’t get a dull or depressing feeling from playing with a very well designed UI and cool cube thingies to collect. Fruit just makes it all silly; there’s really no correlation to Ball Race (then again, arguably, cubes were as irrelevant). I’m not getting anything _new_ or _happy_, as you put it, out of melons and am curious if anybody else actually does. Up to you, though. It’d be neat to see a community poll on such a radical change to the system though. I very much like the current theme of Ball Race. The sleek, modern design makes it feel like a relaxing game imho. ---
**Author:** ![macdguy](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/macdguy/32/3448_2.png) [@macdguy](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/macdguy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 3:04am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/melon-slices/2585/10 "2015-09-20T03:04:45Z")
Bananas are fruit, we can’t have them as it would be too similar to Super Monkey Ball. In the end, we have a goal for where we want to take Ball Race and cuboids wee placeholders and never we meant to stay. I am making bold statements because I am the lead game designer and this is what I do and know best. Ball Race needs character and life to it, not flat UI or boring cubes. ---
**Author:** ![113mac113](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/113mac113/32/2132_2.png) [@113mac113](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/113mac113)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 3:06am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/melon-slices/2585/11 "2015-09-20T03:06:03Z")
Man I like the watermelons, They’re a nice fit ---
**Author:** ![macdguy](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/macdguy/32/3448_2.png) [@macdguy](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/macdguy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 3:07am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/melon-slices/2585/12 "2015-09-20T03:07:24Z")
To add to my original statement, Ball Race is supposed to be silly and nonsensical. Our goal is to get to where we were for GMTower and improve upon it. ---
**Author:** ![Drachen](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/drachen/32/12014_2.png) [@Drachen](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/Drachen)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 3:07am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/melon-slices/2585/13 "2015-09-20T03:07:53Z")
Strong/bold was probably the improper adjective, more like subjective, considering your opinions are your own. I’m fully aware that you’re lead game designer, but I’m also entitled to make opinions/suggestions, as least that’s what I assumed. ---
**Author:** ![macdguy](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/macdguy/32/3448_2.png) [@macdguy](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/macdguy)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/melon-slices/2585/14 "2015-09-20T03:08:51Z")
You are entitled to have your own opinions, it’s just this is where we want to head with our game. ---
**Author:** ![Drachen](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/drachen/32/12014_2.png) [@Drachen](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/Drachen)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 3:09am UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/melon-slices/2585/15 "2015-09-20T03:09:34Z")
And power to you. It’s just a gamemode, anyway, nothing too major. Always other activities I or others may pursue. ---
**Author:** ![DrDoctor](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/drdoctor/32/34156_2.png) [@DrDoctor](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/DrDoctor)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2015, 1:11pm UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/melon-slices/2585/16 "2015-09-20T13:11:34Z")
It kind of fits with the style of Ball Race, which was silly and nonsense. The bananas were originally used as a reference to Super Monkey Ball. ---
**Author:** ![Radek](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/user_avatar/forums.pixeltailgames.com/radek/32/53267_2.png) [@Radek](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/u/Radek)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2015, 6:10pm UTC](https://forums.pixeltailgames.com/t/melon-slices/2585/17 "2015-09-21T18:10:45Z")
Ball Race in TU should not scrap this kind of silly, party-ish theme. Right now it feels a bit more like sci-fi to me, especially because of those cuboids, and that doesn’t really work with a concept like Ball Race that is being traced from GMTower Ball Race, which had a rather silly theme. Watermelons would be a nice alternative to bananas just to not make it seem too similiar to SMB.