Magic Pen

A new ability for Bopl Battle: Magic Pen. Pull out a fancy fountain pen and draw your own platforms, walls, traps and weapons with four kinds of magic ink. Draw a shape and it comes alive: an arrow, a circle, a spiral, a zigzag, a star or an infinity sign turns into something special, different for every ink.

Made by Poyraz Acarbaş, a modder from Turkey.

Drawing

• Press the ability button to open the pen. You float in place while you draw (you are not protected!).
• Mouse: the pen tip follows your mouse; hold left click to draw. Right click turns the pen into an eraser.
• Gamepad: aim stick moves the pen, the ability button draws, Select erases.
• A / D (gamepad: your other ability buttons) switch the ink: blue, green, red, purple.
• Space or Esc (gamepad: Start) closes the pen. A drawing session lasts up to 22 seconds; the pen blinks when time is almost up.
• Every ink has its own tank: blue 70, green 50, red 50, purple 55 units of line. When one runs out you can still draw with the others.
• Erasing gives the ink back to the tank of the color you erased.
• Closed shapes fill in and become solid.
• Drawing again over ink of the same color you already drew costs nothing and adds nothing. There is a limit to how much ink can be on the map at once: if you have very much (for example with unlimited ink), your oldest drawings melt away, so the game stays smooth even on old computers.

The four inks

• Blue: a solid platform that stays where you draw it.
• Green: a heavy solid that falls, rolls and crushes whoever it lands on. You can pick it up with a magnet and throw it.
• Red: deadly. Anyone who touches it dies, including you.
• Purple: a trampoline. Bops, rocks, arrows, grenades, mines and missiles bounce off it.

Drawings melt after a while. Melted ink that drips into the water stains it for the rest of the round, and rays don't bounce off stained water.

Special drawings

Draw one of these shapes in one stroke. It doesn't have to be perfect: sloppy, wobbly, tailed or not quite closed shapes are recognized too. Random scribbles, lines drawn over and over and squashed loops are not special: they stay plain ink.

Ink	Arrow	Circle	Spiral	Zigzag	Star	Infinity (8)
Blue	Lift: moves along the arrow and back, carrying whoever stands on it	Bubble: traps everyone inside and floats up (mash jump to pop it)	Portal: a solid platform with a door that opens a second door somewhere random on the map	Wave: flows along and drags people with it	Snowflake: spins slowly toward the nearest bop and freezes whoever it touches	Blizzard: everyone inside slows down and freezes if they stay; projectiles slow down
Green	Arrow: a fast flying arrow	Bowling ball: rolls the way you drew it and knocks people away	Tornado: stays put, lifts people and spins projectiles around	Snake: slithers toward the nearest enemy and bites (small triangle: paper plane)	Shuriken: flies straight at the nearest enemy and kills	Boomerang: flies at the nearest bop and comes back
Red	Deadly arrow: kills the first thing it hits	(draw red twice over a red shape: bomb)	Vortex: pulls everyone in and kills at the center	Lightning: charges, then strikes along the zigzag	Spiked ball: grows, falls, rolls and kills	Fire turret: fireballs circle the loop; when one sees an enemy it flies at them
Purple	Launch ramp: launches bops along the arrow	Bouncy ball: never slows down	Hypnosis: nearby bops get reversed controls (spirals in their eyes)	Super spring: bounces you very high	Power star: eat it for 10 s of invincibility and speed (stars in your eyes, ability forms like the rock are protected too), then reversed controls for a bit	Roller coaster: ride it until you press jump, then fly off; projectiles ride too and fly off at random

Special drawings affect everyone near them, including you (except while you are still drawing).

It works with the rest of the game

• Muscle man on ink picks up an ink rock. A blue rock stays floating where you throw it, other rocks fall like normal rocks. They last twice as long as ink and melt into the water.
• Black holes suck in and eat ink and grow.
• BEAM and rocket engine flames burn ink: it chars, sags and melts away.
• Other rays don't affect ink: it simply blocks them.
• Platform control moves drawings around.

With our other mods

Magic Pen works on its own, and also together with:

• Freeze Ray Plus: the freeze ray freezes ink into slippery ice that other rays bounce off. Frozen drawings lose their special power, and they crack and break when you walk on them.
• Seppuku: while you are berserk, your ink and drawing time are unlimited.
• Cancerous Beam and Dark Magic: their beams and shadow clones interact with your drawings.

Online play

All drawing happens inside the game's own simulation, so everyone sees the same pen and the same drawings online. Everyone in the lobby should have the same mods and versions installed.

Notes

• The ability icon can be replaced: put your own MagicPen.png (340 x 292 works best) into the mod's icons folder.
• All pen sounds are made by the mod itself. Put 16-bit WAV files named kalem_ac.wav, kalem_cizim.wav, kalem_kati.wav (and so on) into a sounds folder next to the dll to replace them.
• If a shape isn't recognized, the BepInEx log (LogOutput.log) has a line for every drawing ("Kalem cizimi: ..."). Send it to us and we can tune it.

Credits

Created by Poyraz Acarbaş (Turkey).