No one really knows who created the original game of Slime Volleyball. It was discovered on the web by a bunch of Australian college computer science students and one of them, Quin Pendragon, modified it with better graphics (hard to believe), better physics, and made it a two player game. From there, people like Daniel Wedge, another Aussie with a crazed sense of priorities, created modified versions of the game and the craze was on.
Play the game and you will see it has a strange appeal. As Wedge states: "It's a really simple game that you feel you should win every time. It is a one more game type of thing like Civ is a one more turn game. You feel that you're always that bit closer to winning." Five hours later, I was no closer to winning. The addiction spread as students across the campus at University of Western Australia started setting up slime volleyball tournaments. Quin Pendragon offers up the source code, mod maniacs get to work and a verity of slime volleyball games are born.
Daniel Wedge loved the two-player slime volleyball but wanted to test his skills as a programmer. Pushed on by the desire to create a better one-player version of Slime Volleyball, and make a game he could not beat, he created [link urr=http://www.student.uwa.edu.au/~wedgey/slime1/]One Player Slime[/link]. Wedge writes about writing his mods, "I hacked most of it together in one arvo and put a couple of links up - by the end of September [2001] I was getting some ridiculous number of hits and lots of suggestions, which I've put into a new game, out shortly." Wedge promises a new version of the game to come out shortly. (By the end of July, but his original date was last November, so don't hold your breath ;) )
Bottom line is that this game is a whole lot of fun and very difficult to master. I warn you, do not get started unless you have a whole lot of extra time on your hands. It has come a long way from the original. Slime Volleyball comes in many flavors: One Player Slime, Two Player Slime, Flying Slime Volleyball, Power (or Army or Jedi) Slime Volleyball, etc. What is a slime? One would guess it is those little pac-man'esk volleyball players. Why call them slime? No one really knows.