The Ball - Indie FPS Action/Puzzle Game

[Hourences]

The Ball Hueca has won Best FPS Mod in Phase 4 of Makesomething Unreal. We also won 4th place Best Art in Mod.

We now hold 9 top-5 places, and 5 first places. We won Best Mod in 3 out of the 4 phases.

Furthermore we have half a page large screenshot in the latest edition of Game Developer Magazine, as part of an article on Unreal Engine 3 - http://www.gdmag.com/

And the Swedish PC Gamer has given us a page in their latest edition as well - http://www.toltecstudios.com/theball/ne ... weden1.jpg

Newspost on our website - http://www.toltecstudios.com/theball/20 ... f-msu.html

More news soon! Two more interviews scheduled, grand finals results set for mid February, and trailer coming up.

You can still vote for us over at http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Ball/ ... 313?ref=ts

[Nysuatro]

Congratz on your team. I already read it on your twitter. You owned that contest. I guess next is releasing the full game?

[Hourences]

The Haunted owned it too, we are head to head with them. So it is going to be a very exciting grand final...

June is the target date for the full game, but first the grand finals, announced mid next month, at the DICE convention.

[Hourences]

We have two all new screenshots of Oztoc for you. These show the little train station where you begin your journey by train, and "the village". A big cavern with an abandoned (or is it?) village, surrounded by grain fields. A big unfinished pyramid looms in the distance. That pyramid is the entrance to Oztoc II.

We also released a Press Kit. The Press Kit contains three high resolution logos, and a presentation that is meant to introduce the game to the reader in under two minutes. This will allow us to contact magazines and websites, and quickly explain them what our game is about. It is basically about making it as easy as possible for the press to talk about us.

http://www.toltecstudios.com/theball/th ... esskit.zip

Also on our schedule are some wallpapers, a community kit with some images that can be used for forum signatures and such, and we still have a trailer coming up. We decided to push back the trailer a little, so we can get some new footage of for example Cahua II in. The trailer should be out somewhere in February. February in general is going to be a very exciting month for us. We are awaiting the outcome of the MSU Grand Finals, the ModDB MOTY 2009 awards, and soon after those two we will begin pitching the game to distributors.

http://www.toltecstudios.com/theball/20 ... s-kit.html

[Pampers]

looks great as usual, but would love to see some more variation when it comes to colours

[Hourences]

Those areas are being added into existing levels and have to fit that level's style and color. The environment changes every two levels on average. The color pallet has to be specific and recognizable so the game gets a stronger identity. Of course it is risky to go too far with this and push it into "boring", but I think we are doing OK with our current balance.

[dux]

Well with the colours used you certainly know that it's unreal 3. Whether that's good or bad I'm not sure

The cave screenshot is very Na'Pali - I approve.

[Nysuatro]

Congratz on the dvdrelease hourences. Just read it on the udk forums.

[Hourences]

[Hourences]

Oh I had messed up the youtube tag apperantly. Thing didn't work.

Fixed in any case, check out the first trailer.

[PhilipK]

Wow, awesome video!

The environments looked really nice an a lot of motion going on in there. Also liked the sounds a lot

[Hourences]

Thanks!

Grand Final Results of the Make Something Unreal contest announced!

http://www.makesomethingunreal.com/final_winners.aspx

The Ball takes silver!

[DELTATHUND3R]

Congrats on that game...Its very impressive..

[Furyo]

Congrats Sjoerd and team !

[Pampers]

Congrats, well deserved!