The first thing I want to get out of the way, is that the game is already out to be played by you as a UDK version!
You can download the game from http://supraball.net/
What I also want to put on top, is that crowdfunding has started yesterday! Our IndieGoGo project page can be found at Supraball | Indiegogo.
Supraball is the F2P stand-alone successor the the old UT2k3 and UT2k4 mod called Deathball. In fact, Deathball has been one of the few Make Something Unreal mods that hasn’t gone stand-alone since a few months ago!
Supraball is what we call a First-Person Sports Game. It feels like playing football without being football. There are no CPU-assisted characters (yet!) in the game; every player is human, and a team is only successful if everyone is working together. The game will have stats, Steam integration (we’re greenlit!), ranked matchmaking, player customization and more in the future!
The game was written with UDK, but recently we’ve decided to port (read, re-making) the game for Unreal Engine 4. This gives us way more possibilities, as it was often the case that with UDK we’d had to resort to dirty hacks and such to get certain things done. Down below you’ll find a few screenshots of the porting process so far.
In the meantime, don’t forget to keep up with the updates on our Twitter and Facebook. All the devs hang out in the same IRC chatroom where daily pick ups are arranged for the current UDK game. You can find us at irc.quakenet.org/#supraball.
Really awesome concept for a game. I am also really excited to see this game on UE4. Looks like it could be a blast to play with a group of friends. Keep up the great work and be sure to keep us updated as you progress in the development of Supraball!
Sadly, the game is just not playable with a gamepad without dumbing the game down. You’ll need two analog sticks for movement and viewing direction. Then there’s two different shooting modes, which could be on the A and B button. Then there’s the shield button and sucking button, maybe X and Y. But, shield and sucking at the same time is an important aspect of the game, and at this stage we can already see thumbs getting tangled up. Then, people should be able to jump and there are 4 spin modes that can be applied. So, while it might look possible, the configuration layout is already getting complicated. Oh, I even forgot about a keeper’s dodging ability there! Either way, then there is the ‘twitch’ factor. The game’s pace is encredibly high, and the average shot of a player onto the goal takes ~320 ms. You can already see that unless we dumb down the game, this won’t be an enjoyable experience. We advice the game to be only played with mouse and keyboard.
