The Ball is a singleplayer action and puzzle mod for Unreal Tournament 3. It competes in the MakeSomethingUnreal Contest, and it has won three first prizes in so far (Best Gametype - 2 x Best Use of Physics), and one 3rd place (Best Mod). Additionally it has won the ModDB MOTY Best Singleplay Mod of 2008 award.

The Ball offers an adventure that puts you in the boots of a geologist who gets stuck in a cavern and bumps onto an ancient and Mesoamerican complex holding a mysterious ball. While making your way through the internal workings of ancient ziggurats, golden cities, and huge caverns, your only companion is a giant gold and metal-shelled ball, a mysterious artifact in its own right, that you use to make your way through a series of rooms and caverns, and to crush enemies with. As you progress through the mod, slowly the real purpose of this gigantic complex becomes clear, and you are sucked into a thousands of years old story of betrayal and secrecy.

The mod is episodic in nature, and knows a release every three to six months. So far two parts have been released: Pehua, and Oztoc. Part 3, Teotl, is set for a release in May 2009.

The Ball is designed and directed by Hourences and has a 13 people strong international team working on it: Toltec Studios.

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Over the past few months we have been working on porting The Ball over to Epic Games' Unreal Development Kit. That means a stand alone build of The Ball, running on the very latest version of the Unreal Engine! We'd like to thank Epic Games for the great opportunity! Check out our page on their official UDK website.

We built a demo that contains two levels. One brand new and awesome survival level with dozens of traps (by Mario Marquardt). And 30 to 45 minutes long singleplay compilation level. It contains parts of Pehua, Oztoc, and Hueca and gives a good presentation of all the features found in our game. If you have played a recent version of the mod, there is likely not much new for you in this demo. If you haven't had the chance yet however to check out our game, or you don't own UT3, here is your chance really!

This also means that we are going to port over the entire project to the UDK, and go commercial (albeit in an indie way) with the game. The full release is set for somewhere in spring 2010.

Minimum

  • 3GHz single core CPU
  • 1024MB System memory
  • Geforce 6800 or similar
  • 650 MB Diskspace
  • Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7

Recommended

  • Dual Core CPU
  • 2048MB System memory
  • Geforce 8800 or above
  • 650 MB Diskspace
  • Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7

The demo is free and does not require a copy of UT3 or the UDK!


We have a thread on our forum with some tips if you are having perfomance issues.

We added a FAQ to our website today as well. Check it out.

We are also bumping up our community efforts! Check out our newly formed Facebook fan page. We will now begin posting weekly updates and keep you people in the loop!


Five more days until the Cahua release!

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The Ball UDK Demo

The Ball UDK Demo

Nov 05, 2009 Demo 2 comments

A 40 minute long stand alone demo of The Ball made for Epic Games' UDK Release. Running on the latest version of the Unreal Engine, this demo features...

The Ball - Hueca

The Ball - Hueca

Aug 25, 2009 Full Version 9 comments

The 4th episode of our mysterious adventure. Venture deeper than ever into a volcano and come across an ancient vehicle that will take you across a vast...

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gammo08
gammo08 Nov 6 2009, 2:12pm says:

will this come to ps3?

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MrBCut
MrBCut Oct 20 2009, 7:32pm says:

Hey congrats everyone on the Toltec team!

It's obvious you guys have worked very hard on this and you deserve the credit.

And also thanks for the motivation.

MrBCut

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Lemonosity
Lemonosity Oct 13 2009, 7:09pm says: +1 vote     reply to comment
migmax
migmax Oct 12 2009, 8:05am says:

How ho how???!!! I ASKING YOU A QUESTION HOW DID YOU GUYS DO THIS!!!
lol

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Shadow-Marine
Shadow-Marine Oct 11 2009, 8:58pm says:

wait did you guys get an engine license

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8205Mills
8205Mills Sep 25 2009, 9:33am says:

PS3 sound support has been released!

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vinnyisme
vinnyisme Sep 23 2009, 10:33am says:

Very good! I'm just about done with the second chapter. I love the environment, it is very captivating and sets a great tone and feel of mystery and magic while playing.

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matsilagi
matsilagi Sep 8 2009, 3:11pm says:

I Have a how to convert The Ball gun to use with ut3 and any UT3 Mod!
Here's how to
1st:Copy this files and directories
UTTheBall.ini
Packages,Script
2nd: Open UTTheBall.ini and delete the table of these codes
[BallGame UTUIDataProvider_GameModeInfo]
[TheBall.TBSaveGame]
3rd Copy the directories Packages and Script to CookedPC
Copy the ini to Config
PAY ATTENTION:THIS GOES TO MY GAMES IN THE DOCUMENTS!

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KupaFM
KupaFM Sep 7 2009, 11:29am says:

what a mod?

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EVIL_WEVIL
EVIL_WEVIL Sep 26 2009, 1:22am replied: Online

Complete Nub alert! *siren*. Now about the mod,
awesome looking mod, I may try it sometime

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