The Ball is an indie singleplay action/puzzle game, running on Unreal Engine 3, for PC. The expected release date is spring 2010. The project started out as a mod and has since gone stand alone. Best Best Singleplay Mod of 2008 according to ModDB MOTY 2008. Four time first place winner in the UT3 MakeSomethingUnreal Contest. Used by Epic Games' to promote their UDK release
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