The Ball
Unreal Tournament 3
- Single Player First Person Shooter
The Ball
Unreal Tournament 3 mod | Released May 7, 2009
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 Ball - Oztoc - Released!
We have released the second part of our mod The Ball. In Oztoc the player continues his journey into the strange and mysterious temple, travelling ever deeper into the surrounding mountain, and discovering ever more of this intriguing yet dangerous world.
Posted by Hourences on Oct 11th, 2008 digg this super bookmark
We have released The Ball Part 2: Oztoc! The Ball is the winner of the Make Something Unreal contest Phase 1, having won both Best Gametype and Best Use of Physics.
The Ball is a first person singleplayer puzzle mod with an Aztec theme to it. The mod takes place in a mysterious Aztec temple, at the top of a volcano. The player has to use the Impact Gun to move a large steel ball around and utilise that ball to solve puzzles and get around obstacles. Impact Gun aside, the mod uses all new custom art to establish a unique, stylish, and atmospheric experience.
Oztoc is many times larger than Pehua, the first release, and features many improvements and additions:
- Meet the ruler and guardian of the temple. This king will observe the player as he progresses through the level.
- Enjoy a brand new ball with improved behaviour and a simple but efficient hud.
- Puzzle your way through two new levels, together about four to five times the size of the Pehua level.
- Experience a whole number of new gameplay mechanics such as water, arrows, exploding balls, movable walls, and so on.
- An improved Pehua level, including one new puzzle and a little intro scene that introduces the simple background story.
- Dozens of bug fixes and small improvements.
Our Core Development Team for Oztoc:
- Hourences - Environment Art, Game and Level Design, Art Direction
- Rendermonkey - Level scripting
- MrE - Character modeling (the king)
- Tores - Character modeling (the ball and monkey)
- SolidSnake - Programming
- Setheran - Level design, Environment Art, Level Scripting
Additional Help by:
- David Green - programming
- Utz - Animation
- Zynthetic - Voice Acting
- Manti - King skin touch up
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That's an awesome mod idea!
Looks great, really enjoyed the first one... Up until the point where I got stuck in that room with the four cubes.
Looks well made and executes all the information Hourences gives through tutorials, too. The net can be a wonderful place for people to learn from others and here we can see height fog, slime volumes, triggers and camera actors in kismet trees, all neatly tied together. Good work!
Absolutely brilliant guys, Best of luck in Phase 2,3, and 4. ESPECIALLY 4! You've got a well executed game concept. and I'd love to see you guys come up with your own solution to the Impact gun
Looks awesome great work!
a great idea.... i loved it
Its the new Oxi Clean Detergent ball!
Are you on the ball?
GET ON THE BALL!
Sorry it just the first thing that came to mind when seeing this, looks nice *thumbs up*
Woah, this makes me want to purchase UT 3!
i don't really play ut3 but now i want to try this mod
Excellent concept, a cross between the grav gun and pong... lol... best mod I have seen so far for UT3... have always loved puzzel style games... great job...
Actually, this is a modernised version of "Marble Madness!"
Wow this is just perfect!
Too bad i don't have UT3 or create custom stuff for its engine.
alls you need now is a custom player character and custom animations on him, with something thats not the impact hammer (i know your looking into it dont worry) and pressing square to remove physics for a moment should do more than play a sound, the character should point his hand out or the ball should glow whilst its in that state (also your character should autoface the ball during this time as it could also be used to see a ball thats gone out of sight)
crazy idea. well done.
That's a good idea: I like the Aztec atmosphere with the puzzle stuff. Nice one !
Do I need Pehua/play Pehua first to get a full experience?