The Ball UDK Demo
Nov 05, 2009 Demo 2 commentsA 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
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 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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Latest News: The Ball Stand Alone UDK Demo
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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 - Hueca
Aug 25, 2009 Full Version 9 commentsThe 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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For some reason, I'm tiny when I play. I'm shorter than I should be and everything seems massive.
Just finished Teotl. This is amaizing! The new "gravity gun" rocks! Very pozitiv fellings after all :) Btw,for me was 1 hard place-rails in the end.
This mod has gotten so much better since the first release.
I played Teotl from the beginning to the end in a little less than 2,5 hours. xD +additional 30mins of survival.
This is a HUGE mod, really long playtime and I must say I felt it exciting all the time, and couldn't stop.
It often been a satisfying feeling to solve yet another puzzle with a little bit of thinking and looking. Some are not easy but also not TOO difficult.
Thumbs up.
i happened to notice in the first part of teotl, in the first room where you encounter the low gravity, there is the image of the flower of life on the wall..... do you know what that is, or did you just happen to find the graphic somewhere and thought it looked cool? (it's also visible in several other locations including the one visible up high on the wall in the background in this screenshot: Moddb.com)
I know what it is and it is there intentionally. And there are two other types that were derived from it as well. Nice that someone notices :)
that symbol is pretty much what i live by. have you read "The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life?" that book is how i found out about it.
Nop I haven't read it, but I am well aware of the theories and the myths surrounding that and other things. The story we have ties into that, and has references to it albeit it never outright says so. It is more of a personal choice whether or not you want to see that in the story, or look at it as something else. It is left open.
excellent work. i like the fact that you packaged previous chapters with the teotl release.
Beat the available chapters in one sitting. This mod is AWESOME!!! Excellent, can't wait for next release...
Yup it has been released :)
For the others: I am having trouble uploading the file to ModDB so I will try again tomorrow. In the mean time mirrors can be found on our website.