New Character Reveal
Our new character is finally here! We still haven't named him yet, got any ideas?
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Superball News
New Hero Coming Soon
Hi Players,
Can wait to witness our future heroes? We're here to reveal the silhouettes of our next hero, there'll be more information about him in the next few days so be sure to stay tuned!
Also remember to join the AMA this week, which will happen in just a few hours (EU at 12 PM CET or NA at 7:30 PM PDT on Wednesday). We'll be discussing the next testing time, single-player mode and more!
- The Devs
Can wait to witness our future heroes? We're here to reveal the silhouettes of our next hero, there'll be more information about him in the next few days so be sure to stay tuned!
Also remember to join the AMA this week, which will happen in just a few hours (EU at 12 PM CET or NA at 7:30 PM PDT on Wednesday). We'll be discussing the next testing time, single-player mode and more!
- The Devs
Writing Test & New AMA Time and More!
Hey buckyballers,
Long time no see! We just finished our AMA this week and below are a few topics we discussed in the AMA. If you also want to take part and ask your questions, be sure to join our official Discord !
[h3]Writing Test[/h3]
Are you interested in building a story around the SBT universe? We need your help! Our team is currently looking for a part-time storywriter to set up a background story for the game. Below is a writing test for anyone interested to get involved, we’ll go through all the submissions and hopefully find the storywriter we need in the next couple of weeks. More information and detailed requirements can be found below.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_rnMKN3TCNw2GXrHGgo0lAxwBVl4d1LV/view?usp=sharing
[h3]Character Format Sheet[/h3]
Over the last couple of months we received plenty of new character suggestions, some of them are actually very great and gave us a lot of inspirations. Since the suggestions were sent in various format, we thought it would be a good idea to make a unified new character format sheet. Please use the new format if you’d like to suggest new character designs in the future.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BTn_xSJs3AWi5NbhDrEJoKVegBGE-96w/view?usp=sharing
[h3]Merchandise[/h3]
We actually made a bunch of merchandises last year, however, we were unable to show & ship it to you guys due to the pandemic and expensive international shipping rates.
With that being said, it is still possible to get our merchandise in the future, especially after the Early Access launch. We’re currently looking into setting up an Amazon store for one of our other games, if that process went successful we could replicate the whole thing to SBT.
[h3]Game Developments[/h3]
Recently we made a new development plan with singleplayer contents added. The singleplayer will take a long time to design while the team is still working on other stuff, including new characters, new skins and more changes to the multiplayer.
[h3]New AMA Time[/h3]
The future AMAs will be hosted in a new time, due to the shift in daylight saving time.
EU: Wednesday 11 AM CET (10 AM UK Time)
NA: Wednesday 7:30 PM PDT (10:30 PM EDT)
The next AMA will be back in March 31th.
If you haven’t wishlisted the game already, feel free to do so！
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1059110/Super_Buckyball_Tournament/
- The Devs
Long time no see! We just finished our AMA this week and below are a few topics we discussed in the AMA. If you also want to take part and ask your questions, be sure to join our official Discord !
[h3]Writing Test[/h3]
Are you interested in building a story around the SBT universe? We need your help! Our team is currently looking for a part-time storywriter to set up a background story for the game. Below is a writing test for anyone interested to get involved, we’ll go through all the submissions and hopefully find the storywriter we need in the next couple of weeks. More information and detailed requirements can be found below.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_rnMKN3TCNw2GXrHGgo0lAxwBVl4d1LV/view?usp=sharing
[h3]Character Format Sheet[/h3]
Over the last couple of months we received plenty of new character suggestions, some of them are actually very great and gave us a lot of inspirations. Since the suggestions were sent in various format, we thought it would be a good idea to make a unified new character format sheet. Please use the new format if you’d like to suggest new character designs in the future.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BTn_xSJs3AWi5NbhDrEJoKVegBGE-96w/view?usp=sharing
[h3]Merchandise[/h3]
We actually made a bunch of merchandises last year, however, we were unable to show & ship it to you guys due to the pandemic and expensive international shipping rates.
With that being said, it is still possible to get our merchandise in the future, especially after the Early Access launch. We’re currently looking into setting up an Amazon store for one of our other games, if that process went successful we could replicate the whole thing to SBT.
[h3]Game Developments[/h3]
Recently we made a new development plan with singleplayer contents added. The singleplayer will take a long time to design while the team is still working on other stuff, including new characters, new skins and more changes to the multiplayer.
[h3]New AMA Time[/h3]
The future AMAs will be hosted in a new time, due to the shift in daylight saving time.
EU: Wednesday 11 AM CET (10 AM UK Time)
NA: Wednesday 7:30 PM PDT (10:30 PM EDT)
The next AMA will be back in March 31th.
If you haven’t wishlisted the game already, feel free to do so！
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1059110/Super_Buckyball_Tournament/
- The Devs
Super Buckyball Tournament Development Update
Hi buckyballers,
Are you excited to play the next BETA soon? We would like to get players informed on the latest news and updates about the game, which we already discussed in the AMA last week.
Early Access Timeline
We had previously hoped to launch SBT into Early Access this summer, but due to developing reasons, we might have to delay the launch. We are still hoping for a release later this year, and we hope you can understand that we wish to have a more polished game before we dare to release it, as these types of multiplayer games will either make it big or fail completely.
Time for the next BETA?
The time for the next BETA is not yet set in stone, but we’re currently aiming for July. While everyone are waiting for July, we have decided to host 2 Open Weekends, so players can still have fun and enjoy SBT with their friends. The first Open Weekend is scheduled on April 17th and April 18th, during the open weekend we’ll put out the February BETA build for players to play. The second open weekend is scheduled around early June.
4V4 game mode
After receiving all the feedback from the survey, we’ve decided to keep the 4V4 game mode as what it is for now. The current idea is not to put it into the arcade mode since it offers the same gameplay experiences as the regular 3V3 mode, but we will revisit further after we launch the game, and it becomes more relevant to support a larger player base.
Protection zone & Tackling mechanic
After receiving all your feedback, we’ll keep then in-game and continue to optimize it.
The future of the item system
After carefully consider what players have suggested, we decided to make some changes to the item system in the future. We’ll share more details with you guys later.
Character balance
Sky will be nerfed in the next BETA for sure, however, the team is not too worried about character balancing at the moment, usually it’s the one of the later thing we do before putting out a BETA. We believe it’s important to improve other parts of the game first as they affect the balancing anyways. And of course before we launch we will be doing extensive balance testing.
Also a note to all players, since there aren't that many topics to discuss over the next few months leading up to the BETA, we decided to change the current weekly AMA's into bi-weekly, which means there'll be no AMA for this week, we'll be back with you all on Discord next week, stay tuned!
If you haven’t wishlisted the game already, feel free to do so！
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1059110/Super_Buckyball_Tournament/
- The Devs
Are you excited to play the next BETA soon? We would like to get players informed on the latest news and updates about the game, which we already discussed in the AMA last week.
Early Access Timeline
We had previously hoped to launch SBT into Early Access this summer, but due to developing reasons, we might have to delay the launch. We are still hoping for a release later this year, and we hope you can understand that we wish to have a more polished game before we dare to release it, as these types of multiplayer games will either make it big or fail completely.
Time for the next BETA?
The time for the next BETA is not yet set in stone, but we’re currently aiming for July. While everyone are waiting for July, we have decided to host 2 Open Weekends, so players can still have fun and enjoy SBT with their friends. The first Open Weekend is scheduled on April 17th and April 18th, during the open weekend we’ll put out the February BETA build for players to play. The second open weekend is scheduled around early June.
4V4 game mode
After receiving all the feedback from the survey, we’ve decided to keep the 4V4 game mode as what it is for now. The current idea is not to put it into the arcade mode since it offers the same gameplay experiences as the regular 3V3 mode, but we will revisit further after we launch the game, and it becomes more relevant to support a larger player base.
Protection zone & Tackling mechanic
After receiving all your feedback, we’ll keep then in-game and continue to optimize it.
The future of the item system
After carefully consider what players have suggested, we decided to make some changes to the item system in the future. We’ll share more details with you guys later.
Character balance
Sky will be nerfed in the next BETA for sure, however, the team is not too worried about character balancing at the moment, usually it’s the one of the later thing we do before putting out a BETA. We believe it’s important to improve other parts of the game first as they affect the balancing anyways. And of course before we launch we will be doing extensive balance testing.
Also a note to all players, since there aren't that many topics to discuss over the next few months leading up to the BETA, we decided to change the current weekly AMA's into bi-weekly, which means there'll be no AMA for this week, we'll be back with you all on Discord next week, stay tuned!
If you haven’t wishlisted the game already, feel free to do so！
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1059110/Super_Buckyball_Tournament/
- The Devs
BETA Survey Feedback
Hey players,
First of all, thanks everyone who contributed and shared your thoughts in the survey! After came back from the holidays we collected & analyzed the results and got plenty of feedback and insights. Below are the summary of the survey responses we gathered from the BETA.
[h3]3v3 or 4v4[/h3]
Based on the survey, the majority of players believed that 3v3 is preferred over the 4v4 game mode. However, we’ve also noticed that many of them never played or only played a few matches of the 4v4 mode due to various restrictions. Players generally believed that 4v4 can be a good rotating game mode and we’ll look more into it in future tests.
[h3]Protection Zone[/h3]
Surprisingly, most of the casual & new players are not aware of this mechanic, which actually might be a good thing since it was core players who proposed this mechanic originally. The feedback from core players is overall positive with some room for improvement.
[h3]Tackling Mechanic[/h3]
Regarding the tackling mechanic, the overall feedbacks are great after we implemented the 15s CD (during Pre-BETA testing there were no CD for the tackle). Improve it’s consistency across the map is something that we could further optimize in later versions.
[h3]How players know about SBT[/h3]
According to the survey, over 40% of players found us directly through Steam, with over 20% of players know our game from their friends and more than 10% from various promotions we run.
[h3]Least likable part of the game[/h3]
From core players
- Goalkeeper is too strong (Gridiron, visual does not match the actual hitbox etc.)
- Bullying
- The randomness of the items
From casual players
- Matchmaking takes too long
- Camera & aiming mechanics need to be optimized
- MMR issues in matchmaking (match up against old players in the first few matches of SBT)
- Defense is too difficult
Both sides
- Character balance
- Not enough goalkeeper
- Position based matchmaking
- Lack of rank mode
- Encounter players who troll
- Solo queue against 3 stacks
[h3]Game suggestions [/h3]
- Rank mode
- Replay system
- Optimized camera angle & aiming system
- Optimized ball cam
- More characters, more skins, more maps and more modes
- Make the game free to play
- More tournaments
- Constant updates
- Listen & engage with communities
We'll publish another article next week regarding the plan for next and respond to some of the suggestions & questions you guys had about the BETA.
If you haven’t wishlisted the game already, feel free to do so！
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1059110/Super_Buckyball_Tournament/
- The Devs
First of all, thanks everyone who contributed and shared your thoughts in the survey! After came back from the holidays we collected & analyzed the results and got plenty of feedback and insights. Below are the summary of the survey responses we gathered from the BETA.
[h3]3v3 or 4v4[/h3]
Based on the survey, the majority of players believed that 3v3 is preferred over the 4v4 game mode. However, we’ve also noticed that many of them never played or only played a few matches of the 4v4 mode due to various restrictions. Players generally believed that 4v4 can be a good rotating game mode and we’ll look more into it in future tests.
[h3]Protection Zone[/h3]
Surprisingly, most of the casual & new players are not aware of this mechanic, which actually might be a good thing since it was core players who proposed this mechanic originally. The feedback from core players is overall positive with some room for improvement.
[h3]Tackling Mechanic[/h3]
Regarding the tackling mechanic, the overall feedbacks are great after we implemented the 15s CD (during Pre-BETA testing there were no CD for the tackle). Improve it’s consistency across the map is something that we could further optimize in later versions.
[h3]How players know about SBT[/h3]
According to the survey, over 40% of players found us directly through Steam, with over 20% of players know our game from their friends and more than 10% from various promotions we run.
[h3]Least likable part of the game[/h3]
From core players
- Goalkeeper is too strong (Gridiron, visual does not match the actual hitbox etc.)
- Bullying
- The randomness of the items
From casual players
- Matchmaking takes too long
- Camera & aiming mechanics need to be optimized
- MMR issues in matchmaking (match up against old players in the first few matches of SBT)
- Defense is too difficult
Both sides
- Character balance
- Not enough goalkeeper
- Position based matchmaking
- Lack of rank mode
- Encounter players who troll
- Solo queue against 3 stacks
[h3]Game suggestions [/h3]
- Rank mode
- Replay system
- Optimized camera angle & aiming system
- Optimized ball cam
- More characters, more skins, more maps and more modes
- Make the game free to play
- More tournaments
- Constant updates
- Listen & engage with communities
We'll publish another article next week regarding the plan for next and respond to some of the suggestions & questions you guys had about the BETA.
If you haven’t wishlisted the game already, feel free to do so！
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1059110/Super_Buckyball_Tournament/
- The Devs