Ball at Work News

The Ball at Work Holiday Special will be gradually rolled out directly into your game and will be exclusive to DLC owners! We plan to have all the festive special graphics and content ready in time for Christmas and we'll continue to add some fancy wintery assets to the game into the new year as well!



In the meantime, we have also pushed a small patch for the game where we have fixed some small bugs and made low-level changes that will hopefully improve the performance quite significantly on low-end hardware.

Here's a quick summary of the changes:

• The final ball was set to unlock at level 42 which does not exist in the game-- this has now been corrected.
  
• We have disabled the prompts that bring up the video guide menu when you fail a level while speedrunning.
  
• We have revised the OpenGL shader precision values for multiple shaders which will hopefully improve performance on low-end hardware.
  

If you like the game and have not tried out the Boss Edition DLC yet, please consider supporting us by buying a copy for ONLY $1.99. The DLC gives you full access to all levels, the competitive LiveWire mode and the exclusive Holiday Special graphics that are going to be introduced very soon!

It might be too soon to call Ball at Work a Speedrun classic but believe us when we say that we are dedicated to making that happen! With the support from the community on Steam and Discord, we have received a lot of feedback and inputs for how the game can be made optimised and improved to make it more attractive for Speedruns.

After multiple smaller updates and exclusive tester previews of the Speedrun timer features and other enhancements with some of our more experienced players, we are now finally prepared to roll out this update to all our users.

Update now to v2.4 and start competing on one of the many categories on Speedrun.com



The great news is that these enhancements are available in the free and DLC versions of the game as it has never been our philosophy to deprive ANY user of the best quality that we have to offer!

Here's a complete list of features:

• In-game Autosplitter for speedrunning the game which is fully compliant with the community rules on Ball at Work Speedruns
  
  
• Simple and elegant UI to configure the timer display. See your total time, best times, previous personal best split times and other relevant stats all in a neat overlay during gameplay!
  
  
• Full-featured and efficient databases will keep records of your past runs for any and all combinations of levels that you speedrun.
  

The most happening place to discuss the game in general and compete with other players who are speedrunning Ball at Work, catch up with live streams and much more is the dedicated Discord Server. Join the action by clicking here!

The LiveWire Series is back with its second instalment and this time the competition is guaranteed to be more intense as users have now begun to discover some crazy new tricks and master the game's physics and controls!

As promised, we will be giving out Steam gift cards of $5 to each of the players who make it to the top three in positions of the leaderboard and they will also be featured in the game for the entire duration of the next LiveWire competition!



The current round of the LiveWire competition is on till January 08, 2021 so there's plenty of time to explore new ways to improve your times and check out all the other new features that we are regularly adding to the DLC.



In other news, the Speedrun community is growing at a steady pace and the dedicated Discord server for Ball at Work Speedruns is a cool place to hang out, discuss the game and compete with other users. We will be adding an in-game Autosplitter for speedrunning VERY soon!!

Join the community on Discord!


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What started as a simple mobile game back in 2019 has now come a long way and bringing this project over to PC has allowed us to fully unleash the capability of the framework that we had developed for Ball at Work.

We have been pleasantly surprised to see how even the most discerning players have welcomed the prospect of a simple yet fun game based on new experimental ideas. For us, Ball at Work has always been about creating a pick-up-and-play gaming experience that is highly accessible to all gamers but takes skill and patience to master.

During the recent weeks, some players have gone ahead and done Speedruns of the game and this is when we realised that Ball at Work is actually very well suited for timed competition and this can add a whole new dimension to how players experience the game.

To add some form of structured competition to the game, we recently introduced the LiveWire series where new levels are introduced into the game each month and users can compete to set the fastest time on the leaderboard. The current LiveWire event is ongoing till December 07 and we are giving away $5 Steam Gift Card (each) to the top three places on the leaderboard!!



Now the big news we have for you all is that some members of the community have taken the initiative to setup a dedicated Discord Channel focusing on Ball at Work Speedruns-- things are moving along swiftly and we're already making some noise on the Speedrun circuit!

It's a great place to discuss the game, share tips and tricks and challenge fellow gamers so don't be shy now and JOIN US BY CLICKING HERE.

The Boss Edition DLC for Ball at Work is finally here and is now available at a whopping 30% discount for a very limited period only.

For ONLY $1.40 you get to access all levels that are designed and ready as well as full and unrestricted access to any and all content that we add later to Ball at Work!




We are also making the LiveWire series exclusive to the DLC where you can compete with users from around the globe in exclusive monthly events and we will be giving out Steam gift Cards to the players that finish in the top three positions on the leaderboard!



There's a whole lot more to the Boss Edition including access to limited-time and premium graphics packages that we will be rolling out for occasions such as New Year and Halloween.

It's time to get to the top of this crazy corporate ladder in the wacky workplace that is Ball at Work with all the delicious privileges of the Boss Edition! See below for a complete summary of all the treats:

• Unlimited and unrestricted access to all the levels in the game
  
• Access the LiveWire series and compete in limited-time events with users from around the globe
  
• Winners of each LiveWire event will be featured inside the game
  
• Exclusive access to season specials and limited-time themes and modifications
  

The support of our users is what keeps us motivated to deliver genuinely unique and innovative content and rest assured that the revenue made from selling copies of the DLC will be channeled straight back into further development work on this project :)


For terms and conditions of the LiveWire series, please see https://www.famousdoggstudios.com/terms-of-service