Game With Balls News

[p]Hi everyone! You might not have heard a lot lately about the progress of Game With Balls, but it were a couple of busy months. But! While not making videos I was actually still working on levels. So that is what this little mini develog is about. Still planing a beginning of 2026 release. [/p][p][/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

Next week is Steam Next Fest and Game With Balls is part of it! Ahead of the festival—and since I’m also boarding a 12-hour flight on Monday—the demo is updated with three new levels! One of the levels is specially made for Next Fest, and I recorded how it was painted, because what’s more fun than watching paint dry?

Also, some small performance upgrades. While this is still an ongoing process to see where I can optimize the game, I hope this already helps! Thank you all for already playing the demo and working on getting the final one, with some happy little suprises, out of the door beginning of 2026!

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/3831430/Game_With_Balls_Demo/

[p]Hi everyone! A couple of small updates to the demo. Working hard on the actual game at the moment that I can hopefully submit in time for Steam to approve with still an expected release date end of 2025/beginning of 2026.

Patchnotes of the demo:[/p]

• [p]Made the menu ball more accurate to give a better feel[/p]
• [p]Made the ball in the wooden level more accurate to the Steam Deck movement. Maybe the record can be beaten now?! I tried myself, but failed. [/p]
• [p]Removed the rolling sound. Looking at different options to add it back, but have people decide if they can mute it. [/p]

[p][/p][p]Thank you all for trying out the demo and let me know in the discussions if you have any feedback/bugs on the demo!

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[p]A new mini devlog about Game With Balls with an update on one of the most requested features: SFX for the ball when it is on wood. I experimented a while with this and still tweaking, recording and adjusting it to make it feel right for every level, but it is here! And you can test it in the Demo where it is now added to the main menu and level 3. [/p][p][/p][p]Let me know what you think! More updates in the mini devlog video. [/p][p] [/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p]

Also did a couple of bugfixes in the demo that were reported by you guys! Thank you for that and let me know if there are any more bugs you can spot.

Demo v1.1.1 Bugfixes [/p]

• [p]Demo level 3 music is now reacting to the volume slider in the main menu[/p]
• [p]Loading screens had rare occasion of not showing if it was needed, but that is now fixed[/p]

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Other news[/p][p]This week Better With A Friend is 40% off because last week it was its one year anniversary. But.. I forgot to set the discount for that week. Thank you everyone for the support and lovely messages I got from people that played it with their loved ones.

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[p]Hi everyone! Thank you all for the great support the past weeks while I was on holiday! The most asked questions on different sites are about why I am using Proton and why I, at the moment, am only making this game for the Steam Deck. I talk about it in this new mini devlog where I explain why I made these choices, but in short it is the following reply I wrote earlier:

I am a Windows programmer by trade and with proton it just works on the Steam Deck. Why not use it if it works?

Also with handheld gaming becoming more popular and also Windows aiming for it I might want to make it available for those in the future. Maintaining only one branch is in that sense way easier.

Sure the game can already be played on other devices now, but I cannot guarantee how it will run on different hardware.

That is why I only support the Steam Deck as a device to play Game With Balls on :) [/p]


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My Discord server is now also updated for my game development projects and other things! Join the conversation there or in the discussion page on Steam.

Thank you all and see you soon!



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