ANYBALL - THE GAME THAT'S ALL SPORTS AT ONCE
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Anyball

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Factsheet

​Developer:
​Team Anyball, LLC
 - Laurenz Riklin
 - Hang Ruan 
 - Pao Salcedo

Release date:
​TBA

​Website:
https://www.anyball.info/

Press / Business contact:
[email protected]

Social:
twitter.com/anyball_game

​​Description

Inspired by Calvinball from Calvin and Hobbes and playground games kids make up on the fly, Anyball is a chaotic, comical, and physics-based local multiplayer game where sports are randomly mixed together every time you play. ​

​History

Anyball began as a dream--a Calvin and Hobbes-inspired dream, to be exact. During a class at NYU back in 2016, Laurenz and Paolo created a pitch presentation and design document that would become Anyball. It was in response to an assigned task, which was to create a pitch for an unreleased theoretical game--no matter how implausible or infeasible it may have been. The non-negotiable essence of the game that was established back then--which remains true today--is captured in the marketing tagline the two came up with at the time: “Anyball. You’ve always never played it before.”
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At the time of the pitch document, Anyball was a dream game about games dreamed up in childhood. Then, when thesis classes came along, Laurenz decided to make that dream a reality. Paolo decided to work on his own project, while Hang joined Laurenz as lead programmer. Two semesters of development later, Anyball was quite real--a chaotic game that captured a bit of that childhood magic of having to relearn the rules every time. Most recently, it was selected for the 2018 cohort of the NYU Game Center Incubator. Paolo rejoined the team soon after, and the three are still hard at work, adding new levels, rules, and a single player mode. The team is aiming for an early 2019 release.   

​Features

  • Procedurally generated sports for near-endless replayability
  • 1-8 player co-op mode
  • 2-8 player competitive mode
  • Physics based, playful interaction
  • 10+ handcrafted levels that encourage unique strategies and playstyles
  • Dynamic sports commentary
  • Features arguably the world’s most lovable low-poly athletes
  • Dozens of randomized characters to play

​Videos

Anyball - In Development Trailer (YouTube, vimeo)

​GIFs


​Images

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Selected Articles and Interviews

Spotlight: Anyball 
 - Jacob Wood, IndieHangover
Play NYC 2018 - Anyball
 - krystaljank​, NERDIER TIDES
Hands-on with Anyball at Play NYC
 - Jason Palazini, Way Too Many Games
Anyball (Sports)
- Axel, NYC Geek Society

​Credits

Hang Ruan
Game Designer, Lead Programmer

Laurenz Riklin
Game Designer, Artist

Pao Salcedo
Game Designer, Writer, Project Manager

​Contact

Press / Business contact:
[email protected]
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Website:
https://www.anyball.info/

Social:
twitter.com/anyball_game
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