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Link - January 3. 2004 - beyondunreal.com
The winners of the first phase of the Make Something Unreal Contest were announced
some time ago. BeyondUnreal interviewed the winning teams about their feelings
about winning the contest and their mods' futures
First Place Finisher
Deathball Deathball attempts to mix many of the popular real-world sports,
such as soccer, rugby, and football, with the futuristic DeathMatch of Unreal
Tournament 2003. It can be summed up as Bombing Run with more of a reality
sports feel.
Can you briefly describe the atmosphere
of your mod?
DeathBall is a well-balanced teamplay sports game, in which you feel like
being a necessary part of your team and a part of the game (in your normal
counterstrike type game or CTF or something your team can also do well without
you, in Deathball a team is as good as it's worst player :) ) Well and the
football feeling (which you got in the actual sport) is really coming across
What do you plan to change in your mod
for the upcoming phases?
Well, we are planing to have new (free configurable) player models (Any good
Modeler + Skinner interested in joining? ) We'll have a Tutorial showing all
things you got to know (also little more advanced stuff like boosting, volleys
etc) so you can hop into an online match without being flamed by all more
experienced players :) One day we'll have a working AI (not super perfect
playing bots, the mode is just too complex, but we'll have something so you
can have some enjoyable matches against bots) and I have concepts for a motivating
Single player league, with role play aspects, so you can improve certain skills
of your players etc.( any AI coder available?) Well and things like a new
hud, new menu, minor gameplay changes, no big surprises actually :)
What did you do when you found out the
results?
When we heard that we won the MSUC we were asking around what it is until
we remember that it's this contest where we submitted and old beta of our
game several years ago :) Then we got naked and ran across the street yelling
"OMFG!!!"
What are your opinions on how the contest
was run and judged?
Well, not gonna complain about the result since we won ;) Overally the results
seems to be fair, just the maps section makes no sense to me...the "best
gameplay maps" section kinda turned into a joke, whatever. :/ And whoever
is NOT critisizing the big result-delay in this question is just trying to
suck up to the community :) This sure was totally miss-organized.