The Ball is an award winning Unreal Engine 3 singleplayer action/puzzle game. The game was released on October 26, 2010 for PC.




November 30th, 2010

The sale is over!

Our 50% off weekend has come and gone. Thanks a lot to everyone who bought a copy!

November 28th, 2010

-50%!

This weekend only! A massive -50% OFF!

Get the game this weekend for just $9,99

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November 24th, 2010

Reviews, and another contest!

Some more reviews, including our first perfect score!

  • thirteen1.com – (10/10) “I daresay that this outstanding effort belongs up there next to Portal in the halls of great puzzlers.”
  • ripten.com – (7/10) “cheap, fun, and easy to get into- and what more do you need?”
  • Swanky’s user review on our forums – “The length was more than I expected and the atmosphere and gameplay really made it stand out for me. Definitely recommending the game!”
  • chabrall.com – (Swedish) “If you like FPS puzzle games then this game is for you”
  • Power Unlimited – Magazine – (Dutch) – (7.9/10) “The Ball is the bomb!”
  • Also the Swedish site chabrall.com is holding a contest. Three copies will be given away, to the three best entries.

      Det Ă€r alltsĂ„ en tĂ€vling som gĂ€ller och reglerna Ă€r enkla. Öppna dina sinnen och lĂ„t kreativiteten flöda. Temat för tĂ€vlingen Ă€r “boll” och du fĂ„r Fota, “Photoshopa“, mĂ„la eller vad du vill göra. Du lĂ€mnar ditt bidrag till oss genom att maila till the_ball@chabrall.com och helt enkelt bifogar bilden. De 3 bĂ€sta bidragen vinner sĂ„klart Ă€ran av att vara bĂ€st, men ocksĂ„ var sitt exemplar av spelet. TĂ€vlingen kommer att hĂ„lla pĂ„ till och med söndagen den 12:e december och vinnarna presenteras veckan efter. SĂ„ anvĂ€nd er fantasi och var med och tĂ€vla!
    November 22nd, 2010

    BeyondUnreal Give-Away, plus IndieDB Indie of the Year awards

    BeyondUnreal is doing a little give-away of The Ball!

    Okay, not everyone, but five lucky people will get a free copy of The Ball on Steam. What do you have to do? Easy, post a caption for a screenshot of The Ball in the comment thread. You can use the one to the right, or any other screenshot you can find. If you don’t use ours, please link to or post the screenshot you’re captioning.

    So, to enter, let’s recap:

    * Find a screenshot of The Ball (or use the one to the right)
    * Think of a clever or completely lame caption for the screenshot (we really don’t care, and it won’t affect your chances of winning!)
    * Post the screenshot and caption in the comment thread
    * Wait to win!

    And you can still vote for us in the IndieDB/ModDB Indie of the Year awards! If you liked our game give us a vote please!

    November 15th, 2010

    Avault reviews The Ball, plus a community made secret guide!

    Avault.com has reviewed our game, and they’ve given it the “Buy-it” stamp.

    “It would be a true strategic mistake not to gravitate toward The Ball as quickly as possible.”

    In other news, Fyrisvellir and Kaiser Tarkin have posted Secret Guides on our Steam forum. Check out their great guides if you haven’t yet found all the secrets in the game!

    November 13th, 2010

    The Ball out now in Western Europe

    Haarlem, The Netherlands – 12 November 2010 – PC videogames publishers Iceberg Interactive and Tripwire Interactive, along with independent development studio Teotl Studios are pleased to announce that their first-person action adventure puzzle game The Ball (PC) is now available at retail outlets across the UK, Germany, France and Benelux.

    Players that want to add a physical copy of The Ball to their game collection will be pleasantly surprised when they find retail-exclusive bonus materials included in the Iceberg Interactive boxed version, such as a bonus disc featuring the game’s soundtrack and a special postcard autographed by the entire Teotl development team.

    The retail version of The Ball is also available for ordering in the Iceberg Webshop.

    November 5th, 2010

    Release! Demo! Box! Reviews!

    The Ball has just became available on GamersGate, Impulse, our own website, and thanks to Wendros can now be found across stores in Scandinavia!

    Coinciding with the release, we now got a demo available! Ready for you try to out! Afraid of the concept? Not sure what to expect? Then give our demo a go! It doesn’t bite, it’ll only try to crush you :)

    Filefront.com
    IndieDB.com
    Gamershell.com
    Fileshack.com
    the3dzone.de
    AusGamers.com
    Jeuxvideopc.com
    Atomicgamer.com
    More coming soon!

    And if that wasn’t enough yet, how about a whole batch of new reviews?

  • incgamers.com – 8.2/10 – “The Ball is inventive, creative and something refreshing”
  • zeden.net (French) – “A very good puzzle game… the player will be satisfied for sure”
  • trgamer.com (Turkish) – 8/10
  • gaminglives.com – “This game deserves support, it is easily my favourite downloadable game of 2010 so far, and I cannot recommend it more highly to fans of the genre”
  • 9lives.be – 8.3/10 “The Ball is an exceptional good game… One of the most suprising games this year”
  • azerothtozork – “There is a lot to like, especially for $20.”
  • Gameplay Magazine (Dutch) – 8.3/10 “Simple but addictive… Ingenious puzzles and beautiful level design”
  • tgdb.nl (Dutch) – 8.9/10 “A great game”
  • Beyondunreal.com – 8.5/10 “The Ball offers a tremendous value and the level of polish is admirable.”
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    November 3rd, 2010

    Gamex

    Quick update. We are really hard at work on a demo for The Ball. We expect to release it very soon, along with a whole batch of great new reviews and other cool news!

    If anyone within Sweden is going to Gamex tomorrow, we will be there in the afternoon, probably somewhere near the Wendros booth. In case anyone wants to come say hi!



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