"Counter Ball" Student Project
2017 - Semester 3 Student Project: Counter Ball
My contributions & Project Overview
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In Counter Ball two teams compete in the titular, fast-paced sport by dodging, catching, and throwing anti gravity balls that ricochet off of the surfaces they hit. The arena this takes place in changes it's layout as time goes on and passing the ball to your teammate powers it up with even more speed.
Semester project made in ~3 months in semester 3 of the "Animation & Game" bachelors degree course at h_da.
Philipp Stenger - Engineer/System Designer
Marcel Sack - 3D Artist/2D Artist/Additional Programming
János Weyhknecht - 3D Artist
Max Heupel - Game Designer
Philipp Berger-Tolkun - Sound
Jonas Dohmen - Sound
Christian Trumpf - Music
Gameplay video showing two teams with two players each trying to hit each other with the titular counter balls.
Showreel showing my individual contributions to the project: Character design, art and animation as well as the ball model and in world ad graphics.
As the match progresses and teams score points, the map, made by Marcel Sack, changes its layout. The triangles that make up the level extend to form different patterns which were designed by Max Heupel.
The ball has a very visible trail effect showing it's trajectory which was done by Max Heupel.
Player colors, lights and team colors can be customized.
Different stages of the character design, from concept to final in game version
Fictional in universe advertisement billboards show products or other Counter Ball team logos.
A view on how the advertisement screens are placed in the game world.
The ball's colors change according to the colors of the team that possessed it last.