ARVORE, the studio behind the Pixel Ripped VR game franchise, announced it’s currently developing a VR soccer game called PAWBALL, which aims to get you leaping around and scoring goals like only a feline can.
On the studio’s Discord (invite link), Arvore Community Manager Freddy Pavao reveals the idea initially came from wanting dinosaurs to play soccer, although the team eventually settled on cats, which can move around in interesting and dynamic ways.
“With the change to our feline friends, the main idea for the game (and all the prototypes that came after) got a whole new range of possibilities,” Pavao says. The game still revolves around soccer but with verticality. Cats can now jump high, climb and hit the ball during aerial attacks. It is by far our game with the most possibilities for gameplay diversity, as players can do basically whatever they want to hit the ball and score a goal.”
Developer Ana Ribeiro shows off a peek at an early build:
So we decided to make a cat soccer game and this is how it is going. We will post the devlogs, and announce the upcoming tester access on our
Discord.@arvoreimmersive– — Ana Ribeiro (@Anagamedev). https://t.co/ELKq8uxYxy#vr #MetaQuest3 #vrsport #vrmeme pic.twitter.com/pMgecKxvBQLike most free-to play games, the studio will provide cosmetic upgrades. Arvore says that the game could be released as early as June. Arvore claims that the beta could be available as soon as June. The primate-focused game of tag reported early last year that it had garnered February 22, 2024
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