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The sports are designed around other party games Trobbiani had seen at game jams, games that were too small or not fleshed out enough to warrant a full commercial release of their own. “It’s hyper-speed pong in space, but also kind of tennis,” Trobbiani said. The games include fencing, which is inspired by Nidhogg wrestling, which is mechanically akin to DiveKick while having platformer-esque controls and snappier movement a side-on version of volleyball and Smashball, a spin on a Japanese arcade game called Sanrio World Smash Ball. Wrestledunk Sports will ship with four mini sports games, all of which can be played in 1v1, 2v2, 4v4 and asymmetrical options like 1v7. “I left that game to work on something new, feeling really burnt out on it, and feeling that if I did return to it, it’d need to be something mechanically better than I’d done before, and a lot of its foundations would need to change completely.” As he was judging, he discovered something uncomfortable: he didn’t really like the mechanics of Hacknet at all, even though he still loved his own game and the systems he designed.
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Trobbiani hosted a modding competition for Hacknet and, as part of the process, he played every mod submitted. “It felt like I was way too close to it – that if I did make something new in that space, it wouldn’t be really pushing the boundaries and taking it anywhere fun, because it felt like that exact game was the only one I was good at making.”Ĭompounding the problem was the experience of the Hacknet modding community. “The game had been a pretty all-consuming thing in my life for a good 6+ years at that point, including support for it, and I just didn’t feel like I could make a follow up to it right after,” the Adelaide-based developer explained to Kotaku Australia over email. The idea to go from an intricate hacking game to sports started in 2017, after Trobbiana shipped the last major expansion for Hacknet, Extensions. So for his next game, Trobbiani is changing tack completely - to sports. But having spent so many years in the text-heavy world of Hacknet and its expansion, Adelaide creator Matt Trobbiani wants a change. I've learned a lot going through this process!Ībsolutely feel free to contact me if you'd like to hear more about it.Hacknet is one of the most successful indies ever made in Australia, and to this day probably the best game ever made about hacking. It started as an experiment in learning to make games that could better stand on their own without relying on narrative dressing, and I'm very proud of the results. It's all tightly designed mechanics, all multiplayer, fully supports online play, and all endlessly replayable. Wrestledunk Sports came from leaning hard into my weaknesses, to make something that was great in all the ways that Hacknet wasn't. Get into it!įollowing up from the success that I found in Hacknet, I wanted my games in the future to be much more mechanically rich. Wrestledunk is an explosive, colorful collection of super competitive multiplayer sports games! Face off online or locally with up to 8 players.