HYPERBALLIN' is a wild and free playtest

I had been tracking a bit of the absolutely spastic movement from RedemberGames for what has become HYPERBALLIN'. It's a high-speed physics platformer placing an unnamed Silver Surfer-like character on top of home-sized marbles. The playtest was announced this week and mixes time-attack sequences and parkour-style locomotion with generative strategy, using marbles that won't stay in one place. The developer announced the work with the announcement on Oct. 16, and the playtest runs on Windows with a keyboard and mouse or a controller.

According to its itch.io page, the player races across "multiple marble racing tracks where the floor is the enemy," chaining wall-jumps, floor-surfs, air-dashes, teleports and momentum redirects to build speed with no upper limit. Runs are graded in time-attack ranks that top out at Diamond, and the goal is to reach a figure called the Dominus. Also notable is the serene industrial skyscape, a counterbalance to the frenetic activity below.

For more reading, see This PS1-style videogame is basically Speed with hysterical vehicle physics, In Defense of the 3D Platformer and HYPERBALLIN' on itch.io.