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  • From Berlin to Cologne and back


    The handball season finished on Saturday with the last matches in the Bundesliga and the HBL All-Star-Game on Sunday in Berlin. One week earlier the best club teams of Europe came together at the EHF Final 4 in Cologne, where German side THW Kiel won the Champions League. We took our booth to LANXESS arena and want to look back at the most spectacular handball event of the year.

    After a six-hour drive through Friday’s traffic jams from Berlin to Cologne we started to build up the booth before getting some much-needed sleep in order to gain some energy prior to a very intense weekend.
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  • Next turn: the dev-team


    Realistic animations and detailed drawn characters are one thing while developing a handball action game. The other big challenge is to „awake the game to life“. Commercial game programming in general is not a job anymore which is done by a small hobby team in a garage, it’s a high complicated business. From the embedding of the AI, the physic programming up to create the menu, partial some specific task, which are handled by external software provider. But also the „middleware“ has to be included into the code of the game and of course it has to work. A tricky job, but we got some experts who will give you an inside look to their work in the following article.

     

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  • Insight of the creative department


    How do we develop a player in the game and how do the motions look authentically?

    Textur That’s one of the main questions our developers have to answer every day. A lot of attention to detail, creativity and technical know-how is necessary for their work. A look behind the backdrop is worth it for sure. We didn’t want to introduce the team in a boring way, so we decided to interview them and they shot a couple of screenshots of their daily work as well. You will find the results in the article below.

     

     

     

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  • Audiopodcast: wer, wie, was - die Gründer, die Firma und die Produkte


    FritzWir haben schon einige Blogbeiträge über unsere Visionen und die bisherige Entwicklung geschrieben, ach ja und sogar ein Video haben wir online gestellt. Jetzt gibt es dazu auch was auf die Ohren. Die beiden Gründer, Björn und Gregor, plaudern im Radio über das Unternehmen, Probleme bei der Gründung und natürlich über Handballspiele.

    Beitrag als MP3.

  • The Road to „Handball Challenge“ – Prolog


    Wie kommt man eigentlich auf die Idee ein Handballvideospiel zu produzieren? Im Dev-Blog "Unsere Vision" haben wir schon einen kurzen Ausblick gegeben, wie wir uns das Spiel vorstellen und warum wir ein Handballactionspiel produzieren wollen. Heute gehe ich noch Mal ein paar Schritte zurück und schreibe wie ich auf die Idee gekommen bin und was mich mit Handball verbindet. Auf den nächsten Seiten erfahrt ihr in diesem Art "Prolog" etwas über den Weg hin zur Entscheidung ein Handballvideospiel selbst zu produzieren.

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  • Websitelaunchparty


    Letzten Freitag war es soweit: mit der Website-Launch-Party gaben wir den offiziellen Startschuss für die Entwicklung von Handball Challenge! Das Publikum durfte sowohl die erste Version des Teasers sowie einen Ausblick auf das, was noch kommen wird, miterleben. Neben den Köpfen und Talenten hinter Neutron Games (schön, dass ihr alle da wart Jungs!), Förderern und Sponsoren waren übrigens auch ein paar Stars der Handball-Szene dabei: neben Füchse-Hallensprecher Marcus Assemacher (unser persönlicher Star weil er für uns seinen Event-Saal perfekt hergerichtet hat) war auch unser „Model“ Conny Wilczynski  von den Füchsen Berlin anzutreffen.

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  • Our vision ...


    Handball World Cup 2007. Germany is up against Poland in the finals. The German defense is well organized and is able to deflect the pass to the polish pivot by an extremely fast reaction. The german keeper Henning Fritz gets the ball and initiates a fast break by passing the ball to Torsten Jansen with perfect timing. Jansen is sprinting towards the opposing goal and jumps out of full speed into the opposing circle with the intention to throw the ball from the best possible angle. In the last moment a polish defense player pushes Jansen, so that he gets out of balance and in mid-air starts to rotate around his own center. He is now facing the goal with his back. Ordinary people would have completely lost their body control trying try to avoid landing on their face.
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