Homer Ball!

I bring to you Homer Ball!

This is a short fast paced game. It's basically a 'hold the ball' kind of map where there is an object that each team fights over, and whoever holds the object for the longest combined amount of time at the end of the game is the winner. The object starts in the center of the arena and any player can run over it to pick it up and keep it away from the other teams as long as possible.

The game lasts 5 minutes.

There are four teams (3 players on each team).

There is support for computer players (for when players leave and setting player slots to computers before starting the game).



I test it on battle.net, and I've made some great improvements, but I know that this is still a map that just doesn't "do it" for most people I guess you could say. Theres people that like it, but theres also a lot of people that say its boring . So I present my map to you guys in hopes that you can give it a try and give me feedback on any ways that I could make the game more fun.

This map is based off a map that was made in Team Fortress Classic, it was called murder ball, and my original goal was to have multiple classes and ranged weapons, but I am unsure of what to do, and so far there is only one type of combatant and they are melee fighters.

My goal is to make it a simple fast paced fun game. It's different from other maps because its very quick (5 minutes) and easy to get into. if things are successful then I hope to differentiate it more from other maps you play with different classes and weapons that I would originally wanted to model after the gameplay in TFC.

So the gameplay is simple... homer is in the middle of the arena, go get him before the other teams do. If another team gets him, kill the guy thats holding homer, and if your team has homer, protect him at all costs! whoever controls homer also has a blink ability to help stay away.

Hopefully the game is not so severely flawed that theres no way to make it fun... so if you would please try my map out and give me feedback

note: after I took these pictures I went and made a custom minimap image, and also there of course may be bugs and leaks so please if you feel the need, tell me about all these so I can make my map better!

hmmm...
It's not the worst map I played.
But it could use improvement,
example a lil' better terrain and vegetiation. Maybe add different races so it's not only orcs. (only for the visual)
And you must have a homer model if it's called homer ball.

thanks for the input I'll try putting different races in, but finding a homer model has been a pain.