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Velan Studios is not a household name, but despite this, it's been able to make a bit of a splash. Its first release was the Switch exclusive Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit, but it's also been building up to the launch of something very different: Knockout City. Published by EA Originals, the multiplayer dodgeball game is on the verge of release, and it's already garnered plenty of excitement from an enthusiastic community.
The idea of a competitive game about throwing, catching, and dodging is a simple one, but not something that's really been done before. As it turns out, the concept came to the studio early on, and it's been slowly building on the idea over four years. "Knockout City was one of the early prototypes that we did, to be able to say, 'What kind of different experiences can we create for online multiplayer games?'" says Guha Bala, one of the founding brothers of Velan Studios. He tells us they wanted to avoid making anything too similar to the multiplayer shooters out there, and they landed on the idea of throwing and catching a ball.