Knockout City was today announced by
Mario Kart Live Home Circuit’s Velan Studios, a multiplayer dodgeball title that will be published by EA as part of its EA Originals label.
Velan co-founder Karthik Bala told Stevivor that the dodgeball game — or, rather “dodgebrawl” according to the developer — started off as a prototype around four years ago, built around a “deceptively simple mechanic that showed the promise of depth, skill [and is] something we’ve never tired of playing.”
Play is based around the principles of dodgeball — throwing and catching the ball — and is further videogameified with power-ups, hang gliders and special balls that change the state of play. Rather than playing in a gynmasium of the like,