{"id":103194,"date":"2021-10-07T15:42:46","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T15:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/intoindiegames.com\/?p=103194"},"modified":"2024-02-09T10:53:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T10:53:43","slug":"qfield-a-mix-of-fast-paced-shooters-and-rocket-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intoindiegames.com\/reviews\/previews\/qfield-a-mix-of-fast-paced-shooters-and-rocket-league\/","title":{"rendered":"QFIELD \u2013 A mix of fast-paced shooters and Rocket League"},"content":{"rendered":"

QFIELD is a soccer-shooter described as ‘Quake meets Rocket League’. Robin Hub from Frozen Phoenix tells us about its development and rules.<\/h3>\n

From the initial idea to QFIELD<\/h2>\n

We, the two founders of QFIELD, are both avid FPS players and we did spend quite a bit of time having fun in Rocket League. We like games with no clutter and simple-yet-deep design. Games you can have fun with for 10 minutes as well as many hours. Games you can ease into, but then spend as much time as you like mastering them.<\/p>\n

One day, we were playing Quake and I shot my friend down with a rocket while he was midair. It just felt amazing and so we asked ourselves, can we build a game that captures this feel? And there we were, thinking about fusing Quake and Rocket League.<\/p>\n

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QFIELD (Work in progress screenshot)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What a simple idea right? Yeah. We thought the same and we were surprised by not finding many games out there like the one we envisioned. We are professional game engineers with a very broad skillset. I shipped Ori and the Will of the Wisps with Moon Studios while my friend shipped Kingdom Come: Deliverance and is now the Lead Engineer at Warhorse Studios. Therefore, the initial prototype was implemented fast.<\/p>\n

The prototype took no longer than a few weeks, but the barebones first-person Rocket League with a weapon was not fun. Like, not at all! It was just a rocket mayhem with two teams \u201cpushing\u201d the ball to the opponent\u2019s side and eventually scoring almost by accident. The player did not feel in control, so we wanted to give up and move onto another prototype.<\/p>\n

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QFIELD (Work in progress screenshot)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That said, the feel of the game wasn\u2019t the one we had in our minds at the beginning and so we decided to spend a little bit more time on this prototype and see if we can get that feel. A \u201cbit more time\u201d ended up being a year of countless iterations on the core abilities, shapes and sizes of the arena and general polish.<\/p>\n

However, that year gave us the much-needed confidence that the initial idea can eventually work and so we decided to continue with the project and started looking for people to help us with the art content.<\/p>\n

The Game<\/h2>\n

As already mentioned, the core of QFIELD can be explained easily as \u201cQuake meets Rocket League\u201d. It\u2019s a first-person soccer shooter where two teams are fighting each other, trying to score a ball into the opponent\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n