Hello! There's not a whole lot to show on the Ball Stars front, since most of the work we've done is in polish and planning, but I'd like to show off something big that's recently reached a usable state: bots! They've been in development since the SAGE demo released, and recent indev builds are starting to implement them in offline matches.

These will fill out both teams in an offline game, letting people try out the game by themselves before trying to get friends together for online matches. While they're not designed to challenge seasoned players, they can still make use of each character's unique abilities, and in their current state they provide a fairly decent challenge to newer players trying the game out. Check out a couple of matches I recorded with the bots below!

I'm hoping to have these available in the next release. If all goes well, they should be available in online lobbies as well to help fill out uneven (or smaller) teams. There are currently no plans for a release date for the next update, since we have many other things we'd like to add as well.