- Have You Played Natural Soccer? - 18 July 2019
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Natural Soccer is a football game where you can bend the ball in impossible and ridiculous ways while it’s in mid-air. Besides this one trait, it’s a pretty ordinary – and very simple – take on the beautiful game, and while I was charmed at first sight I didn’t know quite whether it could keep me entertained for more than an hour or two. But after a while, I made a wonderful discovery. I realised that Natural Soccer is the perfect playground for role-playing as an undercover wizard who performs physics-breaking feats of socc-tacular splendour, but mustn’t draw too much attention to himself as he does so. (more…)
- Achievement Unlocked: Improved Goal Nets! - 13 November 2017
Welcome to version 1.5.0, which offers the following improvements: Stats & Achievements Often wished for, now finally available! Unlock achievements for scoring goals, winning matches, becoming champion and other accomplishments. (Please visit http://steamcommunity.com/stats/347690/achievements/ to track your progress as there is no in-game achievements view yet). Greatly Improved Goal Nets Enjoy the all-new, physics based goal net animations along with improved net physics. Scoring has never been so much fun! Fixed Crash on Replays after Red Card Fixed crash when activating replay after a player has been sent off. Enjoy Natural Soccer! ~ Thorsten
- Achievement Unlocked: Improved Goal Nets! - 13 November 2017
Welcome to version 1.5.0, which offers the following improvements: Stats & Achievements Often wished for, now finally available! Unlock achievements for scoring goals, winning matches, becoming champion and other accomplishments. (Please visit http://steamcommunity.com/stats/347690/achievements/ to track your progress as there is no in-game achievements view yet). Greatly Improved Goal Nets Enjoy the all-new, physics based goal net animations along with improved net physics. Scoring has never been so much fun! Fixed Crash on Replays after Red Card Fixed crash when activating replay after a player has been sent off. Enjoy Natural Soccer! ~ Thorsten
- Natural Soccer 1.4.11 Available Featuring Various Gameplay Improvements - 4 November 2017
You keep on posting a lot of very helpful and constructive feedback about my game - thank you so much! - I greatly appreciate it! I took the most frequently mentioned criticism to heart and improved Natural Soccer in the following ways, which, in my humble opinion, greatly further improve the overall gameplay: Added Player vs Player Collisions From now on, players no longer just pass through each other, enabling you to shield the ball with a player's body and perform some impressive dribbling. It makes the game more realistic and adds quite a bit of depth to the gameplay. Hope you'll like it too! Added Manual Passing While automatic short passes are still available unaltered by tapping the pass button, you can now perform manual straight passes by holding down the pass button instead. The longer you hold it, the more powerful the pass will be. Those manual passes deliberately are not af…
- Natural Soccer 1.4.11 Available Featuring Various Gameplay Improvements - 4 November 2017
You keep on posting a lot of very helpful and constructive feedback about my game - thank you so much! - I greatly appreciate it! I took the most frequently mentioned criticism to heart and improved Natural Soccer in the following ways, which, in my humble opinion, greatly further improve the overall gameplay: Added Player vs Player Collisions From now on, players no longer just pass through each other, enabling you to shield the ball with a player's body and perform some impressive dribbling. It makes the game more realistic and adds quite a bit of depth to the gameplay. Hope you'll like it too! Added Manual Passing While automatic short passes are still available unaltered by tapping the pass button, you can now perform manual straight passes by holding down the pass button instead. The longer you hold it, the more powerful the pass will be. Those manual passes deliberately are not af…
- ONLINE BETA AVAILABLE! - 23 January 2017
Hi all, today, I am very happy to announce the first available BETA version of ONLINE MULTIPLAYER ! Please note though, that adding online multiplayer to a high paced arcade game such as Natural Soccer is a very tough task - and it actually is the first time for me to ever try to do so ;-) So this is a very first test if online multiplayer in Natural Soccer is even feasible and doable by me :-) - worst case, it may very well show that that's not the case, so I would love to get your feedback on this VERY EARLY version of online multiplayer to see if it makes any sense to pursue the idea or not. Please note that online multiplayer in Natural Soccer is highly dependend on a stable connection with a decent ping. So your experience may vary greatly depending on who you play against. So try to match up with your friends close to you geographically, if possible (listed close to the top of the…
- ONLINE BETA AVAILABLE! - 23 January 2017
Hi all, today, I am very happy to announce the first available BETA version of ONLINE MULTIPLAYER ! Please note though, that adding online multiplayer to a high paced arcade game such as Natural Soccer is a very tough task - and it actually is the first time for me to ever try to do so ;-) So this is a very first test if online multiplayer in Natural Soccer is even feasible and doable by me :-) - worst case, it may very well show that that's not the case, so I would love to get your feedback on this VERY EARLY version of online multiplayer to see if it makes any sense to pursue the idea or not. Please note that online multiplayer in Natural Soccer is highly dependend on a stable connection with a decent ping. So your experience may vary greatly depending on who you play against. So try to match up with your friends close to you geographically, if possible (listed close to the top of the…
- Keyboard mapping available in BETA - 29 June 2016
Hi, due to popular demand I added a (rudimentary) keyboard mapping to the current BETA version. It allows you to specify which keys you want to use when playing with a keyboard instead of a game controller. Side note: Natural Soccer plays way better with an (analogue) controller, so do yourself a favor and use a game controller instead of the keyboard controls. If you happen to have problems using your controller, please post to the forums what the problem is and what controller you use. But now on with the keyboard mapping: For now there is no user interface to change the keyboard keys. Instead you create a text file containing the mappings you want to use. To create a custom mapping, please create a file called "keyboard.txt" in the data folder of Natural Soccer in your user profile. The full path to that file would be: %USERPROFILE%\.NaturalSoccer\keyboard.txt A popular request is to…
- Keyboard mapping available in BETA - 29 June 2016
Hi, due to popular demand I added a (rudimentary) keyboard mapping to the current BETA version. It allows you to specify which keys you want to use when playing with a keyboard instead of a game controller. Side note: Natural Soccer plays way better with an (analogue) controller, so do yourself a favor and use a game controller instead of the keyboard controls. If you happen to have problems using your controller, please post to the forums what the problem is and what controller you use. But now on with the keyboard mapping: For now there is no user interface to change the keyboard keys. Instead you create a text file containing the mappings you want to use. To create a custom mapping, please create a file called "keyboard.txt" in the data folder of Natural Soccer in your user profile. The full path to that file would be: %USERPROFILE%\.NaturalSoccer\keyboard.txt A popular request is to…
- Natural Soccer 1.4.7 available - Goalies Vanishing Bug Fixed! - 14 June 2016
I am very happy to announce that the "goalies vanishing" bug, that boggled a few a you, seems to be finally fixed with this release! Thanks A LOT to those who helped me hunting it down!
- Natural Soccer 1.4.7 available - Goalies Vanishing Bug Fixed! - 14 June 2016
I am very happy to announce that the "goalies vanishing" bug, that boggled a few a you, seems to be finally fixed with this release! Thanks A LOT to those who helped me hunting it down!
- Natural Soccer 1.4.6 available! - 25 April 2016
I'm very pleased to announce 1.4.6, containing the following features developed over the last few BETA versions: Optional manual player switching You can now optionally turn off the game's auto-switching of the player you control and manually switch players by pushing the left shoulder button (you might have to re-run your controller setup to assign the new left button properly). Additional game speed options Besides slowing down the game a bit, you can now also speed it up with the new 105% - 125% game speed options. 125% game speed combined with the HARD dribbling mode make for a nice "Kick Off"ish feeling ;-) Improved Audience Sounds Due to popular request, I greatly enhanced the audience sound by adding new chants and cheers. Challenge mode with online leaderboards You play against up to 10, increasingly stronger, teams. For each match won, your score increases by the level's multip…
- Natural Soccer 1.4.6 available! - 25 April 2016
I'm very pleased to announce 1.4.6, containing the following features developed over the last few BETA versions: Optional manual player switching You can now optionally turn off the game's auto-switching of the player you control and manually switch players by pushing the left shoulder button (you might have to re-run your controller setup to assign the new left button properly). Additional game speed options Besides slowing down the game a bit, you can now also speed it up with the new 105% - 125% game speed options. 125% game speed combined with the HARD dribbling mode make for a nice "Kick Off"ish feeling ;-) Improved Audience Sounds Due to popular request, I greatly enhanced the audience sound by adding new chants and cheers. Challenge mode with online leaderboards You play against up to 10, increasingly stronger, teams. For each match won, your score increases by the level's multip…
- Natural Soccer 1.4.5 BETA available! - 20 April 2016
Hi, it's update time again :-) This new BETA version features: * (Hopefully) fixed the freezing problem described in the beta forum * Further improved, more realistic AI for passing and play-by-play * Updated underlying frameworks and libs to most recent versions Please note that this release features quite a lot of new code and as such might contain (even ;-) ) more bugs than usual - if anything does not work for you, please post it to the BETA forum, thank you! I want to thank some AWESOME guys who helped me out (hopefully) tracking that nasty bug down and are of invaluable help constantly - you know who I'm talking to ;-) THANK YOU!
- Natural Soccer 1.4.5 BETA available! - 20 April 2016
Hi, it's update time again :-) This new BETA version features: * (Hopefully) fixed the freezing problem described in the beta forum * Further improved, more realistic AI for passing and play-by-play * Updated underlying frameworks and libs to most recent versions Please note that this release features quite a lot of new code and as such might contain (even ;-) ) more bugs than usual - if anything does not work for you, please post it to the BETA forum, thank you! I want to thank some AWESOME guys who helped me out (hopefully) tracking that nasty bug down and are of invaluable help constantly - you know who I'm talking to ;-) THANK YOU!
- Natural Soccer 1.4.4 available! - 12 April 2016
Hi, it's time for another BETA release: * fixed newly introduced crash when starting new leagues. * toned down passing succession of AI for more realistic and "less mad" passing of the CPU players As always, please tell me what you think at the BETA forum - and if there is a crash, please let the game send in the crash report. THANK YOU! ~ Thorsten
- Natural Soccer 1.4.4 available! - 12 April 2016
Hi, it's time for another BETA release: * fixed newly introduced crash when starting new leagues. * toned down passing succession of AI for more realistic and "less mad" passing of the CPU players As always, please tell me what you think at the BETA forum - and if there is a crash, please let the game send in the crash report. THANK YOU! ~ Thorsten
- Natural Soccer 1.4.3 BETA available! - 6 April 2016
Hi, today, I am very excited to announce the availability of 1.4.3 on the BETA branch. This release introduces an exciting new feature: challenge mode with online leaderboards! In challenge mode: You play against up to 10, increasingly stronger, teams. For each match won, your score increases by the level's multiplier times the match's goal difference - the higher the level the more points per goal. For a draw, you gain no points and the challenge continues with the next level. If you loose a match, the challenge is over. Reaching the final level and winning the match, gains you another 300 points win bonus. You compete against other Steam players all around the world and can check your ranking on the leaderboards. Please give it a try and send me any feedback about it. I am especially interested in bugs and about your opinion about its balance. Thank you - let's compete! ːsteamhappyː
- Natural Soccer 1.4.3 BETA available! - 6 April 2016
Hi, today, I am very excited to announce the availability of 1.4.3 on the BETA branch. This release introduces an exciting new feature: challenge mode with online leaderboards! In challenge mode: You play against up to 10, increasingly stronger, teams. For each match won, your score increases by the level's multiplier times the match's goal difference - the higher the level the more points per goal. For a draw, you gain no points and the challenge continues with the next level. If you loose a match, the challenge is over. Reaching the final level and winning the match, gains you another 300 points win bonus. You compete against other Steam players all around the world and can check your ranking on the leaderboards. Please give it a try and send me any feedback about it. I am especially interested in bugs and about your opinion about its balance. Thank you - let's compete! ːsteamhappyː
- Natural Soccer 1.4.2 BETA available! - 17 March 2016
I'm happy to announce a new BETA release of Natural Soccer. If you are new to the BETA programme, please refer to this post about the BETA build. This BETA offers the following new features: Optional manual player switching You can now optionally turn off the game's auto-switching of the player you control and manually switch players by pushing the left shoulder button (you might have to re-run your controller setup to assign the new left button properly). Additional game speed options Besides slowing down the game a bit, you can now also speed it up with the new 105% - 125% game speed options. 125% game speed combined with the HARD dribbling mode make for a nice "Kick Off"ish feeling ;-) Improved Audience Sounds Due to popular request, I greatly enhanced the audience sound by adding new chants and cheers. I really hope you like the new features and am eagerly looking forward to your fe…
