Ultra Pro Wrestling

Sam here, I saw we had a couple of update requests so let me give you as much as i can.
Currently the majority of development is building towards the upcoming playable "RIOT" demo.

Gameplay: I've personally been working on nothing but gameplay and match mechanics for the last few weeks and while I'd love to show off some of the progress, I've decided to keep it back until the demo launches. I think this way it will make a bigger splash when people see all of this for the first time. A number of small things have already been improved such as the rope physics and how the wrestlers move in to the correct alignment for grappling moves. We also have a new fan generation system which has massively improved the frame rate.

Demo: With the demo being set in the EWF on the Monday Riot show (our version of WWF RAW), We have built our version of the Manhattan center "arena" and its looking spectacular! Everyone on the team who has seen it is blown away by how good this is looking. The Demo is set for Q3 and based on everything so far we will smash that goal.
We may even have time to add an extra character to it but i cant confirm that just yet.

Menus: Obviously i had spent quite a few months on building out the menu and CAW/CAE systems. So by the time the demo is ready we should also be able to include those features. If so, it means you will get to play with the CAW and change the look of Bill Dollar and Buckingham. Also the look of the Manhattan center as well as some of the ring stuff.

Animations: the animations are still one of the biggest challenges, simply due to how long they take. But we are somewhat close to having all the moves done for Bill Dollar and Buckingham who will be the main two wrestlers in the demo. If possible we hope to get the animations done for a third base wrestler who could challenge the winner of Bill vs Buckingham. again, its something we cant promise but we are hopeful.

Music: Our music guy Stephen has been killing it! we've got so many tracks for background music and entrance music for many of the base wrestlers and even some for the DLC ones!

Free Agents and Promotions: I know some of you are more interested in the base game aspects of UPW and the DLC stuff isnt as important. But having the DLC wrestlers and promotions is helping to advertise and promote UPW in ways we never dreamed of. for example, our deal with OVW means we will be given advertising space on their upcoming shows which will no doubt be featured heavily in any future seasons of the wrestlers which airs on Netflix! This is the type of advertising we could never afford so we feel that perusing real world promotions in this way has more than payed off. We also have a number or promotions who we are in discussions with and we may even have another promotion which we plan to announce pretty soon. I cant say to much about it but the arena will be unlike anything you've ever played in a previous wrestling game!
We also have a number of unannounced DLC wrestlers which we may get to announcing soon too.

Business Side: With the kickstarter you all didn't just help launch a video game, you helped kickstart Hyperfocus Games! and in doing so we have gotten some attention from publishers/investors. Obviously getting a publisher on board would help us take this thing to the moon. But while additional investment would absolutely help and also speed up the development (especially when it comes to animations) I want you all to know that i will not be signing with any publishers if it means compromising on the vision of UPW. So many games have claimed to be the spiritual successor to AKI and failed. I want to promise you all that this will not happen with us! So if you ever hear us talking about publishers or investors, just know that we arent compromising anything in order to secure any additional investment.
That being said, the fact that we are even in this position is because of the sustained grow of UPW as a brand and none of that was possible without all of you! So once again i just have to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for believing in this vision.


All in all, everything is great! we have an incredible team working on various aspect of the game and the work thats being done is truly incredible. I wish i could show some of the demo footage but i really dont want to take anything away from when we announce its launch! Thank you all again!
Sam