🔥🏀 Blacktop Hoops - Multiplayer VR Basketball for the Metaverse

TL:DR Blacktop Hoops is a streetball-inspired multiplayer VR basketball game with the most natural basketball mechanics ever designed for virtual reality. It’s built for VR with plans for full cross-platform play across console, mobile, and desktop. 

Hi we’re Nathan and Maciej, founders of Vinci Games and developer of Blacktop Hoops. We’re building the first AAA single player and multiplayer basketball game for VR. It’s built with intuitive mechanics so you can shoot just like Steph Curry and dunk like Lebron James.

Problem

Over the last decade sports games have been monopolized across all major platforms with an extremely limited selection of games for players. Games like NBA 2K, FIFA, and Madden release games each year with extremely poor user reviews and limited innovation. With the rapid growth of VR adoption, no true AAA competitive sports franchises exist on VR.

Solution

Blacktop Hoops is designed with ultra-natural mechanics which allow players to chain together flashy dribble tricks, shots, and high-flying dunks to finish off AI or real-world opponents in epic games of arcade basketball.

We’ve worked with pro streetball players and dunkers like King Handles and Jordan Kilganon for mocap animations for the game so opponents feel realistic and respond dynamically to how you play.

We also brought on world-class voiceover talent including Bobbito Garcia (NBA Street), Dante Basco (Avatar the Last Airbender), and Renee Montgomery (ex-WNBA Allstar).

Founders Backstory

Last year we had a crazy idea: could you build a VR basketball game that felt as natural as playing in real life? I spent my entire life playing basketball and previously worked at Oculus and Unity. Our CTO Maciej had spent 18 years at CD Projekt RED as the lead game designer on Witcher 1 - 3. Early last year we spent two months building a prototype of a VR streetball game. After we released it on Reddit, it hit the frontpage of every major VR subreddit including /r/Gaming, /r/Virtualreality /r/Oculus, /r/SteamVR, /r/PSVR, and /r/Playstation. From that point we knew we were onto something big.

Our Ask

1. Download and play Blacktop Hoops - Alpha on Quest or Steam. Share your feedback with us at founders@vinci-games.com.
   1. Play on Oculus or Play on Steam
2. For Investors shoot us an email at founders@vinci-games.com.
3. For Collaborators with ties to the NBA, sportswear brands (i.e. Nike, Adidas), games, VR, and the music industry send us an email at n@vinci-games.com if you’d like to partner.
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Check out our most recent Alpha launch trailer.

Learn more at → https://www.blacktophoopsvr.com/