Surf in your flow, collect drops, and clear out „braininvaders“ with Flowerpower Balls!

During a 10-minute race (press R to start a race), you surf over waves and dunes (yes, your board is also a hoverboard), through caves, and dive underwater, trying to collect as many points (drops) as you can (fruit and crystals) in those 10 minutes.

The drop multiplier increases every time you pass a checkpoint, and your drops are doubled every time you cross the finish line.

During your race, you’ll encounter „Braininvaders“ in six different colors. „Braininvaders“ have only one thing on their minds: to break your flow. Hit them with bouncy Flower Power Balls and send them back to the sender… this will net you some juicy drops. Watch out for the green Kraken Agents too (they’re immune to Flower Power Balls), because they pack a serious punch, and if they catch you, your drop count will plummet.

Requirements

The game is for PC/Windows (DX 11), and your computer needs a dedicated gaming graphics card to play Soupaflow smoothly (RTX 3050  mobile or equivalent).  You need a keyboard and a mouse to play it, there is no gamepad support. In reality, there is a support, but it's useless ;-)

Installation

When packaging the game, there was an option to include prerequisites like the .NET SDK, and I checked that box. If you're happy with your current gaming box, don't install it; the files are from mid-2024.

(1) After the download unzip the Soupaflow_PC_Game_WindowsClient.zip file to a location of your choice (e.g., directly to Downloads or move the zip file to your Documents folder)

(2) After unzipping, open the Soupaflow_PC_Game_WindowsClient folder and….

 (3) double-click SoupaflowClient.exe at the bottom*

* When Windows asks you if it can/should do something, just say yes to everything.

Once Soupaflow has started

In My Style, you can customize your character’s outfit. Then, click on Keymap to familiarize yourself with the key bindings, and then on Play, followed by Play Solo. Look around.

Pressing the E key lets you jump onto your board and back down (unless you’re in a no-surf zone, such as at the bar or one of the viewing pavilions).

Pressing R starts a race

May the flow be with you 😉 

Features

• Open Island
• One big level / race course across the island

From my last dev log, July 2024

• Tune & Tone – The two new Toon characters
• 9 new hats
• Hats can be put on and taken off in-game using the H key
• New wavy race section with buoys
• Slide-drives with glow
• Main drive glow is now easier on the eyes, but with a tail and x2
• HUD: Current position is displayed
• HUD: Now highlights missed checkpoints
• Checkpoints now gray out after being passed for better orientation
• In-game ranking board / Online leaderboard (not sure if that still works, because EOS has been updated several times in the meantime)

• 3 game modes: Solo (Offline) – Online (Multiplayer) – LAN (Multiplayer)
• Unreal Engine version freeze at 5.3.2
• Boards and hats now feature a clear coat material setup for more eye candy
• The octopuses, which can dish out serious damage and should therefore be avoided if possible, now wear agent hat

There is some more information about the game on my website, but I've already said almost everything here. https://webstylerei.de/soupaflow-games#soupaflow-english

Infos

Solomode

Soupaflow is my first game and was created from 2022 to 2024 with Unreal Engine 5.3. It’s essentially a multiplayer game, but there are currently no servers running, so solo mode is the only option right now.

The game comes as it is. 

My Unreal Engine development has been discontinued because I decided to create web games (like Duckie Games, also here on Itch), and unfortunately, Unreal Engine no longer supports exporting to the web. This means that even if you find a bug, I can no longer fix it.

For multiplayer, there are also dedicated servers available for both Windows and Linux. These are not included here and will be eventually provided later as separate files with a short guide.

You want to support? -> Duckie Games

If you enjoyed Soupaflow and would like to support me in the development of a  third, still completely unknown ;-) game, the best way to do this is by putting your monetary support into Duckie Games, also here on Itch.  ...two games for one, so to speak.;-)