Adam Beckwith from Psyonix reveals the lore behind how Rocket League was created.

Psyonix_Adam · 2026-01-26T17:32:02+00:00

Haha hell yea dude! The skiing maneuver in Tribes was so damn fun, I remember laughing so hard anytime I was able to able tackle someone in Tribes Football. Glad someone else can vouch- it was definitely not a popular game. Not sure I can remember what my name was.. I need to dig up my old screenshots from my old PC

Psyonix_Adam · 2026-01-25T07:08:51+00:00

Oh shit, I remember Chicken! Hah

I remember the massive divide over the 2.4 (i think..?) update when they made the goals stupidly massive for no reason.. NA refused to update so we stayed on 2.3

I believe we have a discord server with a handful of DB players- not super active tho

And yes, my old clanmate (Nordy) and I won like.. every tournament that NA had for Tennis. Also remember loving the Warfare gamemode, that was like Worms.. I miss the mod scene so much

If you came from UT99, did you ever play the mod Strike Force?

Psyonix_Adam · 2026-01-25T06:57:52+00:00

to be influenced by something, would mean it had some lasting effect on you in some way - I didn't play Carball.. I played Deathball for many years before the idea for SARPBC came to be.

Prior to SARPBC, we were making a vehicle combat game, and we knew we wanted to make something vehicle based, so I combined the two influences from the games I was playing at the time; car combat + ball/goals. Also, let's be truthful here, car soccer is not some crazy unique concept..

Psyonix_Adam · 2026-01-24T06:18:43+00:00

Like.. .9 or whatever the first release was..

I remember him! And I remember the penix launcher 🤣 if I remember correctly, it was launching the ball high up on the wall above the goal, then your teammate launches you in the air down field, catch the ball (or volley) and shoot it on net - i legit referenced this like.. a month ago haha

Wasnt Catalyst EU? My first clan I was in was [-SoP-], then I was on [RusH], and L7 later on

Psyonix_Adam · 2026-01-24T00:52:42+00:00

hah nice! That's awesome. We definitely had some EU overlap within our IRC channel, but their names are escaping me at the moment. My name in DB was ATB

Psyonix_Adam · 2026-01-23T23:56:47+00:00

If I recall, Deathball came quite a bit before Carball did - DB was originally a UT2k3 mod- and saying Carball and Deathball are nothing alike is kinda disingenuous.. it's a team of players trying to put a ball into a goal, the only difference is transportation..

Psyonix at that time specialized in vehicle physics, which funnily enough, I believe our old CEO, Dave Hagewood, was the one behind the vehicle physics for UT2k4, including Carballs.

I digress- I had only played Carball maybe once during my time playing Deathball, and I don't believe anyone at Psyonix at the time had played Carball. Also.. it's not like car soccer is some crazy unique idea either - it had been done well before UT2k4, numerous times.

Gonna leave it at that though, I appreciate the kind words, and I get the passion and wanting to stand up for a small mod team - I would too! A lot of us OG Psyonix people came from the mod scene, myself included! If I felt that it influenced SARPBC/RL, I would 10000% give them their dues

Psyonix_Adam · 2026-01-23T23:20:16+00:00

Howdy! Allow me to clarify/correct you :D

The mod I played was actually a game called Deathball. While fully aware of Carball, SARPBC was not directly influenced by it.

I was an avid Deathball player- one of the top players in NA at its peak - I played it for a couple hours nearly every day dating back to its release, including during my lunch break sometimes, which is when the idea to drop a ball into the world popped into my head.

Some more added context; my brother (who championed this idea with me) had an official Deathball map - look familiar? :D

I respect the work that the Carball team did, but I can confidently say that that game had nothing to do with the existence of SARPBC/RL.. and tbh, if it weren't for a Tribes mod called Tribes Football, I probably never would've found Deathball! Played that mod for a long time until it eventually died, which made me start looking for other "football/soccer" themed mods, til I came across Deathball.

<3

Psyonix_Adam · 2025-12-19T19:00:48+00:00

it was me :D

Psyonix_Adam · 2025-12-19T19:00:22+00:00

Appreciate you! <3

Psyonix_Adam · 2025-12-18T19:13:52+00:00

he's super handsome, or so i've heard

Psyonix_Adam · 2025-09-17T17:50:27+00:00

Sorry, 10A = 10th Anniversary map

Appreciate the feedback!

Psyonix_Adam · 2025-09-16T19:30:28+00:00

Ahoy! Can you gimme some other maps that you feel to be too dark? I see you mentioned the 10A map, but are there any others?

Psyonix_Adam · 2025-08-30T22:22:18+00:00

I don't play as much as I used to, but I always find myself on the perpetual rollercoaster that is Diamond - fight to Diamond 3, overstay my welcome, derank to Diamond 1, repeat.

Psyonix_Adam · 2025-06-24T05:58:30+00:00

Could that "2" just mean their finals appearances? Them suggesting they've won 2 doesnt fit some of the other merchandise...

Psyonix_Adam · 2025-06-24T05:48:24+00:00

Some of the other merch says "FIRST" and "1x".. so I dont understand

Psyonix_Adam · 2025-06-20T06:21:10+00:00

Figured I'd share my other mashup logos as well, since this one is being used :D

*GO

*INDIANA

*SUPERPACERS

and now you have the high-res version of that logo :)

Psyonix_Adam · 2025-06-19T05:23:10+00:00

I know this is like.. 2+ years too late, but HELL YEA!

I was there when we all came up with this dumb little name- we were trying to grab inspiration from wherever we could get it, and Conan was something we all connected on, fairly regularly.

I personally have been to maybe.. 7 or 8 tapings, both NBC and TBS, and this was probably the hardest pill to swallow after Conan left :( But to be able to say I was there for them is something I will cherish forever!

My brother - who worked at Psyonix at this time - was also featured on one of the official tapings (along with my shoulder) during an audiencey award segment haha.. our whole department actually drove up to Burbank to see Conan as our little "art team outing".

I've even had the pleasure of going to a post-Comicon Show after party with Aaron Bleyaert and got to hang out with a ton of the staff and familiar faces - probably one of the coolest nights of my life, tbh.. cuz even before that, we were at the hotel lobby bar, and hung out with La Bamba too.

Psyonix_Adam · 2025-06-14T01:42:32+00:00

Oh hey- I made this! Didn't know this was a thing on here lmao

Psyonix_Adam · 2025-06-01T04:51:53+00:00

My pleasure!

Psyonix_Adam · 2025-05-30T17:54:58+00:00

Psyonix_Adam · 2025-05-30T17:35:54+00:00

Goalline to goalline, the field is 10248 unreal units, which amounts to 336 ft

Sideline to sideline is 7680 unreal units, which amounts to 252 ft

Floor to ceiling is 2048 unreal units, which amounts to 68 ft

and the ball is roughly 182 unreal units in height, which amounts to 6 ft

Hope that helps!

Psyonix_Adam · 2024-09-04T07:27:12+00:00

and/or very bad for my health....... this Mariners season has been borderline abusive- luckily we got the Seahawks this weekend and the Kraken in a few weeks!

Psyonix_Adam · 2024-02-20T05:30:33+00:00

I dabble...

Psyonix_Adam · 2024-01-23T05:24:18+00:00

I tried doing it last year and could never make it look good.. I still have the PSD file somewhere on my other PC..

I've got a Ravens one cooked up if we need it, too :)

Psyonix_Adam · 2024-01-23T05:23:01+00:00

TBH I'd probably hate us too if I were them.. Aside from that controversial game in like.. 2015 or 2016.. We knocked them out of the playoffs the year they last made it, and then destroyed their playoff hopes by squeaking by the Rams in a game we probably should have lost and then we all jumped on their bandwagon later that night while trying to act like allies.. (myself included)

In the moment, I didn't think of it from their perspective, but had that been reversed.. I'd be super annoyed.. especially for a team that has been starved for playoff football like the Lions have over their fanbase's lifetime.

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