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After a heartbreaking loss in the first round of the BBL playoffs, a dysfunctional & ragtag group of professional basketball players are transported to a magical world where basketball is played both for fun and used to solve conflict: Ballhalla. Serving as an eternal afterlife where ballers across all dimensions and timelines can ball all day, every single day, the realm has existed for eons with the G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time) reigning as the de facto ruler and it’s benevolent commissioner. While at first the team is confused about why and how they’ve been brought to Ballhalla, they soon discover that the G.O.A.T. is missing, the rules of balling have irrevocably changed – now ball is not only life, but death – and only they can help bring order back to the realm.

I originally felt that translating the essence of basketball - with its beautiful fluidity, endlessly dynamic nature, and split second decision making - into an RPG framework was a fool’s errand. The two concepts were just too different. But I felt compelled by my love of mashups and remix culture to give it a shot and try to combine two of my favorite things into a single piece of media, consequences be damned. I’ve gone through a number of iterations of how I wanted the game to work, starting with RPG frameworks like Final Fantasy, Breath of Fire, and the Persona series as my original baseline. But after some consideration, this route didn’t really made me think “Yeah, this is it.”