Beach Ball Valley

Released: Oct 9, 2020
Platforms: Windows
Last updated: 07 Sep 2026, 12:39 GMT

Updates & announcements

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10 Oct 2020Developer post
Welcome to Beach Ball Valley!
Beach Ball Valley 1.0 is out, after only 36 build updates since April 2016! It's been an adventure & we're happy to launch our super unique VR game into the world. Here's a list of the changes we've added since EA launch! Thanks to everyone for joining us in early access! We'
Beach Ball Valley 1.0 is out, after only 36 build updates since April 2016!
It's been an adventure & we're happy to launch our super unique VR game into the world. Here's a list of the changes we've added since EA launch! Thanks to everyone for joining us in early access! We've had a blast playing & making it & tweaking from your feedback! We're now at a happy, stable, carefully polished release that's so small, it would fit on a CD!
We've tweaked and changed a lot!

photo based & hand painted graphics
rebuilt and simplified the valley
removed teleporting to make it super simple
added tutorial graphics to show you exactly what's going to happen
made all the beach balls come to you
updated unreal engine versions to include better low latency
balanced mind control around hand instead of head
mind control two balls at once
added a number of beach ball drops to make sure you had enough
super rad beach ball model
ring the bell minigame
goalie minigame
demo keys show up on the pc monitor for easy reference
rain cloud to grow bigger beach balls
hints that show up when you look at your hand
wind in the valley will blow beach balls around
magnus effect curves spinning beach balls flight paths
discord rich presence
keys to start minigames from the keyboard
beach balls have fall and Christmas colors!
pimax & virtually all other headset support
keys to have beach balls jump at the player
5+ tracker support for foot & more paddles
hidden advanced mode with desktop music controls & old mind control
realistic binaural (hrtf) audio effects
tiny coins you can eat
trading cards
achievements!
Have fun!
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04 Oct 2020Developer post
Beach Ball Valley out of Early Access
Prepare your pizza paddles, because Beach Ball Valley is releasing on October 10th, 2020! It's been a blast working on it and sharing it with everybody. Seeing many smiles & beach balls slammed skyward around the world. We've tweaked and polished many areas of the game, most
03 Jul 2019Developer post
Ice Cream Cone
We've fixed a few little bugs due to user feedback! Keep it coming! - hjk keys start minigames when no other minigames are playing - strength game is named correctly! To play those minigames from in VR press the menu button and squish the button of the game you want to play.
30 Jun 2019Developer post
Update Ice Cream!
After over one year of testing and tinkering, we totally rebuilt the valley to put you right in the middle of the action, with as little confusion to new players as possible! This is the release candidate. Next release is out of early access! Balls come to you no matter what! Min
After over one year of testing and tinkering, we totally rebuilt the valley to put you right in the middle of the action, with as little confusion to new players as possible! This is the release candidate. Next release is out of early access!

Balls come to you no matter what!
Minigames are a bit different
Pimax Support
More hotkeys to amuse your friends
New simplified mind control system
Discord integration – so your friends can see how many beach balls you've hit!
Want to know everything? Read the manual!
Notes:

Can be played with index controllers, but they're not modeled nicely into the paddles
Tracker Support might not work due to issues in STEAMVR itself – should resolve presently
The original valley will always be available – check it out under the original-valley branch in beta tab when you select game properties.
Here's a [url= https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=380122528]handy guide.[/url]
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12 Feb 2019Developer post
Beach Ball Valley Early Access
We're going to be out of early access soon, but we've made big changes which we will release this month! Here's a bit of back story behind our development! Beach Ball Valley started out a long long time ago. It started back when HTC was going to Release the vive in December 2015.
02 Dec 2017Developer post
Update Huckleberry
Hand Mind Control! You can wave your hand like a trademarked movie character and if you're holding the grip, and if you've touched a beach ball, you can influence it with beach ball mind tricks! Either hand works, so you can do two at once, or can you? Spectator Screen There are
Hand Mind Control!

You can wave your hand like a trademarked movie character and if you're holding the grip, and if you've touched a beach ball, you can influence it with beach ball mind tricks!
Either hand works, so you can do two at once, or can you?
Spectator Screen

There are a variety of keys you can use to interact with your friends, now we show them on the main screen. Space to toggle on/off. No perf hit either way.
Bonuses

Big Beach balls show up now and then. Nobody really know where they come from or why they're here, but they're nice to play with.
Rain Cloud is more happy and loves to water the beach balls.
Fixes

Minigames now end when you leave the area
It's easier to make a shot that bounces off the castle roof and hits the hoops
Paddleball is now always 8 proper hits away
Balls pop less easily
Music minigame launchers are better timed
Tracking puck functionality isn't crashing the world anymore. *(probably)*
Grass is now greener on the other side
Holographic hint paddle system shows players how to start the first game or teleport so you probably don't have to tell them anything for them to move around in the game!
Music minigame metronome goes away farther so it's harder to hit by accident
Super Rare Secret Advanced Mode
Click the backs of the controllers into each other, you'll see some magical puff, and then mind control reverts to the original and challenging system of actually moving your head around because you're rad Mind control
Original post
02 Dec 2017Developer post
Update Huckleberry
Hand Mind Control! You can wave your hand like a trademarked movie character and if you're holding the grip, and if you've touched a beach ball, you can influence it with beach ball mind tricks! Either hand works, so you can do two at once, or can you? Spectator Screen There are
Hand Mind Control!

You can wave your hand like a trademarked movie character and if you're holding the grip, and if you've touched a beach ball, you can influence it with beach ball mind tricks!
Either hand works, so you can do two at once, or can you?
Spectator Screen

There are a variety of keys you can use to interact with your friends, now we show them on the main screen. Space to toggle on/off. No perf hit either way.
Bonuses

Big Beach balls show up now and then. Nobody really know where they come from or why they're here, but they're nice to play with.
Rain Cloud is more happy and loves to water the beach balls.
Fixes

Minigames now end when you leave the area
It's easier to make a shot that bounces off the castle roof and hits the hoops
Paddleball is now always 8 proper hits away
Balls pop less easily
Music minigame launchers are better timed
Tracking puck functionality isn't crashing the world anymore. *(probably)*
Grass is now greener on the other side
Holographic hint paddle system shows players how to start the first game or teleport so you probably don't have to tell them anything for them to move around in the game!
Music minigame metronome goes away farther so it's harder to hit by accident
Super Rare Secret Advanced Mode
Click the backs of the controllers into each other, you'll see some magical puff, and then mind control reverts to the original and challenging system of actually moving your head around because you're rad Mind control
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12 Aug 2017Developer post
Update Grand
Beach Ball Valley Update Grand! We've updated weather systems to reflect standard cloud diversity. There are now happy clouds and angry clouds. You'll know which are which! Also, there are now buttons to press to start games for all the games. To top things off, we've added a new
12 Aug 2017Developer post
Update Grand
Beach Ball Valley Update Grand! We've updated weather systems to reflect standard cloud diversity. There are now happy clouds and angry clouds. You'll know which are which! Also, there are now buttons to press to start games for all the games. To top things off, we've added a new
15 May 2017Developer post
Update Finnish Pancake
Exciting new features Squishy Buttons. Media Menus. Music Game. More Fluffy Clouds! Octopus Ready! Music game! Any song ever, on time, every time. Just tap the tempo! Pick scored or freeplay. Tap in a tempo, preferably to the music you're listening to; desktop music, the radio or
Exciting new features
Squishy Buttons. Media Menus. Music Game. More Fluffy Clouds! Octopus Ready!
Music game!
Any song ever, on time, every time. Just tap the tempo!
Pick scored or freeplay. Tap in a tempo, preferably to the music you're listening to; desktop music, the radio or even a live band! Hit beach balls with the beat! Retap the tempo when it changes, or tap the escape button to escape.
Puck Tracker Support
Vive Puck Trackers now work as extra paddles; stick 'em everywhere! Play with your friends or your cat, or you feet. Add 'em on your arms to basically become an octopus. You can use a lot of trackers, way more than 3. Just turn 'em on and go! If you have enough arms, because you're an octopus, you could play with 8 paddles at once.
Squishy buttons.
They're the best. They're highly robust and very squishy. Way better than springy buttons. They'll let you change music, start games, and teleport!
Fixes:

Lots of little visual improvements.
You can't glitch the ball through the floor anymore, don't even try it!
Ctrl+M disables triggering the music menu in case your guests won't stop triggering it.
K = explode all the beach balls away from you
End = end game, fade to white.
Home = restart game, fade in!
Full Details, cheat codes, inspirational quotes, bug reports and gameplay guide in the manual.
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15 May 2017Developer post
Update Finnish Pancake
Exciting new features Squishy Buttons. Media Menus. Music Game. More Fluffy Clouds! Octopus Ready! Music game! Any song ever, on time, every time. Just tap the tempo! Pick scored or freeplay. Tap in a tempo, preferably to the music you're listening to; desktop music, the radio or
Exciting new features
Squishy Buttons. Media Menus. Music Game. More Fluffy Clouds! Octopus Ready!
Music game!
Any song ever, on time, every time. Just tap the tempo!
Pick scored or freeplay. Tap in a tempo, preferably to the music you're listening to; desktop music, the radio or even a live band! Hit beach balls with the beat! Retap the tempo when it changes, or tap the escape button to escape.
Puck Tracker Support
Vive Puck Trackers now work as extra paddles; stick 'em everywhere! Play with your friends or your cat, or you feet. Add 'em on your arms to basically become an octopus. You can use a lot of trackers, way more than 3. Just turn 'em on and go! If you have enough arms, because you're an octopus, you could play with 8 paddles at once.
Squishy buttons.
They're the best. They're highly robust and very squishy. Way better than springy buttons. They'll let you change music, start games, and teleport!
Fixes:

Lots of little visual improvements.
You can't glitch the ball through the floor anymore, don't even try it!
Ctrl+M disables triggering the music menu in case your guests won't stop triggering it.
K = explode all the beach balls away from you
End = end game, fade to white.
Home = restart game, fade in!
Full Details, cheat codes, inspirational quotes, bug reports and gameplay guide in the manual.
Original post
10 Feb 2017Developer post
Beach Ball Valley Update EMU
If you're trying to figure out the code, you may have noticed we've been releasing each update based on alphabetic animal names! This is pretty much accurate so far. Squishy Button Teleport System! Easy to squish Colorful Makes sense where you're going Open it up with the telepor
If you're trying to figure out the code, you may have noticed we've been releasing each update based on alphabetic animal names! This is pretty much accurate so far.
Squishy Button Teleport System!

Easy to squish
Colorful
Makes sense where you're going
Open it up with the teleport button
Fully haptic enabled squishery
Squishy
Squishy Button Desktop Play Control

Easy to squish
Control your happy tunes from in VR
Sometimes tells you what music player you have
Opens with the triggers!
Coin Drop for your friends

C on the keyboard
Drops edible coins
Don't drop too many coins, they don't grow on trees!
Even more things!

Nicer haptics
Nicer graphics
Softer clouds
Tooltips on controller - look close!
Activate a tooltip that points to a button with 1-8 (manual for details)
Beach Ball Waterfall works from down the canyon
Neater particles! Poof!
Zero gravity is working!
Beach Balls are way friendlier
Secret Giant Mode activation added!
Tips of Castle Turrets ding when hit!
Also, we created the back end code for a really big cool update that we're excited about, but we decided to release this right now instead of waiting anymore! Cheers!
Original post
10 Feb 2017Developer post
Beach Ball Valley Update EMU
If you're trying to figure out the code, you may have noticed we've been releasing each update based on alphabetic animal names! This is pretty much accurate so far. Squishy Button Teleport System! Easy to squish Colorful Makes sense where you're going Open it up with the telepor
If you're trying to figure out the code, you may have noticed we've been releasing each update based on alphabetic animal names! This is pretty much accurate so far.
Squishy Button Teleport System!

Easy to squish
Colorful
Makes sense where you're going
Open it up with the teleport button
Fully haptic enabled squishery
Squishy
Squishy Button Desktop Play Control

Easy to squish
Control your happy tunes from in VR
Sometimes tells you what music player you have
Opens with the triggers!
Coin Drop for your friends

C on the keyboard
Drops edible coins
Don't drop too many coins, they don't grow on trees!
Even more things!

Nicer haptics
Nicer graphics
Softer clouds
Tooltips on controller - look close!
Activate a tooltip that points to a button with 1-8 (manual for details)
Beach Ball Waterfall works from down the canyon
Neater particles! Poof!
Zero gravity is working!
Beach Balls are way friendlier
Secret Giant Mode activation added!
Tips of Castle Turrets ding when hit!
Also, we created the back end code for a really big cool update that we're excited about, but we decided to release this right now instead of waiting anymore! Cheers!
Original post
11 Oct 2016Developer post
Beach Ball Valley Update Dragonfly
We've added another minigame! Try to keep the balls out of the goal. Or in! Go for AN EXACT NUMBER! DECIDE YOUR OWN DESTINY! Or just enjoy huge flocks of beach balls rolling down the hill. We won't tell you what to do. (Well, we kinda did, but ignore that, aight?) Beach Balls don
11 Oct 2016Developer post
Beach Ball Valley Update Dragonfly
We've added another minigame! Try to keep the balls out of the goal. Or in! Go for AN EXACT NUMBER! DECIDE YOUR OWN DESTINY! Or just enjoy huge flocks of beach balls rolling down the hill. We won't tell you what to do. (Well, we kinda did, but ignore that, aight?) Beach Balls don
28 Jul 2016Developer post
Update Cuddlefish
Performance: We've cleaned up pretty much everything, so now you shouldn't be able to drop frames. The storm systems and beach ball exit has been reworked. Turns out they're getting smarter faster, but they don't all leave at once. Of course, we've made a new way to drop frames:
Performance:
We've cleaned up pretty much everything, so now you shouldn't be able to drop frames.
The storm systems and beach ball exit has been reworked. Turns out they're getting smarter faster, but they don't all leave at once.
Of course, we've made a new way to drop frames: Super Sampling! (resolution scaling or screen percentage) It's a very costly way to increase the visual fidelity by rendering more pixels and scaling them down to fit inside your headset.
Numpad 1-4 set to distinct levels, 3 being default.
Numpad +/- add or remove 25 to the screen percentage. (You start at 200)
More details in the manual!
Minigame:
There are now combos. You should be able to score way more points!
Also, it makes sounds. Who cares about points when you can make sounds?
You can still make points in the minigame when the hoops are shrinking!
Teleporting:
Hold down the teleport button (menu button with a blue arrow) and look at the arrow you'd like to follow. Then let go.
Little things:
Keys show arrows that point to the buttons on the controllers, so a demo operator doesn't have to tell everyone what to press.

big thumpad button (launch beach ball)
small menu button (teleport)
trigger (big beach balls)
grip (!?!?!)
big thumpad button (launch beach ball)
small menu button (game / ui)
grip (!?!?!)
big (beach ball)
Tiny arrows point to the active beach ball launcher when you rest your fingers on the touch pads.
Small body collision so you can hold beach balls.
Slot canyon valley sculpted so the beach balls don't get stuck anymore
Big things:
Giant mode is now working very nicely!
Original post
28 Jul 2016Developer post
Update Cuddlefish
Performance: We've cleaned up pretty much everything, so now you shouldn't be able to drop frames. The storm systems and beach ball exit has been reworked. Turns out they're getting smarter faster, but they don't all leave at once. Of course, we've made a new way to drop frames:
Performance:
We've cleaned up pretty much everything, so now you shouldn't be able to drop frames.
The storm systems and beach ball exit has been reworked. Turns out they're getting smarter faster, but they don't all leave at once.
Of course, we've made a new way to drop frames: Super Sampling! (resolution scaling or screen percentage) It's a very costly way to increase the visual fidelity by rendering more pixels and scaling them down to fit inside your headset.
Numpad 1-4 set to distinct levels, 3 being default.
Numpad +/- add or remove 25 to the screen percentage. (You start at 200)
More details in the manual!
Minigame:
There are now combos. You should be able to score way more points!
Also, it makes sounds. Who cares about points when you can make sounds?
You can still make points in the minigame when the hoops are shrinking!
Teleporting:
Hold down the teleport button (menu button with a blue arrow) and look at the arrow you'd like to follow. Then let go.
Little things:
Keys show arrows that point to the buttons on the controllers, so a demo operator doesn't have to tell everyone what to press.

big thumpad button (launch beach ball)
small menu button (teleport)
trigger (big beach balls)
grip (!?!?!)
big thumpad button (launch beach ball)
small menu button (game / ui)
grip (!?!?!)
big (beach ball)
Tiny arrows point to the active beach ball launcher when you rest your fingers on the touch pads.
Small body collision so you can hold beach balls.
Slot canyon valley sculpted so the beach balls don't get stuck anymore
Big things:
Giant mode is now working very nicely!
Original post
08 Jul 2016Developer post
Update Butterfly!
Beach Ball Valley Update Butterfly! Mostly just a bunch of stuff behind the scenes to allow us to rapidly test and implement new ideas, games, locations and Beach Ball Launchers. We've redone the hand controls so nobody accidentally teleports. Now you can use your thumbs to launc
08 Jul 2016Developer post
Update Butterfly!
Beach Ball Valley Update Butterfly! Mostly just a bunch of stuff behind the scenes to allow us to rapidly test and implement new ideas, games, locations and Beach Ball Launchers. We've redone the hand controls so nobody accidentally teleports. Now you can use your thumbs to launc
01 Jul 2016Developer post
Meanwhile in the beach ball central...
We're about 100 commits past update Alpaca (which, by the way, didn't include an actual alpaca, that's just the name we picked). We've been doing a lot of behind the scenes work. We're poking around and scrapping things that didn't work well, and we're updating things to be much

Updates & announcements

Hand Mind Control!

Spectator Screen

Bonuses

Fixes

Super Rare Secret Advanced Mode

Hand Mind Control!

Spectator Screen

Bonuses

Fixes

Super Rare Secret Advanced Mode

Exciting new features

Music game!

Puck Tracker Support

Squishy buttons.

Exciting new features

Music game!

Puck Tracker Support

Squishy buttons.

Squishy Button Teleport System!

Squishy Button Desktop Play Control

Coin Drop for your friends

Even more things!

Squishy Button Teleport System!

Squishy Button Desktop Play Control

Coin Drop for your friends

Even more things!

Performance:

Minigame:

Teleporting:

Little things:

Big things:

Performance:

Minigame:

Teleporting:

Little things:

Big things:

Score Boards!

New zones:

New Hotkeys for playing with your friends:

Score Boards!

New zones:

New Hotkeys for playing with your friends: