KTA Tennis X1.2.1

Excellent concept - loved the mouse movement idea! It takes a while to get used to... I just hope it's possible to master it. Yes, the general polish needs a bit of work (bug fixes, sound, music, graphics), but I reckon with a few more version numbers and a tutorial to help gamers get into the control style it could be great.

Not sure why you'd want to pay money for this when there's probably tons of flash games that are just as complex and lacking in graphics. A quick Google turned this up: http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/tennis/tennis.html Which is more enjoyable and better looking -- and free.

It's a fun game, but it crashes many times and the sounds go off in the middle of a play (umpire screams "out" while the ball is thrown up for a serve or the audience cheers while the ball is travelling, etc.). Definitely not shareware material.

Great game! The "little" game to play at least once a day, to relax. Runs well on G5 with 10.4.1. Keep up the good work! Dreaming of Multiplayer game ... Please change the clay field colour :-) Thanks and cheers.

I thought it was a 2 minute game. I thought that u had to be really good to get some fun out of it. Over all I would give it a 2.

love that game. change the colour of the clay court!!!! just watch Roland Garros! Thanks. Laurent.

I played the beta versions for months, it's good fun now and then. But if you can't make it run smooth even on G3s you won't see a dime for the Shareware. I remember how well games like Rune could be played even on an iMac G3 400, so I don't quite see why a game with so simple graphics runs so badly. Or is it the AI that takes all the CPU away? I guess not cause this game not even runs smoothly on my Dual 1Ghz G4 (and is practically unplayable on my iMac DV 400). Make it run well at least on fast G3s and people will buy it.

Looks like a great game, but the areas of the tennis court seem a bit disproportional, as if they are stretched horizontally.

This game has certainly come a long way. It is actually very playable and quite enjoyable. The whole thing is much more polished and playable.

Great fun! Nice to see everyday games on the Mac! Please give us 2 human players against 2 bots. Thanks.

  To the person below struggling with the computer winning points when you return it's serve: you must let the ball bounce on your side of the court before returning serve. After you've made your first return, you can then start volleying the opponent's returns without the ball bouncing.

I really like the gameplay, can't wait for 1.0. The feel and gameplay of this game are actually fun.

just download a copy of Snes9x and find a copy of Super Tennis.

this game doesnt accomodate 800x600 resolutions

I can't see the bottom of the screen when I play, it makes it difficult when you can't see the boundries behind you.

Another nice update, this gets a little more sophisticated with each version. Nice to see statistics, although I've noticed that they're not 100% accurate, ie they said after a match that I had got an ace when I hadn't, and also that the computer hadn't done a single double-fault when it had in fact done two. Still, at least it's there to be worked on. I also think that after playing the game for a week or two, the Professional difficulty is a tad too easy, maybe you could speed up the computer player, or make it more responsive to when you lob it. Or perhaps these could be things implemented into another, harder difficulty level if you're happy with the current one. Anyway, this is a good game, so keep it up.

Nice to see the more glaring errors in the last version have been addressed. As for the "unfairness" mentioned below, I had the same problem, thinking my timing was always right, but having persisted, I think a lot of the problem might have been my inadequacy. Still, maybe I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem to happen now. Nice job, look forward to the next version!

addicting but incredibly annoying and frustrating. your guy will swing the wrong way whenever you press swing on one side of where the ball bounces and then cross over (happens very frequently... about 50% of the time when the computer serves). your guy will also miss the ball for no apparent reason even when your timing is perfect. then sometimes the ball goes real hard or real far to one side and sometimes it doesn't. if you play this game, make sure you have something soft nearby to release some anger. and how about a pause button? In my opinion, it's not worth the download until the developer resolves these issues.

this game would be cool, but the computer F#@!ING cheats! 40% of the time i go to hit the ball I miss it! my guy will swing the wrong F!@#&*ING way! or otherwise the ball goes right through! and the computer can hit balls clearly out of his reach! and i'm talking about novice mode!!! sometimes i'll hit it hard without even pressing up! this game is a real piss-off! but addictive...

Very nice, addicting game. Computer AI is greatly improved, no more winning sets on professional difficulty double faults. Keep up the good work.

Haha Carlos, if you don't like tennis then what good is downloading a tennis game :P

There are quite a few comments here of people who haven't managed to play this game well. Skills? If you don't like the graphics, hang on, have you read the description? This game does *not* try to be as realistic as possible.... Well done, developer.

this games sucks dont waste your time downloadin it

Piece of crap. period. there are awkward controls, you don't hit the ball half of the time you swing. Graphics suck, it all sucks.

For those that said that this game sucks... THEY ARE RIGHT!!!!

Well, I haven't played this game for a very long time, but I think there are pros and cons. I think the engine is pretty neat, once you get used to the timing and positioning required to hit the ball. The graphics are unfancy, which is nice for a change. There are a few flaws. The difficulty settings, for a start, seem glitchy. The default setting was Novice, which I played against, and found pretty difficult to score points against. Then I changed it to Dumb As A Rock, which meant that the computer player refused to hit the ball back. Then I changed back to Novice, and it was still refusing to return my services. Then I changed to Pro and it was difficult again (the same difficulty as Novice had been when I started up). I think more control is required over power and accuracy. Contrary to the previous reviewer, I found the mouse control too hard to get to grips with. How about the ability to assign shots of different power to different buttons, on the mouse or keyboard? I think the shot directions need revising too, as I found that sometimes I'd hold left and press space and my player would hit the ball right instead. It would be really nice to see a multiplayer mode using the left and right half of the keyboard, although how difficult it would be for the developer to incorporate this I don't know. Keep trying, good luck with future versions.

For those who are complaining about the difficulty, you might want to try out the mouse control instead of the keyboard. This gives the game a much more intuitive feel, and is really, much, much, easier to use.

Hi everyone, thanks for all the feedback, and please keep it coming. Honesty is best. So you know, KTA Tennis was developed in about 3 months for the uDevGame 2003 contest - this is just the last version I submitted before the contest deadline was up. I plan to keep improving the game, fixing up rough edges, improving graphics, gameplay, sound, etc., hopefully bringing it to 1.0 release sometime in Spring 2003. Please keep all your comments coming - you can email me at tennis@karlbecker.com if you'd like, also. Thanks, Karl

Very difficult gameplay. You must be in an EXACT position to hit ball--and in the event the ball is hit it either goes 20' long, out of play, or to the opponent--and in the event you hit the ball to the opponent, he is always there to hit it back to you as you struggle to hit it. By the way, this is NOVICE level. Ouch. There are still several bugs such as the game freezing when you pause. And are we talking about the same Nintendo Tennis game, because it looks more like beavis and butthead characters except they float instead of run to the ball. Maybe the author should have waited to release this software until a few more revisions--or maybe something completely different.

By far one of the worst tennis games I've ever played. It may be 'inspired' by Super Tennis, but I'd rather play a beta version of Pong.

Very charming tennis game. Still has some rough edges, but it has a very nice tennis feel, with the mouse control. The particle model has a genuine feeling... I make the same mistakes on the e-court as I did on live courts! I think it's still too easy to beat the Pro, but it's only version .53... The author is very responsive, too!

Excellent concept - loved the mouse movement idea! It takes a while to get used to... I just hope it's possible to master it. Yes, the general polish needs a bit of work (bug fixes, sound, music, graphics), but I reckon with a few more version numbers and a tutorial to help gamers get into the control style it could be great.