Play Hard Sports has spent the last 9 months developing a rich new Flash-based football game that puts generic Flash games to shame, featuring detailed graphics, intricate gameplay, and persistent stats. Today the company announced that it has signed Bill Cowher, a famed NFL coach best known for coaching the Steelers to a Super Bowl win, to provide color commentary for the game. To mark the occasion, the company has also decided to swap names (probably a wise decision) and will henceforth be known as “Quick Hit“.
While the game has yet to launch to the public, it is apparently impressing investors: earlier this month the company closed an $8 million Series B funding round, and has raised $13 million to date. In terms of quality, the game seems comparable to World Golf Tour, another rich Flash game that goes far beyond the basic casual games that get discarded after a few minutes.
Quick Hit is being designed to attract gamers and sports fans alike, and will offer persistent gameplay that tracks player stats and records between sessions. The game will also feature an online social community and an RPG-like leveling system allowing you to improve your team over time. Unfortunately we’ll still have to wait a while to see if the game plays as well as it looks: Quick Hit has plans to open up a public beta in June (a private beta may be launched before then), with its full release in August in time for the start of the NFL season.
i thought we were in a recession downtime.
When the world slows down, you need to run.
Or play computer games.
Or drink.
hit the bar
How can somebody make an interface uglier than Tecmo Bowl in 2009 ???
Even in flash ???
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It’s what caused the market to sink today.
I didn’t sell anything.
He said, “if we don’t change anything we’ll end up like Japan”. LOLZ, Japanese companies are so much better off than us it’s not even funny.
These people are just stifling the market on purpose with this bolonga to short sell before the Q2 recovery in my opinion.
I like the graphics and the social feature seems interesting seems interesting but unfortunately we’ll still have to wait to august to check it out.
looks sick
Sweet.
Steelers on Sunday!
Go steelers!
these guys are solid. sports, beer…. not affected by economic downturn. very excited to see how their offerings go in 2009 – watch them – smart, heavy, experienced guys on the team.
Looks impressive for a Flash game, but will people play it over Madden?
It would be interesting to see a true 3D football game on a platform like Instant Action.
nice post
LOVE that logo, name and slogan! Great job!!
Awesome news for PlayHard.
I hope they kick ass.
I’m absolutely baffled that they have $8 million in funding if that is indeed what the game looks like.
Jee, that’s kinda lot of money ::)
it’s about making Flash do something entirely new. Do any early screenshots ever truly represent the shipped game anyway?
Its a cool concept. Tecmo Super Bowl is probably the easiest/fun classic football game out there. If they can replicate some of the gameplay with new features then they have something.
Porting the game to the iPhone, social networks, integrating it with fantasy draft tools, simulating games etc. You can grow this from the web really quickly outwards.
Go Arizona Cardinals! But I hope Kurt Warner gets hurt, and his backup wins the game b/c I hate Warner.. but I hate the Steelers more.. Polamalu needs a hair cut
Very addictive!!!
Good Luck, dudes. It looks pretty sharp. Hopefully the gameplay works as well. Nice work so far.
This isn’t a new concept and until i see more specifics i’ll stick with goallineblitz.
Nothing could be worse than goal line blitz, so I’m optimistic
For a flash based game the UI looks sick. Groundbreaking!!! Can’t wait !