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DYNAMOBOUT

One season left in the Turbine Sports Palace. Coach Galina Orlova has room for four names.

A 1v1 sambo fighting game, cut from paper. Closed playtest on PC and PlayStation 5.

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Period1

Selection

The city closes the Turbine Sports Palace in spring. Water comes through the roof onto mat four, and nobody climbs up to fix it anymore. Coach Galina Orlova gets one last season and room for four names.

Galina's whistle on a braided cord beside her cracked stopwatch
Coach Galina Orlova seen from behind at the edge of the mat, a stopwatch in the hand behind her back

Galina Orlova, sixty. Thirty-one years on this mat.

Misha Volkov

Twenty-two. Fast hands, quiet feet. He wraps his right knee in the locker room, where Galina can't see.

Ladder Hook. He locks your foot to the mat and leans everything on the bad knee to throw.

Galina's card: takes the grip first. Lands badly.

The fourth name took a week. Zoya Pikul asked three times and was sent home three times. On the fourth evening she threw Yuri for a half, in borrowed sneakers, and Galina wrote her down without a word.

Period2

The Winter Games

January. Six clubs, three days, the only heated hall in Sorokgrad. Turbine falls behind on the first morning and stays there.

The main hall during the Winter Games: two wrestlers grip on the blue mat while spectators in fur hats fill the benches
Main Mat

Two hundred people in wet coats. Misha slips three times in his first bout. Three halves, and the board turns them into one full point against him.

Close-up: a hand with taped fingers presses on a bandaged knee held together by a brass pin The locker corridor under the stands, a roll of bandage and a pair of boots left on the bench
Locker Row

Misha wraps the knee before every bout, a little tighter each day. Lidiya comes in for tape and sees it. She says nothing to her mother.

The training room under the roof: patched mats, three buckets under the drips, frost on the windows
Roof Room

Buckets under the drips. After the second day Galina keeps them here past nine and teaches the one rule she cares about.

Half and full

A throw that isn't clean scores a half. A clean throw scores a full. Three halves make one full, and the board flips them over for you.

To throw clean you lock her foot to the mat with yours. The lock opens the full throw and leaves you standing on one leg. If that leg sits on a bad knee, the balance you're reading starts to shake.

Three halves, one full. The board above keeps count the same way.

Turbine finishes fourth. On the last night the scoreboard dies with a bang and stays dark. Galina pins one more card to the rack: Volkov against Orlova.

The dark hall on the night of the last bout: packed stands, every spectator holding a torch, beams crossing over the empty mat
Period3

The Last Bout

The hall lights went out with the board. People come anyway, with torches from home.

Misha and Lidiya have trained on the same mat for six years. They have never fought each other. Galina pins the card and does not explain.

Clean Throw

You are Misha. Lock her foot, then hold to feel her balance. Let go when the mark sits in the notch.

Misha hooks Lidiya's ankle with his left leg, both gripping sleeve and collar, his bandaged knee bent under the weight Lidiya lands flat on her back; Misha stands over her on one leg, still holding her sleeve

Press and hold Space or this button. Release when the mark is in the centre notch.

Her balance is still. Lock the foot for a full throw.

Reduced motion is on, so the bout is shown at its final score. Grip again to play it.

The dead flip board hung back up, its flaps jammed halfway, water running into a bucket below
Misha and Lidiya shake hands in the middle of the mat under crossing torch beams; Galina stands small at the edge

Nobody can read the board

Someone hung the dead board back up for the final, and every flap jams halfway. The judges argue at the table. Misha and Lidiya shake hands before they finish.

Galina's hand on the big black lever of the hall's light switch, the whistle cord at her wrist

Galina waits until the hall is empty. Then she turns off the lights.

Turbine Sports Palace, Sorokgrad. Closed in the spring of 1979.

Notice Board

Notice No. 14: closed playtest

From Turbine Frame Studio, to everyone who asked at the door.

The first closed playtest of DYNAMOBOUT runs on PC and PlayStation 5. You play the whole last season: three periods, four athletes, three stages, and Galina watching from the edge of the mat.

Every athlete started as paper. We cut the pieces, pinned the joints and shot them frame by frame, then rebuilt them in the engine so the hinges still move the way paper moves. When a throw lands, a leg or a belt arrives one frame late, and we kept that delay in the final animation.

The rule is the one Galina teaches in the Roof Room. Halves and fulls, three halves make one, and the foot lock costs you your balance.

Registration is open below. We will write once, before the doors open.

Posted 27 October 2026.

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Closed playtest on PC and PlayStation 5. Places are limited and handed out in waves.

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Archive

Four files, kept in folders like everything else in this building.

DYNAMOBOUT trailer

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