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A ride across Atlanta gets weird

The Battle of ATL

Ellison dropped his phone playing frisbee in Piedmont Park. Find it, survive Atlanta’s most popular bike path, and reach Morgan at 98 Estoria before the clock runs out.

TestFlight betaSeptember 2026macOSApple siliconMade in Atlanta
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The Battle of ATL Mac Beta, built by Web Experts
Independent Mac game beta built by Web Experts in Atlanta.

How to install the beta

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Install TestFlight

Open the Mac App Store, search for TestFlight, and install Apple’s free beta-testing app.

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Join from this page

Return here and click Join the Mac Beta. TestFlight will open the invitation and show The Battle of ATL.

03

Accept and install

Choose Accept, then Install. Future beta updates arrive through TestFlight. Unreal Engine is not required.

Current beta

What you can play

Ride from Midtown into Piedmont Park, search for Ellison’s phone, and push toward Atlanta’s most popular bike path and Krog Street Tunnel while the city reacts around you.

Ride and explore

Arcade and realistic bike modes, jumps, boosts, hills, lake swimming, spare bikes, and a route based on real Atlanta streets.

Survive the route

Pedestrians, scooters, zombies, gunfire, drones, police, potholes, dogs, traffic, and strange Atlanta encounters alter every run.

Help shape Version 1

Testers can report confusing controls, crashes, bad collisions, performance problems, and moments that are fun enough to keep.

Built at Atlanta speed

97
builds
September 2026Development Build 097Independent Version 1 beta

Atlanta, crunched into a game

This experimental indie game started when a Web Experts client wanted to explore 3D rendering for buildings. In September 2026, that led to a slightly harebrained question: how far could we push a frontier model and Unreal Engine before GTA VI arrived? The result has been described as the 1980s Paperboy game meeting GTA on Atlanta’s most popular bike path.

We digitized all of Atlanta’s most popular bike path, plus Piedmont Park and key parts of Midtown, into one connected Unreal Engine world. This beta makes the route playable from Midtown through Piedmont Park to Krog Street Tunnel; later builds will open more of the route we already mapped.

The first 97 builds were created during an intense four-plus-day sprint with GPT-6 Astra running at high speed: a little over one billion AI tokens processed during development, plus five usage resets, while studying the map, testing the route, and turning every section we could reach into gameplay.

This beta is where players join the process. We think the world is ready for real testing, and we’ll keep improving the riding, combat, characters, art, balance, and performance while expanding the map farther across Atlanta.

Map data → Unreal Engine → game

How we rebuilt Piedmont Park

We traced the real path network and road connections, projected them into one Unreal Engine coordinate system, and shaped terrain beneath those routes. Then we repeatedly rode the result, compared slopes and intersections, repaired gaps, and added the trees, streets, lake, landmarks, crowds, and gameplay layer.

Early Unreal Engine aerial view showing the reconstructed Piedmont Park path network over elevation terrain
01 / ReconstructReal park paths, roads, water edges, and elevation become one connected Unreal world.
Unreal Engine terrain pass before a path grading correction
02 / Test the terrainEarly ride tests expose broken grades, holes, sharp seams, and places where map lines do not make a rideable surface.
Corrected Unreal Engine path and terrain after grading work
03 / Make it rideableWe reshape and retest each section until Ellison can ride through it, then build the game encounters on top.

Mac requirements

  • Apple silicon Mac: M1 or newer
  • macOS 14 or newer
  • At least 4 GB of free storage
  • Keyboard and mouse or trackpad
  • Apple TestFlight app for beta installation
This is a work in progress for adult players.The beta contains stylized violence, blood, weapons, and mature Atlanta humor. Features, balance, controls, art, and performance will change before Version 1.