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Storytime with BattleBlock Theater

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Greetings!  I bring news of BattleBlock Theater, mysterious and exciting new screenshots of our cinematics, and upcoming Tradeshow information!

In past tradeshows we’ve shown BattleBlock Theater’s Arena modes and Arena modes ONLY,  all while having parts of this really cool Story mode.

We weren’t positive whether Story mode would be ideal at a tradeshow because it isn’t instant battle intensity like Arena mode –  Story mode is much more cooperative and thoughtful.  “Oh, stand over there and do this!” you say to your friend.  “Wait a sec, go this way!” your friend says, and so you try out your theories on navigating the level.   These are the kinds of things that are more tolerated while sitting on the couch than standing in a sea of sweating humans.   Of course,  Story mode still allows you to kick your friend’s butt all over the map in between that precious cooperation.  If you could just stop throwing me into the spikes I’ll let you get us that Gem over there.

Since we’ve found many people to have even more fun working together in BattleBlock Theater it only makes sense to break that out and let you all give it a whirl.

Story mode accommodates the difference between the number of players (1-4 currently).  We will be showing some of the 2 player set.

I am so excited to get this game into your hands.   It looks simple I’m sure, but it is the most complex thing I’ve ever worked on.  The amount of thought we’ve put into it has really paid off.   Please come see our game if you’re around!

Upcoming Tradeshows where you can play things and solve things and enjoy things made of Blocks in a Theater:

PAX East (Boston, MA) March 11-13th

Tokyo Anime Fair (Tokyo, Japan) Business Days- March 24-25th; Public Days March 26-27th

Comic Con International (San Diego, CA) July 21-24th

PAX Prime (Seattle, WA) August 26-28th

peace be witcha,

-dan

Castle Crashers 1/2 Off Sale!

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And so as it was foretold, XBLA Castle Crashers will be about the price of hamburger for 10 days this month of December.

It’s going to be 50% off!  Pretty close to FREE if you round up the percentage.. I suppose.

I was in this serious funk.  And so I was thinking;  So what if we’ve made the #1 rated XBLA game of all time?  XBLA Game of the Year XBLA Shmame of the Shmear, nothing is worth 15 dollars.  Maybe our efforts are REALLY only worth somewhere around 7 dollars.  Honestly, maybe even less.

For those of you who were specifically holding out for this moment of us devaluing our self worth: you’ve got more than a week to act on our brief crisis of confidence — but, everyone’s been saying really nice things about us lately so I’m guessing we’ll only be sad from December 21st to the 31st.   After that I bet we’ll be proud of what we’ve made once again. In the meantime, if you’ve been Castle Crashersless because you only have those 600 MS points that you found in your couch cushions, its a good time to finally check out this thing that we made.