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Over 3 Million Castle Crashers

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September was another busy month for us. We attended our 7th PAX Prime, we revealed our level editor for BattleBlock Theater, hosted our second tournament for Castle Crashers, and finally saw our leaderboards for Castle Crashers pass the 3 million mark.

While we were in Seattle for PAX Prime 2012 the XBLA Castle Crashers leaderboards reached 3 million! This means that over three million humans have hacked and slashed their way into a castle in hopes of gaining animated glory! We are tremendously grateful that in four years, we’ve had the continuing opportunity to share this game with the world.

Castle Crashers continues to be exposed to new gamers who are just getting used to their controllers, to experienced gamers ready for challenges on insane mode, and everyone in between who just wants to play a great game. Reaching the 3 million in leaderboards means a lot to us for so many reasons. It shows us that there is still demand for 2D games like Castle Crashers. It motivates us to keep on creating fresh and original content like in Castle Crashers.

Thank you to everyone who has played our games and continues to support us as an independent developer. We’ll keep on fighting and making games as everyone continues to fight in our games.

 

In other BIG news, the results to the 2012 Castle Crashers Tournament of Champions (Xbox) are in! Who were the tournament victors?

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Level Lobby ft. Level Editor

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I am proud to unveil our Level Editor for BattleBlock Theater.   This is just a PART of our Level Lobby – which I’ll get into a little later in another post.

Did you know that our Level Editor is the same editor we used to develop all of our own levels in Story mode?  And all of our official Arena levels as well!

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE (I always wanted to say that!):

  • It’s super easy to use!  Easier than putting on your own two shoes!
  • Create all kinds of twists and bends!
  • You can create & edit levels with friends!  
  • Test it while you build it!  See if you’ve killed it!
  • Upload and share!  Download and rate!  What will you do with the each playlist’s fate?
  • Make it simple!  Make it complex!  A click of a button to amaze and perplex!

So you know, this has been so hard to keep quiet.  I mean we’ve had the Level Editor this entire time, but I can’t really tell anyone about it until we knew all the details and innerworkings.    Then we made it just a little nicer for you than we did for ourselves.  Because we think you deserve nice things.

I love you!

-Dan

P.S.

Follow PAX Prime press coverage for more nitty gritty details!

Alien Hominid HD – June Leaderboard Winners

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The contest is now closed! We had three awesome weekly leaderboard scores for the main Alien Hominid HD game on medium difficulty. Mini-game players also had a chance to show off their skills and work hard at the monthly leaderboard scores for PDA Games (Ranked match) and Super Soviet Missile Mastar. Too late to enter now, but if you’re curious what sorts of hoops they had to jump through and who qualified to enter, you can check out the contest rules here.

All five winners will be getting their very own Alien Hominid HD leaderboard trophy! Here’s an idea of what it will look like minus the personalized engraved base underneath:

 

Congratulations to the following players:

Alien Hominid HD – Medium Difficulty – Weekly Leaderboard
6/16/2012: Poopisgood007 – 321,914 points
6/23/2012: Those 30 Ninjas – 1,000,701 points
6/30/2012: X Inkie – 151,369 points

PDA Games – Ranked Match – Monthly Leaderboard
6/30/2012: Youhakuwra – 21,300 points

Super Soviet Missile Mastar – Most KM Traveled Leaderboard
6/30/2012: Utter Pownage 5 – 17,961 points