It’s almost time for PAX and EGX 2020, Online Extravaganza Edition! We’re excited to come over to hang out in your house and share all of our great games and tradeshow goodies with you. Don’t worry, your mom said it was cool. You’re bringing snacks, right?
But don’t worry, we promise to be good hosts, even if we’re going to be the ones that are in your home! The PAX Online and EGX Digital event runs 24/7 from September 12th – September 20th, and we’ve got a whole menu of offerings for ya, so why don’t you sneak a little peek at all of the fun things we have in store…
Alien Hominid Invasion: The Demo
Oh yeah, you bet we’re starting with the big one that you’ve all been waiting for.
We’ve been putting in work and have made a load of changes to Alien Hominid Invasion, and we’re excited to show it all off… actually, forget showing off. Why don’t you just try it out for yourself?
For the first time ever, you’ll be able to get a taste of our in-development title Alien Hominid Invasion from the comfort of your own home with our PAX Online Demo!
The Alien Hominid Invasion Demo will be available to play on Steam on September 12th and 13th, and again on September 18th and 19th (that’s in Pacific Time, for everyone joining us from across the globe).
We have lots of new bits and pieces of the game to share, including increased difficulty, new enemies, art updates, achievements, more objectives, map updates, additional enemy swarms, the addition of lunch money, and the highly-requested (and totally optional!) blood and gore feature.
While we continue to develop the game, we haven’t nailed down a release date just yet. Either way, we can’t wait to show you what we’ve been working on and hear what you think!
The Behemoth Booth Experience
This year our booth is alllllll virtual, which makes it extra easy to drop by! We’ll be spinning up a special “PAX Online” section in our Discord server so we can chat about all things back and you can meet up with other show attendees.
We’ll also have special Discord Booth Hours, where you can drop by to chat with Behemoth staff and pretend you’re actually at the show! When these hours are on, you’ll be able to drop your questions and comments in a special text chat channel, and join up in one of our voice servers to hear us read and respond in real time!
Each date will have a special focus that we’ll be chatting about. Check out our schedule here:
- September 12, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT: PAX Online begins, and it’s time to play some Alien Hominid Invasion!
- September 14, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT: Alien Hominid Invasion Feedback and First Impressions
- September 17, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT: All things making Behemoth games
- September 20, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT: PAX Online draws to a close, so let’s reminisce!
Content Drops: Livestreams, Videos, and Podcasts for YOU!
Each day of the show, we’ll be releasing a new piece of content for you to enjoy. This could be a video, livestream, podcast, or more than one!
Each of these will have a different topic, and give you a fresh look at all things Behemoth, from Alien Hominid Invasion to game development to music and more.
- September 11, 3:00 PM PT: Podcast – Developing Alien Hominid Invasion
- September 12, 3:00 PM PT: Livestream – Welcome to Alien Hominid Invasion
- September 13, 3:00 PM PT: Livestream – Alien Hominid Invasion CHALLENGE
- September 14, 3:00 PM PT: Livestream – Making music with Patric Catani
- September 15, 3:00 PM PT: Livestream – PAX & EGX Demos
- September 16, 10:00 AM PT: Podcast – Testing for Perfection
- September 16, 3:00 PM PT: Livestream – BattleBlock Theater
- September 16, 8:00 PM PT: Encore – Making music with Patric Catani
- September 17, 3:00 PM PT: Livestream – Alien Hominid Invasion Changes with Dan
- September 18, 3:00 PM PT: Livestream – Alien Hominid Invasion Co-op Play
- September 19, 10:00 AM PT: Podcast – Alien Hominid Invasion Highlights
- September 19, 3:00 PM PT: Livestream – Alien Hominid Invasion Co-op Play
- September 20, 10:00 AM PT: Video – Alien Hominid Invasion Music Origins
We don’t want to give too much away beyond the titles and topics, so if something catches your eye be sure to come back and check it out! And remember, you can tune into our livestreams on Twitch or YouTube.
P.S., or should we say “P.C.”: You may have noticed something extra special happening on September 14th! Patric Catani is the talented composer behind much of the music you know and love from BattleBlock Theater, Pit People, and soon to be Alien Hominid Invasion. He’ll be putting on a very special musical show for all of the Behemoth fans at PAX Online, so this is definitely a day you won’t want to miss!
Merch: The PAX Vault Opens!
We always roll up to PAX with some pretty cool merch and exclusives, and this year is no different. We’ll have a full spread of merchandise available at store.thebehemoth.com, as well as some new Alien Hominid Invasion pieces and an exclusive PAX Online T-Shirt that you won’t want to miss.
Seriously, you don’t want to miss it.
We call this one “your brain on online isolation”.
Plus, for the first time ever, we also have a special offering that we’re calling “The PAX Vault”. We’re clearing out our stockroom of old and forgotten PAX merchandise from years and tradeshows past, so if you ever saw something super cool that you just couldn’t get, now might be your perfect chance!
Sizes and styles in the PAX Vault are extremely limited, so if something catches your eye you’ll want to grab it as soon as possible! When it’s gone, it’s gone, and it ain’t comin’ back!
Alien Hominid Invasion: Streamer Survival Challenge
We’re challenging all the livestreaming Alien invaders to a special competition during PAX Online + EGX Digital! The premise is simple: try to take down the most Agents in a 20-minute round of Alien Hominid Invasion, and you could win 100 gifted subscriptions from The Behemoth in your Twitch channel!
Before you get out invading, there are a few rules you’ll need to brush up on to make sure your contest entries count! You can check out the rules and learn how to enter here. Submissions close at 10 AM PT on September 20th, so get invading!
Pit People Tournament, $$$ Edition
You might be familiar with the Pit People “P.O.O.P.” Tournaments that come around every few months and are run by our fantastic community members. This one is no different, except it’s very different.
Because you could win
cold
hard
CASH.
This Pit People 1v1 tournament has a $1000 prize pool, and will take place from September 14th through 20th (Pacific Time, so please note your timezones). The 1st place winner will earn $500, 2nd place $200, the 3rd and 4th place $100, and 5th through 8th place will earn $25. Pit people? More like PAID PEOPLE, amirite?
You can join in on this tournament by reaching out to community members Normandia or KreeperKiller63 in the Pit Official Offensive People (P.O.O.P.) Discord server. We’re definitely going to be watching this showdown with bated breath, and you can too by tuning in to Twitch or YouTube at 12:00 PM PT each day of the tournament.
If you made it this far, congratulations! That was an epic wall of text, but it was also your one stop shop guide for an epic Behemoth PAX Online experience! As you can see, we’re extremely excited to share everything we’ve been cookin’ up. To stay the most up to date with all of the best bits and bobs of PAX Online, be sure to follow along on our social media channels including Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram!
Stay See Us at Comic-Con 2020!
That’s a weird-sounding headline, but it’s a true one! Comic-Con@Home is kicking off, and you’re invited to drop by our virtual booth!
The show runs from Wednesday, July 22nd through Sunday, July 26th and is loaded with virtual panels, challenges to participate in, artists to see, online booths to visit, and more!
You can find us at internet booth 329, which puts us all the way on the right side of the map down by exhibit hall A. (Which is where our booth normally is in real life too! Cool, huh?)
We’ll have some goodies up for sale, so if you get your Behemoth merch fix at Comic-Con each year, you still can! Plus, we’re offering a lil’ something extra — if you decide to purchase merch, you can use code SWEATPANTS2020 for 20% off your whole order! This will run through the show dates of July 22nd to July 26th, midnight to midnight, and will work for anyone who’s doing online shopping with us, regardless of whether they go through the Comic-Con@Home booth. You can find our online store riiiiiight here.
We’ll see ya there! Well, not really, but y’know. We’ll see ya here!
Aliens Invaded PAX East: A Super Scientific Report
By now, you probably definitely know that we brought Alien Hominid Invasion to PAX East last month — and it was the first time that our fans EVER got to play it.
As they say, there’s nothing like the first time, so we decided to take some stats from the first time so we could be super analytical (and maybe also make fun of some of you, but only a little).
This first round of invaders didn’t do too bad — in the 167 hours played over the weekend, the Aliens were able to take out 159,137 enemies while only losing 1,402 of their own. Agents were still able to save about 23% of all City Blocks, though, and when it came to Megabot… yeesh. Megabot definitely held it’s own with a solid 41% win rate against the Aliens.
Overall, we’d say that PAX East attendees showed us a decent performance, and with a 94.2% thumbs up rating, we feel pretty confident in saying we did the same for you.
Except for the one Alien that died to the Jetpack Pusher… we might need to have a talk with you.
We’ve still got work to do on the game, as this demo was just a little bitty taste of everything that Alien Hominid Invasion has to offer. But having real live test subjects players try out the game was an awesome experience, and we can’t wait to keep making improvements based off of what we learned at the show! 🛸