Play with the Devs – Ep 10 – Recap

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Yesterday, we had our first Play with the Devs live stream for 2014 on TwitchTV. It was an extra special episode since we had the rare chance to bring Tom Fulp, one of our co-founders and programmer, come on the stream to play Castle Crashers XBLA with the community. While our studio is located in San Diego, California, Tom lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Luckily, he was visiting the studio this month so we stole him for an hour and put him in front of the camera.

 

Here's Tom preparing for battle before the live Twitch stream. He had a couple practice rounds before we got started.
Here’s Tom preparing for battle before the live Twitch stream.

 
Tom and I started the live stream with a development story that most people have never heard about. He wouldn’t even tell me what story he’d share before we went live with the stream!

 

Tom wouldn't tell me the story before the live stream so this is my genuine response to the Orange Princess and Painter Boss story.
Tom reveals an alternate scenario for Castle Crashers – Orange Princess and Painter Boss story

 
Another part of the fun in our Play with the Devs streams is the ability to chat with fans and answer questions they may have about our games.

 
TwitchTV Viewer: “How do you manage working on both Newgrounds and the Behemoth stuff?”

Tom: “Poorly.”
 

Of course, there’s more to the story than that, but you’ll have to watch the full recording of our Play with the Devs episode if you didn’t catch it live!

 

 
P.S.
Answers to the trivia questions were:
1) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2) Orange knight [but we would have accepted Green knight or Hatty as well!]
3) Adam or Liam
 
Thank you to everyone who joined us in the chatrooms, who watched the stream, participated in the trivia contest, and big THANKS to the players who joined our Xbox LIVE parties to play Castle Crashers! Follow our TwitchTV Channel to get notified when the next stream goes live!

 

New Arena Feature in BattleBlock & Prisoner Encore

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Another exciting Furbottom’s Friday with a release of a new Arena Feature made by L4D CHARG3R. The Arena playlist was named “Deadly Mixture” by the BattleBlock Theater community member.

 

In addition to the Arena Feature’s new deadly mixture, we’re going to try doing a mix of our own that could prove deadly–for us?(!)

 

We will be mixing up the release of the special prisoners and alternating between re-releasing a special prisoner (Encore! Encore!) and releasing one of the Final Five. There are several fans of the game who have been asking for a second chance to collect all the special prisoners, so we’re going to make sure each of the Star prisoners return once more to BattleBlock Theater.

 

Today, we are bringing back Cat Control! Part robot, part cat, and all prisoner. Don’t miss this second chance to get your very own feline controlled body.

 

Tom Fulp joins PwtD – Jan 23rd from 4-5PM PST

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Play with the Devs (PwtD) is our chance to chat with you and play our games with the community! Whenever we do a live stream and open it up to the community, we’ll let you know during the stream how you can sign up to play against our Behemoth staff.

 
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Thursday, January 23rd, 4:00-5:00PM PST
Next up on our live Twitch TV stream of Play with the Devs, we have TOM FULP, our co-founder of The Behemoth and Castle Crashers programmer, joining us for the full hour. This is a rare chance for us to bring in Tom since he’s usually busy staring at code and running Newgrounds. He’ll be playing against YOU in Castle Crashers XBLA. Mark your calendars for Thursday, January 23rd, from 4:00PM-5:00PM PST!

Follow our channel to get notified when our stream goes live!

 

Watch all of our previous Play with the Devs episodes HERE. We teamed up and played against the community in our game, BattleBlock Theater, and we also had a few guests drop in in 2013.

 

Thanks so much for watching and being a part of the live stream magic.