Thanks a million!

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Today is an awesome day! Less than 10 months after the game’s release I have witnessed 1,000,000 of my friends on the Castle Crashers leaderboards!

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This is really big news! Thanks to you guys Castle Crashers has become the fastest growing XBLA game in history! And saved marriages. AMAZING! I am amazed.

For those of you who might not have been following — we had a contest running to see who could have guessed the date of when the leaderboards reached 1,000,000. Well, today I shall announce that DenisDenis has won by guessing 1:00 PM PST today (June 22). You can’t really get a lot closer than that. Did he go into the future??? I’m not sure. It happened at 12:57 PM, just 3 minutes off!!!!

WAIT – he DID go into the future! Kelly just showed me his post: (“no need to check, I’m back from the future – might as well give me the grand prize right now”)

Right, well, after DenisDenis tells us who wins the superbowl he shall be winning the following Grand Prize Cluster of Wonder:

– Custom Castle Crashers Xbox Elite (not the ones we posted before – those were a gift to us from Microsoft!)

– the ultra super limited edition castle (only 50 made)

– a REAL bronze knight figurine!

– a personalized DAN PALADIN drawing

– other random items

Congratulations!

Thanks everyone who has played and enjoyed our game! I hope to see you all at San Diego Comic-Con where we can jump around and screech like small school children (unless you are a small school child, in which case you can scream like a manatee or a pterodactyl)!

-dan

Goldbags, shoes, items galore

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Amongst all the huge amounts of game development going on we tend to keep ourselves EXTRA busy with cool projects. Here are only a couple of the many things we are currently working on:

Castle Crasher shoes?!
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We’ve been thinking about making some shoes every once in a while, but after seeing this link we were even more supercharged to make some! There’s also these shoes and these shoes… I wonder if there are more I haven’t found? I really like the colors on this last one!

Our shoes are not ready, of course, but we are working on getting one done. The design (and modelling) on this one was done by our friend Min Kyung. Sometimes I call her Filet Mignon because that’s what it rhymes with.

Goldbag with MYSTERIOUS CONTENTS?!
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This fine bag that I am displaying should look familiar to those of you who have played Castle Crashers. The contents are still secret right now.. I wish I could tell you but it just isn’t time yet 🙁 So let’s guess. What do you think might be inside? (It’s not gold, even though it looks like it should be)

This concludes our tour for now… There are several other awesome things we’re planning that I will share later!

It’s always so awesome for me to see these things come to life. Let me know what you think of these things, and what your heart desires.

love,
-dan