BattleBlock Theater

What’s new in the BBT universe?

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This dark and dingy cell is how we have felt recently here at the office. Lots of late nights spent looking out the windows and watching the outside, trapped in a cage of our own emotions. (Okay, it’s not really like that at all. It’s been a lot of fun working on this thing.) In BattleBlock Theater, you and your friend will be playing as prisoners in a theater run by technologically evil cats. You’re not always in this prison cell though, as the majority of your time is spent performing to save your life, your friends life, and possibly the entire world.

Tears of joy and sadness

Although we won’t have a release date this year, or more specifically before the upcoming Mayan Apocalypse, we are excited to be hitting the home stretch with development of this game. It is indeed very exciting to us and hopefully to you too, but there’s still a lot of things to accomplish before our little baby can be released into the world. As you might already know, or for those who don’t know, there’s many rounds of testing, tweaking and submissions to different departments for review that we have to accomplish before we feel confident with releasing the game.

One small aspect of the submission process is obtaining game ratings, which are always strange and fun to do. You fill out a bunch of paperwork describing the various ways your game has violence, blood, humor, and lots of lots of clowns. After this you are assigned a rating by random acronyms from other countries.

Here’s our current list of acronyms ratings for BattleBlock Theater:

ESRB TEEN – Blood and Violence
DJCTQ 10 + V
CERO B 12+
CSRR 15+ Violence
USK 12+
FPB PG + V

Hm!  That list looks pretty violent!  Trust me – being eaten alive sounds a lot worse on paper.  I mean if you’re just watching someone being eaten alive it’s actually pretty funny.

Wait, that sounds bad, too.  Well, I’m sure you know what we mean.

Last chance to get Hatty!

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If you haven’t had the chance to get your awesome limited edition skin pack for Minecraft yet, then you better do it before November 26th! There are only five days left until Hatty Hattington is no longer available to download!

So far the generosity of Minecraft players have collectively raised over $700,000 for the four charities that the Halloween Skin Pack supports. You can help that number grow and contribute to those causes by purchasing the Minecraft Halloween Skin Pack, by spreading the word about this Minecraft Skin Pack to your friends and family, and by showing your support thru playing the game with those new skins!

Get the Minecraft Halloween Skin Pack HERE before November 26, 2012!

Level Lobby ft. The Level Editor [The Sequel]

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Here’s a follow up post to the previous Level Lobby announcement and with all the fun facts that the first post didn’t have! Questions will be answered, such as: “What else is in the level lobby?” “How do I use this thingamabob?” “What do you think about sequels?”

It’s super easy to use!  Easier than putting on your own two shoes!

  • The  “A” button to place a block.
  • The “B” Button will erase a block.
  • Right Trigger allows you to select anything you’d like to place.
  • Left Trigger allows you to change any properties whenever you want!  (play mode, time, colors, etc.)

I mean how much more simple can something that makes complex stuff get?  Right?

Create all kinds of twists and bends! You can create & edit levels with friends!

  • Allows a second controller to join and edit!
  • No waiting for each other during editing – just go go go!

You and your friend can make stuff just hanging out on the couch!  That’s right!

 

Test it while you build it!  See if you’ve killed it!

  • You can play the level that you’re building at any time — and pop back into editing just as fast!
  • You can instantly turn that Strawberry level into an Arena level and back again!
  • Try Arena modes against AI characters instantly to test it out!

Make sure it’s all buttoned up and beautiful before showing the world!

 

Upload and share!  Download and rate!  What will you do with the each playlist’s fate?

  • Once you’ve completed your masterpiece you can upload it to the Level Lobby!  This is where ALL uploaded playlists can be downloaded, played, and rated by others!
  • Browse the best of the best, or search for awesome underdogs!

You could become a master playwright!

Make it simple!  Make it complex!  A click of a button to amaze and perplex!

  • You’ll amaze yourself and your friends when you see how quickly a simple puzzle can become a complex puzzle!
  • Whoa! A safe area can become the most prickly of parts in moments!
  • It’s crazy how something that sort of sucks can be something that is totally awesome with the drop of a block!
All of this can be done through the Level Lobby! We’re sure that this will make a great hobby!

The Level Editor was always a necessary part of the never ending story.  You see? Wait, am I allowed to type that?  Yeah I’m just referencing something.   Okay good yeah that seems fine.   I mean I really liked that movie, but not the sequel.  That’s one of those movies where the sequel doesn’t really count.  They had a weird bird guy, remember?  He just seemed forced like Jar-Jar Binks did.

The Neverending Story!

  • Good first movie with successful revenge on bullies.
  • Really old empress girl that looks like a child, so they call her the childlike empress.
  • Snail with man-friend.
  • Man made out of rocks who thinks he knows his own strength.
  • Weird bird guy that makes everyone feel awkward.
I still love you!
-Dan