BattleBlock Theater

Battleblock Theater – Opening Cinematic

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One thing that was overwhelming for us at PAX East this year was the enormous response we had for our BattleBlock Theater demo. There was a line to play the game about 20 people deep the entire show!
Like most shows we attend we had great opportunities to talk to those of you who made it out and it really was great to see such a positive response from the latest build. With that said, we wanted to show you our brand new opening cinematic from the game.

We’re very happy with how this intro cinematic has turned out and your positive energy fuels our development train right off a cliff into a endless pit of joy and tears. If you did manage to miss the show, don’t worry we’ll be back in July for Comic-Con with another playable build of the game and as many arcade cabinets as we can fit inside our booth.

Below are some of the many articles that came from the show about Battleblock Theater as well as our booth at PAX:

Co-Optimus
Gamepro
DualShockers
1up
Joystiq
Gamespot

What did you think of the intro? As always we love to hear your feedback and response.

-Emil

PAX east booth building!

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PAX East begins tomorrow!

If you are in the Boston area, come by and check out our sweet BattleBlock Theater Co-op multiplayer cabinets, the 4-player uber cabinet with Castle Crashers, and say hi to the guys! We’ll also have tons of good ol schwag including the brand new Pink Knight Figurines, our exclusive PAXeast tee, and a huge array of charms, squishy chickens, keychains, skatedecks, hats, hoodies and more! We’re at booth #550, but just look for the giant Behemoth beacon!

Hit the jump for a bunch of pictures of the booth being created!

good luck, team Boston!

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Resurrecting the Arcade at PAX East

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After experimenting with building our own four player Castle Crashers arcade cabinet we decided to expand on the idea a little. So for PAX East next week we are bringing a total of 5 handmade arcade cabinets with us.

Four of these cabinets will feature a two player BattleBlock Theater setup with the latest build of the game, (which is looking amazing) and the final unit is the original four player Castle Crashers cabinet that started it all. BattleBlock Theater runs off an Xbox 360, while the Castle Crashers cabinet is using a PS3. All of these cabinets are built in-house here in San Diego, and feature a secondary display that rises out of the back of every machine via a remote control. Although the last part about the secondary display is not very relevant, I wanted to emphasize that it was remote controlled and it freaking rises up from the back of the unit like a Phoenix!

Pictures from our warehouse/construction shop:

So if you’re going to be in Boston March 11-13th please try to come by Booth #550 and say hello. It’s the first time we’re showing all of our games using nothing but arcade cabinets. I’m not saying there is some type of arcade contest going on at PAX this year, but if there was I’m betting we’re currently in 1st place; I’m talking to you Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam!

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Emil