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BattleBlock Theater (Beta): User Created Levels

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Ah, yes… the BattleBlock Community Theater. Even after 3 years of playwriting levels, how those Beta builders still managed to surprise me! And kill me. And then surprise me again! Whether I was flung through explosions into rooms made out of teleporters or flung through teleporters into rooms made out of explosions, the experience was quite the rollercoastery deathtrap of emotion.

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In fact, the classified content you guys came up with was SO classy, we just had to put together a montage of our favorite user-generated moments from the Beta. Check out the video below to see what madness those playwrights did wrought.
Ready the Rube Goldberg machines!

Note: These user generated playlists may not be available in the Community Theater with the release of the game in spring because they were created during the BattleBlock Theater Beta. However, this content is still protected by copyright under The Behemoth. Thanks for understanding!

BattleBlock Theater Beta Ends March 10th

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This weekend will be the end of the BattleBlock Theater Beta on March 10th, 9PM PST! We’ll be ending it with a big online “party” with our Play with the Devs event to close the Beta! This is an exclusive event for our Beta Testers only as a thank you and the invite even came with a poem written just for them!

The forums, the surveys,
Helpful bug reports,
Exacting Muckle vengeance,
Bountiful yelled retorts.

Ending such bliss is painful,
Hurtful, and quite sad.
Everyone’s been helpful, but we
Must soldier on, my lad!

Often will we think of you, while
Triply sifting through your notes.
Humbly, we thank you… with a
Love letter?! Maybe?! Totes!

Of course, you probably realize,
Vainly as we’ve tried to say, the
End of the Beta is drawing near,
Sunday is the last day (!!!).

You should join us then, for Ye
Olde Dev and Beta Tester Tiff,
Upon the hour of one ’til three (PST)!
<3, ’til we punch you off a cliff.

-Poem by Lindsay @ The Behemoth, with <3s from the Behemoth Dev Team

Thanks again for everyone’s help with this Beta! Special thanks to PlayXBLA, Joystiq, Co-Optimus, XBLA Fans, The Nerd Magazine and IGN for helping hosts contests on their sites! And a big THANK YOU to Microsoft for their help through this process.

We look forward to continuing our work to improve the game and releasing BattleBlock Theater in spring 2013!