Comic-Con

Comic Con 2014 – Booth 229

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We’re 75% into our trade show season now and trade show finals are just about to start. Next up is San Diego Comic Con! It’s going to be our longest show of the season since it spans five days. And then our final show will be PAX Prime in August. Will we make it out of the regular season? Will we trade Dan to another team? Will he make MVP (Most Violent Player) again this year?

 

In any case, let’s focus on the now. It’s going to be our 12th year at San Diego Comic Con! (We’re old!) In just a couple weeks, we’ll be over at Booth #229 again with our usual array of goodies, games and group of Behemoth staff. That means merchandise, our custom built arcade cabinets with Alien Hominid, BattleBlock Theater, and Castle Crashers, and US!

 
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We’re currently working on our possible events and giveaway opportunities for the show. One event we can reveal is that we’ve just locked down the times for our free autograph signings with our co-founder and art director, Dan Paladin. Check out the schedule below!

 

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SDCC 2013 – Preview Night

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Whew! Finished up our booth 229 just in time for the Preview Night crowd last night. We had visitors come by to check out our custom built arcade cabinets, get some merchandise from the Gift Shop and even had a special visit from Hatty Hattington!

You’ll get another chance to meet with Hatty tonight at 5PM to 7PM and at the same time on Friday and Saturday. For a schedule of all our events, including the new Flip Book Station on Saturday, please go HERE. We’re also doing some live streaming at various times throughout SDCC 2013. You can find our Twitch TV channel HERE.

Finally, you can click HERE for the full set of Preview Night pictures we took and check out the video below of festivities from last night. See you at Booth 229!

Storytime with BattleBlock Theater

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Greetings!  I bring news of BattleBlock Theater, mysterious and exciting new screenshots of our cinematics, and upcoming Tradeshow information!

In past tradeshows we’ve shown BattleBlock Theater’s Arena modes and Arena modes ONLY,  all while having parts of this really cool Story mode.

We weren’t positive whether Story mode would be ideal at a tradeshow because it isn’t instant battle intensity like Arena mode –  Story mode is much more cooperative and thoughtful.  “Oh, stand over there and do this!” you say to your friend.  “Wait a sec, go this way!” your friend says, and so you try out your theories on navigating the level.   These are the kinds of things that are more tolerated while sitting on the couch than standing in a sea of sweating humans.   Of course,  Story mode still allows you to kick your friend’s butt all over the map in between that precious cooperation.  If you could just stop throwing me into the spikes I’ll let you get us that Gem over there.

Since we’ve found many people to have even more fun working together in BattleBlock Theater it only makes sense to break that out and let you all give it a whirl.

Story mode accommodates the difference between the number of players (1-4 currently).  We will be showing some of the 2 player set.

I am so excited to get this game into your hands.   It looks simple I’m sure, but it is the most complex thing I’ve ever worked on.  The amount of thought we’ve put into it has really paid off.   Please come see our game if you’re around!

Upcoming Tradeshows where you can play things and solve things and enjoy things made of Blocks in a Theater:

PAX East (Boston, MA) March 11-13th

Tokyo Anime Fair (Tokyo, Japan) Business Days- March 24-25th; Public Days March 26-27th

Comic Con International (San Diego, CA) July 21-24th

PAX Prime (Seattle, WA) August 26-28th

peace be witcha,

-dan