rAge 2014 + Debut of Beat Attack
The rAge Expo has always been a landmark gaming event in South Africa, and this year has been no exception. Twoplus Games was there with a gaggle of fellow indie game devs with MakegamesSA and to show off some top-notch home-brewed entertainment!
Dead Run, of course
Arthur Godstruck on Dead Run
We took two games to rAge, and the first is the soon-to-be-released endless twitch zombie-bashing runner Dead Run, which has repeatedly surprised us with how much people love playing it even in an expo environment - see, it was designed for quick play sessions while waiting in a queue, but instead people were queuing up to play it. It brings a smile to our faces 🙂
You can play the Dead Run expo build right here: playdeadrun.com
Dead Run will be coming out soon on iOS (it’s sitting in the approval process which has had unforeseen hiccups), with Android and Windows Mobile to follow.
Beat Attack, the debutante
The second game we brought was Beat Attack, a game we had been prototyping in the last month or so. rAge was the first time we had shown it to the public.
Beat Attack is our rhythmic one-button love letter to combo-licious competitive block-matching puzzle games - it was designed because we love versus puzzle games like Super Puzzle Fighter and Puyo Puyo, but couldn’t really find any that worked with my iPad. So we made our own! We also love DDR, and it all just fit so beautifully together. But more on Beat Attack’s origins later. Beat Attack was super well received, the simple one-button competitive play was a joy to show people and just watch them fall into the game, trying to get better and beat their friends’ ass. Which is exactly what we want out of Beat Attack!
You can play the Beat Attack expo build right now too: twoplusgames.com/beatattack
Beat Attack is currently in alpha and is definitely gonna get finished! Stay up to date by following us on Twitter!
Pictures
Here are just some of our photos from rAge, you can check out our full album for more photos!
These bad boys played at least 4 hours of Dead Run, coming back again and again to whack ever more zombies. Kudos!
Saturday’s Dead Run high scores!
The Akatsuki ninja trainin on Beat Attack
A heated conclusion to a heated game of Beat Attack.