Boom Fighters – 2018 and Beyond
Its been a long time since I wrote the first entry of the blog, but a lot of great things have happened since then. In the first post, I wrote about bringing a demo of Boom Fighters to Game Connection to be played with an electronic drum kit. The timing wasn’t enough for our team to complete that goal for this event. Nevertheless, we had a great Game Connection event where we we showed our previous games as sample of the game mechanics, and the concept art images of Boom Fighters. This is a picture of our booth:
In this event, we met with a representative from Global Top Round, an accelerator from South Korea and San Francisco. He liked the Boom Fighters concept as well as our portfolio and we also liked their vision of boosting indie game studios. During the following weeks we exchanged few emails to find out more about the program and finally we decided to apply in mid 2017, when they opened their web platform to applications.
During the following months after Game Connection we were able to put together what we wanted: A demo that could be played with an electronic drum kit:
After submitting the game and following the evaluation process we were finally notified by the end of September that Cocodrilo Dog was a finalist. The final took place in Melbourne, Australia and the top 17 studios out of 100+ studios around the world needed to show and pitch their games in order to make it to the top 10. Fortunately we made it 🙂
For more information about this, you can visit these articles:
- Press release Gamasutra: http://ubm.io/2zuVMtE
- GTR – Cocodrilo Dog in Japan: http://bit.ly/2iJx92f
- GTR – Cocodrilo Dog in Corea: http://bit.ly/2jdx5vy
- GTR – Cocodrilo Dog in Australia: http://bit.ly/2zoOFn5
We carried the drum kit to the other side of the world and demo’ed the game with a great reception from the players.
Now Cocodrilo Dog and Boom Fighters will be part of the acceleration program during 2018 and we are very excited to learn as much as we can from the GTR team and our fellow developers.
We’ll work hard on this game and we plan to release the game during this year in PC, XB1 and PS4. There are many exciting features that Boom Fighters will have, but I’ll write about them in future posts. For the time being, I’ll just let you know that they are related to user created content, MIDI instruments, designer toys, education, musicians and more. d(-.-)b
