TIGSource: Castle Crashers

Castle Crashers

Derek Yu — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:30:00 +0000

Behemoth, the company that made Alien Hominid (and was founded by Newgrounds creator Tom Fulp), has put up an official site for Castle Crashers, their second game. It’s a 4-player sidescrolling beat-em-up in a medieval setting. You could say that as Alien Hominid was to Metal Slug, Castle Crashers is to Knights of the Round. Or maybe Capcom’s D&D arcade games.

I had a chance to play the game briefly last year at San Diego Comicon and it was pretty fun (although buggy as hell at the time). I’m looking forward to playing it again at SDCC this year to see how things have progressed.

What do you guys think of the graphics? I’ve always like Dan Paladin’s work with Flash, but I was hoping that his console stuff would be a little more “polished.” To me, this still looks like a Flash game, albeit a very, VERY nice one.

EDIT: As far as I know, the game has been confirmed for XBox Live Arcade in 2007 but nowhere else right now.

"Castle Crashers" by N 6

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:51:26 +0000

God can’t even comprehend how hard I’m beating off for this game right now.

Existence is chrashing down all around me.

"Castle Crashers" by Dracko

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:24:38 +0000

I’m practically hoping this doesn’t make it to Wii just on account of the amount of people complaining about the 360.

"Castle Crashers" by Moschops

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:47:30 +0000

Well it took a while to download, but the vid on the site is worth a look. Whether or not I play this will really depend on what platforms it gets released on. I missed out on AH coz the publishers decided not to release the gamecube version in europe and I didn’t want to get freeloader for the sakes of one game :(

I did play the old flash version though and it was a bit on the tricky side.

"Castle Crashers" by CodeKitchen

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:41:33 +0000

Man that looks sweet, with four players should be an even better co-op game than AH. Hopefully this comes out for Nintendo’s virtual console as well, since I have no plans to buy a 360.

"Castle Crashers" by Teeth

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 07:59:23 +0000

Well, in any case - it’s certainly bound for the 360. Not sure what else. Can’t be bothered to research properly, I’d rather just fart my stupid brains onto the internet.

"Castle Crashers" by iopred

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 07:15:29 +0000

Hominid was not in Flash, I can’t really see this being Flash either. But judging the graphics, it looks like synj did them in Flash.

"Castle Crashers" by Teeth

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:24:44 +0000

Yeah, no problem. Just have to write a flash player. PSP’s got one, for example.

"Castle Crashers" by Lord Don

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:51:01 +0000

Flash is flexible enough to port to consoles as well as PC?

"Castle Crashers" by failrate

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:58:56 +0000

Undecided at the moment, innit? Gamasutra has an interview with Baez, and he basically says, “We don’t know, yet.”

If they are developing this in Flash, then they’ll be able to target all current home consoles and PC.

"Castle Crashers" by kyle

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:40:01 +0000

what platform is this for?

"Castle Crashers" by null

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:50:13 +0000

Bad link to the official site, Yu…

"Castle Crashers" by Lorne Whiting

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:54:14 +0000

I personally love the graphics, and the graphics for this game do look a bit more polished than AH, to me atleast.

Smoother.