Indie developer The Behemoth outlined its plans for the longer term in a latest livestream, and it contains main updates to video games like Castle Crashers and BattleBlock Theater, in addition to work on a brand new sport that can quickly be within the prototype part.
Castle Crashers, the side-scrolling beat-em’-up initially launched in 2008, will obtain a serious replace on Steam referred to as Painter Boss Paradise, which is the primary new content material added to the sport because the introduction of recent playable characters again in 2012. The replace will add Steam Workshop help, permitting for gamers to create their very own characters and share them with others. The Behemoth states in its roadmap trailer that creating characters shall be so simple as swapping out a single picture after which letting the sport deal with all of the onerous stuff like animations.
For many who do not need to craft a personality of their very own, there may even be an official new playable character, Paint Junior, who makes use of their creativeness to create artwork and defeat enemies. Painter Boss Paradise will moreover introduce redrawn fashions for all the sport’s playable characters and weapons, however don’t fret: The brand new fashions might be toggled on or off within the choices menu.
For the studio’s platformer BattleBlock Theater, an replace for the Steam model will enable for greater body charges, help for extra controller varieties, higher rendering, and better audio bitrates for improved sound. The sport shall be coming to fashionable consoles as effectively, one thing additionally within the works for Alien Hominid HD and Alien Hominid Invasion, that are at present out there on Xbox and PC however will quickly be coming to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 too.
To not be omitted, The Behemoth’s quirky technique title, Pit Individuals, may even be receiving some quality-of-life enhancements, although particular particulars weren’t shared.
No launch dates got for any of those updates, and no extra info was shared with reference to when The Behemoth’s subsequent new sport would arrive. In a press launch, the developer states that all the aforementioned updates “shall be rolling out whereas the workforce appears to be like forward to prototyping and growing new titles.”
The roadmap served as a solution to “handle a number of common far requests from the previous 21 years whereas establishing a brand new stage of transparency with gamers,” in accordance with the press launch. The studio’s most-recent tasks had been Alien Hominid HD and Alien Hominid Invasion, each launched in 2023.