We've been hard at work getting Frankie's Revenge ready for release and I'm super excited to say we're getting close to Beta! If you haven't signed up already, hurry and join our community and you'll get an invite when it's out:
http://eepurl.com/b0H5v6
When we took Frankie's Revenge to Gamescom this year, we had well over 500 people play it. It was loads of fun and really cool to see everyone playing together and enjoying it! We couldn't wait to get it in the hands of more people and hear what crazy parts you'd like to use in your bot builds.
The biggest hurdle for running a beta was that we only had local multiplayer up until now. Frankie's Revenge is great in single-player, but it's even more fun in multiplayer so we wanted to make it real easy for people to play together. This was a sizeable effort but we finally have online multiplayer working! From now on, you'll be able to join up with a star team of junky robots even if you don't have 3 friends in the room with you. Check out this super hot feature list:
- Quick Play - instantly jump in an online game, matchmaking included
- Friends-Only or Public Hosts - create games just for your friends or meet new people
- Local & Online Parties - if you do have friends in the room, you can play together and still join others to form larger parties (up to 4 in total)
- Join Up With Friends - invite or join friends with a single click
- Join Games Anytime - you can join a party even when they're in a mission
We've also been busy creating a whole bunch of new levels and designing a new "Revenge System" that will track how well you're doing in each mission. We'll have lots more to share before the upcoming beta but for now, here's a screenshot from the new Jailhouse mission where you have to rescue innocent bots from certain doom.
We'll be launching our Discord channel very soon and we can't wait to get the dialogue started in preparation for the Beta. In the mean time, you can follow us on Facebook or Twitter for latest news.
Happy Holidays from Team Rikodu!