Experience everything you love from the 8-bit era of gaming and live out your fantasies of playing as characters that travel across games. Glitch Strikers is the amalgam of dreams for anyone that grew up playing 8-bit video games.
Glitch Strikers will begin as a compilation of games, so it can be thought of more as an “app” or “hub” than a game. Each game can be played by choosing it in a menu, similar to Super Mario All-Stars. These games will be original concepts inspired by your favorite retro games with several improvements, modernizations, and new ideas… all fine-tuned to be playable by many characters! The first game, Hyper Manni Pals, will come with Glitch Strikers, and is a reimagining of Super Mario Bros. Crossover. After that, additional games will be released as DLC, and each game may come with different characters. You can see footage of some of the other games in the trailer.
So, think of Glitch Strikers as an emulator with super nostalgic powers that lets you play improved, remixed versions of old games with tons of characters that feel familiar, but new. But… that’s only the beginning. After several games are finished, we’ll create a story mode that integrates several games into one campaign. That’s where the story shown in the trailer will be explored, and you’ll be able to investigate the cause of the mysterious glitches. This way, we can have fun, experiment, and play the games separately, but also create an awesome story mode that will be more like a regular game.
Features
Play as characters inspired by legends from the 8-bit era of gaming
Play through original games inspired by your favorite retro classics
4 player local coop (online being worked on but not confirmed)
Pixel art
Retro tunes
Ever-expanding list of games and characters to choose from (DLC)
Story mode and other game modes coming in the future (DLC)
History
Jay Pavlina started Exploding Rabbit when he released Super Mario Bros. Crossover, his first game, in April 2010. After working on it for several years, he wanted to make an original game based on the same concept, so he started the Super Retro Squad Kickstarter in June 2012 (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/explodingrabbit/super-retro-squad), and the goal was reached quickly. Together, the team tried t make the game, but it did not work out, so the project was put on hold.
Jay tried to get the project off the ground several times with smaller versions of the team and then alone, but with increasing financial pressure, Jay had to work on various side projects to pay the bills. On one of these side projects, he met Matt Kap. Jay played Matt’s game, Castle in the Darkness, and knew Matt was the right person for the job.
When asked about Super Retro Squad, Matt mentioned he was a fan, so much so that he named a character Lanzo in Castle in the Darkness. (Lanzo was one of the characters mentioned in the original Super Retro Squad Kickstarter video). Matt and Jay began working on the rebooted version of the project, now known as Glitch Strikers, in July 2016, and the project has gone very smoothly since then.
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