When Namco came up and said:' Would you like to make the new Pac Man?' We were like, 'Hell yes!' And there was a super exciting opportunity making Disney Crossy Road which was a really interesting challenge as well, where we managed to make Crossy Road a better game. We don't have to do work for hire, we just make the things we're interested in.

But after Crossy Road, everything sort of changes for us. Matt Hall: With Crossy Road we had a really big success and we were super fortunate-it's not like we had made lots of games prior to that. Why did you partner with Apple Arcade for this project? GameSpot: Hipster Whale is already a proven success story on the App Store (Crossy Road won an Apple Design Award in 2015, and reportedly earned over $10 million in the first three months).

GameSpot had a chance to speak to the co-founder of Hipster Whale, Matt Hall, about their shift into the Apple Arcade business model. Crossy Road Castle, however, as with all Apple Arcade games, will not feature either. Previous games made by Hipster Whale, including Crossy Road, Pac-Man 256, Disney Crossy Road, and Shooty Skies, were all free-to-play games that featured both regular advertisements and optional in-app purchases. It will also feature boss fights, including one against the infamous eagle from Crossy Road. The arrangement of rooms in the game's endless towers will be randomly generated, but will cater to the number of players present-you can play the game solo, and you won't be served any rooms that require cooperation to overcome. That means you can play together by using any combination of the devices compatible with Apple Arcade, including iPhones, iPads, iPod touches, Mac computers, and Apple TVs. Crossy Road Castle sees the familiar cast of animal characters in a completely different scenario as they traverse up an endless castle tower with no roads or cars in sight.Ĭrossy Road Castle supports up to 4 players locally and takes advantage of Apple Arcade's PS4 and Xbox controller support, as well as multi-device functionality. Hipster Whale, the Melbourne-based studio behind the 2014 iOS hit Crossy Road, today revealed their next project: a multiplayer 2D platformer that will be exclusive to Apple Arcade.

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