
Everything you need to know about Curve’s arcade action game
It’s been interesting working on a game that’s very open about its debt to ’80s arcade platformers, especially speaking as someone who got a space invader permanently tattooed on their wrist at the tender age of 23.
I guess we all show our love for classic gaming in different ways, and while mine was several hours of pain in a tattoo parlour in Camden, UK, indie developer Puppygames had the much smarter idea of creating Titan Attacks!, a love letter to pure arcade action that releases on PlayStation Store this Wednesday, priced at £7.99/€8.99/$11.99. You can spell it with or without the exclamation mark, but we think it adds that extra level of excitement if you keep it in.
We’ve been working on Titan Attacks! here at Curve since Christmas, and it’s our very first PlayStation 3, 4 and PS Vita Cross-Buy title. One of the cool things we’ve seen with Titan Attacks! during development has been just watching people play the game. We’ve taken it to several different shows here in the UK and abroad, and every time someone sits down to play they are nearly instantly engrossed in the action and often reluctant to stop playing, at least until they’re inevitably blown apart by the games titular enemies.
Part of the appeal is the fact Titan Attacks! is instantly accessible and understandable to anyone who has played arcade games before, but while the game may look simple on the surface and very ‘retro’ in its style, there’s actually a lot going on that keeps the game interesting, fresh and addictive through all one hundred levels of the campaign. Titan Attacks! of course features online leaderboards to keep things competitive, and a clever scoring system based around multipliers that you’ll lose if you get hit.
On top of that though, the game encourages you to go for skilful shots and lucky hits and rewards you with bounty money that you can use to upgrade your ship in different ways. This lets you customise your experience more towards your playstyle, so if you prefer to play with a highly manoeuvrable but overall weaker ship, you can – but if you want to create a ship that’s closer to a tank in the way it moves and can shoot multiple lasers of death at your enemies, you can do that too.
Combining the best of modern gaming with the instant fun and gratification of old-school games is what Titan Attacks! is all about. It’s a perfect game to blast away a few minutes during your daily commute, but if all those conventions are anything to go by, don’t be surprised if you load it up on the PlayStation 4 and end up playing it for hours at a time! As always, we’ll try to answer any and all questions you may have about the game in the comments below.
Good game :) but horrible price :(
Great game! I bought it at HB for 1$ (Steam). I’m waiting for 75% off.
Hi Rob, great game! Can I expect any unannounced suprises from Curve Digital to my Vita in the next months?
Looks great. Cross-buy is fantastic news. Will there be a PS Plus discount? I hope that the Titan levels are extremely tough going…
There’s PS+ discount in USA. Hope we will get it too.
I could somehow understand Stealth.Inc, it was pretty much a representation of what indies are. But this is just Galactica with upped graphics, and a high price to it >.>
This is such a great game and will be brilliant on the Vita!
I like all your other games so I might just be in……when it inevitability goes on sale for the price of a coffee like almost every indie game does after a relativity short period. Then again when my 10 dollar store credit arrives (thank you payal) I might drop it on this.
Is there a demo? £8 is a little steep for what appears to Space Invaders with a slight RPG mechanic. Would like to have a little test run of it to see if I’ll get that money’s worth.
Seems to me that Cross-Buy is justifying that price, had it been Vita only (probably the original intention) then it would have been 4 quid or less.
£8 is a bit too much, but you guys know there’ll be a discount within months… As the case is for Stealth Inc and a couple others!
I see £7.99 has become £8.49 overnight then. I didn’t realise inflation was so bad!!!!
Loving the retro feel but £7.99 is very overpriced, even with the cross-buy addition. Hope to see this reduced soon and I’ll pick it up.
Finally, the game that will push PS4’s hardware to the limit
Could have made more of an effort with the graphics. Not asking for Resogun quality here but a bit more of an effort would have been nice.
Careful there @sViggy – the pixel art brigade will be down on you like a ton of (Lego) bricks…..
Hey
in this post above u mentioned “a love letter to pure arcade action that releases on PlayStation Store this Wednesday, priced at £7.99/€8.99/$11.99. ”
Now its out on PSN store and it says “£8.49/€9.99/$14.35″
what happened there?
why no multiplayer? :(
This looks a fun game that would be great to play on my Vita in short bursts but it was way over priced. If it gets a big enough discount during a same I will pick it up but I won’t be paying full price for it.
This looks a fun game that would be great to play on my Vita in short bursts but it was way over priced. If it gets a big enough discount during a same I will pick it up but I won’t be paying full price for it.