Hey all! It’s Jay, still a bit under the weather, but back again and ready to go! This week, I figured we could talk about Collapsus! Lets go!
We originally had the junk blocks be just singles, just like any other block and regardless of who sent them (or what field they were on) they’d be the same color. We figured after a while that both of those ideas were a bit dull, so we’re experimenting with junk blocks that merge into one-another, complete with color coded, per-field aesthetic!
On top of that, we may finally have a layout for two player!
We think it’s pretty sleek. The version of the screen with even more players will have a bit of a different layout (and multiplayer is only available on devices with screens that can comfortably support it, as well), but this is a good guideline of how it’ll probably look.
On top of that, in our design room (and over Twitter) we’ve been discussing how we may do a chat feature. Seems that emotes may be a fun way to do it. We should have some of those early ideas up on Twitter soon.
It’s all pretty cool stuff, if you ask us! We’re trying to keep these matches pretty frenetic and interesting without altering much of the core gameplay that those who have played it have grown to love. Like, why would we make it too drastically different and still call it Collapsus!? That’d be crazy! So, for the most part, other than the addition of junk blocks and new power-ups (which we’ll get to in a later article) we’ve tweaked some of the original power-ups to do things to your opponents as well in addition to their normal, single-player effects. We’re keeping the transition simple. Collapsus is best when it’s simple!
We can’t wait to get something playable out to you (probably in the form of our free, online weekly builds) but we’ll probably have a new trailer before that. After the weekly builds start, hopefully (again, hopefully) we can get that Kickstarter campaign out the door and then working on the mode specific trailers after that. So exciting!
We hope that you can’t wait to see (and play) it as much as we can’t wait to give it to you! Next week: Something completely different (probably)!