Today, I'm going to talk about a game developer; Exploding Rabbit Productions.
Exploding Rabbit is a production company that was founded on April 27, 2010, when Jay Pavlina released Super Mario Bros. Crossover. For a while, it was only one person, but now, it is a team of eight people. The company is focused on game development for now, but eventually, Jay would like for it to produce films and possibly music as well.
These guys are as indy as you can get; small company, no name people who's only real accomplishment is a kickstarter and the aforementioned Super Mario Crossover. The kickstarter was for their IP, Super Action Squad, a sidescroller based heavily on what they learned from Super Mario Crossover, but is a completely original game with 9 playable characters. More details about Super Action Squad can be found in this video here;
Yes, I know they call it Super Retro Squad in the video, but that name is from an earlier time in development. I'd wager that Super Action Squad will be the name they go with when the game is finally released.
Unfortunately, these guys are extremely small time, so most of the team has to have day jobs, so the release date for Super Action Squad is still TBA, since the team can't work on the game as much as they want to. Which is why they are having a donation drive in addition to their kickstarter; which can be found here.
However, if you want to see how this game will end up being similar to, you can check out their face game, Super Mario Crossover. This game was actually originally coded by Jay Pavlina, the president and CEO of Exploding Rabbit, back in 2009, and released it to the world in 2010. The game was released on April 28, 2010, and within 24 hours, had been played a million times. And over the years, the game has been updated many times, adding new characters, new abilities for those characters, levels, cheats, all kinds of stuff. All the characters, from Mega Man to Link to Ryu Hayabusa, control like they do in their own games, all while running, jumping and fighting in Mario levels. And it is a brand new experience having Samus Aran running through Super Mario as well; this game is fun every time I play it.
So check out Super Mario Crossover, and think about dropping some money into the Exploding Rabbit bucket. It will help them release Super Action Squad sooner. But for now...I still need to think of a new ending comment.
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