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Cuphead Game Update and Unity

7th of May, 2014
It’s been such a long time from our last real game update, it’s almost maddening. We apologize!  You may have asked, “What’s going on?” and even if you aren’t asking that – we’re going to tell you anyways!

Cuphead was originally created with the XNA framework (a set of tools that let the game work somewhat seamlessly on PC and Xbox360 only). We realized that before we got too deep in the game development, we should probably think ahead to the future and other platforms: of course we will be on PC – but what about porting to Linux, Mac? What about porting to consoles?!…and yes, we will be releasing Cuphead on one or more consoles, but we can’t perfectly talk about those details just yet – soon enough!

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It turned out Unity was the perfect choice for Cuphead for many reasons, such as:

  • Unity makes it easier to deploy on multiple platforms, this alone will save a ton of headache for us
  • It comes with a bunch of very useful 2D tools
  • It also has great audio tools
  • Down the road, the networking integration/capabilities will be awesome
  • Unity’s price is extremely fair
Making the switch to Unity was smooth and perfect in every way for us except one: Time. You can’t get around this one. Porting existing code over isn’t a one click affair, so the last little while has been less progress on the game (code wise) and more focus on moving what we had over to Unity.

Now we are finally in a place where all programming == actual forward progress on the game! BUT, what all of this boils down to is that a 2014 release date probably isn’t going to happen, which is O.K. because of two things:
(1) Cuphead will now be releasing on multiple platforms and;
(2) Miyamoto’s golden rule applies:

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We promise to keep our dev blog updated more frequently – stay tuned!
And while you wait, “Here, have a screenshot and a baguette!”

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