Today Graphite Lab gave me the pleasure to ask the team some questions regarding their latest Kickstarter campaign for Hive Jump. I would describe the game as a combination between Contra and Starship Troopers. In the game you’ll get dropped into an alien hive where your objective is to blast your way through hordes of alien bugs to find the queen and take her out. Aside from the game looking incredibly fun, I’ve found the Kickstarter campaign to be quite aggressive with goals and rewards spanning various social media platforms on top of the base Kickstarter stretch goals and backer rewards which leads me into my first question.
Reviews of five new indie platformers on Switch, including Hive Jump, Double Cross, Octahedron, Elli and Hopiko.
Paul writes: "Absolute Xbox review Hive Jump, an homage to nineties era run and gun sci-fi shooters with a crushing difficulty level and classic visuals."
Erik from The Gamers Lounge writes "Hive Jump was one of the first games The Gamers Lounge really got behind. Originally released in 2017, members of The Gamers Lounge backed it on Kickstarter back in 2014 after hearing a lot of good things about the game. Most recently after seeing success on the Steam and the Wii U it has been brought to the Nintendo Switch and Xbox One. The big question is how is it and why haven’t you gone out and bought it yet?"
Oh snaps, Hive Jump looks really good. I need to add this game to my radar.
I'm also loving all these Kickstarters that include the Wii U as a mandatory release and not a stretch goal. The outpouring of support for Nintendo seems to be infectious in the core communities.
It's one of those indie games that really deserves promotion.
I wish that a big-name website would put it up and get some attention for it so that Wii U owners will be put on notice and give it more sales, because it's looking like a title that deserves the support.
Man, I'm so hyped for this game!! Beautiful graphics, great gameplay, co-op... anything left? Also, the Wii U initial goal sounds too good for me (although I could simply buy it for PC, I value couch co-op too much). Let's hope these guys make it.