Smash Bros-style battle royale is on the way but there\u2019s one big catch Odyssey InteractiveThe developers behind Omega Strikers announced they have a new game that is basically Super Smash Bros as a battle royale, but it might not come out. Odyssey Interactive, which stopped working on Omega Strikers in late 2023, revealed it has been working on a game called Byte Breakers. This is a platform fighter and battle royale, making it a unique entry into the fighting game genre. The developers called the title a \u201cSmash battle royale\u201d and showed off its huge map and some gameplay in a trailer on September 11. \u201cMaking a platform fighter is scary. You\u2019re going to always be compared to one of the greatest gaming series of all time,\u201d Dax Andrus, one of the studio\u2019s founders said in the video. \u201cBut to us, that\u2019s also exciting. We are not trying to make a better Smash, we\u2019re trying to build an evolution of the genre that Smash started way back when we were kids.\u201d The catch, however, is that the game is only in its prototype phase, and it might not even be fully released if players don\u2019t find it interesting. The developer said they will let a few thousand players in to test Byte Breakers in the next few days, and they aren\u2019t afraid to \u201cgo next\u201d if the game doesn\u2019t hit. \u201cWe might not even end up making this prototype. We might not end up making the next prototype we show you, either. But we think this kind of public testing is the best way to find out if our ideas have juice,\u201d Andrus said. The idea of testing out interest in a game during its initial phases is not all that new. However, publically announcing that you will scrap the project if it doesn\u2019t garner interest, instead of tweaking gameplay elements or iterating based on feedback, is a novel concept. Players will get to decide for Odyssey Interactive whether it is worth it for them to create a Super Smash Bros-inspire battle royale or if their efforts are better put to use in another title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Smash Bros-style battle royale is on the way but there\u2019s one big catch Odyssey InteractiveThe developers behind Omega Strikers announced they have a new game that is basically Super Smash Bros as a battle royale, but it might not come out. Odyssey Interactive, which stopped working on Omega Strikers in late 2023, revealed it has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}