Thumper Year-End Event Schedule

A few more events before the new year!

AzPlay Festival (Bilbao, Spain, Nov 26 - Dec 1) Thumper is nominated for three awards: Best Design, Best Sound, and Best Playability.

Slamdance DIG (Los Angeles, CA, Dec 4) Thumper is one of ten games featured in the first ever Digital, Interactive and Gaming at the Slamdance Film Festival.

PlayStation Experience (San Francisco, CA, Dec 5 - 6) Play the latest Thumper demo at the premier event for PlayStation gamers. We'll announce more PSX-related news, including the first-ever Thumper World High Score Challenge, soon.

Learn More: http://playstation.com/experience Get Tickets: http://playstation.com/experience-tickets PlayStation Experience is back for 2015! This year we're taking the experience to Moscone West in San Francisco, CA, on December 5-6. Join thousands of fans across the world and be there for exciting announcements and panels, plus play new and unreleased games on the show floor.

Lightning Bolt European Tour

Lightning Bolt is touring Europe for the next month.

Event page and tour schedule.

Upcoming Thumper Events

On the road again!

IndieCade (Culver City, CA, Oct 23 - 25) Thumper is a Night Games selection and will also be playable in the PlayStation booth.

IGF China (Shanghai, China, Oct 25 - 26) Thumper is a finalist for the Independent Games Festival China.

Day of the Devs (San Francisco, CA, Nov 7) Play Thumper and lots of other special games for one very special evening in San Francisco.

G-STAR (Busan, Korea, Nov 12 - Nov 15) Thumper is part of the Busan Indie Connect Showcase -- the first time indie games will be prominently featured at Korea's biggest game show!

We'll announce one more really exciting event soon!

Thumper Fall Event Schedule [UPDATED]

One month, seven events, three continents. Thumper is coming to a town near you! More events will be announced soon.

PAX Prime (Seattle, WA, Aug 28 - 31) We won't be attending, but you can play the heck out of Thumper in the Sony PlayStation booth (#222).

Busan Indie Connect (Busan, Korea, Sep 10 - 12) Thumper will be shown at Korea's first indie game festival. Marc is also giving a talk about indie game marketing.

Basilica Soundscape (Hudson, NY, Sep 11) Brian is giving a special live demo of Thumper at this "thoughtful mix of music, visual art, and literature."  Part of the Pop-up Shop lineup.

Boston Festival of Indie Games (Cambridge, MA Sep 12) Crakhed returns to his roots for one day in Cambridge, MA!

Tokyo Game Show (Tokyo, Japan, Sep 17 - 20) Thumper is coming to Japan's biggest game show in the Indie Game Area (Booth A-61).

Strasbourgh Indie Game Contest (Strasbourgh, France, Sep 18 - 27) Thumper is nominated for the prestigious Octoprize alongside 20 other sweet-looking games. It will be playable during the entire festival.

EGX Leftfield Collection (Birmingham, England, Sep 24 - 27) Thumper is part of this "eclectic collection of indie games" at the UK's biggest game show.

Fantastic Arcade (Austin, Texas, Sep 28 - Oct 1) Play our latest demo in the PlayStation booth.

Thumper on Steam

Thumper's Steam store page is up. Now you can follow the game and add it to your wishlist. And the Steam community hub is a great place to post your Thumper fan art and CrakHed cosplay pics!

Thumper at The Mix E3 and E3 Press Wrap-Up

In addition to our PlayStation booth at E3, we brought Thumper to The MIX for an evening jam-packed with cool games.

Thumper was selected by judges as Runner-Up for Best of The MIX.  Our congrats to the winner, GNOG, as well as Steamworld Heist and Squares!

Thumper was also among Paste Magazine's "The 10 Best Videogames We Played at E3."  And the Portuguese Observador declared Thumper and other indies as "winners" at E3.

Thumper Gameplay and Interview from E3

We survived E3!  Here's the Thumper demo and interview from the PlayStation live cast in case you missed it.

PlayStation.Blog interviews Marc Flury about Thumper at PlayStation's E3 2015 Live Coverage show. May contain content inappropriate for children, visit www.esrb.org for rating information

Thumper Coming to PS4/Steam in 2016 and E3 this week!

First ICYMI, Thumper will debut on PlayStation®4 and Steam in 2016.

Today, we're off to E3 for three days of non-stop Thumper demos!  We can't wait to show the game on PS4 for the first time.  We're doing a PlayStation LiveCast on Wednesday at 11:15am (PST) featuring live gameplay, so tune in for it!

Our full E3 schedule (all times PST).

Tuesday June 16

12pm - 6pm E3 Expo PlayStation booth (LA convention center, near front of booth #4144)

8pm - 2am PC Gaming Show (Belasco Theater, 1050 S Hill St)

Wednesday June 17

10am - 6pm E3 Expo PlayStation booth

11:15am PlayStation LiveCast

6:30pm - 11:00pm MIX at E3 (Target Terrace rooftop, 800 West Olympic Blvd)

Thursday June 18

10am - 5pm E3 Expo PlayStation

3pm - 4pm Indie MEGABOOTH Trailer (in Devolver area across from convention center)

Thumper is coming to PlayStation 4

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/thumper-ps4/ Thumper is a rhythm violence game coming to PS4 in 2016 (http://drool.ws). Thumper combines classic rhythm-action with speed and physicality. You control a space beetle while careening towards confrontation with an insane giant head from the future. http://drool.ws ©2015 Drool LLC. All rights reserved.

Today, we're excited to announce Thumper is coming to PlayStation 4 in 2016!  Read more about our PS4 announcement on the Official PlayStation Blog.

Thumper is a finalist for Best Sound at Brazil's Independent Games Festival

Thumper is a finalist for Best Sound at this year's BIG Festival!  The game will be showcased in São Paulo from June 27th through July 5th.  We're in great company, just check out all the finalistas.

Thumper wins Best Audio at Tokyo Indie Fest

Not much smiling, but we were all psyched.

We brought Thumper to the first Tokyo Indie Fest last weekend.  It was great to be among so many cool developers and introduce Thumper to Japanese gamers.

And Thumper won the Best Audio award!  Many classic Japanese games have inspired us while making Thumper, so picking up this award in the gaming holy land of Akihabara felt special.

This article from Famitsu covers all the winners (Japanese only).

Thumper at Tokyo Indie Fest

Thumper is coming to the Tokyo Indie Fest this Friday through Sunday, May 8 - 10.  Come play our latest build in booth A12.  It's a brand new fest in the gamer's mecca of Akihabara!

Lightning Bolt Tour + Thumper demos and shirts

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Lightning Bolt is touring the USA and Brian is demoing our latest Thumper build at select cities along the way.  Thumper t-shirts designed by Mat Brinkman are also available at every show.

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Lightning Bolt 2015 Tour Dates

04-15 Buffalo, NY - Mohawk Place
04-16 Columbus, OH - Double Happiness
04-17 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom
04-18 Ferndale, MI - The Loving Touch
04-19 Chicago, IL - The Empty Bottle
04-20 Saint Paul, MN - Turf Club
04-21 St Louis, MO - Luminary Center for the Arts
04-22 Lawrence, KS - Jackpot Music Hall
04-24 Denver, CO - GLOB
04-25 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
04-27 Boise, ID - The Shredder
04-28 Seattle, WA - Neumos
04-29 Portland, OR - Dantes
05-01 San Francisco, CA - The Chapel
05-02 Oakland, CA - Leo's
 

 

05-03 Los Angeles, CA - The Echoplex
05-04 Santa Ana, CA - Constellation Room
05-05 San Diego, CA - Casbah
05-06 Phoenix, AZ - Crescent Ballroom
05-08 Austin, TX - Austin Psych Fest
05-09 New Orleans, LA - Siberia
05-10 Atlanta, GA - Mammal Gallery
05-11 Raleigh, NC - Kings
05-12 Washington, DC - Rock & Roll Hotel
05-13 Baltimore, MD - Floristree
05-14 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
05-15 Brooklyn, NY - The Wick
05-16 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge
05-17 Cambridge, MA - Sinclair
05-18 Providence, RI - Aurora

Thumper HYPED in latest issue of Edge

Thumper is previewed in April's Edge magazine (available in print and e-reader).   We're in great company in the HYPE section.  It includes our Boston buds at The Molasses Flood and their game: The Flame in the flood!

Interview from the Independent Games Festival

Last month at the IGF, the guys from AREA 5 stopped by our Thumper booth.   Watch an interview with us and gameplay footage below.

This new episode of CO-OP includes sneak peeks of several cool games, including Downwell, Push Me Pull You, and Firewatch.  The Thumper segment starts at the 14:50 mark.

AREA 5's Ryan, Matt, Cesar, and Jason are back to talk about games on camera for the first time in how many years? Six? Two? Four? We can't remember. This is the first of our new six episode season which we'll be presenting over the course of 2015.

Watch Thumper Demo at the Experimental Gameplay Workshop

We brought Thumper to the EGW at GDC. Watch a live Thumper demo and be inspired by some amazing games!

Thumper Interview and Live Gameplay from PAX East

We brought Thumper to PAX East last weekend as part of the Indie MEGABOOTH.  Thanks to everyone who stopped by our minibooth!  Marc did a live interview and Thumper demo from the PAX expo floor.  Click the image below to watch the Thumper segment, but be sure to check out all the other great games from the MEGABOOTH.

Thumper Sneak Peek on Polygon

Nominated for Excellence in Audio at the 2015 Independent Games Festival, Thumper exists somewhere between Audiosurf and F-Zero... except terrifying. Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=polygon Check out our full video catalog: http://www.youtube.com/user/polygon/videos Visit our playlists: http://www.youtube.com/user/polygon/playlists Like Polygon on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/polygon Follow Polygon on Twitter: http://twitter.com/polygon Read more at: http://www.polygon.com

Nick Robinson from Polygon put together a rad gameplay preview on Polygon.  The video was captured from our IGF demo and explains some of Thumper's core mechanics.

Thumper at the Experimental Gameplay Workshop

For the past decade, the Experimental Gameplay Workshop has inspired and challenged us.  At this year's Game Developer Conference, we're honored and psyched to present Thumper as part of the workshop.  We'll talk about some core gameplay concepts and our approach to "rhythm violence."  It's this Friday at 1:30pm in Moscone North Room 135.  The line-up this year looks stacked!

Thumper at PAX East

Thumper is part of the Indie MEGABOOTH at PAX East.  We'll be in a MINIBOOTH on Saturday and Sunday March 7th and 8th.  Play our latest demo and you'll have a chance to win a limited-edition Thumper t-shirt -- we'll announce more details soon!