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PICKLE-POCALYPSE is OUT NOW on Xbox!
🥒 Fight zombie pickles with 1-4 players in local multiplayer 🥒
🔫 Varied line-up of wacky weapons 🔫
👪 Play co-op or PvP 👪
🎮 Out now for FREE on Xbox One and Series X|S! 🎮
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Development Log
- Pickle-Pocalypse is a goofy 2D action/top-down-shooter game for 1-4 players, which I've been working on as a hobby project in my spare time since April 2022. I self-published the game to Xbox in November 2022 - with big updates in January 2023 and April 2023. The game has over 3500 downloads and an avg rating of 4.7 stars on the Xbox store!
- The players takes control of cucumbers who must defend themselves against zombie pickles or fight each other, using various weapons with different feel and effects. The weapons can randomise every few seconds or be picked up, and the levels are full of many different interactable physics objects to make for a fun and chaotic experience.
- Design, code & publishing by Theo Clarke, featuring awesome artwork and voice acting by my girlfriend, Chloe! The first version of the game was purely single-player and was originally made in 3 days for Ludum Dare #50 game jam in April 2022. This was our first time entering Ludum Dare game jam, which is the biggest online game jam in the world so it was about time I took part.
- After the jam, I decided to continue working on the project, adding new mechanics, multiplayer mode, controller support and more - and finally released it for free via Xbox Creators Club in November 2022! A new update in January 2023 added a new level, all-direction shooting, pick-ups and more - and there's more updates planned later in 2023!
- I am doing all the design, code, UI, audio and weapon artwork, and my girlfriend Chloe did the level and character art - as well as the awesome voice acting! This project marks another milestone in my game dev journey - publishing a game to console! It is a very ambitious project involving many skills; C# coding, UI, audio, system design, publishing and much more.
Check out Pickle-Pocalypse in the Microsoft Store!
Download the old game jam version of Pickle-Pocalypse for Windows on Itch.io
Development Pictures