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Hey lovely cutie,

There is a game I played at an event maybe two years ago & instantly fell IN LOVE with it. It’s Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime.

This game is everything I love about a local multiplayer game: it’s challenging, extremely fun and you have to communicate very well with your partner to get through the levels & survive - because yeah, it can be pretty hard. The story is ADORABLE: some super awesome scientists built a machine which spreads the most awesome force in the whole universe - Love. The Ardor Reactor was protected by the League Of Very Empathetic Rescue Spacenauts - the Lovers (UGH SEE? SO CUTE!) but OH NOES!! The dark force of Anti-Love found a breach in the reactor and SHATTERED IT INTO PIECES. The Anti-Love is now taking over the galaxy and IT’S CHAOS. It’s in this chaos that you & your partner (or AI pet) come in - you have to find the missing pieces by defeating bosses (they are based on constellations <3) but before that you have to find and rescue your Lovers friends.

For doing that you have to pilot & control a spaceship - you have eight stations with different things including weapons, the engine, a shield, a canon and a map. Each player can control only one station at a time - if you play alone you also have to command your AI pet (and this is why it can be really difficult to play alone - too many things to do at the same time). You constantly have to move around the station to keep a good balance between protecting your ship, flying it and attacking enemies. You can also find cute gift boxes which contain different types of gems to add some more powers to your stations.

The soundtrack by Ryan Henwood is absolutely amazing. It gets you pretty psyched. It can get as intense as the gameplay and it fits super, super, super well with the game. You can listen to it on his bandcamp. The art is also really delightful - it’s just pure candy for the eye.

Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime is an adorable yet challenging & amusing cooperative game. You can find it on Steam and Xbox One.

(Awesome cover art by the amazing @justinchan!)

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Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime

System: PC, Xbox One

Status: Released

Year: 2015

Developer: Asteroid Base

Website: loversinadangerousspacetime.com / Steam

Video: Trailer

Description: “Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime is a frantic 1- or 2-player couch co-op action space shooter. Explore a colorful galaxy in a massive neon battleship that you control together by manning turrets, lasers, shields and thrusters. Only through teamwork can you triumph over the evil forces of Anti-Love, rescue kidnapped space-bunnies, and avoid a vacuumy demise. Deep space is a dangerous place, but you don’t have to face it alone! ”

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Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime [PC, Xbox One] (2015)

“Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime is a frantic 1- or 2-player couch co-op action space shooter. Explore a colorful galaxy in a massive neon battleship that you control together by manning turrets, lasers, shields and thrusters.”

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the art i did for Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime as a HUGE banner at PAX! source pic

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Recently did some promotional artwork for Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime by my friends at Asteroid Base!! I’ve been a HUGE fan of the game since I first heard of it around 2 years ago. The two main characters even made an appearance in my Game Loading piece! The middle image is the crazy, chaotic first version I sent them, haha. I thought it reflected my personal experience with the game well, but the readability was a bit confusing. After some great feedback and help from Matt, the top image is the final artwork that the guys at Asteroid Base revealed last week. The third image shows how the piece works for vertical compositions as needed. I had a lot of fun drawing this, and playing the game, so look out for it when it comes to Xbox One and Steam later this year! High-res here. Also check out the talented team’s twitters: Matt Hammill Jamie Tucker Adam Winkels Ryan Henwood

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We got the amazingly awesome Justin Chan to create the cover art for Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

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IndieCade East 2015 arrives Valentine’s Day weekend and this year features a specially curated Love & Rejection games exhibit. We’re taking that idea and bringing it to you for our first #ArtWall monthly theme. How does the concept of LOVE come into play while playing the game you’re working on right now? What does Rejection mean to you? Is there an aesthetic that captures the contrast between these feelings? Maybe you just like drawing Bowser and DK macking on each other.

As always, show us your fan-art, concept sketches, character designs, and animations. You can still submit any art you choose, but if you share art that fits February’s theme, and you include #Love&Rejection, you’ll be much more likely to be featured on IndieCade’s #ArtWall.

Hit the “Share Your Art!” button on our tumblr page, or go to indiecade.tumblr.com/submit to share and make sure to keep an eye out for next month’s #ArtWall theme!

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What? zamSpielen #8 feat. Major Bueno When? Friday, January 16th 2015, 5:00pm Where? Mobiles Stadtlabor, Resselpark, Karlsplatz Free Entry!

GAMES Tour Bueno Jam Prototype (Major Bueno & Broken Rules) Musclecat Showdown (Major Bueno) Push Me Pull You (House House) Beyond 35.200 (Simon Wallner & friends) Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime (Asteroid Base) Metal Slug (SNK) Smash Bros WiiU (Nintendo)

+ Hans G.!

Are you on Facebook? Let us know if you are coming!

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Rig testing

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Double Fine and iam8bit are proud to announce the return of Day of the Devs!

Please let us know on Facebook if we can expect to see you there!

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We got a sweet spread in the summer issue of Protein Magazine

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Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime at BitBash.

Photos by Andrew Ferguson 

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New on Venus Patrol: TIGSource DevLog: The Visual Showcase of Awesome New Games, Issue #21

Click here to become a member of Venus Patrol and get games, art and music from the creators of KATAMARI DAMACY, ADVENTURE TIME, CANABALT and more! Find us on Twitter & Facebook and visit B-Side for more art, music & video!

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New on Venus Patrol: TIGSource DevLog: The Visual Showcase of Awesome New Games, Issue #19

Click here to become a member of Venus Patrol and get games, art and music from the creators of KATAMARI DAMACY, ADVENTURE TIME, CANABALT and more! Find us on Twitter & Facebook and visit B-Side for more art, music & video!

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Happy Gifriday, let's dance!

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New Devlog about how we animate in Unity while the game is paused

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Sweet IGF video by Kert Gartner

Some stills from the Independent Games Festival intro video (check it out on vimeo https://vimeo.com/85851301) I created for the 2014 IGF Awards. Shown at the 2014 Game Developer’s conference in San Francisco on March 20th, 2014.