How World Lockdowns Impressed All You Want is Assist – A Chaotic New Multiplayer Puzzle Recreation, Accessible In the present day

I’m excited to announce that our newest PixelJunk title, All You Want is Assist, is coming to Xbox Collection X|S, Xbox One and Recreation Cross, and is accessible to play from right now!

All You Want Is Assist marks the seventeenth entry within the legendary PixelJunk sequence, which began 17 years in the past. At its core, All You Want is Assist is a puzzle sport the place you might be unable to rotate your individual character, so just like the title suggests – you really want to assist one another by rotating your characters and dealing collectively to search out the answer.

With the worldwide lockdowns, I grew to become more and more involved in regards to the lack of fine co-op video games. All You Want is Assist was born out of the staff’s incapability to intently talk with one another throughout the pandemic as everybody form of acquired buried in their very own bubble. For 2 weeks, we held a sport jam on the workplace and made quite a lot of prototypes. All You Want is Assist was the favourite and helped the employees come collectively at a troublesome time, offering a way of cooperation and camaraderie. I feel this sport might be an amazing expertise for households and pals, and produce folks nearer to 1 one other.

All You Want is Assist options over 100 ranges, and consists of many refreshing mini-games. In most ranges, your little creature will rework into a novel form. Gamers might want to go searching and determine find out how to match collectively into the varied puzzle’s options. Whereas your creature can transfer and run about freely, they’re completely unable to rotate. As an alternative, everybody wants to assist out their pals and push them round to the appropriate angles. I sit up for seeing how gamers talk with one another and all of the chaos that may ensue!

All You Want is Assist additionally has cross-platform help so gamers will be capable to play with all of their pals, whatever the platform they downloaded it on. All You Want is Assist is a four-player sport, so seize three pals and play collectively, through sofa co-op or on-line play.

All You Want is Assist’s title is impressed by the Beatles’ tune, All You Want is Love. The sport has a extremely distinctive vibe to it because the PixelJunk staff integrated influences from everywhere in the world, together with after all our lovely dwelling, Kyoto.

To match the sport’s aesthetic, I contacted an previous buddy of mine, native people musician Tomoe Watanabe and he or she agreed to participate! For All You Want is Assist, Tomoe shaped an unique band known as Helper Skelters with a few of her earlier collaborators and pals and I combined and produced the tracks myself.

The soundtrack could be very uncommon for a sport; it’s totally acoustic and incorporates all kinds of percussion devices, all performed dwell. Tomoe’s vocals are very distinctive and completely match the sport’s completely happy aesthetic. Helper Skelters not too long ago carried out the soundtrack dwell on the world’s largest indie sport pageant, BitSummit, right here in Kyoto!

There are additionally quite a lot of customization choices within the sport. As you play by the degrees, you’ll obtain gacha cash to assist unlock new skins, toys, furnishings and even the odd musical instrument that can be utilized to point out off to your pals.      

I’m excited to see everybody taking part in and having fun with the chaotic and enjoyable world of All You Want is Assist ! Obtain it and start serving to your pals right now!