A tactical roguelite for the cyber generation, Headbang Club’s next game, DeathTower, will be on Kickstarter.

Headbang Club :

Angoulême, August 06, 2024,

DeathTower is an overclocked roguelite tactical RPG where your objective is to survive each floor of a megastructure.

Stealth, hacking, devastating weapons… Do whatever it takes to fight your way to the top.

But be careful along the way, or your body may be destroyed, forcing you to restart the adventure from the beginning!

Though officially empty, each floor has its own ecosystem, designed to serve the tower’s masters. Discover a hidden world with its own resources, challenges and dynamics that you’ll need to understand in order to keep climbing faster and higher.

The game will be developed as updates are implemented.
 

Planned content:

- Pick from 6 playable characters to form your squad of 4.

- Around 30 enemy types, each with their own characteristics.

- 4 very different biomes with unique challenges and bosses.

- 10+ mini bosses.

- 75 weapons.

- 75 hacks you can use to attack, defend, and manipulate the battlefield, and to summon terrifying cybercreatures.

- 10 streamlined class trees with a total of 75 skills.

Development started five years ago in 2019. To build this game, Headbang Club has created a cutting-edge pixel art rendering technology in C++ that allows for razor-sharp, carefully crafted pixels without sacrificing fidelity or lighting, while also maintaining a sense of volume and scale. This technology gives the game a very unique identity, in which every animation and art asset is beautifully handcrafted.

Now that we’ve made a certain amount of progress with the game, it’s a good time to start crowdfunding. This will help Headbang Club get a sense of the game’s real potential, and help build the game’s future hand-in-hand with our community. It’s also quite useful for putting food on the table during development, but that’s a different story.

In terms of the narrative, we prefer to keep things under wraps for now, but expect plot twists, lovable characters and reflections around what it means to be a human in a cybernetic world.

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Video Teaser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHcOttTra3U

Key Facts about DeathTower

• An awesome roguelike tactical JRPG!

• Meta progression, hacks, weapons, bosses, items, a skill tree and huge gunfights.

• By the lead pixel artist of Metal Slug Tactics.

• Developed by a diverse, award-winning and super-talented team made up of both veterans and younger talents.

• Will be available on PC and consoles.

• Assisted by such legends of their fields as Coliandre, Volkor X, Baudelaire Welch, Cindy Asselin de Beauville, and many more.

• No deadline for games release yet

• PC and Consoles

• Self Published, self funded

Links for DeathTower

Key Facts about Headbang Club
 

Headbang Club is an artist collective of gamedevs gone wild after their time at Motion Twin, joining forces to create a truly METAL gamedev band.

As a videogame artist collective, they create their own games and assist friends in creating theirs. They are very versatile, yet always aim for excellence in everything they do. You may already have played some of the games they’ve helped out on, including Warhammer: Mechanicus on consoles, Blanc, Kamaeru, and the soon-to-be-released Metal Slug Tactics.

Headbang Club is best known for Double Kick Heroes, the rhythm METAL-’em-up, which was very well received as part of Game Pass. Steam sales have been limited, but the game has gathered 150,000 players and brought METAL back into many people’s hearts.

It was also the only game to offer double-kick air drumming on Nintendo Switch.

The wide-ranging soundtrack was composed by Elmobo and featured guest tracks from bands like GOJIRA, JINJER, CARPENTER BRUT, VOLKOR X, GOROD, PSYKUP, BUMBLEFOOT, and more.

Headbang decided to create DeathTower during the development of Double Kick Heroes. The game has since gone through multiple iterations, but is ultimately still self-funded.

In its search for funding, Headbang Club also joined forces with Punkcake Délicieux and produced the console version of Shotgun King. Still failing to find traction with publishers, they created their own publishing line, and the game was successfully released on consoles.

Today, Headbang Club is calling on the community to help with its crowd-funding efforts for DeathTower.

Links for Headbang Club 

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For more details, inquiries, media and interviews, please reach out to

 [email protected]!

Steam Page https://bit.ly/dt_steam     

Kickstarter https://bit.ly/dt_ks https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/headbangclub/deathtower-the-overclocked-roguelite-tactical-rpg    

Discord https://discord.gg/HYthfudE

Newsletter https://bit.ly/dt_nl

Presskit https://headbang.club/presskit/dt

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/headbangclub666

Twitter https://twitter.com/headbang_club

Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/headbang-club

Google doc of this press release : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LbYfGkV-z32kGrMm5sXcJuihP2zaNg95JJxRXILxeEE/edit

Key Facts about VolkorX
 

Dark Synth legend VolkorX is among the top musicians in his league. He captures buzz with his stunning art choices, and also has a bad habit of destroying planets for breakfast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXhThbgtWwI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azv9E_Dcx7Y

https://volkorx.com/about/

Key Facts about Elmobo
 

An Amiga legend who has composed and performed over 150 OSTs, Elmobo is also a renowned METAL producer who has crafted the sound of countless bands, including GOROD. Everybody knows Elmobo at Hellfest – a clear sign of how serious he is about METAL.

He won a Double Ping award in 2018, beating out multiple AAAs.

He just rocks so hard.

He will oversee all audio and music, and bring all aspects of game audio together to create something truly unique

Credits 
ORIGINAL IDEA & ART DIRECTION 

GUILLAUME “GYHYOM” BRETON

TECHNICAL DIRECTION 

THOMAS “TOGI” GIRO

DAVID “BLACKMAGIC” ELAHEE

GAME DESIGN

JEAN BOULESTIN

BLACKMAGIC

AUDIO DIRECTION

FREDERIC “ELMOBO” MOTTE

SOUND DESIGN

ANTOINE GRELET

LEVEL DESIGN

LOUNA CHARIAL

PRODUCTION DESIGN AND PRODUCER

BLACKMAGIC

R ENGINE

BLACKMAGIC

TOGI

DEVELOPMENT

BLACKMAGIC

TOGI

MARCO “OLD” VANBECELAERE

MARION DENMAT

VINCENT BEAUZEE

PIXEL ART & ANIMATIONS

GYHYOM

SIMON “PLUS” COROLLER

MUSIC

VOLKOR X

OFFICE MANAGEMENT

TINUVIEL

KEY & COVER ARTS

GYHYOM

COLIANDRE

TRAILERS

GYHYOM

NARRATIVE GRUNTS

GYHYOM

LOUNA

BLACKMAGIC

NARRATIVE DESIGNER

CINDY ASSELIN DE BEAUVILLE

NARRATIVE CONSULTANT

BAUDELAIRE WELCH

LOCALISATION

LOC3 LTD

FR PROOFREADING — CLAIRE DEILLER

US TRANSLATION — KEITH SANDERS

ADDITIONAL GAME & LEVEL DESIGN

LOUNA CHARIAL

LEA GAGELIN

ADDITIONAL PIXEL ART & ANIMATIONS

HELOISE MODAT

MAY CHAUTANT

SPECIAL HUGS

CLARA "BACONCASSOULET" TOUSSAINT

SPECIAL THANKS

CASSANDRA KHAW

FARHANAZ “JOY” KASSEE-ELAHEE

HUGUES VIEU-RENOM

FUNDED BY

HEADBANG CLUB

La Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Quotes

“Surrender, or die!” Volkor X

“Regardless of the outcome, the quality here is awesome […]. Kudos to you guys—you’re clearly a talented bunch.” Atilla Bertiz

“You are consistently making cool stuff.” Anonymous publisher that did not sign the game. Yet.

“DeathTower is way too big for us, that is exactly why we are trying to build it.” Blackmagic