The shooter from Digital Cybercherries intends to offer a release on Microsoft consoles to reach a new audience.
Certainly inspired by Toy Story or Small Soldiers, Hypercharge: Unboxed is an atypical cooperative and competitive shooter where you fight… with toys. The game indeed offers us to embody fully customizable plastic soldiers and to play in coop (including a Tower Defense mode) or in PvP.
Like a kid playing with his nerves
PC output (Steam) for more than two years already, Hypercharge: Unboxed is now looking to make its way to home consoles, aiming for an Xbox Series release (and maybe Xbox One). The little indie studio Digital Cybercherries however did not give a release date. and seeks to make as much noise as possible around his software to speed up the project.
dear Xbox fans,
positive vibes. let’s make this tweet go viral!
we are five adults who are making our childhood dream game where you play as “action figures”
?RT and RT some more!
If you’d like to become an action figure on the Xbox, sign up here: https://t.co/siom0AIxZO pic.twitter.com/v3IuIjsf5I
— Hypercharge | Xbox Players, Sign Up (Check Bio)???? (@HyperchargeGame) July 3, 2022
Harassment here too
The first announcement of the port was made last April and since then, Digital Cybercherries is working hard to bring its software to Xbox. But as small and close to its community as the studio is, he also has to deal with bullying problems. Here too some “fans” abuseand started having extremely toxic behaviors towards the team, just to get an Xbox release date.
It saddens me deeply to have to write this, but I think the time has come to speak out. It is not acceptable to send threatening, abusive, toxic and rude messages demanding a response by a release date.
[…]As developers, we are not robots. Like you, we are human beings with feelings.[…]I completely understand the excitement and impatience to see Hyperchare release on Xbox. Rest assured, it will happen! […]There are two reasons why we won’t give a release date. One is that we don’t have one, the second is that we’re not a big team (five indie developers) and we want to give Xbox players the best possible version of Hypercharge, but That takes time.
Big studios like Santa Monica aren’t the only ones to wipe out the unjustified anger of this toxic fringe of the community. Despite everything, that does not prevent Digital Cybercherries from keeping a cool head and continuing its work. The Xbox port of Hypercharge: Unboxed will therefore certainly arrive within several months.