[Xbox] Launch Day for Our 2D Arena Shooter!

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My husband and I just launched our very first XBox game, AlphaLink, today! We’re a two person team, I’m a software engineer and husband is the artist. We’ve been working on this game throughout the pandemic after being laid off and now it’s out in the wild!

AlphaLink is a 2D multiplayer arena shooter complete with XP, progression and cosmetics. It features not only a local multiplayer, but an online component as well. We originally intended it to be local only to be played as a party game, but when the pandemic we knew we had to add an online element, so we integrated PlayFab and Photon and now it’s a full online competitive multiplayer game!

You can compete in local or online PVP matches, talk to NPCs in the hub about lore and upcoming events, customize your character, and take part in the global faction leaderboard! AlphaLink will continuously live with new updates giving fresh new features!

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Product Features:

  • Online and Local PVP Matches

  • Single player and co-op missions

  • Hub area to engage with NPCs to reveal lore in the Kova universe.

  • Multiple game modes for online and local play

  • Faction standings and leader boards

  • Various weapon pick ups

  • XP and progression system (during Online games)

  • Wide range of cosmetics to personalize your player

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Players can visit the customization area in the Meat Grinder Hub to purchase new armor, helmets, gun skins, and banners with the credits earned in online mode.

We used PlayFab for our economy, player data, title news, storing game data on the backend and some NPC dialog!

I did a small write up here of all the ways we integrated PlayFab, it’s been an invaluable tool during development of AlphaLink!

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Looks awesome! An insane amount of work went into that.

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Thanks! Yes, it’s been 18 months on a rollercoaster! :smile:

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We’ve also put together a walkthrough on the game play, features and controls (since that seems to be the most polarizing aspect of the game). It’s been the two of us making this game, the trailers and doing all the marketing… the true indie life! :smile:

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