Hi, friends!This is Kevin Michael Johnson, Creative Director on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate. Today marks the culmination of a lot of hard work, and pizza! We are so hyped to share this project with the world and can't wait to hear from all those Turtle fans as they kick ass together.Collaborating with Paramount to build this game for the Apple Arcade platform has been a great experience. We absolutely love the idea of bringing family and friends together with our co-op, cross platform expertise. This aligns with our studio mission to build remarkable shared gaming moments, and we hope adds a lot of value to the Apple gaming community.So, read on and I'll share everything you need to know about Splintered Fate!IT'S AN ALL-NEW TMNT GAME
We love and live for making incredible, social action experiences, and we have thrown our passion for this space at the TMNT IP: rich, fluid and thrilling combat, blended with the iconic locations and enemies of the TMNT world.
IT'S A CO-OP ROGUELIKE
At Super Evil we are not known for resting on our laurels, we are always looking to bring something new to the table with our games, striving to innovate. As you all know, the roguelike genre has not been shy of new contributions across the industry, but of course we felt like there was more we could push, particularly when considering how to wrap this specific genre around the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The most obvious angle for innovation, was to create a cross platform co-operative roguelike experience. I mean, what’s a Turtles game without all four of the brothers fighting together, confronting mayhem in New York City? We had to do it.
With each run you can expect a different combination of powers and upgrades. Will you go for a lightning strike Mikey build, or maybe focus on Leonardo’s dash strike ability? Inspiration powers are perfect to help your partners and give them powerful buffs. We can't wait to see the interesting combo’s and partnerships that our players form as they take on ever harder Gauntlet Challenges.WE HAVE WRITTEN A BRAND NEW STORY - SPLINTERED FATE
We've also seen remarkable innovations in the area of progressive storytelling for roguelikes and we thought that would be a worthy conquest as well, particularly with our burning desire to tell a more contemporary TMNT story. We happened to have the belief and support of legendary comic book author Tom Waltz and so we set about to make it happen. Our passion was to create a story that would do justice to the rich narrative tradition the brothers have experienced across the last thirty-plus years, and we got to work jam-packing this thing with as much honor and respect as we could. We even had the privilege of working with the incredible team at IDW on a comic prequel issue of Splintered Fate to help set up the story even further. I was definitely a Turtles fan before I set to work on this story, but now… to me, the Turtles are like family, and there couldn’t be a more significant personal indicator for Super Evil pride in the work we've accomplished here.
WE ARE CROSS PLATFORM AND MULTI-DEVICE INPUT
We are especially proud of being able to fully leverage the power of Apple Arcade and create this experience to run in full 4K on Apple TV or Mac, down to iPhone 6. We have also supported touchscreen. controller and mouse/keyboard support. We hope that families are able to play and enjoy the experience together regardless of their device or preferred way to play, or where they are in the world.
So… quick recap, Splintered Fate is a co-operative roguelike, with an entirely new progressive narrative, married to the bread-and-butter action-combat Super Evil Megacorp has become known for. And there is a lot of game here, both for those who might want to get in and get a feel for the story and for those who really want to push their skill and 100% everything the game has to offer. We've got four iconic locations across New York City, some familiar allies and enemies that players will love, and a diverse build system that will allow you to build an elemental infused Teenage Turtle of your dreams. Beyond that we've laced tons of cool easter eggs and references across collectables and narrative that will keep long-time TMNT fans enthralled from start to finish. If you're a Turtles fan, we've built this game for you.Never settle for the lesser evil -kmj
