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Kung Fury: Street Rage Developer Interview: Embrace the Absurd With a Unique Beat-Em-Up

Kung Fury: Street Rage is a video game related to the Kickstarter hit indie martial arts comedy short film “Kung Fury”. Kung Fury is the story of an 80’s cop determined to stand up to Hitler with his super hero his level of martial arts master. Kung Fury: Street Rage is available on Steam for $19.99, but it’s his IGN Plus game of the month, Plus members get a Steam key as his IGN reward and can join now.

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Oskar Eklund, CEO and Founder of Hello There Games

We spoke with Hello There Games CEO Oskar Eklund about the fifth anniversary update, Kung Fury: Street Rage, and how the game came to life.

Eklund originally met Kung Fury writer, director and star David Sandberg while the two were at Universal Music. Ekland (himself a Taikwondo player) has just released Taekwondo (a touchscreen game based on martial arts) leading the studio and was at Universal to talk to AVICII. AVICII in vector.

Create Kung Fury: Street Rage

Eklund and Sandberg met in a conference room and hit it off about martial arts. Sandberg told Eklund about Kung Fury and he was interested in a gaming tie-up, she said. Fifteen minutes later, Eklund was on board with the idea, and following his Kickstarter success of the Kung Fury short film, the team shared their excitement as they set about developing it.

Kung Fury is unlike most other martial arts movies, Kung Fury: Street Rage doesn’t play like other side-scrolling fighting games. Instead of stage-based “left to right” progression and free-moving combat, Kung Fury: Street Rage instead opts for no movement controls and is melee-based using the left and right buttons to attack I’ve only selected battles for (at least the base game). According to Eklund, the choice was made because there were limitations in developing for mobile and the development period was very short, but it also helped differentiate it from its competitors, and most brawlers It is said that it has a more rhythmic sense than

Laser Unicorns (one of the production companies behind the film) and Sandberg worked directly with Hello There Games to bring the characters and enemies from the film into the game one-on-one, and the mobile version of the original in just 2.5 months. Realized. Luckily, an audience was found and the studio was able to work on an extended version of the story-based, narrated by the film’s actors, and a lyric video for David Hasselhoff’s “True Survivor.”

5th Anniversary & Ultimate Edition

To celebrate the 5th anniversary of Kung Fury: Street Rage, Laser Unicorns, David Sandberg and Hello There Games, we have decided to create an all-new game. Kung Fury: Street Rage – Ultimate Edition. This new version bundles together all the previously released content, with more worlds, boss fights, features, new free-roaming gameplay modes, local his multiplayer and even David his Hasselhoff as a playable character.

If you want to dive in, consider playing Kung Fury more fun with friends. Join us in co-op or challenge each other in classic mode. Eagle-Eye players should also heed the Triceratops confession, the infamous “Blue Screen” reference, and the Ninja Turtle reference in the most likely location…

When asked about future plans related to Kung Fury (or Kung Fury 2), Oskar simply winked and said, “Maybe?” We have to wait and see what the future holds.

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