The Adventure Pals - A Story of Love, Giraffes & Hot Dogs
Created by Massive Monster
The Adventure Pals is an epic adventure platformer fuelled by imagination. Enter a gorgeous & hilarious world in a game about friendship, exploration & riding giraffes. Inspired by such titles as Adventure Time, Castle Crashers, Zelda 2 & Banjo Kazooie
Take on the role of a young adventurer as you travel the land and battle monsters-a-plenty in an epic quest to stop the evil Mr B who has kidnapped your Papa and is hell-bent on turning him into a delicious hot dog. But fear not, for you are not alone; you have the help of your best friends, Sparkles the giraffe and your pet rock!
Latest Updates from Our Project:
3 DAYS & Help us name our final town!
over 7 years ago
– Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 08:19:44 AM
Hey fellow pals!
We have 3 DAYS LEFT on our campaign for The Adventure Pals! We are currently 86% funded, we know we can reach our goal with your help, so keep sharing and telling your pals.
The Diamond Minecart playthrough
Dan from The Diamond Minecart has done a playthrough of The Adventure Pals demo! We are big fans of his videos here at Massive Monster and very excited that he enjoyed the game so much!
If you missed it, you can download and play a demo for The Adventure Pals here.
Name a Town!
We want you to help us name a town in the final area of the game, which is set on the moon! Comment below with your ideas - we will choose the most interesting, imaginative and funny idea to be in the final game!
Comment below with your ideas for the towns name
Thunderclap
We've created a thunderclap for the final day of The Adventure Pals! Thunderclap allows us to use the power of our fans to help boost our message. The thunderclap will go out on the last day of our Kickstarter campaign, and get as many people as possible talking about the game all at once. You can simply sign up here and commit to posting our message on your preferred outlet.
Here's a cool game that we love the look of, BFF: Or Die! Its about using your pals to help you through levels, our kind of game! Check out their Kickstarter campaign here.
Once again, thank you to everyone that has already backed our game and we cannot WAIT until you're all playing The Adventure Pals while wearing your sweet giraffe T shirts and hats!
30% funded and a look inside the Massive Monster lair!
over 7 years ago
– Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 02:18:39 AM
A huge thank you to all our backers today - we've just passed the 30% mark already!
Who are your Adventure Pals? If you could take a couple buddies on a life changing quest -who would they be? Would they choose you back? I hope so! Click below to tweet and tag your best buds to let them know they are your Adventure Pals! Today's update gives us a brief glimpse in to the horrors of Massive Monster's lair. Here games are made, spirits are broken and tears are shed. After this update we'll be more sparing so as not to bombard you and we'll begin sharing interesting development things like early sketches and design philosophies - so stay tuned!
You've met Sparkles the Giraffe, our brave player (you) and Mr Rock, but who are your Adventure Pals? If you could take a couple buddies on a life changing quest -who would they be? Would they choose you back? I hope so! Click below to tweet and tag your best buds to let them know they are your Adventure Pals!
The demo features about 20 minutes of gameplay, and shows a small slice of what the final game will offer.
Please note, this is an incomplete build of the game and does not reflect the quality of the final product. We still have lots work left, so please bare in mind that you may encounter some bugs and issues that will be fixed with the final release of The Adventure Pals.
We hope you enjoy the demo, feedback and suggestions are welcome so please let us know what you think!
In other news we're running a new competition on Twitter - if you'd like a chance of winning a giraffe T shirt, retweet this tweet!
5 DAYS! & The Pals Journey
over 7 years ago
– Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 03:21:50 PM
Why hello there! How exciting we've made it into our final week.
You've been so amazing so far and we've really enjoyed having you being engaged and involved in our project. We're still below our goal by a bit but with your amazing help I'm sure we can get there in the final days and to help us with that we've created a thunderclap.
ThunderClap
We've created a thunderclap for the final day of The Adventure Pals, For those that don't know. Thunderclap allows us to use the power of our fans to help boost our message. In which this case will be our last day on Kickstarter. You can simply sign up here and commit to posting our message on your preferred outlet.
The Adventure Pals didn't always look how you see them now, As mentioned in our video we've spent a long time on this game and along with spending a lot of time on a project comes experience and skills. I've come a long way as an artist since then and I thought some of you may find it interesting.
Fun Fact: The player had a nose at one point.
I'll try to add onto this more in each update.
Super Cool Project
For those that haven't checked it out, definitely give Close Your a good look with your eyes open. The game recently got funded and I'm really digging the art direction the new game will have. It's deep and tasty just like a good pizza.
Interview with HyperDuck Soundworks
over 7 years ago
– Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 02:08:56 AM
We had a chat with our pal Chris from HyperDuck Soundworks today, the studio behind The Adventure Pals fantastic soundtrack! Check it out below.
Hyper Duck is made up of two people, how did you guys meet and how long have you been working together?
Correct! We met many years ago, when we were about 15 and 16 years old, we shared a dry drunken pot of noodles on the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland. We both shared a love of games and music, playing quake 3 & CS 1.4 (and onwards) in Dans house every weekend, and while it wasn't clear at that point, we were already building a friendship that would produce HyperDuck SoundWorks down the line. We've been writing music and making sound for video games together since 2007 unofficially, and 2008 officially, when a game we wrote the music for called Iji was released for free, and people loved it! We've been doing it ever since.
What is your typical process for writing a track, do you have the song planned from the start or just experiment until it comes together?
It changes every time! For The Adventure Pals, we went purely on mood and one particular synth sound originally - the mood obviously, was HAPPY! Haha, and we wanted to blend a feel of exciting fantastical adventure with funky bass lines, beautiful soaring synth leads and high energy drum kits. There is always experimenting, but we always have a mood or a sound in mind that acts as the first building block - not so much to sound like that sound, but just to start somewhere, and see what new destination it leads to in terms of the sounds palette and energy.
Who are some of your biggest musical inspirations?
Oh man, that's a long list! I love a lot of jazz musicians, such as John Scofield, Pat Metheny, Esbjorn Svennson Trio, but I'm also very fond of video game composers such as the whole team behind Megaman X and X4 - those themes are unreal and have stuck with me since I was a kid. The best thing is that each game project gives me new composers and songs to fall in love with, so the list just keeps growing.
Have you guys done or considered putting out a non soundtrack album as a standalone release?
We have, and we are currently working on an EP! You can find a music video for one of the tracks 'Fellowship' below. ETA on the EP release is unconfirmed, but we're getting there!
If you have one, whats your favourite soundtrack you’ve produced for a game?
Hmmm, THE ADVENTURE PALS!? I think it's hard to pick a favourite, we had fond memories of writing the music for Zero Gear back in 2009, which was a kinda Go-Kart battle game, with some of the games very akin to Rocket League now - being so early in our career then, it was fun to let loose and be so goofy and happy with the music. I get those same feeling with The Adventure Pals, which is really nice :) I feel like we've come full circle to our ultra-happy place again.
We want to hear about your ultimate band! Maybe its Mr Rocks rock band? A flamingo fronted jazz-core 3 piece? Maybe its even a metal band made entirely of rubber bands? Let us know! Click the image below and fill in the [WHAT YOU THINK] part with your ultimate band!
We'll be picking our favourite next week, and give the winner a super duper reward!
