Joe Danger Patch/Demo are now available.
Excellent news for Joe Danger fans and potential fans alike just arrived in my inbox.
SavyGamer’s “game of the last few months” Joe Danger, was brilliant back at release, but that hasn’t stopped Hello Games from working on it.
I spoke to Hello Games’ king boss man, Sean Murray, back at Develop in July, where he talked about their plans to release a patch and a demo, and their ambitions for their next game. True to his word, the patch and the Demo are now complete. Sean said these words about the patch:
We’re calling it ‘The People’s Patch’, because it answers pretty much every piece of feedback we’ve had from the community. Even the ones that contradicted each other. In fact, we keep delaying it just to cram one more thing in, and some are huge too. If you think you’ve completed the game… well, you haven’t. For fans, it’s something to get really excited about.
Here’s what has been added:
Level Sharing and More Levels
Replays and Youtube Support
Custom Soundtracks
More Multiplayer Levels
New Level Editing Props
Costumes for Joe
Downloadable Tours
Lots More
The level sharing works by exporting levels to a pen drive, and then uploading them to an all new section of the Hello Games web site here. Before you could only send levels to your PSN friends. They’re also running a level design competition where you get to win their left over high-quality promotional tat.
Alongside this update, a demo has also been released over PSN. Sean said these words about the demo:
Since Joe Danger has been released, we’ve been hard at work just trying to cater for as many requests from the community as we can. We’re starting by putting together a huge Trial, with hours of gameplay, for those people who still can’t decide if Joe Danger is awesome or not.
Dave, who is one quarter of Hello Games, translated the new German text for the Trial himself. Unfortunately it turns out he didn’t know nearly as many words as we had all hoped, as Sony testing found. ‘Buy Now’ had become something really quite offensive, for instance, luckily that’s all sorted now.
So if you’ve not given Joe Danger a try yet, now is the time.
Now lets listen to a completely unrelated piece of music:
If you want to buy Joe Danger, you can get £20 of PSN credit for £16.99 here, making it effectively cost just £8.49. I’m off to go and make a level.
