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Pilot Through Retrobooster On Us

Jason Love

The game has taken Terry quite a few years to get to this point. Check out this retrospective video he put together to see just how far it's come since its humble beginnings back in 2007.

Retrobooster Arrives on Steam this Friday

Jason Love

As a quick refresher of what Retrobooster is and what it's all about, you're a lone space garbage man who suddenly finds himself tasked with saving the human race. That means hopping in your spaceship and ever so carefully thrusting your way through asteroids and around planets while dodging enemy fire, and returning a little of your own.

Retrobooster Gets an Update, On Sale Now

Jason Love

The biggest thing added with the update is support for multiple-monitors so you can enjoy the game spread across all of your monitors, you PC Master Race gamer, you. It looks really good, too.

Retrobooster Co-Op Review

Jason Love

Really Slick's first game, Retrobooster, is a cave-flyer, survival shooter that returns to the days of gaming yore where flying around in space meant you had to be conscious of pesky things like physics and gravity. So we dusted off our piloting skills and took it out for a spin....

Retrobooster Set to Launch This Month

Justin Reynolds

Playing with up to three friends, Retrobooster features split screen local co-op as well as competitive a deathmatch mode. One player will be on keyboard while the other three use gamepads. The game features 30+ levels with four difficulty settings, and the developer claims there is more than 20 hours of gameplay for most players.

Retrobooster Update Brings Shared Co-Op Scores

Jason Love

While Retrobooster has not seen full release yet, there is a playable demo of the game available now (for free) that shows off some of the action to expect when the game is fully released. The four player local co-op is fully supported in the demo and one of the things you may notice is that the players all share the same score now, rather than potentially competing with one another for points. That's just one of the many change update 0.7.8 brings:

Indie-Ana Co-Op and the Dev Stories - A New Perspective

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This confession should come first: I seriously considered making Retrobooster only a single player experience when I started it. As a solo developer, more game modes sounded daunting. Fortunately, all the complaints from friends and my memories of co-op and melee games were too much to bear. In fact, the multiplayer modes in Retrobooster were origi...

Greenlight Supershow Highlights Indie Co-Op Titles

Jason Love

Looking for a way to spend your Saturday afternoon? You're in luck! A handful of independent developers have teamed up to show off their games, chat with fans, and, hopefully, get some support for their game on Steam Greenlight. The Greenlight Supershow kicked off at 10:30 AM EDT this morning with a twitch.tv stream of over 20 different games currently seeking support on the Greenlight service. The list of games, which can be found after the break, includes a number of cooperative titles, including FORCED, Retrobooster, and BroForce. So hop on over to the live stream to check out a few titles and show some support.

Retrobooser Gameplay Video with Developer Commentary

Jason Love

Late last year we sat down with Terry Welsh, the one man development team of Really Slick, to talk about his retro cave shooter, Retrobooster. The game places you in the shoes of a pilot (or pilots, if playing cooperatively) who's the last best hop to fight off the horde of invading aliens and save the galaxy. This isn't your typical twin-stick shooter, though, as Terry's worked hard to get the physics behind your space flight just right. That means Newton's First Law of Motion is in full effect as you'll be having to balance your thrust and propulsion to avoid running into everything. He's the right man for the job, too, as he once worked at NASA constructing flight simulators.