Hello, past, present, and future Spelunky fans! I’ll keep it short and simple: Spelunky is coming to PS4!
We’re once again teaming up with BlitWorks, who did a great job on bringing the game to PS3 and PS Vita. For PS4, we want to do even more — like bump up the graphics to 1080p, let players upload replays to the leaderboards, add more social features to the Daily Challenge, and otherwise take advantage of the PS4’s unique hardware.
I attribute a lot of Spelunky’s success to sharing and streaming, and since the PS4 is built in great part around those ideas, we want to make sure that we do everything we can to support that culture! Let us know in the comments if there’s anything else you’d like to see us add.
If you already bought Spelunky on PS3 and Vita, thank you so much! You’ll also own the game on PS4 when it comes out, since we’re including it as part of cross buy. But if you don’t have it on console yet, the PS4 version launch would be a great time to see what it’s all about, since you’ll also get the game on PS3 and PS Vita!
Spelunky is one of my favourite games, I have an idea for a competitive/head-to-head feature with adventure mode.
My idea is similar to how at PAX Prime 2013 there was the Spelunky Video Armageddon where the 4 players were able to compete head-to-head on the same seed.
I’d love to be able to match up against my friend and start an adventure mode where we play on the same seed and compete for either a high score or a fastest time. It’d be a great touch if while playing on my end I could see a ghost of my friend/opponent running beside me as we race to see who can finish faster or collect more treasure. A feature like this would facilitate competitive head-to-head spelunking a ton.
I know this can already be somewhat accomplished via the daily challenge, but that means we’re stuck to only being able to do one attempt per day and only the one life. A good Spelunky race could have players racing through the same seed until one of the competitors are able to defeat Olmec. If a feature was enabled to allow players to play on the same seed over and over was put in, I think that would help open up a lot of options for Spelunky streamers (and ghosts of your opponent would be an excellent touch).
Thanks for Spelunky :)
We’ve toyed with the idea of letting players enter seeds, but maybe it’s time to think about it more seriously. The Video Armageddon was a lot of fun and it’d be nice to be able to bring it to everybody.
Thanks for the suggestion!